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Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

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Welcome to Ascend! We are a weekly Great Books podcast hosted by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan. What are the Great Books? The Great Books are the most impactful texts that have shaped Western civilization. They include ancients like Homer, Plato, St. Augustine, Dante, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and also moderns like Machiavelli, Locke, and Nietzsche. We will explore the Great Books with the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition. Why should we read the Great Books? Everyone is ...
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Please join me in embarking on the Harvard Classics Series by Dr. Charles Elliot. This series dates back to around 1910 and is a collection of literature that I believe needs to be revived and rediscovered. I look forward to reading and discussing all 50 volumes with you as we learn about the great ideas of those who came before us. In this series, we will dive into Greek and Roman history, the American Founders, works from Francis Bacon, John Milton, and many more. We will cover Shakespeare ...
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Like your favorite comic book, this actual play podcast quickly gets to the good stuff and skips the filler. It’s always edited but never scripted. In just one hour a week, you'll discover rich character stories, dynamic combat, and the living, breathing world of Tailte Tar—a homebrew setting full of magic and intrigue. Plus you’ll laugh a lot.
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Down at the Crossroads

Chris Orapello & Tara - Love Maguire

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Down at the Crossroads features one on one discussions with today’s most influential Pagan artists, authors, musicians, teachers, leaders, bloggers, podcasters, and more! We will attempt to push the community forward and take devil’s advocate to a whole new level all while hearing some great music by today’s greatest Pagan and Pagan inspired musicians and bands. **Formally known as The Infinite and the Beyond.**
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Unstoppable Authors

Unstoppable Authors

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Indie authors Angeline Trevena, Holly Lyne and Julia Scott discuss their adventures in self publishing and writer life. Episodes every Monday, juggled around their limited child-free time.
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Have you ever become obsessed with a topic and taken a deep dive into consuming all you could uncover about it? Media Path podcast is here to indulge your obsessions. hosted by Fritz Coleman and Louise Palanker, the show takes you along on a scenic tour through books, movies, TV, podcasts and music related to a given topic of captivation. We are exploring entertainment, politics, history, true crime, world events and all of their intriguing intersections. Fritz Coleman is a legendary Los Ang ...
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Welcome to Notes From The Bookstore, the podcast that peeks behind the shelves at the enchanting world of literature. Hosted by Susanne Blumer, an author and owner of two magical independent bookstores in the mountains of Western North Carolina: Sassafras on Sutton in Black Mountain and Sassafras on Main in Waynesville. Every week, we'll dive into the captivating world of literature, exploring the latest releases that are taking bookstores by storm and sharing some of Susanne's personal favo ...
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Published in 1904, The Master of the World is the penultimate novel in the Voyages Extraordinaires series, by renowned French novelist and pioneer of science fiction, Jules Verne. The novel acts as a sequel to Verne’s novel Robur the Conqueror, and consequently brings back some of its most notable characters, including the brilliant, yet villainous inventor Robur. Set in the summer of 1903, the adventure kicks off when a string of enigmatic events have been reported in the western part of No ...
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Presentations of Poems, Stories, and Arcana – Exploring weird fiction, war, lore, fantasy, horror, literary theory, history, philosophy, mythology, science fiction, esoterica, and exotica in search of Truth, Meaning, Meaninglessness, Beauty, and the Unexplainable. Featuring Bierce, Burns, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Millay, Shakespeare, Whitman, Owen, Andreyev, Wikipedia, The SCP Foundation, contemporary writers, original pieces, and more. Divine the darkness.
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Kronos

Jeremy Robinson

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Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime-swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep-a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient. There is no blood, no scream, no fight. Giona is swallowed whole by the massive jaws. Only Atticus remains to suffer the shame of t ...
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Published in 1912, The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell is one of his most popular books. It renders philosophical issues and questions in a way in which they become relevant and accessible to the man or woman on the street, provoking them to devote time and effort into thinking about these aspects of life. Here, the great philosopher and humanist thinker Bertrand Russell examines the importance of empirical (that which can be verified by observation or experience rather than deduc ...
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Swami Tattwamayananda’s exposition of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras was given at the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco (founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1900) from October 10, 2014 to December 21, 2018 in a series of 111 lectures. These lectures include a mixture of philosophy both Eastern and Western, history, psychology, comparative theology, mysticism, classical parables, and simple everyday examples. Patanjali was a great Indian sage who wrote major treatises on Ayurveda, Sa ...
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This is a podcast from a broken pastor. I am a follower of Jesus Christ but I’m not sure I know what a Christian is anymore, at least not with the current Western definition of the word. The American church has become overrun with people who would weaponize the word of God for their own political or social machinations. I no longer see a hospital for the broken in the American church, I see a country club for people who think alike. Jesus was a maverick who thought outside the boundaries of ...
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Send us a text The Great Books of the Western World and the Harvard Classics are amazing collections of classical literature. There are many differences between the two sets, but each provides a unique experience to the reader. In this video, I cover the differences between the Great Books and Harvard Classics, the study ability of each, the purcha…
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We've got a lot of talented "almost made it" artists this week. Some just didn't have the luck, others sounded too much like somebody else, like Hank Snow or Elvis, but all were good and worth listening to before they're completely forgotten. Those, plus our usual line-up of blues, country, gospel and exotica make for a show that's also worth liste…
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In "Building Better Bridges in the Arts Economy - Case Making for Collaboration," Tracy Hudak and Jackie Melendez discuss the vital intersection of arts advocacy, economic development, and urban planning. Learn how artists and cultural organizations can engage local governments to ensure the arts are recognized as essential for inclusive economic d…
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Sonic Café, from Philadelphia, that’s DJ Adam Dorn, aka Mocean Worker with Shake Ya Boogie, so ahh welcome, I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 408. This time the Sonic Café presents a thing we’re calling… It Takes a Village. Listen for a quick description of the worldwide effort needed to make a simple pencil, showing how we rely on each other, ev…
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For this week’s archive radio show we were proud to announce that after a brief hiatus with the fallout at KOWA, the Thunderbolt was once again on the air in Olympia! (Albeit on an unlicensed station — and it only played if someone got around to playing it…). Next, Ken Nordine introduced the Thunderbolt crew before we differentiated the biggest dif…
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In 2004, filmmaker Katy Chevigny followed eleven Americans from dawn until past midnight and put a face on the voting rights issues to reveal the disparity between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and the disenfranchisement of former felons. This became the documentary film, “Election Day.”Katy Chevigny founded Arts Engine, a film making group with …
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Celt In A Twist brings Flowers in November from Budapest, Ten Strings & A Goat Skin from the Maritimes, dance beats from Scotland and reggae beats from Atlanta. And, we debut Glasswing, the 6th album from Juno-winning chamber folk quartet, The Fretless. Slide into Daylight Savings with your host, Patricia Fraser!…
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This week, on the Global Research News Hour we play excerpts from a special debate of Third Party candidates (other than Kamala Harris and Donald Trump) for president of the United States. It featured Jill Stein (Green Party), Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party), and Randall Terry (Constitution Party.) It also included a few brief comments by the Dire…
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Harry Shearer has been delivering groundbreaking comedy that's the stuff of legend for decades, starting off strong as a child actor on The Jack Benny Program, then cutting off every edge in The Credibility Gap, pioneering the mockumentary with This Is Spinal Tap, bringing us over 20 voices in the most culturally relevant animated series of all tim…
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Today we are joined by Army Veteran, Social Worker, and Arizona State NAACP President Sarah Tyree to discuss navigating the NAACP agenda in a swing state during a presidential election, issues that people should remain mindful of when voting, police reform, and activism in our current political climate.…
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Bob Avakian on this critical moment leading into the elections: how the forces for revolution can grow rapidly from small to big, and seize on this rare time when revolution may be possible. The escalating horror of the genocide of the people of Gaza by Israel with the full backing of the US – and the escalations toward wider war. The campaign to g…
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This week on Sea Change Radio, we give you one last pre-election episode with two keen political journalists. First, a free-flowing conversation about the presidential election with John Stoehr of the Editorial Board where we discuss the state of polling, take a look at the closing days of the two candidates and evaluate the impact of the Harris ca…
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The annual BRICS summit was held on Oct. 22–24 in Russia’s southwestern city of Kazan. BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The group started in 2006, and has since doubled in numbers. This was the first BRICS summit to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates as members.Thirteen nations have now been a…
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The game is afoot! The party is hot on the trail of a group of villains led by someone named "The Tailor". Mix in necromantic magic, a femme fatale who may know more than she says, a murderous half-orc, and the party's hypothetical plot armor will be put to the test! ——— WHERE TO START The best place for new listeners to jump aboard is at the begin…
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This episode is a panel celebrating the release of two books. One is entitled “People’s China at 75 - The Flag Stays Red”, edited by Keith Bennett and panelist Carlos Martinez. The other book is the English translation of “Western Marxism - How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn”, authored by Domenico Losurdo, and edited by panelist Gab…
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Dcn. Harrison Garlick is joined by Dr. Jared Zimmerer to discuss Book 17 of the Odyssey: The Stranger at the Gates. Dr. Jared Zimmerer is the Content Marketing Director and Great Books adjunct professor for Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. The former Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the Dean of Pastoral Fellows. He holds a …
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