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Books and Brews PodcastLife After a Terrorist Attack: Episode #81 with Christiane ScarpinoBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! In 1977 at the age of 21, Christiane Scarpino miraculously survived a terrorist bombing when she left her desk, just 10 feet from the bomb, to go get her morning donut and coffee from a co-worker. Missing Pieces tells the story of the bombing, the aftermath of dealing with the FBI's interrogations, and the long-term PTSD impacts. We talked about Christiane's name-change that resulted from the trauma of the bombing, what PTSD is as compared to how it's casually used today, her duck tolling retrievers, EMDR therapy, long=term memory issues and...
2026-01-291h 02Books and Brews PodcastRomance and Military Thriller with Kristie Wolf, Episode #80Books and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Kristie Wolf weaves tales about fearless heroes and badass heroines who fight for justice and love while burning up the pages. Kristie's passion for writing romance ignited during her teenage years when she told her mom she was going to write a novel someday. She did, and now she can't stop. As the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, wife of a Marine, and Navy mom, she enjoys writing happily ever afters for not just military heroes, but for all the brave, loyal, and selfless men and women who serve...
2025-12-191h 01Books and Brews PodcastEpisode #79: Jake Needham on Crime & CharacterBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Jake Needham is an American lawyer who became a screen and television writer through a series of coincidences too ridiculous for anyone to believe. When he realized how little he actually liked movies and television, he started writing crime novels. Jake has lived in Asia and Australia since 1980, first in Sydney, then in Hong Kong, and from 1992, in Bangkok. He and his wife, an Oxford graduate and prematurely retired concert pianist, have been married for thirty-two years and have two adult sons. Jake has published seventeen novels that...
2025-11-1800 minBooks and Brews PodcastEpisode #78: Technology & Truth & a Paranormal Thriller with Ashley Fontainne & Andrea EmmesBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Ashley Fontainne is an author and co-author of more than 30 novels, known for her intricate plots and writing in genres from dark comedy to mystery/thrillers to suspenseful paranormal. Andrea Emmes, a singer, performer and one-time magician’s assistant who has narrated many of Ashley’s books, steps into writing for the first time with their co-authored paranormal and psychological thriller, ETERNAL BEAUTY. We talked about masks (psychological, not covid), childhood trauma, plastic surgery…and Aquanet wiggling into tight pants in the 80! (And more!) 00:00 START 06:26 Drink 1: The Exorcist 0...
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NudgeWhy did Partygate Make Voters so Angry?In 2020, the UK government told its citizens not to meet in groups of more than two.
Despite this rule, the UK government were caught holding lockdown-breaking parties, which involved the Prime Minister.
This ultimately led to Boris Johnson’s resignation in July 2022, but why?
Why did this specific scandal make voters so angry?
Today, with the Chief Behavioural Scientist at the Behavioural Insights Team, Michael Hallsworth, we uncover the psychology behind hypocrisy.
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2025-10-1324 minBooks and Brews PodcastEpisode #77: One Family's Story of Jack the Ripper, with Robert GerebBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Róbert Geréb is a boundary-pushing author and accomplished AI developer. As co-author of Jack the Ripper’s Assassins—the cornerstone of The Dighton Chronicles, built on multigenerational oral history from a Romani-Viking lineage—he melds immersive storytelling with rigorous historical research. He also penned two nonfiction guides through Aspect Books: EASY MILLIONAIRE MATH, a practical blueprint for building scalable, passive-income businesses; and Declutter Your Life, Enrich Your Soul, an emotionally holistic program for simplifying your surroundings, finances, and relationships for deeper personal growth. 00:00 START 09:35 Drink 1: the Ripper’s Fo...
2025-09-301h 02Books and Brews PodcastEpisode #76: Family Secrets Come to Light with Hiram JohnsonBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Hiram Johnson is retired law enforcement officer, currently teaching criminal justice as an adjunct, a father, author and creator. His book Reason to Fight: a search or truth is a surprising tale of a family mystery. We talked about the event that landed his grandmother in prison for murder, prison conditions for women in the 1920s, his search for his shrouded family history and the connection he developed with a previously unknown relative in the search for his grandfather’s identity. Find Hiram’s books at Xulonpress.com 00:00 START...
2025-08-081h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #75: UFOs with Dona MasiDona Masi is a writer and editor whose short fiction and articles are used in reading and writing assessments throughout the United States. Her articles on several subjects have appeared in several newspapers. She is also a playwright, and two of her plays were performed at the Provincetown Theater Company. In her writing she loves bringing relatable characters to life and depicting them in all their heroic and flawed humanity. Her debut novel, The Taking, was inspired by her interest in UFO folklore and reports of alien encounters. She lives with her husband in Dover, New Hampshire. 00:00 START
2025-07-241h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #74: Sci-fi and More with Bill McSciFi McCormickBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Bill McCormick is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of several novels, graphic novels, and comic book series, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He began writing professionally in 1986 for the Chicago Rocker Magazine in conjunction with his radio show on Z-95 (ABC-FM) and went on to write for several other magazines and blogs. He wrote a twisted news & science blog at WorldNewsCenter.org. It provided source material for his weekly radio show on WBIG 1280 AM, FOX!, which aired for 12 years. We talked about domestic scenes in sci-fi, PTSD...
2025-06-2000 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #73: Monsters & Appalachian Lore Come to Life with Clay GilbertBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Clay Gilbert has always believed in the power of the imagination to dissolve differences and forge connections between people. Since 2013, he has published thirteen novels, from science-fiction and horror to YA dystopia and urban fantasy. His works include the science-fiction series Children of Evohe, which began in 2013 with Annah and the Children of Evohe, as well as the horror novel Dark Road to Paradise and the dark fantasy novel Pearl: A Monster Story. Clay lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his cat, Rosalind, insists on quality-checking...
2025-05-271h 01Books and Brews PodcastEpisode # 72: Wild Alaska with Mr. NovemberBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Michael Modzelewski (Mojo-less-key) grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a famous NFL football player with the Cleveland Browns, Ed “Big Mo” Modzelewski. Michael graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English Literature. He is the author of five books, including INSIDE PASSAGE, about a two year stay on a wilderness island in the Inside Passage to Alaska. After living “date-less” on the wild island, Michael was chosen a “Bachelor of the Month” by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Mr. November received 5,000 letters from women around the world, dated many, and that’s h...
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Books and Brews PodcastEpisode # 72: Wild Alaska with Mr. NovemberBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Michael Modzelewski (Mojo-less-key) grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a famous NFL football player with the Cleveland Browns, Ed "Big Mo" Modzelewski. Michael graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English Literature. He is the author of five books, including INSIDE PASSAGE, about a two year stay on a wilderness island in the Inside Passage to Alaska. After living "date-less" on the wild island, Michael was chosen a "Bachelor of the Month" by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Mr. November received 5,000 letters from women around the...
2025-04-301h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #71: Time Travel, Sci-fi and Woodstock with Beth DukeBestselling author Beth Duke's Anywhen is the ultimate outsider story—a young woman yearning to belong across time itself. With universal themes of love, jealousy, sacrifice, friendship, joy, loss, and forgiveness, this genre-defying novel is a story like no other...one that will stay with you long after the final page. Beth read from her latest book, Anywhen, that combines sci-fi, time travel, and historical fiction. We talked about Woodstock, the central event of Anywhen, about southern fiction, stereotypes, the good and bad of AI, and Utopias. Is Baezy’s world a Utopia? Did living in peace result in naive...
2025-03-311h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #70: Sherlock Holmes Alive Again! with Richard T. RyanA lifelong Sherlockian, Richard T. Ryan is the author of nine Sherlock Holmes novels and currently working on his tenth. He’s also written a well-received murder mystery “Deadly Relations which has been produced twice off-Broadway. He pursued graduate studies at Notre Dame where he majored in medieval literature. Our talk ranged from Knights Templar finding Minnesota in the 1300s to the reasons Arthur Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes to the inefficient bombers of the 1880s and the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mark Wahlberg. 00:00 START 06:20 Drink 1: Watson’s Delight 07:20 Reading 1: The Traitorous Templar 11:20 From medieval literature and old Eng...
2025-02-2758 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #69: AI and Aliens with Michael ColonBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Michael Colon is a novelist and freelance writer, born and raised in New York City. His author's story is about hard work, perseverance, and believing in the power of imagination. His inspiration comes from various societal abnormalities, the beauty in cultural differences, and his own life experiences. His debut novel, The Gift from Aelius, is about an artificial intelligence’s growing awareness of purpose and life. There is not a science fiction tale as poetic and thought-provoking. In the not-too distant future, A191, a Codex with artificial intelligence, feels like...
2025-01-261h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #69: AI and Aliens with Michael ColonBooks and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Michael Colon is a novelist and freelance writer, born and raised in New York City. His author's story is about hard work, perseverance, and believing in the power of imagination. His inspiration comes from various societal abnormalities, the beauty in cultural differences, and his own life experiences. His debut novel, The Gift from Aelius, is about an artificial intelligence's growing awareness of purpose and life. There is not a science fiction tale as poetic and thought-provoking. In the not-too distant future, A191, a Codex with artificial in...
2025-01-261h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #68: High Adventure with John GrahamJohn Graham shipped out on a freighter when he was 16, hitchhiked through the Algerian Revolution at 19 and was on the team that made the first ascent of Denali’s North Wall at 20, a climb so dangerous it’s never been repeated. He hitchhiked around the world at 22, working as a correspondent in every war he came across. A US Foreign Service Officer for 15 years, he was in the middle of the 1969 revolution in Libya and the war in Vietnam. As a global peace builder, post Foreign Service, he contributed to peace efforts in Israel and Palestine. For the last 42 year...
2024-12-2957 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews #67: Back to Merry Olde England with JP ReedmanJ.P. Reedman lives in Wiltshire near to Stonehenge. Born in Canada, she has had a lifelong interest in ancient and medieval history, and is often found lurking around prehistoric sites, ruined castles and abbeys, and interesting churches with camera in hand. She became a full-time writer in 2018. Series include: I, Richard Plantagenet, 5 books chronicling Richard’s life from childhood to Bosworth, and Medieval Babes, a set of standalone novels about lesser-known medieval queens and noblewomen. Her most recent release is Princess in the Police Station, the tale of little Anne Mowbray, wife of the younger ‘Prince in the Tower’ whose g...
2024-11-261h 00Books and Brews PodcastEpisode #66 From Nomad to Ph.D. with Michael C. KeithMichael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recl...
2024-10-221h 03Books and Brews PodcastEpisode #66 From Nomad to Ph.D. with Michael C. KeithMichael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphon...
2024-10-221h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #66: Michael C. KeithMichael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, E...
2024-10-221h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #66: Michael C. KeithMichael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphon...
2024-10-221h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #65: Stephen DownesSteve Downes is a contemporary Irish poet and novelist, currently living and working in Ireland. Educated in N.U.I. Maynooth, he holds a Degree in Classical History and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology. Steve has published poetry; science fiction, including Cosmogonic Marbles, Temporal Tome, Gadzooks Armageddon and Botolf Tales (the Botolf Chronicles), Warworld: Shadows & Dominions (part 1), Murder on the Alpha Centauri Express and The Deaths of Guner Zoon; and four children’s Books: The Upstairs Cat Series (3 books) & An Apprenticeship to Doctor Vantastic. Steve continues to write and publish work in many genres. In 2017 & 2018 Steve exhibited from his collections of hi...
2024-09-181h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #64: Kathy MurrayKathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years’ experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors. While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pi...
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Make Me Watch ItEpisode 22: "If You Feel it, Kiss it!" - Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F / TwistersIt's Legacyquel time as the Brendans chat everything from horror breakout Longlegs and Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga to Netflix's Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and the whirlwind box office smash Twisters. We also dig into the new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, do a spoiler-filled discussion on Season 2 of My Adventures With Superman, and gush about the filmography of Michael Mann.
Our Opening Music is from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): "Skies of Hope" by RA
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Read our work on Cinapse, hear Brendan Agnew on the Matinee...
2024-07-233h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #63: Frank WarnerLike any good soldier’s son, Frank Warner moved with his family from fort to fort, accepted each change, and was ready to move again. Then, in 1960, Frank’s father was ordered to Fort Huachuca (WahCHOOka), Arizona. This was the fifth Army post of Frank’s childhood, the first place he never wanted to leave. So when his father was ordered to Vietnam in 1963, sending Frank and the rest of the family to Pennsylvania, the uprooting wasn’t easy. Frank’s book, “Tumbleeweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,” describes the joys of living in Fort Huachuca, and the heartache of leaving it...
2024-07-011h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #62: Sharon Bennett ConnollySharon Bennett Connolly is the best-selling British author of several non-fiction history books. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Sharon has studied history academically and just for fun – and has even worked as a tour guide at a castle. She also writes the popular history blog, www.historytheinteresngbits.com and co-hosts the podcast A Slice of Medieval, alongside historical novelist Derek Birks. Sharon regularly gives talks on women's history, for historical groups, fesvals and in schools; her book Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest, is a recommended text for teaching the Norman Conquest in the N...
2024-06-131h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #61: Robert R. HeathRobert Heath grew up in different places around the world, beginning in Japan in the late ‘40s. Robert and his eight siblings followed the assignments of their father, a sergeant in the U.S. Army. He ultimately became an educator for 37 years, serving all grade levels from Pre-K through doctoral programs in South and North Carolina. He now lives in the mountains of NC, where he loves writing and hiking. You can find him at face book at BratBob3of9 We talk about Bob's adventures growing up in Taiwan, Japan, Germany and the United States, with one sister and seven brot...
2024-05-041h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #60: JS AbsherJ.S. Absher is a poet, memoirist, and independent scholar. As a teetotaler—he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—he can’t add much insight into brews, but he can hold his own when it comes to books. Stan’s first full-length book of poetry, Mouth Work (St. Andrews University Press) won the 2015 Lena Shull Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. Stan’s second full-length book of poetry, Skating Rough Ground, was published in 2022 by Kelsay Press. Poems have recently been published or accepted by The McNeese Review, Mormon Lit Bli...
2024-04-091h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #59: Theresa HalvorsenTheresa Halvorsen has a “don’t tell me I can’t do that,” attitude about life and is an author, publisher, editor, and YouTuber. She’s overly-caffeinated and at times, wine-soaked. The author of multiple cross-genre works, including Warehouse Dreams, Lost Aboard and River City Widows, Theresa wonders what sleep is. She’s the owner of No Bad Books Press and one of the hosts of the popular YouTube channel, the Semi-Sages of the Pages. In whatever free time is left, (ha!) Theresa enjoys board games, concerts, geeky conventions, and reading. Her life goal is to give "Oh-My-Gosh-This-Book-Is-So-Good!" happiness to her readers. S...
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EXOPOLITICS TODAY with Dr. Michael SallaTwo Earths, the Nephilim and Overcoming Alien Manipulation: An Interview with Dr. Brooks AgnewDr. Brooks Agnew has traveled the world in search of archeological evidence and records about ancient Earth history that he analyzed in his four-volume book series, The Ark of Millions of Years. He has found that a race of extraterrestrials called the fallen angels in ancient texts, including the Book of Enoch, established a race of giants called the Nephilim who became a corruptive force in early human civilizations. He believes the Nephilim were not entirely exterminated in the Great Flood and made a come-back. They have ever since been agents for surviving fallen angels who manipulate humanity through...
2024-02-081h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 58: Peter Andrew SaccoPeter is the Author of 30 books, fiction and non-fiction and published on 4 continents. He is a resident expert and regular of Top 50 USA radio and TV markets including Fox, CBS, ABC, ESPN, Coast to Coast, iHeart and over 100 major radio and TV networks. Peter is a multi-award-winning, director, cinematographer, actor and producer on 7 continents Peter has written more than 800 articles (self-help and fiction) appearing in major news media world- wide He has been a university professor for 28 years, as well as being a psychologist, specializing in criminal psychology, sports psychology and addiction studies. www.peterandrewsacco.com Peter's...
2024-02-061h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #57: Stephanie Sanders-JacobStephanie Sanders-Jacob is an author and artist from Sandusky, Ohio. Her alien abduction novel, Singing All the Way Up, debuted with No Bad Books Press in July 2023. Her short fiction has been featured by Books of Horror, Hearth & Coffin, Mixer, Mosaic, and Ether Arts. You can find her online at www.sandersjacob.com and her artwork at www.rabbitandrain.com Stephanie's Readings: Things were better before I killed my dad – 8:28 Airship, 1897 – 28:51 Running from the fighting – 44:50 Chris's Cocktail Pairings: Freak Show (paired to Things were better before I killed my dad)– 6:18 Aviation (paired to Airship, 1897) – 25:35 International Incident (paired to Running from the fig...
2024-01-061h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #56: M.B. ZuckerM. B. (Michael) Zucker has been interested in storytelling for as long as he can remember. He devoted himself to historical fiction at fifteen and earned his B.A. at Occidental College and his J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He lives in Virginia with his family. He is the author of four novels: The Eisenhower Chronicles, A Great Soldier in the Last Great War, Theodore Roosevelt and the Hunt for the Liopleurodon, and The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine. Among his honors is the Best Fictional Biography Award...
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Make Me Watch ItEpisode 6: "That's a Callback, Right There" - Killers of the Flower Moon & Working With ScorseseThe Brendans are joined by another very special guest this week to discuss Killers of the Flower Moon. The film's official Visual Effects Data Wrangler Michael Slemmons comes on to talk being on set for the extensive on-location shoot, the challenges of period pieces with massive scope both in front of the camera and as created by VFX, the powerful human story of the Osage murders and the monsters behind them, and several wandering tangents about the beautiful minutiae of creating art via motion pictures.
Also, more thoughts on One Piece, because anime remains...
2023-11-131h 54Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brew Episode #55: MJ WilliamsMJ Williams is the pen-name for the writing duo, Peggy Joque Williams and Mary Joy Johnson. Peggy is a freelance writer and book editor. A retired elementary school teacher, Peggy has taught creative writing classes and workshops for Madison College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Continuing Studies. She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, Sisters in Crime, and the Wisconsin Writers Association. She will be debuting her first solo historical novel, Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles, next May (2024), to be published by Black Rose Writing. Mary Joy is a retire...
2023-11-071h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 54: Ralph E. JarrellsRALPH JARRELLS became an author after retirement from more than four decades in marketing, advertising, and publishing, much of it in senior executive positions. He writes mostly historical fiction with religious themes. His first book was published August 4, 2017 when he was 75—a great example that you’re never too old to start a new chapter in your life. His firth book, The Essential Last Supper debuted this month. Ralph's Readings: · Three Kings – 11:55 · A Lady and a Pirate – 41:05 · Fighting Like a Little Girl – 46:55 Chris’s Pairings: · Goliath (paired to Three Kings) – 9:06 · Sweet Tea and Vodka (paired to A Lady and a Pirate) – 31:35 · Rum and Grog (p...
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PowerWomen: Conversations with Powerful Women about moving the Pendulum!Episode 63: Who originated PowerMom and PowerWoman?Meet the PowerMan who continues to empower others, call out their limiting beliefs and set PowerWomen in motion! How J. Michael Manley is now transforming others with a new coaching program for those with ADHD. POWERWOMEN LINKS: WEBSITE: https://thepowerwomen.org/ LR FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1807102609586780 NWA FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.thepowerwomen.org INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/powerw.o.m.e.n ...
2023-09-1943 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 53: Dan CoonanDAN COONAN has worn many hats through the years – Conference Commissioner, Athletic Director, CEO, Attorney, Novelist, Senior Congressional Campaign Advisor, Fundraiser, Nonprofit Chairman of the Board, College Adjunct Professor, Political Essayist, Youth Sports Coach, Bartender, Batting Practice Pitcher, Wedding Officiant, Dock Talk Facilitator, devoted husband and father. His books are Presidential Spirits: Part history lesson, part magical realism these well-researched books imagine conversations of all 45 presidents in a saloon stocked with any drink you want, located above the private quarters of the White House and accessible only to presidents - and a few colorful wait staff- through a secret portal. Dan...
2023-09-081h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 52: Karen EssexKAREN ESSEX is an award winning, bestselling author of six books including Leonardo’s Swans & Stealing Athena. She has recently co-written a pilot based on her two-volume novel, Kleopatra, for Netflix, which Lauren Hissrich, creator of The Witcher franchise, will executive produce. She adapted Anne Rice’s The Mummy for James Cameron and Fox Studios and collaborated on adapting her novel Dracula in Love as a series for A&E Studios & Lifetime. She just completed a historical novel about the fabulous Gabor sisters, the first global fashion and glamour influencers, and she's determined to enjoy her summer. Karen's Readings: · The Great Egy...
2023-08-191h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 51: PTL PerrinMilitary brat, voracious reader, and now writing books in her favorite genre, Patty Perrin who writes as PTL Perrin grew up in Europe and speaks several languages. A misfit by any account, Patty shares her love for people, Native cultures, our amazing world, alien encounters, astounding mysteries, and the Creator of it all in her writing. Author of Reflections of a Misfit, an inspirational collection of faith journey snippets, and the four-book TetraPhere series, Patty is working on another YA Scifi/Fantasy series. She enjoys living in Florida and loves her husband and her large and diverse family. Patty’s Re...
2023-07-071h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode # 50: Bjorn Erickson, BrewerThis month at Books & Brews, with Michael on sabbatical, Laura and Dr. Chris Powell visit Hoops Brewery in Duluth, MN. We talked with Bjorn Erickson, one of the brewers about brewing...and books. Bjorn had a great story about how he got from earning a degree in German to brewing beer. We talked about the blending of science and artistry, the hard parts of being a brewer, and the reasons Bjorn loves his job, and the numerous books and genres Bjorn reads. If you're in Duluth, we highly recommend stopping at Hoops Brewery, a family friendly place with lots of...
2023-06-071h 03Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #49: Margaret J. AndersonI grew up in Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh University with a degree in genetics. Back then, genetics was all about statistics and probability. So, I became a statistician until I took up the more chancy career of writing children’s books. Exploring the Insect World was published nearly 50 years ago. I then switched to time-slip fantasies and historical fiction. I’ve written nature-activity books, biographies, and more books about insects, which I now look on as my true calling. I married an entomologist. When you share your home, and sometimes your refrigerator, with insects you realize they need an advocate in o...
2023-05-081h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #48: Sharlene MacLarenBorn and raised in west Michigan, Sharlene MacLaren attended Spring Arbor University. Upon graduating with an education degree, she taught second grade for two years then accepted an invitation to travel internationally for a year with a singing ensemble. In1975, she returned to teaching and married her childhood sweetheart. They’ve raised two lovely daughters, both of whom are now happily married and enjoying their own families. Retired since 2003 after 31 years of teaching, “Shar” loves to read, sing, travel, and spend time with her family, in particular her wonderful, adorable grandchildren.sharlenecaclaren.com Sharlene's Readings: · Dear Mr. Griffin – 9:30 · Calm Down! – 25:10 · ...
2023-04-101h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #47: Elizabeth TuckerElizabeth Tucker is a Distinguished Service Professor of English at Binghamton University who specializes in children’s and adolescents’ folklore, folklore of the supernatural, and legends. Her books include Campus Legends: A Handbook, Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses, Children’s Folklore: A Handbook; Haunted Southern Tier; and New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices, co-edited with Ellen McHale (2013). She is co-author of Legend Trips: A Contemporary Legend Handbook (2018). She has edited Children’s Folklore Review and served as president of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research and the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society; she is als...
2023-03-131h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #46: Jane CableEva Glyn writes emotional women’s fiction inspired by beautiful places and the stories they hide. She loves to travel and her last trip before the covid lockdowns was to Croatia, where she met a man with an incredible story of growing up during the country’s Homeland War in in 1990s. It inspired The Olive Grove, set on the island of Korcula. Two more Croatian novels have followed, both taking their inspiration from the Second World War. An Island of Secrets was published in 2022 and The Collaborator’s Daughter will follow in 2023. Her books are published by Harper Collins imprin...
2023-02-011h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #45: Jen GilroyJen Gilroy writes women’s fiction for Orion Dash and sweet western romance for Harlequin Heartwarming—uplifting stories about women finding home, family and new beginnings–and finding themselves too. She’s a Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® finalist and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon award. A dual British-Canadian citizen, Jen lived in England for many years and earned a doctorate in geography, focusing on British cultural studies and social history, from University College London. She worked in higher education and marketing before becoming a full-time writer. She now lives in small-town Ontario, Canada with her husband...
2023-01-0359 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #44: Christina CourtenayChristina Courtenay writes historical romance, time slip and time travel stories, and lives in Herefordshire (near the Welsh border) in the UK. Although born in England, she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden – hence her abiding interest in the Vikings. Christina is a former chairman of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association and has won several awards, including the RoNA for Best Historical Romantic Novel twice with Highland Storms (2012) and The Gilded Fan (2014) and the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 with Echoes of the Runes. Hidden in the Mists (timeslip/dual time romance published by Head...
2022-12-071h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #43: Connie KinseyConnie Kinsey is a former military brat who has put down deep roots in a converted barn on a dirt road at the top of a hill in West Virginia. She lives with two dogs and a cat, and is pursuing happiness, one cup of coffee at a time. Primarily a memoirist, the events of her life permeate her work. Her fiction is sometimes described as autofiction because it incorporates autobiography in a fictionalized form with endings far from the truth of what really happened. In January of 2021, Connie was thrilled to be selected as one of two Writers-in-Residence for...
2022-11-011h 00
The Mike ShowCate Blanchett as Step on Me Mommy - Brendan Agnew (The Norman Nerd)Brendan Agnew is a writer, blogger, and podcaster. He shares his passion and deep knowledge for film by writing reviews on his own website, The Norman Nerd, and in featured guest appearances on podcasts like School of Movies, Geeks with Shields, and Matinee Heroes. You can find more of his work on Twitter at @BLCAgnew, on his website normannerd.blogspot.com, and cinapse.co. On this episode, Mike and the Norman Nerd talk about all things film and how Brendan turned that passion for movies and television into a successful blog and guest star spots o...
2022-10-131h 04Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcasts Episode #42: Robert BindinottoRobert Bidinotto is author of the bestselling Dylan Hunter vigilante thriller series. Robert’s debut novel, HUNTER, soared to the top of the Kindle bestseller list and was a Wall Street Journal “Top 10 Fiction Ebook.” Its sequel, BAD DEEDS, became a #1 Audible thriller. The third installment in the series is the gripping political suspense novel WINNER TAKES ALL. Before turning to fiction, Robert produced decades of award-winning nonfiction journalism. He earned a national reputation as an authority on crime while writing investigative articles for Reader’s Digest. One of those was named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, by the Amer...
2022-10-051h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcasts Episode #41: Nancie Laird YoungNancie Laird Young grew up as an Army BRAT and traveled with her family across the United States, Europe and the Far East. Eventually she grew up, married (twice), had three great daughters, and various careers in human services, academic administration, advocacy for people with disabilities. These led to contributions to books and magazine articles about the Internet, which eventually led to positions in Community/Social Media Management, Content Development, and Strategy at WashingtonPost.com, Edmunds.com, LifetimeTV.com, and AOL/Time Warner among others. After leaving the corporate world she moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, presumably to...
2022-09-161h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #40: Janet Raye StevensMeet award-winning author Janet Raye Stevens – mom, reader, tea-drinker (okay, tea guzzler), and weaver of smart, stealthily romantic tales. A Derringer Award finalist, Janet’s work has been recognized multiple times, including winning the Daphne du Maurier award for the WWII-set paranormal A Moment After Dark and RWA’s Golden Heart® award for the fun and flirty holiday romance Cole for Christmas. Janet writes mystery, time travel, paranormal, and the occasional Christmas romance with humor, heart, and a dash of suspense. She lives in New England with her husband, who’s practically perfect in every way, and their various family members...
2022-08-011h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcasts Episode #: Episode #39: Janelle Molony and Jodi Nasch DeckerJanelle Molony, M.S.L. is a family historian, an award-winning non-fiction author, and news journalist. Jodi Nasch Decker, Ed.D. is a college professor and freelance writer. Together, they provide interpretation and context for the poet Martha Nasch’s alleged seven year fast and 1920’s insane asylum stay. SevenYearsInsane Readings: News Reports on Martha Nasch's Seven Year Fast – 13:59 Force Feeding in the Asylum – 24:56 The Asylum, a poem by Martha Nasch – 40:09 Michael’s Beer Pairings: Celebrator Doppelbock, Privatbrauerei Ayinger (paired to News Reports) – 11:02 CPB, Lupulin Brewing Company (paird to Force Feeding in the Asylum) – 23:32 The Abyss, Deschutes Brewing Company (paired to The Asy...
2022-07-011h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #38: Linda WisniewskiLinda C. Wisniewski is a former librarian who shares an empty nest with her retired scientist husband in Doylestown, PA. Linda teaches memoir workshops and produces webinars for the Pearl S. Buck Writing Center. She was born in Amsterdam, New York and is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo and the library school at Villanova University. Her work includes fiction, memoir and personal essays and has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies both print and online. Her credits include publications as diverse as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Massage, The Quilter, the Christian Science Monitor, gravel and Foliate Oak. Linda w...
2022-06-021h 01
Fresh Cut GrassSeason 2 Episode 19: Plant Growth Regulators with Dr. Mike Agnew, Technical Manager for SyngentaTanner and Jeff host Dr. Mike Agnew from Syngenta on the show this week. Dr. Agnew has spent 40 years in the turf industry and 30 of those have been working with plant growth regulators. Dr. Agnew discusses how and why to use growth regulators and how to incorporate them into a program.Jeff Fowler, Penn State Extension (host) Tanner DelValle, Penn State Extension (host)Dr. Michael Agnew, Technical Manager, SyngentaLead photo: prestigousturfinc.comYou can find information on turf issues in the Turfgrass and Lawn Care section of the Pe...
2022-05-2537 min2022-05-041h 00
Michael's Record CollectionEpisode 57: Nazareth Bassist Pete AgnewRock and roll doesn't get much more old school than Scottish legends Nazareth. The band is still going more than 50 years since releasing their first album. Their 25th album, Surviving the Law, is coming out in mid-April, and bassist and founding member Pete Agnew was kind enough to tell me how this fresh new take on the Nazareth sound has come about. Pete and I also spoke about his introduction to music, switching from guitar to bass out of necessity, and (of course) that classic album Hair of the Dog.
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2022-04-071h 002022-04-011h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #35: Ilona ParunakovaIlona Parunakova is an author, diversity and inclusion speaker, and founder and CEO of IP Resilience Global and Identity Guru. She penned the best-selling books Opium of the Almond Tree, Am I Godfident, Unfiltered, Unleashed, Unapologetic, Royal Grand Berries, Success without Apology, and In the Front Line with Royal Warriors. Additionally, she has published the International Project book Godfident Voices and the children’s book Bella’s Butterfly. Parunakova is a TEDx international speaker who brings encouragement to audiences whenever she walks on stage. Parunakova is a direct descendant of survivors of the Armenian Genocide during World War I. She...
2022-03-161h 00Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcasts Episode #34: Sadira StoneAward-winning contemporary romance author Sadira Stone spins steamy, smoochy tales set in small businesses—a quirky bookstore, a neighborhood bar, a vintage boutique… Her stories highlight found family, friendship, and the sizzling chemistry that pulls unlikely partners together. When she emerges from her writing cave in Las Vegas, Nevada (which she seldom does), she can be found in belly dance class, or strumming her ukulele, perhaps exploring the West with her charming husband, or cooking up a storm, and always gobbling all the romance books. Sadira’s promise to readers: a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhangers! www.sadirastone.com Sadira...
2022-02-0100 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #33: Shannyn SchroederSloane Steele is the pen name for Shannyn Schroeder. As Sloane, her Counterfeit Capers series of heist romances are her love letter to the TV show Leverage. As Shannyn, she writes contemporary romances about big families, both those created by blood and by choice. Her books are set in the city of Chicago because having grown up there and lived near the city her whole life, she writes what she knows. Shannyn is a part-time English teacher, part-time curriculum editor, and full-time mom, even though her kids are pretty self-sufficient teens. In her down time, she bakes cookies, reads romance...
2022-01-031h 00
Grass Roots R/C PodcastEpisode 5 - Michael and Nathan GardnerThis week I talk to the Father-Son Race Team of Michael and Nathan Gardner. We look back on Nathan's dominating season in the Bomber Sportsman Class on The Grass Roots Racing Series, how Michael got started in R/C in a parking lot, and many other topics. Stay tuned to the end to find out how you can be a part of The GrassRoots R/C Podcast!
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2021-12-1042 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #32: Christine Madline EllsworthChristine Madline Ellsworth, has just released her first book of poetry, published by Potter’s Wheel Publishing. Here is a collection of poems tracing the arc of transition in a contemporary woman’s life. From childhood fascinations to adult issues such as domestic violence, marriage and divorce, Ellsworth shares many relatable experiences. Ellsworth holds BA and MA degrees in English literature from Moorhead State University Moorhead and Marquette University, respectively. She is a member of the Jackpine Writer’s Bloc and her poetry has appeared in issues of The Talking Stick. Her work has also appeared in Moorhead State University’s Red We...
2021-12-021h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #31: Sandy HannaSandy Hanna is an award-winning author for her memoir “The Ignorance of Bliss: An American Kid in Saigon,” a true coming-of-age story about growing up in Vietnam in the early 60s. She current resides in Lambertville, New Jersey. As a military BRAT (British Regiment Attached Transfer) her story reveals a turbulent time where politics and intrigue resided between plot and counterplot and where, as children, she and her siblings lived in the continuous present - perhaps the only way children can live. Ms. Hanna graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois with a BA in Interdisciplinary Programs in Science and Lite...
2021-11-011h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #30: Christine HusomChristine Husom is a national best-selling author from Minnesota. She pens the suspenseful Winnebago County Mysteries and the cozy, but not too cozy, Snow Globe Shop Mysteries where bad guys demonstrate not everyone is “Minnesota Nice.” She also has stories in many anthologies. Husom served with the Wright County Sheriff, is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and is active with the Twin Cities chapter. She loves meeting readers at a variety of venues and events. www.christinehusom.com Christine's Readings: Death in Lionel's Woods – 33:47 Secret in Whitetail Lake – 26:11 Frosty the Dead Man – 41:36 Michael’s Beer Pairi...
2021-10-011h 00
Music, Mindfulness, & MadnessAll By Myself, or More Self-Production OriginsDee and Michael talk about self-sufficiency, self-production and recording, Billie Eilish, finding your drum kit "yard saled" on the front lawn, and a whole lot more. ---Links to check out related to us and our conversation...Here is an interview Rik Agnew actually did just a couple months ago about "All By Myself" specifically:https://www.negativeinsight.com/niblog/all-by-myself-an-interview-with-rikk-agnewSunset Sound interview with one of Prince's Engineers, Peggy McCreary. She tells some of the same stories Michael told about Prince, how he would kick everybody out of the studio t...
2021-09-262h 02
That's So SundayEpisode 3: Debriefing with Our Guy FriendsThis week, Rose and Isa are joined by guests and friends, Michael & Justin, to address all of those pressing questions you’ve always wanted answered…
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2021-09-2648 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #29: Nicole BurnhamNicole Burnham is the RITA Award-winning author of over twenty romance novels, including the popular Royal Scandals series. As an army brat, Nicole was raised moving around the world. She still travels abroad whenever she can score cheap airfare and loves that it feeds her writing. If Nicole isn't at her keyboard, she is happiest spending time at Fenway Park or trail running.
2021-09-021h 02Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #28: Jeff LaFerneyAfter teaching language arts and coaching basketball for 30 years, Jeff Laferney decided to write books instead. Now he spends his free time reading, writing, and editing books. His Clay and Tanner Thomas series focuses on a father and son team who use parapsychological abilities to solve mysteries. Jumper is a time-travel science fiction adventure. Lost and Found, is a unique mystery/treasure hunt with ties to World War II history. His latest, Planer, is the sequel to Jumper.
2021-08-021h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #27: Ernie BrillErnie Brill writes fiction and poetry about everyday people. His I Looked Over Jordan and Other Stories explores race and class among hospital workers. The actress Ruby Dee adapted, and performed the story Crazy Hattie Enters Ice Age for the PBS TV series “With Ruby and Ossie.” Brill has published fiction, poetry and essays in the US and Canada. Favorite writers include Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Mahmoud Darwish, Hyseoon Kim, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Pedro Pietri, Pablo Neruda.
2021-07-061h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #26: Eugenia FainEugenia Fain is an author of poetry and prose. She is also a songwriter and available on Amazon and Spotify. Eugenia has forty years of experience in writing. She is a preschool teacher and tutor.She is published here and abroad; she is considered an international author. Eugenia is featured in several anthologies. She is published online, in print, ebook, and audiobook form. She has no children of her own; but she resides in Columbia, SC with her husband, Ivan, and tabby cat, Buddy.
2021-06-0359 min
It's All JournalismHow Spiro Agnew's crimes became relevant againMichael Yarvitz, co-author with Rachel Maddow of Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss the book and its accompanying podcast. He explains their research process, including sharing new information with people who prosecuted former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
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2021-06-0326 minPowerWomen: Conversations with Powerful Women about moving the Pendulum!Episode 36: VaginavangilistThere's so much to discuss about the Vagina, we are having a revival! Talks with sex therapist Michael Stokes on how to come into your sexuality!
2021-05-1917 minBooks and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #25: Melonie JohnsonUSA Today bestselling author Melonie Johnson―aka #thewritinglush―enjoys cheap wine, expensive beer, and sipping cocktails that start with the letter m. Declared a “writer to watch” by Kirkus and a “fizzy, engrossing new voice” by Entertainment Weekly, her smart funny contemporary romances include Too Good to Be Real and her award-winning Sometimes in Love debut series: Getting Hot with the Scot, Smitten by the Brit, and Once Upon a Bad Boy.
2021-05-061h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #24: Philip WatlingIn December 1994 Philip was hit by a car and killed! Thankfully death wasn’t terminal and as the years passed in his new life he was able to write a book, "Flight of a Lifetime". This inspiring, autobiographical story about his life, his death and his resurrection may not change the world, but it may make people's perceptions of the world change. It will make you cry, but also make you laugh - often at the same time… he wrote about his death and made it funny!
2021-04-021h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #23: Cynthia Kraack and Joseph TachovskyCynthia Kraack is an author of fiction, short stories and nonfiction. 40 Thieves on Saipan received Best Book in Military History from the American Book Festival. The High Cost of Flowers won two 2014 Midwest Book Awards. Joseph Tachovsky is the son of Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky, commander of the 40 Thieves. A story told at his father’s funeral of how he “saved every man in our unit” from a Japanese tank set Joseph on a journey to discover everything he could about the 40 Thieves.
2021-03-0159 min
The Stage by Stage WayWorld and Dakar Rally Co-driver Michael Orr (#15)World and Dakar Rally Co-driver Michael Orr talks us through his career in both the World Rally Championship and Cross-Country Rallying where his ultimate aim is to win the Dakar Rally.
2021-02-121h 46Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episoce #22: Dr. Chris PowellDr. Chris Powell is an author, poet, musician, engineering and management consultant and aspiring polymath with his fingers on everything from fretboards and ivories to the pulse of post-modernism, surrealism, and nihilism's impact on the destruction of morality and sanity. In The Path That Shines, Dr. Powell details his late wife Bonnie’s every procedure and symptom, and every failure of modern medicine to provide her with relief.
2021-02-011h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Podcast Episode #21: Lauretta and Michael KehoeLauretta Kehoe is an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, seeking in these stories reflections of her Christian faith. Not finding many, she decided to write what she wanted to read. Michael Kehoe is a professional comedian, actor and screenwriter, who has appeared in several movies, including the latest Jason Bourne film, the upcoming Godzilla sequel. Michael has also appeared as his Geriatric Elvis persona at five casinos in the Las Vegas area.
2021-01-031h 01Books and Brews PodcastBooks and Brews Episode #21: Lauretta and Michael KehoeLauretta Kehoe is an avid reader of all types of books, but mostly science fiction and fantasy, seeking in these stories reflections of my Christian faith. Not finding many, she decided to write what she wanted to read. Michael Kehoe is a professional comedian, actor and screenwriter, who has appeared in several movies, including the latest Jason Bourne film, the upcoming Godzilla sequel, two television shows and two commercials. Michael has also appeared as his Geriatric Elvis persona at five casinos in the Las Vegas area. A Dream of Dragons is their debut urban fantasy novel published b...
2021-01-031h 01
Nudge#44: Do Nudges Really Work?Why will a free 72-ounce steak draw in hoards of customers for one restaurant but zero customers for another? Nudges are loved by many marketers across the globe, yet they don’t always work as expected. In this episode, I chat with Dr Michael Hallsworth, managing director of the BIT North American about some empirical evidence that reveals if nudges really work.
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2020-11-3017 min
Nudge#43: When financial incentives don’t workDoes money motivate you? For most of us, we’d probably say yes. We work 9-5, five days a week for money. We can’t live without it. It’s normal to think that money therefore is the ultimate motivation. If you want someone to do something just pay them, right? My guest today, Dr Michael Hallsworth managing director of the BIT North American unit shares a different point of view.
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2020-11-1622 min
Running MatesEpisode 2: 1972 - Shriver v. AgnewLars and Michael discuss Richard Nixon's deliberation over whether or not to keep his vice president, Spiro Agnew, on the ticket and take a deep dive into the bleak prospects for the Democratic nominee George McGovern and his struggle to even find a running mate in the first place.
2020-02-2248 minRunning MatesEpisode 1: 1968 - Agnew v. MuskieLars and Michael discuss the 1968 running mates in our first full episode. In a divided and tormented nation, Richard Nixon picks Spiro Agnew in an attempt to woo southern voters with a law and order campaign and Hubert Humphrey picks Edmund Muskie to appease anti-war activists, cutting off his chances in key states.
2020-02-081h 02
The Michael Moore PodcastEp. 23: There's A Jew On The Stage (feat. Katie Halper)Michael is joined by comedian and writer Katie Halper. They discuss the Senate impeachment trial, Fiddler on the Roof, the weaponization of identity politics, colonoscopies and the dangers of anti-Semitism.
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2020-01-231h 13
Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastD23 Expo: Disney+ Streaming, Marvel, and Star Wars! - Episode 58On this episode of Married with Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara are joined by Nathan Agnew to talk all about the movies, Marvel, and Star Wars news that came out of the D23 Expo! Fan Shout: Megan Neveu AKA Monster Megan 10:00 - Disney & Pixar Movie News20:00 - Disney+ TV Shows News27:00 - Marvel Movie & TV Shows News44:00 - Star Wars News58:00 - Zero to HeroFall is Back and Zara Loves It!Carnival Row on Amazon Prime is legit!...
2019-09-051h 10
The Michael Decon ProgramBrooks Agnew - BearthEpisode 135: Uranium Fever
Michael welcomed master engineer, writer, and lecturer Brooks Agnew to the program. Brooks is the host of X-Squared Radio and author of numerous books and novels, including his trilogy Bearth: Two Earths, One Race For Time. His latest book is “Charm of Favor: A true story of the rise of the Clinton Crime Syndicate”.
Always a great conversationalist, Brooks had plenty to share, including the latest developments in the world of electric vehicles & his electric puck up truck.
He also had some strong opinions about the current political climate, and society. The war on drugs was discussed, his...
2018-12-033h 04
The Michael Decon ProgramBrooks Agnew - BearthEpisode 135: Uranium Fever Michael welcomed master engineer, writer, and lecturer Brooks Agnew to the program. Brooks is the host of X-Squared Radio and author of numerous books and novels, including his trilogy Bearth: Two Earths, One Race For Time. His latest book is “Charm of Favor: A true story of the rise of the Clinton Crime Syndicate”. Always a great conversationalist, Brooks had plenty to share, including the latest developments in the world of electric vehicles & his electric puck up truck. He also had some strong opinions about the current political climate, and society. The war on drugs was discussed, his...
2018-12-033h 04
The Michael Decon ProgramIbby x Brooks Agnew - Christmas ExtravaganzaEpisode 9: Christmas Extravaganza
In the first half of End of Days: The Michael Decon Program, podcaster and friend of the show Ibby (aka “Inglorious Bitch”) joined Michael to kick off the holiday edition of the show. Andy, Curtis, and Vanessa all called in for an on-air Christmas gathering, just the thing to commemorate the end of the year and the end of an error. After the break, Michael welcomed master engineer, writer, and lecturer Brooks Agnew to the program. Brooks is the host of X-Squared Radio and author of numerous books and novels, including his m...
2018-08-272h 36
The Michael Decon ProgramIbby x Brooks Agnew - Christmas ExtravaganzaEpisode 9: Christmas Extravaganza In the first half of End of Days: The Michael Decon Program, podcaster and friend of the show Ibby (aka “Inglorious Bitch”) joined Michael to kick off the holiday edition of the show. Andy, Curtis, and Vanessa all called in for an on-air Christmas gathering, just the thing to commemorate the end of the year and the end of an error. After the break, Michael welcomed master engineer, writer, and lecturer Brooks Agnew to the program. Brooks is the host of X-Squared Radio and author of numerous books and novels, including his most recent trilogy Bearth: Two E...
2018-08-272h 36
Almost AdultsMichaelcast (ft. Michael Hunter)Dan Kawka and Gage sit down with Michael Hunter of The Weird Alphabet to talk about meeting their heroes. Email Us: almostadultspodcast@gmail.com Tweet Us: @almostadultspodFollow Gage: @GageAgnew Dan doesn't have a Twitter Follow Michael: @Arctic_Ginger Follow Weird Alphabet: @weirdalpod Michael's Hamilton Parody:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byndwL7f9TQ Michael with Weird Al: https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10514598_10152481883992626_3403188857181645333_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=8421f6f0fb891f29281839f4d227bdcc&oe=5BCF9659 Artwork b...
2018-07-141h 05
Double ConsciousnessPolice and a Pint (feat. Michael Agnew)If Boal were alive today, and had the opportunity to engage police and their respective communities with Theater of the Oppressed, what would happen? Intervention-Based Theater expert, and beer cicerone, Michael Agnew, explains everything from his time teaching theater in prisons, to hosting national beer fests as a tasting judge.
2018-07-111h 14Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastDisney Video Games w/ Hunter Hall - Episode 40On this episode of Married with Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara are joined by Hunter Hall to talk all about the different Disney video games they have played throughout their lives. (3:30) Episode Shoutout: Katylin Johnson AKA Stand Out Katylin (10:00) Sponsored by Wendy Trent with Yellow Shoe Travel: wendy@yellowshoetravel.com If you are planning a Disney vacation then do yourself a favor and contact Wendy Trent so she can help schedule you the most magical vacation you could possibly dream of!Connect with us and ask a question, offer a c...
2018-07-041h 28Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastSolo: A Star Wars Story w/ Nathan Agnew - Episode 38On this episode of Married with Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara talk with Nathan Agnew on the newest Star Wars movie, Solo, and all of their feelings on the overall Star Wars universe. Don't forget that if you are booking a Disney vacation then make sure to contact Wendy Trent from Yellow Shoe Travel and she will make all of your Disney vacation dreams happen so easy and effortlessly. You can contact Wendy at wendy@yellowshoetravel.com for any questions about planning a Disney vacation!(3:00) Episode Shoutout: Caleigh Ellison aka Auntie Caleigh YOU'RE IN THE...
2018-06-181h 20Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastInfinity War and Hamilton the Musical Review with Michael's Dad! - Episode 35On this episode of Married with Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara talk with Michael's dad about the new Infinity War movie and also their experience seeing Hamilton the Musical!Don't forget that if you are booking a Disney vacation then make sure to contact Wendy Trent from Yellow Shoe Travel and she will make all of your Disney vacation dreams happen so easy and effortlessly. You can contact Wendy at wendy@yellowshoetravel.com for any questions about planning a Disney vacation!(1:30) Episode Shoutout: Holly & Jace from Navigating the Magic Podcast AKA Mickey Jazz Hands
2018-05-111h 16Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastHong Kong Disneyland & The Last Jedi Review w/ Nathan Agnew - Episode 18On this episode of Married w/ Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara are joined by Nathan Agnew to discuss his trip to Hong Kong Disneyland (2:00) and also give all of their thoughts and opinions on the newest Star Wars movie - The Last Jedi (24:30).In the summer of 2016, Nathan went to Hong Kong for a 3 month internship and was able to visit Hong Kong Disneyland while he was overseas. He talks about the differences in classic Disney rides like Haunted Mansion and the Jungle Cruise, the delicious and unique food, and differences in the overall Disney magic.
2017-12-231h 20
Minnesota BeercastSisyphus, Michael Agnew, & Dilly Dilly!This week we cover the epic cease & desist Bud Light issued to Modist with lawyer extraordinaire Jeff O'Brien, catch up with the folks from Sisyphus Brewing and chat with Michael Agnew - Cheers!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2017-12-0845 min
Minnesota BeercastSisyphus, Michael Agnew, & Dilly Dilly!This week we cover the epic cease & desist Bud Light issued to Modist with lawyer extraordinaire Jeff O'Brien, catch up with the folks from Sisyphus Brewing and chat with Michael Agnew - Cheers!
2017-12-0845 min
Married with Mouse Ears: A Disney World PodcastDisney World Changes Over the Years w/ Michael's Parents - Episode 10On this episode of Married with Mouse Ears, Michael & Zara talk to Michael’s parents about their long love for Disney. From going to Disney on their honeymoon (2:00), going to Disney with kids (5:30), Disneyland and Disney World differences (10:30), their favorite Disney World restaurants (13:30), and their upcoming Disney trip (20:00). Then Michael & Zara talk about their trip Houston (32:00). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2017-10-1241 min