I’m on a mission to make this country friendlier. How? Let’s just put it out there - people can be annoying. Family, team-mates, clients, bosses, employees, people you meet in the street, people on line, you, .... yes, you. Why do people think and act the way they do? Why do we burn each other without intending to? Believe me, I’ve made some classic mistakes, but have also had a lot of success training people to better communicate. International sports teams, top executives, teachers, sales ...
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Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting are journalists, friends, and music fans who love talking about pop music of all stripes.
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Brought to you by Procrastinating.com. Discussions of products, games, and websites to help enjoy your free time including The Digital X Trader Podcasts.
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The Champ – Mark Bunting. The Challenger – Max Christoffersen. Will blood be spilled when Hamilton's man-about-town Bunty squares off each week against man-with-opinions, columnist and ex-pat Christofferen? It's a battle of opinion, knowledge, perspective and wit as they tackle the issues facing our city.
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Discussing all things sports and entertainment. Featuring the “Giant Viking Football Show” with NFL analyst Trent Safrit as well as all things Camden Bruin sports.
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Real athletes who don’t know their limits. Whether you’re an elite or everyday athlete at home, it can be hard to continually progress. How do you push yourself out of your comfort zone and find that inner drive to get real results? In this podcast series, journalist and endurance athlete Louise Minchin sits down with superhumans who have done extraordinary things, to learn what it takes - mentally and physically - to go again (and again). Tune in to hear these truly inspiring stories and ta ...
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What a crazy morning! Getting dye pumped through my heart to crying my eyes out on my motorbike. Shaun O'Neill talks about the CRAZY lengths he'll go to for his business and drops some real pearlers in Rich By 60 - a narrative of a new business. 2 episodes of Cliff X Face 10 reasons a new business is just like a new baby Motorcycling is life and Op…
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'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 04: Romeo + Juliet
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1996's Romeo + Juliet seemed like a slam-dunk ending to our soundtrack mini-season...but we have regrets! Epcot industrial music, lazy versions of Shakespeare, the psychotic hormonal jangling of youth, Scandinavian cultural crimes, and the returns of Teddy Ruxpin AND No Middle Ground with Paul Quinn accompany our struggling to remember the Wallflow…
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Review: Acolyte Episode 8. Fantastic lightsaber fight but wow a big fat downer
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'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 03: Forrest Gump
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This episode is, we suppose, like a box of chocolates, because technically you don't know what you're going to get, but we can tell you we're talking about the ubiquitous Forrest Gump soundtrack. Remembering top-loader VCRs, #justiceforJenn, powering through overplay, how long sixties soul acts gave themselves to get drawers on the floor, and songs…
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Review: Acolyte Episode 7. Should’ve been merged with 3
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This week, I got some bad news - and maybe bad advice. But as they say, it's not what happens but how you deal with it, right? In this episode.... Not one but TWO Episodes of Cliff X Face, what we can learn from a bison, why motorcycling is life and in 'Rich by 60', why Tax is good! - yes, good! Enjoy!…
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'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 02: Pulp Fiction
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The '90s Soundtrack Flashback season is bustin' surfboards with Pulp Fiction, 1994's omnipresent Quentin Tarantino joint. After talking about how the movie itself holds up (spoiler: really well!), we move on to fights with the Ventures, QT's trademark alternate timelines, how epic moments are inevitably punctuated by frump, at-the-bank audio wallpa…
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Review: Acolyte Episode 6. Kinda annoyed with this one
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'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 01: Singles
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Welcome to our '90s Soundtrack Flashback mini-season! We're ranking the soundtrack albums from four legendary 1990s movies, starting with grunge-adjacent rom-com Singles. We waded into the great plaid middle of this disc to talk about the insouciance of Cameron Crowe stories, when it's okay for grunge gods to laugh, the conversation between this ge…
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Review: Acolyte Episodes 4 & 5. Poor Yord
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In this week's episode, we get to know Mark's massive 'Why' and understand why people seem so cranky We take some hints from Stephen Bartlett Rich by 60 - setting up your business at 57 with GREAT hints from accountant Ian Black TWUTPOR - the things we used to play on radio including the first episode of that infamous radio play - Cliff X Face Open…
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A variety podcast including "10 things they don't tell you about being in your own business full time", "Will they go Mana-mana?", "Did you know?" and "Rich by 60". Join me Join me on my journey to business success with guest Graham Billings, a seasoned business mentor. Discover the power of SMART plans, accountability, and the importance of priori…
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Review: Acolyte Episode 3. Star Wars survives!
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Happy May the Fourth! Oh and also Bad Batch Finale..
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 23: "Word Crimes"
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"Blurred Lines," the sound of the summer of 2013, is compared (unfavorably) with a cold sore in today's episode, which pits Robin Thicke, TI, and Pharrell against Weird Al's screed against bad grammar and usage errors. Despairing of Shazam, continuing to die on the hill of "irregardless," and the tyranny of younger siblings over the #oldladywalk pl…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 21: "Smells Like Nirvana"
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Thirty years after the death of frontman Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and their music still feel very close. Does that have anything to do with Weird Al's equally "defining" parody, a track that let Al "sell out" again after the disastrous UHF experience...with a band at the bleeding edge of the sell-out conversation? The shroud of tragedy, the performance…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 19: "Rye Or The Kaiser"
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It's an all-time training-montage banger vs. Weird Al's vision for Rocky XIII in today's episode, as we drop Wiki factoids, contemplate an all-depressing-follow-up-hits season, digress at length on Live's legal battles, and wonder when in Reagan's presidency the Me Decade became sentient. Greetings from the Sly Stallone industrial complex; get that…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 17: "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"
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You can't always control what people do with your art once it's out in the world -- something Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits may have learned the hard way with both the original "Money For Nothing" AND Weird Al's re-imagining of the song via a dream sequence in UHF. Essential references versus essential songs, 20th-century TV's preoccupation with yo…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 15: "Lasagna"
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It's that Airbnb pasta-taxonomy poster in pop-song form: "Lasagna," Weird Al's take on Los Lobos's take on Ritchie Valens's take on the Mexican folk song Sarah and her classmates dutifully droned during first-period Spanish. Before we cast our votes (and yours!), we talk about the restaurant from Big, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dr. Melfi's ex-husband…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 13: "Jurassic Park"
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Late-sixties melodrama meets early-nineties blockbuster in today's episode, as we contemplate who left the Barney cake out in the rain while comparing Richard Harris's "MacArthur Park" and Weird Al's "Jurassic Park." Claymation, foiled cantatae, The Odyssey, Godspell, and songs for when the coffee's kickin' in, plus the YouTube-comments bingo card …
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 11: "I Think I'm A Clone Now"
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The unique legacy of Tommy James and the Shondells adds another chapter today, as Weird Al contends with Tiffany's smash cover of "I Think We're Alone Now." We're discussing Jersey-girl aspirational fashion, budge sound that's a feature and not a bug, and that person you could know becoming that person everyone does know. Take a break from sewing p…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 9: "I Lost On Jeopardy"
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Can Weird Al inch ahead in the season standings with "I Lost On Jeopardy," his parody of the Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy"? We're talking early adopters, terrible album-title puns we admire, second careers, cheap-but-creepy videos, and how MB's personal Jeopardy! journey deepens his appreciation of this Yankovic joint. Tell 'em what they've won, Don …
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This week's match-up pits The Presidents of the United States of America's "Lump" against Weird Al's "Gump"...but is it really a face-off if the original is two thirds of the way towards being the parody? What is the age of Al-wakening? What's the difference between "unserious" and "unpretentious"? Are butt-adjacent references the Yankovic equivale…
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"What if we just........didn't." That's one of the questions confronting us as WE confront an out-of-character entry in the Weird Al songbook: "Fat." The problems don't start there; there's the cheap-sounding and turgidly self-serious original, "Bad"; by problematic artist Michael Jackson; the risible video by MJ, and the shortcutsy cruelty from WA…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 3: "Bedrock Anthem"
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Grab a tube sock for your privates: it's time to pit the Red Hot Chili Peppers against Weird Al! Before Mark makes the pun that drives our listenership numbers off a cliff, we're discussing the omnipresent Chilis hits "Under The Bridge" and "Give It Away"; how many songs Weird Al might have tried to fit his Flintstones joke set into before settling…
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Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 1: "Amish Paradise"
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Welcome to the Weird Al vs. Everybody season of MASTAS! We're looking at a couple dozen Weird Al Yankovic songs and the originals that inspired him, and choosing a winner in each match-up -- starting with Coolio homage "Amish Paradise"! Before we get into self-serious videos for movies we think might be fake, cultural appropriation of pre-tech soci…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 12: Answer Songs
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The competition is over, but the discussion of comeback songs isn't -- and today's is about comebacks in the answer/clapback sense. Seven "answer" songs come under the MASTAScope, as well as the frequency with which Neil Young is told to shut it, Bavaria's unexpected move to Ireland, the Judy Cycle opera we need to see, and pop songs that have beco…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 11: The Championship
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It's time to declare a winner -- the definitive pop-music comeback song -- but the road to the final result is a twisty one. "Believe" and "Walk This Way" each crystallize the concept of the comeback, but in different ways, so to help us choose, we're watching videos, discussing the synecdoche of Cher, rummaging through a bin of PhD-thesis topics, …
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 10: The Final 4
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The semifinal round is, while somewhat predictable, still full of ups and downs, including Spelling Bee's interest in our works and days, the way Adam Lambert takes and gives meaning, how far is far enough for a song we actively dislike, Latin-phrase drag names, scary puppets, and reader comments! Sorry about the sweaty-Reagan reference; distract y…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 9: The Elite 8
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We're down to eight great comeback songs; which ones will join the Do Call It A Comeback season's Final Four? We're quoting Wayne's World, we're putting things in plaid place out of eight, we're remembering upsetting Beatles gifts, we're adding salt to temp tracks, and we're wondering why it so often seemed like nobody cared about Laura Branigan's …
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 8: The Sweet 16
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The Sweet 16 is here, along with the return to numbered rankings...and the unkindest cuts of all, plus another Auto-Tune justice conversation, myriad matrices, Tracy Chapman's post-nineties Flintstones car, 92.5% of Cher's butt, unpleasant flashbacks to the sophomore dance, and the long wait for a muffin basket from Nick Rhodes. Quick, before anoth…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 7: Footnotes and Odd Lots
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We're taking a quick break before the emotional press of the Sweet 16 to talk about a handful of "off-label" comebacks: award-winners, kids' songs, comebacks only we noticed, and more. We wonder whether it's possible to have been too big to truly come all the way back; we contemplate a truly catastrophic remix of self-loathing; and we bemoan sad co…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 6: Round Of 32 B
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Mark's spreadsheet of history has spoken: we're choosing the rest of the Do Call It A Comeback season's Sweet 16 this week! From the top of the pallet of improbable late-'80s comeback songs, we're surveying the joyful geeky dance of Robin Gibb, the 20 percent of our income we owe to Duran Duran, the most tiresomely groovy Ben & Jerry's flavors, Can…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 5: Round Of 32 A
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The Round Of 32 is underway! After a brief chat about our head-vs.-heart processes in this round, we descend into the valley of the shadow of twos: struggling to come up with the word "metamorphosis," confronting the history of Auto-Tune, measuring levels of exposure to Britpop, and planning a community-college class on interpretive dance. Everybod…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 4: The Last 15
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The last 15 songs have entered the comeback fray, along with Nickelodeon dominance, stinky vocals in classic songs, what Clive Davis is drinking while he waits for artists at a crossroads, perfect blends of horniness and intelligence, and what happens when you drop John Belushi's Joe Cocker imitation in a vat of AI. Should Bob Dylan live in a sagua…
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Review: Ahsoka Episode 8. So much promised…
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 3: The NEXT Next 15
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It's the second half of the first round, and some of our toughest choices yet, as we struggle with how comebacks used to look in a monoculture; human Razzie Awards; the comeback-osity of an "X featuring Y" track; why J. Lo never seems to be having fun; weird H.W. Bush presidency detritus; returns from '70s banishment; and what exactly we have to do…
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Review: Ahsoka Episode 7. Good but Delaying pretty much everything
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Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 2: The Next 15
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The next 15 songs in our definitive-comeback-song season storm the booth! Sometimes the song is coming back to the podcast from a previous season; sometimes our lunch is coming back on us thanks to cynical bongo glurge; and sometimes we're wondering if there's a portrait of Jeff Lynne in an attic somewhere? Execrable album-only tracks, the supergro…
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Review: Ahsoka Episode 6. Peak Star Wars
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