Freedom Train Presents: Lessons From the Screen
91 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLessons From the Screen is a Podcast that gives a review of Digital Documents and programs and some takeaways for building a better Black Community. New Shows every Thursday.
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LftS: 2 Trillion Dollars!?! Pt.1
April 09, 2020 05:27Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>The Beast is here! Today we start our series looking into the largest stimulus package in American History. For once Trump can say he signed the biggest bill into law in American History and not have the fact checkers start twitching. As Covid-19 continues to spiral out of control here in the US, a 3rd bill has become law centered on getting the country through this intact. We talked about the money in the last 2 laws, bo [...]
LftS: Families First Coronavirus Response Act
March 30, 2020 22:33 - 44.7 MBThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>We are getting back into it this week. 2 weeks ago on March 18th, HR 6201 or The Families First Coronavirus Response Act was put in place. While I know the message we released Sunday said we were going to be talking about this law and the historic stimulus package. We decided that these bills are too important to try to cram together or rush through, and seeing as how the stimulus package is over 850 pages we decided to take [...]
Delay In the Show
March 29, 2020 16:22Covid-19 has made everyone change the way they do things. Unfortunately for this show, a lot of those changes have interfered with our ability to maintain our schedule. We will still be producing a show it is just delayed at the moment because we don't want to put out a sub-par product. We expect the show to be released Monday with another show released a few days later and another one released a few days after that as we catch up with the latest legislative activity. [...]
LftS: The Fall of the Cabal 0/5 (NOT WORTH YOUR TIME!)
March 21, 2020 22:35 - 82.8 MBThe Great AwakeningQ MapThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Covid-19 StatusWe were going to give another in depth review of the current status of the Covid-19 and address some more myths. But we decided that since we are going to be doing that on the Freedom Train Podcast, and since many people want to talk about something else, we decided to go in a different direction. The Qanons have been around since 2017 as an alt-right conspiracy group that all but worships (a [...]
LftS: Covid-19 Update
March 15, 2020 07:56 - 48.1 MBThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>HR 6074: Corona AppropriationsHR 6201 Families First CoronaAs Covid-19 continues to spread across the globe, things have ticked up here in America as well. As of Friday the number of cases stood at 1629 with 41 deaths. 46 states and the District of Columbia have reported cases and over 1300 of those cases are still under investigation as to how the person got infected. State governments have taken it upon themselves to start [...]
LftS: A Look at the Democratic Primary
February 22, 2020 23:24 - 27.3 MBThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>During this show we take a look at the Democratic Primary now that the number of candidates is reasonable. The primary question of this show:Can any of these people defeat Donald Trump?Using the latest debate from Las Vegas, Nevada, we take a look at the overall party and how the candidates are conducting themselves during this stage of the election. Tune in for our take and share yours by going to the Freedom Train Website and dropp [...]
LftS: Updates & 2020 State of the Union Address
February 09, 2020 00:25 - 48.8 MBThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>The Coronavirus continues to surge infecting more than 35,000 people worldwide and killing 805 including 1 American in Wuhan. President Trump is acquitted in the senate and goes on a retaliatory firing spree. Those are the updates, but the meat of the show is the 2020 State of the Union address given by Donald Trump this past week. Patrick Irvine leans in going over the first 50+ lies in the address. Let us know if y [...]
LftS: Coronavirus and Impeachment Update
February 02, 2020 01:48 - 22.2 MBThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Today we have an update show for the Coronavirus that continues to spread at an alarming rate and the Impeachment of Donald Trump. Both of these events are continuing to develop and both of these events are history making. Tune in and share your thoughts!LftS Coronavirus and Impeachment Update.mp3File Size:23230 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Wuhan Coronavirus
January 25, 2020 23:15Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>2019 brought a lot back into focus. It was like the throwback Thursday of the 2010s. Beyond just bringing back ideologies, policies, and overt hostilities, it also brought back various diseases, one of which seems to make its rounds every year and roughly every 10 years in a really dangerous form. We are talking about the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly across the globe. In this episode of Lessons from the Screen, w [...]
LftS: Freewheeling on Iran, Ukraine, & Impeachment
January 18, 2020 20:36Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Iran and Ukraine are at the heart of 2 of the most significant political situations in America today regarding foreign Affairs, separate issues that have become intertwined. Impeachment however is the most significant political situation in America today period, and Ukraine is right at the heart of that as well. On this episode of Lessons from the Screen, we are going to be free wheeling on these topics. You guys said you li [...]
LftS: Iranian Assassination
January 11, 2020 21:45Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>On January 3, 2020, just as we were getting warmed up to the new year, Trump decided he would say hello to his good friends in the Middle East by sending a drone to assassinate the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and several other Iraqi military officials. The strike happened as Soleimani was leaving his flight into Iraqi in order to deliver a message from Iran to Iraq regards request made. Since the strike, Iran has completely ba [...]
LftS: Space Force
December 22, 2019 00:32Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>In early 2018 President Trump in a speech announced to the world his intentions on supporting the creation of a Space Force. While many of us shrugged it off as a joke or a lie (depending on your view of the president) he was dead serious on capitalizing on the work that had been done in the years prior. Discussions on the establishment of a space force have been going on for decades in small circles and behind closed doors, but b [...]
LftS: Thoughts on Current Events
December 07, 2019 08:00Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Trying something new this week, host Patrick Irvine shares some of his thoughts on current events. Tune in and tell us what you think. Thoughts on Current Events.mp3File Size:38818 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Undercover Brother 2 - 2/5
November 24, 2019 00:02Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Earlier this month, Michael Jai White decided to extend his connection to films that pay homage to the blaxploitation era. Blaxploitation was an era of movie-making history during which Black Films were recognized as a source of cheap profits for Hollywood. Something I talked about a bit during the Dolemite show. Black Dynamite was a wonderful addition to the genre and a great homage paying endeavor, during this show, we are [...]
LftS: Impeachment Process Rerun
November 10, 2019 00:08Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Because of all the questions I've been getting about the impeachment process, we decided to rerun the show we did on that very topic in September. Hopefully, it answers all of the questions that have come up since the Republicans started attacking the process. Click on the button below for the original show notes and links. ImpeachmentImpeachment Process Rerun.mp3File Size:30737 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Dolemite is My Name 5/5
November 02, 2019 19:00Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Last week, Dolemite is My Name hit netflix. A film produced by and starring Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, the man that brought Dolemite to the Big Screen. Even if you don’t know who or what Dolemite is, there is a pretty good chance you have interacted with something influenced by Rudy Ray Moore, especially if you are a Hip Hop head. In this episode of Lessons from the Screen, we are going to be getting into Dolemite, Bl [...]
LFTS Rerun: The Long Game - 10/9/2018
October 26, 2019 22:50Click Here to go to the Original ShowThank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>This is a Rerun Show, the original show air 10/9/2018.With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans have effectively consolidated power for the next few decades on the supreme court, effectively gaining control of the judicial branch far into the future. At this point, they have control of all three branches of government on the federal level. The 33 governors mansions that are lived in by repub [...]
LFTS: Kurds, Turkey, and the US
October 19, 2019 07:00Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Earlier this week, on the order of Donald Trump US troops were pulled from Syria and the embedded positions they held with Kurdish Forces (if you recall from the show we did in April of 2018, which will be linked below, the Kurds have been strong allies of the US helping to fight terrorism in the region). After US troops had been removed from their positions, US NATO ally Turkey rolled in and rolled over Kurdish forces going as far as 3 [...]
LftS: The Vaping Crisis
October 12, 2019 23:04Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Take the Survey to Support Pacts Inc.On October 1st the CDC, FDA, and numerous other health departments and organizations announced a nationwide investigation into an outbreak of lung injuries that have been associated with vaping. For years vaping has spread through the US as a substitute for smoking cigarettes, a way to stop smoking cigarettes, a way to take marijuana, and as a cool recreational tool. in the last few years, we h [...]
October 05th, 2019
October 05, 2019 17:08Due to family issues, the show for today has been delayed. We hope to release the show as soon as the family matters are resolved. Thank you for your patience. [...]
LftS: Impeachment
September 28, 2019 22:57Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Scandal after scandal, through broken laws, rules, norms, and traditions Donald Trump’s presidency has seemed unassailable. The Republican party has been overtaken by an extreme wing of “alt-righters” that are dead set on defending Trump regardless of what he does. The Democratic party has been at war with itself as the far left fights with the moderate and conservative left on how to deal with Trump. This is cre [...]
LftS: Screwball - 4/5
September 19, 2019 06:42Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Those of you that follow the show know that we are not afraid of being late to the party when it comes to documentaries, and we are fashionably late here. Although the film made its American debut in March of 2019, it hit Netflix in the first part of August, and it didn’t hit our radar until early September. Do we need another film about steroids, baseball, superstars, drugs, and the Miami dark side? Do we need more docume [...]
LftS: The Great Hack - 4/5
September 12, 2019 08:41Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>The Summer of 2019 has just ended however the ramifications of the things that transpired and that were discovered will continue to shape global history forever. The social media and digital giants faced a world that was a lot more inquisitive about their business models and a lot more aggressive in how it sought answers to those questions. A 2-year federal investigation wrapped up in April of 2019 and at its core was the la [...]
LftS: Hong Kong
September 05, 2019 21:33Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Following the proposal of the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation in February of 2019, a series of protest swept through Hong Kong that continues to this day. The bill would have made it possible to detain and extradite people accused of criminal acts to countries that Hong Kong does not currently have extradition agreements with. The bill was proposed because the Hong Kong government wanted [...]
The Kid, The Truck, & Society
August 29, 2019 09:53Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Lessons from the Screen is back after a slew of situations preventing the release of new episodes. In this return show which also happens to be the last show of Mental Health Awareness Month on the Freedom Train Network, we are going to be talking a terrible tragedy and the communities response to it. LftS The Kid The Truck and The Society.mp3File Size:29908 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Iran
August 02, 2019 02:44Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Despite having no formal diplomatic relations since the 1980s, Iran and the United States can’t seem to get enough of each other. That love to hate relationship was cranked up another level with the withdrawal of the US from a Nuclear Deal, the reimposing of sanctions, and the increased economic pressure the United States has been placing on other countries forcing them not to deal with Iran. As powder continues to be added to t [...]
LftS: The ACA (ObamaCare) is Still Under Fire!
July 19, 2019 02:14Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Many of us thought that after the last challenge to the Affordable Care Act was defeated, it would finally just be accepted as the law of the land. President Trump said as much after his republican cohorts in congress failed to repeal it and failed to construct a suitable template for a replacement. But that should have been one of all of our strongest indicators that it was not going to be allowed to exist and that they would not [...]
No Show This Week
July 12, 2019 21:44Thank you for listening and supporting Lessons from the Screen and the Freedom Train Network. Unfortunately, due to various issues, we are not able to provide an episode of Lessons from the Screen this week. We look forward to bringing you more high quality content and we will be back next with with an episode focused on the current efforts to dismantle Obama Care and we will be following that up with an episode focused on the current happenings in Iran. Thank you again for you [...]
LftS: Fourth of July
July 04, 2019 07:00Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>The questions remain, what does July Fourth mean to Black People and what has been done to change that meaning? Just like last year, we want you to think about these questions and more as you listen to Douglass's Speech on the Fourth of July. Leave your thoughts and comments below.Speech TextThe Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.mp3File Size:19510 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: The Black Godfather 3/5
June 27, 2019 19:39Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>In June of 2019 Netflix pulled back the curtain on Clarence Avant, a Black Man from Greensboro, North Carolina born in the 1930s who rose to become one of the most influential Black Persons in Entertainment. Best friends with Quincy Jones, mentor to a slew of Black Entertainers of all strips, and supporter of politicians, this documentary pulled out all the stops featuring 2 former presidents and a whole host of A list Black Stars to te [...]
LftS: Brands vs Generics
June 21, 2019 02:42Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>We are at this moment in the middle of a crisis. Drug prices are simply out of control and superbugs are on the rise making drugs less effective. However, out of control prices are the first issue of concern right now because millions of people have to make do without the drugs they need because they cannot afford them. Enter generics, the low-cost option for those that cannot afford expensive brand name drugs. However [...]
LftS: No Show - Emergency
June 14, 2019 01:16Unfortunately, because of a serious of family emergencies and technical problems. We aren't able to put out the show that we wanted to put out today. We will be back next Thursday with the show on Brands vs. Generics. Thank you for your patience and support. [...]
LftS: Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom
June 07, 2019 01:32Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>Earlier this year a bomb dropped as Katherine Eban released the culmination of roughly a decade of research and investigative work on the Generic Drug Industry, and the explosion should be huge. In this Episode of Lessons from the Screen we are going to be taking a look at Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban.The book starts out introducing us to an FDA Inspector that ends up in a foot race down a hallway chasing [...]
LftS: Black Women Celebration Profiles Pt. 3 2019
May 23, 2019 20:21Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>During this episode of Lessons from the Screen we are going to be looking at the Women that have been profiled thus far highlighting the fact that everyone can make up their minds to do something beneficial for the community and have an impact. It doesn’t matter whether you get famous or not, it simply matters what you are doing. LftS Black Women Celebration Profiles 3.mp3File Size:12362 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Black Women Celebration Profiles Pt. 2 2019
May 16, 2019 18:43Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>During this episode of Lessons from the Screen we are going to be looking at the Women that have been profiled thus far highlighting the fact that everyone can make up their minds to do something beneficial for the community and have an impact. It doesn’t matter whether you get famous or not, it simply matters what you are doing. LftS Black Women Celebration Profiles 2.mp3File Size:31745 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Black Women Celebration Profiles 2019
May 09, 2019 18:58Thank you for Listening Please Share <\audio>During this episode of Lessons from the Screen we are going to be looking at the Women that have been profiled thus far highlighting the fact that everyone can make up their minds to do something beneficial for the community and have an impact. It doesn’t matter whether you get famous or not, it simply matters what you are doing. LftS Black Women Celebration Profiles.mp3File Size:28530 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Re-run How Democracies Die
May 02, 2019 17:26Thanks for listening.Unfortunately we weren't able to produce the show we wanted to as an introduction to our Black Women's Celebration Month of May for technical reasons. But we have decided that, given the current political environment, to re-run the show on How Democracies Die. To go directly to that show post Click Here. How Democracies Die Re-Run.mp3File Size:28716 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]
LftS: Sudan
April 25, 2019 21:06Thanks for listening.The turmoil happening in Venezuela while definitely extreme is not totally unique when the extremeness of the situation is removed. A less extreme but potentially more explosive situation is occurring right now in Sudan. Most of us are somewhat familiar with Sudan with the southern portion of it becoming a separate nation in July of 2011. This made South Sudan the first new country to come into existence in Africa since Eritrea split from Ethiopia in 199 [...]
LftS: Measles and Vaccines
April 18, 2019 20:27Thanks for listening.In 2000 the US declared itself Measles free. Thanks to a measles vaccine that had proven to be very effective at preventing the spread of the disease, measles went from infecting 3 to 4 million people per year to infecting less than 100 in 2005. But the disease won’t fully go away and the numbers of the infected have begun to rise. We are currently experiencing outbreaks of various levels in more than 25 states some of which have declared a state of em [...]
LftS: Larry Charles Dangerously Funny - 2/5
April 11, 2019 07:00Thanks for listening.In February of 2019 Larry Charles produced a docuseries on exploring comedy in various places around the world. While the written show description mentions him traveling to china russia and various other places, I will say right here that I only recall him going to Africa, the Middle East, and the US. But despite that, the 4 episode series did take a look at some interesting places and some interesting concepts. In this episode of Lessons from the Screen [...]
LftS: Venezuela
April 05, 2019 22:05Thanks for listening.In 2001 Venezuela was the richest nation in South America largely on the back of its oil production. It boasts the largest oil reserves in the world and for a period it was a shining example of what some would call socialism, others would call democratic socialism, others would call a government taking care of its people, others would call a government covering corruption and nepotism, and others would call a nation headed for disaster. And while in some form or [...]