The Goldman State
Ed Goldman is a longtime newspaper and magazine columnist, the author of five books and creator of The Goldman State, a three-times-a-week online column with subscribers in 40 states, Canada and Europe. A professional playwright, composer and painter, Ed has also taught journalism at five California Universities and community colleges. His bucket list includes becoming the victim of a corporate takeover. This podcast is an extension of his unique take on the world around us and his interpretation, with all the creativity imaginable, of what that would literally sound like if he were to speak it.
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Choosing the proper schooling for one's future success is quite a feat. Somehow, I managed multiple colleges and some very "sobering" testing performances. Blame and embarrassment... well, you'll just have to listen.
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Adjectives. Hidden tyrants of our language. I believe you'll find this to be one of the most amazing, wonderfully written, cleverly worded ... ugh, enough already.
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100. My centennial episode! Yes, of course it's a good one. Our cities are shrinking, sinking and settling. Let me share my thoughts on the possibility why.
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Where are my discount coupons for those things that are the inevitabilities? Like cremation, or fire insurance or adult diapers? Why aren't those envelopes showing up in the mailbox? I have some thoughts...
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Yes, the BBC. Why are you surprised? The pictures... courtesy of the paparazzi.
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Have you been to the grocery or drug store lately and find your item under heavy security? For no good reason? I now know the answer.
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Seriously? What did you think I meant? I don't ever see myself doing that... ever. You do what's best for you. I'll take care of myself, thank you very much.
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Rebranding our parks, monuments and beloved entities more correctly, per Trump at least, and the reshaping of our Constitution for a "grave new world" are both examined in this episode.
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Einstein, yes. Wrinkle cream, uhhhhhh, not so much. I really do have something to say about it that I think you're going to find, well, brilliant.
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Rodent revelry in neuropathway discovery. What we can learn from mice and men.
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Does anybody really know who my podcast listeners are? Or how many or them I reach and oh, what's their socioeconomic makeup? How about why should anyone care?
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While travel to the middle-east might not be the current popular destination of choice, it is important if you are considering a trip there that you're prepared. For example, how would you address a sheik... with a shake? That's just one little tip for you in this virtual travelogue of an episode.
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Who decides what makes a day productive? You do. I do. So if I only get one thing of my choice done for the day, who's to say it wasn't productive? Even if it was from yesterday. At least it got crossed of...the list.
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Ensuite facilities, food service, 24 hour service at your beck and call. What more could one ask for? Plenty, I might suggest.
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Deliciously deceptive dishes from some of the most unlikely and, in some cases, unliked leaders of the world. With a little of my own spice added.
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Pardon czar, affordability czar, expense czar, what's next? Oh, surely I have some observations worth noting that you may be surprised to hear - or not.
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A recent report from a respectable organization sites 7 parking spaces exist for each vehicle in the country. Now how can that be and what can we do to ensure we maximizing this incongruency state to state?
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Tech quandries abound yet we're still doing far too much ourselves in my opinion. Why is it some technologies advance in the blink of an automated eye, yet others that should be advancing, languishing and causing us, to do-it-ourselves. You go D-I-Y. I've got the solutions for the rest of us in this episode.
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As a self-proclaimed 'man for no seasons,' and I mean seasons of all types, from weather to astrological, how is it one is able to survive? And given my astrological sign of Scorpio...
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Ever gotten lost in a maze of buildings on a campus of sorts? C'mon now, I know you have. What if we had our own personal sherpas to guide us? This episode I share my concept in full detail for those of us more prone to "lost" than "found."
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