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**Some Noise**

A podcast about the foolish pursuit of life, clarity and context.

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PROLOGUE — Ep. 002 — The Story of Me, Part II Dec 01, 2015

Show notes

Quote:

“I felt like there was a dark piece of you that was under there.”

-Rachel Crowe

About:

For Part II of this four-part podcast prologue, we return to the school years. It’s a life experience most people can relate to—good or bad—in large part because of the amount of time spent.

If you’re in your mid-20s and graduated from a four-year college or university, there’s a fair chance that you’ve spent almost one-third of your life waiting for some sort of bell to ring.

(You can do the math—[(# of semesters attended *~70 days per college semester)+(# of years spent in primary education*~180 days per primary school year) / [(# of years on Earth * 365 days of the year)]])*

So for this episode, I went back to school. I’ve interviewed long-time friends and folks that I haven’t spoken to in a long-time. I reached out to professors, classmates and foes. And a high-school coach who once taught Ralph Macchio—the Karate Kid.

How much have I changed? What did people think of me? Do people even remember who I am?

*P.S. You should know I’m bad at math, so if the above formula is suspect, please tweet it out. And then share the episode with everyone you know.

Notes:

[00:05] “Talk in Circles” by Barone
[03:38] Dix Hills, Long Island [Wikipedia, 2015]
[04:32] Half Hollow Hills High School West [U.S. News, 2013]
[06:15] “Clint Eastwood” by the Vitamin String Quartet
[10:00] More on Mario
[11:22] “A Poor Man’s Memory” by Explosions in the Sky

6a. ^^^ This was the song I listened to before I broke my five-minute mile

[12:08] On Ralph Macchio [USA Today, 2014]

7a. Coach Finn was Mr. Macchio’s health teacher at one point

[13:00] “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis
[13:05] Roger Bannister running the first ever four-minute mile
[14:20] On Kyle Merber (@therealmerb)
[16:45] Stony Brook Fight Song
[17:03] What’s a Seawolf? Still unclear.
[17:35] Stony Brook University [Wikipedia, 2015]
[18:16] U.S. News Review 1942, Issue No. 3
[19:00] A documentary worth watching on Heinrich Himmler [Salon, 2014]
[19:20] “SS Marschiert in Feindesland”
[21:00] More on the history of cakewalking. [NPR, 2013]
[21:55] “You’re Driving Me Crazy” by Charlie and His Orchestra

18a. ^^^FYI, this is a Nazi propaganda song

[22:55] Newspaper Production, An Educational Documentary 1937
[24:25] Harvey Aronson who co-edited “Naked Came The Stranger”
[24:55] Irene Virag and some of her writing
[26:20] Newspapers, Behind the Scenes, 1970
[26:50] The Stony Brook Press
[27:20] “A Tale of Two Cities”
[27:40] @vinbarone, who is also part of the band Barone
[29:00] The Story of The Press
[30:40] @RossBarkan
[32:45] “Ringer” by Barone
[36:50] @CarolinaHidalgo

PROLOGUE — Ep. 001 — The Story of Me, Part I Nov 24, 2015

Show notes

About: Who do you think you are?

It's not an easy question to answer. It shouldn't be. But I've tried to get the bottom of it by starting at the top.

To introduce this podcast project—Some Noise—the foolish pursuit of life, clarity and context—I've decided to report on the story of me. But why? If this is going to be a show about other people, their lives and purpose, then I think it's only fair it start with, well, me.

Who am I? Where do I come from? What are my values? And where do they come from?

I've interviewed family, friends, foes and strangers over the past year and asked them the very basic question—"Who am I?" It's a four part series about me, according to others, broken up into family, the school years, work life and the outside perspective.

Show Notes:

1. [00:45] "This Too Shall Pass" by Andre Paola Juan

2. [01:35] Bryan Hasho (@bryanhasho)

3. [03:10] Plato's Allegory of the Cave explained

4. [04:25] Ethan Watters (@ethanwatters1)

5. [04:40] Urban Tribes

6. [10:00] "Valley" performed by Quraishi

7. More about Quraishi (The Wall Street Journal, 2014)

8. [13:00] More on Afghan Tribes (National Geographic, 2003)

9. Recommended reading on Afghanistan's early history

10. [19:05] "Ai Ham Watan" by Ahmad Zahir (NPR, 2010)

11. [26:15] "Maida Maida" by Ehsan Aman (Los Angeles Times, 2001)