A Big Sur Podcast

Welcome to a conversation with author and marine conservation biologist Maddalena Bearzi on the occasion of her most recent book being published by Heyday Books on April 18, 2023.

Books by Ms Bearzi:
Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist

To find more about Maddalena's work please visit:
https://www.oceanconservation.org/
https://www.heydaybooks.com/pr-stra/

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A wonderful recorded conversation at the Henry Miller Library with  Martin Gurri,  a geopolitical analyst and student of new media and information effects. 

Martin Gurri  spent many years working in the corner of the CIA dedicated to the analysis of open media. From that privileged perch, he watched the global information landscape undergo a transformation so radical as to seem unprecedented in the history of our species.

After leaving government, Gurri focused his research on the motive forces powering this transformation. The result of this labor is The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. He lives in Virginia.

Read the recent (5/23/23)article in Discourse Magazine.

Martin's article from 4/12/23 in the Free Press
(from the Free Press): The SparkNotes version is that the former CIA analyst managed to predict Trump, Brexit, WallStreetBets, Black Lives Matter, the yellow vests protests in France, and more back in 2014. That’s because he saw, ahead of so many, that the central conflict of our era is not between red and blue, but between the elites and the masses, between the tower and the square, between the gatekeepers and the gate-crashers.

Links to a few things we talk about:
Martin Gurri
The Free Press / Bari Weiss
The Revolt of The Public
Postjournalism
Jonathan Haidt

Another interview well worth your attention with Martin Gurri.
"Gurri’s book doesn’t just point and blame, in the manner of most recent political non-fiction. He asks both the justifiably angry public and those working in hated elite institutions to look inward."

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Betty's Amazon Page

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Some of the places and people mentioned:

Elaine (Bird) and Twig
Westmere
Naqarubi
Point 16
Neil Rose
Fleet Montgomery
Jaime Morton
Glen Harlan
Whiz Bang Loggers
Pacific Valley   
Mike and Marla
Sarah Harlan
Jolon

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RAJA SHEHADEH is Palestine’s leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House, Occupation Diaries, and Palestinian Walks (which won the prestigious Orwell Prize). In 2022 he was named an International Writer of the Royal Society of Literature. 

Raja is releasing his latest book on March 21:
We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I
I have just read read a galley of it in preparation for having him on the podcast. 

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Recent articles in the press by Raja Shehadeh:

New Yorker
NYRB

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Wikipedia
Al Haq

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Dramatis Personae:
Alf the Sacred Burro (see episode photo: Dana on Alf!)
Damien Carnazzo
Tessa and 'Jack' Carnazzo
Jack Kerouac
Eric Barker
Chuck and Lisa  Brewer
Helmuth, Celia and Tara Morgenrath
Yolanda Shae (sp?)
Micah Curtis
Robin Burnside
Peggy Horan
Mary Lu Toren
Sandy Justice
Bill Wiesjahn
& many more...

Topics:
Building a house in Big Sur
Water/Power/Permits/Grading etc.
Giving birth
Starting a catering company
Staying calm during calamities
& much more...

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Seven Big Sur residents talk about the weather! (click on 'Chapters' above for direct links to participants.)
The 50th episode of A Big Sur Podcast
Featuring:
John Handy, South Coast  |  07:15
Diana Ballantyne, Big Sur Valley  |  23:20
Marcos Ortega, (also on episode # 37) Pfeiffer State Park  |  35:35
Ryne Leuzinger, Palo Colorado  |  41:10
Kendra Morgenrath, Pfeiffer Ridge  |  52:35
Kirk Gafill, Nepenthe  |  01:05:25
Kate Novoa, (also on episode # 9) AKA Big Sur Kate!  |  01:22:30

More notes will be published after the rain...
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Didn't it Rain? (20 sec)
It Was a Cold Black Night (20 sec)

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The way we can honor the legacy of Zad Leavy is to be vigilant and to always work for the preservation and restoration of the wild and rustic beauty of the Big Sur coast!

Thank you for listening.
Please email here with any comments, critique, suggestions...Thank you!

Links to some of the people and places we touch on:
The Big Sur Land Trust
The Big Sur Gazette
Jim Josoff
Nancy Hopkins
Sherna Stewart
The Odello Fields/Clint Eastwood
El Sur Ranch
Ansel Adams
Leon Panetta
David Packard

Podcast episode #5 with Brian Steen, the first Executive Director of BSLT

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A wide ranging conversation sitting at Dana's house on her Mesa up Bixby. We have three dogs keeping us company and we talk about growing up in Big Sur, hanging out down Cannery Row, Monterey Pop Festival, VW bus around Europe, sailing in the Caribbean and South Pacific; anchoring in Hanavave Bay on Fatuhiva, Tuamotu and onwards...it's an amazing journey...😊

Some of the people in the story:
Elizabeth Leeper,  Dana's Mom
Ed Leeper, Dana's Stepdad
Kira Godbe, Dana's Sister
The Story of Albert and Dotty Fletcher and 'Duen.'
Gurdjieff
Arica School
Francis Whitaker
John Ruster  (read this letter!)
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
plus many more...
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Special music from 'Sordin' by John Holm, on Spotify, iMusic etc.

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Talking with Matti Friedman from his home in Jerusalem. 

Very grateful to him for writing this book and for sharing his stories!

WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
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In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war broke out in Israel.

The Yom Kippur War would become the bloodiest in Israel’s young history—and Cohen was there to witness it. As the war broke out, he left his home on the Greek island of Hydra to fly into the warzone.

Leonard Cohen did not say much about why he went to the front. What we know is that in the months that followed, he would write “Who By Fire” and "Lover Lover Lover."

So what was it that happened in the desert in October of 1973 between a depressed musician and young soldiers going off to battle? How did it remake Leonard Cohen? How did it transform those who heard him play? And how did the war transform Israel itself?

Those are some of the questions Matti Friedman explains in his beautiful new book Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.

Matti and I get into some areas worth thinking about: Non violence, pacifism, militarism, the Poets prerogative, loyalty...

Matti Friedman online.
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Link to episode #28 with Sula Nichols
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btw. My singing a bit of Cohen was to avoid getting into copyright problems. I asked Sony for rights but they have not yet responded. I will replace my a capella singing with proper Cohen if they give us the rights. 😊
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We're sitting on a couch under the Persimmon tree. There's some sound of traffic in the background and a beautiful afternoon!

Bill Ashley and two new Henry Miller titles!
The Heaven Beyond Heaven and Jupiter In All His Phases
Published by Henry Miller's Unique Books owned and operated by Bill Ashley.

Bill Ashley is very well known in the Miller world for having published, together with Roger Jackson, the remarkable Bibliography of Miller's complete works.

Bill is also a board member emeritus of the HMML having been instrumental in setting up the Non-Profit organization that is now the Library in 1998.

We talk of the books, publishing in 2022, collecting Miller and more...

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