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Comic LabHow to fight loneliness all by yourselfToday's episode is sponsored by Dreamhost. The first step in owning and controlling your own work is building a website, and Dreamhost is there to make that simple, painless, and inexpensive. Go to www.Dreamhost.com/ComicLab for details.The life of a comic artist is often a solitary one. Brad and Dave discuss ways of maintaining social connections for mental health and creativity. Later, they discuss the dangers of setting an artificially low Kickstarter goal.ON TODAY'S SHOWThe lone life of a comic artistUPDATE: Susan MacTaggart's affirmationshttp://www.Dreamhost.com/comiclab for...
2025-06-0559 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0204: Students: Celebrating Life’s Moments | MilestonesCFTROU 0204: Students: Celebrating Life's Milestone Moments | MilestonesAs our children move through different stages of life, it’s essential to give them tools that help them make sense of life and keep following Christ through it all. Today on the show, we’re wrapping up the first half of this season, focused on Student and Kids Ministries at Family Church. This episode concludes the Student Ministry part of our series, and in our next episode, we’ll shift our focus to Kids Ministry. In this conversation, we’re exploring how to celebrate life’s milestone moments, joined by Pastors John MacTaggart, Derek Simp...
2024-12-2423 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0203: Students: Finding the Right Volunteers | Recruiting & Training Adult VolunteersCFTROU 0203: Students: Finding the Right Volunteers | Recruiting & Training Adult VolunteersToday, we’re continuing our discussion on student ministry at Family Church by diving into practical matters—like how to recruit the right volunteers. Joining us on the podcast are Pastor John MacTaggart and Pastor Brian Stebbins to unpack our approach to recruiting and training adult volunteers, focusing on finding and retaining significant adults. As you tune in, you’ll hear why we prioritize recruiting and training the right volunteers, what we look for in people to serve in student ministry, and the critical role significant adults play. We’ll also share pr...
2024-12-1025 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0202: Students: Sundays First | Strategy of Sunday MorningCFTROU 0202: Students: Sundays First | Strategy of Sunday MorningIf your goal is long-term family formation and raising disciples, consider cultivating a student ministry that fully integrates students into the larger life of the church, and that starts with Sunday mornings. In this episode, we continue our series on how we at Family Church approach Student Ministry, focusing on our philosophy of putting Sundays first. Join Pastor Jimmy Scroggins and his co-host Leslee Bennett as they chat with Pastor John MacTaggart; who leads our Student Ministry across our network of churches, and Pastor Tyler Core; the campus pastor at Family Church Gardens...
2024-11-2625 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0201: Students- Spiritual HabitsCFTROU 0201: Students- Spiritual HabitsToday, we continue our conversation on Student Ministry, focusing on the fourth leg of our Student Ministry philosophy at Family Church: Spiritual Habits. Although it’s the last talked-about leg, it’s certainly not the least important. Joining us are Pastor John MacTaggart, Pastor to Students and Families, and Tommy Lea, our Middle School Minister, both from Family Church Downtown. Tune in to hear about the essential spiritual habits we emphasize, why this aspect is so crucial to our Student Ministry, and the practical ways we help students build these habits.Key Points From This Episode:Tommy shar...
2024-11-1220 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0200: Students- Challenging Spiritual ExperiencesCFTROU 0200: Students- Challenging Spiritual ExperiencesThis season is all about our student ministry philosophy, and today, we unpack the third leg of our four-legged stool that serves as the sturdy base of truth we’d like to pass onto our student leaders: challenging spiritual experiences. Jimmy and Leslee are joined by Pastors John MacTaggart and Jake Kimbrell to explore how we at Family Church instigate challenging spiritual experiences for our students. We begin with why it’s important to provoke our students spiritually, the three main events that serve as great foundations for this purpose, and how we ensure that our enti...
2024-10-2926 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0199: Students- Significant Adult RelationshipsCFTROU 0199: Students- Significant Adult RelationshipsOur students are the leaders of today, not just tomorrow, and that’s why our student ministry is so important to us at Family Church. Today is the second leg of our four-legged stool that defines how we approach our student ministry, and it’s all about the importance of having significant spiritual leaders actively investing in their student congregations. We are joined by Campus Director Jaqueline Smail and Student Pastor John MacTaggart, and Jaqueline begins by sharing her journey into student ministry to become one of the most gifted student leaders that Pastor Jimmy has ever...
2024-10-1525 min
Church for the Rest of Us PodcastCFTROU 0198: Students- Partnering with ParentsCFTROU 0198: Students- Partnering with ParentsWelcome to a new season of Church for the Rest of Us! Today we are joined by student pastor, John MacTaggart and student minister Christian Rodriguez to discuss student ministry and how to partner with parents. We then delve into ‘the four-legged stool’ that they implement in student ministry at Family Church, where it came from, and how our guests use it in their ministry. Today we focus on the first ‘leg’ of the stool; partnering with parents as our guests tell us how they create a sense of community within their student ministry, how they connect...
2024-10-0228 min
ProfileJames GrahamJames Graham’s writing obsession started at the age of six in the shadow of Nottinghamshire's former coalmines. Equipped with a typewriter from his mother he created hundreds of stories from the family home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Accelerating through university in Hull and a writing residency in west London, Graham’s work started to attract wider audiences following a break at the National Theatre in 2012. Building on his thrilling political drama This House, he went on to write plays and TV series including Sherwood, Dear England, Quiz, Best of Enemies and Brexit: The Uncivil War.During this...
2024-08-3114 min
That’s Debatable!Reignite the Free Speech SparkSince its establishment in March 2023, the Ian Mactaggart Programme has provided generous financial support to a range of free speech initiatives among young people. One particularly exciting project is the inaugural ‘Modern Dissent’ lecture. This will be given by Professor Eric Kaufmann, FSU Advisory Council member and Head of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham and will take place on Wednesday 28th February (tickets available here). Moving to the arts world, Arts Council England (ACE) funded Soho Theatre had to apologise last week for the behaviour of one of its performers who subjected several Jewi...
2024-02-2043 minThat’s Debatable!Reignite the Free Speech SparkSince its establishment in March 2023, the Ian Mactaggart Programme has provided generous financial support to a range of free speech initiatives among young people. One particularly exciting project is the inaugural ‘Modern Dissent’ lecture. This will be given by Professor Eric Kaufmann, FSU Advisory Council member and Head of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham and will take place on Wednesday 28th February (tickets available here). Moving to the arts world, Arts Council England (ACE) funded Soho Theatre had to apologise last week for the behaviour of one of its performers who subjected several Jewi...
2024-02-2043 min
The Joys of Binge ReadingLee Goldberg – Eve Ronin MysteriesLee Goldberg is a #1 New York Times best selling author whose had a remarkably durable career as author and TV producer. His latest book is Movieland, the fourth book in the Eve Ronin series. Eve is the youngest female homicide detective in the scandal plagued Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in a series which is already optioned for TV.
Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in Binge Reading today Lee talks about his ambition to develop Eve into the legendary status of fictional detectives like Harry Bosch (in Michael Connelly’s the Lincoln Lawyer series) and John R...
2022-08-0933 min
Lloviendo cineAmericanos (actores y actrices), os recibimos con alegría. Primera parteEn el programa de hoy de Lloviendo cine damos la bienvenida a los actores y actrices americanos. En concreto, a todos esos intérpretes del cine norteamericano que en algún momento de sus carreras participaron en películas españolas. En ocasiones grandes estrellas del cine de Hollywood trabajaron para directores y películas españoles para dar relumbrón al séptimo arte de España. Y lo vamos a comprobar en la primera parte del especial que les vamos a dedicar en Lloviendo cine,Las músicas del podcast proceden de:https://evokemusic.ai/C...
2022-05-3047 min
Keep off the BorderlandsCovid, Call-ins & Lone Eons (episode 196)Featuring...Colin Green of SpikepitKes (1969) dir. Ken LoachCodi M of No Save For YouOrbital Blues by SoulMuppet PublishingCowboy Bebop by Hajime YatateMostly Harmless Meetings by Dan Sumption https://peakrill.itch.io/mostly-harmless-meetingsKarl Rodriguez of The GMologist Presents...Anthony "Runeslinger" Boyd of Casting ShadowsThose Dark Places by Johnathan Hicks https://ospreypublishing.com/those-dark-placesJason Connerley of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast...
2022-03-1146 min
Desert Island DiscsJack Thorne, screenwriterJack Thorne is a writer who has enjoyed great success with his scripts for the stage, cinema and television, winning five BAFTA awards for his TV work. His theatre credits include the international hit play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which has won major awards in London and New York. For television, his recent successes include his adaptation of His Dark Materials, from the books by Philip Pullman, and The Virtues, co-written with Shane Meadows, and starring Stephen Graham.Jack was born in Bristol in 1978. His mother was a care worker, and her experiences...
2021-12-1236 min
The Way We RollAgree to disagree? Assisted Suicide, Disability on TelevisionTwo topics feature in this months podcast. Gardners might use the term perennials to describe them. Others might say weeds that never quite go away. Two topics we discuss and we disagree on, but we have an enjoyable and explorative discussion getting there. Assisted suicide, aka assisted dying, is back in the spotlight as Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill passed through the House of Lords at the end of October. Whilst this won’t directly change the UK legislation (currently, assisted suicide is illegal), it shows the debate is very much alive. Phil is opposed to changi...
2021-11-2653 min
FLOURISHING EDUCATION - Space and time to BE and BECOME together so we RE-MEMBER who we truly areEpisode 80 - The unschooling school movement with Heather MacTaggartI am so happy to share this conversation with Heather MacTaggart creator of the Unschooling school movement - let's make school fit the learner.
Heather is a mother of four children, passionate about making the education system work for everyone. She is also Founder and Executive Director of Classroom Connections, on-site leader, Change It Up initiatives within Alberta First Nations communities. She is the co-author Overschooled but Undereducated, with John Abbott in the UK
2021-06-1456 min
AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget TalkFurry Hazmat Suits | AwesomeCast 486This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services.
While the City of Pittsburgh may be in a state of self-quarantine, the crew can still gather on the internet! We've got Sorg, Katie, Ryan Haggerty, and Chilla on to talk this week in tech news, including:
Katie is sharing her present and future Awesome Thing of the Week to help her get through her isolation - - Animal Crossing!
More video game options - - Ryan Haggerty is sharing Castlevania Symphony of the Night as his Awesome Thing of...
2020-03-181h 01AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget TalkPiss Bananas | AwesomeCast 484This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services.
Scot MacTaggart joins Chilla and Sorg in studio to talk this week's tech headlines, including:
Scot is sharing some fun things with AWS as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
Chilla is sharing an audio AI option for podcast transcription.
We're comparing Descript to Lyrebird.
Sorg is checking out OpenEMU as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
Have you checked out the NeuralCamPro NightMode Camera app?
Apple's Swift Playgrounds coding app is available on Mac.
Find yourself stuck at home sick? Th...
2020-03-0458 minDesert Island DiscsDorothy Byrne, journalistDorothy Byrne is the head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4, and has worked in journalism for more than four decades. In 2018 she received the Outstanding Contribution Award at Royal Television Society Journalism Awards, and her recent commissions include the Channel 4 News investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the Michael Jackson expose Leaving Neverland and the BAFTA-winning documentary For Sama, about one family’s life under siege in Aleppo, which also won an Oscar nomination. She began her career in journalism in her mid 20s on the Waltham Forest Guardian, after writing a cheeky letter to 50 lo...
2020-03-0139 min
iFanboy - Comic BooksPick of the Week #696 - Batman: Universe #2Conor Kilpatrick returns and brings his allergies with him! In addition to the usual comic book talk, he and Josh Flanagan try to figure out just what the deal is with with Toro’s age and Moira MacTaggart’s mutant power, talk a lot about eating chicken wings and Alec Baldwin on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Running Time: 01:14:57
Pick of the Week:
00:01:45 – Batman: Universe #2
Comics:
00:11:02 – Event Leviathan #3
00:16:48 – Invaders #8
00:23:16 – Fantastic Four #13
00:30:06 – Gogor #4
00:31:38 – Powers of X #2
00:37:52 – Second Coming #2
00:42:00 – Conan The Barbarian: Exodus #1
00:44:51 – James Bond: Origin #12
Patron Pick:
00:47:03 – The White Trees #1
Patron Thanks:
00:56:26 – Update on the Patrons who have upgraded and have yet to receive their power...
2019-08-181h 15AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget TalkThe Tinder of Podcast Hosts | AwesomeCast 393This week marks the return of Scot MacTaggart of Pitchwerks. He is, of course, joined by our usual co-hosts, Katie, Chilla, and Sorg as they talk this week’s tech news, including:
Katie is talking Anchor as her Awesome Thing of the Week – and their ability to find you a podcast co-host!
We’re talking the Tinder of podcast hosts.
Scot’s Awesome Thing of the Week is the Hardware Cup finals with Pittsburgh’s very own Velocity Robotics.
If you’re in Pittsburgh, you should check out the Hardware Cup – an International event that right’s h...
2018-04-181h 04AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget TalkEpisode 48: Pitchwerks | Awesome Chat Scot MacTaggart of Pitchwerks joins us in Mayhem Studio to discuss the concept behind the Podcast, the variety of creatives, polititians and more he's had a chance to talk with, and working as a salesman and consultant over the years while continuing to get getting sleep at night.
Help out the show with a donation! Become our boss! Go to patreon.com/awesomecast
Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment. Follow Michael Sorg (@sorgatron) and @AwesomeCast for updates and live streams of our interviews! Subscribe on Facebook,Stitcher, Spreaker, iTunes, and...
2017-03-0946 min
The Ex-Worker#50: The History and Future of Prison Strikes and SolidarityAs we build momentum towards the September 9th national prison strike, we want to reflect on lessons learned from past generations of prison rebels, as well as how we can maintain energy on September 10th and beyond. In Episode 50 of the Ex-Worker, solidarity organizer Ben Turk fills us in on some history of prisoner organizing in recent decades, recaps some of the solidarity actions that have taken place leading up to this year's historic strike, and offers perspective on continuing and deepening our resistance to prison society. We commemorate the death of Jordan MacTaggart, an American anarchist killed on...
2016-09-071h 25X-Aspirations Ep. 116, The Uncanny X-Men #133, May 1980X-Aspirations Episode 116
The Uncanny X-Men #133, May 1980
"Wolverine: Alone!"
Written by Chris Claremont, Pencils by John Byrne, Inks by Terry Austin, Lettered by Tom Orzechowski, Colors by Glynis Wein, Edited by Jim Salicrup, Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter
Holding On For A Hero Til The End of The Line!
In Which We Find That Unlike Folgers, Wolverine Is Not Good To The Last Drop, That Bjork Has Nothing On Moira MacTaggart's Fashion Sense, And That Jean May Have Just Earned Herself ALL The Racial Sensitivity Seminars. To The End of Time!
Ironically, Dumb Waiters...
2016-06-011h 03
Scriptnotes Podcast (.mp3)Two ENTJs walk into a bar (and fix it)John and Craig reveal their Myers-Briggs secrets as they discuss Kevin Spacey’s comments on the state of television, Eric Garcetti’s plans to address runaway production, and the WGA election.
There are [still a (very) few tickets left for Scriptnotes Live in NYC](https://www.telecharge.com/Off-Broadway/Scriptnotes-Live-with-John-August/Overview?AID=OBW000996000&cm_mmc=Scriptnotes-Live-_-affiliate-_-web-_-OBW000996000&cm_mmca1=show_site&cm_mmca2=ADSTSR&cm_mmca3=130828) on September 23rd, with Craig, John and special guest Andrew Lippa.
Links:
* Listen to John and Andrew on [SiriusXM On Broadway](http://www.siriusxm.com/onbr...
2013-09-0300 min
MediaGuardianMedia Talk podcast: Elisabeth Murdoch takes on MacTaggartOn day two of the Edinburgh television festival, John Plunkett discusses the fallout from the 37th MacTaggart lecture, Richard Bacon takes us to task, and comedian Adam Hills reveals Channel 4's Paralympics strategy
2012-08-2431 min
The Media ShowPhotos of Prince HarryIn today's programme with Steve Hewlett: After the Olympics, there were calls for those less-prominent events in which Team GB won medals to get wider coverage on tv. Is there really an appetite for this, though, now the excitement has died down? John Fairley of Highflyer TV talks about his plans to run a new tv channel showcasing minority interest sports, London Legacy.How have so-called second screens affected tv viewing habits and what impact does that have on broadcasters? Paul Lee of Deloitte takes Steve through the key findings of his recent research into...
2012-08-2228 min