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Welcome to Season Five here on you're listening to radio revel! Those who have followed this podcast since I began it in early 2020 know that each new season I take as a challenge to try out something different. This season, the lineup is purely fiction. I've called the series Keyhole witness, which implies that we are discreetly peeking in on the stories from the outside. For now, Keyhole...

Hey all. This is the final episode of Season Four. Details of what's going on are in the episode. We'll be back with Season Five of you're listening to radio revel in early February 2025. And watch for a new podcast I'll be producing, also coming out in February 2025. I'll drop hints here so you all can find it! Cheers! revel.

Hey all. Finishing up junior high with the 8th grade here. Only one move involved, and kind of a positive one, though at the time I wasn't all that convinced it was. Cheers, revel.

Welcome back friends. This is part two of the 7th grade, now we're in sunny southern California. Enjoy. Cheers, revel.

Hey there. We're now into Junior High, first year, 7th grade. This one will be in two parts, since I changed schools in the middle of this grade and the two halves of the experience were actually quite different. Cheers, revel.

Hey! Where I went to school, sixth grade was the last grade of grade school. It was also kind of a transitional grade, behind us were the horrible teachers who's main work was to babysit a bunch of kids, teach them to sit at their desks, listen to the school bell, do what we were told, get used to the different times for different things, divide us into our aptitudes. We were moving towards "highe...

Hey friends! You ever feel like the rug has been abruptly pulled from under your feet? Pulled away so fast that you don't even realize that you ought to have fallen onto your rump? The Supreme Court of the USA has had a habit of doing that to us in the past year or so. I remember my mate, a Spaniard, saying that the guy who won in 2016 couldn't be all that bad and I remember saying: "...

Hey all. Ready for spelling tests and relief maps? The last of the stern, strict, "sit down and shut up" teachers of grade school? That's were we're at in this episode of you're listening to radio revel . Fifth grade, Mrs Lovgren, Miss Green and Mr Campbell are the adults in the room while we snotty-faced 11-year-olds squirm under their dictatorial indoctrination. Enjoy the e...

Going to catch you all off guard with this episode. Cheers, revel.

Here we are in 1967 in Miss Posely's third grade classroom. Cheers! revel.

Welcome back listeners. The year is 1966, the month is September, and I'm back in school again, this time in Mrs Cass' 2nd grade. Cheers, revel.

Hey all. Continuing here on you're listening to radio revel with the series on my school days. It's 1965 and I'm beginning first grade. Thanks for listening! Cheers, revel.

Hey all and welcome back to you're listening to radio revel . Hope you all had a nice summer. Starting up with the new school year, that is, back to school days, well I've shifted the focus for the next several episodes to my own school days, something I've mentioned in the past and have had on the back burner for a while. In this series, which will probably take us up to the end of Se...

Hey all. Last episode before a month-long break. This is the 5th installment of the novel I'm serializing. You may recognize the story, you've heard it before, this is a version that I worked up to include in this novel. We'll be back in early September. Cheers, revel.

Who knows what the answer to that question is. I certainly don't claim to, though I would answer it myself, based on my own experience with AI, both as a user and an annotator / trainer, with a fairly certain "no". So, another in the loose series of rants on Artificial Intelligence. There's some Star Trek and even some Sweeny Todd in the mix. This is also next-to-the-last in term...

Hey again! So, this time around, a bit of comment on an Irish series called The woman in the wall . And, a heads up that I'm going to take a break during, mostly, the month of August. There will be episodes through July, don't worry! And I'm sure I'll be dropping at least one or two during the month of August, though mostly I'll be directing you, dear listeners, to older episod...

He saw the putrefaction in the leg, swollen and steaming, he saw the surgeon lift his knife. Six men stood around the victim, one poured alcohol into a funnel in the patient's mouth, another forced a plug of wood between the clenched teeth, the surgeon quickly cut through the flesh, sawed through the bone, lifted the severed leg like a trophy so the audience of somber young doctors in the gall...

Hey all. Eric, over at the Break / Fix podcast  has been a fan of mine for a while. We met on a podcasters' forum on discord  and upon listening to one of my stories, Almost brothers , he wondered if I wouldn't work up a story for his podcast for the "Father's day" episode. So, we worked up this episode, which he's already done up live on his podcast. I've just added...

Hey friends. This was one of the last binges of the winter months, a double whammy, first the Netflix series 3 Body Problem , which was the standard 8-episode fare, then Three Body , which was the Chinese version of the same first novel of the sci-fi trilogy by Liu Cixin . I chose, this time around, to talk about the 30-episode Chinese version. It was an experience, haven't seen much Chinese T...

He drank wine and danced with the men and the women congregated there until he fell exhausted on a sofa between new friends, in front of the huge window, shutters thrown wide open so that the rising sun would warm their faces. Only at this dawn did he run all the way home, his feet lighter than his music, to lock himself in his room and fall into his dreams. This week's Tall tales  episode is...

Hey again! On the road again, this time from New York where I've spent a couple of weeks teaching English to Chicago and the Midwest, this being the second part of that story, the drive up to Wisconsin and ten days working on and enjoying the farm I partially grew up on. Though this episode describing my last visit to my Aunt Maxine's farm in 1992 can kind of stand alone, I do make some re...

What happens in the school stays in the school? Or does it seep out into the larger world? Thanks for checking out this week's Film fancies episode here on you're listening to radio revel. This week I discuss the German film The teacher's lounge and go off the wire a bit with my usual complaints about institutionalized education, something I've gone off the wire about since my very...

In his dream he felt a horrible urge to urinate. This need ate at his viscera, sent chills vibrating through his spine into his shoulders and neck, bolting out of the top of his head. As long as he walked the pain was bearable, but when he stopped to try to figure out where he was, the spasms would cut deeply where his legs joined his body, he would rush on again, shivering violently. Welcome back...

Hello again! Did you all notice that it was the "porn star" case that became the first criminal trial? Doesn't matter that secret documents were stolen and strewn about on the floor. Doesn't matter that threatening calls were made demanding illegal acts. Doesn't matter that rioters were convened and let loose on a governmental building. What matters is that he did/didn't...

Hey again. In this episode of Film fancies here on you're listening to radio revel , I take a look at two sci-fi series that share a lot of elements but are at the same time very different from one another. They are The signal and Constellation . You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog . You can also support me if you'd like over on Patreon .