Best N A Turner Podcasts (2024)

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Adam Faith in What a Whopper! Episode 124 54:16

3d ago54:16

54:16

What was the British pop movie like before The Beatles? They were quite a lot like What a Whopper, as Graham and Mark discover this week. A featherweight farce in which a struggling writer and his bohemian friends try to fake a Loch Ness Monster sighting - just go with it, OK - it features a plethora of British comedy legends, a script by Dalek cre…

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Nancy Sinatra in The Wild Angels - Episode 123 1:16:08

17d ago1:16:08

1:16:08

Get your motor running, head out on the highway... wait, it's not that Peter Fonda-starring 1960s biker movie. No, The Wild Angels came a few years before Easy Rider, and it centres around a noticeably less idealistic group of bikers. Director Roger Corman hired several real Hell's Angels to serve as extras in his film, and if you're thinking there…

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Dolly Parton in Nine to Five - Episode 122 53:17

1M ago53:17

53:17

What do you get if you combine the most divisive woman in 1970s America, the least divisive woman in modern America, and a comedy legend? You get an absolute treat, at least if it goes as well as Nine to Five did. Colin Higgins's film brings together Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin in a class-conscious romp about three women who kidnap the…

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The Weeknd in The Idol - Pop Screen 121 1:19:12

2M ago1:19:12

1:19:12

Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd. To celebrate - 'celebrate' - the first anniversary of one of the defining pop star ego trips of our age, Graham and Robyn have reconvened to look at all six - no, wait, all five - episodes of Sam Levinson's disasterpiece. If you're wondering why we won't get a third season of Euphoria until the cast are in a retire…

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Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - Episode 120 55:56

2M ago55:56

55:56

Back with a vengeance! Yes, ahead of the release of Furiosa, we're looking at the Mad Max movie that features the most legendary pop star in the whole series (well, apart from the Doof Warrior): Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Initially reviled for its lighter tone and child sidekicks, the film now feels like a stepping stone to the operatic excesses G…

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Episode 119 52:31

3M ago52:31

52:31

We've covered plenty of biopics of musical legends on this podcast, and one word has hovered unspoken in the background: Cox. Dewey Cox, that is, the legendary rocker played by John C Reilly in Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. A musical innovator, a tortured genius, a tireless advocate for small people's rights... he didn't exist, of c…

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Ice Cube in Boyz n the Hood - Episode 118 1:01:44

3M ago1:01:44

1:01:44

John Singleton was 21 - 21! - when he made one of the most acclaimed debuts of the 1990s, one which led to him becoming the first African-American to get a Best Director nomination at the Oscars. It would be the perfect punchline if it was bad, but annoyingly for this deeply unserious podcast it's great: a frontline dispatch from a world plagued by…

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Episode #19: From a $333 Paycheck to Center Stage: A Journey to Broadway, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Emceeing for Lewis Howes: with Elec Simon 1:09:31

3M ago1:09:31

1:09:31

My guest today is Elec Simon. Elec refers to himself as a “host-tainer” - he’s an event emcee and percussionist based in Orlando, FL, combining his passion for rhythm and entertainment. Originally from Ohio, Elec has performed Stomp on Broadway, was a Cleveland Cavaliers entertainer, and has emceed for the likes of Lewis Howes. Elec’s journey in th…

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Rita Ora in 50 Shades of Grey - Episode 117 1:04:16

3M ago1:04:16

1:04:16

Sam Taylor-Johnson is about to release Back to Black, her second music biopic following 2009's Nowhere Boy. So naturally Pop Screen decided to review... her EL James adaptation? Yeah, why not, it's got Rita Ora in it. Returning co-host Joe did a lot of Ritasearch for this podcast and was delighted to remember that she only has about a minute of scr…

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Episode #18: Life of the Party - How Your Past Shapes You (and Doesn't Define You) 1:10:16

4M ago1:10:16

1:10:16

On this solo podcast, I’m sharing some stories and moments from my life before I got sober, my “life of the party/party animal/rock star era.” Whilst most people know me now as a pretty chill sober dude that does a bunch of yoga and meditates, I used to be a MASSIVE partier and I’ve got a lot of wild stories. Some of these stories might strike you …

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Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come - Episode 116 49:38

4M ago49:38

49:38

There are some pop movies that capture the appeal of an entire genre. Such was the case with Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, a crime drama that was such a hit it essentially popularised reggae in the United States. Such things are possible only with a star of the calibre of Jimmy Cliff, plus soundtrack and screen appearances from the likes of…

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Lol Creme (10cc) with the Lunatic (1991) - Episode 115 1:03:50

4M ago1:03:50

1:03:50

In 2024, Pop Screen is spending a month in Jamaica, hailing the island's mighty presence in the field of music. And to kick off, we're talking about... er, 10cc? Yes, when they said they don't like reggae, they love it, few could have expected that love would manifest itself in multi-instrumentalist Lol Creme directing a 1991 Jamaican comedy about …

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Episode #17: From Newbie Yoga Teacher to Yoga Studio Owner with Rachel Brooks 1:04:35

5M ago1:04:35

1:04:35

Rachel Brooks is the owner and an instructor at Seeking Space Yoga and Yin Yoga Space in Portland, OR. A Portland-native, Rachel opened Seeking Space Yoga in 2017 as a first time business owner and brand new yoga teacher! She continued to work her “day job” at a mortgage company and bartend at night whilst also running and teaching at the yoga stud…

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The Alarm in Vinyl (2012) - Episode 114 46:29

5M ago46:29

46:29

In 2004, the veteran Welsh rock band The Alarm pulled off an audacious hoax, releasing their single '45 RPM' under the alias of The Poppy Fields. The Poppy Fields were supposedly a new band of teenage rock stars in skinny jeans, as was the style at the time. As the song ascended the charts, Alarm mainman Mike Peters revealed the deception, kicking …

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Episode #16: From performing for a crowd of 2 to opening for the Boss with Frank Turner 1:00:12

5M ago1:00:12

1:00:12

Frank Turner is an English punk and folk singer-songwriter. He began his career as the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, then embarked upon an acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. He’s been super successful as a solo musician, releasing nine solo studio albums to date, with his most recent studio album, FTHC, re…

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Cyndi Lauper in Vibes (1988) - Episode 113 46:50

5M ago46:50

46:50

Good vibes only this week, as Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult rejoins the podcast to talk about Cyndi Lauper's lead role in the 1988 supernatural comedy Vibes. A film so inspired by Ghostbusters that Dan Aykroyd was briefly attached to star, it has an enviable cast fronted by Lauper, Jeff Goldblum and Peter Falk. And yet, somehow, it tanked. On this e…

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Episode #15: On the Inside: creative connection for incarcerated women with Nikki Weaver 1:10:36

6M ago1:10:36

1:10:36

Nikki Weaver is an actress, a yoga teacher, a trained massage therapist, and an art therapist. She leveraged her diverse skill to co-found the Portland Playhouse and she now leads On The Inside, a non-profit supporting incarcerated women through creative connection. On the Inside is currently operating in prisons in Oregon, Nebraska, Wyoming, Misso…

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Mick Jagger in Performance (1970) Episode 112 53:25

6M ago53:25

53:25

Memo to you: Pop Screen is back for 2024 and we're covering one of the wildest, most controversial and most ambitious rock movies of the 1970s. Starring Mick Jagger among a motley cast of models, gangsters, boxers and one father of a national embarrassment, Performance saw Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell join forces for a joint debut like no other.…

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Pop Screen Best of 2023 2:51:15

6M ago2:51:15

2:51:15

Last week, our sister podcast Uncut took you through January through to June in our two-part review of 2023. Now, Pop Screen takes up the reigns with Vincent, Naomi, Rob, Graham, Kat, Simon, Mike, Oliver and James all returning to give their favourite films of the second half of the year - culminating in that all-important top ten. What will make t…

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Metallica in Some Kind of Monster (2004) Episode 111 50:25

6M ago50:25

50:25

Pop Screen finishes 2023 with a movie that could not be less stock to our ears - Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Granted unprecedented levels of access to the world's biggest heavy metal band, the directors of the Paradise Lost trilogy made a raw documentary about a band somehow staying together and making an alb…

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Mariah Carey in Glitter (2001) Episode 110 51:03

7M ago51:03

51:03

All we want for Christmas is this: Mariah Carey's notorious film vehicle is the subject of Pop Screen's festive episode. Equally reviled and unfortunate, it's the tale of a foster child who grows up into an aspiring singer, and whose rise to fame is, shall we say, subtly patterned on Carey's own career. Its soundtrack album was released on 9/11, wh…

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Nick Cave in 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) Episode 109 52:20

8M ago52:20

52:20

Get ready for (a) love (-in): Graham is joined once again by the Uncut Network's Rob for a look at Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard's massively acclaimed sort-of documentary about Nick Cave. As well as providing an intimate look at the Australian legend's creative process and history, it also features appearances from his deeply unexpected celebrity …

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Olly Alexander in It's a Sin! (2021) Episode 108 1:02:28

8M ago1:02:28

1:02:28

On this week's Pop Screen, Graham has a very important and special guest: Mark's dog! And, fine, yes, also Mark, with our favourite quizmaster and Film Stories writer coming back to talk about Russell T Davies's most personal drama. Set across the early years of the AIDS crisis, It's a Sin has a cast full of breakthrough young stars, memorable came…

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Episode #14: From a 1.8 GPA, self-sabotage and hitting rock bottom to a dream life with Zach Azar, RN 45:36

8M ago45:36

45:36

My guest on today's episode is my dear friend and my housemate, Zacharia Azar. Zach was a paramedic and professional firefighter in New Mexico. He owed his own home and had 2 cars. He had a great life! But then he failed a drug test, was fired from his dream job, and his life spiralled downwards for a number of years. Learn how Zach picked himself …

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Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986) Episode 107 48:28

9M ago48:28

48:28

Our Halloween special is over and done with, but this week Graham faces his most terrifying challenge yet - enjoying a film about jazz. If you're going to watch one film about jazz, though, Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight is the one to watch. Its bona fides are impeccable: named after a Thelonious Monk song, starring Dexter Gordon, with a scor…

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Frankie Avalon in the House House of Horror (1969) Episode 106 58:28

9M ago58:28

58:28

Oh god, Graham's shining the spooky light under his face again - sounds like time for a Halloween special. And it is, with Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult joining the show once again to talk about The Haunted House of Horror, a 1960s British horror movie with an all-bases-covered title. It's the familiar tale of a group of horny and stupid teens who g…

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Episode #13: Holding Grudges - Why It Hurts and How to Let Them Go 1:14:42

9M ago1:14:42

1:14:42

This episode is another solo episode. I wish I could say that I haven’t struggled with holding grudges in the past, but I have! There was a time in my life not too terribly long ago that I held a HUGE grudge. This grudge had a large and shitty ripple effect on my life and on a lot of people that I love... Dive into this episode to hear more about t…

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Jack Jones in The Comeback (1978) Episode 105 1:02:07

10M ago1:02:07

1:02:07

Don't call it a comeback! Literally, given the number of alternative titles Pete Walker's 1978 chiller goes under. Best-known as The Comeback, stars crooner Jack Jones as crooner Nick Cooper - a stretch, then - who is all fresh from a stay in rehab and ready to record his comeback album. The process is interrupted by artistic conflicts, record indu…

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2021) Episode 104 58:16

10M ago58:16

58:16

When we announced a month of Madonna-themed movies, we could have just looked at her acting performances, maybe a documentary or two. Instead, we felt like it was our journalistic duty to blow the lid off her steamy affair with 'Weird' Al Yankovic. That's just one of the extremely accurate facts contained in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a merciles…

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Episode #12: Rock 'n' roll & veganism with Derrick Green, Sepultura 47:43

10M ago47:43

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Today I am joined by Derrick Green. Derrick is the lead singer of the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura and co-host of the plant-based travel TV show, Highway To Health. Sepultura is a world famous metal band that’s been around since 1984 - Derrick’s been the lead singer since 1997 - he's one of the few African American men in metal music Derric…

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Madonna in Dick Tracy (1990) - Episode 103 59:55

10M ago59:55

59:55

This week, Pop Screen is showing you Dick. As part of our ce-e-le-bration of the fortieth anniversary of Madonna's breakthrough single Holiday, we're taking you back to 1990, when Warren Beatty became one of the few men to ever tell her what to do as he directed his then-partner in the comic book hit of the summer, Dick Tracy. Obviously, the landsc…

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X-Ray Spex in Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche (2021) - Episode 102 1:00:20

11M ago1:00:20

1:00:20

Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard, but Pop Screen says: welcome to our episode on Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche! Co-directed by Celeste Bell in collaboration with Paul Sng, it follows Bell's journey to explore her late mother's iconic time with the punk band X-Ray Spex, as well as her troubled life and - more important than …

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Episode #11: How to set powerful intentions to change your life! 1:00:27

11M ago1:00:27

1:00:27

How does one set intentions? Good question! In this episode, I take you through my journey where I learned how to set powerful intentions that helped me make massive shifts in my life AND I share my step-by-step intention-setting process with you. In fact, ALL of the intentions I set when I started this process in May 2020 have since come to fruiti…

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Austin Butler in Elvis (2022) - Episode 101 50:27

11M ago50:27

50:27

This week, Mark Harrison from Film Stories rejoins Pop Screen to taunt Graham about one of his most extravagantly failed predictions. Remember our The Dead Don't Die episode? Where we looked at that film's star Austin Butler's upcoming movies and decided there was no way an Elvis biopic was going to make bank in 2022? WELL...Actually, the strangest…

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Episode #10: Healing from domestic violence with Day Bibb 1:06:56

11M ago1:06:56

1:06:56

Day Bibb is the founder of Om Thrive, a nonprofit organization that provides free online yoga classes to survivors of domestic violence. Day is also the founder and CEO of Helen Rose Skincare, which makes handmade, all-natural, eco-friendly skincare products. A native Portlander, she’s a mother to two daughters, a yoga instructor and a domestic vio…

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Olivia Newton John in Xanadu (1980) - Episode 100 52:44

12M ago52:44

52:44

It's our 100th episode! And what better way to celebrate than to look back at one of the great musical flops of all time, 1980's Xanadu. Starring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and a guy from The Warriors, it's the story of a Greek Muse sent to Earth on a mission to inspire. If she knew she was going to inspire him to make a swing dancing/roller di…

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Episode #9: Living in the fire and not getting burned (being sober in the music world) 1:04:42

12M ago1:04:42

1:04:42

In the very first episode of this podcast, I shared a little of my own personal story: “How I went from beer-chugging meathead to sober vegan yoga instructor.” In this episode, I expand on the impact that the party lifestyle that I used to lead had on me, what I think it means to truly be a “rockstar”, and some tips for how to live that “rockstar” …

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Diana Ross & Scott Walker in Beach Ball (With Mick Snowden) 54:00

1y ago54:00

54:00

After last week's voyage into self-importance courtesy of U2, Pop Screen tackles a film that couldn't possibly be more lightweight - the 1965 teen comedy Beach Ball. Strange, as it features one of the most tortured souls in '60s pop - Scott Walker - and one of its defining divas, Diana Ross. But this is an entry in the brief but prolific fad for be…

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Episode #8: Mormonism, Moms & Sexy Sunday's: with Bonnie Weeks 1:57:36

1y ago1:57:36

1:57:36

Bonnie Weeks is a yoga teacher and coach who mentors others on how to amplify their voice. I’ve known Bonnie since 2020 - I took one of her yoga classes that she was running out of her garage and it was like nothing I had ever experienced before! Since that time, I’ve done two different yoga-related trainings with Bonnie - she was, and still is, su…

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U2 in Rattle and Hum (with Joe Millar) 1:05:59

1y ago1:05:59

1:05:59

It's a story we keep running into here on Pop Screen: a band are so big, so acclaimed, that they think "We could make a film, how could that go wrong?" and the universe then demonstrates exactly how that could go wrong. Coming just one year after their worldwide smash The Joshua Tree, U2 decided to make Rattle & Hum, a documentary about their Ameri…

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Episode #7: What Does it Mean to Fail? 1:00:32

1y ago1:00:32

1:00:32

My last solo episode was on the topic of success, so I thought it would be relevant to follow that one up with the topic of failure. Something I know a thing or two about, being in the music business! In fact, if I believed all the “nos" I've received over the years, I would have given up on music way back in 2002! In this episode I talk about whet…

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Martin Kemp in Embrace of the Vampire (with Robyn Adams) 1:00:17

1y ago1:00:17

1:00:17

Vampires! Undead creatures of the night who people also find really hot! If you think fancying a walking corpse is #problematic, wait until you see the actions of Vampire, the imaginatively-named vampire played by Martin Kemp in 1995's Embrace of the Vampire. In Anne Goursaud's film, he's looking to get his fangs on an underage girl before she's le…

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Episode #6: Mental Illness and Meditation: with Jonathan Horstmann, Urban Heat 1:04:13

1y ago1:04:13

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Jonathan Horstmann is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and the creative force behind Urban Heat, an American post-punk band from Austin, Texas. Urban Heat had a viral moment on TikTok in 2022, with their single “Have You Ever” being viewed over a million times. I'd been into Urban Heat for a while, and after I saw them perform live, I k…

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Motley Crue in The Dirt (2019) (With Kat Hughes) 55:12

1y ago55:12

55:12

Pop Screen doesn't cover much metal, and a cynical listener might counter that we're not about to start now, as we look at the 2019 Netflix film The Dirt. A biopic of Motley Crue, it offers a visceral look at sex, drugs and rock and roll, but maybe not enough into why hair metal (the stuff Americans heretically call "glam rock") remains so divisive…

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Episode #5: What Does Success Look Like on You? 40:45

1y ago40:45

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I often say that happiness and success aren’t off limits to anyone! That happiness and success are truly available to all! But what does that truly mean? How do we define happiness and success? In this episode, I invite to you to reflect on these questions, and I share my own personal definition of what success looks like on me. Because I believe t…

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Run DMC in Tougher than Leather (with Jeffrey Pizek) 51:45

1y ago51:45

51:45

How do you weather the changes in a genre your band helped define? It's tricky. Run-DMC tried to rebrand with Tougher Than Leather, the title of both an album and a film directed by their producer Rick Rubin. A tough yet strangely naive premonition of the gangsta rap years to come, it also features one of Rubin's other proteges, The Beastie Boys, j…

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Episode #4: Nakedness & Nests as Art Therapy: with artist Debbie Baxter 1:57:11

1y ago1:57:11

1:57:11

Debbie Baxter (she/her) is a mother, artist, fine art photographer, author of NEST, and creator/founder of The Nest Project, Inc, an arts nonprofit. Debbie turns life's pain and challenges into beautiful works of art. In this episode, Debbie shares her powerful story of how she used art as a way to make sense of, and hold, her pain and wounding fro…

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The Undertones in Good Vibrations (2012) (With Mark Cunliffe and Rob Simpson) 1:06:12

1y ago1:06:12

1:06:12

If there's one thing pop music needs almost as much as it needs musicians, it's people who won't hear the words "Actually, that's a really bad idea". Terri Hooley was one such man. Record shop owner, record label owner and focal point for Belfast's punk scene, what he lacked in business sense he made up for in passion. Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros…

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Episode #3: Is Yoga Only For Rich White People? 1:07:56

1y ago1:07:56

1:07:56

Diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility are much needed in the yoga space. As someone who has pretty much always been the only Black man in the yoga studio, it's important that we break down the assumptions and perceptions about what yoga is and who yoga is for. Because I once thought that yoga wasn’t for me, and that I was excluded from it. But…

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Adam Ant in World Gone Wild (1987) (With Ben Jones) 56:58

1y ago56:58

56:58

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of, which is probably for the best, as Adam Ant earned a fair bit of it for his role in this post-apocalyptic action movie. The product of veteran journeyman director Lee H Katzin, it also stars Bruce Dern in a role he literally does not remember filming as the last hippie, fighting against the diminutive Man and hi…

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