Listening to The Movies

Why watch a movie if you can’t see the screen? Matthew and his friend Ben take in a Marx Brothers film and showcase the power of a good description. Blind Guy Travels is written and performed by Matthew Shifrin, and produced and sound-designed by Ian Coss. Blind Guy Travels is a production of Radiotopia from PRX and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed debuting limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices. Learn more about Blind Guy Travels and access transcripts at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.

Radiotopia Presents: Blind Guy Travels

In today's episode, Andy talks about society's misconception regarding humility, why being a good follower translates well into being an effective leader, and how to fast-track your progression by learning from other people's mistakes.

330. Misconceptions Of Humility: How To Become An Effective Young Entrepreneur

The first people who lived on the northern plains of what today is the US called themselves "Lakota", meaning "the people", a word which provides the semantic basis for Dakota. The first European people to meet the Lakota called them "Sioux", a contraction of "Nadowessioux", a now-archaic French-Canadian word meaning "snake", or enemy.

The Lakota also used a metaphor to describe the newcomers. It was "Wasi'chu", which means "takes the fat", or "greedy person". Within the modern Indian movement, "wasi'chu" has come to mean those corporations and individuals, with their governmental accomplices, that continue to covet Indian lives, land, and resources for private profit. "Wasi'chu" does not describe a race; it describes a state of mind.

This book is about resistance to that state of mind and to the economic system that rewards it. 

Wasi'chu by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas on Audible:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Wasichu-Audiobook/B09CHHXQKZ

Buy on Audible

Wasi'chu by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas, Narrated by Jason Ryll (Chapter 7)

&nbsp;<a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/07/07/democrats-have-a-hispanic-problem?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our series</a> on America’s mid-term elections begins with a visit to a citizenship class in Doral, Florida, given by Republicans. We examine how the GOP is cutting into Democrats’ advantage with Latino voters. Britain’s trial of a <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/07/21/a-superhighway-for-drones-to-fly-between-british-cities?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">superhighway for drones</a> is a bid to unleash their commercial potential. And meeting &nbsp; a <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/07/28/a-thai-pop-star-uses-her-music-to-critique-her-homeland?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thai dissident</a> issuing dystopian pop music from self-imposed exile. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Latin-ex Democrats: Republicans and Hispanic voters

Rights for women and girls have regressed by decades; the economy is cratering. Yet, for many rural Afghans, things are actually <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/08/11/afghanistan-is-poorer-and-hungrier-than-a-year-ago?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">better</a> than they were before America scarpered. Silicon Valley types once righteously spurned the military-industrial establishment—now they’re <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2022/08/08/can-tech-reshape-the-pentagon?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">queuing up</a> to fund defence startups. And the surprising truth about the most famous scene in “Bambi”, which is <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/08/11/bambi-offers-a-horrifying-portrait-of-eco-catastrophe?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">turning 80</a>.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Poorer, hungrier, safer? Afghanistan one year on

Bookmakers #20 - L’auteur du mois : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Né à Dakar en 1990, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr est devenu – en 2021 et à 31 ans – le premier écrivain d’Afrique subsaharienne consacré par le plus prestigieux des prix littéraires français, le Goncourt, pour « La plus secrète mémoire des hommes », enquête au long cours et labyrinthe narratif enivrant, inspiré par le destin tragique du Malien Yambo Ouologuem (éditions Jimsaan / Philippe Rey). Mais avant le succès, ce wonderboy des lettres africaines était déjà l’auteur de trois romans diablement maîtrisés, aux sujets casse-gueule : « Terre ceinte » (2015, sur les milices djihadistes), « Silence du chœur » (2017, sur l’accueil de 72 migrants en Sicile) et « De purs hommes » (2018, sur l’homophobie au Sénégal). Il vit et travaille aujourd'hui à Beauvais (Oise).

En partenariat avec Babelio.

Mohamed compte triple (1/3)
« Il faut surveiller ce petit. » En 2014, Léonora Miano lit « La Cale », l’une des premières nouvelles d’un écrivain sénégalais de 24 ans. Frappée par la justesse de cette évocation des horreurs de la traite négrière qu’on croirait échappée d’un recueil de Conrad, la romancière franco-camerounaise formule un avertissement qui a l’épaisseur, aujourd’hui, d’une prophétie. Il fallait garder un œil, oh que oui, sur Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, fils de médecin, fan de foot et champion de Scrabble, dévoreur de dictionnaires, « fruit du croisement » d’au moins deux spiritualités : d’un côté, sa culture musulmane, de l’autre la culture sérère de son enfance, du nom de cette ethnie qui rassemble environ 20 % de la population du Sénégal. Un peuple essentiellement agricole, dit-il, « structuré autour d’une tradition animiste liée aux rites de passage et attentive aux ancêtres, au prochain, à l’hospitalité ».

Mais qui est donc ce jeune vieux sage à l’éloquence élégante, que la France découvre en novembre 2021 – lorsque celui-ci reçoit, à 31 ans, le Goncourt pour son quatrième roman, « La plus secrète mémoire des hommes » ? Quel fut le parcours de ce modeste étudiant qui parle, depuis ses 6 ans, le sérère, le wolof (langue vernaculaire du Sénégal) et le français ? « Lorsque j’écris, explique-t-il, je dois transposer en français l’imaginaire de ma langue maternelle. Je ne traduis pas d’une langue à l’autre, mais d’un imaginaire à l’autre. Je reste donc un étranger dans la langue française, qui est un héritage de la colonisation – ce qui peut mettre très mal à l’aise. Plutôt que d’en faire une difficulté, j’ai décidé d’assumer cette condition : une aventure ambiguë », conclue-t-il, en reprenant le titre du grand roman d’un maître et compatriote, Cheikh Hamidou Kane.

Dans ce premier épisode, partons à l’aventure dans les ambigüités fertiles de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, du pagne de ses grands-mères à la bibliothèque du lycée militaire de Saint-Louis, jusqu’à son arrivée dans l’Oise, sa thèse abandonnée sur les débuts de la littérature postcoloniale en Afrique francophone, et… un blog, qui fut la serre de sa vocation, la serre de Sarr.

Enregistrement : mai 22 - Texte, voix, entretien, découpage - Richard Gaitet - Prise de son, montage : Sara Monimart - Réalisation, mixage : Charlie Marcelet - Musiques originales : Samuel Hirsch - Illustration : Sylvain Cabot - Remerciements : Gloria Saltel, Clarisse Le Gardien - Production : ARTE Radio

Bookmakers : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1/3)

Hungarian composer Rezső Seress dreamed of changing the world with his music. He did.

Producer: Davey Kim

Gloomy Sunday

It's scary, baby!

This week, Snap sneaks after monsters going bump in the night.  

Listen to "Spooked" on NPR Stations nationwide, or click the link right now (if you dare) . . .  

Listen to the entire Snap Judgment "Spooked: The Origin"

We live in a world that is recreating itself one life and one digital connection at a time. On this landscape for which there are no maps, Seth Godin is a singular thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial "connection economy." Rather than merely tolerate change, he says, we are all called now to rise to it. We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people.

See more www.onbeing.org/program/seth-godin-on-the-art-of-noticing-and-then-creating/5000

Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

Those "How To Hypnotize" books? Some of them actually work. But be careful how (and who) you place under a trance. Host Glynn Washington tells the story.

Snap Judgment

Getting Sleepy / Snap Judgment, "By The Book"

While shooting the cultish webserie “New York Minute”, Samuel Hirsch recorded some urban sounds and voices for this short Afro-American ballad.  
Recorded on March 2010 - Directed by Samuel Hirsch - Produced by http://arteradio.com
Balade sonore à New York, avec sons urbain et voix afro-américaines. Enregistrée et montée par Samuel Hirsch pendant le tournage de "New York Minute", la web série culte produite par ARTE Radio.  

Download : http://bit.ly/1gFFt92


NY state of mind

Snap Judgment is a weekly storytelling radio show and podcast, hosted by Glynn Washington. Snap mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a BEAT!!  Snap first aired on NPR stations nationwide in July 2010. Snap Judgment is now aired on over 400 public radio stations.