Each week friends Mike and Charlie have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It’s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.
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Two brothers randomly select a WrestleMania match from the past and talk about it.
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Random and chaotic podcast with no set schedule as well as being uncut/unfiltered. Patreon: patreon.com/HelloImRandyPodcast
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We are here to speak life into you and go only where your mind goes when it wanders. Subscribe and engage! #SexPositive
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The red thread of knowledge, seek with me understanding in a world of misconception anddeception. Welcome, im glad you have joined me, its weird, wild, and wonderful! In Red Thread Podcast I explore the beautiful and dynamic aspects of this reality!, it can be random in appearance but all things are bound to each other by the red thread of fate, and we to them by the red thread of knowledge! So welcome to Random Randy's journey through this amazingly complex notion we call life!
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Hi I am Randy. Every Friday night I will release an episode of my best college tips. There will be occasional guests. I will also release random shorter podcasts throughout the week that aren’t necessarily college tips. Let me know if you have any requests or ideas. Enjoy! Message me on instagram @rrandyr
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Random recollections of traveling around the world in the early 90’s in no particular order. Primarily southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Nepal. If you prefer a chronological journey, then begin with episode 10, then 11, then 4, back to 11, then 14, then 5, then 15, then episode 2 , then 13 and back to 2, then 1, then episode 12, then 6, then 3, then 7, then 8 and 9, then 16 and the epilogue.
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Small Town Mentality Podcast Hosted by Ben & Randy Offensive, Comedy based, no topic, no direction, random guest's, see where it goes, Podcast. Live Friday's at 8 p.m. Central. Wyoming's Number 1 Comedy Podcast.
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Classic storytelling can be found around many campfires and in any Disney film. In so many cases, the very best of stories from our personal lives are heard repeatedly over years without ever being recorded. Tim Larson and Liz Wylder knew that WROK radio’s 100th birthday in 2023 would be a great springboard for this project. Future sit downs would certainly rekindle old friendships and, undoubtedly, allow everyone to learn something about the people they thought they knew well. The lightbulb ...
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"Whiskey on the Tailgate”: A spirited journey through bird hunting, dogs, friendship, and the great outdoors. A podcast that combines the thrill of bird hunting with the bond between dogs and hunters, cherished friendships, and a dash of whiskey. Please subscribe, share, and support by clicking the link on my BLOG, www.abirdhuntersthoughts.com. A special thank you to those who are supporting this podcast with a monthly donation. Your generosity is huge in the success of each episode! #whiske ...
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I have a passion to work with small businesses and I love baseball - I thought, “Let’s blend them together”. So, Every episode I sit down with local entrepreneurs, business builders and small business owners to talk about their wins and whiffs, their “tools of the trade” and to give actionable tips - you could call them “business signs” to other business-builders.We’ll cover business stats such as Entrepreneurship, Operations, Sales, Digital Marketing, Innovation - Plus a little fun baseball ...
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Weekly light hearted opinion podcast tackling a range of random topics from current events, the paranormal, conspiracy theories and entertainment to personal advice and studio interviews. Become a Patron! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pmwpodcast/support
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ECE Tech Talk is excited to offer you scintillating conversations with incredible people from the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. We aim to bring the department closer together and humanize the faculty members. Follow our podcast if you want more! Currently hosted by Evan Allen and Gwyn Steel Previously created and hosted by Dhwan Wanjara and Mayank Hirani
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Our story begins in 1973 when the shy and reclusive schoolboy Jeff would spend hours hiding in the "studio" (little more than a school broom cupboard) with a record player, a cassette recorder and a handful of scratched 45's endlessly trying to emulate the DJs he would listen to whilst hiding under his bedcovers with his battered transistor radio pressed to his ear all night long endlessly as he tried to maintain the shaky reception to stations like Radio Luxembourg, the FAB 208, where you c ...
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/taker+gonzalez.mp3 Welcome to RANDOMMANIAAA!! This week we got a stinker. It’s not he worst pile of crap we’ve had to watch, there are some redeeming qualities to this one, but overall, this ain’t it. So because it happened, and we happened to draw it randomly for this weeks episode we are gonna do out…
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This week the question is asked: does having had read The Deadly Percheron enhance the viewing experience of this grimy, English, 80s neo-noir about sex work, blackmail, and unrequited love? It turns out that this doesn’t really matter, because… Bob Hoskins. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server her…
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Coming of age story? Sexual awakening? Road trip movie? These all characterize Alfonso Cuarón’s tale of two young men and one women whose lives intersect for a brief period one summer… kind of. While this film displays a keen understanding of convention it constantly subverts expectations and values along and becomes something all the more charming…
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S1 E 76 SAMANTHA HOCHMANN - Deep Inside the Tinker Swiss Cottage
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Tim Larson and Samantha Hochmann had known each other for a grand total of sixty seconds, but, as it turns out, their common ground stories stretched for centuries. Robert Tinker was a generous man to the city of Rockford, Illinois. Mary and Jessie followed suit in so many ways. Learn how and enjoy this historical conversation surrounding the mansi…
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Certainly not the arty-ist neo-noir ever made, but it’s certainly the most Jean-Pierre Melville-ian neo-noir ever made. And that’s more than enough to make this one of the most widely-beloved of all Criterion films. Alain Delain (who sadly passed away between our record and the release date for this episode) brought Tokyo-cool, Parisian romanticism…
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S1 E75 KATHI KRESOL - Author of books and articles about Rockford, Illinois history
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Kathi Kresol is the author of Murder & Mayhem in Rockford, Illinois and Haunted Rockford. Tim Larson had only known Kathi for ten minutes and decided to record this episode on 815 Day (August 15, 2024) at the Edgebrook Shopping Center. Since Kathi is a thorough researcher and Tim is a Rockford native, everyone thought it was a safe bet that these t…
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flair+michaels.mp3 Career Threatening Match Welcome to RANDOMMANIAAAA!!! This week we have an absolute all-time classic. Two of the greatest in-ring performers of all time. Two of the all-around best performers of all time. They’re here at Wrestlemaina 24 in Orlando to put on one more banger. One more …
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1103 - Once Upon A Time In China (1991)
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Can Master Wong navigate China into the 20th-century and past the obstacles of modernity, invasive western culture, and a whole host of outside threats to tradition? Of course he can. But even he’s got to admit: he looks pretty good in a boater hat and sunglasses. Tsui Hark’s epic kung fu period action/comedy pits western powers, local corruption, …
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459 - The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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When 20 or so upper class reveler’s end up at a post-opera gathering hosted by one of their peers, everything seems perfectly… polite. But then director Luis Buñuel imparts upon them the one unbreakable rule of the film: no one can ever leave the well-appointed drawing room. Ever. What follows is a study in the logistics of human survival, depravit…
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304 - The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
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“Bowie to Bowie… Come in Bowie…” So begins a completely unrelated piece of Bowie-related media that one of us wishes he watched instead. Come have a listen to find out which of us has the appetite (or patience?) for a Nicolas Roeg-directed 1970s dystopian science fiction film starring a beguiling and beloved pop star at the top of his game. Join ou…
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Jean-Luc Godard returns to the podcast with a stylish and cunning exposé of modern French man. Or rather, a study of how women deal with the intransigent, petulant, sometimes comical, and always fragile masculinity of the perpetually dissatisfied narcissists that demand their attentions. Two such long-suffering women are played by Nathalie Baye and…
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645 - The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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Kabuki and 1950’s studio style combine in Keisuke Kinoshita’s lavish and heart-wrenching account of a rural Japanese family planning for and coping with the responsibilities and struggles of ubasute - a village’s custom to carry elderly family members to a mountaintop in winter and abandon them. Gorgeous set and production design add a compelling d…
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/canam+orton+moroco.mp3 What could have been? WELCOME TO RANDOMANIAAAA!!! When we say OLD WRESTLING this is what we’re talking about. 1987 called and they want their mullets back. This match features four dudes in different spots in their careers. Orton was winding it down, Martel was just returning, ho…
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Internationally-neglected Spanish auteur Luis García Berlanga enters the collection neither with a bang, a whimper, a chop, nor a zap… but with a silenced gasp. His celebrated black comedy somehow managed to slip past Franco’s censors to show us a man slowly, haplessly, and inevitably lured with only the best intentions to utterly compromise his mo…
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S1 E74 2024 INSPIRATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS Red Carpet Interviews
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Steve Bridgmon invited Tim Larson to be part of the Media Team at the Inspirational Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. Tim talked to sixty six people in a little less than two hours just before they stepped onto the red carpet. Recorded May 29, 2024.By Tim Larson
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And with the coming of another Rando Awards, so too passes another season of Random Acts of Cinema. Join us as we look back and reflect on all the bests and the worsts of a solid year of Criterion films. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch stor…
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This podcast is dedicated to all podcasters who ever podcasted, all… Nevermind, Pedro Almodovar does it better in his tragic, heartwarming, found-family melodrama about an unlikely group of women who find one another in Barcelona. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast…
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S1 E73 PHIL STILLERMAN - The King of Birthday Adventures!
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Phil's wife Della does extensive research to find just the right adventure for his birthday gifts. From flyer a glider to driving an Indy 500 car. Learn all about the fun details and how Phil ended up in a film with Matt Damon. Recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana May 31, 2024.By Tim Larson
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Costa-Gavras puts the viewer in the middle of a two-sided conspiracy of wrestle power in an unnamed South American nation. At its heart: a rebel-led kidnapping scheme to force the police state to release political prisoners. Corruption, torture, murder, and terror - all sponsored and plotted out by American “advisors” - are exposed in this chilling…
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S1 E72 CICADAS - The show with a million guests!
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This episode was recorded in Tim Larson's backyard as he was surrounded by a countless number of cicadas.By Tim Larson
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S1 E71 SPIFF CARNER - Former WZOK Morning Host with Randy Cook & WROK/WZOK Continuity Director
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Rick "Spiff" Carner is joined by John Strandin along with Tim Larson. Spiff was the director of the commercial writing department and co-host of the WZOK morning show with Randy Cook. Spiff's time with Nolte Communications in Rockford, Illinois was 1981-1986. John was a member of the award winning news department for twenty four years. Recorded in …
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/showmiz+morritruth.mp3 Needs 2 more teams and 5 more minutes Welcome to RandomMania!!! This week we got some old wrestling, like usual, but this time it’s recent…old. It’s from 2010 and it’s ShowMiz vs Morrison and Truth for the Unified Tag-Team Championship. This match is extremely short but we manage…
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#102 Container creation in a hungry dimension (Solid space and the lost empire)
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Hello once again friends and neighbors, bots and bodies! In this installment talking points include: Cosmic continuum, Interdimensional relationships, the hungry dimension, crowing social cultures, takes-spin-media, container creation, segregation of wills, Greatness within, our time to open our boxes, optical focal points like the Sun, Earth, and …
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S1 E70 LOUISE MANDRELL - Country music artist and television personality
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Tim Larson and Louise Mandrell first met on her tour bus at a northern Illinois county fair in 1979. They visited again in backstage dressing rooms in 1980 and 1981 before Louise and her sisters, Barbara and Irlene, kicked off their successful variety television show on NBC. Louise and Tim literally bumped into each other backstage at the Grand Ole…
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You know that Scorsese movie that everyone always forgets about but also everyone says that it's really their favorite? What seems at first glance to be just another 80s comedy reveals itself to be a highly cinematic exploration of one man's polite decent into maddening frustration. And we're joined by Derrick Scocchera to help find our way back up…
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S1 E68 TONY WOLFE - East Tennessee stories from a first cousin
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Tony Wolfe and Tim Larson are first cousins. We can ride around the mountains of east Tennessee in a truck and never have the same conversation twice. Recorded in Tony's kitchen on Memorial Day, May 27, 2024.By Tim Larson
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S1 E69 BILL CODY - Morning man for 30 years on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee
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Bill Cody and Tim Larson had only talked briefly on the phone six months prior to sitting down in the showcase studio of WSM Radio inside the Opryland Hotel. Their careers oddly have run parallel so the stories were very easy. Even if you're not a huge country music fan, you are sure to enjoy this conversation. Recorded May 28, 2024.…
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/garvin+vs+Bravo.mp3 He beat up a manager Welcome to DINOBRAVOMAINAAAAAA!!!! This episode we somehow have another classic Dino Bravo match, one of his best and also worst somehow. It’s from 1989 and there was plenty to talk about on this one. Ron Garvin’s run in WWE was short but it was certainly memora…
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The real strength of Richard Linklater’s day-in-the-life ensemble film isn’t the cast of all-time 1990s heavy hitters. It isn’t the meticulous recreation of 1976 Austin, Texas. It’s not the teen comedy hijinks. It’s not the banging soundtrack. It’s more that all this combines to present to its film going audience a hyper-specific and long-lost subc…
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S1 E67 TIM LARSON - Radio in Charleston, West Virginia 40 years ago!
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Tim decided to set up his equipment on the shores of the Kanawha River in Charleston, West Virginia on the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend 2024. The state capital was over his shoulder as the radio stories from forty years ago poured out. Tim worked at WKAZ/WQBE and WVSR radio stations from 1982-1984 when he was in his early twenties. Recorded M…
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a deranged serial killer was convicted of seducing, marrying, robbing, and murdering over a dozen women. It is believed that he killed many, many more than that. So the lovable Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin, decided to portray him in a movie. What’s his light-hearted take on this unexpected premise? Human soci…
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot maps out one of the all-time great thrillers. “Explosive” is the right word in all possible ways to describe this film. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts…
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Is it about corporate greed run amok? Class warfare? Human indulgence? Human suffering? Uh… the hubris of man? Well, it’s definitely not about some dumb diamond necklace. Roy Ward Baker’s all-time classic account of the sailing and sinking of the Titanic is far more than simply a blueprint for later, better retellings. It may very well set the high…
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Hey all of my friends, family, and neighbors! this marks 101 episodes! what a lovely ride, all of the twists and turns have led us right here!! and what a ride we have ahead, I hope your journey is treating you all well and that you are also being good to yourself! In this installment some of the talking points are: the big spell cast on the "old w…
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https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/angle+benoit+wm17.mp3 April Fools WELCOME TO RANDOMMANINAAAAA!!! This episode we got a pretty darn good one from perhaps the greatest WrestleMania of all time (maybe?) It’s [redacted] vs Kurt Angle! I’m better than you! No, I’m better than you! That’s the build to this match. Anyway I guess it’s the ul…
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Special guest Michael Patrick Jann brings us an almost-lost character study of a young woman lost in a world that doesn’t value her existence. Director/Writer/Star Barbara Loden crafts a little drama, a little crime, and all the grimey Pennsylvania you can handle. Understated and sublime; American independent cinema by a singular filmmaker who was …
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716 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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Jacques Demy’s dazzlingly colorful palette that is perhaps more symphonic than it’s grand romantic score, sets the stage for a musical about young love and the obstacles it must endure in modern France. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone…
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Sweeping vistas! Dangerous men driven by greed, glory, honor, and obsession! Is this what acclaimed epic director David Lean has in store for us today? Well… it does feature some dramatically filmed trains. That’s one of his things, right? Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support th…
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173 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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I can’t help it if I’m scarred from too many bad 1980s and 90s comic book movie adaptations that weren’t faithful to the source material. I know it shouldn’t matter. Especially if the movie was made in the 1940s, it’s directed by podcast-favorites Powell and Pressburger, and it’s actually excellent. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join th…
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Can we chalk this up as another Walter Matthau all-time slam-dunk that most people have never heard of? Or is this old man spy caper exactly what it looks like? We are joined by the duo Brad and Jake from the Never Did it podcast as we race across the globe in search of a potential antidote to Moonraker (which Charlie still thinks is a very good ol…
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Episode #100!! Time jumping, Generate, Operate, Destroy, and the necessity of wholeness
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Hello everyone and welcome to this installment making it #100!!! Come along and explore with me the purpose behind the veils of society! in this episode I dig into some notes and into the happenings of this world as of late. talking points include: Is reality really real?, safety in teams, 440 isnt the problem, gameshow Earth, holding it down to pu…
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S1 E66 RON ROMERO & DEBYJO ERICKSEN - Illinois Rock & Roll Museum and Hall of Fame
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The Illinois Rock & Roll Museum and Hall of Fame sits on Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois! Ron Romero and Debyjo Ericksen are the amazing organizers of this magical project. Hear the stories surrounding the inductees, collectibles, history and community involvement. It's a true testament to the meaning of volunteerism, philanthropy, passion, and the de…
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Singular-voiced American comedic auteur Bobcat Goldthwait writes, directs, and stars in his absurdist satire of the 1980s stand-up comedy scene reimagined as a grimey city infested with infighting sub-castes of clowns whose insecurities, addictions, and lack of talent lock them in a perpetual rut of demeaning gigs, black-out benders, and petty jeal…
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René Lalou’s timeless (well, maybe not exactly) hand drawn science fiction epic turns a skeptical eye on human systems of power in an unimaginable world of inhuman blue giants (that are somehow even more human). You know: it’s your basic Jack and the Beanstalk meets Avatar situation. With better (by which I mean funkier) music. Join our Patreon and…
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S1 E65 TIM LARSON - The Story of Arthur and Sanford
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This story aired on WLUV radio in Rockford/Loves Park, Illinois by your podcast host Tim Larson on March 31, 2021. It was written in a Paul Harvey "Rest of the Story" format.By Tim Larson
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S1 E64 EMANUEL LARSON - The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service
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Tim Larson's grandfather could recite Robert Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee by memory until the day before he died at the age of ninety six. Emanuel Larson's goal was to verbally paint within your mind with the poetry he spoke. Recorded in Rockford, Illinois June 6, 1979.By Tim Larson
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S1 E63 RACHEL DANIEL - Professional Alaskan Tour Guide
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My other stories of the tour of Alaska with Rachel Daniel will be told a hundred more times, but this one of hers is a real gem. More than fourteen people should hear her recollection of her first moose hunt. Recorded on a small shuttle bus somewhere in Alaska in September of 2021.By Tim Larson
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Macho King Randy Savage and Sensational Queen Sherri vs The American Dream Dusty Rhodes and Sweet Sapphire
https://podcastssss.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/macho+king+and+dusty.mp3 Horace’s Revenge WELCOME TO RANDOMMANIAAAAA!!! This week we got our second consecutive Randy Savage match, but this time it’s the Macho King! It’s Dusty Rhodes’ only Wrestlemaina match, and…it is what it is. What it is is, apparently, announced and the very first mixed tag matc…
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Hello all you lovelies!! In this installment a bounce back into the idea of the akashic record with a detour through the minds eye! this episode involves a look back into my personal experience the time i meditated on the purpose and what the records might be included here is a description of the experience. I hope that if you are out there seeking…
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The good days are long past for Chan and Leung, a couple slowly drifting apart, and losing themselves in the oncoming wave of modernity consisting of unemployment, debt, loneliness, and alienation. But since Edward Yang directed it, somehow it’s all beautiful. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server h…
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