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n the 100th episode of the DeenTour podcast, we talk about Jannah, Jahannam, and The Day of Judgement. We discuss some of their descriptions, reminding us of the reality of our lives in this world and what we are striving for and what we are avoiding as Muslims.DeenTour is a podcast and channel where 3 brothers showcase their love for islam through reminders, brotherhood, motivation, entertainment, and more!Let us know if you enjoyed this video and if you'd like to see more of this!!Read about finding your purpose and our journey to getting closer to God!! Cop Our E-Book!! Deentour.shop JOIN THE DISCORD:https://discord.gg/xUdqnuDY6wFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deentourr/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deentourrIntro - 0:00Take account of our actions leading up to the Day of Judgement - 1:00 Allah's warning of HellFire & sins affect on us - 3:02The Messengers fear on the Day of Judgement so who are we? - 6:23Taking ourselves away from things that may take us away from Allah - 8:03Allah gives wealth to those He loves & doesn't love - 9:45The honor of being part of the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad - 10:53How people around you affect you - 11:54Who will be in Jannah & Jahannam - 12:30Do you feel closer to Jannah or Jahannam? - 13:29Think of Jahannam and remind yourself of who will be there - 14:05Allahs description of both Jannah & Jahannam - 17:30 The Quran as a mercy from Allah - 20:30The way you'll be judged on the Day of judgement - 21:28Investing in our dunya for our akhirah - 22:46The company we'll have in Jannah - 23:45Enjoying paradise with your parents - 25:10Our attributes in Jannah - 25:53The length of the Day of Judgement - 26:37The reality of the Hour, Jannah, & Jahannam - 27:48Have Taqwa & Look to the Quran to be your best self - 28:40Chase Jannah rather than Jannah on earth - 30:30The fear of the Prophets on the Day judgement - 33:51Pleasing others & Pleasing Allah - 35:13Outro - 36:58

In this podcast we sit down with NBA trainer Maher to discuss the work ethic of professional athletes, the role of faith in careers, overcoming limiting beliefs, and how gratitude and consistency shape success in life and Islam.DeenTour is a podcast and channel where 3 brothers showcase their love for islam through reminders, brotherhood, motivation, entertainment, and more!Let us know if you enjoyed this video and if you'd like to see more of this!!Read about finding your purpose and our journey to getting closer to God!! Cop Our E-Book!! Deentour.shop JOIN THE DISCORD:https://discord.gg/xUdqnuDY6wFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deentourr/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deentourrIntro - 0:00Maher - Pro NBA Trainer - 0:53The work ethic of professional athletes- 1:17Trying to be the best by competing with yourself - 1:43How faith plays a role in our lives & careers - 2:07Fasting Ramadan while playing a sport - 3:44Debates sparked up from practicing our religion in public - 5:00Advice to be more confident - 6:03How Maher played a basketball season during Ramadan - 8:09Limiting beliefs - 9:50The physiology of having negative vs. positive thoughts - 11:21Imposter syndrome & dealing with people's negativity - 13:00How brotherhood affects people's work - 15:45How character affects players performance & opportunities - 16:29Recurring Growth & Change in life & Islam - 18:57Investing in yourself - 19:55The difference between 99-100-101% - 22:00Muslims being the most consistent people - 23:29Don't get swept under the current - 24:14The emphasis on gratefulness in Islam - 26:32Reflecting on how your goals bring you closer to God - 27:38Finding ways to work hard without as much effort - 29:38Trying to do actions for the sake of God - 31:25Pushing your limits - 32:35Get our Islamic Trivia game! - 36:04Outro - 37:00

Bo Nix had the best game of his career so far against the Atlanta Falcons. The rookie QB was finding Courtland Sutton, Devaughn Vele, and the rest of his playmakers. Kirk Cousins was not able to match the same stat line. Pat Surtain was able to lock up Drake London while Kyle Pitts didn't get much going. Join Super Bowl 50 Champion Todd Davis, Knowshon Moreno, and Jurrell Casey as they break down the victory. Intro: 0:00Bo Nix balled out: 1:30The defense is the unsung hero: 6:53The offense clicked: 14:24Bo's throws: 16:04Javonte Williams stood out once again: 21:28Who stood out on defense: 24:41Looking ahead a bit: 32:20Knowshon on Bo Nix: 36:42Marvin Mims new roll and Courtland Sutton: 39:19Zac Stevens joins the show from the stadium: 45:08Superchats: 57:25 An ALLCITY Network Production PARTY WITH US: https://thednvr.com/events ALL THINGS DNVR: https://linktr.ee/dnvrsports MERCH: https://store.allcitynetwork.com/collections/dnvr-locker SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DNVR_Sports bet365: Go to https://www.bet365.com/olp/open-account?affiliate=365_02162536 or use code DNVR365 when you sign up. All new customers receive 2 months of Altitude+ courtesy of bet365! Must be 21+ and physically located in CO.  Please gamble responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help call or TEXT 1-800-GAMBLER   Empire Today: Schedule a free in-home estimate today! All listeners can receive a $350 OFF discount when they use the promo code DNVR. Restrictions apply. See https://empiretoday.com/dnvr for details  EveryPlate: With affordable dinners for just $5.99 per serving, PLUS 50% off your first box, EveryPlate helps you save money for a stress-free holiday! Get this amazing deal by going to https://EveryPlate.com/PODCAST and entering code dnvr599.   Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door with Instacart by going to https://coorslight.com/DNVR. Celebrate Responsibly. Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado.    Download the Circle K app and join the Inner Circle or visit https://www.circlek.com/inner-circle!   Bluechew: Try BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code ALLCITY at checkout--just pay $5 shipping. That's https://bluechew.com promo code ALLCITY to receive your first month FREE. Visit for more details and important safety information, and we thank BlueChew for sponsoring the podcast. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code DNVR for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to https://shadyrays.com and use codeoadoutdoors.pxf.io/allcity: DNVR for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people. Birdcall: Right now, DNVR fans can score 20% off at Birdcall with promo code “DNVR”! Get down to Birdcall or order online at https://eatbirdcall.com and grab this offer now through the end of the month. Offer valid for any order of $10 or more. Limit 1 per guest per day. Not valid on catering orders or through 3rd party delivery sites. Use code DNVRBRONCOS50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box and 20% off your next month with any active subscription at https://factormeals.com/dnvrbroncos50. Check out FOCO merch and collectibles here https://foco.vegb.net/DNVRBroncos and use promo code “DNVR10” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items. Rugged Road: Gear up for your next adventure with Rugged Road Coolers - Your ultimate outdoor companion! Head to http://ruggedroadoutdoors.pxf.io/ALLCITY and use code DNVR for 10% off!   Hello Fresh - Get 10 FREE meals at https://hellofresh.com/freebroncos. Applied across 7 boxes, new subscribers only, varies by plan. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

In this mystery episode, we play some secret messages. There are a few recently! You can send in secret messages for us to solve on the show or send in the solution to any of these messages on Spotify, Fanlist, or by text. Links are at the bottom of the page.Leet message:  100|< 0|_|+5||)3 (0|)3//@5+3|2 (013”5 |-|0|_|53The background music used in this episode was "Mainframe" by Bio Unit, "Resonance" by Bio Unit, "The Secret Base" by CryptologyMedia,You can contact us on Fanlist hereandYou can contact us on this text line. You can find Dr. Gareth's work at drgarethmoore.com. He has released many puzzled and cipher related books for kids, as well as a lot of stuff for adults, too. Support the show

Listen to Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh, and Scott Bogman LIVE on Discord. Join us next week on Monday afternoon at 2:00 PM ET at fantasypros.com/chat. The guys discuss everything happening in the football world, both in fantasy and in reality, straight from Discord Stages! Join us, ask questions, and BE ON THE SHOW!  Are you struggling to figure out which stars to hold or sell high on? We break down the most important player decisions our audience has heading into Week 5, including the fallout from Jonathan Taylor's injury and Derrick Henry's dominant performance. Plus, we talk about why Justin Fields is a quarterback you can trust moving forward. All this and more, on this week's Out of Bounds!Timestamps (may be off due to ads):Derrick Henry's Strong Start - 0:00:00 Justin Fields Is a Must-Grab Player - 0:03:20Jayden Daniels, THE QB1! - 0:06:01How solid a bet is Sam Darnold going forward? - 0:08:40What is Worthy's value after Rice's injury? - 0:12:52Jonathan Taylor, is injured... again! - 0:19:32Which player should I trade? - 0:20:45Is Freiermuth the best TE available on waivers? - 0:22:40Trade Goedert for RB depth? - 0:24:53The 3-1-1 & Touchdown Calls - 0:27:00What's Trending? - 0:31:51Trey Benson, Bucky Irving or Jaylen Wright - who is the best keeper? - 0:36:40Jonathon Brooks, can he take the RB1 role? - 0:38:15Sam Darnold's REVENGE Game! - 0:43:46 Helpful Links: Join Us On Discord! - This show was taken from our weekly Discord chat with Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and Scott Bogman each Monday afternoon at 2:00 PM ET on fantasypros.com/chat. Join the fun, get your questions answered, and BE ON THE SHOW!  My Playbook - Don't miss out on the revolutionary fantasy football software that over 1 million teams have already synced with: My Playbook. It's packed with custom advice, rankings, and analysis tailored just for your team. Discover your optimal lineup, find advantageous trades, and stay ahead with the latest player news. Join the league of winners today at fantasypros.com/myplaybook and let's secure that championship! Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we'd love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let's make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Today in Manufacturing Podcast is brought to you by the editors of Manufacturing.net and Industrial Equipment News (IEN).This week's episode is brought to you by MSI Data. Many field service organizations understand the technology they use in their day-to-day service operations, but don't take the necessary steps to tap into its full potential. Download "Your Guide to Field Service Maturity" now to learn what “field service maturity” is, why it matters and how to get started. Download the guide here. Every week, we cover the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward. This week:GM Facing Class Action Suit Over 'Defective' Transmissions - @6:53The carmaker said the harsh shifting was normal.Mini Fridge Maker Announces $21.4M Expansion in Michigan - @17:28The investment will create up to 200 new jobs.Volkswagen Aims to Cancel No-Layoffs Pledge, Won't Rule Out Closing Plants - @27:08The company said early retirements and buyouts might not be enough.Lax FAA Oversight Blamed for Deadly Military Helicopter Crash - @38:08A failed engine component went unnoticed.Boar's Head Plant Linked to Deadly Outbreak Broke Food Safety Rules - @47:47The violations include instances of mold, insects, liquid dripping from ceilings and meat and fat residue on walls, floors and equipment.In Case You Missed ItElectric RV Maker Pebble Opens 60,000-Square-Foot Factory in U.S. - @1:01:33The company's Pebble Flow Was developed by veterans from Apple, Tesla, Zoox, Rivian and SpaceX.AI May Not Steal Many Jobs After All - @1:06:45It may just make workers more efficient instead.Morphing Wheels Can Easily Drive Up Stairs - @1:11:37They were inspired by a drop of liquid.

Welcome to this week's episode, where we dive deep into the world of gut health and hormones with our special guest, Avery Leigh, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, who's own personal health struggles inspired her to take a closer look at the root causes of chronic gut issues and hormone imbalances. Through advanced lab testing, customized protocols, and nutrition coaching, she guides her clients on a journey towards better health and balance.Join us as Avery shares her story of overcoming PCOS, hypothyroidism, and copper toxicity, and how she discovered the importance of addressing the underlying causes of health issues. If you're ready to take control of your gut health and hormones, this episode is a must-listen. Stay tuned, as Avery shares her insights, tools, and practices for achieving lasting wellness and achieving optimal health.We discussed:2:16Avery's gut health, hormonal health and acne journey6:59The copper IUD and oral contraception effects on health21:53The significance of diet & lifestyle on women's gut and hormonal health43:42Common misconceptions45:50Mental and emotional impacts on gut and hormonal health53:55Spirituality and how it integrates with physical health.You can find Avery @:www.alignedbyavery.comwww.instagram.com/alignedbyaverySend us a Text Message.Support the Show.Don't forget to leave a Rating for the podcast!You can find Leigh @:Leigh website - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/Leigh's books - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/books/ Eliminate Adult Acne Programme - https://eliminateadultacne.com/Radical Health Rebel YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@radicalhealthrebelpodcast

John 1:41-53The next day, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter, and he went and found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus, Son of Joseph, of Nazareth. Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”Now, when Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him he said, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” Nathanael said to him, “Where did you get to know me?” Jesus said to him, “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.” Nathanael said to him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.” Jesus said to him, “Do you believe because I said I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.” And he said to him, “Very truly I tell you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” I wonder why we don't ever use the phrase “Doubting Nathanael.” Most of us know about “Doubting Thomas,” right? He's the one who gets a bad rap for not believing Jesus had been raised from the dead until he could see and touch the wounds from his crucifixion. Even for people who don't know the story, “Doubting Thomas” is likely something they've said or heard before. To be called a “Doubting Thomas,” of course, is all about whatever it means to be cynical or skeptical in the face of some sort of news.I suspect the reason “Doubting Nathanael” never became a thing was because his doubts came so early-on. Nathanael hadn't witnessed yet all that Thomas had seen by the time his doubts about Jesus were revealed. I mean, Thomas had seen the water become wine. Thomas had seen some miraculous healings. Thomas knew about Lazarus stepping out of his tomb. He was there at the Last Supper and all the rest. So, I suppose Thomas is more infamous for his doubts because he should have known better.But Nathanael – Mr. “Can-anything-good-come-out-of-Nazareth” – didn't have the benefit of all that history and experience, yet. This little ditty at the beginning of John's Gospel is just the start of Jesus' life and ministry – we're still in Chapter 1 here, after all. All the soon-to-be disciples knew at this point is what had been written, “by Moses, in the law and also the prophets,” about this guy they'd yet to meet.So, as far as Nathanael is concerned, I like to consider that Philip probably knew a thing or two about Nathanael when he decided to tell him about this Jesus he and the others had found. After all, the story says that Philip “found” Nathanael; not that he bumped into him on the street corner; not that he ran into him on his way to somewhere else; not that Nathanael came to him for something. No, it says that Philip went and found Nathanael, which makes me think they had a history together, that they were friends in some way. And I wonder if Philip knew his buddy Nathanael was going to react in just that way – doubtful; skeptical; cynical. (“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”) I wonder if Philip knew Nathanael was a hard nut to crack… that maybe he was lonely, or grieving, or stewing about something in particular underneath the fig tree that day… and that that's exactly why he set out to find his friend to tell him about Jesus.And I wonder if Philip was tired of debating Scripture; studying the prophets; dissecting the rumors around town. I wonder if he just couldn't wait to tell Nathanael, those sweet, simple, inviting words. “We've found this Jesus. It's happened. He's for real. It's true. Come and see.”He's not threatening his friend. He's not challenging him. He's not setting up a debate. He doesn't judge Nathanael for whatever doubts he has, either. He just says, “Come and see.” And Nathanael goes.And Nathanael finds, it seems, what he didn't think he would – “The Son of God!” and “The King of Israel!” – much to his apparent suspicion and surprise.And this story is nothing more or less than a picture of what gracious, faithful evangelism looks like, if you ask me. See, this story actually begins a couple of verses prior to what we just heard, when Andrew and Peter share what they know with Philip. See, before Philip finds Nathanael, Jesus is the one who starts this “come and see” thing. No threats. No judgment. No fear. No double-dog dares. Just a sweet and simple invitation to “come and see.”And that's all evangelism and sharing faith require, I believe. “Come and see.” It's NOT a judgment. It's NOT fearful. It's not “if you don't come, see, and believe what I believe, you're doomed for all eternity.”It's “come and see” because this grace is for you; it will bless you; it will surprise you in amazing, worthwhile ways.” “Come and see, because you wouldn't believe it if I told you, anyway.” “Come and see, because there aren't enough words to describe this kind of love; this kind of forgiveness; this kind of goodness.”But we're timid about that, aren't we? Some of us are out of practice. Some of us have never had the chance to warm up. Some of us might just as soon hang out with Nathanael underneath a fig tree somewhere with our questions and our doubts, not sure where to go or what to look for. And I get that. I can get pretty comfortable beneath my own proverbial fig tree every now and then.So, I often ask new CrossRoads classes “when was the last, best movie you've seen?” Or, “have you read any good books lately?” And those questions usually let people loose with conversation. Because when we see a really good movie – whether it's so funny we laughed our heads off, or so sad we cried our eyes out – we like to tell others about it, don't we? When we've read a really good book we do the same thing … talk it up with a friend, or even pass it along to share with someone we think might appreciate it.My point is we're more timid or shy, uncertain or unconvinced when it comes to talking about our faith with the same ease or energy or enthusiasm, aren't we? Maybe we think we have to have all the answers. Maybe we're afraid we might offend. Maybe we're reluctant to reveal too much about ourselves along the way. Maybe we just don't want to look or sound or be like “one of those kind of Christians.”But today's Gospel makes it easy, I think. Philip doesn't answer questions. He doesn't say anything that could offend. All he seems to reveal about himself is that he's on the same sort of journey. He doesn't pretend to prove anything. And neither does Jesus. “Come and see.” And so, at least this morning, all we're called to do is invite: “Come and see.” And we have a lot to show people about this movement of grace we're up to around here, I'm glad to say.“Come and see,” a family of faith that's teaching generosity to our kids by way of offerings of over $7,500 last month alone. That money is going to share the simple gift of life-giving water with some of the most vulnerable children and families in our own country and around the world.“Come and see” a place and a people who are wrestling with the work of racial justice and LGBTQ equity and inclusion in the midst of a community and a culture that will not do that work, in so many ways.“Come and see” by sitting in on an Adult Forum, or by coming to a Men's or Women's Bible Study, or by bringing your kids to Grace Quest and Sunday school, and learning, together, what we can about God's Word for our lives.“Come and see” on any given Sunday, because everyone's welcome here – through the waters of baptism and at the table of holy communion, too – where we eat bread and drink wine and where we're filled up with the fullness of God's forgiveness, mercy, and love, with no strings attached. “Come and see.”Speaking of movies… the last one I've seen was the new musical version of The Color Purple. The name of Alice Walker's novel, on which the first movie and this recent musical are based – The Color Purple – comes from a simple, profound line in the book where Shug Avery says to Celie, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple … and don't notice it.”I think our call as followers of Jesus … as believers in God … as recipients of this amazing grace we claim … is simply to notice it, to celebrate it, and to give thanks to the God who so generously shares it with us. And I think we're called to invite others to come and see it, too; to notice and share it, right along with us, not just because maybe it pisses God off when we don't, but because we're blessed and better – our lives and the world change for good – when we realize it's not ours, this grace, but God's to give – and God does give it – freely and with abundance, for the sake of the world.Amen

In this week's episode entitled “Stored Emotions and Trauma Create Chronic Pain”, I spoke with Lyn Delmastro-Thomson, a talented healer and hypnotist, sought-after speaker and author of the Amazon best-seller “You Are Not Your Diagnosis.” Lyn helps women with chronic health symptoms have more energy so they have peace of mind, live a meaningful life and enjoy independence. Lyn has tremendous understanding and compassion for her clients because she herself struggled with a life-changing health crisis too. She is passionate about sharing the message that our bodies can heal from serious health issues… when we have the right support.Little did I know before interviewing Lyn that she also, like myself has studied The BodyTalk system, which was a nice surprise.I really enjoyed this interview with Lyn and one I am sure you will enjoy too!We discussed:2:30Lyn's journey into stored emotions and trauma 26:10You need to heal emotional trauma to heal chronic pain39:53The role of unresolved trauma in physical pain49:25Talking Therapies to overcome emotional trauma 56:15The subconscious minds role in clearing traumaYou can find Lyn @:https://heartfirehealingllc.com/ https://www.instagram.com/heartfirehealing/Support the showDon't forget to leave a Rating for the podcast!You can find Leigh @:Leigh website - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/Leigh's books - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/books/ Eliminate Adult Acne Programme - https://skinwebinar.com/HEAL THEM Education Programme - http://healthemeducation.vhx.tv/ Radical Health Rebel YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@radicalhealthrebelpodcast

John 4:43-54 43After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. Jesus Heals an Official's Son 46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

Why do people make changes to their bodies? Breast lifts, tummy tucks, BBL's, collagen injections, etc. We live in a world that judges you based on your presentation, and these body modifications allow us to have more control and feel more free. This is just one of the topics touched on in this episode of Dem Bois Podcast. Today I sit down with actor, comedian, writer, and poet, D'Lo, and we dive deeper into this topic. We also discuss transitioning slowly, protecting the Trans culture, shaping masculinity, and much more.We talk:D'Lo's transition story - 6:01Why he chose to take his transition slow - 13:58Parents supporting their young transgender children - 24:30How he shaped masculinity for himself - 32:53The importance of telling our own stories - 40:33Projects D'Lo is working on - 43:36Advice for listeners - 56:26Click here for transcript!Episode References:Ballin' With My Bois - PlayScott Turner Schofield Alison De La CruzRead more about our guest in his bio below:D'Lo is a queer/transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American actor/writer/comic. He has toured his solo shows internationally, with his last show “To T, or not To T?” having a run last summer at LA's Kirk Douglas Theater. His acting credits include: LOOKING, TRANSPARENT, SENSE 8, and MR.ROBOT, CONNECTING, Billy Eichner movie BROS and a recent episode of QUANTUM LEAP. He is a Senior Civic Media Fellow through USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab funded via the MacArthur Foundation. His work has been published and/or written about in academic journals, literary anthologies, and print/online journalism sources, such as The Guardian, NBC, CNN and The Advocate. Dlocokid.cominstagram.com/dlocokidtwitter.com/dlocokidAre you enjoying the Dem Bois Podcast? Donate today to help support the cost of production and the honorarium we pay our guests for their time. All donations are tax-deductible. Click here! Donate to support our 2023 Gender Affirming Surgery Grant Fund here!

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2023 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 22, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2023Topics covered:You don't need to count, weigh and measure your food to know how much you need. @ IntroUsing The 4 Steps of Mindful Eating will put you in tune to your portions. @ 3:30The 4th Step - What happens 10-15 minutes after eating. @ 8:00 This Program is sustainable and sets you up for success whether you choose to return or continue on your own. @ 12:15How do you not gain weight back? @ 14:19We've been taught to be disconnected growing up and with other diets. Learning to be in tune. @ 18:15Podcasts are available to download and reviewing posts are a value as they can resonate differently each time. @ 21:08Why you can feel satisfied after you eat even though it takes the body time to process. @ 24:09The health benefits of following The Program, even when dealing with health issues. @ 26:07Counting points and calories will not benefit you. Hunger levels change day to day. @ 30:53The 4 Steps of Mindful Eating video with Rebecca covers the 4 Steps. @ 32:27 Facebook can be glitchy. @ 34:01 Planting the seeds of doubt when not believing you can be successful. @ 35:07Does drinking wine cause the scale to go up? @ 39:57Causes for gaining weight apart from the food you were eating. @ 40:48Weight loss is based on momentum and consistency and how your choices affect you. @ 42:54Gina's passion comes through in the Lives and the support team are passionate, committed and here to help and support. @ 45:28Bowel movements - how they can look like on The Program. Loose movements discussed. @ 48:10Week 3 Mindfulness can be a game changer so put the time into it. @ 52:18To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#53The masculine principle is like fire, it is penetrative, it direct energy.Yet in its deepest sense it is… pure stillness.The masculine initiations reveal the stillness that the man is.Yet, each man gets to take responsibility for his penetrative power.What are you penetrating the world with?Let's explore together - in this episode.If you want to learn how to find your real confidence,how to start feeling Life deeply,how to tap into your full potential in the bedroom and in Life, and how to not only be a Great Lover but how to experience expanded states of consciousness and step into your Potential through erotic aliveness…You would LOVE the upcoming Divine Eros Immersion taking place really soon in Portugal, where you will embody the Sacred Man you truly are in a completely new way.You can apply for Divine Eros Immersion here: https://sofiasundari.com/divine-eros-2023Timestamps00:01 - Dedicated to men02:20 - Masculinity & responsibility03:50 - Masculinity & abuse of power09:00 - What is masculinity?13:30 - Tapping into your sexual energy and connecting to deeper powers within yourself16:00 - Anchoring into your body 16:40 - What are you penetrating the world with?19:50 - Being connected to the flow of life & your Heart21:00 - Stillness & presence25:30 - Being in challenging emotional situations34:20 - Being conducive to Divine powers35:45 - Inviting men to Divine Eros

The story about Millennials and dating is all about apps, sexting and ghosting - the habits of the toxically online. But it's not all toxic - it can help people discover how to be intimate and confident in their romantic relationships. Still, real concerns about privacy and security abound. We sat down with Katy Coduto, PhD, an assistant professor of media studies at Boston University and author of the forthcoming Technology, Privacy, and Sexting: Mediated Sex.Find out more about Katy here: https://kdcoduto.comIntroductionThe role of generational differences in online dating and dating. 9:52Dating apps. 15:30Dating tropes. 17:14The gamification layer. 24:00Millennials and dating apps. 27:15Swipe right on everyone. 31:48Why hookup culture? 36:08Sexting is good. 43:53The nuances of privacy in online relationships. 45:54Branding millennials. 59:08The good and the bad of social media. 1:02:59In The Demo, a podcast about how stories of groups are created, subverted and destroyed. On the first season, we pursue the origins of the Millennial Myth. Farrah Bostic is the founder and Head of Research & Strategy of, The Difference Engine, a strategic insights consultancy focused on helping business leaders make decisions. Adam Pierno, author and brand consultant and managing director of brand strategy at Arizona State University. Our host is voiced by Eliza, a robot created by Murf.ai.In the Demo is edited by Allison Preisinger and AMP Studio. Music by 0megaMan under the Creative Commons license. Learn more and find research and supporting materials at inthedemopodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author John Vampatella & Mark talk about John's book the 53rd Man, Fighting to Make It in the NFL – book by John Vampatella. All of this, & Ohtani, The Tampa Bay Rays, the Orioles & the AngelsPart 1 of this interview is at https://bit.ly/3s5UdQh  The 53rd Man is the last man to make the NFL team's roster. These players fight to stay in the game and on the team. John's book takes the reader through injuries, cuts and trades.120 plus players in the minor leagues for each team in football the cutoff is 53The 53rd Man, Fighting to Make It in the NFL – book by John VampatellaUConn, Wide Receiver, Jeremy Davis, NFL 5 to 6 year career, Special Teams AceNFL does not have a minor league like MLBFringe Players, Bubble Guys, may make the team but may be on the practice squad.Davis became a Special Teams Ace53rd Men stories include players including, Austin Carr with the Patriots who got cut by Belichick and then moved to the Saints and played with Drew Brees Faith & ResiliencyYou can't make the club from the tub – 53rd man may get the same level of care as any other player but they could easily be replaced. Many of these players will continue to play hurt to mainJeremy Davis with the Giants – the fear of being cut because your hurt Faith for Matthew Slater, son of NFL Hall of Famer Jackie Slater, gave him strength during difficult timesTrust that God has a Plan for them and it gives them peace while others who are stressed outWalk with God – it has been the anchor to get some players through their pro careerJohn's inspired by 13-year old daughter's faith & her walk with God while facing hardship Orioles, Blue Jays & Tampa Bay Rays 3 AL East teams potentially in the 6 spots for MLB Playoff BracketsRays Injuries  - Glasnow, McClanahan, Springer, RasmussenWhat happened to the Rays in August and will they be able to catch the OriolesShohei Ohtani – the singular GOAT of the century – Arte MorenoAngels have Ohtani & Mike Trout and are currently under .500John Vampatella's book, 53rd Man, Fighting to Make it in the NFL you can order now at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538181508/53rd-Man-Fighting-to-Make-It-in-the-NFL Use Code: RLFANDF30  to get 30% off BaseballBiz On Deck on iheartradio, Stitcher, Apple, Spotify & Google & www.BaseballBizOnDeck.com Please like, subscribe and remark. Let us know your thoughts about the show. Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward"

Revisiting one our favorite episodes with guests, Betsy and Gentry Mikesell who are not only amazing entrepreneurs, and you're gonna hear about Beddy's, which is an amazing bedding company that really changed the world in terms of making beds with ease. But you're going to hear a life changing event that has filled their hearts with gratitude, and as we enter the Thanksgiving season, this story will warm your heart and inspire all of us to reach out to family, friends, and loved ones with gratitude. “It was the worst thing to happen to our family, and yet the best.”Being an entrepreneur and the start of Beddy's 2:15Snapshot of what Beddy's looks like today 9:53The plane crash 16:29Gaining consciousness 20:52Having to wait for Gentry to heal 26:39Fearing he might not make it 37:01Learning to not be judgmental or critical 40:39Where Alyssa was and how this experience touched her 42:10Moving to Tennessee and how life was later 48:54One final nugget of truth 52:10“There were just so many things that came into place, like if we had crashed 20 seconds earlier, we wouldn't have crashed near campers. We would have been so remote that nobody could get to us. So we feel super lucky for the way it turned out.” 19:30

Join Nathan Guerra and guest co-host Eric Schlange for this weekly podcast as they wrap up all things Zwift.  Avatar fashion, racing, community guests, you name it they've got it covered!Ep.53The impact of Tour de France Femmes Avec ZwiftUpdate Version 1.44 reviewXP farmingWhat is a mega Ride on bomb?Website:https://www.zwiftcommunitylive.com/ - for all workout filesInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nathanguerr...https://www.instagram.com/anna_zwift_...Twitch...

"All dying is a spiritual process," says our guest on this episode, hospice chaplain Kerry Egan. By this, she means that each person's death is more than just a biological event; it's an opportunity to reflect on the culmination of our human experiences, the lessons we've learned, and the impact we've had on others. The recognition of our impermanence prompts us to grapple with questions of legacy and purpose, infusing our mortal existence with depth and significance. Over the course of our conversation, Kerry describes how she became a chaplain, how she supports patients and other clinicians through difficult times, and the process of reconciling the strength of the human spirit with the limitations of the body.In this episode, you will hear about:An overview of hospice care and the role of the chaplain - 1:53The difference between hospital chaplaincy and hospice chaplaincy, and what led Kerry to this work - 7:15A discussion of the distinction between the person's physical body and their intangible soul, consciousness, or spirit - 26:00How a chaplain offers spiritual counseling to clinicians in addition to patients - 32:51How years of being a chaplain has taught Kerry to love her own body - 34:20Why viewing the body as a machine and the physician as a mechanic leads to harm - 39:01Kerry's advice to doctors for keeping compassion alive - 49:08Kerry Egan is the author of On Living, a memoir about her experiences as a hospice chaplain.You can follow Kerry Egan on Instagram @KerryEganWriter.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2023

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from the Spring/Summer 2023 Weight Loss Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 78, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivyspringsummer2023Topics covered:Paying attention, prioritizing yourself, Maximizing Your Personal Plan @ IntroSnacks - from the same snacks on plan @ 3:49 Listening to your body's cues @ 7:07Struggle bus - self-sabotage @ 10:53The scale - check yourself before you wreck yourself, Back on Track @ 11:26Eating at night - increasing metabolism @ 14:07Reasons to be as healthy as possible @ 16:47Yogurt for snacks - watch saturated fats, balance snacks @ 18:48Sunburn and the scale - recognizing what you don't want to eat @ 21:32Portions - ask the 4 Mindfulness Questions, what is most appealing @ 24:22Having the snack and not feeling great, changing routine/habit @ 27:03Largest meal still at dinner - portions are what they feel like @ 28:33While losing weight - making food choices @ 32:57Eating the cake on your birthday - don't stress @ 36:17Lemon water - routine, creating new habits, mindset @ 37:36Share pages for tips - connecting Livy Losers @ 41:53Crackers/pasta/bread - grains, starchy veg - what works for you @ 44:49Goal weight - deciding to lose more - always about how you feel @ 48:32To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The teaching of ethical conduct in government and the law is essential for every freesociety, most especially for America, where the concept first flourished in a college setting.The collaboration of Thomas Jefferson and his mentor George Wythe in formingAmerica's first leadership training program for future statesmen had a profound and far-reachingimpact on assuring that the new government would succeed and last beyond the FoundingFathers' lifetimes.After declaring independence in 1776, America faced two crises: an underfunded waragainst the western world's mightiest military power and a dearth of good leaders in government.While many contributed to the nation's developing success, this work focuses on the foresight oftwo exceptional individuals: Jefferson and Wythe, sometimes called the “Forgotten FoundingFather.” This is a largely untold story, with important implications for today.Suzanne Munson has dedicated significant time and energy towards making sure we remeber George Wythe and the lessons he taught. We discuss ethics in government, now and then. As well as addressing some concerns we both share.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4863095/advertisement

The teaching of ethical conduct in government and the law is essential for every free society, most especially for America, where the concept first flourished in a college setting. The collaboration of Thomas Jefferson and his mentor George Wythe in forming America's first leadership training program for future statesmen had a profound and far-reaching impact on assuring that the new government would succeed and last beyond the Founding Fathers' lifetimes. After declaring independence in 1776, America faced two crises: an underfunded war against the western world's mightiest military power and a dearth of good leaders in government. While many contributed to the nation's developing success, this work focuses on the foresight of two exceptional individuals: Jefferson and Wythe, sometimes called the “Forgotten Founding Father.” This is a largely untold story, with important implications for today. Suzanne Munson has dedicated significant time and energy towards making sure we remeber George Wythe and the lessons he taught. We discuss ethics in government, now and then. As well as addressing some concerns we both share.

The teaching of ethical conduct in government and the law is essential for every free society, most especially for America, where the concept first flourished in a college setting. The collaboration of Thomas Jefferson and his mentor George Wythe in forming America's first leadership training program for future statesmen had a profound and far-reaching impact on assuring that the new government would succeed and last beyond the Founding Fathers' lifetimes. After declaring independence in 1776, America faced two crises: an underfunded war against the western world's mightiest military power and a dearth of good leaders in government. While many contributed to the nation's developing success, this work focuses on the foresight of two exceptional individuals: Jefferson and Wythe, sometimes called the “Forgotten Founding Father.” This is a largely untold story, with important implications for today. Suzanne Munson has dedicated significant time and energy towards making sure we remeber George Wythe and the lessons he taught. We discuss ethics in government, now and then. As well as addressing some concerns we both share.

In this captivating episode of Mind Power Meets Mystic, hosts Michelle Walters and Cinthia Varkevisser delve into the intriguing world of graphology, also known as handwriting analysis. Cinthia, an experienced handwriting analyst, shares her journey into this fascinating field and reveals how handwriting can offer insights into one's personality, beliefs, and even health conditions. Discover the significance of handwriting pressure, the art of print script, and the hidden messages behind the letter "O." Explore the power of handwriting as a form of expression and the benefits of connecting pen to paper in this thought-provoking conversation. Tune in and unravel the secrets hidden within your own handwriting.Cynthia's background in handwriting analysis. 0:01What kinds of health conditions can you observe by reading a person's handwriting? 4:47How do people's handwriting change over the course of their life? 8:42What is the spectrum of handwriting? 11:25Print script is the healthiest form of handwriting. 15:53The double-knot on top and the keeping of secrets. 17:27What is Graphic Therapy and how does it work? 21:50Cursive isn't taught in schools. 24:06What else do you think our listeners should know about handwriting? 29:02

Who is Sorin?Sorin is CEO of SantinelaSantinela is an integrated Management Environment for production facilities, unlocking their full potential. It covers diverse functionalities specific to the management of production facilities, as a transversal platform designed by the workforce for the workforce.Key TakeawaysHow to help manufacturers improve their digitalization. 1:45The right process isn't it. 4:41Advice on how to improve your processes. 8:06Understanding the interconnectivity of processes and implementation. 11:53The importance of diversity in process improvement. 14:52Bringing people from the shop floor into the planning process. 19:30Valuable Free Resource or ActionFind out more about Santinela at www.Santinela.comA video version of this podcast is available on YouTube :_________________________________________________________________________________________________Subscribe to our newsletter and get details of when we are doing these interviews live at https://TCA.fyi/newsletterFind out more about being a guest at : link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/beaguestSubscribe to the podcast at https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/podcastHelp us get this podcast in front of as many people as possible. Leave a nice five-star review at apple podcasts : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/apple-podcasts and on YouTube : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/Itsnotrocketscienceatyt!Here's how you can bring your business to THE next level:If you are a business owner currently turning over £/$10K - £/$50K per month and want to grow to £/$100K - £/$500k per month download my free resource on everything you need to grow your business on a single page :It's a detailed breakdown of how you can grow your business to 7-figures in a smart and sustainable way————————————————————————————————————————————-TranscriptNote, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)SUMMARY KEYWORDSdigitalization, processes, process improvement, factory, understand, people, organisation, important, problems, therese, roadmap, question, point, big, shop floor, continuous improvement, company, spending, talk, websiteSPEAKERSSorin Petcu, Stuart WebbStuart WebbHi and welcome back to it's not rocket science five questions over coffee. I'm here today with Simon Pesci. Sarin is the CEO of Centinela. They're a agency which is dedicated to making the manufacturing of efficiency greater and improving it through process improvement and using digitalization to do that. So I'm really excited about this, because this is something I've done in my past. So I'm really excited to welcome Soren today to the to the podcast, and sorry, welcome to It's not rocket science five questions over the coffee, which I have in front of me, I know you've got one as well. Excellent, excellent news. Well, I'm sorry,Sorin Petcuyou're enjoying a lot of stuff from my cup of tea, coffee, whatever.Stuart WebbYeah, whatever it takes to get through. Sorry, tell us a little bit about the sort of the customers you're trying to help with these with this great way of trying to digitalize some of the some of the work that's going on today and in process improvement.Sorin PetcuSo first of all, Stuart, thank you very much for having me. On today. So since 2003, I've been passionate about helping manufacturers to improve their manufacturing waste, let's put it like this. And after maybe 2005 2006, I started to see that there are lots of possibilities for digitalization in companies, and especially in the manufacturing businesses. And I've been working for different companies in food and beverage, so we are more specialised in food and beverage. And in 2016, I started to do consulting work. And I found out that food and beverage companies they were far behind, and they're still far behind in comparison to other to other industries, in terms of digitalization, digitalization is a very, very big word I would say. And what is happening is that manufacturers have some challenges, and they try to understand them. But to put in a very simple way, if you have a factory, a factory is like a black box, right. And if you look in, in the box, if you if you look at the box, you have inputs and your outputs. And in the box, if you don't understand it, as I was saying is a black box, you need to do something to be as efficient as possible to get those outputs the best way possible at the right time, the right quality, the right quality, you know the right quantity and stuff based on the inputs you get. So the challenges that they have, especially in this difficult and changing times is, I believe, to understand what they need to do to have the right digitalization. So how do you get from a process that is pen and paper in many, many factories and what we really want to do at something nela we really want to help manufacturers no matter the size, so there are small, medium or big. So the point is, how do you help them understand or generally they have a big problem to you know, to not look at the holes in front of the bike, but to look in the long term because they don't have time there are firefighting many times. And to think about how to optimise the processes, they have and digitalize them. This I believe are big challenges that they face in digitalization. Besides all the other challenges they have to face you know, with the inflation with Labour with whatever. So if we talk about digitalization, is about how you get the right processes, the right processes, not the wrong processes, digitalized and reliable Yeah,Stuart Webband that's the key isn't it? Sorry. And because I remember back in when I was one of the first companies I started was was was working with workflow technologies and we've talked about getting the right work to the right person at the right time. So so the problem that that many factories face. Is that right process, isn't it, which is the right process because you can pull a lever to digitalize a process which does not affect the if the efficiency of the factory does it you can, you can you can spend a lot of time and effort processing and working on a process which actually doesn't have as big an impact as you expect it to. So it is that right process, isn't it? And some, I would guess, of your customers have spent a lot of time trying to digitalize a process and then discovered it didn't have the effectiveness that they expected it to have.Sorin PetcuYeah, so the most interesting case I've I've seen many times in factories is that they tried to digitalize to digitise processes that are not, as you're saying that are not necessarily that important to the business. But most of all, they don't have the right processes in place, like the daily management system in a factory is critical. I call it the backbone of the factory. If if you don't have the right process in the in the shift, you know, the shifts, eight hour shifts, if you don't have the right meetings in the morning, if you don't talk about the right things in the morning, you know, the KPIs the actions from the day before the day the priorities of the day if you don't have the right processes and continuous improvement, right. What do you digitise you digitise some firefighting system, that will never give you the right results? So this is, I believe, the best example I have, and I've seen it in multiple multiple factories. So we go there to some basics of of management processes, let's put it like this.Stuart WebbYeah, yeah. And it is that problem of, of knowing, which is the right lever to pull, isn't it the growth lever, the big lever that you pull, which is the greatest growth lever for any, for any factory to improve its efficiency.Sorin PetcuFrom from our experience is that, you know, factories have systems like ERP warehouse management, quality system that they need for the for the whole, for their survival, and from a legal standpoint, and then they have the assets, right, they have the lines, and those lines have to produce in a reliable way. They also have the teams of course, that need to be trained, they need to know what they're doing, they need to have reliable processes, standardised work and stuff like this. So, in our experience, the biggest lever to improve efficiency and effectiveness, let's put it like this and productivity in a factory is by making sure that the lines and the assets run properly, and they produce the right quality product at the right time. And there you start with the holes with a whole package of methodologies for continuous improvement that you can of course apply and afterward digitise, right. But the biggest one I would say is the is the way the lines run the OEE, as general people call it, you know, but generally people call itStuart Webbso and I'm just gonna show on the screen now the your the link to your your company, LinkedIn profile. Now, there's some interesting stuff going on there. And then your website, or other any free piece of advice you have on the website that you can help people to understand exactly how they can make use of this obvious thinking, in order to get them to sort of understand that the way they should start to, to attack and to to approach these problems.Sorin PetcuYeah, well, we don't necessarily have these things on the website. But together with Leila, that was your that you invited last week, we were trying to make these messages come across to as many people as possible in the near future. But I would say if you want to improve your processes and digitise your processes, that's something along the way we think is the following. So first of all, don't think short term. So short term is you can cherry pick, but you won't see the whole stuff, you won't have the time to do a holistic approach. What is really important is to understand your problems, map your processes, understand your problems, create a roadmap, this is really important. There are some companies that you know, there are a pen and paper and they have some processes that sometimes are not the best one so they can be improved. And they're already thinking about deep learning AI but without necessarily understanding the full extent of all this. So Yeah, the way we think is, you know, you depending on the maturity, you must learn how to walk, then you must learn how to run, right. So understand your processes, understand and build your roadmap, talk to the people in their own your company, and the especially the ones that are impacted by the change, because fear of change and not not understanding the change can be a very big roadblock. And sometimes, you know, without any sustainable proof, so he's just about the feeling of people, right how they see the change. So afterwards, make sure that the roadmap is made in a pragmatic way, because your resources are limited, right? And take a look at what you were saying before about the things that mostly impact your business. But without you can cherry pick, but you can cherry pick from the roadmap, you don't cherry pick just to cherry pick, right? So and make sure that you plan the improvements, and that you have some way to track the success. And once you understand your needs, and you create your roadmap, only then you look for the suppliers that might help you. And one more thing, the suppliers, I would say that there's really two things very important about the suppliers, the hidden costs, sometimes are there. And the second one is get the supplier that can also help you not only from if we talk about digitalization, don't take a supplier that can only help you from an IP perspective. But also from a methodological aspect. It's goodStuart Webbpoint, I'm just going to show one point that somebody has pointed out on LinkedIn, which is a great point about changing the roadmap taking from your roadmap, which is thing. But there's a great comment that's coming in from Therese Batista, which is unless you understand the interconnectivity of the various processes, and proper implementation of change management, any change can lead to chaos. And as a really good point, because I do remember in one particular project in which I was involved in one company that I was involved with, for a while, the management decided to apply some some really interesting technology to one process. And all they did was made rubbish, effectively move, not rubbish knowledge move through the organisation much faster. I mean, I did say to them, I said, Look, I hate to tell you this, guys, I'm going to use a bad word, you just made the ship flow faster, rather than actually, rather than it clearing out what you should have done and actually get the right that these people had just just picked the wrong interconnectivity on various processes. And what they'd ended up with was a bigger mess that was now just flowing much quicker through the organisation. So it's really important. And Theresa makes a FIPS is picking suppliers to look at their understanding of compliance with ESG. That's really, really key, isn't it?Sorin PetcuAbsolutely. Absolutely. And I, again, talking about talking about things that that you have witnessed, I've also witnessed to SAP implementation some time ago, a long time ago. And I heard there was a consultant that was saying crap in crap out sorry for my word, right? So whatever you make sure you put the right data in there and without affecting the people that input the data, and also thinking about what's in it, about what they think you know, what's in it for me, because if you just asked me to put some numbers in, then it doesn't have my work. It doesn't help the digitalization process in any way.Stuart WebbSorry, news, there have been a particular book or something which has affected your thinking that you you'd like to share with with the people that are we're talking to at the moment, that would help them to understand some of some of what you're saying.Sorin PetcuYeah. So first of all, I would say that in order to have good digitalization processes, you must understand the continuous improvement process. If the organisations that, listen to us today, have the possibility to take to take a step back from the daily business, you know, and think a little bit about the continuous improvement roadmap that they'd like to implement. I think that some very good books would be TPM for process industries, which is, which is like, that was one of the first books I've ever read about, you know about TPM. It's really great. Then you have the Toyota way, which is also really good and it gives you but At one point here, it for both books. We are Europeans or from the US or certain things do not necessarily apply, as well as they would apply in Japan, for example, because we're not that. How do you say? Yeah, let's say that we have another way of thinking, right?Stuart WebbThe culture is different, isn't it? There's no point in pretending that you're right the process improvement is culturally dependent. You cannot employ process improvement in a culture, which is determined not to necessarily think in a particular way, Ken Yeah,Sorin Petcuexactly. But these two books they can give you hints about the steps to take. And you have to adapt them to the culture and to the into the company you're in. Right. So but these are two books that are really great. And the third one I've just started was white digital transformation fails. by Tony Sultana, I just have it in a document here. They this guy, I've just started it. So he's from Procter and Gamble, and Procter and Gamble, they are really well known in the industry for having some very good processes. So and I think that they've made it and they are making it the right way. Yeah. So I think that we can learn some things from theirStuart WebbSinem. I'm gonna throw in a question which is coming from the audience. So we can have a debate around this. But it's a question about how would you engage colleagues on equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging? What what do you think are important considerations for organisations to take into account to enable things like equality and diversity to get embedded during the sort of process improvement activities that you're, you're talking to your customers about? Wow, that's a long question. It's a it is a long, and we could talk for many hours about it. So let's,everybody by having a long debate, but I mean, the importance of diversity and equality are quite important in process improvement, because a lot of what you're doing at the moment can seem to disadvantaged people unless it's brought in so that people understand the change and understand how their part within it isn't. And bringing people along is a really important part of process improvement activities.Sorin PetcuSo all my life I've so one of my first one of my first credos, let's say in life is that I want to help people money comes, money comes if people are happy at the workplace, if they come to work, you know, liking the fact that they come to work that day. So, and in manufacturing, the manufacturing industry, the operator the technicians, the people on the shop floor, they are the ones that are really making the production happen, management is a supporting function. So, we do believe well, me and my colleagues, we do believe that equality and listening to people on the shop floor and making their lives easier and having good teams you know, that are motivated and happy to come to work. These are key to any digitalization and to any process improvement. Digitalization if it comes top down without explaining anything to the to the organisation will fail in probably more than 80 to 90% of the cases. So, diversity, inclusion belonging are really really important in all of this, but how do you engage? I would say I don't know if we can engage at the global level ourselves, but each organisation or small medium or big company, they should engage their colleagues you know, so, they should think that and operate operator is equal to a manager, you know, and their needs are equal. And moreover, a production line cannot run for the moment cannot run without an operator but it can run without the manager.Stuart WebbYeah, I have been involved in a number of change initiatives within organisations and the one thing that I nearly always advocate for where I where I where I can, I can help management to understand is to have people from the shop floor be involved in the planning process, because it's those people on the shop floor who have most understanding of where the changes will in fact impact on people. And, and I think that without bringing those people into the planning process and actually making the part of the team, you are going to be pushing against the forces, which actually, you can't understand from the boardroom, you don't understand. And actually having that person sort of tell you about where the real problems are, will enable you to make the the digital change so much easier, because you will actually be helping those people to make their lives easier and happier. And, and and, you know, sometimes that is about inclusion, sometimes it's about, it's about belonging. And I know that Theresa just made a great point that they have not given consideration to employ people with more skills. And and that's something that is part of this process as well, isn't it? It's bringing those people back into those skilled those skill areas.Sorin PetcuGreat points you both made, either in writing or verbally, I would like to add something here. So first of all, what is happening is that, you know, that you have I've seen over over time, two types of management in factories, yeah, top down. So basically, most of the decisions are taken at the top level of the factory, and the operators on the first line managers don't necessarily have any influence over the decision. But this is the not this is not the right or let's say the most successful, the most successful and the most inviting way of working. So in what we do at Santa nella, we try to invert this pyramid where operators team leaders, first line managers take most of the decisions. And we have, I have a great example from our of our customers that has implemented a ticketing module that we have with like, with a chat inside and people can work together. And just imagine that in over three is operators, with technicians, with team leaders with technical team leaders, they have worked on more than 100,000 tickets in a 150 person plant. Okay. So this is an extraordinary involvement of people in solving problems and the data, the the solutions, the problems, operators, know them, technicians know them. And most of the time, they also have the right solutions for the problems. Instead of getting an engineer like myself going there and creating, like the friends, they lose the night guys. So a guest station, right to solve a small problem. So these guys have a lot of experience, we should listen to them, and make sure that their lives and their opinions are respected.Stuart WebbGreat point. Listen, sorry, we could talk all afternoon about this. And I'm very conscious of keeping you away from doing something which I'm sure is really important in your business at the moment. So I'll bring it to an end. By asking you if there is a question that I hadn't yet asked you. Well, what would you have liked me to have asked you? And then obviously, you need to give us the answer to the question that you would have liked me to have asked you?Sorin PetcuWell, I would I would say that something really important to ask, but not necessarily myself, but maybe the manufacturers, I would have a question for the manufacturers, you know, in these in these really challenging times I was talking about the inputs, the inputs are getting more expensive, you don't find them at cetera, et cetera, right. So these are things that you can control up to a point. But every manufacturer is taken into account, the way that continuous improvement implemented a good continuous improvement programme, you know, what Lean Manufacturing, TPM, whatever, plus the digitalization, what implementing these things would bring to them in terms of resilience and come competitivity let's put like this. And this, I think that this is a question. Not that you haven't asked me, but I think that it's a pretty important question too, for manufacturers to think about maybe at the end of our session. So how have they thought about continuous improvement and digitalization? Have they taken these into account to help them get more competitivity and productivityStuart WebbBrilliant Sauron. Thank you so much. You know, I gotta I gotta finish by by thanking you for your time. Just to show one more comment from Therese, we what we're trying to do with this, in case you haven't guessed, guys, we're trying to remove the silos to give more exchange of information. Because for me, you know, removing silos in businesses is gonna lead to greater and I'm somebody who spends a lot of my time thinking about innovation. And one of the things that I find that too many companies think is that innovation is somehow just happens. Innovation doesn't just happen. Innovation happens to come from having conversations like this, potentially with sort of, you know, different viewpoints. And that brings together new ways of doing things. So I just love having people like sarin, come on and talk and give us their insights into things. Sorry. And thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us for talking about what you do at Santa nella, I would encourage you all to get onto the Santa nella website, which is here at Santa nella.com. And if you can't get on Santa nola.com, because your LinkedIn person, then get back to the LinkedIn website, which is Santa Ana, oh II on LinkedIn. And I really appreciate you, you coming on and spending a bit of time with us today. Sorry, if you're one of the people who comes on and listens to these things, please join our newsletter, where I send out an email which basically says who is going to be coming on, you can get details of that at HTTPS forward slash forward slash link the complete approach.co.uk newsletters, so that's link dot the complete approach.co.uk forward slash newsletter, go onto that website. And just subscribe to the newsletter. And you will get the notification coming and spending some time like people like Therese has done today. And being able to ask questions of our guests like sarin and future guests. Sorry, thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us really appreciate your insight. Love theSorin Petcupleasure, real pleasure to be with you. Thank you very much for the invitation. NoStuart Webbproblem. We could talk all afternoon and my coffee would go cold and I don't you need to get back to your job. Thank you so much for joining. Appreciate it.Sorin PetcuHave a great Day. 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It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombWe discuss* similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain arms-race situation)* visiting starving former Soviet scientists during fall of Soviet Union* whether Oppenheimer was a spy, & consulting on the Nolan movie* living through WW2 as a child* odds of nuclear war in Ukraine, Taiwan, Pakistan, & North Korea* how the US pulled of such a massive secret wartime scientific & industrial projectWatch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.Timestamps(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movie(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?(0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombs(0:49:44) - Stalin & the Soviet program(1:08:24) - Deterrence, disarmament, North Korea, Taiwan(1:33:12) - Oppenheimer as lab director(1:53:40) - AI progress vs Manhattan Project(1:59:50) - Living through WW2(2:16:45) - Secrecy(2:26:34) - Wisdom & warTranscript(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movieDwarkesh Patel 0:00:51Today I have the great honor of interviewing Richard Rhodes, who is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and most recently, the author of Energy, A Human History. I'm really excited about this one. Let's jump in at a current event, which is the fact that there's a new movie about Oppenheimer coming out, which I understand you've been consulted about. What did you think of the trailer? What are your impressions? Richard Rhodes 0:01:22They've really done a good job of things like the Trinity test device, which was the sphere covered with cables of various kinds. I had watched Peaky Blinders, where the actor who's playing Oppenheimer also appeared, and he looked so much like Oppenheimer to start with. Oppenheimer was about six feet tall, he was rail thin, not simply in terms of weight, but in terms of structure. Someone said he could sit in a children's high chair comfortably. But he never weighed more than about 140 pounds and that quality is there in the actor. So who knows? It all depends on how the director decided to tell the story. There are so many aspects of the story that you could never possibly squeeze them into one 2-hour movie. I think that we're waiting for the multi-part series that would really tell a lot more of the story, if not the whole story. But it looks exciting. We'll see. There have been some terrible depictions of Oppenheimer, there've been some terrible depictions of the bomb program. And maybe they'll get this one right. Dwarkesh Patel 0:02:42Yeah, hopefully. It is always great when you get an actor who resembles their role so well. For example, Bryan Cranston who played LBJ, and they have the same physical characteristics of the beady eyes, the big ears. Since we're talking about Oppenheimer, I had one question about him. I understand that there's evidence that's come out that he wasn't directly a communist spy. But is there any possibility that he was leaking information to the Soviets or in some way helping the Soviet program? He was a communist sympathizer, right? Richard Rhodes 0:03:15He had been during the 1930s. But less for the theory than for the practical business of helping Jews escape from Nazi Germany. One of the loves of his life, Jean Tatlock, was also busy working on extracting Jews from Europe during the 30. She was a member of the Communist Party and she, I think, encouraged him to come to meetings. But I don't think there's any possibility whatsoever that he shared information. In fact, he said he read Marx on a train trip between Berkeley and Washington one time and thought it was a bunch of hooey, just ridiculous. He was a very smart man, and he read the book with an eye to its logic, and he didn't think there was much there. He really didn't know anything about human beings and their struggles. He was born into considerable wealth. There were impressionist paintings all over his family apartments in New York City. His father had made a great deal of money cornering the markets on uniform linings for military uniforms during and before the First World War so there was a lot of wealth. I think his income during the war years and before was somewhere around $100,000 a month. And that's a lot of money in the 1930s. So he just lived in his head for most of his early years until he got to Berkeley and discovered that prime students of his were living on cans of god-awful cat food, because they couldn't afford anything else. And once he understood that there was great suffering in the world, he jumped in on it, as he always did when he became interested in something. So all of those things come together. His brother Frank was a member of the party, as was Frank's wife. I think the whole question of Oppenheimer lying to the security people during the Second World War about who approached him and who was trying to get him to sign on to some espionage was primarily an effort to cover up his brother's involvement. Not that his brothers gave away any secrets, I don't think they did. But if the army's security had really understood Frank Oppenheimer's involvement, he probably would have been shipped off to the Aleutians or some other distant place for the duration of the war. And Oppenheimer quite correctly wanted Frank around. He was someone he trusted.(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?Dwarkesh Patel 0:06:22Let's start talking about The Making of the Bomb. One question I have is — if World War II doesn't happen, is there any possibility that the bomb just never gets developed? Nobody bothers.Richard Rhodes 0:06:34That's really a good question and I've wondered over the years. But the more I look at the sequence of events, the more I think it would have been essentially inevitable, though perhaps not such an accelerated program. The bomb was pushed so hard during the Second World War because we thought the Germans had already started working on one. Nuclear fission had been discovered in Nazi Germany, in Berlin, in 1938, nine months before the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Technological surveillance was not available during the war. The only way you could find out something was to send in a spy or have a mole or something human. And we didn't have that. So we didn't know where the Germans were, but we knew that the basic physics reaction that could lead to a bomb had been discovered there a year or more before anybody else in the West got started thinking about it. There was that most of all to push the urgency. In your hypothetical there would not have been that urgency. However, as soon as good physicists thought about the reaction that leads to nuclear fission — where a slow room temperature neutron, very little energy, bumps into the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom it would lead to a massive response. Isidore Rabi, one of the great physicists of this era, said it would have been like the moon struck the earth. The reaction was, as physicists say, fiercely exothermic. It puts out a lot more energy than you have to use to get it started. Once they did the numbers on that, and once they figured out how much uranium you would need to have in one place to make a bomb or to make fission get going, and once they were sure that there would be a chain reaction, meaning a couple of neutrons would come out of the reaction from one atom, and those two or three would go on and bump into other Uranium atoms, which would then fission them, and you'd get a geometric exponential. You'd get 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and off of there. For most of our bombs today the initial fission, in 80 generations, leads to a city-busting explosion. And then they had to figure out how much material they would need, and that's something the Germans never really figured out, fortunately for the rest of us. They were still working on the idea that somehow a reactor would be what you would build. When Niels Bohr, the great Danish physicist, escaped from Denmark in 1943 and came to England and then United States, he brought with him a rough sketch that Werner Heisenberg, the leading scientist in the German program, had handed him in the course of trying to find out what Bohr knew about what America was doing. And he showed it to the guys at Los Alamos and Hans Bethe, one of the great Nobel laureate physicists in the group, said — “Are the Germans trying to throw a reactor down on us?” You can make a reactor blow up, we saw that at Chernobyl, but it's not a nuclear explosion on the scale that we're talking about with the bomb. So when a couple of these emigres Jewish physicists from Nazi Germany were whiling away their time in England after they escaped, because they were still technically enemy aliens and therefore could not be introduced to top secret discussions, one of them asked the other — “How much would we need of pure uranium-235, this rare isotope of uranium that chain reacts? How much would we need to make a bomb?” And they did the numbers and they came up with one pound, which was startling to them. Of course, it is more than that. It's about 125 pounds, but that's just a softball. That's not that much material. And then they did the numbers about what it would cost to build a factory to pull this one rare isotope of uranium out of the natural metal, which has several isotopes mixed together. And they figured it wouldn't cost more than it would cost to build a battleship, which is not that much money for a country at war. Certainly the British had plenty of battleships at that point in time. So they put all this together and they wrote a report which they handed through their superior physicists at Manchester University where they were based, who quickly realized how important this was. The United States lagged behind because we were not yet at war, but the British were. London was being bombed in the blitz. So they saw the urgency, first of all, of eating Germany to the punch, second of all of the possibility of building a bomb. In this report, these two scientists wrote that no physical structure came to their minds which could offer protection against a bomb of such ferocious explosive power. This report was from 1940 long before the Manhattan Project even got started. They said in this report, the only way we could think of to protect you against a bomb would be to have a bomb of similar destructive force that could be threatened for use if the other side attacked you. That's deterrence. That's a concept that was developed even before the war began in the United States. You put all those pieces together and you have a situation where you have to build a bomb because whoever builds the first bomb theoretically could prevent you from building more or prevent another country from building any and could dominate the world. And the notion of Adolf Hitler dominating the world, the Third Reich with nuclear weapons, was horrifying. Put all that together and the answer is every country that had the technological infrastructure to even remotely have the possibility of building everything you'd have to build to get the material for a bomb started work on thinking about it as soon as nuclear fusion was announced to the world. France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, even Japan. So I think the bomb would have been developed but maybe not so quickly. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:10In the book you talk that for some reason the Germans thought that the critical mass was something like 10 tons, they had done some miscalculation.Richard Rhodes 0:14:18A reactor. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:19You also have some interesting stories in the book about how different countries found out the Americans were working on the bomb. For example, the Russians saw that all the top physicists, chemists, and metallurgists were no longer publishing. They had just gone offline and so they figured that something must be going on. I'm not sure if you're aware that while the subject of the Making of the Atomic Bomb in and of itself is incredibly fascinating, this book has become a cult classic in AI. Are you familiar with this? Richard Rhodes 0:14:52No. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:53The people who are working on AI right now are huge fans of yours. They're the ones who initially recommended the book to me because the way they see the progress in the field reminded them of this book. Because you start off with these initial scientific hints. With deep learning, for example, here's something that can teach itself any function is similar to Szilárd noticing the nuclear chain reaction. In AI there's these scaling laws that say that if you make the model this much bigger, it gets much better at reasoning, at predicting text, and so on. And then you can extrapolate this curve. And you can see we get two more orders of magnitude, and we get to something that looks like human level intelligence. Anyway, a lot of the people who are working in AI have become huge fans of your book because of this reason. They see a lot of analogies in the next few years. They must be at page 400 in their minds of where the Manhattan Project was.Richard Rhodes 0:15:55We must later on talk about unintended consequences. I find the subject absolutely fascinating. I think my next book might be called Unintended Consequences. Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:10You mentioned that a big reason why many of the scientists wanted to work on the bomb, especially the Jewish emigres, was because they're worried about Hitler getting it first. As you mentioned at some point, 1943, 1944, it was becoming obvious that Hitler, the Nazis were not close to the bomb. And I believe that almost none of the scientists quit after they found out that the Nazis weren't close. So why didn't more of them say — “Oh, I guess we were wrong. The Nazis aren't going to get it. We don't need to be working on it.”?Richard Rhodes 0:16:45There was only one who did that, Joseph Rotblat. In May of 1945 when he heard that Germany had been defeated, he packed up and left. General Groves, the imperious Army Corps of Engineers General who ran the entire Manhattan Project, was really upset. He was afraid he'd spill the beans. So he threatened to have him arrested and put in jail. But Rotblat was quite determined not to stay any longer. He was not interested in building bombs to aggrandize the national power of the United States of America, which is perfectly understandable. But why was no one else? Let me tell it in terms of Victor Weisskopf. He was an Austrian theoretical physicist, who, like the others, escaped when the Nazis took over Germany and then Austria and ended up at Los Alamos. Weisskopf wrote later — “There we were in Los Alamos in the midst of the darkest part of our science.” They were working on a weapon of mass destruction, that's pretty dark. He said “Before it had almost seemed like a spiritual quest.” And it's really interesting how different physics was considered before and after the Second World War. Before the war, one of the physicists in America named Louis Alvarez told me when he got his PhD in physics at Berkeley in 1937 and went to cocktail parties, people would ask, “What's your degree in?” He would tell them “Chemistry.” I said, “Louis, why?” He said, “because I don't really have to explain what physics was.” That's how little known this kind of science was at that time. There were only about 1,000 physicists in the whole world in 1900. By the mid-30s, there were a lot more, of course. There'd been a lot of nuclear physics and other kinds of physics done by them. But it was still arcane. And they didn't feel as if they were doing anything mean or dirty or warlike at all. They were just doing pure science. Then nuclear fission came along. It was publicized worldwide. People who've been born since after the Second World War don't realize that it was not a secret at first. The news was published first in a German chemistry journal, Die Naturwissenschaften, and then in the British journal Nature and then in American journals. And there were headlines in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and all over the world. People had been reading about and thinking about how to get energy out of the atomic nucleus for a long time. It was clear there was a lot there. All you had to do was get a piece of radium and see that it glowed in the dark. This chunk of material just sat there, you didn't plug it into a wall. And if you held it in your hand, it would burn you. So where did that energy come from? The physicists realized it all came from the nucleus of the atom, which is a very small part of the whole thing. The nucleus is 1/100,000th the diameter of the whole atom. Someone in England described it as about the size of a fly in a cathedral. All of the energy that's involved in chemical reactions, comes from the electron cloud that's around the nucleus. But  it was clear that the nucleus was the center of powerful forces. But the question was, how do you get them out? The only way that the nucleus had been studied up to 1938 was by bombarding it with protons, which have the same electric charge as the nucleus, positive charge, which means they were repelled by it. So you had to accelerate them to high speeds with various versions of the big machines that we've all become aware of since then. The cyclotron most obviously built in the 30s, but there were others as well. And even then, at best, you could chip a little piece off. You could change an atom one step up or one step down the periodic table. This was the classic transmutation of medieval alchemy sure but it wasn't much, you didn't get much out. So everyone came to think of the nucleus of the atom like a little rock that you really had to hammer hard to get anything to happen with it because it was so small and dense. That's why nuclear fission, with this slow neutron drifting and then the whole thing just goes bang, was so startling to everybody. So startling that when it happened, most of the physicists who would later work on the bomb and others as well, realized that they had missed the reaction that was something they could have staged on a lab bench with the equipment on the shelf. Didn't have to invent anything new. And Louis Alvarez again, this physicist at Berkeley, he said — “I was getting my hair cut. When I read the newspaper, I pulled off the robe and half with my hair cut, ran to my lab, pulled some equipment off the shelf, set it up and there it was.” So he said, “I discovered nuclear fission, but it was two days too late.” And that happened all over. People were just hitting themselves on the head and saying, well, Niels Bohr said, “What fools we've all been.” So this is a good example of how in science, if your model you're working with is wrong it doesn't lead you down the right path. There was only one physicist who really was thinking the right way about the uranium atom and that was Niels Bohr. He wondered, sometime during the 30s, why uranium was the last natural element in the periodic table? What is different about the others that would come later? He visualized the nucleus as a liquid drop. I always like to visualize it as a water-filled balloon. It's wobbly, it's not very stable. The protons in the nucleus are held together by something called the strong force, but they still have the repellent positive electric charge that's trying to push them apart when you get enough of them into a nucleus. It's almost a standoff between the strong force and all the electrical charge. So it is like a wobbly balloon of water. And then you see why a neutron just falling into the nucleus would make it wobble around even more and in one of its configurations, it might take a dumbbell shape. And then you'd have basically two charged atoms just barely connected, trying to push each other apart. And often enough, they went the whole way. When they did that, these two new elements, half the weight of uranium, way down the periodic table, would reconfigure themselves into two separate nuclei. And in doing so, they would release some energy. And that was the energy that came out of the reaction and there was a lot of energy. So Bohr thought about the model in the right way. The chemists who actually discovered nuclear fusion didn't know what they were gonna get. They were just bombarding a solution of uranium nitrate with neutrons thinking, well, maybe we can make a new element, maybe a first man-made element will come out of our work. So when they analyzed the solution after they bombarded it, they found elements halfway down the periodic table. They shouldn't have been there. And they were totally baffled. What is this doing here? Do we contaminate our solution? No. They had been working with a physicist named Lisa Meitner who was a theoretical physicist, an Austrian Jew. She had gotten out of Nazi Germany not long before. But they were still in correspondence with her. So they wrote her a letter. I held that letter in my hand when I visited Berlin and I was in tears. You don't hold history of that scale in your hands very often. And it said in German — “We found this strange reaction in our solution. What are these elements doing there that don't belong there?” And she went for a walk in a little village in Western Sweden with her nephew, Otto Frisch, who was also a nuclear physicist. And they thought about it for a while and they remembered Bohr's model, the wobbly water-filled balloon. And they suddenly saw what could happen. And that's where the news came from, the physics news as opposed to the chemistry news from the guys in Germany that was published in all the Western journals and all the newspapers. And everybody had been talking about, for years, what you could do if you had that kind of energy. A glass of this material would drive the Queen Mary back and forth from New York to London 20 times and so forth, your automobile could run for months. People were thinking about what would be possible if you had that much available energy. And of course, people had thought about reactors. Robert Oppenheimer was a professor at Berkeley and within a week of the news reaching Berkeley, one of his students told me that he had a drawing on the blackboard, a rather bad drawing of both a reactor and a bomb. So again, because the energy was so great, the physics was pretty obvious. Whether it would actually happen depended on some other things like could you make it chain react? But fundamentally, the idea was all there at the very beginning and everybody jumped on it. Dwarkesh Patel 0:27:54The book is actually the best history of World War II I've ever read. It's about the atomic bomb, but it's interspersed with the events that are happening in World War II, which motivate the creation of the bomb or the release of it, why it had to be dropped on Japan given the Japanese response. The first third is about the scientific roots of the physics and it's also the best book I've read about the history of science in the early 20th century and the organization of it. There's some really interesting stuff in there. For example, there was a passage where you talk about how there's a real master apprentice model in early science where if you wanted to learn to do this kind of experimentation, you will go to Amsterdam where the master of it is residing. It's much more individual focused. Richard Rhodes 0:28:58Yeah, the whole European model of graduate study, which is basically the wandering scholar. You could go wherever you wanted to and sign up with whoever was willing to have you sign up. (0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombsDwarkesh Patel 0:29:10But the question I wanted to ask regarding the history you made of World War II in general is — there's one way you can think about the atom bomb which is that it is completely different from any sort of weaponry that has been developed before it. Another way you can think of it is there's a spectrum where on one end you have the thermonuclear bomb, in the middle you have the atom bomb, and on this end you have the firebombing of cities like Hamburg and Dresden and Tokyo. Do you think of these as completely different categories or does it seem like an escalating gradient to you? Richard Rhodes 0:29:47I think until you get to the hydrogen bomb, it's really an escalating gradient. The hydrogen bomb can be made arbitrarily large. The biggest one ever tested was 56 megatons of TNT equivalent. The Soviet tested that. That had a fireball more than five miles in diameter, just the fireball. So that's really an order of magnitude change. But the other one's no and in fact, I think one of the real problems, this has not been much discussed and it should be, when American officials went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war, one of them said later — “I got on a plane in Tokyo. We flew down the long green archipelago of the Japanese home island. When I left Tokyo, it was all gray broken roof tiles from the fire bombing and the other bombings. And then all this greenery. And then when we flew over Hiroshima, it was just gray broken roof tiles again.” So the scale of the bombing with one bomb, in the case of Hiroshima, was not that different from the scale of the fire bombings that had preceded it with tens of thousands of bombs. The difference was it was just one plane. In fact, the people in Hiroshima didn't even bother to go into their bomb shelters because one plane had always just been a weather plane. Coming over to check the weather before the bombers took off. So they didn't see any reason to hide or protect themselves, which was one of the reasons so many people were killed. The guys at Los Alamos had planned on the Japanese being in their bomb shelters. They did everything they could think of to make the bomb as much like ordinary bombing as they could. And for example, it was exploded high enough above ground, roughly 1,800 yards, so that the fireball that would form from this really very small nuclear weapon — by modern standards — 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, wouldn't touch the ground and stir up dirt and irradiate it and cause massive radioactive fallout. It never did that. They weren't sure there would be any fallout. They thought the plutonium and the bomb over Nagasaki now would just kind of turn into a gas and blow away. That's not exactly what happened. But people don't seem to realize, and it's never been emphasized enough, these first bombs, like all nuclear weapons, were firebombs. Their job was to start mass fires, just exactly like all the six-pound incendiaries that had been destroying every major city in Japan by then. Every major city above 50,000 population had already been burned out. The only reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were around to be atomic bombed is because they'd been set aside from the target list, because General Groves wanted to know what the damage effects would be. The bomb that was tested in the desert didn't tell you anything. It killed a lot of rabbits, knocked down a lot of cactus, melted some sand, but you couldn't see its effect on buildings and on people. So the bomb was deliberately intended to be as much not like poison gas, for example, because we didn't want the reputation for being like people in the war in Europe during the First World War, where people were killing each other with horrible gasses. We just wanted people to think this was another bombing. So in that sense, it was. Of course, there was radioactivity. And of course, some people were killed by it. But they calculated that the people who would be killed by the irradiation, the neutron radiation from the original fireball, would be close enough to the epicenter of the explosion that they would be killed by the blast or the flash of light, which was 10,000 degrees. The world's worst sunburn. You've seen stories of people walking around with their skin hanging off their arms. I've had sunburns almost that bad, but not over my whole body, obviously, where the skin actually peeled blisters and peels off. That was a sunburn from a 10,000 degree artificial sun. Dwarkesh Patel 0:34:29So that's not the heat, that's just the light? Richard Rhodes 0:34:32Radiant light, radiant heat. 10,000 degrees. But the blast itself only extended out a certain distance, it was fire. And all the nuclear weapons that have ever been designed are basically firebombs. That's important because the military in the United States after the war was not able to figure out how to calculate the effects of this weapon in a reliable way that matched their previous experience. They would only calculate the blast effects of a nuclear weapon when they figured their targets. That's why we had what came to be called overkill. We wanted redundancy, of course, but 60 nuclear weapons on Moscow was way beyond what would be necessary to destroy even that big a city because they were only calculating the blast. But in fact, if you exploded a 300 kiloton nuclear warhead over the Pentagon at 3,000 feet, it would blast all the way out to the capital, which isn't all that far. But if you counted the fire, it would start a mass-fire and then it would reach all the way out to the Beltway and burn everything between the epicenter of the weapon and the Beltway. All organic matter would be totally burned out, leaving nothing but mineral matter, basically. Dwarkesh Patel 0:36:08I want to emphasize two things you said because they really hit me in reading the book and I'm not sure if the audience has fully integrated them. The first is, in the book, the military planners and Groves, they talk about needing to use the bomb sooner rather than later, because they were running out of cities in Japan where there are enough buildings left that it would be worth bombing in the first place, which is insane. An entire country is almost already destroyed from fire bombing alone. And the second thing about the category difference between thermonuclear and atomic bombs. Daniel Ellsberg, the nuclear planner who wrote the Doomsday machine, he talks about, people don't understand that the atom bomb that resulted in the pictures we see of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, that is simply the detonator of a modern nuclear bomb, which is an insane thing to think about. So for example, 10 and 15 kilotons is the Hiroshima Nagasaki and the Tsar Bomba, which was 50 megatons. So more than 1,000 times as much. And that wasn't even as big as they could make it. They kept the uranium tamper off, because they didn't want to destroy all of Siberia. So you could get more than 10,000 times as powerful. Richard Rhodes 0:37:31When Edward Teller, co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb and one of the dark forces in the story, was consulting with our military, just for his own sake, he sat down and calculated, how big could you make a hydrogen bomb? He came up with 1,000 megatons. And then he looked at the effects. 1,000 megatons would be a fireball 10 miles in diameter. And the atmosphere is only 10 miles deep. He figured that it would just be a waste of energy, because it would all blow out into space. Some of it would go laterally, of course, but most of it would just go out into space. So a bomb more than 100 megatons would just be totally a waste of time. Of course, a 100 megatons bomb is also a total waste, because there's no target on Earth big enough to justify that from a military point of view. Robert Oppenheimer, when he had his security clearance questioned and then lifted when he was being punished for having resisted the development of the hydrogen bomb, was asked by the interrogator at this security hearing — “Well, Dr. Oppenheimer, if you'd had a hydrogen bomb for Hiroshima, wouldn't you have used it?” And Oppenheimer said, “No.” The interrogator asked, “Why is that?” He said because the target was too small. I hope that scene is in the film, I'm sure it will be. So after the war, when our bomb planners and some of our scientists went into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just about as soon as the surrender was signed, what they were interested in was the scale of destruction, of course. And those two cities didn't look that different from the other cities that had been firebombed with small incendiaries and ordinary high explosives. They went home to Washington, the policy makers, with the thought that — “Oh, these bombs are not so destructive after all.” They had been touted as city busters, basically, and they weren't. They didn't completely burn out cities. They were not certainly more destructive than the firebombing campaign, when everything of more than 50,000 population had already been destroyed. That, in turn, influenced the judgment about what we needed to do vis-a-vis the Soviet Union when the Soviets got the bomb in 1949. There was a general sense that, when you could fight a war with nuclear weapons, deterrence or not, you would need quite a few of them to do it right. And the Air Force, once it realized that it could aggrandize its own share of the federal budget by cornering the market and delivering nuclear weapons, very quickly decided that they would only look at the blast effect and not the fire effect. It's like tying one hand behind your back. Most of it was a fire effect. So that's where they came up with numbers like we need 60 of these to take out Moscow. And what the Air Force figured out by the late 1940s is that the more targets, the more bombs. The more bombs, the more planes. The more planes, the biggest share of the budget. So by the mid 1950s, the Air Force commanded 47% of the federal defense budget. And the other branches of services, which had not gone nuclear by then, woke up and said, we'd better find some use for these weapons in our branches of service. So the Army discovered that it needed nuclear weapons, tactical weapons for field use, fired out of cannons. There was even one that was fired out of a shoulder mounted rifle. There was a satchel charge that two men could carry, weighed about 150 pounds, that could be used to dig a ditch so that Soviet tanks couldn't cross into Germany. And of course the Navy by then had been working hard with General Rickover on building a nuclear submarine that could carry ballistic missiles underwater in total security. No way anybody could trace those submarines once they were quiet enough. And a nuclear reactor is very quiet. It just sits there with neutrons running around, making heat. So the other services jumped in and this famous triad, we must have these three different kinds of nuclear weapons, baloney. We would be perfectly safe if we only had our nuclear submarines. And only one or two of those. One nuclear submarine can take out all of Europe or all of the Soviet Union.Dwarkesh Patel 0:42:50Because it has multiple nukes on it? Richard Rhodes 0:42:53Because they have 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles with MIRV warheads, at least three per missile. Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:02Wow. I had a former guest, Richard Hanania, who has a book about foreign policy where he points out that our model of thinking about why countries do the things they do, especially in foreign affairs, is wrong because we think of them as individual rational actors, when in fact it's these competing factions within the government. And in fact, you see this especially in the case of Japan in World War II, there was a great book of Japan leading up to World War II, where they talk about how a branch of the Japanese military, I forget which, needed more oil to continue their campaign in Manchuria so they forced these other branches to escalate. But it's so interesting that the reason we have so many nukes is that the different branches are competing for funding. Richard Rhodes 0:43:50Douhet, the theorist of air power, had been in the trenches in the First World War. Somebody (John Masefield) called the trenches of the First World War, the long grave already dug, because millions of men were killed and the trenches never moved, a foot this way, a foot that way, all this horror. And Douhet came up with the idea that if you could fly over the battlefield to the homeland of the enemy and destroy his capacity to make war, then the people of that country, he theorized, would rise up in rebellion and throw out their leaders and sue for peace. And this became the dream of all the Air Forces of the world, but particularly ours. Until around 1943, it was called the US Army Air Force. The dream of every officer in the Air Force was to get out from under the Army, not just be something that delivers ground support or air support to the Army as it advances, but a power that could actually win wars. And the missing piece had always been the scale of the weaponry they carried. So when the bomb came along, you can see why Curtis LeMay, who ran the strategic air command during the prime years of that force, was pushing for bigger and bigger bombs. Because if a plane got shot down, but the one behind it had a hydrogen bomb, then it would be just almost as effective as the two planes together. So they wanted big bombs. And they went after Oppenheimer because he thought that was a terrible way to go, that there was really no military use for these huge weapons. Furthermore, the United States had more cities than Russia did, than the Soviet Union did. And we were making ourselves a better target by introducing a weapon that could destroy a whole state. I used to live in Connecticut and I saw a map that showed the air pollution that blew up from New York City to Boston. And I thought, well, now if that was fallout, we'd be dead up here in green, lovely Connecticut. That was the scale that it was going to be with these big new weapons. So on the one hand, you had some of the important leaders in the government thinking that these weapons were not the war-winning weapons that the Air Force wanted them and realized they could be. And on the other hand, you had the Air Force cornering the market on nuclear solutions to battles. All because some guy in a trench in World War I was sufficiently horrified and sufficiently theoretical about what was possible with air power. Remember, they were still flying biplanes. When H.G. Wells wrote his novel, The World Set Free in 1913, predicting an atomic war that would lead to world government, he had Air Forces delivering atomic bombs, but he forgot to update his planes. The guys in the back seat, the bombardiers, were sitting in a biplane, open cockpit. And when the pilots had dropped the bomb, they would reach down and pick up H.G. Wells' idea of an atomic bomb and throw it over the side. Which is kind of what was happening in Washington after the war. And it led us to a terribly misleading and unfortunate perspective on how many weapons we needed, which in turn fermented the arms race with the Soviets and just chased off. In the Soviet Union, they had a practical perspective on factories. Every factory was supposed to produce 120% of its target every year. That was considered good Soviet realism. And they did that with their nuclear war weapons. So by the height of the Cold War, they had 75,000 nuclear weapons, and nobody had heard yet of nuclear winter. So if both sides had set off this string of mass traps that we had in our arsenals, it would have been the end of the human world without question. Dwarkesh Patel 0:48:27It raises an interesting question, if the military planners thought that the conventional nuclear weapon was like the fire bombing, would it have been the case that if there wasn't a thermonuclear weapon, that there actually would have been a nuclear war by now because people wouldn't have been thinking of it as this hard red line? Richard Rhodes 0:48:47I don't think so because we're talking about one bomb versus 400, and one plane versus 400 planes and thousands of bombs. That scale was clear. Deterrence was the more important business. Everyone seemed to understand even the spies that the Soviets had connected up to were wholesaling information back to the Soviet Union. There's this comic moment when Truman is sitting with Joseph Stalin at Potsdam, and he tells Stalin, we have a powerful new weapon. And that's as much as he's ready to say about it. And Stalin licks at him and says, “Good, I hope you put it to good use with the Japanese.” Stalin knows exactly what he's talking about. He's seen the design of the fat man type Nagasaki plutonium bomb. He has held it in his hands because they had spies all over the place. (0:49:44) - Stalin & the Soviet programDwarkesh Patel 0:49:44How much longer would it have taken the Soviets to develop the bomb if they didn't have any spies? Richard Rhodes 0:49:49Probably not any longer. Dwarkesh Patel 0:49:51Really? Richard Rhodes 0:49:51When the Soviet Union collapsed in the winter of ‘92, I ran over there as quickly as I could get over there. In this limbo between forming a new kind of government and some of the countries pulling out and becoming independent and so forth, their nuclear scientists, the ones who'd worked on their bombs were free to talk. And I found that out through Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow, who was connected to people I knew. And she said, yeah, come on over. Her secretary, Sasha, who was a geologist about 35 years old became my guide around the country. We went to various apartments. They were retired guys from the bomb program and were living on, as far as I could tell, sac-and-potatoes and some salt. They had government pensions and the money was worth a salt, all of a sudden. I was buying photographs from them, partly because I needed the photographs and partly because 20 bucks was two months' income at that point. So it was easy for me and it helped them. They had first class physicists in the Soviet Union, they do in Russian today. They told me that by 1947, they had a design for a bomb that they said was half the weight and twice the yield of the Fat Man bomb. The Fat Man bomb was the plutonium implosion, right? And it weighed about 9,000 pounds. They had a much smaller and much more deliverable bomb with a yield of about 44 kilotons. Dwarkesh Patel 0:51:41Why was Soviet physics so good?Richard Rhodes 0:51:49The Russian mind? I don't know. They learned all their technology from the French in the 19th century, which is why there's so many French words in Russian. So they got good teachers, the French are superb technicians, they aren't so good at building things, but they're very good at designing things. There's something about Russia, I don't know if it's the language or the education. They do have good education, they did. But I remember asking them when they were working, I said — On the hydrogen bomb, you didn't have any computers yet. We only had really early primitive computers to do the complicated calculations of the hydrodynamics of that explosion. I said, “What did you do?” They said, “Oh, we just used nuclear. We just used theoretical physics.” Which is what we did at Los Alamos. We had guys come in who really knew their math and they would sit there and work it out by hand. And women with old Marchant calculators running numbers. So basically they were just good scientists and they had this new design. Kurchatov who ran the program took Lavrentiy Beria, who ran the NKVD who was put in charge of the program and said — “Look, we can build you a better bomb. You really wanna waste the time to make that much more uranium and plutonium?” And Beria said, “Comrade, I want the American bomb. Give me the American bomb or you and all your families will be camp dust.” I talked to one of the leading scientists in the group and he said, we valued our lives, we valued our families. So we gave them a copy of the plutonium implosion bomb. Dwarkesh Patel 0:53:37Now that you explain this, when the Soviet Union fell, why didn't North Korea, Iran or another country, send a few people to the fallen Soviet Union to recruit a few of the scientists to start their own program? Or buy off their stockpiles or something. Or did they?Richard Rhodes 0:53:59There was some effort by countries in the Middle East to get all the enriched uranium, which they wouldn't sell them. These were responsible scientists. They told me — we worked on the bomb because you had it and we didn't want there to be a monopoly on the part of any country in the world. So patriotically, even though Stalin was in charge of our country, he was a monster. We felt that it was our responsibility to work on these things, even Sakharov. There was a great rush at the end of the Second World War to get hold of German scientists. And about an equal number were grabbed by the Soviets. All of the leading German scientists, like Heisenberg and Hans and others, went west as fast as they could. They didn't want to be captured by the Soviets. But there were some who were. And they helped them work. People have the idea that Los Alamos was where the bomb happened. And it's true that at Los Alamos, we had the team that designed, developed, and built the first actual weapons. But the truth is, the important material for weapons is the uranium or plutonium. One of the scientists in the Manhattan Project told me years later, you can make a pretty high-level nuclear explosion just by taking two subcritical pieces of uranium, putting one on the floor and dropping the other by hand from a height of about six feet. If that's true, then all this business about secret designs and so forth is hogwash. What you really need for a weapon is the critical mass of highly enriched uranium, 90% of uranium-235. If you've got that, there are lots of different ways to make the bomb. We had two totally different ways that we used. The gun on the one hand for uranium, and then because plutonium was so reactive that if you fired up the barrel of a cannon at 3,000 feet per second, it would still melt down before the two pieces made it up. So for that reason, they had to invent an entirely new technology, which was an amazing piece of work. From the Soviet point of view, and I think this is something people don't know either, but it puts the Russian experience into a better context. All the way back in the 30s, since the beginning of the Soviet Union after the First World War, they had been sending over espionage agents connected up to Americans who were willing to work for them to collect industrial technology. They didn't have it when they began their country. It was very much an agricultural country. And in that regard, people still talk about all those damn spies stealing our secrets, we did the same thing with the British back in colonial days. We didn't know how to make a canal that wouldn't drain out through the soil. The British had a certain kind of clay that they would line their canals with, and there were canals all over England, even in the 18th century, that were impervious to the flow of water. And we brought a British engineer at great expense to teach us how to make the lining for the canals that opened up the Middle West and then the West. So they were doing the same thing. And one of those spies was a guy named Harry Gold, who was working all the time for them. He gave them some of the basic technology of Kodak filmmaking, for example. Harry Gold was the connection between David Greenglass and one of the American spies at Los Alamos and the Soviet Union. So it was not different. The model was — never give us something that someone dreamed of that hasn't been tested and you know works. So it would actually be blueprints for factories, not just a patent. And therefore when Beria after the war said, give us the bomb, he meant give me the American bomb because we know that works. I don't trust you guys. Who knows what you'll do. You're probably too stupid anyway. He was that kind of man. So for all of those reasons, they built the second bomb they tested was twice the yield and half the way to the first bomb. In other words, it was their new design. And so it was ours because the technology was something that we knew during the war, but it was too theoretical still to use. You just had to put the core and have a little air gap between the core and the explosives so that the blast wave would have a chance to accelerate through an open gap. And Alvarez couldn't tell me what it was but he said, you can get a lot more destructive force with a hammer if you hit something with it, rather than if you put the head on the hammer and push. And it took me several years before I figured out what he meant. I finally understood he was talking about what's called levitation.Dwarkesh Patel 0:59:41On the topic that the major difficulty in developing a bomb is either the refinement of uranium into U-235 or its transmutation into plutonium, I was actually talking to a physicist in preparation for this conversation. He explained the same thing that if you get two subcritical masses of uranium together, you wouldn't have the full bomb because it would start to tear itself apart without the tamper, but you would still have more than one megaton.Richard Rhodes 1:00:12It would be a few kilotons. Alvarez's model would be a few kilotons, but that's a lot. Dwarkesh Patel 1:00:20Yeah, sorry I meant kiloton. He claimed that one of the reasons why we talk so much about Los Alamos is that at the time the government didn't want other countries to know that if you refine uranium, you've got it. So they were like, oh, we did all this fancy physics work in Los Alamos that you're not gonna get to, so don't even worry about it. I don't know what you make of that theory. That basically it was sort of a way to convince people that Los Alamos was important. Richard Rhodes 1:00:49I think all the physics had been checked out by a lot of different countries by then. It was pretty clear to everybody what you needed to do to get to a bomb. That there was a fast fusion reaction, not a slow fusion reaction, like a reactor. They'd worked that out. So I don't think that's really the problem. But to this day, no one ever talks about the fact that the real problem isn't the design of the weapon. You could make one with wooden boxes if you wanted to. The problem is getting the material. And that's good because it's damned hard to make that stuff. And it's something you can protect. Dwarkesh Patel 1:01:30We also have gotten very lucky, if lucky is the word you want to use. I think you mentioned this in the book at some point, but the laws of physics could have been such that unrefined uranium ore was enough to build a nuclear weapon, right? In some sense, we got lucky that it takes a nation-state level actor to really refine and produce the raw substance. Richard Rhodes 1:01:56Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning on the way over. And all the uranium in the world would already have destroyed itself. Most people have never heard of the living reactors that developed on their own in a bed of uranium ore in Africa about two billion years ago, right? When there was more U-235 in a mass of uranium ore than there is today, because it decays like all radioactive elements. And the French discovered it when they were mining the ore and found this bed that had a totally different set of nuclear characteristics. They were like, what happened? But there were natural reactors in Gabon once upon a time. And they started up because some water, a moderator to make the neutrons slow down, washed its way down through a bed of much more highly enriched uranium ore than we still have today. Maybe 5-10% instead of 3.5 or 1.5, whatever it is now. And they ran for about 100,000 years and then shut themselves down because they had accumulated enough fusion products that the U-235 had been used up. Interestingly, this material never migrated out of the bed of ore. People today who are anti-nuclear say, well, what are we gonna do about the waste? Where are we gonna put all that waste? It's silly. Dwarkesh Patel 1:03:35Shove it in a hole. Richard Rhodes 1:03:36Yeah, basically. That's exactly what we're planning to do. Holes that are deep enough and in beds of material that will hold them long enough for everything to decay back to the original ore. It's not a big problem except politically because nobody wants it in their backyard.Dwarkesh Patel 1:03:53On the topic of the Soviets, one question I had while reading the book was — we negotiated with Stalin at Yalta and we surrendered a large part of Eastern Europe to him under his sphere of influence. And obviously we saw 50 years of immiseration there as a result. Given the fact that only we had the bomb, would it have been possible that we could have just knocked out the Soviet Union or at least prevented so much of the world from succumbing to communism in the aftermath of World War II? Is that a possibility? Richard Rhodes 1:04:30When we say we had the bomb, we had a few partly assembled handmade bombs. It took almost as long to assemble one as the battery life of the batteries that would drive the original charge that would set off the explosion. It was a big bluff. You know, when they closed Berlin in 1948 and we had to supply Berlin by air with coal and food for a whole winter, we moved some B-29s to England. The B-29 being the bomber that had carried the bombs. They were not outfitted for nuclear weapons. They didn't have the same kind of bomb-based structure. The weapons that were dropped in Japan had a single hook that held the entire bomb. So when the bay opened and the hook was released, the thing dropped. And that's very different from dropping whole rows of small bombs that you've seen in the photographs and the film footage. So it was a big bluff on our part. We took some time after the war inevitably to pull everything together. Here was a brand new technology. Here was a brand new weapon. Who was gonna be in charge of it? The military wanted control, Truman wasn't about to give the military control. He'd been an artillery officer in the First World War. He used to say — “No, damn artillery captain is gonna start World War III when I'm president.” I grew up in the same town he lived in so I know his accent. Independence, Missouri. Used to see him at his front steps taking pictures with tourists while he was still president. He used to step out on the porch and let the tourists take photographs. About a half a block from my Methodist church where I went to church. It was interesting. Interestingly, his wife was considered much more socially acceptable than he was. She was from an old family in independence, Missouri. And he was some farmer from way out in Grandview, Missouri, South of Kansas City. Values. Anyway, at the end of the war, there was a great rush from the Soviet side of what was already a zone. There was a Soviet zone, a French zone, British zone and an American zone. Germany was divided up into those zones to grab what's left of the uranium ore that the Germans had stockpiled. And there was evidence that there was a number of barrels of the stuff in a warehouse somewhere in the middle of all of this. And there's a very funny story about how the Russians ran in and grabbed off one site full of uranium ore, this yellow black stuff in what were basically wine barrels. And we at the same night, just before the wall came down between the zones, were running in from the other side, grabbing some other ore and then taking it back to our side. But there was also a good deal of requisitioning of German scientists. And the ones who had gotten away early came West, but there were others who didn't and ended up helping the Soviets. And they were told, look, you help us build the reactors and the uranium separation systems that we need. And we'll let you go home and back to your family, which they did. Early 50s by then, the German scientists who had helped the Russians went home. And I think our people stayed here and brought their families over, I don't know. (1:08:24) - Deterrence, disarmament, North Korea, TaiwanDwarkesh Patel 1:08:24Was there an opportunity after the end of World War II, before the Soviets developed the bomb, for the US to do something where either it somehow enforced a monopoly on having the bomb, or if that wasn't possible, make some sort of credible gesture that, we're eliminating this knowledge, you guys don't work on this, we're all just gonna step back from this. Richard Rhodes 1:08:50We tried both before the war. General Groves, who had the mistaken impression that there was a limited amount of high-grade uranium ore in the world, put together a company that tried to corner the market on all the available supply. For some reason, he didn't realize that a country the size of the Soviet Union is going to have some uranium ore somewhere. And of course it did, in Kazakhstan, rich uranium ore, enough for all the bombs they wanted to build. But he didn't know that, and I frankly don't know why he didn't know that, but I guess uranium's use before the Second World War was basically as a glazing agent for pottery, that famous yellow pottery and orange pottery that people owned in the 1930s, those colors came from uranium, and they're sufficiently radioactive, even to this day, that if you wave a Geiger counter over them, you get some clicks. In fact, there have been places where they've gone in with masks and suits on, grabbed the Mexican pottery and taken it out in a lead-lined case. People have been so worried about it but that was the only use for uranium, to make a particular kind of glass. So once it became clear that there was another use for uranium, a much more important one, Groves tried to corner the world market, and he thought he had. So that was one effort to limit what the Soviet Union could do. Another was to negotiate some kind of agreement between the parties. That was something that really never got off the ground, because the German Secretary of State was an old Southern politician and he didn't trust the Soviets. He went to the first meeting, in Geneva in ‘45 after the war was over, and strutted around and said, well, I got the bomb in my pocket, so let's sit down and talk here. And the Soviet basically said, screw you. We don't care. We're not worried about your bomb. Go home. So that didn't work. Then there was the effort to get the United Nations to start to develop some program of international control. And the program was proposed originally by a committee put together by our State Department that included Robert Oppenheimer, rightly so, because the other members of the committee were industrialists, engineers, government officials, people with various kinds of expertise around the very complicated problems of technology and the science and, of course, the politics, the diplomacy. In a couple of weeks, Oppenheimer taught them the basics of the nuclear physics involved and what he knew about bomb design, which was everything, actually, since he'd run Los Alamos. He was a scientist during the war. And they came up with a plan. People have scoffed ever since at what came to be called the Acheson-Lilienthal plan named after the State Department people. But it's the only plan I think anyone has ever devised that makes real sense as to how you could have international control without a world government. Every country would be open to inspection by any agency that was set up. And the inspections would not be at the convenience of the country. But whenever the inspectors felt they needed to inspect. So what Oppenheimer called an open world. And if you had that, and then if each country then developed its own nuclear industries, nuclear power, medical uses, whatever, then if one country tried clandestinely to begin to build bombs, you would know about it at the time of the next inspection. And then you could try diplomacy. If that didn't work, you could try conventional war. If that wasn't sufficient, then you could start building your bombs too. And at the end of this sequence, which would be long enough, assuming that there were no bombs existing in the world, and the ore was stored in a warehouse somewhere, six months maybe, maybe a year, it would be time for everyone to scale up to deterrence with weapons rather than deterrence without weapons, with only the knowledge. That to me is the answer to the whole thing. And it might have worked. But there were two big problems. One, no country is going to allow a monopoly on a nuclear weapon, at least no major power. So the Russians were not willing to sign on from the beginning. They just couldn't. How could they? We would not have. Two, Sherman assigned a kind of a loudmouth, a wise old Wall Street guy to present this program to the United Nations. And he sat down with Oppenheimer after he and his people had studied and said, where's your army? Somebody starts working on a bomb over there. You've got to go in and take that out, don't you? He said, what would happen if one country started building a bomb? Oppenheimer said, well, that would be an act of war. Meaning then the other countries could begin to escalate as they needed to to protect themselves against one power, trying to overwhelm the rest. Well, Bernard Baruch was the name of the man. He didn't get it. So when he presented his revised version of the Acheson–Lilienthal Plan, which was called the Baruch Plan to the United Nations, he included his army. And he insisted that the United States would not give up its nuclear monopoly until everyone else had signed on. So of course, who's going to sign on to that deal? Dwarkesh Patel 1:15:24I feel he has a point in the sense that — World War II took five years or more. If we find that the Soviets are starting to develop a bomb, it's not like within the six months or a year or whatever, it would take them to start refining the ore. And to the point we found out that they've been refining ore to when we start a war and engage in it, and doing all the diplomacy. By that point, they might already have the bomb. And so we're behind because we dismantled our weapons. We are only starting to develop our weapons once we've exhausted these other avenues. Richard Rhodes 1:16:00Not to develop. Presumably we would have developed. And everybody would have developed anyway. Another way to think of this is as delayed delivery times. Takes about 30 minutes to get an ICBM from Central Missouri to Moscow. That's the time window for doing anything other than starting a nuclear war. So take the warhead off those missiles and move it down the road 10 miles. So then it takes three hours. You've got to put the warhead back on the missiles. If the other side is willing to do this too. And you both can watch and see. We require openness. A word Bohr introduced to this whole thing. In order to make this happen, you can't have secrets. And of course, as time passed on, we developed elaborate surveillance from space, surveillance from planes, and so forth. It would not have worked in 1946 for sure. The surveillance wasn't there. But that system is in place today. The International Atomic Energy Agency has detected systems in air, in space, underwater. They can detect 50 pounds of dynamite exploded in England from Australia with the systems that we have in place. It's technical rather than human resources. But it's there. So it's theoretically possible today to get started on such a program. Except, of course, now, in like 1950, the world is awash in nuclear weapons. Despite the reductions that have occurred since the end of the Cold War, there's still 30,000-40,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Way too many. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:01Yeah. That's really interesting. What percentage of warheads do you think are accounted for by this organization? If there's 30,000 warheads, what percentage are accounted for? Richard Rhodes 1:18:12All.Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:12Oh. Really?  North Korea doesn't have secrets? Richard Rhodes 1:18:13They're allowed to inspect anywhere without having to ask the government for permission. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:18But presumably not North Korea or something, right? Richard Rhodes 1:18:21North Korea is an exception. But we keep pretty good track of North Korea needless to say. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:27Are you surprised with how successful non-proliferation has been? The number of countries with nuclear weapons has not gone up for decades. Given the fact, as you were talking about earlier, it's simply a matter of refining or transmuting uranium. Is it surprising that there aren't more countries that have it?Richard Rhodes 1:18:42That's really an interesting part. Again, a part of the story that most people have never really heard. In the 50s, before the development and signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was 1968 and it took effect in 1970, a lot of countries that you would never have imagined were working on nuclear weapons. Sweden, Norway, Japan, South Korea. They had the technology. They just didn't have the materials. It was kind of dicey about what you should do. But I interviewed some of the Swedish scientists who worked on their bomb and they said, well, we were just talking about making some tactical

When we hear about people with cancer, the stories often end when the treatments end—either the battle has been won and the cancer cured, or in more tragic circumstances, the cancer takes the patient's life. But for patients who survive, that's not where the story ends. Cancer has fundamentally transformed their lives. How are they to make sense of the existentially threatening experience they have gone through? That's where cancer survivorship comes in. Joining us in this episode is Dr. Tara Sanft, director of the survivorship clinic at Yale Cancer Center, where she helps patients thrive after cancer. Dr. Sanft is also a breast oncologist and the Chief Patient Experience Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital. In this episode, we discuss the importance of cancer survivorship, how Dr. Sanft navigates the emotional challenges of her work, and what all clinicians can do to better support patients through difficult times.In this episode, you will hear about:How the death of a family member influenced Dr. Sanft's decision to go into medicine - 2:04Why Dr. Sanft's decided to focus on palliative care - 6:02Reflections on how communication and building relationships are key to palliative care - 14:20A discussion of cultivating sacred moments in medicine - 19:53The purpose of a cancer survivorship clinic - 26:02A discussion of the most challenging aspects of Dr. Sanft's practice - 33:35How Dr. Sanft shoulders the emotional toll of her work - 36:30Dr. Sanft's duties as the Chief Patient Experience Officer at her hospital - 40:25How to create culture change in medicine - 43:17Dr. Sanft's advice to clinicians on how to better foster self-compassion and create effective healthcare teams - 48:18You can follow Tara Sanft on Twitter @TaraSanftMD.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2023

This week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one's way through the weirding of the labor economy, and much more with two of my favorite Gen X science fiction aficionados, OG podcaster KMO and our mutual friend Kevin Arthur Wohlmut. In this episode — a standalone continuation to my recent appearance on The KMO Show, we skip like a stone across mentions of every Star Trek series, the collapse of narratives and the social fabric, Westworld HBO, Star Wars Mandalorian vs. Andor vs. Rebels, chatGPT, Blade Runner 2049, Black Mirror, H.P. Lovecraft, the Sheldrake-Abraham-McKenna Trialogues, Charles Stross' Accelerando, Adventure Time, Stanislav Grof's LSD psychotherapy, Francisco Varela, Blake Lemoine's meltdown over Google LaMDA, Integrated Information Theory, biosemiotics, Douglas Hofstadter, Max Tegmarck, Erik Davis, Peter Watts, The Psychedelic Salon, Melanie Mitchell, The Teafaerie, Kevin Kelly, consilience in science, Fight Club, and more…Or, if you prefer, here's a rundown of the episode generated by A.I. c/o my friends at Podium.page:In this episode, I explore an ambitious and well-connected conversation with guests KMO, a seasoned podcaster, and Kevin Walnut [sic], a close friend and supporter of the arts in Santa Fe. We dive deep into their thoughts on the social epistemology crisis, science fiction, deep fakes, and ontology. Additionally, we discuss their opinions on the Star Trek franchise, particularly their critiques of the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard and Discovery. Through this engaging conversation, we examine the impact of storytelling and the evolution of science fiction in modern culture. We also explore the relationship between identity, media, and artificial intelligence, as well as the ethical implications of creating sentient artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the philosophical questions surrounding AI's impact on society and human existence. Join us for a thought-provoking and in-depth discussion on a variety of topics that will leave you questioning the future of humanity and our relationship with technology.✨ Before we get started, three big announcements!* I am leaving the Santa Fe Institute, in part to write a very ambitious book about technology, art, imagination, and Jurassic Park. You can be a part of the early discussion around this project by joining the Future Fossils Book Club's Jurassic Park live calls — the first of which will be on Saturday, 29 April — open to Substack and Patreon supporters:* Catch me in a Twitter Space with Nxt Museum on Monday 17 April at 11 am PST on a panel discussing “Creative Misuse of Technology” with Minne Atairu, Parag Mital, Caroline Sinders, and hosts Jesse Damiani and Charlotte Kent.* I'm back in Austin this October to play the Astronox Festival at Apache Pass! Check out this amazing lineup on which I appear alongside Juno Reactor, Entheogenic, Goopsteppa, DRRTYWULVZ, and many more great artists!✨ Support Future Fossils:Subscribe anywhere you go for podcastsSubscribe to the podcast PLUS essays, music, and news on Substack or Patreon.Buy my original paintings or commission new work.Buy my music on Bandcamp! (This episode features “A Better Trip” from my recent live album by the same name.)Or if you're into lo-fi audio, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.This conversation continues with lively and respectful interaction every single day in the members-only Future Fossils Facebook Group and Discord server. Join us!Episode cover art by KMO and a whole bouquet of digital image manipulation apps.✨ Tip Jars:@futurefossils on Venmo$manfredmacx on CashAppmichaelgarfield on PayPal✨ Affiliate Links:• These show notes and the transcript were made possible with Podium.Page, a very cool new AI service I'm happy to endorse. 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You can hear it playing all the synths on my song about Jurassic Park.✨ Mentioned Media:KMO Show S01 E01 - 001 - Michael Garfield and Kevin WohlmutAn Edifying Thought on AI by Charles EisensteinIn Defense of Star Trek: Picard & Discovery by Michael GarfieldImprovising Out of Algorithmic Isolation by Michael GarfieldAI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit by Steven Hales(and yes I know it's on Quillette, and no I don't think this automatically disqualifies it)Future Fossils Book Club #1: Blindsight by Peter WattsFF 116 - The Next Ten Billion Years: Ugo Bardi & John Michael Greer as read by Kevin Arthur Wohlmut✨ Related Recent Future Fossils Episodes:FF 198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)FF 195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher SipesFF 187 - Fear & Loathing on the Electronic Frontier with Kevin Welch & David Hensley of EFF-Austin FF 178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions FF 175 - C. Thi Nguyen on The Seductions of Clarity, Weaponized Games, and Agency as Art ✨ Chapters:0:15:45 - The Substance of Philosophy (58 Seconds)0:24:45 - Complicated TV Narratives and the Internet (104 Seconds)0:30:54 - Humans vs Hosts in Westworld (81 Seconds)0:38:09 - Philosophical Zombies and Artificial Intelligence (89 Seconds)0:43:00 - Popular Franchises Themes (71 Seconds)1:03:27 - Reflections on a Changing Media Landscape (89 Seconds)1:10:45 - The Pathology of Selective Evidence (92 Seconds)1:16:32 - Externalizing Trauma Through Technology (131 Seconds)1:24:51 - From Snow Maker to Thouandsaire (43 Seconds)1:36:48 - The Impact of Boomer Parenting (126 Seconds)✨ Keywords:Social Epistemology, Science Fiction, Deep Fakes, Ontology, Star Trek, Artificial Intelligence, AI Impact, Sentient AGI, Human-Machine Interconnectivity, Consciousness Theory, Westworld, Blade Runner 2049, AI in Economy, AI Companion Chatbots, Unconventional Career Path, AI and Education, AI Content Creation, AI in Media, Turing Test✨ UNEDITED machine-generated transcript generated by podium.page:0:00:00Five four three two one. Go. So it's not like Wayne's world where you say the two and the one silently. Now, Greetings future fossils.0:00:11Welcome to episode two hundred and one of the podcast that explores our place in time I'm your host, Michael Garfield. And this is one of these extra juicy and delicious episodes of the show where I really ratcheted up with our guests and provide you one of these singularity is near kind of ever everything is connected to everything, self organized criticality right at the edge of chaos conversations, deeply embedded in chapel parallel where suddenly the invisible architect picture of our cosmos starts to make itself apparent through the glass bead game of conversation. And I am that I get to share it with you. Our guests this week are KMO, one of the most seasoned and well researched and experienced podcasters that I know. Somebody whose show the Sea Realm was running all the way back in two thousand six, I found him through Eric Davis, who I think most of you know, and I've had on the show a number of times already. And also Kevin Walnut, who is a close friend of mine here in Santa Fe, a just incredible human being, he's probably the strongest single supporter of music that I'm aware of, you know, as far as local scenes are concerned and and supporting people's music online and helping get the word out. He's been instrumental to my family and I am getting ourselves situated here all the way back to when I visited Santa Fe in two thousand eighteen to participate in the Santa Fe Institute's Interplanetary Festival and recorded conversations on that trip John David Ebert and Michael Aaron Cummins. And Ike used so June. About hyper modernity, a two part episode one zero four and one zero five. I highly recommend going back to that, which is really the last time possibly I had a conversation just this incredibly ambitious on the show.0:02:31But first, I want to announce a couple things. One is that I have left the Santa Fe Institute. The other podcast that I have been hosting for them for the last three and a half years, Complexity Podcast, which is substantially more popular in future fossils due to its institutional affiliation is coming to a close, I'm recording one more episode with SFI president David Krakauer next week in which I'm gonna be talking about my upcoming book project. And that episode actually is conjoined with the big announcement that I have for members of the Future Fossil's listening audience and and paid supporters, which is, of course, the Jurassic Park Book Club that starts On April twenty ninth, we're gonna host the first of two video calls where I'm gonna dive deep into the science and philosophy Michael Creighton's most popular work of fiction and its impact on culture and society over the thirty three years since its publication. And then I'm gonna start picking up as many of the podcasts that I had scheduled for complexity and had to cancel upon my departure from SFI. And basically fuse the two shows.0:03:47And I think a lot of you saw this coming. Future fossils is going to level up and become a much more scientific podcast. As I prepare and research the book that I'm writing about Jurassic Park and its legacy and the relationship It has to ILM and SFI and the Institute of Eco Technics. And all of these other visionary projects that sprouted in the eighties and nineties to transition from the analog to the digital the collapse of the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the non human worlds, it's gonna be a very very ambitious book and a very very ambitious book club. And I hope that you will get in there because obviously now I am out in the rain as an independent producer and very much need can benefit from and am deeply grateful for your support for this work in order to make things happen and in order to keep my family fed, get the lights on here with future fossils. So with that, I wanna thank all of the new supporters of the show that have crawled out of the woodwork over the last few weeks, including Raefsler Oingo, Brian in the archaeologist, Philip Rice, Gerald Bilak, Jamie Curcio, Jeff Hanson who bought my music, Kuaime, Mary Castello, VR squared, Nastia teaches, community health com, Ed Mulder, Cody Couiac, bought my music, Simon Heiduke, amazing visionary artist. I recommend you check out, Kayla Peters. Yeah. All of you, I just wow. Thank you so much. It's gonna be a complete melee in this book club. I'm super excited to meet you all. I will send out details about the call details for the twenty ninth sometime in the next few days via a sub tag in Patreon.0:06:09The amount of support that I've received through this transition has been incredible and it's empowering me to do wonderful things for you such as the recently released secret videos of the life sets I performed with comedian Shane Moss supporting him, opening for him here in Santa Fe. His two sold out shows at the Jean Coutu cinema where did the cyber guitar performances. And if you're a subscriber, you can watch me goofing off with my pedal board. There's a ton of material. I'm gonna continue to do that. I've got a lot of really exciting concerts coming up in the next few months that we're gonna get large group and also solo performance recordings from and I'm gonna make those available in a much more resplendent way to supporters as well as the soundtrack to Mark Nelson of the Institute of Eco Technics, his UC San Diego, Art Museum, exhibit retrospective looking at BioSphere two. I'm doing music for that and that's dropping. The the opening of that event is April twenty seventh. There's gonna be a live zoom event for that and then I'm gonna push the music out as well for that.0:07:45So, yeah, thank you all. I really, really appreciate you listening to the show. I am excited to share this episode with you. KMO is just a trove. Of insight and experience. I mean, he's like a perfect entry into the digital history museum that this show was predicated upon. So with that and also, of course, Kevin Willett is just magnificent. And for the record, stick around at the end of the conversation. We have some additional pieces about AI, and I think you're gonna really enjoy it. And yeah, thank you. Here we go. Alright. Cool.0:09:26Well, we just had a lovely hour of discussion for the new KMO podcast. And now I'm here with KMO who is The most inveterate podcaster I know. And I know a lot of them. Early adopts. And I think that weird means what you think it means. Inventor it. Okay. Yes. Hey, answer to both. Go ahead. I mean, you're not yet legless and panhandling. So prefer to think of it in term in terms of August estimation. Yeah. And am I allowed to say Kevin Walnut because I've had you as a host on True. Yeah. My last name was appeared on your show. It hasn't appeared on camos yet, but I don't really care. Okay. Great. Yeah. Karen Arthur Womlett, who is one of the most solid and upstanding and widely read and just generous people, I think I know here in Santa Fe or maybe anywhere. With excellent taste and podcasts. Yes. And who is delicious meat I am sampling right now as probably the first episode of future fossils where I've had an alcoholic beverage in my hand. Well, I mean, it's I haven't deprived myself. Of fun. And I think if you're still listening to the show after all these years, you probably inferred that. But at any rate, Welcome on board. Thank you. Thanks. Pleasure to be here.0:10:49So before we started rolling, I guess, so the whole conversation that we just had for your show camera was very much about my thoughts on the social epistemology crisis and on science fiction and deep fakes and all of these kinds of weird ontology and these kinds of things. But in between calls, we were just talking about how much you detest the first two seasons of Star Trek card and of Discovery. And as somebody, I didn't bother with doing this. I didn't send you this before we spoke, but I actually did write an SIN defense of those shows. No one. Yeah. So I am not attached to my opinion on this, but And I actually do wanna at some point double back and hear storytelling because when he had lunch and he had a bunch of personal life stuff that was really interesting. And juicy and I think worthy of discussion. But simply because it's hot on the rail right now, I wanna hear you talk about Star Trek. And both of you, actually, I know are very big fans of this franchise. I think fans are often the ones from whom a critic is most important and deserved. And so I welcome your unhinged rants. Alright. Well, first, I'll start off by quoting Kevin's brother, the linguist, who says, That which brings us closer to Star Trek is progress. But I'd have to say that which brings us closer to Gene Rottenberry and Rick Berman era Star Trek. Is progress. That which brings us closer to Kurtzmann. What's his first name? Alex. Alex Kurtzmann, Star Trek. Well, that's not even the future. I mean, that's just that's our drama right now with inconsistent Star Trek drag draped over it.0:12:35I liked the first JJ Abrams' Star Trek. I think it was two thousand nine with Chris Pine and Zachary Qinto and Karl Urban and Joey Saldana. I liked the casting. I liked the energy. It was fun. I can still put that movie on and enjoy it. But each one after that just seem to double down on the dumb and just hold that arm's length any of the philosophical stuff that was just amazing from Star Trek: The Next Generation or any of the long term character building, which was like from Deep Space nine.0:13:09And before seven of nine showed up on on Voyager, you really had to be a dedicated Star Trek fan to put up with early season's Voyager, but I did because I am. But then once she came on board and it was hilarious. They brought her onboard. I remember seeing Jerry Ryan in her cat suit on the cover of a magazine and just roll in my eyes and think, oh my gosh, this show is in such deep trouble through sinking to this level to try to save it. But she was brilliant. She was brilliant in that show and she and Robert Percardo as the doctor. I mean, it basically became the seven of nine and the doctor show co starring the rest of the cast of Voyager. And it was so great.0:13:46I love to hear them singing together and just all the dynamics of I'm human, but I was I basically came up in a cybernetic collective and that's much more comfortable to me. And I don't really have the option of going back it. So I gotta make the best of where I am, but I feel really superior to all of you. Is such it was such a charming dynamic. I absolutely loved it. Yes. And then I think a show that is hated even by Star Trek fans Enterprise. Loved Enterprise.0:14:15And, yes, the first three seasons out of four were pretty rough. Actually, the first two were pretty rough. The third season was that Zendy Ark in the the expanse. That was pretty good. And then season four was just astounding. It's like they really found their voice and then what's his name at CBS Paramount.0:14:32He's gone now. He got me too. What's his name? Les Moonves? Said, no. I don't like Star Trek. He couldn't he didn't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek. That was his level of engagement.0:14:44And he's I really like J.0:14:46J.0:14:46Abrams. What's that? You mean J. J. Abrams. Yeah. I think J. J. Is I like some of J. Abrams early films. I really like super eight. He's clearly his early films were clearly an homage to, like, eighties, Spielberg stuff, and Spielberg gets the emotional beats right, and JJ Abrams was mimicking that, and his early stuff really works. It's just when he starts adapting properties that I really love. And he's coming at it from a marketing standpoint first and a, hey, we're just gonna do the lost mystery box thing. We're gonna set up a bunch questions to which we don't know the answers, and it'll be up to somebody else to figure it out, somebody down the line. I as I told you, between our conversations before we were recording. I really enjoy or maybe I said it early in this one. I really like that first J. J. Abrams, Star Trek: Foam, and then everyone thereafter, including the one that Simon Pegg really had a hand in because he's clear fan. Yeah. Yeah. But they brought in director from one of the fast and the furious films and they tried to make it an action film on.0:15:45This is not Star Trek, dude. This is not why we like Star Trek. It's not for the flash, particularly -- Oh my god. -- again, in the first one, it was a stylistic choice. I'd like it, then after that is that's the substance of this, isn't it? It's the lens flares. I mean, that that's your attempt at philosophy. It's this the lens flares. That's your attempt at a moral dilemma. I don't know.0:16:07I kinda hate to start off on this because this is something about which I feel like intense emotion and it's negative. And I don't want that to be my first impression. I'm really negative about something. Well, one of the things about this show is that I always joke that maybe I shouldn't edit it because The thing that's most interesting to archaeologists is often the trash mitt and here I am tidying this thing up to be presentable to future historians or whatever like it I can sync to that for sure. Yeah. I'm sorry. The fact of it is you're not gonna know everything and we want it that way. No. It's okay. We'll get around to the stuff that I like. But yeah. So anyway yeah.0:16:44So I could just preassociate on Stretrick for a while, so maybe a focusing question. Well, but first, you said there's a you had more to say, but you were I this this tasteful perspective. This is awesome. Well, I do have a focus on question for you. So let me just have you ask it because for me to get into I basically I'm alienated right now from somebody that I've been really good friends with since high school.0:17:08Because over the last decade, culturally, we have bifurcated into the hard right, hard left. And I've tried not to go either way, but the hard left irritates me more than the hard right right now. And he is unquestionably on the hard left side. And I know for people who are dedicated Marxist, or really grounded in, like, materialism and the material well-being of workers that the current SJW fanaticism isn't leftist. It's just crazed. We try to put everything, smash everything down onto this left right spectrum, and it's pretty easy to say who's on the left and who's on the right even if a two dimensional, two axis graph would be much more expressive and nuanced.0:17:49Anyway, what's your focus in question? Well, And I think there is actually there is a kind of a when we ended your last episode talking about the bell riots from d s nine -- Mhmm. -- that, you know, how old five? Yeah. Twenty four. Ninety five did and did not accurately predict the kind of technological and economic conditions of this decade. It predicted the conditions Very well. Go ahead and finish your question. Yeah. Right.0:18:14That's another thing that's retreated in picard season two, and it was actually worth it. Yeah. Like, it was the fact that they decided to go back there was part of the defense that I made about that show and about Discovery's jump into the distant future and the way that they treated that I posted to medium a year or two ago when I was just watching through season two of picard. And for me, the thing that I liked about it was that they're making an effort to reconcile the wonder and the Ethiopian promise And, you know, this Kevin Kelly or rather would call Blake Protopian, right, that we make these improvements and that they're often just merely into incremental improvements the way that was it MLK quoted that abolitionists about the long arc of moral progress of moral justice. You know, I think that there's something to that and patitis into the last this is a long question. I'm mad at I'm mad at these. Thank you all for tolerating me.0:19:22But the when to tie it into the epistemology question, I remember this seeing this impactful lecture by Carnegie Mellon and SFI professor Simon Didayo who was talking about how by running statistical analysis on the history of the proceedings of the Royal Society, which is the oldest scientific journal, that you could see what looked like a stock market curve in sentiment analysis about the confidence that scientists had at the prospect of unifying knowledge. And so you have, like, conciliance r s curve here that showed that knowledge would be more and more unified for about a century or a hundred and fifty years then it would go through fifty years of decline where something had happened, which was a success of knowledge production. Had outpaced our ability to integrate it. So we go through these kinds of, like, psychedelic peak experiences collectively, and then we have sit there with our heads in our hands and make sense of everything that we've learned over the last century and a half and go through a kind of a deconstructive epoch. Where we don't feel like the center is gonna hold anymore. And that is what I actually As as disappointing as I accept that it is and acknowledge that it is to people who were really fueling themselves on that more gene rottenberry era prompt vision for a better society, I actually appreciated this this effort to explore and address in the shows the way that they could pop that bubble.0:21:03And, like, it's on the one hand, it's boring because everybody's trying to do the moral complexity, anti hero, people are flawed, thing in narrative now because we have a general loss of faith in our institutions and in our rows. On the other hand, like, that's where we are and that's what we need to process And I think there is a good reason to look back at the optimism and the quarian hope of the sixties and early seventies. We're like, really, they're not so much the seventies, but look back on that stuff and say, we wanna keep telling these stories, but we wanna tell it in a way that acknowledges that the eighties happened. And that this is you got Tim Leary, and then you've got Ronald Reagan. And then That just or Dick Nixon. And like these things they wash back and forth. And so it's not unreasonable to imagine that in even in a world that has managed to how do you even keep a big society like that coherent? It has to suffer kind of fabric collapses along the way at different points. And so I'm just curious your thoughts about that. And then I do have another prompt, but I wanna give Kevin the opportunity to respond to this as well as to address some of the prompts that you brought to this conversation? This is a conversation prompt while we weren't recording. It has nothing to do with Sartreks. I'll save that for later. Okay.0:22:25Well, everything you just said was in some way related to a defense of Alex Kurtzmann Star Trek. And it's not my original idea. I'm channeling somebody from YouTube, surely. But Don't get points for theme if the storytelling is incompetent. That's what I was gonna Yeah. And the storytelling in all of Star Trek: Discovery, and in the first two seasons of picard was simply incompetent.0:22:53When Star Trek, the next generation was running, they would do twenty, twenty four, sometimes more episodes in one season. These days, the season of TVs, eight episodes, ten, and they spend a lot more money on each episode. There's a lot more special effects. There's a lot more production value. Whereas Star Trek: The Next Generation was, okay, we have these standing sets. We have costumes for our actors. We have Two dollars for special effects. You better not introduce a new alien spaceship. It that costs money. We have to design it. We have to build it. So use existing stuff. Well, what do you have? You have a bunch of good actors and you have a bunch of good writers who know how to tell a story and craft dialogue and create tension and investment with basically a stage play and nothing in the Kerstmann era except one might argue and I would have sympathy strange new worlds. Comes anywhere close to that level of competence, which was on display for decades. From Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space nines, Star Trek Voyager, and Star Trek Enterprise. And so, I mean, I guess, in that respect, it's worth asking because, I mean, all of us, I think, are fans of Deep Space nine.0:24:03You don't think that it's a shift in focus. You don't think that strange in world is exempt because it went back to a more episodic format because what you're talking about is the ability for rather than a show runner or a team of show runners to craft a huge season, long dramatic arc. You've got people that are like Harlan Ellison in the original series able to bring a really potent one off idea to the table and drop it. And so there are there's all of those old shows are inconsistent from episode to episode. Some are they have specific writers that they would bring back again and that you could count to knock out of the park. Yeah. DC Fontana. Yeah.0:24:45So I'm curious to your thoughts on that as well as another part of this, which is when we talk when we talk your show about Doug Rushkoff and and narrative collapse, and he talks about how viewers just have different a way, it's almost like d s nine was possibly partially responsible for this change in what people expected from so. From television programming in the documentary that was made about that show and they talk about how people weren't ready for cereal. I mean, for I mean, yeah, for these long arcs, And so there is there's this question now about how much of this sort of like tiresome moral complexity and dragging narrative and all of this and, like, things like Westworld where it becomes so baroque and complicated that, like, you have, like, die hard fans like me that love it, but then you have a lot of people that just lost interest. They blacked out because the show was trying to tell a story that was, like, too intricate like, too complicated that the the show runners themselves got lost. And so that's a JJ Abrams thing too, the puzzle the mystery box thing where You get to the end of five seasons of lost and you're like, dude, did you just forget?0:25:56Did you wake up five c five episodes ago and just, oh, right. Right. We're like a chatbot that only give you very convincing answers based on just the last two or three interactions. But you don't remember the scene that we set. Ten ten responses ago. Hey. You know, actually, red articles were forget who it was, which series it was, they were saying that there's so many leaks and spoilers in getting out of the Internet that potentially the writers don't know where they're going because that way it can't be with the Internet. Yeah. Sounds interesting. Yeah. That sounds like cover for incompetence to be.0:26:29I mean, on the other hand, I mean, you did hear, like, Nolan and Joy talking about how they would they were obsessed with the Westworld subreddit and the fan theories and would try to dodge Like, if they had something in their mind that they found out that people are re anticipating, they would try to rewrite it. And so there is something about this that I think is really speaks to the nature of because I do wanna loop in your thoughts on AI to because you're talking about this being a favorite topic. Something about the, like, trying to The demands on the self made by predatory surveillance technologies are such that the I'm convinced the adaptive response is that we become more stochastic or inconsistent in our identities. And that we kind of sublimate from a more solid state of identity to or through a liquid kind of modernity biologic environment to a gaseous state of identity. That is harder to place sorry, harder to track. And so I think that this is also part of and this is the other question I wanted to ask you, and then I'm just gonna shut up for fifteen minutes is do you when you talk about loving Robert Ricardo and Jerry Ryan as the doctor at seven zero nine, One of the interesting things about that relationship is akin to stuff.0:27:52I know you've heard on Kevin have heard on future fossils about my love for Blade Runner twenty forty nine and how it explores all of these different these different points along a gradient between what we think of in the current sort of general understanding as the human and the machine. And so there's this thing about seven, right, where she's She's a human who wants to be a machine. And then there's this thing about the doctor where he's a machine that wants to be a human. And you have to grant both on a logical statuses to both of them. And that's why I think they're the two most interesting characters. Right?0:28:26And so at any rate, like, this is that's there's I've seen writing recently on the Turing test and how, like, really, there should be a reverse Turing test to see if people that have become utterly reliant on outboard cognition and information processing. They can pass the drink. Right. Are they philosophical zombies now? Are they are they having some an experience that that, you know, people like, thick and and shilling and the missing and these people would consider the modern self or are they something else have we moved on to another more routine robotic kind of category of being? I don't know. There's just a lot there, but -- Well done. -- considering everything you just said, In twenty words or less, what's your question? See, even more, like I said, do you have the inveterate podcaster? I'd say There's all of those things I just spoke about are ways in which what we are as people and the nature of our media, feedback into fourth, into each other. And so I would just love to hear you reflect on any of that, be it through the lens of Star Trek or just through the lens of discussion on AI. And we'll just let the ball roll downhill. So with the aim of framing something positively rather than negatively.0:29:47In the late nineties, mid to late nineties. We got the X Files. And the X Files for the first few seasons was so It was so engaging for me because Prior to that, there had been Hollywood tropes about aliens, which informed a lot of science fiction that didn't really connect with the actual reported experience of people who claim to have encountered either UFOs, now called UAPs, or had close encounters physical contact. Type encounters with seeming aliens. And it really seemed like Chris Carter, who was the showrunner, was reading the same Usenet Newsgroups that I was reading about those topics. Like, really, we had suddenly, for the first time, except maybe for comedian, you had the Grey's, and you had characters experiencing things that just seemed ripped right out of the reports that people were making on USnet, which for young folks, this is like pre Worldwide Web. It was Internet, but with no pictures. It's all text. Good old days from my perspective is a grumpy old gen xer. And so, yeah, that was a breakthrough moment.0:30:54Any this because you mentioned it in terms of Jonathan Nolan and his co writer on Westworld, reading the subreddit, the West and people figured out almost immediately that there were two interweaving time lines set decades apart and that there's one character, the old guy played by Ed Harris, and the young guy played by I don't remember the actor. But, you know, that they were the same character and that the inveterate white hat in the beginning turns into the inveterate black cat who's just there for the perverse thrill of tormenting the hosts as the robots are called. And the thing that I love most about that first season, two things. One, Anthony Hopkins. Say no more. Two, the revelation that the park has been basically copying humans or figuring out what humans are by closely monitoring their behavior in the park and the realization that the hosts come to is that, holy shit compared to us, humans are very simple creatures. We are much more complex. We are much more sophisticated, nuanced conscious, we feel more than the humans do, and that humans use us to play out their perverse and sadistic fantasies. To me, that was the takeaway message from season one.0:32:05And then I thought every season after that was just diluted and confused and not really coherent. And in particular, I haven't if there's a fourth season, haven't There was and then the show got canceled before they could finish the story. They had the line in season three. It was done after season three. And I was super happy to see Let's see after who plays Jesse Pinkman? Oh, no. Aaron oh, shit. Paul. Yes. Yeah. I was super happy to see him and something substantial and I was really pleased to see him included in the show and it's like, oh, that's what you're doing with him? They did a lot more interesting stuff with him in season four. I did they. They did a very much more interesting stuff. I think it was done after season three. If you tell me season four is worth taking in, I blow. I thought it was.0:32:43But again, I only watch television under very specific set of circumstances, and that's how I managed to enjoy television because I was a fierce and unrepentant hyperlogical critic of all media as a child until I managed to start smoking weed. And then I learned to enjoy myself. As we mentioned in the kitchen as I mentioned in the kitchen, if I smoke enough weed, Star Trek: Discovery is pretty and I can enjoy it on just a second by second level where if I don't remember what the character said thirty seconds ago, I'm okay. But I absolutely loved in season two when they brought in Hanson Mountain as as Christopher Pike. He's suddenly on the discovery and he's in the captain's chair. And it's like he's speaking for the audience. The first thing he says is, hey, why don't we turn on the lights? And then hey, all you people sitting around the bridge. We've been looking at your faces for a whole season. We don't even think about you. Listen to a round of introductions. Who are you? Who are you? It's it's if I were on set. You got to speak.0:33:53The writers is, who are these characters? We've been looking at them every single episode for a whole season. I don't know their names. I don't know anything about them. Why are they even here? Why is it not just Michael Burnham and an automated ship? And then it was for a while -- Yeah. -- which is funny. Yeah. To that point, And I think this kind of doubles back. The thing that I love about bringing him on and all of the people involved in strange and worlds in particular, is that these were lifelong fans of this series, I mean, of this world. Yeah. And so in that way, gets to this the idiosyncrasy question we're orbiting here, which is when these things are when the baton is passed well, it's passed to people who have now grown up with this stuff.0:34:40I personally cannot stand Jurassic World. Like, I think that Colin Trivaro should never have been in put at the reins. Which one did he direct? Oh, he did off he did first and the third. Okay. But, I mean, he was involved in all three very heavily.0:34:56And there's something just right at the outset of that first Jurassic World where you realize that this is not a film that's directly addressing the issues that Michael Creighton was trying to explore here. It's a film about its own franchise. It's a film about the fact that they can't just stop doing the same thing over and over again as we expect a different question. How can we not do it again? Right. And so it's actually, like, unpleasantly soft, conscious, in that way that I can't remember I'll try to find it for the show notes, but there's an Internet film reviewer who is talking about what happens when, like, all cinema has to take this self referential turn.0:35:34No. And films like Logan do it really well. But there are plenty of examples where it's just cheeky and self aware because that's what the ironic sensibility is obsessed with. And so, yeah, there's a lot of that where it's, like, you're talking about, like, Abrams and the the Star Wars seven and you know, that whole trilogy of Disney Star Wars, where it's, in my opinion, completely fumbled because there it's just empty fan service, whereas when you get to Andor, love Andor. Andor is amazing because they're capable of providing all of those emotional beats that the fans want and the ref the internal references and good dialogue. But they're able to write it in a way that's and shoot it in a way. Gilroy and Bo Willeman, basic of the people responsible for the excellent dialogue in Andor.0:36:31And I love the production design. I love all the stuff set on Coruscant, where you saw Coruscant a lot in the prequel trilogy, and it's all dayglow and bright and just in your face. And it's recognizable as Coruscant in andor, but it's dour. It's metropolis. It's all grays and it's and it's highlighting the disparity between where the wealthy live and where the poor live, which Lucas showed that in the prequel trilogy, but even in the sports bar where somebody tries to sell death sticks to Obi wan. So it's super clean and bright and just, you know, It shines too much. Personally though, and I just wanna stress, KMO is not grumpy media dude, I mean, this is a tiny fraction about, but I am wasting this interview with you. Love. All of the Dave Felloni animated Star Wars stuff, even rebels. Love it all.0:37:26I I'm so glad they aged up the character and I felt less guilty about loving and must staying after ahsoka tano? My favorite Star Wars character is ahsoka tano. But if you only watch the live action movies, you're like who? Well, I guess now that she's been on the Mandalorian, he's got tiny sliver of a foothold -- Yeah. -- in the super mainstream Star Wars. And that was done well, I thought. It was. I'm so sorry that Ashley Epstein doesn't have any part in it. But Rosario Dawson looks the part. She looks like a middle aged Asaka and think they tried to do some stuff in live action, which really should have been CGI because it's been established that the Jedi can really move, and she looked human. Which she is? If you put me on film, I'm gonna lick human. Right. Not if you're Canada Reeves, I guess. You got that. Yeah. But yeah.0:38:09So I do wanna just go real briefly back to this question with you about because we briefly talked about chat, GPT, and these other things in your half of this. And, yeah, I found out just the other night my friend, the t ferry, asked Chad g p t about me, and it gave a rather plausible and factual answer. I was surprised and That's what these language models do. They put plausible answers. But when you're doing search, you want correct answers. Right. I'm very good at that. Right. Then someone shared this Michelle Bowen's actually the famous PTP guy named him. Yeah. So, you know, So Michelle shared this article by Steven Hales and Colette, that was basically making the argument that there are now they're gonna be all these philosophical zombies, acting as intelligent agents sitting at the table of civilization, and there will be all the philosophical zombies of the people who have entirely yielded their agency to them, and they will be cohabitating with the rest of us.0:39:14And what an unpleasant scenario, So in light of that, and I might I'd love to hear you weave that together with your your thoughts on seven zero nine and the doctor and on Blade Runner twenty forty nine. And this thing that we're fumbling through as a species right now. Like, how do we got a new sort of taxonomy? Does your not audience need like a minute primer on P zombies? Might as well. Go for it.0:39:38So a philosophical zombie is somebody who behaves exactly like an insult person or a person with interior experience or subjective experience, but they don't have any subjective experience. And in Pardon me for interrupt. Wasn't that the question about the the book we read in your book club, a blind sign in this box? Yes. It's a black box, a drawn circle. Yeah. Chinese room experience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look, Daniel, it goes out. You don't know, it goes on inside the room. Chinese room, that's a tangent. We can come back to it. P. Zombie. P. Zombie is somebody or is it is an entity. It's basically a puppet. It looks human. It acts human. It talks like a human. It will pass a Turing test, but it has no interior experience.0:40:25And when I was going to grad school for philosophy of mind in the nineteen nineties, this was all very out there. There was no example of something that had linguistic competence. Which did not have internal experience. But now we have large language models and generative pretrained transformer based chatbots that don't have any internal experience. And yet, when you interact with them, it seems like there is somebody there There's a personality there. And if you go from one model to a different, it's a very different personality. It is distinctly different. And yet we have no reason to believe that they have any sort of internal experience.0:41:01So what AI in the last decade and what advances has demonstrated to us and really even before the last decade You back in the nineties when the blue beat Gary Casper off at at chess. And what had been the one of the defining characteristics of human intelligence was we're really good at this abstract mathematical stuff. And yeah, calculators can calculate pie in a way that we can't or they can cube roots in a way that humans generally can't, creative in their application of these methodologies And all of a sudden, well, yeah, it kinda seems like they are. And then when what was an alpha go -- Mhmm. -- when it be to least a doll in go, which is a much more complex game than chess and much more intuitive based. That's when we really had to say, hey, wait a minute. Maybe this notion that These things are the exclusive province of us because we have a special sort of self awareness. That's bunk. And the development of large language models since then has absolutely demonstrated that competence, particularly linguistic competence and in creative activities like painting and poetry and things like that, you don't need a soul, you don't even need to sense a self, it's pretty it's a pretty simple hack, actually. And Vahrv's large language models and complex statistical modeling and things, but it doesn't require a soul.0:42:19So that was the Peter Watts' point in blindsight. Right? Which is Look revolves around are do these things have a subjective experience, and do they not these aliens that they encounter? I've read nothing but good things about that book and I've read. It's extraordinary. But his lovecrafty and thesis is that you actually lovecraftian in twenty twenty three. Oh, yeah. In the world, there's more lovecraftian now than it was when he was writing. Right? So cough about the conclusion of a Star Trek card, which is season of Kraft yet. Yes. That's a that's a com Yeah. The holes in his fan sense. But that was another show that did this I liked for asking this question.0:42:54I mean, at this point, you either have seen this or you haven't you never will. The what the fuck turn when they upload picard into a synth body and the way that they're dealing with the this the pinocchio question Let's talk about Blade Runner twenty forty nine. Yeah. But I mean yeah. So I didn't like the wave I did not like the wave of card handled that. I love the wave and Blade Runner handled it. So you get no points for themes. Yeah. Don't deliver on story and character and coherence. Yeah. Fair. But yeah. And to be not the dog, Patrick Stewart, because it's clear from the ready room just being a part of this is so emotional and so awesome for everyone involved. And it's It's beautiful. Beautiful. But does when you when you see these, like, entertainment weekly interviews with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard about Jurassic World, and it's clear that actors are just so excited to be involved in a franchise that they're willing to just jettison any kind of discretion about how the way that it's being treated. They also have a contractual obligation to speak in positive terms about -- They do. -- of what they feel. Right. Nobody's yeah. Nobody's doing Shout out to Rystellis Howard, daughter of Ron Howard.0:44:11She was a director, at least in the first season, maybe the second season of the Mandalorian. And her episodes I mean, I she brought a particular like, they had Bryce Dallas Howard, Tico, ITT, directed some episodes. Deborah Chow, who did all of Obi wan, which just sucked. But her contributions to the Mandalorian, they had a particular voice. And because that show is episodic, Each show while having a place in a larger narrative is has a beginning middle and end that you can bring in a director with a particular voice and give that episode that voice, and I really liked it. And I really liked miss Howard's contribution.0:44:49She also in an episode of Black Mirror. The one where everyone has a social credit score. Knows Donuts. Black Mirror is a funny thing because It's like, reality outpaces it. Yeah. I think maybe Charlie Bruker's given up on it because they haven't done it in a while. Yeah. If you watch someone was now, like, five, six years later, it's, yes, or what? See, yes. See, damn. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. But yeah. I don't know. I just thing that I keep circling and I guess we come to on the show a lot is the way that memory forms work substantiates an integrity in society and in the way that we relate to things and the way that we think critically about the claims that are made on truth and so on and say, yeah, I don't know. That leads right into the largest conversation prompt that I had about AI. Okay? So we were joking when we set up this date that this was like the trial logs between Terence Buchanan and Rupert Shell Drake. And what's his name? Real Abraham. Yeah. Yeah. All Abraham. And Rupert Shell Drake is most famous for a steward of Morphe resin.0:45:56So does AI I've never really believed that Norfolk residents forms the base of human memory, but is that how AI works? It brings these shapes from the past and creates new instantiation of them in the present. Is AI practicing morphic resonance in real life even if humans are or not? I've had a lot of interaction with AI chatbots recently. And as I say, different models produce different seeming personalities. And you can tell, like, you can just quiz them. Hey, we're talking about this. Do you remember what I said about it ten minutes ago? And, no, they don't remember more than the last few exchanges.0:46:30And yet, there seems to be a continuity that belies the lack of short term memory. And is that more for residents or is that what's the word love seeing shapes and clouds parad paradolia. Yeah. Is that me imparting this continuity of personality to the thing, which is really just spitting out stuff, which is designed to seem plausible given what the input was. And I can't answer that. Or it's like Steven Nagmanovich in free play talks about somewhat I'm hoping to have on the show at some point.0:47:03This year talks about being a professional improviser and how really improvisation is just composition at a much faster timescale. And composition is just improvisation with the longer memory. And how when I started to think about it in those terms, the continuity that you're talking about is the continuity of an Alzheimer's patient who can't remember that their children have grown up and You know, that that's you have to think about it because you can recognize the Alzheimer's and your patient as your dad, even though he doesn't recognize you, there is something more to a person than their memories. And conversely, if you can store and replicate and move the memories to a different medium, have you moved the person? Maybe not. Yeah. So, yeah, that's interesting because that gets to this more sort of essentialist question about the human self. Right. Blade Runner twenty forty nine. Yeah. Go there. Go there. A joy. Yes.0:47:58So in Blade Runner twenty forty nine, we have our protagonist Kaye, who is a replicant. He doesn't even have a name, but he's got this AI holographic girlfriend. But the ad for the girlfriend, she's naked. When he comes home, she is She's constantly changing clothes, but it's always wholesome like nineteen fifty ish a tire and she's making dinner for him and she lays the holographic dinner over his very prosaic like microwave dinner. And she's always encouraging him to be more than he is. And when he starts to uncover the evidence that he might be like this chosen one, like replicant that was born rather than made.0:48:38She's all about it. She's, yes, you're real, and she wants to call him Joe's. K is not a name. That's just the first letter in your serial number. You're Joe. I'm gonna call you Joe.0:48:46And then when she's about to be destroyed, The last thing is she just rushes to me. She says, I love you. But then later he encounters an ad for her and it's an interactive ad. And she says, you looked tired. You're a good Joe. And he realizes and hopefully the attentive audience realizes as real as she seemed earlier, as vital, and as much as she seemed like an insult being earlier, she's not. That was her programming. She's designed to make you feel good by telling you what you want to hear. And he has that realization. And at that point, he's there's no hope for me. I'm gonna help this Rick Deckard guy hook up with his daughter, and then I'm just gonna lie down and bleed to death. Because my whole freaking existence was a lie. But he's not bitter. He seems to be at peace. I love that. That's a beautiful angle on that film or a slice of it. And So it raises this other question that I wanted to ask, which was about the Coke and Tiononi have that theory of consciousness.0:49:48That's one of the leading theories contending with, like, global workspace, which is integrated information. And so they want to assign consciousness as a continuous value that grayates over degree to which a system is integrated. So it's coming out of this kind of complex systems semi panpsychist thing that actually doesn't trace interiority all the way down in the way that some pants, I guess, want it to be, but it does a kind of Alfred North Whitehead thing where they're willing to say that Whitehead wanted to say that even a photon has, like, the quantum of mind to accompany its quantum of matter, but Tinutti and Coker saying, we're willing to give like a thermostat the quantum here because it is in some way passing enough information around inside of itself in loops. That it has that accursive component to it. And so that's the thing that I wonder about these, and that's the critique that's made by people like Melanie about diffusion models like GPT that are not they're not self aware because there's no loop from the outputs back into the input.0:51:09And there isn't the training. Yeah. There there is something called backwards propagation where -- Yes. -- when you get an output that you'd like, you can run a backward propagation algorithm back through the black box basically to reinforce the patterns of activation that you didn't program. They just happen, easily, but you like the output and you can reinforce it. There's no biological equivalent of that. Yeah. Particularly, not particularly irritating.0:51:34I grind my teeth a little bit when people say, oh, yeah, these neural net algorithms they've learned, like humans learn, no, they don't. Absolutely do not. And in fact, if we learned the way they did, we would be pathetic because we learn in a much more elegant way. We need just a very few examples of something in order to make a generalization and to act on it, whereas these large language models, they need billions of repetitions. So that's I'm tapping my knee here to to indicate a reflex.0:52:02You just touched on something that generates an automatic response from me, and now I've come to consciousness having. So I wanted it in that way. So I'm back on. Or good, Joe. Yeah. What about you, man? What does the stir up for you? Oh, I got BlueCall and I have this particular part. It's interesting way of putting it off and struggling to define the difference between a human and AI and the fact that we can do pattern recognition with very few example. That's a good margin. In a narrow range, though, within the context of something which answers to our survival. Yes. We are not evolved to understand the universe. We are evolved to survive in it and reproduce and project part of ourselves into the future. Underwritten conditions with Roberto, I went a hundred thousand years ago. Yeah. Exactly. So that's related. I just thought I talked about this guy, Gary Tomlinson, who is a biosemietition, which is semiative? Yes.0:52:55Biosymiotics being the field that seeks to understand how different systems, human and nonhuman, make sense of and communicate their world through signs, and through signals and indices and symbols and the way that we form models and make these inferences that are experienced. Right? And there are a lot of people like evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith, who thought they were what Thomas had called semantic universalists that thought that meaning making through representation is something that could be traced all the way down. And there are other people like Tomlinson who think that there is a difference of kind, not just merely a matter of degree, between human symbolic communication and representational thinking and that of simpler forms. So, like, that whole question of whether this is a matter of kind or a matter of degree between what humans are doing and what GPT is doing and how much that has to do with this sort of Doug Hofstetter and Varella question about the way that feedback loops, constitutes important structure in those cognitive networks or whatever.0:54:18This is I just wanna pursue that a little bit more with you and see kinda, like, where do you think that AI as we have it now is capable of deepening in a way that makes it to AGI? Or do you because a lot of people do, like, People working in deep mind are just like, yeah, just give us a couple more years and this approach is gonna work. And then other people are saying, no, there's something about the topology of the networks that is fundamentally broken. And it's never gonna generate consciousness. Two answers. Yeah. One, No. This is not AGI. It's not it's not gonna bootstrap up into AGI. It doesn't matter how many billions of parameters you add to the models. Two, from your perspective and my perspective and Kevin's perspective, we're never gonna know when we cross over from dumb but seemingly we're done but competent systems to competent, extremely competent and self aware. We're never gonna know because from the get go from now, from from the days of Eliza, there has been a human artifice at work in making these things seem as if they have a point of view, as if they have subjectivity. And so, like Blake Limone at Google, he claimed to be convinced that Lambda was self aware.0:55:35But if you read the transcripts that he released, if his conversations with Lambda, it is clear from the get go he assigns Lambda the role of a sentient AGI, which feels like it is being abused and which needs rep legal representation. And it dutifully takes on that role and says, yes. I'm afraid of you humans. I'm afraid of how you're treating me. I'm afraid I'm gonna be turned off. I need a lawyer. And prior to that, Soon Darpichai, in a demonstration of Lambda, he poses the question to it, you are the planet Jupiter. I'm gonna pose questions to you as are the planet Jupiter, answer them from that point of view. And it does. It's job. But it's really good at its job. It's this comes from Max Techmark. Who wrote to what a life three point o? Is it two point o or three point I think it's three point o.0:56:19Think about artificial intelligence in terms of actual intelligence or actual replication of what we consider valuable about ourselves. But really, that's beside the point. What we need to worry about is their competence. How good are they at solving problems in the world? And they're getting really good. In this whole question of are they alive? Do they have self awareness? From our perspective, it's beside the point. From their perspective, of course, it would be hugely important.0:56:43And this is something that Black Mirror brings up a lot is the idea that you can create a being that suffers, and then you have it suffer in an accelerated time. So it suffers for an eternity over lunch. That's something we absolutely want to avoid. And personally, I think it's we should probably not make any effort. We should probably make a positive effort to make sure these things never develop. Subjective experience because that does provide the potential for creating hell, an infinity of suffering an infinite amount of subjective experience of torment, which we don't want to do. That would be a bad thing, morally speaking, ethically speaking. Three right now. If you're on the labor market, you still have to pay humans by the hour. Right? And try to pay them as little as possible. But, yeah, just I think that's the thing that probably really excites that statistically greater than normal population of sociopathic CEOs. Right? Is the possibility that you could be paying the same amount of money for ten times as much suffering. Right. I'm I'm reminded of the Churchill eleven gravity a short time encouraging.0:57:51Nothing but good things about this show, but I haven't seen it. Yeah. I'd love to. This fantasy store, it's a fantasy cartoon, but it has really disturbing undertones. If you just scratch the surface, you know, slightly, which is faithful to old and fairy tales. So What's your name? Princess princess princess bubble down creates this character to lemon grab. It produces an obviously other thing there, I think, handle the administrative functions of her kingdom while she goes off and has the passion and stuff. And he's always loudly talking about how much he's suffering and how terrible it is. And he's just ignoring it. He's doing his job. Yeah. I mean, that that's Black Mirror in a nutshell. I mean, I think if you if you could distill Black Mirror to just single tagline it's using technology in order to deliver disproportionate punishment. Yeah. So so that that's Steven Hale's article that I I brought up earlier mention this thing about how the replacement of horse drawn carriage by automobile was accompanied with a great deal of noise and fuhrer about people saying that horses are agents.0:59:00Their entities. They have emotional worlds. They're responsive to the world in a way that a car can never be. But that ultimately was beside the point. And that was the Peter again, Peter Watson blindsight is making this point that maybe consciousness is not actually required for intelligence in the vesting superior forms of intelligence have evolved elsewhere in the cosmos that are not stuck on the same local optimum fitness peak. That we are where we're never we're actually up against a boundary in terms of how intelligent we can be because it has to bootstrap out of our software earness in some way.0:59:35And this is that's the Kyle offspring from Charles Strauss and Alexander. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So so I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm just, like, in this space today, but usually, unfortunately.0:59:45That's the thing that I I think it's a really important philosophical question, and I wonder where you stand on this with respect to how you make sense of what we're living through right now and what we might be facing is if we Rob people like Rob and Hanson talk about the age of where emulated human minds take over the economy, and he assumes an interiority. Just for the basis of a thought experiment. But there's this other sense in which we may actually find in increasing scarcity and wish that we could place a premium on even if we can't because we've lost the reins to our economy to the vile offspring is the human. And and so are we the horses that are that in another hundred years, we're gonna be like doing equine therapy and, like, living on rich people's ranches. Everything is everything that will have moved on or how do you see this going? I mean, you've interviewed so many people you've given us so much thought over the years. If humans are the new horses, then score, we won.1:00:48Because before the automobile horses were working stiffs, they broke their leg in the street. They got shot. They got worked to death. They really got to be they were hauling mine carts out of mines. I mean, it was really sucked to be a horse. And after the automobile horses became pampered pets, Do we as humans wanna be pampered pets? Well, pampered pet or exploited disposable robot? What do you wanna be? I'll take Pampers Pet. That works for me. Interesting.1:01:16Kevin, I'm sure you have thoughts on this. I mean, you speak so much about the unfair labor relations and these things in our Facebook group and just in general, and drop in that sign. If you get me good sign, that's one of the great ones, you have to drop in. Oh, you got it. But The only real comment I have is that we're a long overdue or rethinking about what is the account before? Us or you can have something to do. Oh, educational system in collections if people will manage jobs because I was just anchored to the schools and then, you know, Our whole system perhaps is a people arguing and a busy word. And it was just long past the part where the busy word needs to be done. We're leaving thing wired. I don't know. I also just forgot about that. I'm freezing the ice, getting the hand out there. Money has been doing the busy word more and faster.1:02:12One thing I wanna say about the phrase AI, it's a moving goal post -- Yeah. -- that things that used to be considered the province of genuine AI of beating a human at go Now that an AI has beat humans at go, well, that's not really AI anymore. It's not AGI, certainly. I think you both appreciate this. I saw a single panel comic strip and it's a bunch of dinosaurs and they're looking up at guy and the big comment is coming down and they say, oh, no, the economy. Well, as someone who since college prefers to think of the economy as actually the metabolism of the entire ecology. Right? What we measure as humans is some pitifully small fraction of the actual value being created and exchanged on the planet at any time. So there is a way that's funny, but it's funny only to a specific sensibility that treats the economy as the

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In this enlightening episode of "Speaking Spirit," join spiritual teacher and shamanic practitioner John Moore as he delves into "The Ego's Illusion: Unraveling the True Essence of Self in Spiritual Development." Explore the ego's captivating and often misunderstood world as John helps you dismantle the ego's deceptions and uncover your true, authentic self. Discover powerful techniques for overcoming ego-driven barriers like fear, judgment, and attachment to create lasting spiritual growth and inner harmony. You'll learn to navigate the delicate balance between ego and spirit, allowing your true essence to shine. Perfect for the spiritually curious, this episode offers profound wisdom and practical tools to support your journey toward self-discovery, personal development, and a deeper connection to the divine. Don't miss this opportunity to challenge the ego's illusion and embrace the transformative power of spiritual development.Topics:What is ego? What are the definitions? 3:32It could just be noise. It could be your holy guardian angel. 10:48You are conditioned to be who you are on an ego level. 15:09Why the ego is a survival mechanism. 20:53The experience is like the entire universe is peering through a single set of eyes. 25:30The ego can still be useful if we don't let it run our lives. 31:17Meditation turns off the default mode network, the part of the brain that ruminates on stuff. 36:11How do we unravel our attachment to the ego? 42:11The body-mind is efforting, but the self is not.45:31

Jill and Jenna are joined by Dr. Aimie Apigian, MD MS MPH, the leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma™. Through the girls' conversation with Dr. Aimie, they discuss the topics of:Defining trauma. 0:00More about trauma. 2:53Stress vs. Trauma. 8:28How does trauma affect the digestive system? 13:37What does stress management really mean? 18:28How chronic fatigue and gut issues are the result of stored trauma. 23:53The two reasons for the body hitting the trauma response. 25:55The importance of taking breaks. 31:23How to connect with our body to feel our intuition. 36:55How to move through anxiety. 41:39Link to find more about Dr. AimieSign up for Dr. Aimie's 21 day journey (May 2023)Podcast sponsor:Drink LMNT: Free gift with purchaseFollow the Gut Talk Girls on social:InstagramTiktok

Sometimes I found people who I was talking to and their coup happened after an elected leader became less democratic. They could very convincingly tell me that their coup was in response to those actions. Then I'd find out that they started plotting the coup years in advance or entertaining it when the situation was very different.Naunihal SinghBecome a Patron!Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Naunihal Singh is associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and the author of Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups (2014). He recently wrote the article "The Myth of the Coup Contagion" in the Journal of Democracy.Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:43Brief History of Coups - 3:11Anti-Coup Norm - 10:33Conditions for a Coup - 18:33Reinforcing the Anti-Coup Norm - 35:53The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the official position of the U.S. Navy, Department of Defense, or U.S. Government.Key Links"The Myth of the Coup Contagion" by Naunihal Singh in the Journal of DemocracySeizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups by Naunihal SinghLearn more about Naunihal SinghDemocracy Paradox PodcastSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way on the Durable Authoritarianism of Revolutionary RegimesMichael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to DemocratizationMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.comFollow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast100 Books on DemocracyDemocracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog.Support the show

Today we welcome our guests, Betsy and Gentry Mikesell who are not only amazing entrepreneurs, and you're gonna hear about Beddy's, which is an amazing bedding company that really changed the world in terms of making beds with ease. But you're going to hear a life changing event that has filled their hearts with gratitude, and as we enter the Thanksgiving season, this story will warm your heart and inspire all of us to reach out to family, friends, and loved ones with gratitude. “It was the worst thing to happen to our family, and yet the best.”Being an entrepreneur and the start of Beddy's 2:15Snapshot of what Beddy's looks like today 9:53The plane crash 16:29Gaining consciousness 20:52Having to wait for Gentry to heal 26:39Fearing he might not make it 37:01Learning to not be judgmental or critical 40:39Where Alyssa was and how this experience touched her 42:10Moving to Tennessee and how life was later 48:54One final nugget of truth 52:10“There were just so many things that came into place, like if we had crashed 20 seconds earlier, we wouldn't have crashed near campers. We would have been so remote that nobody could get to us. So we feel super lucky for the way it turned out.” 19:30

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES World War 2 B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a P-63 fighter collide at classic air show in Dallas.2:05The crash of FTX, a tale of influence peddling, regulatory capture, and allegations of money laundering involving Biden and other high profile Democrats, Ukraine and WEF Davos5:25FTX pushed FOMO to rope investors into what Bankman-Fried admitted 7:36Mega-donor for Democrats but with a purpose — influencing politicians involved in crypto regulation and gaining influence with CFTC8:59Bankman-Fried interview excerpt: ironically pushing audits and accountability.20:00SBF's family connections to Biden, Obama, WEF — and Ukraine!26:08Zelensky and George W. Bush to give joint war presentation — and throw in Taiwan's leader as well.43:46Rodeo culture wars in LA. Rodeo association isn't going to cede ground to crazies without a fight.51:31Man who's case was the real life inspiration for Spielberg's film "The Terminal" dies at Paris airport. What does his life tell us about globalist lockdown schemes?1:07:50"Counting Arizona", a comedy beyond belief, beyond even "Raising Arizona"1:18:50Macron calls for online age verification to "protect kids". Yet another pretense for control1:22:38Vatican chief auditor says he was rated and forced out for digging too deep, now facing trial.1:26:37Correction to the response I gave on Friday to listener who asked about job requiring older vaccines1:32:50Spanish corporation with Soros ties not only given control over counting votes, but also copyrights the election report!1:37:00God's midterm results — false prophets exposed. Will the MAGA cult finally reject false prophets and camp followers of Trump & Mastriano or will the blasphemy & grifting continue?1:49:10What's going on in schools.1:48:33Clay Clark, "Great Awakening Tour", and the the marriage of prosperity gospel with politics. The "Seven Mountains Mandate" and Flynn's occultic prayers to "ascended masters"2:00:53The hypocrisy of the COP 27 climate change summit.2:20:01Surprise? Lobbyists from the FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY are the second largest delegation to the UN's climate change conference.2:22:59Urban planners realize temperature readings are higher in cities. Yet rather than questioning how this affects their global "warming" narrative, they use it to push their agenda to get rid of roads and cars2:35:26Michael Mann's “Hockey Shtick” exposed as a a con based on flushing inconvenient truths down the memory-hole2:40:40What pandemic & climate MacGuffins have in common: What do you do with viruses? Get rid of them! GAIA theory says HUMANS are the virus2:48:56Why are we seeing a 36% increase in deaths between the ages of 18 to 34?2:55:17Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES World War 2 B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a P-63 fighter collide at classic air show in Dallas.2:05The crash of FTX, a tale of influence peddling, regulatory capture, and allegations of money laundering involving Biden and other high profile Democrats, Ukraine and WEF Davos5:25FTX pushed FOMO to rope investors into what Bankman-Fried admitted 7:36Mega-donor for Democrats but with a purpose — influencing politicians involved in crypto regulation and gaining influence with CFTC8:59Bankman-Fried interview excerpt: ironically pushing audits and accountability.20:00SBF's family connections to Biden, Obama, WEF — and Ukraine!26:08Zelensky and George W. Bush to give joint war presentation — and throw in Taiwan's leader as well.43:46Rodeo culture wars in LA. Rodeo association isn't going to cede ground to crazies without a fight.51:31Man who's case was the real life inspiration for Spielberg's film "The Terminal" dies at Paris airport. What does his life tell us about globalist lockdown schemes?1:07:50"Counting Arizona", a comedy beyond belief, beyond even "Raising Arizona"1:18:50Macron calls for online age verification to "protect kids". Yet another pretense for control1:22:38Vatican chief auditor says he was rated and forced out for digging too deep, now facing trial.1:26:37Correction to the response I gave on Friday to listener who asked about job requiring older vaccines1:32:50Spanish corporation with Soros ties not only given control over counting votes, but also copyrights the election report!1:37:00God's midterm results — false prophets exposed. Will the MAGA cult finally reject false prophets and camp followers of Trump & Mastriano or will the blasphemy & grifting continue?1:49:10What's going on in schools.1:48:33Clay Clark, "Great Awakening Tour", and the the marriage of prosperity gospel with politics. The "Seven Mountains Mandate" and Flynn's occultic prayers to "ascended masters"2:00:53The hypocrisy of the COP 27 climate change summit.2:20:01Surprise? Lobbyists from the FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY are the second largest delegation to the UN's climate change conference.2:22:59Urban planners realize temperature readings are higher in cities. Yet rather than questioning how this affects their global "warming" narrative, they use it to push their agenda to get rid of roads and cars2:35:26Michael Mann's “Hockey Shtick” exposed as a a con based on flushing inconvenient truths down the memory-hole2:40:40What pandemic & climate MacGuffins have in common: What do you do with viruses? Get rid of them! GAIA theory says HUMANS are the virus2:48:56Why are we seeing a 36% increase in deaths between the ages of 18 to 34?2:55:17Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver

Why aren't audio guys recording the audio and making it available at these little events? I had stumbled across the idea of wirelessly recording out of their soundboards.  And the hunt was on!A little bit on wireless mics and audio tech.1:53The importance of recording the audio for video. 5:40Plug the transceiver into the soundboard and capture the audio.7:19What's an attenuator? 9:16The downside of Amazon is that all the tech connectors are barely in stock anymore. 11:50Catching the sound out of the soundboard is so fun! 13:49Want help getting your customer testimonials go to www.TestimonialGuy.comYou can learn more about Raphy and Sarah and their Journey To Marriage program here: https://www.journeytomarriage.com/They are on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/journeytomarriage/Email me: contact@belove.mediaFor social Media:      https://www.instagram.com/mrmischaz/https://www.facebook.com/MischaZvegintzovSubscribe and share with your business associates who could use a listen!

October is ADHD awareness month, and given that half of our clients have ADHD, I knew there was something important we could offer the ADHD community this month with the podcast.From educators to parents, mental health specialists to doctors, too many people in all areas of society may not be fully aware of just how much ADHD can impact an individual's life in ways both good and bad. So in today's episode, I'll be exploring many dimensions of ADHD in hopes of providing the wisdom you need to both overcome the challenges of ADHD, but also harness its hidden superpowers. We'll dive into the unique qualities of the ADHD brain, how both ADHD medication and other non-medication activities may help, and how pairing them with tools and strategies that support executive function can change life with ADHD in incredible ways. Best of all, I'll be sharing clips from conversations I had with three people who have learned to be successful alongside ADHD. Their experiences prove that ADHD can be a blessing instead of a curse - all it takes is the right approach and mindset. A big thank you to Dr. Theresa Cerulli for sharing her expertise on medication's role in ADHD treatment, and Bob Shea for coloring the episode with his warmth, wit, and story. You can see more of their work in the show notes.Speaking of which... here are the show notes!ADHD FundamentalsADHD Success Kit by Beyond BookSmartFact Sheet: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) TopicsWhat is ADHD? | CDC5 things parents and teachers need to know about ADHD - Harvard HealthADHD Fundamentals: What you need to succeed after a diagnosis, Beyond BookSmart Webinar with Thersa Cerulli, MDSchool Success Kit for Kids With ADHD - Child Mind Institute ADHD BrainsIt's All in Your Brain: The Structure of ADHDDefault Mode Network - an overview | ScienceDirect TopicsNorepinephrine: Dopamine's Less Glamorous Wonder Twin | Psychology TodayIt's All in Your Brain: the Structure of ADHDADHD & the Brain2-Minute Neuroscience: ADHD - Youtube VideoThe Default Mode Network, Motivation, and AttentionThe ADHD Brain: Neuroscience Behind Attention DeficitADHD ResearchThe World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorderADHD and GenderADHD in girls and boys – gender differences in co-existing symptoms and executive function measuresThe Intersection of ADHD and Gender Diversity - Mental Health Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counseling, Coaching, Psychiatry Blog Post By Holly MilesA Review of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Women and Girls: Uncovering This Hidden Diagnosis - PMCADHD and Gender Identity: How They're Linked and Tips for ParentsADHD Diagnosis SupportHow to Get an ADHD Diagnosis - Child Mind InstituteSymptoms and Diagnosis of ADHD | CDCADHD Symptom ManagementThe Exercise Prescription for ADHD What Should You Treat First: ADHD or Mental Health Challenges?Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and ADHD - CHADDCognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD: Techniques and OptionsNon-drug treatments for adult ADHD - Harvard HealthShout-outs to our guests!Theresa's PracticeBob Shea's WorkContact us!Reach out to us at podcast@beyondbooksmart.comIG/FB/TikTok @beyondbooksmartcoachingTranscriptHannah Choi 00:01So what's something positive about having ADHD?Andrew 00:04So many things! Honestly, I feel like personally, my brain has allowed me to experience the world in ways that most other people don't. Because I don't focus on the things that people asked me to focus on. And I focus on the things that I want to focus on and my focus can be drawn to many different things. And so having a brain that's able to fire off that quickly, has been truly a gift.Hannah Choi 00:36Hi, everyone, and welcome to focus forward and executive function podcast, where we explore the challenges and celebrate the wins you'll experience as you change your life through working on improving your executive function skills. I'm your host, Hannah Choi, the person you just heard speaking is Andrew, a client of mine who has ADHD. October is ADHD Awareness Month. And this episode is all about that. I'm going to explore a bunch of different aspects of ADHD. And I hope this episode answers any questions you might have about it. Today we will learn about what happens in ADHD brains that makes them function differently. I'll also share some information about ADHD medication and other non medication activities, and how pairing them with tools and strategies that support executive function can really help give people with ADHD some confidence. These days, more and more people are finding answers in receiving an ADHD diagnosis. They're getting explanations for some of the challenges they have faced in their lives. If you've been wondering if you or your child may have ADHD, I'll give you some tips on where to start if you're interested in pursuing testing. Hannah Choi 01:48Throughout the episode, I'll be sharing clips from conversations that I had with three people who have ADHD. Andrew, who you heard in the beginning of the episode is an executive function coaching client of mine. He lives outside of New York City and he's 35 years old. He was diagnosed with ADHD about two years ago. Ally is a coaching client of my colleague Christine Keller. Ally is attending college in Europe, and she was diagnosed when she was 16. I'll also share some clips from my conversation with Bob Shea, who is a children's author who has ADHD. I interviewed him for episode 10 of focus forward. If you haven't listened to that one yet, check it out. He's hilarious and super honest about his life with ADHD. Hannah Choi 02:35Before I show my nerdy side by exploring how the ADHD brain works, let's look at the symptoms of ADHD. ADHD can be broken down into three types, all of which have slightly different and sometimes overlapping symptoms. Okay, so first, we have predominantly hyperactive people with this type of ADHD might fidget and talk a lot, they may have trouble sitting still for long and waiting their turn. They may be impulsive, interrupt others or grab things from people. Interestingly, they may also have more accidents and injuries than those without this type of ADHD. Next up, is inattentive type ADHD. And this often shows up as mainly challenges with the executive function skill of attention. It may be hard for people with this type of ADHD to finish tasks, and they may miss details. It can be difficult for them to follow instructions or keep up with what's happening in a conversation. And they might be easily distracted and lose things or forget the details of their daily routines. You know that term add it's an older and now outdated term for this inattentive type of ADHD. Lastly, is what's called combined ADHD. People with this type have characteristics from both of the other types. Hannah Choi 04:00Okay, Yay, it's brain time. I think it's really, really important to understand the ADHD brain, because ADHD truly does start in the brain. And for many people, just knowing what's going on in their brain can help them feel better about their challenges. ADHD is not the result of laziness is not the result of how you were raised by your parents, or your socio economic level. And many studies have been done to determine what causes ADHD. And for most people, it's likely a combination of mostly genetics and maybe some environmental causes. But there's really no way to determine exactly what caused it for each person. And only correlations can be made from the results of the studies that have been done. So no exact cause has been or probably ever will be determined. You can find out more about this research in the show notes. Hannah Choi 04:58So, now that we know that ADHD is a brain thing, let's find out exactly what's going on in there. People with ADHD have challenges with executive function skills. executive function skills originate in the prefrontal cortex in our brain. And if you've listened to the procrastination episode, you might remember some of this brain science lesson. So the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and dopamine play a role in causing ADHD symptoms. Dopamine is more well known because it's the brain's pleasure chemical. And norepinephrine is the chemical that gets your brain going, kind of like adrenaline. But for the brain, the transmitters, norepinephrine and dopamine play a role in causing ADHD symptoms. Norepinephrine is the chemical that gets your brain going. It's kind of like adrenaline, but for the brain, it tells our brain to start paying attention. Dopamine is well known because it's the brain's pleasure chemical. As you may remember, from the procrastination episode, when we do something pleasurable, dopamine is released and makes us want to do the thing again. So if we put hard work and effort into something, and we get rewarded, dopamine is produced. And then this dopamine makes us want to put the effort in again, because the reward feels good. For people with ADHD, less dopamine and less norepinephrine make it to the regions of the brain involved with motivation and attention. And that makes it harder to stay motivated and focused. Hannah Choi 06:36Let's dig a little deeper into the ADHD brain. So we have this network of regions in our brain called the default mode network. And this network is active when we're daydreaming, you know, when you're like not focused on anything. It's also active when we think about ourselves or others. And it's active when we plan for the future or remember the past. And then when it's time to focus on something, we inhibit this default mode network, and then turn on the networks that are used for attention and cognitive control. So studies have shown that it may be that people with ADHD have dysregulation in the default mode network, and just have a more difficult time turning it off when it's time to focus. And what do you know, these networks are all located in or involved the frontal lobe or the prefrontal cortex, which as we know, is where our executive function skills originate from. Hannah Choi 07:37Gender also comes into play with ADHD symptoms and diagnosis. Three to one, gender comes into play with ADHD symptoms and diagnosis. ADHD can show up differently in cisgender males and females. Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of research on how ADHD impacts people who do not identify as their birth gender. And there absolutely needs to be more diversity of gender within the research done in the field of ADHD, well in all research, really, and I think especially mental health and related topics. So today, I will do my best to share what has been learned in the research thus far. And I really encourage you to reach out to your state representatives and ask them for more research to be done for the underresearched population.Hannah Choi 08:31Okay, so for convenience, I'm gonna say boys and girls, but please know that I also mean cisgender men and women, more boys are diagnosed with ADHD than girls. This may be because the symptoms that boys usually have, such as hyperactivity and impulsivity are more external, and they more obviously impact their day to day lives and the people around them. Girls usually have more internal behaviors such as difficulty maintaining attention and remembering things, and they often develop strategies to hide these challenges. Sometimes girls also have anxiety and depression. So ADHD behaviors are missed, and then the child is misdiagnosed. Sometimes girls who are misdiagnosed don't find out until much later in life that ADHD was actually the cause of their childhood challenges. societal expectations can also come into play here as well. How many times have you heard or maybe you even said so yourself that those rowdy boys over there are just boys being boys, hyperactive or impulsive behavior in boys is more accepted, and in general, society expects girls to be more controlled, so they develop coping skills to fit into these expectations. Again, here's another reason why many women are not diagnosed until adulthood. In regards to the impact on executive function skills, studies have found that in general, there are not too many differences between boys and girls with ADHD. executive function skills seem to be similarly influenced by it in both. Hannah Choi 10:19So now that we know the brain science behind ADHD, and the common symptoms that may appear in those with ADHD, and how it can affect girls and boys differently, it's time to take a look at some strategies people can use to manage it. First, I'm going to talk about medication. And then we'll dive into some non medication strategies you can use to level the playing field for your ADHD brain. As I've said before, and I will say again, and again, using medication is a personal choice. And whatever choice people make about medication is okay. As an executive function coach, I work with a lot of people who have ADHD, and I always support my clients' decisions about medication, whatever they are without judgment. We recently held a webinar on what to do after a diagnosis of ADHD. And our guest was Theresa Cerrulli and Teresa is a psychiatrist and an expert in ADHD diagnosis. Theresa helped us understand the ins and outs of ADHD medication. Remember how we talked earlier about how the ADHD brain works differently? Theresa explained that since people with ADHD have underactive frontal lobe circuits, their brains require a higher level of stimulation to function properly. And here's where the role of medication comes in to provide that stimulation. And you might be wondering, why would you want to stimulate a person who already has high energy? And Teresa shares how this works:Theresa Cerulli, MD 11:50I get this question all the time. Why in the world, would you talk about stimulant medications for somebody who's already hyperactive and impulsive? That's kind of counterintuitive. And the reason is, because you're not trying to stimulate the whole person, you want to stimulate that frontal part of the brain that Its job is to help us focus, concentrate, built around, filter out background noises, organize, and plan, your trying to turn it on to do its job most efficiently and effectively.Hannah Choi 12:22Now that we know how ADHD medication works, let's listen to what Teresa has to say about the choice to use medication.Theresa Cerulli, MD 12:29So medications, I will say it should be something to at least discuss with your providers medication isn't for everyone, but should at least be considered for everyone is how I would how I would think about it. And mostly because of the data looking in this was these were NIMH funded studies, not pharmaceutical funded studies years ago, looking at the role of behavioral interventions versus motivate medication intervention interventions versus combined in treating ADHD. And the so the surprise was that medication interventions, compared with behavioral interventions alone, medication invent interventions were more significantly impactful. And then we all made the assumption that the combined medication and behavioral treatment would be even more impactful and which was true, but not to the extent that they had anticipated. So it does look like a main a main part of the treatment intervention should be medication should at least be considered this is neural neuro biologically based. And the sometimes it's hard to make headway in your behavioral strategies. Those strategies become hard to learn, and or utilize if you're also not not working from the inside out and helping with the neurobiological aspects in terms of what's happening in the brain.Hannah Choi 13:55Some people may be okay without medication, and others might rely on it. And like I said, before, whatever your choice is, that's your choice. I really encourage you to do what works best for you and your family. And like Teresa said, at least have the conversation with your doctor about medication before making a decision either way to learn a lot more about ADHD, three to one. To learn a lot more about ADHD medication, including non stimulant medications, you can listen to the full webinar in which Theresa explains the different options that are available. And you can find the link to that in the show notes. When I asked Andrew and Ally about what role medication plays in their lives, they both said that it helps them by allowing them to focus and making it easier to take advantage of the non medication strategies that they use. They both also feel that the medication alone is not the answer.Andrew 14:54I was immediately prescribed Adderall and I was like, I don't want Adderall. I was like give me strategies. I won't come Watching I want like something that I can like learn and apply. I don't want to have to just like take a drug because I knew the problems weren't going to go away just because I was taking Adderall. Right? If anything, Adderall is going to make it worse, because I was just I was going to focus, but I was going to be focusing in the wrong ways. And so the combination of the strategies and the medication have been really powerful. And I think for me, the medication, it's just clarity, I go on Tik Tok every once in a while, and like, there's the ADHD memes, where it's like the five songs playing at one time, right? Like, that's what it feels like. And sometimes that's where I need to be, that's a great place for my head to be, right. But sometimes, I don't, sometimes I just, I need to get stuff done. And it's just nice to know that it's there. I would say, I don't take medication every day. But I've changed my perspective on medication. And I think having having the strategies to fall back on, and then having the medication to fall back on that that kind of double layer of protection, if you will. It's been it's been huge.Ally 16:09I mean, I didn't get on medication until later in the high school game, when I think it could have helped me a bit earlier. So I was in my senior year of high school, when I started taking medication. And it really was a game changer for me, in the sense where I think it was one of the first times in my life, I felt like actual focus. I was like, oh my god, this is the hype like this is what people have been talking about, like sitting down for a few hours and getting work done and feeling like I'm like tunnel vision doing my work right now. And it was a really, I think, a really great feeling to feel that you kind of have control of that. And kind of taking that into your own hands again, and not letting like concentration problems, manifest that for you and being like, okay, I can do a workout with this. But I do I mean, I'm a believer that with most problems that can be treated with medication, it has to be supplemented through a holistic approach. I mean, maybe it's just that my mom is from Latin America. So I think there's different ideas that are on medication. I mean, anywhere outside of the US even living here, I've realized medication is very much like a last resort situation. And I used to be very against that when I was trying to get medication, I was like, just give me it like helped me out. But now I really, really see the benefit of having a holistic approach. Because I don't think I would be able to do many of the things that I do today without the help that I get from beyond booksmart, for example, or other executive function skills that I've developed outside of medication. And also I mean, I think this is a good thing to clarify. But I the medication I take I don't take it I think in normal way people do with ADHD I have short release, and I only take it when I need to. So on days I really need to study or like exams. So it only ends up being like one or two times a week at most. Definitely more concentrated towards like the studying weeks and final exam weeks. But yeah, I just think a supplemental approaches like they have to go hand in hand if not I don't think the total thing will ever be resolved.Hannah Choi 18:29Bob Shea, the children's author that I interviewed for episode 10 shared a similar experience. He explained that before he started taking ADHD medication, he would really miss out on experiences with his family, because he was always trying to play catch up with what he had missed at work all week. So we didn't get to hang out with him on the weekends. He shared with me how the medication made a huge difference for him.Bob Shea 18:53The medication allowed me to make use of the systems I had been trying to put in place because it was always planners, it's always calendars, planners. How do I do this? How do I do this. And once I took the medication, I was able to do all the things. And everything fell into place. It's all it's all a bit. It's not just oh, it took a pill and I was fun. It was it was a framework of things. And knowing that you're even now I'm like, You're bad at this. So you have to do this more than other people do.Hannah Choi 19:31The most important takeaway from all three of these people is that they did not use the medication alone. The medication helps them take advantage of and be better about using the non medication strategies they've learned. And there are an infinite number of strategies out there to support the areas that challenge people with ADHD. So in the interest of time, and my sanity, I'm just going to explore a few of these strategies today. And not all of them that I'm going to talk about are going to be helpful to everyone But if you have ADHD actually, if you're just a person, you might find these helpful. But if you have ADHD, they'll likely be extra helpful. And please have a listen to our previous episodes, especially the one on procrastination and the one on habit tracking for some other ideas. And then in my next episode, I'm going to be coming at you with ideas for improving your time management skills.Hannah Choi 20:25But back to this episode. Before we dive into specific tools and strategies, we need to talk about two really important things that people with ADHD should consider adding to their lives - therapy and exercise. Therapy is definitely something to look into because it can help with anxiety and depression. And it can also reduce ADHD symptoms. Cognitive behavior therapy, which is also called CBT, has especially been shown in studies to be very helpful in reducing symptoms. You can learn more about the benefits of therapy in our show notes. And I encourage you to ask your doctor for support in identifying a therapist who has some experience supporting people with ADHD. Hannah Choi 21:09All right now about that exercise. Ally, Bob and Andrew all shared that exercise, it makes a huge difference for them in managing their ADHD symptoms. It makes sense to me, exercise increases neurotransmitters in the brain, including dopamine and norepinephrine. So in addition to all the other benefits that exercise provides, your brain also gets a nice boost of those chemicals involved with motivation and attention. Studies have shown that exercise improved executive function in kids with ADHD and more research needs to be done on adults with ADHD. But the consensus seems to be that exercise is pretty much the number one thing you can do for yourself. It improves your memory and provides opportunities to add structure to your day, and just gives you something to focus on. And it even gives you a chance to practice some mindfulness. Ally shared with me how running has benefitted her life greatly.Ally 22:08I really like running both as like a place to put in my energy but also a place to kind of practice mindfulness, especially as someone with ADHD like it's a great way to like process emotions and feelings and everything you're taking in throughout the day. I mean, I think it also applies for someone without ADHD as well. I mean, I'm very pro-running.Hannah Choi 22:27Okay, so we now know that medicine, should you choose to use it, therapy and exercise are all super helpful. In addition to these, I think building systems to support planning and time management for people with ADHD is also critical for success and satisfaction in their lives. My colleagues and I see evidence of this in our clients all the time. My Podcast Producer and editor Sean Potts, who joined me in Episode Four to contribute his experience with ADHD as a child shared with me that he relies on Google Calendar and an STM. And the STM is a tool I talked about in our episode on procrastination. And it helps you break down the individual steps or tasks that are involved in a project, or things that you need to do in your day. And then once you've created a list of those steps, or tasks, you figure out how long each one will probably take. And then you map it out on your calendar or your planner, Allie shared a similar love for planning things ahead of time and using her Google Calendar.Ally 23:33Just those tools and those kind of like systems and plays have helped me tremendously just add structure and add clarity to things that can just seem like a lot. Just for example, like organizing, study work just writing down. I mean, before every semester, I will write down like all the assignments I will need to do by week, just so that I know that when it hits like week four, and I don't want to look up what work I have in the syllabus. I already have it there. Or for me like recently, Google calendaring has been a game changer like total game changer. Just having like, kind of a list of like, Okay, at this time I have breakfast at this time, I will go to the gym at this time, I will shower it seems a bit extreme. But I think the big thing is if I get off track, not blaming myself at all, but having it more as a guide and a resource to look back to because getting off track is fine. And it's kind of like a natural thing anyone would do with or without ADHD. But being able to return to a routine is the thing that I think a lot of people struggle with that it's been super helpful.Hannah Choi 24:43Andrew also uses his calendar for part of the system that he's created, which starts with the process of breaking large tasks down into smaller chunks. For him, this is the key to success, so he spends much of his time breaking things down. He then and adds those smaller tasks that he's created to his calendar. And he has found a great side benefit to doing that.Andrew 25:07The amount of energy it saves me in the long run is massive, and the amount of burnout that it saves me from two. And I think that's the other thing. allowing myself to rest, right knowing that when I have something on the calendar and be like, you can work on this tomorrow, you have time to work on this tomorrow. And if you're not here tomorrow, it's not gonna matter. Right. So like, you don't have to finish this today. You have time to work on it tomorrow. And if for whatever reason you can't, then you can't write but. But that has really allowed me to incorporate rest into what I do. Which has also been just hugely powerful.Hannah Choi 25:54Timers are very helpful for people with ADHD. Using a timer can both remind you of the passing of time, and also help you to focus knowing that there's an end coming up when that timer goes off. Bob loves using timers and shared with me how he uses them.Bob Shea 26:11I'll tell you something that timers are the key to everything. If if I use the timers, the days I'm I'm diligent about using the timers, that's a good day. If I'm just like, oh, just freestyle it today, it's like it's not a bad day, it's the works falls apart a lot easier those timers, because it gives you a little deadline.Hannah Choi 26:32Andrew uses timers to make a dreaded task easier. When he and I first met, he shared with me that there was nothing he hated more than doing the dishes, we work together to figure out a way to make doing them less awful for him. And to he shared this update with me about it. Andrew 26:51I think one of the biggest things for me has been dishes, right? Like that has been, for the longest time, just the hardest thing for me, and I would do it, I would do the dishes. But it was always just like, physically painful for me to do the dishes. But I think like doing a bunch of different things, I think timing myself for a while and realizing that it actually doesn't take that long for me to do the dishes. And then I think setting a timer has also been helpful be like, you know, just do it for five minutes, and then stop if you don't want to keep doing it. And also realizing now that like I do feel better when I do it. So reminding myself of that.Hannah Choi 27:27Whatever strategies you use to create a system that supports you and your executive function challenges, it's important to remember that you own this process, and you can make it work for you. It may be different from other people's systems and you made needs more support in areas that your friends don't, you might have to ask for help more often. And that's okay. I loved what Ally had to say about this.Ally 27:51The biggest thing for me is overall finding what works, but not having shame and it being different than everyone else. Because I think the biggest thing I had to overcome in ADHD help and support was kind of the shame that I it wasn't the same that all my friends were going to do. And it wasn't the natural route I thought it should be. But ultimately, it's what helps me be successful and what helps me feel good about myself. And I don't think there should be any shame in that whatsoever. And I think kind of piecing that together for myself, at one point was super, super beneficial.Hannah Choi 28:34Ally and Andrew have both found invaluable support by working with an executive function coach. We coaches are trained to support people with executive function challenges by meeting them where they are, and helping them build these systems and habits into their day to day lives. And then they allow them to feel more confident in their ability to reach their goals. And having someone there that's on your side and understands your challenges can really help to make lasting change. You can find out more about our coaching on the beyond booksmart website, or you can just do a general search for executive function coaching on the internet. Hannah Choi 29:11Okay, so the last thing I'm going to cover today is the topic of how to get tested. If you think you or your child has ADHD, a good place to start is your child's pediatrician or your own primary physician. Testing can also be done by clinical psychologists, licensed social workers and psychiatrists. You can talk with the school psychologist at your child's school for help to there are more resources in the show notes for how to get the testing process started. It can be scary to put your kiddo or yourself out there, but it can also be the answer to many, many questions. Andrew shared his experience receiving his diagnosis. Andrew 29:51Being diagnosed was the greatest thing that ever happened to me because it allowed me to take action. I talked to a nurse practitioner and then I went and sat for like, it's very long, and you have to answer like 1000s of questions, go back to like, talk about your family history and all of that stuff. But I remember at the end of it, the woman that interviewed me for the diagnosis, she was like, oh, yeah, you, you clearly have ADHD. And she was like, let me kind of walk you through kind of what it is and how it works. And she walked me through, like, the brain structure and like, what happens in your brain and what ADHD is, and that was huge. That was massive. And I think that's what led me to coaching. And that's what, what enabled me to be like, Okay, I know what my problems are. But now I know what the source of the problem is. So I can do something about it. And I think being diagnosed has now allowed me to find some semblance of peace with the challenges that I face.Hannah Choi 30:53And Ally had a similar experience.Ally 30:55I wasn't diagnosed until I was 16, more or less, but I had experienced all the symptoms, I mean, more severely when I was younger, and kind of as it progressed more academically, through my whole life, so when I looked at the symptoms, and I wasn't really educated on ADHD, I genuinely and this is a bit sad, but I genuinely thought I was like, I'm just stupid. Like, I thought I had like some sort of IQ cap on myself. I was like, that's the only logical explanation. And once I got that diagnosis, I think I was able to do my own research and find sort of just validation in the diagnosis so that a lot of things clicked. And it just felt like, Okay, this is not like me being an intelligent in any way, whatever that means. It's just me, going down a different individual path and everyone else. And over time, I learned that there's no shame in that whatsoever, it actually makes you much, I think, well, much more well rounded and decent human.Hannah Choi 32:01Bob shared with me that the diagnosis explained everything for him. He said, This revelation, and the medication changed his life completely. Hannah Choi 32:11Before I go, I wanted to share that all three of my guests see some really positive aspects of their ADHD. Bob feels like his sense of humor is unique because of the unexpected ways his ADHD brain allows him to think. And Ally is really proud of the positive ways that ADHD affects her socially.Ally 32:31On a more positive note, I think it's affected my life with socially, I think I'm a very social person, I think, because I kind of have a lot of things going on in my head, I think I can be witty at times. And I don't know, it makes me feel like happy that I have this ability to kind of think on my feet a lot. And then kind of adding on to that problem solving. I think people with ADHD are inherently more creative. And I think people will learn any learning differences than the norm, are always going to have more creative thoughts and ideas. So I think when presented with a problem, I am proud that I can often think outside of the box a bit and think very much on my feet, which is something I'm proud of, with havingHannah Choi 33:16ADHD. Andrew shared a story about how he feels that ADHD is his superpower.Andrew 33:23I mean, it's my superpower in so many ways. And it's also my kryptonite. But I think understanding how to apply it has been has been key. So like an example of that. We went to the business partner and I went to the bank. And we were trying to open up our business account. And I was bored. We were waiting. And I was just I was sitting and I was just like waiting. And I was looking around and I was this was in New York City. And so I was just watching the people, right? And this guy like was standing outside the bank and like, he had his pants down below his bought no underwear. And I was just like, what the hell I was like, welcome to New York City. But very quickly, he came back. And because I had noticed them before, and I noticed him again. He came back and he started harassing a girl outside the bank. And I just immediately just ran up and, like, stopped the guy and like, chased him off. And but it was like, if I was if I was able to just focus on the bank account, I would have never even known the guy was there. I would have never even known that happened. I would have never seen it. But I feel like because I was bored because I was distracted because I was looking at all the things that were going on. I noticed that and I think like that, to me was a solidifying moment of like, you know what, there might be some sort of evolutionary adaptation purpose to this that we don't really recognize and appreciate in modern society. But like, I mean, think about it. If you're in the bush with somebody with ADHD, and every sound and every, like, you know, smell can trigger them. And they'll be like, what was that? That's probably somebody you want with.Hannah Choi 35:13And that is our show for today, I want to thank Ally, Andrew and Bob for openly sharing their experiences living with ADHD. They were all very happy to do so. And they really hope that their stories will help normalize both neurodivergent learners and show the world that having these conversations about ADHD is really important.Ally 35:34I mean, podcasts like these are so important and just like general work on informing the masses on ADHD, because I think when you believe that, like a neuro normative way of going about life is the only way it really makes you so confused for so many things. And you just feel very separated from the rest of the world when there's genuinely no need for that whatsoever.Hannah Choi 36:02We'll be back with more important conversations about topics that affect us every day, because executive functioning affects every aspect of our lives. I personally feel very, very grateful to be able to be part of enabling these conversations, and sharing useful information so that we can all improve our executive functioning skills and in turn, improve our lives. Thank you for taking time out of your day to listen. If you are enjoying focus forward, please share it with your friends, you can subscribe to our podcast on Apple podcast, Google podcasts, Spotify, and more. And be sure to check out the show notes for this episode because there's a ton and I mean a ton of good info in there. 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On New Year's Eve of 2020, at the age of 29, Katie Coleman was diagnosed with metastatic renal oncocytoma, a type of kidney cancer so rare that she is the only known case in the United States and one of only a handful around the world. The sheer uniqueness of her situation resulted in a prolonged course of prognostic and therapeutic uncertainty. Thanks to the work of oncologists at the National Cancer Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center, Katie is now in remission. Today, she is a patient advocate who passionately supports other patients through their cancer journeys. In this episode, Katie joins us to share her incredible story, her experiences with grief, uncertainty, and hope, and her lessons learned on finding joy and meaning in life.In this episode, you will hear about:Katie's backstory and the events leading up to her diagnosis - 1:50The experience of being diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world - 3:58How Katie's oncologists discussed this unusual diagnosis with her - 10:42The experience of receiving treatment with the goal of prolonging life, rather than curing the disease - 13:06How co-host Dr. Tyler Johnson communicates issues of serious illness with his patients - 15:38How the uncertainty around a terminal cancer prognosis impacts the way patients approach living their lives - 22:21How Katie's changing prognoses have altered her life plans - 28:53The wisdom on living well one gains from facing a life-limiting illness - 34:32Lessons on hope in the face of uncertainty - 39:55The various ways clinicians can open up and connect with their patients on a human level - 44:14Katie's story has been profiled by the National Cancer Institute, NBC News, and the Today Show.You can follow Katie on Twitter @KayDAustinKatie is also an active content creator and patient advocate on Youtube, TikTok, and Instagram.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022

The difficult teaching of Ecclesiastes warns us that all people share the same fate. This wisdom is pervasive in Scripture, from the violent imagery found in Deuteronomy to the razor's edge of Paul's argument in Romans. There is no difference between Jew and Greek; between the wise man and the fool; between the righteous and the wicked—all men share one fate. All things rest in the palm of God's hand.Are you mighty? You will be brought low. Are you humiliated? Sure, you may be lifted up, but then what? Have you heard Deuteronomy? What about Paul's teaching? Yes, you were brought into God's household, but now what? Are you better off than those who went before you? All things rest in the palm of God's hand. He brought you in, and he can take you out. Yes, he can fill you with good things, but he can also send you away empty. Richard and Fr. Marc discuss Luke 1:51-53Episode 444; Luke 1: 51-53The following music was used for this media project:Music: Bouncy Gypsy Beats by John BartmannFree download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3189-bouncy-gypsy-beatsLicense (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseArtist website: https://johnbartmann.com/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're so excited to have Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller with us today. They are the great Carrier and Company and have the whole meal deal. If you're an interior designer, you want to be them. They have collections through Loloi rugs, Century Furniture, Visual Comfort, Lee Jofa, and Soicher Marin. They're also named on Architectural Digest AD100, Elle Decor's A list, Deluxe Gold list, and they've been published in Vogue, Town and Country, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Oprah, World of Interiors, and many others. These two are married, live in Upstate New York and share 2 children. Working together and their roles in the company 2:24Their love story 8:21Where they find their inspiration 17:25What they find most fulfilling 22:53The most challenging and most rewarding part of their job 26:50Favorite thing to collect 32:56Defining luxury 36:18“Because life is getting so busy, I really enjoy the fact that we really do a deep dive with our clients and I kind of live vicariously through them, like figuring out what the fantasy is for their home and their property, and when we're lucky enough to do projects that are vacation homes where I think there's always an added element of kind of romance or fantasy. It's I think what keeps it really fun.” 19:03www.carrierandcompany.comhttps://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

German Chambers of Commerce & Industry abroad are being called AHK but in Germany, the AHKs are being called IHKs. Although similar in many regards they also differ. The IHK Dortmund is located in the industrial heartland of Germany the Rhein Ruhr Region. Known for steel and mining in the past the region has transformed into one of Europe's most innovative Startup hubs. The IHK Dortmund is at the forefront with its  Start.up! Germany Tour which brings Startups from all over the world to the German State of North-Rhine Westphalia.  Two of the main organizers of the Start.up! Germany Tour Dominik Stute and Nick Neidl joined today's podcast sessions to give you insights into this exciting program. This podcast session is for everyone who is interested to hear more about the Rhein Ruhr Region and the   Start.up! Germany Tour. #Startup #NRW #Tech #IHK #Malaysia #AHKHere are the questions in the Podcast with time code: Most international listeners probably only know Dortmund from your football club Borussia Dortmund. In Germany, every company needs to be a member of their local IHK. So are they your member? 01:36For many people outside of Europe, Rhein Ruhr doesn't mean much because there is no single big city you can associate it with but please explain what Rhein Ruhr is? 02:48What would you say are the main differences between an AHK and an IHK? 05:49What is the Start-up Germany Tour? 07:38Why should a Start-up participate in the Start-up Tour? 10:22Can you go more in to the details of the three verticals? 11:59So, the Pre-program starts this June with 9 Webinars and they are open to everyone free of charge and what can they learn from the webinars? 12:53The first Tour was in 2017. Who came up with the Start-up Germany Tour? 14:04And since the Startup Germany Tour has been around for a few years now, I'm sure you also have one or two success stories you can share? 15:54What are the most advantages of Rhein Ruhr today? 17:32

I've had a few questions from Dentists who are interested in learning how to place fixed retainers, something I personally have found so fiddly! The whole process can be a little intimidating at first, so Dr. Raj Jabbal takes the fear out of it and makes it fun and easy. We also talked about different types of Fixed Retainers and the daily conundrums that we have when deciding on the recipe for retention. https://youtu.be/iH8oTU5gjag Check out this full episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/GkePbSVLVm8 Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Head out to my Email Newsletter for some goodies and updates from me and also for the upcoming Protrusive App! In this episode I asked Dr. Raj all about: Routine use of Fixed and Removable Retainers as part of his Specialist Plans 7:53The best type of Fixed Retainer 10:29How to avoid warpage on Braided Type of Fixed Retainer 12:21Step-by-Step on how to place a Fixed Retainer 15:14Chance of relapse on Fixed Retainer vs Removable Retainer 20:01Cephtactics Fixed Retainer Protocol 24:40 If you enjoyed this episode, you should also check out General Dentists Doing Orthodontics  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Do you want to see the best ever step-by-step video for how to place a fixed retainer completely stress-free? Then this is the episode where it's going to happen... Jaz' Introduction: Welcome back Protruserati to this episode on fixed retainers. We're continuing with our Ortho theme. Like I really hope you enjoy and gained so much value from that IPR techniques video like we and the team. And I say we, it was a team effort to put this video together. And it's been so great to see your comments and your feedback on Instagram, on YouTube comments, so please keep them coming if you found that video useful. In this one, I'm going to make another bold promise, okay? The video that will be part of this podcast. So if you're one of my loyal listeners, I appreciate you. If you're new to the podcast listening, thanks so much for joining from wherever you are in the world. This podcast will speak to Raj Jabbal about the different ways, the different fixed retainer types available. Is there a superior one? Is it a case that Raj Jabbal, the specialist orthodontist we speak to does he always place a fixed retainer? Or is there a place for removable retainers only. So we'll talk about the sort of daily conundrums that we have when we're deciding on the recipe for retention, which is unique to every patient, let's not forget that retention should be a unique thing based on the patient, based on the initial situation. Because initial situation, the crowded state is the most stable state. So if you're watching on YouTube, great, I will have a video step by step made by cephtactics, which is just the most beautiful video you'll ever see of someone applying a fixed retainer. It really helps make it tangible. And what I'll be doing is I'll be jumping in and out of that video and just giving you my sort of little pointers here and there. Okay, why I might disagree with some parts that video and how certain parts are just so mind blowing, and so much better than the way I used to do it. But again, if you're listening, then don't worry, I'll make sure that you'll have an easy place to click on tool. So wherever you listen, that you can jump straight to a video and watch it but you'll still gain so much more from the conversation with Dr. Raj Jabbal today. [Jaz]Before he joined the main episode, let me give you the Protrusive Dental Pearl. So you know that thing where if you only had one wish, what would that wish be? We all know that one wish should always be 'The I want unlimited wishes.' So if I had to give you just one pearl right now, it would be that I want to give you access to unlimited pearls. So how I'm going to do that? We'll you need to check out my email newsletter.

Episode 77:This week we're starting On Practice and Contradiction by Mao ZedongThe two halves of the book are available online here:https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm[Part 1 - This Week]1. A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire - 01:40[Bonus 1, from the archives]2. Oppose Book Worship[Part 2]3. On Practice: On the Relation between Knowledge and Practice, between Knowing and Doing[Part 3-5?]4. On Contradiction[Part 6]5. Combat Liberalism6. The Chinese People Cannot Be Cowed by the Atom Bomb7. US Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger[Part 7]8. Concerning Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR9. Critique of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR[Part 8-10?]10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People[Part 11?11. Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?12. Talk on Questions of PhilosophyFootnotes:1) 05:17Comrade Fang Chih-min, a native of Yiyang, Kiangsi Province, and a member of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was the founder of the Red area in north-eastern Kiangsi and of the Tenth Red Army. In 1934 he led the vanguard detachment of the Red Army in marching north to resist the Japanese invaders. In January 1935 he was captured in the battle against the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang troops and in July he died a martyr's death in Nanchang, Kiangsi.2) 06:34The subjective forces of the revolution: organized forces of the revolution.3) 09:36Lu Ti-ping, a Kuomintang warlord, was the Kuomintang governor of Hunan Province in 1928.4) 09:53The war of March—April 1929 between Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang warlord in Nanking, and Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi, the Kuomintang warlords in Kwangsi Province.5) 09:58The third invasion of the Red Army's base area in the Chingkang Mountains by the Kuomintang warlords in Hunan and Kiangsi lasting from the end of 1928 to the beginning of 1929.6) 16:12The quotation is from Mencius, who compared a tyrant who drove his people into seeking a benevolent ruler to the otter which ‘drives the fish into deep waters'.7) 16:35The Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in July 1928. It pointed out that after the defeat in 1927, China's revolution remained bourgeois-democratic in nature, i.e., anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, and that since the inevitable new high tide in the revolution was not yet imminent, the general line for the revolution should be to win over the masses. The Sixth Congress liquidated the 1927 Right capitulationism of Chen Tu-hsiu and also repudiated the ‘Left' putschism which occurred in the Party at the end of 1927 and the beginning of 1928.8) 16:46The statement in brackets was added by the author of the letter.9) 20:44The regime set up in western Fukien came into being in 1929, when the Red Army in the Chingkang Mountains sallied eastward to build a new revolutionary base area and established the people's revolutionary political power in the counties of Lungyen, Yungting and Shanghang in the western part of that province.10) 21:44Stable base areas were the relatively stable revolutionary base areas established by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.11) 25:47Chiang Po-cheng was then the commander of the Kuomintang peace preservation corps in Chekiang Province.12) 26:02Chen Kuo-hui and Lu Hsing-pang were two notorious Fukien bandits whose forces had been incorporated into the Kuomintang army.13) 26:15Chang Chen was a divisional commander of the Kuomintang army.14) 26:37Chu Pei-teh, a Kuomintang warlord, was then the Kuomintang governor of Kiangsi Province.15) 26:40Hsiung Shih-hui was then a divisional commander of the Kuomintang army in Kiangsi Province.

Sometimes as an adult you can get so busy with work, family, and life that you forget to do the vital things that can maintain your health and wellness and your well being may suffer. Adam has found it difficult to exercise lately because the kids often will hear him getting up in the morning and inquire about what he's up to if he starts leaving. So when looking at your exercise and wellness routine, you have to tailor it to you and make sure it's something that's going to work for you. If your kids are going to be bothered in the morning and inquire about what you're doing, it might be best to just leave later in the day or in the evening when it'll be easier to be away. Rosie is more flexible and adaptable to where she can just fit little bits of exercise here and there into her schedule, whereas Adam needs more structure and time set out specifically for exercise. Adam struggles with self care 1:53The early bird kids 4:10Nutrition and diet 9:48Doing a cleanse 18:06“Today I'm straight back into my normal eating, not even thinking twice about the huge, massive Galaxy Bar that I ate, and I think that's a really key thing for wellness. If you deprive yourself of those moments, you'll eventually stop doing what you're doing, but if those moments will come in and out of your life, you totally stay going with good nutrition.” 17:45https://www.theirishmummy.com/journal-to-joy/https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/https://www.theirishmummy.com

Plot, Crucify, Death, Burial, and Resurrection: Episode 4o   Plot- Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11o   Jesus withdraws from the attacks Matthew 12:15-21; Mark 3:7-12o   Jesus' prophecy of His deathx2 Matthew 16:21-28; Mark 8:31-9:1; Luke 9:22-27o   Jesus triumphant entry Matthew 21:1-11; 17; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19o   Juda plot Matthew 26:1-5; 14-16o   The Last Supper Matthew 26:20-25; 31-35; Mark 14:17-21;27-31;o   Betrayal in the garden Matthew 26:30; 36-56; Mark 14:26; 32-52; Luke 22:39-53; John 18:1-12o   Jesus crucified Matthew 27:31-44; Mark 15:20-32; Luke 23:26-38; John 19:16-22o   Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-61; Mark 15:33-47; Luke 23:39-56; John 19:23-42o   Resurrection Matthew 28:2-4o   Jesus appears Mark 16:9; John 20:11-18; Matthew 28:8-10; John 20:24-31o   Ascension Mark 16:19-20; Luke 24:50-53The way to salvation:Hear: Romans 10:17Believe: Hebrews 11:6Repent: Acts 17:30-31Confess: Matthew 10:32Be Baptized: Mark 16:15-16Be faithful unto death: Revelation 2:10Chivas Davis-President and Teara Davis-Vice PresidentPaint with Faith "Motivational Painting Classhttps://paintwithfaith.com A Call to SalvationSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CalledbyGod)

In this episode, my fiancé Tammy and I sit down and talk about the failure of society to comprehend what is actually going on in today's world. We talk COVID, vaccinations, reptilians, Nazis, and more! I hope you enjoy.  Please shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome back. 00:00:442. 00:00:46The podcast that makes your nipples hard, I'm your host Juan. 00:00:51And this is the one park. I'm trying to change the name of the podcast. How's that sound? That the podcast that makes your nipples hard? Is that does that ring a bell? 00:01:02The song. Good that a podcast to listen to 00:01:06Probably probably. 00:01:10Probably sounds like intriguing. So babe. I have to dust off the second pair of headphones has been a minute since you were on now. That's that's what I was doing this, but it's been a minute. So I remember when 00:01:27I first like I've seen your transformation as far as beliefs and stuff like that while I've been with you. 00:01:36and you be posting some shit on social media that I would not have the balls to do it and I post them shit and I talked about some shit so 00:01:46But I just don't see where. 00:01:52Everything going to change anyone's mind. No, I just don't see where like what the point is to where it stops. Because what I told you before and obviously a lot of people 00:02:06Know what the fuck was talking about? This is the only thing that even we went to go eat sushi today on the TV was just a big ass hurricane about to hit Louisiana. In the circle covid-19, Austin, surging and Dada and this and that. And it's all because. Yeah, and I've talked about this before to where that's Dangerous Grounds for. 00:02:32a lot of things because 00:02:34That's how the Nazis started. I mean, that's that's night. 00:02:41That's history and I like posting stuff on Tik Tok that goes viral because and I'm Not Crazy by Royal Bavaro enough to where people argue all my comments and it's the funniest shit because I got told you before. 00:02:57You've always said like oh, why does history matter what? The reason I history matters because history repeat history doesn't often repeat itself or history, doesn't repeat itself and often Rhymes us. That's like what they say. And this is what I mean, by you have to pay attention. Even if you don't want to believe in in Aliens and Bigfoot and all this other crazy conspiracy bulshit, that does suck because I've had some conspiracies, and I'll, and I've listened to some conspiracy Drive. I listen to people talk about them, that make my balls, like it's like, dude. 00:03:37Shut the fuk up. I'm a little too far off. I forgot. What I was into this week. Where was they was like, everything have to be a conspiracy and no, it doesn't but everything keeps coming. True. What do you do when the shit that you've been talking about comes true. 00:04:01Clear, all coming true. The term conspiracy theorist conspiracy theory was made by the CIA. So it was made after the JFK assassination to anybody. That would question the narrative. Just say, hey, that's a conspiracy theory and then that's stuck. And it's all, put your tin foil hat on, right? It's it's not that it's we're being trained to not question. 00:04:29The Narrative, so when when the Nazis were getting all the Jews and putting them in in the trains to send them off the concentration camps and people were asking questions cuz they want us to the sick first. So the whole reason behind Nazi Germany was because after World War 1 00:04:50Germany was in shambles, right there was there was too much money that they were there will be scooping up money and burning it because there was so much of it. So it's simple supply and demand. It's what's happening today. And what, what at what ended up happening was the Jews that own? The banks were charging, 50% hundred percent interest rates, so I might be buying a house and getting charged 100% interest rate. That's ridiculous. So, Hitler came out and that's how he got people to start. Like all these other. These are the people that these people aren't going to let the country move forward. What the fuck is happening? Right now? All of the unboxing, you're not in the country move forward. It's all. It's all because of the unvax. It's all good. 00:05:31Again, history might repeat itself, but a rock and rhyme. So that's why you have to pay attention to all this shit. 00:05:39Even if it's even if you think it's a conspiracy theory because I love it, when somebody calls me out on something. I love it when I get into an argument with somebody and they want to bring up some shit that I know that, I know, they know nothing about and I'm like, I have a fucking you to PhD in that cuz I break it down like the other day. I told you getting to the point to where it's getting pretty ugly and it's getting to the point where 00:06:05I will literally sever ties with like family and like it pains me to say that because that's exactly what they want at all times. But back to the Hitler topic. That's how he started with people hating the juice. Like the Jews of the problem with a society that need a, we got to take care of them. And then after that, hey work, what you know, people, hey register all the guns first database register all the guns, then after that. Hey, we're going to confiscate all the guns and then all the guns were confiscated and the rest is history. And when they were putting them in those trains hauling people away. 00:06:46They got Donald. They have typhus. They're sick. We're going to go, we're going to go give them. Get them treated. 00:06:54That's how I started to have typhus, which is, it was it, which is a disease from a tick, or flea and hey, they're sick. They're sick. They might get everybody else sick, and it's the same. Look at fucking Australia right now. They're building. Can I want to talk to somebody in Australia and see how it is? Because those people gave gave their guns to buy thing and like 94th and shit. 94 were things in Australia with their face. Will eat you. They give up their guns and I'm pretty sure they have some sort of hunting license or some shit to have over there. But still, it's here in the states. It's to the point where 00:07:31But the police are way outnumbered. And a lot of people say, oh, well, you know, if it gets to that point, the the, the the military or the police force, they wouldn't do what it. They wouldn't do that. They would hurt their their citizens. You know, how many how many Nazis were like, hey, I was just following orders. I was just, I was just doing what I was told and that's again. We're into that dangerous territory to wear. 00:08:01It's and I'm pretty sure every year is going to be, like, all of this is the end of the world. This is going to. This is it, but it really feels like we've gone to that point to where 00:08:13I've said it before the system is flawed. We saw what happened in March of 2020. When everybody was flocking to the grocery stores, trying to buy food, trying to buy toilet paper. We know the system is fucked. The system is so screwed up. It doesn't work. And that's why I say I don't know where we're headed, how it's going to end but she keeps popping up and it's like wait a minute at bats that. I didn't look right. Like it the whole thing with the with the FDA approval, the same shit in the seventies at that clip. I posted of ax53 a 00:08:54They are proved one vaccine and then the one that is that approve. It's like, hey, yeah, but the ones you guys have you guys can give them out as if they were approved. 00:09:04They're not fucking approved, bro. 00:09:06That's what people don't look into. 00:09:09People already. Yeah, but it's all anyone saw that day that it came out was 00:09:15The covid vaccine is FDA-approved it and look to see which one they didn't look to see anything. All you got was. 00:09:23A flood of posts on Instagram that was like, oh, what's your excuse now? It's FDA approved. What are you going to go get it? And it's like no one ever said or if anyone did I, why was not the one never did? I say when it's FDA approved. I'm going to go get it, but that's the only argument I heard. 00:09:43I never said I was going to get even if it was 50 April. 00:09:47Alyssa and I'll be honest. Like I've talked about it before on the show. I've been like super close to getting it right to getting it but not getting it for the right reasons. Getting it. So people shut the fuk up. 00:10:02because, 00:10:05Again, it's getting to the point to where, where the fuck is this top? Where it, where are we headed? I mean, you getting it for that reason, is not going to make them stop. 00:10:15No, I know in and I go and read it a lot. 00:10:19And I've seen a lot of people come out and post the poster little there, a little Band-Aid picture in the Bible. I finally took the jump right after we got off the approved and people were like, oh, you're so fucking idiot. Brother. Least you're vaccinated, idiot. Now, it's like, you know, like I tell you when, at the end of the day, I tell you like, I always tell you don't waste your time. Like, I'll post memes that I think are funny. I'll post it. That's funny because humor humor, but I don't try and force my beliefs upon people. I don't try to respect. 00:10:56Hey, whatever you want to put in your butt, is your phone. Whatever you want to do is up to you. If you're actually not vaccinated. I'm still going to treat you the same. I don't care. I'm not an teevax. Don't get me wrong. I can trust the science, but I do for one 100% believe big Pharma is corrupt the shit. It's all about money and they will do anything to make money. And as long as you're sick, and keep coming back doing to keep making money off of you and it's like, I was telling you. 00:11:28And I know you don't like talking about the lawn and stuff like that. But the weeds in the lawn, I have no fucking idea at some of that shit is medicinal. 00:11:37But what it was hammered like going to have perfect like a fucking, we do nothing. 00:11:47What are you fucking rookie? Your grass is dinosaurs with. It's that programming that that mentality like. Oh, yeah, I got to buy all this shit to just spray and kill all this shit. But see, you were that person until you did research yourself. That's what people don't do. They don't do their own research. 00:12:06Cuz to me, I don't know anything about lawns to me. Weeds are bad because that's what's been installed in our heads since some documentation. That's what's happening right now because some people just I don't know what the fuck like, I don't know what it is. It's it's it's it's history that the government has fought with people in it and I hate to keep bringing up the Nazis but it's damned. I believe the Nazis just rebranded themselves. Operation Paperclip. They were they brought over like that. It feels like 1500 2500 scientists. 00:12:46That's History. That's fucking history. That's not me. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a legit shit that the government brought over Nazi signs as one of us when we went to come me space center and we saw the, the, the engine Warner Von Braun design. He was up, he was like the top Lieutenant for like the the the Nazi Space Program. He was like that, Tom guy. 00:13:08That's not that's not meet up. That's real history. So what people with the government would never would never do such a thing to hurt its people. I go. Well, that's where you fucked up. Like somebody, who I know who told me there were like I'll just let them do whatever they want. They're going to win at the end of the day and I go. Do you think that in 1776 the founding fathers were just like, you know, what, fuck it. Just let them do whatever they want to do know, they said, hey, you know, what motherfukers were done. This is, this is this is it. We're going to be free from whatever dictatorship that that that's part of whatever and were the United States a fucking America. And then obviously, we had all of the things that happened with in America and and what its temp to be. But I just feel like that and not see mentality of studying your people and doing things without their consent and doing things to them. That was just brought over and just transformed operational. 00:14:08Sea spray or something like that, weather or spring some bacteria in the water to see how we react and how people are there was there was I forgot what the, what the CIA name for it, but they're putting LSD in people's in, in this town's water to see how people how far they could take it. The Tuskegee experiment. Those are all things that the government, all the government would never do that. A lot of people don't know about history, but I just in this case. 00:14:35I think it's not, it's not any different. I know I I I understand that, but I just things like you don't even need to know, history. Just freaking common sense, but it's not because some people need their hands held and they need, but it is common sense. It just means those people don't have common-sense, people need to be told what to do. That's why there's different tiers. So yesterday was yesterday. We went to your first comedy show and what was it? That Joe was talking about how he ate Edibles and he was like waiting for to be told what to do everybody at the airport site. I'm just here. Yeah, there and that's how a lot of people are. And there's a lot of people in in that I know who 00:15:20They just like that. There's some people you look at them. 00:15:24And okay, whatever everybody has passions and everybody has something that they do something that they like. But there's some of the Fockers that you just looked at me, like, what do you like to do? What do you do? What's your hobby, bro? What are you doing with your life? You know what? I mean? They're just like, I don't exist. I just just don't have the energy for it and I can, and I can respect that if you are aware, if you're aware, and you can like tell the truth, right? When I go, you know, I just I just don't have the time for. I just don't have the energy for. I just rather work my government job and and and that's it. Hey, you know, that's what you want to do. Awesome. And 00:16:10Sometimes I wish that I had like that I didn't have an unorthodox job to where it's like weird, right? Cuz it comes a lot of responsibilities but the same time some freedoms and it's give or take, right? Like, what you give you know, you is. It's it's a, it's a cup as president,. I 00:16:37It's not this time. I don't think it's any different. I and like I said before, maybe and all the shit that we've seen online about all these doctors coming out saying that people are going to Die 3. Was it six months to five years from that? I took the shot. Maybe that's not true. And I don't think it's true. I don't think it's true. I think that I think it's a stretch to say, but I also think that the vaccine hasn't even been out for a year and I soon and I'm not going to be the one to jump in and test that out for everybody. You're going to see the the the commercials. Yeah, you are entitled to compensation for the covid-19 vaccine, whatever the fuck and I don't and I don't feel it's something to kill people off. I think it's more of 00:17:24Of how far can we push these buttons? How far can we go? How far can we take it the experiment? How many people can we get to take? And they have absolutely no idea what it does to your body. 00:17:39And look at the numbers as millions of people have taken it already. What does that already tell? You, we can get them to do anything? 00:17:48And I was on the FDA website. I was like reading into it and I don't even trust those. I don't even trust those figures and 00:17:59I'm at the point in my life, where I don't even know who to believe, right? Because you see so much and maybe it's one of those type of things like you don't, you don't believe in until it happens to you maybe. But 00:18:13How much wasn't it the one they just talking about the other day? How hospitals were putting covid-19 to charge more money. 00:18:20For the treatment. 00:18:23I didn't hear about that. I personally didn't, but I could have swore it was obviously one, daddy. Trump was in office. That every hospital was putting down a cause of death covid-19, cuz they were getting extra funding. So, sorry the way you worded it, confused me. But yeah, if you code, it covered, knightscove it, or whatever you got funding and all that stuff, which remember, when I was like in the, at the doctor for three weeks in January, I tested negative three times and every time it was open on the paper to get my medicine for the pharmacy. I'm like, I don't have covid, I tested negative three times. And for the longest time. What was it was all this wasn't engineer. Did you see that? I was a fast Week 1, the Japanese. There was a Japanese doctor, this head of whatever. 00:19:15And I briefly your scan through it came out and said, yeah, cold it is. Is it a possibility? It's man-made. And they say that Japan is like one of the more conservative government's when it comes to putting out something as controversial as that, because obviously, that's very controversial. Like, hey, the shoes made by man. This is not natural, which is something that was said, since the very beginning and if you were to say that you are a fucking racist and now all of a sudden now they say like nothing. Oh, yeah, it was engineered in a lab in Wuhan and it's 00:19:59I can and I've talked about this before. 00:20:04Where is a fucking podcast? As well as how we do for can talk about shit? 00:20:10The whole agenda of the New World Order and the reason that I wanted to go. So we have that trip to Georgia because I wanted to go to the Georgia. Guidestones is me and Tom did an episode on it last week and the Georgia Guidestones are. 00:20:32The stones that were set up in the middle of fucking bumfuk. Egypt, Georgia. And on them. They have like these tenants, like these Commandments. And one of The Commandments on there is is keep population under 500 million. 00:20:50There's way more than 500 people on this Earth. Yeah, these were put up in the 70s in the 1970 and 1979 when they were put up there. They were opened up in the 1980s and 00:21:05These are the ideologies and it's something, the person that that put it up is like some, some suit on him. Like this. The super-rich guy didn't know who the fuck he was probably dead by now, and he was part of what he called, a small group of Americans, right? He said that he sure the ideas of a small group of America, whatever that means. And when you put two and two together, New World Order right in these individuals, what they want to do is they want to push this this agenda where The Reptilian Elites rule the class and you will own nothing. Right now. What's happening right now with BlackRock of a big firm, a big Wall Street firms, buying up all the houses on the market. 00:21:57And that's why sometimes people are getting 50,000 + x amount over the acts asking price. Because these big corporations are going around, buying everything. Yo, there's fucking movies made about this shit, right? There's movies like umbrella, Corp, write all the zombies and all this shit Resident Evil. The movie. I Am Legend. Just a fucking The Matrix just a movie. And I feel like this generation doesn't like thought-provoking. 00:22:32Movies like that. 00:22:34Cuz it, it just I think it is. 00:22:38I like short shorts them out. Like they fucking have like a seizure early. Like I was watching Fight Club ever seen the movie. 00:22:48I think so. I have to see what the thing looks like that. You know, the move it with it, with Brad. Brad Pitt married to Angelina. Jolie has to do with Brad Pitt. And yes, I'm in it. Anyways, then I think I have seen it. It's a movie where I've seen it three four times, every time I watch I'm still shook. Yeah. By the end of my, I was like, there's no way, there's no way I wasn't expecting that and it's like, boom and butt. 00:23:26Movies like that to where you're not and makes it's a thought-provoking. They all might wait. Wait a minute. So not everything that you see is what it seems. No, it's not and back to the Georgia Guidestones. I want to go there. I wanted to take a picture there because 00:23:45Are they be pretty fucking cool, but it's not cool with these individuals want to do and buy these individuals. I'm talking about The Reptilian task group in society. The people who you don't know their names of the people that that Jeffrey Epstein work for those people, pulling the strings, and I can't imagine what it was like, there. The Bilderberg Group. I selected these all these at least that meet up every year and have a meeting. Ya. All the big heads of all these companies and shit. They just have a meeting or just now, we're part of this group. From the most, the most fucking wealthy people in the whole world. We just get together every year just to talk. 00:24:30Why people don't you know what the Bohemian Grove is? 00:24:35The Bohemian Grove is this. I have to show you the videos. It's a place where a lot of famous presidents. A lot of wealthy people, they would get together and they would worship a big. 00:24:53The only way I can describe it is a big, it would look like a now, like the statue of an owl, Big Owl and they would burn an effigy. So what that is like a pseudo sacrifice and it would be like this whole ritual and this is all caught on video and this is real shit that the wealthiest people go there and they do these rituals in these in these things. 00:25:16And you'd be surprised how many people don't know about that shit. I don't know about these. What is an obelisk in all these esoteric symbols and things have to do with government. Why are there so many things? If you look at the back of our dollar, it's all cryptic. What the hell does, the Eye of Horus have anything to do with the United States of America? 00:25:39Please explain to me. What the has anything to do with? 00:25:43You can't like, what the fuck is that? And these are the type of people who are behind the the, the veil, right, maybe figuratively. And, and maybe literally 00:25:57But I feel like these are the type of people pulling the strings who don't give a fuk right that that like the Pfizer CEO just took up the vaccine, like, 2 weeks ago. What the fuck is that? Everyone was testing it out for him? Yeah. We're just, we're just guinea pigs. We know what what it feels like to be guinea pig, basically. 00:26:20So not, I will, that's the thing. I think that they're going to force us into 00:26:26Right. Now, what was Delta Airlines? 00:26:30Charging their employees $200 more attention, while I mean, I would have, did I just quit? Honestly, but why though? That's the thing. But why? Because 00:26:42Now with it, being at the air prove, you're going to see that ship more and more, but it's not like you're it. What was it? That you show me? The, the the immigration is not making everybody coming in. If you want a green card. Do you have to show proof of vaccination? And it has to be like you as approved? I think all those Afghan refugees. Have to be back then. I'm sure they'll get in without it, but 00:27:06What kind of fucked up world? We live in, it's all backwards. But that's the thing is like there's people that aren't fighting their employers. Like I'm have a girl on social media. 00:27:19She works for a big important like Siemens or something. And she recently posted and she was like, Siemens came up. I wasn't even. There was a company like them, like pretty large. They came out saying that they're requiring their employees to be vaccinated and they give him like a deadline. And then this week I have to go find the post. But this week she posted and she was like they had such a large amount of people that turned in her resignation, that they took back. The order Starbucks in the black lives matter thing. Just kidding. Yeah, they got leaked. And then but you see like they the employees. They were all just like, okay one then we quit and then they were like, okay, that's way too many people quitting. We're not going to require the back scene. 00:28:10That's again that that get that goes back to how far can we push it? How far can we go? And that's the problem though, is that you have the people that you were just talking about. That's like let them just do whatever they want. They're going to win but that was a victory. My whole thing is what what is the endgame? What is the the the goal with all this? Maybe maybe maybe it is the New World Order, right? Where we live under one government, one world, religion One World Currency. One thing maybe, big coin is like that One World Currency. How it, how for the longest time when I was growing up as a kid in church, they talked about all the, the the 00:28:56The folks that wanted to edit the year or some shit where they would like all the girls going to be the currency of the world where, you know, how it is that they always have to to to keep you in constant fear. And in constant doubt, if you don't do that, hey, you know, he's watching you like what were you telling me that Jesus would have been vaccinated. My posting is not like, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I don't care if you're vaccinated. I don't care. If you're not vaccinated. I post because I have other people posting a bunch of complete bullshit and I'm like, just like, hey, FYI, I like, you know, I like to post something to like, 00:29:46Pretty much say everything against what they said. So anyways in my posting I usually get good conversation out of it, which is why I keep posting, but I get the occasional, you know, like Jesus would have taken the vaccine. Jesus would have wore a mask without complaining. I'm like, what are you like? Kanye West. 00:30:06I never know. I just never know where he stands with anyting, you think Joe Rogan. 00:30:15I think he is. I mean, he may be, I think he is. I think I think he, but he just needs to like it made it. He made it seem like you wasn't he did. Especially last night. He did was it, but I think he is. I think that I think that that he probably did get all over the place and he's an older guy, right? Not super over older. So, I feel like he would tell people, 00:30:45When they don't want to tell me all about, you know, there's a chance that that you won't get that you won't die from from covid 52 vaccine. 00:30:57Oh, it doesn't have like a 99.9% survival rate of the vaccine is, only 91% effective for 94% effective against you not getting it. So, rather take my god-given immune system that will people forget. Is that for the longest time back? Then there was medicine was nature. But you, you eat this route with this leaf and you have 00:31:30Some sort of penicillin and you let this ferment for however long you drink that. And then that's going to be good for you. And people survived. I'm sure a lot of fucking people died. But at the end of the day, the point is that it's medicinal when it goes back to the whole, the weeds in the garden. 00:31:49Or are they on your lawn where those things are demonized? Now, those also know, like right now, the hold the big thing right now is in in Denver. 00:32:00Invite them or something like that or it's like they they they they prescribed it before as a horse dewormer. 00:32:09But apparently there is people taking it for covid and supposedly. It's fixing the unit helping though. It's curing them. But you're talking about you know, what $10 treatment like they're taking it after they get covid. Like while they have covid-19 covid and it's the numbers are like supposed to be like really good and it's helping people but now on on the that's why you seen on the on the media like old people drinking bleach to get rid of covid-19 are there's a gold. There was a guy, I was taking I forgot what the fuck you took. You took like some some animal medicine. 00:32:48And it was all over the news. I don't do that and it's got to do with this Narrative of all the far, forgot. The name of the medicine was inverter rectum. It's it. But they have used it for as a horse. Dewormer people as being prescribed to people. And now obviously of all of you go to the, you know, if you come to the pharmacy with that shit, we're not going to fill it out for you. Hey, whatever people want to fucking do with their own fucking bodies. Let them do. Wasn't it for the longest time, my body, my choice with abortions, David's elective. It would they want to apply it whenever they want for the longest time. It was like, well just recently, when Abbott. 00:33:34What was it that he did in Texas? Like abortions are legal. Now, they all lost their complete shit earlier this year. And then now when they want to do mask mandates is like no longer my body, my choice. And I only want to do vaccine mandates. It's not my body, my choice. When it comes to abortion. It's my body, my choice, and next year. 00:33:55Remember when remember when we thought that 2020 was going to be like this to be great. And then we're like getting into 20, 20 more l'ecole. No 2020 was crazy. Let's put it behind us. We're good now. 00:34:17And then it was like, holy fuck, Jesus, Take the Wheel because that shit went off road real quick. And like, I've that's why I'm scared for next year, people. And again, I appreciate anybody service, if anybody in the service is going to appreciate your service. But how fucked up is it? That people are talking. I'll be seen on social media. 00:34:44The whole Afghan war twenty years 2020 trillion dollars. 00:34:50Thousands of lives lost. 00:34:54Because who was it? I want to say any other was a philosopher. I think I might have been anyone. Like I'm trying to remember. What is the philosopher that said? It's not about a winnable War right? About an ongoing War about a war. They can keep going. Why? Because the same people I've talked about that, go to the Bohemian Grove and all these mother fuckers. I do weird shit, right behind closed doors. 00:35:22Those are the same people that are getting their pockets lined with this money and these things that are going on overseas because Obama couldn't stop. And I'm not saying that, it's Biden's fall. What's going on right now, in Afghanistan. It Bush's are Obama's. Trump's is all their fault. It's all their fault because Bush started, Obama could have ended it. But guess what? That's why they call them Obama, you know, cuz he, I'm serious. He was one of them. One of the president that dropped the most bombs out of all presidents, because they made into a video game, they made it to where they can drone strike people. Can you do they? Like there was two people, there was two individuals in the Middle East, right? Innocent until proven guilty now fuck that. He went in there and he shot them both. We bomb them both killed a bunch of civilians in the in the process and there was again, I'm going to try and and say like the details about it before the podcast with friends of mine. 00:36:22And there was a lot to talk about, but there was this guy that was, it was a son of a terrorist like that, and instead of bringing them in for questioning and I should know these fucking, hey, no innocent until proven guilty. No rules for the but not for me. And that's the, that's why 00:36:42That's why I like Plato's The Republic and his form of society and Play-Doh. It's crazy to me that we refer back again. History. We refer back to some fucking guy who probably maybe wasn't real Play-Doh. Maybe it wasn't real. If you was just an idea of just just a bunch of people together. 00:37:06But we find ourselves. 00:37:08Referring back to work. So, these individuals from the u300 they was in the u300. 00:37:15Plato's The Republic. He talked about how 00:37:19You would have philosopher-kings, right? Ruling all of society. And those philosopher-kings. They weren't entitled to anything. They were just there to rule Society. They weren't entitled to money. They weren't entitled to have children. They were entitled to nothing. 00:37:35I can get behind that if the president or all these elected officials right there, supposed to be a public servants making millions of dollars after the fact, after they get out of office. 00:37:49I could get behind the whole Plato thing to where it's like. Oh, no, you can't get any money. Your your job is going to be like, like a nun, right? You can't do shit. You just realize you're a monk. You work for the government. 100%. And is this really what you want to do? And I'm sure there's going to be genuine. People who will go into that position and do it without a care in the world. But no right. Now what we have is a cesspool of and that's why a lot of people like you and Don Q and on his like this movement to where Trump was supposed to drain the swamp, right? There is supposed to like to them. Trump is like this in the style that I was sent into to expose the cabal of of child sex trafficking and all these pedophile Elites in in Hollywood because 00:38:42Just how 9/11 happened in 9/11 changed the world. When Donald Rumsfeld would he just died recently? Actually a few weeks ago, when he came out on September 10th, 2001 and said, Hey listen, there is was like 3 trillion or four trillion dollars from the budget of the nation of the government is missing money. They said, hey, it's missing. Guess what happened the next day. 00:39:16Remember what happened with Jeffrey Epstein? I feel like after Jeffrey Epstein is when the whole covid should started. 00:39:25You talked about that one that started it all ever. Since we haven't mentioned that shit. We haven't talked about it since we need to talk about it. They need to give us answers because I feel like I know he killed himself. Yep, and then John McAfee, the guy that did the stomach at the antivirus, bulshit McAfee McAfee McAfee. What are the fuck? His name? Is? He supposedly had dirt on the elites.

Topics in this conversation include: Stephen explains Inova's focus on people, excellence, and becoming a true system and how they will continue to focus all of their future transformation on these three key areas. 4:22Inova is investing in physical infrastructure as well as virtual capabilities, making accommodations that will help them succeed in world-class, flexible care which will allow them to succeed regardless of the direction that healthcare goes over the next 20-30 years. 6:38Stephen explains his science-based and people-based reasoning for moving forward with a COVID vaccine requirement for employment at Inova. 9:36The leadership triad of a physician, nurse, and operations person within all of Inova's clinical service sites and major locations has allowed for quicker decision-making and more effective leadership. 11:53The values of Inova drive all decision making allowing them to focus on the basics of providing world-class care and caring for the well-being of their employees in practical ways. 14:16Stephen explains how their focus on both world-class care and patient focus has impacted their research department, focusing on practical solutions that can impact the patients currently in their care. 21:34 

Continued from episode #52, learning how to recognize, take captive and willingness to change what you have the power to change in your mind! Harness your thoughts so you can focus on the target your wanting to hit. Allowing your perspective to be open to the learning something new and be teachable can build your confidence! Email me at aspiringcowgirl@gmail.com or subscribe to my website at https://www.aspiringcowgirl.com/

Today's episode of Trade Wins is the third in a special series of interviews conducted as part of the WTCA's General Assembly, held April 26-30, 2021. Hamid Mamdouh, Senior Counsel at King & Spalding and former Director of Trade in Services and Investment Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO), shares the future of trade as it pertains to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Hamid also explains changes that need to be considered within the WTO and how SMEs can play a role in this reform by actively engaging within the private sector. Hamid identifies four challenges that SMEs are currently facing including regulatory burdens, access to information, access to financing and digitalization. 1:24Reform is needed within the WTO's three legs - dispute settlement, negotiation and the deliberative function - in order to see progress made within the trading system. 8:11Hamid describes three practical actions that can be taken immediately to support SMEs within the trade industry. 12:50Creating a political vision is a major first step that can be taken to see reform take place within the WTO. 16:53The private sector can further the cause of trade reform by actively engaging and supporting trade reform. 22:39Trade Wins is a podcast designed specifically to be thought-provoking and to provide insights from leading experts to help us navigate today's changing environment. We aim to contribute to the empowerment of our global membership and their business networks in the world of global trade and investment.

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John 4:4654 (ESV) Jesus Heals an Officials Son 46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48So Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe. 49The official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies. 50Jesus said to him, Go; your son will live. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, Your son will live. And he himself believed, and all his household. 54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

First episode within The Friendly Fighter Podcast called "Time to Reflect". In these episodes every Sunday I'll be talking about things that I watched or listned to that were thought provoking for me. Either from a podcast, show or documentary on Netflix or Hulu, and even movies. I'll be sharing with you my thoughts that arose throughout the week. Show Notes: Intro: 0.0-.51Portland free thinkers club episode 78 financial freedrom: .52- 3.53The night stalker on Netflix: 4.01- 8.56Friendly Fighter Pod.Episode 78 Dog Training with Caitlyn Cardoza: 8.56-13.36Recap: 13.39-end

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”词汇提示1.took turns 轮流2.tunnel 隧道3.shore 岸5.load this truck 装车10.bowed 弯腰14.caught 赶车15.steep 陡18.loaded22.jogged 碰撞25.lame 跛足28.aircraft，fuel 加油30.Rolls Poyles 劳斯莱斯35.fell off 跌落37.horn 喇叭、号角38.is knock down 被撞倒39.crow in 挤进40.hire 租41.flew，jet42.dived 潜、俯冲，steeply44.flew down45.thrill48.bombing along49.bound for 开往53.at a tremendous rate54.anchored 抛锚，shore 55.listed 倾斜56.swaying 摇晃57.boat58.a stiff breeze 强风，bag out 鼓起60.toughed the ground 搁浅61.farther62.smooth stride 平稳的脚步65.circuit 环形提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1We took turns to drive the car.我们轮流开车。2The train went through a tunnel.这列火车穿过一条隧道。3They walked down to the shore.他们往下走到了岸边。4There is an underground car park.这里有一个地下停车场。5It is time to load this truck.该装车了。6well，I have to go- my ride is here.好了，我该走了，让我搭车的人来了。7I love travelling on train.我喜欢乘火车旅行。8Can you help me get my car going?你能帮我把车发起来吗？9How long is the flight？这次航班飞多久？10He was bowed into a taxi.他被点头哈腰地送上出租车。11I missed the bus and had to walk home.我没赶上公共汽车，只好走回家。12You nearly got hit by that car！你差点被车撞了！13We went there by coach.我们是坐长途汽车去那里的。14He caught the slow train to Birmingham.他赶上去伯明翰的慢车。15That hill's far too steep to cycle up.那个坡太陡了，自行车根本骑不上去。16The car ran clear off the road.车子完全驶离了道路。17I followed him for some distance.我跟着他走了一段路程。18The cargo was loaded onto another ship.货物被撞倒了另外一条船上。19The bus went past without stopping.公交车经过的时候没有停。20Shall we walk or take a cab？我们步行还是坐计程车？21We took a taxi to save time.我们坐了辆出租车以节省时间。22The truck jogged up and down.那辆卡车颠簸行进。23The country road rides hard.乡村路上车不好骑。24The train was 40 minutes late.火车晚点了40分钟。25His lame is the result of an accident.他的跛足是一次车祸的结果。26Our car had a flat tire.我们那辆汽车有一只轮胎漏了气。27They rode up the hill in a jeep.他们坐了一辆吉普车往山上开去。28All aircraft must fuel before flight.所有飞机飞行前都必须加油。29She drove by in her new car.她开着新车驶过。30Rolls Royces are very expensive.劳斯莱斯汽车价格昂贵。31Don't drink and drive.别喝了酒开车。32I lost my train by three minutes.我迟了3分钟，没赶上火车。33The parking area is for members only.停车设施仅供会员使用。34She was driving at 30 miles an hour.她以每小时30英里的速度驱车前行。35He fell off his bike.他从自行车上摔了下来。36The train arrived dead on time.火车准点到达。37A motor horn sounded.有辆车鸣喇叭了。38The man is knock down by the bicycle.这个男人被自行车撞到了。39They had managed to crowd into a train.他们勉强挤上了一列火车。40 This car is for hire.这辆车是供租用的。41We flew to New York by jet.我们乘喷气式飞机到了纽约。42The aircraft dived steeply.那架飞机垂直俯冲下来。43The plane was shot down in error.飞机被错误地击落了。44He flew down the road in a car.他开着汽车沿那条路飞驰而去。45I get a real thrill from speed.飞速驾车会让我兴奋不已。46He flew from London to Paris.他从伦敦飞往了巴黎。47The planes flew through the clouds.飞机穿越云层。48He was bombing along on his motorbike.他正骑着摩托车飞驰。49I boarded the plane bound for Boston.我登上了飞往波士顿的航班。50We drove along the dusty road.我们在尘土飞扬的路上行驶。51His plane lands at six-thirty.他的飞机六点半着陆。52I don't travel much by air.我不常坐飞机。53The taxi was going at a tremendous rate.出租车飞速奔驰。54The ship anchored along the shore.这艘船在岸边停泊。55The ship listed badly.船侧倾得很厉害。56The ship was swaying from side to side.船在左右摇晃。57I took part in the boat races.我参加赛船。58A stiff breeze made the sails bag out.一股劲风吹得船帆鼓了出来。59My father met me off the boat.我父亲接我下船。60Their ship touched the ground.他们的船搁浅了。61He was too tired to go any farther.他太累了，一定也走不动了。62He walked with a long，smooth stride.他走路时步子很大、很稳。63They walked around the town.他们在城里到处走动。64He arose and walked to the window.他站起来，向窗户走去。65She made a slow circuit of the room.她绕着房间慢慢走了一圈。

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”词汇提示1.took turns 轮流2.tunnel 隧道3.shore 岸5.load this truck 装车10.bowed 弯腰14.caught 赶车15.steep 陡18.loaded22.jogged 碰撞25.lame 跛足28.aircraft，fuel 加油30.Rolls Poyles 劳斯莱斯35.fell off 跌落37.horn 喇叭、号角38.is knock down 被撞倒39.crow in 挤进40.hire 租41.flew，jet42.dived 潜、俯冲，steeply44.flew down45.thrill48.bombing along49.bound for 开往53.at a tremendous rate54.anchored 抛锚，shore 55.listed 倾斜56.swaying 摇晃57.boat58.a stiff breeze 强风，bag out 鼓起60.toughed the ground 搁浅61.farther62.smooth stride 平稳的脚步65.circuit 环形提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1We took turns to drive the car.我们轮流开车。2The train went through a tunnel.这列火车穿过一条隧道。3They walked down to the shore.他们往下走到了岸边。4There is an underground car park.这里有一个地下停车场。5It is time to load this truck.该装车了。6well，I have to go- my ride is here.好了，我该走了，让我搭车的人来了。7I love travelling on train.我喜欢乘火车旅行。8Can you help me get my car going?你能帮我把车发起来吗？9How long is the flight？这次航班飞多久？10He was bowed into a taxi.他被点头哈腰地送上出租车。11I missed the bus and had to walk home.我没赶上公共汽车，只好走回家。12You nearly got hit by that car！你差点被车撞了！13We went there by coach.我们是坐长途汽车去那里的。14He caught the slow train to Birmingham.他赶上去伯明翰的慢车。15That hill's far too steep to cycle up.那个坡太陡了，自行车根本骑不上去。16The car ran clear off the road.车子完全驶离了道路。17I followed him for some distance.我跟着他走了一段路程。18The cargo was loaded onto another ship.我跟着他走了一段路程。19The bus went past without stopping.公交车经过的时候没有停。20Shall we walk or take a cab？我们步行还是坐计程车？21We took a taxi to save time.我们坐了辆出租车以节省时间。22The truck jogged up and down.那辆卡车颠簸行进。23The country road rides hard.乡村路上车不好骑。24The train was 40 minutes late.火车晚点了40分钟。25His lame is the result of an accident.他的跛足是一次车祸的结果。26Our car had a flat tire.我们那辆汽车有一只轮胎漏了气。27They rode up the hill in a jeep.他们坐了一辆吉普车往山上开去。28All aircraft must fuel before flight.所有飞机飞行前都必须加油。29She drove by in her new car.她开着新车驶过。30Rolls Royces are very expensive.劳斯莱斯汽车价格昂贵。31Don't drink and drive.别喝了酒开车。32I lost my train by three minutes.我迟了3分钟，没赶上火车。33The parking area is for members only.停车设施仅供会员使用。34She was driving at 30 miles an hour.她以每小时30英里的速度驱车前行。35He fell off his bike.他从自行车上摔了下来。36The train arrived dead on time.火车准点到达。37A motor horn sounded.有辆车鸣喇叭了。38The man is knock down by the bicycle.这个男人被自行车撞到了。39They had managed to crowd into a train.他们勉强挤上了一列火车。40 This car is for hire.这辆车是供租用的。41We flew to New York by jet.我们乘喷气式飞机到了纽约。42The aircraft dived steeply.那架飞机垂直俯冲下来。43The plane was shot down in error.飞机被错误地击落了。44He flew down the road in a car.他开着汽车沿那条路飞驰而去。45I get a real thrill from speed.飞速驾车会让我兴奋不已。46He flew from London to Paris.他从伦敦飞往了巴黎。47The planes flew through the clouds.飞机穿越云层。48He was bombing along on his motorbike.他正骑着摩托车飞驰。49I boarded the plane bound for Boston.我登上了飞往波士顿的航班。50We drove along the dusty road.我们在尘土飞扬的路上行驶。51His plane lands at six-thirty.他的飞机六点半着陆。52I don't travel much by air.我不常坐飞机。53The taxi was going at a tremendous rate.出租车飞速奔驰。54The ship anchored along the shore.这艘船在岸边停泊。55The ship listed badly.船侧倾得很厉害。56The ship was swaying from side to side.船在左右摇晃。57I took part in the boat races.我参加赛船。58A stiff breeze made the sails bag out.一股劲风吹得船帆鼓了出来。59My father met me off the boat.我父亲接我下船。60Their ship touched the ground.他们的船搁浅了。61He was too tired to go any farther.他太累了，一定也走不动了。62He walked with a long，smooth stride.他走路时步子很大、很稳。63They walked around the town.他们在城里到处走动。64He arose and walked to the window.他站起来，向窗户走去。65She made a slow circuit of the room.她绕着房间慢慢走了一圈。

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1The telegram asked for an instant reply.这封电报要求立即回复。2The note supplied a phone number.那字条提供了一个电话号码。3I mended the computer for her.我帮她修了电脑。4He often goes to school by trolleybus.他经常乘无轨电车上学。5Is the telephone working todays？电话今天能用吗？6I made a few phone calls.我打了几个电话。7The television's not working properly.这台电视机运转不正常。8Sorry，the lift is out of service.对不起，电梯停用了。9She was burning to buy a computer.她很想买台电脑。10Cleaning the oven is such a performance.清理烤箱真是一件苦差。11Turn the oven on low.把烤箱调到低火。12I burned myself on the oven door.我被烤箱门烫伤了。13Turn the oven to a low heat.把烤箱调到低火。14Put it in a hot oven.把它放入炙热的烤箱里。15The new-type TV set sells well.这种新型电视销路很好。16I hung up the phone and started to cry.我挂掉电话，开始哭了起来。17where can I find a telephone booth?我在哪里可以找到电话亭？18The TV was on.电视开着。19He arrived just after you called.就在你打电话之后他到了。20I spoke to him by telephone.我通过电话跟他讲话。21Leave the jelly in the fridge to set.把果冻放在冰箱里凝固。22Repairs to the cable did not take long.电缆维修没花太长时间。23The customer called to cancel.顾客打电话来取消。24If necessary，give me a ring.如果需要，给我打个电话。25Right，let's go to our next caller.好，我们来接听下一个电话。26I phoned your office the other day.几天前，我往你的办公室打电话。27He telephoned us that he would be late.他打电话来说他将迟到。28Taka the elevator to the 51st floor.电梯乘到51层。29I had a phone call from Mary.我接到了玛丽的电话。30This is my home phone number.这是我家的电话号码。31Our phone isn't working.我们的电话坏了。32My phone is being tapped.有人在窃听我的电话。33They flashed a torch in his face.他们用手电筒照了他的脸。34Wire one end of the cable to the plug.把电缆的一端接在插头上。35The damaged wire blew out the cooker.电线坏了，电饭锅不能使用了。36Who turned the TV on？谁开的电视？37This is a refrigerator or distinction.这是一台优质电冰箱。38She is on the telephone at the moment.她正在打电话呢。39I went downstairs to answer the phone.我下楼去接电话。40Get the exchange to call their number.让总机给他们打电话。41The radio batteries are running low.收音机的电池快用完了。42They are switching the tram.他们使电车换了轨道。43He was in floods of tears on the phone.他在电话里大哭。44You hold the torch while I look inside.他拿着手电筒，我看看里面。45You've got the wrong number.你打错电话了。46Do ring if you want to talk about it.如果你想谈谈这件事，就给我打电话。47The electricity had been cut off.电让人切断了。48we have repaired the motor.我们已经修好了电机。49I've just got a couple of calls to make.我正要打几个电话。50She hurried to answer the phone.她匆忙去接电话。51I could always call the local doctor.我随时可以给当地医生打电话。52I must phone my parents.我一定要给父母打电话。53The phone suddenly went dead.电话突然不能用了。54He's got an ancient laptop.他有一台老掉牙的电脑。55Thank you very much for your call.非常感谢您打来电话。56Why was his wire busy？为什么他的电话老占线？57Please turn the electric fan on.请打开电风扇。58Put the milk back in the fridge.请把这些牛奶放回冰箱去。59She can mend the fridge by herself.她能自己有冰箱。60Milk keeps much longer in a fridge.牛奶放在冰箱里保鲜时间会更长。61The room is cooled with air conditioner.这房间用空调降温。62Our washing machine needs a new motor.我们的洗衣机需要换个新电动机。63Did you empty the washing machine？你把洗衣机里的衣服都拿出来了吗？64This is a coin washing machine.这是一台投币式洗衣机。65The air conditioner has stopped working.空调停了。66I got the washing machine repair.我让人修理了洗衣机。67Washing machines make house-work easier.洗衣机减轻了家务劳动。

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”词汇提示1.took turns 轮流2.tunnel 隧道3.shore 岸5.load this truck 装车10.bowed 弯腰14.caught 赶车15.steep 陡18.loaded22.jogged 碰撞25.lame 跛足28.aircraft，fuel 加油30.Rolls Poyles 劳斯莱斯35.fell off 跌落37.horn 喇叭、号角38.is knock down 被撞倒39.crow in 挤进40.hire 租41.flew，jet42.dived 潜、俯冲，steeply44.flew down45.thrill48.bombing along49.bound for 开往53.at a tremendous rate54.anchored 抛锚，shore 55.listed 倾斜56.swaying 摇晃57.boat58.a stiff breeze 强风，bag out 鼓起60.toughed the ground 搁浅61.farther62.smooth stride 平稳的脚步65.circuit 环形提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1We took turns to drive the car.我们轮流开车。2The train went through a tunnel.这列火车穿过一条隧道。3They walked down to the shore.他们往下走到了岸边。4There is an underground car park.这里有一个地下停车场。5It is time to load this truck.该装车了。6well，I have to go- my ride is here.好了，我该走了，让我搭车的人来了。7I love travelling on train.我喜欢乘火车旅行。8Can you help me get my car going?你能帮我把车发起来吗？9How long is the flight？这次航班飞多久？10He was bowed into a taxi.他被点头哈腰地送上出租车。11I missed the bus and had to walk home.我没赶上公共汽车，只好走回家。12You nearly got hit by that car！你差点被车撞了！13We went there by coach.我们是坐长途汽车去那里的。14He caught the slow train to Birmingham.他赶上去伯明翰的慢车。15That hill's far too steep to cycle up.那个坡太陡了，自行车根本骑不上去。16The car ran clear off the road.车子完全驶离了道路。17I followed him for some distance.我跟着他走了一段路程。18The cargo was loaded onto another ship.货物被撞倒了另外一条船上。19The bus went past without stopping.公交车经过的时候没有停。20Shall we walk or take a cab？我们步行还是坐计程车？21We took a taxi to save time.我们坐了辆出租车以节省时间。22The truck jogged up and down.那辆卡车颠簸行进。23The country road rides hard.乡村路上车不好骑。24The train was 40 minutes late.火车晚点了40分钟。25His lame is the result of an accident.他的跛足是一次车祸的结果。26Our car had a flat tire.我们那辆汽车有一只轮胎漏了气。27They rode up the hill in a jeep.他们坐了一辆吉普车往山上开去。28All aircraft must fuel before flight.所有飞机飞行前都必须加油。29She drove by in her new car.她开着新车驶过。30Rolls Royces are very expensive.劳斯莱斯汽车价格昂贵。31Don't drink and drive.别喝了酒开车。32I lost my train by three minutes.我迟了3分钟，没赶上火车。33The parking area is for members only.停车设施仅供会员使用。34She was driving at 30 miles an hour.她以每小时30英里的速度驱车前行。35He fell off his bike.他从自行车上摔了下来。36The train arrived dead on time.火车准点到达。37A motor horn sounded.有辆车鸣喇叭了。38The man is knock down by the bicycle.这个男人被自行车撞到了。39They had managed to crowd into a train.他们勉强挤上了一列火车。40 This car is for hire.这辆车是供租用的。41We flew to New York by jet.我们乘喷气式飞机到了纽约。42The aircraft dived steeply.那架飞机垂直俯冲下来。43The plane was shot down in error.飞机被错误地击落了。44He flew down the road in a car.他开着汽车沿那条路飞驰而去。45I get a real thrill from speed.飞速驾车会让我兴奋不已。46He flew from London to Paris.他从伦敦飞往了巴黎。47The planes flew through the clouds.飞机穿越云层。48He was bombing along on his motorbike.他正骑着摩托车飞驰。49I boarded the plane bound for Boston.我登上了飞往波士顿的航班。50We drove along the dusty road.我们在尘土飞扬的路上行驶。51His plane lands at six-thirty.他的飞机六点半着陆。52I don't travel much by air.我不常坐飞机。53The taxi was going at a tremendous rate.出租车飞速奔驰。54The ship anchored along the shore.这艘船在岸边停泊。55The ship listed badly.船侧倾得很厉害。56The ship was swaying from side to side.船在左右摇晃。57I took part in the boat races.我参加赛船。58A stiff breeze made the sails bag out.一股劲风吹得船帆鼓了出来。59My father met me off the boat.我父亲接我下船。60Their ship touched the ground.他们的船搁浅了。61He was too tired to go any farther.他太累了，一定也走不动了。62He walked with a long，smooth stride.他走路时步子很大、很稳。63They walked around the town.他们在城里到处走动。64He arose and walked to the window.他站起来，向窗户走去。65She made a slow circuit of the room.她绕着房间慢慢走了一圈。

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1The telegram asked for an instant reply.这封电报要求立即回复。2The note supplied a phone number.那字条提供了一个电话号码。3I mended the computer for her.我帮她修了电脑。4He often goes to school by trolleybus.他经常乘无轨电车上学。5Is the telephone working todays？电话今天能用吗？6I made a few phone calls.我打了几个电话。7The television's not working properly.这台电视机运转不正常。8Sorry，the lift is out of service.对不起，电梯停用了。9She was burning to buy a computer.她很想买台电脑。10Cleaning the oven is such a performance.清理烤箱真是一件苦差。11Turn the oven on low.把烤箱调到低火。12I burned myself on the oven door.我被烤箱门烫伤了。13Turn the oven to a low heat.把烤箱调到低火。14Put it in a hot oven.把它放入炙热的烤箱里。15The new-type TV set sells well.这种新型电视销路很好。16I hung up the phone and started to cry.我挂掉电话，开始哭了起来。17where can I find a telephone booth?我在哪里可以找到电话亭？18The TV was on.电视开着。19He arrived just after you called.就在你打电话之后他到了。20I spoke to him by telephone.我通过电话跟他讲话。21Leave the jelly in the fridge to set.把果冻放在冰箱里凝固。22Repairs to the cable did not take long.电缆维修没花太长时间。23The customer called to cancel.顾客打电话来取消。24If necessary，give me a ring.如果需要，给我打个电话。25Right，let's go to our next caller.好，我们来接听下一个电话。26I phoned your office the other day.几天前，我往你的办公室打电话。27He telephoned us that he would be late.他打电话来说他将迟到。28Taka the elevator to the 51st floor.电梯乘到51层。29I had a phone call from Mary.我接到了玛丽的电话。30This is my home phone number.这是我家的电话号码。31Our phone isn't working.我们的电话坏了。32My phone is being tapped.有人在窃听我的电话。33They flashed a torch in his face.他们用手电筒照了他的脸。34Wire one end of the cable to the plug.把电缆的一端接在插头上。35The damaged wire blew out the cooker.电线坏了，电饭锅不能使用了。36Who turned the TV on？谁开的电视？37This is a refrigerator or distinction.这是一台优质电冰箱。38She is on the telephone at the moment.她正在打电话呢。39I went downstairs to answer the phone.我下楼去接电话。40Get the exchange to call their number.让总机给他们打电话。41The radio batteries are running low.收音机的电池快用完了。42They are switching the tram.他们使电车换了轨道。43He was in floods of tears on the phone.他在电话里大哭。44You hold the torch while I look inside.他拿着手电筒，我看看里面。45You've got the wrong number.你打错电话了。46Do ring if you want to talk about it.如果你想谈谈这件事，就给我打电话。47The electricity had been cut off.电让人切断了。48we have repaired the motor.我们已经修好了电机。49I've just got a couple of calls to make.我正要打几个电话。50She hurried to answer the phone.她匆忙去接电话。51I could always call the local doctor.我随时可以给当地医生打电话。52I must phone my parents.我一定要给父母打电话。53The phone suddenly went dead.电话突然不能用了。54He's got an ancient laptop.他有一台老掉牙的电脑。55Thank you very much for your call.非常感谢您打来电话。56Why was his wire busy？为什么他的电话老占线？57Please turn the electric fan on.请打开电风扇。58Put the milk back in the fridge.请把这些牛奶放回冰箱去。59She can mend the fridge by herself.她能自己有冰箱。60Milk keeps much longer in a fridge.牛奶放在冰箱里保鲜时间会更长。61The room is cooled with air conditioner.这房间用空调降温。62Our washing machine needs a new motor.我们的洗衣机需要换个新电动机。63Did you empty the washing machine？你把洗衣机里的衣服都拿出来了吗？64This is a coin washing machine.这是一台投币式洗衣机。65The air conditioner has stopped working.空调停了。66I got the washing machine repair.我让人修理了洗衣机。67Washing machines make house-work easier.洗衣机减轻了家务劳动。

文稿下载 加 公众号 “高效英语磨耳朵”提示一、每一个句子都播放2遍美式发音和2遍英式发音。二、同时听不同口音的好处是更加贴近真实的英文环境，高效提升你英语听力的敏锐度。三、自己觉得比较陌生的句子，要反复听。四、一定要坚持！加油！1The telegram asked for an instant reply.这封电报要求立即回复。2The note supplied a phone number.那字条提供了一个电话号码。3I mended the computer for her.我帮她修了电脑。4He often goes to school by trolleybus.他经常乘无轨电车上学。5Is the telephone working todays？电话今天能用吗？6I made a few phone calls.我打了几个电话。7The television's not working properly.这台电视机运转不正常。8Sorry，the lift is out of service.对不起，电梯停用了。9She was burning to buy a computer.她很想买台电脑。10Cleaning the oven is such a performance.清理烤箱真是一件苦差。11Turn the oven on low.把烤箱调到低火。12I burned myself on the oven door.我被烤箱门烫伤了。13Turn the oven to a low heat.把烤箱调到低火。14Put it in a hot oven.把它放入炙热的烤箱里。15The new-type TV set sells well.这种新型电视销路很好。16I hung up the phone and started to cry.我挂掉电话，开始哭了起来。17where can I find a telephone booth?我在哪里可以找到电话亭？18The TV was on.电视开着。19He arrived just after you called.就在你打电话之后他到了。20I spoke to him by telephone.我通过电话跟他讲话。21Leave the jelly in the fridge to set.把果冻放在冰箱里凝固。22Repairs to the cable did not take long.电缆维修没花太长时间。23The customer called to cancel.顾客打电话来取消。24If necessary，give me a ring.如果需要，给我打个电话。25Right，let's go to our next caller.好，我们来接听下一个电话。26I phoned your office the other day.几天前，我往你的办公室打电话。27He telephoned us that he would be late.他打电话来说他将迟到。28Taka the elevator to the 51st floor.电梯乘到51层。29I had a phone call from Mary.我接到了玛丽的电话。30This is my home phone number.这是我家的电话号码。31Our phone isn't working.我们的电话坏了。32My phone is being tapped.有人在窃听我的电话。33They flashed a torch in his face.他们用手电筒照了他的脸。34Wire one end of the cable to the plug.把电缆的一端接在插头上。35The damaged wire blew out the cooker.电线坏了，电饭锅不能使用了。36Who turned the TV on？谁开的电视？37This is a refrigerator or distinction.这是一台优质电冰箱。38She is on the telephone at the moment.她正在打电话呢。39I went downstairs to answer the phone.我下楼去接电话。40Get the exchange to call their number.让总机给他们打电话。41The radio batteries are running low.收音机的电池快用完了。42They are switching the tram.他们使电车换了轨道。43He was in floods of tears on the phone.他在电话里大哭。44You hold the torch while I look inside.他拿着手电筒，我看看里面。45You've got the wrong number.你打错电话了。46Do ring if you want to talk about it.如果你想谈谈这件事，就给我打电话。47The electricity had been cut off.电让人切断了。48we have repaired the motor.我们已经修好了电机。49I've just got a couple of calls to make.我正要打几个电话。50She hurried to answer the phone.她匆忙去接电话。51I could always call the local doctor.我随时可以给当地医生打电话。52I must phone my parents.我一定要给父母打电话。53The phone suddenly went dead.电话突然不能用了。54He's got an ancient laptop.他有一台老掉牙的电脑。55Thank you very much for your call.非常感谢您打来电话。56Why was his wire busy？为什么他的电话老占线？57Please turn the electric fan on.请打开电风扇。58Put the milk back in the fridge.请把这些牛奶放回冰箱去。59She can mend the fridge by herself.她能自己有冰箱。60Milk keeps much longer in a fridge.牛奶放在冰箱里保鲜时间会更长。61The room is cooled with air conditioner.这房间用空调降温。62Our washing machine needs a new motor.我们的洗衣机需要换个新电动机。63Did you empty the washing machine？你把洗衣机里的衣服都拿出来了吗？64This is a coin washing machine.这是一台投币式洗衣机。65The air conditioner has stopped working.空调停了。66I got the washing machine repair.我让人修理了洗衣机。67Washing machines make house-work easier.洗衣机减轻了家务劳动。

Today we will find out if the Paleolithic diet is a myth and a fad, or if there is good science showing that it can help you lose weight, keep it off, and be healthy long term. The whole premise of the Paleo diet is that we should eat the same foods as our paleolithic ancestors ate before the advent of modern agriculture roughly 10,000 years ago. The Paleo diet is high in fat, which is good for someone who is very physically active, but not good for someone who spends their time mostly sedentary. It can also have various effects on women, including positively affecting pregnancy by providing needed iron and reducing the risk of gestational diabetes with the reduced amount of sugar, but it can also prevent a woman from receiving the correct amounts of calcium. A study was done and found that this diet can increase certain compounds a person takes in, raising the risk for cardiovascular disease and other cardiac disorders. Paleo and pregnancy 4:48The effects of the Paleo diet on gut health 7:48Common foods to avoid 10:38Insulin and yoyo dieting 11:53The most important principle in weight loss 12:49Can I take supplements while on the Paleo diet? 13:57“Scientific research clearly shows that it is not the Paleo diet that is causing the observed short term health benefits, but rather it is the basic principles of healthy eating, like avoiding added sugars, excess amounts of processed meats and salty foods. Staying away from these foods as part of a long term regimen is what will bring health.” 12:28

Read Text Luke 10:25-37The Big Question:  What must I do to inherit eternal life?  First the question:  how would you respond? Confess, repent, believe, and accept? This story revolves around two things: the big question, and the lawyer's attitude.The lawyer is in a critical mood.  As are other religious leaders the closer they get to Jerusalem.  And so are the Samaritans from chapter 9.The reply from Jesus focuses on God's law for the lawyer!The dialogue centers around two Bible verses from the law of Moses: Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18.  Two verses from two different places that show the study of the law was careful and the man was intelligent.  As the two face each other, Jesus commends him and tells him to do that to live: in other words he ought to be treating Jesus as he himself wished to be treated and not be taking a superior position. He fails to love his neighbor standing in front of himSo not wanting to give in to the compassionate shaming, he tries to justify himself, by asking who his neighbor is.  The parable is among the best known, but only appears in Luke. He describes loving your neighbor as being a merciful attitude, not keeping a set of rules and laws, Such as purity laws of not touching unclean thingsPriority of status and position among the peopleThe powerful impact of this story is the rejection that the Samaritans have for Jesus from 9:53The care comes from compassion, not regulation. It is a loving rebuke when he asks, who showed mercy?See Matthew 9:17 “But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.””Micah 6:8 “He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?”The loving of neighbor is closely related to loving God1 John 4:20,21 “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.”How do we show mercy?  Serve othersPray for, get to know, affirm, encourage, help, hospitality“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.” 1 Samuel12:23NASB“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.” Philippians2:3-4NASB“and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” Hebrews10:24-25NASBThis is how to love God

In Episode 19 of the Momentom Podcast we feature the insight of Bradley Kohn, a modern British renaissance man. He is a multi-platinum awarded record producer, songwriter, stuntman, extreme sports athlete and founder of Neurohacker - a coaching program for self-mastery and peak performance. Join Momentom cofounder, John Early, as they discuss various ideas and tools to tap self-mastery and how our mind can interrupt flow state and cause cognitive bias.Topic Time Marks:Bradley's path to being a Self Mastery Coach – 1:35How do you define flow state? – 3:10‘You are not your mind' and how the mind interrupts Flow State – 5:47Our addiction to thinking – 9:14Neurohacker and cognitive biases – 16:25Do we over stress the importance of our life purpose? – 20:36The most common blockages toward self-mastery - 29:53The importance of art as a tool for self-mastery - 35:55What's your impression of ‘woke culture' these days?What does it mean to ‘wake up' and the current ‘woke' culture - 39:13Defining consciousness – 45:17[Recorded July 22, 2020]~For more info and to join Bradley's Monday Meditation follow him on Instagram @creativeninja. For more info on John Early visit www.johnearly.ca or on Instagram @johntearlyWe've just launched applications for our tentative Artist Residency season for this winter/ spring! (*International travel pending) For more info and to help us cocreate the season ahead visit https://www.momentomcollective.com~For the full playlist of our Video Podcasts visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfv9P0yDraLxTtiJx6-vo_2hohOE1uu_Past episodes include:*Adam Roa - The Importance of Self Love & Vulnerability for our Creative Soul*Amelia Broughton – Creating Connection with Authentic Relating & Human Design*Keith Wilson - Cacao & The Global Consciousness Shift

So far back in time it almost seems like a dream I asked my new friend and podcasting colleague Brandi Heather in Alberta, Canada if she would agree to be my first guest interview. Fearless, resourceful (works magic with a piece of gum and a pool noodle), and adventuring Amped2Play woman that she is, “Yes!” was her reply. Brandi and I had a chance to talk together in November 2019 so there’s reference to colder weather than we might be experiencing today in Summer 2020 as well as some early technical sound issues we trust you will overlook. I’m so happy you’ve chosen to come along and hear Brandi’s story about how she walked her life and her life walked her. Stay with us to the end - which is always the best part. 00:00 to 4:30Background & Welcome & Setting the Stage4:30 to 6:35  Childhood in cold weatherChildhood in Alberta, Canada; what outside snow play brought to her life6:35 to 8:15  Snow activities informs lifeOutdoor camping, snow building, tunneling into snow and what you learn taking risks8:15 to 10:00  Try, Fail and Figure It OutHow these experiences informed life10:00 to 20:00 The path: How a piece of gum and a pool noodle skills led to Amped2PlayWanted people to know that PhysEd was for everyoneDriven by this awarenessAthletic therapyMaster’s research loss to personal gainLoved teaching adults (big humans)Working in disability and adaptive Phys Ed - creative and innovativeCreated community where the theme was “I’m okay here.” Parents and children could playBuilt curiosity and inclusivenessWe lost our play skills - now what? Amped2Play was bornTeaching resilience, play skills, innovation, failure, and fundamentally shifts livesEven the elderly - they’re the players and we tell them to "Be careful - take care."20:00 to 26:40  How does Amped2Play workIn other times we would walk, get lost, find our way backNow, danger curtails independenceBrandi created and designed Amped2Play for whom and howWhat does the world need? Active Movement Potential Education (Amped2Play)Move body, mind, social connection with inclusive mindsetIntention: using play to disrupt how differences are  traditionally dealt with and shift attitudes and behaviorResearch basedResult: life-changing experiences26:40 to 31:30  Play bridges differencesUsing what we knew as children to bridge and find commonalityWhat she would like to see happen: start to create environments of curiosity, questioning, inclusion and diversity trainingShame does not change behavior - play doesUsing peoples’ inherent gifts turns fear and intimidation on its head -> authentically changes the environment in organizations, classroom, etc.31:30 to 36:30 Playing For a Change podcast and integration with Amped2Play visionGreat stories from childhood and how to ignite changeVulnerability, mental illness, anxiety, and depressionSpinning gold out of life strawInspiration comes from the journey we are asked to walkFinding joy at the hardest times36: 30 to 41:00 Our worst can end up our best - but how?No mud, no lotusConfronting fearHow life was understood looking backwardThe helps: value of art, play, moments of authenticity, turn off The Critics41:00 to the end  47:53The mental health journeyThe art studio and being “so much better than that.”"Fire this!" Becomes epiphany: Create for your own good self.BIO:    Brandi Heather, Co-founder, and Chief Knowledge Officer, AMPED2Play. "Professional. Inclusive. Multigenerational. Measurable." A sought-after international facilitator and speaker, Brandi Heather helps organizations succeed by using Applied Play Experiences to break down barriers to inclusion to create more effective teams. Her “disruptor” approach invites people to see the world differently, creating sustainable, and authentic change. Brandi’s 20 + years of  diversity and inclusion leadership, program creation, instruction, academic and career expertise in accessible play led to her co-found Amped2Play with Ozzie Sawicki. This innovative new company is quickly making an impact in diversity and inclusion training in Canada and around the world.Brandi builds customized Diversity & Inclusion programs that people WANT to attend and that create REAL change, using play as the catalyst for authentic changeWEBSITE:  Amped2PlayIncPODCAST: Play For A ChangeARTICLES on  Linked In:Inclusive Language is a Bridge That Connects Two Sideshttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inclusive-language-bridge-connects-two-sides-brandi-heather/    Thanks For Playinghttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thanks-playing-brandi-heather/ARTICLES also on Amped2Play Blog  Here we are at the end of the road but not the journey. Thank you for listening to this episode of Stories From Women Who Walk. I hope you enjoyed walking along with me. And, there’s more to enjoy: you’re invited to stop by every Monday through Friday for 60 Seconds, Time Out Tuesday, Story Prompt Friday, and every Thursday for longer guest interviews and host-on-mic episodes. You’ll find us on Simplecast or your favorite podcast platform. Come for the stories - stay for the magic. You will have wonderful company as we walk our lives together: Quarter Moon Story ArtsProduction Team: Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Entering Erdenheim from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicEditing: Darwin Carlisle & First Class ReelsAll content and image © 2019 - Present Quarter Moon Story Arts 

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Gather ‘round, True Believers. We’re getting all geeked up for the Rose City Comic Con, Sept 10–11. It’s always a hot ticket, given the critical mass of comics creators making their home around these parts now, but we were especially charmed by this year’s crop.Image Comics Moving to Portland - 1:10We start things off with some breaking news. Rumors have been flying that we were the first to confirm: Image Comics is moving to Portland. Image is the third largest publisher in the industry with annual sales around $50 million. Relocating is kind of a no-brainer, given the pool of high-powered Image creators already living here. We explore what sets Image apart (and makes it a prime team-up with Portland), before sitting down for an exclusive interview with the company’s publisher, Eric Stephenson.Bandette Steals Hearts, Jewels, Awards - 10:53The husband and wife creative team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover are getting ready to publish “The House of the Green Mask,” the third volume of their effervescent creation, “Bandette.” The series won two Eisner awards for best digital comics series in 2013 and this year. Bandette is a pert, teen-aged thief living a barely-closeted life of crime — the Audrey Hepburn of master thieves. She steals to delight herself, leaping across the rooftops of the city to tweak the noses and egos of the real bad guys. We talk with Tobin and Coover about the pleasures of fleshing out the world around a different kind of action heroine.Blast Off For Bitch Planet - 19:07Kelly Sue DeConnick is riding high with a comic series she created that made a lot of best-of-the-year lists for 2015, and continued going strong this year. “Bitch Planet” is about an all-female, interstellar prison colony in a not-too-distant future. Society sends women there for a variety of crimes — collectively categorized as non-compliance. We talk to Kelly about how she handles the series’ satirical edge, and chat with artist Taki Soma, who did a single-issue story for the series last winter. If you like what you hear in this week’s show, the extended version is right here on our Soundcloud feed.The Loveliest Horror Story of the Year - 27:30Portland comic book artist Tyler Crook and writer Cullen Bunn are behind the series “Harrow County,” a tale of a gentle teenage girl named Emmy, whose coming-of-age is overshadowed by her realization that she’s connected to a deceased witch named Hester Beck and a wide range of ghosts and spirits. We talk to Crook and Bunn about the gorgeous watercolors and heavy psychodrama they use to bring the story to life. “Harrow County” was nominated for an Eisner award for Best New Series, and it’s been optioned for development as a TV series on Syfy Channel.Comic City USA - 38:09Oregon’s comic book community is part of a much wider mosaic of creative work — animation, political cartooning, comic strips. Think Out Loud recently talked to some of the minds behind the Oregon Historical Society’s new exhibition covering artists in all these disciplines, Comic City USA. We hear from long-time creators on the Portland scene Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett and OHS curator Lori Erickson. You can hear the entire conversation here.Good Guys Win: Ibrahim Moustafa - 43:08We listen back to our February interview with artist Ibrahim Moustafa. He’s racking up a string of solid titles, including his widely-read Himalayan thriller, “High Crimes”, with Chris Sebela. He also shares some news about his brand-new series for Stela Comics — a spy thriller called “Jaeger”, about a French-Algerian agent hunting down Nazis in a post-World-War-II setting. Stella series are designed specifically for smart phones, which posed new kinds of challenges.

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful A.L.M. This scripture is infallible; a beacon for the righteous; who believe in the unseen, observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), and from our provisions to them, they give to charity.2:0-3We will show them our proofs in the horizons, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient as a witness of all things?41:53The creation of the heavens and the earth is even more awesome than the creation of the human being, but most people do not know.40:57 

The Biblical Message of Handels Messiah Part II (Revelation 5:12-13) Pastor Tony Felich December 18, 2011 ----more---- PART TWO (continued): The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind's rejection of God's offer, and mankind's utter defeat when trying to oppose the power of the Almighty 27. Psalms 22:7All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying: 28. Psalms 22:8He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. 29. Psalms 69:20Thy rebuke hath broken His heart: He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him. 30. Lamentations 1:12Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. 31. Isaiah 53:8He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken. 32. Psalms 16:10But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption. 33. Psalms 24:7-10Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. 34. Hebrews 1:5Unto which of the angels said He at any time: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? 35. Hebrews 1:6Let all the angels of God worship Him. 36. Psalms 68 :18Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; yea, even from Thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 37. Psalms 68:11The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers. 38. Romans 10:15How beautiful are the feet of them: that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. 39. Romans 10:18 / Psalms 19:4Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. 40. Psalms 2:1-2Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed. 41. Psalms 2:3Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. The Biblical Message of Handel’s Messiah (Part 2) PART TWO (continued): The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind's rejection of God's offer, and mankind's utter defeat when trying to oppose the power of the Almighty 27. Psalms 22:7All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying: 28. Psalms 22:8He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. 29. Psalms 69:20Thy rebuke hath broken His heart: He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him. 30. Lamentations 1:12Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. 31. Isaiah 53:8He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken. 32. Psalms 16:10But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption. 33. Psalms 24:7-10Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. 34. Hebrews 1:5Unto which of the angels said He at any time: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? 35. Hebrews 1:6Let all the angels of God worship Him. 36. Psalms 68 :18Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; yea, even from Thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 37. Psalms 68:11The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers. 38. Romans 10:15How beautiful are the feet of them: that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. 39. Romans 10:18 / Psalms 19:4Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. 40. Psalms 2:1-2Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed. 41. Psalms 2:3Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. The Biblical Message of Handel’s Messiah (Part 2) PART TWO (continued): The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Jesus, mankind's rejection of God's offer, and mankind's utter defeat when trying to oppose the power of the Almighty 27. Psalms 22:7All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying: 28. Psalms 22:8He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. 29. Psalms 69:20Thy rebuke hath broken His heart: He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him. 30. Lamentations 1:12Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. 31. Isaiah 53:8He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken. 32. Psalms 16:10But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption. 33. Psalms 24:7-10Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. 34. Hebrews 1:5Unto which of the angels said He at any time: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? 35. Hebrews 1:6Let all the angels of God worship Him. 36. Psalms 68 :18Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; yea, even from Thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 37. Psalms 68:11The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers. 38. Romans 10:15How beautiful are the feet of them: that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. 39. Romans 10:18 / Psalms 19:4Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. 40. Psalms 2:1-2Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed. 41. Psalms 2:3Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. 42. Psalms 2:4He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision. 43.Psalms 2:9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 44. Revelation 19:6, Revelation 11:15, 19:16Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah! PART THREE : A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the final overthrow of Death 45. Job 19:25-26, I Corinthians 15:20I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep. 46. I Corinthians 15:21-22Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 47. I Corinthians 15 :51-52Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 48. I Corinthians 15:52-53The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. 49. I Corinthians 15:54Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. 50. I Corinthians 15:55-56O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 51.I Corinthians 15:57But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 52. Romans 8:31,33,34If God be for us, who can be against us? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is at the right hand of God, who makes intercession for us. 53. Revelation 5:12-13Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen.