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Last Days explores the final days of some of the biggest icons in sports and entertainment, breaking down precisely what led to the passing of figures who were larger than life but somehow even bigger in death. Derek Kaufman and Jason Beckerman debunk the myths, unpack the tragedies, and tell the real stories behind the most fascinating celebrity deaths.
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The People's Epic

Christopher Smith, Hannah Pniewski

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This podcast examines life. Exploring and celebrating individuals who have made the most of their time on this planet. The creators, adventurers and down right kick ass souls. We leave room for the good, the bad and the not so glamourous parts of life. As well as the four-legged and fictional. We will learn from those who have done it before us and see what gems we can glean from their stories.
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Black & White Reviews

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Black & White Productions was formed by Will Jessamy and Lee Dickerson, two guys who have spent the past 25+ years discussing (and ripping apart) movies, music and anything else that piques their interests. This all started as an idea to open a record store a decade or so ago. When life became.. well, Life, it was clear that smaller steps should be taken first in order to build a brand. As of now, Black & White Productions have been recording and podcasting their conversations about the movi ...
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Cinemondo is an insider movie review podcast hosted movie fans who work in the entertainment industry in Hollywood. We talk about movies, streaming, tv and anime from around the world! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for tons more content! https://www.youtube.com/c/CinemondoPodcast
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How do we bring out the potential in all people, including those with disabilities? Get ready to be inspired, hear success stories and learn tips and principles for bringing out the best in the people in your organization. Brought to you by Debra Ruh, CEO of Ruh Global and Sara Ruh, Chief Inspiration Officer. For more information visit www.ruhglobal.com
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Send us a text Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Trailer Reaction! Documentary! Kathy, Mark and Burk react to the trailer for Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a documentary that covers Reeve's rise to becoming a film star and the near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After which he became a…
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Shoot us a Message and It might feature on our next Podcast Episode! The Cyber Nerds reaction to Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Official Trailer --- The man you knew, the story you didn’t. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story - Only in Theaters September 21 and September 25. Support the show Watch our exclusive content and daily show re…
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Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new…
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Send us a text HERE Trailer Reaction! Tom Hanks | Robin Wright | Robert Zemeckis! Kathy, Mark and Burk react to the Trailer for HERE, an upcoming American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay he co-wrote with Eric Roth, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Richard McGuire. The film stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul B…
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Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony on China’s southern coast. He arrived, alone, in June 1941, his wife and daughter left behind in China. Seven months later, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, invaded Hong Kong, and made Reeves the last remaining British diplomat for hundreds of miles, …
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Our top news stories: James Gunn says the new "Superman" movie is a humongous epic, David Corenswet reveals how much he had to eat to bulk up to play Superman, and we have the official synopsis for Season 4 of "Superman & Lois".Superman news for the period September 4-10, 2024. Brought to you by SupermanHomepage.com. Hosted by Steve Younis.Visit ou…
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Send us a text IMMACULATE Film Review! SPOILERS! Sydney Sweeney | Michael Mohan! Kathy and Mark review the horror film, Immaculate, a 2024 American horror film directed by Michael Mohan and written by Andrew Lobel. It stars Sydney Sweeney (who also produced), Álvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli, Dora Romano, Giorgio Colangeli, and Simona Tabasco. The…
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On February 25, 2017, Bill Paxton - the beloved actor whose relatable, everyman charm endeared him to generations of audiences in movies like The Terminator, Aliens, Twister and Titanic - died from a stroke following surgery to repair a heart condition that had plagued him since childhood. Paxton's untimely death was devastating to those who knew h…
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It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoret…
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In our interview about Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), James M. Scott discusses the principles and personalities involved in the most destructive air attack in history. Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies…
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Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are primarily in the field of sociolinguistics and sociolinguistics of translation & interpreting. Jinhyun's research focuses on intersections betw…
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Send us a text Sam Irvin - Director | Producer | Author Full Interview! Filmmaker, author and so much more, Sam Irvin is well known in the world of genre films and has some of the best stories about his adventures as a "Teenage Monster Hunter." We're thinking this episode might just be a Part One, because there's so much more to talk about! Monster…
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Our top news stories: There's a rumor about when we might see the first teaser trailer for the new "Superman" movie, we have international release dates for "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story", and the fourth and final season of "Superman & Lois" is coming sooner than originally announced.Superman news for the period August 28 - September 3, 2…
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In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric. From ancestor cults to anime, spirits, ghosts, and other invisible dimensions of reality appear to be pervasive. In Spirits and Animism in Cont…
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Sponsored by: AirDoctor! Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code "LAST" and you’ll receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers! Exclusive to podcast customers, you will also receive a free 3 year warranty on any unit, which is an additional $84 value! --- On September 4, 2014, Joan Rivers -- the iconic comedian whose brassy and unapologetic stage pers…
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Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) offers a fascinating approach to modern Chinese theater history by placing the stage at the center of the story. Combining vivid readings of plays with technical manuals and how-to guides, Tarryn Li-Min Chun charts how stage technology c…
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Shoot us a Message and It might feature on our next Podcast Episode! Join us for the gamescom Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley, they officially kick off gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Tune in for exclusive first looks reactions and insights into the latest games, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Monster Hunter Wilds, Marvel Rivals, I…
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Our top news stories: We have our first official look at Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, we have the official trailer for the "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" documentary film, and Funko announces their new Rewind "Superman: The Movie" figure.Superman news for the period July 17-23, 2024. Brought to you by SupermanHomepage.com. Hosted by Ste…
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Accounting for the unique characteristics of Taiwan’s cinema from 2008 to 2020, Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2024) examines how filmmakers have depicted and imagined the island’s diverse environments. Drawing on cinema, cartography, and cultural studies, Christopher Brown argues that by refocus…
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Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot …
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Send us a text Coup! Movie Review! Peter Sarsgaard | Billy Magnussen! Spoilers! Kathy, Burk and Mark react to the trailer for Coup!, a 2023 American dark comedy film written and directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman. It stars Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen, and Fisher Steven. #co…
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DJ AM, famed for his electrifying performances behind the turntables, passed away from a drug overdose on August 28, 2009. A true pioneer in the music industry and a fixture in pop culture, his contributions modernized club DJ culture and helped bridge the gap between mainstream music and underground sounds. Hosts: Jason Beckerman & Derek Kaufman S…
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China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. How can something so large be so bewildering? In One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2020), Eyck Freymann, a DPhil Candidate in China Studies at the Univer…
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Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships…
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Send us a text The GOAT Trailer Reaction | Tamil | Thalapathy Vijay | @PardesiReviews and @D54pod ! Kathy, Melanie @PardesiReviews and Amit @D54pod react to the glorious full trailer for GOAT, The Greatest of All Time, an upcoming Indian Tamil-science fiction action film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by AGS Entertainment. The film stars Vi…
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In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civi…
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Send us a Text Message. Can fame turn deadly? Join Kathy, Melanie @PardesieReviews and Amit @d54 as we unravel the spine-chilling case of Kannada actor Darshan, accused of masterminding the abduction and murder of his admirer, Renukaswamy. This tangled web of crime and celebrity reads like a blockbuster thriller, but the consequences are all too re…
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An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry. Like many parents in the United States, parents in China, increasingly concerned with their children’s academic performance, are turning to for-profit tutoring businesses…
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Our top news stories: James Gunn talks about the special effects for the new "Superman" movie, Teri Hatcher recalls breaking the internet with the Lois Lane wrapped in Superman's cape photo, and DC announces the Superman 100 Project.Superman news for the period August 14-20, 2024. Brought to you by SupermanHomepage.com. Hosted by Steve Younis.Visit…
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Send us a text Alien: Romulus Spoiler Review! Fede Alvarez | What About That Ending?! Kathy and Mark do a spoiler review of Alien: Romulus, a 2024 American science fiction horror film directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues. Produced by Scott Free Productions and Brandywine Productions, it is the seventh installment…
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On December 8, 2019, Juice WRLD – the brilliant young rapper who gave voice to a generation of disaffected youth - swallowed a handful of opioids to conceal them from cops, overdosed and died. His death was not just the tragic end to a brilliant career in its prime, but marked the demise of the disruptive music scene he helped to create. Hosts: Jas…
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Send us a text Art The Clown Returns! Terrifier 3 Teaser Reaction - The Nightmare Continues! Kathy, Mark and Burk react to the Teaser for Terrifier 3, directed once again by Damien Leone. Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is set to unleash another round of chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep…
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Shoot us a Message and It might feature on our next Podcast Episode! The Cyber Nerds reaction to Mufasa: The Lion King Official Trailer --- Experience the epic story of how an orphan became a King. #Mufasa: The Lion King, only in theaters December 20. Support the Show. Watch our exclusive content and daily show reactions here TCN Patreon Can't get …
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Our top news stories: James Gunn says there likely won't be any reshoots for the new "Superman" movie, we have a preview trailer for "The Legend of Kingdom Come" documentary, and you can now pre-order the "Hush" edition Man of Steel statue.Superman news for the period August 7-13, 2024. Brought to you by SupermanHomepage.com. Hosted by Steve Younis…
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Shoot us a Message and It might feature on our next Podcast Episode! This Week on TCN - Beyond The Sofa, Live Show which includes: What you should watch in the cinema, on TV, and on streaming. The biggest Games, and the most exciting Anime. Don't miss out on the main events; Every MCU reveal at SDCC 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine, DC latest news and re…
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On July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington -- the talented singer behind the hugely successful rock band Linkin Park -- took his own life after a lengthy battle with depression. Bennington's contributions to the music scene of the 2000s are immeasurable, bridging the head-bobbing sounds of his grunge-era predecessors with the emotionally complex lyrics o…
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Send us a text Conclave Official Trailer Reaction! Ralph Fiennes | Stanley Tucci | John Lithgow! Kathy, Mark and Burk react to the official trailer for Conclave, an upcoming psychological thriller film directed by Edward Berger and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley…
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In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Haiyun Ma about Muslimness in China. This is the second episode in this series which addresses this topic: in a previous episode we spoke to Darren Byler about Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan. In this episode, our focus is slightly different, and encompasses many Muslim groups in China. Haiyun Ma, assistant p…
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Send us a text Longlegs Review! Should You See It? We argue Pros and Cons of Longlegs! Nic Cage | Oz Perkins! Kathy is Pro Longlegs. Mark is Anti Longlegs. Burk has not seen it. We argue our case to see who can convince Burk either way! Who do you agree with!? #longlegs #niccage #nicolascage #ozperkins #maikamonroe Get early access to these reviews…
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"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red and green liquids, slender fingers, pomegranate-colored lips, and feverish eyes. Tables and chairs, together with the crowd of people, cast their reflections on the center of the shiny floor. Everyone wa…
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Send us a Text Message. Suriya 44 Birthday Promo Reaction with @PardesiReviews ! Tamil | Suriya | Karthik Subbaraj! Kathy and Melanie react to Suriya 44 Birthday Promo directed by Cinemondo fave, Karthik Subbaraj! Suriya 44 is the working title of an upcoming Indian Tamil-language film written, directed, and co-produced by Karthik Subbaraj. The fil…
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On April 12, 2022, Gilbert Gottfried – the legendary comedian and actor known for his distinctive voice and fearless humor who delighted in shocking audiences with his raunchy material – died of a heart arrythmia brought on by a rare muscular disorder. His loss was felt throughout the entertainment industry, but the comedic legend left behind a ric…
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