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The King of Political Speeches?
2008-05-25 18:46:00 Many listeners and readers of this site recently said their interests tend toward both politics and speeches. For oratory of the first quality, few can rival the longtime senator from Massachusetts. Though many in Washington argue with his politics, Ted Kennedy speeches show why he’s an acknowledged premiere speechmaker of our time. Following the difficult health ... More About: Story , Political , The King , King , Speeches
EM 32 - New Word Memory Palace
2008-02-08 18:00:00 Download Episode 32 - New Word Memory Palace Into the narrow news gap between this year’s elections, wars, corruption and celebrity gossip, the media has shifted a momentary spotlight toward the latest in words. So, we find a flurry of coverage on new words, on favorite words, on odd words. These are key words they say ... More About: Story
EM 31 - Stories for Future Presidents
2008-01-29 18:04:00 Download Episode 31 - Stories for Future Presidents Up against all the hazards already in the world, we now find ourselves blinded by that recurring snowstorm of story-telling known as the US presidential campaign. An avalanche of these talks is trying to push us to believe that each of the would-be American presidents is a hero - ... More About: Story
Top 7 from 2007
2007-12-31 15:36:00 In case you missed these, here’s a countdown of the most popular Mojo episodes of 2007. In the seventh most popular episode on the list, Newest Campaign Tricks Part 2, we explored the mysteries of More About: Story
EM 30 - The UK?s Favorite Word
2007-12-14 18:00:00 Download Episode 30 - The UK's Favorite Word If you want to see into the hearts and minds of a people, your chance came recently with the British. Two thousand Brits each just weighed in with their favorite word in a poll conducted by a game maker. The 20 highest ranking favorites made their way into ... More About: Story
Approve this message
2007-12-09 19:27:00 “In a world where evil still exists…now is the time, this is the place…for our families, for our future, for America.” From the scary new action film trailer, or the 60-second campaign commercial of Mitt Romney? “We know what needs to be done… in this room right now…it?s time.” From an inspirational self-help group, or More About: Story , Message , Prove , Mess
Behind Nighttime Interrogations
2007-10-28 06:56:00 Detectives investigating murder have developed styles of Q&A that differ from the Hollywood renditions. MidnightJoe.com looks into their world in an advance excerpt from What Would a Detective Do?.
Latest on Celebrity Apologies
2007-10-28 02:00:00 Celebrities are again taking a beating in the media. Not long ago How Celebrities Say Sorry looked at the strange world of media apologies. EnglishMojo visitors loved this episode and made it the most popular to date. Now on the heels of Hugh Grant, Paris Hilton and Larry Craig comes a proposal in The Huffington Post ... More About: Celebrity , Polo , Logi
EM 29 - Naming Drugs: Superstars
2007-08-25 08:00:00 Download Episode 29 - Nami ng Drugs : Lifestyle Superstars You can’t fight human nature. Heroes who save us get our thanks, respect and veneration. But the true stars in our lives are more likely to be those who bring us pleasure and enhance our lifestyles. Theirs become the names we look for and remember. Drug makers haven’t overlooked ... More About: Story , Ming , Naming
EM 28 - Naming Drugs: New Words
2007-08-18 16:00:00 Download Episode 28 - Nami ng Drugs : New Words In each of these pairs of drug names one is actual, one is fictional. Can you tell which is which? Fans of Stephen King, MadTV and Star Trek will have an advantage. The choices: Norvasc & Novril; Qualex & Seroquel; Klonopin & Retinax; and Tretonin & Diazepam. In ... More About: Story , Ming
EM 27 - Naming Drugs: Superheroes
2007-08-09 10:12:00 Download Episode 27 - Nami ng Drugs : The Superheroes See if you recognize characters in the following short scene. Paxil faced Crestor saying, “Xanax of Lipitor seeks the Neurontin.” Hearing this, Zoloft rose from Levitra, dropped his Lyrica and crossed the Cialis to heave an Effexor into Zocor. The Celebrex cheered, “All hail Voltaren”. Names like these suggest superheroes ... More About: Story , Ming
EM 26 - Newest Campaign Tricks 2
2007-06-30 18:21:00 Download Episode 26 - Newest Campaign Tricks Part 2 Obama, McCain, Clinton, Giuliani - the leading deep-pocket candidates. Their hyperactive teams are working on new public statements daily. But do mesmerizing messages lie inside these? So far nothing these three senators and an ex-mayor have released matches the powerful prose of Abe Lincoln or ML King, Jr. ... More About: Story
EM 25 - Newest Campaign Tricks 1
2007-06-23 19:23:00 Download Episode 25 - Newest Campaign Tricks Part 1Are we going to be outsmarted by the candidates this election? Big money is coming to this latest American presidential contest, a billion dollars, making it the most expensive ever. And that means the wordiest. This bankroll has stimulated great flows of rhetoric from contenders in pursuit of the ... More About: Story
EM 24 - President?s Progress Part 2
2007-05-27 06:45:00 “No one knows how to define progress in such a mixed-up situation.” And so began a U.S. congressman’s proposal to use stock market techniques to measure war progress. As seen in Part 1, from the Constitution to the beginning of television to the latest headlines, Americans need progress. Or something that looks like it. The congressman found ... More About: Story , President , Progress , Resident
EM 23 - President?s Progress Part 1
2007-05-18 15:04:00 “Progress is a message that we send One step closer to the future One inch closer to the end” In this episode and the next we examine how, under immense pressure, the world’s most powerful leader chose to rely on a single word to defend himself and a highly unpopular war. Punk music, the world’s second largest company, ... More About: Story , President , Part , Resident
EM 22: The Lawyer King of Recall
2007-04-28 06:26:00 How often do you see history being made? Now an amazing drama of immense importance for the world’s strongest nation unfolds around a single word. And since the country in question is the United States of America, what’s not amazing is that lawyers fill center stage. The word at issue is “recall”. When it’s served up ... More About: Story , Lawyer , Recall , King , The Law
EM 21: Perils of Japanese English
2007-03-12 05:57:00 English-speaking travelers to Japan are now being overwhelmed by a new communications hazard. Rather than a lack of English causing problems, just the opposite is happening. Japan is producing English, and too much of it. Mystifying, home-grown Japanese English. Like its famous manga and anime, the whole country is awash in Japanese English. It leaps ... More About: Story , English , Peri
EM 20: White House Changes
2007-02-02 07:35:00 Times change. In recent days White House newcomers have been changing the speech of the US president. They are cleverly modifying his highest profile messages through the words he uses and how often he repeats them. The latest State of the Union address reveals a shift in text patterns introduced by the new speechwriting staff. They ... More About: Story , White House , Changes
EM 19: Surge Warfare
2007-01-20 05:58:00 Only a week after the US president announced that many thousands more American military were destined for Iraq, an amazing thing happened. The war ended. Even as he said, “Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship,” a winner was ... More About: Story , Surge , Fare , Warfare , Urge
EM 18: How Celebrities Say Sorry
2006-11-28 18:52:00 A parade of public figures has recently apologized. What did we hear? Not a simple “I’m sorry”, was it? Sorry is perhaps the hardest word for a celebrity - major or minor. Comedian Michael Richards, OJ Simpson publisher Judith Regan, Prime Minister Tony Blair and radio personality Rush Limbaugh all lately found out just how hard. Welcome ... More About: Story , Celebrities
EM 17: The Latest to Apologize
2006-11-19 15:24:00 Before you give your next apology, consider some recent results of saying sorry. After apologizing for his prime minister, an Australian was suddenly forced off-line. In Las Vegas a man who apologized was arrested and extradited. And Ohio teenagers - scheduled to court-ordered public apologies - were stopped by death threats. Even Japanese, perhaps the ... More About: Story , Late , Apologize , Polo , Logi
EM 16: This Election Explained
2006-11-06 08:56:00 Confused by an election? You may well have reason to be. But it’s easy to feel you understand. Lately, legions of candidates and commentators have been releasing thousands of sound bites to explain all. You can now see elections as simply as they wish you to, because recently their views flooded the news. You’ve likely heard ... More About: Story , Election , Laine
EM 15: Election Stabs
2006-10-28 18:23:00 Want to see a brawl among hundreds of expensively dressed men and women? You only need look at the politicians currently trading verbal punches in elections for 468 seats in the United States Congress. Political slugfests also happen in Britain, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere. But the stunning thing about this particular free-for-all is how the disappearance ... More About: Story , Election |
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