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Hosted by Gary Westphalen · society · EN
Five decades as an objective journalist covering Washington, DC, along with all other aspects of modern life, has left me with insights you need to navigate the world today. Topics will include a wide range of subjects all viewed from my Distant Perspective. distantperspective.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchFive decades as an objective journalist covering Washington, DC, along with all other aspects of modern life, has left me with insights you need to navigate the world today. Topics will include a wide range of subjects all viewed from my Distant Perspective.
Distant Perspective Podcast is hosted by Gary Westphalen. The show has published 17 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Walk The Walk" (23 June 2025, 5 minutes), "40 Seconds at Llanos de Cortés" (23 April 2025, 1 minute), and "Tenacity Rules" (4 April 2025, 5 minutes).
Distant Perspective Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 5 minutes across 17 episodes.
Booking probability for Distant Perspective Podcast is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Distant Perspective Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Distant Perspective Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
Gary Westphalen hosts Distant Perspective Podcast, a society podcast with 17 episodes published.
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<p>The tightrope stretched across Niagara Falls on June 30, 1859 drew a huge crowd of onlookers. Who would be crazy enough to try to walk a tightrope across one of the world’s greatest waterfalls? To the amazement of...
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<p>Carmen and I took a little road trip this week, enjoying the freedom our new pollution-free electric SUV has given us to explore more of Costa Rica. Just a four-hour round trip ride on gorgeous roads through valleys...
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<p>Winter in North America always sends huge flocks of birds south to our Central American paradise. While the peskiest of these snowbirds fly in on the aluminum wings of jetliners, uncountable hoards of real birds do...
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<p>I believe that I can quite safely say no other federal agency comes close to the brainpower of the staff at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Throw in an enormous dose of bravado combined with...
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<p>I've been informing the world for decades. Now I'm using that massive knowledge base to generate wildly out of control stories based on true crimes. To see the whole video for Breaking The Weak Link, just go to...
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<p>It started five years ago, with a mysterious package that arrived at my front door. A box about yay square. It had my name in the “Deliver to:” space.</p><p>[Odd Thing #1: The box is from the Galaxy telephone company...
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<p>In an unusual circumstance, Christmas and Hanukkah agree on this year’s date and the New Year is only lagging by six days. Okay, I know. That part is normal. The point is; there’s a lot of holiday in our immediate...
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<p>I wrote last week about a publishing deal for my book Breaking The Weak Link. It took almost two weeks to uncloak the fact that the otherwise legitimate publishing company was employing a scam technique known as “pay...
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<p>“My job is to figure out how they’re going to screw you,” the lawyer says. He is a friend of one of the members of my local writer’ group. A publishing lawyer for at least a significant part of his career, he has...
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<p>Second only to “That’s one small step for man…”, the most famous phrase to come out of the NASA space era is “Failure is not an option”. The phrase, which curiously was spoken only in movies and books (never in real...
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<p>I found myself in the mountain town of Highlands, North Carolina for a wedding last week. I remember spending time in this town on more than one of my million miles worth of motorcycle adventures over the years. Back...
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<p>In the 1987 movie, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, an advertising executive played by Steve Martin finds himself stranded by a series of epic travel failures as he tries to get home for Thanksgiving dinner with his...
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<p>Sewell Setzer III killed himself at the age of 14, and his mother believes that an AI chatbot is to blame for encouraging him to “Come home to me.” In a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Florida, the boy’s mother...
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<p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit distantperspective.substack.com
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