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What is going on Raider Nation! We are two life long Raider fans here to discuss all the latest news and rumors regarding the silver & black. Looking forward to growing with the nation!
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Madrone, the second volume in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers trilogy, follows Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s. It’s 1969 and Nate is out of the Air Force and back in California, in the arms of Jane Chandler, the girl he left behind. Pretty, high-spirited, and totally in love with Nate, Jane takes him back to college with her, the University of California at Santa Cruz, one of the hippest campuses in the country. At first, Nate follows what seems like a set path: college, becoming a g ...
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Nightmare Magazine - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)


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Nightmare Magazine - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
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Edited by bestselling, award-winning anthologist John Joseph Adams, NIGHTMARE is a digital magazine of horror and dark fantasy. In its pages, you will find all kinds of horror and dark fantasy, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Every month NIGHTMARE will bring you a mix of original fiction and reprints, and featuring a variety of authors: from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard of yet. When ...
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Study Group Radio: Process Party Podcast
Zack Soto & Mike Dawson
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What Tuesday's Primaries Could Mean For November
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The crew reacts to the results in Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky and Oregon. The results are mixed in terms of which factions of both parties performed well and the marquee Republican Senate primary race in Pennsylvania is still close to call and could remain that way for days.…
The Saints saw nothing but rock and scrub, the one lone Joshua tree dead, its arms defeated. They traveled by wagon, the four still alive, their clothes stiff with their own stink and with the smell of dirt. The dead they buried or thought they buried along the way. The animals gone, all but one, and that one fading. They tied casks to the wagon, d…
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Who Will Win The GOP's Senate Primary In Pennsylvania?
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The crew discusses the races to watch in Tuesday night's primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho, Oregon and Kentucky. They also introduce a new FiveThirtyEight collaboration with Ipsos aimed at polling Americans about the issues they care most about in the run up to the midterms.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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RRP26: James Bradberry to the Las Vegas Raiders?, Ventrelle Exposing Raiders?, Draft Analysis & more.
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What is going on Raider Nation we are back! This week we are going to be discussing the news and notes surround the silver and black such as is James Bradberry joining the raiders and what is going on with former Raiders team president Dan Ventrelle and all the drama surrounding him leaving and much more. The main topic is our analysis of our draft…
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The Politics Of Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws
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Since January 2021, eleven states have enacted laws that limit how teachers can talk about race and racism in schools and close to 200 bills have been introduced in 40 states. Galen Druke discusses the context of these laws with Theodore Johnson, the Director of the Fellows Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.…
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How The Fight Over Abortion Will Play Out In Red States
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The crew discusses the various types of legislation different states may adopt if Roe v. Wade is overturned, and how those policies jibe with local public opinion. They also discuss recent polling showing that President Biden has disproportionately lost support among traditionally Democratic voting groups…
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James L. Sutter | And All Their Silent Roars
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“But why?” Charlotte whined. In the front seat, our mother consulted the map. “I’m not going to keep answering that.” Anyone who’d come within shouting distance of our old house the week before could have done it for her, given how often it had been repeated. Mom’s office was moving her to Binghamton, and Dad had found a new firm there, so that was…
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The Ohio Primary And Draft SCOTUS Opinion
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In this late night edition of the podcast, the crew covers both the results of the Ohio Senate primary and the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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Our First 2024 Democratic Primary Draft
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The crew follows up on last week’s Republican 2024 primary draft with its first Democratic primary draft. What does the bench of Democratic leadership look like beyond Biden? They also discuss the latest developments in the current round of redistricting.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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93. Linguistic Evolution with Ph.D. in Linguistics Valerie Fridland
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Have you ever wondered why word meanings change over time? Or why do people say words differently based on where they live? This is called Linguistic Evolution and we dive into this on Leap of Fate pod 93 with Valerie Fridland, who has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and teaches at the University of Nevada Reno. Linguistics is the scientific study of langua…
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How A Struggle Between Elites And Populists Has Shaped The Right
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As the 2022 primaries begin in earnest and potential presidential candidates look ahead to 2024, the fight over the future of the political right is underway. In Matthew Continetti's new book, “The Right: The Hundred Year War For American Conservatism,” he argues that in order to understand where the right is heading, you have to understand where i…
The crew hosts its first-ever 2024 Republican primary draft (they plan to follow up next week with a 2024 Democratic primary draft).By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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Why A Once-Fringe Candidate Is Now A Serious Contender For The French Presidency
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Galen Druke speaks with POLITICO Europe's Cornelius Hirsch and Clea Caulcutt about the dynamics at play in the French presidential election. As Emanuel Macron has occupied the middle of the political spectrum in France, with a focus on cooperation among European nations, the opposition parties have moved toward a nationalist, populist agenda.…
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Shaoni C. White | Where the Heather Grows
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Clara drinks from water bottles so she doesn’t have to hear the tap running. She puts all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and leaves the building until it’s done running, just so she doesn’t have to hear it. She does everything she can to avoid the sound. Showers, though---those are trickier. She can’t avoid washing herself forever. So she start…
The crew discusses the politically thorny issue of mental acuity in an increasingly elderly U.S. government, and what Americans think about age limits for public office. They also continue to track the types of candidates former President Trump has endorsed in the 2022 Republican primaries.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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92. The Art of Community with Award Winning Author Charles Vogl
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In Leap of Fate Pod 92, Charles Vogl, an award-winning author of the Nautilus Silver Book Award in the Business and Leadership Category, comes on to speak about how we can build a strong community in our local community and as a global community. His first book, "The Art of Community" is used around the world to help organizations build a stronger …
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Why Inflation Is Sparking Economic Pessimism
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Galen Druke speaks with George Washington University economist Tara Sinclair about the economics behind Americans pessimistic assessment of the economy.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
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Why Alaskans Aren’t In A Rush To Send Sarah Palin To Washington
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The crew discusses why Sarah Palin may not be a shoe-in for a vacant House seat in Alaska. They also debate whether the AARP is correct in assessing that women voters over the age of 50 are likely to decide the outcome of the 2022 midterms. And they look at the experiences of urban Republicans and rural Democrats in a country increasingly sorted ge…
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Americans Think The War On Drugs Failed. Do Politicians Agree?
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As Congress considers legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and end the sentencing disparity for crack and cocaine offenses, Galen Druke speaks with FiveThirtyEight contributor Lester Black about what Americans think should be done about drugs and how politicians are responding.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver
It could have been ketchup. Or sriracha sauce. V8 or cranberry juice or pinot noir. It could have been Karo syrup with food coloring as it had been in Carrie or Bosco Chocolate Syrup as in Psycho. It didn’t matter. My dissertation had been on suspension of disbelief in scripted violence, and I knew that as long as the audience agreed that the red s…
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Are Both Liz Cheney And Madison Cawthorn In Primary Trouble?
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The crew discusses how Liz Cheney and Madison Cawthorn's primaries serve as a test of what the Republican Party and its voters will and won’t accept. They also try to get to the bottom of whether Americans support the “Parental Rights In Education Bill” -- or what its critics call the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” -- which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sign…
Galen Druke speaks with political science professors Sunshine Hillygus and Patrick Eagan about the history of wedge issues and how they shape U.S. politics.By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ABC News, Nate Silver