72 miles
akshay kumar says:' 72 miles marks our first regional film and we' re delighted to announce the release date. marathi isn' t my first language but living in mumbai i picked up the language very quickly and immersed myself in the culture. i' ve seen some really interesting marathi projects and love the cinema. i am personally touched by the story of 72 miles and i hope the audience likes it as much as we do.'
the hearts of audiences and give them a visual introspect of ashok vatkar' s autobiography. inspired from the novel with the same name, 72 miles: ek pravas explores the impact of a woman named raddhakka, on protagonist ashok .
for all the updates on our movies and more: urltoken urltoken here' s presenting the official theatrical trailer of 72 miles ek pravas, the most awaited film of the marathi industry. produced by: twinkle khanna and ashvini yardi. directed by: rajeev patil releasing on 9th august, 2013 .
a hard - hitting, poignant tale of a young boy who makes his journey into self - actualization against the backdrop of a rustic india, 72 miles: ek pravas explores a beautiful, coming of age journey for the 13 year old boy ashok and the companionable relationships he makes through his journey .
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72 miles - ek pravas
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after taking the world by storm with their first production, the blockbuster omg oh my god, grazing goat pictures co - producers, akshay kumar and ashvini yardi, are all set to release their first debut regional (marathi) cinema project, 72 miles – ek pravas, setting the date as 26th july 2013 .
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that was day four of the inaugural rebelle rally, a female - only navigational road rally—the first of its kind. for seven days last fall, 72 women—36 teams of two—off - roaded over 1250 miles, through two national parks and five bureau of land management areas (government - managed public lands). we started in nevada' s lake tahoe and ended in glamis, california; in between, we rambled down dirt roads, clambered over dry riverbeds and mountain passes, and coasted over terrifyingly high sand dunes .
in which dazzler is not a team player; longshot is the zonker harris of the x - men; juggernaut is that guy; rachel and miles channel statler and waldorf; and alex summers is seriously never, ever going to finish grad school .
titled 72 milesóek pravas, the movie is based on ashok vatkar' s autobiography. yardi says ,
the film is about a young boy who runs away from his hostel. it' s his journey on the run, where he meets a lady and her kids and how this young lad matures from being a boy to a man .
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turn left ,
jaclyn said once we set off .
our first checkpoint should be in 13 miles .
a few minutes later, we experienced the singular thrill of spotting a green checkpoint for the first time: a mix of relief, pride, and elation that never got old .
ashvini yardi says:'' it was my dream to produce a period film and with 72 miles, i have had the chance to do so. this subject and the plot of the film is so thought - provoking that it forces you to completely engage in the film, connect with the characters and grow with their thought. what' s more it' s by the same director of jogwa which won 6 national awards. akshay and i are very proud of this project and the opportunity to be able to produce such a marvellous film. the film will definitely engage with international audiences despite the language barrier and will let them in on our heritage, our culture and a panoramic setting of post independent india. i am sure the marathi audience will be proud of this film.'
miles, i’m another submissive fan of longshot and i loved what you did in “of mullets and miracles”. too bad that i find hard to understand completely your podcasts, but i think you were talking about longshot’s underlying melancholy (in spite of his playful and joyful nature), which is something i appreciate as much as the bittersweet tone of his former series. could you explain just a bit what’s your opinion about that ?
it was 4 p. m. and 90 degrees when we finally decided to give up. for hours, jaclyn and i had been inching our jeep rubicon along a dusty unmarked road in the mojave national preserve, eventually finding ourselves trapped in a high - walled canyon. we had no idea how far off course we were: two miles? twenty? we hadn' t seen another human all afternoon. soon it would be dusk, then nightfall .
rachel & miles did a cold open about the recent / likely temporary retcon of how wanda and ‘silver are not magneto’s kids because of (fox vs disney for movie rights) and it was so absurd that when i played their riff for my husband (a spider - man exclusive fan, mostly) he laughed so hard he nearly suffocated, then told me all my efforts to get him into x - men were now futile. there goes half a year of effort…
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yes and no. rachel and miles do mention in the podcast that it’s possible that claremont was aware of the ickiness and the audience was supposed to be turned off by juggernaut’s sexism. that’s a pretty charitable reading though, given the fact that wolverine, for one, also uses the same condescending pet names for women quite frequently. and while you and i as adults can certainly find plenty of other ways in which wolverine should not be emulated, he’s clearly a heroic character and someone children are meant to look up to. obviously, using those pet names is meant to be a tough - guy shorthand that calls back to bogart and other classic film leads, but it’s pretty behind the times in the ’80s. as feminist as claremont seems to be in other places, i’m really surprised that none of the females in his life ever called wolverine out for his condescension .
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akshay kumar seems to be completely influenced by regional content. so after making oh my god! , which was based on a gujarati play, he is now working on a full fledged marathi film .
says ashwini yardi, akshay kumar' s partner in their production house, grazing goat pictures ,
making a marathi movie was my idea. i am a maharashtrian and i wanted to do a film in my mother tongue in memory of baburao pai, my grandfather, who was one of v. shantaram' s partners in prabhat film company in the 1920s .
set in the 50s and 60s, it has been shot entirely in satara during may and june. for the period look and feel, props like old buses and other such vehicles have been used. directed by rajeev patil of national award winning marathi film, jogwa fame, the film is currently in the post - production stages .
after this, yardi confirms tapping into the regional market with a punjabi film. the producer duo (kumar and yardi) aim at producing four to five movies a year, the team also looks at making films in bengali and south and are even planning to make a sequel of oh my god! with paresh rawal .
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a hard - hitting, poignant tale of a young boy who makes his journey into self - actualization against the backdrop of a rustic india .
this film aims to transport the audiences into post - independence india as experienced by the protagonist ashok .
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a young boy decides to escape from his boarding school. chased by bullies, robbed by drunken gamblers, a young boy starts his journey towards kolhapur. the very people who seem pleasant, and invite him to ride with them turn into horrifying monsters as soon as they learn of his surname, a scheduled caste. beaten to a pulp by the high - castes, the boy is then rescued by a woman who is on her way to shigaon with her sick infant son, and three other children .
the film is set in the time of 50' s and 60' s about journey of a 13 year old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a woman and her kids .
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set in the 50' s and 60' s, this film follows the journey of a 13 year old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how he matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids .
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i’m pretty sure that the bald scottish guy dazzler meets up with is meant to sean connery .
for all that i can find nostalgia in curious backwaters of continuity, i have no nostalgia for “mutant x. ” that was... not good .
aw, polaris. i always feel sorry for her, because i think she’s a cool character in general, but it’s ages before she ever gets a decent story where she doesn’t show up and immediately get mind controlled or go crazy (thanks heaps, chuck austen) i’m racking my brain trying to find a time before peter david’s x - factor run where she has any agency of her own in any story .
only tangentially related to this episode — the wildfire smoke basically blanketed large chunks of western canada this entire past week after the episode recording .
i suddenly want to go back and re - read mutant x. havoc has been one of my favourite characters since i started reading comics with peter david’s x - factor run, and i was really excited that he was basically going to get his own corner of the multiverse as his private playground .
i remember the first 12 issue arc being not terrible and having some interesting concepts — i also really liked that the universe where havoc was one of the premiere heroes was a lot more peaceful and had less mutant prejudice — but it quickly went off the rails following that story’s conclusion. perhaps not coincidentally, the book had originally only been pitched as a 12 issue mini - series, and it’s initial sales were good enough for the editors to push howard mackie to expand it into an on - going .
also, the juggernaut may be a jerk, but he’s great at being a jerk. has there been a cold open i’m forgetting explaining his powers ?
based on a couple cameo appearences (ie rick redfern and joanie caucus in days of future past, as well as a lot of other drop ins) the doonsbury characters exist in the marvel universe. so how many are actually mutants themselves? i seem to recall mike doonsbury making one of his summer daydreams come true…which sounds a lot like franklin richards level reality warping to me .
so i’m curious about the view of gender identity in the dazzler / juggernaut situation. i think you’re right 90% of the time on this. but i read this juggernaut thing really differently .
i saw it as juggernaut saying, the next person you randomly attack for no reason might kill you, especially if you insist on picking fights way outside your weight class. condescending? totally. paternalistic? definitely. but he’s also not wrong. had she done that with sabertooth, the beyonder, or any one of a dozen other hardcore villains, she’d be a corpse. especially if he’s a fan of the music, i can totally see him saying that .
i’m all for no - limits feminism, and there’s a lot that really troubles me about some of the sexist coding in comics. but this struck me as a small dog picking a fight with a big dog, and the big one telling him to knock it off. rather than a “womens should know their place” thing .
actually, i shouldn’t have said no reason. as you’re correct nearly taking people out with cars is horrible, still. the rest stands .
the whole thing would read as less condescending and sexist if he wasn’t calling her things like “doll” and “frail” the whole time. incidentally, was there a time in human history when people actually referred to women as “frail”? i’ve literally never heard that time used outside of a claremont comic .
that last sentence should read “that term, ” not “that time. ” word press really needs an edit button .
touche’ sam. “frail” is pretty bad. but i think condescending is definitely supposed to be the point here. while i don’t think sexism is appropriate, from a villain like juggernaut it’s at least not a surprise. nor portrayed as something to be emulated .
yeah, this moment gave me pause too. i mean, we’re talking about what claremont intended juggernaut to express. i think he was trying to show juggernaut as a) confused that dazzler, who is a pop singer as far as he knows, is trying to fight him – and b) conflicted because this is someone who he really likes and has positive feelings for and she’s fighting him. he doesn’t want to hurt her .
juggernaut just wants her to stop, and to not be involved in this world. reading sexism out of it needs us to assume that claremont intended this scene to show juggernaut as a sexist. why would he suddenly do that? he certainly hasn’t been portrayed that way up till now. or we have to assume that claremont himself is being sexist by writing “normal” dialogue which reflects his internalized misogyny. the gender politics of the x - men up to this point don’t give me much confidence in this theory .
i can easily imagine juggernaut behaving roughly the same way if he had come up against a male celebrity mutant part time superhero of whom he was a big fan .
yeah, i agree with this sentiment. i can picture him saying the same thing after beating the shit out of josh guthrie .
so you guys are getting pretty close to fall of the mutants, eh? you’ve covered up to uncanny x - men 219 (fall of the mutants omnibus starts at 220), new mutants up to 54 (fall starts at 55), and x - factor up to 15 (fall starts at 18). obviously this event is huge, so i’m curious as to how you plan to cover it. thanks !
especially as it’s less “one big story” and more “three stories united thematically. ”
... i also want them to cover the daredevil issues somewhere in there, because the notion that daredevil of all books, had crossovers for this and inferno is just... awesome .
the fact that daredevil had crossovers is pretty self - explanatory – ann nocenti was writing daredevil at the time. however, she did a really good job at making the stories tangential. they weren’t necessary to understand the x - men world, but the backdrop usually did a good job of making the daredevil story richer. daredevil 252 (ground zero) is a very good example in a very nocenti - an way .
i know the background of them and the nocenti / claremont relationship and they’re loose, tangential relationship, but they’re still wonderful comics .
really enjoyable little surrealistic digressions and really go in some fun directions. inessential, sure. but nocenti gets a lot out of dd fighting a vacuum and a truck - eating dentist .
thank you for making me care for havok. i’v always seen him as rather blend character before hearing this episode. also, i would vote for this era’s psylocke any day of the weak instead of the later sexified psylocke .
magneto should not needle wanda about having grandkids, as that might lead to her rewriting all of reality again .
this episode reminded me of havok’s “how about alex” speech (where he advocated rejecting all labels instead of being called a mutant). while it was certainly problematic, i thought it felt like something he would say. the character here is someone who isn’t necessarily hateful of his powers (like rogue), but is someone who wants to reject all the responsibility that goes with them. his goal is normalcy. so, as long as you don’t read into the speech an editorial belief that it’s the correct thought, i thought it was a good addition to that issue .
you know, the “m - word” speech always struck me as something alex would say, too. not just because of his personality, either. he is a good - looking, white, cis - gender male who expects to be treated as an individual – not a member (or representative) of a “group. ” someone like that has been raised to believe that they, as an individual, are only an individual. then throw in alex’s individual psychology (as you mention, “normalcy” being his big goal). then throw in his leading an avengers team, the (nominal) point of which was to show mutant - human cooperation (and specifically to show how mutants were heroes just like the avengers) and i agree that it’s a natural thing for him to say. like you say, so long as you don’t read it as the editorial position (which didn’t occur to me on my first read of it, honestly), it reads as a very reasonable thing for someone with alex’s particular background, personality, and experiences to say .
“heads up– if havok’s position in ua # 5 really upset you, it’s time to drown yourself hobo piss. seriously, do it. it’s the only solution. ”
i think any attempt at subtley is out the window. (the tweet was later deleted, but too many sites picked up on it for it to be ignored )
see also the later issue where rogue objects to havok’s comments and instead of a potentially interesting debate, it become a sequence of wanda telling rogue she’s wrong, without offering any proper justification. of course, the fact that alex can pass as a blond white guy (and rogue and wanda are both human norm too) gives a very” off” feel to the whole thing .
kitty’s rebuttal in either uncanny or all - new –i don’t recall which off the top of my head–remains the gold standard for on - page smackdowns as far as i’m concerned .
it is interesting to watch the different writers provide commentary via the mouths of their respective current characters to “smack down” commentary from other writers in a shared universe with which they disagree. reminds me of those “heroes texting” memes only more… fulfilling and relevant and, even, less cringe worthy? maybe? but when it comes to them bickering / commenting in real - life social media shit gets awkward .
oh, and in light of this sort of thing, i really find it interesting that in the pre - inferno new mutants issues where they riff with the hellions they proudly accept being called “the muties” by emma’s students .
well, i’m not arguing that the guy handles criticism well, just that it’s something that fits what alex summers would say. maybe i’m too charitable towards mr. remender, but i’m fine with the speech existing for exploring his character (and the whole idea of mutants “passing” and how that affects mutant politics). and, as pointed out below, it set up kitty pryde’s rebuttal, which is also very much in character (except that she actually managed to make a point without resorting to racial slurs this time !) .
i could be wrong, but i thought that there might have been some notice somewhere that places “x - men versus avengers” miniseries in the first trip to new york that havok took .
hmmm. it was coming out the same time, and according to the marvel wikia, havok and dazzler are in every issue .
i hated these issues when they came out. of course, it’s been three decades, and i’ve never wanted to reread them, so i can’t say in hindsight if it would have been better rereading with later context. but at this point :
1) my favorite x - men are all off the team. (though hey, this arc was actually coming out the same time as excalibur started, meaning that i could read about many of those favorites somewhere else! )
2) the characters replacing them are all characters i have no connection to whatsoever. with the possible exception of dazzler’s origin story back in the byrne days, i’d never read any comic with these characters in it before they showed up in x - men around this time. (it does seem surprising to me that i hadn’t read anything with havok in it… does he maybe show up at scott’s wedding or something ?) (how cool would it have been if a couple of the new mutants had graduated up to the x - men instead? )
3) these issues are just a random jumble of things. different art (mostly dodgy) every issue. plot that revolves around arbitrary crap happening. i mean, two issues in a row things are set off by our “heroes” being nearly run over / run off the road completely by accident? !
4) twice in two issues we have the gimmick of “i recognize this from my time reading the x - men’s files. ” right…
5) the issues are driven by the stars acting stupidly. dazzler taking on juggernaut by himself, when he wasn’t obviously doing something dangerous? that’s freaking insane. then there’s pretty much everything havok does. also…
6) wiping havok’s mind of his knowledge of meeting the x - men is completely insane and unethical. i mean, beyond the fundamental questions about wiping someone’s mind in any circumstances, isn’t the knowledge that someone has been targeting x - men and related mutants literally a matter of life and death for havok? there’s every reason to think that he and lorna will be targets of the marauders, and of course as this issue reveals they actually are targets .
8) finally, the brood on earth is not a subplot you can forget about for a year! so at the end of # 218 alex knows it’s vital to contact the x - men about the brood. at the beginning of # 219 he’s visited the x - men and had his mind erased. why didn’t he just call them? if if alex somehow forgot to tell the x - men why he came to visit them, why didn’t betsy at least notice it in his mind when she was heavily editing it? this is a potential extinction event for the human race, two of the heroes know about it and realize how serious it is, yet it is completely dropped without a word .
honestly, i’ve always assumed this represented some sort of editorial interference in plotting. something like “sorry chris, you’ve got to drop everything instantly and start a crossover next month! ”
whoops, got confused about the timeline. this was still a year before excalibur, so my favorite x - men were all completely sidelined rather than appearing elsewhere .
i think plan omega’s intent was that the x - men could stop reacting to everything and begin to go after their enemies. unfortunately, it was never really stated that way and we won’t see it implemented until the australia period, with some mixed results (i think about half of those issues were the x - men reacting to some situation) .
when you put it like that it sounds like a good idea, but what they actually do is leave as large as possible a target for those enemies to attack and force them to react yet again. (or just hang their friends out to dry, as they did with havok and polaris. )
a good episode that actually seems to tie these issues together than the issues themselves ever did .
coming out of the massacre into this prolonged dirge of an arc (if it can be called that) was the start of the issues where i started to lose interest, not only because that was a very stupid thing to ignore, but because the main x - team as they’d lost kitty and kurt and the increased focus on wolverine didn’t interest me that much. (the casual ignoring of the space shark didn’t help as it was just too big a thing to ignore lightly )
whilst technically betsy might be captain britain’s little sister (which you mention at least twice), it’d be more accurate to say she’s his twin sister, i’m not even sure who the older of the two actually is, nor by how many minutes, but someone else might i’m sure .
oh and the “let’s kill him” bit again? ? i’ve said it before, i’ll say it again, psylocke is frighteningly keen to kill people since her introduction, generally a little too kill - happy for my tastes, or at least for someone else not to pull her up on it .
the third doctor was employed as “scientific advisor” to unit whilst stuck on earth and was officially under the brigadiers command, though the doctor cheerfully ignored him when it suited him, but respected him immensely, and the doctor has never officially resigned his position .
when the much loved actor who played the brigadier died in 2011, the series producer and showrunner steven moffatt said in his tribute “… out of all the people the doctor has met, in all of space and time, nicholas courtney’s brigadier alistair gordon lethbridge - stewart was the only one who was ever his boss. ”
and in a later episode, the then current scientific advisor, the brigadiers daughter kate, says of the 12th doctor; “welcome to the only planet in the universe where we get to say this: he’s on the payroll. ”
sorry, i’ve been a doctor who nerd a lot longer than i’ve been an x - men nerd. i’ll try to get it out of my system before your excalibur coverage starts .
marvel has a pretty spotty history with scientist characters, but sometimes they really hit something dead - on. havok and polaris as phd students who only want to be left alone to do their research, but instead have to constantly deal with real - world crises and being possessed, is such a perfect plot set - up for me. i wish it had been explored further (or revisited in a drs. havok and polaris secret wars miniseries) .
i just got back from pax prime and am still catching up on work, but i’d like to write a piece for the blog about exactly that sometime. keep an eye out; hopefully i’ll get to that before too long! (and thanks for asking! )
i hope it will at least take a moment to have a jerry seinfeld style “what’s the deal with ultimate longshot? ” because i’m still trying to recover from that .
it was a radical upside - down, indeed. i’ve got to admit i liked him a lot, though –so shocking !
oh, man. we are now up to where i started collecting x - books on my own, instead of borrowing from a friend. – the havok issue was the first one i bought for myself, and it made a halfway decent jumping - on point. this, x - factor 17 and whatever issue of classic x - men came out that month (think it was the reprint of 99) were where i started, and ran straight through until the 90s happened to the entire line .
i didn’t get to these issues until i was far down the rabbit hole of x - men addiction; actually i think i got them as reprints of “sabertooth classic” in the ’90s… ick… but getting to my point, the bit about psylocke suggesting they just outright murder alex always struck me as the most important bit for this period. her transformation in “acts of vengeance” just seems to be a natural progression over the post “massacre” era that her battle with creed hinted at, but truly came to the fore, with this arc .
i have also noticed her brother, brian, was a bit of an epic, hard drinkin’ fist full o’ assholes around this time in excalibur. toss in jamie and we have an extremely interesting dynamic of a family of mostly heroes that is still, generally, a bunch of jerks. their interactions with the summers clan has depths that have shamefully not yet been explored .
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psylocke’s suggestion that havok needs to be killed is pretty bonkers. (havok is an auxiliary x - man and she presents basically no good reason for killing him !) despite that, it seems to indicate an interesting mandate for the character that claremont never totally got around to fleshing out: that despite those prissy pink pajamas she’s meant to be ruthlessly pragmatic and actually kind of shady. we’ll see this expressed again again from time to time — like when she mentally pushes the team through the siege perilous against their wills– but it never quite develops into a real story. (this, to me, is related to but separate from the more often explored but somewhat less interesting notion that she longs to be more physically imposing. )
the dark turn the book seems to be taking at this point is actually pretty exciting on an issue by issue basis. it’s too bad that it 1) ends up amounting to not all that much and 2) makes hardly any sense if you think about it too hard .
i think juggernaut’s skull - cap first appeared in marvel team - up # 150, which was also the last issue of that run of the series. the story has juggy giving black tom the crystal gym of cyttorak and tom not appreciating becoming all big and juggernauty. it’s set while rachel was still on the team as just rachel, not phoenix. haven’t read it in ages, and sadly it’s not available on marvel unlimited .
the juggernaut secondary skull - cap actually made its first appearance in marvel team - up # 150 (which happens to be my first exposure to an x - men story ever! woot). it’s actually quite ingenious. since his helmet is the one thing protecting him from those pesky telepaths and every battle with the x - men essentially boils down to everyone trying to get his helmet off so that a telepath can knock him down, why not provide an added level of protection, with a second, even more tightly fitted helmet underneath the first one? 🙂
if you havent read this mtu story, you should, i think it also bleeds into the main book continuity at some point. in this story rogue absorbs juggernaut’s powers turning into juggerrogue, which i distinctly remember getting referenced later on .
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the opening gimmick who cried wolf. (uncanny x - men # 217 )
“seriously, guys, it’s like the whole theme of the book. i mean, aside from fighting to protect a world that hates and fears us. ” (uncanny x - men # 217 )
whether douglas the gentle freak is the doonesbury - universe version of cypher remains a mystery. (we’d like to think so, though. )
2 / 3 of juggernaut fights begin with some variation of this scene (kilt negotiable). (uncanny x - men # 217 )
i don’t know if there’s a word for what’s going on with rogue’s hair, but it is amazing. (uncanny x - men # 218 )
“y’all enjoy your group hug. i’m just gonna fling this fucking rock into space. ” (uncanny x - men # 218 )
i know this story is all about teamwork, but rogue definitely wins mvp of uncanny x - men # 218 .
the really great thing about this reference is that there’s also a brigadier lethbridge stuart running around uk - 616. i bet they get each other’s mail all the time. (uncanny x - men # 218 )
car wreck sex: the alex summers story. (uncanny x - men # 218 )
this plotline will continue to dangle for like a year and a half. (uncanny x - men # 218 )
please let us know if you can work out the timeline here, because we’ve basically stopped sleeping, and it’s not pretty. (uncanny x - men # 219 )
i always figured magneto would have way nicer penmanship than this. (uncanny x - men # 219 )
lorna, you can fuck with magnetic fields with your mind, and one time you threw an island into space. are you really that surprised at a freak earthquake? (uncanny x - men # 219 )
if the x - line were a sitcom, they’d totally have cut from here to scott arguing with hallucinations over in x - factor. (uncanny x - men # 219 )
it’s okay. everyone will be too distracted by your hat to notice the tights. (uncanny x - men # 219 )
next week: origins of x - men: evolution, with robert n. skir !
special thanks to the wonderful adam warrock for letting us sample his song “teamwork” in this episode! you can listen to the full track here, and find more of adam’s work at adamwarrock. com !
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rebelle rally: driving in the u. s.' s only all - female endurance road race
i competed in america' s first all - female endurance road rally. i' d never even changed a tire .
we were lost. not can you pull up google maps? lost, or do we still have a road atlas somewhere? lost. no, we were are we in california or nevada? lost; thank god we have emergency supplies lost; this landscape would be gorgeous if it weren' t so apocalyptic lost. the jeep' s gps system had been disabled, and our phones and laptops were turned off and sealed in envelopes. we had a collection of specialized large - scale topographical maps, but to figure out where you are on a topo map (a relief map that shows a region' s geographical features), you have to know how to read it. i was supposed to be the better topo reader in our pair, and i could barely pick out the most prominent landmarks. if coyotes or unfriendly strangers appeared, we' d be completely, royally screwed .
we sat in the jeep with the air conditioning on high, eating sugary energy chews and gulping down coconut water .
this all called for a set of navigation skills no one uses anymore—unless you' re a sailor or a fifth grader prepping for a social studies test .
throughout the course, 140 checkpoints were hidden behind broken - down mine shacks, just beyond hairpin turns, deep inside mountain crevices, and sometimes, blessedly, directly on the route. large green flags marked the easiest - to - find checkpoints; smaller blue flags identified intermediate ones. black checkpoints, the most difficult to find, weren' t marked at all. each was worth a certain number of points. the goal: rack up as many as possible .
every morning we were given a list of checkpoints to find that day (one day there' d be 12; another day, 22), defined solely by their latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. we had to plot them on our topo maps, then use geometry to strategize how to get from one to the next. this all called for a set of navigation skills no one uses anymore—unless you' re a sailor or a fifth grader prepping for a social studies test. we weren' t allowed phones, gps, or outside help. kind of like an adult female eagle scouts on steroids, or survivor meets the amazing race in the american west .
the automotive world is notoriously male - dominated, making a women - only motorsports event revolutionary. (there are a few all - women rallies and races scattered across the globe, out of hundreds of annual motorsports events overall; the rebelle is the only one in the u. s. )
i' ve been in races where i was the only woman driving ,
the rebelle' s founder, 50 - year - old emily miller, told me .
i' ve had people recommend i wear a tight pink race suit .
miller grew up between arkansas and colorado, skiing, biking, and reading her father' s car magazines. in her 30s, she launched a sports marketing firm and started to race cars and teach at racing and off - roading schools. when creating the rebelle—which took three years of planning, 40 bureau of land management permits, and 60 staffers to pull off—miller combined her favorite aspects of the rallies and races she' d participated in over the years .
she was determined to create an event where women could test their mettle .
most automotive events are designed from a man' s perspective ,
miller said, meaning that they' re usually speed races, where the goal is to get from point a to b as fast as possible. but the rebelle isn' t a race, she reminded us daily. it demanded endurance, accurate navigation, and communication .
women excel in endurance events ,
she explained .
women think about the rules and the challenge. they want to win, but they' re not there to prove how fast they can go .
my team' s combined experience was…limited .
winning
never crossed our minds; we just hoped to finish without killing the jeep—or one another. my teammate, jaclyn trop, is an auto reporter who reviews luxury cars, but we both quickly realized that her professional expertise didn' t translate into real - world driving and car maintenance knowledge. while she knows her way around a racetrack, she didn' t know how to read a map .
naïve enthusiasm seemed like a perfectly legitimate qualification to enter a highly - detailed endurance event requiring a complex venn diagram of skills i didn' t possess .
not that i know anything about cars. i can sort of drive a stick shift, and sort of change a tire. i' d signed up for the rebelle rally because tooling around isolated southwestern back roads is one of my all - time favorite activities, something i discovered during the six years i lived in far west texas. (aimless desert driving is terrible for the environment, but good for the soul. )
72 miles - ek pravas is a marathi film directed by rajiv patil and produced under grazing goat pictures and co-produced by akshay kumar and ashwini yardi.the film is set in the time of 50 's and 60 's about journey of a 13-year-old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids . deepak rane was the line producer for this film
72 miles - ek pravas is a marathi film directed by rajiv patil and produced under grazing goat pictures and co-produced by akshay kumar and ashwini yardi.the film is set in the time of 50's and 60's about journey of a 13-year-old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids. deepak rane was the line producer for this film
72 miles - ek pravas is a marathi film directed by rajiv patil and produced under grazing goat pictures and co-produced by akshay kumar and ashwini yardi.the film is set in the time of 50's and 60's about journey of a 13-year-old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids. deepak rane was the line producer for this film