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Title: Miracle (2004) with Shane Guilfoyle Part 1
Description: Miracle is the classic David versus Goliath story. The scrappy underdog Team USA hockey team takes on the juggernaut of Soviet Team in the 1980 Winter Olympics in 1980. Shayne Guilfoyle of the History of Hockey podcast will show us how this Team USA developed in a short time from a bunch of amateur college kids to take out the greatest team in hockey in one of the most exciting and important games in sports history.
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Link to watch the full February 22, 1980 Miracle on Ice Game:
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Thank you so much for joining us again for a new special episode of beyond the big screen today. We are joined by Shane Gilfoyle of the history of hockey podcast to discuss hockey in the Olympics, particularly one of the most important and exciting times and US Olympic hockey history, the famous miracle on ice team of the 1980 Olympics in Lake placid, New York, USA. We will be using the 2014 movie miracle as a lens and jumping off point to discuss this fascinating time in sports history depending on when you are listening to this, the 2018 Olympics and peon Chang South Korea are still going on or just wrapped up, so I hope this will contextualize Olympic hockey a bit more. Thank you so much for coming on today. Shane.
Steve, thank you so much for having me. This is really an honor. Truly, I mean that. Thank you.
I'm really excited to dive into. It's a great story, a great story, and you have a really great podcast detailing the history. I love the history of sports. There's just so much there.
There really is. I, I, uh, I kind of feel like there's almost not enough of it out there. It's kind of something that people maybe don't, don't think about. Um, you know, there's a history of warfare and all of that really juicy stuff, but sports kind of seemed to, to fall by the wayside. So
maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself and your interesting back story on how you got yourself interested in hockey and starting a hockey podcast.
Uh, yeah, I'd love to. Um, originally I, I'm, uh, from Colorado. I grew up in a little town of about 5,000 people, a two or three roads, only one of which was paved a that was in a central Colorado and I'm kind of up in the...
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Description: Today we are joined by Professor Bart Ehrman. We talk about the New Testament as a piece of literature. Dr. Ehrman will show us some of the interesting historical context of the text and we will also discuss the New Testament in film!
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Thank you for joining us today for this very special interview with one of the most acclaimed biblical scholars of our day, Professor Barr Ermine. Dr Irwin is a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in the United States. He is the author or editor of over 30 bucks, including the soon to be released book the triumph of Christianity, how a forbidden religions swept the world. He is also the author of the book last Christianity's, which I read from cover to cover several times over. We are going to have a wide ranging conversation on the rise of Christianity, the Bible, and the Bible and Christianity in popular culture. Dr Herman has appeared on the history channel, BBC Jon Stewart show. I mean, you name it. It is. Um, I'm just incredibly humbled to have you on the show. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Yeah, thanks for. Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure.
Now, can you maybe give us a little bit about your background and your areas of academic interest?
You're right, you want my academic background? So I, um, uh, I uh, did my graduate work at Princeton theological seminary, um, did both a masters of divinity and a phd there. I went to Princeton because I was interested in studying the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and the world expert in that topic was a man named Bruce Metzger who taught at Princeton theological seminary. And so I had, I had no other particular interest in going to princeton seminary other than this fellow top there. And so I went there and did a master's thesis with him, then did my phd there. And, uh, the field I worked on was the study of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. I'm the technical field of textual criticism. Um, while I was finishing my phd there, I started teaching at Rutgers University, uh, in New Jersey and was there for four years. And now I've been at a University of North Carolina for 30 years. So that's the rough academic background.
So you got interested in the Bible through the Greek manuscripts. What drew you towards those?...
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Description: Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast joins us again to discuss the 3 Blade Runner shorts and wrap up the themes that cross over between Blade Runner 2019 and 2049. If you enjoyed the episodes on Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2049, you will definitely enjoy discussing how the movies fit together.
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2022 Black Out
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2036 Nexus Dawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ&t=1s
2048 Nowhere to Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg&t=3s
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Reconsider
https://www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/
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Thanks again for joining us today. Today we are going to wrap up our series on blade runner and blade runner 2049 and the past three episodes. We've discussed these two movies and the really powerful themes they uncovered and discussed. Today. We're going to discuss how the two movies fit together and explore a few more issues that came up and just try and tie these two movies together. I'm very happy to be joined again by interest of the reconsider podcast and as we well know since you've listened to the three previous episodes, we know that reconsider as a political and current events podcast, Eric and as partners and or help you contextualize current politics and history and broader forces and political theory, reconsider helps you rise above the one liners, the 140 character politics and the tribal narrative and their motto is we don't do the thinking for you. Thank you so much for coming on for a fourth time, Eric. Oh yeah, my pleasure. I mean obviously I love your show
and one of the things I really love about talking about movies like this is it lets us look at, um, and by like this, I mean, I mean really good movies that do a great job exploring society, exploring humanity. They let us as people really look into humanity and looking to society today through in another place where it's sort of safe where we can say. Or we can say, Hey, what, what does this tell us about humans as a whole about society, about government, about how we get along with each other as a whole where we're not as emotionally tied up in it, right? Because this, this isn't our world. It's just a story. But we can learn a lot from it. And so...
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Description: Today we are joined again by Erik of the Reconsider Podcast to discuss Blade Runner 2049. This movie is a sequel to the 1982 Blade Runner film. We discuss the themes this movie explored and the evolution of the characters in this great movie.
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This is beyond the big screen podcast with your host Steve Guerra and Agoura Podcast Network member.
Welcome back to Beyond the big screen. Today we are very happy to be joined by Eric of the reconsider podcast. And today we're going to take a deep dive into the movie Blade Runner 2049. And if you listen to last week's episode we talked about Blade Runner from 1982. So these are two great episodes to listen to back to back. So I highly suggest you go back and listen to that episode. But it's not required obviously. Not so much because you need that as background knowledge for this movie or episode it's just because it was a great show. So thank you so much Eric for being on today.
Yeah my pleasure. I love your show and I love this movie and I love talking about it.
Great. Thank you. So reconsider is a podcast about politics and news but it's really much more than just the news of the day sort of thing that you can get on TV or radio Zander and Eric which I'm sad to say Zander wasn't able to join us today but they help you contextualize current politics and history in the broader forces and in political theory reconsider helps you rise above the one liners. The 140 character politics and the tribal narratives. Their motto is We don't do the thinking for you and they really don't. And that's why I think it's such an amazing podcast. Do you have anything you could to add to that Eric.
No thanks man. I think one of the things that I really like about reconsider is that Zander and I don't always agree on everything and we do a great job. I think showcasing how to discuss stuff in a way that you know in a way which we're really learning and one of these days I want to do a behind the scenes episode where we actually because we build these we build these episodes out with a lot of disagreement and we do a bunch of research and learn some stuff as we go. So I kind of want to do one of these blind to show a little more of how we do that. That's my favorite part is when we disagree and it's a good time.
Yeah that's really cool. I'd love to listen to an episode like that. Now this movie Blade Runner 2049 is currently in the theaters. If you're listening to this show in the 2017 2018 time period it stars Ryan Gosling as Kay...
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Description: Just in time to enjoy the Opening Ceremonies of the Games of the 23rd Winter Olympiad, today we have a bonus episode with our guest Ryan Stevens. Ryan is the producer of the Skate Guard Blog and was our guest for the Hello London episode. Ryan gives a primer on the history of Olympic Figure Skating and what to look forward to on the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang South Korea.
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Ryan’s Free Definitive Biography of Belita Jepson-Turner
http://skateguard1.blogspot.com/2017/06/all-best-belita-definitive-biography-of.html
A Short Documentary on the “Battle of the Carmens”:
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This is beyond the big screen podcast with your host Steve Guerra and Agoura Podcast Network member.
Welcome back to this very special bonus episode of Beyond the big screen. Today we aren't specifically talking about a movie but instead we're revisiting a topic we discussed in a previous episode. Figure skating through the movie. Hello London. The 2013 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea are upon us and I am very happy to be joined by Ryan Stevens of the Schaik blog to give us a little primer on Olympic figure skating. Thank you so much for joining us today Ryan.
Oh you're most welcome. It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Ryan Stephens is a former competitive figure skater and S.F.A Skate Canada judge. He's been writing about figure skating history since 2013. Ryan has media credentials with Skate Canada covering the 2016 Canadian Tire national skating championships in Halifax as well as conducting interviews with many of the top figure skaters past and present. And in June 2017 Ryan released a full length biography of British actress figure skater and dancer Bellita Jepson. Turner who is a contemporary of Sanya Henie who we discussed in the Hello London episode which will be linked to this and the Schoenaerts for this episode as well as the links to Schaik guard so I highly suggest you go back and listen to that episode because it was a lot of fun and very informative. Before we get rolling Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and your blogger.
Absolutely. So I'm based in Halifax Nova Scotia. I'm here in Canada. For those of you that are down in the States and I write about skating history all around the world and I cried about a little bit I bounced around a little bit a released three bloggers a week covering a whole range of topics everything from how schooling might have developed in a certain country to a...
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Description: This is part 2 of a two part conversation on the movie Blade Runner (1982). We are joined today by Xander and Erik from the podcast Reconsider to discuss the many deep messages of this film.
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Agora Podcaster of the Month:
The History of the Papacy and Beyond the Big Screen!
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This is part two of a two part conversation on the 1982 movie Blade Runner with Eric and Zander from the podcast reconsider. I highly suggest you go back and listen to part 1 of this conversation. Don't worry we'll be waiting for you beyond the big screen.
You brought up those ideas of neech Nietzschean and the Christian elements and all those really come together when Roy confronts Dr. Tai Rao. What happens there and what how do those themes all tied together that you've brought up that you brought up earlier.
I it's funny I as I was making my notes I was thinking oh this is my favorite scene. Now this is my favorite scene. Now this one and I have six I realized six favorite scenes so this is one of them. And what happens is Roy finally gets to Dr. Tyrrel by tricking Sebastian and then coercing Sebastian and they get access. What's interesting by play is by playing and finishing the same moves as what's called The Immortal Game in chess. So it's a famous 1400's chess game where the I forget the guy's name. Whatever where the guy who ended up winning sacrificed tons of pieces to fool his opponent into making a move that exposed the king and so yeah checkmate. With some minor pieces at the end those pieces of course represent those minor pieces represent the replicants who are treated like pawns.
The King of course is Dr. Tyrrel and so once Roy makes those moves over the phone. Tyrrel actually Roy tells Sebastion to do it. Subash makes those moves over the phone and Tyrel is very impressed and he says something must be on your mind Subash. C'mon. And the big reveal. Roy is there. Tyrrel doesn't seem to surprise he actually says like I'm surprised it took me so long to get here. He knew that Roy was coming to talk to him. They have this discussion over whether Tyrrel can give Roy more life but Tyrrel cannot and they in that discussion Tyrrel tries to reason with Roy saying that he's lived this incredibly powerful. Flourishing life especially compared to other humans and he has the quote the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. It's this great scene of his face being very fatherly and in fact of course being the character of God he created Roy he decided how long Roy got to live.
And he's judging Roy as having lived a good life and sort of saying it's okay for you to die and here's with a...
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Description: Blade Runner (1982) was overshadowed by larger science fiction films at the time, but this movie has many profound messages for society, culture and technology. We are joined today by Xander and Erik from the podcast Reconsider to discuss the many deep messages of this film.
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The History of the Papacy and Beyond the Big Screen!
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Welcome. Today we are going to talk about the 1982 movie Blade Runner based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The book and the film are set in the near future. Postapocalyptic dystopia. One of my favorite genres as is common with the dystopian science fiction genre. Blade Runner addresses a number of political and political science issues political theory and even philosophy are important for our frameworks. While Blade Runner is not overtly political it does tie deeply into questions of humanist and theological philosophy and to morality as well. Ultimately all of this is critical for us deciding on what political action which is just our own moral personal moral action on collective scale to take. That's why it's fascinated Eric for so long and I'm very happy to be joined by Eric and Zander hosts of reconsider podcasts. Thank you guys so much for coming on today.
We are happy to be here. Thanks for having us.
Reconsider is actually a political podcast to help you contextualize current politics and history and broader forces and political theory reconsider helps you rise above the one liners. The 140 character politics and tribal narratives. Their motto is We don't do the thinking for you and they really don't. That's why it's such an amazing podcast and one of my personal favorites. Thanks.
Before we dig too deeply here's some production details. We watched the final cut which is the director's addition. Eric you had commented on that. Why do you think that that's a better cut of the film than it went through several evolutions.
Yeah I actually went through for the theatrical cut the international CUT THE DIRECTOR'S CUT AND THE FINAL CUT THE FINAL CUT being the one that Ridley Scott the director liked the best. And I have strong opinions on this and I think most other diehard Bladerunner fans do. There's a consensus generally that the final cuts the right one not only because Ridley Scott liked best. I don't know if Philip K. Dick liked it best but the reason we like it best is that the theatrical cut has a number of scenes. The biggest of which is the ending. The second biggest of which is the fact that Harrison Ford does a monologue. Does it like a backwards memory monologue. Like a lot of noir...
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Description: Solomon Northup is wrenched from his home and life and sold into slavery. He is a free man who never gives up his spirit and belief in himself and his freedom. 12 Years a Slave is a fascinating story and gives us a lens into a dark time in United States history, but also a chance for hope and new beginnings.
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Narrator: This is Beyond the Big Screen Podcast with your host, Steve Guerra, an Agora Podcast Network member.
Steve Guerra: Today, we're talking about the movie from 2013, 12 Years a Slave, and we're talking today with James Early, who is the administrator of the American History Fanatics Blog, and a very popular Facebook group. James is an adjunct professor of History at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, outside of Houston. And he's published one book and a number of scholarly articles. Along with running the blog and Facebook group, his main areas of research and interest are Eastern European history, the American Civil War, and the Cold War. Thank you so much for coming on today, James.
James Early: My pleasure, Steve. I'm excited to be here.
Steve Guerra: Just to briefly introduce 12 Years a Slave, the movie documents the real life events of Solomon Northup, a free black man who lived in the mid-1800s New York, who was captured as a fugitive slave on a trip to Washington, D.C. Northup, also sometimes called Northrup, his freedom, and even his identity are stripped from him, and he continually finds himself in harsher and harsher conditions where he has to make even deeper critical moral decisions. Very briefly, the production details. It's based on the book, 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. The screenplay is by John Ridley. It's directed by Steve McQueen, a different Steve McQueen, not the Steve McQueen from the '70s. It has a runtime of 134 minutes, and it did very well at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. And it has almost 100% Rotten Tomatoes and...
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Description: The Lives of the Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) is a 2006 German Language Movie set in the 1980’s. This movie shows the surveillance culture of the East German Stasi and how people lived under this oppressive regime. We are joined today by Travis Dow. This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation.
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OK we have part two of a two part conversation. I highly suggest you go back download analysts and part 1 of this fascinating discussion. Don't worry we'll be waiting for you beyond the big screen.
The movie kind of fades out in the ending it has a really key scene towards the end that's really painful for the writer whereas wife I don't think it might actually not be his wife it's his girlfriend dies and the captain the Stasi captain tries to stop it. But it's kind of like one of those. The whole thing where you get the taste of like there's nothing that's going to stop any of us. But they do have a scene where the Stazi captain he's been demoted and he's in a basement somewhere and the wall falls and his friend hears it on his radio and he's like oh yeah.
The wall falls or something to that effect and he just walks off the job like what was it like. And those remember he says der maur is ofen is often which is like every time I hear that sentence it's just like so I think yeah anybody that grew up in Germany or like the wall is open it's just like those are just one of the most powerful sentences you can say in German like this is like ever like yeah anyway sorry.
And I remember it as you know as a piece of history that as a 10 year old or whatever it was like you knew that this was something that was history when it was happening. I think that even if you were if you were something of the eye of an age where you knew that what was going on and honored that this was something that was really big that was happening. What was it like to be right there. What happened.
The thing is like I was definitely too young to know exactly what was like fully understand that.
But my dad was so excited and my dad is not a history buff. He's a traditional nerd like he's a software engineer. He doesn't care about kings and dates and all that. I got that from my mom but he was so excited. You know I come out of school and he's sitting there you know he's in the street with his weight and they're in his car and he's like honkies seems like Justin Travis you know get in and we jump in the car and we're still in our Fasching costumes are carnival. It was like late February so I actually that's why how I know it must have been February of 1990. It was like...
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Description: The Lives of the Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) is a 2006 German Language Movie set in the 1980’s. This movie shows the surveillance culture of the East German Stasi and how people lived under this oppressive regime. We are joined today by Travis Dow. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation.
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Today we're talking about the movie The Lives of the others from 2006. It's a German movie and it's German name as Das Leben Der Anderen and we are joined by Travis Dow. Travis is really the podcasting man of all seasons. He is the host of countless podcasts including but not limited to the history of Germany. The history of alchemy Bohemican can the history of Africa and the German language podcast Americana for Euch is how you might say no.
That's right yeah. And did I catch all of them Travis. I think so. Who's counting. Yeah.
Travis thank you so much for being on. I thought this movie is perfect for you. I really felt like even watching this movie I was like Travis is the perfect guy for this movie yeah.
And this is a movie that gripped me like I. Yeah definitely. Very interesting movie and I grew up in Germany and lived in Prague. And this movie was kind of like you know I and I moved to Prague for the curiosity of like living on the other side you know the life of the others to see what that was like and how the city is changing and all that. And you know what are they doing now. Czech Republic a new country and this type of movie just feeds into my curiosity of you know how it was and I eat it up for sure. Yeah.
This movie is was released in 2009 but it's set in the East Germany of the mid 1980s really at the tail end of the Cold War just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and as we usually do we're going to use this movie as a way to get into a deeper conversation about East Germany and the Eastern Bloc countries as well as how countries how these countries progressed after the fall of the Berlin Wall which was a critical element of this movie The Lives of the others. To some production details about the movie the director and writer was Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's a German language film but it is available with English subtitles. It got a really high. Rotten Tomatoes of 93 percent. And I met a critic of 89 percent which I think is the highest of any movie we've done so far.
It was filmed throughout Berlin which we will talk quite a bit about it as a runtime of 137 minutes. It was the 2006 winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and it won just a pile of German and European awards. On top...
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