Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes Radiotopia Presents - Season 16 Episode 1:  17 June 2025: *We're Doing The Wiz 1: The Tofu Curtain - When a bussing program brings a group of Black students to a predominately white performing arts high school in rural Massachusetts, a racial reckoning rocks the campus. And an unlikely selection for the school's annual musical reshapes the student body forever. Composers Datebook - 17 July 2025: Water music by Handel and Larsen Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 18 July 2025: meritorious Presidencies of the United States - season 1 episode 1: 5 February 2017: *Washington Pre-Presidency Part One - Year(s) Discussed: 1732-1764 / Our examination of George Washington begins with his early life in Virginia. / Washington has to cope with personal loss and self-improvement as he works to make his way in the world. The coming of ...

  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes Composers Datebook -  15 July 2025:  Bernstein's sabbatical psalms The Comfortable Spot - season 3 episode 2:  8 January 2023: Ken chats with motoring journalist Bob Flavin. Bob’s YouTube channel has more than 13 million viewers. Ken’s own love for cars (and talking about them) is obvious in the excited discussion. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day -  15 July 2025:  tantalise 7 Good Minutes -  7 June 2025:  Nurture Your Well-Being: 7 Powerful  Strategies for Inner Balance BirdNote Daily -  23 September 2022:  The Bird of Freedom Presidencies of the United States -  3 January 2017: * Presidential Transitions -  As a prelude to our full launch, this mini episode is an informal discussion of presidential transitions that have been less than smooth. From John Adams ducking ou...

  Tuesday 15 July 2025 - home for a little after nine. New laptop delivered that I needed to give a passcode for. It felt like I was in a John Le Carre novel, with the whole passcode business.  We watched the film Born On The Fourth of July.  An episode of When They Was Fab was recorded with the whole Gab Four together - Ed, Lonnie, Jon, and myself.  Wednesday 16 July 2025 - setting up the new laptop. I’m being naughty by keeping the laptop that Tim gave me, which will be permanently set up for podcast recording in the back room, that I call the office. I found out the hard way that because had never used it unplugged, he had worn out the internal battery on it, so it couldn’t be used unplugged.  With that in mind I thought that it might be interesting to leave a computer set up, so that I’m not rushing through to there with the laptop to plug in the camera and microphone.  We watched the latest Celebrity Gogglebox episode.  We watched the great film...