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Clearing the FOG: Speaking truth to expose the forces of greed on WeAct Radio, 1480 am, out of Anacostia, Washington, DC. The ruling FOG (Forces of Greed) spin news stories in their favor and keep the masses distracted with celebrity gossip and reality shows. Each week we feature guests who are working to expose the truth and offer real solutions to the current crises faced by our nation and the world. Knowledge is power, and with this knowledge you will be empowered to act to shift power to ...
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Each episode host Dino-Ray Ramos will welcome a filmmaker, actor, creator or cultural figure to discuss a film or TV episode from the past of the guest’s choosing that is acclaimed, celebrated and considered a classic. We will discuss why the like the project but then do a deep dive and unpack how the film/series was enjoyable in the past, but upon revisiting there are details that are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and wildly cringeworthy when it comes to representation of m ...
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Edited by Christie Yant and Arley Sorg, FANTASY is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human. Every month FANTASY will bring you ...
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Since 2010, the We Hate Movies podcast has been loudly celebrating and tearing apart movies from across the spectrum: from forgotten '80s actioners and insane romantic comedies of the '90s, to the early CGI blockbusters of the aughts and the hyper-nostalgic franchises of the 2010s and today. Every week, comedians Andrew Jupin, Stephen Sajdak, Eric Szyszka, and Chris Cabin pick a movie from the near-past to discuss and joke around about in all its positive and negative glory.
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Podcast Royal provides candid commentary on the biggest Royal Family headlines of the week and offers segments on fashion, beauty, health, wellness, and lifestyle that listeners can incorporate into their own lives, inspired by the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton), the Duchess of Sussex (Meghan Markle), Queen Elizabeth II, and others in the British Royal Family. Listeners can also expect regular commentary on other royal families across the world and compelling interviews with well-know ...
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One year after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Big Green groups hailed as a 'climate justice bill,' the truth is surfacing that this legislation is lining the pockets of the fossil fuel industry to the detriment of frontline, especially Black and Indigenous, communities. Clearing the FOG speaks to Anthony Rogers-Wright, a national…
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Sean, Amanda, and Chris review ‘Dumb Money,’ Craig Gillespie’s new movie based on the events of the 2021 Wall Street GameStop short (1:00). Then, they craft a new entrant into their running “garbage” genre series—Garbage Cash—and list the 10 most apt entrants into the genre (53:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior …
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This week, we’re celebrating a historic landmark for the London Blue Plaques scheme after our 1,000th plaque was unveiled to commemorate the work of the Women’s Freedom League.To help us understand more about the plaque and the league’s role in the suffrage movement in the early 20th century, we’re joined by English Heritage’s blue plaque historian…
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It's a big Royal news week; so big, we are releasing this week's updates in TWO PARTS! Join us for Part 1, where we cover our Royal Rundown and Listener Q&A. Then, join us later in the week for PART TWO, where we cover Royals Around The World and Royal Deep Dive! Follow us on Instagram @podcastroyal Email us at hellopodcastroyal@gmail.com…
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On this week's On-Screen Live, the guys are reacting to trailers for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and the Frasier reboot; looking at the weekend box office, discussing A Haunting in Venice and Liam Neeson in Retribution, and more!By WHM Entertainment
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Sean and Amanda review Kenneth Branagh’s third Agatha Christie adaptation, ‘A Haunting in Venice’ (1:00), before expanding their thoughts on haunted house films by sharing 10 of their favorites in the genre (45:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch…
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“How is adding Kelsey Grammer to this a thing at all?” - Eric On this week’s episode, the guys are dodging CGI explosions left and right as they talk about the total wet fart of an action film, The Expendables 3! Why couldn’t they budget for some actual explosions? Why didn’t this wind up being more of a Wesley Snipes movie? Why did the writers thi…
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Sean and Amanda are joined by Ringer contributor and film critic Adam Nayman to discuss the highs, lows, and shifting culture of the Toronto International Film Festival (1:00). Then, they share a joint list of the most anticipated movies of 2023 that neither have shown each other until now (23:00), including ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,’ ‘Pain Hus…
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On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, the guys are chatting about the incredible Marvel movie, Blade! How absolutely magnificent is Wesley as Blade? Isn’t it great watching a movie for adults? Are there better title cards in a Marvel film? How bad-ass is Kris Kristofferson in this? And can anyone hold back the—look out, day-walker, this episode is for subs…
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This week you find us Audley End in Essex, where we’re joined by English Heritage landscape advisor and historian, Louise Crawley and PHD student, Helen Brown, to learn how our historic gardens were designed to stimulate different senses.Join us to discover how sensory experiences can help to understand the past, how sensory experiences in the past…
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Podcast Royal is hosted by Jessica Robinson and Rachel Burchfield In this episode: Bit of British: "This or That," Royal Version Royal Rundown Listener Q&A Royals Around The World Royal Deep Dive Follow us on Instagram @podcastroyal Email us at hellopodcastroyal@gmail.com Royals in this episode: King Charles Queen Camilla The Late Queen Elizabeth I…
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On the season premiere of On-Screen Live, the guys are back and better than ever to chat about the weekend box office, react to the trailer for David Fincher's The Killer, and discuss some of their memorable watches of the summer, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and the amazing Telemarketers! This i…
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In the fading shadows of dawn, a hunter meets a wolf with white eyes, a wolf whose mouth stretches open, and in its growl there are three faraway voices, distorted as if heard through water, so the hunter shoots. He does not wait to see what he has done. | © 2023 by Lowry Poletti. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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We are drafting again! Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan are joined by Bill Simmons and Van Lathan for a draft of the best Denzel Washington movies. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan, Bill Simmons, and Van Lathan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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On this week’s episode, the guys are chatting about the Robert Rodriguez sci-fi teen horror film, The Faculty! Has another movie ever done so little with such a solid cast? Are there too many characters in this movie? Shouldn’t they just have done all practical effects instead of this horrendous CGI? Is this the biggest chicken shit ending of the 1…
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Around the world, a major organizing effort is underway, led by civil society and unions with the International People's Assembly, to build a working class movement for alternative systems that address the many crises we face. A series of regional conferences called the Dilemmas of Humanity are taking place in preparation for an international confe…
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Lore Segal reads her story “On the Agenda,” which appears in the September 18, 2023, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch: and Other Stories,” which comes out later this month.By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
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To celebrate Episode 600, Sean and Amanda open up the mailbag to answer your questions about how they watch movies, Martin Scorsese, what’s changed in the last six years, the fictional location where they’d like to have a drink or meal, the rejected alternate names for the podcast, and more! Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer:…
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As a new school year gets underway, we’re joined by senior properties historian Michael Carter to discover what education was like in the Middle Ages and how it compared to today’s classrooms.Discover the different forms of medieval schools, the role of the monasteries as educators and how the educational opportunities differed for boys and girls. …
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After their respective trips to Colorado and Italy, Sean and Amanda convene to discuss the movies they watched at Telluride and Venice Film Festivals, including films from David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, Yorgos Lanthimos, Bradley Cooper, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and more (1:00). Then, they share some early Oscar predictions based on the quali…
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On the season 14 premiere of We Hate Movies, VHS Trailer Game champion, Eric Szyszka demands the guys go back and re-do an episode on the much maligned (and unfairly so?) prequel that started it all, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace! How on Earth did the producers let Lucas get away with these abhorrent Trade Federation characters? What wa…
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People in the United States pay the highest prices for pharmaceuticals, and Big Pharma spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year for lobbying to keep it that way. The United States is also experiencing a growing shortage of medications from antibiotics to cancer treatments and more despite being a wealthy country. Clearing the FOG speaks wi…
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Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Siberian Wood,” which appears in the September 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar has published two short story collections and four novels, including “Still Here” and “Divide Me By Zero,” which came out in 2019.By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
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Before there were flames on the side of Madeline Kahn's face in Clue, Peter Sellers was doing full-on yellowface in the Robert Moore's whodunit? Murder By Death -- and we talked to singer, dancer, actor, and RuPaul's Drag Race icon Peppermint all about it! Set up as a send up of the "old dark house" genre, the film had an incredible cast including …
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On this edition of the WHM Mail Bag, the guys are making some major announcements ahead of season 14, answering some Qs from the audience, and reading some wild letters involving meeting Eric Roberts on an airplane, a giant woman and her pervert doctor, Nathan Lane’s brother becoming an outrageous high school principal, and one huge loser who ruine…
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This week, we’re talking about King Henry V, who is famous for his victory over the French at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, his military abilities during the Hundred Years’ War with France and the Shakespeare play named after him.Joining us to reveal more about this celebrated medieval king and the time he spent at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire…
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The forest whispers of my sister’s arrival long before I sense her. Birds flutter between pink-girdled maehwa trees, mocking her voice in the tongue only shamans understand. Seonbyeon, Seonbyeon, they repeat mindlessly, and this is how I know my sister is looking for me. But I don’t know which sister, not until she finally appears from the forest g…
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Recorded 11.17.22 at CB Live in Phoenix, AZ On the final Summer Break episode of the year, the guys were live in Phoenix to chat about the grenade-throwing action spectacular, Universal Soldier! What was the squib budget on this fantastic picture? What’s the smell situation with these undead soldiers? Would the UniSol program have been popular with…
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Award-winning producer, activist and artist Eleanor Goldfield has a new documentary out, To The Trees, about forest defense in the Redwood Forests of Northern California. Beautifully filmed and composed, Goldfield shows the decimation of our old-growth forests and efforts to stop this crime while placing the struggle in the broader context of colon…
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In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades. On a recent episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, the fiction editor Deborah Treisman spoke with Hadley about her genesis as a fiction writer. Hadley’s latest story collection is “After the Funeral.”…
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We’re back! Sean and Amanda discuss all the movies they missed, the big stories out of Hollywood, and much more (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by ‘Bottoms’ director Emma Seligman to discuss her new comedy (1:35:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Emma Seligman Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc…
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Oliver Stone returns to Vietnam with ‘Born on the Fourth of July’—a movie that closes out the ’80s, as well as the Vietnam movie boom. But ‘Forrest Gump’ and ‘Dead Presidents’ prove that ’90s audiences aren’t ready to leave Vietnam for good. Other films we talk about in this episode include ‘Running on Empty’ (1988), ‘Dogfight’ (1991), and ‘Heaven …
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This week, we’re heading behind the scenes at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens as the finishing touches are put on the major project to conserve and transform this historic country estate in Northumberland.Joining us to talk us through the project – which was partly funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund – and the history that has been brought…
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The Royals are still on Summer Holiday, so Jessica and Rachel are bringing you a full episode of royal fun facts, plus some of the latest news, including everything we know about the Princess of Wales attending Houghton Music Festival, the criticism Prince William has received for not attending the Lionesses's game against Spain in the Women's Worl…
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In the late ’80s, a new wave of big-studio hits like ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ introduces young moviegoers to Vietnam—and helps turn the war into an unlikely pop-culture phenomenon. Other films we talk about in this episode include ‘Hamburger Hill’ (1987) and ‘Casualties of War’ (1989). Host: Brian Raftery Producers: Devon Man…
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Recorded 11.14.22 at Comedy Works in Denver, CO On this week’s Summer Break ‘sode, the guys were live in the Mile High City to chat about the world-ending teen comedy, WarGames! How oblivious is Matthew Broderick’s character to his lady friend’s advances? How embarrassing is this incident for the U.S. Military? Does NORAD give tours, even during ti…
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At the end of July, the Presidential Guard of Niger, backed by the military, unseated the current president, Mohamed Bazoum, in a coup supported by the people. In response, the United States and France, with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), began planning a military intervention to return Bazoum to power. West African nations…
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