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Polymaths Place Podcast52 Living Ideas: How To Become a Polymath with Dr Angela Cotellessa, Dustin Miller PolyInnovator & Eric TrulesDr. Angela Cotellessa interviews Dustin Miller PolyInnovator, creator of the Polymath Polycast, and Eric Trules, former professor at the University of Southern California, who first inspired Dr. Cotellessa's polymathy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit polymathsplace.substack.com
2025-06-201h 51
e-travels with e. trulesGrazing With Camels - Episode 1Trules travels across the Israeli-Egyptian border in 1999 to the Sinai Desert, where he takes a 3-day overnight "camel safari" with Bedouin guides into the Biblical past. No connection to the modern technological world. He highly recommends it for "Peace in the Middle East"!!
2024-01-1316 min
Strangers AbroadIdentityOur identities shift when we go abroad. When we leave the familiar surroundings of home, we start to see ourselves from a new light and angle of the sun. What will going abroad show us about ourselves that we couldn't see and help us take control of our own identities? Guest Travelers: Michelle Carlo, Tayo Rockson, Vanessa Valeria, Alexandra Tracy, Eric Trules
2020-03-171h 00
e-travels with e. trulesET043 - Bonus: Interview with Outlier, Matt Dartnellhttp://erictrules.com/episode43
2018-11-3053 min
PBD with Nathan Eckel286: The Train of Opportunity with Eric TrulesERIC TRULES is an Associate Professor of Practice at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, a multi-disciplinary artist, and was recently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies (2008-13). He is a native of New York City and has been a professional in the performing, literary, and filmic arts for over 45years. He began his professional artistic career as a modern dancer with Shirley Mordine’s Dance Troupe in residence at Columbia College Chicago in 1970, and then co-founded Mo Ming, the nationally renowned Dance-Theater in Chicago. Trules was one of the first federally funded CETA grant recipients in America for...
2018-11-1120 min
BeTheTalk with Nathan Eckel286: The Train of Opportunity with Eric TrulesERIC TRULES is an Associate Professor of Practice at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, a multi-disciplinary artist, and was recently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies (2008-13). He is a native of New York City and has been a professional in the performing, literary, and filmic arts for over 45years. He began his professional artistic career as a modern dancer with Shirley Mordine’s Dance Troupe in residence at Columbia College Chicago in 1970, and then co-founded Mo Ming, the nationally renowned Dance-Theater in Chicago. Trules was one of the first federally funded CETA grant recipients in America for...
2018-11-1120 min
e-travels with e. trulesBonus: Trules Guests on Podcast Junkies, Episode 42Today’s Bonus interview on “Podcast Junkies” is called: “Rebelling Against Conformity and Finding Freedom Through the Arts”, and in it, Harry Duran and I cover my journey from pre-med college student to professional clown and recent podcaster. Along the way, Harry calls my work the “predecessor of flash mobs”. I’m not exactly sure that’s true, but it sounds good and it is Harry’s show. http://erictrules.com/episode42
2018-10-261h 33
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Travel Writer, Linda Ballou - Episode 41My guest, Linda Ballou, is an accomplished travel and adventure writer - about whom world-wide explorer, Jim Dorsey, says: "Ballou takes the reader out of their armchair into the vast world as few travel writers can. Her eye for detail, combined with intimate knowledge of her surroundings, sets Ms. Ballou heads above most of the travel writing pack. In this age when everyone with a back pack proclaims him or herself a travel writer, it takes books like Linda's- to re-define the genre. This is just plain, great, travel writing.” Listen and enjoy. https://erictrules.com/episode41
2018-09-0746 min
Travel Wisdom Podcast -travel and learn languages for success and moneyImprov and the power of living spontaneously with Eric TrulesAfter many months of planning and a failed recording attempt, I was finally able to talk to fellow podcaster, Eric Trules. Instead of becoming a doctor he instead became a clown who performed on the street and followed wherever life took him. That ended up taking him to a position as a professor at USC teaching improv classes. Eric sees many parallels with travel and clowning in that it is really important to stay spontaneous and to always say yes! Finally, I want to give a shoutout to the Brave Era 100% Silk Travel Sheet. They se...
2018-08-2937 min
e-travels with e. trulesThe Ghosts of Edinburgh, Scotland - Episode 40Today we’ll be time traveling again - a long ways back… to 1988, when I ventured to Edinburgh, Scotland to perform for the first time in the Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival, if not on the planet, then at least in the Western world. I was 41 years old, living in Santa Monica, and I was invited to perform my one man show as part of a theater troupe called “New Voices from America” that was created solely for the 1988 Edinburgh Fringe by KPFK radio theater critic Stefan Tater. I was the lucky invitee because I had been wishing and drea...
2018-08-2423 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Travel Wisdom Podcast Host, Ladan Jiracek - Episode 39Ladan Jiracek, host of the Travel Wisdom Podcast, is my Behind the Scenes guest today because… I just love the question that his podcast poses: “Can travel be more than just a fun thing to do? Can it also provide a learning experiences for later in life?” Ladan believes it can be, and that’s why he’s traveled to over 100 countries... hoping to plant the seeds of wisdom from faraway lands in the hearts and minds of his listeners. http://erictrules.com/episode39
2018-08-1043 min
e-travels with e. trulesThe Seedy & Glamorous Hotel Woodward, NYC Back in the Day - Episode 38New York City — 1977 — “back in the day” — when Studio 54 was all the rage and the new TKTS half-price tickets booth on 47th Street and Broadway was still bright-eyed and bushy tailed. When my rent at the infamous and sometimes dangerous, Hotel Woodward was $55 a week, and I had to figure out a way to pay it. As you’ll hear, I was ingenious, and perhaps a little criminal, in the way I did so, but that’s what’s interesting about time travel, it allows you to look back on your life with perspective… letting you see the innocence and error of youth…...
2018-07-2727 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Travel Hacker, Jen Ruiz - Episode 37Jen Ruiz is the author of “The Affordable Flight Guide”, has been featured in the Washington Post and on ABC news, and she documents her travel-hacking adventures on her website, jenonajetplane.com. She believes that too many people put off seeing the world until they retire, save up a small fortune, or find the perfect travel partner. She thinks that’s a mistake because those circumstances might never happen, and meanwhile, the world is out there waiting. So if you want to travel for less, and experience more, then speak to Jen. Or start – by listening to today’s episode.
2018-07-1346 min
e-travels with e. trulesSusan, Tim, and Me - Bali Goes Hollywood - Episode 36Today I find myself at a cremation ceremony in Ubud, Indonesia, the cultural capital of the magical island of Bali. Thousands of locals and tourists are watching a Hindu-Bali ceremony… where the bones of Balinese men, women, and children, who have never received a proper burial, have been dug up, placed in giant coffin-boxes topped with carved wooden bulls, run through the streets, surprisingly like the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and then set afire in a giant Hindu-Bali ceremony of flames and celebration. Amidst the humbling crowd are Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and… me. https://erictrules.com/epis...
2018-06-2917 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Reggae Aficionado, Roger Steffens - Episode 35Roger Steffens is a reggae expert and collector extraordinaire. Also a poet, photographer, raconteur, and personal friend of Bob Marley. Which means… Roger’s been to Jamaica many times, mon. If you know anything about reggae, you probably know that Roger co-hosted “The Reggae Beat” on KCRW radio beginning in 1979, the first and only reggae show in Los Angeles at the time. And I consider myself extremely fortunate to be presenting some previously-unreleased Bob Marley music from the singer’s personal “Bedroom Tapes” that Roger has graciously allowed me to mix into our interview, “on loan” from “The Archives”….along with several origi...
2018-06-1558 min
e-travels with e. trulesMoon Over Chefchaouen, Part 2 - Episode 34If you remember, I last left you at the end of Part 1 getting off a hot, crowded bus which took me from Tetouen, Morocco to… Chechaouen, Morocco. It turns out that not all “ouens” are the same. I’m getting off the bus when I see a seated Islamic man dressed in all white, staring intently at me. He has a computer in his lap, and it’s not too long after 9/11. He points at me and I’m…. terrified… expecting the explosive worst…. only to find out that he’s pointing at my blue plastic CD player which I’ve left in my seat...
2018-06-0121 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Ethno-Musicologist, Chuck Jonkey, Episode 33Chuck Jonkey is an adventurer, composer, and musician who transforms his off the beaten track travel experiences into sound, music and film. Chuck’s exotic adventures have taken him to the furthest reaches of the planet where he seeks out some of the world’s most isolated tribal groups, embeds himself in their cultures, and records their music. His musical explorations have taken him from the deep rain forests of the Peruvian Amazon to the Far East Asian jungles of Cambodia. Along the way, he sometimes has to steel his will and politeness to endure a special dinner…. of RAT.
2018-05-1849 min
e-travels with e. trulesMoon Over Chefchauoen, MoroccoThis adventure — is about my trip to Morocco, after I finish my travels in Andalucia. I take a boat from the southeastern tip of Spain’s port, Algeciras, across the Strait of Gibralta, to the northern-most tip of Africa, Ceuta, still Spanish territory… until I cross the Spanish-Moroccan border – by foot – and end up in Tetouan…. Morocco… at the base of the Atlas Mountains. This is not your typical tourist trip to Tangier, Fez, Marrakesh, or Casablanca, but more like a Paul Theroux personal odyssey to see the green cannabis fields and rising moon over…. Chefchaouen. http://erictrules.com/e
2018-05-0419 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Adventurer Jim DorseyGreetings from the Outback, Maties! Today I’ll be talking with James Michael Dorsey, explorer, photographer, lecturer, and award-winning author, who has traveled to over 47 countries in the last 15 years. “Jim” has been called a “combination of swashbuckling adventurer and spiritual seeker” because he visits and documents disappearing indigenous tribes by embedding himself in their cultures. He told me “when you contract with a remote tribe, you roll the dice on whether you’re going to come back alive.” Exciting travel, Maties! http://erictrules.com/episode31
2018-04-2045 min
e-travels with e. trulesMe-hee-coIt was a crazy idea. Loco. No, a good one. Bueno. Driving thousands of miles in my white Toyota Celica, which stood out like an automotive sore thumb… all the way from LA to… Ciudad Juarez… to Chihuahua… to Real de Catorce, an old silver mining town in the sacred hills of the Huichol Indians. Along the way, Miguel and I discovered many things… the most outstanding of which… was not only the immense beauty and variety of Me-hee-co herself, but even more striking — the ageless differences between ourselves, me, a 50 year old gringo… and him, my http://erictrules.
2018-04-0630 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Podcast Angel, Kate Erickson from EoFireKate Erickson emanates all the sunshine and positivity of Southern California. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their businesses and in their lives – through developing systems and processes that can help their business scale and grow. I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant, but Kate explains it all in this episode…. along with talking about plans for a new EoFire travel podcast about “audio walking tours of the world’s greatest cities”. http://erictrules.com/episode29
2018-03-2336 min
e-travels with e. trulesWelcome Back to Deadwood, Part 2We’re back in Deadwood, South Dakota…. where you last left me in Episode 26…. in jail. It’s September, 1970 and I’ve been arrested for reckless driving,,,, by Sheriff Deadwood Dick McGraff. I’m in Wild Bill Hickok’s jail cell, on the day after Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose. I have long Jewfro hair just like Jimi, and my jail mates have taken a distinct dislike to me. I’ve just woken up the day after my arrest. I’m lying on a cot next to a gigantic Native American Indian named “Neck”. His arms are the size of tree trunks...
2018-03-0920 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Mile Siegel of the Travel Tales PodcastMike Siegel is a professional stand-up comedian, fellow travel podcaster, and TV host based in Los Angeles, California. Plus… he’s an overall good guy. Mike created the Travel Tales Podcast in 2011 – which he sees as a lighthearted conversation highlighting the best, and worst, experiences that travel has to offer. I think Mike and I are both trying to do the same sort of thing on our podcasts…. bring the world closer together… one travel tale at a time. http://erictrules.com/episode27
2018-02-2351 min
e-travels with e. trulesThe Wild West of Deadwood, South DakotaI was doing one of the most patriotic things I’ve ever done in my life – going to Mt. Rushmore - to see George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy… whose Presidential images were all cracked and decayed… just like our country. I end up making a little detour – to the old cowboy and mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota… long before David Milch, Al Swearingen, and HBO got there. Rumor has that Wild Bill Hickok was Sheriff of Deadwood back in the day, and I… discover something about Wild Bill’s jail… first hand. And about the new Sheriff in town named… Deadwo...
2018-02-0921 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes in Shanghai with Shannon Moore Martin frpm Podbean“I’ve always wanted to be an ‘ex-pat’, an American living outside of the United States. Never more so than in this tenuous time of Trump!” So at Podcast Movement 17 in Anaheim, I do a live interview with Shannon Moore Martin of Podbean, who lives in Shanghai. We talk of many things – like living internationally, and working for one of the biggest podcast hosting companies in the world. http://erictrules.com/episode25
2018-01-2624 min
e-travels with e. trulesWelcome to Season 2, with A Cock Tale From Borneo - Episode 24This season, I’d like to start thinking about travel in a new way.Time and place, Maties. Because I think there’s something profound and universal about a good travel story, connecting us more deeply to a unique place at a specific time, to ourselves, and to the other people we meet along the way. At the end of this episode, I'll recall a tribal tale from the outback of Northeast Borneo in East Malaysia.... where you'll hear how Rungus tribesmen dealt with love, jealousy, and revenge back in the days of animism and black magic shamans. htt...
2018-01-1216 min
e-travels with e. trulesTrules Guests on the Creative Studio Podcast, Episode23Ho! Ho! Ho! And Happy New Year! Having just passed the 1 YEAR ANNIVERSAY of my podcast, I am announcing GOOD NEWS — the release of “e-travels with e. trules” on SPOTIFY! To celebrate, I’m releasing the 4th and final BONUS EPISODE – between Season 1 and Season 2. It’s my interview from this past Fall with Joshua Rivers, also known as “The Podcast Guy”, and host of “Podcasting Experiments from the Creative Studio”. http://erictrules.com/episode23
2017-12-2233 min
Podcast Junkies - Storytelling Interviews & Conversations with Podcasters Podcasting Passionately153 Eric Trules | Rebelling Against Conformity and Finding Freedom Through the ArtsTrules is the host of e-travels with e. trules. He's lived an incredibly interesting life and recently discovered the world of podcasting. He's an artist, “self-producer and self-initiator”, an amazing storyteller and has taught theater at USC for 31 years. He's been a performer for almost five decades as a modern dancer and a clown, of all things! Going into his last year of teaching he was offered a grant from the school for a project of his choosing and he chose a podcast. And we're lucky he did! Full show notes: http://pjnk.es/153★ Support this p...
2017-12-161h 26
e-travels with e. trulesBonus, Trules Guests on "Podcasts We Listen To", Episode 22It's the 1 Year Anniversary of the Podcast, so today to celebrate and to tickle your travel podcast fancy, I'm releasing a BONUS episode, my guest interview with Jeremy Collins, host of "Podcasts We Listen To". Jeremy contacted me from Capser, Wyoming, where is a UPS driver, as well as the creator of "Podcasts We Listen To", a popular podcast and the largest podcast-based group on social media, with over 16,000 members on Facebook. It's one of the great hings I love about podcasting: everybody has a place at the table. It doesn't matter where you live...
2017-11-241h 13
e-travels with e. trulesBonus Episode, Trules Guests on the "Travel Tales Podcast"Mike Siegel, Comedian and Host of the Travel Tales Podcast: “What do you think travel has taught you about yourself, people in general, and about America?” Trules: “How much time do you have?” http://erictrules.com/episode21
2017-10-201h 04
Podcasting ExperimentsSound Immersive Podcasting wtih Eric TrulesWe will be talking with Eric Trules and his podcast is e-Travels with E. Trules, and it’s unique in that it combines travelogue storytelling with an aurally immersive experience of sound, effects and music that take you right to the destination. We’ll talk about his podcasting journey, his publishing schedule with alternating formats, and the beauty of travel. MetaMoment: Now, before we jump into the interview for today, let’s pause for a MetaMoment. This is where we review one or two podcasts about podcasting on this podcast about podcasting. Today...
2017-09-3000 min
e-travels with e. trulesBonus Episode – Trules on the “Travel Stories Podcast”In between Seasons 1 & 2, the podcast offers a BONUS EPISODE of Trules' guest interview on the "Travel Stories Podcast", with host, Hayden Lee. http://erictrules.com/episode20
2017-09-2251 min
e-travels with e. trulesEnd of Season, 1 with a "Tear"Here it is... one of kind.... a travel story not about... me! Along with excerpts from Season 1, and final travelogue. "Tear" is about a 15 year old Chicano boy named Alejandro Chavez, my "mentee", and the bus trip he took across the US-Tijuana border in 1995. Alex, as he like to be called, told me this story, and I've tried to capture it here. I think it's a love story about the distance between cultures and countries, in our modern age of... President Trump and all the challeges of immigration. I also think it's a bitter-sweet and...
2017-08-2519 min
Travel Tales with Mike SiegelEric Trules
Performance artist/teacher Eric Trules, host of the "E-Travels with E. Trules" podcast, shares his Tales of embarking on an alternative lifestyle in the 60's, and what the adventurous life has taught him
2017-08-1759 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Debra Ehrhardt from JamaicaThese words from my guest in this Episode, Debra Ehrhardt, solo performer and native of Jamaica: "Your saying 'no' to me is just a way of my saying, ok, how can I get 'yes'?" "In America, there is no class system; they see you as you are." "When a man is involved in a child's life, it makes such a difference." "People who travel are so much more interesting than those who stay in their tiny little city." http://erictrules.com/episode18
2017-08-1154 min
Podcasts We Listen ToE-travels with E. TrulesJeremy chats withe Eric Trules, host of E-travels with E. Trules. Eric is a traveler, Professor, Dancer, Clown, Clw politician, Performer, and now Podcaster. E-travels is an immersive experience into the travels and adventures of Trules, as he likes to be called. This isn't your typical travel podcast. This is a journey alongside a man who likes to see where the road less traveled will lead him. Find Trules on twitter @etrules Visit Trules' website: http://erictrules.com/ ***NEW*** Patreon! Want to help support the show? Jeremy fina...
2017-08-021h 11
e-travels with e. trulesThe Mighty mekongThis episode finds Trules chugging up the Mighty Mekong River, on a flat-top, tin-roof, diesel-puffing dinosaur, from northern Thailand to southern Laos, metaphorically and musically searching for mad Mr. Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", and of course, more recently adapted by Francis Ford Coppola into his film, "Apocalypse Now", where Kurtz is notoriously played by mad Marlon Brando. http://erictrules.com/episode17
2017-07-2817 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Actor-Musician, Morlan HigginsTrules speaks with one of Los Angeles' true musical and theatrical treasures, Morlan Higgins. Be serenaded with Morlan's mandolin, learn about his acting with Pulitzer-Pfrize winning playwright, Athol Fugard, and hear about "the river of life" http://erictrules.com/episode16
2017-07-1452 min
e-travels with e. trulesAmsterdam, the "Perfect City"Amsterdam, Christmas 2013 As ex-heavyweight champ, Sonny Liston, always said, "Life... a funny thang". It comes and goes -- in cycles. When we're in an "up" cycle... feeling good about ourselves and our lives, it seems nothing can go wrong. We're invincible. When we're in a "down" cycle... of loss, transition, fear, it seems that nothing can go right. We're unworthy. Me? I'm more like Chicken Little, always expecting the sky to fall... than like Mary Poppins, always ready to fly away into her next optimistic adventure. But on this t...
2017-06-3014 min
Backpack DigitalUnpacking Season FiveCody and Nicole are back to help Hayden as he unpacks season five, discusses his favorite overarching travel themes, highlights his favorite moments of the season, and looks forward to the epic upcoming changes of season six. In this unpacking and season five finale of the Travel Stories Podcast, Hayden is joined again by Cody and Nicole to reflect on the past season of episodes. They discuss their highlights from the past few months and what they thought of their guests and the stories they shared this season.
They also share flashbacks to their favorite moments. You’ll...
2017-06-261h 09
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Liz Femi from NigeriaIn this lively episode, Trules talks with Liz Femi, a fellow solo performer and storyteller, who was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Nigeria, a country not many tourists - or travelers - know much about. Liz is a small, smart, beautiful, and feisty young woman who her Mom describes as: "a really bendy, bouncy branch... connected to a strong Nigerian oak tree". http://erictrules.com/episode14
2017-06-1647 min
Backpack DigitalS5E11: Grazing with Camels - Eric Trules: Performance Artist | Podcaster | TravelerWhat is there awaiting travelers in the desert? What is there out in nature, waiting to reconnect with man? Eric Trules has discovered it, he thinks. That nothingness that means something: a nomadic way of life, a connection to nature, a cooperation with the land, a lack of civilization that means an increase in humanity. Eric Trules has been a professional in the performing, literary, and filmic arts for almost five decades. He’s worked as a dancer, in the theater, as an actor, and even as a clown. In his life outside of his work, he takes what he...
2017-06-0546 min
e-travels with e. trulesThe Gdentridication of Mi Barrio, Echo ParkEcho Park, the one time immigrant-socialist-artist neighborhood of Los Angeles, has undergone the sad and inevitable process of "gentrification". Trules, a long-time Echo park resident, goes to the annual Cubano musical festival and is confronted head on with "unneighborhly" gentrification. Complete with original Cuban music composed by Amanda Yamate and an original score with roosters, fireworks, & gunshots by Alysha Bermudez. http://erictrules.com/episode13
2017-06-0225 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Israeli Diplomat, Raphael MoravTrules speaks with long-time friend and Israeli diplomat, Raphael Morav, who he has visited in Rome, Jerusalem, Helsinki, and Paris. Hear them chat about politics, Israel, diplomacy, kibuttzes, travel, SERVAS, the United Nations, and more. http://erictrules.com/episode12
2017-05-1940 min
e-travels with e. trulesThe Iron Horse and the Borneo Bucket BrigadeIn December, 2001, just months after 9/11, Trules arrives in Kota Kinabalu on the island of Borneo in East Malaysia. Teaching at an all-Islamic university on a Fulbright grant, he is confronted with images of Osama Bin Laden - on the screensavers of his university colleagues - and on t-shirts in every shopping mall. Talk about culture shock, he learns that Bin Laden is the most admired man in Malaysia for being the only man to stand up to George W. Bush and Goliath America. Still, Trules tries to make peace with the natives. http://erictrules.com/episode11
2017-05-0513 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Chris Christensen, the "Amateur Traveler"Trules talks with long-time travel blogger and podcaster, Chris Christensen, "The Amateur Traveler"... whose cool rules of the road include: 1- "Never lose your sense of wonder and adventure when you're traveling." 2- "Never complain that you don't do things that way at home; that's part of the point of traveling." 3- "Never whne, because in the grand scheme of things, if you can afford to travel, what do you have to complain about?" Enjoy the banter between Trules, who travels, and Christensen, who interviews about travel. http://erictrules.com/episode10
2017-04-2150 min
e-travels with e. trulesNine Lives & Balinese Good KarmaTrules arrives at the international airport in Denpasar on the magical island of Bali - to meet his Indonesian wife - but she is not there. She is, instead, in the local Kasi Ibue hospital with... dengue fever... one of the most feared, mosquito-born illnesses in the world. After waiting a week with Surya on intravenous drip, they go to the "Good Karma" bungalows on the still-pristine East Coast of the island, where Trules promptly has a head-on motorbike collision by driving on the wrong side of the road. A comic misadventure with original gamelon music composed by Amanda...
2017-04-0727 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Jonathan Munoz-ProulxMy guest this week is Jonathan Munoz-Proulx, otherwise know as “JMP”, my former student and now independent theater artist, who first gave me the idea of doing a travel podcast. After seeing me do many readings and performance of my stories on stage, and then reading them on my travel blog, he said: “Your stories are SO MUCH BETTER when we hear your voice! You should do a podcast.” And the rest…. is history. Full show notes: http://erictrules.com/episode8
2017-03-2427 min
e-travels with e. trulesWhy Travel?Beijing, China, 2007 It's a year before the Beijing Olympics and there are crowds and pollution everywhere. I've been invited to teach the LDTX Bejing Modern Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet of China. I'm 60 years old and I haven't danced in over 30 years. What am I going to do? "Figure it out," says that jackal trickster, Travel. "Improvise! Isn't that your specialty?" "Thanks, a lot, Travel. I will"! And so I do... as along the way, I ask myself... and my listeners, "Why travel?" Why leave the comfort and familiarity of home? For a change of scenery and pace? For...
2017-03-1017 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Hayden Lee, Host of the "Travel Stories Podcast"My guest this episode is Hayden Lee, the self-professed son of a hippie and a biker, and the host of the popular, Travel Stories Podcast. Born in rural Shropshire, England, Hayden is a musician and an intrepid world traveler who can't help but navigate every conversation into a story. In fact, Hayden, like me, believes that memorable stories are what travel, life, and podcasts... are all about. The Travel Stories Podcast is a weekly show that brings you original stories of freedom and adventure from seasoned travelers. And whether you are one or not, a seasoned traveler...
2017-02-2436 min
e-travels with e. trulesLove and the Devil's NoseAlausi, Ecuador. 2003. I married for the first time at age 55. Also in 2003. I married an Indonesian girl from Sumatra who I met in Bali, who was 31 years younger than I was and who spoke almost no English. Go figure, huh? But in the summer of 2003, a few months after we tied the knot in LA, we took our first extended trip together, to Machu Picchu in Peru, and up the Avenidas de los Volcanos, along the mountainous spine of Peru and Ecuador. For 2 months, we traveled by all-night buses with "los indiginos", the local natives, dressed in colorful sarapes...
2017-02-1019 min
e-travels with e. trulesET004 - Behind the Scenes with the Production TeamMy guests this time are my 2 trusty and talented production colleagues, Alysha Bermudez, our imaginative and immersive sound designer, and Amanda Yamate, our composer who creates music tapestries from all over the world. Both are college students well on their way to professional careers. Alysha is in the Sound Design program at USC and Amanda is in the Film Scoring Program at Cal State Northridge. We work in the studio of USC's Sound Design Program on Jefferson and McClintock in South Central LA, usually early on Saturday mornings, and although we work quite hard and meticulously, we...
2017-01-2725 min
e-travels with e. trulesET003 - E-Ticket to ThekkadyJune, 2006. Trules has arrived in Mumbai on the day that 5 bombs have exploded in 5 different train stations in the financial hub, but still beggared, megalopolis of the sub-continent. He heads southeast, up into the mountainous tea plantations of Munnar, high in the Western Ghats of the province of green, green Kerala. There he takes a terrifying bus ride down a serendipitous mountainside where his whole life flashes before his eyes. Full show notes: http://erictrules.com/episode3
2017-01-1315 min
e-travels with e. trulesBehind the Scenes with Harry DuranWelcome to the first "Behind the Scenes" episode of "e-travels with e. trules", a twice a month feature of the podcast, where I will be speaking to friends, colleagues, fellow podcasters and travelers around the world.... in between my monthly scripted shows. The first guest is my producer, Harry Duran, host of "Podcast Junkies". Harry has been my podcast guru and guide through this new art form for me, and after meeting him by "accident and incident" at the LA Podcast Festival this Fall, he has helped me condense, consolidate, and re-design my web presence, upload, download...
2016-12-3024 min
e-travels with e. trulesGrazing with Camels, Episode 1Israel, 1999. Trules ventures south from Jerusalem, crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border at Eilot. He makes camp at "Ras Es Satan", Head of the Devil, sleeping in a primitive "chousha", just feet from the Red Sea. He swims with the neon-lit fishes and organizes a 2 day camel safari, overnight into the Sinai Desert, home of Moses, Joshua, and the first tribes of Israel. His guide is swarthy Bedouin, Adnan, and after learning how to make a camel both run and sit, Trules presses on into the harsh and beautiful desert. Is that a mirage he sees? Or an oasis...
2016-12-1616 min
Movies Made MeLos Angeles Podcast Festival, part 1 of 3Welcome to the first of three special episodes recorded at the 5th annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival, which took place at the Sofitel hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, Sept. 23-25, 2016. This was our second year at the festival and it was just as amazing and wildly exciting as last year. The Podcast Lab continues to be a space filled with camaraderie, deeply interesting conversations, and unbelievable collaboration. Whether you are a podcaster or a podcast fan, we urge you to make your plans now for next year's L.A. Podcast Festival. Don't miss this terrific event! We chat...
2016-11-281h 42
e-travels with e. trulesWelcome to "e-travels with e. trules", Episode 0Like to travel? Like to listen to travel tales from well off the beaten path? Well then, you've come to the right podcast. "e-travels with e.trules" is a personal and literary podcast created by Eric Trules, a longtime Huffington Post blogger and theater Professor at USC in Los Angeles, Trules has traveled our beautiful and problematic planet for decades, staying in Bedouin huts on the Red Sea, riding the rails to "Nose of the Devil" in Southern Ecuador, and meeting his future Indonesian wife on the magical island of Bali. If you like to travel vicariously, or to be...
2016-11-2815 min
The Jake Sasseville ShowThe Artist + The Mobster: The two black sheep of a Long Island Family color outside the linesThe Artist + The Mobster: The two black sheep of a Long Island Family both color outside the lines.
There is a saying -- "you're only as sick as your secrets." For USC professor of theater, award winning poet and filmmaker Eric Trules, his family secrets ran deep.
After spending most of his childhood admiring his Uncle Harvey, it was revealed that Harvey was in the mob. A murderer and jewelery thief, Eric Trules became fascinated by Uncle Harvey's life of crime -- and started to think about how when you're a black sheep cast out f...
2015-09-2833 min