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This episode of Film fancies, here on you're listening to radio revel gives me an opportunity of talking about that film that kind of went viral for probably the right and wrong reasons, as the title suggests: Saltburn.

If you want to see my vegetable garden during a rain storm this mid-February, you can check out the version on the YouTube channel. The transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me if you've a desire to on Patreon.

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Just a quick update to announce the return of you're listening to radio revel Season Four: Mature Audiences Only.

Transitioning from telling autobiographal stories from the first four decades of my into trying to relate to others who, like me, have begun or entered the sixth decade, Mature Audiences Only hopes to bring in new voices and talk about how we see the current world, how we live in it, how it's changed and changing.

Hope you all tune in for the first episode, going live on the 5th of February.

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Wow, Thanksgiving just got done with and Santa Clause is in every ad spot on the TV! Kind of ran out of time.

There's more stories to this season, actually the entire fourth decade, but I won't get to them until Season Four, and maybe even in one of the new formats I'm planning of trying out.

I'll still drop an episode now and then, won't stop looking at movies and series that I'll probably have an opinion to share about.

Hope your upcoming holiday activity is pleasant and peaceful.

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Last week's episode kind of got put off because of more immediate events in my household. This episode will give you a pretty good idea what happened.

Hope to have you back next week!

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Here's an intermediary episode, I talk about a series I've just finished watching, Mr Davis. I recommend it, but only if you're ready for a rollercoaster of a ride through a number of scenarios that don't get wound up until the end, though they do get wound up, a point in its favor.

You can see a video of me laying sidewalk slate tiles over on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel while listening if you'd like! And the transcript is available for your reading pleasure on the you're listening to radio revel blog.

Plus, you can support me on Patreon. If you want to....

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It was all those small bit speaking roles that I was constantly getting, as well as eternal chorus duty, that led me to drift away from acting into being a director. Even so, I managed to learn a lot from one particular acting professor at university, Gene. Here's an overview of my experience with him and university in general.

You can find the transcript on the blog and you can support me on Patreon!

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Got fired from Culligan. Moved back with my parents. Built a tiny house. Kept doing theatre, but finally, had to get a job. This week's episode on you're listening to radio revel is about that job, station manager for a small commuter airline in the Midwest.

You can read the transcript on the blog.

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Here's a trapped in a hometown loop movie for you, with some spicey additions of porn stars, drugs and Texas near-poverty. Despite those details, it's a pretty good film, give it a look-see!

Video available on Patreon (it's me planting cabbages and lettuce).

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How would you react if a close friend stops being a close friend tomorrow and you don't know why? What would you think of that friend if they suddenly became violent with you weeks after the last time you saw them? And, later, adding up all the details, you come to the realization that that person had never been either close or a friend?

That's what Betray covers in Episode 14 of Season three of you're listening to radio revel: Four Decades.

Hope you enjoy the episode.

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You're back at you're listening to radio revel, update episode 8.

It seems it's about losing my job, but I think it's more about why I couldn't go forward with that particular job.

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Summer came upon us really early this year, and though I thought I had gotten ahead of schedule, I'm actually just on schedule.

So, because there's so much to do outside, inside things, like producing this podcast, have to take a back seat for a while.

I do hope to add some updates here and there during the next couple of months, and I'll be back with Episode 14 probably sometime in September. Or, if it gets as hot as it did last summer, I may end up doing inside things instead. Only the weather will tell!

So, enjoy your end-of-spring, early summer activities and I'll be back before your suntan has faded away!

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Every time I tell this story, the first question that comes to mind is “What the hell were they thinking?”, followed rapidly by “Were they even thinking?” and finally, my own answer of “Evidently not.”

I mean, who packs up six kids and four adults, a dog and whatever will fit into the back of a pickup truck and drives them across country to create a kind of tent settlement in the desert well into the latter half of the 20th century?

You're back at  you're listening to radio revel,  Season three: Four decades. And this is Episode 10, Forty acres, which I might have even called “The back, way back, forty acres”. I have not met anyone in my life who has had quite this kind of experience, though there are a couple of movies out there that kind of depict the same kind of parental irresponsibility, but those are fiction? Maybe not, been seeing too many YouTube videos about people living in their cars.... Listen, like, subscribe and, most importantly, share

Back when I was growing up, it wasn't too common that a kid attended his mother's wedding, that usually happened before the kid was a kid. And to be honest, I don't remember if I actually attended my mom's wedding with the man who would become my stepfather, Mike. This could be just the run-of-the-mill pre-teen hates his new stepfather story, and there's something of that to it. But really, this story is more the introduction of a kind of earthquake that trembled under the dynamics of my formative years, an earthquake that rumbled quietly, with occasional force, for about six years of my life.

This is you're listening to radio revel,  Season three: Four decades, episode 09, Married in October. If you listen to it, and you like it, subscribe to it and share it with others! Thanks.

Everyone’s dad dies. Mine died when I was only ten years old. When I look back on this story, I wonder just how much of what happened was normal and how much of it came about because of the people involved. There are parts that seem weird, but are maybe just run-of-the-mill experience.

This is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. In this episode, How I found out my father had died, I close out the first of those four decades, the ‘60s. The story is more about the surrounding events than my dad’s death itself. As I was just entering the age of reason, this event obviously not only marked me as a person, but became the catalyst for important changes in the paths my life would have otherwise taken.

Relatives’ deaths are not always easy stories to tell. Everyone deals with grief in their own way. My story is over 50 years old, yours may be more recent. If you have a story about a loved-one’s death and the circumstances surrounding it, feel free to share, death is an important aspect of the Everyman Biography Project, it is a main reason I began the project: with each death, our stories get diluted and finally lost. Sharing your story helps to keep humanity anchored in the people who otherwise fade in the shadows of the well-known.

Listen, like, subscribe and share. Next week we move into the ‘70s, get your bell-bottomed pants and polyester leisure suits out of that dusty old trunk. Things get stranger and the strange begins to become normal….

Kids often think they are way more clever than their parents. They think they are in the right and plot ways to get their way. Yet, parents do tend to have an upper hand. Kids may get away with some of their high jinks, but more often than not, mom or dad or both will see right through the ruse.

I welcome you back to you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. This week I’m retelling a story I told back in Season one, called The winter coat. This time around I was able to add a bit more detail of that time that I thought I had the perfect plan to foil both my parents’ and school rules, but let my surety in that plan cloud an important step in that plan.

Do you have a story about something you thought you’d get away with, but in the end got caught and punished? Do share with me for the Everyman Biography Project! Send me an email with your story and I’ll slip it onto the list for future satellite episodes.

Hope you liked The winter coat. To help you remember that there is a new episode of Four decades every Monday morning, you need only subscribe, and on the way, share with your friends. The more listeners we have the more our everyday stories will weave a history of you and I, the real Everyman.

No one expects to live through the destruction brought on by a fire. Fires just happen, well, there’s always an ignition point, bad wiring, carelessness with an ember, but something burning to the ground can mark a person. What was is reduced to ash and twisted charcoal, something may rise from that ash, but the fire that brought the ash will remain.

This is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. In this week’s episode, Barn burning, I’m sharing a bit of family fire karma. You may have heard in Episode three that I was pretty fascinated by flames and things burning. Now you’ll get a chance to see how even those trying to teach me about fire were just as careless.

Have you had an experience with a major fire? A home, a car, maybe just a Christmas tree you forgot to leave water for? Share your story with me and I’ll slip it into the Everyman Biography Project and maybe even in a future satellite podcast episode.

And if you enjoyed Barn burning, do listen, like, subscribe and share. I appreciate the loyalty!

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Update episode, a quick review of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere. I think you'll like it.

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