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Welcome back, my few and ever multiplying friends and listeners!
Season Four of "you're listening to radio revel" is divided into three separate shows:
-- Mature Audiences Only: I talk about stuff that would be of interest to people over 60 years old, the good old days vs. this modern world
-- Film Fancies: I share what I think about movies and series I've watched. Not reviews, just my opinions!
-- Tall Tales: Short fiction I've been accumulating over 40 years of writing, read by the author.
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S04E13 A visit to the Midwest -- Part one
I didn't really plan on ever going back to the Midwest. I'd moved to the East Coast years before, then to Europe, I actually doubted that I would ever set foot in the USA again.
Still, circumstances after the few months I'd lived in Ávila led me and my mate to get on a plane, then a bus, and make those final visits to those haunts that I'd wandered through during the first two and a half decades of my life.
Transcript is on the you're listening to radio revel blog.
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revel.
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S04E12 Film fancies -- The Holdovers: A formula for a lawsuit?
Hey all!
A quick look at both the film and some last-minute Oscar controversy / drama around a pretty standard film, The Holdovers.
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revel.
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S04E11 Tall tales -- Deny
There was no one in front of the ticket windows, so Caroline stepped up to the first and smiled at the man working behind the barred opening. He did not look up but rather leaned a carton sign against the bars that read: “Closed, please use the next window.” Fortunately, there was no one waiting at the next window either, so Caroline simply slid to her right and smiled at the woman working behind that one, this woman did look at her, not with a smile but with a frown of disapproval, asked her to please wait behind the yellow line painted on the floor. Caroline of course did not see any reason to wait behind the yellow line, there was no one else waiting to buy a ticket, but she did as she was told, turning her attention to the third window and hoping that the man working there would be a little more pleasant.
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S04E10 Social commentary: "Who has the final say?"
Why should they get the last word? Why are their "final says" accepted as the FINAL SAY? How did we allow any institution to reach this level of authority without scrutiny?
In this week's mini-rant on mature audiences only here on you're listening to radio revel, I give my point of view about the Supreme Court of the United States, where I think they are these days, and how we've been fooled into thinking that we should allow them to carry on as they are. I also suggest some remedies, even if those will not remedy anything....
For any of you out there interested in some more detailed, and certainly smarter analysis of the Supreme Court, I encourage you to check out Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's series of videos entitled The Scheme on YouTube. Some surprising stuff there that should make us all question that institution.
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S04E09 Film Fancies: For all mankind -- What if?
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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S04E08 Tall tales: Walking the dog / Dolores
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.
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Revel has a great way of story telling and bringing his personal experiences to the table in a way that makes you think but also introspect. Keep up the great work!