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Words Matter
by Nick Hahn
From the first cry from your Mother’s womb to where you are today, words matter. Words drive your life, words define you, words tell us who you are and who the world thinks you are. This podcast will explore great words in history, stay tuned, it’s quite a ride.
Episodes
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Drone by J N Hahn
PROLOGUE
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LOVE
Love is a common word, hackneyed, used over and over for everything but what the poets intended.
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Chap IV-Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees
I could spend a happy morning Seeing Roo, I could spend a happy morning Being Pooh. For it doesn't seem to matter, If I don't get any fatter What I do.
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Lou Gehrig-1939
For speechwriters, it's not about length, it's about words. Lou Gehrig moved 60,000 fans in Yankee Stadium to tears with this brief talk. The lesson is he spoke from the heart, the emotion was palpable. My guess is Lou Gehrig never took a creative writing class, but he sure could write. "I…
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The House At Pooh Corner~Chap 3
A.A. Milne’s wonderful dedication of this book to his Mother: “You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see~ It would be my present to you my sweet…
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The Ghosts Of Democrats Past
1928 Democratic National Convention, Houston Texas "A Clear call comes to us today to fight anew under the Jeffersonian banner, with the Jacksonian sword, and in the Wilsonian spirit, and crashing the gates of privilege, make Jeffersonian democracy a living force again in the lives and homes of...
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Carl Sagan at Gettysburg
"We Make Mistakes. We Kill Our Own."
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LEND ME YOUR EARS
Friends, Readers, Students of Rhetoric, Would-Be Orators: Lend Me Your Ears. William Safire, 1997
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George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein
The heavenly bodies go in curves because that is the natural way for them to go, and the whole Newtonian universe crumpled up and was succeeded by the Einstein universe.
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Billy Sunday~A Revival Sermon
I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives.
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King Edward V111 Abdicates
..... I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility without the help and support of the woman I love..."
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The Darkest Hour
In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. (Can you imagine making that decision?)
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Indian Chief
This brief pledge of assistance was delivered to the Massachusetts Congress in 1775
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Elizabeth 1 Addresses Her Troops
I know I have but the body of a weak and fickle woman; but I have the heart of a king....
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Noble Laureate William Faulkner-1950
On the occasion of his Nobel Prize for Literature , Stockholm 1950. Faulkner charges writers with their duty to help humanity prevail.
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Legendary Yale Professor, William Lyon Phelps
"Books are for use, not for show, you shouls own no book that you are afraid to mark-up..."
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Branch Rickey does Ty Cobb
Branch Rickey discovers the quality that makes a ballplayer great
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"Let Them Trimble", Napoleon 1
Napoleon Exhorts His Troops Against the Enemies of France
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Kennedy Inaugural
President John F. Kennedy, In His Inaugural Address, Takes Up The Torch For A New Generation.
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PEACE
On September 13, 1993, in the White House R,ose Garden, Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, shook hands with his lifelong enemy.
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Grenfell Tower by Ben Okri
If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower. The Nigerian writer, Ben Okri, impassioned poem on the horrific fire.
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LAHORE
How does a place, not a person, become the protagonist, the main character in your story? Listen and learn how a place can ingulf your iminagination.
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Dark Night Of The Soul
John of The Cross expained it perfectly, that dark secret place where you live with your anxieties, fears, trials and errors that place where all great wrtiters go to find true creativity un-fettered by exposure. Mark Matousick, award winning writer and memorist, says it best: "When you tell the...
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Tigger Has Breakfast by AA Milne
Winnie The Pooh for all ages by A.A. Milne
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The House On Pooh Corner by AA Milne
I've been recording Pooh for my grandchildren, they love it, yours will too!
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Intervention
The first few paragraphs of a fictional account of my life as an economic development consultant in dangerous places.
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LEO
Leo sings the blues
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Sojourner Truth~Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth, an iconic abolitionist, and feminist delivered a speech in 1851 that would be as relevant today as it was then. Her simple words powered women's rights and civil rights, words do matter, listen and learn why
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Bernstein On JFK
Leonard Bernstein on the Only True Antidote to Violence and His Moving Tribute to JFK William Safire has done a masrerful job assembling words that have changed the world in his seminal work: GREAT SPEECHES IN HISTORY.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
From the first cry from your Mother’s womb to where you are today, words matter. Words drive your life, words define you, words tell us who you are and who the world thinks you are. This podcast will explore great words in history, stay tuned, it’s quite a ride.
HOSTED BY
Nick Hahn
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