Were talking nothing but latest football news and story's and will discuss every game week by please tune in at 230 on Tuesday Let's Talk Football !!
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Patrick Fitzgerald, the VA Loan Guy, is located in San Antonio, Texas and is a true “One Stop Lender”. We originate, underwrite, and close all types of loans. We offer Texas Vet, Veterans, FHA, Conventional, Jumbo, Adjustable Rate, and Investment products.
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Bikes or Death is a podcast centered around the growing sport of bikepacking, adventure cycling, and the outdoors. The show features the amazing people who participate in these activities and contribute so greatly to the cycling community. The Bikes or Death Podcast is dedicated to sharing the stories and experiences of these individuals with the hopes that it inspires others to get outside, get on their bikes, and experience what our natural world has waiting for them. At its heart Bikes or ...
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Bienvenue to Mapping Paris! Join us on an auditory adventure of Paris, a capital city that encompasses a multitude of emblematic monuments, a focal point of intellectual progress, and of course secluded passages. Each episode will offer a new scope to the sites of this iconic city; allow us to guide you through the stories of these places and open up an understanding of what Paris is today. On-y-va, let us embark to uncover the hidden stories while Mapping Paris. Producers: Pauline Blanchet ...
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Almost true stories that may have happened.
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Vital Dissent seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. Topics include: an antiwar foreign policy, historical revisionism, technocracy, eugenics, government & private corruption, & the use & development of propaganda. Host Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. He is a practicing attorney. His work has appeared on Antiwar.com ...
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One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, artists, political leaders, and other luminaries. For more, follow us on Twitter @1truepod. You can also email us at [email protected].
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TV and movie talk, with a friendly Canadian and his North American buddies, along with some travel talk and Quirky Questions!
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Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engaging chats with leading experts, it explores aspects of a largely ignored, but commonly evoked, period, and shares new and exciting research on medieval Ireland. [email protected] Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University & Taighde Éireann. Views expressed are speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silv ...
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This is Treated, a new podcast with Dr. Sara Szal (formerly Gottfried): Real talk. Real science. Real solutions. Each week you will leave with the tools you need to heal your mind, body, and soul so you can take your health into your own hands. Most people are trying to optimize, it’s in our nature. But we can’t “to-do-list” our way out of taking care of ourselves. This means health needs a perspective shift. On Treated, Dr. Sara Szal sits down with experts in their fields and patients who h ...
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Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at [email protected].
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A show about Weird Stuff, hosted by AP Strange. AP interviews cool weirdos about their work, and invites friends on to discuss second sequels in franchises in a series called "Third Time's the Charm". Other fun surprises await...
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Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
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An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
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Host Todd Hancock was born in Moosejaw in the early 70s. Moved to Vancouver before his first birthday. Hancock is a longtime Canadian radio on-air personality and podcaster, well known for his time at CFOX in Vancouver, between 1999 and 2014 (afternoon show 2002-2014). He is a multiple award winner with The Georgia Straight, The Westender & Vancouver Province reader polls. Todd launched the ambitious three-guests-per-episode Toddcast podcast in 2015; showcasing musical, sporting and entertai ...
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Mens Rea is the legal principle of intent that must be proved in a number of crimes, such as murder. It means literally, "guilty mind". Mens Rea Podcast explores the most notorious crimes from Ireland and the UK and the court cases that followed. Join your host, Sinead, every fortnight when a new case is discussed.
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What makes life better? Butter! At The Better Butter Bureau we want to share all things butter. We are on our journey to try Butter from all around the world to see which Butters are truly Better Butter! Due to lack of listeners I am no longer doing this podcast.
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Electric vehicles are the future. But with new technologies comes confusion! What's real? And what is hyperbole? Who are the people to know and what are their visions? Leading global electric vehicle innovators and executives join Michael J. Dunne in no-nonsense conversations about what that electric future looks like. Speaking with some of the biggest in the field like Fisker, NIO, Lucid, Xpeng and more, Dunne - author, entrepreneur and keynote speaker – knows the business of electric vehic ...
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The GAA Hour is Ireland's leading GAA podcast. Join Dan Casey, Lee Costello and Niall McIntyre each week to look at the biggest talking points from across hurling and football. The lads look back on the weekend's action, debate the biggest issues in the game and hear from real GAA fans to get their thoughts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Women, marriage and the law in later medieval Ireland with Dr Sparky Booker
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56:23** We are taking a week off and will be back January 16th!** Happy Stephen’s Day and Happy New Year! I hope everyone is having a very lovely Christmas break. This week we are joined by the incredible Dr Sparky Booker, Assistant Professor in Medieval Irish History, Trinity College Dublin. Sparky enlightens us on the legal systems in force in 14th an…
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761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time)
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1:17:45Stephen Mitchell has translated or adapted some of the world's most beautiful and spiritually rich texts, including The Gospel According to Jesus, The Book of Job, Gilgamesh, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and The Way of Forgiveness. In his la…
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Episode 93 - TV Time! Murders and Aliens -- Get Your Palate Cleanser Ready
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1:35:09Join Mike, Nick, Hector, Tony and I as we take another deep-dive into the latest TV shows! Apologies if the sound is a little "off" on this one. Shows discussed: Only Murders in the Building S5, Down Cemetery Road, The Family Next Door, Nobody Wants This S2, Primo, Austin, Slow Horses S5, Being Eddie, Man on the Inside S2, Old Dogs New Tricks, DMV,…
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760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge
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1:13:57In this holiday-themed episode, a sentimental Jacke takes a look at Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), and the creation of Ebeneezer Scrooge. A version of this episode first aired in December 2020. That episode has not been available in our archives for several years. Join Jacke on a trip through literary England! Join Jacke and fellow lite…
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Ep380 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW Part 1 (106 minutes - Dec 23 '25)
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1:47:57NINE GUESTS in our Year In Review Part 1! MUSIC #BRKNLove singer Justin Benlolo, #WideMouthMason singer Shaun Verreault, #Anciients singer Kenny Cook SPORTS Vancouver #Canucks anthem singer Elizabeth Irving, Vancouver #WhitecapsFC CEO & Sporting Director Axel Schuster, #IFBB pro national champion Alicia Bell ENTERTAINMENT #Cosplay streamer Danielle…
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Listen To This ep297 - ET Canada’s Sangita Patel on ET Canada job was supposed to be just a 6 month contract (Dec 23 ’25)
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4:20ET Canada’s Sangita Patel on ET Canada job was supposed to be just a 6 month contract (Dec 23 ’25) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Stop Me… ep185 - Mother Mother on How social media has affected their band (Dec 23 ’25)
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3:19Mother Mother on how social media has affected their band (Dec 23 ’25) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Having a Very Patrick Swayze Xmas with Aaron Gulyas and Blackwolf John Oates
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1:45:25As a Christmas treat, this week's episode is a celebration of Patrick Swayze and the movie Road House as well as a love letter to Mystery Science Theater 3000, with Aaron Gulyas and Blackwolf John Oates getting festive with AP. For the uninitiated, non-MSTies in podcast land, this stems from a musical number in the MST3k episode Santa Claus Conquer…
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Suzanne del Gizzo on "Christmas in Paris"
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1:00:46Thank you for making 2025 such a special year for One True Podcast! Together, we devoted shows to the centenary of In Our Time, to our One True Book Club discussion of W.H. Hudson’s The Purple Land, to the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, and to so much more. We’re so grateful to all of our amazing guests for enriching and enlivening our prog…
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759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham
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1:04:39Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Godfather routinely tops lists of the greatest films ever made - and when it doesn't, it's often because its sequel, The Godfather II, has replaced it. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Karen Spence about her new book, The Companion Guide to the Godfather Trilogy: Betrayal, Loyalty, and Family. PLUS Elyse…
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418: The Black Dahlia & the Prairie Heiress Murders: One Killer? w/ Eli Frankel
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1:30:19In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for…
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As a shorter, solo bonus episode this month AP shares a bit of his writings on the theme of coyotes- one a very old performance poem and the other a more recent meditation on living alongside and communicating with nature. They are very different in character but, as explained in the show, are synchronistically tied to one another... First, AP shar…
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758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (#5 Greatest Book of All Time)
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57:21How well can we know someone through the objects they encountered? In this episode, Jacke talks to Kathryn Sutherland, Senior Research fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford, about her new book Jane Austen in 41 Objects, which examines the objects Jane Austen encountered during her life alongside newer memorabilia inspired by the life she lived. PLUS…
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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley
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1:14:29Original Publication Date: 4/3/22 On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead, and the man whom he suspected his wife of having an affair with, Stewart Fife. Kimberly Tilley makes her third visit to t…
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Chasing the White Whale with Joe Matheny and Leah Prime
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1:37:49This week's show is a journey aboard the virtual Pequod as Joe Matheny and returning guest Leah Prime join AP in a discussion about the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick; or, The Whale- its esoteric qualities, the influence throughout literature and culture, and its personal effects on everyone in conversation here. They discuss works of art and li…
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Gráinne Ní Mháille and Joan Fitzgerald with Emily Little
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46:10We have a special episode today with recent Maynooth graduate Emily Little winner of the NUI Mansion House prize for her BA in Irish history. Emily is currently a secondary school teacher and studying for her Professional Masters in Education and makes an inspiring appeal for a reevaluation of the junior cert History curriculum. Recent reforms in h…
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Why It's So Hard to Fix China's Overcapacity and Brutal Price Wars. Lizzi Lee, Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute
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52:52Our guest today, Lizzi Lee, is smart, daring and unconventional. After earning a PhD in economics from MIT, Lizzi Lee took a bold right turn and dove into research and writing. A few weeks ago, Lizzi wrote a very compelling piece in Foreign Affairs about the risks facing Chinese companies - price wars and vanishing margins at home. The stubborn und…
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417: The Shipwreck of the Mignonette w/ Adam Cohen
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58:06On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacri…
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757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)
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1:07:22In 1949, American critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New Yorker, was quick to recognize the achievement of George Orwell's new novel. "[P]rofound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating," he said. 1984 "confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life." And while the Cold War and the book's primary satirical tar…
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Ep379 Big Wreck drummer Sekou Lumumba, Mr. Tequila & actor Seth Edeen (64 min - Dec 9 ’25)
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1:06:05Episode 379: Big Wreck drummer Sekou Lumumba, sports loudmouth Mr. Tequila & actor Seth Edeen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | My Last Book with Jake Poller
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58:07Did you think we already knew everything there was to know about Virginia Woolf? Think again! In this episode, Jacke talks to scholar and editor Urmila Seshagiri about The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, which presents three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet, which Woolf wrote in 1907, eight yea…
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Chinese Automakers Are Pouring Into Mexico. Luis Lozano, Former CEO, Toyota de Mexico.
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32:21Earlier this year, I enjoyed a delicious lunch in Mexico City with Luis Lozano, the former CEO of Toyota de Mexico. Luis immediately impressed me with his knowledge of the Mexican car market, the shock of hundreds of thousands of Chinese imports since 2020 and the possibilities that Chinese automakers will try to make Mexico a production base for e…
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Stop Me… ep184 - The Walking Dead actress Kerry Cahill on The hardest Thing about Acting (Dec 9 ’25)
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3:50The Walking Dead actress Kerry Cahill on The hardest Thing about Acting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Listen To This ep296 - Age of Electric & Mounties’ Ryan Dahle talks Career Highlights (Dec 9 ’25)
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5:05Age of Electric & Mounties’ Ryan Dahle talks Career Highlights! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Listening to Silence with Jeremy Vaeni
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2:08:41This week, Jeremy Vaeni joins AP to talk about his lifetime of strange experiences and his new book, Kundalini and the Secrets of Silence. Vaeni has a long history within the realms of the paranormal and ufology, having been the co-host of Paratopia and the host of various other podcast and YouTube projects such as Wise Ask and He's so Vaeni. In ad…
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Ep. 207 ~ Kyle & Hannah - West Texas Showdown, 1st & 2nd Overall
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2:51:47For the past five years, the Texas Showdown Series has been slowly, inevitably, drifting west. We started in the dense, pine-soaked forests of East Texas, moved through the rugged limestone of the Hill Country, but the destination was always clear: Big Bend. Few landscapes in the world capture the heart and soul the way West Texas does. For those w…
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Scott Yarbrough on "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
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53:03One True Podcast would never let 2025 end without one more episode celebrating the centenary of In Our Time, so today we discuss a classic short story from that collection: “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife.” Scholar (and podcaster) Scott Yarbrough visits us from Charleston to lead us through the many elements of this great story: Dr. Adams’s quarr…
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755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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42:51At the start of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based on his daughters’ professions of love, but he portions it out before hearing all of their answers. For Nan Da, a professor of English literature who emigrated from China to the United States as a child in the 1990s, this startling opening scene sparked a re…
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416: Nazi Germany’s Bungled Operation Condor w/ Gavin Whitehead
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57:52In 1942, two Abwehr German agents, including Johannes Eppler, slipped into Cairo to gather intelligence for Rommel’s desert campaign, getting help from local allies like the famous dancer Hekmet Fahmy and Anwar Sadat. Despite their efforts to infiltrate British circles, the whole operation eventually fell apart once Allied intelligence caught on. M…
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Episode 92 - Movie Time! Feel the Rush of Movies!
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1:23:55Another Chaos Night! We shake off the rust and dive into a bunch of movies that were mostly "meh". Fortunately, a few stood out, either because they were excellent or stunningly bad. But fear not -- as always, there's plenty of laughs and recommendations in there. Movies mentioned (among others): Train Dreams, House of Dynamite, Tron: Ares, The Run…
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754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric White
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55:43Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born into relative obscurity and died in mysterious circumstances at the age of 29. And yet, somehow this ambitious cobbler's son brought about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture. In this episode, Jacke talks to Stephen Greenblatt about his book Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Ti…
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Skating into a Magical Life with Joe Ledoux
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1:36:11This week, magical artist Joe Ledoux joins AP for a whimsical exploration of stage magic, fine art, and skateboarding- and how Joe combines these interests in his work. They talk about Joe's journey in learning how to skate and how to perform magic, the importance of creativity and persistence, and the actual magical effects of art and performance.…
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The Viking Paradigm with Prof. Alex Woolf
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58:56This week we welcome back Prof. Alex Woolf (University of St. Andrews) to the podcast to question whether ‘the Vikings’ is a useful concept that helps us understand history. We explore why certain people left Scandinavia in the late 8th century and what they were called in the various places they raided and eventually settled. Alex warns us against…
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415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon
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55:04November 10, 2025, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy later memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic song. My guest is bestselling author John U. Bacon, who shares details from his new book, "The Gales of November: The U…
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753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | Giving Thanks | My Last Book with Eve Dunbar
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1:17:22When Jacke started the podcast in 2015, he decided to privilege books that were at least fifty years old. (Longtime listeners will know he's made a few exceptions, but for the most part, that's been the policy.) Last month, the History of Literature Podcast celebrated its tenth anniversary - which means there are ten years' worth of books that are …
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752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book with Keith Cooper
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1:01:28Charlotte Brontë wasn't born the eldest child, but she was thrust into a leadership role at the age of ten, as the Brontë children dealt with the tragic deaths of their mother and two eldest sisters. How did this affect their family dynamic? And when the younger two sisters, Emily and Anne, had their novels accepted while Charlotte's alone was reje…
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Resisting Magically with Michael M. Hughes
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1:51:46This week, Michael M. Hughes returns to the show to talk about the recently released second edition of his book Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change. Hughes is an author, game designer, activist, journalist, and magician, and in this episode he talks about the genesis of his book on magical resistance and the need for a second ed…
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Ep378 Sloan Patrick Pentland, WWE ring announcer Golden Knights host Mark Shunock & actress Gina La Piana (61 minute Nov 25 '25)
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1:03:39Episode 378: Sloan Patrick Pentland, WWE ring announcer Golden Knights host Mark Shunock & actress Gina La Piana (61 minutes)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Stop Me… ep183 - City News Vancouver sports anchor Marcus Fitzgerald talks career highlight (Nov 25 ’25)
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5:30City News Vancouver sports anchor Marcus Fitzgerald talks about his career highlight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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Listen To This ep295 - Fitness expert Carmel Rodriguez on what to look for in a Personal Trainer (Nov 25 ’25)
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4:01Fitness expert Carmel Rodriguez on what to look for in a Personal Trainer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Todd Hancock
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414: The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley
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54:41In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, slipped arsenic into her family’s food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear. What followed was a murder investigation and trial…
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Ahmed Honeini on William Faulkner, Part 2
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59:47The prominent Faulkner scholar Ahmed Honeini first joined us in 2024 to discuss the rivalry and intertextuality between Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Clearly, in a topic so vast, devoted to the two leading titans of 20th-century American literature, one puny, inexhaustible episode was not enough. So, Ahmed Honeini agreed to come back onto …
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751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book with Sharmila Sen
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1:02:37In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the Islamic Republic’s dress code. Her death galvanized thousands of Iranians—mostly women—who took to the streets in one of the country’s largest uprisings in decades: the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. In thi…
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750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein
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1:28:09It's the 750th episode of the History of Literature, and what better way to celebrate than to talk some Hemingway with repeat guest Mark Cirino? In this episode, Jacke talks to Mark about Hemingway's classic love-and-war novel A Farewell to Arms, including the recent Norton Library edition of the book, which Mark edited. PLUS Jacke takes a look at …
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Uncovering 80s UFOlogy... Live! with Charles Lear
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1:43:43This week, returning guest Charles Lear joins AP and guest co-host Blackwolf John Oates for a lighthearted discussion of the state of UFOlogy in the 1980s, and how it influenced the 90s and beyond. In Charles' first appearance on the show, the focus was on his book The Flying Saucer Investigators, where this one focuses more on Crashed Saucers and …
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MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard
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59:28Original Pub Date: 1/14/19 On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would linger, bedridden, as infection set in, caused by poor medical treatment, and America would wait with bated breath over whethe…
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Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages? with Dr Patrick Wadden
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56:12Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? We were delighted to get Dr Patrick Wadden, from DCU and Belmont Abbey College, NC, USA on the podcast this week to explore the evidence for the existence of the Irish nation as a concept in the early medieval period. Dr Wadden guides us through a variety of texts, in both Latin and the vernacular, which de…
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749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark) | #7 Greatest Book of All Time
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1:06:00When Hamlet, in his famous soliloquy, pondered the "dread of something after death, / the undiscovered country," he noted that such thoughts "puzzles the will." (Earlier editions of the play had this as a "hope of something after death" that "puzzles the brain." What's the significance for an Elizabethan writer (and audience) of the change from hop…
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413: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner
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1:20:10Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were two complicated men whose steadfast friendship became one of the legendary relationships of the American West. Both were flawed, and often on uncertain moral ground, yet their bond carried them through the violent world of frontier justice, culminating in a deadly conflict with the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone,…
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748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks
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55:47Katherine Mansfield's writing, said Virginia Woolf, "was the only writing I was ever jealous of." In this episode, Jacke talks to author Gerri Kimber about Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life, which explores the life and work of one of literary modernism's most significant writers. PLUS Jacke takes a look at the unusual friendship between poet W.H. …
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