Beginnings and Endings
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Lunar Datebook episode 103 looks at beginnings and endings. Host Jennifer Ellsworth shares about her two first kisses, and reminisces about her days farming.
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Waldo County Smackdown! Jello Wrestling! Belfast vs. Interior Waldo County! The Movie!
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You are invited to watch the film of the event. Jamie "The Talons" Edwards takes on Jenny "Coydog" Tibbetts in this colorful battle for small town supremacy....
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A Love Letter to Chase's Daily
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth is leaving Chase's Daily and Chase Farm, but before she goes she offers these lessons.
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Moving Blood and "Obedience"
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Moving blood. This is the clinical definition of life as we know it—a beating heart, circulating oxygen rich blood through the body. It is also the evolutionary end game. Reproduction. Moving our bloodline forward. And a metaphor for inheritance. These themes converge in this season's episode. Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews dancer Shana Bloomstein, founder of Women's Works, about a piece she created with her daughter. And we read a short story about a gift passed down, called “Obedience.”
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Eddie Wonders Why—Act 2
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Act 2 of A Lunar Datebook Production's "Eddie Wonders Why," a radio play based on Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" where the ancient king becomes a modern mafia lord.
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Eddie Wonders Why—Act 1
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth reimagines the Sophocles' classic "Oedipus Rex" as a modern mafia drama "Eddie Wonders Why." Today's episode features Act 1 of this summer's Lunar Datebook production.
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Old School: interviews with Don Schultz and Danny Lobo
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews former Mount View High School history teacher Don Schultz and Middle School Spanish teacher Danny Lobo for their thoughts on public education as she prepares to send her oldest son to kindergarten.
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Gemini Lessons and "Amen"
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Lessons learned from the twins Castor and Pollux that make up the Gemini constellation. Also how to survive as a stage-whore-homebody, and a short story about escaping an abusive childhood.
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Spring Soapbox: Star Wars Philosophy and Instant Karma
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores the intersection between religion, science, and Star Wars. May the Force be with you....
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High Flight: Remembering Grandpa
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Lunar Datebook departs from its usual format to honor WWII pilot and POW, Roland E. Stumpff: host Jennifer Ellsworth's grandfather. She uses John Gillespie Magee Jr.'s famous poem "High Flight" as a guide to this man's extraordinary life.
info_outlineEpisode 86—June 23, 2017
The summer solstice brings the most light of the year, yet there are still things we cannot see. Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores the invisible 95% of the universe, Dark Matter. She also delves into Downtown Tattoo in New Orleans, Louisiana to hear about the secret history of a very public tattoo; and reads a short story called "Neighborly" where a young man runs into the rough past that he doesn't want to see.
"...Lawrence saw the old fucker immediately, standing alone at the end of the buffet table eating a hotdog. More grey, stooped in his shoulders and favoring his left knee, but still wearing green Dickies top and bottom, and that fool belt buckle, wide as a metal plaque outside a cemetery, engraved thus: Wanna see my lucky charms?..."
Moon Astrology: New Hay Moon in Cancer: Family ties bind.
Infinite energy out, the good son, and a starburst on the grill.