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We look back at some of the conflicting eye witness statements given on 9/10, another person comes forward to give testimony about the Erika Kirk connection to Next Model Management & Jeffrey Epstein, and Tim Dillon's "reading" of JD Vance's new book is hilarious. 00:00 - Start. 02:10 - What Brian Harpole did with Charlie's shirt. 12:20 - Email about potential ABS shattered glass in the car. 17:36 - Conflicting eye witness statements. 22:45 - Updated list on why the exploding mic theory could work. 24:45 - Lance Twiggs will not be compelled to show up to the preliminary hearing. 32:11 - Erika Frantzve, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Next Model Management connection. 39:05 - Erika potential dissociative identity disorder? 47:07 - Tim Dillon's "reading" of JD Vance's new book. 52:12 - Comments. Ground News Check out Ground News today at https://groundnews.com/candace to get 40% off the Vantage subscription to see through mainstream media narratives. Dose Get 35% off your first month subscription with promo code CANDACE at http://www.DoseDaily.co/Candace Ethos Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/CANDACE. Application times may vary. Rates may vary. American Financing NMLS 182334, http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-795-1210 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Owens. Average savings based on borrowers who save over $199.99. Candace Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ClipsCandaceOwens Candace Official Website: https://candaceowens.com Candace Merch: https://shop.candaceowens.com Candace on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Pp5VZiLXbq Candace on Spotify: https://t.co/16pMuADXuT Candace on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RealCandaceO Candace en Español: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensEnEspanol Candace Owens em Português: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensemPortugues Candace Owens en Français: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensEnFrançais Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Evan Roberts is officially done with ABS, and he explains his stance to Tiki Barber and Shaun Morash.
Evan Roberts, Tiki Barber, and Shaun Morash continue to debate Jazz Chisholm's Blow Pop, discuss the Nets' addition of Julius Randle, and Evan declares that ABS is officially dead to him. 01:50 - ABS System Critique 06:00 - MLB Review Technology 08:45 - Jazz Chisholm Lollipop 11:38 - Jaylen Brown Rumors 15:50 - Draft Party Plans 20:34 - NBA Draft Preview 23:00 - Wembanyama Face Debate 28:29 - NFL Supplemental News 33:07 - Domínguez Defense Struggles 36:30 - Baseball Focus Habits
Evan Roberts, Tiki Barber, and Shaun Morash debate Evan's decision to be completely out on ABS. Julius Randle to the Nets. NBA Draft coming up. Jazz Chisholm blow pop.
In this episode we channel our inner He-Man with the upcoming 2026 Masters of the Universe movie and King Conan news! We dive deep into reloading basics — starting with straight-wall cases then moving to rifle calibers. We compare Hodgdon Varget, RCBS presses, and why .223/5.56 is way more forgiving than a hot .220 Swift or precision setups. We roast keyboard commandos in reloading groups, test a 3D-printed ABS holster for the Sig P365XL, and break down Lee vs RCBS vs Dillon presses for 9mm, .45 ACP, .223, .308, and .300 Win Mag. Plus we review the Bus Built Systems Poor's Bag Plate — an awesome shooting setup — and the Diefree Co Kung Fu grip. We also recap two range sessions this week and drop plenty of laughs (including some ass-sucking buttermilk stories). If you reload, shoot, 3D print holsters, or just love guns and good banter — this one's for you! Drop your reloading tips, press recommendations, or favorite He-Man memories in the comments — we read every one! Smash Like if you've got the POWER! Subscribe and hit the bell for weekly firearms, reloading, and range content. Where to find us: Livefire-media.com Rangehot.com Social Links: IG - @livefirem - @rangehot.com_offical X - @LiveFireM - @rangehotdotcom FB - Live Fire Media - Range Hot Live Fire Media on RSS.com Live Fire Media Show | Podcast on RSS.com
Eine Holding senkt die Steuer auf laufende Gewinne nicht – die liegt mit oder ohne Holding bei rund 30 bis 32 Prozent. Ihr eigentlicher Vorteil zeigt sich erst beim Verkauf von Anteilen, bei Ausschüttungen und bei der langfristigen Reinvestition von Gewinnen. In dieser Episode erklären wir, warum Holding-Strukturen trotz unveränderter laufender Steuerlast so attraktiv sind: Veräußerungsgewinne aus dem Verkauf von GmbH-Anteilen sind über das Schachtelprivileg nach § 8b Abs. 2 KStG zu 95 % steuerfrei – effektiv bleiben damit nur rund 1,5 % Steuerlast statt bis zu 25–30 % auf privater Ebene. Auch laufende Ausschüttungen profitieren: Ab einer Beteiligung von 10 % greift die 95-prozentige Steuerfreistellung nach § 8b Abs. 1, 4 KStG, ab 15 % zusätzlich die gewerbesteuerliche Kürzung nach § 9 Nr. 2a GewStG. Für Kapitalanleger zeigen wir, wie Aktien-ETFs in der Holding durch die 80-prozentige Teilfreistellung nach § 20 InvStG auf eine effektive Steuerlast von rund 10–15 % kommen – inklusive eines Ausblicks auf die ab 2027 wieder relevante Vorabpauschale. Praktisch wird's beim Aufbau: Wer als Einzelunternehmer startet, bringt sein Unternehmen per Einbringung nach § 20 UmwStG in eine GmbH ein und muss die siebenjährige Sperrfrist nach § 22 UmwStG beachten. Wer bereits eine GmbH hat, kann die Holding über einen qualifizierten Anteilstausch nach § 21 UmwStG steuerneutral errichten – entscheidend ist, dass die Holding nach der Einbringung die Stimmrechtsmehrheit hält. Ein durchgerechnetes Beispiel zeigt zudem: Bei Vollausschüttung liegt die Gesamtsteuerbelastung über alle Ebenen am Ende bei knapp 51 %. Wir sprechen außerdem darüber, wann eine Holding eher nicht sinnvoll ist – etwa bei geplantem Wegzug oder hohem privatem Entnahmebedarf. Nähere Informationen zum Podcast und alle bisherigen Folgen findest Du auf unserer neuen Website: https://www.steuer-podcast.de/ Schau gern mal vorbei und stell uns Deine Frage! Du willst deine Einkommensteuererklärung selbst über ELSTER machen, aber dabei keinen Cent liegen lassen? Dann sicher dir das neues Buch: „Sei doch nicht besteuert“ (Erweiterte & aktualisierte Ausgabe 2026) https://amzn.eu/d/0aKeCQmB Mit Widmung: www.rombach.de/steuerfabi Hier findest Du unsere Kontaktdaten, um bei steuerberaten.de Mandant zu werden oder eine einmalige Steuerfrage zu stellen: https://www.steuerberaten.de/kontakt/ Du hast Fragen oder Anmerkungen zum Podcast? Dann schreib uns gerne eine E-Mail an: podcast@steuerversum.de
Seth and Sean discuss the Astros winning 2 of 3 vs the Guardians over the weekend, how they're doing since the "Great Reset of 2026," the USMNT advancing, Freddy the German visiting Niagara Falls, go through the day's Headlines, talk about how JJ Watt decided to help out Freddy the German man, Ben Solak's piece listing Stroud's 2025 nosedive as a fluke, give credit in Acknowledge Me, react to Kevin Durant using the word "underdog" when talking about when he went to play for the Warriors, breaking news that Giannis will be traded before the draft, discuss some of what Reed Blankenship said about the Texans offense, assess Ochocinco's notion that Watson has 6 games to prove himself for the Browns, look at what Bob Nightengale thinks the Astros' mindset heading into the trade deadline will be, talk with Rob Stone of FOX about all the World Cup games excitement, discuss JJ Watt hooking up Freddy the German, how the Astros have been on both sides of the ball with the ABS this season, the news that Giannis will be traded sometime in the next 24 hours, and see what the ITL question of the day is with Reggie and Lopez.
Seth and Sean discuss how the Astros have been doing with the ABS this season on each side of the ball, and react to LeBron saying his goal was to get his mom a pantry.
Seth and Sean discuss JJ Watt hooking up Freddy the German, how the Astros have been on both sides of the ball with the ABS this season, the news that Giannis will be traded sometime in the next 24 hours, and see what the ITL question of the day is with Reggie and Lopez.
Former MLB Umpire Dale Scott is our guest as we look back on his career, his book titled The Umpire Is Out: Calling The Game And Living My True Self, being the first official in any of the Big 5 sports to publicly come out as gay and his thoughts on the rule changes that have been implemented in recent years including ABS
Unsere Podcast-Empfehlung: Gerechtigkeit & LoseblattBei: Apple Podcast WebsiteFolgenbeschreibung:Mit dieser Folge starten wir eine neue Reihe zum Allgemeinen Teil des Schuldrechts. Wer die Grundstruktur versteht, hat einen entscheidenden Vorteil in jeder zivilrechtlichen Klausur.Der Gesetzgeber arbeitet im BGB mit der Technik der „vor die Klammer gezogenen" Regelungen: Der Allgemeine Teil des BGB gilt für das gesamte Privatrecht; der Allgemeine Teil des Schuldrechts (§§ 241–432 BGB) gilt für alle Schuldverhältnisse – unabhängig davon, ob es sich um einen Kauf-, Miet- oder Werkvertrag handelt. Erst ab § 433 BGB folgt der Besondere Teil mit den konkreten Vertragstypen.Schuldverhältnis bezeichnet die rechtliche Sonderverbindung zwischen Gläubiger und Schuldner. Zu unterscheiden sind das Schuldverhältnis im engeren Sinne (der einzelne Anspruch) und im weiteren Sinne (das gesamte Bündel aus Rechten und Pflichten).Die zentrale Norm ist § 241 BGB: Abs. 1 regelt die Leistungspflichten (primäre Pflichten, die von Anfang an bestehen; sekundäre Leistungspflichten als Schadensersatzansprüche bei Pflichtverletzung). Abs. 2 regelt die Schutzpflichten – die Pflicht, auf Rechte und Rechtsgüter des anderen Rücksicht zu nehmen, ohne dass dies ausdrücklich vereinbart werden muss.Damit sind die drei Pflichtengruppen des Schuldrechts benannt, die über § 280 BGB als Mutter aller schuldrechtlichen Schadensersatzansprüche relevant werden.Support the show
Der Autor und Satiriker CJ Hopkins hatte Verfassungsbeschwerde in Karlsruhe eingelegt. Laut dem Hopkins vertretenden Anwalt Friedemann Däblitz richtet sich diese «gegen den Schuldspruch des Kammergerichts Berlin im Verfahren wegen der Tweets von Herrn Hopkins aus dem August 2022. Das Kammergericht hatte den Freispruch des Amtsgerichts Tiergarten aufgehoben und Herrn Hopkins wegen der Verwendung von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen verurteilt.» Zur Entscheidung des Kammergerichts hatte ich im Oktober 2024 mit Hopkins und seinem Anwalt ein Interview geführt. Eine juristische Einschätzung zum Freispruch lieferte die auf diesem Gebiet spezialisierte Richterin Clivia von Dewitz, die sich wiederholt zum Hopkins-Fall geäußert hat. Sie führte Folgendes aus: «Strafbar macht sich nach dem Kennzeichenverbot (§ 86 Abs. 1 Nr. 4, 86a Abs. 1 Nr. 1 StGB) nur, wer NS-Kennzeichen verbreitet oder öffentlich verwendet, ‹die nach ihrem Inhalt dazu bestimmt sind, Bestrebungen einer ehemaligen nationalsozialistischen Organisation fortzusetzen›. Das ist bei dem Tweet von CJ Hopkins offensichtlich nicht der Fall. Von Dewitz führte weiter aus «Auf die Urteilsbegründung des Gerichts, derartige Posts seien weder von der Meinungsfreiheit noch von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt, ist zu erwidern, was, wenn nicht das, ist dann noch Meinungs- bzw. Kunstfreiheit? Einem Amerikaner, der mit einer Jüdin verheiratet ist, kann schwerlich unterstellt werden, er würde ‹den Nationalsozialismus verharmlosen›, oder aus seinen Posts sei eine ‹ausdrückliche Ablehnung des Nationalsozialismus nicht hervorgegangen›.» Umso überraschender ist es, dass die Staatsanwaltschaft den Freispruch anficht. Artikel: https://www.barucker.press/p/meinungsfreiheit-der-fall-hopkins Eingesprochen von Adam Nümm: https://zeitenwechsel.org Weitere Podcasts ermöglichen: https://www.barucker.press/p/meine-arbeit-ermoglichen
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As AI investment keeps growing, our strategists Carolyn Campbell and Vishwas Patkar discuss the many ways tech infrastructure gets financed and the opportunities for investors.Read more insights from Morgan Stanley.----- Transcript -----Carolyn Campbell: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Carolyn Campbell, Morgan Stanley's Asset-Backed Securities Strategist. Vishwas Patkar: And I'm Vishwas Patkar, Morgan Stanley's Head of U.S. Corporate Credit Strategy. Carolyn Campbell: Today, how fixed income markets are helping fund the AI build-out. It's Thursday, June 18th, at 10am in New York. Let's get right into it, Vishwas. We've both come on this podcast before to talk about how credit markets are financing the AI build-out. And over the last ten months, I think it's fair to say that things are faster, broader, deeper than we perhaps expected initially. This investment now spans investment-grade corporate bonds, high yield loans, and a range of securitized products. From your seat in corporate credit, why does AI infrastructure matter so much, to investors right now? Vishwas Patkar: This is a big talking point in our client discussions. it's also telling that less than a year ago, we wrote about this topic for the first time, identifying a $1.5 trillion financing gap that credit markets could help bridge. At that time, data center debt was not something that investors were really focused on. Yet less than 12 months forward, this, I think, is the number one theme dominating both your and my market. And why it's important, I would say, is across, three key vectors. First, just the scale. So, if you look at overall AI-related debt issuance so far this year, we're close to $250 billion. For the balance of the year, we expect that number to double, so about $500 billion of total AI debt financing for 2026. Increasingly the second vector, I think, is around the complexity of deals. So initially, while AI financing was dominated by vanilla investment-grade corporate bond deals, we are now seeing that broaden out into project finance style deals in the high-yield market. We have seen an uptick in chip financing across the different credit silos. And that's important for investors, as identifying value across these different options does require deep credit expertise. And third, as this investment cycle rolls along, it's also important to be cognizant of risks that are building. Not just from a very broad top-down sense around the demand for compute. But also, what are some of the nuances in these different structures – whether it is in data center construction or is in chip financing that investors will need to monitor. So, it's across these three themes that we think data center debt financing is gaining importance. Carolyn Campbell: Now, the underlying demand for AI infrastructure is very strong. That doesn't necessarily mean that every bond tied to this theme is automatically going to be attractive. And as you mentioned, [$]500 billion of supply for the year; a large amount of complexity between those structures.How should credit investors think about the various risks within these different structures? Vishwas Patkar: So, in investment grade, the story is a bit simpler. So, we have had unsecured hyperscaler bond issuance. We have had issuance from semiconductor names. And then we've had some, what we call, private style data center deals. But the vast majority still comes from hyperscaler investment grade rated bonds. For this market, our focus is less on fundamentals because fundamentals are very strong. And then hyperscaler are some of the more most creditworthy companies that we've seen in the history of the market. Our emphasis more is on just the quantum of supply. So, year to date, we have had north of [$]100 billion of hyperscaler debt in the dollar market. We've had north of [$]50 billion being issued in other currencies. If you look at the overall investment grade market, supply is up almost 25 percent versus last year. That's consistent with our call for a year of record issuance this year. And increasingly, if you look forward and then map these issuance numbers to our CapEx estimates, where we could very much be on track for another record to be hit next year. So, the issue of the investment grade market is not around the fundamentals of the companies or these deals. It's more about the quantum of supply, which we think eventually will test the demand capacity of this market. And our base case for the investment grade space is similar to 1997-1998, where credit was starting to finance the business cycle, spreads widened modestly, and IG could underperform other risk assets. But over a longer time horizon, spreads still look historically very low. Carolyn Campbell: Now, what about further down the credit spectrum into the non-investment grade portion? What about that part of the issuance spectrum for AI? Vishwas Patkar: Yeah. So, what we're seeing in the sub-investment grade space, especially in high yield, is very different. There, the growth in data center financing has happened around project finance deals for data center construction. In many cases, these have come from crypto miner companies that effectively provide what we call speed to power solutions. We've also had some unsecured issuance from neo clouds, although that's relatively small. But this sector has expanded from effectively zero billion around the fall of last year to about [$]40 billion this year. We expect to see another [$]20 billion of issuance by the end of 2026. And the way they fit into this whole ecosystem is – these project finance deals we think are interesting diversifiers for regular credit investors. They do come with construction risks, especially initially for the first two to three years till the data center is up and running. But on the flip side, you do get a lot of structural enhancements and creditor protections, which is something you don't see in the vast majority of the high yield market. So, I think a key shift in the framework that investors have to do for these deals is focus on asset-level risk, which is again, I think a big divergence from how the vast majority of the credit market trades, which is largely unsecured corporate-level risk that investors have been used to. Carolyn Campbell: All right. You just brought up construction risks. Do you think that's the biggest risk facing the high-yield investors today? Vishwas Patkar: Yes. I think for the high-yield deals in particular, construction risk is the dominant vector that investors are focused on. Because it's important to remember a lot of the debt issuers are first-time borrowers. And they have a limited track record of construction in the past. So, you could see potential delays and things like cost overruns that can affect sentiment on the sector. Or at least on specific bond deals. And this will be especially important to monitor going into the second half of the year, as we have some of the first delivery dates coming up for the deals in the sector that were announced last year. That being said, you know, even though some of the tenants have termination rights, if delays go beyond 180 days, our view is that given the structural power constraints, these termination rights are unlikely to be exercised. So, while construction milestones can affect sentiment and short-term valuations, we would look at any blips as buying opportunities in the space. Alright. So Carolyn, let me throw this back to you. So, construction risk clearly very important for the corporate credit market, especially for high yield investors. Is that something ABS investors or commercial mortgage-backed investors care about? And in what other ways are these asset classes different from corporate credit? Carolyn Campbell: Okay. So first and foremost, the biggest difference is that in securitized products, the assets are stabilized, they're cash flowing, they're online. We don't have that first vector of construction risk in our space. The second biggest difference is while in high yield and IG we've mostly seen – or we've entirely seen single campus, single tenant data centers; in securitization issuance, it's mostly multi-tenant, multi-asset, multi-regional, deals that have come to market. And so, it's a very different risk profile. And as a consequence, investors are focused not just on who is behind this one single lease and what are the termination rates, but what does the landscape look like in general for compute? How does that affect vacancy and churn rates? And then lastly, the issuers themselves are different. You talked about the crypto companies. You get a little bit more of the data center, data center construction. Whereas in securitized products, these are companies that have been around for 5, 10, 20 years. They're accustomed to managing a fleet of assets, dozens if not hundreds of tenants. They've got a little bit more of a track record for the most part, than the types of issuers we're seeing in the credit market. Vishwas Patkar: Your market post-construction, more leverage to the thematic of demand for compute – and how the AI investment cycle is playing out. Versus the corporate credit market, which is largely exposed to construction risks as the data centers get built out. So that's a very important difference.That being said, one theme that ties both our markets are just healthy fundamentals, but at the same time heavy supply. So, I talked about how we see that affecting our view on investment grade. How is that same tension showing up in securitized products? Carolyn Campbell: So exactly as you said, the fundamental story is very strong. We don't see deterioration in performance of the assets either that has happened yet or that we expect to come in the near term. So, it really is a technically driven story. Supply in this space, we're forecasting at around [$]30 billion for year, so smaller in magnitude, but relatively large for the market. That has very elevated supply expectations, and so as a consequence, we've seen spreads back up across the space. We do think that some of the cross-asset comparisons will help keep spreads contained from here. And so, we do see value in securitized credit across the stack for the rest of the year. Vishwas Patkar: All right. So, you brought up the cross-asset comparison. And so, we've discussed the fundamental differences in our market, how much issuance we expect. But, you know, just to end on a commercial note – if we are advising investors on where is the best relative value and what's the framework for comparing opportunities, how do you think about that? Where do we see value across the ecosystem? Carolyn Campbell: I mean, I think this is probably the biggest question that investors that are looking at this space are facing today. And there's... If we're thinking just about the data center backed assets, I think there are two main things. One is the asset itself, where we're focused on things like the geography, the tenant, the interconnectivity, the flexibility of this asset for multiple uses. And then the second is on the structure of the deal itself. How much leverage is being raised against the asset? How cash flowing is it? And then of course, the duration as well. But it's a great question. And because of the complexity of this space, it can be really hard to compare one to the other. Vishwas Patkar: Yeah. And, at the risk of providing a non-answer, I very much think investors are in the process of coming up with a framework because these deals have come very quickly. This is a new sector for most credit investors to analyze. But I think what we can say with a high degree of certainty is this is blurring the lines between corporate credit and securitized credit. So, you know, this opens up more avenues for us to collaborate on this topic going forward. Carolyn Campbell: All right. That's a great place for us to leave it today with that nice cross-collaboration. Vishwas, thank you so much for taking the time to talk. Vishwas Patkar: Great speaking with you, Caroline. Carolyn Campbell: Thanks for listening. If you enjoy Thoughts on the Market, please leave us a review wherever you listen and share the podcast with a friend or colleague today.
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Unsere Podcast-Empfehlung: Gerechtigkeit & LoseblattBei: Apple Podcast WebsiteWas ist Gerechtigkeit und Loseblatt? Im wöchentlichen Podcast Gerechtigkeit & Loseblatt – Die Woche im Recht besprechen Beck-aktuell-Chefredakteurin Pia Lorenz, Strategieberater und Kolumnist Dr. Hendrik Wieduwilt und Beck-aktuell-Redakteur Dr. Maximilian Amos, was diese Woche wichtig war in Recht, Rechtspolitik, Rechtsmarkt und Justiz. Folgenbeschreibung:In dieser Folge beleuchten wir einen der bekanntesten Fälle der deutschen Strafrechtsdogmatik: den Lederspray-Fall des BGH. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zwei Kausalitätsprobleme – die Kausalität beim Inverkehrbringen eines gefährlichen Produkts und die Quasikausalität beim Unterlassen nach der unterbliebenen Rückrufentscheidung.Beim Inverkehrbringen ist die Kausalität nach der Äquivalenztheorie grundsätzlich zu bejahen, auch wenn der konkret schädliche Inhaltsstoff nicht identifiziert werden kann – entscheidend ist, dass andere Schadensursachen ausgeschlossen sind. Strafrechtlich relevanter Anknüpfungspunkt ist aber vor allem die Gremienentscheidung, das Produkt trotz bekannter Schadensmeldungen nicht zurückzurufen (Körperverletzung durch Unterlassen, § 229 iVm § 13 StGB).Bei der Kausalität des Unterlassens gilt die modifizierte csqn-Formel (Quasikausalität): Das Unterlassen ist kausal, wenn die gebotene Handlung – der Rückruf – mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit den Erfolg verhindert hätte.Das eigentliche Klausurproblem: Kausalität bei Mehrheitsentscheidungen im Gremium. Unterschieden wird zwischen einer Einstimmen-Mehrheit (kumulative Kausalität aller Ja-Stimmen) und einer Mehrheit von zwei oder mehr Stimmen – dort kann die Einzelstimme hinweggedacht werden, ohne dass der Erfolg entfiele. Lösungsansätze: kumulative Kausalität, Mittäterschaft (§ 25 Abs. 2 StGB) oder alternative Kausalität.Support the show
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Ever wondered what a Major League catcher really thinks about when the ball is flying at 100 mph? Join Toronto Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heinemann as he breaks down the elite art of receiving, blocking, and managing a big league pitching staff from the perspective of a true technician. In this episode of the Back Pick Podcast, host Brett Thomas sits down with Tyler to nerd out on the technical side of the catching craft. Tyler shares his unique insights on why he views the game from an over the shoulder umpire perspective and how he adjusts his setup for different pitchers like Max Scherzer, Kevin Gausman, and Chris Bassitt. We dive deep into the upcoming ABS challenge system, the mechanics of the one knee down stance, and the selfless mentality required to be an elite backup catcher in the MLB. Whether you are a young player looking to improve your blocking or a fan who wants to understand the nuances of the strike zone, this conversation covers everything you need to know about the most demanding position on the field. Chapters 0:00 Intro and Blue Jays Season Recap 4:20 The Mentality and Role of a Backup Catcher 8:45 Defensive Goals and Offseason Improvements 11:55 Catering Setups to Elite Pitchers 15:40 Communication with Pitchers and Coaches 19:30 Receiving Mechanics and the Umpires View 24:10 Understanding the Umpire Buffer Zone and Hawkeye 28:50 How the ABS Challenge System Works 33:40 Game Strategy for Successful Challenges 38:15 Blocking Techniques and One Knee Down Benefits 42:45 Lateral Blocking and Pitch Movement Calculations 47:10 The Mental Approach to Blocking and Relaxation 49:30 Toronto Food Recommendations and Closing If you enjoyed this deep dive into the craft of catching, make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel. We bring you expert insights from the best in the game every other week. Don't forget to follow us on social media for more tips and drills. #baseball #catching #bluejays #mlb #catcher
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Send us Fan MailIn a series full of swings, the Minnesota Twins come away with a victory over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals, taking two of three at Target Field. For the first time in a while, Byron Buxton had another star shining with him in Royce Lewis. David and Dan debate whether Royce is actually back or whether this is a blip. Dan is coming around to the ABS challenge system; David is wondering how long Justin Lawrence can possibly stay in this bullpen. They look ahead to the next couple of weeks and predict where this team will be in early July, and Dan is forced to defend two excellent pitching performances across the league. Thanks for listening, and go Twins!The Gran Group with Edina Realty TWIN CITIES AREA REALTORS TO MEET ALL OF YOUR HOUSING NEEDS! Pulltab SportsMN for the Win is part of the Pulltab Sports Network - covering sports, culture, and entertainment Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showMusic: "Minnesota Twins Theme" (1961) written by Ray Charles and Dick Wilson. Arrangement and performance by Jason Cain.Twitter/X: @MNfortheWin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MNfortheWinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mnforthewin/Website: https://mnforthewin.buzzsprout.com/ Puckett's Picks Scoring 1pt per Base (H/BB/HBP) | 1pt per SB | 1pt per RBI -1pt per K | -1pt per Error | -2pt per GIDP +0.5 Point Bonus if Winning Player is Top Team Scorer Tie Breaker 1. Most HRs 2. Least Ks 3. Least LOBListeners always pick first, lowest score between Dan/David/Hoges picks second for next series
Mark and Drew react to an ugly series win against the Angels and a sweep from the Brewers. Then it's time to dive into the roster and think on who among them might still be on the next good Colorado Rockies team. Who is the core? Plus, more magic beans as the Rox rate among the best in MLB at the ABS system. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Yainer Diaz takes live ABs against a Minor League arm. He missed four or five at-bats with the rainout yesterday at Sugar Land.
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ഓസ്ട്രേലിയൻ സ്ത്രീകളിൽ നാലിൽ ഒരാൾ കടുത്ത മാനസിക സമ്മർദ്ദങ്ങളിലൂടെ കടന്നുപോകുന്നുണ്ടെന്നാണ് പഠനങ്ങൾ സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്. ജീവിതത്തിൽ ഒരിക്കലെങ്കിലും മാനസികാരോഗ്യ പ്രശ്നങ്ങളിലൂടെ കടന്നുപോകുന്ന സ്ത്രീകളുടെ എണ്ണം ഇതിലും കൂടുതലാണെന്നും റിപ്പോർട്ടുകൾ വ്യക്തമാക്കുന്നു. ABS നാഷണൽ സ്റ്റഡി ഓഫ് മെന്റൽ ഹെൽത്ത് ആൻഡ് വെൽബീയിങ്ങാണ് പഠന റിപ്പോർട്ട് പുറത്തിറക്കിയത്. പരിചിതമായ ചുറ്റുപാടുകളിൽ നിന്നും മാറി ഓസ്ട്രേലിയയിലേക്ക് കുടിയേറിയെത്തുന്ന മലയാളി സ്ത്രീകൾ നേരിടുന്ന മാനസിക ആരോഗ്യ പ്രശ്നങ്ങളെന്തൊക്കെയാണെന്നും അവയുടെ ലക്ഷണങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചും മെൽബണിൽ, മാനസികാരോഗ്യ മേഖലയിലെ ഫാമിലി കോർഡിനേറ്ററായ ഡോക്ടർ ജോസി തോമസ് വിശദീകരിക്കുന്നു. കേൾക്കാം മുകളിലെ പ്ലേയറിൽ നിന്നും...
2026ലെ ദേശീയ സെൻസസിൻറെ ഭാഗമായാണ് ഓസ്ട്രേലിയൻ ബ്യൂറോ ഓഫ് സ്റ്റാറ്റിസ്റ്റിക്സ് (ABS) അപേക്ഷ ക്ഷണിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. മുൻപരിചയം ആവശ്യമില്ലാത്ത പൊസിഷനുകളും ഇതിലുണ്ട്.തൊഴിലവസരത്തെ കുറിച്ച് വിശദമായി കേൾക്കാം..മുകളിലെ പ്ലേയറിൽ നിന്നും...
Unsere Podcast-Empfehlung: Gerechtigkeit & LoseblattBei: Apple Podcast WebsiteWas ist Gerechtigkeit und Loseblatt? Im wöchentlichen Podcast Gerechtigkeit & Loseblatt – Die Woche im Recht besprechen Beck-aktuell-Chefredakteurin Pia Lorenz, Strategieberater und Kolumnist Dr. Hendrik Wieduwilt und Beck-aktuell-Redakteur Dr. Maximilian Amos, was diese Woche wichtig war in Recht, Rechtspolitik, Rechtsmarkt und Justiz. Folgenbeschreibung:In Teil 3 unserer Reihe drehen wir die Perspektive: M wird in New York die Einreise verweigert, die Fluggesellschaft bringt ihn zurück nach München. Kann sie die Kosten des Rückflugs von M ersetzt verlangen?Im Gegensatz zum Hinflug steht hier die berechtigte Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag im Mittelpunkt, §§ 677, 683 S. 1, 670 BGB iVm § 1877 Abs. 3 BGB analog. Die Folge gibt einen systematischen Überblick über die verschiedenen GoA-Arten (berechtigte, unberechtigte, unechte GoA nach § 687 BGB) und das Grundschema (Geschäftsbesorgung, fremdes Geschäft – objektiv, subjektiv oder auch-fremd –, Handeln ohne Auftrag).Im konkreten Fall: Die Rückbeförderung ist jedenfalls auch-fremd. Anders als beim Hinflug liegt diesmal ein Fremdgeschäftsführungswille vor, da die Fluggesellschaft bewusst handelt. Beim zentralen Prüfungspunkt – Interesse und (mutmaßlicher) Wille des Geschäftsherrn nach § 683 S. 1 BGB – ist wegen des Minderjährigenschutzes auf Interesse und mutmaßlichen Willen der Eltern abzustellen. Da kein wirklicher Wille feststellbar ist, entscheidet das objektive Interesse: Der Rückflug war notwendig und entsprach dem mutmaßlichen Elternwillen.Bei der Rechtsfolge wird erläutert, warum eine berufliche Beförderungsleistung über § 1877 Abs. 3 BGB analog als ersatzfähige Aufwendung zu behandeln ist. Abschließend der wichtige Hinweis: Eine berechtigte GoA stellt einen Rechtsgrund dar und schließt damit eine parallele Bereicherungskondiktion aus.Support the show
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Most lawyers build their firms to serve clients, not to eventually leave them. But every law firm owner will exit someday, whether by choice, necessity, or life change. In episode 622 of the Lawyerist Podcast, Zack Glaser talks with Tom Lenfestey, attorney, CPA, and founder of The Law Practice Exchange, about why exit planning should not be treated as something reserved for retirement. Tom explains why succession planning often feels like the end, while exit planning gives firm owners more control over their future, their value, and their next act. They explore what makes a law firm transferable, why systems and data matter to buyers, and how lawyers can build firms that are worth more than just the owner's name. Tom also breaks down how the market for law firm sales is changing, from private capital to alternative business structures, and why modern buyers are looking closely at financials, intake, marketing, operations, and owner independence. If you own a law firm, this conversation is a reminder that your firm can be more than a job you built for yourself. With the right planning, it can become an asset, a legacy, and a bridge to whatever comes next. Links from the episode: https://thelawpracticeexchange.com/ https://a.co/d/05rY2bUe Listen to our previous episodes on Law Firm Exits & Succession. #568: How to Build a Law Firm You Can Sell, with Victoria L. Collier Apple | Spotify | LTN #517: Passing the Torch: Mastering the Art of Succession, with Carol Bertsch & Brennen Boze Apple | Spotify | LTN #369: Selling Your Practice, with Tom Lenfestey Apple | Spotify | LTN #326: A Succession Plan for Your Law Practice, with Tom Lenfestey Apple | Spotify | LTN Have thoughts about today's episode? Join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X! If today's podcast resonates with you and you haven't read The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited yet, get the first chapter right now for free! Looking for help beyond the book? See if our coaching community is right for you. Access more resources from Lawyerist at lawyerist.com. Chapters / Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 01:00 – Why Succession Planning Feels Like the End 02:15 – Identity, Second Acts & Life After Practice 05:00 – Meet Tom Lenfestey 06:35 – Does a Law Firm Have Value Beyond the Owner? 07:45 – Why Tom Started The Law Practice Exchange 10:45 – Creating a Marketplace for Law Firm Sales 12:55 – When to Start Planning Your Exit 13:55 – Why Exit Planning Belongs in Your Strategic Plan 15:45 – Why Time Is Your Biggest Advantage 16:05 – Building a Firm with Exit in Mind 17:30 – Why The Exit Blueprint Matters Now 20:40 – What Law Firm Owners Need to Know Before Selling 22:45 – Private Capital, ABS & New Buyer Models 25:20 – What Sophisticated Buyers Want to See 27:15 – Why Data and Systems Create Transferable Value 29:00 – When Succession Planning Goes Wrong 31:20 – Why Internal Successors May Not Be Buyers 33:00 – Exit Strategy vs. Retirement Planning 36:50 – Keeping Your Options Open After Exit 38:50 – Where to Find The Exit Blueprint
Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today we're joined by John Plake, Chief Innovation Officer and Editor-in-Chief of the State of the Bible research at the American Bible Society. With decades of experience as a pastor, missionary, professor, and researcher, John brings a unique perspective on how people are actually engaging with Scripture and what we should do about it. The “movable middle” is growing. // One of the most significant insights from recent research is the rise of what John calls the “movable middle”—millions of people who are open to the Bible but not yet engaged with it. This group has grown by approximately nine million people in recent years. They are curious, interested, and even positive toward Scripture, but they lack the tools, confidence, or guidance to engage it meaningfully. This represents a massive opportunity for churches willing to step in and help. People want a guide. // Through focus groups and research, John discovered that many people in the movable middle feel intimidated by the Bible. They struggle with language, context, and navigation. But perhaps most striking is they want help. Contrary to what some leaders might assume, they are not rejecting the church as a guide. In fact, many say, “If we can't trust the church to help us understand the Bible, what good is it?” This creates a clear invitation for churches to step into a more relational, guiding role in discipleship. A surprising discipleship gap. // One of the most sobering findings is that nearly half of weekly church attenders are not regularly engaging Scripture on their own. While churches invest heavily in preaching and programming, many people are not developing personal habits of Bible engagement. John suggests that churches often focus on delivering content rather than equipping people to engage Scripture themselves. The result is a gap between what happens on Sunday and what happens in everyday life. From teaching to equipping. // If churches want to close that gap, they must shift from being primarily content providers to equipping environments. This means helping people develop the skills, habits, and confidence to read and apply Scripture on their own. It also requires understanding the real barriers people face, like time constraints, confusion, or lack of community support, and addressing those barriers with practical solutions. A new tool for churches. // To help leaders take action, the American Bible Society has developed the “Next Step for Church” assessment. This free tool allows churches to measure spiritual health, Bible engagement, and key leadership behaviors within their congregation. Within a few weeks, leaders receive a detailed, data-driven report highlighting strengths, challenges, and suggested next steps. Data that leads to discipleship. // John emphasizes that data is not an end in itself; it's a tool for better shepherding. By listening to their congregation at scale, leaders can identify patterns, confirm instincts, and prioritize what matters most. The assessment surfaces both what's working and where growth is needed, giving churches a clear path forward. It also connects individuals to personalized Scripture engagement resources, helping them take their next step spiritually. Why Scripture engagement matters most. // Nothing has a greater impact on spiritual growth than a person's relationship with the Bible. In fact, Scripture engagement accounts for a significant portion of overall spiritual health. When people consistently engage with God's Word, transformation follows—affecting beliefs, behaviors, and relationships. Signs of hope for the future. // Despite broader cultural challenges, John sees encouraging trends, especially among younger generations. Millennials and Gen Z show increasing openness to Scripture, even if they are still exploring. While overall trends may appear flat, meaningful change is happening beneath the surface. For churches willing to engage this moment, there is real opportunity for impact. To explore the research further or access the free church assessment, visit church.nextstep.bible and begin discovering how your church can better equip people to engage Scripture every day. Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose unSeminary, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the left hand side of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes, they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! 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Check them out at risepointe.com and while you’re there, schedule a FREE call to explore possibilities for your needs, vision and future…Risepointe believes that God still uses spaces…and they're here to help. Episode Transcript Rich Birch — Hey friends, welcome to the unSeminary podcast. I am so glad that you have decided to tune in today. This is one of those episodes that there’s a great resource in it that going to want to make sure you engage with. There’s super helpful content. Plus it’s about an area that I know so many of us are thinking about, we’re wondering about, we’re asking questions about. Rich Birch — So super excited to have John Plake with us today. He is the chief innovator ah innovation officer and editor-in-chief of the State of the Bible Research Series, which comes from the American Bible Society. And they’re on a mission to make the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so that all may experience its life-changing message. ABS has really a whole bunch of different tools and approaches, and we’re excited kind of expose a little bit more about that today. John has been in ministry over 30 years. We’ll just call it over 30 years. And it served as a pastor, missionary, professor, researcher. John, welcome to the show. So glad you’re here.John Plake — Thanks so much for having me today. It’s great to be with you.Rich Birch — Why don’t you fill in the picture a little bit? Tell us a little bit about your background. You know, what brings you to your current work?John Plake — Yeah. Closer to 40 years now. Rich Birch — Nice. Yeah, yeah. That’s great.John Plake — It’s a little uncomfortable to talk about that.Rich Birch — That’s great.John Plake — Yeah. You know, I start out like a lot of people in ministry. I grew up in a home that ministry was central. Actually, both my grandfathers were ministers. My father was a minister. Ministry is kind of the family business in a way, but I really did sense a direction from God when I was about 15 years old to to pursue full-time ministry.John Plake — There was some detail around that. Ended up going to Bible college and and then started what turned out to be about nine years of full-time pastoral service. And I hadn’t been in that for very long before I realized that everything I learned in Bible College was preparing me to serve a generation that no longer existed in a culture that was gone. John Plake — And I thought, my goodness, I know God’s word pretty well. And mean, I’m a lifelong learner of God’s word. I love the Bible. And yet, didn’t really know culture very well. And I didn’t develop those tools until just years and years of practice, some missionary service, wonderful teachers at at Wheaton College and graduate school and and just a lifelong journey of learning.John Plake — So at American Bible Society, when I got here, the State of the Bible, program or this research project was already underway. And we’d been helped out by the Barna Group, which does some wonderful foundational work. And eventually it just kind of grew up and it got to a place where we had an internal team that was running it ourselves, now in collaboration with the National Opinion Research Council or NORC at the University of Chicago. We just do, I think, what is the largest ongoing study of Americans’ relationship with the Bible and faith and the church. And we get to talk about it all the time. Rich Birch — Yeah, I love it.John Plake — So, I mean, this is the best job in the world.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s so good. It’s it’s great research, something that I think should be on the kind of list of things that we need to be paying attention to. It’s been a gift to the church for so long and something that we should continue to to pay attention through. Now, let’s talk about you specifically. You spent three plus decades. I didn’t want to say almost 40. You know, I’m not saying that. I’m not saying that. I could say that, you know, a couple years ago, I clicked across one of those numbers with a zero on the end as my birthday. And ever since then, I’m a little sensitive about the the age thing. Rich Birch — So anyways, As a ministry, missionary professor, researcher, you’ve done a lot. How does wearing all of those hats, what do you what does that bring to you as you come to the data? How does that impact you as you think about really the state of the Bible research?John Plake — Yeah, you know, I think research can be dull. You know, it can sound like it’s all about writing questions or it’s all statistics and numbers. But for me, the research is all about the people. Rich Birch — So true.John Plake — It’s all about the people in our communities and in our churches that we’re trying to understand better so we can serve them well with the gospel. I, for years, I’ve used the analogy that that being in gospel ministry is like being a human bridge across a river. I grew up not very far from the Mississippi River in the St. Louis area, and there was a big 100-year flood when I was early on in ministry. And I mean, none of the bridges worked anymore. You couldn’t get from one side to the other.John Plake — And I thought, you know, that’s a tragedy that I encountered sometimes in ministry where maybe I was deeply rooted in one bank of the river, the text, but I wasn’t necessarily deeply rooted in the other bank of the river, which was the context.John Plake — And it’s this lived experience of the people that I was I was serving. And that I wanted to serve in my community, but I needed to understand them better. So I wasn’t just spouting you know Aristotelian logic to them. Or I wasn’t just coming at them with the pat answers that I’d learned. Like I’d never heard anybody in my life walk into my office and say, Pastor John, you got to tell me, what can you describe hamartiology to me from. You know like I had to learn that in school, but that’s not what people struggle with. Rich Birch — That’s so true. Yeah. John Plake — They had totally different questions and I needed to love them and honor them enough to understand their questions and answer them responsibly and reliably from the pages of scripture.Rich Birch — Yeah, love it. Okay, well, we’re going to dig into a little bit of just a couple of the findings just to kind of, we’re trying to whet your appetite, friends, to take steps towards this. So the 2025 data showed, and we’ve seen this, a real bump in Bible engagement, particularly among millennials and men. If I’m reading it correctly, though, we saw 2026, a shift happen, maybe back down. And so what’s going on? Actually, I heard another sociologist in a kind of a related field that was about church attendance talked about the dead cat bounce, that it was like, you know, which I thought, oh, that’s a, but there’s a similarity going on here. Pull this, this finding apart. Help us understand this.John Plake — Yeah, apologies to cat lovers out there.Rich Birch — Yes, exactly.John Plake — We were we were hoping, you know, I think we were really hoping. We looked at 2025. We saw that men in particular were leaning into the Bible in ways we hadn’t seen recently. Millennials doing the same thing. There there were some interesting numbers in 2025. And so when the 2026 numbers came to my desk in late January, I thought, I hope we’re extending I hope it’s going to be a trend. But it wasn’t. It was a blip.John Plake — And there’s more to it, though, than just the fact that scripture engagement didn’t go up. It also didn’t go down. And the level of people in America who are Bible disengaged, meaning they never pick up the Bible on purpose at all, that actually didn’t go up either. What grew was this kind of curious explorer group in the middle that we call the movable middle. And over the last two years, it’s grown by 9 million American adults. Rich Birch — Wow.John Plake — And so what we do see is there’s there’s openness to the Bible. There’s experimentation with the Bible. But people are jumping in and they’re trying it and they’re not being able to get hold of it. And I think that’s largely because of us.John Plake — Because Bible people who are around them aren’t saying, please come do this with me. Let me help you. Let me honor you enough to to respect your questions, to ask what you’re dealing with, and help you explore those issues through the pages of Scripture.Rich Birch — I love that movable middle, man, that feels like the kind of group we want to connect with and reach out to in our community. Any other, when you, when you’ve been thinking about this movable middle, what are some other kind of characteristics of those people or other things that, you know, are kind of telltale signs of this group as we’re thinking about them as it, as it pertains to Bible engagement?John Plake — Yeah, they’re an amazing group, and we’re going talking more about them all year, but they are probably my favorite subject in America. There are 74 million American adults that are in the movable middle.Rich Birch — Wow.John Plake — 74 million of our neighbors who are like…Rich Birch — Wow.John Plake — …and here’s what they tend to say: They love the Bible. They think it’s a great idea. But if you handed them a Bible, they don’t know how to find what they’re looking for. They don’t know how to navigate it. They get confused by the language in in Scripture.John Plake — I remember doing a a focus group with a bunch of people in the movable middle. I was in Chicago. it was an area I was really familiar with. I used to pastor in that area. And we got them talking about their experience with the Bible. And we said, hey, does anything ever stop you or kind of you know make you check out because you’re struggling with what’s going on? John Plake — And one young lady at the table said, yeah, you know the language of the Bible is really really hard for me to understand. It’s it’s a really old book. It uses expressions I don’t understand. And a gentleman sitting across the table from her just kind of chuckled and said, yeah, what the hell’s a mustard seed? And everybody laughed.John Plake — I was behind the glass and I just about fell out of my chair because they didn’t teach me to talk like that in a Assemblies of God seminary.Rich Birch — Yes.John Plake —Things like that, you know, that’s just not the way we roll.Rich Birch — Yeah, yeah. Yes.John Plake — But it was so authentic and he wasn’t being mean.Rich Birch — No.John Plake — He was just saying, boy, I don’t I don’t get it. And then they said, you know, we really want a guide. Rich Birch — That’s good.John Plake — And so we pushed on that a little bit. At the time, there were some clergy abuse scandals that actually there were billboards up in Chicago about clergy abuse scandals that all of us lamented. And so we’re like, OK, listen, do you trust the church to be your guide? Because ee saw these billboards, you know, and it’s your city. And so what what do you think?John Plake — And they said, well, of course we do. I mean, it’s terrible when people in the church abuse their position and abuse others. And that’s not what they’re supposed to do. But if we can’t trust the church to help us understand the Bible, what good are they, really? And so, yes, we’re looking to you, church, to help us connect more deeply with the Bible, understand what it meant to the original hearers and readers and how we apply it to our lives today.Rich Birch — Okay, that’s yeah, that’s really cool. I look forward to hearing more about the movable middle in this coming year. Another thing that jumped out to me, which I feel like, man, I’ve seen this in my church. This is like you you named a group that I see, but it’s surprising, at least it’s surprising on its face. So nearly half of weekly church attenders, weekly church attenders, which is, that’s like really engaged, you know, are not regularly engaging, engaging scripture on their own.Rich Birch — Man, what, so what should we do about that? That’s an interesting, how does, how should that impact our discipleship strategy? What are you encouraging us to be thinking about? And these people that are with us all the time, but they’re not engaged with scripture.John Plake — Well, I think the first thing to do is to just recognize it. Rich Birch — Right.John Plake — You know, a lot of pastors that I’ve talked to, when we talk about scripture engagement, they tell me things like this: Everything we do is scripture engagement. I spend my whole week preparing a scriptural message. I’m, you know, we’re preparing small group curriculum and Sunday school curriculum and all of this stuff. It’s all about the, everything we do is about the Bible. John Plake — Well, okay. But I had a I had a young youth pastor come to me not that long ago and he said, John, look, you were me once a few years ago. If you knew then what you know now, what would you do differently?John Plake — And the answer is I would do everything differently, than the way I ought to do it. Because what, in my tradition, there was a lot of emphasis on the preaching event, and I put a lot of effort into those communication events, but what I didn’t put as much effort into is empowering people in my church to do what I was doing, which was dig into scripture, understand it for themselves, giving them the tools to do that.John Plake — And then in May, we’re going to be releasing a chapter, just in a few few days now, we’re going to be releasing a chapter all about parents. And one of the startling things is the time pressure that moms are under. I mean, it’s incredible. And so we need to understand where they’re coming from and where they have barriers, but also have some compassion on them and help to support them when they’re really facing struggles. Like they don’t have enough time. They don’t have the resources or the community coming around them to help them to engage God’s word ah more fulsomely, more transformatively.John Plake — We know how to do this stuff, but we’re not connecting the dots to everybody that’s coming to hear us talk every…Rich Birch — That’s good. That’s good. I know I’ve in my seat as an XP, um you know, I’ve overseen a lot of what we do on the programming side and what we do on the weekends. And I’ve, you know, it’s like, that i don’t think I’ve ever said this publicly. It’s like the kind of behind the scenes conversation. I’ve sometimes wondered, I’ve said, you know, like, what we do on the weekend to try to make the Bible understandable is so completely different than Tuesday morning in someone’s life. Rich Birch — Like, we pull out all the stops to make it interesting. We get like world class communicators, incredible graphics, you know, emotional music, all of this to try to… But then the question is, okay, so now on Tuesday morning when you’re tired and you haven’t had your coffee yet and you’re just about to go read scripture, man, like that feels like a long ways away. There’s like a gap there that I sometimes wonder maybe we’re making it worse. You know. Maybe we’re making it harder. I said that. You didn’t say that. Rich Birch — So maybe there’s pastors that are listening here and they read this kind of report. They read this kind of finding and they’re like, hey, that’s interesting. But like, how what do I do in my church specifically? So you know we want we don’t want to just leave people with a tough stat.Rich Birch — I think we see that in our church. There’s people in our church that are here all the time. They’re not that engaged. But you’ve actually developed a new tool or ABS has developed a new tool to help us think through that. Why don’t you walk us through it? Tell us a little bit about it. How’s it work? Talk us how it can help us.John Plake — Yeah, so recently we developed two tools that kind of work together. One of them you can find on the internet at nextstep.bible. And it’s just for anybody who’s like, hey, I’m on a spiritual journey. I’m kind of stuck. I don’t really know what to do next. Maybe you’re just getting started exploring what it means to be a Christian. Maybe you’re Jesus’ little brother or sister. Wherever you are in that journey, there’s always a next step for us.John Plake — And so what we’ve done is analyzed along about a million spiritual life surveys. Rich Birch — Wow.John Plake — And from this huge quantity of data, we’ve learned that people are at different places in that journey. They’re at different points on the map. And we want to make sure that they’re equipped to have the right thing at the right time. I think currently there are 21,000 scripture engagement resources available there.Rich Birch — Wow.John Plake — They’re absolutely free. They’re in English, Spanish, and French. So go check it out, nextstep.bible.John Plake — But if you’re a pastor or you’re a church leader, you’re probably wondering, well, what’s going on in my church, right? So I see all the national data, but I think our tendency is to say, well, we’re the exception, right?Rich Birch — So true. Well, that’s not our people. John Plake — I know I know everybody else is struggling, but we’re doing okay.Rich Birch — Yes.John Plake — And and so it’s good to check our assumptions a little bit. They used to say a really sad statistic that 10 o’clock on Sunday morning was the most segregated hour in America, which makes me sad. What makes me sad also is that 12 o’clock noon in America is the most dishonest hour in America. That’s the hour when pastors tend to start greeting their people after the church service closes and they hear all these comments: oh, Pastor, that was the best sermon I’ve ever heard. And it wasn’t. It just wasn’t. All right, let’s face it.John Plake — There’s somebody out there who preaches better than you do and better than I do. They’re available on YouTube. People don’t need you to be the best Bible teacher in the world. They need you to be the best pastor for them. Rich Birch — That’s good.John Plake — And the tools that are all about focusing on their relationship with the Bible, their holistic spiritual formation, and our leadership behaviors. And so for that, we built the Next Step for Church Assessment.John Plake — It’s actually standing on the foundation or built on the engine block, if you want a different metaphor, of the old reveal research that the Willow Creek Association had come out with. It’s no longer available. And we were able to acquire all of their historical learnings, but also add in things like human flourishing and e-pastoral leadership behaviors that lead to churches really being missionally effective and strong. Excellent stuff on Bible engagement and spiritual formation. John Plake — So the the big challenge we had, I was talking with Dr. Ed Stetzer about this because he was at LifeWay Research when the Transformational Church Assessment was being built. And it was always hard because analyzing this kind of data required a lot of human intervention. It’s very expensive to do. It’s very complicated to deliver. And even a small cost can be a barrier for churches that have strained budgets. It doesn’t matter if you’re a church of, you know, 2,500 25,000 or 250. There’s always more places to put your money than there are dollars that are available to do it.John Plake — And so at American Bible Society, we said, you know what, as a gift to the church, because we love the church, we need to make it completely free. And so you can go to church.nextstep.bible and you could sign up today. Literally, we’re recording this on a on a Thursday. You could go there today and by Sunday, you could be launching your survey. Two weeks later, you’d automatically have results in your own online dashboard. You’d get key highlights emailed to you. There’s a place for custom questions. There’s just all kinds of really, really rich information.Rich Birch — So good.John Plake — And it it doesn’t take the place of the kind of learning that you have as a pastor. You learn deeply in relationship with others. You’re observing what’s going on. You have a team that’s around you. But what it does is it provides this valid, reliable sift and sort function. It’s based on well, I don’t know even know how many, well over 3000 churches, well over half a million survey responses went into building this and making it a tool that that is a good benchmark for you to say, you know what, if we want to move from where we are today to where God is calling us, here are the things we need to focus on.Rich Birch — It’s so good. And friends, I want to encourage you to to go there. Just church.nextstep.bible. I know many of us have a heart for saying, listen, we want to measure more than just nickels and noses. The number of people that show up and revenue that comes in. And this a great way to kind of inject at something that’s at the core of what we’re supposed to be doing as a church. So why don’t we just give a little bit more detail?Rich Birch — What is it? You know, what’s it actually measuring? How is it? You know, how could it be helpful? How how could it kind of dovetail with some of the things we’re already tracking? Maybe give us, you know, what kind of insights are we going to gain from this if we if we put our people through this?John Plake — Yeah, maybe it’s worthwhile to just back up and say it’s based on a congregational assessment. So really this kind of work is all about just listening to your congregation at scale. So if you have 25 people coming to church, you can probably have this conversation with them if you know how to ask the right questions. Rich Birch — Right.John Plake — You can go to the website. You’re like, what’s in the survey? There’s a button you can click. You can read the whole survey. It’s fine. We’re not going to try and surprise you with anything. But really simple stuff. How’s your relationship with Jesus? How often are you interacting with Scripture? What difference is that making in your life? We ask the standard Harvard human flourishing questions. We ask about um how the pastoral team or the senior pastor, him or herself, is doing at actually modeling Christlike leadership for you. Rich Birch — It’s so good.John Plake — And all of that reporting then gets brought into a database. It’s all anonymous. So individuals don’t, they don’t have to tell you who they are. They can’t tell you who they are other than by characteristics. And you’re going to get this really good, robust picture of what’s going on at the church. John Plake — Now, what does it take for somebody to do that? It takes about 20 minutes of their time, and time is expensive, right? People always have too much to do. So in return for that investment, at the end of their survey experience, they will have already told us everything we need to know to match them to great resources at nextstep.bible.John Plake — And with their permission, not without it, they can click a button, pass that data over to the individual nextstep.bible platform. They can create an account and right away, they’re going to be finding things like YouVersion Bible reading plans that are just for them.John Plake — If you’ve got people in your church and they’re outliers, they’re they’re way more spiritually advanced than everybody else, or they’re just getting started and everybody else is way ahead of them, these kinds of tools create bespoke pathways for them so they know what to do next. All the while, the church leadership can sit back and say, okay, here’s our results. And as a team, now what do we need to do to serve the whole congregation well?Rich Birch — I love this. You know, this is what incredible tool that you’ve put together here for our churches to wrestle through and to, you know, not only help us as a church as we’re thinking about these issues, but then help individuals in our church. What what would be some of the ways that churches might use the data that’s generated to impact what we’re doing in our programming? How how could we use this to improve what we’re doing?John Plake — Sure. There are really three things we want everybody to do. First, just discover what’s going on. Just just check your assumptions at the door and and say, okay, what do the data tell us about what’s going on in our church life and in our people’s lives? That’s the first thing.John Plake — Second thing is it’s going to surface for you the top three things that you’re doing great. And it’s going to give them to you in the report. And you need to throw a party. Like there are people who make these things happen for you. No pastor is doing this all by themselves. And so plan a party, celebrate what’s going well.John Plake — The third thing it’s going to do is it’s going to give you suggestions about, okay, here’s where your congregation is today. It won’t surprise you, but it might inform you. I’ve never seen a pastor look at the report and go, ah you guys got it wrong. Rich Birch — Sure, right.John Plake — Usually they they see the report and they go, yeah, okay, yeah, you got me.Rich Birch — Yeah. Confirmed some hunches I’ve had. Yeah. Yeah.John Plake — Right? But we don’t we don’t have time. We don’t have the resources. We don’t have the expertise to be able to sit down and and kind of scientifically walk through this process. So we do that for you. We deliver the report. And then we’re going to give you two key action items that we think churches like yours in a similar place have done that have helped move them toward spiritual health and missional effectiveness.John Plake — And that’s really what it’s all about. We want your congregation to be spiritually healthy. We want your your church as a whole to be missionally effective. And when that happens, often there’s numerical growth. Often there’s financial growth. But there’s certainly more missional impact that’s coming through your congregation and its work.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s cool. So if I’m like a church of a thousand people, let’s say, and just round number to picking out of the sky, how how what kind of percentage of my congregation would I need to take this to give me a reasonable, you know, statistical, you know, feeling good about the data for it? What what kind of number um should I be thinking about?John Plake — Well, the first thing is we’ve built in a tool that will tell you how to get to a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. Rich Birch — Love it.John Plake — And that does vary depending on the adult attendance that you have. So let’s say you’ve a thousand adults. And by adults, I mean anybody in high school or older can probably take this survey. Rich Birch — Yep.John Plake — And you can cut the data like by gender or by age. All of that live filtering is in the online platform. Rich Birch — Oh, that’s so good.John Plake — So if you’re the you’re the youth pastor and you’re like, well, wait, tell me about the young people that took the survey. You can just look right at them and compare them to the rest of the congregation, which I bet will be enlightening. But nevertheless, how many do you need if you’re a church of 1,000, it’s about 275.Rich Birch — Okay.John Plake — If it’s a smaller church than that, then you’re still going to need a pretty significant percentage. So if I roll that all the way down to a church of 100, you need 80.Rich Birch — Okay.John Plake — And if you roll that up to a church of 5,000, well, you don’t need that many more than 275.Rich Birch — Interesting.John Plake — So you’re going to report that out to you. It’s very, very doable. And, you know, I’ve pastored at large churches and I pastored a small church. And I’ll tell you, when I pastored a church of under 100, I could have gotten a census of the people, like everybody, to do a survey like this. They would have been glad to tell me these things. Rich Birch — Right.John Plake — And it’s not that I couldn’t have had a conversation one-on-one with most of the adults in the congregation. It was something different in that case. I actually didn’t know what to ask. I used to run into this when I was a campus pastor at a Christian university. And I would have young people walk into my office and I was like, I know I should be able to help them, but the challenge they’re facing is different than anything I’m familiar with. I don’t have any analog for this in my personal experience. And so this sort of takes the mystery away. We don’t ask fluffy questions. We ask research proven questions that are going to give you the information you really need so you can take action.Rich Birch — That’s amazing. That’s think this is such a great tool for people. I can see how, you know, it’d be so helpful for folks that are listening in to, you know, might be be able to plug in grab this experience for their people, help their church, help the folks that are attending. That’s, that’s incredible.Rich Birch — So, you know, you’ve picked an interesting vocation to be connected with the American Bible Society. And because, you know, this is such a critical and important part of developing people’s relationship, obviously, with Jesus; its core to all of it. And we have seen a long historical downward trend, and you’re pushing against that, which is amazing. But what gives you hope in the middle of all of that? What would it when you look at the church around you know, the country, where do you see flashes of just good things going on that are like, you know, when it comes to the relationship with scripture that even, you know, even when we see maybe the overall numbers are not as great as we want them to be, what are some kind of flashes of hope we should, that we could encourage folks with today?John Plake — Well, I’d like to maybe point to just three things that leap to mind. Rich Birch — Yep.John Plake — The first of them is I never talk to anybody in the church who says the Bible is a bad idea. Rich Birch — Sure.John Plake — Everybody likes the Bible. We’re all trying to figure out how to communicate its message better, to understand it more deeply. It’s transforming our lives, and we want to be able to share it with others. John Plake — And that’s great because, number two, there’s nothing that makes a bigger difference in somebody’s spiritual life than their relationship with the Bible. I mean, absolutely nothing. And I’m saying this as a researcher. I’ve tested it. I can’t find anything that makes a bigger difference. John Plake — In fact, when we looked at Christian college and university students, 60% of their overall spiritual health across lots of domains—beliefs, practice, putting faith into action, loving God, loving others, all these things, 60% of the variance in their spiritual health is solely accounted for by their relationship with the Bible.John Plake — So if we can help people have a dynamic relationship with scripture, we win. That’s all there is to it. It’s just that simple. And so that is really encouraging.John Plake — And then the third thing, ah the third thing is how I say this nicely? I'm I’m from Gen X and so to my Baby Boomer friends, I’m sorry, but you guys don’t have the influence that you once did.Rich Birch — Yeah, it’s true.John Plake — And that’s a good thing because there’s new openness among Millennials, and Gen Z and even younger Gen X um that we just don’t see among Baby Boomers. It’s like Baby Boomers made up their minds in the 60s and early 70s and said, this is what I believe and I’m not changing. And they haven’t. John Plake — That’s not to say that someone who’s a Baby Boomer can’t have a a spiritual experience and transformational experience. It does happen. But on the population level, like when we looked at the Bay Area of San Francisco, if you look at the scripture engagement, church engagement, love God, love others data in the Bay Area, it looks like what you’d expect, until you strip out the Baby Boomers. And then suddenly it looks better than every place else in America.John Plake — You’re like, what’s going on? Well, looks like all the unreconstructed hippies that moved to the Bay Area are actually holding a lid on the population numbers. And when you remove that and you go, oh, wait a minute, let me look under the headline and say what’s happening. There’s more going on than is easy to see. And I think this happens in big national trends.John Plake — Oh, is Scripture engagement up or down? Is you know church attendance up or down? Whats what’s going… big national trends. Yeah, okay, those are helpful, and we want those to change. But what’s changing first is below the fold. Things in Gen Z, things among Millennials, things in young men, those things are starting to change, and I think those are the first glimmerings that God is at work in a new way in America, and I can’t wait to see it.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s that’s a great word. And that lines up with what we’re seeing, even just experientially talking to churches across the country. You know we’re so we’re seeing there is something going on with younger generations, which is great to see. I was I was born in 1974, the lowest birth rate year of the 20th century. I am classic Gen X. Like you know I am like statistic I’m the statistical average Gen X and has spent a lot of my time trying to hand stuff from the Boomers to the Millennials. And, yeah, there’s lots of encouraging news there, particularly with the younger generations. Rich Birch — I also want to speak to on the the work I’ve done in the church growth stuff that I’ve done and coaching I’ve done with churches, one of the things that’s just undeniable is churches that have a high view of scripture, that is, they’re trying to get people engaged with scripture. They they talk about it like it’s actually true. How do we say don’t know what’s the best way to talk about that? Those are the churches that are prevailing, and that actually works out statistically. You see that time and again. Talk to us about that dynamic, which is kind of co-related to the things we’re talking about today. From your perspective in the stats and all that, how how have you seen that work out as you’ve looked at churches across the country?John Plake — Yeah, I think you’re exactly right. The churches that are the healthiest in America, that are growing, that where where people are spiritually healthy, have a really dynamic relationship with Scripture. And it kind of it cuts across tradition. Rich Birch — Yep.John Plake — There are some traditional things going on. I was listening to Justin Brierley and his surprising Rebirth of Belief in God podcast, and it was from last season, and he he had someone on, he was interviewing, and what she was saying was there are the parts of the church that seem to be thriving are kind of the, the the older, the ancientness traditions, whether it’s Catholic or Orthodox, that what she called somewhat irreverently, the smells and bells side of of the church.Rich Birch — Sure, sure.John Plake — And on the other side, kind of my end of the swimming pool, I’m, from the Assemblies of God, so the Pentecostal and Charismatic side. And she said, what’s going on is that both ends of that spectrum are totalizing. John Plake — They’re saying, you know what, the the Bible places certain expectations and demands on people. Christ places certain expectations and demands on people. And these parts of the church aren’t sort of shy about talking about that from a biblical perspective. She said, what’s what’s dying is that part in the middle where we’ve reduced church to a PowerPoint and you know an Excel spreadsheet. And she said, that part of the church seems to be dying and no one’s coming to the funeral. Rich Birch — That’s good. John Plake — And I thought, you know okay, right?Rich Birch — Yeah. Yeah, that’s good.John Plake — So if we revitalize our relationship with God through scripture, there’s a next step for every church. It doesn’t matter what, you know whether you’re mainline or evangelical or, you know, Pentecostal or Orthodox or whatever it is, but but reviving our relationship with God through Scripture is really where it’s at.Rich Birch — That’s so good. i Yeah, I call that middle group the just because it rhymes doesn’t mean it’s true group. You know, like the, you know, were just like, it’s all my thoughts. No one wants to come and find us. They want to find God ultimately. Well, I don’t want to pick any fights with anybody that’s listening in, but I really appreciate today’s conversation, John. This has been great. So we want to send people to church.nextstep.bible.Rich Birch — The the promise of in two weeks, your church could have a comprehensive report on spiritual health, on where your church is, spiritual health is at, that’s a huge promise. And so again, this is go to church.nextstep.bible. Any kind of final words as we wrap up today’s episode?John Plake — You know, you might be familiar with Cally Parkinson. Cally was the co-author of all of the Reveal books, every single one of them. She was head of communications for the Willow Creek Association when they were running this. She’s probably had more conversations with pastors and church leaders about survey results like this than anybody I know, maybe than anybody alive. And Cally likes this so much. She said, John, I want to have a personal consultation with the first hundred churches that go through this.John Plake — And so if you want to be in that group, she’s going to offer to spend an hour with you and just walk through your results and help explain it. There are videos throughout the platform that will explain it as well. And you can’t beat talking to Cally. She loves pastors. She says you’re the salt of the earth. And she just really wants to serve you because the work that you do to save people is just so valuable to her. So anyway, just wanted to offer that. And I know you’d probably love to meet Cally.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s fantastic. Well, appreciate you being here today. Thanks for the great work you do at the American Bible Society. John, appreciate you being on today. Thank you.John Plake — Thank you.
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On this episode we sample a new cocktail, The Treacle. We chat about an offer for Brown Foreman, Jean Luc's Brother, having a pig in the fight, dessert cocktails, measure with your heart, half step away from a tiki drink, nothing says home like apple juice, oozy iced arnold palmer, adding a bit more rum as it drinks down, dancing robots, formidable robot martial arts, uncanny valley versus T-1000, a robot half marathon, robots booking it down I-4, how quickly can we get rid of everyone's job, going down to crick to wash my clothes, robot on roboto violence, 200 dingers in a season, playing video games using cheat codes, ABS versus IBS, seeking perfection, keeping the human element, 90s Braves growing a strike zone, and calling in the hazmat team. Support Us On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DrepandStone We'd love to hear from you! https://linktr.ee/DrepandStone Don't forget to subscribe! Episode 350
93.7 The Fan Sports Director Jeff Hathhorn joined the show. Jeff and Chris recapped the golf outing they played in today, with Jeff being the squad's best hitter. Jeff told the guys about how Konnor Griffin looked in his field work today as he rehabs his injury. Jeff believes we are still a few weeks away from seeing Griffin back in the lineup. Could he be the team's DH in a pinch if he can't play the field? Jared Jones is starting tonight, but is it a guarantee that we see Carmen Mlodzinski as the second part of the piggyback? How much longer are the Pirates going to give Marcell Ozuna to turn his season around? The guys wondered if Isaac Mattson is going to come back up due to good numbers following his recent demotion. Jeff said the team is going through ABS training to become better on the challenge portion of the game. We had some fun with the rough night for Ozuna.
Một nghịch lý chấn động vừa được Nha Thống kê Úc (ABS) công bố: người dân quốc gia này hiện đang cảm thấy kém hạnh phúc hơn cả giai đoạn khủng hoảng năm 2020. Khi những rào cản giãn cách được gỡ bỏ, thứ chờ đợi họ không phải là sự tự do trọn vẹn, mà là làn sóng âm thầm của cuộc khủng hoảng chi phí sinh hoạt, lạm phát phi mã và sự sụt giảm tiền lương thực tế. Giờ đây, những góc khuất đầy áp lực, nơi việc duy trì cuộc sống thường nhật đang trở thành thử thách gian nan nhất.
Welcome to the True Chicago Sports Fans Podcast…BIG-Z and the boys got a LOT to talk about today!”Tonight on the True Chicago Sports Fans Podcast, we carry heavy hearts into one of the biggest episodes we've ever recorded. We open with a full, emotional tribute to Chicago Bulls legend and beloved broadcaster Stacey King, who passed away Sunday at just 59 years old after a fall at his home. We break down what he meant as a player on three championship teams alongside Michael Jordan, and celebrate his 20-year broadcasting career — his iconic catchphrases, his legendary calls, and why he belongs in the same conversation as Harry Caray, Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, Pat Foley & Eddie Olczyk, and Jeff Joniak & Tom Thayer. Then we get into the Cubs, the White Sox, and the Bears news that is shaking the entire city of Chicago to its core.
Your Day Off @Hairdustry; A Podcast about the Hair Industry!
Bobbi Powell: Beauty School, Haven House, and Building Something Nobody Asked ForShe cold emailed a press team, showed up with no connections, and built something the industry didn't know it needed.Recorded live at ABS Chicago with co-host Geno Chapman, Corey sits down with Bobbi Powell (@beautyschoolbobbi) for a conversation that covers beauty school ownership, community service, self-advocacy, and what it actually means to show up for people. Bobbi is co-owner of Tennessee School of Beauty, a fifth generation school opened in 1934, and has been partners with the family for seven years after walking in to do admissions and operating like she already owned it.How She Got HereBobbi grew up near Pittsburgh in a close-knit Italian family and almost became a high school English teacher. After one semester of observations in inner city Akron middle schools she knew it was not the path. She followed her mom to Knoxville, connected with a salon owner tied to Tennessee School of Beauty, and took the admissions job with zero beauty industry experience. She fell in love immediately. Seven years later the fourth generation owner made her a partner.Own the Space You Are InBobbi did not wait for permission to build something at ABS. She emailed the press team cold, showed up with a small crew, and asked if they could have a bigger presence the following year. That became what it is today. Own every space you are in regardless of whose name is on the door. Whether you are behind the chair on commission or running a media operation at a hair show, treat it like yours.Haven HouseBobbi partners with Haven House, an organization that supports girls in foster care who have experienced sex trafficking. Multiple times a year those girls come into the school as clients. Students work on them. Bobbi handpicks which students are in the room because she knows who needs to be there. Every time without fail those students walk out changed. The girls get to be normal teenage girls for a day. The students get a perspective shift that no classroom can manufacture.The Tennessee Beauty Professional Awards and a New NonprofitThe Tennessee Beauty Professional Awards happen August 16th in Knoxville. The first year benefited the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network with a scholarship in honor of her business partner's son who died by suicide. This year Bobbi is announcing a new nonprofit to fund real product and hands-on training in underfunded public school cosmetology programs. Corey is going to be a judge.Find Bobbi at @beautyschoolbobbi on all platforms. Listen to the Beauty School Bobbi podcast every Monday. Follow Geno at @genochapman.
Episode 625: A series left unfinished in the Bronx has the Pod asking even more questions about the 2026 Red Sox. Trade Rumor Season has officially arrived following the news that All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman is on the trade block. The Buy vs. Sell debate surrounding the trade deadline continues, along with discussion of the fallout from Brayan Bello's demotion to Triple-A. Steve answers for his weather-prediction debacle and shares stories from Yankee Stadium during Game 1 of the series. WC-40's performance with runners in scoring position continues to earn praise from everyone on the podcast, as does Chapman's gritty performance on one leg in New York. The conversation takes a turn during the Game 3 discussion, as concerns continue to grow over Marcelo Mayer's lack of power and Justin Slaten's recent blowups heading into trade deadline season. Tune in as the guys preview the upcoming series against the Tampa Bay Rays, and let's all find out whether the Tampa Bay weather will allow the local nine to get all three games played inside the new-and-improved Tropicana Field. 00:00:00 - It's Officially Trade Rumors SZN 00:07:11 - Finding Love in Worcester, Massachusetts 00:11:31 - Roman Anthony's Cast Keeps Growing 00:15:54 - Friendly's Nostalgia 00:21:58 - Red Sox-Yankees, no juice in 2026 00:25:18 - A Weather Weekend Debacle 00:37:49 - Game 1 vs Yankees 00:41:00 - Sonny Gray Recap 00:46:22 - Andruw Monasterio's Mega Bomb 00:48:57 - WC-40's Renaissance 01:01:06 - Keeping Track of The Ketchup 01:04:49 - Chapman vs Volpe 01:15:05 - Aroldis Chapman's Next Team? 01:26:19 - Stevie P in The Bronx + Tyler In The Bronx??? 01:41:27 - Game 3 vs Yankees 01:42:15 - Ranger Suarez Recap 01:46:25 - That 8th Inning… 01:48:59 - Sox Improving on ABS? 02:00:19 - Marcelo Mayer's Power Outage 02:07:11 - T's Technical Freakout 02:08:59 - Stop And Shop 02:17:34 - Weather Lookahead 02:21:41 - Predictions 02:26:10 - Final Thoughts SECTION 10 MERCH IS HERE: https://section10merch.com Trade $20 Get $20 on Kalshi - http://kalshi.com/r/SECTION10 Get Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White Belgian-Style Wheat Brew delivered by visiting http://get.bluemoonbeer.com/JARED for delivery options Find out why Nutrafol is the best-selling hair growth supplement brand. Visit Nutrafol.com and enter promo code SECTION10 for $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping. Upgrade your wallet today! Get up to 40% off @ Ridge during their Father's Day Sale when you go to https://www.Ridge.com/SECTION10 #Ridgepod #Ad New customers get 40% Off with code SECTION10 at GLD.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have forgotten to referencethe poem about the plumsthat were inthe iceboxForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold and good for throwingCard 622 on Beckett: https://marketplace.beckett.com/tripleplaysportscards_764/item/1988-topps-622-kal-daniels_49852943SABR Bio by Heath Santo: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/kal-daniels/High School Jersey Retirement: https://sportsmic.com/eagles-baseball-legend-kal-daniels-number-retired/2020 MLB Article: https://www.mlb.com/news/kal-daniels-reds-cult-hero Kal fielding blooper: https://youtu.be/6unKL_3_Azc?si=GXjOoOH2AmutYiHVKal blast off Orel Hershiser: https://youtu.be/tM128HpYaJ4?si=131pK9WcrRFdk-0D Kal's 1990 season review: https://youtu.be/yhSmfWtc-Bc?si=oqbSbJpmemI_dhAXMost seasons 25 homers 150 OPS+, >450 ABs: https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/8Ii5j
Dr. Erin King Mullins is a double board-certified general and colorectal surgeon with 12 years in practice and founder of Colorectal Wellness Center in Metro Atlanta. In this episode, she shares the hard-won business lessons from a difficult exit from her fellowship practice, how she navigated a non-compete clause that left her unable to stay or relocate, and the step-by-step path to launching solo private practice — while pregnant with her second child. Dr. Mullins and host Dr. Amy Vertrees cover what every surgeon must know about physician employment contracts: why you should read your exit clause before your salary, the critical difference between radius-based and entity-based non-competes, and what at-will employment actually means for physicians. They also discuss the human side of running a medical practice — from firing employees the right way to separating friendship from business decisions. In the second half of the episode, Dr. Mullins pulls back the curtain on her experience as a volunteer director with the American Board of Surgery (ABS) — including how complaint reviews actually work, what due process looks like for a surgeon facing a board action, and how the new Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) framework is transforming resident training and surgical education. Whether you're considering private practice, navigating a contract negotiation, or just want to understand what the ABS actually does for surgeons, this episode is required listening.
This episode's guest is Abs, talking about Lauryn Hill's Miseducation of Lauryn Hill!Host: Matt LathamGuests: Abs------------Listen to The Spotify Hall of Fame PlaylistEmail: Pick A DiscFollow us on:Bluesky | Instagram | FacebookPick A Disc(Ord) Discord ServerListen to We Dig Podcasts Shows: @wedigpodcasts | LinktreeLogo designed by: Dan Owen
Brenden Schaeffer breaks down one of the wildest wins of the season as the Cardinals come from behind to beat the Reds.The sixth inning had a seemingly golden opportunity slip away for St. Louis but it put the wheels in motion for a Lars Nootbaar at-bat in the eighth that would ultimately define the game.The ninth was pretty insane, too, with Riley O'Brien holding on for dear life -- how about that ABS challenge, by the way?!
Hembo joins the show to discuss Cristopher Sanchez's historic month, a superstar the Red Sox should trade for, Michael Harris II's incredible improvement, Ben Rice's breakout, Bobby Witt Jr.'s obscurity, and how ABS has dramatically helped left-handed hitters. Blue Jays broadcaster Dan Shulman then stops by to discuss all things Toronto and how the Blue Jays finally have light at the end of the tunnel. Him and Buster then get into a discussion for a manager that is replacing Aaron Boone as most fiery in MLB. Sarah Langs takes us through some amazing pitching stats and we end with Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Intro 0:52 Hembo joins, Cristopher Sanchez is incredible 3:53 Red Sox to trade for Bo Bichette?! 7:05 Tigers not taking calls on Tarik Skubal 12:10 Michael Harris II's remarkable improvement 14:52 Ben Rice is a Yankees star 17:27 Bobby Witt Jr. is turning into the next Mike Trout 19:54 Left-handed hitters are raking 23:54 Blue Jays injuries with Dan Shulman 26:11 The reason for hope in Toronto 28:14 Vladimir Guerrero Jr's power dip 31:13 Louis Varland is the real MVP 33:12 Blue Jays Trade Outlook 36:22 The new fieriest manager in MLB 41:22 Sarah Langs numbers game 43:10 Bleacher Tweets: Roberto Clemente, pitching stats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hembo joins the show to discuss Cristopher Sanchez's historic month, a superstar the Red Sox should trade for, Michael Harris II's incredible improvement, Ben Rice's breakout, Bobby Witt Jr.'s obscurity, and how ABS has dramatically helped left-handed hitters. Blue Jays broadcaster Dan Shulman then stops by to discuss all things Toronto and how the Blue Jays finally have light at the end of the tunnel. Him and Buster then get into a discussion for a manager that is replacing Aaron Boone as most fiery in MLB. Sarah Langs takes us through some amazing pitching stats and we end with Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Intro 0:52 Hembo joins, Cristopher Sanchez is incredible 3:53 Red Sox to trade for Bo Bichette?! 7:05 Tigers not taking calls on Tarik Skubal 12:10 Michael Harris II's remarkable improvement 14:52 Ben Rice is a Yankees star 17:27 Bobby Witt Jr. is turning into the next Mike Trout 19:54 Left-handed hitters are raking 23:54 Blue Jays injuries with Dan Shulman 26:11 The reason for hope in Toronto 28:14 Vladimir Guerrero Jr's power dip 31:13 Louis Varland is the real MVP 33:12 Blue Jays Trade Outlook 36:22 The new fieriest manager in MLB 41:22 Sarah Langs numbers game 43:10 Bleacher Tweets: Roberto Clemente, pitching stats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What if you could get 30 years of coaching experience condensed into one training tip per body part? This week, Joe takes on a unique challenge from a listener: Give the single BEST piece of training advice for every major muscle group - Chest, Back, Traps, Shoulders, Triceps, Biceps, Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves and Abs - in just 2-3 minutes per category. No overthinking. No research papers. No scripts. Just raw, experience-based coaching wisdom from three decades of training everyone from NFL athletes and WWE Superstars to busy parents and everyday lifters. The result is a fast-paced, highly practical episode packed with muscle-building and longevity-focused advice that can immediately improve the way you train. Whether you're looking to build muscle, stay pain-free, or simply train smarter, this episode is loaded with actionable takeaways you can put to use today! *For a full list of Show Notes & Timestamps visit www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com. IMPORTANT LINKS DeFranco's Nutritional Supplements
Welcome to June baseball and it's time for Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci to look at how offense has changed this season. The impact of ABS on pitching, hitting, and the umpires can't be denied and Tom shares the surprising evidence. What is the biggest struggle of the Yankees this season and can they fix it? Tom and Joe reveal their biggest pet peeves in baseball before highlighting one of the best hitters in the game. The Book of Joe Podcast is a production of iHeart Radio. #fsrSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chief Fixed Income Strategist Vishy Tirupattur takes a look at how credit markets are adapting to fund the new phase of AI capex.Read more insights from Morgan Stanley.----- Transcript ----- Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I am Vishy Tirupattur, Morgan Stanley's Chief Fixed Income Strategist. Today – The critical question behind the AI-driven capex cycle that is front and center for markets year to date. How is credit market financing this ecosystem evolving? It's Wednesday June 3rd at 2 pm in New York. When we first discussed the role of credit markets in financing the AI and data center build-out around the middle of last year, the direction of travel was clear. Realizing the transformative potential of AI requires unprecedented levels of capex. What has really surprised us since is the scale and speed of that spending, both of which have exceeded our expectations by a wide margin. The upward revision to capex expectations has been dramatic. A year ago, we projected the combined capex of the five large hyperscalers at roughly $450 billion in both 2026 and 2027. After the first quarter earnings reports, Morgan Stanley's internet equity analysts, led by Brian Nowak, now expect hyperscaler capex of roughly $800 billion in 2026 and $1.2 trillion in 2027. One data point really captures the surge in the underlying demand for compute. According to OpenRouter, the global weekly token usage, which is a key proxy for compute, has risen by roughly 350 percent since early January, increasing from about 6 trillion tokens to 28 trillion tokens. Credit channels for financing this capex have not only been broader and deeper than we anticipated, spanning public and private markets, but have seen remarkable in the structural innovation that is blurring the lines between public and private markets. Over $200bn of public AI-related issuance across the different credit channels has happened just in the first five months of this year. We had previously assumed unsecured issuance would be limited by the scale of the largest non-financial issuers, confined to investment grade credit only, and largely USD denominated. Instead, some hyperscaler issuance has now far exceeded even the largest telecom names; funding has expanded well beyond USD into EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY and CAD markets. The issuer base has also broadened to include data center REITs and neoclouds, particularly in the high-yield market. The scope of financing has also widened beyond the data center shells themselves. GPU financing, which we assumed would be funded entirely through equity capital, has begun to migrate into credit markets. Funding is now coming through broadly syndicated loans and asset based financing, with ABS structures not far behind. Structural innovation illustrates how rapidly the credit ecosystem is adapting to the complexities of demands of AI-driven capex. Financings that combine elements of project finance, tranching, and residual value guarantees, along with high-yield issuance backed by hyperscaler guaranteed leases – these are innovations that we have never seen before. These structures have expanded the investor base, reduced the funding frictions, and further blurred traditional boundaries – between both corporate and project finance, and public and private credit markets. At the same time, physical, operational, and political constraints are beginning to shape the pace and the composition of the AI infrastructure build-out – and, by extension, the demand for financing. Grid access, power generation equipment, skilled labor, and permitting delays are emerging as significant constraints. These are compounded by political and regulatory frictions at the local, national, and international level. As power availability becomes a gating factor, the AI build-out is likely to pull energy infrastructure financing more tightly into the orbit of AI infrastructure financing. The clear takeaway is this. The capex requirements underpinning AI infrastructure are expanding exponentially, and with them the role of credit markets in financing this build-out. Along the way, there will be winners and losers, periods of adjustment, and a range of physical, financial, and political constraints that shape outcomes on the margin. But the broader trajectory is certain. The scale, duration, and strategic importance of AI infrastructure investment mean that financing of this will remain a defining theme for credit markets and credit investors for years to come. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review wherever you listen and share Thoughts on the Market with a friend or colleague today.
Jacob Misiorowski and the Milwaukee Brewers capped a remarkable month of May, with yet another dominant outing from the Brewers ace and a 19-7 overall showing in the month. Host JR Radcliffe and special guest Jack Stern discusses where Miz has taken the next step and the Abner Uribe episode that involved an over-the-top celebration, a one-game suspension and the Cardinals-Brewers drama that it unveiled. Trevor Megill's return to the closer's job is about more than just that, and Jack gives his take on the leverage relievers, as well as Logan Henderson (hurt), Brandon Sproat (struggling) and Quinn Priester (rehabbing). Plus: Luis Rengifo still appears to be a guy the Brewers could replace, so why the patience? Also: The slight disappointment with Jackson Chourio's learning curve and the confounding Garrett Mitchell.In Three Up Three Down (40:00), they discuss the electric UW-Milwaukee tournament run, a strange pattern with ABS challenges, elite baserunning in a win over Houston and David Hamilton's defense. In Remembrew When (55:45), JR looks at the king of the vultures in Brewers single-season relief wins. With Jack leading the way, Take of the Week (1:00:15) looks at the crowded Cy Young race and Misiorowski's place therein.Then, JR sits down with pitcher Coleman Crow (1:04:00), now three starts into his Brewers career, all victories. They discuss his unique name, his unique repertoire and the powerhouse of Nashville Sounds baseball.
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the initial CBA proposals by the MLBPA and MLB: some specific points of departure and alignment, whether we really learned anything about what each side wants or the likelihood of lost games, and what the rhetoric and rebuttals say about the PR battle to come. Then (50:08) they banter about whether baseball broadcasts could ever get good enough to endanger attendance, why ABS challenge rates haven’t closely correlated with batter quality, a difference between what fans and neutral spectators tend to enjoy about teams, whether ace-type starting-pitcher seasons are making a partial comeback, a threat to baserunners and bat-dog employment, and a mid-start stretching-related mishap. Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Drellich on franchise values Link to MLBPA proposals Link to Drellich on the MLBPA proposals Link to Normandin on the MLBPA proposals Link to Mains on the MLBPA proposals Link to Drellich on the MLB proposals Link to Meyer statement Link to Caplin statement Link to CBA math post 1 Link to CBA math post 2 Link to Episode 1542 Link to Passan’s CBA proposals breakdown Link to Ben’s bargaining primer Link to Hershberger’s 1876 post Link to Sam on challenge rates Link to challenge leaderboard Link to Andrews on Wood’s challenges Link to pitcher-pace leaderboard Link to batter-pace leaderboard Link to George injury article Link to bat-dog suspension article 1 Link to bat-dog suspension article 2 Link to “Pups in the Park” page Link to 2025 bat-dog call-up Link to Pérez injury article Link to Reddit comment about Ben Link to MLBTR on Brebbia Link to MLBTR on Jones Sponsor Us on Patreon Give a Gift Subscription Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com Effectively Wild Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki Apple Podcasts Feed Spotify Feed YouTube Playlist Facebook Group Bluesky Account Twitter Account Get Our Merch! var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source