SPN, Yellowstone S4 Trailer, ABBA Returns
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2021 SPN Generation Liberty Fellowship
I’ve just returned from Orlando, Florida, where I spent the past week completing State Policy Network Annual Meeting’s Generation Liberty Fellowship.
While there, I met and interacted with 40+ fellows from across the country working in public policy at state-based think tanks. I must say: They are some of the sharpest, brightest young minds out there. And it was fun getting to interact with and befriend many of them.
All in all, I can’t recommend the program enough. I’ll dedicate a blog post about the entire experience on my business blog next week.
Stay tuned!
Yellowstone S4 Trailer Drops
"Revenge is worth the wait."
After months of anticipation, Paramount Network has FINALLY released the trailer for Season 4 of their hit show, Yellowstone.
I’m not into TV series much, but I gravitated to the program early on in 2018. It weaves in subjects relating to the American West and challenges to conservation, land management, ranching, and the environment. What also sticks out? The acting, cinematography, and plot line will certainly hook undecideds in.
The show’s social media accounts revealed the Season 4 premiere will be a two-hour event on November 7th. Time TBD. (I’m assuming either 8/9pm ET like the past seasons?)
Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth Dutton, says the show will stay original:
But I do like the fact that there is not that self-righteousness in our show. We're playing characters and we're not trying to be too sort of, dare I say it, “woke” about things. If we get into that area, I'm not really interested. I'm interested in complicated and messy and human, and the sort of things that we all can, "How can we find these characters so sort of enthralling and intriguing when they're kind of so bad?" It's a fantasy. These characters are sort of fantasy. I love that.
Watch the trailer below and catch up on Seasons 1-3 here.
ABBA Returns
Swedish pop band ABBA has come out of retirement—announcing a new album and live concert in the process.
Here’s more from Variety:
ABBA, one of the most successful music groups of all time, has announced its return nearly 40 years with a new studio album — hear two songs from it here — and a new concert that will see singers Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad and instrumentalists/songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus performing digitally via avatars with a live 10-piece band in a purpose-built arena in London, beginning on May 27, 2022.
The “Voyage” album will be released worldwide on November 5 via Universal Music Group’s Capitol label. The two newly released songs, “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down,” were recorded by the group at Andersson’s Riksmixningsverket studio in Stockholm and will both feature in the concert. The songs are the first new material from ABBA since the release of the “Under Attack” single in December of 1982, although the members, now all in their 70s, have released several solo projects.
Here’s a new song of theirs called “I Still Have Faith in You.”
Podcasts You May Have Missed
Catch up on the latest District of Conservation episodes below.
EP 206: Zoos Make America Great (ft. Tim Morrow, CEO of San Antonio Zoo)
EP 207: Brandon McDow & Meagan McElya from Bar MC Media
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