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BMTT is an unscripted, no-holds-barred podcast based in Seoul. We talk pop culture, current issues, and pretty much whatever else holds our interest. It’s basically a volatile mixture of praising the good and trashing the bad according to the universal standard—us. Sheltered souls and members of the PC brigade beware: this ain’t your grandma’s bingo party.
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Whether natural or man-made, disasters attract a strange mixture of horror and fascination. However, the spectacle of devastation is only ever one part of the story. Take a closer look, and you will find tales of extraordinary human endurance and heroism, stories that veer from the horrific to the oddly humorous, and lessons that can be learned to make our world safer. From the Titanic to the Costa Concordia, the Station nightclub fire to the Pulse nightclub shooting, these extraordinary eve ...
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Crime Off the Grid is a podcast about true crime stories from our National Parks and other wild places. All of our guests and co-hosts, bring years of experience working in National Parks, National Forests and other wild places. Our guests are rangers, investigators, prosecutors, victim specialists, and other first responders who have dedicated their careers to justice and safety in places off the grid. Join the hosts and me where we discuss cases, listen to Ranger Tales; real rangers tellin ...
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The world needs more philosophy. More to the point, we all need to engage with the world with a more philosophical attitude. My name is Douglas Giles, I am a philosopher by trade and temperament. I understand that philosophy is an active search for concepts on which we can build a better life. Long fascinated by ideas, I am motivated by an earnest desire to bring philosophy out of its insular ivory tower and into everyday life where it can be put to good uses. As a university philosophy prof ...
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Ever heard of 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon? Nancy and Tara are now 3 degrees from a serial killer. They ran into a woman while hiking who told them about her cousin who was a serial killer's first victim in a national forest (which made her 2 degrees from the killer). For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also…
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At the river's edge along the Gallatin, a murder is brought to justice for the killing of a 15 year old girl after years of hiding in plain site. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT…
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A hippie turned religious fundamentalist moves his family of 15 children to Alaska and creates what he calls "Hillbilly Heaven." He picks a fight with the National Park Service and all of his abuses on his family get exposed. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Inst…
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A horrific crime against a child is committed in the middle of the country. The case went cold for months until the suspect described as "Charlie Manson on steroids" decides to go to Glacier National Park. (Apologies, there is a bit of an audio issue that couldn't be repaired. But it's a great story!) For more information about the podcast, check o…
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When Park Rangers investigate possible illegal campers, they come upon the unthinkable. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the e…
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We close out International Summer Vacation with a film most of us haven’t seen, or even heard of. It comes to us from Argentina, and director Carlos Hugo Christensen. It’s based on a story by noir stalwart, Cornell Woolrich, and consists of two stories involving the door of the title. It’s also notable for incredible cinematography from Pablo Taber…
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A BASE jumper makes an illegal jump in the pre-dawn morning from El Capitan. When he landed, park rangers were waiting for him and things took an unimaginable turn. Hear Ranger Bonnie describe that day, and another event that occurred just 3 months later with a similar outcome. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegr…
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We return to France for King of Hearts, directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates and Geneviève Bujold. The suggestion to see this film comes from our own Erika Ensign, who praises its anti-war message, among other attributes. The film is set in a small French town during World War I, after the locals have fled the battle. Residents of …
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Tara and Nancy are discussing a crazy case where a ranger found the biggest clandestine meth lab inside Death Valley National Monument (before it was a Nat'l Park). For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (…
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Tokyo Story is on numerous lists of the best films of all time. It’s in my personal top five. This movie is considered the masterpiece by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and it stars his luminous muse, Setsuko Hara. Tokyo Story is a black and white time capsule of life in Japan after World War II and depicts how the war and Japan’s modernization …
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Beth had been missing for nearly 2 months in the Lookout Mountain area of Alabama before someone finally made a report to the police. Suspects have been arrested, but what's the rest of the story? For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! (click on the MERCH button on our website) Check …
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Starring Joan Crawford is Samuel Garza Bernstein’s new appreciation of the screen queen. It’s a great book, and I wanted you to meet the author, Samuel Garza Bernstein. We’ve known each other since I was 16. These two things are only partially related. Starring Jaon Crawford Shelly Brisbin with Samuel Garza Bernstein Referenced Works Starring Joan …
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An aspiring chef who is working at the Pisgah Inn on top of the Blue Ridge Parkway goes for a hike, but doesn't come back. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would lov…
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Forgive a film noir detour during our international vacation season. This is episode 100, and so I’ve picked a movie I love, and that feels right in the collective LTS wheelhouse. James M. Cain’s story of betrayal and murder was directed by Billy Wilder, and stars Barbara Stanwyck (natch), Fred McMurray and Edward G. Robinson. This film is full of …
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Some say that a week is a lifetime in politics, and last week showed how true that is. Now the election can turn to focus on Trump. I've been busy the past two months finishing my new book, Why Trump? Why Some People Support Him—How the Rest of Us Can Respond. I read from the first chapter, Chapter 1. Framing the Issue. https://amzn.to/3Y3NeFm http…
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Combo episode! Nancy and Tara talk about a case of a USFS Special Agent arresting an illicit marijuana grower in Los Padres National Forest in California after a violent attack. PLUS, Nancy shares a Ranger Tale about her experience in eradicating an illicit grow in Colorado. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.…
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Our summer travels continue this week to Italy, where Federico Fellini is our guide. The title translates to “the sweet life” in English, and that’s what star Marcello Mastroianni seeks in Rome, over the course of seven days. Mastroianni is a tabloid journalist, and we follow him through seven stories, during the film. Anita Ekberg is the female st…
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A suspect wanted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Texas flees to the Grand Canyon. When Rangers start to close in, the suspect does an unexpected "cat-like" move. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ a…
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Shot in the postwar ruins of occupied Tokyo, Akira Kurosawa’s early buddy-cop thriller will make you feel every drop of sweat in its sweltering summer heat wave. A rookie cop (Toshiro Mifune) loses his gun to a pickpocket; the gun ends up in the hands of a desperate ex-soldier with nothing to lose. As his weapon gets used in a series of escalating,…
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A Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer is conducting surveillance when an unscrupulous hunter causes a deadly encounter. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would lov…
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We begin our International Summer Vacation season with a prime example of the French New Wave. Breathless is directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. The film is notable for its visual style, and the impact it had on the careers of its leading actors. Belmondo plays a criminal who wants to be Humphrey Bogart. He sp…
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A couple go on an anniversary hike in Rocky Mountain National Park to a cliffside lunchspot, but soon ends in a fatal fall. But this is not the first time for the not so grieving widower. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeo…
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Old Faithful Patrol, there is a man with the gun in the Visitor Center and has taken hostages! "Um...Can you repeat that???" For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would l…
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A woman flies from California to Washington to meet the man she's been having a secret affair with, when the planned rendezvous turns into tragedy. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPO…
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Two women were just out enjoying a lovely hike on the Signal Mountain Trail in the Roosevelt National Forest when they have an encounter that will change their lives forever. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodc…
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Top stories include a multistate poaching investigation, the creation of "alternative livestock," and...it's touron season, so you know someone had a preventable yet predictable encounter with (I'll let you guess...). For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram ht…
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A couple of predators seek out their victims from the most vulnerable of communities, but they make the great mistake of committing their crimes in a National Park. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (…
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Rangers respond to a very tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving scene at a campground in Crater Lake. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we…
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The work of protecting the environment has often been difficult, depressing, and even deadly. In the late 1800s, the beautiful plume birds of the Everglades ecosystem was nearly obliterated. When the bird conservation movement headed by the newly formed Audubon Society and President Theodore Roosevelt hired it's first game warden, no one could have…
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The Rainbow Family of Living Light is made up of loosely knit communities of people, who congregate in remote forests around the world for one or more weeks at a time with the stated intention of living a shared ideology of peace, harmony, freedom, and respect, However... Nancy and Tara share the stories of law enforcement and first responders who …
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A father brainwashes his sons to hate police and the government. The trail from Idaho to Alaska, to Death Valley National Park and eventually comes to a deadly end in Montana. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpod…
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What’s right and wrong about the Columbia protests and what’s right and wrong about political action. Can we have an intelligent conversation about what’s going on at Columbia University? Probably not. I’ll try anyway, although a conversation requires willing and sincere participants. Referenced in this episode: Ethics of Dissent and Protest Left W…
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Two self-proclaimed mountain men kidnap a young woman in hopes to make her a bride. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episo…
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Down in the depths of precode cinema, where Shelly likes to spend torrid nights, there’s a depiction of how a department store can be a little Peyton Place, and how Warren William is never to be trusted. The great precode lothario stars with very young Loretta Young and Wallace Ford (who we just saw as a middle-aged creep in The Breaking Point) as …
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A predator works his way into the camp of two social workers on the AP Trail killing them both. After his early release from prison, he invites himself to dinner with two fishermen just off the AP Trail and mayhem ensues. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagra…
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Here are Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift at their hottest, with an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. Just as in Night of the Hunter, Shelley Winters maybe ought to watch her back. George Stevens directs, and here, he’s beginning his epic period. In the 50s, he’ll direct Giant and Shane, among others. This one is full of me…
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There’s an important difference between them. This episode is a follow-up to Episode 12, "What Lurks Behind Conspiracy Theories." The subject of conspiracy theories is of great interest, probably because 2024 is an election year in many countries. In this episode, I respond to a comment made by several listeners and explain the difference between a…
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Far in the backcountry during a blizzard, a ranger recounts a tragic incident which will serve as a deadly cautionary tale. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would lo…
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Johnny Guitar (1954): It’s unusual, it’s weird, and it’s unlike any other film made by these stars. And it’s our first LTS western. Because maybe your show runner has a slightly twisted appreciation for the genre. Nicholas Ray, whose directorial chops we last experienced with In A Lonely Place, directs Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden and Mercedes Mc…
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Two friends who shared a cell in jail have a fateful meeting that ended deep in the national forest. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we c…
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Every once in awhile, your host takes a flier, choosing a film for us to watch that I’ve seen once or twice, if at all. Also arising from the 2022 draft episode is this English romance from 1945. It’s from the filmmaking team of Powell and Pressburger, and stars Wendy Hiller, so on credentials alone, it’s worth your attention. A young woman travels…
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A couple of Good Samaritans are in the Talladega National Forest looking for waterfalls when they stop to help a stranded motorist. Then the unthinkable happens. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and (1) …
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Gene Kelly was at the height of his powers in 1951, starring in musicals for MGM, and choreographing some of them. Here, Vincent Minelli directs, but the dancing is by Kelly. Leslie Caron makes her film debut, and the rest of the cast has a decidedly continental vibe. The film is “inspired” by George Gershwin’s 1928 musical of the same name, but th…
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