Join Dr. Richard Webb and Eric Peyton for weekly discussions on topics you've always wanted to dig deeper into.
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Eric Richards Podcasts
In this crazy world, Eric J. Richards will speak to guest on how to keep your sanity. Each episode will consists of different topics.
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Married for over 30 years with 6 children (1 murdered), Patsy and Eric (Certified Pre-Marriage and Marriage Mentors) will discuss the ups and downs in Marriage. This will be a raw and candid conversation about problems that ALL marriages face at some time.You will also hear from other married couples, and they will also take call-ins.
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A couple of friendly conductors bantering about complex issues affecting the choral world.
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A Podcast about filling Plot Holes by any means necessary!
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Listen in as Eric Hollerbach talks with comedians, and conspiracy gurus, in a quest for jokes and knowledge.
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The show all about the Digital Nomad Lifestyle coupled with Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE). We’ll also cover other lifestyle optimization strategies for good measure. Follow these tips and tactics to design a life with more freedom, excitement, and greater joy. Subscribe here for interviews with digital nomads, early retirees, entrepreneurs, freelancers, world travelers, and many others!
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The computing technology changed dramatically in the past 50 years and in this podcast I talk to people who worked in the field during that time and experienced all these dramatic changes.
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Heading For Home: A Ten Cent Beer Night Odyssey," dramatizes the Ten Cent Beer Night riot of June 4, 1974 at Cleveland Stadium during the baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Texas Rangers. Fans, awash in cheap beer, streaked, chanted obscenities, pelted the players with everything from hotdogs to explosives, then charged the field and brawled viciously with the visiting Texas Rangers and their own home team Indians. Performed by Eric Olsen, Buck McWilliams, Alex Olsen, Mars F ...
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The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
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Join comedian Eric Rushton (Channel 4 Sean Lock Award winner) as he shares a pot of tea with Satan (comedian Richard Dadd) & asks the big philosophical questions: “does Free Will exist?” “is God a murderer?” & “one lump or two?”
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Bob Wielenga, Eric Casteel, and Richard Sharp are all internationally known public speakers on the topics of effective stewardship, generosity and mission development. Combined, they have over 65 years experience globally serving the Body of Christ providing leadership development, global mission experiences, and discipling believers in a Christian worldview. Bob, Eric and Richard are more than simply ministry guys living on three different continents. With one living in America, one in Euro ...
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Cutting through all the noise and giving you what you need to hear about in travel. Tune-in to hear TravelPulse's Executive Editor Eric Bowman discuss travel news, tips, and more with industry experts and other insightful guests.
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Stories from my thirty plus years in the music business where I was piveledged to work with such icons as : Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Al Stewart, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Gene Vincent, Jon LOrd, Long John Baldry, Conway Twitty, Little Richard, Clyde McPhatter and many more.
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www.trekaboutshow.com A persuasive Trekkie somehow convinces a series virgin to go on a seven-year-mission to watch every episode of every Star Trek series. Can someone fall in love with The Original Series 50 years after airing? Is Dr. Pulaski a better character than Dr. Crusher? What's the deal with Geordi and Wesley, anyway? The answers to these questions and more can be found every Tuesday.
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What really matters to Black Austinites?
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Hosted by Elisabeth Rohm. Narrated by Eric Roberts. A podcast featuring more than 10,000 never-before-seen intimate personal letters and journal entries, hundreds of hours of private phone recordings and excerpts from unpublished autobiographies written by America's most notorious serial killers. In Season One of Killer’s Vault, Law & Order star Elisabeth Rohm and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts, take us inside the minds of the most brutal serial killers the world has ever known. Gerard S ...
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Not-so-formal interviews with the leaders in commercial aviation.
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Tracing over five decades of musical influences, and how those influencers of the past, continue to inspire contemporary creatives. Examining popular and not so popular music in a contemporary sense, as well as cultural norms, fads and controversies as they helped to broaden musical perspectives and sounds. Follow the Musicologybyeric Playlist on Spotify at: Musicologybyeric Playlist by Eric Wilson https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26wzwhCuZVVjVZIMyM7yxS?si=wgEVkSuVTQOuNdbgT2g6EA
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Where is the House of Crouse? It's everywhere and nowhere. It's in your imagination and in your headphones. Hosted by Richard Crouse, it's a gathering place for interesting people to hang out and share stories. Upcoming guests to the House of Crouse include Amy Schumer, Josh Gad, Daniel Radcliffe and many more! Come by every Monday for a new episode, curl up on the coach and see who has stopped by.
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The Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast shows you how to make your screenplays bulletproof. Weekly interviews with Oscar® and Emmy® award winning screenwriters, story specialists, best-selling authors, Hollywood agents and managers, and industry insiders. We cover every aspect of the screenwriting process. This is the screenwriting podcast for the rest of us. No fluff. No BS. Just straight talk that will help you on your screenwriting journey. Some of the past guests include 3X Oscar® Winning ...
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Meet our host, Richard 'TalkToMeGuy' Olson. With over 35 years experience Richard Olson is a determined researcher and experienced alternative practitioner. He is a Master Herbalist and expert in a variety of other nutritional systems. Richard has extensive training in many body-energy modalities, including cranial sacral, Bowen Method, Swedish Esalen and EFT. Many energy healers have benefited from his background in Radio and sound technology; working with Richard in the development of effe ...
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SomethingAwful.com is one of the foundational websites of modern internet culture: the earliest memes, inside jokes, and modes of communication that grace and plague the internet today can trace their roots back to the sprawling forums of this illustrious website. Hosted by Jay Brandstetter and Winslow Dumaine, this podcast dredges up the most notable threads from the depths of the forums. We delve into the absurd architecture of Groverhaus, explore the very beginning of 4Chan, the early day ...
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Are you struggling to make enough money in your business? Feeling unsure about why you even started your business in the first place? In this podcast, Eric Edmeades provides a roadmap to success, offering valuable guidance to avoid or fix costly mistakes commonly made by both new and experienced business owners. With his extensive experience as a keynote speaker, author, and serial entrepreneur, Eric has shared the stage with renowned thought leaders like Tony Robbins, Sir Richard Branson, a ...
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Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. Journey into their world, joining them on epic adventures to unfamiliar places, back in time to wild moments of history, and into their deepest memories, to be moved by personal stories of resilience and redemption. Hosted by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski, Conversations is the ABC's most popular long-form interview program. Every day we explore the vast tapestry of human experience, wea ...
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Podcast featuring guest interviews from the around the world covering the Paranormal, Cryptozoology, Legends and Fortean themes, published weekly.
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In 2005, Sam and Dean Winchester set off on a road trip that would save the world and change television. For fifteen seasons and three hundred and twenty-seven episodes, the CW’s Supernatural (created by Eric Kripke) took audiences on a wild ride of family, fate, and faith with a rocking soundtrack and a seriously cool car. But that was then, and now … it’s time for another ride. Join hosts Rob Benedict (Chuck Shurley/God) and Richard Speight Jr (Gabriel and director of many episodes) for Su ...
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Listen or Watch RichardListens featuring the Beverly Hills based psychologist, Richard Oelberger, PhD and the host of the show, Peter Soby. Every other Monday night, Richard will interact with a wide variety of guests from the worlds of psychology, sport psychology, spirituality, self-help, empowerment and motivation.
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Podcast by Eric Thomas
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Actor and High Strangeness enthusiast, Steve Berg, chats and cheerleads with researchers, investigators, authors, artists, comedians about all things weird. We're talking UFOs, the paranormal, outsider art, weird belief systems, the occult and all that good stuff. For extra juice and support: https://www.patreon.com/histrangeness/about Introduction by Eric Edelstein - Produced by Sandra Mandrell To get in touch with Steve about appearances, feedback or just to share your own encounters with ...
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Just some Small Town Talk with Jaimie and Eric Gouge in Edmonds, WA. We are going to go over all things local in Edmonds, from food to real estate; we are going to talk about it all.
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Technology's daily show (formerly the Technology Brothers Podcast). Streaming live on X and YouTube from 11 - 2 PM PST Monday - Friday. Available on X, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
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Join Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy® as he presents a series of interviews with industry experts will tackle the topics of the toys, culture, toy history and talk with some of the leading people in the business of toys and children’s entertainment. Designed for anyone interested in toys, play and great stories, each weekly episode will feature engaging, entertaining conversation, useful information, insights, tales of the toys that we’ll never forget and so much more. As they say, if it concerns t ...
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Each week, host Eric Dwinnells and a different guest cohost chat about a spooky subject. From the paranormal to true crime, from ghosts to amusement park rides, from the occult to bizarre religious belief, from the serious to the silly, if it's spooky, we'll talk about it! Check out our website spookyas.com for more info and pics for each episode. Have a spooky story, question, or show idea? Email us at [email protected]
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Inspiring you to fall in love with the process every week. Life goes by so fast. Let's get the most out of it! Join me, Richard Haynes, as I interview high performing individuals as they share their spin on life, journey, and how they have fallen in love with this process called 'life'. Tune in weekly to be in the high impact splash zone of empowering insights!
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The Hung Up Podcast, hosted and produced by Wellness Coach and WURD Radio personality Eric Cole, M.Ed., spotlights wellness, culture, and society through a bold Black Queer lens. Each episode brings honest conversations with educators, professionals, entertainers, and creatives from every corner of life. Unpacking pop culture moments, personal and professional growth, powerful storytelling, and the collective resilience that keeps us moving forward. [email protected]
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U.S. Soccer legend Alexi Lalas discusses the biggest stories in soccer through the lens of red, white and blue glasses! Join Alexi Lalas and soccer guru David Mosse, as they break down the USMNT, USWNT, MLS, Bundesliga, Premier League, World Cup & everything in between. Follow Alexi Lalas' State of the Union podcast @SOTUWithAlexi on all platforms! https://twitter.com/SOTUWithAlexi https://www.instagram.com/SOTUWithAlexi/ https://www.tiktok.com/@sotuwithalexi https://www.facebook.com/SOTUWit ...
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Dental All-Stars - Dentistry Business Podcast is for dentists looking to improve their profitability and mindset. Topics include management, leadership, marketing, scheduling, phone skills, hiring & hr, to name just a few. Enjoy easy-to-digest, high-quality audio interviews with Dentistry's Top Experts, including Larry Guzzardo, Eric Vickery, Robyn Reis, Alex & Heather Nottingham, and more! Access free videos and business training guides at allstardentalacademy.com.
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Celebrating the local businesses, business people, organizations, culture and personalities of Indianapolis and central Indiana.
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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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What if there was one place to gain short, powerful insights from leaders and influencers worldwide? Join communication strategist Skot Waldron as he interviews people like John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneurs on Fire, Ann Hiatt, who worked directly with Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer, and Eric Schmidt, former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos, and Matt Doherty, Michael Jordan's former coach, and mines the gold inside each of their heads. Unlock the potential of you and the people you do life with by list ...
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Bringing you up to date news, interviews and guests from around the world of UFOs, UAP & connected phenomena Hosted by Andy McGrillen
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What makes a person capable of a heinous act? We're exploring the dark side of the South, one crime at a time. We’re just a married couple and a best friend who are obsessed with true crime, and we’re here to share our morbid fascination with you. Each week, we get together to dissect detailed accounts of both well-known and lesser-known true crime cases in the Southern United States. From the first 911 call to the final verdict, we take a deep dive into the minds of criminals, the lives of ...
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Building Businesses and Real Estate in a New Age of Technology
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All about the Middle Ages from Medievalists.net. Join Danièle Cybulskie and her guests as they talk about the medieval world, from Byzantium to the Vikings.
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In the FRAPA 5x5 podcast, we ask one guest, someone from the television industry, to select 5 questions to answer from a list of questions divided into 4 categories; Industry, Formats, Career and Personal. FRAPA 5 by 5 is 5 questions answered in about 5 minutes. The FRAPA 5x5 Podcast is made possible with the generous support of The Nerve. https://www.thenerve.io https://www.frapa.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The boys catalog the definitive worst takes of the year, from the pundits who misunderstood our political moment to a guy who wants to have sex with a computer. To hear the rest of the episode, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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38:17Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battl…
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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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1:26:23Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question (Stanford UP, 2023), philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated. As Huneman outlines,…
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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54:34California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Ru…
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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30:20A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forwar…
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Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
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46:43John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognized as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento …
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Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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57:23In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global brand. Jensen argues that because the show's domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity that its producers assertively marketed all …
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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1:12:09Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualit…
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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1:07:58Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
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Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
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57:29How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and in…
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 384 Bigfoot author and enthusiast Kevin LeStarge
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1:14:15This episode I welcome author and Bigfoot enthusiast Kevin LeStarge to the show to dive into his fascination with the legendary cryptid. Kevin grew up in Wisconsin and has always had a fascination with Sasquatch, which has led him to go on many expeditions across the country seeking the great mystery. Kevin shares life lessons he’s learned through …
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Bonus Review - American Sasquatch: Man, Myth or Monster
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43:30In this bonus review episode, Andy steps slightly outside the usual UFO comfort zone to review the documentary American Sasquatch: Man, Myth or Monster?, a film that explores the Bigfoot phenomenon through eyewitness testimony, physical evidence, DNA claims, and high strangeness theories. Produced by Lab Nine Films and featuring familiar names from…
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Holiday Listening: Slime moulds—the brainless blobs that can move and solve mazes
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48:00Dr Tanya Latty is an insect scientist with a quirky taste in pets, and a keen eye for detail, but it's the lessons from her brainless pet slime mould that she's most fascinated about. Tanya studies the behaviour of ants and bees and she's particularly interested in their ability to work effectively as a team to achieve a common goal. But her pet pr…
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In the final episode of this season we discuss how we got the Bible. Be sure to submit questions and topic suggestions for next season below! Submit questions & requests: linktree.com/wordwithwebbBy Eric Peyton, Richard Webb
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR REBEL SUPERSTAR + KIERA JANG + AMANDA SEYFRIED
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39:32On the December 27, 2025 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet firector James House and producer Caroline Sciama of “Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar,” a compelling three-part docuseries that reexamines Taylor’s life through a modern lens, highlighting her evolution from child star under MGM’s control to a trailblazing activist, businesswoman…
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Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
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32:10Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation. Offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject, this volume takes an international approach. Written by over 70 spe…
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Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)
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1:05:45In On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death (Common Notions, 2022) Dr. Jack Z. Bratich explores the cultural elements in American society that support fascism. Microfascism appears in many aspects of culture engaging consumers to think of others and their own self in ways that extend fascism into everyday life while constantly adapting to cultural a…
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Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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30:31A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his daz…
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas and Matthew D. McMullen, "The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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1:00:26For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (U Hawaii Press, 2024) has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include non-specialists of Japan while also complicating the notions of "Japan" and "religion." Asking the provocative question "why stud…
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Divine Materialism and Integral Cosmology: Consciousness, Science, and the Spiritual Turn with Marco Masi
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1:24:31In this episode, we explore Marco Masi’s article “The Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction from the Perspective of Consciousness Studies.” Marco’s work sits at the intersection of the hard sciences and spirituality, advancing the provocative notion of “divine materialism.” We examine the limitations of contemporary philosophy of min…
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Matthew Pawlak, "Sarcasm in Paul's Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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31:38In this recent monograph Sarcasm in Paul's Letters (Cambridge University Press 2023, Matthew Pawlak offers the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testament studies. He provides an extensive analysis of sarcastic passages across the undisputed letters of Paul, showing where Paul is sarcastic, and how his sarcasm affects our understanding of his rheto…
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Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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1:09:29In his influential Anti-Semite and Jew, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." In doing so he articulated the figure of an Antisemite responsible for imagining the Jew in a formulation that has lasted for decades. This figure became an indispensable trope in the period immediately …
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Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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1:05:43Previous guest Jacob Bricca (Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice) is a professional film editor and director, specializing in documentaries. In his new book, he breaks down the hidden conventions of the documentary film in accessible language for film students and documentary enthusiasts alike. Chapters on Narrative and Meaning show how do…
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Thomas David DuBois, "China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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1:13:58In this episode of New Books Network, Laura Goldberg speaks with Thomas David DuBois, Professor at Beijing Normal University, about his book China in Seven Banquets, which traces Chinese history through seven extraordinary meals. Gastronomy and dining rituals offer a revealing historical framework: they make visible social order, ethical values, an…
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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59:59Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today, I speak with Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of the new artist’s biography Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025). The book was recently named one of NPR’s Books We Loved for 2025. Pollack-Pelzner is a cultural historian, theater critic, and teacher a…
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Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025)
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38:17In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sean Minogue about this play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). When a big-city dreamer from a small northern Ontario city returns to his hometown to testify in a murder trial, he faces old uncovered wounds in his circle of friends and discovers that his missed opportunities are more than…
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Aaron G. Fountain Jr., "High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2025)
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44:33In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. highlights the crucial impact of high school activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well document…
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Daniel M. Herskowitz, "The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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1:10:08The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (Liverpool UP, 2025) offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig's magnum opus The Star of Redemption, commonly treated as one of the high points of modern Jewish thought, and demonstrates its profound immersion in the Protestant conceptuality of its time. It argues that appreciating the decisive …
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How to Fix Baseball with author Jane Leavy
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58:27For hard-core baseball folks, for anyone who cares for the future of the game, veteran baseball writer Jane Leavy compels attention with her provocative book, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball And How To Fix It (Grand Central, 2025). Our conversation focuses on her proposed solutions to the core problem of a sport in the destr…
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Andrea Gevurtz Arai ed., "Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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1:22:45An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in East Asia. Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers UP, 2025) brings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, schol…
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David Newheiser et al., "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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1:28:44Art-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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Henrike Kohpeiß, "Bourgeois Coldness" (Divided Publishing, 2025)
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50:57Bourgeois Coldness (Divided Publishing, 2025) refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, unencroached upon by the immediat…
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Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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57:54In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as …
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Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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57:44Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024) offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, and judicial sentencing practices…
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Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
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49:23After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nuclear program which now has the capability to strike American cities with weapons of mass destruction. In Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea (Yale UP, 2025), Joel S. Wi…
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Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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49:56In this episode, Nick Caverly talks about his new book, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures (Stanford UP, 2025). For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to makin…
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Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)
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40:20Post-liberalism is all the rage on the American right, finding a common cause between legal theorists like Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen and rising political stars like J.D. Vance, the serving vice president. In the UK, on the other hand, the movement has been pioneered by left-wing thinkers seeking to return lost working-class voters to the L…
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Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)
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33:18As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on writing memory for quite a while and that's where we met - in his workshops with Jewish Ethiopians in Israel. Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor is his emotional reck…
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Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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33:45Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (U Toronto Press, 2025) challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust…
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Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
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29:59Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today - from the vulnerabiliti…
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Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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1:01:37Fuji: A Mountain in the Making (Princeton UP, 2025) is A panoramic biography of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries w…
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Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
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40:11With rigorous scrutiny and deep care, Robin Hansen's Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow (U Regina Press, 2024) offers crucial insight into the intersections of ongoing colonial harms facing Indigenous mothers in Canada. Building from an unplanned call to Hansen from a pregnant, incarcerated Indigenous woman in 2016, Pr…
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Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
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31:15Faith in the American Dream—the idea that anyone who works hard can achieve success—has waned in the 21st century. Decreases in economic mobility, increases in the wealth gap, and other economic shifts have undoubtedly influenced this decline. Politics, however, are an overlooked contributor to confidence, or lack of confidence, in the American Dre…
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Holiday Listening: David Bindi Hudson on playing his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal
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49:24When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a film starring Marlin Brando Western Yalanji and Ewamian man David Bindi Hudson is a performing artist and musician. His parents were born on Mona Mona mission, near Cairns. David's mother didn't like bei…
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Affordable Housing, RIP Key'Monnie Bean, UnPacking Podcasting and Branding with Marquise Richards
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36:41Friday Dec 19, 2025 UnPacking Live on WURD 96.1 FM/900 AMwurdradio.com/shows/unpacking-with-eric-cole/07:44 Philadelphia Housing Authority brings affordable housing to center city and pushback from community.TRIGGER WARNING 16:12 2 Year Old Key'Monnie Bean unalived in South Philadelphia; Boyfriend arrested, but mother was not even though present du…
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BPS 451: Making Movies Without Sight: Inside the Creative Mind of Gough
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59:11Every once in a while, a filmmaker comes along whose story redefines what’s possible. On today’s episode, we meet Gough, the world’s first legally blind filmmaker to write, produce, edit, direct, and star in a feature film. Based in Australia, Gough’s journey isn’t just about overcoming obstacles—it’s about rewriting the rules of what it means to c…
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Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers
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55:40Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo were working to create handcrafted leather-goods and functional women’s sportswear that could be worn for decades. Active from the 1940s to the late 1960s, the Phelps quickly won acclaim, attracting a broad…
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Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
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52:30A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him—the weight of being a Black man in America; of bearing witness, as a journalist, to relentless Black death; and of a…
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Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
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47:03Caste has been a huge topic of conversation in modern India. Yet debates and activism around caste discrimination have spread beyond South Asia. Caste activists looked to African-American literature and leaders to connect their fight with the battle against racism in the U.S. And as Indians moved around the world–to America, to elsewhere in Asia, a…
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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1:03:35During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the most creative and successful challengers in this effort was Ernst Fraenkel, who as an attorney sought to use the law as a means of opposing Nazi oppression. In Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler…
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