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The Bill Press Pod
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 4: The End of Vaccine Mandates

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 43:31


While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical, we decided it's important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and to ask the author David Pepper tie them to what's actually happened so far. This episode tells the fictional story of a middle school that opens its doors to unvaccinated students under a second Trump Regime as Trump eliminates Federal funding for schools with vaccine mandates. The story follows the school nurse, Stephanie Morris, as she navigates the influx of unvaccinated students and the resulting disease outbreaks that spread rapidly through the school and community. The narrative illustrates the real-world implications of the president's policy, with outbreaks of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and the flu causing hospitalizations and even deaths among vulnerable students and staff. The story highlights the challenges faced by the school nurse in trying to protect the health of all students, including her own daughter who has an autoimmune condition, without the backing of mandatory vaccination policies. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes, Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Bill Press Pod
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 3: The Death of Expertise.

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 53:06


While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 5 weeks we decided it's important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what's actually happened so far. In Chapter 3, the fact-based fictional story of Dr. Yvette Hardman and JJ Newsom depicts the dismantling of expertise and science-based decision making in the federal government under a second Trump administration guided by Project 2025. Dr. Hardman, an experienced infectious disease expert, is removed from her position at the CDC and replaced by JJ Newsom, an unqualified political loyalist with no relevant experience. This reflects Project 2025's plan to fill government positions with partisan appointees rather than nonpartisan experts. The new administration, in this fictional account and now in real life, rejects science-based pandemic response recommendations from Dr. Hardman instead prioritizing political and economic considerations over public health. This aligns with Project 2025's directives to limit the CDC's ability to make public health recommendations. The story highlights the Trump administration's hostility towards science and the displacement of experienced civil servants. Overall, the narrative illustrates how a second Trump term guided by Project 2025 would undermine the role of expertise and independent scientific advice in government, with potentially disastrous consequences for public health and safety.We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: CCH Pounder, Richard Schiff and Jason Kravits who read the chapters and Omid Abtahi, Laurie Burke and Joanne Carducci who did the voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers' International Union of North America. More information at LIUNA.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Bill Press Pod
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 2: The Threat to Reproductive Freedom

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 43:57


While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 6 weeks we decided it's important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what's actually happened so far. Chapter Two depicts the personal story of Eve, a nurse struggling with infertility, whose treatment is threatened by the new president's actions. The episode explores how the president's policies are impacting everyday Americans, particularly women and families, by interfering with reproductive freedom and the right to self-determination. The author of the serialized novel “2025,” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how the fictional story is turning into fact, underscoring the very real and devastating consequences a second Trump term and the implementation of Project 2025 are having. You can read Chapter Two of David Pepper's “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novel-chapter-2We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode. J. Smith Cameron read the chapter and audio finishing by Marilys Ernst. This series is produced by David Pepper, Melissa, Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and the Bill Press Pod.Today's Podcast is supported by The Ironworkers Union. More information at Ironworkers.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Steven Frayne: I Had To Kill Dynamo To Be Steven

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 68:14


Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, takes us on an extraordinary journey from the tough streets of Bradford to becoming one of the world's most celebrated magicians. In this revealing episode of Full Disclosure, Steven opens up about his transformative life experiences- growing up in a single-parent household, dealing with adversity, and finding magic in the most unexpected places. From overcoming bullying and a challenging childhood to battling a life-threatening illness, Steven shares how these personal struggles led him to redefine what magic truly means.James O'Brien speaks with Steven about his path to success, the emotional complexities of his public persona, and his decision to step away from the Dynamo name to embrace his true self. Touching on themes of resilience, self-discovery, and the power of reinvention, Steven reflects on how magic has helped him navigate life's obstacles and find purpose.Engaging, introspective, and filled with wisdom, Steven's journey offers a poignant look at how embracing one's vulnerabilities can lead to extraordinary transformations.You can buy tickets to Steven Frayne's Up Close and Magical show here

The Bill Press Pod
Trump's Project 2025 Chapter One Update: Deportation

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 39:56


While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 6 weeks we decided it's important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and tie them to what's actually happened so far. Chapter One depicts how the lives of everyday Americans would be impacted by the policies outlined in Trump's Project 2025 and the return of Donald Trump to power. The fictional story follows Ammon Maher, a college student and immigrant, as he is detained and deported without due process due to his involvement in past campus protests. This narrative directly reflects Trump's campaign promises and current actions to crack down on student protesters and his administration's policies that target undocumented immigrants. The author of the serialized “2025: A Novel” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how these policies are being implemented right now. We hope the re-running and updating of the podcast series will encourage even more people to stand up to Donald Trump, strengthen our courage to resist, and lead to a total rejection of Donald Trump and the anti-democratic MAGA movement in 2026.. You can read Chapter One of David Pepper's “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novelThis episode is supported by The United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast
Replay – Brady Blevins: Jehovah's Witness Up Close – Kingdom Hall, Kingdom Come

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025


[Original airdate: 4/4/24] Mary chats with Brady Blevins of Watchman Fellowship, an apologetics ministry dedicated to exposing the major cults of our time. Brady serves as the senior apologist at Watchman and has a heart for sharing the true gospel with those deceived by a counterfeit Christianity.  He also teaches and serves as the assistant dean of the Graduate School of Theology and Chair for the School of Ministry at Arlington Baptist University. We discuss the basics of the Witness cult and also get an update on their annual meeting that was held in October 2023. Brady clarifies for us what a Kingdom Hall is, The Watchtower Society, what happens when people leave the cult, and many other finer points of what it means to be a JW.

Seattle Kraken Audio Network
KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Adam Larsson up close, and physicality with Geoff Baker ahead of San Jose (4/5)

Seattle Kraken Audio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 24:53 Transcription Available


Mike Benton sets up the Apr. 5 matchup at SAP Center at San Jose, between the Seattle Krakena and San Jose Sharks, joined one-on-one with defenseman Adam Larsson and Kraken VP of editorial Geoff Baker. 

Spirit-Filled Real Talk with Juliana Page
538 \\ The Power of Proximity: Inside the Inner Circle | What Happens When You Get Up Close with Mentorship, Momentum & Ministry

Spirit-Filled Real Talk with Juliana Page

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025 43:19


Ever wonder what it's like to get mentored up close? In this episode, Juliana and Sandee pull back the curtain on the Inner Circle—a sacred space for Kingdom Builders who are ready to stop circling mountains and start living with Kingdom clarity and confidence. Inside the Inner Circle, you get:

The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast

In this episode, Dinesh draws on newly-released data from New York University to show the shameful extent of racial preferences. Dinesh celebrates what looks to be the demise of the activist group Greenpeace. Professor Stanley Ridgley, author of “DEI Exposed,” joins Dinesh to chart a path toward the overthrow of DEI and the realization of Martin Luther King’s dream of a color-blind society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sermons – Smythe Street Church

Did you know the Holy Spirit desires a close relationship with you? Pastor Drost teaches on how we can talk and walk with the Holy Spirit in an intimate, direct, and personal way. The post Up Close and Personal appeared first on Smythe Street Church.

The Numlock Podcast
Numlock Sunday: Alissa Wilkinson on We Tell Ourselves Stories

The Numlock Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 34:39


By Walt HickeyDouble feature today!Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Alissa Wilkinson who is out with the brand new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine.I'm a huge fan of Alissa, she's a phenomenal critic and I thought this topic — what happens when one of the most important American literary figures heads out to Hollywood to work on the most important American medium — is super fascinating. It's a really wonderful book and if you're a longtime Joan Didion fan or simply a future Joan Didion fan, it's a look at a really transformative era of Hollywood and should be a fun read regardless.Alissa can be found at the New York Times, and the book is available wherever books are sold.This interview has been condensed and edited. All right, Alissa, thank you so much for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me. It's good to be back, wherever we are.Yes, you are the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. It's a really exciting book. It's a really exciting approach, for a Joan Didion biography and placing her in the current of American mainstream culture for a few years. I guess just backing out, what got you interested in Joan Didion to begin with? When did you first get into her work?Joan Didion and I did not become acquainted, metaphorically, until after I got out of college. I studied Tech and IT in college, and thus didn't read any books, because they don't make you read books in school, or they didn't when I was there. I moved to New York right afterward. I was riding the subway. There were all these ads for this book called The Year of Magical Thinking. It was the year 2005, the book had just come out. The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion's National Book Award-winning memoir about the year after her husband died, suddenly of a heart attack in '03. It's sort of a meditation on grief, but it's not really what that sounds like. If people haven't read it's very Didion. You know, it's not sentimental, it's constantly examining the narratives that she's telling herself about grief.So I just saw these ads on the walls. I was like, what is this book that everybody seems to be reading? I just bought it and read it. And it just so happened that it was right after my father, who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with a very aggressive leukemia, and then died shortly thereafter, which was shocking, obviously. The closer I get to that age, it feels even more shocking that he was so young. I didn't have any idea how to process that emotion or experience. The book was unexpectedly helpful. But it also introduced me to a writer who I'd never read before, who felt like she was looking at things from a different angle than everyone else.Of course, she had a couple more books come out after that. But I don't remember this distinctly, but probably what happened is I went to some bookstore, The Strand or something, and bought The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem off the front table as everyone does because those books have just been there for decades.From that, I learned more, starting to understand how writing could work. I didn't realize how form and content could interact that way. Over the years, I would review a book by her or about her for one publication or another. Then when I was in graduate school, getting my MFA in nonfiction, I wrote a bit about her because I was going through a moment of not being sure if my husband and I were going to stay in New York or we were going to move to California. They sort of obligate you to go through a goodbye to all that phase if you are contemplating that — her famous essay about leaving New York. And then, we did stay in New York City. But ultimately, that's 20 years of history.Then in 2020, I was having a conversation (that was quite-early pandemic) with my agent about possible books I might write. I had outlined a bunch of books to her. Then she was like, “These all sound like great ideas. But I've always wanted to rep a book on Joan Didion. So I just wanted to put that bug in your ear.” I was like, “Oh, okay. That seems like something I should probably do.”It took a while to find an angle, which wound up being Didion in Hollywood. This is mostly because I realized that a lot of people don't really know her as a Hollywood figure, even though she's a pretty major Hollywood figure for a period of time. The more of her work I read, the more I realized that her work is fruitfully understood as the work of a woman who was profoundly influenced by (and later thinking in terms of Hollywood metaphors) whether she was writing about California or American politics or even grief.So that's the long-winded way of saying I wasn't, you know, acquainted with her work until adulthood, but then it became something that became a guiding light for me as a writer.That's really fascinating. I love it. Because again I think a lot of attention on Didion has been paid since her passing. But this book is really exciting because you came at it from looking at the work as it relates to Hollywood. What was Didion's experience in Hollywood? What would people have seen from it, but also, what is her place there?The directly Hollywood parts of her life start when she's in her 30s. She and her husband — John Gregory Dunn, also a writer and her screenwriting partner — moved from New York City, where they had met and gotten married, to Los Angeles. John's brother, Nick Dunn later became one of the most important early true crime writers at Vanity Fair, believe it or not. But at the time, he was working as a TV producer. He and his wife were there. So they moved to Los Angeles. It was sort of a moment where, you know, it's all well and good to be a journalist and a novelist. If you want to support yourself, Hollywood is where it's at.So they get there at a moment when the business is shifting from these big-budget movies — the Golden Age — to the new Hollywood, where everything is sort of gritty and small and countercultural. That's the moment they arrive. They worked in Hollywood. I mean, they worked literally in Hollywood for many years after that. And then in Hollywood even when they moved back to New York in the '80s as screenwriters still.People sometimes don't realize that they wrote a bunch of produced screenplays. The earliest was The Panic in Needle Park. Obviously, they adapted Didion's novel Play It As It Lays. There are several others, but one that a lot of people don't realize they wrote was the version of A Star is Born that stars Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. It was their idea to shift the Star is Born template from Hollywood entities to rock stars. That was their idea. Of course, when Bradley Cooper made his version, he iterated on that. So their work was as screenwriters but also as figures in the Hollywood scene because they were literary people at the same time that they were screenwriters. They knew all the actors, and they knew all the producers and the executives.John actually wrote, I think, two of the best books ever written on Hollywood decades apart. One called The Studio, where he just roamed around on the Fox backlot. For a year for reasons he couldn't understand, he got access. That was right when the catastrophe that was Dr. Doolittle was coming out. So you get to hear the inside of the studio. Then later, he wrote a book called Monster, which is about their like eight-year long attempt to get their film Up Close and Personal made, which eventually they did. It's a really good look at what the normal Hollywood experience was at the time: which is like: you come up with an idea, but it will only vaguely resemble the final product once all the studios get done with it.So it's, it's really, that's all very interesting. They're threaded through the history of Hollywood in that period. On top of it for the book (I realized as I was working on it) that a lot of Didion's early life is influenced by especially her obsession with John Wayne and also with the bigger mythology of California and the West, a lot of which she sees as framed through Hollywood Westerns.Then in the '80s, she pivoted to political reporting for a long while. If you read her political writing, it is very, very, very much about Hollywood logic seeping into American political culture. There's an essay called “Inside Baseball” about the Dukakis campaign that appears in Political Fictions, her book that was published on September 11, 2001. In that book, she writes about how these political campaigns are directed and set up like a production for the cameras and how that was becoming not just the campaign, but the presidency itself. Of course, she had no use for Ronald Reagan, and everything she writes about him is very damning. But a lot of it was because she saw him as the embodiment of Hollywood logic entering the political sphere and felt like these are two separate things and they need to not be going together.So all of that appeared to me as I was reading. You know, once you see it, you can't unsee it. It just made sense for me to write about it. On top of it, she was still alive when I was writing the proposal and shopping it around. So she actually died two months after we sold the book to my publisher. It meant I was extra grateful for this angle because I knew there'd be a lot more books on her, but I wanted to come at it from an angle that I hadn't seen before. So many people have written about her in Hollywood before, but not quite through this lens.Yeah. What were some things that you discovered in the course of your research? Obviously, she's such an interesting figure, but she's also lived so very publicly that I'm just super interested to find out what are some of the things that you learned? It can be about her, but it can also be the Hollywood system as a whole.Yeah. I mean, I didn't interview her for obvious reasons.Understandable, entirely understandable.Pretty much everyone in her life also is gone with the exception really of Griffin Dunn, who is her nephew, John's nephew, the actor. But other than that, it felt like I needed to look at it through a critical lens. So it meant examining a lot of texts. A lot of Didion's magazine work (which was a huge part of her life) is published in the books that people read like Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album and all the other books. What was interesting to me was discovering (I mean, not “discovering” because other people have read it) that there is some work that's not published and it's mostly her criticism.Most of that criticism was published in the late '50s and the early '60s when she was living in New York City, working at Vogue and trying to make it in the literary scene that was New York at that time, which was a very unique place. I mean, she was writing criticism and essays for both, you know, like National Review and The Nation at the same time, which was just hard to conceive of today. It was something you'd do back then. Yeah, wild stuff.A lot of that criticism was never collected into books. The most interesting is that she'd been working at Vogue for a long time in various positions, but she wound up getting added to the film critic column at Vogue in, '62, I want to say, although I might have that date slightly off. She basically alternated weeks with another critic for a few years, writing that until she started writing in movies proper. It's never a great idea to be a critic and a screenwriter at the same time.Her criticism is fascinating. So briefly, for instance, she shared that column with Pauline Kael. Pauline Kael became well known after she wrote about Bonnie and Clyde. This was prior to that. This is several years prior to that. They also hated each other for a long time afterward, which is funny, because, in some ways, their style is very different but their persona is actually very similar. So I wonder about that.But in any case, even when she wasn't sharing the column with Pauline Kael, it was a literal column in a magazine. So it's like one column of text, she can say barely anything. She was always a bit of a contrarian, but she was actively not interested in the things that were occupying New York critics at the time. Things like the Auteur Theory, what was happening in France, the downtown scene and the Shirley Clark's of the world. She had no use for it. At some point, she accuses Billy Wilder of having really no sense of humor, which is very funny.When you read her criticism, you see a person who is very invested in a classical notion of Hollywood as a place that shows us fantasies that we can indulge in for a while. She talks in her very first column about how she doesn't really need movies to be masterpieces, she just wants them to have moments. When she says moments, she means big swelling things that happen in a movie that make her feel things.It's so opposite, I think, to most people's view of Didion. Most people associate her with this snobbish elitism or something, which I don't think is untrue when we're talking about literature. But for her, the movies were like entertainment, and entering that business was a choice to enter that world. She wasn't attempting to elevate the discourse or something.I just think that's fascinating. She also has some great insights there. But as a film critic, I find myself disagreeing with most of her reviews. But I think that doesn't matter. It was more interesting to see how she conceived of the movies. There is a moment later on, in another piece that I don't think has been republished anywhere from the New York Review of Books, where she writes about the movies of Woody Allen. She hates them. It's right at the point where he's making like Manhattan and Annie Hall, like the good stuff. She just has no use for them. It's one of the funniest pieces. I won't spoil the ending because it's hilarious, and it's in the book.That writing was of huge interest to me and hasn't been republished in books. I was very grateful to get access to it, in part because it is in the archives — the electronic archives of the New York Public Library. But at the time, the library was closed. So I had to call the library and have a librarian get on Zoom with me for like an hour and a half to figure out how I could get in the proverbial back door of the library to get access while the library wasn't open.That's magnificent. That's such a cool way to go to the archives because some stuff just hasn't been published. If it wasn't digitized, then it's not digitized. That's incredible.Yeah, it's there, but you can barely print them off because they're in PDFs. They're like scanned images that are super high res, so the printer just dies when you try to print them. It's all very fascinating. I hope it gets republished at some point because I think there's enough interest in her work that it's fascinating to see this other aspect of her taste and her persona.It's really interesting that she seems to have wanted to meet the medium where it is, right? She wasn't trying to literary-up Hollywood. I mean, LA can be a bit of a friction. It's not exactly a literary town in the way that some East Coast metropolises can be. It is interesting that she was enamored by the movies. Do you want to speak about what things were like for her when she moved out?Yeah, it is funny because, at the same time, the first two movies that they wrote and produced are The Panic in Needle Park, which is probably the most new Hollywood movie you can imagine. It's about addicts at Needle Park, which is actually right where the 72nd Street subway stop is on the Upper West Side. If people have been there, it's hard to imagine. But that was apparently where they all sat around, and there were a lot of needles. It's apparently the first movie supposedly where someone shoots up live on camera.So it was the '70s. That's amazing.Yes, and it launched Al Pacino's film career! Yeah, it's wild. You watch it and you're just like, “How is this coming from the woman who's about all this arty farty stuff in the movies.” And Play It As It Lays has a very similar, almost avant-garde vibe to it. It's very, very interesting. You see it later on in the work that they made.A key thing to remember about them (and something I didn't realize before I started researching the book)was that Didion and Dunn were novelists who worked in journalism because everybody did. They wrote movies, according to them (you can only go off of what they said. A lot of it is John writing these jaunty articles. He's a very funny writer) because “we had tuition and a mortgage. This is how you pay for it.”This comes up later on, they needed to keep their WGA insurance because John had heart trouble. The best way to have health insurance was to remain in the Writers Guild. Remaining in the Writers Guild means you had to have a certain amount of work produced through union means. They were big union supporters. For them this was not, this was very strictly not an auteurist undertaking. This was not like, “Oh, I'm gonna go write these amazing screenplays that give my concept of the world to the audience.” It's not like Bonnie and Clyding going on here. It's very like, “We wrote these based on some stories that we thought would be cool.”I like that a lot. Like the idea that A Star is Born was like a pot boiler. That's really delightful.Completely. It was totally taken away from them by Streisand and John Peters at some point. But they were like, “Yeah, I mean, you know, it happens. We still got paid.”Yeah, if it can happen to Superman, it can happen to you.It happens to everybody, you know, don't get too precious about it. The important thing is did your novel come out and was it supported by its publisher?So just tracing some of their arcs in Hollywood. Obviously, Didion's one of the most influential writers of her generation, there's a very rich literary tradition. Where do we see her footprint, her imprint in Hollywood? What are some of the ways that we can see her register in Hollywood, or reverberate outside of it?In the business itself, I don't know that she was influential directly. What we see is on the outside of it. So a lot of people were friends. She was like a famous hostess, famous hostess. The New York Public Library archives are set to open at the end of March, of Didion and Dunn's work, which was like completely incidental to my publication date. I just got lucky. There's a bunch of screenplays in there that they worked on that weren't produced. There's also her cookbooks, and I'm very excited to go through those and see that. So you might meet somebody there.Her account of what the vibe was when the Manson murders occurred, which is published in her essay The White Album, is still the one people talk about, even though there are a lot of different ways to come at it. That's how we think about the Manson murders: through her lens. Later on, when she's not writing directly about Hollywood anymore (and not really writing in Hollywood as much) but instead is writing about the headlines, about news events, about sensationalism in the news, she becomes a great media critic. We start to see her taking the things that she learned (having been around Hollywood people, having been on movie sets, having seen how the sausage is made) and she starts writing about politics. In that age, it is Hollywood's logic that you perform for the TV. We have the debates suddenly becoming televised, the conventions becoming televised, we start to see candidates who seem specifically groomed to win because they look good on TV. They're starting to win and rule the day.She writes about Newt Gingrich. Of course, Gingrich was the first politician to figure out how to harness C-SPAN to his own ends — the fact that there were TV cameras on the congressional floor. So she's writing about all of this stuff at a time when you can see other people writing about it. I mean, Neil Postman famously writes about it. But the way Didion does it is always very pegged to reviewing somebody's book, or she's thinking about a particular event, or she's been on the campaign plane or something like that. Like she's been on the inside, but with an outsider's eye.That also crops up in, for instance, her essays. “Sentimental Journeys” is one of her most famous ones. That one's about the case of the Central Park Five, and the jogger who was murdered. Of course, now, we're many decades out from that, and the convictions were vacated. We know about coerced confessions. Also Donald Trump arrives in the middle of that whole thing.But she's actually not interested in the guilt or innocence question, because a lot of people were writing about that. She's interested in how the city of New York and the nation perform themselves for themselves, seeing themselves through the long lens of a movie and telling themselves stories about themselves. You see this over and over in her writing, no matter what she's writing about. I think once she moved away from writing about the business so much, she became very interested in how Hollywood logic had taken over American public life writ large.That's fascinating. Like, again, she spends time in the industry, then basically she can only see it through that lens. Of course, Michael Dukakis in a tank is trying to be a set piece, of course in front of the Berlin Wall, you're finally doing set decoration rather than doing it outside of a brick wall somewhere. You mentioned the New York thing in Performing New York. I have lived in the city for over a decade now. The dumbest thing is when the mayor gets to wear the silly jacket whenever there's a snowstorm that says “Mr. Mayor.” It's all an act in so many ways. I guess that political choreography had to come from somewhere, and it seems like she was documenting a lot of that initial rise.Yeah, I think she really saw it. The question I would ask her, if I could, is how cognizant she was that she kept doing that. As someone who's written for a long time, you don't always recognize that you have the one thing you write about all the time. Other people then bring it up to you and you're like, “Oh, I guess you're right.” Even when you move into her grief memoir phase, which is how I think about the last few original works that she published, she uses movie logic constantly in those.I mean, The Year of Magical Thinking is a cyclical book, she goes over the same events over and over. But if you actually look at the language she's using, she talks about running the tape back, she talks about the edit, she talks about all these things as if she's running her own life through how a movie would tell a story. Maybe she knew very deliberately. She's not a person who does things just haphazardly, but it has the feeling of being so baked into her psyche at this point that she would never even think of trying to escape it.Fascinating.Yeah, that idea that you don't know what you are potentially doing, I've thought about that. I don't know what mine is. But either way. It's such a cool way to look at it. On a certain level, she pretty much succeeded at that, though, right? I think that when people think about Joan Didion, they think about a life that freshens up a movie, right? Like, it workedVery much, yeah. I'm gonna be really curious to see what happens over the next 10 years or so. I've been thinking about figures like Sylvia Plath or women with larger-than-life iconography and reputation and how there's a constant need to relook at their legacies and reinvent and rethink and reimagine them. There's a lot in the life of Didion that I think remains to be explored. I'm really curious to see where people go with it, especially with the opening of these archives and new personal information making its way into the world.Yeah, even just your ability to break some of those stories that have been locked away in archives out sounds like a really exciting addition to the scholarship. Just backing out a little bit, we live in a moment in which the relationship between pop culture and political life is fairly directly intertwined. Setting aside the steel-plated elephant in the room, you and I are friendly because we bonded over this idea that movies really are consequential. Coming out of this book and coming out of reporting on it, what are some of the relevances for today in particular?Yeah, I mean, a lot more than I thought, I guess, five years ago. I started work on the book at the end of Trump One, and it's coming out at the beginning of Trump Two, and there was this period in the middle of a slightly different vibe. But even then I watch TikTok or whatever. You see people talk about “main character energy” or the “vibe shift” or all of romanticizing your life. I would have loved to read a Didion essay on the way that young people sort of view themselves through the logic of the screens they have lived on and the way that has shaped America for a long time.I should confirm this, I don't think she wrote about Obama, or if she did, it was only a little bit. So her political writing ends in George W. Bush's era. I think there's one piece on Obama, and then she's writing about other things. It's just interesting to think about how her ideas of what has happened to political culture in America have seeped into the present day.I think the Hollywood logic, the cinematic logic has given way to reality TV logic. That's very much the logic of the Trump world, right? Still performing for cameras, but the cameras have shifted. The way that we want things from the cameras has shifted, too. Reality TV is a lot about creating moments of drama where they may or may not actually exist and bombarding you with them. I think that's a lot of what we see and what we feel now. I have to imagine she would think about it that way.There is one interesting essay that I feel has only recently been talked about. It's at the beginning of my book, too. It was in a documentary, and Gia Tolentino wrote about it recently. It's this essay she wrote in 2000 about Martha Stewart and about Martha Stewart's website. It feels like the 2000s was like, “What is this website thing? Why are people so into it?” But really, it's an essay about parasocial relationships that people develop (with women in particular) who they invent stories around and how those stories correspond to greater American archetypes. It's a really interesting essay, not least because I think it's an essay also about people's parasocial relationships with Joan Didion.So the rise of her celebrity in the 21st century, where people know who she is and carry around a tote bag, but don't really know what they're getting themselves into is very interesting to me. I think it is also something she thought about quite a bit, while also consciously courting it.Yeah, I mean, that makes a ton of sense. For someone who was so adept at using cinematic language to describe her own life with every living being having a camera directly next to them at all times. It seems like we are very much living in a world that she had at least put a lot of thought into, even if the technology wasn't around for her to specifically address it.Yes, completely.On that note, where can folks find the book? Where can folks find you? What's the elevator pitch for why they ought to check this out? Joan Didion superfan or just rather novice?Exactly! I think this book is not just for the fans, let me put it that way. Certainly, I think anyone who considers themselves a Didion fan will have a lot to enjoy here. The stuff you didn't know, hadn't read or just a new way to think through her cultural impact. But also, this is really a book that's as much for people who are just interested in thinking about the world we live in today a little critically. It's certainly a biography of American political culture as much as it is of Didion. There's a great deal of Hollywood history in there as well. Thinking about that sweep of the American century and change is what the book is doing. It's very, very, very informed by what I do in my day job as a movie critic at The New York Times. Thinking about what movies mean, what do they tell us about ourselves? I think this is what this book does. I have been told it's very fun to read. So I'm happy about that. It's not ponderous at all, which is good. It's also not that long.It comes out March 11th from Live Right, which is a Norton imprint. There will be an audiobook at the end of May that I am reading, which I'm excited about. And I'll be on tour for a large amount of March on the East Coast. Then in California, there's a virtual date, and there's a good chance I'll be popping up elsewhere all year, too. Those updates will be on my social feeds, which are all @alissawilkinson on whatever platform except X, which is fine because I don't really post there anymore.Alyssa, thank you so much for coming on.Thank you so much.Edited by Crystal Wang.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

Mindy Diamond on Independence: A Podcast for Financial Advisors Considering Change
Up Close with Rich Steinmeier: LPL's CEO on the Transformation of a $1.8T Company

Mindy Diamond on Independence: A Podcast for Financial Advisors Considering Change

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 62:28


Rich Steinmeier offers a candid perspective of LPL's journey and how the founding core principles remain a pillar of the business today, even as evolutionary changes have made it one of the hottest firms in the industry.

AFA@TheCore
Fred Jackson guest hosts for Walker today bringing us the latest…up close

AFA@TheCore

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 55:18


Happy Place
The Dynamo mask protected me: Steven Frayne copes with Crohn's and feeling unworthy

Happy Place

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 55:29


Dynamo brought epic magic into a lot of people's lives, but now Steven Frayne is taking off the mask and choosing to notice the moments of magic he's experienced around him. In particular, that's the people – friends, family, doctors, strangers – who've helped him find joy again after hitting rock bottom. In this chat with Fearne, Steven talks about the devastating reality of trialling different medication for Crohn's and the effect this has on mental health, as well as what he's learnt from experiencing so much physical pain. Can we choose to connect over pain rather than isolating ourselves from others? Steven also explains how being an easy target for bullies at school meant he learnt how to problem solve and hustle, but what do you do when success comes and you don't know how to cope with it? Steven's show, Up Close and Magical, is at The Underbelly in Soho, and is opening on the 28th March. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about suicidal ideation so do take care while listening. If you liked this episode of Happy Place, you might also like: Kesha Ben West Adam Pearson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

FreightCasts
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? EP809 Cargo thefts surge 49%; driver training under Trump; up close with NASA crawler

FreightCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 45:35


On Episode 809 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking about the massive surge in cargo theft that is plaguing the freight industry. Overhaul's Danny Ramon shares the company's latest report, which shows an astounding 49% increase in cargo thefts in 2024 compared to 2023. Is 2025 on track to set an even higher record, and what can fleets do to protect themselves? We'll get into it. Driver training standards could change drastically under President Donald Trump. Commercial Vehicle Training Association's Andrew Poliakoff talks about the latest changes and executive orders that could impact the way you hire drivers. You think you haul heavy? Dooner headed down to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to meet the largest self-propelled land vehicle on Earth, NASA's crawler. We'll find out how this 60-year-old monster rig is bringing Americans back to the moon. Plus, Squats Across America returns; de minimis ruling clarified; final destination at the gate; and more.  Catch new shows live at noon EDT Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on FreightWaves LinkedIn, Facebook, X or YouTube, or on demand by looking up WHAT THE TRUCK?!? on your favorite podcast player and at 5 p.m. Eastern on SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking Channel 146. Watch on YouTube Check out the WTT merch store Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Visit our sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What The Truck?!?
Cargo thefts surge 49%; driver training under Trump; up close with NASA crawler

What The Truck?!?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 45:35


On Episode 809 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking about the massive surge in cargo theft that is plaguing the freight industry. Overhaul's Danny Ramon shares the company's latest report, which shows an astounding 49% increase in cargo thefts in 2024 compared to 2023. Is 2025 on track to set an even higher record, and what can fleets do to protect themselves? We'll get into it. Driver training standards could change drastically under President Donald Trump. Commercial Vehicle Training Association's Andrew Poliakoff talks about the latest changes and executive orders that could impact the way you hire drivers. You think you haul heavy? Dooner headed down to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to meet the largest self-propelled land vehicle on Earth, NASA's crawler. We'll find out how this 60-year-old monster rig is bringing Americans back to the moon. Plus, Squats Across America returns; de minimis ruling clarified; final destination at the gate; and more.  Catch new shows live at noon EDT Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on FreightWaves LinkedIn, Facebook, X or YouTube, or on demand by looking up WHAT THE TRUCK?!? on your favorite podcast player and at 5 p.m. Eastern on SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking Channel 146. Watch on YouTube Check out the WTT merch store Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Visit our sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Smart 7
The Sunday 7 - Meta's Algorithm goes rogue, Lily Allen gets dragged into an AI row, We get to hear the Solar Winds up close, and news on a ground breaking trial for Spinal Injuries

The Smart 7

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 18:45


The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week...With over 17 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and the Sunday 7 won a Gold Award as “Best Conversation Starter” in the International Signal Podcast Awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...Today's episode includes the following guests:GuestsEmma Pinchbeck - Chief Executive of the Climate Change CommitteeProfessor Piers Forster - Interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee Dr Emily Nurse - Head of Net Zero at the Climate Change Committee Will Guyatt - The Smart 7's Tech Guru Lily Allen - Musician and Podcaster Baroness Kidron - Independent Peer and Digital Rights AdvocateLord Hanson - Home Office Minister Steve Gooding - Director of the RAC Foundation Tara Stewart - Chair of the Charity, Spinal Research Uk Claire Trevedi - Pathfinder 2 Participant Niharika Agrawal - Software Engineer and the Project Manager at Intuitive Machines Molly Bannon - Project Manager at NASA's Johnson Space Centre Elena Charistoforos - Olive Farmer, Cyprus Nicholas Nieten - Soil engineer and Olive Farmer, CyprusContact us over at X or visit www.thesmart7.comPresented by Jamie East, written by Liam Thompson and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today in Lighting
Today in Lighting, 26 FEB 2025

Today in Lighting

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 1:49


Today in Lighting is brought to you by Current. Minimize energy in your data center with Current's advanced lighting and controls. Learn more. Highlights today include: The National Lighting Bureau Announces “Simply Light”, The Latest Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast Episode Features Jason Schembri, Up Close with Jared Blackney, Pharos Architectural Controls: 20 Years of Innovation and Growth.

That You May Know Him
EP239 Is LUCIFER Really the Name of SATAN? Isaiah 14 UP-CLOSE

That You May Know Him

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 58:52


Is Satan REALLY A Fallen Angel? Part 3 (Episode 239) – We continue our conversation on the origin of Satan by looking again at Isaiah 14. Joined by Jesse Dunn, we discuss whether or not the name "Lucifer" (Isaiah 14:12) is actually a reference to Satan, or simply a nickname for the King of Babylon.

Helps Sleep
ASMR the most gentle up-close ear brushing for sleep

Helps Sleep

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 40:46


ASMR the most gentle up-close ear brushing for sleepAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Stories of Vision Loss
Up Close: with MJ Jefferson

Stories of Vision Loss

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 10:48


Introducing MJ Jefferson, Exectutive Producer and Creative Director of Stories of Vision Loss podcast.Record an Audio Message!Stay connected and share your story: storiesofvisionloss@gmail.comCheck out a list of our guests: www.storiesofvisionloss.com/guestsJoin Supporter's Club - $5/month

This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
Harry Caray The Voice of Baseball passes away

This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 25:42


February 18 1998 — Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray dies four days after collapsing at a Valentine's Day supper. Caray, age 84, after suffering a heart attack four days earlier while having Valentine's Day dinner with his wife, Dutchie. – 1957 All Star Game called by Harry Caray.From a compilation aired in 2016 from ESPN Classic, appearances from Harry Caray on Up Close with Roy Firestone.Show Notes & Featured AudioHarry Caray Game BroadcastsJoin the Daily Rewind - Join.Classic Baseball Broadcasts - reconnect with baseball history.Mentioned in this episode:Classic Baseball BroadcastsClassic Baseball Broadcasts

Vintage Baseball Reflections
Harry Caray The Voice of Baseball passes away - Daily Rewind

Vintage Baseball Reflections

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 25:42


February 18 1998 — Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray dies four days after collapsing at a Valentine's Day supper. Caray, age 84, after suffering a heart attack four days earlier while having Valentine's Day dinner with his wife, Dutchie. – 1957 All Star Game called by Harry Caray.From a compilation aired in 2016 from ESPN Classic, appearances from Harry Caray on Up Close with Roy Firestone.Show Notes & Featured AudioHarry Caray Game BroadcastsJoin the Daily Rewind - Join.Classic Baseball Broadcasts - reconnect with baseball history.Mentioned in this episode:Classic Baseball BroadcastsClassic Baseball Broadcasts

Helps Sleep
ASMR Up Close (whispering, lens brushing, face touching, personal attentio

Helps Sleep

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 21:29


ASMR Up Close (whispering, lens brushing, face touching, personal attentioAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Helps Sleep
ASMR Writing on the Mic Deep Ear Sounds & Up-Close Whispering

Helps Sleep

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 24:59


ASMR Writing on the Mic Deep Ear Sounds & Up-Close WhisperingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Asbury Seminary Kentucky Chapel
Up Close and Personal - with Stacey McDonald

Asbury Seminary Kentucky Chapel

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 29:23


Helps Sleep
ASMR Personal Attention - (up-close, whispered)

Helps Sleep

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 24:46


ASMR Personal Attention - (up-close, whispered)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bright Side
Natural Phenomena That Almost No One Has Seen Up Close

Bright Side

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 12:38


Earth has some seriously wild natural phenomena that most people never get to see up close. Take the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where lightning storms rage almost every night, . Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics / YouTube CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Light Pillar: by Dzmitry Suponau, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li... Highexposure: by Timmyjoeelzinga, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hi... Light Pillars and Diamond Dust: by Ray Majoran, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li... Light Pillars: by Raitisfreimanis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li... louds of smoke: by Michael D. Turnbull, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Light Pillars and Diamond Dust: by Ray Majoran, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Eternal Flame Falls: by Vsevolod.oparin, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Catatumbo Lightning: by Fernando Flores, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Eternal flame falls: by Mpmajewski, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Et... Smoking Hills: by Ansgar Walk, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Smoking Hills: by Ansgar Walk, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Smoking Hills: by Ansgar Walk, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... 發光的藍眼淚: by ynes95, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Sea sparkles: by Sander van der Wel, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Green Glow Caves: by Donnie Ray Jones, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., https://flic.kr/p/aZXSuT Animation is created by Bright Side. Are you ready to challenge your mind? Test your knowledge on everything from Earth to outer space with Bright Side: Quiz! https://linktr.ee/brightsidequiz With over 2,000 questions, 4 exciting modes, and local multiplayer for up to 4 players, this game is designed to keep you on your toes and bring endless fun.

Therapy for Black Girls
Session 397: Up Close with Scottie Beam

Therapy for Black Girls

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 41:53 Transcription Available


I’m excited to bring you a conversation today with a very special guest, someone who is known for her bold voice, her authenticity, and her commitment to empowering others.You may know her from her work as a media personality, podcaster, and all-around cultural commentator. Joining me today is the one and only, Scottie Beam.Scottie is not only a powerhouse on the mic, but she’s also a trailblazer for a younger generation of women in media, especially when it comes to destigmatizing the conversations surrounding self-care. Whether she’s sharing insights on her new YouTube series, “Hi, I’m Uninspired” or just being her unapologetically real self on social media, Scottie has a way of making people feel seen, heard, and understood. Today, we're diving into a conversation about self-love, mental wellness, and how we navigate the intersections of identity and mental health, especially in the fast-paced world we live in today. About the Podcast The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Resources & Announcements Grab your copy of Sisterhood Heals. Vote for Therapy for Black Girls in the Best Lifestyle/Self-Help Podcast category of the NAACP Image Awards! Where to Find Scottie Website Instagram Stay Connected Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it at therapyforblackgirls.com/mailbox. If you're looking for a therapist in your area, check out the directory at https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/directory. Take the info from the podcast to the next level by joining us in the Therapy for Black Girls Sister Circle community.therapyforblackgirls.com Grab your copy of our guided affirmation and other TBG Merch at therapyforblackgirls.com/shop. The hashtag for the podcast is #TBGinSession. Make sure to follow us on social media: Twitter: @therapy4bgirls Instagram: @therapyforblackgirls Facebook: @therapyforblackgirls Our Production Team Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Maya Cole Howard Senior Producer: Ellice Ellis Producer: Tyree RushSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Nick DiPaolo Show
Up Close & Personal With Nick | Nick Di Paolo Show #1685

The Nick DiPaolo Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 24:30


In this episode Dallas interviews Nick! To watch FULL EPISODES and get ALL RUMBLE PREMIUM content AD FREE, join by clicking the red RUMBLE PREMIUM button – enter Promo Code MUGCLUB and get $10 off an annual subscription! https://rumble.com/c/TheNickDiPaoloShow/exclusive MERCH - https://shop.nickdip.com/ TOUR DATES AND MORE - https://nickdip.com 2/20/2025 - Bricktown Comedy Club – Tulsa, OK 2/21/2025 - Funny Bone Westport, St. Louis, MO 3/13/2025 - Hyena's, Albuquerque, NM 4/25/2025 - Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, NY 5/15-16/2025 - Zanies, Rosemont, IL SOCIALS - https://bio.site/nickdipaolo

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
THE MASS DEPORTATION DISASTER: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter Six

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 69:48


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. Special guest host Stuart Stevens introduces the topic of today's episode, Trump's disastrous first week and the incoming deportation calamity likely to take place. The story that leads off Chapter 6 of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, Mass Deportation Disaster captures the struggles of 12-year-old Alvaro and his mother in a fictional detention center in West Texas. Alvaro expresses his hunger to his mother, who is too weak to properly care for herself. As they navigate the deteriorating conditions of the camp—overcrowded with diminishing food supplies, hostile guards, and a sense of fear from both authorities and fellow detainees—Alvaro reflects on lost friendships and longing for better times. His mother's health declines as she sacrifices for him, giving him her piece of bread despite needing it more herself. This highlights Alvaro's growing awareness of their desperate situation. He learns from a friend, Manuel, about possible escape routes and decides to plan his own escape to ensure both his and his mother's safety. In the second half of Chapter 6, in a parallel narrative, soldier Jake Caldwell describes the chaos of the detention center from his perspective. As he witnesses the overwhelming influx of women and children, he feels the systemic failures of the camp. The environment strips away humanity, leading children to escape in search of freedom. As both narratives unfold, Alvaro attempts to escape the camp, filled with hope for a future where he can see his mother smile again even as Jake grapples with the moral dilemmas of his role in the oppressive system. Their stories intertwine themes of resilience, sacrifice, and the harsh realities faced by both detainees and guards in the unjust conditions of the camp. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Mark Ruffalo and Andrea Guidry who read the chapters and others who contributed character voices.   Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jon Moser. Trump's Project 2025:Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes, Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
THE DEPARTMENT OF RETRIBUTION: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter Five

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 54:28


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. Special guest host Stuart Stevens starts by detailing the potential horrors to come from Trump's cabinet. From Kash Patel, Pam Bondi and the rest, this is a group specifically designed to carry out the President's unchecked retribution against his political enemies. In Chapter 5, Part one, the fictional characters Congresswoman Louise Getty and Senator Wade Stiller, former rivals, meet at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. They reflect on their pasts and express concern over a hostile political climate under Trump's second term, feeling fear and paranoia about being surveilled and targeted by the government. Their conversation reveals a sense of vulnerability as they confront the reality that many of their colleagues have abandoned principles out of fear. Louise recalls the intense political maneuvering and betrayals leading up to and following the January 6 insurrection. In Part Two, Woody Nuxhall, the newly appointed head of the Treason and Political Crime Section of the DOJ, oversees his zealous young team of prosecutors, eager to pursue investigations and vendettas against political enemies. The group discusses tactics to surveil and undermine former colleagues and opposition figures, planning a strategy fueled by partisan loyalty and vengeance, while embracing a radical transformation of the DOJ's role in politics. The narrative emphasizes the deeply entrenched fear and moral compromise within Washington's political landscape, contrasting the idealistic memories of past sacrifices with the present-day weaponization of governmental power. Overall, the story highlights the erosion of democratic norms, and the personal toll this environment takes on the individuals involved.  While these stories are fictional, they are based on Trump's own words and Project 2025. In fact, the New York Times, just last week reported just how Trump would use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. We'd like to thank the artists who contributed their time to make this episode: Richard Schiff and Morgan Fairchild read the chapters and others who contributed character voices. Sound Design by Marilys Ernst and Jon Moser. Trump's Project 2025:Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes, Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chad Hartman
Paul Gazelka tells us about seeing Trump's inauguration up close

Chad Hartman

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 13:12


Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka joins Chad with a review of President Trump's inauguration events that he witnessed up close and in person yesterday.

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
THE END OF VACCINE MANDATES: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter Four

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 38:16


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. Special guest host Stuart Stevens kicks off the episode reminding us of the true danger of RFK Jr. and Trump's willingness to put the nation's health at risk with his confirmation. So what could happen if RFK is confirmed? Today's story helps illustrate that potential reality. This episode tells the fictional story of a middle school that opens its doors to unvaccinated students after a possible second -term President Trump eliminates Federal funding for schools with vaccine mandates. The story follows the school nurse, Stephanie Morris, as she navigates the influx of unvaccinated students and the resulting disease outbreaks that spread rapidly through the school and community. The narrative illustrates the real-world implications of the president's policy, with outbreaks of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and the flu causing hospitalizations and even deaths among vulnerable students and staff. The story highlights the challenges faced by the school nurse in trying to protect the health of all students, including her own daughter who has an autoimmune condition, without the backing of mandatory vaccination policies. Overall, the episode demonstrates how Donald Trump's promise to defund schools with vaccine mandates could have devastating consequences for children's health and safety. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes, Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Game Hunting Podcast
354: Hunting Leopard Up Close & At Night With Tanya Blake

Big Game Hunting Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 83:05


This is the first episode in my winter 2025 Africa hunting mini-series and I have a special guest on the show with me today: Tanya Blake. Depending on how long you've been listening to the show, you may recognize that name because she was Phil Massaro's PH on the leopard hunt he and I discussed in episode 293. Tanya is a Zimbabwe based Professional Hunter who hunts a number of different species, but leopard are her specialty and we'll be talking all about hunting Mr. Spots in this episode. Subscribe to The Big Game Hunting Podcast on YouTube here Sponsor: Get in touch with Tanya Blake to book that leopard hunt in Zimbabwe you've always dreamed of. She is a top notch Professional Hunter who has access to some fantastic leopard hunting areas. Email her at tanyablakesafaris@gmail.com or call her at +263 77 326 0977 to learn more. Be sure to tell her you heard about her from The Big Game Hunting Podcast and be sure to email me at john@thebiggamehuntingblog.com and let me know how your hunt went!

The Whiskey Chasers
Jack Daniels Sinatra Select!

The Whiskey Chasers

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 51:15


Send us a textHistory of distilleryJasper Newton Daniels founds Jack daniels in 1866Learns how to make whiskey from a preacher who took him in and his slaveRev Dan Call and the slave in Nathan “nearest” greenDistillery founded near Cave spring hollowWater from an underground spring with little to no impuritiesLimestone is so important for whiskey making because limestone counters the Iron in water, removing it.Jack passes in 1906, after he gets mad he cant open his safe and kicks it.  This breaks his toe, which got infected.Left to Lem Motlow, his nephew, who continues with his brother Jess Motlow, who becomes Master DistillerProhabition hits and they close up shopAfter prohibition they open back up after supply chains clean upClose again in 1944 to help with the war effort1947- Sinatra is introduced to jack daniels by jackie gleason1956- Brown Forman according uired Jack daniels, no changes to production1997- first bottles of single barrel select2014- opens their own cooperage2015- first new mashbill, introducing single barrel ryeJeff Arnett was Master distiller from 08-20Chris Fletcher is master distiller 2020-Grandson of past Master distiller Frank Bobo (1966-1989)The juiceCharcoal MellowedPouring unaged 140 proof whiskey into a charcoal vat, letting gravity take it throughTakes 3-5 daysJack meets all qualifications of Bouron, then adds charcoal MellowingCompany: Brown-FormanAge: NAS (Aged at least 4 years per TTB regulations)Mashbill: 70% Rye, 18% Corn, 12% Malted BarleyMSRP: $60 (2023)SINATRA EDITION NOTESHe took his Jack: 2 fingers with 3 rocks and a splash of waterJack in the 50s would have been oakyer and darker with more wood notesFor this edition, they carved grooves into the barrel, adding more wood area, and let the grooved pieces stay in the barrel so it adds even more wood flavorSour Vs Sweet mashVery basically, Sour mash, think sour bread.  You use mash from the previous set to “start” your next set.Sweet Mash has no starter.  Every batch is its own batch, with nothing added to adjust the PH (which is the purpose of the starter in sour mash)Sweet mash is harder but more controllable because you start fresh every time, but you run the risk of bacteria.Sour mash is easier and safer, because it corrects the PH to help drive out bacteria.Wilderness Trail is a big sweet mash producer, but most people go with Sour mashSupport the showWebsite:www.whiskeychaserspod.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/whiskeychaserspodcastInsta:https://www.instagram.com/whiskeychaserspodcast/TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@whiskeychaserspodcastThanks For Listening! Tell a Friend!

Helps Sleep
ASMR Personal Attention up close scalp massage & face touching

Helps Sleep

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 20:38


ASMR Personal Attention up close scalp massage & face touchingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
THE DEATH OF SCIENCE: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter Three

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 52:07


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. To start, special guest host Stuart Stevens weighs in on day one of the confirmation hearings and the abomination that is the slate of nominees Trump has put forward for some of the most important positions in the Executive Branch. In Chapter 3, the fact-based fictional story of Dr. Yvette Hardman and JJ Newsom depicts the dismantling of expertise and science-based decision making in the federal government under a possible second Trump administration guided by Project 2025. Dr. Hardman, an experienced infectious disease expert, is removed from her position at the CDC and replaced by JJ Newsom, an unqualified political loyalist with no relevant experience. This reflects Project 2025's plan to fill government positions with partisan appointees rather than nonpartisan experts. The new administration rejects science-based pandemic response recommendations from Dr. Hardman instead prioritizing political and economic considerations over public health. This aligns with Project 2025's directives to limit the CDC's ability to make public health recommendations. The story highlights the Trump administration's hostility towards science and the displacement of experienced civil servants, which Project 2025 seeks to accelerate through measures like the "Schedule F" executive order to reclassify and fire federal employees. Overall, the narrative illustrates how a second Trump term guided by Project 2025 would undermine the role of expertise and independent scientific advice in government, with potentially disastrous consequences for public health and safety. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd also like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: CCH Pounder, Richard Schiff and Jason Kravits who read the chapters and Omid Abtahi, Tom Nichols, Laurie Burke and Joanne Carducci who did the voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jon Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I Dare You Podcast
Episode 156: Success Codes of Legends & Champions with Chris Myers

I Dare You Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 51:14


Chris Myers is an Emmy Award-winning Fox Sports broadcaster who is one of the most trusted and renowned journalists in sports. He is also the author of a remarkable new book, That Deserves a Wow: Untold Stories of Legends and Champions, Their Wins and Heartbreaks. Chris' book offers readers a front-row seat to some of sports' biggest moments with inspiration through tragedy and triumph. As Fox Sports' first three-sport star, Chris contributes to the network's NFL, NASCAR, MLB, Premier Boxing Champions, and Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show coverage. During the NFL season, Chris calls a full slate of games as play-by-play announcer. Prior to joining Fox Sports in 1998, Chris worked at ESPN for 11 years where he anchored for SportsCenter and hosted Up Close. How to Follow Chris: X: @The_ChrisMyers Instagram: @chrismyersfox www.chrismyerssports.com

TNA Cross The Line Podcast
Episode #275: Turning Point - 1/14/07: Up Close And Very Personal

TNA Cross The Line Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 195:05


Bob Colling Jr. & Dallas Gridley have made it to the first monthly PPV of 2007, Final Resolution from January 14, 2007 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. NWA World Heavyweight Champion "The Monster" Abyss defends against Christian Cage & Sting in an 3-Way Elimination Match in the main event! Plus, Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe III in a 30-Minute Ironman Match, X-Division Champion Christopher Daniels defends against Chris Sabin and Jerry Lynn, NWA Tag Team Champions LAX defends against Team 3D and AJ Styles takes on Rhino in a Last Man Standing Match! Also, Eric Young, Petey Williams, James Storm, Alex Shelley and so much more on this 3 hour epic event! Join us as we dive head first into 2007! More TNA Cross The Line Podcast: tnacrosstheline.com Follow us on Twitter @CrossTheLineTNA Follow us on Facebook @TNACrossTheLinePod Follow us on Instagram @CrossTheLineTNA Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Shop at our Pro Wrestling Tees Store

The Whiskey Chasers
Jack Daniels Old No. 7!

The Whiskey Chasers

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 56:01


Send us a textHistory of distilleryJasper Newton Daniels founds Jack daniels in 1866Learns how to make whiskey from a preacher who took him in and his slaveRev Dan Call and the slave in Nathan “nearest” greenDistillery founded near Cave spring hollowWater from an underground spring with little to no impuritiesLimestone is so important for whiskey making because limestone counters the Iron in water, removing it.Jack passes in 1906, after he gets mad he cant open his safe and kicks it.  This breaks his toe, which got infected.Left to Lem Motlow, his nephew, who continues with his brother Jess Motlow, who becomes Master DistillerProhabition hits and they close up shopAfter prohibition they open back up after supply chains clean upClose again in 1944 to help with the war effort1947- Sinatra is introduced to jack daniels by jackie gleason1956- Brown Forman according uired Jack daniels, no changes to production1997- first bottles of single barrel select2014- opens their own cooperage2015- first new mashbill, introducing single barrel ryeJeff Arnett was Master distiller from 08-20Chris Fletcher is master distiller 2020-Grandson of past Master distiller Frank Bobo (1966-1989)The juiceCharcoal MellowedPouring unaged 140 proof whiskey into a charcoal vat, letting gravity take it throughTakes 3-5 daysJack meets all qualifications of Bouron, then adds charcoal MellowingCompany: Brown-FormanAge: NAS (Aged at least 4 years per TTB regulations)Mashbill: 70% Rye, 18% Corn, 12% Malted BarleyMSRP: $60 (2023)SINATRA EDITION NOTESHe took his Jack: 2 fingers with 3 rocks and a splash of waterJack in the 50s would have been oakyer and darker with more wood notesFor this edition, they carved grooves into the barrel, adding more wood area, and let the grooved pieces stay in the barrel so it adds even more wood flavorSour Vs Sweet mashVery basically, Sour mash, think sour bread.  You use mash from the previous set to “start” your next set.Sweet Mash has no starter.  Every batch is its own batch, with nothing added to adjust the PH (which is the purpose of the starter in sour mash)Sweet mash is harder but more controllable because you start fresh every time, but you run the risk of bacteria.Sour mash is easier and safer, because it corrects the PH to help drive out bacteria.Wilderness Trail is a big sweet mash producer, but most people go with Sour mashSupport the showWebsite:www.whiskeychaserspod.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/whiskeychaserspodcastInsta:https://www.instagram.com/whiskeychaserspodcast/TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@whiskeychaserspodcastThanks For Listening! Tell a Friend!

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
IVF: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter Two

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 47:36


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. Chapter Two of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal depicts the personal story of Eve, a nurse struggling with infertility, whose treatment is threatened by the new president's executive order banning certain fertility treatments. The episode explores how the president's policies would impact everyday Americans, particularly women and families, by interfering with reproductive freedom and the right to self-determination. The author of the serialized novel “2025,” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how the fictional story is directly based on the policies outlined in the Trump's Project 2025 and the president's own words, underscoring the very real and devastating consequences a second Trump term and the implementation of Project 2025 could have. You can read Chapter Two of David Pepper's “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novel-chapter-2 Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd also like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode. Heather Thomas, J. Smith Cameron, Omid Abtahi, Kirk Acevedo and Bayo Akinfemi. Audio finishing by Marilyn Ernst. This series is produced by David Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bill Press Pod
Reprise: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal: The Department of Retribution

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 59:17


As we are taking a holiday break, we are re-running two of the episodes of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal series that we produced before the election. We produced it to warn people of what was coming if Trump were reelected, but now we think it's just as important for people to understand what we can actually expect in the next four years. And we hope it will help fuel our collective opposition and resistance to Trump 2.0 This is the second re-run, The Department of Retribution. In Chapter 5 of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, Part one, the fictional characters Congresswoman Louise Getty and Senator Wade Stiller, former rivals, meet at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. They reflect on their pasts and express concern over a hostile political climate under Trump's second term, feeling fear and paranoia about being surveilled and targeted by the government. Their conversation reveals a sense of vulnerability as they confront the reality that many of their colleagues have abandoned principles out of fear. Louise recalls the intense political maneuvering and betrayals leading up to and following the January 6 insurrection.In Part Two, Woody Nuxhall, the newly appointed head of the Treason and Political Crime Section of the DOJ, oversees his zealous young team of prosecutors, eager to pursue investigations and vendettas against political enemies. The group discusses tactics to surveil and undermine former colleagues and opposition figures, planning a strategy fueled by partisan loyalty and vengeance, while embracing a radical transformation of the DOJ's role in politics. The narrative emphasizes the deeply entrenched fear and moral compromise within Washington's political landscape, contrasting the idealistic memories of past sacrifices with the present-day weaponization of governmental power. Overall, the story highlights the erosion of democratic norms, and the personal toll this environment takes on the individuals involved. While these stories are fictional, they are based on Trump's own words and Project 2025. In fact, the New York Times, just last week reported just how Trump would use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.We'd like to thank the artists who contributed their time to make this episode:Richard Schiff and Morgan Fairchild read the chapters and others who contributed character voices.Sound Design by Marilys Ernst and Jon Moser.Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal was written by David Pepper and Produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
DEPORTATION: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter One

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 40:36


This special series is a joint production by David Pepper and Resolute Square. The book, “Trump's Project 2025: Up Close And Personal” by David Pepper, is available for purchase at https://a.co/d/adWcJ4S. Chapter One of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal depicts how the lives of everyday Americans would be impacted by the policies outlined in Trumps's Project 2025 and the return of Donald Trump to power. The fictional story follows Ammon Maher, a college student and immigrant, as he is detained and deported without due process due to his involvement in past campus protests. This narrative directly reflects Trump's campaign promises to crack down on student protesters and his administration's policies that target undocumented immigrants, including so-called "dreamers." The author of the serialized “2025: A Novel” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how these policies, if implemented, would violate civil liberties and human rights in an alarming and unjust manner. The podcast series aims to raise awareness of the very real dangers posed by Trump's extremist agenda and the disturbing implications of "Project 2025" for the American people. You can read  Chapter One of David Pepper's “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novel Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bill Press Pod
Reprise: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal: The End of Vaccine Mandates.

The Bill Press Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 40:33


As The Bill Press Pod team takes a holiday break, we decided to re-run two of the episodes of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal series that we produced before the election. Though we produced it to warn people of what was coming if Trump were reelected, we think it's just as important now for people to understand what we can now actually expect in the next four years. And we hope it will help fuel our collective opposition and resistance to Trump 2.0This episode tells the fictional story of a middle school that opens its doors to unvaccinated students after a possible second -term President Trump eliminates Federal funding for schools with vaccine mandates. The story follows the school nurse, Stephanie Morris, as she navigates the influx of unvaccinated students and the resulting disease outbreaks that spread rapidly through the school and community. The narrative illustrates the real-world implications of the president's policy, with outbreaks of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and the flu causing hospitalizations and even deaths among vulnerable students and staff. The story highlights the challenges faced by the school nurse in trying to protect the health of all students, including her own daughter who has an autoimmune condition, without the backing of mandatory vaccination policies. Overall, the episode demonstrates how Donald Trump's promise to defund schools with vaccine mandates could have devastating consequences for children's health and safety.We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode:Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes , Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal written by Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Start the Week
Animals – up close and talking

Start the Week

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 41:59


The poet laureate Simon Armitage challenges himself to write a new poem to capture the spirit of an animal and to see if he can bring it closer to the human world. For a new 10-part series, My Poetry and Other Animals (on BBC Radio 4 at 1.45, from December 23rd), he is guided by his fellow poets as he experiences a series of close encounters – looking into the eye of a tiger, tracking a fox and standing amongst a room full of spiders. Elizabeth Bishop and Feargal Sharkey are Simon Armitage's guides to the world of fish. But the science writer Amorina Kingdom wants everyone to listen more closely to what's happening underwater. In her book, Sing Like Fish, she traces how sounds travel with currents; the songs, clicks and drumming that help sea creatures to survive, and how this musical landscape is being affected by human noise.If humans could finally grasp what animals were communicating to each other, could it enable us to join in the conversation with animals? The behavioural ecologist, Professor Christian Rutz, from the University of St Andrews, is a specialist in the different behaviours of crows. He believes that with recent breakthroughs in AI and data collection, talking with animals might be closer than ever.Producer: Katy Hickman

ASMR by GentleWhispering
★Fabulous Fabrics Fantasy★Soft Spoken/ASMR/UpClose

ASMR by GentleWhispering

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 41:15


Hello! :D I'm so happy to see you on my channel! Thank you for watching! ♥ I have been trying to make a video with different beautiful fabrics and I kept remaking it, I couldn't decide what I liked better, which angle, whisper or soft voice etc. so I have decided to present you with both versions of the video. I know it might seem crazy but I just couldn't make up my mind on what works better and here are two versions of the same video for your liking. This video is soft spoken with up close demonstrations of textured fabrics, the other video is a whisper only video with a further angle of view of the fabrics. :) I hope you'll like at least one of them. Thank you for checking them out. ♥ Directory: 0-04:57- Counting fabrics, a quick run through all of them. 04:58-08:32- First Fabric, glossy, slippery vinyl (sticky fingers, crinkling) 08:33-11:49- Second Fabric, static, scratchy, golden threads 11:50-16:43- Third Fabric, MY FAVORITE :), smooth, chameleon blue and gold fabric, very cool to watch it turn colors! :) 16:44-21:01- Fourth Fabric, brown swede with textured threaded images, scratchy, smooth 21:05-26:40- Speaking to you from the BACK! :D I just wanted to improvise and whisper to you as if I am behind you. I hope you like it! :)) 21:02-25:25- Fifth Fabric, Foe Lather, squeezing, tapping, sticky fingers, smoothing 25:28-29:49- Sixth Fabric, red silk, with color changing flower prints, smoothing, tapping, folding (awkward! I made a fool out of myself lol) 29:50-34:38- Seventh Fabric, light, glistening, gentle smoothing, tracing.. Trace trace trace, scratch scratch scratch 34:39-end- Eighth Fabric, sooooft, smooth, fluffy, smoothing, gentle tapping, gentle slow movements, wave like softs sounds.... sleeeep :) #ASMR #GentleWhispering #relax 3/5/15 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-gentlewhispering/support

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Chris Myers on his memoir — and his chilling 1998 live interview of O.J. Simpson

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 43:06


Episode 453 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Chris Myers, the Fox Sports broadcaster who has written memoir, “That Deserves A Wow: Untold Stories of Legends and Champions, Their Wins and Heartbreaks.” In this podcast, Myers discusses his broadcasting career between Fox and ESPN; why he has had longevity; being at the track for the 2001 Daytona 500 crash that killed Dale Earnhardt; his OJ Simpson interview in 1998 for ESPN's “Up Close” how he prepared to interview Simpson; how he processed in real time Simpson lying to him; his postgame interview of Tom Brady following the Patriots' Super Bowl comeback against the Falcons; his favorite questions to ask of subjects and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Daily Beans
Apology Not Accepted (feat. Dave Aronberg)

The Daily Beans

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 49:51


Today, a MAGA bigot has been banned from CNN for suggesting Mehdi Hasan is a terrorist; Republicans lose back to back lawsuits in swing state lawsuits; the man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; an Indianapolis Republican candidate has been charged with stealing ballots; Virginia asks US Supreme Court to reinstate the removal of 1,600 voter registrations; the Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. plea to be removed from ballot in two swing states; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. If you want to try Beam's best-selling Dream Powder, get up to 50% off for a limited time when you go to ShopBeam.com/DAILYBEANS and use code DAILYBEANS at checkout.Events, Petitions, and Volunteer Opportunities | Mobilize.usEasily Migrate Your Daily Beans Patreon Support To SupercastThe Daily Beans on SupercastThank You Stephanie MillerGuest: Dave Aronberghttps://twitter.com/aronberghttps://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeMTNhttps://linktr.ee/davearonbergStories:CNN bans conservative commentator who made a racist ‘joke' on air (CNN)Virginia asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations (AP News)Republicans lose back-to-back rulings in swing state lawsuits (Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney|Politico)Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. plea to be removed from ballot in two swing states (Lawrence Hurley|NBC News)Harris Social Media Toolkit Harris Campaign Social Media Toolkit (kamalaharris.com)See What's On Your Ballot, Check Your Voter Registration, Find Your Polling Place, Discover Upcoming Debates In Your Area, And Much More! Vote411.orgCheck Your Voter Registration! Vote.orgCheck out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comCheck out the first 2 episodes of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal.https://trumpsproject2025pod.com/Here is my new ad for #HarrisWalz. My story never gets easier to tell, but everything is on the line this election. Please watch and share - x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1847296099398361455Have some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good NewsHidalgo County Democrats (hidalgocountydems.com)Vote Common Good (votecommongood.com)Jasper County Animal Control|Indiana (jaspercountyin.gov)Durham County Board of Elections|North Carolina (dcovotes.gov) Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill https://muellershewrote.substack.comhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

The Daily Beans
Quid Pro WaPo

The Daily Beans

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 40:05


Tuesday, October 29th, 2024Today, over 200,000 people have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post after their failure to endorse Kamala Harris; The Philadelphia DA is suing Elon Musk and his super pac to stop his million dollar giveaway; Trump's fascist rally shock comic was set to call Kamala Harris the c word; the FBI is investigating another ballot box arson - this one in Vancouver; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Events, Petitions, and Volunteer Opportunities | Mobilize.usEasily Migrate Your Daily Beans Patreon Support To SupercastThe Daily Beans on SupercastStories:Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk and his super PAC to stop million-dollar giveaway (Jane Timm|NBC News)Trump's Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt' (Marc Caputo|The Bulwark)The Democratic Idea. (Marc Maron|wtfpod.com)Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement (David Folkenflik|NPR)Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating (KATU2 ABC)Link To Dana's Post (twitter.com)Harris Social Media Toolkit Harris Campaign Social Media Toolkit (kamalaharris.com)See What's On Your Ballot, Check Your Voter Registration, Find Your Polling Place, Discover Upcoming Debates In Your Area, And Much More! Vote411.orgCheck Your Voter Registration! Vote.orgCheck out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comCheck out the first 2 episodes of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal.https://trumpsproject2025pod.com/Here is my new ad for #HarrisWalz. My story never gets easier to tell, but everything is on the line this election. Please watch and share - x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1847296099398361455From The Good NewsActivate America (activateamerica.vote)Events, Petitions, and Volunteer Opportunities | Mobilize.usScreening for Colorectal Cancer (CDC.gov)About Mammograms (CDC.gov) Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill https://muellershewrote.substack.comhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts