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Without An Audience

Daniel Rea Torres & Ashley Navarro

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Join us as we talk about our untold stories and memories we have made along this crazy thing we call life. Journeys we have built from the ashes. Adventures we have traveled through thick and thin. Conversations proud to be, without an audience. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withoutanaudience/support
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Immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship is possible, but it'll take all of us to make it happen! Join co-hosts Carlos Yanez Navarro, Karina Dominguez, and Danny Orona on the Fuerte Network to talk about this moment in the immigration fight and what we can do to bring relief to 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Join us as we share our immigration journeys, news, and calls to action!
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Jen Cass grew up in the Metro Detroit area and now calls Flushing, MI home. After three successful solo albums, she started a new project with her husband Eric Janetsky called The Lucky Nows. Their excellent second album is due out in June of 2024. Jen talks about her life and plays three emotionally charged songs from the new album and one from th…
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It's been a long and varied journey for Dan Navarro. From co-writing one of the biggest hits of the 80s, to voice acting, to touring and releasing a plethora of material as part of Lowen and Navarro. If you only know his music, get ready to learn more about some of the other things he's been part of and is also known for. If you don't know him at a…
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Dearborn, MI's Jo Serrapere's first visit to the podcast happened as part of a live show at Trinity House in Livonia, MI in April of 2022. I encourage you to go back and listen to that one to learn more about this Michigan treasure. Jo is ambitiously releasing two albums at once this Spring and the second chat was based around celebrating that. Hea…
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Here is the audio only visit with Australian born guitarist extraordinaire, Kyran Daniel. You may want to watch the video too in order to enjoy his guitar playing with your eyes. Tommy Emmanuel thought he was good enough to take him on tour when Kyran was just a teenager, so you know you are dealing with someone very talented, even if you haven't h…
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Join me as I discuss the importance of listening by using a quote from Stephen Richards Covey who was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. Episode Quote: "Most People Do Not Listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." Also, included is a sound bite from Simon Oliver Sinek an English-born American …
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Mike Vial is an Ann Arbor based singer/songwriter, teacher, father, and husband who is doing a 20 year celebration of playing gigs, teaching books, and ranting rants at The Ark in Ann Abor on May 23, 2024, opening for a mutual favorite (and previous podcast guest), Ari Hest. Vial is prepping a new release due out soon and he plays a couple of new o…
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Harmonica legend, Grammy winner, blues, folk, world music and rock musician not to mention all around beloved member of the Ann Arbor music scene, Peter Madcat Ruth joins me to celebrate 3/4 of a century of life and a life mostly spent playing music. His 75th birthday celebration takes place at The Ark in Ann Arbor on April 2, 2024. Songs include J…
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This episode was created to share with other a great program that helps our Veterans and 1st Responders with training them on how to turn "Struggle into Strength." In addition, when I went to Warrior PATHH at "The Big Red Barn Retreat" in April 2022, I conducted talking heads almost every night. Having done this allowed me to look back to when I to…
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Join me as I discuss Brené Brown quote below and go over my thoughts to the steps to building a relationship with others. (Honesty + Trust + Connection = Relationship) "Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued. It is created when people can give and receive without judgment, and when they derive sus…
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Will Kimbrough plays rock, stripped down folk, Americana, and Country. He is an in demand guitar player, producer and songwriter. Oh and an author working on a book of the stories of his life. You'll hear tales of his adventures and collaborations with Jimmy Buffet, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Todd Snider, and a young R.E.M. My relationship wit…
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This episode is a continuation to Episode 6. In this episode host acknowledges Warrior PATHH Brother, and Warrior Axe CrossFit Coach Bobby Allmann discusses Warrior Axe CrossFit Company. For more information about Warrior Axe CrossFit and Warrior PATHH Program, please check out the links below. https://www.warrioraxecrossfit.com/ https://www.thebig…
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Please join me and Warrior PATHH Alumni & Warrior Axe CrossFit Coach Bobby Allmann as we discuss the episode quote. "To appreciate the high we get at the top of the mountain, we must be grateful for the low valleys we start from." Warrior PATHH Student Quote For more information about Warrior Axe CrossFit and Warrior PATHH Program, please check out…
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Discussing 5 steps of self-care to thrive based on the quote provided. "The first step to improving our own well-being is to acknowledge its importance for us as individuals, partners, and parents. If we make self-care a priority, it can pay off richly in our well-being, in the quality of our intimate relationships, and in the well-being of our chi…
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Please join Myself and MACS Neighborhood discuss Quote: “Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop.” Please follow "MACS Neighborhood" using the link below. -Ziad K. Abdelnour: Author of the best-sellers “Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics” and “Startup Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and …
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Mayra Navarro is an organizer of WNB.rb and Ruby Perú. Mayra shares how the Ruby community helped her get to RubyConf, going from project manager to developer, and the different ways people learn and communicate. This is the final interview recorded at RubyConf 2023 in San Diego. -- Mayra's Github Peruvian Digital Platform Codeable bootcamp Groups …
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Back in 2016 I discovered a young singer by the name of Katie Pederson. By 2018 I was pretty invested in singing her praises while she continued to put out great music on albums like The Landing and Limitless. On our last visit in a studio together on the Acoustic Alternatives podcast, you may have learned more about her. This time I was very happy…
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I've been waiting years to present this episode. It's been ten years in between releases for Yspilanti, MI's, Adam Plomaritas. As soon as I started doing this podcast I told him "I want to do something when that next release is ready" It's been worth the wait. The EP, Old Time Love, is A+ excellent. It's got a full band and horns, unlike these stri…
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Mike Perham is the creator of Sidekiq, a background job processor for Ruby. He's also the creator of Faktory a similar product for multiple language environments. We talk about the RubyConf keynote and Ruby's limitations, supporting products as a solo developer, and some ideas for funding open source like a public utility. Recorded at RubyConf 2023…
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Sara is a team lead at thoughtbot. She talks about her experience as a professor at Kanazawa Technical College, giant LAN parties in Rochester, transitioning from Java to Ruby, shining a light on maintainers, and her closing thoughts on RubyConf. Recorded at RubyConf 2023 in San Diego. -- A few topics covered: Being an Assistant Arofessor in Kanaza…
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David was the chief software architect and director of engineering at Stitch Fix. He's also the author of a number of books including Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails and most recently Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq. He talks about how he made decisions while working with a medium sized team (~200 developers) at Stitch Fix…
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Episode Notes Rachael Wright-Munn (ChaelCodes) talks about her love of programming games (games with programming elements in them, not how to make games!), starting her streaming career with regex crosswords, and how streaming games and open source every week led her to a voice acting role in one of her favorite programming games. Recorded at RubyC…
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Raised in Manitowoc, WI, but now calling Ann Arbor, MI home, Judy Banker is set to release her fourth record, Bonafide, on November the 4th. Filled with deeply personal lyrics and backed by a great band, this new release, produced by her son Ben, is her best yet in my opinion. Learn more about the four sides of Judy (singer/songwriter, photographer…
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Gabriel Vazquez was born in Michoacán, México and is the creator of Traveling Undocumented on TikTok (@gabrielvazquez478). As a non-DACA recipient, he shares his journey about traveling the United States while being undocumented. He has boarded over 100 planes with his Mexican passport without any issues. Through his content, he has inspired other …
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Jeff Daniels has done many things on screens and stages in his career. One of the things he has done that hasn't gotten as much attention as his roles in The Newsroom, To Kill a Mockingbird or Dumb and Dumber is playing music on stages and studios. He's been putting out albums since 2004 and, on many occasions when I was a DJ at WHFR in Dearborn, I…
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Dr. Daniel Zingaro and Dr. Leo Porter are co-authors of the book Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming. Leo will teach an introductory computer science course this quarter at UCSD using this book. We discuss how tools like GitHub Copilot let people new to programming focus on breaking down problems instead of language syntax. Dr. Zingaro is an Assoc…
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Goldpine is a Nashville based duo who I first heard this year at a festival. It was a cold day in June, but they performed their hearts out. Once you hear Kassie's voice, you'll instantly hear what brings me in. It's hers, but it's familiar. The songs are strong and the stories are really good. She and Ben have been married 14 years and live a good…
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A extraordinary duo from the south comes north for the Acoustic Alternatives Podcast to preview songs from their forthcoming album and talk about their lives and career. Pete and Crystal Demore are Ordinary Elephant. Crowded around two condenser microphones at 9 p.m. at night is nothing new from this duo. It was a great experience for me and I hope…
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The Young Fables are a duo from Nashville recommended to me by their manger. Their manager happens to be the husband of one of my favorite artists (Liz Longley), so thank you Patryk Larney! He sent me their catalog for review and I felt like I had been missing out for years. All three records are super strong efforts. When Patryk gave me a sneak pe…
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Join co-hosts Carlos Alberto and Karina Dominguez as they talk with Brianna Vazquez, an immigrant mother from Mexico City who grew up in a time before DACA. Brianna emphasizes that the ideas of navigating family, chasing culture, and growing up undocumented have lasting effects long after one naturalizes. Brianna is proud of all the fearless undocu…
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My first podcast guest from "across the pond" is the 25 year old Scottish singer Iona Fyfe. Drawing from the Celtic identity of her homeland, her beautiful voice helps paint imagery in your mind's eye of far off lands. She's quite an accomplished, intelligent and talented performer who is absolutely delightful to talk to. In 2021, she became the fi…
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Annie Bacon is a current resident of Ann Arbor, MI, but she's lived on both side of the country before landing there. With 3 albums, 3 EPs and a single released since 2009, Annie is ready to take big leaps forward with two new albums and a book in the works as well as a musical that she cowrote with Kyle Rasche that could make its debut on stages n…
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This month we are joined by Yvette Borja, host of Radio Cachimbona, an abolitionist podcast that audio-archives state repression and fierce migrant resistance in the Southern Arizona borderlands and breaks down case law and politics from a leftist perspective. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette priori…
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Michigan's Joanna (Ransdell) Sterling is in her third incarnation as a performer. Previously using her surname as well as fronting a band called Joanna and the Jaywalkers, Sterling has arrived with her strongest work to date. A new album called Queen of Wands. Working with Ypsilanti, MI's Chris DuPont on the recording and production side, this rele…
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Over the last three presidencies, the asylum system has dramatically changed. Join Carlos and Karina and their guest Lauren Kostes.Lauren grew up in Connecticut, the daughter and granddaughter of Italian immigrants. She received her BA from Bucknell University in 2011 for International Relations, with a focus on international human rights, and grad…
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This episode of Acoustic Alternatives features the "distance band" Frances Luke Accord. Though when they formed they both lived in Indiana, the currently live in different states. The harmonies are as beautiful as a Simon and Garfunkel record and the songwriting of Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers matches that beauty. Learn more about this duo and h…
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Based in Ypsilanti, MI Drew De Four has been putting out original music since 2006 and playing in clubs and piano bars for a long time too. Recently Drew decided to pursue a new adventure and try his hand at producing a movie...about a group of piano bar singers. Shot in a vacant former piano bar in Pontiac, MI the film brings to life what it's lik…
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systemd is a service manager for Linux. It is the first process that runs on many Linux distributions and manages all other user processes. It includes utilities for logging, process isolation, process dependencies, socket activation, and many other tasks. psystemd is a python library to communicate with systemd over dbus from python as an alternat…
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Sentry is an application monitoring tool that surfaces errors and performance problems. It minimizes the need to manually look at logs or dashboards by identifying common problems across applications and frameworks. David Cramer is the co-founder and CTO of Sentry. This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio. Topics covered: What's …
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Have you Heard of Advanced Parole? Join us as we speak to Magdelena Olivo, a Purépecha DACA recipient working and living in Los Angeles, as she walks us through her migration, living as an indigenous migrant in the U.S and her experience traveling back to Mexico for the first time since she was a baby on Advance Parole. We listen to her story as sh…
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"Eclectic indie singer/songwriter/producer Leah Marlene has been making music since she was big enough to hold a guitar. Taking third place on last year’s season of American Idol gave her career a boost, but she’s been working intently on her music, singing and songwriting for as long as she can remember. " Get to know Leah and hear a couple of as-…
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A fixture in the Michigan music scene, Adam Labeaux has been making music for over three decades. After living in Midland, MI and San Francisco, CA (to name a couple), Adam is based these days in Ann Arbor, MI and has called on other members of the Michigan music scene to help out on his fourth solo album, "Brave Face." The new album is due out Jun…
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