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BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety ShowEvening With A Legend: The Camoradi CorvetteTonight, we have an opportunity to bring a piece of Le Mans to you, sharing in the Legend of Le Mans with guests from different eras of over 100 years of racing.
The Camoradi USA Racing’s 1960 Corvette was built for international competition under the auspices of Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole and Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Duntov and went on to race successfully in Havana, Daytona, Sebring, Nürburgring, Sweden, and Le Mans. The only thing more amazing than this car’s creation and race record is its survival. On the way to Britain’s famed Goodwood circuit...2025-02-111h 02
BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety ShowYou're listening to Radio Revel! (Crossover)On this Father's Day special, we’ve got a guest with a dynamic relationship not only with cars, but the world around him. Growing up in the Midwest, maturing in NYC and finally setting down roots in Europe, podcaster Revel Arroway shares his life’s journey each week on You’re listening to Radio Revel.
Instead of our usual interview, we just handed the mic over to Revel to let him tell his own story in which cars have always played an important part. So sit back, and Enjoy!
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00:00 Meet Revel Airway
01:13 Revel's Early L...2024-06-1437 min
you're listening to radio revelThe lady of Mount PhiciumWelcome back.In this episode of The shepherd's story, Menoetes tells Demophon the story of the curse of the Sphinx on the city of Thebes.2022-03-2811 minyou're listening to radio revelWelcome to Season Two of "you're listening to radio revel": The Shepherd's StoryYes, a year as gone by without word from me.And now, a year later, after imagining this season for months, it's finally being written and produced.Season Two: The Shepherd's Story is quite different from the first season. This is my own telling of a story from Greek mythology.Funny how, on retelling a story I've told so many times over the years, I see more clearly how history and parable join together to help us better understand the world surrounding us. So, though I am not sharing my own thoughts and...2022-03-2102 minyou're listening to radio revelS02E01 The murderSo the story begins.Sitting around the fire on a cold winter night, a grandfather tells his great-grandson of an event he witnessed as a young shepherd, a senseless murder at the crossroads of the way to the Oracle at Delphi.Who was the victim? Who was the murderer?Listen to The Shepherd's Story to slowly discover, from the mouth of a first-hand witness, how an ancient tale can be told and retold to young and old.2022-03-2112 min
you're listening to radio revelEnd 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 revelBewareHey 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.2020-11-3000 min
you're listening to radio revelDisappointed 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.2020-11-1400 min
you're listening to radio revel"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.2020-11-0800 min
you're listening to radio revelThe 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...2020-10-3100 min
you're listening to radio revelShirleyHey 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.2020-10-2300 min
you're listening to radio revelSelfish 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...2020-10-1700 min
you're listening to radio revelThe 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.
Like. Share. Subscribe. Notify. Tell others. Comment.
cheers!! revel.2020-10-1100 min
you're listening to radio revelBad 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.2020-10-0300 min
you're listening to radio revelHabeas 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 revelNaloe 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 revelWould'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 revelSo, 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 revelGone 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 revelIs 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 revelThe 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 revelWhy 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 revelEngage 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 revelCovid-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 revelThe 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 revelWhat 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 revelThe 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 revelTaking 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 revelIs 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 revelWhere 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 revelOld 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 revelThe 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 revelOff 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 revelThe 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 revelTGIF!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 revel"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 revelEducating 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...2020-05-2209 min
you're listening to radio revelThe 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 revelPedestrianizationHey 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 revelMy 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 revelIt 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 revelSniggers, 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.
revel arroway at Café Talk
revel arroway at Interpretative ESL Teaching2020-05-0407 min
you're listening to radio revelWork 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 revelMusic 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.
revel arroway at Café Talk
2020-04-2704 min
you're listening to radio revelGood 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 revelFavorite 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.
revel arroway at Cafetalk
2020-04-2005 min
you're listening to radio revelRed 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.
revel arroway at Café Talk
revel...2020-04-1304 min
you're listening to radio revelThe 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.
revel arroway at Café Talk
rev...2020-04-0608 min
you're listening to radio revelWhat'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 revelRiding 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.
re...2020-03-2305 min
you're listening to radio revelHow 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".
peac...2020-03-1604 min