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    Marketplace All-in-One
    The new "Be Kind, Rewind"

    Marketplace All-in-One

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2025 6:54


    Move over “Be Kind, Rewind.” The new slogan is “Take a Movie, Leave a Movie.” That's right. A Blockbuster nostalgia trip could be coming to a yard near you. Today, we visit Salt Lake City, which just got its very first Free Blockbuster — like a lending library but for DVDs and VHS tapes. Also on today's show: divisions at the Federal Reserve and a coin buried for centuries in the Scottish woods.

    Marketplace Morning Report
    The new "Be Kind, Rewind"

    Marketplace Morning Report

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2025 6:54


    Move over “Be Kind, Rewind.” The new slogan is “Take a Movie, Leave a Movie.” That's right. A Blockbuster nostalgia trip could be coming to a yard near you. Today, we visit Salt Lake City, which just got its very first Free Blockbuster — like a lending library but for DVDs and VHS tapes. Also on today's show: divisions at the Federal Reserve and a coin buried for centuries in the Scottish woods.

    No More Late Fees
    Remilistening: Y2K Holiday Nostalgia

    No More Late Fees

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2025 51:58


    Get ready to jingle all the way back to the '90s and early 2000s with a holiday bonus episode that's equal parts sugar rush and nostalgia overload. Jackie and Danielle unwrap childhood Christmas memories, iconic toys, and sour candy chaos in this festive installment of No More Late Fees.In this cozy, laugh-filled episode, the hosts dive into a full-on Baby Bottle Pop taste test, revisiting classic flavors and trying new twists while reacting in real time. From there, the conversation spirals (in the best way) into childhood Christmas wish lists, toys we desperately wanted, toys we actually got, and the ones that still haunt us as adults. Expect deep nostalgia for mall madness, Barbies, American Girl dolls, Pound Puppies, and other defining '90s and 2000s staples, along with plenty of side commentary and relatable millennial humor.Jackie and Danielle also swap stories about family holiday traditions, Santa lore, and growing up with VHS tapes, home videos, and Christmas morning rituals. The episode wraps with a passionate discussion of favorite Christmas movies—especially the underrated, non-traditional picks—plus pop-culture hot takes that prove holiday viewing doesn't have to be basic to be festive.If you love nostalgic tangents, pop-culture trivia, behind-the-scenes memories, and candid fandom commentary, this holiday bonus is the perfect comfort listen.Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to No More Late Fees wherever you listen to podcasts, and share the episode with a friend who still thinks '90s candy was better.Keywords: 90s nostalgia, holiday podcast, No More Late Fees, Baby Bottle Pop, millennial Christmas, pop culture podcast, 2000s nostalgia, holiday movies, nostalgic candy·Season 5 Episode 31·—No More Late Fees ⁠https://nomorelatefeespodcast.com⁠909-601-NMLF (6653)—Follow Us on Social:Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nomorelatefees TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@nomorelatefees Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/nomorelatefeesYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/@nomorelatefees Twitterhttps://x.com/NoMoreLateFees —CONQUERing⁠⁠myconquering.com⁠⁠10% Off Code: JACKIE10—DescriptCreator Plan 50% off 2 monthshttps://descript.cello.so/zp4OQqeIMdq

    Boys' Bible Study
    Mark Fox / Lil Markie Live in Miami!

    Boys' Bible Study

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2025 88:45


    This notorious VHS tape has taken on a second life on the Internet as a treasured relic of found footage. Recorded live at First Baptist Church in Perrine, Florida (year unknown), LIL MARKIE LIVE IN MIAMI is a rare chance to see Christian entertainer Mark Fox fully embody his iconic Lil Markie character in the flesh. Lil Markie is basically Mr. Fox doing a cartoonish child's voice, which in practice sounds like a combination of TV characters Elmo from Sesame Street and Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. As Lil Markie, Mark Fox recorded multiple albums. He is perhaps most known for "Diary of an Unborn Child," a spoken word monologue recorded over jazz piano in which Fox uses the Lil Markie voice to narrate what an unborn child might say to his mommy in the womb before his untimely abortion. But Fox mostly inhabits Lil Markie as an unelected spokesperson for real, living children. In his live special, he takes aim at selfish adult actions that make children sad, mainly divorce, moms going to work, and dads watching too much TV. He advocates for daddies to "date" their daughters and for divorce to be outlawed. He also finds time to monologue extensively about his favorite show Alvin and the Chipmunks, and to sing a song about loving the world in which each verse is a crude racist stereotype of a different race. Ultimately LIL MARKIE LIVE IN MIAMI feels too dark for kids and too uncanny for adults, a perfectly useless piece of family entertainment that alienates Christians of all ages. View our full episode list and subscribe to any of our public feeds: http://boysbiblestudy.com Unlock 2+ bonus episodes per month: http://patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Subscribe to our Twitch for livestreams: http://twitch.tv/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/boysbiblestudy

    Korean True Crime
    Red Scarf

    Korean True Crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 36:17


    An adult home-video VHS tape would begin showing up in markets across the nation in 1997. Decades later, it would still be sought after online. The Red Scarf Video would become a glaring example of the flourishing market for CSAM. But how would people react once the underbelly was exposed? Find our merch here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://koreantruecrime-shop.fourthwall.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our discord today!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you enjoy Korean True Crime, please rate, follow, and send feedback! It helps me continue to improve the show. If you'd like to support the show or find show sources for free,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠join Korean True Crime on Patreon.⁠ ⁠

    classhorrorcast
    How Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Became Horror's Most Notorious Christmas Movie

    classhorrorcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2025 72:12 Transcription Available


    In this episode, we unwrap one of the most infamous slashers of the 1980s — Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) — a film that didn't just shock audiences, but ignited a full-blown moral panic.We dig into the movie itself, from its mean-spirited kills and sleazy holiday setting to its strange, unforgettable characters and grim worldview.We break down what works, what's unhinged, and why — despite (or because of) its rough edges — it remains one of the most effective and enduring Christmas horror films ever made. Beyond the bloodshed, we explore the wild behind-the-scenes story: how the film was made, marketed, and almost destroyed by controversy.We talk about the infamous TV trailer that aired before family-friendly shows like Little House on the Prairie, why parents were outraged at the idea of Santa Claus as a slasher villain, and how protest groups successfully pressured theatres to pull the film from release just days after it opened.We also place Silent Night, Deadly Night within the wider context of the Video Nasties era, examining how fear-driven censorship, tabloid hysteria, and home video panic shaped the movie's legacy — and how later VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases helped reclaim it as a cult classic rather than a cultural punching bag.Finally, we make the case for why Silent Night, Deadly Night has stood the test of time: its bleak tone, its commitment to being genuinely uncomfortable. Love it or hate it, this is a movie that refused to behave — and that's exactly why it still matters.Whether you're a long-time defender or a first-time viewer, this episode dives deep into the film that turned Santa into a symbol of terror — and became horror's most notorious Christmas movie in the process.If you enjoyed this - Check out my other content here - https://linktr.ee/FirstClassHorrorBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/class-horror-cast--4295531/support.

    The Treehouse Podcast
    YouTube Eps 4-Improve Your Dating Life With Advice From The Pros!

    The Treehouse Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2025 14:29 Transcription Available


    We're going to help you improve your dating life by seeing the mistakes other people have made via VHS Dating and learn taking some tips from these pros!The Treehouse Show is a Dallas based comedy podcast. Leave your worries outside and join Dan O'Malley, Trey Trenholm, Raj Sharma, and their guests for laughs about funny news, viral stories, and hilarious commentary.The Treehouse WebsiteGet MORE from the Treehouse Show on PatreonGet a FREE roof inspection from the best company in DFW:Cook DFW Roofing & Restoration CLICK HERE TO DONATE:The RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation

    It Slays Podcast
    Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) (NOW SLAYING)

    It Slays Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2025 43:04


    On this episode of NOW SLAYING, Rowan & Gill obey the voices in their heads and discuss SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (2025)! Does this embrace the camp of the original films? Is Rohan rehashing the same character from HALLOWEEN ENDS? And, are "dark passengers" getting a little played out!? Tune in to find out if we gave this film a NAY, OKAY, YAY, or SLAY!CHAPTERS:Theme/Intro (00:00:00)Trailer (00:04:05)Synopsis (00:04:35)Review (SPOILER FREE) (00:05:05)Review (SPOILERS) (00:20:49)Rating (00:37:40)Promotions/Outro (00:40:05)Follow us on all social media:FacebookTwitterInstagramTumblrYoutubeTikTokSlasherThreadsBlueskyWant some official Merch?!SHOP HERE!*Intro Music by Rowan Fraser (IG: @biggiehauls)*Support the show

    Arkiv Samtal
    703. Kalle Lind om Systrar, bröder och andra problem

    Arkiv Samtal

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2025 68:06


    Kalle Lind är diversearbetare inom kultursektorn. Vi pratar om hans roman som delvis kan vara löst baserad på vissa händelser han upplevt själv. Det finns ett bonusavsnitt på 44 minuter för dig som donerar valfri summa till den här podden på Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arkivsamtalFestar! Ny turné med Simon Gärdenfors och Anton Magnusson 2026.Jag har andra standupgig i bl.a. Stockholm. Min film Serietecknaren finns nu på VHS och på SF Anytime!https://www.gardenfors.comSwish: 0760724728X: @gardenforsInstagram: @gardenforsFacebook: Arkiv Samtal - eftersnackgruppen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Sleep With Me
    A Christmas Story | Tale of Tape (from the Vault #476)

    Sleep With Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2025 60:26


    What is more reliable, Scoots' memory of watching “A Christmas Story” on VHS or the actual movie? Does Ralphie or Mikey want a fun machine for Christmas? What year is it? Sleep as this is more swirly and less surly, like a loosely defined treat.This is a special release from the SWM Vault. It's been remastered and re-edited, but it might be a little looser than a new episode. If you want access to the full vault, you can join Sleep With Me Plus at sleepwithmepodcast.com/plusGet your Sleep With Me SleepPhones. Use "sleepwithme" for $5 off!!Are you looking for Story Only versions or two more nights of Sleep With Me a week? Then check out Bedtime Stories from Sleep With MeLearn more about producer Russell aka Rusty Biscuit at russellsperberg.com and @BabyTeethLA on IG.Show Artwork by Emily TatGoing through a hard time? You can find support at the Crisis Textline and see more global helplines here.HELIX SLEEP - Take the 2-minute sleep quiz and they'll match you to a customized mattress that'll give you the best sleep of your life. Visit helixsleep.com/sleep and get a special deal exclusive for SWM listeners!ZOCDOC - With Zocdoc, you can search for local doctors who take your insurance, read verified patient reviews and book an appointment, in-person or video chat. Download the Zocdoc app to sign-up for FREE at zocdoc.com/sleepUNCOMMON GOODS - Uncommon Goods scours the globe for original, remarkable, handmade things. Surprise your friends and family with unique - and even personalized! - gifts this holiday season. Head to uncommongoods.com/sleep for 15% off!EVERYDAY DOSE - Everyday Dose combines high quality coffee with powerful ingredients like Lion's Mane and Chaga, collagen protein, and nootropics to fuel your brain, boost focus, and give you clean, sustained energy all day long. Head to EverydayDose.com/SLEEP for 61% off your first Coffee+ Starter Kit, a free A2 Probiotic Creamer, and over $100 in free gifts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    The VHS Strikes Back
    Look Who's Talking Now! (1993) | 90s Family Comedy Goes to the Dogs | VHSSB

    The VHS Strikes Back

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 46:15


    Look Who's Talking Now! (1993) was chosen by Chris, rounding out the unlikely trilogy that began as a surprise hit in 1989. By the early '90s, the Look Who's Talking franchise had already proven its commercial appeal, and TriStar Pictures was keen to keep the momentum going. This third entry shifted focus behind the scenes, with original director Amy Heckerling stepping away and Tom Ropelewski taking over directorial duties. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley returned following the success of Look Who's Talking Too, while the production leaned heavily on the established brand recognition rather than reinventing the formula.The film was produced during a transitional period for Hollywood family comedies, as studios increasingly relied on sequels, celebrity voice work, and broad humor to attract audiences. A major production emphasis was placed on the voice performances, enlisting high-profile actors to give personality and comedic timing to the animal characters through extensive ADR sessions. Despite a solid budget and the continued involvement of its star leads, Look Who's Talking Now! faced franchise fatigue upon release and struggled to recapture the box-office success of its predecessors. Today, it's remembered as a curious example of early-'90s sequel culture — a film driven more by brand familiarity than creative necessity, and a reminder of how quickly novelty concepts can wear thin.If you enjoy the show and would like to support us, we have a Patreon ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.Referral links also help out the show if you were going to sign up:⁠⁠⁠NordVPN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NordPass⁠⁠⁠Trailer Guy Plot SummaryFrom the creators of a blockbuster comedy franchise… comes the one where the pets finally take over.The family is back, the chaos is louder, and this time the dogs have something to say. With celebrity voices, slapstick mayhem, and 90s family-friendly insanity turned up to eleven, Look Who's Talking Now! lets the animals loose — commenting on love, loyalty, and household madness like only talking pets can.Look Who's Talking Now! — when the fur flies, the truth comes out.Fun FactsLook Who's Talking Now! was the final film in the Look Who's Talking trilogy, bringing the franchise to an end after three movies in five years.The movie marked one of the rare times Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton voiced animated characters together, even though neither appears on screen.The dogs' mouth movements were created using subtle animatronics and careful editing, rather than full CGI, which was still limited in the early 1990s.Despite mixed reviews, the film performed strongly on VHS and rental charts, continuing the franchise's popularity in the home-video market.The movie received several Golden Raspberry Award nominations, including Worst Screenplay and Worst Supporting Actress, reflecting its critical reception.Look Who's Talking Now! was released during a wave of early-90s “talking animal” movies, alongside films like Homeward Bound and Bingo.This installment shifted the franchise's focus more toward family-friendly animal comedy, a move that divided fans of the earlier films.The film has since gained a nostalgic cult following, particularly among viewers who grew up watching it repeatedly on VHS and cable television.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/vhsstrikesback⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    BATMAN-ON-FILM
    BATMAN RETURNS 2025 Holiday Special Commentary (The Original BOF Podcast Ep. 239)

    BATMAN-ON-FILM

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 130:14


    Batman-On-Film.com Senior Contributor Peter Verra and guest Andy Luca watch and provide a commentary on 1992's BATMAN RETURNS.  So fire up the 'ol VCR with your VHS of BATMAN RETURNS, hit play, and enjoy!

    The Foggy Jack Podcast
    The Threads of Foggy Jack

    The Foggy Jack Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 14:01


    EPISODE 2 — “The First Thread”Jack traces the call to an abandoned roadside attraction.Inside, he finds a single object left for him: a VHS tape labeled “BEFORE YOU WERE FOGGY.”The tape shows impossible footage.

    The Fintech Factor
    A Very Die Hard Christmas

    The Fintech Factor

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 70:48


    Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm Alex Johnson, joined by Kiah Haslett, Jason Mikula, and Jason Henrichs. Four people. Two Jasons. It's been a while! Our group text has been arguing about the same thing for years, so we finally took it to the mic: is Die Hard a Christmas movie?  The plan is simple. We spend an hour talking about Die Hard and pull it apart using ten questions I randomly came up with. We start with how each of us came to the movie. VHS scarcity. Delayed first viewings. Pausing the movie mid-stream to Google financial instruments. From there, we get into Bruce Willis, the accidental invention of the everyman action hero, and why this movie doesn't work with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, or a 70-year-old Frank Sinatra crawling through air vents. Then we talk about villains, specifically, Hans Gruber. Along the way, we touch upon the FBI's truly heroic ability to make everything worse, and just how many people in this movie are objectively bad at their jobs. At the center of it all is the plot device that sends us down the deepest rabbit hole: bearer bonds. Kiah walks us through what they were, why they existed, when they disappeared, and why it's not totally impossible that some are still out there. Yes, it's more educational than anyone intended. We wrap with favorite quotes, questions about workplace behavior in the 1980s, and the annual argument about what qualifies as a Christmas movie and who is allowed to die in one. It's unserious. It's overthought. It's our most festive episode yet. Thanks for listening!  This episode was brought to you by Marqeta. Don't sacrifice agility for stability. With Marqeta, launch payments experiences that perform at scale and flex with your business. Learn more at https://marqeta.com/ftt Sign up for Alex's Fintech Takes newsletter for the latest insightful analysis on fintech trends, along with a heaping pile of pop culture references and copious footnotes. Every Monday and Thursday: https://workweek.com/brand/fintech-takes/  And for more exclusive insider content, don't forget to check out my YouTube page. Follow Kiah Haslett: Newsletter: https://fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaslett Bank Nerd Corner podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bank-nerd-corner/id1845925869 Follow Jason Henrichs: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhenrichs/ Twitter: https://x.com/jasonhenrichs Breaking Banks podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-banks/id641357669 Follow Jason Mikula: Newsletter: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmikula/   Follow Alex:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgfH47QEwbQmkQlz1V9rQA/videos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhjohnson Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/AlexH_Johnson

    Moviebox
    Episode #117 - "Danmark går til Hollywood"

    Moviebox

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 48:14


    Der findes mange måder at forklare udlændinge, hvad Danmark er for et land. Man kan nævne velfærdsstaten, hygge og cykler. Eller man kan gøre det rigtige og afspille denne episode for dem, hvor dansk kultur kolliderer frontalt med Hollywood og efterlader et krater fyldt med Technicolor-eventyr, rumskrot og folkekomedie. Sonny leverer den officielle, statsautoriserede eksportvare med 'Hans Christian Andersen' (1952): en amerikansk musical, hvor Danny Kaye spiller en fiktiv, A.D.H.D.H.C. Andersen i et plastik-pænt "Kopenhaagen". Bliv ikke bange, hvis du oplever hyletoner eller hvinen i tænderne undervejs. Det er helt normalt. Ask tager den diametralt modsatte vej og finder Danmark nede i bunden af VHS-gitteret på Esso-tanken med 'Critters 4' (1992). Anders Hove dukker op i et træt rumlaboratorium, hvor små pelsede dræberkugler igen terroriserer et cast, der spiller som om deres agent har ghostet dem. Det er straight-to-video-space-spas på laveste blus, og et godt bud på "Danmark i Hollywood". Niels sørger for en delle-lun og sikker afslutning med den hjemlige Hollywood-rejse i 'Walter og Carlo i Amerika' (1989): Tynd spionsuppe, O.G. far-jokes og Tony Curtis på autopilot. Du får hele pakken og kan med ro i maven slumre hen i en lidt sløv, dansk 80'er-fis. Godnat. Samlet er denne aften en tour de VHS i dansk storhedsvanvid og mindreværd på én gang: Hollywoods høflige misforståelser af os og vores egne misforståelser af Hollywood. Det er rodet, nostalgisk, pinligt, virkelig sjovt… og på en eller anden måde også lidt rørende, fordi Danmark åbenbart altid insisterer på at være med i legen, selv når vi kommer for sent og har taget de forkerte sko på. I øvrigt, vil du støtte vores fortsatte, uansvarlige kulturformidling (og finansiere VHS-rens, chips og mental selvopretholdelse), så kig forbi Klub Moviebox på Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moviebox. Og hvis du allerede støtter, så er du en af dem, der sørger for, at Danmark fortsat får den filmpodcast, det fortjener... Rigtig god fornøjelse og HUSK: Pas, penge og spol altid episoden tilbage, når du har lyttet færdigt! Med venlig hilsen,Ask, Sonny, Niels & Casper  

    Luźno Przy Kawie
    #274 - Mikołaje

    Luźno Przy Kawie

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 55:05


    Ho, ho, ho – świąteczny odcinek LPKpodcast już na Was czeka. Nie podsumowujemy, nie planujemy ale rozmawiamy o tym co przykuło naszą uwagę. W odcinku: Apple uruchomiło usługę Fitness+ czyli nowoczesny trening z kaset VHS

    Wealth Formula by Buck Joffrey
    538: Is Gold Still a Buy?

    Wealth Formula by Buck Joffrey

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 40:47


    For years, gold was the asset nobody wanted to talk about. It sat there quietly while stocks and real estate continued to rip. Gold was for pessimists. For doomsayers and perma-bears.And then suddenly… gold didn't just wake up. It launched. As of mid-December 2025, spot gold is trading around $4,300–$4,400 an ounce, depending on the market, marking a gain of roughly 60% over the past year and pushing decisively into record territory. The obvious question is: why now? The short answer is that gold isn't reacting to one thing. It's responding to a stacking of pressures that have been quietly building for years and are now impossible to ignore.Start with central banks. For the better part of the last decade, central banks were net sellers or indifferent holders of gold. That changed dramatically after 2022. According to the World Gold Council, central banks have been buying gold at more than double the pace of the pre-COVID years, and 2025 continues that trend, with hundreds of tonnes added to reserves year-to-date. These aren't hedge funds chasing momentum. These are monetary authorities making deliberate, strategic decisions about what they trust to hold value. Why would central banks suddenly want more gold? Because geopolitics has re-entered the chat. We now live in a world where reserves can be frozen, payment systems can be weaponized, and “risk-free” assets depend heavily on political alignment. The World Bank has been explicit that rising geopolitical tensions and global uncertainty are key drivers of gold's surge this year. When trust in the global order erodes, gold benefits. At the same time, the U.S. dollar devaluation thesis is no longer fringe thinking. It is reality.Gold is priced in dollars, and when real yields fall and the dollar weakens, gold historically performs well. That dynamic is playing out again. Reuters has repeatedly pointed to a softer dollar and declining Treasury yields as near-term tailwinds for gold's rally . Bank of America's research echoes this relationship, emphasizing gold's inverse correlation to the dollar and the growing desire among nations to diversify away from dollar-centric reserves . In other words, gold isn't just going up because people are scared. It's going up because confidence in fiat discipline is eroding, slowly but persistently. So…Is gold still a buy or did we miss it? The truth is, both answers can be correct. Yes, gold is expensive relative to where it was a year ago. You don't go up 60% without pulling future returns forward. But what makes this cycle different is that many of the buyers driving demand are price-insensitive. Central banks don't care if gold is up 20% or down 10% in a quarter. They care about long-term reserve integrity. That's why major institutions aren't dismissing the move as a blow-off. Goldman Sachs has cited sustained central-bank demand and the potential for further ETF inflows as supportive of higher prices. J.P. Morgan continues to frame gold as a beneficiary of geopolitical instability and monetary uncertainty, and Bank of America is projecting prices as high as $5,000 an ounce into 2026. Of course, nothing goes up in a straight line. A shift toward tighter monetary policy or a sudden easing of global tensions could cool enthusiasm. Understand though, that gold's breakout isn't just about gold. There is a larger message that should be taken away from all of this. Hard money has come back into favor. Gold is the original hard asset. It's scarce, politically neutral, and has thousands of years of monetary credibility. But it's also heavy, difficult to move, and awkward in a digital world. Bitcoin exists on the same philosophical axis. Both gold and Bitcoin are reactions to the same problem: expanding debt, monetary dilution, and declining confidence in centralized control. Gold is the conservative expression of that view. Bitcoin is the aggressive one. Today, Bitcoin trades around $86,000, still volatile, still controversial, still misunderstood. But if gold's surge is signaling a regime shift toward hard assets, then Bitcoin may simply be earlier in that adoption curve. In other words, gold may be leading the parade. And if history is any guide, when institutions start moving into the oldest form of sound money, they eventually begin exploring the newest. That's the signal worth paying attention to. So this week, I interview Dana Samuelson, an old friend of the show and an expert in everything gold and hard money. Transcript Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by AI and may not be 100% accurate. If you notice any errors or corrections, please email us at phil@wealthformula.com.  Gold isn’t reacting to one thing, it’s actually responding to a stacking, uh, pressures, uh, that have been quietly building for years and, and really right now are impossible to ignore. Welcome, everybody. This is Buck Joffrey with the Wealth Formula Podcast coming to you. From Montecito, California and today. Uh, before we begin, just a quick reminder. Uh, there is a, uh, website associated with this podcast called wealth formula.com. And, uh, that’s where you go to get deeply more deeply integrated into this community, including our accredited investor club, AKA investor club for you to join. And, uh, once you get onboarded, all you do is you, you have an opportunity to see private deal flow, uh, that, uh, is not available to the general public. If you are an accredited investor, meaning that you have, uh, make $200,000 per year or $300,000 per year, uh, for the last two years with the reasonable expectation of continuing to do so, or you have a million dollars outside of your personal residence, a net worth, then you are an accredited investor and. All you need to do is sign up and join the club. Just go to wealth formula.com and sign up and get onboarded. Now, let’s talk a little bit about something that has been extraordinary this year. It’s gold. You know, for years, gold was the asset that nobody wanted to talk about. I mean, it sat there quietly. Well, stocks and real estate continue to rip. Um. Gold really is really, you know, was for the pessimists. For the doomsayers and the perma bears. I mean, I, I gotta tell you, I kind of am was one of those people, right? And then suddenly gold didn’t just wake up. It, it totally launched, exploded in his mid-December 2025. Spot Gold is trading around, I know, 4300, 4400 an ounce, depending on the market, gaining roughly 60% over the past year. Pushing decisively into record territory. Now the obvious question is why now? Well, the short answer is that gold isn’t reacting to one thing. It’s actually responding to a stacking, uh, pressures, uh, that have been quietly building for years and, and really right now are impossible to ignore. And this is an interesting shift because. The thing is that in the old days, and I’m even talking about 15, 20 years ago, uh, you would look at gold as something that didn’t really go up when the stock market was doing well, right? It was kind of a reaction. It was a fear-based thing. It still is sort of a fear-based thing, but now it’s not just fear of, you know, whether the stock market’s gonna crash. It’s fear of geopolitical concerns. That’s where the central banks come in, right? So for the better part of the last decade, central banks were net sellers. Or really indifferent of holders of, of gold, and that changed dramatically after 2022. So according to World Gold Council, central banks have been buying gold at more than double the pace of the pre COVID years. And 2025 continued that trend with hundreds of tons, uh, added to reserves year to date Now. These are central banks. They’re not hedge funds chasing momentum, right? They’re monetary authorities and they’re making deliberate strategic decisions about what they trust to hold value. And why would central banks suddenly want more gold? Well, because again, geopolitics has reentered that chat. We live in a world now where reserves can be frozen, right? Payment systems can be weaponized. Risk-free assets depend heavily on political alignment. Now of course, I’m talking about the United States when I’m mentioning all those things, right? Uh, how we can kind of just freeze assets of Russia and that kind of thing. I’m not, uh, pro-Russia, I’m just pointing out the fact that. Countries don’t like it when you freeze their assets. Right? The World Bank, uh, has been explicit that rising geopolitical tensions and global uncertainty are the key drivers of gold surges this year. And when trust in the global Ory roads, of course that is now when gold benefits and at the same time, the US dollar devaluation thesis is no longer just kind of fringe thinking. It’s reality. No one, no one even bothers to pretend that that’s not happening. So gold is, uh, of course, priced in dollars and when real yields fall, uh, and the dollar weakens gold historically performs well so that that dynamic is playing out again as well. In fact, Reuters has repeatedly pointed to a softer dollar and declining treasury yields as near term tailwinds for Gold’s Rally Bank of America. Uh, their research shows, uh, this relationship emphasizing gold’s inverse correlation to the dollar and the growing desire among nations to diversify away from the dollar centric reserves. In other words, gold isn’t just going up because people are scared. It’s going up because confidence in the fiat discipline is eroding altogether slowly. Persistently. So the question is, is gold still a buyer? Did we miss it? I mean, I just mentioned that it just went up by like 60%, right? So that’s a tricky question. It really is. I could certainly see some volatility there. But here’s the thing. I mentioned that central banks were big buyer, right? Central banks don’t care if gold is up 20% or down 10% in a quarter. They care about long-term reserve integrity. So they’re a price insensitive buyer. Um, and that’s why major, major institutions aren’t dismissing the move, as you know, just a big blow off. Uh, Goldman Sachs cited sustain central bank demand, and the potential for further ETF inflows is supportive of higher prices. Banks, uh, like JP Morgan and um, and, and Bank of America. I mean, they’re continuously talking about how gold is a beneficiary of this geopolitical instability. Bank of America is projecting prices high as $5,000 a ounce in 2026. So that’s still a big move, right? Of course, nothing goes up in a straight line. So shift toward tighter monetary policy or sudden easing of global tensions. Well, I, I could, they could cool enthusiasm, right? The less fear in the world. Well, that isn’t. That’s not good for gold. I understand though that gold’s breakout isn’t just about gold. There’s a larger message that should be taken away from all of this, and that is that hard money, real assets have come back into favoring, and gold is the original hard asset. It’s scarce, it’s politically neutral, tens of thousands of years of monetary credibility, but it’s also heavy, difficult to move and awkward in a digital world. Now, of course you know where I’m going with that. I don’t wanna make every gold conversation conversation about Bitcoin, but just as a reminder, Bitcoin exists on that same philosophical access, right? Both gold and Bitcoin are reactions to the same problem. Expanding debt, monetary dilution, declining confidence and centralized control. Gold is the conservative, you know, version of that, the expression of that Bitcoin is the crazy youngster, the aggressive one. They’re, they’re following the same rails. And today Bitcoin trades around $86,000. It’s still volatile, still controversial, still misunderstood, and really, listen, the market cap is 2 trillion bucks. Um, you know, no asset that has ever reached $2 trillion. Market cap has ever gotten to zero. But on the other hand, there’s it, it’s pretty small, and you could still move those markets really quickly, and that’s why you’ve got volatility. But if gold surge is signaling a, a, a shift towards hard assets, it’s really hard to not see that. Uh, Bitcoin may simply be, uh, you know, early in that adoption curve. In other words, gold may be leading the parade. And if history is any guide, uh, when institutions start moving into that, you know, oldest form of sound money, they eventually begin exploring the newest. And that’s, that’s a signal. Worth paying attention to. Anyway, this week what we’re gonna really focus on though is gold and hard money. We’ll talk a little bit about Bitcoin as well. My guest is Dana Samuelson, who is. An old friend of the show, and we will have that conversation right after these messages. Wealth Formula banking is an ingenious concept powered by whole life insurance, but instead of acting just as a safety net, the strategy supercharges your investments. First, you create a personal financial reservoir that grows at a compounding interest rate much higher than any bank savings account. As your money accumulates, you borrow from your own. Bank to invest in other cash flowing investments. Here’s the key. Even though you’ve borrowed money at a simple interest rate, your insurance company keeps paying. You compound interest on that money even though you’ve borrowed it at result, you make money in two places at the same time. That’s why your investments get supercharged. This isn’t a new technique, it’s a refined strategy used by some of the wealthiest families in history, and it uses century old rock solid insurance companies as its back. Turbo charge your investments. Visit wealth formula banking.com. Again, that’s wealth formula banking.com. Welcome back to the show everyone. Today my guest on Wealth Formula podcast ad Samuelson. He is been on the show before. He’s friend of the show. He is a professional. How do we see this numismatist since, uh, 1980. Working with some of the most influential, precious metals trading companies in the country. Before founding his own American Gold Exchange Incorporated in 1998. Uh, for nearly a decade, he was a personal protege of James U. Blanchard ii, one of the true giants of the industry, and the individual most responsible for re legalizing the private ownership of gold in the us. American Gold Exchange Inc. Is a national mail order, precious metals and rare coin dealership that makes competitive buy and sell markets in mainstream, modern, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, bullion coins and bars and classic pre 1933 US Gold and silver coins and World War ii European Gold coins. I don’t know if I left anything out, but welcome Dana. How are you doing? I’m doing great, buck. Thanks for having me back. I really appreciate it. Well, it was funny, we had a little conversation, uh, just before we started and I said, well, gosh, you know, uh, we’ve had you on the show before, maybe once, maybe twice. And, you know, and, and you, um, I think Apley described the gold market as watching paint dry. And I, I think that’s, I think that’s pretty adequate. Um, I mean, for, I mean, the last decade or so before this all happened. So, so let’s start talking about it. So, gold gold’s moved into price territory that, you know, very few people would’ve predicted even a couple years ago. So what, from your perspective, having lived lived through multiple gold cycles, what feels fundamentally different about this move? Uh, this market is a globally driven market and it’s focused on physical. There’s been a move into gold this year, and silver now platinum two. To a degree palladium, uh, in a physical level that we haven’t seen since the late seventies when we had the last really, you know, red hot market driven by fears over debt inflation. Geopolitics. Uh, you’ve got the bricks, nations that are trying to divorce themselves of the dollar, but they really can’t do it easily because there’s not a good viable alternative except for gold. And that’s been one of the leading drivers of this gold price surge that has really, you know, almost doubled in price since, uh, two years ago. A lot of it is, you know, underpinned by Central Bank Gold buying, you know, between 1950 and 2010, after the dollar became the world’s reserve currency backed by gold. And even after we un pegged the dollar to gold in the 1970s, 1971, central bankers had had gold on their, physically in their vaults from pre-World War ii when gold was money, uh, they shed that. From the 1950 all the way to 2010, they became net buyers after the great financial crisis due to the global debt explosion and primarily quantitative easing printing money outta thin air. But they were buy, they were modest buyers, you know, 500 tons a year until Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2022. And we sanctioned Russia and weaponized the dollar. The last four years, they bought, you know, almost a thousand tons of gold year or double. That really became material last year in price as the cumulative effects of their continually buying about a fifth of what the mines make every year started to really impact supplies and price movement. And now we’ve got President Trump this year, you know, throwing a monkey wrench into the World Trade order with his tariffs. And I think that that’s created a lot of uncertainty, some fear. And of course the debt just continues to go higher and higher. And now interest payments on our debt are over a trillion dollars for the first time ever. So debt servicing is starting to become problematic. The cumulative effects of all this have caused the, the people around the world, including central governments to buy gold at record rates. Um, but it’s not the phenomenon that’s happening in the United States. ’cause we don’t have a gold culture in our country, like almost every other country does. It’s interesting. Um, so what, you know, you’ve been talking about really is central banks around the world have it really been accumulating gold at levels we haven’t really seen in modern times. Right. And, and, uh, why do you think the US Central Bank. It doesn’t do the same because is it an admission of the debasement of the dollar? Because really the gold, gold is the anti dollar. I’ve always viewed it as the anti dollar maybe. Maybe that’s not the, you know, you may not agree with that a hundred percent, but I’ve always viewed it that way, and so why wouldn’t the US hedge and accumulate more? Well, we’re the world’s reserve currency. That Right. That’s, that’s created a paper culture in our, in our world. It’s now three generations old, right? Since 1945, when the dollar became the world’s reserve currency and we, the world went to a paper money standard instead of a gold money standard, which was the world’s standard from ancient times all the way till the 1930s. You know, the, our monetary system when the country was founded in 1793 was based on gold and silver coins. A copper penny was the size of a half dollar because that’s what one penny’s worth of copper was worth in 1793. Right. Um, you know, after World War ii, we had a couple things that the rest of the world didn’t have. We had a manufacturing, uh, industries that were, uh, unaffected by the, physically by the war. And we had, you know, the ability for markets to work properly, which should allow the dollar to become the world’s reserve currency. Backed by, you know, 8,200 some odd tons of gold, the biggest pile of gold that any country had. Actually, at that time it was more like 20,000 tons of gold. Uh, but by the time we got to the seventies and we un pegged from gold, we were down to about 8,000 tons. That’s still more than anybody else is supposed to have. I do think China could have more gold than that. Now they’re just not telling us they do. You know, officially they’ve got about 2,400 tons of gold, uh, and the second and third are, you know, 3000 tons of gold. So we, we still have a lot of gold. And there’s talk about auditing Fort Knox and monetizing it, but it only gets us about a trillion dollars. It’s not enough to really, you affect the 38 trillion, maybe pay the debt off for a year, or, you know, for six months. Six months, yeah. Something like that. Our, our debt is starting to matter too. You know, it’s doubled twice in the last 20 years. It gonna double again in the next 10 to 70 trillion, 78 trillion. People hear about the, the whole, uh, the bricks phenomena, right? And part of, part of what you were just discussing in the, uh, accumulation of gold. Explain that, explain what’s going on over there for people who aren’t paying attention, and you know how that is, how that is playing into all of this. Well, when we sanctioned Russia after they invaded the Ukraine. And seized their assets and threw them off of the Swift International Bank Transfer Payment System. We forced countries that were concerned that if they ran politically afoul of us, we could do the same to them. They forced them into thinking, oh, how do we get some independence from that vulnerability? Potential vulnerability? It’s not easy to replace the dollar. What they’ve, what they’ve been doing is replacing the Swift Bank transfer payment system with a payment transfer system of their own right so they can move money amongst themselves outside of the SWIFT system, number one. And since there isn’t a good viable alternative to the dollar, really the only other asset that makes sense is gold. Gold is a neutral asset. It’s not like you need it for oil or grain or steel. Nobody really needs gold, right? But it’s universally trusted. It’s immediately liquid, and it’s got a couple other things going for it that are unique. Number one, it has no counterparty risk. It’s one of the only assets. It isn’t simultaneously someone else’s liability. And number two, uh, gold in a vault can’t be seized or sanctioned. Right, so they’ve been going to gold, like they’ve been going to gold for, for centuries. It’s just, it hasn’t been that way since after World War ii. It’s a, it’s kinda like a back to the past kind of a situation. It’s sort of back to the future. It’s back to the past. That’s the allure for gold and the reason why they’re accumulating. In fact, they just launched their own currency unit called the unit. 40% backed by gold. The bricks nations have now it’s in its infancy and it’ll take a while for it to really, you know, work. But they’ve been building the components and the infrastructure to get to this point, creating the transfer of payment systems and all the components to go along with that so that they could announce something that they could use as a, as a settlement vehicle for trade, which is really what this is all about. And they’re backing at 40% by gold. Which is material and it’ll become bigger as time passes. Let’s, let’s try talk a little bit about that price movement. Huge. Um, is 60% in the last couple years, is that about right? This year alone, gold’s up 67% on a 12 month rolling basis, 67%. I mean, those are like bitcoin num, you know, type movements in the past. Right. They’re kind of crazy. So a lot of people are looking at those prices today and they’re thinking, well, I’m late to the party. Uh, are they late to the party? How do you, uh, what, what do you think’s going on there? I think the party’s about halfway through. We haven’t got to the late innings yet. I, I really do think this, and this is why this is the fourth major bull run in gold we’ve seen since we went off the gold standard in 1971. We had a a 20 to one run for gold in the seventies that was built on two oil shocks. 18% inflation and a crisis of confidence in the US then for the next 30 years. You know, 25 years a good part of my career. You know, watching gold was like watching paint dry. It traded routinely between three and $500 an ounce until we got into war, uh, following the nine 11 attacks, Iraq and I, Afghanistan, and we went into deficit spending. Then we had a second financial crisis when the great financial crisis hit another bull bull market in gold. Then we had COVID economic closures, another bull market in gold. Now we’ve got a fourth, but it’s lacking what the first three had, which was fear in the US over either economics or geopolitical events. So this gold price has essentially doubled since March or April of 2024. With no fear and a lot of complacency in the US markets. So my, my thinking is what happens if the economy slows down and, you know, the Fed’s gonna lower rates anyway. We know that’s coming with a new Fed chairman in the next five months, six months, number one, that’s good for gold. What happens if we go into a real economic slowdown and the Fed really has to drop rates, or God forbid, go to QE again, right? Or inflation rears its ugly head because the fed’s too accommodative in it. Situation where, you know, supplies are kind of tight still because of the monkey wrench, president Trump has thrown into the World Trade Order. You know, if we get fear in the US that’s when gold could go from 4,000 to, you know, 8,000. And I’m not saying that’s gonna happen, but I do think the trends have driven gold higher are not gonna change anytime soon. One of the things that you’re mentioning is those trends and like even. You know, in the last 15 years ago when I’ve been sort of involved in the investor world, the, the things that we talk about with trends with with gold have changed. I mean, usually you don’t see AI stocks going up with gold, right? Like, I mean, not that AI was around, but the point is tech stocks, that kind of thing. How is that thesis fundamentally changed? Um, I’m not quite sure I understand your question. Well, what I mean is like if gold was, gold used to be, I think it’s, you know, something again that people would buy when they were afraid of, of what’s going on in the equity markets. Right. Uh, that’s clearly not the case now. No, no, not at all. Right. Talk about that change. When did that change happen? How did it happen? This is a globally driven market. It’s not a US-centric market. This is fear around the world. You know, central banks started to underpin this market in 2022 when they stepped up their buying and doubled it. But this year, because of the uncertainty, uh, and some of the fear that President Trump’s tariffs and the way they’ve been deployed, kind of knee jerky, um, and inconsistently. Certainly not diplomatically, right? You know, it’s caused a lot of concern around the world. And for example, in April when President Trump announced the reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd, what happened? The bond market went into the complete dislocation, yields spiked from 4% to 4.5% in a week. The bond values tumble because investors started pulling money out of the, and taking it back home. Money that’d come in from Europe and Asia started to go back. So what did President Trump do? He pulled back the reciprocal tariffs on every country, but China and China said, well, we’re not gonna drop tariffs on you. And he said, well, we’ll ramp ’em up on you. So we went toe to toe with him. Until a week later, we were at 145% tariffs on China, and they were 125% on us. Well, if you’re a Chinese investor and you have real estate or stocks to invest in, and both of which have done badly since COVID or gold, what are you gonna do when your best customer suddenly says, Hey, we really don’t want your products, because that’s what 145% tariffs say to the Chinese. We don’t want your products. You can’t sell ’em here. You gotta go sell ’em somewhere else, but we’re their best customer. So they bought gold. They bought gold handover fist, and they drove the gold price up $500 by themselves during that month. That’s what I mean by fear outside of the us. Yeah. We don’t get it inside. Well, and and that’s fear outside of the markets too, right? I think that’s, that’s the fundamental shift I was trying to get at is true. It used to be that gold was, uh, gold would react on fear of the markets, but now there’s another level of fear, which is geopolitical. And it doesn’t seem like there’s any time soon that that’s gonna end. No, no. I, I, I’ve called it like a run on the bank only. It’s not a run on the bank of like George Bailey’s run on the bank and it’s a wonderful life. This is a run on the gold market, the physical gold and silver and platinum markets. That’s really what this is, and it’s a global rush to buy. And it’s not just central banks, it’s the public as well. Due to uncertainty, part of it’s fear of missing out now that we’ve had a big run in prices too. That’s FOMO in there too. That’s what I’m trying to, that’s part of what I was wondering too though, is like, you know, again, there’s people out there now who, um, are, are looking at this and they might even be listening to us going, gosh, yeah, it really makes sense and I happen to have no gold. What do I do? You know, what do I do now? Do I buy now? And, and I’ll, you know, and, and the next thing you know. I find out this was a frothy market and, and I’m down 20% for the next three years. I mean, that kind of thing. So I, I think it’s a, it is a tricky time, but, so that sort of, I guess, brings up when you think of gold, um, in a portfolio. I mean, you say, you’ve said in the past, it’s not about getting rich. Well, some people really did get rich this time. Uh, you said it’s about preserving wealth, right? So how should investors think about Gold’s role alongside stocks, real estate, and other assets right now? Well, even I think JP Morgan Chase has said this year, you know, instead of a 60 40 portfolio, you should have a 60 20 20 portfolio with 20% bonds and 20% precious metals. Gold in particular, because of what’s been happening. And now we don’t have a gold culture in our country, like most every other country does. So most Americans don’t get it. And that’s part of. We’ve ingrained because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency and it insulates us from currency shocks in commodity pricing primarily. Uh, without that insulation, you know, they might think things a little bit differently, but you know, any good financial planner will say you should have a little bit of precious metals as part of your portfolio, uh, as a hedge against financial uncertainty. And it certainly worked perfectly well during the great financial crisis. And when COVID hit because. Gold tends to counter cyclically, perform in price against stocks and bonds, and it’s always liquid. Now, you’re a real estate investor, you understand real estate. What couldn’t you get in 2009 alone? Right? Bankers wouldn’t give anybody money, right? But if you had gold, you could get liquidity, right? And gold, you know, almost doubled between 2008 and 2011 at the same time when most assets were dropping 50%. That’s an insurance policy for the rest of your money. That’s why I said, look, it’s a way to preserve wealth and have a hedge against financial uncertainty. But in the market that we’re in now, you know, having more than just the, the minimum, which is five to 10% of assets as a, you know, potentially an investment instead of just an insurance policy. That makes sense. But you’re right, you could buy and you could, you know, tie up money that won’t produce anything for a couple years, maybe longer. You also have an insurance policy in case the wheels do come off like they did during the great financial crisis or during COVID. Yeah. Yeah. I was listening to, uh, another podcast. I listened to the, these, uh, guys, the All In podcast, and, uh, Tucker Carlson was on there, and apparently he’s a, you know, huge, uh, physical gold guy. And, and he said, and I, I think he was serious. He said he buries it in his backyard and then he spreads a bunch of, um. Uh, a bunch of, you know, silver beads, uh, out there too, like, just in case no one can like, use a medical metal detector and find it is gold. Uh, let’s talk about that nuance of, of physical gold versus, you know, buying ETFs and all that stuff. What’s your take? I mean, what, what do you tell people when they say, well, gosh, you know, uh, it might be hard for me to store that gold and, and why shouldn’t I just get an ETF and, and talk a little bit about that? Well, I trade ETFs in my IRA account. When I think the, when I think I can harness price movement, that’s what I use ETFs for. You know, they’re a paper representation of gold, uh, that you can trade at the click of a button, physical gold. Is valuable. It’s, you have to find a place to store it. It’s pretty inert, so you can, you can bury it in your backyard, keep the elements out of it, but then there’s some risk there because it could be found, it could be stolen, so you do have to store it somewhere. You can put it in a bank safe deposit box, but I don’t really recommend that because what happens if there’s a banking holiday and you can’t get to it? So having a home safe or maybe, you know, maybe bearing it in the backyard. Is an option if that’s what you wanna do. Or there are independent professionally run storage facilities. There’s a few of ’em around the country that are run by precious metals dealers that are, you know, big entities. Uh uh. So I think they’re trustworthy and they certainly have the ability to service and aren’t properly insured. So that if something happens, you know your value is protected. And that’s primarily what you pay for as a storage fee is a percentage of value. Not so much number ounces that you have there, but the value percentage, because it is an insurance, uh, related value, right? The value goes up, they’ve gotta get more insurance so they get a higher storage fee for that same amount of metal if the value increases, which is unlike other assets. So I do have a couple of those I recommend that are run by professional. Companies that have been in business for years that we know would trust and have performed perfectly. If you wanna store, um, physical metal now gold is compact. You know, a hundred ounces is smaller than a paperback novel and it’s $450,000 worth of value today. You could, I could literally have one bar in each one of my coat pockets and be walking around with almost a million bucks in my pockets, and no one would know. Silver. You know, silver creates a bigger problem because it takes 70 ounces of silver to equal an ounce of gold. So there’s a lot more volume involved and a lot more weight, which is why sometimes these facilities make more sense if you wanna store something that’s more bulky like silver. But if you’re gonna store gold somewhere, that’s not easy to find. You wanna make sure somebody you trust behind you knows where it’s just in case something happens to you. Right? Yeah. Um. What, um, how difficult is it, uh, Dana, for someone to, I guess, say they wanna sell, say maybe they need to sell one of those bricks in your pocket there? Uh, and, and, um, is that a, um, a process that, I mean, it’s, you know, it’s not as easy as clicking a button at that point, right? But to make sure that you get the best possible price for your gold and all that, I mean, you’re not gonna go to a pawn shop and. Oh, that, so like, I, I’m just curious on the mechanics of that. ’cause I’ve, you know, I’ve, I’ve never sold, you know, physical gold for anything. So, so our, our company’s a physical dealer. We’re a hybrid between Amazon and a financial institution. And that, uh, we sell something online or over the telephone. The price is always changing on a minute by minute basis, but it’s like you’re buying shoes. It’s just, you know, you don’t quite know what the price is gonna be. So we physically, you know, figure out which product you should purchase, what’s best for you, and then we ship it to you if you want to sell it, it’s just the reverse of the transaction. You have to present it for delivery, which means you have to ship it back to, uh, your dealer, or, you know, physically deliver to them, and you get paid immediately upon delivery. So, um, you know, we, we do business like a financial institution. You can call us up, place a transaction over the phone. Uh, if it’s a smaller transaction, we’ll do that without deposit funds. If it’s a bigger transaction, we don’t know, you will want funds first, but once we lock in, that’s the price. Just like when you buy stock and then you pay the balance or, or we ship you the merchandise, whichever comes first. Um. You get it, inspect it, make sure you, you got what you’re supposed to get. In fact, it, you know, in the last two years with this gold price just climbing higher and higher, we’ve got a lot of clients that are complacent. They like the stock market that’s been hitting record highs, uh, and they’ve been shedding gold. We’ve actually bought more gold as an industry, not just our company, but as an industry in the last year than we’ve bought in a single year in 20 years. So it’s very easy to reverse the transaction. But what I would tell you. For your listeners is, and this is important, you should buy sovereign minted products, gold ounces, silver ounces, one ounce gold coins. They’re really just round bars made by the US Mint, the Royal Canadian Mint, the British Royal Mint. The Austrian Mint instead of refinery made. One ounce bars or 10 ounce bars or kilo bars of gold because we have a modest but growing problem with Chinese counterfeits. The Chinese can take tungsten and plate it with gold and pass it off as reel, and they can do that much better with refinery made bars that have plain design pictures stamped onto them. They can replicate those very well, but they cannot replicate the intricate pictures. The US Mint or the Canadian Mint, or the Austrian mint, British royal mint stamp onto that one ounce gold coin. We call it a coin. It’s just a round bar made by a mint that struck with dyes like a coin. And all of the mints around the world have introduced minute anti-counterfeiting design elements into the picture that they stamp on their coins to deter Chinese counterfeits. And it’s working. So the most important thing is, you know, do business with a reputable dealer that’s been around a long time, that has a good reputation, not a, not some new entity, right? You wanna find a, a trusted member of the community and develop a relationship that makes buying again or selling very easy. Once you have a relationship with a dealer, and we know the product you’ve purchased, we’ll take it back very easily. Uh, silver is, you know, people talk a lot about it in the context of, you know, the lump it with gold but has very different characteristics. Um, how do you think about silver today? I love silver today. Uh, it’s, it’s a metal at times as hard to love because every time it makes a big gain, it can give it up pretty easily. It’s more volatile than gold, but gold’s about 90% monetary metal in 10%. Commodity metal silver’s about 50 50, but what silver has going for it is, uh, a couple of unique characteristics that virtually no other metal comes, uh, as close to, which is conductivity of heat and electricity. Silver is amazing in that it’s the best at conducting both heat and electricity. I’ve got a one ounce silver coin on my desk here, and if you take this coin and hold it between your fingers and take an ice cube. You can literally cut that ice cube in half in about 6, 7, 8 seconds with a pure silver coin because the heat from your fingers gets transmitted to the coin and goes right through the ice cube. That’s just a simple example of how conductive silver is for temperature, and we have a structural supply deficit in the silver market that we’ve had for about five years now, where the industry. Is consuming more silver than comes out of the ground on an annual basis. So we’re eating into the above ground supply. Uh, so fundamentally that’s the supply and demand equation favor silver. Uh, plus because gold is moved up so much in price, silver is getting a rotation into it because it’s underperformed relative to gold until just recently where it’s played catch pretty sharply in just the last three or four months. If you measure. How many ounces of gold, uh, how many ounces of silver it takes to equal an ounce of gold, the gold to silver ratio back in April. That was a hundred to one, you know, which was an extreme. Today that ratio is a, is a little under 70 to one. It’s 67, 68 to one. So silver has played up in ketchup in price. Where is that historically? Uh, well. Normally it’s between about 40 to one and 80 to one with about 60 to one as the, as the pivot point where it’s in, they’re in equilibrium. But in the last four or five years with gold leading and silver lagging, we’ve routinely been in the 85 to 90 to one range. Uh, and we actually hit a hundred to one in April of this year, uh, which was the highest it’s been, um, except for when we had a kind of a knee jerk in the medals during COVID, which was an anomaly. Uh, didn’t last. So, but anyway. Silver is playing ketchup because it’s been undervalued relative to gold. Um, and we’ve seen, you know, people that wanna be in the metals, but think gold’s a little expensive. They’ve rotated out of gold, and we’ve seen some of that money move into silver and also into platinum. Now, platinum was under a thousand dollars this time of year ago, and it’s almost $1,900 announced today. So it’s almost platinum’s up, uh, almost a hundred percent now. This year where silver’s up 120% this year and a lot of this demand is driven globally. We’ve seen huge demand in silver in India this year because gold is so, has become so expensive, and that’s what I mean by a global run on the, on the bank. It’s not just China, Japan, it’s India too, and Europe as well. Physical buying and et f buying ETFs are available around the world in precious metals now that really haven’t been very impactful until this year. Um, but that’s what the world’s doing, you know? No discussion these days on gold is complete without at least mentioning Bitcoin. Uh, you know, and, and it’s, it’s interesting because, um, you know, even within the, uh, uh, gold world, I mean, there’s, there’s some prominent people who are really bought in to Bitcoin. Like I, Lawrence Lepert has been on the show multiple times now, and Larry’s all in. Um, just curious as a, you know, as a gold person, what do you see where, what do you see the role or do you not believe in this thing? Do you believe it is a, a parallel? Um, I, there’s so many things that you say about gold. That I’m like, yeah, you can say that about Bitcoin too and carry, you know, millions of dollars in your pocket. You can, you know, it’s, uh, there’s a very little amount of it. Um, obviously it’s new, right? Gold has been around for, since the beginning of time and, and now we’ve got 2009 for Bitcoin. What is your view? How are you seeing it? May, how are your colleagues seeing it in the gold space? Well, a couple different points to make here. Um, you know, when, when Bitcoin came out in 20 10, 20 11, you know, one of my friends in the, in the precious metals business told me I should buy it when it was 20 bucks and I didn’t get it. So I didn’t do it, and that was a big mistake on my part. But Bitcoin has one advantage that no other currency or gold has, which you can move serious money over borders easily. You’re right, you can carry it around in your pocket, in your wallet and, um, you know, you carry a lot of value around and transfer it at the, you know, click of a button. And no co counterparty risk, just like you said with gold, right? Yeah. Well, there’s some modest counterparty risk with, with bitcoin that you, you have counterparty risk with gold and theft as well. Um. Bitcoin is volatile. It’s, you know, it’s, it’s very volatile. It’s still the speculative investment. I mean, it was 124,000, you know, four months ago, and now it’s about 85,000, 90,000. So there’s volatility there that gold doesn’t have. But more importantly, what I’ve seen in my career is a generational divide. The older, older people, you know, 45 and older, like gold and silver. Younger people that grew up with phones in their hands like Bitcoin. The volatility in Bitcoin that we’ve seen in these two big selloff cycles in Bitcoin have not the first one, but the second one have helped to bring some of those younger people into the stability of gold, especially in the year when gold is doing pretty well. ’cause it then it kind of has a little bit of that Bitcoin allure, which is, you know, get rich quick. But, um. Bitcoin’s volatile, but it’s here to stay and it is now the most respected cryptocurrency. Like I almost bought Ethereum, you know, 10 years ago when one of my friends was explaining both to me and said that Ethereum basically had better fundamentals. But you know, it’s kind of inventing, it’s kinda like investing in a. What, uh, beta, beta max instead of VHS back in the day. Some of the older people remember that. You bet on the wrong horse, you know? Yeah, exactly. Well, you’ve, uh, you know, you built this, uh, firm on transparency, integrity, uh, in an industry that doesn’t always have the best reputation. Right? So for investors who decide that precious metals belong in their portfolio. Uh, how can they get a hold of you? Well, our website is, uh, A-M-E-R-G-O-L d.com. Uh, we don’t have, you know, 10,000 items on our website. We have a, we have a small listing of what available products are because we stick with mainstream items, products that are primarily easy to sell, uh, competitively priced, widely traded, and easily understood. Um, uh. Uh, email address is info I nfo@amggold.com. Uh, we have a toll, toll free number 806 1 3 9 3 2 3. Uh, we’re consultative in nature. We’ll, we’ll answer any questions. Happily, gladly, uh, no transactions too small or too large. What we really wanna do, uh, is help people because if we do that, we help ourselves. And when you treat people right, it, it comes back. And our industry does have a chair of bad actors. And, um, you, you wanna make sure that you do business with someone reputable that’s been in the industry a long time. And I understand some people may wanna do this locally where they can actually walk into a place of business. Do this instead of over the phone. So look for dealers that have, you know, longstanding, uh, businesses and good reputations. If you see a reputation that, uh, has some complaints, you know, there are other choices for you. But, um, we just try and help people buck. That’s really what we try and do. We certainly have the reputation for it. Dana. So thank you so much for being on Wellfor podcast. Well, thanks for having me. It’s great to see you again, and I wish you a great success in 2026 and a happy holiday season. You too. You make a lot of money, but are still worried about retirement. Maybe you didn’t start earning until your thirties. Now you’re trying to catch up. Meanwhile, you’ve got a mortgage, a private school to pay for, and you feel like you’re getting further and further behind. Now, good news, if you need to catch up on retirement, check out a program put out by some of the oldest and most prestigious life insurance companies in the world. It’s called Wealth Accelerator, and it can help you amplify your returns quickly, protect your money from creditors, and provide financial protection to your family if something happens to you. The concepts here are used by some of the wealthiest families in the world, and there’s no reason why they can’t be used by you. Check it out for yourself by going to wealth formula banking.com. Welcome back to Show England. Hope you enjoyed it and, uh, I will. Uh, I should admit though, that if you go back and you listen on my, uh, past shows, this is one that I was wrong on. I, I’ve never been a gold bug. My biggest issue with gold. Um, has always been, you know, from an investment thesis that it doesn’t really do anything, doesn’t yield anything, and what’s the point of owning it rather than owning, uh, real estate. And actually, if you just look at what I said, it’s, it’s still, it’s still, it’s still kind of true, right? I mean, you can argue, well, yeah, the real estate markets really did, uh, did struggle over the last couple years. But listen, at the end of the day. The real estate market struggled because of leverage, right? Gold. There’s no leverage, no one’s borrowing, buying gold on leverage, and so it can go up and down and it doesn’t really hurt anybody. If you take the last couple decades and you know how much people made from, uh, real estate versus Bitcoin, even though there’s this huge, uh, huge uptick in Bitcoin now it’s, it’s probably the case that they come out pretty close. If not, uh, you know, real estate still being the winner. But anyway, uh, I do want to say and admit that I was wrong. That, uh, that the gold wasn’t really worth, uh, owning. I think, uh, you know, I wish I had owned some, just like a lot of people wish they’d own Bitcoin at $6,000, right? Um, in fact, I will say that one of the things in hindsight that I think of is gold in many ways for the last several years was on sale. And I haven’t really been talking about this as much, but I’ve been reflecting on this a great deal about making sure that as an investor you wake yourself up once in a while and ask, okay, well, what’s on sale? Well, gold was on sale for a while. Silver was definitely on sale. Right? Um, doesn’t mean you have to go in, have, you know, 50% of your portfolio in something like that, but when something’s on sale, it’s not a bad idea to look around. And maybe get, you know, get a little bit of exposure. I do think that real estate is there right now. I think real estate, you know, if you’re in the credit investor group, you’re seeing on a routine basis 30%, uh, discounted offerings from just a couple years ago. And I do think that’s on sale right now. But there are other things as well, arguably. I mean, I, I actually think that Bitcoin is, uh, uh, sort of on sale right now. I mean, sitting at 86,000, anybody who thinks it’s not gonna go to a hundred thousand at some point in the next, you know, 12 months is, I mean, I think it’s highly unlikely that it doesn’t go to a hundred thousand, right? So think about that right now. That’s like a 14% gain right then and there. Anyway, sometimes it’s good to just look around and see what’s on sale. Uh, that’s my message for this week. Uh, this is Buck Joffrey with Wealth Formula Podcast signing off. If you wanna learn more, you can now get free access to our in-depth personal finance course featuring industry leaders like Tom Wheel Wright and Ken McElroy. Visit wealthformularoadmap.com.

    That Video Game Podcast
    TVGP Critical Misses S39E02: V/H/S 2 (2013)

    That Video Game Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 59:16


    Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and Paul "Moonpir" Smith Running Time: 59:15 Video Version: YouTube For the second of our two spooky movies this month on TVGP's Critical Misses, we have 2013's V/H/S 2! Join us as we chat about connecting movies, a dude just fully exploding, our highs and lows of this film, our issues with digital films, tongues, and much, much more! Applause sound effect from SoundBible Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, production meetings, and much more for just $5/month!

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    Geektown Radio - TV News, Interviews & UK TV Air Dates
    The Hunt for the Star Wars Holiday Special – A Very Geekstorians Christmas

    Geektown Radio - TV News, Interviews & UK TV Air Dates

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 28:00


    On 17th November 1978, CBS aired the first ever Star Wars spin-off — a chaotic, disco-tinged Christmas variety show featuring Wookiee domestic life, baffling guest stars, and the on-screen debut of Boba Fett. It aired once… and then disappeared.But Star Wars has fans.And fans do not let things disappear.In this Geekstorians Christmas Special, we unwrap the unbelievable true story of the Star Wars Holiday Special: its overnight vanishing act, the bootleg trail that kept it alive, the obsessive hunt for surviving recordings, the rise of fan archivists determined to clean up every frame, and the moment this forgotten piece of TV slowly drifted back into the galaxy — in ways no one in 1978 could ever have predicted.Featuring Wookiees, VHS tapes, Boba Fett's origins, questionable musical numbers, and the fandom that refused to let the strangest artefact in Star Wars history fade away.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Total Reboot with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos
    The Best Films of 2025 - Documentaries, Australian Films, Comedies and Honourable Mentions

    Total Reboot with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025


    Once again we're celebrating some of the best films, movies and cinema of 2025 with Melbourne International Film Festival programmer and film critic Kate Jinx. This time we're diving into the best documentaries, Australian films, comedies and honourable mentions. Pick up tickets to Alexei's comedy festival tour of his new show VHS in 2026 Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letterboxd for all the rental combo lists. Hit up the Last Video Store on instagram for all of our guests picks.

    JJ Meets World
    Home Alone: A Christmas Story | JJMW #476

    JJ Meets World

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025 35:40


    Why do some Christmas movies only get better as we grow older? In this holiday episode of JJ Meets World, JJ Gordon and Tucker Lucas dive deep into the Christmas movies that shaped their childhoods — and why films like Home Alone and A Christmas Story land completely differently as adults. They explore: Why Home Alone remains endlessly rewatchable (and why the sequel actually works) The surprising emotional depth of A Christmas Story when viewed through adult eyes How A Christmas Story Christmas became one of the most underrated holiday sequels ever made The power of nostalgia, memory, and "magical" Christmas moments Whether Santa Claus is a person… or a job Why snow in movies is harder to fake than you think Holiday movies that understand family, loss, and time passing 00:00 Intro & Christmas Movie Traditions 01:12 Most-Watched Christmas Movies: Home Alone 02:35 Why Home Alone 2 Actually Works 04:30 The Home Alone LEGO Set & Holiday Obsessions 08:15 Why A Christmas Story Was Hard to Watch as a Kid 09:45 Watching A Christmas Story as an Adult 11:35 The Dad in A Christmas Story Explained 13:40 A Christmas Story Christmas: The Sequel That Matters 15:30 Grief, Family, and Making Christmas Work 18:55 Why This Movie Will Make You Cry 20:45 Why Snow in Movies Is So Hard to Fake 22:05 Most Magical Childhood Christmas Memories 24:30 Catching Santa on VHS 26:45 Is Santa a Person or a Job? 28:20 The Santa Claus, Elves, and Holiday Lore 31:10 Holiday Movies That Print Money Forever 33:00 Jingle Bells Was a Thanksgiving Song?! 35:00 Final Thoughts & Wrap-Up Support the show: For more episodes of JJ Meets World, or to find out how you can support the podcast, visit http://www.jjmeetsworld.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jjmeetsworld Merch Shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/jj-meets-world Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jj-meets-world/id1367045742 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0L9IGvJuUjFK0UOR9AIF5u YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1WZrpC-XE57mRzi1bzPow

    Video Store Podcast
    Arnold Comedies

    Video Store Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025 18:30


    This week on The Video Store Podcast I am recommending four films that sit in an interesting stretch of Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, when their action persona took a left turn into broad studio comedy. These are all wide release films that played constantly on cable and sat on the front wall of the video store for years. They did well in theaters, but they almost felt built to be rented, watched with other people in the room, and talked about afterward. None of them are obscure, but seeing them together makes the choices clearer and more deliberate.Twins from 1988 was the real pivot point. Ivan Reitman directed, pairing Arnold Schwarzenegger with Danny DeVito, which on paper felt like a gag and ended up working better than expected. It was one of the first times Schwarzenegger played openly against his screen image instead of reinforcing it. The film was also a financial gamble that paid off. Rather than taking a traditional salary, the main players took a share of the profits, which turned into one of the most lucrative deals of the era. It also helped normalize the idea that Schwarzenegger could carry a comedy without winking at the audience the whole time.Kindergarten Cop followed in 1990 and again teamed Schwarzenegger with Reitman. This one leans harder into contrast, placing a very rigid screen presence into a setting that refuses to bend to it. The child actors are doing a lot of the real work here, and the movie wisely lets them. It was shot largely in Oregon (Goonies country!), which gives it a look that stands apart from a lot of studio comedies of the period. Just his second comedy leading role and the formula is obvious, but it still had enough care put into it to feel earned rather than lazy.Junior arrived in 1994 and is probably the strangest entry in this group. It brings back Reitman, DeVito, and adds Emma Thompson, who plays it straight in a way that grounds the movie more than it probably deserves. This was one of the last times Schwarzenegger leaned fully into this specific style of high concept studio comedy. The visual effects were handled with restraint, and the film relies more on performance than spectacle, which makes it feel smaller and more controlled than its premise suggests.Jingle All the Way from 1996 closes things out and feels very much of its moment. Directed by Brian Levant, it leans into consumer anxiety, holiday chaos, and the late nineteen nineties obsession with must-have toys. Sinbad is a big part of why the movie works at all, pushing against Schwarzenegger in a way that keeps the energy up. It was not especially well reviewed at the time, but it has stuck around in a way many similar holiday comedies did not. It also marks the end of this particular run, before audience tastes and Schwarzenegger's career both shifted again.Taken together, these four movies show a very specific window when studios were comfortable reshaping a major star's image and audiences went along with it. They were reliable rentals, easy recommendations, and the kind of movies that people discovered out of order on VHS or on cable.Thanks for reading Video Store Podcast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.videostorepodcast.com

    This Week In Geek
    Future Imperfect - Judge Dredd (1995) & Dredd (2012)

    This Week In Geek

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025 71:46 Transcription Available


    In this episode the crew sat down to discuss Judge Dredd (1995) & Dredd (2012)!Show Notes:Your Geekmasters:Mike "The Birdman" - https://bsky.app/profile/birdmanguelph.bsky.socialAlex "The Producer" - https://bsky.app/profile/dethphasetwig.bsky.socialKen Reels - https://bsky.app/profile/kenreels.comAaron PollyeaFeedback for the show?:Email: feedback@thisweekingeek.netTwitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekingeekBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thisweekingeek.netSubscribe to our feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3571037/episodes/feediTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-geek/id215643675Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lit2bzebJXMTIv7j7fkqqCastbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id2162049Website: https://www.thisweekingeek.netDecember 22, 2025

    Learn Italian with Luisa
    Ep. 211 - Christmas: Primo, Risotto al prosecco e radicchio

    Learn Italian with Luisa

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2025 6:07


    Ricetta Risotto al prosecco e radicchioLivello A1Primo piatto di Natale Buongiorno cari amici e amanti dell'italiano e benvenuti al nostro nuovo episodio.Continua la nostra serie dedicata al Natale e come promesso oggi vi spiego la ricetta per un buon primo piatto che potete cucinare o alla Vigilia di Natale il 24 di dicembre o anche lo stesso giorno di Natale, il 25 dicembre e vi do qui la ricetta del risotto al prosecco e radicchio.Per capire meglio la ricetta vi spiego prima le parole difficili che troveremo. Cominciamo con due abbreviazioni (Abkürzungen) Igp sta per Indicazione Geografica Protetta e significa che un prodotto ha una qualità o una caratteristica unica legata alla zona in cui è prodotto. È una certificazione europea che conferma che un particolare prodotto proviene proprio da una zona o da un territorio, per esempio il vino Barolo che viene dai vigneti della valle del Barolo oppure il formaggio Parmigiano Reggiano che viene prodotto proprio nella zona di Parma.Una seconda abbreviazione è Doc che vuol dire Denominazione di Origine Controllata. Stessa cosa come sopra, ma è usata soprattutto per i vini, certifica che un vino viene da una particolare zona, segue regole di produzione precise e rispetta regole fissate.Lo Squaquerone e la Casatella sono due formaggi morbidi. Lo Squaquerone viene dalla regione Emilia Romagna e la Casatella viene dal Veneto e particolarmente dalla zona dl Treviso. Sono tutti e due formaggi morbidi, dal sapore delicato.Il lardo è un salume ed è fatto quasi tutto di grasso. Viene dalla schiena del maiale e di solito si mangia come un prosciutto o un salame.Cartoccio è un foglio di alluminio in cui si mettono gli alimenti per cuocerli al forno. (In Folie gegart/baked in foil).Battere è l'azione di rendere più sottile un pezzo di carne o un salume con un attrezzo solitamente in legno. (Klopfen/to pound).Stufare è quello che si fa quando si cuoce il risotto. Prima si mette il riso in pentola e lo si fa cuocere fino a quando diventa trasparente (dünsten/to steam).Casseruola è un tipo di pentola con i lati alti e i manici (Kasserolle/saucepan).Trasparente è un aggettivo e descrive una cosa che non ha colore ma attraverso la quale si può vedere (durchsichtig/transparent).Tostare è un po' come stufare. È l'azione di cuocere per breve tempo una verdura o il riso fino a farla diventare trasparente (andünsten, anrösten/to roast). Mantecare è l'azione di aggiungere un grasso tipo burro o formaggio a un piatto e mescolare facendo amalgamare tutti gli ingredienti insieme (cremig rühren/to stir in butter or cheese). Va bene, ora siete pronti per ascoltare la ricetta e cominciamo con gli ingredienti: 600 g Radicchio Rosso di Treviso 420 g Riso Vialone Nano Veronese Igp 150 g Prosecco di Conegliano Valdobbiadene Doc 150 g Casatella Trevigiana Dop oppure formaggio squaquerone 100 g Cipolla bianca 80 g Lardo a fettine sottili 1,5 litri di brodo vegetale Sale Ora vediamo il procedimento: Mettete per prima cosa le foglie di radicchio lavate e asciugate su un foglio di carta da forno alternate con 60 grammi di fette di lardo, bagnate con 50 g di Prosecco, chiudete la carta formando un cartoccio. Infornate in forno cià caldo a 170° C per 25 minuti. Nel frattempo preparate il risotto: tagliate la cipolla a cubetti molto, molto fini, battete il lardo rimasto. Fate stufare cipolla e lardo in una casseruola a fuoco dolce fino a quando la cipolla diventa trasparente.Aggiungete poi il riso, tostatelo per 1 minuto, mescolando di tanto in tanto per non farlo bruciare. Aggiungete il Prosecco rimasto e lasciate evaporare l'alcol per un paio di minuti. Fate cuocere per circa 15 minuti, aggiungendo a poco a poco 1,5 litri di brodo bollente e mescolate. Aggiustate di sale.Mantecate con la casatella tagliata a pezzi o lo squaqueroneo altro formaggio morbido. Quando il risotto è cotto aggiungete il radicchio cotto e servite.Vi è piaciuta la ricetta? Io vi aspetto per il prossimo episodio e una nuova ricetta e la prossima sarà un secondo.Grazie amici per l'ascolto e a presto. Ciao, ciao da Luisa!...- The full transcript of this Episode (and excercises for many of the grammar episodes) is available via "Luisa's learn Italian Premium", Premium is no subscription and does not incur any recurring fees. You can just shop for the materials you need or want and shop per piece. Prices start at 0.20 Cent (i. e. Eurocent). - das komplette Transcript / die Show-Notes zu allen Episoden (und Übungen zu vielen der Grammatik Episoden) sind über Luisa's Podcast Premium verfügbar. Den Shop mit allen Materialien zum Podcast finden Sie unterhttps://premium.il-tedesco.itLuisa's Podcast Premium ist kein Abo - sie erhalten das jeweilige Transscript/die Shownotes sowie zu den Grammatik Episoden Übungen die Sie "pro Stück" bezahlen (ab 20ct). https://premium.il-tedesco.itMehr info unter www.il-tedesco.it bzw. https://www.il-tedesco.it/premiumMore information on www.il-tedesco.it or via my shop https://www.il-tedesco.it/premium

    Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast
    CTS_ep 415 Christmas Extravaganza 2025 - 12:20:25, 2.08 PM

    Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2025 116:54


    Episode 415 is the annual Christmas Extravaganza! Your hosts will talk about a couple newer ones; “Terrifier 3” and “There's Something in the Barn”, as well as a 1972 made-for-TV movie, “Home for the Holidays”, starring Sally Field. If you love horror and you love this Christmasy time of year, this episode is for you! Find us on Instagram where we are @chewingthescenery or easily find us on Facebook. CTS can be found on Soundcloud, Apple Music and anywhere fine podcasts can be found. Please rate, review, subscribe- it really does help new listeners find us! #horror #horrormovies #horrornerd #horroraddict #horrorjunkie #monsterkid #bmovie #scary movies #monstermovie #podcast #chewingthescenery #zombies #zombie #VHS #christmashorror #terrifier3 #sallyfield #homefortheholidays #theressomethinginthebarn #norwegianhorror #horrorcomedy

    uncommon ambience
    Burger Time at White Castle | Appreciation Ambience for Relaxation & Sleep

    uncommon ambience

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2025 540:00


    White Castle steam-griddle station... ambience. The perspective of this week's episode is near the burger steaming station (if you're curious how that operation goes, let Double Dare's Marc Summers walk you through it). And not to worry — you can sleep at this steaming station; no one is worried about what you're doing.And BTW, this isn't sanctioned or intended to be an ad. I'm just a fan and would love to imagine myself within arm's length of those steamy sliders. I have a bit of a White Castle problem: I have the White Castle Pumas, I'm usually a sack of ten and a Cherry Coke (no fries) — if I were hungry enough to add fries at any other fast-food spot, I'm spending that hunger on another sack of ten.And as a programming note: if the White Castle Corporation sends me a cease-and-desist, this description will instead be geared toward the oddly shaped meatloaf burgers my father would make, stuffed with Bac-Os, mushrooms, breadcrumbs, and onions. The patties were so oddly shaped, if they were in orbit they would be confused with Saturn's moon, Hyperion.One of the most notorious of these family “burger nights” ended with us watching a VHS of my mother at work in the cath lab. Had to wait until the end because she said something funny. Aside from the occasional flying streams of blood, it was hella boring.Until then — we are boosting the Castle for free. And I have to think that the oft-trod subject of “Where the hell are they?” adds to their nostalgic appeal — at least for those of us who know there are a bunch in New Jersey, but we're not quite sure where. I swear the White Castles of New Jersey operate in the Doctor Who universe. White Castles only ever appear like, “Surprise *****! I'm in Ledgewood now!” And then maybe it's not there next time because… TARDIS perception filter.And I haven't seen the Dude, Where's My White Castle? movie, so I could just be describing the plot of that. It's a thread that runs through all of us. No matter where we as a species go — like, we could be going into space — we still somehow need to drive through New Jersey first (and hopefully near a food exit with a Castle logo).I was on a road trip with a buddy in '09, and White Castle was the “food exit” around Perth Amboy. I nudged him: “White Castle, man — let's go.”“Nah, man,” he said. “There'll be one up there. Don't worry.” My buddy never liked leaving the highways in NJ for local roads. I suspected the lack of legal left turns spited him somehow.But I countered with a pre-I-told-you-so — like, “If you see a White Castle, even if you're not hungry, you go. It doesn't matter how New Jersey you think that New Jersey town is — you can't count on White Castle being there.”Parsippany burned us, and we ate Burger King or some ****.

    It Slays Podcast
    Christmas Evil (1980)

    It Slays Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2025 125:34


    The squad gets ready for our Holiday bash with CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980)! What does this and TAXI DRIVER have in common? Is Harry a little too obsessed with Santa? And, did THAT ending launch us into complete euphoria? Tune in to find out if we have this film a NAY, OKAY, YAY, or SLEIGH! CHAPTERS:Theme/Intro (00:00:00)What We Been Consuming?/Why We Picked It (00:01:45)Trailer (00:45:51)Synopsis/First Experiences (00:46:48)Review (00:51:28)Rating/What Did You Think? (01:29:44)Horrific Hotline (01:36:58)End Of Year Wrap Up (01:40:44)Promotions (Horrific Hotline/Social Media/Patreon/It Slays Podcast's Horrific Playlist/Events) (02:01:47)Upcoming Episode/Outro (02:03:53)Follow us on all social media:FacebookTwitterInstagramTumblrYoutubeTikTokSlasherThreadsBlueskyWant some official Merch?!SHOP HERE!*Intro & Outro Music by Dylan Bailey (IG: @thedylanbailey)*Support the show

    Learn Italian with Luisa
    Ep. 210 - Christmas: I piatti di Natale

    Learn Italian with Luisa

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 15:02


    Cosa si mangia a Natale in Italia - | Spendieren Sie einen Cafè (1€)? Donate a coffee (1€)? https://ko-fi.com/italiano Livello B1#Natale #Italia #Italy #Christmas #Weihnachten #ItalienI piatti della tradizione, menù e ricette Buongiorno cari amici e amanti dell'italiano e benvenuti al nuovo episodio numero 210 di Tulip. Continuiamo la serie di podcast dedicati al Natale e oggi vi voglio spiegare cosa si mangia tradizionalmente a Natale in Italia.I piatti sono molti e diversissimi tra di loro e anche la grande festa varia a seconda della regione. Al sud per esempio si festeggia con una grande cena la sera della Vigilia, cioè il 24 dicembre, mentre al nord si festeggia con un grande pranzo il giorno di Natale, cioè il 25 dicembre. Il giorno della Vigilia, il 24 dicembre, si consuma una cena di „magro“, cioè senza carne.In tante famiglie si mangia pesce. Il pesce ha una grande importanza simbolica nella religione cristiana e rappresenta il periodo di digiuno (Fasten/Lent, foodless) prima della nascità di Gesù ...- The full transcript of this Episode (and excercises for many of the grammar episodes) is available via "Luisa's learn Italian Premium", Premium is no subscription and does not incur any recurring fees. You can just shop for the materials you need or want and shop per piece. Prices start at 0.20 Cent (i. e. Eurocent). - das komplette Transcript / die Show-Notes zu allen Episoden (und Übungen zu vielen der Grammatik Episoden) sind über Luisa's Podcast Premium verfügbar. Den Shop mit allen Materialien zum Podcast finden Sie unterhttps://premium.il-tedesco.itLuisa's Podcast Premium ist kein Abo - sie erhalten das jeweilige Transscript/die Shownotes sowie zu den Grammatik Episoden Übungen die Sie "pro Stück" bezahlen (ab 20ct). https://premium.il-tedesco.itMehr info unter www.il-tedesco.it bzw. https://www.il-tedesco.it/premiumMore information on www.il-tedesco.it or via my shop https://www.il-tedesco.it/premium

    Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World
    Inflantion Hits Santa's Cookies, GameStop's Trade Anything Day, and Grandma's Birthday Cake Fire

    Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 34:22 Transcription Available


    (00:00:00) Inflantion Hits Santa's Cookies, GameStop's Trade Anything Day, and Grandma's Birthday Cake Fire (00:02:03) A Piece of My Mind (00:06:27) A Pancho-less Week of Stupidity We are "Pancho-less" for this FINAL 2025 Episode...Pancho took a week of vacation so he could contract strep throat so this Weekend Episode is not only late being published but also significantly shorter because Pancho isn't here with his observations and biting wit! However, the stupidity must go on and you can look for some fresh stupidity in January, 2026 while we take a couple of weeks off to let the stupidity catch up!In this last Weekend Episode of 2025...[A Piece of My Mind]…Holiday Tradition Gets Pricier: Santa's Cookies Now Cost $8.442 Waymos Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a 3rd—Blocking Entire StreetGameStop's "Trade Anything Day" Saw Customers Bring in a Goose, "Friends" on VHS, and a Tiny JesusStudent's Arm Tattoo Ends Up On Her Tongue After Cancer SurgeryDeputies bust 3–accused of giving kids counterfeit money to spend at FL businesses & bring real money back for changeGrandma Who Lit Birthday Cake and Almost Caused a Structure FireLawyer sues casino after waking up in handcuffs with $75k debt he doesn't rememberFL Woman Charged After Deputies Find Anti-Anxiety Meds In Her GenitalBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/insane-erik-lane-s-stupid-world--6486112/support.Real-time updates and story links are found on the TELEGRAM Channel at: https://t.me/InsaneErikLane  (Theme song courtesy of Randy Stonehill, ”It's A Great Big Stupid World”. Copyright ©1992 Stonehillian Music/Word Music/Twitchin' Vibes Music/ASCAP) Order your copy on the Wonderama CD from Amazon!This episode includes AI-generated content.

    The Steebee Weebee Show
    366: Kid David on The Steebee Weebee Show

    The Steebee Weebee Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 65:05


    B Boy Kid David aka: David Shreibman  joins The Steebee Weebee Show for the 1st time!!! We talk about: how he got into The Renegade Rockers Crew, David's parents having Ballet and Pantomime backgrounds, the unique individual styles of The Skill Brat Renegades, how David learned to dance by watching VHS tapes and DVD's from Amoeba Records, how The Japanese are dominating professional Skateboarding and B Boying on a global scale, Star Trek's philosophy of "exploration" rooted in utopian humanism, and expansion into the "unknown" to seek out new life, Josh Peck's phenomenal acting in the movie-Mean Creek, and much much more. Go this week to: www.youtube.com/steebeeweebee to watch. More David : https://www.instagram.com/kiddavid ** Now on iTunes:  https://goo.gl/CdSwyV ** Subscribe: https://goo.gl/d239PO Little Ray promises a Karma Boost if you join our Patreon: https://goo.gl/aiOi7J Or, click here for a one time Karma Boost. https://www.paypal.me/steebeeweebeeshow/2 More Steven: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quangou Bandcamp: https://steebeeweebee.bandcamp.com/ Itunes: https://goo.gl/PSooa0 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/steebeeweebee Send stuff to: 1425 N. Cherokee Ave P.O. Box 1391 Los Angeles, CA 90093 

    FOREVER MIDNIGHT
    Ep -358: To All A Good Night (1980).

    FOREVER MIDNIGHT

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 74:13


    Tis the season to chat about trashy holiday horror! In this episode Jef, Josh and Brian dig deep into Santa's sack and hit the tippy bottom and come up with 1980's "To All A Good Night".  With arguably one of the worst VHS covers for a vintage Christmas slasher, this one doubles down by also being directed by the super creep from Last House on the Left, David Hess. However what it lacks in art, story and star power they fill in with blood, boobs, Santa and the one and only Harry Reems. So win win win!? This festive flick is currently streaming on TUBI so go give it a watch and join the FM3 for some Xmas fun! Happy Holidays!

    MUSIC OF BOND
    MOB OHMSS Film Commentary w/Tom Sears | The Holiday Episode

    MUSIC OF BOND

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 159:00


    Welcome to the annual MOB Holiday episode—a celebration that's shaken, not stirred! In true MOB style, we just couldn't resist diving back into On Her Majesty's Secret Service. After all, what are the holidays without a little George Lazenby? This is the ultimate Bond Christmas, and you're invited to our second-ever MOB watchalong party with JW, Chris Wood, and the legendary Tom Sears from James Bond Radio. It's the present every Bond fan dreams of! So grab your favorite format—laserdisc, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, or your digital copy of OHMSS—and get ready to join our commentary ride. Think of us as your holiday bonus feature, complete with laughs, trivia, and plenty of cheer. No matter how you watch, we'll help you sync the film perfectly, or just kick back and listen to the podcast—because you already know every scene! Happy Holidays, and may your season be as epic as the Bond Bobleigh chase, from all of us at Music of Bond and James Bond Radio!

    Friends 'Till the End
    Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

    Friends 'Till the End

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 95:50


    A killer robot Santa is on the loose, and apparently the way to avoid its wrath is to have some really out-there movie opinions. We're watching this low-budget love letter to VHS cinema for our holiday special this year! Hope your holidays are great!

    ADHD-DVD
    A Few Good Men

    ADHD-DVD

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 75:08


    This week, we honour the memory of a very good man as we reconvene to finally discuss a movie that had been in our on-deck circle well before this past week's tragedy -- a movie that fits very snuggly within our wheelhouse as a very Tom Cruise and When Harry Met Sally...-centric podcast, and we'll be up front about that because you can handle the truth. It's 1992's A Few Good Men, directed by Rob Reiner, written by Aaron Sorkin, and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, J.T. Walsh, James Marshall, Wolfgang Bodison, Xander Berkeley, Noah Wyle, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Christopher Guest. Sorkin, adapting his own stage play, feels capable of keeping some of his most annoying lib tendencies in check than he is today (even if they do poke through in points), and Cruise and Nicholson both do a great job of making his dialog sound like they're coming out of the mouths of real people, which we know is no small feat. A great movie, and another example of Reiner's ability to play in any sandbox as a master of any genre he chose to take on, in this case a paranoid legal thriller. It's also been a minute since we last spoke, so we've got a lot of a theatrical field trips to report on, with reviews of Bugonia, Wake Up Dead Man!, The Running Man, Die My Love, Keeper, Predator: Badlands and Train Dreams. If you'd like to watch the movie before listening along to our discussion, A Few Good Men is not currently streaming or rentable in Canada, but you can purchase it on Amazon and YouTube, or find a good copy on VHS at the thrift, just like Hayley did. Other works discussed on this episode include LOST, Stranger Things, Best In Miniature, Materialists, Eddington, Freaky Tales, Glass Onion, Prey, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, and Freakier Friday. We'll be back some time in the new year talking about lord knows what, but keep an eye on our Instragram for all the latest. Until then, we'll see you at the movies!!

    The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
    Dynamic Pricing Raises Eyebrows as Disney Sing-Alongs Raise the Volume (Ep. 78)

    The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 60:24


    Jim Hill and Lauren Hersey are back for a very seasonal edition of I Want That To - and Jim's latest “project” involves tracking down tiny reindeer snowmobiles to complete his Cars holiday display (because apparently Santa's sleigh rules apply to Radiator Springs too). From there, the conversation jumps into Disney's new “Find Merchandise” test inside My Disney Experience, the company's eye-popping $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and why dynamic pricing is suddenly giving everyone Instacart flashbacks. Then Jim takes Lauren (and all of us) on a deep-dive into the origin story of Disney's Sing-Along VHS line - including how a Max Fleischer Rudolph short ended up inside Disney's Very Merry Christmas Songs tape. NEWS• Disney is testing a new “Find Merchandise” feature in the My Disney Experience app to help guests search for specific items and check availability at select locations (including World of Disney at Disney Springs). • Disney's reported $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI sparks a debate about guardrails, character usage, and curation, especially as AI-generated content gets easier to make (and easier to misuse). • The latest Instacart dynamic pricing controversy raises alarms about different customers seeing different prices, prompting the big question: is Disney heading down a similar road with ticket pricing? • Disney's CFO signals dynamic pricing for domestic parks in 2026, with Jim and Lauren weighing the business upside against the guest-side pain of budgeting and “reading the room.” FEATURE• A surprisingly twisty history lesson on how Disney's early VHS strategy helped create the Sing-Along Songs phenomenon - and why making kids sing along was (possibly) the point. • The story behind Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988), including how it had to be assembled on a brutal retail timeline to hit shelves in early October. • How Disney licensed (cheaply) a hand-drawn Max Fleischer Rudolph (1948) short originally made for Montgomery Ward store Santa lines - and why it looks better on YouTube than it did on VHS. • Why this tape became a yearly tradition: the “one remaining VHS player” holiday background classic for tree-decorating season. HOSTS• Jim Hill - IG: @JimHillMedia | X: @JimHillMedia | Website: JimHillMedia.com • Lauren Hersey - IG: @lauren_hersey_ | X: @laurenhersey2 FOLLOW• Facebook: JimHillMediaNews • Instagram: JimHillMedia • TikTok: JimHillMedia SUPPORTSupport the show and access bonus episodes and additional content at Patreon.com/JimHillMedia. PRODUCTION CREDITSEdited by Dave GreyProduced by Eric Hersey - Strong Minded Agency SPONSORThis episode of I Want That To is brought to you by our friends at UnlockedMagic.com, the same trusted team behind DVC Rental Store and the DVC Resale Market. If you're planning a Disney trip, they've got the best deals on Walt Disney World tickets - visit UnlockedMagic.com to grab the best ticket deals and make your next Disney trip just a little bit more magical. If you would like to sponsor a show on the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network, reach out today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Total Reboot with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos

    Celebrating some of the best films, movies and cinema of 2025 with Melbourne International Film Festival programmer and film critic Kate Jinx. Join us again next week for another bonus episode discussing the best documentaries, Australian films, comedies and honourable mentions. Pick up tickets to Alexei's comedy festival tour of his new show VHS in 2026 Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letterboxd for all the rental combo lists. Hit up the Last Video Store on instagram for all of our guests picks. PICKS: Sinners, One Battle After Another, The Mastermind, Sorry Baby, Peter Hujar's Day, Harvest, The Secret Agent, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Marty Supreme, It Was Just an Accident Thanks to Dan Murphy's for making this episode happen! Nobody Beats Dan Murphy's. Lowest Liquor Price Guarantee. Found it cheaper? We'll beat it. T&Cs apply. Shop in-store or online at danmurphys.com.au. Choose to DrinkWise.

    Backstage Pass Radio
    S9: E11: Kendall Beard (Love & Chaos) - When Grit Meets Grace

    Backstage Pass Radio

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 74:40 Transcription Available


    Let Us Know What You Think of the Show!Date: December 17, 2025Name of Podcast: Backstage Pass RadioS9: E11: Kendall Beard (Love & Chaos) - When Grit Meets GraceSHOW SUMMARY:The story starts on Texas backroads and winds through Opry houses, a teen pop deal, and a reality TV spotlight before landing in an Austin room where sparks fly. Kendall Beard joins us to share how that winding path led to Love & Chaos, her electrifying duo with AJ Vallejo, and why the most interesting music often lives between labels.  We dig into the early hustle—weekend shows, VHS audition tapes, and a family that said yes when the dream demanded long drives. Kendall opens up about the label collapse around the Napster era, stepping back for college, and a detour into the business side that confirmed she needed to be on the creative front lines. You'll hear a candid look at American Idol's true timeline, the contract strings that stall momentum, and the unexpected upside: a loyal Texas fan base and new doors for songwriting and production.  Then the chemistry kicks in. A one-off duet with AJ turns into Love & Chaos, a project where country storytelling collides with rock muscle and a hint of Latin rhythm. We trace their four-year Saxon Pub residency, the craft behind their live duo setup with a suitcase kick drum, and the evolution of Rather Be Alone from sprawling art piece to tight radio edit without losing its pulse. Kendall breaks down their writing process—sometimes 50–50, sometimes whoever has the spark—and why inspiration shows up on runs, in dreams, and in those moments when life refuses to sit still. She also talks about balancing motherhood with touring, choosing fewer but more meaningful shows, and what's next: a Texas radio tour, new singles, sessions at AJ's new studio in Gruene, and fresh solo writing.  If you love Americana's open borders, Texas grit, and songs built to breathe on stage, this conversation delivers. Follow Love & Chaos, spin the new single, and tell us which track caught you by surprise. If you enjoy the show, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review to help more music fans find us.Sponsor Link:WWW.ECOTRIC.COMWWW.SIGNAD.COMWWW.RUNWAYAUDIO.COMBackstage Pass Radio Social Media Handles:Facebook - @backstagepassradiopodcast @randyhulseymusicInstagram - @Backstagepassradio @randyhulseymusicTwitter - @backstagepassPC @rhulseymusicWebsite - backstagepassradio.com and randyhulsey.comArtist(s) Web Pagewww.loveandchaosmusic.comCall to actionWe ask our listeners to like, share, and subscribe to the show and the artist's social media pages. This enables us to continue pushing great content to the consumer.  Thank you for being a part of Backstage Pass Radio Your Host,Randy Hulsey 

    88Nine: Cinebuds
    'Scrooged!' (Cinebuds Live)

    88Nine: Cinebuds

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 26:58


    Special episodes happen on the regular around here, but this one is something extra special: our live recording right after a screening of the 1988 holiday classic, Scrooged! We gathered an amazing audience at the Oriental Theatre to watch the movie and have a chat about Bill Murray's performance as Frank Cross, the youngest network president in television history who's got a long night ahead of him.Does this four-decades-old film still hit? We tackled that question, along with some fun facts about Murray's acting hiatus after Ghostbusters and his on-set conflicts with director Richard Donner. You'll also hear us dive into why this is a "very pro-therapy movie" and debate who should play the Frank Cross role if the movie were cast today. Our audience was eager to share their opinions as well and compete in Bill Murray trivia for truly impressive prizes. including an IBC towel and an autographed (possibly broken) VHS player! Grab some popcorn and enjoy this fun, chaotic celebration of an '80s holiday favorite.#####Cinebuds is sponsored by Joe Wilde Garage Door Company.

    Paper Cuts
    Adam Griffiths 2025

    Paper Cuts

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 70:43


    The start of our final season!Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. He received his BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has also continued education at the Center for Cartooning Studies in White River Junction VT, where he took classes and received a BIPOC Scholarship.  Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region galleries such as transformer, Rhizome DC, Strathmore Mansion and Washington Project for the Arts, and sharing numerous conceptual illustrations, webcomics, animations, sketches, and photography series online, he authored Washington White, a surrealistic graphic novel reimagining his grandmother's landmark Civil Rights case as a science-fiction spy thriller. In 2022, Griffiths opened DwightMess, a comics 'compound' in his Silver Spring, MD home that includes several  gallery spaces, screen-printing workshop, an extensive library of comics, zines and periodicals, a 'video vault' collection of hard-to-find films on DVD and VHS, and Halcyon Scene, a thrifting boutique of 80's vintage tchotchkes and furniture. DwightMess has mounted over 25 exhibitions since opening, sponsors an annual artist residency program, hosts a regularly-convening comic book readers' club, organizes an artists' summer retreat program in West Virginia and has thrice hosted the StoryBox Comics Fair, a 2-day mini-convention for area creators to showcase their artwork to the general public. “Paper Cuts Theme” by The Early@theearly_band // http://theearly.net

    Metalcore Nerds
    Shawn Spann of I The Breather

    Metalcore Nerds

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 51:20 Transcription Available


    In anticipation of their comeback show THIS WEEKEND, Shawn Spann of I The Breather joins the show to chat about PlayStation 1 Demo Discs, VHS tapes, his favorite shows of the year, & Stranger Things 5.EARGASM Use the code METALCORENERDS to save 10% off your order. Protect your hearing while still enjoying the music you love.Support I The Breather!Tickets to Their Comeback Show | Instagram | Facebook | SpotifySong of the Week: Left Empty "STILLWATER"Check out the Metalcore Nerds Pull List Spotify PlaylistJoin the Metalcore Nerds Community:Discord | FB GroupFollow Metalcore Nerds on Social Media:Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | TikTok

    The Creep-O-Rama Podcast
    #97 – Desert Heat, Bad Vibes, & Pure “I Woke Up and Chose Violence” (Surviving the Game. The Hitcher. Hobo with a Shotgun)

    The Creep-O-Rama Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 103:17


    This week, your favorite horror gremlins go on a full-blown Rutger Hauer appreciation spiral and collectively realize that Rutger Hauer might not have been acting—he might have just been like that.We dive headfirst into The Hitcher (1986), directed by Robert Harmon, a movie that wastes absolutely zero time politely introducing itself before immediately threatening your entire family. Rutger Hauer plays John Ryder like a supernatural force powered by desert heat, bad vibes, and pure “I woke up and chose violence.” We scream about the opening minutes, the lack of motivation (KING SHIT), the daytime horror, the infamous truck scene, and how this movie somehow convinces you thatthe cops are useless, the road is evil, and hitchhiking is basically consenting to a curse.Then we pivot into Surviving the Game (1994), directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, aka The Most Unhinged Rich White People Activity Ever Filmed. The legend that is Ice-T takes on Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey (at MAXIMUM Gary Busey), John C. McGinley, and F. Murray Abraham after they form the most deranged hunting party imaginable. We lose our minds over:Gary Busey writing his own monologue like a cursed prophet The flaming Gary Busey jump scare (cinema peaked here) Ice-T being hunted and immediately becoming an apex predator and deciding "nah, actually, I'm hunting YOU" A trophy room that traumatized us as children and still kinda does To complete the holy trinity, we bring in Hobo with a Shotgun (2011), directed by Jason Eisener, where Rutger Hauer plays a homeless vigilante like he's a mythological figure spawned from grindhouse fumes and righteous rage. We talk about how this movie feels like a fever dream someone had after watching too much VHS-era exploitation and how Rutger Hauer somehow makes “hobo with a shotgun” feel emotionally profound.Throughout the episode we: Argue about VHS vs 4K like it's a religion Praise Rutger Hauer for playing three completely different psychos flawlessly Accidently turn the podcast into Sam Elliott's Mustache: The Extended Cut Realize half these movies would absolutely rule even harder if they were slightly grainier and worse quality Agree that Rutger Hauer is one of the most underrated genre actors of all time This is less a review episode and more a group therapy session for people permanently altered by desert highways, human hunting games, and shotgun blasts. CREEP-O-RAMA is: Podcast: ⁠Listen Here⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@creep-o-rama⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Josh: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@joshblevesque⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Artwork: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bargainbinblasphemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theme: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@imfigure⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Audio: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stranjlove

    Kaatscast
    Retro Rentals: Defying the Algorithm at Sleepover Trading

    Kaatscast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 37:26


    In this episode of Kaatscast, Brett visits Sleepover Trading Company in Catskill, New York—a new video rental shop rebuffing the algorithmic grip of streaming platforms by reviving the analog joy of VHS tapes, comic books, and sleepover culture. Owners Rob Ribar and Guido Sanchez share how their passion for collecting movies, comics, and memorabilia evolved into a retro storefront in the historic Catskill Community Theater.Together, they explore the legacy of Video Visions, a beloved Chatham video store whose 20,000‑title collection now lives on at Sleepover Trading. Along the way, they reflect on the lost art of browsing shelves, the freedom of discovery beyond algorithms, and the nostalgia of sleepovers filled with horror flicks, trading cards, and late‑night laughter.Highlights:The VHS revival: Why physical tapes still matter in an era of disappearing streaming titles.Video Visions legacy: Preserving Steve Campbell's 20,000‑movie collection as a living library.Sleepover culture: Comics, toys, trading cards, and the perfect mix of nostalgia.Analog over algorithms: How human curation fosters true discovery.Community connections: From flea markets to local artists, building Catskill's movie hub.Lost media preservation: Taped‑off‑TV VHS archives, commercials, and forgotten gems.Membership perks: Rentals without late fees, access to rare titles, and even VCR equipment.Links:Sleepover Trading Company: https://linktr.ee/sleepovertradingcoVideo Visions (documentary): https://youtu.be/6h3VvS5N8g0

    Insights into Success
    Get Shit Done with Frank Sell!

    Insights into Success

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 45:57


    Frank Sell is the founder of Get Shit Done Coffee and living proof that the American Dream is still alive. He grew up hearing the usual advice: get good grades, go to college, get a job. But he knew early on that path wasn't for him. School didn't make sense, so he learned a trade. With nothing but $100, a VHS tape, and a drive towards freedom, Frank quit his job and hit the pavement learning a new trade. As he puts it, he beat the streets so hard he swears he'll get a bill for the potholes! No mentors, no handouts, just raw hustle. Today, that same drive powers Get Shit Done Coffee, built for those who want more out of life and are willing to work for it. Frank's journey is simple but powerful. If he can do it, so can you. All you need is heart, grit, and the will to GET SHIT DONE!0:50 Introduction7:22 Owning your decisions11:39 Get shit done!15:06 Getting into coffee.22:31 Managing different businesses24:45 What have been key challenges?26:58 Making your own luck!28:26 Key lessons.31:21 Tough times.36:23 Ever close to quitting?39:28 Goals for the future.41:14 Tips for fellow entrepreneurs.43:22 What advice would you give a younger version of yourself?For more great content, go to:https://www.isintosuccess.comhttps://www.instagram.com/insightsintosuccess/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRkDL7gZSP98vnVyZ5445ghttps://www.tiktok.com/@insightsintosuccessEmail us at: paul.d@isintosuccess.comThanks for supporting us in our journey to find the secrets to success!

    Loren and Wally Podcast
    The ROR Morning Show Full Podcast 12/16

    Loren and Wally Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 32:36


    (0:00 - 7:16) Today's DM Disaster is from Sean! His 8th grade son just hosted a sleepover, the kids wanted to watch a scary movie, so Sean suggested The Ring which he watched his first sleepover. But he wanted them to see it how he did on VHS. The kids just started ragging all over Sean for being old now he's got a crushed ego. That's Sean's DM Disaster! (7:16 - 11:49) LBF witnessed a Funcle in the wild. She was at a nail salon and a man walked in and wanted to buy his niece a gel manicure all because his sister said no to her daughter. LBF loved every second of it. (11:49 - 19:07) The ideal companion is calm, responsible, experienced… basically the exact opposite of your last road trip partner. Sorry, drama lovers and budget divas, you're out. LBF thinks she's the world's worst travel companion in the world.(19:07 - 22:46) Today's Supah Smaht player is Krista from Strafford, N.H. We're they Supah Smaht. (22:46 - 32:36) Have you ever gotten this as a gift? Or given it as a gift, then wondered if the person HATED you for it? LBF is starting to get on board with this. Bob thinks it's a great idea, too. All this and more on the ROR Morning Show with Bob Bronson and LBF Podcast. Find more great podcasts at bPodStudios.com…The Place To Be For Podcast Discovery! Follow us on our socialsInstagram - @bobandlbfFacebook - The ROR Morning ShowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Attack of the Final Girls
    The Frostening (Jack Frost - 1997)

    Attack of the Final Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 32:31


    Straight to VHS holiday classic Jack Frost (no, not the Michael Keaton one) is an exercise in how to make delightfully fun (and slightly off the wall) horror film on a limited budget. Join Juliet and Theresa to talk about this killer snowman slasher that gets winter right, its sketchy DNA science, and loads of snowman ephemera.CW/TW: a brief mention of sexual assaultBuy us a coffee!Become a Patron!Theme music: "Book of Shadows" by Houseghost (Rad Girlfriend Records) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Juggalo Rewind
    BONUS! Born Twiztid Watch-Along

    Juggalo Rewind

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 57:30


    Bonus Round! Peter and Chris are bringing you a watch-along (listen-along?) for Twiztid's mockumentary, "Born Twiztid." You can sit and just listen to the boys talk about the show and everything 2000 juggalo related, you can try to watch it on YouTube, or you can watch along with your own VHS or DVD. OR you can wait for the youtube version of this pod to be uploaded and literally watch us watching it.    The LinkTree can be found at https://linktr.ee/juggalorwd. Otherwise here are all of our links -  Twitter/X: @JuggaloRWD  IG: @JuggaloRWD  Facebook: @JuggaloRWD  TikTok: @JuggaloRWD  Threads: @JuggaloRWD  BlueSky: @JuggaloRWD  The website is www.JuggaloRewind.com.  Join us on the ICPWWE Discord and talk to other listeners and podcast hosts about Psychopathic Records, ICP, Twiztid and random juggalo nonsense.  Email us at juggalorwd@gmail.com or call/text us at (810) 666-1570.        Join our Patreon! For only FOUR DOLLARS a month, you can join Kilnore's Army and get at least two bonus episodes per month, videos, chats and more! Even without paying, you can join the Patreon community! Become an official member of the Phat or Wack Pack today! -- Juggalo Rewind Patreon.      #ForTheJuggaloCulture

    Radio Rental
    Episode 99

    Radio Rental

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 38:22


    Welcome to Radio Rental, a mysterious video rental shop with a collection of VHS tapes with TRUE scary stories narrated by the people who experienced them... On today's tapes: >> Pokémon GO > Umbrella Man

    Slow Burn
    Decoder Ring | “Videomate: Men” (Encore)

    Slow Burn

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 39:03


    Videomate: Men was a VHS tape released in 1987 featuring 60 single men pitching themselves as dates to women on the other side of the TV screen: “The love of your life could be on your TV tonight!” the box reads. In retrospect, Videomate: Men is a bizarre and hilarious time capsule, but at the time it was one of many manifestations of what was known as video dating. To find out how anyone thought this was a good idea, Decoder Ring examines the weird and forgotten world of video dating in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s to find out why video dating once seemed like the future—and if that future is still yet to come. On this episode, originally released in 2019, we talk to the creators of the Found Footage Fest, VHS collectors who unleashed Videomate on the internet; ask the creators of video dating services like Videomate's Steve Dworman and Great Expectations' Jeffrey Ullman what they were thinking; and talk to participants who used these services but not necessarily in the way that was intended. We'll also discuss the future of video dating with Coffee Meets Bagel co-founder Dawoon Kang and former host of The Longest Shortest Time Andrea Silenzi. This episode was written by Willa Paskin and was produced and edited by Benjamin Frisch. We had research assistance from Cleo Levin. Decoder Ring is produced by Katie Shepherd, Max Freedman, and Evan Chung, our supervising producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at DecoderRing@slate.com, or leave a message on the Decoder Ring hotline at 347-460-7281. We love to hear any and all of your ideas for the show.  Get more of Decoder Ring with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of Decoder Ring and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Decoder Ring show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/decoderplus for access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices