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Changing Lives PodcastLove and Losses, Revelations and ResurrectionKara Westerman (she/her) and I discuss the memoir she is writing with her deceased husband, our evolving spiritual beliefs, our ongoing recovery and self-love journeys, and more. Zoom spiritual support group info: https://bit.ly/wearysouls Get full access to Changing Lives at wendigordon.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-2557 min
Fresh Tracks WeeklyRange Wide Wildlife Declines | Week of April 29This week, we are talking about the overall decline of wildlife, shifting baselines, and the biggest factors that affect long-term population levels.Randy Newberg, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, and Congressman Bruce Westerman received Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservation Awards for 2024!We have a quick recap from last week’s episode. Michael, Jace, Kara, and I went to shoot in the NRL hunter competition in Idaho, where we learned a lot about precision shooting.In Pennsylvania, two bills have been introduced that could remove the longstanding prohibition of S...2024-05-0434 min
The Hour Of Now from WSKGThe Hour Of Now ep 123New Music this week from King Krule, Kara Jackson, Westerman, Lavinia Blackwall, The Murlocs, Low Hummer, Juliana Hatfield, Forum Friends, Hannah Jadagu, binki, Feist, Angel Olsen and Don Letts2023-04-2359 min
phantomhamptonThe Gory Details Of Corruption And Death, Interviews with Panama Papers director Alex Winter, and To Dust producer Alessandro NivolaI taste-tested two wonderful films from the abundance of The Hamptons International Film Festival’s 2018 roster. Don’t miss the world premiere of the new documentary, “The Panama Papers”, directed by veteran documentarian Alex Winter, (“Trust Machine”, “Deep Web”), and co-produced by Laura Poitras, (“Risk”, “Citizen Four”), which is a start-to-finish thriller about global money laundering, in an age that one journalist in the film dubbed “near French Revolution levels of economic inequality;” and “To Dust" a darkly comic first feature directed by Shawn Snyder and produced by husband and wife team Alessandro Nivola, (“Disobedience”, “Laurel Canyon”), and Emily Mortimer (“The Newsroom”, “D...2018-10-0245 min
phantomhamptonDell Cullum's Wild Life: Hamptons Wildlife RescueWho can you call at 2:00 am if you need a raccoon driven across the Shinnecock Canal? Is your family of foxes mangy? Is a hedgehog eating you out of your zinnias? Do you have bats in your basement, swifts in your chimney, or have you seen an Osprey who has forgotten how to fly? If you can’t resort to killing your cousins, there is only one man for the job. Dell Cullum is amazingly well, considering he was flat on his broken back only a couple of months ago; while trying to get a raccoon off a...2018-01-2728 min
phantomhamptonFour Stationary Walls, Nearly Homeless In The HamptonsHow does a person with a modest income survive living year-round in The Hamptons? I wanted to do a story about women falling through the cracks because I had been falling through the cracks and I couldn’t figure out whether it was me or the system I was attmepting to live in. I know this is a story about home, making a home, the changing views women have about what a home means. So, this is a story about all of these things and also about our worst fears. I’ve nailed down what my worst fear...2018-01-0332 min
phantomhamptonPilgrim To Greece, Journalist Journeys To Help Syrian RefugeesHampton's journalist Joanne Pilgrim from The East Hampton Star travels to Greece to help the mostly Syrian refugees arriving on a small Greek island. What makes Joanne take the leap from compassion into action? “He said ‘If you have 100 friends — for me 98 of them are gone.’ It was hard not to cry, but how dare I cry? I haven’t been through this!” When I heard that my friend and colleage was travelling to Greece to help the boatloads of mostly Syrian refugees that had been arriving, I was jealous — and impressed. Why wasn’t I going over to Greece t...2018-01-0337 min
phantomhamptonSovereignty Of Seeds, The Hamptons Seed ExchangeSeed exchanges vs. Monsanto is the topic as we visit The Hampton's Seed Exchange's first event and talk with seed sharers about organic growing and organic farming on Long Island. Long Island and especially The Hamptons has many organic farms and now new seed exchanges are popping up in libraries and community gatherings. 2018-01-0326 min
phantomhamptonLast Words, Bob Morris' book Bobby WonderfulBobby Wonderful is a memoir by author Bob Morris about coping with dying parents with humor and grace. This is my interview with the author. "Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. How does an adult child with flaws and limitations figure out how to do his best for his ailing parents while still carrying on and enjoying his own life? And when their final days on earth come, how can he give them the best possible end? In the tradition of bestselling memoirs by Christopher...2018-01-0334 min
phantomhamptonWe Baptise Not Lobotomize! LGBTQ Reverend Katrina FosterReverend Katrina Foster's Twitter handle is: wife, Pastor, mama, lesbian, recovering redneck, activist, troublemaker. Listen to LGBTQ pastor's story of overcoming addiction, finding her true vocation as a Lutheran Pastor, and finding true love with another woman and a daughter.2018-01-0318 min
phantomhamptonAmagansett Patron SaintsItalian and Sicilian heritage stories from anonymous descendants of Amagansett settlers on Long Island, New York. Photo by Lily Landes.2018-01-0330 min
phantomhamptonTed Rall's Marxism In The Hamptons, Pissed Off And Wide Awake"Ideology is stupid for those of us who have no power. It doesn’t matter what we would do if we did. We don’t. Seizing power, taking out the idiotic, incompetent, greedy, evil and stupid people who are ruining our lives is what matters.” The Anti-American Manifesto. Ted Rall is a political cartoonist, graphic novelist, journalist, proud Marxist, intellectual, and all around agitator, it is his mission to teeter on every edge, pushing the boundaries of what this culture, and other cultures, can bear to hear about themselves. He’s radicalized. Sometimes it gets him into trouble with the...2017-09-1637 min
phantomhamptonJules Feiffer: The Man In The CeilingThe Man In The Ceiling, book by Jules Feiffer, Music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, and directed by Jeffrey Seller, producer of Hamilton, will run May 30-June 25, 2017 at The Bay Street Theater. In his new theatrical adaptation of his graphic novel “The Man in the Ceiling,” opening the 2017 Main Stage season at Bay Street Theatre May 30, he wants the audience “to feel they’ve been dragged up onstage” and are part of the action. “Yes! I want you to experience what I am doing in the present tense! That’s the way it’s always been in whatever medium I’m using,” he says...2017-06-0226 min