you're listening to radio revel

Hey 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.

Thanks for taking the time! Cheers,

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 old Midwester life!

peace,

Hey all.

Just some random thoughts in answer to the Cafetalk prompt. This is what I'm going to do this summer.

peace,

Hey 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,

Hey 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 link that will take you to the promised transcript. I'm being tricky again, I asked you to leave a comment over at Cafetalk to get this link, but since you bothered to check out the audio version, that's it! You've got the link!

Those of you who are regular listeners can click on the same link if you want to read the story yourselves. 

peace,

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Monuments to out-of-date, past best-used-by dates are being "targeted" in the current efforts to clean up American attitudes towards discrimination and brutality.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,

Hey 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,

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,

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,

Hey 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 transcript at Cafetalk.

Hope you enjoy it!

Cheers,