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Since its inception in June 2020, Jokermen Podcast has grown far beyond its initial focus on the mid- and late-career albums of Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan. With a back catalog of over 350 episodes, we wan to offer new listeners a curated selection of greatest hits that illustrate the many dimensions of the show. If you see it here, just put it on—it’s Good Podcasts. One note: while many of our best episodes are available exclusively on Patreon, this collection is limited to free episodes.

Happy Tuesday, clowns! Hope you had an awesome Halloween weekend! Davida and I dressed up as Jay and Silent Bob and we went to our friends’ place to hang out on the porch, drink weird wine, and hand out candy. The costumes were Davida’s idea, and we got most of the stuff either at thrift stores or by shopping online. I’d say we looked pretty good, wouldn’t you? As you can tell, I did a good job growing that beard, and it wasn’t dabbed on by Davida an hour earlier or anything.

Ready to hear what a musical about the Nativity written and produced by the people behind Glee and High School Musical sounds like? If so, then this is your lucky day. The complete Journey to Bethlehem soundtrack album is now available to stream or purchase, and you can listen to it by clicking on the Spotify link below: I’m planning to review the film itself when it comes out next week, so I won’t say all that much about the songs right now.

We were sitting on the terrasse of L’Aigle Noir bar on a summer evening in Le Village, the gay neighborhood of Montreal, when I told the stranger I had recently published a memoir. Through polite banter, I learned he was an English professor at a small college in Pennsylvania. In front of him was a half-full glass of amber-colored beer, a few sheets of paper, and a rainbow-colored book with a pair of reading glasses resting on top.

Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers. Our next Q&A will be on Sunday, July 7, 8-9pmET. Paying subscribers will receive a link to register for the Zoom gathering at 5pmET that afternoon. Our guest will be historian Andre Pagliarini, who has written widely on Latin America (you can read his New York Times op-ed on Bolsonaro here). After a 1964 military coup, Brazil endured dictatorship until 1985. Prof.

Hi. Happy holidays! I am at my parents’ house in Fremont, California, just dissociating, so instead of doing literally anything else of vague material importance (my taxes, Christmas gift shopping, talking to my family), I thought I would relaunch my Substack! And we are relaunching it as: The KHole… not a reference to drugs, mind you, just a little reference to my name (K-ylie) and the word hole. OK??? What do I want to do with this, hmm… I write a lot, so I don’t really want to make my life harder or busier.

In 2020, the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco and the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of the Amazon (CEPKA) filed a lawsuit against the Peruvian Government and the Cordillera Azul National Park. The Kichwa community took out the lawsuit because it had been dispossessed of its territory by the Cordillera Azul National Park and forestry concessions. The organisation that runs the national park, Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Áreas Naturales (CIMA), created the Cordillera Azul National Park REDD project in 2008.

7/10 With Fight Club, David Fincher made a classic satire destined to be one of those movies misunderstood by generations of young men who take the destructive lead character’s words at face value and idolize him as a role model. Besides Fight Club, the poster of which has adorned many a college dorm room, you can add the likes of Scarface, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Joker to this list.

This week, I’m joined by Elizabeth Neumann, an expert in both Homeland and National Security and the Chief Strategy Officer for Moonshot. We discuss the rise of Christian extremism and the path back to peace, the importance of addressing the underlying grievances and fears within the Christian community that make them susceptible to extremist ideologies, and the different motivations behind Christian support for Trump. Plus, solutions for effective de-radicalization. Please pick up Elizabeth’s new book, Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace.