Here's a quick update, an audio track from a video I made back in 2021, talking about how my social life with the gang from the hammer factory got started.

You can listen to the hammer factory episode, Episode 12, Get a job.

I also mention Episode 4, Children's games in this update.

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What do you think? Should we be shaking in our shoes? Is AI going to take away our cushy work-from-home jobs? Will AI take over planet Earth and reduce humans to a life of slavery and misery?

Listen to this week's commentary to find out what I think.

Or, if you're more of a video person, you can watch me make a shoe shelf while listening to the same episode over on YouTube.

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Cheers,

revel.

Hey all!

Summer came upon us really early this year, and though I thought I had gotten ahead of schedule, I'm actually just on schedule.

So, because there's so much to do outside, inside things, like producing this podcast, have to take a back seat for a while.

I do hope to add some updates here and there during the next couple of months, and I'll be back with Episode 14 probably sometime in September. Or, if it gets as hot as it did last summer, I may end up doing inside things instead. Only the weather will tell!

So, enjoy your end-of-spring, early summer activities and I'll be back before your suntan has faded away!

Cheers,

revel.

I was, admittedly, not a particularly good candidate for the US armed forces. I was artistic, I like theatre, I wasn’t interested in chasing skirt. Still, despite all the all-too-clear signs, I let myself be talked into meeting with a recruiter, going through the exams and really trying to become one of the many who, when funds are unavailable, look for an education in exchange for at least three years of their lives dressed like everyone else and just doing what they’re told to.

This is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. And, this is episode 13, Joining the Air Force. Hope you find it curious.

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Every time I tell this story, the first question that comes to mind is “What the hell were they thinking?”, followed rapidly by “Were they even thinking?” and finally, my own answer of “Evidently not.”

I mean, who packs up six kids and four adults, a dog and whatever will fit into the back of a pickup truck and drives them across country to create a kind of tent settlement in the desert well into the latter half of the 20th century?

You're back at  you're listening to radio revel,  Season three: Four decades. And this is Episode 10, Forty acres, which I might have even called “The back, way back, forty acres”. I have not met anyone in my life who has had quite this kind of experience, though there are a couple of movies out there that kind of depict the same kind of parental irresponsibility, but those are fiction? Maybe not, been seeing too many YouTube videos about people living in their cars....

Back when I was growing up, it wasn't too common that a kid attended his mother's wedding, that usually happened before the kid was a kid. And to be honest, I don't remember if I actually attended my mom's wedding with the man who would become my stepfather, Mike.

My family was not bothered by ghost stories, even having ghosts in the house. Episode 01 talks about the earliest of those family spook stories, Episode 42 of Season 01, the Haunting of Haight House is one of the best. This week’s ghost story, Episode 08, Fire in the closet, well, there’s a ghost, there’s a séance, there's even that recurring theme of fire.

There may even be a murder mystery! But well, you probably already know, but this is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. We’ve moved into the second of those decades, the '70s. I think just about the only things that look like the '70s this early, though, is the wood paneling in homes and banana-seated bicycles. It’s just too early!

And as the little ditty at the end always suggests, listen, like, subscribe and share!

Everyone’s dad dies. Mine died when I was only ten years old. When I look back on this story, I wonder just how much of what happened was normal and how much of it came about because of the people involved. There are parts that seem weird, but are maybe just run-of-the-mill experience.

This is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. In this episode, How I found out my father had died, I close out the first of those four decades, the ‘60s. The story is more about the surrounding events than my dad’s death itself. As I was just entering the age of reason, this event obviously not only marked me as a person, but became the catalyst for important changes in the paths my life would have otherwise taken.

Relatives’ deaths are not always easy stories to tell. Everyone deals with grief in their own way. My story is over 50 years old, yours may be more recent. If you have a story about a loved-one’s death and the circumstances surrounding it, feel free to share, death is an important aspect of the Everyman Biography Project, it is a main reason I began the project: with each death, our stories get diluted and finally lost. Sharing your story helps to keep humanity anchored in the people who otherwise fade in the shadows of the well-known.

Listen, like, subscribe and share. Next week we move into the ‘70s, get your bell-bottomed pants and polyester leisure suits out of that dusty old trunk. Things get stranger and the strange begins to become normal….