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Send us a textWelcome to Guess the Year! This is an interactive, competitive podcast series where you will be able to play along and compete against your fellow listeners. Here is how the scoring works:10 points: Get the year dead on!7 points: 1-2 years off4 points: 3-5 years off1 point: 6-10 years offGuesses can be emailed to drandrewmay@gmail.com or texted using the link at the top of the show notes (please leave your name).I will read your scores out before the next episode, along with the scores of your fellow listeners! Please email your guesses to Andrew no later than 12pm EST on the day the next episode posts if you want them read out on the episode (e.g., if an episode releases on Monday, then I need your guesses by 12pm EST on Wednesday; if an episode releases on Friday, then I need your guesses by 12 pm EST on Monday). Note: If you don't get your scores in on time, they will still be added to the overall scores I am keeping. So they will count for the final scores - in other words, you can catch up if you get behind, you just won't have your scores read out on the released episode. All I need is your guesses (e.g., Song 1 - 19xx, Song 2 - 20xx, Song 3 - 19xx, etc.). Please be honest with your guesses! Best of luck!!The answers to today's ten songs can be found below. If you are playing along, don't scroll down until you have made your guesses. .....Have you made your guesses yet? If so, you can scroll down and look at the answers......Okay, answers coming. Don't peek if you haven't made your guesses yet!.....Intro song: Funky Donkey by Beastie Boys (2011)Song 1: Glass Onion by The Beatles (1968)Song 2: Baby, I Love Your Way by Big Mountain (1994)Song 3: Because I Got High by Afroman (2000)Song 4: Scientist Studies by Death Cab for Cutie (2000)Song 5: Kisses on Fire by ABBA (1979)Song 6: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (1984)Song 7: Sigma Oasis by Phish (2020)Song 8: Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood (2012)Song 9: Footsteps in the Dark by The Isley Brothers (1977)Song 10: Mrs. Train by They Might Be Giants (1994)

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss Canada's colonial courts, police violence and land defense on THE BREACH SHOW and review the dark Radio-Canada crime comedy streaming series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime on SWEATER WEATHER and expose ourselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellectual basis justifying an independent Albertan nation on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 80 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM and CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at CJTM in Toronto and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia.  This episode is brought to you by the national independent journalism community unrigged.ca.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss Canada's colonial courts, police violence and land defense on THE BREACH SHOW and review the dark Radio-Canada crime comedy streaming series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime on SWEATER WEATHER and expose ourselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellectual basis justifying an independent Albertan nation on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 80 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM and CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at CJTM in Toronto and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia.  This episode is brought to you by the national independent journalism community unrigged.ca.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Aaron and Stephanie Moody are the passionate and dedicated couple behind Moody Family Farm in Bernardston, Massachusetts. Both working as full-time special education teachers, they have embarked on a fulfilling journey into agriculture, combining Aaron's nostalgic ties to farming from his childhood and Stephanie's newfound enthusiasm for New England farm life. Their venture, which began in 2014 with grazing cattle, has blossomed into a commitment to sustainable farming practices and community engagement, all while raising their two boys in an environment enriched by the values of hard work and self-sufficiency.Topics covered in the podcast episode include:The Moody family's transition from city life to country farming.Challenges and successes in starting a farm on a budget.Transitioning to regenerative farming practices.Experiences with rotational grazing and meat processing.Opening a farm store and community engagement.Diverse livestock farming and the importance of USDA inspections.Expanding the livestock herd and exploring silvopasturing.Inspirations from resources like "Salad Bar Beef" by Joel Salatin.The balance of managing teaching careers with farm responsibilities.Lessons learned and aspirations for sustainable farming.Listeners should tune into this episode to gain a heartfelt and insightful look into the world of small-scale, sustainable farming. The Moodys' journey offers practical wisdom and inspiration for aspiring farmers and those interested in agriculture. Through candid discussions on their successes and missteps, listeners can learn valuable lessons about community support, resource management, and the rewarding challenges of farming. This episode is a must-listen for anyone passionate about self-sufficiency and regenerative agriculture, as it provides both a realistic portrayal and a hopeful vision of farming life.Links Mentioned in the EpisodeMoody Family Farm on InstagramVisit our Sponsors:Noble Research InstituteGBT AngusOnline Bull AuctionGrazing Grass LinksNew Listener Resource GuideProvide feedback for the podcastWebsiteInsidersResources (Coming Soon)Community (on Facebook)Check out the Apiary Chronicles PodcastOriginal Music by Louis PalfreyChapters(00:00) - Introduction to Moody Family Farm (00:34) - Fast Five Questions (01:14) - Grazing Grass Podcast Overview (01:54) - Noble Grazing Essentials Event (02:42) - Farm Updates and Tips (04:17) - Aaron and Stephanie's Farming Journey (04:54) - Backgrounds and Early Influences (06:04) - First Steps into Farming (07:16) - Teaching Careers and Farming (08:00) - Expanding the Farm (10:33) - Challenges and Learning Experiences (14:24) - Regenerative Practices and Community Support (26:29) - Marketing and Processing Challenges (27:08) - Future Plans and Family Involvement (30:30) - USDA Loan and Moving Challenges (31:59) - Winter Farming and Historical Insights (37:26) - Sweater Weather and Historic Homes (37:45) - Functional Traits for Your Cow Herd (38:50) - Renovating Abandoned Pastures (40:08) - Challenges and Successes in Pasture Restoration (43:40) - Expanding the Herd and Exploring New Species (47:22) - Building Community and Relationships (54:09) - Famous Four Questions (01:08:50) - Final Thoughts and Farewell

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Send us a textNOTE: Ep 7-12 of Classic Rock Review will return March 3, 2025. In the meantime, enjoy Guess the Year Season 7!Welcome to Guess the Year! This is an interactive, competitive podcast series where you will be able to play along and compete against your fellow listeners. Here is how the scoring works:10 points: Get the year dead on!7 points: 1-2 years off4 points: 3-5 years off1 point: 6-10 years offGuesses can be emailed to drandrewmay@gmail.com or texted using the link at the top of the show notes (please leave your name).I will read your scores out before the next episode, along with the scores of your fellow listeners! Please email your guesses to Andrew no later than 12pm EST on the day the next episode posts if you want them read out on the episode (e.g., if an episode releases on Monday, then I need your guesses by 12pm EST on Wednesday; if an episode releases on Friday, then I need your guesses by 12 pm EST on Monday). Note: If you don't get your scores in on time, they will still be added to the overall scores I am keeping. So they will count for the final scores - in other words, you can catch up if you get behind, you just won't have your scores read out on the released episode. All I need is your guesses (e.g., Song 1 - 19xx, Song 2 - 20xx, Song 3 - 19xx, etc.). Please be honest with your guesses! Best of luck!!The answers to today's ten songs can be found below. If you are playing along, don't scroll down until you have made your guesses. .....Have you made your guesses yet? If so, you can scroll down and look at the answers......Okay, answers coming. Don't peek if you haven't made your guesses yet!.....Intro song: Hot Dog by They Might Be Giants (2006)Song 1: Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon (1978)Song 2: I Can See You (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift (2023)Song 3: They Say I'm Different by Betty Davis (1974)Song 4: Heart Full of Soul by The Yardbirds (1965)Song 5: Mayday!!! Fiesta Fever by AWOLNATION (2020)Song 6: Smokestack Lightning by Howlin' Wolf (1956)Song 7: Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood (2012)Song 8: Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) by Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974)Song 9: Never Freestyle by Coast Contra (2022)Song 10: This Velvet Glove by Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)

Who else in literature today could be more interesting to interview than Brandon Taylor, the author of Real Life, Filthy Animals, and The Late Americans, as well as the author of popular reviews and the sweater weather Substack? We talked about so much, including: Chopin and who plays him best; why there isn't more tennis in fiction; writing fiction on a lab bench; being a scientific critic; what he has learned working as a publisher; negative reviews; boring novels; Jane Austen. You'll also get Brandon's quick takes on Iris Murdoch, Jonathan Franzen, Lionel Trilling, György Lukács, and a few others; the modern critics he likes reading; and the dead critics he likes reading.Brandon also talked about how his new novel is going to be different from his previous novels. He told me:I no longer really want to be starting my books, quote unquote, in media res. I want my books to feel like books. I don't want my books to feel like movies. And I don't want them to feel like treatments for film. And so I want to sort of bring back all of what a novel can do in terms of its structure and in terms of its form and stuff like that. And so it means starting books, you know, with this sort of Dickensian voice of God speaking from on high, sort of summing up an era. And I think also sort of allowing the narrators in my work to dare to sum up, allowing characters in my work to have ideologies and to argue about those ideologies. I feel like that is a thing that was sort of denuded from the American novel for a lot of millennials and just sort of like trying to put back some of that old fashioned machinery that was like stripped out of the novel. And seeing what of it can still function, seeing, trying to figure out if there's any juice left in these modes of representation.I have enjoyed Brandon's fiction (several people I recommend him to have loved Real Life) and I think he's one of the best critics working today. I was delighted to interview him.Oh, and he's a Dickens fan!Transcript (AI produced, lightly formatted by me)Henry: Today I am talking to Brandon Taylor, the author of Real Life, Filthy Animals, and The Late Americans. Brandon is also a notable book reviewer and of course he writes a sub stack called Sweater Weather. Brandon, welcome.Brandon: Yeah, thanks for having me.Henry: What did you think of the newly discovered Chopin waltz?Brandon: Um, I thought, I mean, I remember very vividly waking up that day and there being a new waltz, but it was played by Lang Lang, which I did not. I don't know that, like, he's my go-to Chopin interpreter. But I don't know, I was, I was excited by it. Um, I don't know, it was in a world sort of dominated by this ethos of like nothing new under the sun. It felt wonderfully novel. I don't know that it's like one of Chopin's like major, I don't know that it's like major. Um, it's sort of definitively like middle of the road, middle tier Chopin, I think. But I enjoyed it. I played it like 20 times in a row.Henry: I like those moments because I like, I like it when people get surprised into realizing that like, it's not fixed what we know about the world and you can even actually get new Chopin, right?Brandon: I mean, it felt a little bit like when Beyonce did her first big surprise drop. It was like new Chopin just dropped. Oh my God. All my sort of classical music nerd group texts were buzzing. It felt like a real moment, actually.Henry: And I think it gives people a sense of what art was like in the past. You can go, oh my God, new Chopin. Like, yes, those feelings are not just about modern culture, right? That used to happen with like, oh my God, a new Jane Austen book is here.Brandon: Oh, I know. Well, I mean, I was like reading a lot of Emile Zola up until I guess late last year. And at some point I discovered that he was like an avid amateur photographer. And in like the French Ministry of Culture is like digitized a lot of his glass plate negatives. And one of them is like a picture that Zola has taken of Manet's portrait of him. And it's just like on a floor somewhere. Like he's like sort of taken this like very rickety early camera machinery to this place where this portrait is and like taken a picture of it. It's like, wow. Like you can imagine that like Manet's like, here's this painting I did of you. And Zola's like, ah, yes, I'm going to take a picture to commemorate it. And so I sort of love that.Henry: What other of his photos do you like?Brandon: Well, there's one of him on a bike riding toward the camera. That's really delightful to me because it like that impulse is so recognizable to me. There are all these photos that he took of his mistress that were also just like, you can like, there are also photographs of his children and of his family. And again, those feel so like recognizable to me. He's not even like a very good photographer. It's just that he was taking pictures of his like daily life, except for his kind of stunt photos where he's riding the bike. And it's like, ah, yes, Zola, he would have been great with an iPhone camera.Henry: Which pianists do you like for Chopin?Brandon: Which pianists do I love for Chopin? I like Pollini a lot. Pollini is amazing. Pollini the elder, not Pollini the younger. The younger is not my favorite. And he died recently, Maurizio Pollini. He died very recently. Maybe he's my favorite. I love, I love Horowitz. Horowitz is wonderful at Chopin. But it's obviously it's like not his, you know, you don't sort of go to Horowitz for Chopin, I guess. But I love his Chopin. And sometimes Trifonov. Trifonov has a couple Chopin recordings that I really, really like. I tend not to love Trifonov as much.Henry: Really?Brandon: I know it's controversial. It's very controversial. I know. Tell me why. I, I don't know. He's just a bit of a banger to me. Like, like he's sort of, I don't know, his playing is so flashy. And he feels a bit like a, like a, like a keyboard basher to me sometimes.Henry: But like, do you like his Bach?Brandon: You know, I haven't done a deep dive. Maybe I should do a sort of more rigorous engagement with Trifonov. But yeah, I don't, he's just not, he doesn't make my heart sing. I think he's very good at Bach.Henry: What about a Martha Argerich?Brandon: Oh, I mean, she's incredible. She's incredible. I bought that sort of big orange box out of like all of her, her sort of like masterwork recordings. And she's incredible. She has such feel for Chopin. But she doesn't, I think sometimes people can make Chopin feel a little like, like treacly, like, like a little too sweet. And she has this perfect understanding of his like rhythm and his like inner nuances and like the crispness in his compositions. Like she really pulls all of that out. And I love her. She has such, obviously great dexterity, but like a real sort of exquisite sensitivity to the rhythmic structures of Chopin.Henry: You listen on CD?Brandon: No, I listen on vinyl and I listen on streaming, but mostly vinyl. Mostly vinyl? Yeah, mostly vinyl. I know it's very annoying. No, no, no, no, no.Henry: Which, what are the good speakers?Brandon: I forget where I bought these speakers from, but I sort of did some Googling during the pandemic of like best speakers to use. I have a U-Turn Audio, U-Turn Orbital record player. And so I was just looking for good speakers that were compatible and like wouldn't take up a ton of space in my apartment because I was moving to New York and had a very tiny, tiny apartment. So they're just from sort of standard, I forget the brand, but they've served me well these past few years.Henry: And do you like Ólafsson? He's done some Chopin.Brandon: Who?Henry: Víkingur Ólafsson. He did the Goldbergs this year, but he's done some Chopin before. I think he's quite good.Brandon: Oh, that Icelandic guy?Henry: Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the glasses? That's right. And the very neat hair.Brandon: Yes. Oh, he's so chic. He's so chic. I don't know his Chopin. I know his, there's another series that he did somewhat recently that I'm more familiar with. But he is really good. He has good Beethoven, Víkingur.Henry: Yeah.Brandon: And normally I don't love Beethoven, but like—Henry: Really? Why? Why? What's wrong with Beethoven? All these controversial opinions about music.Brandon: I'm not trying to have controversial opinions. I think I'm, well, I'm such a, I'm such, I mean, I'm just like a dumb person. And so like, I don't, I don't have a really, I feel like I don't have the robust understanding to like fully appreciate Beethoven and all of his sort of like majesty. And so maybe I've just not heard good Beethoven and I need to sort of go back and sort of get a real understanding of it. But I just tend not to like it. It feels like, I don't know, like grandma's living room music to me sometimes.Henry: What other composers do you enjoy?Brandon: Oh, of course.Henry: Or other music generally, right?Brandon: Rachmaninoff is so amazing to me. There was, of course, Bach. Brahms. Oh, I love Brahms, but like specifically the intermezzi. I love the intermezzi. I recently fell in love with, oh, his name is escaping me now, but he, I went to a concert and they sort of did a Brahms intermezzi. And they also played this, I think he was an Austrian composer. And his music was like, it wasn't experimental, but it was like quite, I had a lot of dissonance in it. And I found it like really interesting and like really moving actually. And so I did a sort of listening to that constantly. Oh, I forget his name. But Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, love Rachmaninoff. I have a friend who says that Rachmaninoff writes Negro spirituals. And I love that theory that Rachmaninoff's music is like the music of the slaves. It just, I don't know. I really, that really resonates with me spiritually. Which pieces, which Rachmaninoff symphonies, concertos? Yeah, the concertos. But like specifically, like I have a friend who said that Rach II sounded to her like the sort of spiritual cry of like the slaves. And we were at like a hangout with like mostly Black people. And she like stopped playing like Juvenile, like the rapper. And she put on Rach II. And we just like sat there and listened. And it did feel like something powerful had entered the room. Yeah, but he's my guy. I secretly really, really love him. I like Liszt, but like it really depends on the day and the time for him. He makes good folk music, Liszt. I love his folky, his folk era.Henry: What is it that you enjoy about tennis?Brandon: What do I enjoy about tennis? I love the, I love not thinking. I love being able to hit the ball for hours on end and like not think. And like, it's the one part of my life. It's the one time in my life where my experience is like totally unstructured. And so like this morning, I went to a 7am drill and play class where you do drills for an hour. Then you play doubles for an hour. And during that first hour of drills, I was just like hitting the ball. I was at the mercy of the guy feeding us the ball. And I didn't have a single thought about books or literature or like the status of my soul or like the nature of American democracy. It was just like, did I hit that ball? Well, did I hit it kind of off center? Were there tingles in my wrist? Yes or no. Like it was just very, very grounding in the moment. And I think that is what I love about it. Do you like to watch tennis? Oh, yeah, constantly. Sometimes when I'm in a work meeting, the Zoom is here and the tennis is like playing in the background. Love tennis, love to watch, love to play, love to think about, to ponder. Who are the best players for you? Oh, well, the best players, my favorite players are Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Stanislas Wawrinka, love Wawrinka. And I was a really big Davydenko head back in the day. Nikolai Davydenko was this Russian player who had, he was like a metronome. He just like would not miss. Yeah, those are my favorites. Right now, the guy I'm sort of rooting for who's still active is Kasper Rud, who's this Norwegian guy. And I love him because he just looks like some guy. Like he just looks like he should be in a seminary somewhere. I love it. I love, I love his normalness. He just looks like an NPC. And I'm drawn to that in a tennis player.Henry: It's hard to think of tennis in novels. Why is that?Brandon: Well, I think a lot of people don't, well, I think part of it is a lot of novelists. Part of it is a lot of novelists don't play sports. I think that they, at least Americans, I can't speak for other parts of the world, but in America, a lot of novelists are not doing sports. So that's one. And I think two, like, you know, like with anything, I think that tennis has not been subjected to the same schemes of narrativization that like other things are. And so like it's, a lot of novelists just like don't see a sort of readily dramatizable thing in tennis. Even though if you like watch tennis and like listen to tennis commentary, they are always erecting narratives. They're like, oh yeah, she's been on a 19 match losing streak. Is this where she turns it around? And to me, tennis is like a very literary sport because tennis is one of those sports where it's all about the matchup. It's like your forehand to my backhand, like no matter how well I play against everyone else, like it's you and me locked in the struggle. And like that to me feels incredibly literary. And it is so tied to your individual psychology as well. Like, I don't know, I endlessly am fascinated by it. And indeed, I got an idea for a tennis novel the other day that I'm hopefully going to write in three to five years. We'll see.Henry: Very good. How did working in a lab influence your writing?Brandon: Well, somewhat directly and materially in the case of my first book, because I wrote it while I was working in the lab and it gave me weirdly like time and structure to do that work where I would be pipetting. And then while I was waiting for an assay or a experiment to run or finish, I would have 30 minutes to sit down and write.Henry: So you were writing like at the lab bench?Brandon: Oh, yeah, absolutely. One thousand percent. I would like put on Philip Glass's score for the hours and then just like type while my while the centrifuge was running or whatever. And and so like there's that impression sort of baked into the first couple books. And then I think more, I guess, like spiritually or broadly, it influenced my work because it taught me how to think and how to organize time and how to organize thoughts and how to sort of pursue long term, open ended projects whose results may or may not, you know, fail because of something that you did or maybe you didn't do. And that's just the nature of things. Who knows? But yeah, I think also just like discipline, the discipline to sort of clock in every day. And to sort of go to the coalface and do the work. And that's not a thing that is, you know. That you just get by working in a lab, but it's certainly something that I acquired working in a lab.Henry: Do you think it's affected your interest in criticism? Because there's there are certain types of critic who seem to come from a scientific background like Helen Vendler. And there's something something about the sort of the precision and, you know, that certain critics will refuse to use critical waffle, like the human condition. And they won't make these big, vague gestures to like how this can change the way we view society. They're like, give me real details. Give me real like empirical criticism. Do you think this is — are you one of these people?Brandon: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm, you know, I'm all about what's on the page. I'm all about the I'm not gonna go rooting in your biography for not gonna go. I'm not I'm not doing that. It's like what you brought to me on the page is what you've brought to me. And that is what I will be sort of coming over. I mean, I think so. I mean, very often when critics write about my work, or when people respond to my work, they sort of describe it as being put under a microscope. And I do think like, that is how I approach literature. It's how I approach life. If there's ever a problem or a question put to me, I just sort of dissect it and try to get down to its core bits and its core parts. And and so yeah, I mean, if that is a scientific way of doing things, that's certainly how I but also I don't know any other way to think like that's sort of that's sort of how I was trained to think about stuff. You've been to London. I have. What did you think of it? The first time I didn't love it. The second and third times I had a good time, but I felt like London didn't love me back. London is the only place on earth I've ever been where people have had a hard time understanding me like I like it's the only place where I've like attempted to order food or a drink or something in a store or a cafe or a restaurant. And the waiters like turned to my like British hosts and asked them to translate. And that is an entirely foreign experience for me. And so London and I have like a very contentious relationship, I would say.Henry: Now, you've just published four classic novels.Brandon: Yes.Henry: George Gissing, Edith Wharton, Victor Hugo and Sarah Orne Jewett. Why did you choose those four writers, those four titles?Brandon: Oh, well, once we decided that we were going to do a classics imprint, you know, then it's like, well, what are we going to do? And I'm a big Edith Wharton fan. And there are all of these Edith Wharton novels that Americans don't really know about. They know Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. And if they are an English major, they maybe know her for The House of Mirth. Or like maybe they know her for The Custom of the Country if they're like really into reading. But then they sort of think of her as a novelist of the 19th century. And she's writing all of these books set in the 1920s and about the 1920s. And so it felt important to show people like, oh, this is a writer who died a lot later than you think that she did. And whose creative output was, you know, pretty, who was like a contemporary of F. Scott Fitzgerald in a lot of ways. Like, these books are being published around the same time as The Great Gatsby. And to sort of, you know, bring attention to a part of her over that, like, people don't know about. And like, that's really exciting to me. And Sarah Orne Jewett, I mean, I just really love The Country of the Pointed Furs. I love that book. And I found it in like in a 10 cents bin at a flea market one time. And it's a book that people have tried to bring back. And there have been editions of it. But it just felt like if we could get two people who are really cool to talk about why they love that book, we could sort of have like a real moment. And Sarah Orne Jewett was like a pretty big American writer. Like she was a pretty significant writer. And she was like really plugged in and she's not really read or thought about now. And so that felt like a cool opportunity as well to sort of create a very handsome edition of this book and to sort of talk about a bit why she matters. And the guessing of it all is we were going to do New Grub Street. And then my co-editor thought, well, The Odd Women, I think, is perhaps more relevant to our current moment than New Grub Street necessarily. And it would sort of differentiate us from the people, from the presses that are doing reissues of New Grub Street, because there's just been a new edition of that book. And nobody in America really knows The Odd Women. And it's a really wonderful novel. It's both funny and also like really biting in its satire and commentary. So we thought, oh, it'll be fun to bring this writer to Americans who they've never heard of in a way that will speak to them in a lot of ways. And the Victor Hugo, I mean, you know, there are Hugos that people know all about. And then there are Hugos that no one knows about. And Toilers of the Sea was a passion project for my co-editor. She'd read it in Guernsey. That's where she first discovered that book. And it really meant a lot to her. And I read it and really loved it. I mean, it was like Hugo at his most Hugo. Like, it's a very, it's a very, like, it's a very abundant book. And it's so wild and strange and changeful. And so I was like, oh, that seems cool. Let's do it. Let's put out Toilers of the Sea. So that's a bit of why we picked each one.Henry: And what have you learned from being on the other side of things now that you're the publisher?Brandon: So much. I've learned so much. And indeed, I just, I was just asked by my editor to do the author questionnaire for the novel that I have coming out next. And I thought, yes, I will do this. And I will do it immediately. Because now I know, I know how important these are. And I know how early and how far in advance these things need to be locked in to make everyone's life easier. I think I've learned a bit about the sometimes panicked scramble that happens to get a book published. I've learned about how hard it is to wrangle blurbs. And so I think I'm a little more forgiving of my publishers. But they've always been really great to me. But now I'm like, oh, my gosh, what can I do for you? How can I help you make this publication more of a success?Henry: Do you think that among literary people generally, there's a lack of appreciation of what business really involves in some of the senses you're talking about? I feel like I see a lot of either indifferent or hostile attitudes towards business or commerce or capitalism, late stage capitalism or whatever. And I sometimes look at it and I'm like, I don't think you guys really know what it takes to just like get stuff done. You know what I mean? Like, it's a lot of grind. I don't think it's a big nasty thing. It's just a lot of hard work, right?Brandon: Yeah, I mean, 1000%. Or if it's not a sort of misunderstanding, but a sort of like disinterest in like, right, like a sort of high minded, like, oh, that's just the sort of petty grimy commerce of it all. I care about the beauty and the art. And it's just like, friend, we need booksellers to like, sell this. I mean, to me, the part of it that is most to me, like the most illustrative example of this in my own life is that when I first heard how my editor was going to be describing my book, I was like, that's disgusting. That's horrible. Why are you talking about my race? Why are you talking about like my sexuality? Like, this is horrible. Why can't you just like talk about the plot of the book? Like, what is the matter with you? And then I had, you know, I acquired and edited this book called Henry Henry, which is a queer contemporary retelling of the Henry ad. And it's a wonderful novel. It's so delightful. And I had to go into our sales conference where we are talking to the people whose job it is to sell that book into bookstores to get bookstores to take that book up. And I had to write this incredibly craven description of this novel. And as I was writing it, I was like, I hope Alan, the author, I hope Alan never sees this. He never needs to hear how I'm talking about this book. And as I was doing it, I was like, I will never hold it against my editor again for writing this like, cheesy, cringy copy. Because it's like you, like, you so believe in the art of that book, so much that you want it to give it every fighting chance in the marketplace. And you need to arm your sales team with every weapon of commerce they need to get that book to succeed so that when readers pick it up, they can appreciate all of the beautiful and glorious art of it. And I do think that people, you know, like, people don't really kind of, people don't really understand that. And I do think that part of that is publishing's fault, because they are, they've been rather quick to elide the distinctions between art and commerce. And so like publishing has done a not great job of sort of giving people a lot of faith in its understanding that there's a difference between art and commerce. But yeah, I think, I think there's a lot of misapprehension out there about like, what goes into getting bookstores to acquire that book.Henry: What are the virtues of negative book reviews?Brandon: I was just on a panel about this. I mean, I mean, hopefully a negative book review, like a positive review, or like any review, will allow a reader or the audience to understand the book in a new way, or to create a desire in the reader to pick up the book and see if they agree or disagree or that they, that they have something to argue with or push against as they're reading. You know, when I'm writing a negative review, when I'm writing a review that I feel is trending toward negative, I should say, I always try to like, I don't know, I try to always remember that like, this is just me presenting my experience of the book and my take of the book. And hopefully that will be productive or useful for whoever reads the review. And hopefully that my review won't be the only thing that they read and that they will in fact, go pick up the book and see if they agree or disagree. It's hopefully it creates interesting and potentially divergent dialogues or discourses around the text. And fundamentally, I think not every critic feels this way. Not every piece of criticism is like this. But the criticism I write, I'm trying to create the conditions that will refer the reader always back to the text, be it through quotation, be it through, they're so incensed by my argument that they're going to go read the book themselves and then like, yell at me. Like, I think that that's wonderful, but like, always keeping the book at the center. But I think a negative review can, you know, it can start a conversation. It can get people talking about books, which in this culture, this phase of history feels like a win. And hopefully it can sort of be a corrective sometimes to less genuine or perceived less genuine discourses that are existing around the book.Henry: I think even whether or not it's a question of genuine, it's for me, it's just a question of if you tell people this book is good and they give up their time and money and they discover that it's trash, you've done a really bad thing to that person. And like, there might be dozens of them compared to this one author who you've been impolite to or whatever. And it's just a question of don't lie in book, right?Brandon: Well, yeah. I mean, hopefully people are honest, but I do feel sometimes that there is, there's like a lack of honesty. And look, I think that being like, well, I mean, maybe you'll love this. I don't love it, you know, but at least present your opinion in that way. At least be like, you know, there are many interpretations of this thing. Here's my interpretation. Maybe you'll feel differently or something like that. But I do think that people feel that there have been a great number of dishonest book reviews. Maybe there have been, maybe there have not been. I certainly have read some reviews I felt were dishonest about books that I have read. And I think that the negative book review does feel a bit like a corrective in a lot of ways, both, you know, justified or unjustified. People are like, finally, someone's being honest about this thing. But yeah, I think it's interesting. I think it's all really, I think it's all fascinating. I do think that there are some reviews though, that are negative and that are trying to be about the book, but are really about the author. There are some reviews that I have read that have been ostensibly about reviewing a text, but which have really been about, you don't like that person and you have decided to sort of like take an axe to them. And that to me feels not super productive. I wouldn't do it, but other people find it useful.Henry: As in, you can tell that from the review or you know that from background information?Brandon: I mean, this is all projection, of course, but like there have been some reviews where I've read, like, for example, some of the Lauren Oyler reviews, I think some of the Lauren Oyler reviews were negative and were exclusively about the text. And they sort of took the text apart and sort of dissected it and came to conclusions, some of which I agreed with, some of which I didn't agree with, but they were fundamentally about the text. And like all the criticisms referred back to the text. And then there were some that were like projecting attitudes onto the author that were more about creating this sort of vaporous shape of Lauren Oyler and then sort of poking holes in her literary celebrity or her stature as a critic or what have you. And that to me felt less productive as like a book review.Henry: Yes. Who are your favorite reviewers?Brandon: Ooh, my favorite reviewers. I really love Christian Lawrence. And he does my, of the critics who try to do the sort of like mini historiography of like a thing. He's my favorite because he teaches me a lot. He sort of is so good at summing up an era or summing up a phase of literary production without being like so cringe or so socialist about it. I really love, I love it when he sort of distills and dissects an era. I really like Hermione Hobie. I think she's really interesting. And she writes about books with a lot of feeling and a lot of energy. And I really love her mind. And of course, like Patricia Lockwood, of course, everyone, perhaps not everyone, but I enjoy Patricia Lockwood's criticism. You don't?Henry: Not really.Brandon: Oh, is it because it's too chatty? Is it too, is it too selfie?Henry: A little bit. I think, I think that kind of criticism can work really well. But I think, I think it's too much. I think basically she's very, she's a very stylized writer and a lot of her judgments get, it gets to the point where it's like, this is the logical conclusion of what you're trying to do stylistically. And there are some zingers in here and some great lines and whatever, but we're no longer, this is no longer really a book review.Brandon: Yeah.Henry: Like by the, by the end of the paragraph, this, like, we didn't want to let the style go. We didn't want to lose the opportunity to cap that off. And it leads her into, I think, glibness a lot of the time.Brandon: Yeah. I could see that. I mean, I mean, I enjoy reading her pieces, but do I understand like what's important to her at a sort of literary level? I don't know. I don't, and in that sense, like, are they, is it criticism or is it closer to like personal essay, humorous essay? I don't know. Maybe that's true. I enjoy reading them, but I get why people are like, this is a very, very strong flavor for sure.Henry: Now you've been reading a lot of literary criticism.Brandon: Oh yeah.Henry: Not of the LRB variety, but of the, the old books in libraries variety. Yes. How did that start? How did, how did you come to this?Brandon: Somewhat like ham-fistedly. I, in 2021, I had a really bad case of writer's block and I thought maybe part of the reason I had writer's block was that I didn't know anything about writing or I didn't know anything about like literature or like writing. I'd been writing, I'd published a novel. I was working on another novel. I'd published a book of stories, but like, I just like truly didn't know anything about literature really. And I thought I need some big boy ideas. I need, I need to find out what adults think about literature. And so I went to my buddy, Christian Lorenzen, and I was like, you write criticism. What is it? And what should I read? And he gave me a sort of starter list of criticism. And it was like the liberal imagination by Lionel Trilling and Guy Davenport and Alfred Kazin who wrote On Native Grounds, which is this great book on the American literary tradition and Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel. And I, and then Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle. And I read all of those. And then as each one would sort of refer to a different text or person, I sort of like followed the footnotes down into this rabbit hole of like literary criticism. And now it's been a sort of ongoing project of the last few years of like reading. I always try to have a book of criticism on the go. And then earlier this year, I read Jameson's The Antimonies of Realism. And he kept talking about this Georg Lukács guy. And I was like, I guess I should go read Lukács. And so then I started reading Lukács so that I could get back to Jameson. And I've been reading Lukács ever since. I am like deep down the Lukács rabbit hole. But I'm not reading any of the socialism stuff. I told myself that I wouldn't read any of the socialism stuff and I would only read the literary criticism stuff, which makes me very different from a lot of the socialist literary critics I really enjoy because they're like Lukács, don't read in that literary criticism stuff, just read his socialism stuff. So I'm reading all the wrong stuff from Lukács, but I really, I really love it. But yeah, it sort of started because I thought I needed grown up ideas about literature. And it's been, I don't know, I've really enjoyed it. I really, really enjoy it. It's given me perhaps terrible ideas about what novels should be or do. But, you know, that's one of the side effects to reading.Henry: Has it made, like, what specific ways has it changed how you've written since you've acquired a set of critical principles or ideas?Brandon: Yeah, I mean, I think part of it is, part of it has to do with Lukács' idea of the totality. And, you know, I think that the sort of most direct way that it shows up in a sort of really practical way in my novel writing is that I no longer really want to be starting my books, quote unquote, in media res. Like, I don't want, I want my books to feel like books. I don't want my books to feel like movies. And I don't want them to feel like treatments for film. And so I want to sort of bring back all of what a novel can do in terms of its structure and in terms of its form and stuff like that. And so it means starting books, you know, with this sort of Dickensian voice of God speaking from on high, sort of summing up an era. And I think also sort of allowing the narrators in my work to dare to sum up, allowing characters in my work to have ideologies and to argue about those ideologies. I feel like that is a thing that was sort of denuded from the American novel for a lot of millennials and just sort of like trying to put back some of that old fashioned machinery that was like stripped out of the novel. And seeing what of it can still function, seeing, trying to figure out if there's any juice left in these modes of representation and stuff like that. And so like that, that's sort of, that's sort of abstract, but like in a concrete way, like what I'm kind of trying to resolve in my novel writing these days.Henry: You mentioned Dickens.Brandon: Oh, yes.Henry: Which Dickens novels do you like?Brandon: Now I'm afraid I'm going to say something else controversial. We love controversial. Which Dickens? I love Bleak House. I love Bleak House. I love Tale of Two Cities. It is one of the best openings ever, ever, ever, ever in the sweep of that book at once personal and universal anyway. Bleak House, Tale of Two Cities. And I also, I read Great Expectations as like a high school student and didn't like it, hated it. It was so boring. But now coming back to it, I think it, honestly, it might be the novel of our time. I think it might accidentally be a novel. I mean, it's a novel of scammers, a novel of like, interpersonal beef taken to the level of like, spiritual conflict, like it's about thieves and class, like it just feels like like that novel could have been written today about people today, like that book just feels so alive to today's concerns, which perhaps, I don't know, says something really evil about this cultural stagnation under capitalism, perhaps, but I don't know, love, love Great Expectations now.Henry: Why are so many modern novels boring?Brandon: Well, depends on what you mean by boring, Henry, what do you mean? Why?Henry: I mean, you said this.Brandon: Oh.Henry: I mean, I happen to agree, but this is, I'm quoting you.Brandon: Oh, yes. I remember that. I remember that review.Henry: I mean, I can tell you why I think they're boring.Brandon: Oh, yes, please.Henry: So I think, I think what you said before is true. They all read like movies. And I think I very often I go in, I pick up six or seven books on the new book table. And I'm like, these openings are all just the same. You're all thinking you can all see Netflix in your head. This is not really a novel. And so the dialogue is really boring, because you kind of you can hear some actor or actress saying it. But I can't hear that because I'm the idiot stuck in the bookshop reading your Netflix script. Whereas, you know, I think you're right that a lot of those traditional forms of storytelling, they like pull you in to the to the novel. And they and they like by the end of the first few pages, you sort of feel like I'm in this funny place now. And to do in media res, like, someone needs to get shot, or something, something weird needs to be said, like, you can't just do another, another standard opening. So I think that's a big, that's a big point.Brandon: Well, as Lukasz tells us, bourgeois realism has a, an unholy fondness for the, the average, the merely average, as opposed to the typical. And I think, yeah, a lot of it, a lot of why I think it's boring echoes you, I think that for me, what I find boring, and a lot of them is that it feels like novelists have abandoned any desire to, to have their characters or the novels themselves integrate the sort of disparate experiences within the novel into any kind of meaningful hole. And so there isn't this like sense of like things advancing toward a grander understanding. And I think a lot of it is because they've, they are writing under the assumption that like the question of why can never be answered. There can never be like a why, there can never be a sort of significance to anything. And so everything is sort of like evacuated of significance or meaning. And so you have what I've taken to calling like reality TV fiction, where the characters are just like going places and doing things, and there are no thoughts, there are no thoughts about their lives, or no thoughts about the things that they are doing, there are no thoughts about their experiences. And it's just a lot of like, like lowercase e events in their lives, but like no attempt to organize those events into any sort of meaningful hole. And I think also just like, what leads to a lot of dead writing is writers who are deeply aware that they're writing about themes, they're writing about themes instead of people. And they're working from generalities instead of particularities and specificities. And they have no understanding of the relationship between the universal and the particular. And so like, everything is just like, like beans in a can that they're shaking around. And I think that that's really boring. I think it's really tedious. Like, like, sure, we can we can find something really profound in the mundane, but like, you have to be really smart to do that. So like the average novelist is like better off like, starting with a gunshot or something like do something big.Henry: If you're not Virginia Woolf, it is in fact just mundane.Brandon: Indeed. Yeah.Henry: Is there too much emphasis on craft? In the way, in the way, in like what's valued among writers, in the way writers are taught, I feel like everything I see is about craft. And I'm like, craft is good, but that can just be like how you make a table rather than like how you make a house. Craft is not the guarantor of anything. And I see a lot of books where I think this person knows some craft. But as you say, they don't really have an application for it. And they don't. No one actually said to them, all style has a moral purpose, whether you're aware of it or not. And so they default to this like pointless use of the craft. And someone should say to them, like, you need to know history. You need to know tennis. You need to know business. You need to know like whatever, you know. And I feel like the novels I don't like are reflections of the discourse bubble that the novelist lives in. And I feel like it's often the continuation of Twitter by other means. So in the Rachel Kong novel that I think it came out this year, there's a character, a billionaire character who comes in near the end. And everything that he says or that is said about him is literally just meme. It's online billionaire meme because billionaires are bad because of all the things we all know from being on Twitter. And I was like, so you just we literally have him a character as meme. And this is the most representative thing to me, because that's maybe there's craft in that. Right. But what you've chosen to craft is like 28 tweets. That's pointless.Brandon: 28 tweets be a great title for a book, though, you have to admit, I would buy that book off the new book table. 28 tweets. I would. I would buy that. Yeah, I do think. Well, I think it goes both ways. I think it goes both ways. I somewhat famously said this about Sally Rooney that like she her books have no craft. The craft is bad. And I do think like there are writers who only have craft, who are able to sort of create these wonderfully structured books and to sort of deploy these beautiful techniques. And those books are absolutely dead. There's just like nothing in them because they have nothing to say. There's just like nothing to be said about any of that. And on the other hand, you have these books that are full of feelings that like would be better had someone taught that person about structure or form or had they sort of had like a rigorous thing. And I would say that like both of those are probably bad, like depending on who you are, you find one more like, like easier to deal with than the other. I do think that like part of why there's such an emphasis on craft is because not to sort of bring capitalism back in but you can monetize craft, you know what I mean? Like, craft is one of those things that is like readily monetizable. Like, if I'm a writer, and I would like to make money, and I can't sell a novel, I can tell people like, oh, how to craft a perfect opening, how to create a novel opening that will make agents pick it up and that will make editors say yes, but like what the sort of promise of craft is that you can finish a thing, but not that it is good, as you say, there's no guarantor. Whereas you know, like it's harder to monetize someone's soul, or like, it's harder to monetize like the sort of random happenstance of just like a writer's voice sort of emerging from from whatever, like you can't turn that into profit. But you can turn into profit, let me help you craft your voice. So it's very grind set, I think craft has a tendency to sort of skew toward the grind set and toward people trying to make money from, from writing when they can't sell a book, you know. Henry: Let's play a game. Brandon: Oh dear.Henry: I say the name of a writer. You give us like the 30 second Brandon Taylor opinion of that writer.Brandon: Okay. Yeah.Henry: Jonathan Franzen.Brandon: Thomas Mann, but like, slightly more boring, I think.Henry: Iris Murdoch.Brandon: A friend of mine calls her a modern calls her the sort of pre Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney. And I agree with that.Henry: When I'm at parties, I try and sell her to people where I say she's post-war Sally Rooney.Brandon: Yes, yes. And like, and like all that that entails, and so many delightful, I read all these like incredible sort of mid century reviews of her novels, and like the men, the male critics, like the Bernard Breganzis of the world being like, why is there so much sex in this book? It's amazing. Please go look up those like mid-century reviews of Iris Murdoch. They were losing their minds. Henry: Chekhov.Brandon: Perfect, iconic, baby girl, angel, legend. Can't get enough. 10 out of 10.Henry: Evelyn Waugh.Brandon: So Catholic, real Catholic vibes. But like, scabrously funny. And like, perhaps the last writer to write about life as though it had meaning. Hot take, but I'll, I stand by it.Henry: Yeah, well, him and Murdoch. But yeah, no, I think I think there's a lot in that. C.V. Wedgwood.Brandon: Oh, my gosh. The best, a titan, a master of history. Like, oh, my God. I would not be the same without Wedgwood.Henry: Tell us which one we should read.Brandon: Oh, the 30 Years War. What are you talking about?Henry: Well, I think her books on the English Civil War… I'm a parochial Brit.Brandon: Oh, see, I don't, not that I don't, I will go read those. But her book on the 30 Years War is so incredible. It's, it's amazing. It's second to like, Froissart's Chronicles for like, sort of history, history books for me.Henry: Northrop Frye.Brandon: My father. I, Northrop Frye taught me so much about how to see and how to think. Just amazing, a true thinker in a mind. Henry: Which book? Brandon: Oh, Anatomy of Criticism is fantastic. But Fearful Symmetry is just, it will blow your head off. Just amazing. But if you're looking for like, to have your, your mind gently remapped, then Anatomy of Criticism.Henry: Emma Cline.Brandon: A throwback. I think she's, I think she's Anne Beattie meets John Cheever for a new era. And I think she's amazing. She's perfect. Don't love her first novel. I think her stories are better. She's a short story writer. And she should stay that way.Henry: Okay, now I want you to rank Jane Austen's novels.Brandon: Wait, okay. So like, by my preference, or by like, what I think is the best?Henry: You can do both.Brandon: Okay. So in terms, my favorite, Persuasion. Then Mansfield Park. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. And then Emma, then Northanger Abbey. Okay.Henry: Now, how about for which ones are the best?Brandon: Persuasion. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Emma,.Sense and Sensibility. Northanger Abbey.Henry: Why do people not like Fanny Price? And what is wrong with them?Brandon: Fanny Price is perfect. Fanny Price, I was just talking to someone about this last night at dinner. Fanny Price, she's perfect. First of all, she is, I don't know why people don't like her. She's like a chronically ill girl who's hot for her cousin and like, has deep thoughts. It seems like she would be the icon of literary Twitter for like a certain kind of person, you know? And I don't know why they don't like her. I think I'm, I am becoming the loudest Mansfield Park apologist on the internet. I think that people don't like Fanny because she's less vivacious than Mary Crawford. And I think that people are afraid to see themselves in Fanny because she seems like she's unfun or whatever. But what they don't realize is that like Fanny Price, Fanny Price has like a moral intelligence and like a moral consciousness. And like Fanny Price is one of the few Austen characters who actually argues directly and literally about the way the world is. Like with multiple people, like the whole, the whole novel is her sort of arguing about, well, cities are this and the country is this. And like, we need Parsons as much as we need party boys. Like, like she's arguing not just about, not just about these things like through the lens of like marriage or like the sort of marriage economy, but like in literal terms, I mean, she is so, she's like a moral philosopher. I love Fanny Price and she's so smart and so sensitive and so, and I guess like maybe it's just that people don't like a character who's kind of at the mercy of others and they view her as passive. When in fact, like a young woman arguing about the way the world should be, like Mary Crawford's, Mary Crawford's like kind of doing the above, not really, not like Fanny. But yeah, I love her. She's amazing. I love Fanny Price. And I also think that people love Margaret Hale from North and South. And I think that when people are saying they hate Fanny Price, what they're picturing is actually how Margaret Hale is. Margaret Hale is one of the worst heroines of a novel. She's so insufferable. She's so rude. She's so condescending. And like, she does get her comeuppance and like Gaskell does sort of bring about a transformation where she's actually able to sort of like see poor people as people first and not like subjects of sympathy. But Margaret is what people imagine Fanny is, I think. And we should, we should start a Fanny Price, like booster club. Henry, should we? Let's do it. It begins here. I just feel so strongly about her. I feel, I love, I love Fanny.Henry: She's my favorite of Austen's characters. And I think she is the most representative Austen character. She's the most Austen of all of them, right?Brandon: Yeah, I mean, that makes great deal of sense to me. She's just so wonderful. Like she's so funny and so observant. And she's like this quiet little girl who's like kind of sickly and people don't really like her. And she's kind of maybe I'm just like, maybe I just like see myself in her. And I don't mind being a sort of annoying little person who's going around the world.Henry: What are some good principles for naming literary characters?Brandon: Ooh, I have a lot of strong feelings about this. I think that names should be memorable. They should have like, like an aura of sort of literariness about them. I don't mean, I mean, taken to like hilarious extremes. It's like Henry James. Catherine Goodwood, Isabelle Archer, Ralph Touchett, like, you know, Henry had a stack pole. So like, not like that. But I mean, that could be fun in a modern way. But I think there's like an aura of like, it's a name that you might hear in real life, but it sort of add or remove, it's sort of charged and elevated, sort of like with dialogue. And that it's like a memorable thing that sort of like, you know, it's like, you know, memorable thing that sort of sticks in the reader's mind. It is both a name, a literary, a good literary name is both a part of this world and not of this world, I think. And, yeah, and I love that. I think like, don't give your character a name like you hear all the time. Like, Tyler is a terrible literary name. Like, no novel has ever, no good novel has ever had a really important character named Tyler in it. It just hasn't. Ryan? What makes a good sentence? Well, my sort of like, live and let live answer is that a good sentence is a sentence that is perfectly suited to the purpose it has. But I don't know, I like a clear sentence, regardless of length or lyric intensity, but just like a clear sentence that articulates something. I like a sentence with motion, a sense of rhythm, a sense of feel without any bad words in it. And I don't mean like curse words, I mean like words that shouldn't be in literature. Like, there's some words that just like don't belong in novels.Henry: Like what?Brandon: Squelch. Like, I don't think the word squelch should be in a novel. That's a gross word and it doesn't sound literary to me. I don't want to see it.Henry: I wouldn't be surprised if it was in Ulysses.Brandon: Well, yes.Henry: I have no idea, but I'm sure, I'm sure.Brandon: But so few of us are James Joyce. And that novel is like a thousand bodily functions per page. But don't love it. Don't love it.Henry: You don't love Ulysses?Brandon: No, I don't… Listen, I don't have a strong opinion, but you're not going to get me cancelled about Ulysses. I'm not Virginia Woolf.Henry: We're happy to have opinions of that nature here. That's fine.Brandon: You know, I don't have a strong feeling about it, actually. Some parts of it that I've read are really wonderful. And some parts of it that I have read are really dense and confusing to me. I haven't sort of given it the time it needs or deserves. What did you learn from reading Toni Morris? What did I learn? I think I learned a lot about the moral force of melodrama. I think that she shows us a lot about the uses of melodrama and how it isn't just like a lesion of realism, that it isn't just a sort of malfunctioning realism, but that there are certain experiences and certain lives and certain things that require and necessitate melodrama. And when deployed, it's not tacky or distasteful that it actually is like deeply necessary. And also just like the joy of access and language, like the sort of... Her language is so towering. I don't know, whenever I'm being really shy about a sentence being too vivid or too much, I'm like, well, Toni Morrison would just go for it. And I am not Toni Morrison, but she has given me the courage to try.Henry: What did you like about the Annette Benning film of The Seagull?Brandon: The moment when Annette Benning sings Dark Eyes is so good. It's so good. I think about it all the time. And indeed, I stole that moment for a short story that I wrote. And I liked that part of it. I liked the set design. I think also Saoirse Ronan, when she gives that speech as Nina, where she's like, you know, where the guy's like, what do you want from, you know, what do you want? Why do you want to be an actress? And she's like, I want fame. You know, like, I want to be totally adored. And I'm just like, yeah, that's so real. That's so, that is so real. Like Chekhov has understood something so deep, so deep about the nature of commerce and art there. And I think Saoirse is really wonderful in that movie. It's a not, it's not a good movie. It's maybe not even a good adaptation of The Seagull. But I really enjoyed it. I saw it like five times in a theater in Iowa City.Henry: I don't know if it's a bad adaptation of The Seagull, because it's one of the, it's one of the Chekhov's I've seen that actually understands that, like, the tragic and the and the comic are not meant to be easily distinguishable in his work. And it does have all this lightheartedness. And it is quite funny. And I was like, well, at least someone's doing that because I'm so sick of, like, gloomy Chekhov. You know what I mean? Like, oh, the clouds and the misery. Like, no, he wants you, he wants you to laugh and then be like, I shouldn't laugh because it's kind of tragic, but it's also just funny.Brandon: Yeah. Yes, I mean, all the moments were like, like Annette Bening's characters, like endless stories, like she's just like constantly unfurling a story and a story and a story and a story. Every scene kind of was like, she's in the middle of telling another interminable anecdote. And of course, the sort of big tragic turn at the end is like, where like, Kostya kills himself. And she's like, in the middle of like, another really long anecdote while they're in the other room playing cards. Like, it's so, it's so good. So I love that. I enjoy watching that movie. I still think it's maybe not. It's a little wooden, like as a movie, like it's a little, it's a little rickety.Henry: Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure. But for someone looking to like, get a handle on Chekhov, it's actually a good place to go. What is the best make of Fountain Pen?Brandon: That's a really good, that's a really, really, really good question. Like, what's your Desert Island Fountain Pen? My Desert Island Fountain Pen. Right now, it's an Esterbrook Estee with a needlepoint nib. It's like, so, I can use that pen for hours and hours and hours and hours. I think my favorite Fountain Pen, though, is probably the Pilot Custom 743. It's a really good pen, not too big, not too small. It can hold a ton of ink, really wonderful. I use, I think, like a Soft Fine nib, incredible nib, so smooth. Like, I, you could cap it and then uncap it a month later, and it just like starts immediately. It's amazing. And it's not too expensive.Henry: Brandon Taylor, thank you very much.Brandon: Thanks for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk/subscribe

It's the gift giving special and the last record of 2024!  Deirdre explains how she ended up looking at a 'Beware of the Bull' sign instead of the stage door and Emma tells the tale of her night in the Olympia, in a box no less! All this and more, enjoy! Happy holidays everyone! This episode contains explicit language and adult themes. This Podcast is part of the Headstuff Network. Find out more at HeadStuffPodcasts.com This Podcast is sponsored by Key For Her. The code TIGHT can be used sitewide on your first order at KeyForHer.com Click the link and your 20% discount for all Key For Her products will be applied at checkout. https://keyforher.com/discount/TIGHT Producer: Laura Greene Artwork: Alan Bourke-Tuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to WeWow: The Great Indoors! In this five-part documentary series, we will journey into the winter dwelling of one of our planet's nosiest neighbors, in hopes of learning more about him and perhaps... ourselves. Today, we find the subject, Dennis, gathering extra layers to trap in fleeting winter warmth. Plus, and encore of "Constructing Creativity: How Science And Art Aren't So Far Apart!" If you have a question for Dennis, leave him a voicemail at 1-888-7WOW-WOW. Your question might just end up on WeWow on the Weekend!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to WeWow: The Great Indoors! In this five-part documentary series, we will journey into the winter dwelling of one of our planet's nosiest neighbors, in hopes of learning more about him and perhaps... ourselves. Today, we find the subject, Dennis, gathering extra layers to trap in fleeting winter warmth. Plus, and encore of "Constructing Creativity: How Science And Art Aren't So Far Apart!" If you have a question for Dennis, leave him a voicemail at 1-888-7WOW-WOW. Your question might just end up on WeWow on the Weekend!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As the year winds down, we're wrapping ourselves in cozy sweaters and diving into some unforgettable books! Join us as we share our favorite reads from October to December, from spine-chilling horror to heartwarming tales perfect for the season. Whether you're looking for your next great read or just want to hear our thoughts on these page-turners, this episode is packed with recommendations and reflections to keep your TBR stacked.

SORRY THE AUDIO SUCKS OUR MICS WENT HAYWIRE! Subscribe, Like, and Comment! Tell us your favorite moments from the episode! Aaron and Lucas are back with another Thanksgiving episode! We decided to try the Charlie Brown meal this year after attempting to eat an entire turkey last year. 00:00 Peanuts Meal 06:42 Glicked 19:22 Rob The Bodega 21:10 Sweater Weather and Seasonal Depression 25:09 Lucas's Baby Teeth Sketch 28:17 Men Should Go To Jazz Clubs 34:09 Thankful Boyband Follow Just One Fern: linktr.ee/JustOneFern If you want your "Is It Weird?" story to be on next weeks episode, leave us a voicemail or text us at 1-315-278-1153! We love to hear from you weirdos.  Let us know what you think on Twitter: @Just_One_Fern @aaronfern12 #comedy #podcast #weekend

It's Christmas time for our favorite Buccaneers! Jinny and Lord Seadown prioritize each other, Mabel finds a way to stay in Europe, Richard and Conchita continue their trajectory, and Nan juggles her emotions. To support the LoG on Patreon visit: https://www.patreon.com/lordsofgrantham To buy LoG Merchandise visit: https://www.teepublic.com/user/lords-of-grantham-podcast

Clothing retailers were foiled by unpredictable weather this fall: October was the second warmest on record, and now stores are sitting on a lot of extra cold-weather inventory. What will they do about it? Plus: Comcast spins off most of its cable network channels, a violin maker talks tariffs, and an author tells us about “The Nvidia Way,” the chip designer’s unique workplace culture.

Clothing retailers were foiled by unpredictable weather this fall: October was the second warmest on record, and now stores are sitting on a lot of extra cold-weather inventory. What will they do about it? Plus: Comcast spins off most of its cable network channels, a violin maker talks tariffs, and an author tells us about “The Nvidia Way,” the chip designer’s unique workplace culture.

Clothing retailers were foiled by unpredictable weather this fall: October was the second warmest on record, and now stores are sitting on a lot of extra cold-weather inventory. What will they do about it? Plus: Comcast spins off most of its cable network channels, a violin maker talks tariffs, and an author tells us about “The Nvidia Way,” the chip designer’s unique workplace culture.

As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games are explorations of civilizations over time, and in fact would make a pretty good double feature game night played together. Weird! Anyway, this is a little box set where you make a dice tower. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. First day of Sweater Weather! Cold front brings cooler temperatures and beautiful gardening weather for Florida. Last full supermoon of the year – the Beaver Moon. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins provides the updated @UF IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas for possible future invasive plants. Lizzie's enjoying the weather with family in town. Teresa's Top Five Ornamental Shrubs that Don't Need Pruned. Garden topics and question: Good locations of tropical plants so they don't freeze; how to use Red Wiggler worm compost, Plant identification, how to help hurricane-stressed trees, can you fertilize now, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH Sign up for Teresa's monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa's what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa's Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT   Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Hi there friends. Here comes winter and here come the PWHL sweater releases. Jake and Evan agree that Ottawa's logo still looks silly, but the jerseys are nice. The Toronto Taylor Swifts are a thing now, as are Tessa Bonhomme and Julia Tocheri as employees of the media arm of the PWHL. We've also got raves about Winnipeg being awesome, the Stars outscoring their local football counterpart, and perhaps too much talk about Georgia O'Keefe. All this and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening!

On this week's episode: Brian and Kelly break down a strange Red Robin promotion, how to properly identify the front seat cupholders, how to push your children in shopping carts without killing them, and what exactly is "sweater weather?" We also discuss NFL team's Uncrustable consumption and some logo redesigns that were very much needed. Follow us on social media and check out our YouTube channel. Rate, review, and subscribe! We love you and, as always, thank u for being a Friend!

Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We're going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or not, so don't worry about heavy topics. If you're looking for a getaway, we got you. Also, this book is about impending change and possible doom. So. You know, we'll figure it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We open with some quick reflections on hand injuries - fast forward to 05:43 if you get a little ehhh and squeamish about that stuff! We do a quick coverage of a folie à famille case from Australia, the Tromp family. Alyssa also unveils a thrift store find and how she united with a fellow Lynn at HEB. We wrap up with a little sweater weather cringe :) HORROR SQUID EPISODE!!: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UxninflUR0BuovvUGiONK?si=5165f095bcef408fWrite us some of your cringe stories at [nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.com](mailto:nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.com)The socials: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nervouslaughterpodcast) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/NervousLaughterPodcast) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/NervouslaughPod) Write us some of your cringe stories at nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.comThe socials: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

In this episode, the gals chat all about sweater weather! From what exactly "sweater weather" means to why we love some of our favorites, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Winter 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for enrollment 11/30/24 on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

John Charles in conversation with Jenn McKinlay, Karen Schaler and Jacqueline Snowe

This episode of the Cabin Podcast is brought to you by Visit Lake Geneva: https://bit.ly/3wHvilfCampfire Conversation: Join us for a cozy fall episode as we explore the beauty of Lake Geneva with special guest Stephanie Klett! Immerse yourself in the vibrant fall colors and outdoor activities that make this season magical. From scenic hikes along the Geneva Lake Shore Path to exhilarating ziplines and relaxing boat cruises, Lake Geneva is the perfect destination for fall adventure.Embrace the season by visiting local orchards for apple picking and indulging in seasonal treats, or simply enjoy the crisp air and stunning autumn landscapes. And don't miss the Lake Geneva Oktoberfest, a celebration filled with live music, delicious food, and family-friendly fun.Whether you're looking for outdoor thrills or a peaceful retreat in nature, Lake Geneva offers it all. Tune in to discover why fall is the best time to experience this charming lakeside getaway!

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode discuss Jewish anti-Zionism with Independent Jewish Voices founding member Sid Shniad on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the prairies on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, document the complex issue of consulting firms ripping off government programs and deskilling the public service on the Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES and re-visit Marian Engel's Governor General's Award-winning 1976 novel Bear and its unconventional narrative about a woman's romantic relationship with a bear on SWEATER WEATHER.The Harbinger Media Network includes 74 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, and at CiTR 101.9FM and CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Cape Breton.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticSweater Weather: A Generational Anthem Analytic Dreamz dives deep into the cultural impact of The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather." This iconic indie-pop anthem, released in 2013, has not only resonated with a generation but has also become a powerful symbol within the bisexual community.We'll explore the song's chart-topping success, its connection to early 2010s Tumblr culture, and its recent resurgence as a bisexual anthem on TikTok. Join us as we analyze the lyrics, discuss the band's musical style, and uncover the reasons behind this song's enduring popularity.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We're back and after we catch up, we ask a question: When you think of Natalie Portman, what movie comes to mind?  After running through her filmograhpy, we look at a 10 Best A24 Movies list.  We also touch on the news of James Gunn Announcing Dynamic Duo - centered on Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. We finish with homerwork, including Mr. McMahon, The History of the Sitcom, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Juliet, Naked, Ex Machina (comic), 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, TMNT by Jason Aaron, Titans, No Hard Feelings, and 'Salems Lot (original). This week's beer is Rockwell Beer Co's Sweater Weather. This weeks featured song is "I Think I'm Paranoid" by The Black Pacific.  You can find them at:  Facebook | Instagram | Twitter/X Check us out at our website and on social media.

Jesse Rutherford is a musician from Los Angeles who is best known for his band, The Neighbourhood. His new solo record, Wanted ? is out now. We chat about haunted hotels, eating fries with a fork, walking around Silverlake, Margaret Gou, the age "twenty nine," Sweater Weather was the first song they ever wrote, the last time he smoked pot, The Neighbourhood gets more streams than Charli, when artists change the album after its released, Katy Perry in Australia, his hardcore band and what they order at Chipotle, In N Out fries, and his favorite hobby is just talking like us. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com instagram.com/jesserutherford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's finally Sweater-Weather season! Alison and Dean recap last week's live screening of "Country Girls" in Simi Valley, where people arrived in full Prairie drag, reminiscent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show... (good idea, am I right?!)  They were joined by this week's guest, who also premiered in "Country Girls"--the incredible Tracie Savage, who played Christy Kennedy in the first 2 seasons of LHOTP. Tracie hadn't seen the cast in 48 years until she joined them at the 50th Anniversary festival in Simi Valley this past March! Fun fact: Tracie came from an entertainment family, and was the one child up against Melissa Gilbert for the role of Laura Ingalls. But she isn't bitter -- because she went on to have an incredible career in entertainment, (notably having a great death scene in the infamous Friday the 13rh franchise) and then found her calling in broadcast journalism, landing in Los Angeles, covering history-making stories such as the OJ Simpson trial. Speaking of OJ, Tracie tells a harrowing and riveting story of her experience having had to testify at the trial--and we are shook!  Currently, Tracie is a college professor, where she feels the most gratified. Tracie is seriously awesome, you will love her story--and we are so happy that she a part of the Little House family.Then, Alison answers some of your listener questions, specifically for Nellie Season 1!And for more fun, join us on Facebook for the Little House Food Contest!! It's hilarious!https://www.facebook.com/groups/littlehousecontestAnd this week on Patreon, we will have exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the "Country Girls" screening in Simi Valley with Alison, Dean and Tracie.The party is on Patreon! Haven't signed up yet? Link is below!PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/LittleHousePodcastwww.LittleHouse50Podcast.com to connect with our hosts and link to their websites.*The merch shop is under renovation - we will keep you posted on the status!*www.LivinOnaPrairieTV.com  Check out the award-winning series created by Pamela Bob, with special guest stars Alison Arngrim and Charlotte Stewart.Little House 50th Anniversary Bus Tours - www.SimiValleyChamber.org  select Little House 50th Anniversary and then Bus Tickets Facebook/Instagram/TikTok:Dean Butler @officialdeanbutlerAlison Arngrim @alisonarngrimPamela Bob @thepamelabob, @prairietv LITTLE HOUSE EVENTS DEAN BUTLER:September 27th-29th Mansfield, MOWilder DaysAddress: 100 E ParksquareMansfield, MO  65704United StatesOctober 4th- Tulsa, OK - Barnes & Noble SouthroadsOctober 5th- Tulsa, OK - Tulsa State FairOctober 17th- Burlington, VT - Barnes & NobleOctober 19th- Burke, NY- Almanzo Wilder HomesteadMay 16th-18th- Tulsa, OK - Country ConALISON ARNGRIM & MELISSA GILBERT:Alison and Melissa Gilbert will be appearing at:FAN X in Salt Lake City,  Sept 26 - 28https://fanxsaltlake.com/FACEBOOK LIVE with PAMELA and DEANhttps://fb.watch/sXZvDxawWr/

In our one-hundred and twenty-eighth episode, Robbie and Ryan talk about:Emails! Send us one: goinggreypod@gmail.com Oh, That's Nice: Guy at the store, sweater weather, Cow Harbor, and golfWho asked you?: Fridge, Robbie, and the lady at the beer tentWell, that's great!: rate cut and fly downWashed Up: Diddy and Robbie's bodySports: Football!Check out "Let the Boys Watch" with cousin Benny! https://linktr.ee/lettheboyswatchFollow us on InstagramGoodnight to the NFL!

In this episode, we take a nostalgic journey back to fall in the 1980s an 90s, a time when neon colors met golden leaves. From cozy sweater trends and iconic '80s fashion to the spooky vibes of the season, we explore what made autumn during this unforgettable decade so special.

The heat of the summer is starting to fade, and now that autumn has arrived, we're getting into a season full of foliage, apple picking, and hiking - complete with tasty warm meals to keep you going throughout the day! Marc Hurwitz of Boston Restaurant Talk leads hikes around New England for the Appalachian Mountain Club, and he returns to the show this week to talk about his recent trips, recommendations, the state of the restaurant industry, and bar pizza.

Happy Friday!!!

心地よいセーターを着て、暖かい飲み物を手に取りましょう。さぁアメリカと日本の秋の魅力的な違いに飛び込む時間です！

September is an in-between phase of summer and fall in Boston, with chills in the morning and sweats by the afternoon. Picking out your outfit for these weather can by tricky. For more, ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.

It's a What Are You Listening To (WAYLT) Time Capsule this week as Jenn presents four of her favorite songs that remind her of fall or as they call it in Austin, False Fall.  https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/waylt-songs-of-fall/pl.u-qv2ltNGyBP1. Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac2. Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood3. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) by Concrete Blonde4. Harvest Moon by Neil Young.

"I'm not a printer, I'm a fax machine!" - DJ  Finds Us In The Interwebz!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodkrakenshowTwitter/X: https://x.com/GoodKrakenShowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodkrakenshow/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshowWatch Us LIVE on Twitch!Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays!https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshowFollow us on Twitter!Ernell - https://twitter.com/OceanShrineDevin - https://twitter.com/brehvinthadudeJenesy - https://twitter.com/jenesygabrielleGarrick - https://twitter.com/VermillionBeardDJ - https://twitter.com/DJSymphixXander - https://twitter.com/itsxndr

as the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to fall, we're diving into everything that makes september special!  in this episode, Belle shares the favorite fall activities, from cozying up with a good book to exploring the great outdoors. plus, talking about must-have products that make the season even sweeter, go-to workouts to stay fit as the days get cooler, and how to nurture our wellness and faith as we transition into autumn. listen in for an inspiring chat to help you embrace all the magic that September brings!   WEBSITE: https://www.inspiredladypodcast.com/Belle's SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/bellemgrubb/ILP SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredladypodcastInspired Lady is a podcast and resource that gives you tools to live an abundant life with healthy habits, stronger faith, and everyday tips that leave you feeling encouraged and prepared to start living an inspired life today! Each episode is full of practical advice, next steps, and empowering inspiration, all brought to you by Belle Grubb, content creator and theologian grad

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode we speak with York University athlete Charlotte Phillips about playing on the Palestinian National Soccer Team member on THE END OF SPORT, discuss grocery prices and the Loblaw's boycott on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, review the kitschy new documentary I Am Celine Dion on SWEATER WEATHER and welcome Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism author Kimberley Williams for a conversation exploring how the largely fossil fuel funded Calgary Stampede draws on the myth of the frontier on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 72 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on Winnipeg's CKUW 95.9FM, Montreal's CKUT 90.3FM, Victoria's CFUV 101.9FM, and at CiTR 101.9FM and Co-op Radio in VancouverFinancial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Naomi and Aaron discuss the documentary I Am: Celine Dion (2024). Support Sweater Weather on Patreon.  In this episode of Sweater Weather, Aaron and Naomi discuss the documentary I Am: Celine Dion (2024), which is available on Amazon Prime. They explore Celine's image, her massive success, and her corny yet undeniably popular style. The documentary itself focuses on Celine's current battle with Stiff Person Syndrome, including an impactful scene of her having a seizure, a symptom of her SPS. However, the documentary steers clear of anything potentially problematic, especially regarding her controversial marriage with Rene Angelil. Aaron and Naomi analyze this approach, comparing it to more journalistic documentaries and question the trend of celebrities creating documentaries about themselves. They discuss vulnerability being used as a strategic move in such a self portrayal, but they also recognize Celine's authentic charm and personality shining through. Overall, Aaron and Naomi enjoyed the documentary and found themselves with a new-found appreciation for the person (if not the music) of Celine Dion. 

Margo and Lara discuss the best dressed during the Oscars, while reviewing new and old styles and silhouettes making a comeback. In addition, they problem solve the timeless struggle of transitional dressing. Don't forget to follow @twolatebrunettes on Instagram!

0:43 Oliver Heldens - Wombass w/ Oliver Heldens - Koala 4:22 Oliver Heldens - Can't Stop Playing vs. On Off vs. Can't Hold Us (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 7:14 Oliver Heldens ft. Nile Rodgers & House Gospel Choir - I Was Made For Lovin' You 9:50 Oliver Heldens & Party Pupils - Set Me Free 12:46 Freak Out Remix 14:45 Dom Dolla - Miracle Maker feat. Clementine Douglas 16:57 Oliver Heldens & Sidney Samson - Riverside 2099 20:40 Oliver Heldens & Mesto - The G.O.A.T. 24:02 HI-LO - Renegade Mastah 25:30 XTC - OddMob 28:51 Martin Solveig & GTA - Intoxicated vs OddMob - Give You 30:06 FISHER x AATIG - TAKE IT OFF 33:40 Disclosure, Flume, Westend x Local Singles vs ANOTR, Abel Balder - You & Me vs Relax My Eyes 38:00 Oliver Heldens vs Florence & the Machine - Aquarius vs You've Got The Love 40:45 Gorillaz ft Tame Impala & Dom Dolla vs Thomas Newson - New Gold (Dom Dolla Remix) vs Rotate (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 44:34 Oliver Heldens & Shantel - Bucovina 2023 (vs Enrique Iglesias ‘Bailamos') 48:10 Zeds Dead & Oliver Heldens - You Know 49:25 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss (Oliver Heldens Remix) 52:12 Massano - The Feeling 55:00 HI-LO vs. Aretha Franklin vs. Indeep - Kronos vs. Deeper Love vs. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 58:50 Ronnie Spiteri - False Love w/ SHOUSE - Love Tonight and Supermode - Tell Me Why (Accapella) (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 1:02:30 Reinier Zonneveld x HI-LO - Flying Octopus w/ Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You (Accapella) (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 1:06:11 Odesza, Bettye LaVette - The Last Goodbye (HI-LO Edit) 1:09:54 Anyma & Chris Avantgarde - Consciousness 1:13:40 Zonderling - Variant w/ Kx5 - Escape (Accapella) 1:18:05 Layton Giordani & HI-LO - Rabbit Hole 1:20:50 HI-LO vs Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash, John Martin - Bonzai vs Reload 1:23:15 HI-LO, Space 92 vs Peggy Gou vs Creeds - Mercury vs It Goes Like vs Push Up 1:27:10 HI-LO ft. Michael Ekow vs. Sean Paul ft. Dua lipa - Waking Life vs. No Lie 1:31:14 HI-LO vs. Sergio Mendes - BRAZIL vs. Mas Que Nada (Oliver Heldens Mashup) 1:34:34 Oliver Heldens & Piero Pirupa - We Don't Need (Remix) 1:38:21 MK & Dom Dolla - Rhyme Dust 1:42:00 ID w/ Quavo - Money Showers (Oliver Heldens Remix) 1:46:00 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) 1:49:19 ID 1:52:13 Oliver Heldens & Lenno - This Groove  1:54:54 Oliver Heldens & Riton ft Vula - Turn Me On 1:57:04 Oliver Heldens & Djs From Mars ft. JD Davis - Blue Monday (Sped Up) 1:59:00 Roger Sanchez & Oliver Heldens & Toto vs. The Neighbourhood - Another Chance vs. Sweater Weather 2:01:38 ID? 2:05:10 HI-LO, Reinier Zonneveld vs Rihanna - Balearic Mornings vs Don't Stop the Music 2:07:34 Ciara x DJ HEARTSTRING - 1,2 step (DJ HEARTSTRING Remix) 2:11:00 Benny Benassi, Gary Go vs Swedish House Mafia - Cinema vs Ray Of Solar 2:14:25 Oliver Heldens - ID w/ Dua Lipa - Physical (Acappella) 2:18:03 Gala - Freed From Desire (Oliver Heldens EuroRave Remix) 2:21:14 Oliver Heldens - ID w/ Oliver Heldens & Shaun Frank ft. Delaney Jane - Shades Of Grey (Acappella) 2:24:27 Eli Brown - Be The One 2:27:53 HI-LO & Danny Avila ft. Flowdan - Gangsta Paradise 2:31:05 RÜFÜS DU SOL & Cassian vs. A.D.H.S. - On My Knees vs. Razor (Layton Giordani Edit) 2:33:53 HI-LO & Eli Brown - Ride or Die 2:36:46 Speedy J - Pullover (Maddix Edit) w/ Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me (Acappella) 2:42:56 Tiësto - Adagio For Strings (BYØRN - Hard Techno Edit) 2:46:52 Creeds - Push Up (Charlotte de Witte Edit) 2:48:26 Dom Doilla & MK - Rhyme Dust (Dimension Remix) 2:51:29 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) (Matrix and Futurebound Remix) 2:53:54 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly 2:56:51 Issey Cross - Bittersweet Goodbye All uploads on this channel are for promotional purposes only! The music has been converted before uploading to prevent ripping and to protect the artist(s) and label(s). If you don't want your content here  please contact us immediately via email: allmusiclive@outlook.com and WE WILL REMOVE THE EPISODE IMMEDIATELY!  ONE GIG. 

The fellas discuss some notable upsets from NFL wildcard weekend as well as Nick Saban retiring from Alabama.

It's the holiday season! Today we discuss The Neighbourhood's hit song "Sweater Weather" and the history of the sweater. Why did we settle on SWEAT as the thing to name an article of clothing after? We'll talk about that, the etymology of "sweat" and other words for sweater like jumper, and generally how this particular sort of knitted shirt came to be so uniquely iconic We also consider other non-religious winter seasonal songs, including "Brrr" by Kim Petras, which we forget to say the name of in the episode, so I'm mentioning it here, for you rare few who read episode descriptions. For Eurovision, we talk about the first song to be announced for 2024 - France's "Mon Amour" by Slimane. Plus, the etymology of rendezvous. This episode's featured ad is the Lost Signal podcast. Listen to them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-signal-podcast/id1465964518 Find them, us, and other great podcasts at our network podmoth.network In case you want to check out our winter song playlist, here's the Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6hEVsvLEOtS2UwGTDHkNmG?si=9b307a0757db4210

In this insightful episode, visual artist and co-founder of the Mother Creatrix Collective Kim Hopson shares her experience navigating motherhood and caregiving with a disability. In her latest series of work, Kim shifts away from motherhood to explore themes of identity, belonging, and otherness as part of her larger mission to cultivate empathy and understanding. Here's what we discuss:1. The ways in which Kim shines a light on disabled artists through her work.2. Why Kim co-founded the Mother Creatrix Collective and what inspired her to bring mother artists together.3. The resilience of our bodies and the power of our individual and collective journeys.4. The power of community!About Kim:Kim Hopson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. In her work she explores themes of disability, otherness, and ableist bias in society. Experiencing life with a limb difference has given her a unique perspective that is reflected in her paintings, drawings and collages. Her intention is to create dialogue around these topics in order to spark a larger conversation. Hopson has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Notable group exhibitions in New York City include the 19th Annual Small Works Show at 440 Gallery, Labor at Spoke the Hub, Time/Space at Compère Collective, and First Come, First Hung at B Dry Goods. Additionally, Hopson's work has been selected for the Kyoto Shibori Museum in Japan as part of their On Motherhood exhibition curated by Ongoing Conversation, as well as the virtual show Cut, Torn & Mended at Spilt Milk Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her inaugural solo exhibition, Sweater Weather, was presented at Spoke the Hub in January of 2023. Further, Hopson has been featured in numerous publications including New Visionary and Women United Art Magazine. Hopson received her BFA from Texas State-San Marcos, and her M.Ed from the University of Houston with a concentration in Museum Education. She is a founding member of The Mother Creatrix Collective, a cohort of artist mothers in NYC. Currently she is an artist in The Canopy Program 2023-2024 through the NYC Crit Club.Website: kimhopsonstudio.comInstagram: @kimhopsonstudioVisit our website: visionaryartcollective.comFollow us on Instagram: @visionaryartcollective + @newvisionarymagJoin our newsletter: visionaryartcollective.com/newsletter 

Welcome to a charming little community where the townsfolk are all made up and the real world doesn't matter. It's Cozy Town, a game that we figured could not have a better title to fit the Sweater Weather time here at the show. Make a whole adorable village, populate it and plan their year of events and charming happenings. It's cute, basically. Super cute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh boy it's time for Sweater Weather! You know, our now two year running thing where we review specifically non or low-combat games, helping folks learn that there's more out there than the traditional "sword goes into orc" model (you'd be amazed at what people on the forefront are putting into orcs these days), and we're starting this year with Monster Care Squad, a neat game about rescuing wounded monsters in a world that's evolved past some of the worst instincts of humankind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is full ✨vibes✨ and we're not sorry about it. By request, we're doing a “Romances for Sweater Weather” which aren't spooky for Halloween and aren't (mostly) snowbound romances, but are just…full of apple cinnamon, pumpkin spice, fuzzy socks feelings. We're talking about sports, about crunching leaves, about small towns, about pumpkins and about elections, so it must be fall here on the pod. Light that fire, put on that cable knit sweater, and get to reading. We've got you sorted. Our first read along of the season will be Laura Kinsale's Flowers from the Storm, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or from your local indie.If you want more Fated Mates in your life, you are welcome at our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.Show NotesCheck out Louisa Edwards's chef romances. The first is called Can't Stand the Heat.We like a man in a cable knit sweater. So sue us.Katy, Texas is home of a lot of football and a lot of book banning.We don't really have any opinion about Taylor Swift's new boyfriend, but his mom seems great.

Happy first day of fall! Don't be left wondering what you'll do on the weekend this fall. WBEZ has you covered. Reset checks in with WBEZ editor Cassie Walker Burke on the station's Fall Bucket List to keep you in the loop.