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On CultureOn Culture - Ruining WordsThis week Susan James and I talk about how and why we ruin words. As always, we are discussing the latest dispatch from The Embassy - Ruining Words - here is an excerpt …… We don’t tend to use these words with their actual meanings engaged. I think many of us don’t even know their meaning as we use them.We begin to lose the ability to talk about reality …The flattening of these words mirrors and serves the polarization of our culture. We use words as we wish in order to p...2024-11-0230 min
On CultureOn Culture - A Redemptive ArcThis episode of On Culture is an extension of the latest article there - A Redemptive Arc.Here is an excerpt:When I showed up for that coffee with my friend, I wasn’t thinking about redemption. Because, as far as I knew, it hadn’t arrived. As far as I knew, the redemption that has seemed to arrive, wasn’t going to. It is a thing that takes many forms and often arrives in an unexpected packages. Sometimes you don’t know it has arrived until sometime later - in the moment, you may not thin...2024-08-2431 min
On CultureOn Culture - Counting BlessingsIn this episode, Susan James and I talk about gratitude. This episode is based on the latest dispatch from The Embassy - Counting Blessings.Here is an excerpt …Most of us take what we have for granted and many of us feel that we are losing out on something that others have. Or, even if things are better now, that we lost out before on something so we are not as far as we ‘should’ be. Everything is relative to a set of expectations that excludes a fallen world and our own fallen nature - so any...2024-07-2032 min
On CultureOn Culture - Of Bears and MenOn Culture - In this episode, Susan James and I talk about the choice between bears and men … and how we can talk to and listen to one another.As with most episodes, we interact with the latest piece from The Embassy - Of Bears and Men - here is an excerpt …Recently, a question (for women) was placed before the national consciousness - if alone in the woods, walking down a trail, would you rather meet a man or a bear? This question was placed before the national consciousness, as many issues are...2024-06-2233 min
On CultureOn Culture - A Drug for Everything - RevisitedThis is the podcast that goes with A Drug for Everything, which we revisited last week. I will also post a new “print” piece this weekend - and we will go on a path of something new every other week, followed by that podcast (what we have been doing) plus revisiting a piece every other week, now that we have over 100 posts over these last couple of years - hope you enjoy. Mike talks with Susan James and Bret Toth about our vices and our struggles - and how they may be necessary for our growth.Li...2024-06-0433 min
On CultureOn Culture - All the President's DogsSusan James and I talk about the latest post from The Embassy - All the President’s Dogs. On the mortgage crash, the President’s Dogs and the spells we are under Here is an excerpt …In C.S. Lewis’ The Silver Chair, the good Prince Rillian of Narnia is captured and put under a spell by someone known as The Lady of the Green Kirtle while above ground and the Queen of Underland in her underground Queendom. Prince Rillian is made prince of this underground place - but rules in appearance only, held in the sway...2023-10-2834 min
On CultureOn Culture - Barbie (and Ken)Susan James and I talk about “Barbie” and “True Detective”. Really we talk about men, mostly.My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (Jesus - John 15:12-13)LinksMen and Petite Maman are polar opposite fairy tales - Ross Douthat, National ReviewThe Church in a Time of Gender War - Samuel James, Digital LiturgiesGender War, Technology, and De-Centering the Self - Samuel James, Digital Litu...2023-09-1637 min
On CultureOn Culture - The Logical OutcomeThe notes for this episode of On Culture are the most recent piece in The Embassy (from May 27, 2023) - The Logical Outcome.Thanks to Susan James for joining me on this one.LinksNo Other Options - The New AtlantisMedical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2021 - Health Canada‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws - Associated PressCanada’s Ministry of Death - National ReviewWhere Are the Churches in Canada’s Euthanasia Experiment? - PloughWhat Euthanasia Has Done to Canada...2023-06-0332 min
On CultureOn Culture - A Drug for EverythingMike talks with Susan James and Bret Toth about our vices and our struggles - and how they may be necessary for our growth.LinksA New Drug Switched Off My Appetite - What's Next? - Wired Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe2023-05-0633 min
Decades of Horror | Horror News RadioLOVE AT FIRST BITE (1979) – Episode 184 – Decades Of Horror 1970s“What was that maniac drinking? Tastes like the Volga river at low tide!” Muddy water turned to wine? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out the Tanned One as the undead Count in Love at First Bite (1979). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 184 – Love at First Bite (1979) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine When the Communist regime ejects the Count from his ancestral home, he and Renfiel...2023-03-151h 08
On CultureOn Culture - Everything is Different HereI talk with my friend Susan James about culture, cultural differences, curiosity, humility, and time zones. Susan is a counselor who encounters all sorts of cultures in her office (and outside of it, as she will relate). For more background, please read the written piece (Everything is Different Here) on The Embassy - theembassy.substack.comGrace & Peace - Mike Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe2022-10-0830 min
Rogue Table Talks#14 Judges - RuthThis week we have a special guest join us to discuss Ruth. Listen as Susan James, Mike, and Chad discuss Ruth and the beauty of God's redemptive story whether a native or a foreigner. How does the story of Ruth relate to me? God has a plan.
Scripture for this week is the book of Ruth.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roguetabletalks/message2019-08-0450 min
Black-Eyed N BluesDream Time | BEB 362Playlist:
Michael Cleary Band, Free James Brown,
Ramon Taranco, Suicide Hotel Boogie,
The Grip Weeds, After The Sunrise,
Tomiko Dixon, You Don’t Want To Mess With The IRS,
The Strands, Same Old Dream,
The Scorch Sisters, Bad Dream,
Eric Schenkman, I’m Alright,
Susan Santos, Blind Woman,
Bob Lanza, Little Momma,
Kenny “Beedyeyes” Smith, Drop The Hammer,
Wily Bo Walker & ED Brayshaw, Running Wild,
Larry Griffith, I Do, I Did, I’m Done,
Mighty Mike Schermer, I Can’t Let It Go feat Billy Price,
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 56 - Baby, It's Steamy Outside!Episode Fifty Six Show Notes
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The Prisoner in the Castle – Susan Elia MacNeal (CW)
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot – Edward Lee (EF)
All About Boats: The Evacuation of Manhattan Island on September 11, 2001 – edited by Mike Magee (CW)
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Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW)
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Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan (CW)
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Emily went to RJ Julia’s Booksellers in Madi...2018-08-0756 min
How I Listen to Full Audiobook in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Epic Most PopularKaiju Rising: Age of Monsters Audiobook by Larry Correia, Peter Clines, Peter Rawlik, James Swallow, C. L. Werner, James MaxeyVisit https://hotaudiobook.cοm to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Author: Larry Correia, Peter Clines, Peter Rawlik, James Swallow, C. L. Werner, James Maxey
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck, Jeff Woodman, Bronson Pinchot, Marc Vietor, Simon Vance, Ray Porter, Nicola Barber
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-15-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 338 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
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Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters is a collection of 23 stories focused around the theme of strange creatures in the vein of Pacific Rim, G...2014-07-156h 06