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you're listening to radio revelS05E18 AdolescenseHey faithful listeners!Yes, it's summer and I'm on a summer break but still producing the stray episode here and there when the vegetable garden and the remarkably high temperatures allow me to.This week, the first of perhaps several episodes talking about the TV mini-series titled "Adolescence". There are spoilers, so you'll want to have seen the show before you listen to my comments.Hope you all are having a quiet and not-too-hot summer this year.Cheers,revel.Script and narration by revel arrowayMusic:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black...
2025-07-0721 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E16 Blackout ArmageddonHey all!Nearly a month ago Spain and Portugal experienced a several-hour electricity blackout. Power went down at mid-day and wasn’t restored completely until early the next morning, though the majority of users had service returned in around six to seven hours.We still don’t know exactly why the downtime occurred. A cyberattack has been ruled out. The most probable reason is a lack of a specific kind of infrastructure related to regulating excess energy produced by the successful renewable energy program here in Spain.So, I talk about that blackout, how...
2025-05-1917 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E15 Showtime!A call to action, or perhaps half non-action and half action. A pleading to stop giving 47 the energy he craves while focusing on those who are working both in the forefront and in the background to implement an evil plot that will make most of us unhappy.Links that I promise are as follows:Script and narration by revel arroway“you’re listening to radio revel” podcast: Music:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smith"Ain't got none of my frien...
2025-05-1219 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E14 The end of controlThis is a fresher essay, written in late March, 2025, dated by a quick reference to the so-called “Signalgate” event.Internet wisdom says I should make sure to get this online as soon as possible after an event I’m referencing, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true in my case. I’m not trying to get views because I’m talking about the latest squirrel climbing the tree in the garden.This essay is actually about accountability, how some people are held accountable for their actions while others get off Scott free. How a lot of legis...
2025-05-0513 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E04a Con man?: When did she know?Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers.I actually think this essay is about FBI discretion. I think that agents of that organization, with their target being a man, gleefully let a woman off the hook for more or less the same type of criminal behavior under her belt. The man was being investigated for possible relation to an air crash. The woman seemed to be the "victim" of that same man's scheme at insurance fraud.Based exclusively on FBI interviews with the woman, I present a slightly different picture, a backstory for the generally well-known...
2025-05-0208 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E13 TrumpTalkHere's an essay I wrote waaaay back in 2016, right after the blow to our collective reality represented by the election of a reality star as President of the United States.It basically deals with how making stuff up that incites fear and loathing and then repeating it over and again was going to be used (and ended up being used!) to manipulate people into becoming a base for evil actions.Links that I promise are as follows:Script and narration by revel arroway“you’re listening to radio revel” podcast:Musi...
2025-04-2813 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E03a Hangman: Scandal sells newspapersThis time around I talk about what I discovered in researching newspapers from the early XX Century, how "slant" or "angle" or just "let's make up a narrative" became more important that holding people accountable for their actions, almost getting an innocent man hung from a tree. Script and narration by revel arroway Watch this episode on YouTubeTranscript on Medium: Music:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smithhttps://freemusicarchive.org/Transcription Episode 03 on the "you're listening to...
2025-04-2507 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E12 They made me cryIn this episode in the Trailing edge of a generation series, I reminisce about hearing protest songs in my tender years and bring subtle attention to a singer-songwriter who I and some others think has taken up the mantle, though I’m not sure he’d consider himself as important as those who came before him. Times, they have changed and the youth are not all open to being challenged.Script and narration byrevel arroway“you’re listening to radio revel” podcast:Autobiographical playlist:Music:Theme: NFLD by Mr Smith...
2025-04-2512 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E11 Trailing end of a generationThis is just an introduction to my new Substack where I will be loading up my social commentary episodes. Not much more to say about it, just a welcome to the series, that’s all.Script and narration by revel arroway“you’re listening to radio revel” podcast:Autobiographical playlist: Music:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smithhttps://freemusicarchive.org/Transcription Episode 11:On YouTube:On Substack: #substack...
2025-04-2304 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E02a Animal crackers: Trusting the sources to report the factsHello fans. This video is some commentary around the creation of the episode "Animal crackers", created for "you're listening to radio revel" in the "Keyhole witness" series. There's some commentary about being told the "truth", being lied to, trying to tell the difference, alternative facts, conspiracy theory and some other stuff. Hope you enjoy the added material. Be sure to check out the story itself here on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.Episode 02: “Animal crackers”: Transcription Episode 02: Trusting the sources to report the factsScri...
2025-04-1815 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E01a Scrapbooks: Escaping the trapThis article at Medium has me talking about a possible motivation behind the bank robbery that is the real event. Not trying to justify the crime, but yes, trying to understand what would lead a young man to take that which is not his. It can be understood, even if not condoned.Script and narration by revel arrowayWatch on YouTubeMusic:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smithhttps://freemusicarchive.org/Transcription this video on MediumListen to Episode 01 "Scrapbooks"...
2025-04-1808 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E10 Interview with revelLocked doors stand between us and the skeletons hidden behind them. Keyholes let us see the bones.This is Keyhole witness.This week marks the end of the first batch of Keyhole witness stories. Well, I say first as if there might be a second, and I'm not really sure there might be. In order to deal with that and kind of explain myself, let you guys look through the keyhole into my recording studio, I sat down to an interview with my fictional radio star, Jaiden Smith, who will ask me some questions and...
2025-04-1417 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E09 HeartburnLocked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us catch a glimpse inside.
I’m revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness.
Medical journals are the written record of investigations taken on by sometimes brilliant, sometimes misguided
minds. In today’s episode we have the dramatization of the
presentation of an article in a medical journal on a rare, strange phenomena that is still little understood yet present in our collective experience.
What I tell I do not report, I simply tell. Please enjoy:
Heartburn
Script and narration by
revel arroway
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2025-04-0723 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E08 WindowsLocked doors hide secrets. Keyholes can reveal them.I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole Witness.This week we've got a radio broadcast interview I made up, based on a serialized newspaper feature told by an ex-con who spent some time on "The Rock", the unescapable Alcatraz.What I tell I do not report, I only tell. Please enjoy:WindowsScript and narration by revel arrowayMusic:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smithhttps://freemusicarchive.org/
2025-03-3133 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E07A A big lieI may not have known when I researched and wrote up this episode for "you're listening to radio revel", but as I though more about it, I discovered that I was trying to talk about people who have been lied to and who have been hurt by those lies. So, this episode here on YouTube delves a bit more into that idea.Script and narration by revel arrowayMusic:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr SmithTranscription this video: Episode 07 "Down from the hills": Transcription...
2025-03-2608 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E07 Down from the hillsLocked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us peek in and perhaps reveal them.I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness.Hey all again. Today's episode sprouts off of one of the mostinvestigated hijacking cases in airline history. There was so much information available that I mainly just read the reports on the hijacking itself and kind of ignored the rest.What I tell I do not report, I simply tell. Please enjoy:Down from the hillsScript and narration by revel arrowayMusic:Theme: N...
2025-03-2421 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E06 Cut flowersLocked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us get a glance.
This is Keyhole witness.
Oh, dear, this week's episode involves a rather gruesome murder. I struggled so with the details, they are grizzly, so if you recognize the case and want them, go find them yourself, I'm only going to insinuate.
What I tell I don't report, I merely tell. With that said, please
enjoy:
Cut flowers
Script and narration by
revel arroway
Music:
Theme: NFLD by Mr Smith
Incidental: Black top by...
2025-03-1720 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E05 SunglassesLocked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us peek in at them.
This is Keyhole witness.
Hello my friends, my fellow keyhole witnesses, and welcome back to another episode.
This week step out onto this limb with me, let's suspend some disbelief together, I think I've gone a bit further than most of the versions told on this one.
What I tell I do not report, I merely tell. Hope you enjoy:
Script and narration by revel arroway
Music:
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2025-03-1025 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E04 Con man?Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers.
This is Keyhole witness.
Welcome back, my fellow keyhole witnesses.
This week my story is a little different. The mystery everyone
knows about was solved, but within that mystery there was another, more complex human mystery that has hardly been talked about, resides mainly in the testimony of the main character during FBI interrogations.
What I tell I do not report, I merely tell. So, please enjoy:
Script and narration by revel arroway
Music:
Theme: NFLD by...
2025-03-0336 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E03 HangmanLocked
doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers.
I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness.
Hello dear witness.
As we look through the keyhole this week, we can spy on a
fictional journalist as he writes letters to his sister, letters
written and posted while reporting on a kidnapping trial that he suspects shouldn't have taken place.
What I tell I do not report, I merely tell. Please enjoy:
Hangman
Script and narration by
revel arroway
Music:
Theme: NFLD by Mr Smith
2025-02-2431 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E02 Animal crackersLocked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers.
This is Keyhole Witness.
Welcome back fellow witnesses. This week I bring you the unusual tale of two sisters, twins, who's protected, routine lives keep them far from being recognized as part of a massive American melodrama, despite having been there.
What I tell I do not report, I just tell. Please enjoy:
Animal crackers
Script and narration by
revel arroway
Music:
Theme: NFLDby Mr Smith
Incidental: Black top by Mr Smith
https...
2025-02-1723 min
you're listening to radio revelS05E01 ScrapbooksLocked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers.
This is Keyhole Witness.
This first story in this new series here on you're listening to radio revel is a reworked version of the same story told last season in Episode 31.
It's the tale of a man managing the death of an elderly uncle whom
he hardly knew, the closure of the estate, the disposal of worldly
leftovers and the discovery of an unknown past. Though there is a
kernel of truth, the story itself is just made up.
What I tell I...
2025-02-1027 minyou're listening to radio revelS05E00 Welcome to Keyhole WitnessWelcome to Season Five here on you're listening to radio revel!
Those who have followed this podcast since I began it in early 2020 know that each new season I take as a challenge to try out something different.
This season, the lineup is purely fiction. I've called the series Keyhole witness, which implies that we are discreetly peeking in on the stories from the outside.
For now, Keyhole witness is a collection of nine tales I've written, based upon real events that, at the time of their occurrence, were never satisfactorily resolved, explained...
2025-01-2702 minyou're listening to radio revelS04E38 I'm over itHey all.
This is the final episode of Season Four.
Details of what's going on are in the episode.
We'll be back with Season Five of you're listening to radio revel in early February 2025.
And watch for a new podcast I'll be producing, also coming out in February 2025. I'll drop hints here so you all can find it!
Cheers!
revel.
2024-11-1812 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E32 School days - 1969-1970 - The 5th gradeHey all.
Ready for spelling tests and relief maps? The last of the stern, strict, "sit down and shut up" teachers of grade school? That's were we're at in this episode of you're listening to radio revel. Fifth grade, Mrs Lovgren, Miss Green and Mr Campbell are the adults in the room while we snotty-faced 11-year-olds squirm under their dictatorial indoctrination.
Enjoy the episode!
Cheers,
revel.
2024-10-0726 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E28 School days – 1965-66 1st gradeHey all.
Continuing here on you're listening to radio revel with the series on my school days. It's 1965 and I'm beginning first grade.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
revel.
2024-09-0918 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E27 School days -- 1964-65 KindergartenHey all and welcome back to you're listening to radio revel. Hope you all had a nice summer.
Starting up with the new school year, that is, back to school days, well I've shifted the focus for the next several episodes to my own school days, something I've mentioned in the past and have had on the back burner for a while.
In this series, which will probably take us up to the end of Season Four, I will be trying to remember what school was like for me in the '60s and '70...
2024-09-0220 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E23 Tall tales -- He hadn't wanted to....
He saw the putrefaction in the leg, swollen and steaming, he saw the surgeon lift his knife. Six men stood around the victim, one poured alcohol into a funnel in the patient's mouth, another forced a plug of wood between the clenched teeth, the surgeon quickly cut through the flesh, sawed through the bone, lifted the severed leg like a trophy so the audience of somber young doctors in the gallery could see the results of the operation, the stump was cauterized with boiling fat, the screaming man wheeled into another room, the surgeon, covered with blood...
2024-07-0811 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E19 A visit to the Midwest -- Part twoHey again!
On the road again, this time from New York where I've spent a couple of weeks teaching English to Chicago and the Midwest, this being the second part of that story, the drive up to Wisconsin and ten days working on and enjoying the farm I partially grew up on.
Though this episode describing my last visit to my Aunt Maxine's farm in 1992 can kind of stand alone, I do make some references to earlier parts of my life story as shared here on you're listening to radio revel, and I leave you...
2024-06-1019 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E18 Film fancies -- The teachers' lounge -- How far do we go....What happens in the school stays in the school? Or does it seep out into the larger world?
Thanks for checking out this week's Film fancies episode here on you're listening to radio revel. This week I discuss the German film The teacher's lounge and go off the wire a bit with my usual complaints about institutionalized education, something I've gone off the wire about since my very first participation in Internet forums waaay back in 1995.
As always, the transcript is on the you're listening to radio revel blog if you want to read along...
2024-06-0314 minyou're listening to radio revelS04E17 Tall tales -- He was walking slowly
In his dream he felt a horrible urge to urinate. This need ate at his viscera, sent chills vibrating through his spine into his shoulders and neck, bolting out of the top of his head. As long as he walked the pain was bearable, but when he stopped to try to figure out where he was, the spasms would cut deeply where his legs joined his body, he would rush on again, shivering violently.
Welcome back to Tall tales on you're listening to radio revel. This episode, called He was walking slowly, is the second fragment from the...
2024-05-2717 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E15 Film fancies -- The signal vs. ConstellationHey again.
In this episode of Film fancies here on you're listening to radio revel, I take a look at two sci-fi series that share a lot of elements but are at the same time very different from one another. They are The signal and Constellation.
You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
You can also support me if you'd like over on Patreon.
2024-05-1311 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E14 Tall tales -- The man was walking (Exile 01)Hello dear listeners.
Today's episode, another in the Tall tales series here on you're listening to radio revel is an excerpt from the second novel I wrote, finished back in 1989. The title of the novel is Exile and this, the opening story, is titled The man was walking.
Hope you enjoy the fragment. There'll be more to come in future episodes.
Transcript can be had on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
You can also support me over on Patreon.
Cheers!
revel.
2024-05-0619 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E13 A visit to the Midwest -- Part oneI didn't really plan on ever going back to the Midwest. I'd moved to the East Coast years before, then to Europe, I actually doubted that I would ever set foot in the USA again.
Still, circumstances after the few months I'd lived in Ávila led me and my mate to get on a plane, then a bus, and make those final visits to those haunts that I'd wandered through during the first two and a half decades of my life.
Transcript is on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
A chance t...
2024-04-2916 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E12 Film fancies -- The Holdovers: A formula for a lawsuit?Hey all!
A quick look at both the film and some last-minute Oscar controversy / drama around a pretty standard film, The Holdovers.
Transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
Anyone open to supporting me can do so on Patreon.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
revel.
2024-04-2211 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E09 Film Fancies: For all mankind -- What if?What if?
What if you hadn't taken that trip to Chicago where you ended up meeting the person who would become your spouse?
What if you'd taken that job that paid better but wasn't very interesting?
What if one little thing you did or didn't do had repercussions you don't realize right now?
For all mankind poses big and small "what ifs", contrasting the types of decisions made by individuals that become consequential to History.
Remember that you can support me on Patreon, and you can read the transcript...
2024-04-0109 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E08 Tall tales: Walking the dog / DoloresHey there listeners!
Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel, Season four. This is another episode in the Tall tales series, stories of mine that I've dug out of old notebooks, revisited, given a fresh face.
Today I've got two very short stories I wrote in 1987 while living temporarily one summer in Madrid, Spain. They reflect things that caught my eye, Spanish women, yet living out lives dictated by generational social norms.
There's something about the Spanish woman that defined for me just how the culture differed from my own.
Tr...
2024-03-2521 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E07 Is it Ironic?The first thing I promised to you listeners in this new season of you're listening to radio revel, in the series called Mature audiences only was "irony". Something we more mature folk should be pretty familiar with and actually pretty good at.
Listen to me struggle with that very concept, irony, in this commentary based upon current events (even if the events are no longer current, the underlying theme is kind of evergreen, or at least recurrent!)
You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog and support me, if you wish, on P...
2024-03-1815 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E06 Film fancies: Saltburn: yeah, he dances naked at the endHey listeners!
This episode of Film fancies, here on you're listening to radio revel gives me an opportunity of talking about that film that kind of went viral for probably the right and wrong reasons, as the title suggests: Saltburn.
If you want to see my vegetable garden during a rain storm this mid-February, you can check out the version on the YouTube channel. The transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me if you've a desire to on Patreon.
Cheers!
...
2024-03-1107 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E04 Ávila and the Santa TeresaWelcome back to Mature Audiences Only on you're listening to radio revel.
This week's episode, Ávila and the Santa Teresa, catches us up a bit with the beginning of the left-over decade, the 1990s, from Season Three.
I'm going to pack up and move to the northwest mountainous region of Spain, find myself enclosed in a mediaeval walled-in city. Some adventures that lasted just a few months before changing track totally.
Remember, you've got the transcript to read on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon i...
2024-02-2616 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E03 Film Fancies: The FavouriteWish I'd been able to see this film in a movie theatre. Big, brash, colorful production, right amount of humor, majestic performances by three actresses, The Favourite is my personal favorite of Yorgos Lanthimos' catalogue.
Set in the court of Queen Anne, you get a kind of crazy, sometimes funny, always human look at three women in the 18th century, navigating their own wants and needs in a world where women didn't usually hold the rudder.
You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and, if you want, support me...
2024-02-1913 min
you're listening to radio revelS04E02 Youth in AsiaWelcome back to you're listening to radio revel.
This week's episode is the first in the series I'm calling Tall Tales. This series is mainly a bunch of short stories I've written (or am writing!) over the years, stories that have not seen the light, or only barely so.
This week I tell a Kafka-like story about a young man who decides to move through a process. It's based on a dream that was related to me, a dream that impacted the dreamer enough to uncharacteristically get out of bed and write the dream down...
2024-02-1222 min
you're listening to radio revelS03U20 Season Four is coming soon....Hey all.
Just a quick update to announce the return of you're listening to radio revel Season Four: Mature Audiences Only.
Transitioning from telling autobiographal stories from the first four decades of my into trying to relate to others who, like me, have begun or entered the sixth decade, Mature Audiences Only hopes to bring in new voices and talk about how we see the current world, how we live in it, how it's changed and changing.
Hope you all tune in for the first episode, going live on the 5th of February.
2024-01-2307 min
you're listening to radio revelS03U19 Film Fancies: Dream Scenario: The zebra has no stripesHey all.
Between seasons here but still producing an update from time to time. This episode is my take on the Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario.
As with most updates, there is a YouTube video with images that have nothing to do with the narration of this episode. This time you can see the initial steps in upholstering a chair that I was restoring about five years ago.
As always, you can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, if you've a hankering, you can support me on...
2024-01-1509 min
you're listening to radio revelS03E22 The Señora AntoniaHave you ever just been totally wrong about a person? Did you let first impressions blind you to the real character of someone new in your life?
Not all sweet grandma types are really sweet grandma types. I met one of those sweet grandma types who turned out to be the type of person I wouldn't have chosen to have in my life: the Señora Antonia.
Listen in to this week's episode to find out who she was and what my experience with her turned out to be.
You can read the t...
2023-11-2717 min
you're listening to radio revelS03E21 His daughters: How the past can be changedHey all.
Here's a story for you, something I wrote at some moment between 1985 and 1988. Not autobiographical at all, just a bit of very short fiction with some comments about rewriting the past in your life.
The transcript, as always, can be had at the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
revel.
2023-11-2012 min
you're listening to radio revelS03U15 Film Fancies: Mrs DavisHere's an intermediary episode, I talk about a series I've just finished watching, Mr Davis. I recommend it, but only if you're ready for a rollercoaster of a ride through a number of scenarios that don't get wound up until the end, though they do get wound up, a point in its favor.
You can see a video of me laying sidewalk slate tiles over on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel while listening if you'd like! And the transcript is available for your reading pleasure on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
2023-11-0814 min
you're listening to radio revelS03U14 Halloween HauntingHey there all.
You may have heard me tell this story before. You may not have. You can see a video version of the same story that I worked up for a language-learning platform I worked on a couple of years ago on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel.
And, you can always support me on Patreon!
Cheers,
revel.
2023-10-3108 minyou're listening to radio revelS03E18 Bright lights and BroadwayHey there!
Just that, I make it to New York City and get involved in the Broadway scene. It wasn't an easy break, but I did it, and once in the scheme, it ended up being pretty easy after all.
You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me on Patreon.
Cheers,
revel.
2023-10-3018 min
you're listening to radio revelS03E17 A quick setbackI thought I was moving out East at the end of that summer. A combination of unfortunate circumstances, all of my own making, put a hold on those plans and I ended up spending the next year with an unusual friend, Margaret, who I talk about in this episode.
You can check out the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can certainly support me on Patreon.
Cheers,
revel.
2023-10-2311 min
you're listening to radio revelS03U13 Film Fantasy: Are you a "Barbie girl"?Have you see Barbie? I have, and I didn't think much of it. Listen to this week's update episode to see what I thought of the film.
Or, you can listen to the episode on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel while you watch me do some DYI work on the base of a pillar that had sunk into the ground and detached from the main pillar, thanks to some heavy rains we've had in this neck of the woods recently.
You can also check out the transcript for the episode on the...
2023-10-1612 min
you're listening to radio revelS03E15 Got a jobGot fired from Culligan. Moved back with my parents. Built a tiny house. Kept doing theatre, but finally, had to get a job. This week's episode on you're listening to radio revel is about that job, station manager for a small commuter airline in the Midwest.
You can read the transcript on the blog.
You can support me on Patreon.
Listen, like, subscribe and share!
Cheers,
revel.
2023-10-0221 min
you're listening to radio revelS03E14 BetrayalHow would you react if a close friend stops being a close friend tomorrow and you don't know why? What would you think of that friend if they suddenly became violent with you weeks after the last time you saw them? And, later, adding up all the details, you come to the realization that that person had never been either close or a friend?
That's what Betray covers in Episode 14 of Season three of you're listening to radio revel: Four Decades.
Hope you enjoy the episode.
Cheers,
revel.
2023-09-1818 min
you're listening to radio revelWelcome to Season Two of "you're listening to radio revel": The Shepherd's StoryWelcome back. Thank you for tuning into the second season of you’re listening to radio revel. Yes, some time has gone by without a word from me.
And now, after imagining this season for months, it's finally being written and produced.
Season two: The shepherd's story, is a breakaway from the first, somewhat rambling-thought-filled season. This time I am retelling of a well-known story from Greek mythology.
Funny how, on telling this story which I've told so many times over the years, I can see more clearly how history and parable meld to...
2022-03-2102 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E46 End of season: Thanks for listening!Not much to say except thanks for listening to the first season of radio revel.
I say I made 44 episodes, but on saving this one, I see it's actually number 46. So, I was closer to 50 than I thought!
I expect to be back in late January, and probably with a total remake of the podcast. Hope you'll check me out then, and tell your friends.
Cheers and be safe this holiday season, stay home, celebrate under your own roof with those who share that roof with you.
The holidays will probably...
2020-12-1505 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E45 BewareHey all.
(This episode, originally number 35, was temporarily hidden from view to give it time to mellow. Here it is anew....)
Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks. Yeah, any excuse would be lame, so not bothering!
Hope you enjoy this episode, it's longer because it's kind of one-and-a-half episodes all in one.
Remember, transcript can be read on the radio revel blog.
Cheers!
revel.
2020-11-3023 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E44 Disappointed PatriotHey all.
Anyone else relieved? Disappointed? Let me tell you....ha!
A call out to the composter of the eerie music under the Q-Anon nonsense: Keven MacLeod, Ossuary 2 – Turn.
Transcript on the blog!
peace,
revel.
2020-11-1415 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E43 "real" is not "normal"Hey all.
First autumn/winter holiday done and gone, slip this one on educating our youth in before the next one creeps up on us.
Transcript on the blog!
Cheers,
revel.
2020-11-0816 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E42 The Haunting of Haight HouseHey all! Happy Halloween!
I wrote this story years ago for a spooky story contest (which I won!). Then, two years ago, I expanded on it for a longer work called Haunted Houses, which I wrote for the National Noviember Writing Month activity (NaNoWriMo). I've lifted it from that longer work and reworked it into a stand-alone for this episode.
That music you hear in the spooky sections is the theme song I composed for a short animated work I'm forever working on called Tijeras (Scissors). I probably should just write that story out and...
2020-10-3140 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E41 ShirleyHey all!
Quick look at the movie Shirley. Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed it. Don't think you'll know until you've seen it, so be prepared to either love / like / hate / dislike the next 107 minutes of your cinema experience!
Transcript on the blog.
peace,
revel.
2020-10-2307 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E40 Selfish ImpatienceHey!
It’s been bumping around in my head for months, I’ve even alluded to it in earlier discussions, especially when I speak of Covid-19 as a social disease. I’ve even had a feeling of the concept coagulating or setting like Jell-o in my mind over the last couple of days as I engage in the single-theme conversations that fill in time between meals, work, personal projects and disconnect. Last night, in another context, I saw the idea again and even more clearly. For now, and I think I’ll be changing this, I’m going to c...
2020-10-1719 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E39 The uppercase "E"Hey all.
Now, isn't that a curiosity-raising title?
The articles mentioned in the episode can be read here and here.
The transcript can be read here.
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cheers!! revel.
2020-10-1112 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E38 Bad EducationHey!
Looking for a "light" "based on real events" scandal flick to waste away an hour and a half of your Saturday or Sunday? Check out Bad Education (I still haven't set the format for movie titles....). Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney give us a kind of characture of how not to steal money from a school system, and I take advantage of the review to go on about school systems -- two in one!
Transcript can be had on the blog!
Cheers,
revel.
2020-10-0318 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E37 Habeas Corpus and Conflicting RightsHey listeners!
That title sounds a little legal or constitutional, doesn't it? School kids have been back in the classrooms (and sent back home!) in Spain for a couple of weeks now and I go on a bit on some of the justifications given for the necessity of getting them back behind their desks (and the new plastic shields!).
If you want to read it (or need to translate it to your language!) check out the transcript on the blog.
peace,
revel.
2020-09-2517 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E36 Naloe CfolbqHey all.
This one is out of left field, so not going to even give you a written clue. Just listen, and shut it off if you can't get to the end, that's all!
Transcript of part of this week's episode on the blog.
enjoy!
revel.
2020-09-2018 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E35 Would've, Could've, Should'veHey all.
Bob Woodward's new book, "Rage", will soon be in our hands. Its publication seems to have brought up some journalistic ethics questions that I've got an opinion about and that I share in this episode of radio revel.
You can check out the transcript on the blog.
Cheers,
revel.
2020-09-1414 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E34 So, what's life like in your neighborhood?Hey gals and guys!
Not sure how this one ended up turning into a diatribe on stupidity, I think maybe because I tried to describe my experiences outside of my home in exterior reality (previously known as "Old normal with mask" and currently looking for a new moniker). Since I spend so little time outside of the safe haven of my house and patio, there wasn't much to describe. And the other just slipped into the conversation. That's how those things go sometimes. Would have happened if I hadn't scripted it as well.
Transcript on...
2020-09-0617 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E33 Gone in the darkHey loyal listeners!
How many of you listening remember those old-fashioned true crime magazines? I’m going to have to do a Google search to refresh my own memory of some of those pulps, hang on, those that stand out were called “True Crime”, “True Detective” and one called “True Crime Detective”.
Don't do this often, but here you've got a review on a series I saw this past weekend. I enjoyed it, it was very well made and suggest you check it out as well. On HBO, it's "I'll be gone in the dark".
Transcri...
2020-09-0208 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E32 Is Kellyanne really leaving?Hey friends!
Drifting (as Mim Canny would have asked us to do) to a different topic, even had to make a new tag over on the blog (where I've left the transcript and links to some of those things I mention in this episode, videos and blogs).
Good riddance, Kellyanne. Hope you stay out of public service for a long time, won't thank you for the service you've given this time around.
Can you tell I didn't like her very much? ha!
Enjoy,
revel.
2020-08-2811 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E31 The WatchersHey all.
Here's a novel idea. Going to turn boring babysitters into a new, important vocation. Trying to launch ideas that will get us out of ruts that we use as excuses for not evolving. Moving from "they have to go to school, I have to go to work, the economy needs me!" to "I can go to work because my children are safe at home with someone caring for them as they enter a new world of valid educational choice."
Not going to change the world with this one, but got it off my...
2020-08-2114 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E30 Why would you do something like that?Hey all!
Continuing on with the "Engage them" theme on learning from home, I look a bit at how I began engaging my own ESL students and transition to the motivations younger students have imposed upon them.
You can read the transcript on the You're listening to radio revel blog.
Cheers!
revel.
2020-08-1419 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E29 Engage those studentsHey!
"Are we really going to send our kids back to school? Really?"
We've got to look at some of the reasons there is so much resistance to not sending our kids back to school. This episode, I segue from that distance learning design experience into the first part of one of the themes that often keeps distance learning in the "can't be done" box: student engagement.
If you want to take a look at a transcript of this episode, it can be had on the radio revel blog.
Like, subscribe...
2020-08-0819 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E28 Covid-19 is a social diseaseYeah. Is this just another podcast that got enthusiastically started during quarantine and now fades away with everything else we ought to have learned in March and April of this year, 2020?
Nope, just started this past week a new work-from-home job that, combined with the work-from-office job, leaves me with the 24 hours nature gives me in a day pretty close on time. This one has been on the hard drive since last Monday, it was written the week before. Irony is, the work-from-home theme was put on a back burner by a work-from-home job.
As...
2020-07-2010 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E27 The workplace office vs. the home officeHey listeners!
Friday again, plodding on with the work from home episodes in the "It can be done" series. I'll get back to education, I promise you! Actually, sooner than we think....
This episode describes two work spaces I inhabit: the one at the workplace and the other on in my home. I figured we'd have to have a clear idea of the two physical environments in order to be able to do a pro / con comparison for issue identification and problem solving. Often, the objections of issues that come up in work from home...
2020-07-1012 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E26 What is the authority?Hey again!
A new "it can be done" episode here.
I take a look at the two main "authorities" that define what a workspace is, hoping that we employees are on the ball and ready to face the restrictive ways in which these authorities will probably try to write the script for future work from home platforms and practices.
Though I say in the episode "9" minutes, I must have read slower this time!
Transcript available on the radio revel blog!
peace,
revel.
2020-07-0714 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E25 The eleventh hour phone callHey listeners!
Thanks for tuning in again. This episode continues the chain of "work from home" reflections. It contains an anecdote that I lean on when trying to defend the fact that despite contrary beliefs, a lot of us actually do do some of our work from home without it being officially recognized as such. Also an introduction to how we can begin, on an individual basis, to get some say in the future of work from home.
Transcript (for those who like to read!) is on the radio revel blog.
cheers!
...
2020-07-0309 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E24 Taking back our citiesHey all.
Hope I didn't depress you all with the last Friday episode I posted. Plus, last Friday I played hookie and you didn't get one, so this one I'm posting just a little earlier to make up for that.
This time I go on about how tourism, at least in historic European cities, can be improved upon. Just listen and you'll understand where I'm coming from.
The transcript I've put up on a new (and really rough, but give me time!) blog. You can read it on you're listening to radio revel.
2020-06-2515 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E23 Is she a superhero?Hey all.
First, want to apologize for not getting the Friday podcast up last week. Kind of a busy week, what with the day job coming out of quarantine, an interview for another podcast (I'll let you all know about that one, it was good fun!) and the vegetable garden.... I have a theme, but it'll have to wait until this Friday.
This is a Cafetalk prompt post, so I didn't think of it but was able to run with it. Hope you enjoy, it's a piece from my own past again, ah that good...
2020-06-2209 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E22 Where do I want to spend my summer?Hey all.
Just some random thoughts in answer to the Cafetalk prompt. This is what I'm going to do this summer.
peace,
revel.
2020-06-1508 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E21 Old normal with a maskHey all.
Not in the best of moods today, been back at the day job for a week, not liking what I'm seeing out there in the post-quarantine world. Yet I seem to have to go out there despite my reservations.
Today some sad reflections on the filter I've been using to protect myself, and it's not the mask!
peace,
revel.
2020-06-1307 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E20 The Violin PlayerHey listeners!
This week, instead of replying directly to the prompt at Cafetalk, I decided to pull out this old story, written at least three decades ago, and share it with you all. The weekly theme was something about my favorite musical instrument, and that turned out to be like asking me my favorite color or my favorite type of music or my favorite novel. I'm not too good at answering that "your favorite" question, must be social disadjustment on my part....
Anyway, for those of you who have come here from Cafetalk, here's the...
2020-06-0817 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E19 Off with his nose!Hey all!
A Good News Friday episode today.
Monuments to out-of-date, past best-used-by dates are being "targeted" in the current efforts to clean up American attitudes towards discrimination and brutality. Governmental inefficiency aside, I take a quick look at how taking down statues to heros of another era helps in the evolution of creating heroes in today's climate of unrest, sadness and anger.
You can read the transcript to this episode over at Cafetalk.
peace,
revel.
2020-06-0508 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E18 The Devil's AdvocateHey all!
This week's Cafetalk theme was "Memories about Dialects", which reminded me of how my experience with seeing "The Devil's Advocate" changed from originally seeing it dubbed into Spanish to seeing it with the original actors' vocal interpretation of their characters.
You can read the transcript of this episode over at Cafetalk.
peace,
revel.
2020-06-0109 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E17 TGIF!Hey all.
Nothing original here, it's Friday, and those of you who have to work the regular work week might appreciate this. I hardly noticed!
Oh well, here's a quick improv on Friday. Hope you enjoy it!
Transcript, as usual, over at Cafetalk!
peace,
revel.
2020-05-2904 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E16 "If it ain't broke...."Hey all!
This week the Cafetalk theme was "What is your life philosophy?", to which I replied with my mother's refrain: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
You can see the transcript for this Monday episode at Cafetalk.
peace,
revel.
2020-05-2509 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E15 Educating at arm's lengthHey all!
Friday again, and here's the episode that now marks a sub-sub-group. That is, "Good news Friday" --> "It can be done" --> "Educating at arm's length".
While not necessarily good news, this Friday's episode is certainly a "It can be done". It is about our "new normal" of how we are going to educate our children without sending them to school, a topic that's near and dear to me and that would take, will take several episodes to cover. That's why it's become a sub-sub-group.
As always, you can read the...
2020-05-2209 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E14 The ForumHey!
Welcome back to the Monday podcast on radio revel.
Today we take a look at the topic offered over at Cafetalk "Which social media platform do you use the most often?"
This one wasn't easy, I don't use social media. So, I talk about my early Internet experiences with online forums.
Hope you enjoy it. You can see the transcript at Cafetalk.
peace,
revel.
2020-05-1808 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E13 PedestrianizationHey all!
Good News Friday, sub episode of "It can be done" on line!
In this episode I talk about how closing city streets has become a part of the strategy for enforcing and encouraging "social distancing" and how we need to insist that once all the germs have been controlled we need to insist that cars are kept off our city streets in a "permanent" normal.
You can see the transcript at Cafetalk, where the links are that are mentioned in the podcast episode.
Hope you enjoy the listen!
2020-05-1509 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E12 My dog does talk!Hey all!
Monday means a prompted blog posting from Cafetalk.
This week's prompt was something like "If your pet could speak to you, what would it say?"
My offering is "My dog does talk!" I talk about realizing how animals and humans communicate on an emotional level, even if we are not always sure what the other is really saying.
Hope you enjoy. You can find the transcript for this episode here.
cheers,
revel.
2020-05-1106 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E11 It can be doneHey again.
Busy week this week and this Friday's episode is a little late in getting on line, but better than never!
I don't know about all of you, but I've been noticing a lot of things happening that have not happened before. A lot of them are not at all very nice, but there are some things going on in the world, both locally and nationally and internationally that only a couple of months ago I would have thought impossible.
This week's episode, called "It can be done" (you can read the...
2020-05-0809 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E10 Sniggers, chuckles and guffawsHey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "What made you laugh hard most recently?"
My take on the theme is called “Snickers, chuckles and guffaws”
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-05-0407 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E09 Work from homeHey all! Welcome back to Good News Friday.
In this episode I talk a bit about how working at home is becoming part of the news cycle. Besides sharing a little bit of my own working from home saga, I talk also about what is passing off for good news in these troubled times we are living.
My source for good news for this episode was goodnewsnetwork.org.
The story about the 100 year-old man strolling for pounds can be read here.
The story about the man cleaning tombstones on his morning...
2020-05-0110 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E08 Music or Art?Hey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "What was your favorite subject to study in primary school?"
My take on the theme is called “Music and Art”. In the episode, I remember a little about simple art projects we did in grade school in the '60s.
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-04-2704 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E07 Good News Friday: "Some Good News"Hey all!
Welcome to the first episode of Good News Friday on radio revel.
In this episode I mainly introduce you all to what I want to do with sharing good news, first talking about what good and bad and just plain old news is, then commenting on a Youtube channel that concentrates, in its own way, on sharing the good news that’s out there in contrast to all that other stuff we call “news”.
That Youtuber is the actor John Krasinski. I’ve only good vibes from this actor, all the way back...
2020-04-2410 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E06 Favorite song? Can't make up my mind!Hey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "Your most favorite musical piece"
My take on the theme is called “Favorite song? Can't make up my mind!” I explain why I have a hard time choosing a song and why I think we ask others about their favorite things.
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-04-2005 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E05 Red is the color of my true love’s hairHey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "If I were a color, it would be...."
My take on the theme is called “Red is the color of my true love's hair”. This week's blog post talks briefly about why to use rubrics in language class.
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-04-1304 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E04 The winter coatHey gals and guys!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "What extracurricular activities did you do as a child?"
My take on the theme is called “The winter coat”. In this episode, I tell a story about being a cub scout and learning the honor code the hard way.
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-04-0608 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E03 What's in a prank?Hey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "The best April Fools prank"
My take on the theme is called “What's in a prank?” In this episode I talk about a local Spanish prank day and highlight the importance of pranks being reserved for just those prank days, rather than becoming the norm.
At the end, I mention some video that includes pranks that you may enjoy. Check it out!
Hope you enjoy it!
2020-03-3005 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E02 Riding the ChangeHey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "To whom entering to a new phase of life...."
My take on the theme is called “Riding the Change”. In this episode, I talk about a previous big change in my life in comparison with the changes I think will be coming in the near future.
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
peace! revel.
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2020-03-2305 min
you're listening to radio revelS01E01 How about the "least" creative question?Hey guys and gals!
Here's the weekly reading of the theme post over on the Cafetalk Tutor's Column.
This week, the theme was "The most creative questions that you had during interviews"
My take on the theme is called “How about the 'least' creative question?” In this post I talk about the same question I was asked in three separate interviews for ESL teaching work. What do you think about this question'
Hope you enjoy it!
And don't forget to check out other episodes on "radio revel".
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2020-03-1604 min