Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle

In 2021, we published an episode on Counting Crows. We promised you back then, dear listeners, that if Counting Crows ever went on tour again, we'd make it our BUSINESS to get there to see them. Well, it finally happened.
In July 2023, Counter Programming hosts Shira Moskowitz and Arielle Nissenblatt headed to Jones Beach to see Counting Crows live. In this episode, we share our experience at the show.
Listen for:

• Shira forgetting her wallet
• Arielle not understanding how concerts work
• A review of Huntington's best pizza joint
• Our favorite concert attendees and why they rocked
• A snippet of "Mr. Jones" live
• So much more

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Yes, it's been a while since we've published an episode! Thanks for listening to this one. Get in touch if you have a Counter topic we should cover:
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Credits:
Daniel Tureck - mixing and mastering
Caio Slikta - logo
Arielle Nissenblatt - scripting
Shira and Arielle - hosts

Welcome to the penultimate episode of Counter Programming season 2. In this episode, we speak with Shira's cousin and recent bat mitzvah girl, Remy.
We get into all things Jewish "counter," including: why bnei mitzvahs take place at age 13, the counting of the omer, and more. We also discuss what it was like to have a bat mitzvah at the height of the pandemic.
Credit:
Daniel Tureck - sound
Caio Slikta - logo
Jason Shaw - Tennessee Hayride (theme music)
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Hey, Counties! ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? WHERE'S YOUR POLLING PLACE? ARE YOU DRIVING ANYONE TO THE POLLING PLACE? Share your voting plan with us!
This week, we are re-airing an interview that we put out in June. We chatted with D'Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center about the census, AKA people counters!

Each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Check back in our episode archives for hours and hours of counter programming content.
We need your voice clips for the intro of our show! Record a voice note saying, "Hi, i'm (your name), and you're listening to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle." Then send it to us: [email protected].

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D’Vera Cohn is a senior writer and editor at Pew Research Center. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census. Cohn was a Washington Post reporter for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper’s lead reporter for the 2000 census. Before joining Pew Research Center, she served as a consultant and freelance writer for the Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. Cohn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and is a former Nieman Fellow. She is an author of studies on the marriage and birth rates in the United States, migration between the U.S. and Mexico, and U.S. population projections. Cohn manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media.
Here's the article we referenced in the interview: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/17/its-clear-where-college-students-are-counted-in-the-2020-census-but-not-others-who-moved-due-to-covid-19/

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Thank you to Daniel Tureck, our engineer. Thank you to Caio Slikta, our logo designer. Our music is called Tennessee Hayride and it’s by Jason Shaw.

Hey, Counties!

How’s that isolation going? We hope you’re healthy and safe.

As always, each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Today, we learn about countertenors.
Thank you to Bethany Berger for lending your voice for the intro section of the episode! You can do the same. Record a voice note saying, "Hi, i'm (your name), and you're listening to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle." Then send it to us!

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Last week, Shira and Arielle covered counterfeit money. Check back in our feed to listen to our previous episodes.
Countertenor Info:

• A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5. Countertenors often are baritones or tenors at core, but on rare occasions use this vocal range in performance (via Wikipedia).
• As explained by Lestyn Davies, a Grammy award-winning countertenor, “It’s a voice produced by not using one’s ‘modal’ or normal speaking voice, but the higher range that occurs when the combination of larynx muscles and vocal cord position are changed in such a way that the air passing through the cords vibrates a much thinner outer layer."

Interview/Information about Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen:

• We talk about the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Hannah Senesh Hebrew Day School, Elton John's 60th birthday party (at MSG), castration, the Church, Princeton theses, La Boheme, and so much more.
• Here's Aryeh's website (gorgeous, right?!)
• Here's the clip that we played of Aryeh singing. AMAZING!
• Aryeh dispels some rumors about opera, so listen in to have your perspective shifted.
• We talk about the practice of castration (long gone) and how it has affected the opera world to this day.

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At the top of the show, we told you about The Jordan Harbinger Show. Find it and listen here.
Buzzsprout, y'all, the best podcast host in the game.

Thank you to Daniel Tureck, our engineer.

Thank you to Caio Slikta, our logo designer.

Our music is called Tennessee Hayride and it’s by Jason Shaw.

Hey, Counties!

How’s that isolation going? We hope you’re healthy and safe.

As always, each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Today, we learn about counterfeit money.
Thank you to Ever Gonzalez for lending your voice for the intro section of the episode! You can do the same. Record a voice note saying, "Hi, i'm (your name), and you're listening to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle." Then send it to us!

You can reach us by email to tell us how YOU feel about granite - [email protected].

You can also reach us on Instagram @counterprogrammingpod.

Last week, Shira and Arielle covered step counters. Check back in our feed to listen to our previous episodes.
Counterfeit history:

• Counterfeiting money is thought to be the world's second oldest profession.
• It dates back to the ancient civilization of Lydia (modern day Turkey).
• Counterfeiters would shave off the edges of coins and mix the precious metals with base metals.
• In the 1690s in England, the punishment for "clipping silver" was hanging, burning at the stake, and drawing and quartering.

Interview with Lisa (a counterfeit coin)
Meet Lisa, a counterfeit coin who lives in a shallow dish on a dresser in Studio City. She believes she was created in the 1760s, but appraisers believe she was created in the 1930s and made to look older. She thinks a lot about what's "real" and what's "fake," beyond the scope of coins and currency. She's friendly with the bracelet she's situated next to and hopes to one day retire as a charm on that bracelet. Learn more in this interview!

Top scams:

• The Money Painter - JS G Boggs (started drawing in the '80s)
  • He was an artist and drew money. He never sold his counterfeit money but he would use it to pay for items and then would keep his receipts.
• Albert Talton (2000s)
  • He was able to produce and counterfeit more than $7M in faux currency which was used before he was caught in 2007.
• Frank Bourassa (2010s)
  • Was able to pass off more than $250M in fake money.
  • Only made $20 bills.
  • He still knows where the missing $50M is, and he is out and about since he only spent 1.5 months in jail in 2014.
• Wayne Victor Denis - (the 90s)
  • Produced $12M in fake money (only got 4 years in prison) and wrote a memoir from jail about the experience.
• Viktor Baranov (1970s)
  • Replicated the most complex Soviet coin, using a unique machine that he invented.
  • He was one of the first people to be caught and people still use his techniques today.

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Lisa, the counterfeit coin, was played by Lisa Orkin of Project Woo Woo.
At the top of the show, we told you about Super Politics Podcast. Listen here!
Buzzsprout, y'all, the best podcast host in the game.

Thank you to Daniel Tureck, our engineer.

Thank you to Caio Slikta, our logo designer.

Our music is called Tennessee Hayride and it’s by Jason Shaw.