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Welcome to the Conversations @ The Salt Line, a Vassar College podcast. Hosted by Wesley Dixon, this podcast will explore subjects that stimulate, reflect on the world’s grand challenges, and find common ground while embracing diverging perspectives because we understand that pursuing honest dialogue and debate nurtures an intellectual curiosity that leads to understanding and connection.
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Finneran's Wake

Daniel Ethan Finneran

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Finneran’s Wake – where the ART OF CONVERSATION lives. Here, no topic is untouchable, no idea inadmissible, and no one too heretical to be heard. As the great French essayist Montaigne once said, “To my taste, the most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is CONVERSATION. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives”. It certainly is the most delightful activity in my life. I want it to be so in yours as well. To that end, I humbly welcome you to my channel. Here ...
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: The Week of Webb .... Tonight is an Experiment. I'm going to try to do something on the show I've never tried before .... Explain why I think NASA's latest technological Miracle and Wonder -- the "James Webb Space Telescope," whose First Light images this week have dazzled the entire world -- is perhaps THE MOST im…
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It’s a startup auction masterclass, on this week’s episode! With TommyB on assignment/in the basement, SuperFlexDude is holding down the fort… but he isn’t alone! Kyle Senra (@SenraSays) – of the Full Press Coverage podcast – joins the Ol’ SFD to discuss the prep work for a startup auction. Using his Par Sheet to map out player values, Senra Says a…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Our Enterprise investigation into this extraordinary possibility is only about three weeks old, following the original Reddit post by amateur-astronomer, Marty McGuire; a few months ago, McGuire tracked down Chandrayyan-2 orbital imaging of the old Apollo 12 landing site … and discovered a “circle-like ring of rock…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: In two weeks, millions of Americans will witness first hand -- and, for the second time in just seven years! -- one of Earth's most extraordinary spectacles-- A Total Eclipse of the Sun. On April 8, 2024, from Texas to Newfoundland, the narrow "hundred-mile-wide shadow" of the Moon will race northeast across the co…
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It’s a season prep, player take episode of the SuperShow! TommyB and the Ol’ SFD discuss specific players to target and avoid for the upcoming season. The guys focus in on the transition from dynasty to redraft (via #SFB14) and the players to carry into the 2024 season so THEY can carry US to fantasy glory! Plus, ranking against consensus, when to …
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Show Page & Alternate Listening "What the Hell REALLY Happened on the Planet Mars?!" This is, indeed, the title of our Sunday evening show -- following on the explosive "architectural and artistic revelations" we presented in our Saturday installment .... My guest tonight, nuclear physicist Dr. John Brandenburg, has written several books regarding …
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It’s a mailbag episode, and the SuperFriends deliver the mail like only the SuperFriends can! TommyB and the SFD break down listener questions on a variety of topics, including initiating trade negotiations, and filling flex spots in non-TE premium leagues. Plus, Tommy goes in-depth on his process for rebuilding/retooling/renovating an orphaned ros…
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SHOW PAGE: Alternative Listening: "Mars rover detects carbon signature that hints at past life source ...." That's how "the Revolution" officially ... quietly ... begins. In their BEST "Emily Dickinsonian" fashion ("Tell ALL the Truth ... but tell it slant"), several months ago (January, 2022) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Well ... tonight -- March 2, 2024, just a few days after an American private corporation ("Intuitive Machines") successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft named "Odysseus" softly (well, kinda ...) on the Moon, David Copperfield (the famed "billionaire Los Vegas magician" ...) was supposed to make the whole place it…
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It’s an extreme confidence versus extreme caution episode. Giddyup! Dr. Caitlin Fang returns to the SuperShow, joining TommyB & SFD to discuss fear & anxiety, pride, and the line between confidence and hubris. From counting your winnings before the season starts, to being prepared for a rainy day rather than installing a skylight and saying “bring …
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Show: Alternative Listening: "Designer Solar System!" Classic drawings and photographs of Jupiter and Saturn, when compared with current imaging (both amateur AND professional), reveal curious "imaging discrepancies" -- mainly, in the way Jupiter and Saturn's largest moons appear now to be casting their shadows on the cloud tops of the giant planet…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: On April 8, 2024, the last total solar eclipse to be visible from the United states for the next twenty years tracked northeast, from Texas to Maine, at almost 2000 miles an hour ... dazzling millions, live and on television, along the way .... Among those seeking to "meet the eclipse" -- that ~100-mile-wide, racin…
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Place your bets… whether you want to or not! After last week’s poker theory episode, TommyB and the SFD have the gambling itch. Lucky for them, fantasy football is one big parlay bet with legs for days! The guys discuss the bets we all make by joining a league, committing to a strategy, and managing a team through the various phases of the dynasty …
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: We are Not Alone! We have Never Been Alone! And we Never will Be Alone in this Universe The History of this Planet is not what we think! We have a history that is way beyond the imagination of what we’ve been taught to believe. The Evidence is all around us. Tonight I, Keith Morgan, sitting in for our host Richard …
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Radio with Pictures Page: http://www.theothersideofmidnight.com/2018-1-14-neal-adams/ Neal Adams LIVE with Richard C. Hoagland Over sixty years ago, Australian geologist Samuel Warren Carey formally proposed the controversial planetary theory of “an Expanding Earth.” Building on a century of previous work, by earlier “geological radicals” who had a…
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Introducing the world to the person who introduced TommyB to the world! Most of us know her as Carol Harmon, professional poker player. Tommy simply calls her “mom.” And suddenly, TommyB’s competitive and strategic nature makes total sense! Mrs. Harmon shares wisdom on poker strategy, theory, and psychology, all of which translates seamlessly into …
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Show Page: Alternate Listening: Tonight ... we're "doing" dinosaurs .... Long before "Jurassic Park," how many kids -- in their early visits to the local library -- one day, serendipitously discovered their first, startlingly realistic (to a ten-year-old) picture-book on "dinosaurs" -- the long-extinct “fearfully-great lizards” (from the word's Gre…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: The Week of Webb .... Tonight is an Experiment. I'm going to try to do something on the show I've never tried before .... Explain why I think NASA's latest technological Miracle and Wonder -- the "James Webb Space Telescope," whose First Light images this week have dazzled the entire world -- is perhaps THE MOST im…
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We’re putting the Arms Race strategy to the test on this week’s episode! TommyB’s controversial Arms Race strategy gets its day in court, as the guys cross examine the QB strategy and the overall roster build. How to build the rest of the roster around five elite QBs? How to acquire five elite QBs in the first place? And how to compete with an AR r…
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Show: Alternative Listening: There's much discussion these days about "living on Earth 2 ...." ("Earth 1" was where we USED to live ... before "the Crazy Years.") Before ... Donald Trump. Or, as Nicki Haley keeps intoning-- "Chaos ... just follows him around." But what if all the "chaos" -- so obviously swirling around EVERYTHING we see and do thes…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening BULLETIN!! IVO, the small US electronics company based in North Dakota, which created a non-rocket-based "quantum space drive" and launched it into a low Earth orbit last November 11, 2023, has apparently ... finally-- Turned it on. And, its "host spacecraft" -- Barry-1 -- has (according to the latest NORAD and NASA…
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We got stacks… stacks on stacks! An episode that was meant to discuss the broad topic of roster detailing, instead focuses solely on the fine art of stacking. TommyB and the SFD consider the strategy behind “stacking” a QB with his top pass catcher… and even going so far as to stack the second best pass catcher as well. But is it a valid strategy? …
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: We are Not Alone! We have Never Been Alone! And we Never will Be Alone in this Universe The History of this Planet is not what we think! We have a history that is way beyond the imagination of what we’ve been taught to believe. The Evidence is all around us. Tonight I, Keith Morgan, sitting in for our host Richard …
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: On April 8, 2024, the last total solar eclipse to be visible from the United states for the next twenty years tracked northeast, from Texas to Maine, at almost 2000 miles an hour ... dazzling millions, live and on television, along the way .... Among those seeking to "meet the eclipse" -- that ~100-mile-wide, racin…
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In this episode of "Conversations at the Salt Line," Wesley chats with Yale University Professor of History Beverly Gage about her Pulitzer Prize winning biography "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century." Wes and Professor Gage engaged in an exciting conversation about the history of political movements and the complexities …
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The in-season roster management Standard Operating Procedures make an appearance in the non-point-scoring season! TommyB and the SFD get a head start on building rosters for the 2024 season, and apply the SOPs to do it. From “Make Sure They’re Rostered” in both shallow AND deep leagues, to Adds/Fades/Buys/Sells. The guys even get into some future p…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Has anyone noticed that "something" seems to be seriously going WRONG ... inside NASA? In the last month, two MAJOR multi-hundred-million-dollar unmanned spacecraft have either been "suddenly postponed" ... or, suddenly threatened with outright cancellation! The first is a "one-of-a-kind" orbital mission to a uniqu…
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Play the player, not the… well… players? TommyB is back from the basement/assignment, and in response to Hogue’s solo episode, has some intrusive thoughts of his own! The guys discuss Tommy’s methods of learning opponents’ tendencies, identifying their patterns… and exploiting that information. Specifically, looking at their preferred player profil…
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The “Magical” Hyperdimensional Disc … And What It Does Michael Lee Hill LIVE with Richard C. Hoagland Show Page & Alternate Listening “Michael Lee Hill is an award-winning muscian, filmographer and UFO experiencer — who incorporates Cosmic [Hyperdimensional] Frequencies into his music, gained from his long communication with ‘those NOT from here ….…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Tonight's show (April 14) is a continuation of the extraordinary lunar theme (and evidence!) presented during last night's program (April 13), re the idea that "total solar eclipses" are NOT, in fact, the result of "Nature's most amazing celestial coincidence," but are the direct result of the Ancient Reality that …
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SuperFlexDude is on a solo mission this week, but he isn’t alone with his thoughts. In fact, he’s along with YOUR thoughts… your intrusive dynasty superflex thoughts. The SuperShow SuperFriends share the epiphanies that have permeated their brains and they just can’t shake. From Trey Lance’s buy/sell windows to acquiring running backs to fading Cee…
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Show: Alternative Listening: "Designer Solar System!" Classic drawings and photographs of Jupiter and Saturn, when compared with current imaging (both amateur AND professional), reveal curious "imaging discrepancies" -- mainly, in the way Jupiter and Saturn's largest moons appear now to be casting their shadows on the cloud tops of the giant planet…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Is the United States ... is Earth ... secretly at war tonight ... with "somebody" from-- "Elsewhere ... up above?!" I know, it's a TOTALLY "off-the-wall" idea .... But, when you start to look at all the accumulating evidence of something "not quite right" with the catastrophic Maui fire explanation ... the idea tha…
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In this episode of "Conversations at the Salt Line," host Wesley Dixon speaks with Allison Abner '87 about her career as an author and television writer on shows such as "The West Wing." During their conversation, Wes and Allison explored the intersections of entertainment and politics, and Allison reflected on her experience as an "outsider" in Wa…
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Show: Alternative Listening: "Designer Solar System!" Classic drawings and photographs of Jupiter and Saturn, when compared with current imaging (both amateur AND professional), reveal curious "imaging discrepancies" -- mainly, in the way Jupiter and Saturn's largest moons appear now to be casting their shadows on the cloud tops of the giant planet…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Tonight's show (April 14) is a continuation of the extraordinary lunar theme (and evidence!) presented during last night's program (April 13), re the idea that "total solar eclipses" are NOT, in fact, the result of "Nature's most amazing celestial coincidence," but are the direct result of the Ancient Reality that …
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It’s time! After saying “it’s too early to talk about rookies when we’re missing so much information” all non-point-scoring season, TommyB and Hogue are finally ready to talk rookies! With the NFL Draft in the rearview and superflex rookie drafts starting everywhere, the guys are here to discuss the information gained in the NFL Draft. The importan…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening:/ There has been much public discussion lately of “AI” — “artificial Intelligence” — and its imminent potential for totally transforming life on Earth … if not the Earth itself. Public congressional hearings on the subject have been held, White House meetings arranged, political and corporate leaders are calling for…
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The Draft is here! Sooo… what do you want to talk about?? Tommy Bee and the Ess Eff Dee are finally – FINALLY – ready to talk rookies as the rookie players prepare to enter the NFL and try on some new laundry. After months of discussing trading out of various draft slots, the guys prepare for the unthinkable: actually making the pick! Caleb William…
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Show: Alternative Listening: There's much discussion these days about "living on Earth 2 ...." ("Earth 1" was where we USED to live ... before "the Crazy Years.") Before ... Donald Trump. Or, as Nicki Haley keeps intoning-- "Chaos ... just follows him around." But what if all the "chaos" -- so obviously swirling around EVERYTHING we see and do thes…
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Show: Alternative Listening: The original idea for tonight's conversation came in a discussion a few weeks ago with Matthew Bailey -- our "resident AI expert." "Matt," I said, "we need to do a dedicated program, and soon, regarding the key role AI could play ... WILL play ... in the coming 2024 election ...." Tonight's show is a direct result. When…
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Oh, we have a fever… Rookie Fever! Michael “Feverish” Fanaro (@AardvarkTV) and Shane “Swags” Swager (@SwagzillaZeroG) return to the SuperShow with a lot to share! After several months of the “What Do Rookies Mean to You” series on their Rookie Fever podcast, Fanaro and Swags have a lot of thoughts of their own on rookie players, rookie picks, and r…
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TommyB is running the show, but he isn’t alone! Mike Kash (@FFMikeKash) and Evan Plow – the hosts of the Fantasy Football RPG podcast (@FFRPGPOD) – join Tommy to discuss roster construction. From their ideal, intended roster builds to the power of each individual position. Plus, the impact of young, elite TEs, and a deeper look at the incoming rook…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Before the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse physically swept across the country last Monday afternoon, the media was awash for weeks in "pre-Eclipse Hype" -- lavishly-produced short videos, endlessly running across all social media and television, proclaiming the coming, lavish network coverage of this "once-in-a-…
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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Before the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse physically swept across the country last Monday afternoon, the media was awash for weeks in "pre-Eclipse Hype" -- lavishly-produced short videos, endlessly running across all social media and television, proclaiming the coming, lavish network coverage of this "once-in-a-…
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A SuperFriend joins the conversation, and what a Super conversation it is! TommyB and The Ol’ SFD welcome Josh Nims (@Nimrodfantasy) back to the show, as the guys break down a strong contending roster. But perhaps more interesting is the strategy conversation that follows: what SHOULD you do once you’ve climbed the mountain? How can you extend your…
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In this episode of "Conversations at the Salt Line," host Wesley Dixon chats with John Wordock '91 who serves as Executive Editor at Cumulus Media and Westwood One. During their conversation Wes and John chat about the history of podcasts and explore the intersections of media, storytelling, and cultural and political pluralism. As a guest speaker …
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