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It's the World Roundup (from the backyard of Martin's house in Chicago). This week Martin talks about the college Palestinian encampments and how both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli factions are getting things half wrong. Then we look at two very interesting stories that popped up in the news that you probably don't know anything about.

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First of all, check out Cory's website at www.corygoodrich.com. We discuss the visual art of Cory Goodrich on this podcast, and how her discovery of "a family secret" led her to creating art as a means of expressing her inner feelings.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Clarkston, Michigan, Cory Goodrich is a Jeff Award winning actress for her roles as Mother in Drury Lane Oakbrook’s acclaimed production of Ragtime, and as June Carter Cash in the Jeff nominated Johnny Cash revue, Ring of Fire at Mercury Theater Chicago, where she was also seen as Alice in The Addams Family, and Alma in The Christmas Schooner, and Carol Brady in the hilarious war between the Partridges and the Brady's in The Bardy Bunch. Most recently, Cory has been seen at Drury Lane as the onstage accordion player in Evita, and at the newly renovated Studebaker Theatre in the premiere of Skates, a New Musical, starring American Idol’s Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young.

A five-time Jeff nominee, Cory has performed in productions at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Theatre at the Center, Ravinia, Candlelight and Drury Lane. A Graduate of Michigan State University, she is also a singer/songwriter, producer, writer, and mother of two, children's composer with her two award winning CDs, Hush and Wiggly Toes, and three solo folk albums: W.O.M.A.N, Wildwood Flower, a collection of traditional and original folk songs featuring the autoharp, and her latest project, Long Way Around, produced by Ethan Deppe of The Quiet Regret. She is co-producer of six Season of Carols CDs (Season of Carols, Holiday Music to Benefit Season of Concern, which garnered over $200K for the charity.) and The Second City Divas, Live at Mercury Theater CD with Eugene Dizon.

Her memoir, Folksong: A Ballad of Death, Discovery, and DNA is available on Amazon.

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First of all, check out Cory's website at www.corygoodrich.com.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Clarkston, Michigan, Cory Goodrich is a Jeff Award winning actress for her roles as Mother in Drury Lane Oakbrook’s acclaimed production of Ragtime, and as June Carter Cash in the Jeff nominated Johnny Cash revue, Ring of Fire at Mercury Theater Chicago, where she was also seen as Alice in The Addams Family, and Alma in The Christmas Schooner, and Carol Brady in the hilarious war between the Partridges and the Bradys in The Bardy Bunch. Most recently, Cory has been seen at Drury Lane as the onstage accordion player in Evita, and at the newly renovated Studebaker Theatre in the premiere of Skates, a New Musical, starring American Idol’s Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young.

A five-time Jeff nominee, Cory has performed in productions at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Theatre at the Center, Ravinia, Candlelight and Drury Lane. A Graduate of Michigan State University, she is also a singer/songwriter, producer, writer, and mother of two, children's composer with her two award winning CDs, Hush and Wiggly Toes, and three solo folk albums: W.O.M.A.N, Wildwood Flower, a collection of traditional and original folk songs featuring the autoharp, and her latest project, Long Way Around, produced by Ethan Deppe of The Quiet Regret. She is co-producer of six Season of Carols CDs (Season of Carols, Holiday Music to Benefit Season of Concern, which garnered over $200K for the charity.) and The Second City Divas, Live at Mercury Theater CD with Eugene Dizon.

Her memoir, Folksong: A Ballad of Death, Discovery, and DNA is available on Amazon.

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Martin discusses the significance of the anniversary of the start of the Civil War with the firing on Ft. Sumter. How the war, which focused on the elimination of slavery, was also a war about class power, in this case, the Southern elite. The slave owners were determined to hold power and economic power by keeping people enslaved. Once the war ended, the next approach was to disenfranchise the newly freed Americans through Jim Crow. This was successful for almost a century until the rise of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. With civil rights came again the war on poverty which was truly an attempt at equality among the classes. This attempt was ultimately thwarted in many ways with the rise of the Republican party persuading Southern Democrats to switch. The rise of partisan politics, the Tea Party and eventually MAGA has been the continuation of trying to maintain and expand the 1% of society. Like their plantation forebears, these politicians have managed to persuade some of the yeomanry to "arms" on their behalf. While not exactly an overt war, it is nonetheless a war on equality: economic, rights and social standing. This has spilled into the 2024 election. Holding the funds for Ukraine, under the idea guise of border safety (in spite of a bipartisan compromise earlier this year) has endangered not Ukraine, but the standing of the United States. The Gazan war and the extreme right government in Israel has furthered endangered the west. Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria has once again directly brought in the United States into conflict. Oddly enough, the need for funds for Ukraine and Israel are hostage due to the erosion of the Republican Party.

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David Rocco Facchini is an artist's artist. He's at once a visual artist, making amazing sculptures out of found objects, such as bits of old movie equipment, he's a storyteller, a stop motion movie maker whose most recent film was featured at the Cannes Film Festival, and also an adventurer of sorts. He recently set out in a Sprinter Van to explore the psyche of America. The result is a new film, USA2Z, which is in the final stages of production. Facchini has a fun website with a lot of examples of his film and art and interviews. Check out www.dellaroccostudios.com.

This episode continues to delve into the complexities regarding community. As Facchini did his social experiment of word association, he became aware of how people percieve themselves. That community, government, religion and other social gatherings are somewhat skewed in this era of sound bites, social media, talking points and anger. People seem desperate to hold onto something as their very sense of self is under attack from variety of sources, all intent on making that self, theirs. Tune in to a wonderful insight to the state our human condition--now.

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Creator of independent films, found object artist, college professor and cultural intellectual, David Rocco Facchini joins me for a two-part conversation that is a must-listen for those who truly wish to be an independent artist.

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If there is one critter in the world that defies any logical explanation as to the benefit of its existence, consider the tick. Having been around for over 120 million years, the tick feeds on the blood of its host. The saliva contains an analgesic, an anti-coagulant and a glue to bond it to its host. And oh, a bunch of various parasites that they are host to that cause such diseases in humans as Lyme's disease. According to the CDC treatment for Lyme's disease is a 1-billion-dollar industry. Climate change (global warming) has resulted in populations of ticks moving north and local populations surviving winter. In 2022, the moose tick wiped out 90 percent of the calves studied in the state of Maine. That is a serious blow to hunting and tourism. The Asian long horned tick is now in the United States as well. This tick has been found as far north as Missouri and is moving towards Canada. There are a surprising variety of ticks out there and even cities have their resident populations of dog ticks. What are we to do? Thankfully there are some common-sense prevention practices that can help avoid a bite. And science is to the rescue as well.

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The Irish have been a race of people that have known their share of suffering. Millions died during the An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger or better known as the Potato Famine. The uprising of 1916 resulted in the partition of Ireland, a bloody civil war and untold dead. English politics and the result of having an island next to a world power ended up with Ireland oppressed and made to seem by their rulers, less than human. That sentiment was brought to the United States and pushed by such people as Thomas Nast, who gave us the wholesome image of Santa Claus, but with the same pen also gave us African-Americans and Irish the shared image of subhuman apes.
Enter Albert Balfour, who felt his suggestion to partition Ireland could work in other parts of the world. Thus Palestine, taken by the British after WWI was thought to be partitioned to create "a Jewish Ulster" and so keep the hostile Arabs at bay. The Jewish state came to fruition with the post WWII creation of Israel in 1948. The idea of two states, one Israeli and the other Palestinian has been the holy grail of peace lovers ever since. The recent events in Israel and Palestine, horrific and tragic, only serve to make it plainer to those who have been victims themselves of the utter uselessness that violence and pain will never give either side any satisfaction, let alone peace.

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