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Hey all. Been having technical issues here, that's why this is a day late (and yeah, should have had it programmed weeks ago.... vegetable garden needs attention these days!) Anyway, enjoy! You can watch me record this episode on YouTube . Cheers, revel.

Hey all! Nearly a month ago Spain and Portugal experienced a several-hour electricity blackout. Power went down at mid-day and wasn’t restored completely until early the next morning, though the majority of users had service returned in around six to seven hours. We still don’t know exactly why the downtime occurred. A cyberattack has been ruled out. The most probable reason is a lack of a specifi...

A call to action, or perhaps half non-action and half action. A pleading to stop giving 47 the energy he craves while focusing on those who are working both in the forefront and in the background to implement an evil plot that will make most of us unhappy. Links that I promise are as follows: Script and narration by revel arroway “ you’re listening to radio revel ” podcast: Music : Theme: NFLD  by...

This is a fresher essay, written in late March, 2025, dated by a quick reference to the so-called “Signalgate” event. Internet wisdom says I should make sure to get this online as soon as possible after an event I’m referencing, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true in my case. I’m not trying to get views because I’m talking about the latest squirrel climbing the tree in the garden. This essay...

Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers. I actually think this essay is about FBI discretion. I think that agents of that organization, with their target being a man, gleefully let a woman off the hook for more or less the same type of criminal behavior under her belt. The man was being investigated for possible relation to an air crash. The woman seemed to be the "victim" of that...

Here's an essay I wrote waaaay back in 2016, right after the blow to our collective reality represented by the election of a reality star as President of the United States. It basically deals with how making stuff up that incites fear and loathing and then repeating it over and again was going to be used (and ended up being used!) to manipulate people into becoming a base for evil actions. Links t...

This time around I talk about what I discovered in researching newspapers from the early XX Century, how "slant" or "angle" or just "let's make up a narrative" became more important that holding people accountable for their actions, almost getting an innocent man hung from a tree. Script and narration by revel arroway Watch this episode on YouTube Transcript on Medium: Music: Theme: NFLD by Mr Smi...

In this episode in the Trailing edge of a generation series, I reminisce about hearing protest songs in my tender years and bring subtle attention to a singer-songwriter who I and some others think has taken up the mantle, though I’m not sure he’d consider himself as important as those who came before him. Times, they have changed and the youth are not all open to being challenged. Script and narr...

This is just an introduction to my new Substack where I will be loading up my social commentary episodes. Not much more to say about it, just a welcome to the series, that’s all. Script and narration by revel arroway “ you’re listening to radio revel ” podcast: Autobiographical playlist : Music: Theme: NFLD  by Mr Smith Incidental: Black top  by Mr Smith https://freemusicarchive.org/ Transcription...

Hello fans. This video is some commentary around the creation of the episode " Animal crackers ", created for " you're listening to radio revel " in the " Keyhole witness " series. There's some commentary about being told the "truth", being lied to, trying to tell the difference, alternative facts, conspiracy theory and some other stuff. Hope you enj...

This article at Medium has me talking about a possible motivation behind the bank robbery that is the real event. Not trying to justify the crime, but yes, trying to understand what would lead a young man to take that which is not his. It can be understood, even if not condoned. Script and narration by revel arroway Watch on YouTube Music: Theme: NFLD by Mr Smith Incidental: Black top by Mr Smith...

Locked doors stand between us and the skeletons hidden behind them. Keyholes let us see the bones. This is Keyhole witness. This week marks the end of the first batch of Keyhole witness stories. Well, I say first as if there might be a second, and I'm not really sure there might be. In order to deal with that and kind of explain myself, let you guys look through the keyhole into my recording studi...

Today's episode launches from the podcast episode " Heartburn " on " you're listening to radio revel ", the " Keyhole witness " series. As I looked over old journals and newspaper accounts, I found myself again looking at the rhyming pattern of history, nearly 200 years ago things were not all that different than from today, tariffs, deportations, poverty, wealth, all human conditions we've yet to...

Locked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us catch a glimpse inside. I’m revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness. Medical journals are the written record of investigations taken on by sometimes brilliant, sometimes misguided minds. In today’s episode we have the dramatization of the presentation of an article in a medical journal on a rare, strange phenomena that is still little understood yet...

Not sure if I’m talking about how the world hasn’t changed all that much or if I’m going on about how the way we are informed about how the world hasn’t changed all that much hasn’t changed all that much. An essay focusing on printed press from the early XX Century. Script and narration by revel arrowayMusic:Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smithhttps://freemusicarchive.org/ Wash...

Locked doors hide secrets. Keyholes can reveal them. I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole Witness. This week we've got a radio broadcast interview I made up, based on a serialized newspaper feature told by an ex-con who spent some time on "The Rock", the unescapable Alcatraz. What I tell I do not report, I only tell. Please enjoy: Windows Script and narration by revel arroway Music: Theme: NFLD b...

I may not have known when I researched and wrote up this episode for "you're listening to radio revel", but as I though more about it, I discovered that I was trying to talk about people who have been lied to and who have been hurt by those lies. So, this episode here on YouTube delves a bit more into that idea. Script and narration by revel arroway Music :Theme: NFLD by Mr Smith Inc...

Locked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us peek in and perhaps reveal them. I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness. Hey all again. Today's episode sprouts off of one of the mostinvestigated hijacking cases in airline history. There was so much information available that I mainly just read the reports on the hijacking itself and kind of ignored the rest. What I tell I do not report, I sim...

In this episode I try to understand the lack of identifiable motivation behind heinous act of murder. The podcast episode simply tells the story of a man who questions himself on his own actions without finding an answer. I elaborate a bit in this video on that same theme. Script and narration by revel arroway Music :Theme: NFLD by Mr SmithIncidental: Black top by Mr Smith Transcription this video...

Locked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us get a glance. This is Keyhole witness. Oh, dear, this week's episode involves a rather gruesome murder. I struggled so with the details, they are grizzly, so if you recognize the case and want them, go find them yourself, I'm only going to insinuate. What I tell I don't report, I merely tell. With that said, please enjoy: Cut flowers Script and narrati...

Locked doors conceal secrets. Keyholes let us peek in at them. This is Keyhole witness. Hello my friends, my fellow keyhole witnesses, and welcome back to another episode. This week step out onto this limb with me, let's suspend some disbelief together, I think I've gone a bit further than most of the versions told on this one. What I tell I do not report, I merely tell. Hope you enjoy: Script and...

Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers. This is Keyhole witness. Welcome back, my fellow keyhole witnesses. This week my story is a little different. The mystery everyone knows about was solved, but within that mystery there was another, more complex human mystery that has hardly been talked about, resides mainly in the testimony of the main character during FBI interrogations. W...

Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers. I'm revel arroway and this is Keyhole witness. Hello dear witness. As we look through the keyhole this week, we can spy on a fictional journalist as he writes letters to his sister, letters written and posted while reporting on a kidnapping trial that he suspects shouldn't have taken place. What I tell I do not report, I merely tell. Please...

Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers. This is Keyhole Witness. Welcome back fellow witnesses. This week I bring you the unusual tale of two sisters, twins, who's protected, routine lives keep them far from being recognized as part of a massive American melodrama, despite having been there. What I tell I do not report, I just tell. Please enjoy: Animal crackers Script and narrat...

Locked doors hide mysteries. Keyholes can reveal answers. This is Keyhole Witness. This first story in this new series here on you're listening to radio revel is a reworked version of the same story told last season in Episode 31. It's the tale of a man managing the death of an elderly uncle whom he hardly knew, the closure of the estate, the disposal of worldly leftovers and the discovery of an u...