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Library Card Blockbuster Card: Planes, Trains and AutomobilesToday we discuss Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the 1987 John Hughes holiday classic. Have a great Thanksgiving! Share the podcast if you enjoy, leave us reviews, and let us know what you think by connecting with us on social. Library Card is hosted and produced by Megan Glionna, Brian Brinkman, and RJ Bee. Music by Amar Sastry. Presented by Osiris Media.

2025-11-261h 16

Wild Nevadacast EP 032 - John Glionna, AuthorJournalists like John Glionna are not common, so it’s fun to hear from such an adventurous writer who commits to finding his stories wherever they may be, across the world or in our backyard. His latest book is Rebels & Outliers: Real Stories of the American West, and some of those stories come from right here in Nevada.

2025-10-2729 min

Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT Hume Amateur Hour John GlionnaJohn Glionna, a former LA Times correspondent, shares insights from his career as a journalist and author with Cassidy Carson and JT Hume from the "CC & JT Amateur Hour". He discusses his book "Rebels and Outliers: Real Stories of the American West," which features real stories from the American West, emphasizing themes of resilience and community.Glionna reflects on his writing style, influenced by literary greats, and the challenges of capturing depth in storytelling. He also shares personal anecdotes from his travels, cultural reflections, and advice for viewers, all while highlighting the evolving landscape of journalism. John...

2025-09-1449 min

The Journalism Salute 35-year feature writer and book author John GlionnaOn this episode we're joined by a great longform feature writer, John Glionna. John is a longtime journalist – older than most of our guests (he's in his 60s). He spent 35 years in newspapers including 26 at the Los Angeles Times. He's been based in different places around the world, including Seoul, South Korea and Las Vegas.This interview is intended to pick John's brain on what goes into writing features about some of the most interesting and unusual people you'll ever encounter. We discuss several of his past features, which are excerpted in his new book, Rebels and Ou...

2025-09-0241 min

Writing the West Life, Loss, And 8-Man Football On Indigenous Reservations With Journalist John GlionnaFor decades, journalist John Glionna roamed the American West chasing stories that others overlooked: small towns, strange landmarks, and unforgettable characters. But it was in McDermitt, Nevada that Glionna found the heart of his first nonfiction book, No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America. What began as a tale about a struggling eight-man football team turned into something far richer: a chronicle of identity, belonging, and survival in a place most Americans will never visit. In this wide-ranging conversation, Glionna reflects on building trust in tight-knit communities, navigating controversy, and why these stories matter more...

2025-07-3042 min $The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O\'Meara$

The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara Episode 464: John Glionna is a Clown Who Makes Balloons That Kids Don't Like"We're sadistic motherf*ckers," says John Glionna, @johnglionna on the Instagrams.John is a longtime journalist and author of No Friday Night Lights (Bison Books). He made a name for himself at the Los Angeles Times pursuing what would be called "Glionna stories," stories about invisible people who have rich lives all their own. In this episode we talk about The Glionna Story How John didn’t punch down in his writing Working with Glenn Stout on this book What he loves most about this kind of work And solving that thorny question of whe...

2025-04-2558 min

Unlock Into A Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook On A Rainy Day.No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America by John M. GlionnaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812654to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America Author: John M. Glionna Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population...

2024-10-2910h 34

Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America by John M. GlionnaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812654to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America Author: John M. Glionna Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population...

2024-10-2910h 34

Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social Science No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America by John M. GlionnaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812654to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America Author: John M. Glionna Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population...

2024-10-2910h 34

The Chills at Will Podcast Episode 236 with John Glionna: Author of Buy No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America and Keen Observer of Rural Life, Dynamic Real-Life Characters, and the UnderdogNotes and Links to John Glionna’s Work For Episode 236, Pete welcomes John Glionna, and the two discuss, among other topics, his journalistic awakenings and the writers who influenced him, his kinship with renegades and underdogs, what it was like embedding with a small town football team, the interesting characters and rich lives lived in rural areas, and salient themes like Native traumas, pride, declining enrollments in schools and on sports teams and the rises and falls of life in small-town América. John M. Glionna is an award-winning journalist who has travele...

2024-06-021h 16

City Cast Las Vegas The Mysteries of "Outback Nevada"During his time in Nevada, journalist John M. Glionna has visited pretty much every city, town, township, hamlet, burg, village, and wide spot in the road in this state. In every spot he’s found a compelling story, a very human character — the last sheep farmer, an Indigenous artist, dozens more. He’s gathered the best of those tales in Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State. In today’s episode, Glionna regales Dayvid with outback anecdotes, and dishes on what the rurals really think of Las Vegas.You can catch John Glionna at the Las Vegas Bo...

2022-10-1819 min $MasterSleepy\'s favorits mix$

MasterSleepy's favorits mix Alan Walker Live May 2022 | Rebel Toronto01 Alan Walker - Alone (Reece Low & SND Bootleg) w/ Zedd & Lucky Date ft. Ellie Goulding - Fall Into The Sky (Everybody Fuckin Jump Acappella) 02 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 03 Martin Garrix - Proxy 04 Salem Ilese ft. TOMORROW X TOGETHER & Alan Walker - PS5 (Fortnite Battle Pass Gamer Remix) w/ Alan Walker ft. Danny Shah - Spectre w/ Alan Walker ft. Danny Shah - Spectre (Patrick Key Remix) 05 Alan Walker ft. Danny Shah - Spectre (Steeve & Glionna Remix) w/ Farruko ft. Victor Cardenas - Pepas 06 Marc Anthony vs. Vicetone & Tony Igy - Vivir Mi Vida vs. Astronomia (Alan Walker Mashup) 07...

2022-06-241h 44

Once Upon A Crime Real Life Heroes: The Foiled DeAnza College ShootingIn light of the ongoing tragedies of frequent mass shootings in America, I’ve decided to make this week’s episode one of hope and heroism. In this story, a young girl becomes an unlikely hero when she acts upon a hunch derailing an evil plot before it could begin. Resources “De Anza bomber receives 7-year prison sentence” | News | losaltosonline.com.” Los Altos Town Crier, 3 April 2022, https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/de-anza-bomber-receives-7-year-prison-sentence/article_53662dd7-5f2f-5b74-9719-7f6bb84b6cb0.html. Accessed 4 June 2022. Fernandez, Lisa. “Woman whose call to cops stopped De Anza College attack now has cance...

2022-06-2028 min

Helping Friendly Podcast HFPod On Tour (Live) - MSG 4/22/22 ReviewWelcome back to HFPod On Tour (Live)! Today we recap the third night of Phish's 2022 Run at MSG! Brian & Megan are here with Seth Gordon-Lipkin and John Bonanno to breakdown the show and dive into their highlights.---Tune into our LIVE SHOWS every Monday & Wednesday at 4:30pm ET.We'll be going LIVE the day after each MSG show at 1pm ET to recap the night before!Please subscribe to OSIRIS MEDIA on Apple Podcasts to hear BONUS HFPod Episodes as well as all of Osiris Media...

2022-04-231h 24 $What\'s Your Why?$

What's Your Why?Gregory Hinton: A Rainbow in Wyoming“When I was young, I always had a mountain range over my shoulder,” he says. “I still come back looking for lost dignity.” We were very fortunate to have Gregory Hinton on for our latest episode of “What’s Your Why!” He is an novelist, filmmaker, lecturer, curator, and playwright. As A Buffalo Bill Center of the West Resident Fellow, Hinton is the proud creator and producer of “Out West”, a national museum program series offering lectures, plays, films, and gallery exhibitions dedicated to shining a light on the history and culture of the LGBTQ+ community in the American West (follow this link fo...

2022-03-1745 min

Violent Ends Children of ThunderBorn in Lansing, Michigan in 1970, Glenn Taylor Helzer seemed destined for greatness. By his early teens, he was the spiritual head of his family and a rising star in the Mormon church. But Helzer chose a different path. One that led to him founding an extremist cult, and ended with body parts floating in bags down a river in Northern California. Case: Children of Thunder Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Intro/Outro Edits: Ben Goldman RESOURCES: People...

2020-03-1059 min

Clitical Thought The Timothée Wears PradaLights, camera, action.... Chalamet! Buckle up as we (with minimal industry knowledge) harshly critique/gush over this years films at the 2020 Oscars! So grab the popcorn and watered down coke as we ask the BIG question... would you rather "Boot-edge-edge" or "Butter-gig"? Things mentioned:Find Anna on Q+A!https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2020-10-02/11933296What went wrong in Iowa?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/caucus-disaster-wrong-200204204306989.htmlJojo Rabbit (2019)Directed by Taika WaititiEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah ArendtLittle Women (2019)Directed by Greta GerwigLittle Women’s Real Feminist Problem- Ca...

2020-02-161h 16

Modern Murders Episode 2: The 7 Victims of Nikolay SoltysIn a small village, two people fell in love and started a romance in 1997 that would end in tragedy just 5 years later. To view the transcript for this episode which includes pictures related to the case, please visit: https://modernmurders.wixsite.com/modernmurders/post/the-7-victims-of-nikolay-soltys Resources for this episode include the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Soltys https://www.nei.org/resources/fact-sheets/chernobyl-accident-and-its-consequences Dixon, Robyn. Glionna, John. "A Lifetime Punctuated by Violence". (Aug 31, 2001). Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com...

2019-08-2019 min

Chapter Audio Books on PodOmatic Shakespeare: Richard IIBy: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of the play, Richard II banishes his cousin Henry Bolingbroke from England. Bolingbroke later returns with an army and the support of some of the nobility, and he deposes Richard. Richard is separated from his beloved Queen, imprisoned, and later murdered. By the end of the play, Bolingbroke has been crowned King Henry IV. Audio edited by J. M...

2010-02-123h 02