#317 Unusual biblical passages. Religions cherry pick the bible for everything that shores up their theology and ignore the rest. There’s some pretty bizarre stuff there. The codified text is a mash of oral traditions that didn’t necessarily agree. Trying to pin down the name of Moses’ father-in-law is a good example. Hats off to Roger Crumb’s Genesis.
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Joaquin Miller 1874
Joaquin Miller (1837 – 1913) spent 5 years with the Modoc Tribe whose home was in the forests at the base of Mt. Shasta in northern California. They and other tribes in the area were driven to near extinction by the influx of whites in search of gold. The rivers were polluted by placer mining and the salmon came no more. The trout died. Game was much more easily hunted with rifles than with bows and arrows.
While this story could easily be a real downer, Miller takes us on an adventure in each chapter. His descriptive powers were exceptional and his observations of mankind a delight.
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05 Life In A California Mining Camp
15 Turn To The Right As The Law Directs
19 The Indian’s Account Of Creation
23 Down In The Valley Of Death
31 Last Battle For The Republic
33 The Last Of The Children Of Shasta
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#316 Yip Harburg – Hammacher Schlemmer
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#315 – Gene Autry – singing cowboy and multimillionaire. Made the first recording of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
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I’ve narrated a number of Edna Ferber stories. Here’s some information about her.
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#314 – Scott Adams creator of Dilbert
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#313 Roger Crumb
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#312 Gary Larson – The Far Side
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#311 Cartoonist and playwright Jules Fieffer
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#310 American Composer Charles Ives
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#309 Composer Richard Wagner
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Man In Log
Joaquin Miller (1837 – 1913) was in the west when it was still wild and bears were plentiful. These stories recount his adventures with them.
11 A Grizzly’s Sly Little Joke
12 The Grizzly as Fremont Found Him
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Before James Barrie wrote the Play Peter Pan he wrote a short series of stories “Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens” in which he tried out some ideas and a few of them showed up in the play. A group of animators in England is working on those stories. They asked my permission to use my narrations to help pace the animation. I won’t be the narrator for the film. They have their heart set on using a Scot for that. This is a clip of what they’ve done so far.
#308 composer Igor Stravinsky
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#307 composer Aaron Copeland
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#396 John D. Rockefeller
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The poems come from the volume “Second April”. The titles are: Travel, Song of a Second April, Inland, Wraith, Doubt No More that Oberon, and Lament
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#305 Jay Gould
Gould was famous for getting control of a railroad and then looting the assets. He and his rivals had agents delivering cash bribes to legislatures. An honest politician only took money from one of them
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