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My mission with this Podcast/YouTube show is to help you access real everyday people just like you and I who are creating real success for themselves and others. Over the course of a 30-minute interview, we will pull back the curtain to discover exactly who they are and how they're achieving at such a high level. Jim Rohn is famously quoted saying " You are the average of the 5 people who you spend the most time with" and as you listen in it is my sincere hope to elevate that average. Enjoy ...
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There’s Too Many Podcasts, a tongue in cheek look at the podcasting world, is hosted by Chris Schieman. TTMP goes behind the scenes with the people who create engaging content, from the unknown podcasts that you should be listening to, to the podcasts you can’t quit. Join Chris on his mission to give a platform to up-and-coming podcasts, and listen to industry experts describe the process for creating some of the world’s most popular podcasts. Learn more about the podcast, and submit your gu ...
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Eros + Massacre

Samm Deighan

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Eros + Massacre is a cinema podcast hosted by Samm Deighan, focusing on everything from cult and psychotronic to weird arthouse, East Asian movies, and the less frequently explored avenues of film history.
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The DC Salon

The DC Salon

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Each month we - Chris McCaffery, founder of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties - host a conversation with dozens of our closest friends during which we consider a question of pressing concern to us all. This is a community of kind, curious, and intelligent discourse. Join us!
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“The past is filled with incredible mysteries; the clues to solving them all around; hidden in plain sight. But these stories begin with some of the most famous vanishings in history." Join attorney Jennifer Taylor and investigator Chris Williamson as they re-open some of the biggest disappearance cases in all of history. Chasing clues, witnesses and new information Jennifer and Chris will take you on the ride of a lifetime and uncover new evidence in some of the biggest historical cold case ...
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Under the Makeup

Celeste Haywood

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🎙️ Welcome to Under the Makeup Podcast, where the vibrant world of entrepreneurship meets the real, raw stories of successful women! 💄 Building a business is already a rollercoaster, and when you add in the unique journeys, struggles, and self-doubt that many women face, you get our captivating conversation. 🚀 Join us as we peel back the layers and dive into the unfiltered narratives of accomplished women entrepreneurs. 🌟 We're here to unveil the backgrounds, challenges, and pivotal decision ...
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites a well-known guest from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new an ...
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Give It Up For

Brittany Anderson

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Chats with improvisors, comedians, and maybe some other people! Good times! Yay! Audio by Phil Shephard III Episodes released bi-weekly on Wednesdays! Follow us on Instagram: @giveitupforpod Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/giveitupfor/support
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The Lawless podcast is my answer to unravelling drive, motivation and the forces that have brought about exceptional lives. They are my curated conversations with people of interest who have pushed back from conventional business and are sharing stories and legacies in the making. People who value innovation, sustainability, art and expression over a predetermined level of success. Join me every week where I introduce people from start-ups, to artists, athletes, bureacrats, philanthropists t ...
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In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence and answers your questions. Hear Simon discuss the recent, headline-making episode with former PlayStation President Chris Deering, listener responses to the controversy, as well as discussion of what term we should use to describe the genre formerly known…
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My guest today is an American businessman and the former and first president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Chris Deering. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts to immigrant parents, my guest had a strict upbringing. Despite the disadvantages he faced, he graduated with distinction with a degree in computer science at Boston College, then studied…
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My guest today is Eliot Higgins, a British citizen journalist and founder of Bellingcat, a website that specialises in open-source intelligence. In 2012, while unemployed, he became involved in online discussions about the conflict in Syria, where few journalists were able to operate. Despite having little prior interest in the region, he began to …
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Over the years I’ve talked a lot about how Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) changed my life as a young teenager and so it goes without saying that Fabio Frizzi’s music has also had a huge impact on me. This September, he’s taking a Zombie live score on an American tour and he was kind enough to speak with me ahead of that. We talk about his p…
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In this special episode, Simon is joined by comedian Glenn Moore to discuss the subject of July's My Perfect Console 'Game Club', The Messenger. Throughout July 2024, Glenn and Simon, along with many of you, the listeners, played through the 2018 platformer The Messenger, a game chosen by Abu Salim during his episode of My Perfect Console. Glenn an…
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My guest today is Maddy Thorson, a Canadian writer and designer for video games. At the age of 14, she obtained a copy of GameMaker, software on which she learned to make simple games. After studying computer science at Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, she moved to Vancouver and there rented a house in which she and her friends began wor…
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It's just me this week kids! I'm taking a look back, on the first season of There's Too Many Podcasts! What went right? What went wrong? If you're new to this podcast, this is a great starting point for season one, with a shout out to all the wonderful guests who I was lucky enough to chat with all season long. Thanks to everyone who gave this podc…
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I have been wanting to do an episode on American International Pictures’ beach party series with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello FOR YEARS. I absolutely love these films and I’m so grateful to my pal Keith Allison, a film and pop culture writer, for going on this long and very sandy journey with me. We talk about what I consider the main films…
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My guest today is Holly Gramazio, a writer, curator, and game designer. Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, then moved to London where she founded the Somerset House-based games festival Now Play This, an annual celebration of experimental games. In 2019 she wrote the script for Dicey Dungeons, a…
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On the season finale of There's Too Many Podcasts! I'm please to host Dr. Carla Marie Manly. Dr. Carla hosts Imperfect Love, a podcast that explores the messy and imperfect road of life. Today's topic is on mental health, with a disclaimer at the start to anyone who suffers from mental health. Dr. Carla and I discuss the specifics of attachment the…
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In this special episode, five My Perfect Console supporters share the games they would like to put on their ideal, fictional games machine, and the reasons behind their choices. If you would like to share your console with the My Perfect Console audience, head to www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole where you can become a supporter and receive a raft o…
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My guest today is Luke Muscat, the Australian video game designer behind some of the best-known smart phone games yet made. After graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in IT and Games, he joined Halfbrick Studio, a game developer in Brisbane that specialised in games licensed from film and TV. There he designed a simple …
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Happy belated birthday to Mario Bava, who was born on July 31 (much like me). This is a loaded episode: guest host Bill Ackerman, from Supporting Characters podcast and a number of commentaries and other blu-ray special features, shares my love of Bava and his final feature film, Shock (1977). We talk about: Shock and its relationship to Ovidio Ass…
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A special episode to celebrate the life and work of Brett Jones, an artist and animator for video games, film and television who passed away in July. Jones worked on the seminal N64 movie tie-in game, Goldeneye 007, which successfully brought the first person shooter genre to consoles. He made instrumental contributions to its sequel, Perfect Dark,…
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You know what’s really wild? I recorded the intro for this episode six times - and not because I kept flubbing the wording. But because that’s how many times this case has changed directions on us since we started our investigation. In the short time we’ve been working on this case, I’ve learned facts, heard some amazing stories, which you’ll all g…
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Learn more about what wild and obscure movies I’m watching by following me on Patreon to unlock this full episode and access the entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and podcast series! This episode covers everything from Hong Kong action and horror to Stephen Chow movies, classical Japanese melodrama, Yaphet Kotto…
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My guest today is the American video game developer Steve Meretzky. Born and raised in Yonkers, New York, he attended MIT, where he earned a degree in construction management. In 1981, after two years spent working in the construction industry, a friend asked him if he would like to become a tester for Infocom, a publisher that specialised in inter…
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For this episode, I was joined by Adam Torel, the owner of Third Window Films, a blu-ray label focusing specifically on more unusual Japanese cinema. We talked about the ins and outs of running a blu-ray label, working in Japan, the complexities of releasing more obscure Japanese films, and so much more. Even if you aren’t a huge fan of Japanese fi…
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My guest today is an English writer for video games, TV, film, comics, and books. Born into a literary household – her father was the celebrated fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett –– she studied journalism at the University of Arts in London. After graduating she joined the staff of PC Zone, where she worked her way up from editorial assistant to the…
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The calm voice of Celeste Renee joins me this week for a very enlightening chat on communication. Her podcast, A Better Way to Say, meshes communication with enlightenment in a way that I find completely enchanting. As a broadcaster for over 20 years, I can say Celeste's teachings on how to communicate effectively taught this old dog some new trick…
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My guest today is the British scriptwriter and librettist for opera, Richard Sparks. In 1978 he wrote a sketch for Rowan Aktinson, the actor who later played Mr Bean, which Atkinson performed in the Secret Policeman’s Ball, a series of benefit shows organised by John Cleese to raise funds for Amnesty International. The success of the sketch led my …
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This week the lovely and motherly Lynn Layfield joins me to talk about her podcast, Decision Diaries. Decision Diaries is a light-hearted look at the decisions we make, why we make them, the results/consequences. As Lynn's own website points out, it's real, raw, and slightly inappropriate. I feel like I kept that theme going in our chat!…
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Some of the stories we cover for this show take a toll. You get into something, and you think it’s for a little while, and you end up being swallowed by your fascination and taken down rabbit holes you never thought you’d be in. Over the years, we’ve received a ton of requests for us to cover one story in particular. Ever since we took that pit sto…
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My guest today is the American game writer and narrative designer Kelsey Beachum. After graduating from Michigan State University, she worked in publishing, first as editor of the Cryogenic Society of America, then in editorial operations for the satirical current affairs publication, The Onion. In 2012 stared work on a space-mystery game titled Ou…
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Joe Mares, a veteran of the gaming industry joins me this week to talk about his podcast, Harbinger of Fun. Joe's fascinating life is a great example of overcoming our anxieties, both internally and externally, to follow our true calling. In his podcast, he explores the fun of life, and what makes it so! I enjoyed exploring with him the idea of wha…
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This Fourth of July, I wanted to celebrate a real American hero and who better than one of the greatest Americans to ever do it — Rudy Ray Moore. My friend Klon Waldrip joined me to talk about everything from Rudy’s entrepreneurial spirit (he printed and sold his own records… in the ’70s), his important role as a sexual anarchist, and his undergrou…
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My guest today is Mike Drucker, an American comedy writer and producer. After graduating with a master’s degree in literature from New York University, he worked as a localisation editor for Nintendo, writing English language jokes for games such as Kid Icarus: Uprising. After a year working as Head Video Writer for the website IGN, he joined Late …
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My guest today is Michael Sherman, director of esports for Riot Games. While attending the University of Texas at Dallas for Computer Science, he worked as an Automotive Safety Software Engineer for Texas Instruments, inventing a wireless car-seat that would sound an alarm if a child was left in the car. In 2013 he moved into the emerging world of …
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Episode two is all about one of my favorite experimental Japanese New Wave films and I’m so grateful to my guest, film analyst Celeste de la Cabra, for agreeing to discuss this one with me. The film’s director, Toshio Matsumoto, has become one of my favorites in recent years and is criminally underrated, so we also spend a little time getting into …
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Jason Sherman, of Strap on Your Boots, joins me this week for a chat about entrepreneurship. I would describe Jason as an accomplished techie. I felt a good connection with him because of our similar paths. As a small business owner myself, I can tell you that it is great fun, but hard (sometimes frustrating) work. In this episode Jason and I discu…
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In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence, answers questions, and offers at least one clue about a forthcoming special guest. Hear Simon discuss which was the best year for video games, which video game characters would make the best stand-up comics, and what Hollywood will do for #content when th…
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Chrisi Talyn Saje, a.k.a. "Madison on the Air" joins me this week to talk about her very cool and unique idea. Madison on the Air is one of the funniest ideas I've come across. The character, Madison, is a modern day gal who's transported back in time into old time radio shows. I happen to love old time radio shows, and Chrisi's modern spin on thes…
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My guest today is the American game designer and musician Eric Barone. Born in Los Angeles, he spent his childhood in the suburbs of Seattle. In 2011 he graduated from the University of Washington Tacoma with a degree in computer science, but was unable to find employment. He started developing a video game to hone his programming skills. Supported…
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The delightful and engaging Katie Mack joins me this week for a quick therapy session, followed by a discussion of the work of the International Human Rights Art Movement. IHRAM is a wonderful organization that is doing its part to amplify the work of artists living in areas where doing what they do, and being who they are, can mean imprisonment or…
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Nina Freeman is an American independent video game writer and designer. While a student at Pace University in New York, she was drawn to the work of Frank O’Hara and other poets of the New York School, who documented their lives through witty, confessional verse. She began to explore ways in which she could employ a similar tone, not in poetry, but…
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It’s heeeere! I’m Samm Deighan and I’m beyond excited to launch the first episode of my new podcast, Eros + Massacre. Chris Haskell from They Live on Film podcast kindly joined me for the first episode, where we talk all about one of our mutual favorite underrated directors, Michele Soavi, and focus on his four key horror films from the late ’80s a…
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My guest today is the British actor Abubakar Salim. Born in Hertfordshire to a family of first-generation Kenyan immigrants, he joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of sixteen, then won a scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his professional stage debut in 2010 playing Osric in Prince of Denmark at t…
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Welcome to the first episode of There's Too Many Podcasts! A Podcast About Podcasts. For my first interview, I could think of no one better than my new friend Mike Chisholm. Mike hosts the wildly entertaining The Letterman Podcast, about our mutual idol, David Letterman. We chat about our love of all things "Dave" and a little about life in general…
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My guest today is the American writer and game designer Chet Faliszek. In the nineties he and his friend Erik Wolpaw founded the website Old Man Murray. The satirical online publication poked fun at video gaming’s sacred cows and established a tone that is still prevalent across the internet today. After catching the attention of Half-Life creator …
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Friend of the podcast Glenn Moore joins Simon for a special bonus episode to discuss April's book-club-game, Stephen's Sausage Roll edition. This previously supporter-only episode gives a taste of the bonus monthly episode My Perfect Console supporters receive through Patreon. Throughout April 2024, Glenn and Simon, together with many of the My Per…
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My guest today is the American novelist and short story writer, Veronica Roth. Born in New York and raised in Illinois, she studied creative writing at Northwestern University. While a student, she wrote Divergent, a dystopian science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. The book sold to a publisher even before she graduated,…
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In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence, answers questions, and offers at least one clue about a forthcoming special guest. Hear about the genius game that Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi never made, the latest on film director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of 'A Game of Birds and Wolves…
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My guest today is the American videogame designer and writer, Teddy Dief. Born in Illinois, they graduated from Columbia University with a degree in music, computer science, and Japanese. Then while studying for an MFA in filmmaking and game design at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, they worked on Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and as a designer …
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My guest today is the English author and journalist, Keith Stuart. He grew up in a town near Stockport in Greater Manchester, then studied English and Drama at Warwick University. After graduating he joined Big Red Software, testing Game Genie codes for the Game Boy, and coming up with names for the vehicles and tracks in Big Red Racing. In 1995 he…
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My guest today is Masaya Matsuura, a Japanese musician and game designer widely considered to be the inventor of rhythm action video games. Born in Osaka City, music ran in the family; his father often performed with his guitar in clubs around Shinagawa Station in Tokyo. My guest was an unruly student until he discovered a love of keyboards and syn…
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