Best Thomas Duke Podcasts (2025)

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Caitlin Clark on New Nike Ad, Signature Shoe & Fantasy Punishments + Week 18 Preview | EP 173 1:29:52

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Nike! On today’s episode, we are welcoming back to the show WNBA Superstar, Caitlin Clark! Caitlin and the guys get her thoughts on what went into creating her new Nike commercial, what she’s planning for her first signature shoe, her reaction to Jason dunking, how she’s feeling ge…

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IPFS and the Decentralized Music Archive 13:23

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IPFS and the Decentralized Music Archive How Indie Artists Can Host Their Entire Catalog, Serve Every Kind of Fan, and Build a Real Legacy For decades, independent artists were handed advice that sounded helpful but quietly worked against them. Upload your music to platforms. Share a link. Trust the system to take care of the rest. On the surface, …

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AI Won’t Kill Music Careers—Starving Artists Will 12:13

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Making a Scene Presents - AI Won’t Kill Music Careers—Starving Artists Will As we head into the New Year, it’s time to take an honest look at one of the hottest and most misunderstood topics in the music industry right now. Every few months, the same cycle plays out. A scary headline appears. A new AI tool gets released. A video goes viral showing …

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Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023) 1:11:59

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Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a fundamental part of the legitimacy of the law. Anal…

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Blending Reality and AI: Using Green Screen to Build Modern Music Videos 12:58

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If you’re an indie artist working from home, green screen might sound like something left over from old Hollywood movies. It can feel outdated, expensive, or disconnected from the way modern AI video works. That assumption couldn’t be more wrong. Green screen is actually one of the most important tools you can pair with AI today, especially if you …

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Levi Platero is Making a Scene 1:21:07

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Levi Platero Levi Platero is from the Navajo Nation in the Southwest United States. He first gained national attention with his family band, The Plateros, who emerged in 2004 as a blues-rock power trio often compared to artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Los Lonely Boys, and ZZ Top. The band spent more than a…

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Gerry Casey's Interview with Johnny Barracuda of the Soho Dukes 31:25

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Johnny Barracuda of the Soho Dukes SOHO DUKES won’t admit it, but they’re having a very good time. The band began in an unlikely way, not in a rehearsal room, but as a nineteenth-century–style drinking club roaming the pubs of London’s West End. On one of those legendary crawls, Bomber on bass an…

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David Newheiser et al., "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 1:28:44

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Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by Professor David Newheiser, is a new collection asks if it’s possible to consider art-making as a spiritual practice independent of explicit religious belief or content. Where earlier research has focused on the religious significance of …

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Recording Vocals at Home: From Living Room to Radio-Ready 16:36

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Recording Vocals at Home: From Living Room to Radio-Ready Recording vocals at home used to feel like settling. You’d stand in a bedroom or living room, sing into a mic, and then hope the computer could “fix it” later. That old approach is done. These days, an indie singer with a normal room, a few smart choices, and good habits can record vocals th…

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Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) 51:40

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What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney’s groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (University of Minnesota P…

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Why AI Video Finally Makes Sense for Indie Artists using AIVideo.com 16:05

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Making a Scene Presents - Why AI Video Finally Makes Sense for Indie Artists using AIVideo.com For most independent musicians, the music video has always been the most expensive piece of the puzzle. You can record at home, distribute digitally, market on social platforms, but the moment visuals enter the conversation, the price jumps and control di…

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Kylie Kelce on Kid Meltdowns, Dude Gift Advice, Japanese Maples & New Heights Secret Santa | EP 172 1:30:21

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Nike. Today, we are joined by the only 4x guest in the history of New Heights, Kylie Kelce! For our holiday spectacular episode, the New Heights team exchanges their Secret Santa gifts, Kylie joins us to recap what she’s been up to since being dethroned as our most viewed episode, …

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Cardinals-Royals '85 World Series Game 6 with Marshall Garvey 48:16

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Author Marshall Garvey and host Thomas Emerick revisit an overshadowed but fascinating Fall Classic between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals. This series peaks with Game 6 and captures a turning point in 1980s baseball, while featuring some angles unique to Missouri and the Midwest. It’s October 1985. Cardinals vs. Royals. World Serie…

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Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022) 37:17

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Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like “global village” suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communicatio…

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Paul Rudd on Why Jack Black is The Best, Worst Auditions, Chiefs Fandom & Naming Your Nuts | EP 171 48:39

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92%ers, welcome to another guest episode of New Heights! Today we are joined by actor, Chiefs Fan, and the first guest we ever had on the show, Paul Rudd! Paul and the guys discuss everything from why Jack Black is the absolute best, our new favorite phrase ‘Buffalo Sober,’ Kelce home movies, if Paul knows ball, why he still has joy for the Chiefs,…

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A Statement of Commitment to Independent Music Community For 2026 14:40

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Making a Scene is reaffirming and expanding its commitment to the independent music community with a clear editorial mission: to continue delivering in-depth, practical journali/sm that helps artists take control of their careers instead of asking for permission from systems that were never designed to work in their favor. This commitment is not ro…

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What Is an AI Agent and How can you Use it for your Music Business 12:38

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Making a Scene Presents - What the Hell Is an AI Agent and How can you Use it for your Music Business Let’s strip the mystery away right now. An AI Agent is not a robot. It’s not a sci-fi brain. It’s not some Silicon Valley thing meant for billion-dollar companies. An AI Agent is simply a digital helper that can think through tasks, make decisions,…

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Johnny V Vernazza is Making a Scene 1:08:57

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny "V" Vernazza Johnny “V” Vernazza was born in San Francisco and raised in Daly City, right in the middle of one of the most explosive music scenes in American history. In the 1960s, the Bay Area wasn’t just alive with music, it was overflowing. Clubs were everywhere, and it was normal to jam at four o…

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Gerry Casey Interviews Laura Rain 33:36

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Laura Rain Detroit is a city built on grit. After decades of being written off, it is rebuilding itself as a powerful center of ideas, art, and creation. The city is once again attracting artists, innovators, and dreamers who bring new energy and purpose to the Motor City. Detroit didn’t lose its…

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Is Home Alone a Top 5 Christmas Movie? ft. Kylie Kelce | New Heights Film Club 37:47

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On this edition of New Heights Film Club, we are joined by Kylie Kelce to review the 1990 Christmas classing "Home Alone." The Kelces debate if this is a top 5 Christmas movie of all time, if Peter McCallister is the worst movie dad of all time, and who is the "Kevin" of the Kelce family. New Heights airs every Wednesday during the NFL Season so ma…

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Live Special: Securing the Connected World with Thomas Harvey 33:15

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In this special live episode of Cyber Leaders, Ciaran sits down with Thomas Harvey, CISO at Santander UK. As one of the UK’s leading operational cybersecurity figures, Thomas discusses the growing need for cross-sector collaboration, why a more connected security community is essential to national cyber resilience, and how building trust can help c…

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Why the Music Industry Middle Class Matters More Than Superstars 14:25

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Making a Scene Presents - Why the Music Industry Middle Class Matters More Than Superstars The Lie We Were All Sold From the very beginning, most musicians are taught the same story, whether anyone ever says it out loud or not. If you work hard enough, sacrifice enough, and stick it out long enough, someone with power will eventually notice you. A …

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The Power of Reference Tracks: Learning to Mix by Listening 11:30

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Making a Scene Presents - The Power of Reference Tracks: Learning to Mix by Listening If you want your mixes to sound more “pro” without buying more gear or plugins, this is the shortcut nobody talks about enough. Reference tracks. Not copying. Not stealing ideas. Just listening smarter. Most indie artists think mixing is about twisting knobs until…

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The Slate Culture Gift Guide 49:44

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Hark, the holiday season is upon us—and with it the most solemn of festive traditions: a gift guide! In this video and podcast special, Slate hosts Dana Stevens, Chris Molanphy, and Willa Paskin beam-in from their collective hearths to deliver unto the internet their favorite gifts for culture lovers this holiday. In addition to sharing gifts, they…

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Chiefs' Streak Ends, Mahomes Injury, Rivers Reactions, Eagles Blowout & Playoff Predictions | EP 170 55:13

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Allstate! On today’s episode, Travis gets candid about the end of the Chiefs playoff hopes, the Mahomes injury, and how he’s approaching the last three games of the season. We also react to the Eagles blowing out the Raiders, Grandpa Rivers making his first start since 2020, break …

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Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:00:08

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The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and political and economic upheaval, an integrated marketplace shaped by upper-class patrons broke down entirely. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognizably modern marke…

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Decoder Ring | Mailbag: Yo-Yos, Sandboxes, and Encores 1:06:41

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Decoder Ring listeners write in with some excellent mysteries, and for our last episode of the year we’re solving three of them. Why do children play in boxes full of sand? Why do rock bands pretend like the show is over when everybody knows they’re coming back for an encore? And what was up with those school assemblies where you’d get to skip clas…

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Record Labels Should Be Terrified: Artists Are Building Their Own Economies 11:37

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Making a Scene Presents - Record Labels Should Be Terrified: Artists Are Building Their Own Economies For most of music history, there was one road. If you wanted a career, you went through a major label. They had the money, the power, the distribution, and the connections. Artists were told this was the only way. Sign the deal. Give up ownership. …

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Web3 Sync Licensing: Decentralizing the Music-to-Media Pipeline 12:05

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Making a Scene Presents - Web3 Sync Licensing: Decentralizing the Music-to-Media Pipeline The Old Sync Game Is Rigged (And Indie Artists Know It) If you are an independent artist, you already know the truth about sync licensing, even if nobody ever said it out loud. The system is closed. The gates are tall. The same names show up again and again in…

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Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:16:41

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How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? What if we listen to photographs? How might they undo us? Can we be undone? In Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad (Duke UP, 2025), Mariana Ortega focuses on photography using a hermeneutics of l…

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Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:16:41

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How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? What if we listen to photographs? How might they undo us? Can we be undone? In Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad (Duke UP, 2025), Mariana Ortega focuses on photography using a hermeneutics of l…

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Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025) 37:35

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Jana Byars meets one of her academic heroes when Ulinka Rublack joins her to talk about Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition (Routledge, 2025). During the Renaissance, clothing became more and more elaborately decorated and expensive. It often emphasised the privilege of the male elite. Yet clothing could also …

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Muralie Coryell is Making a Scene 1:14:46

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Murali Coryell Murali Coryell’s story is one of deep roots, hard-earned growth, and a lifelong connection to music that runs far deeper than a famous last name. His journey started before he could walk. He was held as a baby by Jimi Hendrix, lived with Carlos Santana, and grew up around dinner tables shared…

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Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025) 29:40

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A radical history of England, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion, 2025) by Dr. Katrina Navickas is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder Scout…

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Gerry Casey Interviews Katy Dann 39:45

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Katy Dann Katy Dann is a Welsh singer and songwriter who writes and sings straight from the heart. Her music blends rock, pop, and soul into a sound that feels powerful, honest, and deeply human. There’s emotion in every line she sings, but it’s balanced with strength, confidence, and a sense of …

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Robert Top Thomas is Making a Scene 59:42

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Making a Scene Presents an interview with Robert Top Thomas Robert “Top” Thomas comes straight out of the Florida backroads, where the air is thick, the nights are loud, and the blues still mean something. He’s a swamp blues musician in the truest sense, pulling his sound from muddy rhythms, raw guitar tones, and stories that feel lived in, not wri…

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Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025) 38:21

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Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View (Astra House, 2025) by Edward McPherson is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial photography, and top-down and far-ranging perspectives—from pre–Civil War America to our vexed modern times of drone warfare, hyper-surveillance at home and abroad, and quarantine and protest. Blending …

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Ace Studio 2.0 Artist Edition: The Deep-Dive Review Every Indie Musician Needs 12:41

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Making a Scene Presents Ace Studio 2.0 Artist Edition: The Deep-Dive Review Every Indie Musician Needs The walls of the old music industry are falling, and indie artists are finally getting the tools they deserve. For years, only big studios and big budgets had access to high-end vocal production, full instrument libraries, and teams of session sin…

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Decentralized Touring & Ticketing: Taking Control of Live Revenue 11:17

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Making a Scene Presents - Decentralized Touring & Ticketing: Taking Control of Live Revenue If you’re an independent artist, you already know the truth. Touring is the lifeline. It’s the one place where you can still earn real money, meet real fans, and feel like you have a shot at building something that actually belongs to you. But the moment you…

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Who Really Controls the Internet—And Why it Matters with Emily Taylor and Roxana Radu 46:38

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In this episode, Ciaran and James speak with Emily Taylor of Oxford Information Labs and Roxana Radu, Associate Professor of Digital Technologies and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, about who really controls the internet. Emily and Roxana discuss how internet governance operates amid shifting geopolitics, …

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How to Use AI Art to Build a Visual Brand Fans Remember 12:08

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Making a Scene Presents - How to Use AI Art to Build a Visual Brand Fans Remember How indie artists can use Midjourney, Ideogram, and Leonardo.ai to create a powerful, consistent visual world When people talk about branding in the music industry, it usually sounds like something only major labels can afford. Big agencies. Big budgets. Big teams dec…

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Rob Holmes et. al., "Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making" (Applied Research & Design, 2023) 57:59

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Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America's coasts. It was written by Rob Homes, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth, with contributions by Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, and Justine Holzman and published by Applied Research + D…

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The American Music Fairness Act: What It Really Means for Indie Artists in a World Where Radio Isn’t King Anymore 11:43

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Making a Scene Presents - The American Music Fairness Act: What It Really Means for Indie Artists in a World Where Radio Isn’t King Anymore For years the music business has danced around the same old question. Who gets paid when radio spins a song? If you think the artist gets a piece of that pie, you’re giving the system more credit than it deserv…

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Henry Addington 8:19

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In this episode, we shine a light on Henry Addington, the often-overlooked Prime Minister who stepped into the hot seat during one of Britain’s most turbulent moments. Usually remembered as “the guy between the Pitts,” Addington inherited a nation exhausted by years of war with France, a shaky economy, and political factions that could barely stand…

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Chiefs and Eagles Frustrations, Philip Rivers Returns and Kelce Hygiene | EP 169 48:03

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by YETI! On today’s episode, we recap a frustrating week of football for the Chiefs and Eagles. Travis shares his candid thoughts on the loss to the Texans, and Jason lets us know why the Eagles had him saying “FML.” We also react to the breaking news about Phillip Rivers, watch a chi…

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James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024) 56:04

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“Create A More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodist Church meeting camp, has, over time, become a thriving mecca for the LGBTQ+ community. In Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk (Temple UP,…

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Quodlibet 18: Are there Male and Female Souls? 57:37

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Are there male and female souls? What is distributism, and does it align with Catholic social teaching? A la Monty Python, which country's historical philosophers would field the best soccer team? All that and more on this episode of The Quodlibets!By The Sacra Doctrina Project

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American Mile is Making a Scene 54:07

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with American Mile American Mile isn’t just a band. They’re a touring machine, a modern voice for Southern rock, and storytellers for the real American struggle. Built on pure road-warrior grit, the band is carrying Southern rock forward with a sound that’s loud, raw, and impossible to ignore. http://www.makinga…