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What if?

What if you hadn't taken that trip to Chicago where you ended up meeting the person who would become your spouse?

What if you'd taken that job that paid better but wasn't very interesting?

What if one little thing you did or didn't do had repercussions you don't realize right now?

For all mankind poses big and small "what ifs", contrasting the types of decisions made by individuals that become consequential to History.

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Hey there listeners!

Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel, Season four. This is another episode in the Tall tales series, stories of mine that I've dug out of old notebooks, revisited, given a fresh face.

Today I've got two very short stories I wrote in 1987 while living temporarily one summer in Madrid, Spain. They reflect things that caught my eye, Spanish women, yet living out lives dictated by generational social norms.

There's something about the Spanish woman that defined for me just how the culture differed from my own.

Transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and the chance to support me on Patreon.

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The first thing I promised to you listeners in this new season of you're listening to radio revel, in the series called Mature audiences only was "irony". Something we more mature folk should be pretty familiar with and actually pretty good at.

You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog and support me, if you wish, on Patreon.

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Hey listeners!

This episode of Film fancies, here on you're listening to radio revel gives me an opportunity of talking about that film that kind of went viral for probably the right and wrong reasons, as the title suggests: Saltburn.

If you want to see my vegetable garden during a rain storm this mid-February, you can check out the version on the YouTube channel. The transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me if you've a desire to on Patreon.

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Let me take you to Ávila, Spain. It's 1991, New Year's time, weather's been warmer than usual.

José and Pepe get themselves into a pinch and they're way of getting out of that pinch, well, it was just about as stupid as these two men could think of.

Enjoy this story, written in 1991 while I, myself, lived in Ávila. Kind of reflects what I thought of the place while I was there.

You can read the story on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like to.

Welcome back to Mature Audiences Only on you're listening to radio revel.

This week's episode, Ávila and the Santa Teresa, catches us up a bit with the beginning of the left-over decade, the 1990s, from Season Three.

I'm going to pack up and move to the northwest mountainous region of Spain, find myself enclosed in a mediaeval walled-in city. Some adventures that lasted just a few months before changing track totally.

Remember, you've got the transcript to read on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like.

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Wish I'd been able to see this film in a movie theatre. Big, brash, colorful production, right amount of humor, majestic performances by three actresses, The Favourite is my personal favorite of Yorgos Lanthimos' catalogue.

Set in the court of Queen Anne, you get a kind of crazy, sometimes funny, always human look at three women in the 18th century, navigating their own wants and needs in a world where women didn't usually hold the rudder.

You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and, if you want, support me on Patreon.

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Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel.

This week's episode is the first in the series I'm calling Tall Tales. This series is mainly a bunch of short stories I've written (or am writing!) over the years, stories that have not seen the light, or only barely so.

This week I tell a Kafka-like story about a young man who decides to move through a process. It's based on a dream that was related to me, a dream that impacted the dreamer enough to uncharacteristically get out of bed and write the dream down so as to not forget a detail. I've pretty much retold that dream in my words here.

Don't forget to listen, like, subscribe and share. Support me if you want to on Patreon, and check out the blog for the transcript of this, and all episodes of you're listening to radio revel.

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Do you have a favorite aunt or uncle who kind of served as an alternative parenting model? Someone who you visited regularly and who actually paid attention to your silly anecdotes, dreams, expectations in life?

Such was my Aunt Maxine. She didn't have to put up with me every day, just a couple of months every summer, so she was there to animate me to follow those dreams, to encourage me to be creative.

This episode of Mature Audiences Only is only a brief introduction to that "favorite aunt" in my life. She wasn't the only favorite aunt, but probably the most influential one.

Transcript on the blog. Chance to support me on Patreon. Listen, like, subscribe and share!

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Hey all.

Just a quick update to announce the return of you're listening to radio revel Season Four: Mature Audiences Only.

Transitioning from telling autobiographal stories from the first four decades of my into trying to relate to others who, like me, have begun or entered the sixth decade, Mature Audiences Only hopes to bring in new voices and talk about how we see the current world, how we live in it, how it's changed and changing.

Hope you all tune in for the first episode, going live on the 5th of February.

Cheers,

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