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Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton go first to 1989 for the Tim Burton classic BATMAN! Starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger! Then we jump forward to 2008 for Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight! Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, and SO MANY MORE! […] The post 021 GENZ/X | Batman, The Dark Knight, and Dr. Frank-N-Furter appeared first on The LEFT Show.

Let's continue our relaxing travels in The Wayback Machine and head back to the 1200s with more from Marco Polo and his epic journey through Asia to the court of the khans. This time, poisonous winds, treacherous plateau deserts, a false paradise, and the floating column of Samarkand. All totally true!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Travels of Marco Polo" by Rustichello da Pisa at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636   Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 2008 for the true birth of the MCU with Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges! Then we travel to 1985 for Disney’s weird abridgement of The Black Cauldron! It starred Grant […] The post 020 GENZ/X | Pen Wen vs. Stark appeared first on The LEFT Show.

Let's continue our relaxing month in The Wayback Machine with one of the waybackiest of sciences, geology! This time, the commitment to data in the early 1800s, the perils of fitting new evidence to old stories, and the importance of point of view in observational limitations. Facts, indeed, Sir Charles.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Principles of Geology" by Sir Charles Lyell at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33224   Music: "earth 2 earth," by PC III, licensed under CC BY   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 1979 for the cinematic Titanic of Disney’s The Black Hole, starring Robert Forster, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine! Then we pop forward to 2004 for the del Toro masterpiece of Hellboy! Starring Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, and Selma […] The post 019 GENZ/X | Maxamillion, Red Means Stop! appeared first on The LEFT Show.

From our Wayback Machine all the way from 2021, one of Michael's favorite projects — the 50 State Rifle, a Browning Lever Action in .223. BTW, what would change if we were doing this project today? How about starting with a Henry LASR lever gun in .223? Interested? MichaelBane.TV - On the Radio episode # 332. Scroll down for reference links on topics discussed in this episode. Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed here are our own and may not represent those of the companies we represent or any entities affiliated to it. Host: Michael Bane Producer: Flying Dragon Ltd. More information and reference links: Browning BLR https://www.midwayusa.com/s?userSearchQuery=Browning%20BLR&searchTerm=Browning%20BLR https://www.browning.com/products/firearms/rifles/blr.html MPI Fiberglass Stocks Negrini Gun Cases 1895 Winchester https://www.midwayusa.com/s?userSearchQuery=1895%20Winchester&searchTerm=1895%20Winchester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1895 Skinner Sights Henry .410X https://www.midwayusa.com/s?userSearchQuery=Henry%20.410&searchTerm=Henry%20.410 https://www.henryusa.com/shotgun/lever-action-x-model-410-shotgun/ The Music of Casey Parnell

In today's edition of The Wayback Machine, a deeper dive into the TV show Different Strokes. How did that casting even happen?

(Celebrating 80yrs of blissful community radio!) We at WKXL's NH Unscripted know the heartache of failure and so did the 60's and 70's! So many ways to fail (and God knows we've had our share), so much material to sing about! Here's our playlist: The Beatles – “I'm a Loser” (1964)Ray Charles – “Born to Lose” (1962)Simon & Garfunkel – “The Boxer” (1969)Gladys Knight & Pips - “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1972)The Rolling Stones – “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)The Temptations – “Since I Lost My Baby” (1965)Etta James – “I'd Rather Go Blind” (1967/1968)Frank Sinatra – “Here's to the Losers” (1964)The Everly Brothers – “Bye Bye Love” (1957)The Platters – “The Great Pretender” (1955/1956)Harry Chapin – “Taxi” (1972)Albert Hammond – “It Never Rains in Southern California” (1972)*NH Unscripted is recognized as one of the Top 100 Acting Podcasts on the web and also featured in the Top 50 New Hampshire Podcasts list by Millionpodcasts.com*(Airs M/W/F @9am on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord, 101.9FM Manchester)

Let's continue our month in The Wayback Machine with a road trip, as we learn more from this 1909 guide to driving. This time, the fine art of tipping, the superiority of small cars, celebrated women drivers, and an extensive section of alphabetical abbreviations on licenses. A very long and relaxing list indeed, hurrah!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Woman and the Car" by Dorothy Levitt at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58956   Music: "Gentle Whisperings" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.

On todays Wayback Machine on NH Unscripted we're playing songs that talk about failure, featuring songs by The Beatles, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and many more!

The Nerds are back with their weekly movie review, and this week they jumped in the Wayback Machine to review Multiplicity (1996)! Will this movie clone it's way to Certified Nerd or will it get stuck out in the rain?

Let's kick off a new theme month I'm calling The Wayback Machine, in which we relax with works that have slipped out of rotation for a few years. First, it's back to the beehive, with the rearing of queens, the mathematical superiority of the hexagon, and how the weirdness of royal jelly…proves religion? Way to combine your interests, Reverend.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Hive and the Honey-Bee" by Rev. L.L. Langstroth at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24583   Music: "earth 2 earth," by PC III, licensed under CC BY   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 2013 for the cinema classic Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam. Then, we travel back to 1989 for the pop-culture giant Road House, starring Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliott, and Kelly […] The post 018 GENZ/X | Don’t Get Cocky, Be Nice appeared first on The LEFT Show.

(Celebrating 80yrs of incredible community radio!) Well, we at WKXL's NH Unscripted decided that it's time to help let the NH Arts community really take a look at what the heck the Righteous Brothers were singing about in their song "Rock & Roll Heaven". And, man oh man, is it rich! Just take a peek at this playlist and try to tell us that we're wrong: 1)Rock and Roll Heaven - The Righteous Brothers2)Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix3)Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin4)Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding5)Light My Fire - Jim Morrison6)Bad, Bad Leroy - Jim Croce7)Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin8)Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley9)Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison10)Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher - Jackie Wilson11)Monday, Monday - Mama Cass Elliot (The Mamas & Papas)*NH Unscripted is recognized as one of the Top 100 Acting Podcasts on the web and also featured in the Top 50 New Hampshire Podcasts list by Millionpodcasts.com*(Airs M/W/F @9am on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord, 101.9FM Manchester)

Today we take a look inside the song “Rock and Roll Heaven” by the Righteous Brothers and bring you the songs within the songs. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bobby Darin, Otis Redding, etc. Yup, they're all here and man do they make a helluva band!

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 1980 for the cinematic masterpiece Flash Gordon! Starring Sam Jones, Brian Blessed, and Timothy Dalton! Then we take a mind trip to 2016’s DOOM! by id Software.  017 GENZ/X™ The World’s Greatest Generational Podcast Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and AMAZON too! The post 017 GENZ/X | I Love You Flash, Go To Hell! appeared first on The LEFT Show.

Time. We all have it. Some more than others. The 60's decided to sing about it and today's Wayback Machine Monday stacks some of those classics into our playlist. Time for love, life, questions. They wanted answers. Think Chicago, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Beatles and many more!! 

Tonight, the RPGBOT.Podcast enters the discourse arena, where Paizo is financially bleeding, Archives of Nethys accidentally brought a flamethrower to a contract negotiation, and the internet has already decided who the villain is without reading past the headline. Ash arrives with enough hot takes to melt adamantine, Tyler desperately attempts to preserve nuance, and Randall keeps feeding increasingly tortured metaphors into the Wayback Machine. Grab your popcorn, silence your notifications, and remember: the rules are still free. Everyone can please stop screaming now. UPDATE: Joint announcement from Paizo+AoN on Juy 24th Links Impossible Magic on paizo.com Amazon: Impossible Magic (affiliate link) Paizo Announces Layoffs June 8th Reddit thread with links to support affected people Archives of Nethys announcement July 14th Paizo blog post about Archives of Nethys July 15th AoN FAQ July 17th UPDATE: Joint announcement from Paizo+AoN on Juy 24th More Info Ronald the Rules Lawyer on the Paizo layoffs Show Notes Paizo has ended its eight-year official licensing partnership with Archives of Nethys, and the Pathfinder community reacted with all the restraint and careful consideration of a barbarian discovering Reddit. We break down what is actually changing, what is not changing, and why Archives of Nethys is not being deleted, destroyed, paywalled, or dragged behind Paizo headquarters. The site can still provide Pathfinder and Starfinder rules for free, but it will lose access to most official artwork and will no longer receive books early enough to guarantee new content on release day. To understand why Paizo would make such an unpopular decision, we climb into the Wayback Machine and revisit the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy, millions of dollars in inaccessible Paizo inventory, costly legal disputes, tariffs, financial losses, and the recent layoffs affecting roughly 15 percent of Paizo's staff. Paizo says the Archives of Nethys license required legal, financial, and administrative resources that the company can no longer justify, especially when the expected royalty payments never materialized. We also examine how both sides handled the announcement. Paizo communicated poorly, chose terrible timing, and apparently believed email was the ideal tool for navigating a beloved eight-year partnership during a financial crisis. Archives of Nethys responded emotionally, published its announcement without giving Paizo advance notice, omitted important context about ongoing negotiations and a six-month transition period, and then buried much of the clarification inside a video and forum comments. The result was a community firestorm in which everyone was angry, nobody had the complete story, and Diamond somehow remained the least surprising villain. Ultimately, this is not Paizo attempting a Wizards-style crackdown on free rules access. It is a struggling company cutting expenses while two groups of exhausted people make imperfect decisions under enormous stress. Support Archives of Nethys through Patreon or by disabling your ad blocker, purchase Pathfinder products directly from Paizo when possible, and perhaps give everyone enough time to get on a video call before declaring the death of the entire hobby. Key Takeaways Archives of Nethys is not shutting down. Its existing Pathfinder and Starfinder rules content will remain freely accessible. The major changes are the loss of most official Paizo artwork and the end of early PDF access, meaning new rules may no longer appear on release day. Paizo's decision comes amid severe financial pressure caused by the Diamond bankruptcy, inaccessible inventory, legal expenses, tariffs, losses, and staff layoffs. The license produced no royalties because Archives of Nethys operates through donations, advertising, and unpaid volunteer labor rather than as a profit-making business. Paizo says the relationship still required legal, licensing, financial, and administrative work, including policing unauthorized reuse of artwork taken from the site. Archives of Nethys presented an incomplete version of the situation in its original announcement, including leaving out ongoing negotiations and the six-month grace period for removing restricted artwork. Paizo also deserves criticism for poor communication, bad timing, and allowing an important partnership discussion to stall through email. The backlash was intensified by fear and incomplete information, not by evidence that Paizo intends to eliminate free access to its rules. Both organizations say they remain open to finding another arrangement, and the hosts believe a compromise may still be possible. Fans can support both sides by contributing to Archives of Nethys, disabling ad blockers on the site, and buying products directly from Paizo rather than through Amazon. Tyler proposes that Paizo create an affiliate program so Pathfinder creators can direct customers to Paizo's store while earning revenue and helping more money reach the publisher. The true villain remains Diamond, with capitalism receiving a strong honorable mention. Welcome to the RPGBOT Podcast. If you love Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and tabletop RPGs, this is the podcast for you. Support the show for free: Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any podcast app. It helps new listeners find the best RPG podcast for D&D and Pathfinder players. Level up your experience: Join us on Patreon to unlock ad-free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT Podcast, chat with us and the community on the RPGBOT Discord, and jump into live-streamed RPG podcast recordings. Support while you shop: Use our Amazon affiliate link at https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ and help us keep building tools and guides for the RPG community. Meet the Hosts Tyler Kamstra – Master of mechanics, seeing the Pathfinder action economy like Neo in the Matrix. Randall James – Lore buff and technologist, always ready to debate which Lord of the Rings edition reigns supreme. Ash Ely – Resident cynic, chaos agent, and AI's worst nightmare, bringing pure table-flipping RPG podcast energy. Join the RPGBOT team where fantasy roleplaying meets real strategy, sarcasm, and community chaos. How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra BlueSky: @rpgbot.net TikTok: @RPGBOTDOTNET Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games BlueSky: @GravenAshes YouTube: @ashravenmedia Randall James BlueSky: @GrimoireRPG Amateurjack.com Read Melancon: A Grimoire Tale (affiliate link) Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

Tonight, the RPGBOT.Podcast enters the discourse arena, where Paizo is financially bleeding, Archives of Nethys accidentally brought a flamethrower to a contract negotiation, and the internet has already decided who the villain is without reading past the headline. Ash arrives with enough hot takes to melt adamantine, Tyler desperately attempts to preserve nuance, and Randall keeps feeding increasingly tortured metaphors into the Wayback Machine. Grab your popcorn, silence your notifications, and remember: the rules are still free. Everyone can please stop screaming now. UPDATE: Joint announcement from Paizo+AoN on Juy 24th Links Impossible Magic on paizo.com Amazon: Impossible Magic (affiliate link) Paizo Announces Layoffs June 8th Reddit thread with links to support affected people Archives of Nethys announcement July 14th Paizo blog post about Archives of Nethys July 15th AoN FAQ July 17th UPDATE: Joint announcement from Paizo+AoN on Juy 24th More Info Ronald the Rules Lawyer on the Paizo layoffs Show Notes Paizo has ended its eight-year official licensing partnership with Archives of Nethys, and the Pathfinder community reacted with all the restraint and careful consideration of a barbarian discovering Reddit. We break down what is actually changing, what is not changing, and why Archives of Nethys is not being deleted, destroyed, paywalled, or dragged behind Paizo headquarters. The site can still provide Pathfinder and Starfinder rules for free, but it will lose access to most official artwork and will no longer receive books early enough to guarantee new content on release day. To understand why Paizo would make such an unpopular decision, we climb into the Wayback Machine and revisit the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy, millions of dollars in inaccessible Paizo inventory, costly legal disputes, tariffs, financial losses, and the recent layoffs affecting roughly 15 percent of Paizo's staff. Paizo says the Archives of Nethys license required legal, financial, and administrative resources that the company can no longer justify, especially when the expected royalty payments never materialized. We also examine how both sides handled the announcement. Paizo communicated poorly, chose terrible timing, and apparently believed email was the ideal tool for navigating a beloved eight-year partnership during a financial crisis. Archives of Nethys responded emotionally, published its announcement without giving Paizo advance notice, omitted important context about ongoing negotiations and a six-month transition period, and then buried much of the clarification inside a video and forum comments. The result was a community firestorm in which everyone was angry, nobody had the complete story, and Diamond somehow remained the least surprising villain. Ultimately, this is not Paizo attempting a Wizards-style crackdown on free rules access. It is a struggling company cutting expenses while two groups of exhausted people make imperfect decisions under enormous stress. Support Archives of Nethys through Patreon or by disabling your ad blocker, purchase Pathfinder products directly from Paizo when possible, and perhaps give everyone enough time to get on a video call before declaring the death of the entire hobby. Key Takeaways Archives of Nethys is not shutting down. Its existing Pathfinder and Starfinder rules content will remain freely accessible. The major changes are the loss of most official Paizo artwork and the end of early PDF access, meaning new rules may no longer appear on release day. Paizo's decision comes amid severe financial pressure caused by the Diamond bankruptcy, inaccessible inventory, legal expenses, tariffs, losses, and staff layoffs. The license produced no royalties because Archives of Nethys operates through donations, advertising, and unpaid volunteer labor rather than as a profit-making business. Paizo says the relationship still required legal, licensing, financial, and administrative work, including policing unauthorized reuse of artwork taken from the site. Archives of Nethys presented an incomplete version of the situation in its original announcement, including leaving out ongoing negotiations and the six-month grace period for removing restricted artwork. Paizo also deserves criticism for poor communication, bad timing, and allowing an important partnership discussion to stall through email. The backlash was intensified by fear and incomplete information, not by evidence that Paizo intends to eliminate free access to its rules. Both organizations say they remain open to finding another arrangement, and the hosts believe a compromise may still be possible. Fans can support both sides by contributing to Archives of Nethys, disabling ad blockers on the site, and buying products directly from Paizo rather than through Amazon. Tyler proposes that Paizo create an affiliate program so Pathfinder creators can direct customers to Paizo's store while earning revenue and helping more money reach the publisher. The true villain remains Diamond, with capitalism receiving a strong honorable mention. Welcome to the RPGBOT Podcast. If you love Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and tabletop RPGs, this is the podcast for you. Support the show for free: Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any podcast app. It helps new listeners find the best RPG podcast for D&D and Pathfinder players. Level up your experience: Join us on Patreon to unlock ad-free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT Podcast, chat with us and the community on the RPGBOT Discord, and jump into live-streamed RPG podcast recordings. Support while you shop: Use our Amazon affiliate link at https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ and help us keep building tools and guides for the RPG community. Meet the Hosts Tyler Kamstra – Master of mechanics, seeing the Pathfinder action economy like Neo in the Matrix. Randall James – Lore buff and technologist, always ready to debate which Lord of the Rings edition reigns supreme. Ash Ely – Resident cynic, chaos agent, and AI's worst nightmare, bringing pure table-flipping RPG podcast energy. Join the RPGBOT team where fantasy roleplaying meets real strategy, sarcasm, and community chaos. How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra BlueSky: @rpgbot.net TikTok: @RPGBOTDOTNET Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games BlueSky: @GravenAshes YouTube: @ashravenmedia Randall James BlueSky: @GrimoireRPG Amateurjack.com Read Melancon: A Grimoire Tale (affiliate link) Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to Halloween 2010 and May of 1982! First up, The Walking Dead, starring Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, and Lauren Cohan. Next, the guys visit 1982 and the release of Star Wars on VHS, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison […] The post 016 GENZ/X | I Gotta Bad Feeling About Carl appeared first on The LEFT Show.

We at WKXL's NH Unscripted realize that the 60's sure had a lot going on (I know it's an understatement). But some of the things that immediately come to mind about that decade are the monikers “Flower Power” as well as “The Summer of Love” and so we're all in on songs that have a “vegetative” inference. Our playlist: 1)”Roses Are Red (My Love)" – Bobby Vinton2)”San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" – Scott McKenzie3)”Paper Roses" – Anita Bryant4)”Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" – The Kingston Trio5)”Flowers in the Rain" – The Move6)”Flowers on the Wall" – The Statler Brothers7)”Eighteen Yellow Roses" – Bobby Darin8)”Build Me Up Buttercup" – The Foundations9)”Green Grass" – Gary Lewis & the Playboys10)  “Green, Green Grass of Home” - Tom Jones11) “Artificial Flowers” - Bobby Darin12)“Crimson and Clover” Tommy James(NH Unscripted airs @ 9am M/W/F on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord, 101.9FM Manchester)

The 60's had a lot going on. But some of the things that immediately come to mind about that decade are the monikers “Flower Power” as well as “The Summer of Love” and so we're all in on songs that have a “vegetative” inference. Think “Flowers on the Wall” (Statler Bros.), “Build Me Up Buttercup” (The Foundations) and “Green Grass” (Gary Lewis & the Playboys). •Foot tapping and singing along in your car warning•!

Legacy sequels are nothing new, though most aren't directed by Martin Scorsese. Next up for the Decades series is 1986 for the movie that finally got Paul Newman that Oscar: The Color of Money. P.S. We covered The Hustler on our Patreon show The Way-Back Machine! Visit Patreon.com/neverseenitpod and sign up to hear this and many more episodes.Our Links: https://lnk.bio/neverseenitMovie Info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090863/

Welcome back to The Kevin Jackson Show. Buckle up, where today we're diving into the greatest hits of Democratic projection, where the party that spent four years telling us Joe Biden was sprinting marathons and doing cartwheels now wants us to believe Donald Trump's health is a national emergency.You've got Maggie Haberman out here whispering that Trump's health is like a “black box” inside the administration. A black box? [X] SB – MSNOW Maggie HabermanMa'am, the man was more visible than a Vegas marquee for eight straight years—rallying, golfing, tweeting at 3 a.m., dodging bullets both literal and figurative. We saw more of Trump than we saw of our own families during COVID. But suddenly it's Schrödinger's President: alive and dead until the Democrats open the box and tell us what to think.Let's hop in the Wayback Machine, shall we? Remember when they warned us Trump would start World War III on day one? That he'd be a dictator? That Melania was secretly running the country? That he'd never leave the White House alive—wait, that last one they're still working on. Every prediction landed with the accuracy of a weatherman in a hurricane, yet here they are, dusting off the same script like it's a greatest-hits album nobody asked for.And speaking of greatest hits nobody asked for, we now learn there was yet another plot against Trump—and roughly 30% of this country, the usual suspects on the left, the DSA crowd, the blue-check revolutionaries, were low-key rooting for it to work. They weren't just hoping; they were practically taking pre-orders on the commemorative T-shirts. “Thoughts and prayers” my ass—they were doing cartwheels in the group chat.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 1985 (again) and 2004! First up, the flawed “classic” film The Breakfast Club starring Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, and Emilio Estevez. Braxton takes us to 2004 for a critical examination of the documentary […] The post 015 GENZ/X | Super Sized Breakfast Club appeared first on The LEFT Show.

(Wildly celebrating 80yrs of community loved community radio!)So, yeah, there's gonna be a heartache tonight! Not only did folks growing up in the 60's and 70's have to worry about things like “the draft”, dying in Vietnam, forced integration, civil rights, multiple assassinations, protests everywhere, Woodstock (complete with the Hell's Angels), the National Guard (Ohio anyone?), BUT, they had to learn to love in between. And with love comes the other side of the coin: Heartbreak. Welcome to the heartbreak of the 60's!!! Orbison, Temptations, Righteous Brothers, The Eagles, etc. right here at WKXL's NH Unscripted.  Song list: 1) Crying – Roy Orbison (1961)2) The End of the World – Skeeter Davis (1963)3) Since I Lost My Baby – The Temptations (1965)4) I Wish It Would Rain – The Temptations (1967)5) You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' – The Righteous Brothers (1964)6) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – Neil Sedaka (1962)7) Walk Away Renée – The Left Banke (1966)

So not only did folks growing up in the 60's and 70's have to worry about things like “the draft”, dying in Vietnam, forced integration, civil rights, multiple assassinations, protests everywhere, Woodstock (complete with the Hell's Angels), the National Guard (Ohio anyone?), BUT, they had to learn to love in between. And with love comes the other side of the coin: Heartbreak. Welcome to the heartbreak of the 60's!!! Orbison, Temptations, Righteous Brothers, etc.

Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. As you probably have deduced from the episode title, this is Episode 250. We said it when we hit 100, and then again when we hit 200, but we'll say again how honored, and quite frankly, surprised we are to be going now 250 strong. That being said, we recognize that this is not a solo endeavor. So, we want to use this episode to thank our team, the MCA leadership, our guests, and most importantly, you the listener for keeping this thing going. We are so thankful for your support cause as you know, we literally could not do this without you. This week, we're going on a little trip on the way back machine. Yes, this is a clip show, but with a twist. We've brought in the team and formed Voltron to bring you a quiz clip show. Nancy, William, and I look back out our amazing guests by quizzing each other on how much we remember of the past 5 years of Scuttlebutt. Just putting this episode together made us laugh and encouraged us with our profoundly insightful, intelligent, and hilarious guests. Hopefully this walk down memory lane is as enriching for you as it was for us to put together. We started this show with the premise that stories matter and are proud that we never strayed from it. Your stories do matter, and we are so honored that you are willing to share them with us. Semper Fidelis. The post #250: A Trip on the Way Back Machine – Some Highlights of 250 episodes of Scuttlebutt first appeared on Marine Corps Association.

Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. As you probably have deduced from the episode title, this is Episode 250. We said it when we hit 100, and then again when we hit 200, but we'll say again how honored, and quite frankly, surprised we are to be going now 250 strong. That being said, we recognize that this is not a solo endeavor. So, we want to use this episode to thank our team, the MCA leadership, our guests, and most importantly, you the listener for keeping this thing going. We are so thankful for your support cause as you know, we literally could not do this without you. This week, we're going on a little trip on the way back machine. Yes, this is a clip show, but with a twist. We've brought in the team and formed Voltron to bring you a quiz clip show. Nancy, William, and I look back out our amazing guests by quizzing each other on how much we remember of the past 5 years of Scuttlebutt. Just putting this episode together made us laugh and encouraged us with our profoundly insightful, intelligent, and hilarious guests. Hopefully this walk down memory lane is as enriching for you as it was for us to put together. We started this show with the premise that stories matter and are proud that we never strayed from it. Your stories do matter, and we are so honored that you are willing to share them with us. Semper Fidelis. The post #250: A Trip on the Way Back Machine – Some Highlights of 250 episodes of Scuttlebutt first appeared on Marine Corps Association.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 2016 and 1985! We start in 2016 with an evolutionary tale in Shin Godzilla, starring Hiroki Hasegawa and Satomi Ishihara. Then it’s back to 1985 again, this time for MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson and Dana Elcar. 014 […] The post 014 GENZ/X | Swiss Army Kaiju appeared first on The LEFT Show.

(Celebrating 80yrs of the finest community radio) WKXL's NH Unscripted takes us down the path of being free! Mainly free from a relationship but we toss the wilderness, the wind, a band of gold and maybe a song about a light of mine.The roster:1) “People Got to Be Free" – The Rascals (1968)2) “Born Free" – Roger Williams (1966)3) “Don't Set Me Free" – Ray Charles (1963)4) ”Blowin' in the Wind" – Peter, Paul and Mary (1963)5) ”Set Him Free" – Skeeter Davis (1959/1960s)6) "I Will Survive" – Gloria Gaynor (1978)7) “It's Too Late" – Carole King (1971)8) “I Am Woman" – Helen Reddy (1972)9) "You're So Vain" – Carly Simon (1972)10) "Band of Gold" – Freda Payne (1970):11) “This Little Light of Mine” The Seekers12) "She's Gone" – Hall & Oates (1973)Bonus track: 13) "Release Me" – Esther Phillips (1962)(NH Unscripted airs M/W/F at 9am on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord, and 101.9FM Manchester)

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into “algorithmic outing,” new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come out. He also covers Meta’s privacy-aware AI infrastructure, Alberta’s 466-million-line code scan with Claude, NVIDIA on reinforcement learning, and the many journeys of learning Rust. Along the way, he hits Google DeepMind’s A24 deal, WhatsApp usernames, and scuba-diving cyborg cockroaches. Finally, he looks up with Webb’s puzzling early universe, NASA’s emergency telescope rescue, and a gorgeous aurora from orbit. – Want to start a podcast? Its easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens with a quick personal update. He hopes listeners had a good holiday weekend, and he shares that he spent his time working his other job at Oregon’s Finest, chatting with people around Portland. Because his Blurbry workweek tends to be solitary, he refills his social meter on the weekends. He then recalls a Saturday night out with coworkers at the Hungry Tiger before turning to the lead story. Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do Cochrane leads with new research from Australia that identifies a phenomenon called “algorithmic outing.” In short, the recommendation systems behind your social feeds can infer your sexual orientation or gender identity and start serving related content before you have worked it out yourself. Importantly, the study is small and qualitative, built on in-depth interviews with twenty LGBTQ+ adults in the Hunter region of New South Wales and published in the journal Gender, Place and Culture. The mechanism is engagement signals: what you like, who you follow, and how long you linger on a post, a metric the industry calls dwell time. Lead researcher Dr. Justin Ellis of the University of Newcastle notes that several participants said the algorithm “knew” they were queer before they did, an experience that felt validating for some but frightening for others in public settings. For Cochrane, the deeper worry is what else that hidden pattern encodes, from upbringing to mental health, and where that data ultimately gets sold. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Meta’s Blueprint for Privacy-Aware AI Infrastructure Next, Cochrane turns to a sharp engineering piece from Meta on privacy-aware infrastructure. The core challenge is that a system must understand what a piece of data actually is before any privacy rule can protect it. A field named “age,” for example, might describe a person in one place and a cache setting in another. Meta’s answer deploys a large language model only on the genuinely ambiguous cases, then distills what it learns into fixed, human-reviewed rules. The payoff is concrete. According to Meta, those deterministic rules already handle about 85 percent of the traffic, and only the last 15 percent falls back to the model, which costs roughly 400 times more compute. Cochrane loves this edge-case approach. However, he contrasts it sharply with the AI-everywhere software he wrestles with at his weekend job, which he says the heavy AI reliance genuinely makes worse and harder to audit. Alberta Scans 466 Million Lines of Code With Claude This one comes from Anthropic, and it ties directly to Meta’s theme. A team inside Alberta’s Ministry of Technology and Innovation used Claude to scan 466 million lines of code in about twenty hours, a review Anthropic estimates would have taken humans roughly six and a half years. Notably, they ran around fifty AI agents in parallel, essentially an automated red team and blue team probing the systems at once. For Cochrane, this is the good version of AI in production: cleaning up and locking down real systems rather than running the show unsupervised. NVIDIA on Reinforcement Learning for AI Agents On the AI-building side, Cochrane walks through an NVIDIA developer piece on reinforcement learning for agents. Reinforcement learning rewards a model for good behavior rather than showing it the right answer, much like training a dog with treats. Additionally, he clears up a common mix-up. NVIDIA treats RAG, retrieval-augmented generation, as a separate tool: reinforcement learning changes how a model behaves, while RAG changes what facts it can reach. GitHub Retires Two Gemini Models Meanwhile, GitHub is retiring Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all of Copilot on July 31. The migration paths are Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash. Cochrane flags it as a sign of the times, since tools that felt brand new a couple of years ago are already getting sunset. He also wonders how quickly today’s “AI-optimized” chips will turn over as the models keep changing. The Many Journeys of Learning Rust One for the programmers, and Cochrane makes no secret of loving Rust. The Rust blog’s Vision Doc series explores how people actually learn the language, which is built around memory safety and its strict borrow checker. Honest themes surface throughout, including “clone guilt,” where beginners refuse to copy anything, and “silent attrition,” the learners who quietly bounce off. His take stands: getting your brain onto a memory-safe language rewires how you approach a problem. Google DeepMind Partners With A24 In an interesting collision of worlds, Google DeepMind is teaming up with A24, the studio behind Hereditary and Everything Everywhere All at Once. The two call it a first-of-its-kind research partnership, with DeepMind researchers and A24 building creative tools shaped by the artists who use them. Cochrane adds a detail worth noting: Google also invested in A24, so this is money on the table, not just a research handshake. For now, though, the announcement stays deliberately vague, with no named films or products. Google’s $1 Million Africa Indie Game Fund Another one from Google, and it is good news for developers. Google is launching an indie games fund for sub-Saharan Africa, a region whose gaming scene is growing about as fast as anywhere. The fund puts up $1 million across ten local studios, each receiving between $50,000 and $200,000 plus mentorship and hands-on support. Applications close at noon UTC on July 31. WhatsApp Usernames Are Here to Reserve WhatsApp is finally moving off phone numbers as your identity. With usernames, someone can start a conversation with you without ever seeing your number. Starting this week, you can reserve the name you want ahead of the full launch later this year. To claim yours, head into Settings, then Account, then Username. Intel Sets Its Q2 Earnings Date Cochrane flags a date worth watching for anyone tracking Intel. The company reports second-quarter results on July 23, right after market close, with an earnings call at 2 p.m. Pacific. Given recent US government investment and a shifting chip landscape, he is curious how the domestic chipmaker is holding up. Your Smartwatch Might Spot Illness Before You Do Shifting to health, Engadget reports that the wearables-plus-AI wave is starting to deliver. These devices excel at catching the moment your body drifts off its own baseline, often the first nudge to get checked out. A 2025 study from Texas A&M and Stanford suggests smartwatches can detect early signs of COVID or the flu within hours of infection. Additionally, Apple Watch’s irregular-rhythm alerts have flagged AFib correctly about 84 percent of the time. Working Memory and Consciousness Here is a heady one from Scientific American, written by philosopher Henry Taylor at the University of Birmingham. Working memory is the mental scratchpad holding whatever you are doing right now. Taylor opens with the doorway effect, that blank moment when you enter a room and forget why. Intriguingly, when information leaves working memory, it seems to leave conscious awareness at the same instant, a link drawing fresh attention across psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Scuba-Diving Cyborg Cockroaches Now for the wild one. Scientists have built tiny diving suits that let Madagascar hissing cockroaches survive underwater for up to three hours, while an unequipped roach suffocates in minutes. The 3D-printed suit feeds oxygen through tubes into the insect’s breathing holes, called spiracles, using a chemical generator with no electronics. This lab already steered the roaches with electrodes, so the diving suit is the new trick on top. Researchers pitch it for search and rescue, though Cochrane notes the reality of the spy bug has already arrived. Quantum Time Runs Backward at Los Alamos Next, a genuine brain-bender. Physicists at Los Alamos, led by Luis Pedro García-Pintos, found a way to make a quantum system look like it is running backward in time. To be clear, time is not literally reversing. Precise measurements just make the system’s evolution appear to unfold in reverse. The useful part is energy: measurement itself becomes a resource in what they call a continuous measurement engine. Cochrane admits the paper drifted further from his reality the more he read. Tall Trees Shrug Off Drought A new study in Science overturns some textbook wisdom. For years, the assumption held that taller trees suffer more in drought because they must lift water higher. However, researchers studying dipterocarps in Southeast Asia found that trees topping seventy meters slowed their growth by about the same amount as short ones during the 2023-2024 El Niño drought. The trick is plumbing: a seventy-meter tree grows base vessels roughly twice as wide as a ten-meter tree, so the real driver of drought stress is subtler than raw height. The Energy Department Purges Conservation Pages This next one frustrates Cochrane. The US Department of Energy deleted roughly 6,000 web pages about energy conservation, and the timing is brutal during a record heatwave. The move followed backlash over New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani urging residents to ease strain on the grid. Fortunately, the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine preserved the pages before they vanished. For Cochrane, deleting that kind of public information simply does not make sense. Webb’s Puzzling New Universe Heading to space, Quanta Magazine explores how the James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding early-universe objects that should not exist. Those include black holes that grew enormous too fast and hundreds of mysterious “little red dots” around 650 million years after the Big Bang. As astrophysicist Rachel Somerville of the Flatiron Institute puts it, scientists have “almost gone from having too many early galaxies to having too many theories.” The hard part now is figuring out which theory is right. NASA’s Emergency Telescope Rescue NASA has a rescue mission underway for the Swift Observatory, a 2004 telescope that studies gamma-ray bursts. Recent solar storms puffed up Earth’s atmosphere, and the added drag has dragged Swift’s orbit down to about 224 miles, low enough to risk burning up this year. To intervene, NASA enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, whose LINK spacecraft launched Friday. The plan is to boost Swift back up to roughly 373 miles. A Gorgeous Aurora From Orbit Finally, Cochrane closes on something beautiful. ESA shared a stunning aurora captured from orbit, a shimmering green band of light rippling over the planet. If you have a few minutes, it is well worth a look. Cochrane wraps with housekeeping and a thank-you to GoDaddy for two decades of support, then signs off, wishing listeners a wonderful evening. The post Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do #1869 appeared first on Geek News Central.

As we get ready for USA vs Belgium tonight, we went back 12 years to the time the Crown Prince of Belgium called into the show. 

With the 250th Year Celebration just behind us we thought that the theme of being “free” or of “freedom” must have surely been a popular one during the 60's. Well, yes and no. It's there, but, we had to grab a 70's tune (or three) to fill out our playlist! But anyway think: “People Have to be Free”, “I Am Woman”, “This Little Light of Mine” and more! Happy (belated) 4th of July Unscripters!!!

It's amazing how many songs from the 60's have something to do with the topic of "Walking"! So today, WKXL's NH Unscripted, along with our producer Andrew Gibson, "walks" through some of the Billboard Hot 100 gems. Think:Walk a Mile in My Shoes — Joe South (1969)25 Miles — Edwin Starr (1969)These Boots Are Made for Walkin' — Nancy Sinatra (1966)I'm Walkin' — Fats Domino (1960)Walk Right Back — The Everly Brothers (1961)Walk On By — Dionne Warwick (1964)I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) — Four Tops (1965)Walk Away Renée — The Left Banke (1966)Walk Like a Man — The Four Seasons (1963)Walkin' the Dog — Rufus Thomas (1963)Walkin' My Cat Named Dog — Norma Tanega (1966)The Wanderer — Dion DiMucci (1961)Also, we add a bonus track as we close out the episode!(NH Unscripted airs @9am on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord and 104.5FM Manchester) 

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 1985 and 2011! First up, Real Genius starring Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, and William Atherton. Next, Braxton takes us to 2011 for one of the greatest time sucks of all time: Skyrim starring Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, […] The post 013 GENZ/X | Thu’um and Throwing Little Pickles At You? appeared first on The LEFT Show.

As June quickly is coming to a close, we come to you one more time with a final sampling of another one of our favorite pieces of content we've ever put out there. This one comes courtesy of The Way-Back Machine which is a show where we time travel to a random year between 1960 and 2010 to watch a movie that happens to be in the theater that month. This installment covers the original Escape to Witch Mountain, the Disney classic that we definitely had feelings about...to the point where one of us actually started crying from all the laughter.This show has the most potential for surprises because we do not plan the episode. We spin the wheel, it chooses the year and we pick from a selection. Sometimes it's interesting and thought-provoking. Sometimes it's Escape to Witch Mountain.Please enjoy this last taste of Patreon shenanigans before we come back next Sunday, but make sure that you head to https://patreon.com/neverseenitpod and claim your 40% off discount before the end of June and see what else you're missing out on.~Betsy & Trent

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 2003 and 1993! First up, Def Jam Vendetta starring Christopher Judge, DMX, Ludacris, Method Man, Redman, and more! Then we butter our toast with Pearl Jam in 1993 with the debut of The X-Files! Starring Gillian Anderson, David […] The post 012 GENZ/X | The Truth is Def Jam appeared first on The LEFT Show.

Don sits down with Craig Blair, the founder of Canon Rumors and Lens Rentals Canada. There’s a bit of a saga to unpack here – with insights into the industry, drama, and a personal journey that wasn’t always positive. This is an episode you’ll want to listen to! For those curious, the WayBack Machine does indeed have Craig’s first website archived. Connect with Our Hosts & Guests Don Komarechka: Website, Twitter / X, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest Craig Blair: Website: canonrumors.com

(Celebrating 80yrs of community radio!)Yesterday was Father's day, so we at WKXL's NH Unscripted  dug out some classic songs dedicated to all the dads out there. So tune on in and enjoy some tunes from the 60s about the dear old dads out there! Think: "Patches", "Leader of the Band", "Color Him Father", etc(NH Unscripted airs M/W/F 9am 1450AM/103.9FM Concord, 101.9FM Manchester)

Rebecca Smith Pollard published a book of poems to mark the U.S. centennial in 1876, and also a novel with some questionable messages. She also developed a method to teach children to read that was ahead of its time. Research: Chetwynd, Sally Morong “Sam.” “Birth of Rebecca Smith Pollard, Education pioneer – Sept. 20, 1831.” Brass Castle Arts. 9/20/2014. https://brasscastlearts.blogspot.com/2014/09/birth-of-rebecca-smith-pollard.html The Writer’s Almanac. “Tuesday, September 20, 2011.” https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2011%252F09%252F20.html History of Literacy. “Pollard Nominated to Reading Hall of Fame.” History of Reading News. Vol.XXVI No.1 (2002:Fall). Via Archive.org Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20160729031119/https://historyliteracy.org/scripts/search_display.php?Article_ID=240 Haefner, Marie. “An American Lady.” The Palimpsest. The State Historical Society of Iowa. April 1957. The Palimpsest archive 38(4), 129-176. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0031-0360.22585 Pollard, Rebecca S. “The Prayers of Eleven Hundred Children.” Our Dumb Animals. Vol. 24, No. 8. January, 1892. https://archive.org/details/sim_animals_our-dumb-animals_1892-01_24_8/ The Catholic Educational Review. “Phonetics, Their Origin and Function.” Vol. 24. May 1926. https://archive.org/details/sim_catholic-educational-review_1926-05_24/ “Pollard’s Advanced Speller.” Education. Vol. 18, Issue 1. September 1897. https://archive.org/details/sim_education-us_1897-09_18_1/ Pollard, R.S. “Educational Appliance.” U.S. Patent No. 375,095. December 20, 1887. Heilman, Arthur W. “Principles and practices of teaching reading.” Columbus, Ohio, C. E. Merrill Books. 1961. Huey, Edmund Burke. “The History And Pedagogy Of Reading With A Review Of The History Of Reading And Writing And Of Methods Texts And Hygiene In Reading.” The Macmillan Company. 1915. “A New Road to Learning.” The Des Moines Register. Page 23. 12/3/1911. Wheatley, Jeffrey. “The Wrong Feeling of Feeling Right: Fanaticism and Sentiment in Anti-Abolitionist Novels.” From Religion and Social Change. Edited by Sabrina Danielsen. Journal of Religion and Society. Supplement 26 (2025.) Harrington, Kate and Miss M.E. Wilson. “The Moonlight Tryst.” Louisville Journal. 1/7/1854. Pollard, Rebecca S. “Emma Bartlett: or, Prejudice and fanaticism.” Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Overend. 1856. “Emma Bartlett: or, Prejudice and Fanaticism.” Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier. 4/16/1857. Pollard, Rebecca S. “Centennial and Other Poems.” Philadelphia : Lippincott. 1876. Kirkham, Samuel. “English Grammar in Familiar Lectures.” New York. Robert B. Collins. “Portrait and Biographical Album of Lee County, Iowa.” Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/lee/pbh1887/pbh1887-s.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Celebrating 80yrs, you read that right, 80yrs of community radio!)We here at WKXL's NH Unscripted missed out on Mother's Day (okay, we just forgot. Alright?) and so in honor of that we decided to play some songs dedicated to love and the romancing of the ladies in our lives. We hope you love these songs as much as we do! Our Playlist:Aubrey – Bread (1972/1973).Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) – Looking Glass (1972)Candida – Tony Orlando & Dawn (1970).Layla – Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton, 1971)Delilah – Tom Jones (1968).Eloise – Barry Ryan (1968).Honey – Bobby Goldsboro (1968).Tracy – The Cuff Links (1969).Julie - Bobby Sherman (1970)Barbara Ann – The Beach Boys (1965).Donna – Richie Valens (1958/59)Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose - Tony Orlando and Dawn (1973)(NH Unscripted, as well as all of the WKXL programs, can be found on Soundcloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, etc. and airs M/W/F at 9am on 1450AM/103.9FM Concord and 101.9FM Manchester)

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 1983 and 2009! First up, the 1983 cautionary tale War Games starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, and Dabney Coleman. Braxton takes us to a controversial choice: X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2009 as a great movie starring Hugh Jackman, […] The post 011 GENZ/X | Would You Like To Play A SNIKT! appeared first on The LEFT Show.

(Celebrating 80yrs of the finest community radio!) The 60's were filled with emotions!! Crying, dreaming and loving all ran hot! Today on WKXL's NH Unscripted we're delivering the heat. Our playlist:1. Summer in the City – The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)2. (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave – Martha and the Vandellas (1963)3. Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly & the Family Stone (1969)4. Light My Fire – The Doors (1967)5. Fire – Arthur Brown (1968)6. Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash (1963)7. In the Heat of the Night – Ray Charles (1967) 8. Sunny – Bobby Hebb (1966) Bright, warm, sunny-day feel-good hit.9. Big Cold Wind – Pat Boone (1961) A chilly, lonely wind blowing through.10. I Wish It Would Rain – The Temptations (1968) Longing for cooling rain amid emotional heat.11. Sunshine Superman – Donovan (1966) Warm, sunny, psychedelic summer energy.12. Summertime Blues – Blue Cheer (1968) Hard-rocking version of the Eddie Cochran classic about summer frustrations.(NH Unscripted air M/W/F 9am 1450AM/103.9FM/101.9FM)

We invite you this episode to jump into The Wayback Machine with us to that hallowed year of 2019. Back before a global pandemic but not quite before global dread, to a time when two albums were released. One was by a band that was celebrating 50 years of music, the other was barely past its second decade. And yet, symmetry exists between these two musical entities and we're going to examine it in this, episode 249, The New School Meets The Old School!   FULL VIDEO EPISODES! That's right folks, you can see our bright smiling idiotic faces in full color on our YouTube channel. Full episodes available as well as clips.   LINKS OF INTEREST: - Here's where you can find Lettuce online - Here's where you can find Tower of Power online   ...AND ANOTHER THING: The Man They Call Tim suggests listening to Lettuce's 2012 album "Fly" Uncle Todd suggests listening to Lettuce's 2015 album "Crush"   FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL MEDIAS: Facebook - http://facebook.com/freerangeidiocy Instagram - http://instagram.com/freerangeidiocy YouTube - http://youtube.com/@freerangeidiocy

News and Updates: Pope Leo's AI Encyclical: Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for AI to be "disarmed" from monopolistic control and refocused toward humanity's common good, citing Tolkien's Gandalf. Vatican AI Translation: St. Peter's Basilica debuts an AI-powered real-time translation system, allowing Mass attendees to follow liturgical celebrations in up to 60 languages via their smartphones. Bezos on AI & Jobs: Jeff Bezos urges workers to embrace AI like a bulldozer replacing a shovel, predicting massive productivity gains, while others like Dario Amodei warn of significant white-collar job displacement. News Archives Blocked: Over 382 U.S. news outlets are now blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, fearing AI companies will use archived content as free training data, threatening free public access to journalism. Mythos Uncovers 10K Bugs: Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos AI has identified over 10,000 critical software vulnerabilities across major platforms, including 400 high-severity flaws in Cloudflare's critical systems alone.

This is the Man who Would be Khan.  While a first-year Russian student at West Point, then Major Mark Derber dropped an article from The Atlantic on my desk, Robert D. Kaplan's "The Man Who Would Be Khan". It changed my life. 20 years later, you get to hear my interview with the Man himself. COL (R) Tom Wilhelm shares his path from West Point (commissioned infantry in 1980) through a dual-track infantry/aviation start, declining the new Aviation Branch, and entering the FAO program in the mid-1980s as a Soviet/Russian FAO. Wilhelm recounts an extensive Cold War-era pipeline (FAO course, DLI Russian—joined fully by his wife—graduate school, a summer in Leningrad, and the US Army Russian Institute/Marshall Center), then FAO work with OSIA conducting arms-control inspections (Vienna Document, INF, CFE) and the Provide Hope humanitarian mission in Tajikistan amid civil war. He describes a “knife fight” to regain infantry key jobs during post–Cold War drawdowns, deployments in Macedonia and Bosnia, being imbedded with a Russian airborne brigade, a later Tajikistan attaché tour with family hardships and evacuation, Marshall Center faculty/FAO mentorship, Mongolia as dual-hatted defense attaché/security cooperation chief, an Afghanistan/Pakistan tour, retirement, and directing the Foreign Military Studies Office. He emphasizes FAO risk-taking, networking, access, and conveying what partners think, not what Americans want to hear. To read the original Robert D. Kaplan article you can find it on The Atlantic's website.  If you don't have a subscription, the WayBack Machine is your friend: https://web.archive.org/web/20121020120633/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/the-man-who-would-be-khan/302899/   COL(R) Tom Wilhelm's Recommended Reading List: GENERAL FMSO https://oe.t2com.army.mil  Look for FMSO stuff but many products from T2Com G2 are useful for FAOs. Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training https://adst.org Exceptional repository of detailed interviews that provide unparalleled country and regional backgrounds over eras. Red Team Handbook https://home.army.mil/wood/application/files/6115/8222/0759/RedTeamHB.pdf  There are actually ways to approach alternative, critical thinking—very helpful to cross-cultural communication and telling us how “they” think. Culture Shock: Leadership Lessons from the Military's Diplomatic Corps (ed. Graham Plaster, Jason Criss Howk—Book by FAOs for FAOs)  The Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner; entry level book into developing an understanding of economics and society—a baseline subject for all FAOs. Try also The Mystery of Capitalism by Hernando deSoto) The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (Arthur Herman—before you can tell us what we think they think, you should probably want to know how “we think.”)    RUSSIA The Russian Way of War (Les Grau and Charles Bartles—on FMSO website [above] or just Google it.) How Russia Fights https://www.army.mil/article/286922/how_russia_fights (Ted Donnelly, Jeff Hartman, Tom Butler, et.al.) Swimming the Volga: A US Army Officer's Experiences in Pre-Putin Russia (Peter Zwack) The Leviathan (Movie; award winning Russian film has good representation of the individual's relationship to power in Russia, among other cultural and political-social insights. Made me feel that I was back in Russia, drinking vodka and shooting bottles with an AK47.) The Trauma Zone (Seven-part series on YouTube; for a sense of post-Cold War chaos in Russia. “Chaos” conjures something tangible in Russia; it's not just an adjective.) Seventeen Moments of Spring (12-part series on YouTube; addresses the question: Why a 2025 statue to this 1973 Soviet spy thriller television series was recently installed in Moscow. Part of the answer has to do with those untrustworthy Americans in secret alliance with Nazis against Russia—a once and current theme.)   WHILE YOU LAYOVER AT THE SERRAI The Empire of the Steppes (Renee Grousset—dense but essential for anybody that thinks they are a Eurasianist, and mandatory for all Silk Road FAOs.) Mission to Tashkent (F.M. Bailey) News From Tartary (Peter Flemming) Eastern Approaches (Fitzroy Maclean) The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk) Some Far and Distant Place (Jonathan Addleton) Across Mongolian Plains (Roy Chapman Andrews—American FAO archetype, 1916-17) The Wilder Shores of Love (Lesley Blanch—Isabel Burton, Jane Digby, Amiee Dubucq, and Isabelle Eberhrdt join my long-suffering bride, Cheri, in FAO-like misadventures abroad)   00:00 Meet Tom Wilhelm 01:28 The Man Who Would Be Khan 02:24 West Point to Dual Track 07:11 Choosing the FAO Path 11:05 Soviet FAO Pipeline 14:01 Leningrad Language Adventure 19:12 Russian Institute and IRTs 23:33 Wall Comes Down Up Close 27:02 Echo Network and Mentorship 31:04 First FAO Job Arms Control 35:32 Provide Hope in Tajikistan 40:31 Back to Infantry in Europe 42:39 RIF Era Career Knife Fight 44:36 FAO Cuts and Reassignments 45:54 Branch Qualifying Knife Fight 46:08 Macedonia to Bosnia Pivot 48:42 Self Deploying to Bosnia 50:27 Joint Commission in War Zone 53:03 Inside the Russian Brigade 55:11 How Russians Command 58:48 FAO Lesson on Mission Command 01:06:51 Tajikistan Arrival and Isolation 01:09:17 Embassy Life and Local Allies 01:13:29 Surviving Dushanbe Living Conditions 01:18:15 Civil War and Afghan Spillover 01:23:55 Family Evacuation and Zinni Meeting 01:28:28 Soft Power And Access 01:28:51 Peacekeeping Expertise Built 01:31:20 FAO Track And Command List 01:34:19 Marshall Center Fellowship 01:37:03 Mongolia Dual Hat Role 01:44:32 9/11 And Mongolia Pivot 01:46:33 Building Mongolian Peacekeeping 01:55:10 Mongolian Curse Artifact 02:01:27 Back To Marshall Center 02:04:43 Afghanistan To Pakistan Liaison 02:07:23 Retirement And FIMSO 02:09:16 Hall Of Fame And Farewell

Todd Conklin interviews Martha Acosta, a pioneer in human performance and instructional design, about using organizational "pain points" and paradoxes as early indicators of system failures. They discuss why near misses and workplace frustrations are valuable signals and how leaders can turn those tensions into opportunities for learning and improvement. The episode offers practical advice for managers: be present, look for pressure points across roles, and treat minor pains as diagnostic cues to prevent larger incidents. Martha translates high-level ideas into actionable steps leaders can use tomorrow.

The Wayback Machine is a project of the Internet Archive. It sends out web crawlers to take snapshots of the internet, creating a digital library of web pages. But now, some news publications are blocking its crawlers over concerns that AI companies will access the Wayback Machine's publicly available archive and then train their AI models with the content.Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes talked about this with Andrew Deck at Harvard's Nieman Lab.

The Wayback Machine is a project of the Internet Archive. It sends out web crawlers to take snapshots of the internet, creating a digital library of web pages. But now, some news publications are blocking its crawlers over concerns that AI companies will access the Wayback Machine's publicly available archive and then train their AI models with the content.Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes talked about this with Andrew Deck at Harvard's Nieman Lab.