Maurice Manning hosts a podcast featuring poetry, music and history
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Join the Possum Times Gang for awesome analysis of the best movies ever created!
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Cleveland Sports fans talk Browns, Tribe & Cavs Cover art photo provided by Chris Chow on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@chris_chow
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My grandfather penned letters of complaint and praise to many businesses, newspapers and politicians. He called this activity ”Stirring the possum”. When he died, his letters were passed on to me. There are some absolute beauties. In this podcast, I read them to you.
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Possum and Peril are two deranged alphabet girls who work at a local comic shop and talk about comics every week! Giving our takes on the latest books to hit the shelves and all the things we are randomly reading anyways. Join us weekly as we gay scream our way through the books that get released weekly at our shop and talk about all the things girls like us seem to be reading
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Just before Thanksgiving, 2023 we were privileged to return to The Old Mud Meeting House in Mercer Co., Kentucky. The Meeting House was used to record Episode 6 of the first season of The Grinnin' Possum Podcast. This time we brought The Grinnin' Possumaires (Deborah Payne - Fiddle, Brian McDonald - Mandolin and harmony vocals, joining Maurice Mann…
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Possum In Peril ep 8! A very special episode
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Possum And Peril are back from the being alive mines to bring you another scandalous, titillating episode of comics talk with the girls! In this week’s episode, we talk about the crushing gravitational pull of the black hole of transmisogyny in comics; remembering Rachel Pollack and giving trans women their flowers; The Glorious Thousand Year Gay A…
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Possum In Peril Ep 7! Tynion Time
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After a surviving a startling courtship with CONTROVERSY, Possum and Peril are BACK to talk about comics the Neoliberal Media doesn’t want you to know about (queer comics for adults). This week the clock strikes midnight because it’s TYNION TIME! Possum and Peril are talking about the homo horrors of James Tynion IV, feat. The Nice House On The Lak…
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The Possum Outfit went all the way to Paducah, KY to find the remains of Rocky Hill Plantation, the sight of a ghastly murder during the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-1812. Maurice tells of the murder, committed by the nephews of Thomas Jefferson, the earthquake, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, young Abraham Lincoln and John James Audubon and the f…
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The Red River Gorge is a climbing Mecca and one of our great geological wonders. The intrepid GP crew hiked to beautiful Coppers Falls, crossing Copperas Creek approximately 273 times, microphone and banjo in hand, and used the massive rock house under the falls for natural reverb. There we recorded a reading of Treatise On Milk Gravy. On the retur…
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We loaded our recording equipment into a cigar box and headed for Pike County, Kentucky at the invitation of poet Jay McCoy, to visit the Church Of God In Jesus Name on his ancestral land on Chloe Creek, near Pikeville. Maurice reads To The Sons And Daughters Of Yee, and The Stranger then pulls out the banjo for an original song he wrote, based on …
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The Possum Crew ambled over to Bourbon County, KY to record at the Colville Covered Bridge. Built in 1877, the bridge is one of only a handful of covered bridges left in Kentucky. The 124 foot structure crosses Hinkston Creek and was likely turned into a musical instrument for the first time during our visit. We recorded A Thread Worth Pulling, Ora…
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Mercer County's Old Mud Meeting House, built in 1800, is the oldest low Dutch Reformed Church west of the Allegheny Mountains. As its name suggests, the walls are made of mud, and in concert with its amazing wooden beams and floor, create an incredible acoustical space. Maurice steps into the pulpit to recite A Reaching Thing, The Finding Place, an…
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The Possum goes mobile to record at Penn's Store in Gravel Switch, KY, the oldest continuously owned and operated country store in America (it opened in 1845!). Maurice sits on Penn's porch to read Knowledge Is The Sop and The Living Waters. This episode welcomes the company of several local dogs and the song Will there Be Any Stars In My Crown?…
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We're back in the Possum Den to record All The Ways Tippie Biggs Was Tied, Fattening Up A Possum, The Yonder Side Of Sourwood and Maurice plays I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground.Από τον Maurice Manning
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The GP Outfit goes to Mercer Co. to record The Complaint Against Roney Lawsell, The Invention Of Hooky, Why Pearlie Kept The Weasel and play the mournful Crash On The Highway. Maurice also recites an unnamed poem by his father, Alex Manning.Από τον Maurice Manning
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In the studio this week, Maurice reads The Treasure Book and Why Poor Old Mama Took To Bed. He then performs I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago on banjo and percussion, joined by Steve Cody on guitar and bass.Από τον Maurice Manning
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We visit Short Creek in Pulaski Co. Kentucky which is only 200 feet long, and Yahoo Falls in McCreary Co. which creates a towering 113 foot plunge for Yahoo Creek. Our first poems are There Was An Old Woman and The Breaking Man, and Maurice performs Farther Along on banjo.Από τον Maurice Manning
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Bruce does not complain about his recent travel experience in Thailand and Hong Kong; he does, however, have some suggestions.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce attempts to repair some peeling veneer from his 12-month-old bedroom suite.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce helpfully provides his local member of parliament with a thumbs up / thumbs down-style progress report.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Possum In Peril ep6
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Possum and Peril are BACK after being swept away in a storm to bring you an all-new episode! This week we discuss milquetoast mysteries and intriguing ideas in Clear #1; the hot dyke sh*t of ecoterrorism and killing your abuser in Posion Ivy #1-10; the grotesqueries of the service industry and the vacuous black hole souls of the rich in Spa; the be…
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Possum in Peril ep 5!
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Possum and Peril are back from the trenches of the Daniel Warren Johnson signing at the store [editor’s note: he’s so nice] to bring you this week’s very exciting episode! This week we talk about slow starts and desolation in Phantom Road; the contrasting coexistence of silly and grisly horror in I Hate This Place; Asian diasporas, what gets lost i…
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Possum in Peril ep 4
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Possum and Peril are back from being ill with another sick-ass episode. We’re back on the Tom King War Crimes Beat on Danger Street; international and infernal exploitation in Damn Them All; head-banging and tear-jerking in the work of Daniel Warren Johnson; inverting the imperial narrative, whose stories we tell and who tells them in 20th Century …
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Alright! this is our second episode! and doing a podcast is a lot! learning a lot about how to edit and create and how wildy gay my voice is! i used an AI program to edit out al the "umm's" but it sounds kinda choppy now? maybe its no big deal. ANYWAYS! today we talk about so many important things including the SAGA of Mr. Paper-Cuts on acid, also …
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Possum In Peril EP3
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In this week's electric episode, Possum and Peril talk about The Femcel Zone, war-criming wifeguy Tom King, Clogshorts Legussy, the trials and tribulations of trans women in the comics industry, J.O. magic, X-Men: Lesbians, the eternal soap-opera of gay family, and slice-of-life under the shadow of catastrophe and hypermilitarization, as well as oo…
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Here it is! first episode! how exciting! we just turned on the mic and talked about comics! we had been wanting to try this and we just went and did it, still figuring out our dynamic but i think this was a really fun first try! in this first wonderful episode we pulled the audio from our live stream on twitch and posted it on here as a podcast. We…
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Bruce misses out on an invitation to a barbeque because of a misprint in the telephone directory.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce has a suggestion for ABC Classic FM.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce's night light fails to impress.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce finds a number of good reasons to get on the booze.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce questions the value of signing up for a Fly Buys card.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce finds a price discrepancy between an item in a Victorian Mitre 10 and the same (recently purchased) item in a NSW Mitre 10.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce disputes a claim about who is "the first white man to swim the Murray River".Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce does his duty as a Trust member and protests the demolition of a State Bank building.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Nick says thank you to supporters of the podcast, especially the ones whose names start with SA.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce cancels his subscription to Reader's Digest.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce purchases two identically defective copies of a book... but all is not as it seems.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce uncovers some issues with the Reader's Digest Motoring Guide to Australia.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce's grandson pops in for a quick hello.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce writes to ABC TV with a programming suggestion.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce is upset when a close tennis match is interrupted by an AFL game.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce thoroughly enjoys a book, but has a few suggestions for future editions.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce is lucky to avoid a heart attack after receiving a bill from a doctor.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce observes the pros and cons of the latest federal election result.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce notices some safety issues at his local club.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce and Roma have their money eaten by a cigarette machine.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce buys some Earl Grey that is too strong for his palate.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce is disappointed with his new hose.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Roma experiences outstanding customer service at an optometrist.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce is unable to use a discount card at his local petrol station.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce investigates the previous Friday's mysterious absence of The Sydney Morning Herald from Holbrook.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce considers getting a pet.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce has a problem with a toilet roll.Από τον Nick Oliver
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Bruce happens across a delicious snack on a road trip, but will it be readily available back in Wagga Wagga?Από τον Nick Oliver
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