Hey all.

Last episode before a month-long break. This is the 5th installment of the novel I'm serializing.

You may recognize the story, you've heard it before, this is a version that I worked up to include in this novel.

We'll be back in early September.

Cheers,

revel.

Who knows what the answer to that question is. I certainly don't claim to, though I would answer it myself, based on my own experience with AI, both as a user and an annotator / trainer, with a fairly certain "no".

So, another in the loose series of rants on Artificial Intelligence. There's some Star Trek and even some Sweeny Todd in the mix.

This is also next-to-the-last in terms of episodes before a quick summer break. Next week's episode will close out this section of Season 4, and I expect to be back in early September with fresh episodes to carry us through December.

In the meantime, go listen to older episodes!

Cheers,

revel.

Hey again!

So, this time around, a bit of comment on an Irish series called The woman in the wall. And, a heads up that I'm going to take a break during, mostly, the month of August.

There will be episodes through July, don't worry! And I'm sure I'll be dropping at least one or two during the month of August, though mostly I'll be directing you, dear listeners, to older episodes that might be of interest.

Hope you all have a good summer. I've got a good start on mine already.

Transcript had be had here.

Support me on Patron.

Cheers!

revel.

He saw the putrefaction in the leg, swollen and steaming, he saw the surgeon lift his knife. Six men stood around the victim, one poured alcohol into a funnel in the patient's mouth, another forced a plug of wood between the clenched teeth, the surgeon quickly cut through the flesh, sawed through the bone, lifted the severed leg like a trophy so the audience of somber young doctors in the gallery could see the results of the operation, the stump was cauterized with boiling fat, the screaming man wheeled into another room, the surgeon, covered with blood, wiped bloody hands on the apron, and prepared the instruments for the next patient being wheeled in.

Listen to this excerpt from the novel Exile here on you're listening to radio revel.

You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog.

You can support me here on Patreon.

Thanks!

Hey all.

Eric, over at the Break / Fix podcast has been a fan of mine for a while. We met on a podcasters' forum on discord and upon listening to one of my stories, Almost brothers, he wondered if I wouldn't work up a story for his podcast for the "Father's day" episode. So, we worked up this episode, which he's already done up live on his podcast.

I've just added some more information to my version, the main body is the same as the version that went live the 14th of June.
Have a listen, and if you like cars, have a look at some of Eric's stuff, here's a plethora of links:

Links to Eric's stuff:

Apple Podcasts

YouTube

Spotify

Podbean Main Server

The Digital Magazine #zinecast and Website

GTM Motorsports Blog

Eric's social info is: @motoringpodcastnetwork on Instagram & Facebook

Hey friends.

This was one of the last binges of the winter months, a double whammy, first the Netflix series 3 Body Problem, which was the standard 8-episode fare, then Three Body, which was the Chinese version of the same first novel of the sci-fi trilogy by Liu Cixin.

I chose, this time around, to talk about the 30-episode Chinese version. It was an experience, haven't seen much Chinese TV programming (beyond the soap operas there were always on the huge-screened TV at my favorite Chinese restaurant.), there was a lot of culture shock to deal with, plus some really marginal subtitles (translated to Spanish from some marginal English subtitles, it seems, and probably by AI!), yet I got through all 30 episodes and found I almost liked the Chinese version more.

I'm in my own time warp, getting ahead of schedule in June, with plans to have episodes for you all through the end of July, so that I can take a break until September. So, right now it's June 9, you won't see this until June 24 and I'm already getting the July 15 episode ready.... love this virtual world. Almost lets you be in two times and the same time!

Transcript is here.

Patreon is here.

Cheers,
revel.

He drank wine and danced with the men and the women congregated there until he fell exhausted on a sofa between new friends, in front of the huge window, shutters thrown wide open so that the rising sun would warm their faces. Only at this dawn did he run all the way home, his feet lighter than his music, to lock himself in his room and fall into his dreams.

This week's Tall tales episode is the next fragment from the novel Exile, written way back at the end of 1989. It's called ....if he were dead and continues the seemingly unconnected story that will surely be connected.
You can read the transcript of the story on the you're listening to radio revel blog. Listen to the episode wherever you listen to podcasts, or here on Spotify. You can also support me, if you'd like, on Patreon.

Hey again!

On the road again, this time from New York where I've spent a couple of weeks teaching English to Chicago and the Midwest, this being the second part of that story, the drive up to Wisconsin and ten days working on and enjoying the farm I partially grew up on.

Though this episode describing my last visit to my Aunt Maxine's farm in 1992 can kind of stand alone, I do make some references to earlier parts of my life story as shared here on you're listening to radio revel, and I leave you these links to past episodes that might fill in any blanks you're wondering about.

S03E07 How I found out my dad had died

S03E08 The fire in the closet

S04E01 My Aunt Maxine

There's also a video made during that visit on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel! Check it out!

Transcript can be read on the you're listening to radio revel blog and contributions to my efforts here can be made on Patreon.

Cheers!

revel.

What happens in the school stays in the school? Or does it seep out into the larger world?

Thanks for checking out this week's Film fancies episode here on you're listening to radio revel. This week I discuss the German film The teacher's lounge and go off the wire a bit with my usual complaints about institutionalized education, something I've gone off the wire about since my very first participation in Internet forums waaay back in 1995.

As always, the transcript is on the you're listening to radio revel blog if you want to read along. And those who may want to can support me on Patreon.

Oh, and that episode that I talk about Gene is from Season three: Small bit speaking roles. Go back and give it a listen!

Enjoy!

Cheers,

revel.