Twelve Powers of Entertainment

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Original air date: Monday, July 28, 2014

Oh the lights that shine!

We at Pop Conscious believe in the power of pop culture and the media to influence people positively, so we‘re going to find ways to illustrate the connection between entertainment and enlightenment using the Twelve Powers: Faith, Strength, Wisdom, Love, Power, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, Elimination, and Life. Can we do it? Tune in and find out!

Pre-Show Notes:

Each one has a human positive, and a human negative, as well as a spiritual expression.Wizard of Oz – Faith, Wisdom/Understanding, Heart, Will & Strength & Power,As Hero’s Journey –

• Faith –
  • Music: George Michael “Faith”
  • Movie: Steve Martin – Leap of Faith
    • Count of Monte Cristo – “God believes in you” , Strength, (Revenge)
    • “If you build it, they will come” Field of Dreams

• Strength – Perseverance
  • Music: “Strong Strong man to ever let you go,” – Rick Astley
  • Movie: Hulk, Avengers, Superheroes, Mutants – within us, but unknown – superherodb.com
  • TV: Wrestling, Bionics, Mutants
• Wisdom
  • Music: Schoolhouse rock, It’s in Every One of Us – David Pomeranz, Don’t Eat Yellow Snow – Pop Music Wisdom
  • Movie: harry Potter’s Dumbledore, Gandalf in the LOTR
  • TV: Oprah, Daily Show, Perception & Eli Stone – visions,
  • Mentors: Jiminy Cricket, Fairy Godmother, Merlin, Obi Wan
• Love – Harmonizing Force
  • Music: Higher Love – Steve Winwood, Divine Love Chant – Unity North Choir,
  • Movie: Butcher’s Wife – “Love is the leap that won’t be denied.” Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, (…& Malayna Dawn!)
  • Broadway: Wicked (For Good), Frozen
• Power / Mastery of Self
  • Music: M-Pact, acapella
  • Movie: The Color Purple,
  • TV: Downton Abbey, Grey’s Anatomy, talent shows
• Imagination
  • Music: With Imagination, I’ll Get There – Harry Connick Jr. (When Harry Met Sally – 25^th Anniversary!) John Lennon – Imagine
  • Movie: Lego Movie, Life is Beautiful
  • Other: Disney, Broadway, Cirque du Soleil !

British Media From Across the Pond

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Original air date: Monday, July 14, 2014

Episode Description:

We at Pop Conscious are Anglophiles. As much as we are proud to be Americans, we also admire England, its people, and its culture.  Join us as we share our love of the British invasions into our pop culture awareness in music, comedy, film, television, and wherever we can find it. Pip, Pip, Cheerio!

Moral of the story:  We can declare our independence, and still celebrate our shared history.

We also learned that it’s hard to talk.  Listen and find out!

SHOW NOTES (from Malayna):

~ My dad was in the British Royal Navy, and lived in England for a short time before coming to the US
~ I went to London for the first time when I was 7 years old
Early pop culture influences:
•    Mary Poppins – Julie Andrews – (Practically perfect in every way), Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Alice in Wonderland

•    Shakespeare in 5th grade – Midsummer Night’s Dream – I was stage manager. The same year, My Fair Lady was the musical, I played Mrs. Higgins, Henry Higgin’s mum. On the school bus, there was a kid who used to lead us in Beatles sing-alongs on the way home.
•    Monty Python & Fawlty Towers – 1985
•    My bro loved The Who, my dad took him to see them live in 1982.

RESEARCH
•    The British Invasion the 1960s influx of British music groups like The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, The Kinks,  The Rolling Stones, and The Who
(paraphrased from Wikipedia)

•   “Second British Invasion” The 80’s New Wave –In 1981, MTV ushered in new wave’s most successful era in the United States. British artists had learned how to use the music video early on — (especially Duran Duran’s musical travelogues of exotic locales like Sri Lanka & The Maldives).  New wave artists from the UK included Culture Club, Duran Duran and ABC, and The Thomson Twins.  (paraphrased from Wikipedia)
...Queen, George Michael, Elton John,
•    Do They Know It’s Christmas by Bob Geldof 1984, Live Aid 1985
•    Far Pavilions – 1984 – Amy Irving & Ben Cross  (Story of forbidden love in 1800’s Indi

Father Figures with Charles Holt

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Stacy and Malayna welcome Charles Holt, to talk about father-themed media. As a long-time member of the cast of the musical The Lion King, and the author of Between Me and Dad: A Journey through Forgiveness to Freedom, he has some insights. Between his tales of song, stage and screen and our pop culture Dad references, you’ll enjoy on a spiritual adventure!

Charles Holt!