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There was no one in front of the ticket windows, so Caroline stepped up to the first and smiled at the man working behind the barred opening. He did not look up but rather leaned a carton sign against the bars that read: “Closed, please use the next window.” Fortunately, there was no one waiting at the next window either, so Caroline simply slid to her right and smiled at the woman working behind that one, this woman did look at her, not with a smile but with a frown of disapproval, asked her to please wait behind the yellow line painted on the floor. Caroline of course did not see any reason to wait behind the yellow line, there was no one else waiting to buy a ticket, but she did as she was told, turning her attention to the third window and hoping that the man working there would be a little more pleasant. Support me on Patreon if you'd like. You can read the transcript of this story on the you're listening to radio revel blog. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Why should they get the last word? Why are their "final says" accepted as the FINAL SAY? How did we allow any institution to reach this level of authority without scrutiny? In this week's mini-rant on mature audiences only here on you're listening to radio revel, I give my point of view about the Supreme Court of the United States, where I think they are these days, and how we've been fooled into thinking that we should allow them to carry on as they are. I also suggest some remedies, even if those will not remedy anything.... For any of you out there interested in some more detailed, and certainly smarter analysis of the Supreme Court, I encourage you to check out Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's series of videos entitled The Scheme on YouTube. Some surprising stuff there that should make us all question that institution. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

What if? What if you hadn't taken that trip to Chicago where you ended up meeting the person who would become your spouse? What if you'd taken that job that paid better but wasn't very interesting? What if one little thing you did or didn't do had repercussions you don't realize right now? For all mankind poses big and small "what ifs", contrasting the types of decisions made by individuals that become consequential to History. Remember that you can support me on Patreon, and you can read the transcript for this episode on the you're listening to radio revel blog. Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey there listeners! Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel, Season four. This is another episode in the Tall tales series, stories of mine that I've dug out of old notebooks, revisited, given a fresh face. Today I've got two very short stories I wrote in 1987 while living temporarily one summer in Madrid, Spain. They reflect things that caught my eye, Spanish women, yet living out lives dictated by generational social norms. There's something about the Spanish woman that defined for me just how the culture differed from my own. Transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and the chance to support me on Patreon. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

The first thing I promised to you listeners in this new season of you're listening to radio revel, in the series called Mature audiences only was "irony". Something we more mature folk should be pretty familiar with and actually pretty good at. Listen to me struggle with that very concept, irony, in this commentary based upon current events (even if the events are no longer current, the underlying theme is kind of evergreen, or at least recurrent!) You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog and support me, if you wish, on Patreon. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey listeners! This episode of Film fancies, here on you're listening to radio revel gives me an opportunity of talking about that film that kind of went viral for probably the right and wrong reasons, as the title suggests: Saltburn. If you want to see my vegetable garden during a rain storm this mid-February, you can check out the version on the YouTube channel. The transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me if you've a desire to on Patreon. Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Let me take you to Ávila, Spain. It's 1991, New Year's time, weather's been warmer than usual. José and Pepe get themselves into a pinch and they're way of getting out of that pinch, well, it was just about as stupid as these two men could think of. Enjoy this story, written in 1991 while I, myself, lived in Ávila. Kind of reflects what I thought of the place while I was there. You can read the story on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like to. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Welcome back to Mature Audiences Only on you're listening to radio revel. This week's episode, Ávila and the Santa Teresa, catches us up a bit with the beginning of the left-over decade, the 1990s, from Season Three. I'm going to pack up and move to the northwest mountainous region of Spain, find myself enclosed in a mediaeval walled-in city. Some adventures that lasted just a few months before changing track totally. Remember, you've got the transcript to read on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like. Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Wish I'd been able to see this film in a movie theatre. Big, brash, colorful production, right amount of humor, majestic performances by three actresses, The Favourite is my personal favorite of Yorgos Lanthimos' catalogue. Set in the court of Queen Anne, you get a kind of crazy, sometimes funny, always human look at three women in the 18th century, navigating their own wants and needs in a world where women didn't usually hold the rudder. You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and, if you want, support me on Patreon. Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel. This week's episode is the first in the series I'm calling Tall Tales. This series is mainly a bunch of short stories I've written (or am writing!) over the years, stories that have not seen the light, or only barely so. This week I tell a Kafka-like story about a young man who decides to move through a process. It's based on a dream that was related to me, a dream that impacted the dreamer enough to uncharacteristically get out of bed and write the dream down so as to not forget a detail. I've pretty much retold that dream in my words here. Don't forget to listen, like, subscribe and share. Support me if you want to on Patreon, and check out the blog for the transcript of this, and all episodes of you're listening to radio revel. Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Do you have a favorite aunt or uncle who kind of served as an alternative parenting model? Someone who you visited regularly and who actually paid attention to your silly anecdotes, dreams, expectations in life? Such was my Aunt Maxine. She didn't have to put up with me every day, just a couple of months every summer, so she was there to animate me to follow those dreams, to encourage me to be creative. This episode of Mature Audiences Only is only a brief introduction to that "favorite aunt" in my life. She wasn't the only favorite aunt, but probably the most influential one. Transcript on the blog. Chance to support me on Patreon. Listen, like, subscribe and share! Cheers! revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey all. Just a quick update to announce the return of you're listening to radio revel Season Four: Mature Audiences Only. Transitioning from telling autobiographal stories from the first four decades of my into trying to relate to others who, like me, have begun or entered the sixth decade, Mature Audiences Only hopes to bring in new voices and talk about how we see the current world, how we live in it, how it's changed and changing. Hope you all tune in for the first episode, going live on the 5th of February. Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey all. Between seasons here but still producing an update from time to time. This episode is my take on the Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario. As with most updates, there is a YouTube video with images that have nothing to do with the narration of this episode. This time you can see the initial steps in upholstering a chair that I was restoring about five years ago. As always, you can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, if you've a hankering, you can support me on Patreon. Won't be long before I let you all know where Season Four, which ought to start sometime in February, is heading. Got some ideas, even got some planning done, but not quite ready to let the cat out of the bag just yet.... Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Back with another opinion! This time I talk about the series The Fall of the House of Usher. It's a good watch, though I spend most of the episode talking about the shortcomings. The video is one I began five years ago but never got around to producing. This is the first part of me cleaning and repairing the base of a chair, number 3 in a series of 4. A future video will show the finishing up of the chair. You can read the transcript on the blog! And you can support me, if you want, on Patreon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Wow, Thanksgiving just got done with and Santa Clause is in every ad spot on the TV! Kind of ran out of time. There's more stories to this season, actually the entire fourth decade, but I won't get to them until Season Four, and maybe even in one of the new formats I'm planning of trying out. I'll still drop an episode now and then, won't stop looking at movies and series that I'll probably have an opinion to share about. Hope your upcoming holiday activity is pleasant and peaceful. Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey all. Last week's episode kind of got put off because of more immediate events in my household. This episode will give you a pretty good idea what happened. Hope to have you back next week! Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Have you ever just been totally wrong about a person? Did you let first impressions blind you to the real character of someone new in your life? Not all sweet grandma types are really sweet grandma types. I met one of those sweet grandma types who turned out to be the type of person I wouldn't have chosen to have in my life: the Señora Antonia. Listen in to this week's episode to find out who she was and what my experience with her turned out to be. You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog. There's also a quick video version of this same story on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel. And don't forget that you can support me on Patreon! Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Hey all. Here's a story for you, something I wrote at some moment between 1985 and 1988. Not autobiographical at all, just a bit of very short fiction with some comments about rewriting the past in your life. The transcript, as always, can be had at the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon. Thanks for listening! Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Welcome back to the show! You're about to come along with me as I catch a last-minute plane, then a rental car, then a ferry, then a double-decker bus, then a taxi, then the Underground, then a train, then another ferry, then another train, then a plane, along with hundreds of kilometers on foot, in my first Trip abroad. You can see the transcript for this episode on the you're listening to radio revel blog. You can support me on Patreon, too, if you want to! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message

Here's an intermediary episode, I talk about a series I've just finished watching, Mr Davis. I recommend it, but only if you're ready for a rollercoaster of a ride through a number of scenarios that don't get wound up until the end, though they do get wound up, a point in its favor. You can see a video of me laying sidewalk slate tiles over on the you're listening to radio revel YouTube channel while listening if you'd like! And the transcript is available for your reading pleasure on the you're listening to radio revel blog. Plus, you can support me on Patreon. If you want to.... Cheers, revel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revel-arroway/message