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You're back at you're listening to radio revel, update episode 8.

It seems it's about losing my job, but I think it's more about why I couldn't go forward with that particular job.

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Update episode, have a listen!

Update episode six, going to give my take on the film The artifice girl, which is maybe not for everyone, but I found it very good.

You can see a video version of this podcast on YouTube.

You can also check out my writing blog, CTOHP Publications, to read another essay called Writers, are you threatened by AI?

Finally, the Podcast Patreon page, it's got a lot of what you find here, with links to other stuff.

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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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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!

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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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What do you do when you graduate from high school and you find yourself homeless, penniless?

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Christmas in April? That this story of domestic violence, drunkenbehavior and childish reactions happened at Christmas time doesn'tmake it a Christmas story.

But well, it's as hot as it should be in June, so maybe casting our imaginations to December of 1976 isn't all that bad of an idea.

Episode 11 of you're listening to radio revel is called Who ate the bourbon balls?That maybe should have been the title of the story-within-a-storyincluded this week in Season three: Four decades. Back when I wrotethat story, though, I thought Death in the familywas more appropriate for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Theydidn't accept the story, and you'll see why when you listen to thisepisode.

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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....