SFUltra is my attempt as a lifetime science fiction skeptic's attempt to get into the genre by reading 100 science fiction books I purchased in Wales one time. It gets published every two weeks.
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No matter the provocation, you'll look forward to hearing Kevin Reed more than Candice Cameron on The View. With Jamie Pierce keeping him real.
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The Lock In podcast, uploaded fortnightly, is provided by The Morning Advertiser, the leading content provider for the pub and bar industry since 1794. Our hosts are from media, brewing and pub operator view points giving a frank and honest view about what life running a pub business is really like.
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Not every lawyer defines success in the same way. The Leveraging Latitude podcast explores the various paths to cultivating a rich and fulfilling life in the law. Through conversations with leading lawyers and thought leaders from across the legal industry, Latitude’s Candice Reed and Tim Haley discuss best practices and personal stories relating to lawyers’ professional development, the evolving business of law, legal department and law firm leadership, and attorney wellbeing. Join them on ...
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Explanatory Collapse #19 - On The Beach: Nova Swing
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"For every detective novel, regardless of its story, is for every reader, above all, a novel about himself: about what happened to the reader as a human individual in general, as an individual developing from a child into an adult; as a living being who experiences continuous transitions there and back, from layer to layer of consciousness..." - On…
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Explanatory Collapse #17 - On The Beach: Light
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"Some roads are only seen at night Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs But some nights, the neon gas gets free And turns into walking dead like me And I've been making promises I know I'll never keep One of these days, I'm gonna leave you in your sleep I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name Baby, I was born on a train" - …
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Explanatory Collapse #9 - Viriconium Pt 3
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patreon.com/sfultra "...'For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices." - Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens…
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Explanatory Collapse #8 - Viriconium Pt 2
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"The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and bright The ashes fade away after consuming all the light The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and hot I used to know the way back home but somehow I forgot Through all the smoke I can’t see you What’s the thing you been turned into? Something fun, or someone new The fire of wild abandon Feel t…
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Explanatory Collapse #7 - Viriconium Pt 1
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“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music. It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.” - Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed patreon.com/sfultra
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Are you being served?
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Customer service is key to making your business a success, in the season finale, the Lock In takes a closer look at a key aspect that can make or break a pub.Por William Reed Ltd
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In an audio only version of the Review of the Week, the MA's Ed Bedington caught up with Brewhouse & Kitchen CEO Kris Gumbrell to get his take on the week's news.Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #29 - Liege-Killer - Christopher Hinz
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"I fire myself ten times a day I throw myself in a watery grave With fourteen horses on top of my head I hear the voice again and again" - I Fire Myself, Mary Timony
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Making the most of your ghost
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Pubs and ghosts go together like, well beer and pubs! Most pubs will lay claim to a ghost or two, so the podcast team take to the airwaves to talk all things spooky!Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #28 - The Third Eye - Lobsang Rampa
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"eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE" - Euphoria, Kendrick Lamar (intro sample from The Wiz) I'm happy to welcome back Matt to tackle this terrible book. Matt's youtube channel Bookpilled is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful reviews make him official YouTube Book GOAT. His patreon is worth it and then some. …
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S4 Ep. 14: Stars in bars! (Feat. James May, Candice Brown and more)
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Celebrities love owning pubs, so the Lock In team spoke to a few, including James May and Candice Brown, to find out why they couldn't find an easier way to lose money!Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #27 - Monarch - Candice Wuehle
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“...Thank God you let me crash on your couch Who's my God that I’m prayin' to now? … Made her go home, felt the virus Web of life is my weed, false dreams stripped by silence … Deals they had us sign, for years, it had mе blind Think I had to hit rewind and think about why I do shine … My whole family cursed, now get the fuck out my ride … Nothin',…
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Winning ways!
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As the dust settles on the recent Publican Awards, the Lock In team caught up with some of the winners to find out what makes them tick.Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #26 - Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine
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"You lie in the graveyard Well you're rotting away When I talk to you daily You've got nothing to say You lie in the graveyard Well you are down making plans Well you control all my thoughts Well you make dust fall" - Graveyard , Butthole Surfers
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Pie Hard (with a vengeance)
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To pie, or not to pie, that is the question asked in this episode of the Lock In podcast, as the team lift the (pastry) lid on what makes the perfect pub pie!Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #25 - Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
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"Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)" - Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
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Ahead of the game!
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The podcast team tackles the topic of pub games, from old school to new and ask how pub gaming is evolving and changing in the modern age.Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #24 - Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin
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"He looked round her drawing-room and marvelled how he, who prided himself on not being able to endure any-thing in bad taste, could tolerate this chamber of horrors. Everything, he mused, was beautified by his passion.." - Laughter In The Dark, Vladimir Nabokov One year anniversary blog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sfultra-year-1-99301744…
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WDYTYA?IA #5 - The Fifth Wound - Aurora Mattia
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Who Do You Think You Are? I Am. is a Perfect Taste Forever series about memoir and biography. PFT is usually patreon exclusive but this episode is free for everyone. patreon.com/sfultra I'm joined on this episode by Jolene, the host of the podcast When A Guy Has. We talk about The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia.…
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Perfecting the art of the serve
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Why is there a North/South divide when it comes to beer head and does Guinness really need to be poured in stages? The Lock In team tackle that and other issues around the concept of the perfect serve.Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #23 - How I Killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall
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"I'm living a fake, People say "You are entitled to and great" But I haven't wrote for 90 days, I'll get a good deal and I'll go away, Away from the empty brains that ask" - How I Wrote Elastic Man, The Fall
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In a special recording of the Lock In podcast, live at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs event recently, the team took to the air in an attempt to define what actually makes a gastropub?Por William Reed Ltd
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SFULTRA #22 - An Exchange Of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews
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"I do not deny that, among an infinite number of acts of violence and folly, some good may have been done. They who destroy everything certainly will remove some grievance." - Edmund Burke
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Going down the pan!
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Top toilets are vital for any pub operation, but are we always getting it right. The Lock In team go beyond the u-bend to find out how you can up your loo offer!Por William Reed Ltd
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"...when I put on my holster, I put God out of my mind" - Cop
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New Year, new opportunities?
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The Lock In team take a look ahead to see what 2024 has in store, both the opportunities and the challenges and how you can embrace both.Por William Reed Ltd
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"He did not work for posterity, nor did he work for God, whose literary preferences were largely unknown to him." - The Secret Miracle, Jorge Louis Borges
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SFULTRA #19 - Overlay - Barry Malzberg
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"Delight dwindles. Blame stays the same." - Briggflatts: An Autobiography, Basil Bunting I'm happy to welcome Matt on this last episode of SFUltra for 2023. Matt's youtube channel Bookpilled is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful reviews of books exactly like the one we're covering this week are precisely what m…
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Snowball anyone? Anyone?
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The Lock In team take a look at Christmas, from how to handle the irregular customers (Doreen from Accounts, we're looking at you) through to nostalgic tipples!Por William Reed Ltd
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"At the top of the hill You watch the world below Writhing with life You have two heads You feel one pushing out Trying to see Seeds Are planted In your mouth Whеn they bloom They burst from you Face Yoursеlf Your new Self" - Fawn, Body Void
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Children and pubs, a classic combination, or not! The Lock In team take a look at the joys of targeting the family market and how pubs can make it work.Por William Reed Ltd
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"Sometimes when I get up and emerge from the mists of slumber, my whole room hurts, my whole bedroom, the view from the window hurts, kids go to school, people go shopping, everybody knows where to go, only I don't know where I want to go..." - Bohumil Hrabal, Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka…
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Why are pubs hooked on fish and chips?
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Fish and chips are a staple of the pub menu, but why is that? The Lock In team cast their net to find out where the tradition comes from and why it's such a popular menu item.Por William Reed Ltd
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"Death's meaning I cannot read. To me death is above all things a smell, a very bad smell, and that, like the skeletons which terrify children, is not death at all. If I had to smell it more often, if I had to work in the catacombs, I would think nothing of it. And a few years or decades from now, I will think nothing about everything." - William T…
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Going to the dogs...
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With dog ownership booming, the Lock In team get to grips with how pubs can best embrace man's best friend and create the paw-fect (sorry) doggy offer.Por William Reed Ltd
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SKULL FRICTION ULTRA - The Magician - Christopher Zeischegg
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"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry
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The Lock In team take to the airwaves live at The Restaurant Show with two top operators to tackle the cost challenges the sector is facing.Por William Reed Ltd
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"All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?" - They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng
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The Legal Influencers series continues as Tim Haley sits down for a conversation with William Henderson, professor and Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. William is the founder and principal editor of Legal Evolution, an online publication that blends theory, data, and detailed examples of suc…
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Has customer behaviour got worse since Covid?
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The Lock In podcast is back, and we're taking a look at customer behaviour - are they getting worse? Are we getting worse?Por William Reed Ltd
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"Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't,…
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There’s something they aren’t telling us. Something we don’t know about. There’s more to it. There’s always more to it. This is what history consists of. It’s the sum total of all the things they aren’t telling us. –David Ferrie in Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988)
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Murder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner’s pain, the larger the torturer’s world.
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I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West. Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host of Live At The Death Factory, the o…
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"Art is creation in response to lack. Quite different from a stand-in for the archetype, which must be there, somewhere, the art object is a kind of fetish, a replacement for some real thing that is missing." - Mike Kelley
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SFULTRA #11 - Cleansed - Sarah Kane
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"Rattled by and by As if someone was right Drawn and downed Indifference stands But a light from deep It glows They must have seen it too Rattled" - Scald Scar of Water, Altar of Plagues
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Murder House Sold #2 - "...in cold blood with not a bother on him"
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I'm happy to welcome Mark O'Connell on this second episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime, to talk about his new book A Thread Of Violence. Mark's a fantastic author and journalist whose previous books To Be a Machine and Notes From The Apocalypse are both remarkable examinations of grim insistence entropy…
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SFULTRA #10 - Ice - Anna Kavan
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"I know that. The difference between male and female perversion. The action of the man is directed toward a symbol, not himself. The woman acts against herself." - In the Cut, Susanne Moore
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"Ok, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle Perhaps every fourth person is a dumb fuck Listen, listen carefully now here's the answer It rhymes with 'axe' Why...it's those personal acts of course Those personal acts Those suicide pac…
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We've spoken with a number of experts around how businesses can implement sustainability schemes into their operations in this special podcast episode.Por William Reed Ltd
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"Well, they called me a little so and so and so Yeah? Now they're hummin' a different tune Oh, this is a job for a stupid man Smoke it down to the filter and put it out on your hand" - Glamorous, Jesus Lizard
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