Each episode we use a place as a jumping off point for a conversation about music - anywhere from the obvious to the obscure. Join us as we build our music map of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A rambling and too brief history podcast on the people, companies and events that make up the great comic book medium.
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Rock 'n' Roll books and documentaries from classic rock music legends are reviewed, previewed, and most importantly recommended. Join host Big Rick as he spotlights all the new rock 'n' roll books and docs from the most iconic rock bands in history and points out where to go for the good stuff. The Allman Brothers, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, The Beatles, Van Halen, REM, The Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan are just a few artists with must read, must see, new projects out. Tune in ever ...
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It's time to get out of your head and into your comeback! Rock Your Comeback is all about helping you find your power. Helping you connect with your best self, feel aligned, and find confidence to make real change in your world. This podcast is full of actionable tips and tools to help you step into your Comeback Era. Alongside interviews and stories of massive comebacks, Nichole talks about the power of understanding your mind, spirit, and intuition. Learning to trust the Universe and level ...
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A podcast where a bunch of nerds talk about what they're listening to, reading, and watching. Hosted by Dayton Johnson and friends.
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Welcome to Rock Book Show, your guide to great new rock-related books and interviews with their authors. Formerly a YouTube series with well over a half-million views, now we’re back as a podcast!
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Stories that will inspire with people that you will admire.
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A Mini-Podcast that pairs funny humor columns from writer-speaker Jay Webster with original music by singer-songwriter Ann-Janette.
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Iowa-based news, politics, and culture podcast. Founded in August 2019. https://rockhardcauc.us
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Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our l ...
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Are you a rock climber obsessed with adventure reads? Join Black lady climbers, Tiff and Mel, as they dive into climbing and outdoor adventure books that fuel their real-life passions. Whether you're injured, resting between climbs, or just need an escape, this book club podcast has you covered!
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Hosted by Dr. Tom Rakow, the Rock Dove Publications Quill introduces listeners to unique Bible-based devotionals for dog lovers, hunters, and anglers. Episodes include such things as: true stories of hunting and fishing miracles and what the Scriptures have to say with regards to hunting.
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Welcome to Franchise Interviews weekly podcast and radio show. If you ever dreamed of one day owning your own business, then you have come to the right place. Listen to detailed interviews/podcasts with some of the most informative sources on the topics of franchising and entrepreneurship. People are hungry for good vital content (Keyes, 2009). To date, we have recorded over 850 interviews on our weekly franchise radio show with some of the top franchisors, franchise experts, franchise attor ...
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Mark Dantzer, Pat Buzzard, Chuck Johnson and Ryan Smith read books about musicians and discuss them on a monthly podcast.
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Established in 2011 - Two fans' exploration of the world's greatest progressive rock band
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With a general interest in the outdoors, and more specifically rock climbing, theDIHEDRAL Podcast brings together people from all walks of life who share an endearing devotion to “the outdoors”. We sit down with guests who share a warm predilection for mother nature and the possibilities she presents to us all. Our mutual interests in rock climbing, hiking, writing, growing, and exploring brought us together. We hope you find our eccentric little “corner” of the universe just as inviting as ...
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When It Was Cool reviews, remembers, and celebrates the toys, music, action figures, television, movies, and popular culture of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Super Friends, Comic Books, Comics, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, My Little Pony, Alice in Wonderland, books, Six Million Dollar Man, Godzilla, video games, and all things retro.
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The Book of Acts
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Interviews with Historians about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
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The Blitzkrieg POP is a pop culture podcast by the crew at Infinite Collectibles in Paducah, KY. Brothers Adam and Alex talk owning a comic shop, reading and enjoying comics, movies, anime, Star Wars, and so much more.
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Texas music, bands, songwriting, and more www.kingrichardthebayouboys.com
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The heart cry of most churches is to see people transformed by the message of the gospel. But very few of our churches are experiencing the kind of growth and transformation they long to see. Each podcast is packed with real stories of churches that have seen the power of the gospel at work. These ordinary church leaders talk with us to unpack the principles described in our book, “On This Rock: Simple Lessons and achievable habits for church growth”.
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Welcome to Two Crones and Book where your hosts Chell and Annette will give you honest in-depth book reviews and share book themed rambles that may or may not, on occasions, take a dark and twisty, if not bizarre turn. Reviews start with light spoilers for those of you who may just want to know if the books are any good before reading and then we head to the spoiler floor, where we give a blow-by-blow breakdown for any of you cheeky chappies, who want to sound like you’ve read the book but j ...
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A Podcast Series on Losing & Finding Your Way Back to God Have you ever felt like God stopped listening?You watched all your friends move on but your prayers seemed to go unanswered. You felt alone, discouraged and disappointed so your faith just just quietly disappeared? I know that feeling—because I lived it for 44 years. Hi, my name is Donna author of Unexpectedly, Out of Faith and the founder of the Rock and Honey Collective This book will not teach out how to be perfect in your relation ...
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Mandy Jackson-Beverly is a confessed bibliophile who believes independent bookshops are the gems of communities and authors are the rock stars of the literary world. As an author and book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, Mandy profoundly understands and appreciates what it takes to write a book and present it to readers. She is instinctively curious and enjoys connecting with her guests. Learn more at mandyjacksonbeverly.com and thebookshoppodcast.com. And remember to subscribe to ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Germany about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies
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This is what adventure sounds like. Climb. Ski. Hike. Bike. Paddle. Run. Travel. Whatever your passion, we are all dirtbags. Fitz Cahall and the Duct Tape Then Beer team present stories about the dreamers, athletes and wanderers.
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🥂 Serving Black & POC books 📚 Bold convos, stirred not shaken. #PlotOnTheRocks
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“Bring Me My Books” is a podcast where bookworms unite in the quest for reads that make you ponder the big stuff: the truth, beauty, and goodness of God. Join hosts Kristi Cain and Travis Lowe in discovering and discussing the ideas of authors who have the potential to shape us, inspire us, and make us think.
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Where pop-culture comes to die...
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Stories synonymous with sex, drugs and rock n roll. Bronze Winner of the 2023 Podcast Awards.
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Travis Ruskus is a rock balance meditation artist who teaches people to find peace in daily life. Based in San Francisco, he has been sharing his passion of balancing stones to Fortune 500 companies, charities, and individuals in pursuit of enlightenment. His book “The Rock Balancer’s Guide” is published in multiple languages and shares the 7 key steps to making peace a daily habit. If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review! Follow Travis on Instagram: @travisruskus
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Jay Mac keeps you up to date with what is happening in the world of rock. If it is happening with your favorite classic rockers, she's on it!
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We started the Father Daughter Book Club because we love reading together, and we hope to inspire other parents and children to read more together also. We are Chris (the father) and Kahlea (the daughter) Peoples. Please enjoy our podcast!
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The world's number 1 Goth talk podcast! We discuss news related to the goth experience with a different guest each month, exploring the history, music, literature, fashion and community of the culture. We also feature interviews with artists and academics, album, book and movie reviews, debates, drama and more!
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The source for Phil Rossi Audio.
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Conversations with authors from the worlds of sport and entertainment. Join us (after the lockdown...) at our live events in London, Brighton and across the south east. Hosted by Duncan Steer.
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The Rock Star Autobiography Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast for music lovers by music's two biggest fans, Christian and Martha. Join them as they review autobiographies by the greatest and most famous musicians in history, and hear them share their candid insights into the musicians behind them.
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Book Vs. Movie is the podcast that ponders the question: "Which was better...the book or the movie?" We spoil away the details, uncover the plot points, discuss casting choices and shower with praise (or pummel with snark) as we see fit. Hosts are Margo P. (She's Nacho Mama's Blog) and Margo D. (Creator of Brooklyn Fit Chick.com) and we are not afraid to tell it like it is!
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Print Run is a podcast created and hosted by Laura Zats and Erik Hane. Its aim is simple: to have the conversations surrounding the book and writing industries that too often are glossed over by conventional wisdom, institutional optimism, and false seriousness. We’re book people, and we want to examine the questions that lie at the heart of that life: why do books, specifically, matter? In a digital world, what cultural ground does book publishing still occupy? Whether it’s trends in the qu ...
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John and Pat have no experience and are uniquely unqualified to discuss Pop Culture. Yet, week after week they get together to take one piece of Pop Culture from history, and compare it to something more modern. Never offering insight, but often finding new ways to insult.
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Based on his live one-man show Rock & Roll Politics, the broadcaster and author Steve Richards takes a weekly behind-the-scenes tour of UK politics and the media that shapes the way we view the epic political dramas. The future is ridiculously unpredictable and the past is so easy to misread. Subscribe to your weekly guide through seismic times.
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Text, Prose & RocknRoll is the only podcast dedicated to the documented account of musicians, rock biographers, and documentarians. A MUST for fans of Fresh Air & Behind the Music. Hosted by Emmy nominated Music Journalist, Kris Kosach.
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Podcasters team up to talk about comic book team-ups!
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Author and musician Matt Syverson discusses music, movies, books, and writing. He is the author of numerous rock fiction novels, including "Black Dog" and "Blue Whiskey".
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Retirement isn’t just about money. In our show we talk about the other things that will impact you such as: Social and Family Adventure and Travel Volunteer and Philanthropy Spiritual/soul Sex in retirement (I usually have therapists discuss this topic) Helping your parents/sandwich generation issues Baby Boomers are often helping both their children and their parents at the same time. Our goal is to help you have a great retirement, regardless of the amount of money you’ve saved. We want yo ...
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Ep 100 What do a Rock gig and a library have in common? US!
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27:13Welcome Bookalishous Babes to episode 100! We never thought we would make it, not sure how we did but we decided to celebrate anyway, wanna hear what we did? Mention websites: John Rylands Research Institute and Library (The University of Manchester Library) Chetham's Library |The oldest public Library in the English speaking world Skunk Anansie SP…
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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1:12:05The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend. As Julia Sneeringer reveals in A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 (Bloomsbury, 2018), though, this was just the most famous episode in the neighborhood’s momentous engagement with …
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Archives - The Life of Joe Kubert, Comic Book's Rock, Part One
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27:23And now a resposting of this first part of this rambling and too brief biography of Joe Kubert, one of the great innovators of the comic book genre.By JT Wheatley
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Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection- Book Review
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11:09This book is equal parts technical chronicle and counterculture memoir dives deep into the Grateful Dead, and the massive, brain-bending machinery used to build their iconic sound system- The Wall of Sound. *This episode is sponsored by the Outlaw Music Festival 10th Anniversary Merchandise. Want to win some of that great Outlaw merchandise? Just s…
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TEASER - Doughbrain Book Club: Hard-Wired #2 (7/23/2025)
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2:18Eden and Justin read about the Prick family. Listen to the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/134635384https://rockhardcauc.usBy Rock Hard Caucus
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Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
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1:03:14On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union that opened the Eastern Front in World War II. With lightning speed and devastating success, the German army tore through Soviet territory and rolled over the Red Army, scoring some of the most dramatic victories in military history--until the bl…
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Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
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51:51Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they’re together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New…
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Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
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1:30:35Are zoos an anachronism in the 21st century when we can watch animals in their natural habitat, close-up from our couches without worrying about cruelty? Should they go the way of other bygone era ‘spectacles’ and ‘attractions’ that we now regard as barbaric? There are vocal campaigners and activists who believe so. Heather Browning and Walter Veit…
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Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
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1:15:17Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA (Syracuse University Press, 2021). This book masterfully bridges the gap between academic research and real-world policy implications. Hear from the author himself as he reflects on …
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Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering God in the Bible from Eden to Zion" (Lexham Press, 2025)
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34:20How can war stories, farming proverbs, and strange visions draw you closer to Jesus? In Four Mountains: Encountering God in the Bible from Eden to Zion, Michael Niebauer shows how to see the Bible's big story and meet with God in his word. Four mountain-top encounters with God (Eden, Sinai, Tabor, and Zion) unify the Bible's grand story. The earlie…
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"Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsideration of how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation"
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1:08:59“Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsidering how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation” by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera appeared in Nuevos Horizontes in 2024. The article examines age as a dimension of identity, creativity and cognition, and in this episode, Heidi Landecker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jenny Wilson consider the importa…
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Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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56:10Dom Ford joins Jana Byars to talk about Mytholudics: Game and Myth (DeGruyter Brill, 2025). Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folk…
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Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines
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24:04In the Philippines, rice serves as a fundamental component of the diet, typically accompanying most meals as either white or brown rice. It is also a key ingredient in various snacks and desserts. Consequently, the Philippines ranks among the top countries globally in rice per capita consumption, alongside nations like China and India. However, the…
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In the third episode of Season Two of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares take you on an immersive journey through the hot nights and wild streets of Lower Manhattan during the Seventies. For this episode, Jesse Rifkin, a New York-based music historian and the owner and sole operator of Walk on the Wild Side Tours NYC, designed a…
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“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Revolutionary Spirituality with Connie Jones
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1:41:12In this episode, “Truth is a Pathless Land,” we speak with Transformative Inquiry Program faculty member Connie Jones to explore the micropolitical stakes of revolutionary spirituality through Krishnamurti’s challenge to religious prescription, psychological conditioning, and egoic identification. We discuss techniqueless meditation, the primacy of…
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Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
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Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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40:39The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at the international level, focusing on international law. It adopts a descriptive, critical, and reconstructive approach. In order to do so, the book clarifies what political legitimacy is in general an…
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Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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1:03:30Covering the pivotal period from the mid-seventeenth century through the era of the French Revolution, Christy Pichichero's The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell University Press, 2018; paperback ed. 2020) is a fascinating interdisciplinary study that pushes us to rethink our ideas abou…
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In a Question Time Special the Rock N Roll Politics co-operative reflects on the 'pause' of some rail electrification schemes, the degree to which the UK's independent nuclear deterrent is not independent, and what's wrong with digital ID cards? RocknRoll Politics is live at the Edinburgh festival from this Sunday August 10th, with a different show…
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From the Stage to the Boardroom: The Business Lessons of a Telephone Doctor
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28:01Nancy Friedman, the founder of Telephone Doctor and a theatre actress, makes a compelling case for how skills honed on the stage can translate directly into business success. During a recent interview, Friedman shared her journey from performing in sold-out shows to building a thriving customer service training company, revealing key takeaways that…
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House of Frankenstein (1944) Retro Movie Review
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30:20A great Universal monsters horror film from 1944! House of Frankenstein features Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man in action with and against each other! A fine and fun horror movie! Check out our Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/wiwcoolBy When It Was Cool
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Real Stories, Real Lessons: Organizing Your Estate to Protect Your Family with David Edee
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30:48This episode of the Rock Your Retirement show dives into a topic that many people shy away from but is absolutely crucial: estate planning and what happens when we’re no longer here. Host Kathe Kline, accompanied by Barb Mock, welcomes guest David Edee, who brings his personal and professional experience to the discussion. David shares his own diff…
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The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” (Part 2)
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37:54Nora Helmer begins Act I as a devoted wife to her respectable husband, Torvald, and a devoted mother to her young children. She ends Act III by walking out on all of them and closing the door behind her. The emotional distance covered in these three acts (representing a span of just a few days in the lives of the Helmers) makes Nora one of the grea…
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Bookworm Phoenix: Lucy Yu, Owner Yu & Me Books
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34:27Send us a text In this episode, I chat with Lucy Yu, founder and owner of Yu & Me Books. Trained as a chemical engineer, her life took an unexpected turn during the pandemic when grief from losing a close friend led to deep reflection about her purpose. "I'm here on earth to do art and foster love," she realized, and from this epiphany, You and Me …
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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1:10:31Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities. Focusing on themes of reform, pol…
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Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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1:31:18In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world's largest modern urba…
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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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53:47While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency in his new book The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (Harvard University Press, 2019). Francis-Fallon, Assistant Professor of History at Western Ca…
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Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)
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1:29:26A richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations. A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips throu…
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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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53:27When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though their history has been told before, Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2021) draws upon previously unavailable mat…
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Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
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1:03:10Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book about Shirley Hazzard's work. Theory & Practice, her seventh novel, recently won Australia's Stella Prize for writing by women. Theory and Practice is set in 1986, when “beautiful, radical ideas” are in th…
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Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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1:27:12Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms, and institutions, but because Caesar's…
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César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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42:49Today we are joined by César Brioso, author of the book Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Blending the love for baseball fans in Cuba had during the 1950s with the political upheaval that led to Fidel Castro’s rise to power in 1959, Brioso weaves a fascin…
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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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53:27When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though their history has been told before, Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2021) draws upon previously unavailable mat…
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Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
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1:00:13Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction. But Dr. Judith Grisel, in her new book Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (Doubleday, 2019), uses her personal story to illuminate the ways in which …
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Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
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32:11A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to harden literally—turning to chalk. As his transformation unfolds, he pours his memories, secrets, and darkly funny confessions into a piece of chalk he stole at school. Through the eyes of this precocious…
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Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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1:04:36The Secular Enlightenment by Professor Margaret C. Jacob, has been called a major new history on how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday lives. It’s a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures shar…
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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1:12:05The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend. As Julia Sneeringer reveals in A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 (Bloomsbury, 2018), though, this was just the most famous episode in the neighborhood’s momentous engagement with …
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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ed. et al., "Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times" (Bloombury, 2025)
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1:00:15Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts including a never-before-published survivor interview and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and …
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Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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43:57How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their hands” to credibly protect their interests. Dan Reiter overturns this perspective with the compelling argument that states craft flexible foreign policies to avoid unwanted wars. Through a comprehens…
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
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1:05:02The collection of wisdom fables known as Kalila and Dimna began its long literary life in Sanskrit more than two millennia ago, and was subsequently translated to numerous languages. But it is the Arabic version, adapted from Middle Persian by the eighth-century scholar Ibn al-Muqaffa, that has left the most substantial literary footprint. A founda…
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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1:00:09How and when did Russia become a country of smokers? Why did makhorka and papirosy become ubiquitous products of tobacco consumption? Tricia Starks explores these themes as well as the connections between tobacco, gender, and empire in her latest monograph, Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia (Cornell University Press, …
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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1:05:38Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library—if not as extensive as Auerbach’s—eve…
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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ed. et al., "Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times" (Bloombury, 2025)
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1:00:15Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts including a never-before-published survivor interview and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and …
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Anand Pandian, "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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52:22In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, he crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different soc…
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David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
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47:19No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and relig…
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209 - Debacle with Dan Stevenson (8/3/2025)
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1:08:32We're re-entering the cutthroat world of Iowa City electoral politics with this hard-hitting interview of ICCSD School Board candidate Dan Stevenson. Learn more about Dan and find his contact info at https://danstevenson.orgCall us at (319) 849-8733!Go here for full episode notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135416380https://rockhardcauc.us…
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Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025)
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34:00hat is the relationship between culture and trade? In Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America Sarah E. K. Smith, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Art, Culture and Global Relations, examines the history of cultural relatio…
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Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
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48:11From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blend of genres in innovative and unheard-of ways. Not only did his exploratory styles challenge the expectations of what popular music could sound like, …
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