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I have said repeatedly that one of the joys that I get from being pastor of Waterbrooke Church is how many people are on mission together in our congregation. Whether it is locally or globally, Waterbrooke has continually had people who go into prisons, or motorcycle venues or restaurants and bars or to the nations to share Christ. We have people reaching Asia and people serving in women's centers and women's prisons. The One of the new exciting ministries that we have begun is the Refugee Ministry Team that is currently begun to serve an Afghani family. Many of you are truly seeking to be a light in your workplaces, neighborhoods and homes. In our passage this week, Acts 9:26-31, Luke shows that missions happens because of the local church and the local church grows through missionary engagement. Missionary Mack Stiles who along with his wife have served in church ministry in Dubai and in Iraq was once asked by an individual here in America, “What can we do for you, Mack?” Mack replied, “The best thing that you can do for me,” I said, “is to make sure you keep your church healthy. I can't do the work there if churches are unhealthy here.” This Sunday, our sermon was called Church and Missions: Advancing Together. God really is up to something fantastic and I pray the Holy Spirit will encourage us at Waterbrooke with His vision for the church and for the nations. To Find out more about Waterbrooke Church - Go www.waterbrooke.church

Episode 658: Apologies for the weird audio artifacts. Andrew spilled water into the mixer. This audio was recovered from the livestream. Implosions are an appropriate first topic. Black don't crack. Old Game of Thrones YouTube channels. What podcasts have survived this long? Alphabetical music. Puke gets a triple road rage. Afghani robots. The most retarded reason to get a Pittsburgh parking ticket. Mustache comb. Andrew wins an auction.

Episode 657: The show for men and toes at ports. What is Tootsie? RiffTrax. Enough with Bill Murray already! The Greenbrier hotel and rapeorium. A movie about the Afghani all girls robotics team. Pinaud water therapy. Andrew bids on a new classic hot-rod. Are lug nuts important? Puke asks for an opinion on a new EV start-up but Andrew just screams for several minutes. A woman named Anesthesia.

Back Home, One week later.By FinalStand. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.There is something worse than waking up and not knowing where you are: you could wake up and not know who you are.Note: World Events Stuff ~ aka Why things are happening in Cáel's lifeThe phone was from Iskender. His boss, Oyuun Tömörbaatar (OT), the former UN ambassador from Kazakhstan and now the informal and unrecognized UN representative and chief diplomat of the Khanate to the same august body, wanted to talk with me, immediately. OT wasn't being diplomatic at the moment, that would come later.{Now this is going to get convoluted}Any inquiries to the Khanate that didn't also include immediate official recognition of the Khanate currently were being steered my (and Hana's) way. For all the behind closed doors crap, he had me, his loyal ass-monkey mutton-head. I held faint hope that this latest meeting would work out to my benefit. For the meeting, I traveled light, only Naomi (the Amazon) and Chaz (British SRR) watched over me.Now fathers who know me, hide their daughters. I'd earned my 'scoundrel' reputation. T. Sarangerel, OT's daughter, was in the room when Iskender ushered me in. She gave me an uncertain look, I shrugged and she smiled. It took me 3 nano seconds to figure that out, OT was scoping me out as a potential son-in-law. I was in Temujin's Inner Circle and a man who he trusted (a rarity). Any union with me would strengthen OT's clan's standing in the new regime.The genetic footprint Temujin, and his immediate family collectively, had put down in the 13th and 14th centuries CE today was vast. He needed that to make his plans for the internal reorganization of the Khanate work. The old republics would go away, to be replaced by a system akin to the Byzantine 'themes, the re-organization of regions based on the recruitment of the Tumens.The Khanate was aiming for an 'Autocratic Republic' ~ a term invented in the 19th century. My use of this terminology was based on my gut instinct, Alal's host of memories involving every form of governance, and my experience with human nature. That clued me in to what Temujin was up to, his Greater Plan. He wasn't going to form a false-front government. He was going to retain the decision-making powers and do so openly, thus 'Autocratic'.He also planned to have a bicameral legislative branch. The Upper House would be based in Tumens and bureaucratic leadership, intellectual standing, religious sects, and tribal entities. This body would be based on merit, not primogeniture. The Lower, main chamber, would be a democratically-elected assembly (aka a democratic republic) that advised him on policy matters, thus 'Republic'.All the power would remain in the Great Khan's hands and would be exercised by his genetic descendants (which some geneticists estimated as being as high as 25% of the Central Asian population.) Marrying into that extended family would be easy, the 'family' itself would have a vested interesting in supporting a state that benefited them.Men and women could exercise power in the government through marriage alliances, identical to the manner Hana was working through me. Being surrounded by very populous countries in various states of belligerence, empowering women wouldn't be an issue since every willing mind and pair of hands mattered. Outsiders who shone through could be offered a spouse and brought into the ruling elite since polygamy was permissible.In the Khanate there would be universal compulsive suffrage (everyone 18+ was legally required to vote) to decide on the representatives in the new legislative body. Everyone was expected to fight, so everyone voted. It would be modeled on the Duma of early 20th century Imperial Russia. Unlike the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II, Temujin would be much more attentive to the voice of the people, in the Information Age, he had to.Or so I hoped. I spewed forth my ideas to OT who didn't agree, or disagree with my vision. Perhaps Temujin and I did share a bond that went beyond obligation. OT then pulled a 'Pamela'."He told me he knew immediately you were his brother when you and I shared that vision," he commented out of nowhere."His words: You (Earth and Sky) are the old. He (meaning me) is the new. He (me again) will show us the way." My, that was nice, obtuse and not at all helpful. What did OT want? My good buddy, the Great Khan, wanted to cash in on Hana's and my sudden popularity. His most pressing need remained 'time'. He needed to have a cease-fire in the wings when his offensive resumed the next day.The Earth and Sky had moved, well, the Heaven and Earth to get the Tumens and their accompanying national armies up and running after only a two day respite. Thanks to me, Manchuria was a mess. The Russians had carried out my 'Operation: Funhouse' with mixed, mostly positive results.Dozens of smaller Chinese military police units along the border went, 'inactive' was the term most often used in the media. They didn't disarm, yet they didn't fight the Russians either. They sat back and let events unfold. The issue wasn't the Chinese's willingness to fight and die for their country. It was the schizophrenic government in Beijing.The PRC didn't want to wage a war with the Russian Federation at that moment. The Khanate was the priority. There were two fundamentally incompatible courses of action favored for dealing with the Russians:One large group advocated a passive Option A: let the Russians step in and shield the three remaining provinces making up Manchuria that were still in Chinese possession. Later, China would use military, economic and political means to edge the Russians out, once the Khanate was dealt with.A sizable faction favored a more aggressive Option B: play a game of chicken with Vladimir Putin. Tell the Bear not to come across the border while threatening him with a bloody and pointless (for him) guerilla war if he did intervene. Events on the ground were not providing a lot of support for that school of thought,However, this split at the highest levels of leadership left the local and regional commanders to try and muddle through as best they could. To the local commanders defending the Amur River side of the Chinese-Russian border, common sense dictated that they not oppose the Russian crossings, because the Russian 35th Army would kill them.All their military units had gone west to the Nen River line. With no heavy weapons and little air support, the People's Armed Police (PAP) (paramilitary) and the Public Security Bureau (regular police) units would be wiped out for little gain.Russia's GRU (Military Intelligence) sweetened the pot by allowing the police units to remain armed and in formation. It could be argued that they weren't even committing treason. At any time, they could throw themselves into the battle, or form the core of a resistance movement. 'Conserving your strength' had been a hallmark of the Communist Chinese struggle against the Imperial Japanese and Nationalists forces from the 1920's until 1945 and it had served them well.For the party officials, civil authorities and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Army Air Force (PLAAF), and Army Navy (PLAN) who had gone with Option B, things weren't working out. In the north of Heilongjiang province at Morin Dawa/the Nen River line, the regional commander of the ad hoc forces facing the Khanate decided to duke it out with the Russian 36th Army as well. He was boned from the get-go.The PLAAF's overall command and control had been badly disrupted in the first few hours of The Unification War and had never fully recovered. Of the 22 air regiments that the PLAAF had started the war with in the Shenyang Military District (NE China), only 5 remained as effective formations flying, on average, a meager 20% of their original complement of advanced Shenyang J-16's, J-11's, Chengdu J-10's and Xian JH-7's aircraft.Replacing their aircraft losses meant sending up aged Shenyang J-8's (rolled out in 1980) and Nanchang Q-5's (in 1970) to fly and die in droves fighting their technologically superior Khanate foes. To add insult to injury, China's fleet of 97 Su-30MKK/MK2's (built in Russia) had suffered numerous suspicious mechanical and electronic failures, rendering them either flying coffins, or space holders in bomb-proof shelters.Furthermore, of the forces arrayed in the far north, only two of the five air regiments were responding. Two of the other three had begun displacing south into the Beijing Military District and preparing to defend the capital city. The fifth formation had another problem, North Korea (, more on that later.)In opposition to those two Chinese air regiments (roughly 60 aircraft of mixed types) stood seven complete and fresh Russian air regiments (over 400 front-line aircraft) and that didn't include the regiment and elements of the Far East Naval Aviation which was ALSO watching North Korea (, again more on that later.) The latter was of small comfort to the forces trying to hold the already compromised Nen River line.Behind those valiant troops, along the much more defensible Amur River line, the commander of the key city of Heihe sided with the Option A group and let the Russian 35th Army cross the river unopposed. By the time the PLA commanding general of the 'Nen Force' (the 69th Motorized Division and the subordinate 7th Reserve Division) figured that out, he was already in a shooting war with the Russians. So his supply lines weren't in danger, they were lost.The final indignity took place at Zalantun. The commander of the 3rd Reserve Div. had died during the attempt to recapture Zalantun. His replacement died when his helicopter was shot down as he was coming to assume command. In the absence of these officers, the divisional chief of staff told his men, including two hastily hustled forward mechanized brigades, to put down their arms. That meant 'Nen Force' was completely cut-off and surrounded.One battalion of the 36th Russian Motorized Brigade (yes, too many 36's running around) disarmed the Chinese troops while the rest, plus the 74th Independent Motorized Brigade raced for the prize, the city of Qiqihar. The last major mechanized formation of the 36th Rus. Army, the 39th MB was following them. However, instead of manning Qiqihar's defenses, the Chinese garrison in that city was waging war on its own populace.It wasn't only in Qiqihar; chaos reigned throughout Heilongjiang province. The Provincial Head of the Communist Party, Wang Xiankui, supported Option A. The Provincial Governor, Lu Hao, went with Option B. Both figures were rising stars in the PRC. Wang had ordered the still forming Reserve Divisions and the PAP units to disperse, thus avoiding any untimely confrontations with the Russians.Lu, without consulting Wang, ordered the same forces to launch a violent crackdown on all dissident forces, specifically all racial minorities. (It turned out that Lu was also a member of the Seven Pillars and his witch-hunt was aimed at getting the Earth and Sky organization operating in Heilongjiang).For the men and women on the other end of those phone conversations, there was no 'right' answer. Lest we forget, their organizations were already degraded by the Anthrax outbreak. Both men were powerful and represented China's future leadership, so if the person in charge at the ground level obeyed the wrong one, they could be assured of being roasted by the other.Some did try to do both, repress and disband at the same time. That meant that in the process of making mass arrests among an already war-fearful and plague-fearful populace, the law enforcement infrastructure began disintegrating.The problem with Lu's/7P's plan was that there was no 'revolutionary' organization to round up. That wasn't how the Earth and Sky operated in North-East China. They remained in tiny sabotage and reconnaissance cells. While they were scurrying for cover from the police crackdown, an opportunity presented itself.The afflicted minorities were getting furious with their treatment. These minorities saw themselves as loyal Chinese, yet they were being dragged out into the streets, put in detentions centers and (in a few cases) summarily executed. Being less than 10% of the overall population, resistance had never crossed their minds. It seemed all that those defenseless people could do was pray for Russian intervention forces to arrive.Within that mix of fear, betrayal and rage, the E and S discovered a way to start the dominos falling. The small, well-armed and well-trained E and S cells began ambushing police detachments. Weapons from those dead men and women were turned over to the pissed off locals before the cell went off to stalk the next police unit.Wash, rinse and repeat. It became a perverse and bloody case of wish fulfillment. Lu and the 7P's had been looking for an insurrection and they started one. Even though a miniscule portion of the population was involved, from the outside looking in, it reinforced the Putin Public Affairs initiative that portrayed Putin (and his army) as coming in to restore order to a collapsing civil system, which he was helping disrupt.From Moscow, the PRC's indecisiveness looked like Manna from Heaven. For the massive numbers of Russian soldiers riding through the Manchurian countryside, it felt like they were rolling into Arkham Asylum. Unlike the NATO countries' professional armies, Russia remained a largely conscript force whose normal term of service was only one year. These unseasoned troops could never tell if the local military, military police and police would attack until they rolled up on the Chinese units.At the start of that Day One of Operation: Funhouse, the Russian ROE (Rules of Engagement) was 'Ask and Verify'. It was tactically advantageous for the belligerent Chinese forces to lie about their intentions, then begin shooting at the Russians when they got close enough to hurt them. By Day Two, the standard front-line Russian soldier had adjusted that ROE to 'if they look at us wrong, light their asses up'. By Day Three, the officers had stopped trying to enforce Moscow's ROE orders.That was fine for the combat and rear echelon support troops because both the Chinese and Russian governments had another series of problems and they all centered around Pyongyang and Kim Jong-un's declaration that North Korea would intervene as well, without letting anyone know who he was 'intervening' against. To keep everyone guessing, the North Korean' People's Army was massing on all three borders, facing off with the PRC, Russia and South Korea. To prove his diplomatic intentions, Kim pledged to only mobilize half of his reserves, merely 4,250,000 extra men and women to go with his 950,000 strong standing army.It didn't take a military, or economic genius to realize the North Korean's chronically 'near death' economy was stampeding off a cliff. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was in the middle of an oil crisis and Kim was increasing their fuel consumption by 400% while decreasing his workforce by 10%. To put it in perspective, the US unemployment was around 6%. Now imagine that in one week's time it would become 26%. One week, no severance packages. Would the population become unsettled?But wait, it gets better. The Secret War was colliding with the Real World in more places than Manchuria. Setting aside the assassination attempt (Grrr) of Hana Sulkanen, my fiancée, six Nipponese elders (two women and four men) appeared in the personal quarters of the Japanese Prime Minister on the first full night of 'Funhouse' and relayed their urgent requests.Those six were the Head of the Six (formerly Seven) Ninja Families and they were there at, my urging. Cause I'm an idiot and requiring the deaths of Romanians in my personal crusade obviously wasn't enough. Now I was asking the Japanese Defense Forces (JDF) to pony up as well. So take a deep breath and put on the hip-waders.You might be wondering why I would want the JDF, see, there was part of Operation: Funhouse that was hitting a predictable snag, namely the Korea People's Navy Force (KPNF) and the uncertain determination of the PLAN:The KPNF's vessels were rather old, small and crappy. They also had a love affair with anything that could launch a torpedo and they listed over 700 of these floating deathtraps (only 13 of which could be classified as surface warships) and the fanatical crews to take them into battle.The PLAN's numbers were far more realistic and the fleet generally more modern. Only their North (18 surface warships) and East Fleets (22 plus 5 'elsewhere') could play any role in an upcoming FUBAR, and both fleets were heading out to sea, mainly to avoid the sporadic, but increasingly effective Khanate air strikes.The FU to be BAR'ed was the Russian Far East Fleet (RFEF) (6 warships strong, ) that had seized on this crazy idea (per my suggestion) to sail south, around the Korean peninsula so they could land elements of the 55th Guards Red Banner Marine Brigade (the 165th Marine Regiment and the 180th Marine Tank Battalion).Theoretically they were going to be the 'Southern Shielding Force' that would interpose itself between the Khanate and Beijing. It should surprise no one that the RFEF's flotilla was unequal to the task of taking their destination, the port of Qinhuangdao, by amphibious assault. Fortunately for the Gods of War (which did not include me), there were five other navies involved.Meanwhile, South Korea was having kittens because their always crazy northern kin were slathering on the insanity. (In how many Buddhist countries do people flock to the temples and pray that their neighbor attacks someone, anyone else, but them? That wasn't a religious conundrum I wanted to deal with.) N.Korea mobilizing meant S.Korea had to mobilize, which sucked down on their GNP as well.Besides, N.Korean dams and coal-powered plants kept the lights on in Seoul. Erring on the side of caution, the S. Korea (aka Republic of Korea, ROK) Army suggested calling up only one million of their three million person reserve force in order to assure Cousin Kim that this was a purely defensive gesture. It didn't work. Kim Jong-un castigated the ROK for antagonizing him, despite his declaration that he 'might' feel like invading the South in the immediate future.Into the emerging crisis, the ROK Navy could sortie nineteen small surface ships. Japan's Navy wasn't up to its old imperial standards, but could still deploy 45 surface warships. The 800 lb. gorilla in the room was the core of the 7th Fleet stationed at Yokosuka, Japan, the USS carrier George Washington and her 14 escort vessels.If the George Washington was the gorilla, RIMPAC 2014 was King Kong. 22 nations, 50 ships, including the USS carrier Ronald Reagan were engaged in war games in the Central Pacific. With them were 5 vessels of the PLAN, had Kim Jong-un just kept his mouth shut, this wouldn't have been an issue. Hell, if the Khanate had not come into existence and launched its Unification War, but he had and they did,To show the US was taking this escalation seriously (without tipping their hand that they knew about Funhouse, Carrier Strike Group One (CSG 1) (the Carl Vinson +10) was rushing across the Pacific from San Diego. CSG 3 (the John C. Stennis +2) was being assembled hastily so that they could rendezvous with CSG 1 ASAP. So many brave souls running toward the danger, sometimes I hate myself.So now does it make sense that I found myself in a room with a US Senator tasked with riding herd on me?Anyway, there were the other three navies still unaccounted for, Taiwan / the Republic of China (ROC) (22 surface ships), Vietnam (7) and the Philippines (3). Taiwanese involvement was easy to explain, the PRC refused to acknowledge them as an independent country and probably never would.The Vietnam People's Navy was tiny in both numbers and tonnage. Five of the vessels were 1960's Soviet frigates. What Vietnam did have was a huge grudge against the PRC. The PLA invaded Vietnam in 1979 and devastated the northernmost provinces, killing as many as 100,000 civilians.The PLAN had walloped the VPN in 1974 (technically South Vietnam) and again in 1988. Out in the South China Sea were two island archipelagos; the Paracel (occupied by a small PLA garrison and claimed by the PRC, Vietnam and the ROC) and Spratlys Islands (disputed by Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, the PRC, the ROC, and Vietnam).The Philippines had a grand total of three frigates (all between 50 and 70 years old). 99% of the time, they faced a hopeless struggle enforcing Philippines' South China Sea claims, except they were now experiencing that 1% where the PRC found itself in a life and death struggle. Even then, the PLAN's South Sea Fleet was hands-down the biggest player with 26 surface warships centered on the Carrier Liaoning.Except (and there always seems to be an 'except') virtually all the PLAN's naval aviation had gone off to fight the Khanate and it wasn't coming back, ever. In the air, the Philippines was next to useless. What did they have of offer in the struggle for the South China Sea? Bases. The ROC and Vietnam had much more to bring to the table.The Vietnamese People's Liberation Air Force (VPLAR) had about 50 front-line aircraft and 175 nearly obsolete models ~ the same models the PLAAF was now piloting. The ROC Air Force could put up 325 almost-new fighters that were now superior to their opponents on the mainland. Why would I give a shit?Things cascade. The Khanate Air Force took a two-day long deep breath as Putin's 'Policeman that only looks like an invading army' started their intervention. Forty-eight hours later, the Khanate started the fourth stage (the first lunge, defeat the PLA's counter-attack then the second lunge) of the campaign.Their initial air power was still skating on thin ice where maintenance was concerned. They need more time to thoroughly rest their pilots and bring all their top-flight equipment to 100% working condition. Against them, in two days the PLAAF's assets increased by over 250 fighters.In turn, the Khanate had added their constituent state air forces plus nearly 80 new cutting edge air planes and 25 drones. Phase Four saw rolling airstrikes all along the forces massing in front of the northern and central Tumens. For a few hours, the PLA thought they knew what was going on.They were wrong and this was where my meeting with OT came in. Jab with the right, cut them down with the left. The left in my case was Tibet. Yeah, Tibet. Economic value = not nearly enough. From the very start of the war, a small number of seemingly inconsequential air strikes had seriously eroded the PLA and PLAAFs combat power in the Tibetan Plateau while leaving the roads, bridges and towns intact.Common military logic dictated that the Khanate had to punch their way further east into Qinghai (to the south) and Gansu (to the north) provinces. That was where the population and industry where. Farther east were even greater numbers of people and factories and the Khanate forces in the North hadn't been strong enough to threaten to cut off the Qinghai-Gansu front. Then the Russians showed up and the Khanate forces threatening that flank doubled overnight.The PLA hastily reinforced their northern flank, using troops from their strategic reserves. The move resulted in incredible attrition by airpower to the freshly equipped formations. The PLA was about to get flanked, but not from the north. Southwest of Qinghai was Tibet. A third of the Khanate's mobile forces now swept around in a huge left haymaker to the south.My job? I needed the 'Free Tibet' forces in the US and UK to provide public and moral support to the Khanate move. As Khanate Special Forces seized crucial bottlenecks in Tibet, they needed the locals to keep their 'liberators' informed of PLA presences and undermine any attempt to create a guerilla movement.The five Tumens dedicated to being the Schwerpunkt (point of maximum effort) of this flanking maneuver were going to be on a tight timetable if they were going to surround the PLA forces in Central China.My plan was to convince the Tibetans that the PRC's 55 years of occupation was coming to an end and the Great Khan wanted to sign a 'Treaty of Mutual Respect' (my invention). This would require both the Khanate and Tibet to recognize each other's right to exist the moment a cease-fire was reached. That was it. No 'armed presence', or 'mutual defense' agreements.The treaty would be formally signed in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, when the city was safe ~ as determined by the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile, CTA). Riki came up with an additional sweetener and proved she was quickly adjusting to our group's extra-governmental capabilities.

This week I am joined by Welsh Labour MP and former international rugby star Tonia Antoniazzi. Before entering politics, her distinguished rugby career earned her nine caps for Wales and saw her compete in the 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup.Elected as the first female MP for Gower in 2017, she has since championed everything from women's rights to medical cannabis. In 2024, she joined the Board of Directors for the Scarlets rugby team, reinforcing her lifelong commitment to the sport.With a career spanning sports, education, and politics, Antoniazzi continues to champion causes that make a real difference in people's lives.

Logan and Aiden of Americana Pipedream Apparel return! Having last spoken to B.R and Nathan in early 2023 for episode 93, we had a bunch to catch up on with the AP lads. The gang get into what international incidents have cropped up since we last spoke, how the company is evolving as the guys enter their fourth year in business, how building Americana Pipedream has aged the guys as well as what opportunities it has afforded them, what the Afghani's think of 9/11 rugs, Nathan asks the guys about eating the long pig, B.R asks about the complexities of running a modern surplus business and Wisconsin gets some love. All that, and much more!Artwork by: https://www.instagram.com/paigeosity/?hl=enCheck out our guest:https://www.instagram.com/americana.pipedreamhttps://www.americanapipedream.comCheck out PP.TF here:https://pptaskforce.comwww.instagram.com/pptaskforce.est23/Check out our sponsors:  Cloud Defensive / Chad Defensive Rifle / EDC Lights:For 10% off site wide, that stacks with any Cloud Defensive sales, use Code: ARTANDWAR10⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clouddefensive.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Two Grunts Inc. - Quality *Ä*Ř* Manufacturer:Use code: CBRN for $50 off your order!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twogruntsinc.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Attorneys for Freedom - Attorneys on Retainer Program, sign up via this link to support the show:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://attorneysonretainer.us/artandwar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠             ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠         ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AWSin.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠                             ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/CBRNArt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.space/@CBRNart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the lads on IG:     ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nathan / Main Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠B.R: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/br.the.anarch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucas: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/heartl1ne/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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A sad start to the episode as we pay respects to the great and unfortunately now passed David Lynch' When we get into new movies, we are discussing the newest horror from Nick Frost 'Get Away', hard hitting Afghani documentary 'Bread & Roses', biopic (of sorts) with the return of Angelina Jolie on the big screen in 'Maria' and we finish with 'Bank Of Dave 2: The Lone Ranger' the unlikeliest of sequel s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In der heutigen Folge wird der nächste Cannapendium-Trip geteasert und eine neue Kategorie eröffnet: Die Strainreviews! Wir besprechen die Herkunft von zwei Landrassen die jedem von euch etwas sagen sollten. Hört rein und lernt etwas zur Afghani und der Hindu Kush!

Ansa - di Rosanna Pugliese da Berlino.Saranno curati negli ospedali tedeschi e accompagnati dai volontari della Ong. Manuela Rossi racconta all'ANSA i casi di cui si occupa ogni giorno: i piccoli hanno bruciature gravissime e malattie invalidanti, che sarebbero incurabili nei paesi di origine. Restano nella repubblica federale anche per anni. Grazie ad una impresa di solidarietà unica in Europa, a cui partecipano anche tanti italiani. 

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This is just one of those episodes. If you love weed, whether you're in the industry or just a fan, you can't miss a second of this extended conversation with one of the real harbingers of the culture and preservers of the plant.Blackleaf is joined by the mythological man behind the curtain of cannabis, Kevin Jodrey @kevinjodrey, creator of Port Royal, owner of Wonderland Nursery, and co-founder of The Ganjier.Sit down and strap in for a longer episode that doesn't skip a beat on moments of invaluable game-dropping, never-before-heard strain lore, run-ins with law enforcement, traveling the world for weed, certifying Ganjiers, and so much more. If you've ever wondered where the birth of high-CBD strains began or what herb looks like in the wild countryside of Afghanistan while hunting genetics with Landrace Mafia, you'll be on the edge of your seat for this entire chaotic ride.Kevin Jodrey is hands-down one of the most well-known and respected growers out of Humboldt County. He's also an internationally respected expert on the plant, accredited for improving and forwarding the modern cannabis movement. On top if it all, he's spoken at a slew of universities, judged the Emerald Cup multiple times, and appeared on National Geographic and A&E to speak on cannabis education.You'll hear Blackleaf ask countless questions on every smoker's mind, and Kevin candidly weighs in on topics such as the THCa wave, nicotine addictions fueling the candy wave currently sweeping the industry, how the average grower can preserve their genetics, why tissue culture isn't always done right, and the fact that real Sour may be gone forever.Kevin was literally at the epicenter of the “Green Rush” with seemingly uneding stories he riffs on from Humboldt back in the day throughout this incredibly special episode of the pod. Today, he's at the forefront of the “Clean Rush” aka the sustainable movement of regenerating land naturally through cannabis cultivation…among countless other projects that span the globe.It's hard to concisely put into words all of the crazy insight, free game, jaw-dropping stories of hunting genetics and fighting law enforement, as well as genuine life and relationship advice that you can absorb from this episode. So, simply put—light one up, kick back, and lock in.Subscribe to our channel and the FSOTD.com site to keep up with other key players and enjoy conversations with tastemakers from the culture you can't find anywhere else. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The inaugural Aotearoa Afghanistan Marathon this weekend is empowering Afghani women, who came to New Zealand after the Taliban returned to power in 2021. 

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40 000 Afghan refugees have settled in Canada since the Taliban's swift and dramatic return to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Today on Now or Never, five newcomers share the realities of starting over in a new country, and what they're dreaming about next.Afghan teenager Razia Arifi grew up in a family that always encouraged education, and to get out of Afghanistan the first chance she got. So when the Taliban returned in 2021, 16-year-old Razia found herself on a plane to Canada, without her parents and siblings. Today this university student shares how she's dealing with the weight of expectations, and why her goal is to eventually get back to Afghanistan to open a school for girls. In Afghanistan, she was an award-winning journalist fearlessly fighting for women's rights and press freedom. But here, Farida Nekzad says she's starting from zero, worried about her finances, and wondering how she will pay back the transportation loan most refugees arrive with.Canadian military veteran Dave Lavery was on the ground helping evacuate people from Afghanistan when the Taliban took Kabul. But a few months after fleeing, he returned to take back his house from the Taliban and rebuild his business in a country he still calls his 'home away from home.'For many Afghani kids in Edmonton, soccer games were their first taste of life in Canada. We take you to a game with head coach Hamid Atimadi, who is sharing his love of the game with the next generation.And transgender woman Ozlam Mahshar was severely punished by her family for wearing make-up in Afghanistan. After escaping the Taliban's rule and arriving in Canada in 2022, she now has dreams of being a make-up artist, and flexes her skills on Ify for an intimate sit-down. 

Larry takes your calls and comments on the loss of credibility from the news media and the detained Afghani refugee who was planning a terror attack on Election Day in hour 1.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pink Floyd's Catalog Sale: A New EraIn this episode of the Deadhead Cannabis Show, Larry Michigan explores the rich history of the Grateful Dead's music, focusing on a specific concert from 1980. He discusses the significance of various songs, including 'Iko Iko' and 'Me and Bobby McGee', while also reflecting on the impact of Chris Christopherson's songwriting. The conversation shifts to current events in the music and cannabis industries, including Pink Floyd's catalog sale and the ongoing challenges faced by the hemp industry. Larry emphasizes the importance of medical marijuana legalization and shares insights on how cannabis enhances the music experience. He concludes with personal strain recommendations and highlights record sales in legal marijuana states. TakeawaysThe Grateful Dead's acoustic sets were a significant part of their live performances.Audience tapes capture the energy of live shows better than soundboard recordings.Chris Christopherson's 'Me and Bobby McGee' remains a classic, showcasing the intersection of music and storytelling.Pink Floyd's recent catalog sale reflects the changing dynamics in the music industry.The Betty Boards represent a pivotal moment in Grateful Dead tape trading history.The hemp industry faces legal challenges that could impact small businesses.A majority of chronic pain patients support the legalization of medical marijuana.Cannabis enhances the enjoyment of music, as confirmed by recent studies.Record sales in legal marijuana states are reaching new heights, indicating a thriving market.Personal strain recommendations can enhance the cannabis experience for users. Chapters00:00Introduction and Context of the Grateful Dead's Music04:50Exploring 'Iko Iko' and Audience Tapes10:42The Significance of 'Monkey and the Engineer'15:24Remembering Chris Christopherson and 'Me and Bobby McGee'22:31Pink Floyd's Catalog Sale to Sony Music28:15The Mystery of the Betty Boards54:16Current Issues in the Hemp Industry01:08:10Support for Medical Marijuana Legalization01:15:50The Impact of Marijuana on Music Enjoyment01:21:09Record Sales in Legal Marijuana States01:25:53Strain Recommendations and Personal Experiences Grateful DeadOctober 7, 1980 (44 years ago)Warfield TheaterSan Francisco, CAGrateful Dead Live at Warfield Theater on 1980-10-07 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Part of 23 show run in late September to the end of October, 1980 split between the Warfield (September 27th – October 14th) and Radio City Music Hall in NYC (October 22 – 31st)   Each show opened with an acoustic set followed by two full electric sets.  These were the last shows where the Dead played acoustic sets.  Songs from all of these concerts were pulled for the two related Dead double album releases, Reckoning (acoustic music, released April 1, 1981- the Band's sixth live album and 17th overall) and Dead Set (electric music, released August 26, 1981, the Band's seventh live album and 18th overall).  Today's episode is broken up into three acoustic numbers from this show and then three electric numbers. INTRO:                     Iko Iko                                    Track #1                                    0:00 – 1:37 "Iko Iko" (/ˈaɪkoʊˈaɪkoʊ/) is a much-coveredNew Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a single by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford and his Cane Cutters but it failed to make the charts. The song first became popular in 1965 by the girl groupthe Dixie Cups, who scored an international hit with "Iko Iko" released in March, 1965. In 1967, as part of a lawsuit settlement between Crawford and the Dixie Cups, the trio were given part songwriting credit for the song.  A permanent part of the Dead's  repertoire since first played in May, 1977 in St. Louis, almost by accident out of and back into a Not Fade Away.  The intro, one verse and back to NFA.  Overtime, became a tune that was not frequently played, usually once, maybe twice, a tour, but whenever it was played it created a party atmosphere out of whatever the mood had been prior to its playing.  Perfect song for Jerry with the call and response chorus that everyone joined in on.  The song that “fastened my seatbelt on the bus” when I saw it for the first time at my second show ever in Syracuse in 1982 with good buddy Mikey.  Once you hear it live, you are always looking for it at future shows. I love this song as do many Deadheads.  But getting to hear it played acoustically is a real treat and a great way to open this “hometown” show.  Jerry played it right up until the end. Played:  185 timesFirst:  May 15, 1977 at St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, MO, USALast:  July 5, 1995 at Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO, USA SHOW No. 1:         Monkey And The Engineer                                    Track #4                                    0:48 – 2:25 Jesse Fuller tune Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".  Starting in the 1950's after a number of non-music related jobs, Fuller began to compose songs, many of them based on his experiences on the railroads, and also reworked older pieces, playing them in his syncopated style. His one-man band act began when he had difficulty finding reliable musicians to work with: hence, he became known as "The Lone Cat". Starting locally, in clubs and bars in San Francisco and across the bay in Oakland and Berkeley, Fuller became more widely known when he performed on television in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles. In 1958, at the age of 62, he recorded an album, released by Good Time Jazz Records.[3] Fuller's instruments included 6-string guitar (an instrument which he had abandoned before the beginning of his one-man band career), 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbal (high-hat) and fotdella. He could play several instruments simultaneously, particularly with the use of a headpiece to hold a harmonica, kazoo, and microphone. In the summer of 1959 he was playing in the Exodus Gallery Bar in Denver. Bob Dylan spent several weeks in Denver that summer, and picked up his technique of playing the harmonica by using a neck-brace from Fuller.[ Monkey And The Engineer was played by the pre-Dead group Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. The song was performed by the Grateful Dead in acoustic sets in 1969, 1970, 1980 and 1981. Also performed by Bob Weir with Kingfish. A fun tune that is perfect for kids as well.  Good one to get them hooked into the Dead on! Played:  38 timesFirst:  December 19, 1969 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USALast: February 12, 1989 at Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA  MUSIC NEWS:                         Intro Music:           Me and Bobby McGee                                                            Kris Kristofferson - Me And Bobby McGee (1979) (youtube.com)                                                            0:00 – 1:27 "Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster.[1] Foster had a bit of a crush on Barbara "Bobbie" McKee who was a secretary on Nashville's music row. When he pitched the title to Kristofferson, he misheard the name as "Me and Bobby McGee," and the name stuck. Kristofferson found inspiration for his lyrics from a film, 'La Strada,' by Fellini, and a scene where Anthony Quinn is going around on this motorcycle and Giulietta Masina is the feeble-minded girl with him, playing the trombone. He got to the point where he couldn't put up with her anymore and left her by the side of the road while she was sleeping," Kristofferson said.  A posthumously released version by Janis Joplin topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. Gordon Lightfoot released a version that reached number 1 on the Canadian country charts in 1970. Jerry Lee Lewis released a version that was number 1 on the country charts in December 1971/January 1972 as the "B" side of "Would You Take Another Chance on Me". Billboard ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971. Janis Joplin recorded the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her while Kristofferson was in Peru filming The Last Movie with Dennis Hopper.[5] Kristofferson did not know she had recorded the song until after her death. The first time he heard her recording of it was the day after she died.[6]Record World called it a "perfect matching of performer and material."[7] Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single; her version was later ranked No. 148 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2002, the 1971 version of the song by Janis Joplin on Columbia Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. The pair hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American South before making their way westward. They visit California and then part ways, with the song's narrator expressing sadness afterwards. Due to the singer's name never being mentioned and the name "Bobby" being gender-neutral (especially in America), the song has been recorded by both male and female singers with only minor differences in the lyrical content. Me And Bobby McGee was first performed by the Grateful Dead in November 1970. It was then played well over 100 times through to October 1974. The song returned to the repertoire for three performances in 1981 after which it was dropped for good.  Sung by Weir.    RIP Kris Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson, the iconic country music singer-songwriter and accomplished Hollywood actor, passed away peacefully at his home in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of 88. The family has not disclosed the cause of death. It was confirmed that Kristofferson was surrounded by loved ones during his final moments. In a statement, the family shared: "It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept. 28 at home. We're all so blessed for our time with him. Thank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he's smiling down at us all." Tributes poured in from across the entertainment world and fans as the news of Kris Kristofferson's death spread. Barbra Streisand, his co-star in A Star Is Born, praised him as a "special” and “charming" in a post on X. Dolly Parton, who collaborated with Kristofferson, shared on X, "What a great loss. I will always love you, Dolly." Kristofferson's career was nothing short of extraordinary. He achieved stardom as both a country music artist and a successful actor. Throughout his prolific career, Kristofferson earned numerous accolades. These include three Grammy Awards and an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Additionally, he was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985 for Best Original Song for Songwriter. In 1971, Janis Joplin, who had dated Kristofferson, had a number one hit with "Me and Bobby McGee" from her posthumous album Pearl. It stayed on the number-one spot on the charts for weeks.  In 2021, after releasing his final album, The Cedar Creek Sessions, in 2016, Kristofferson announced his retirement from music. His legacy as a musician, actor, and cultural icon leaves a profound impact on both industries. He is survived by his wife, Lisa, his children, and his grandchildren.  Pink Floyd sells song rights (Rolling Stone Magazine) After years of in-fighting and near-agreements, Pink Floyd have finally reached a deal to sell the rights to their recorded music catalog to Sony Music, according to the Financial Times.The deal is reported to be worth around $400 million and also includes the rights to the band's name and likenesses. That means, along with gaining full control over Pink Floyd's music, Sony will have the crucial rights for most things Pink Floyd-related, from merch to movies. A rep for Sony Music declined to comment. A source confirmed the veracity of the details to Rolling Stone. In an interview with Rolling Stone in August, Gilmour confirmed that the band was “in discussion” about a potential catalog sale, with the guitarist adding he was tired of the continued in-fighting and “veto system” that has resulted in animosity and delayed reissues over petty issues like liner notes.   “To be rid of the decision-making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going is my dream,” Gilmour said of a catalog sale. “If things were different… and I am not interested in that from a financial standpoint. I'm only interested in it from getting out of the mud bath that it has been for quite a while.” With the Sony deal in place, the label — and not the band — will now bear the responsibility for the next Pink Floyd release, a 50th-anniversary edition of Wish You Were Here that is expected to arrive in 2025. The Sony deal comes 18 months after Pink Floyd made traction on a $500 million agreement to sell their music, only for more bickering between band mates to make the deal “basically dead,” as sources told Variety in March 2023. The Sony deal only includes Pink Floyd's recorded music catalog, which allows for the band to keep its largely Waters-penned publishing catalog and retain ownership of now-apropos lyrics like “Money/It's a crime/Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie” and “We call it riding the gravy train.” What happened to the Betty Boards In May 1986, a storage auction took place in California's Marin County that would altogether change the nature of Grateful Dead tape trading, the group's distribution of its live recordings and, ultimately, the Dead's place in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. An advertisement in a local paper drew in a few dozen curious parties anticipating the range of memorabilia and household items that typically become available through the auction of lockers that had fallen into arrears due to lack of payments.  Among the items up for auction that day were hundreds of reel-to-reel soundboard tapes of the Grateful Dead originally recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson during a golden age between 1971-80. The Betty Boards, as copies of these recordings became known, eventually found their way into the collections of longstanding Deadheads and newbies alike, ending some aspects of a tape-trading hierarchy by which certain individuals lorded over their collections, denying access to those who were unfamiliar with the secret handshake. The appearance and subsequent dissemination of these recordings became a source of fascination and speculation for Deadheads in 1986 and the questions have only compounded over the years: How did the tapes fall into the auction? Who won them? How and why were they initially distributed? Are there more recordings that have yet to make it into circulation? And jumping ahead to the present, where are those tapes today? Just what has become of the Bettys? What can be said with certainty is that a new cache of tapes has been unearthed and a plan is underway by Dark Star Orchestra guitarist Rob Eaton, who has painstakingly restored many of the boards, to complete the job and then facilitate their return to the band. Eaton hopes that a series of official releases might follow that will also yield a small royalty to the woman who recorded the reels and then lost them due to her own financial hardship, even if Deadheads owe her a debt of gratitude. Before the auction, before the boards, there was Betty. Betty Cantor was still in her teens when she began setting up mics and helping to record sound at San Francisco venues— first at the Avalon Ballroom and then, the Carousel (the latter during the Grateful Dead's brief stab at venue management in 1968). She worked alongside Bob Matthews, initially assisting with setups during the recording of the Dead's Anthem of the Sun. A true pioneer, as a woman staking her claim in a patriarchal business, she partnered with Matthews into the early 1970s to produce and engineer live multi- track recordings (she had a hand or two in Live/Dead) as well as studio efforts (Aoxomoxoa and Workingman's Dead). While she worked for other artists during this period, she maintained a close relationship with the Grateful Dead, catalyzed by her marriage to crew member Rex Jackson, who would die a few years later in an auto accident. (The philanthropic Rex Foundation is named in his honor.) “My late husband started recording on the road when he was on the equipment crew,” Cantor Jackson explains. “He and I purchased our own gear and tape. I recorded whenever I could get to the gigs. I recorded the Grateful Dead frequently when they were at home venues, I recorded any and all Jerry Garcia Band gigs I could get to for years, in all its configurations, as well as other bands I liked whenever I could. In those days, bands were cool and happy about me getting a feed. Rex was killed in a car accident in ‘76. In ‘77 and ‘78, I was put on Grateful Dead road crew salary, taping and handling Bobby's stage setup.” She later began a romantic relationship with Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland but, after that ended, she sensed that she had been frozen out. “Brent and I split up after a few years, with the last year spent in the studio working on his solo project. This put me in the category of the dreaded ‘ex.' I didn't think that could apply to me, but he was a band member. Everyone was paranoid of me being around, so I no longer had access to my studio or the vault.” Trying times followed. In 1986, she found herself in a dire financial predicament and forced out of her home. “All my things were moved to storage facilities. Unable to foot the bill at the storage center, Cantor-Jackson forfeited the rights to her worldly possessions. She remembers contacting the Grateful Dead office to inform them of the situation, but the group took no action, resulting in a public auction of Cantor-Jackson's personal assets, which included more than 1,000 reel-to-reel tapes—mostly Grateful Dead recordings, along with performances by Legion of Mary, Kingfish, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and In The Way, the Keith and Donna Band, and New Riders of The Purple Sage. The majority of the 1,000-plus reels that have come to be known as the Betty Boards were acquired by three principals, none of whom were fervid Deadheads at the time. The first of these individuals set his tapes aside in a storage locker where they remain to this day. A second, who was more interested in the road cases that held the tapes, left them to rot in his barn for a decade. The final party was a couple with a particular interest in progressive rock, who nonetheless held an appreciation for the performances captured on tape. So while some tapes unquestionably were scattered to the wind, following the four- hour event and a second auction for a final lot of tapes held a few weeks later, the three prime bidders each held hundreds of reels. While two of the winning bidders had no plans for the tapes, within a few months the couple decided that they would place the music in circulation. This was our way of getting new material into circulation and also breaking the hierarchy of those collectors who held on to prime shows for themselves. Initially, we started transferring the tapes to VHS Hi-Fi on our own, but soon realized what a daunting task this was going to be. So we reached out to one of our trading buddies who we knew had connections in the Dead trading community. From there, he gathered together what was later to become known as the ‘Unindicted Co-conspirators,' who put in a massive archiving effort to back up the tapes and distribute them.” The individual they selected as their point person was Ken Genetti, a friend and longtime Deadhead. “I went into their house, and I opened up this closet and they had all the stuff arranged on a shelf in order,” Genetti reflects. “For me, it was like King Tut's tomb. I knew immediately what they had when I looked in there. The first thing I saw was Port Chester, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1971, an incredible show which was Mickey [Hart]'s last concert for many years and I said, ‘You've got to be kidding me!' Then I saw Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, Calif., ‘73, my favorite concert I ever went to. I pulled it out and I went, ‘Holy shit!'” They explain: “We had sought to keep the operation as low key as possible because of the potential for a backlash. It wasn't until someone contacted the Grateful Dead office and offered them a copy of the tapes that we knew it was only a matter of time before we would be hearing from their lawyers. When we did hear from them, there was a bit of back and forth between their lawyers and our lawyer, but the bottom line was we had purchased the tapes legally and owned them but didn't own the rights to the music contained on them. Therefore, we could not sell the music on them, which was never our intent anyway. That pretty much left us at a stalemate and, not wanting to stir up any more issues with the Grateful Dead office, is also why we avoided re-digitizing the tapes.” In late 1995, Eaton received a call from a high-school teacher who had purchased one of the lots predominantly for the road cases that held the tapes. The teacher now hoped to sell the reels and wanted Eaton to assess them. In a cluttered barn, Eaton discovered a grimy, mold-infested collection. This might have been the end of the story, but the Betty Boards have proven to be the gift that keeps on giving. The teacher never found a buyer for the tapes—his asking price was a million dollars—and two years ago, facing monetary struggles and fearing that that the bank might foreclose on his home, he contacted Eaton once again to see if he would be willing to take custody of the tapes. The teacher also explained that he had discovered another 50 reels while cleaning out the barn. Emboldened by success with this latest batch, Eaton set a new goal for himself: “I had this dream to try to reclaim all of this music and archive it properly so that it's there for generations to come in the best possible form.” Emboldened by success with this latest batch, Eaton set a new goal for himself: “I had this dream to try to reclaim all of this music and archive it properly so that it's there for generations to come in the best possible form.” So through a chain of contacts, he eventually located the couple. While completing his work on the couple's reels, Eaton began researching the original auction, hoping to identify the third individual who had purchased the Bettys. He eventually found him, and in January 2014, the pair entered into discussions about this final batch of tapes, which Eaton hopes to restore. What then? Eaton has a plan that he already has set in motion. “What I'd love to see done—in a perfect world—is I think all the tapes need to go back to the vault,” he says. “I think the people that have purchased these tapes should be compensated. I don't think we're talking huge sums of money but enough to make them relinquish the tapes back to the Grateful Dead. They should be part of the collection. Another thing that's important is if these tapes do get back to the vault, Betty should get her production royalty on anything that gets released, which is completely reasonable. Those were her tapes; those weren't the Dead's tapes. I'd love to see Betty get her due.”  SHOW No. 2:         Heaven Help The Fool                                    Track #6                                    1:30 – 3:10Heaven Help the Fool is the second solo album by Grateful Deadrhythm guitaristBob Weir, released in 1978. It was recorded during time off from touring, in the summer of 1977, while Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart recovered from injuries sustained in a vehicular accident. Weir returned to the studio with Keith Olsen, having recorded Terrapin Station with the producer earlier in the year. Several well-known studio musicians were hired for the project, including widely used session player Waddy Wachtel and Toto members David Paich and Mike Porcaro. Only "Salt Lake City" and the title track were played live by the Grateful Dead, the former in its namesake location on February 21, 1995,[1] and the latter in an instrumental arrangement during their 1980 acoustic sets.[2] Despite this, Weir has continued to consistently play tracks from the album with other bands of his, including RatDog and Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros. "Bombs Away" was released as a single and peaked at number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his only solo song to make the chart.[3] The album itself stalled at number 69, one spot behind his previous album, Ace. The title track was written by Bobby and John Barlow.  While a staple at Bob shows with the Midnights, Rob Wasserman, Rat Dog, Wolf Bros., etc., the Dead only played it during these Warfield/Radio City and only as an instrumental arrangement. Played:  17 timesFirst:  September 29, 1980 at The Warfield, San Francisco, CA, USALast:  October 31, 1980 at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, USA Now the electric tunes from today's show: SHOW No. 3:         Cold, Rain & Snow                                    Track #10                                    0:00 – 1:30 "Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Rain and Snow" (Roud 3634),[1] is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad.[2] The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice in Big Laurel, North Carolina in 1916. The melody is pentatonic. Campbell and Sharp's version collected only a single verse: Lord, I married me a wife,She gave me trouble all my life,Made me work in the cold rain and snow.Rain and snow, rain and snow,Made me work in the cold rain and snow.  In 1965, Dillard Chandler recorded a graphic murder ballad version of the song that ends with the wife being shot by the husband. According to the liner notes on Chandler's album, Chandler learned the song from Berzilla Wallin, who said that the song related to a murder that had occurred in Madison County, North Carolina: Well, I learned it from an old lady which says she was at the hanging of – which was supposed to be the hanging, but they didn't hang him. They give him 99 long years for the killing of his wife... I heard the song from her in 1911. She was in her 50s at that time. It did happen in her girlhood... when she was a young girl... She lived right here around in Madison County. It happened here between Marshall and Burnsville; that's where they did their hanging at that time – at Burnsville, North Carolina. That's all I know, except they didn't hang the man.'[2] Subsequent performances have elaborated a variety of additional verses and variants beyond the single verse presented by Campbell and Sharp. Several verses consistently appear. Some sources for lyrics that appear in some later versions may be from Dock Boggs's 1927 song "Sugar Baby" (Roud 5731),[1] another lament of a henpecked husband, which may have contributed a line about "red apple juice".[4] A British folksong, The Sporting Bachelors (Roud 5556),[1] contains similar themes, but was collected in the 1950s.[2][5] Earlier possible precursors include a series of broadside ballads on the general subject of "Woeful Marriage"; one frequently reprinted nineteenth-century example begins with the words "On Monday night I married a wife", (Roud 1692).[1][6] These British antecedents mostly share common themes and inspirations; the song originated in the local tradition of Big Laurel, Madison County, and relate to a nameless murderer who committed the crime at some time between the end of the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century. A recent origin is also suggested by the relatively limited number of variations on the tune; most performances use the Campbell-Sharp melody as written.[2] Despite the apparent violence of the lyrics, women feature prominently in the oral tradition of the song. It was collected from "Mrs. Tom Rice", and sung by Berzilla Wallin, who learned it from "an old lady" who remembered the murder trial the song was about. The song is closely associated with the Grateful Dead; a studio version appeared on their first album The Grateful Dead (1967), and the song was a standard part of the Dead's repertoire throughout their career. They would often open with the song, or perform it early in the first set.[2] Unlike Chandler's recording, in the Dead's version of the lyrics the husband generally laments his mistreatment at his greedy wife's hands, but does not kill her. The lyrics from the Grateful Dead's version were adapted from an earlier recording by Obray Ramsey. Played:  249 timesFirst:  May 5, 1965 at Magoo's Pizza Parlor, Menlo Park, CA, USALast:  June 19, 1995 at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA  MJ NEWS:  Hemp Industry Advocates Ask Court To Halt California's Ban On Products With Any ‘Detectable Amount' Of THC Amid Legal Challenge2.      Most Pain Patients And Doctors Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana And Having Insurance Companies Cover The Cost, AMA Study Shows3.      Marijuana Enhances Enjoyment Of Music, New Study Finds, Confirming What Every Stoner Already Knows4.      Six U.S. States Report Setting New Monthly Marijuana Sales Records M.J. 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For users who suffer from appetite loss, the strain may help stimulate your hunger.  SHOW No. 4:         Loser                                    Track #12                                    4:13 – 6:13 David Dodd:  The song seems covered in the Americana dust of so many songs from this period of Hunter's and Garcia's songwriting partnership. Abilene, whether in Texas or Kansas, is a dusty cowtown—at the time in which the song seems to be set, the cattle outnumbered the human inhabitants by a factor of tens. It's easy to see the scene Hunter so casually sets, of a broken-down gambler in a saloon, with a dirt street outside full of armed cowpokes. Appearing, as it does, on Garcia, the song seems to pair naturally with the other gambling song on the album, “Deal.” It could be sung by the same character on a different day, in fact. And it fits in, as I mentioned, with a whole suite of songs that might be set in the same generic America of the late 19th or early 20th centuries: “Brown-Eyed Women,” “Jack Straw,” “Mister Charlie,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Cumberland Blues,” “Candyman,” and others, as well as certain selected covers, such as “Me and My Uncle,” and “El Paso.” Those songs share certain motifs, and among them are the various accoutrements of a gambler's trade, whether dice or cards. Money plays a role—and, in the case of “Loser,” the particular money mentioned helps place the song chronologically. Gold dollar coins were minted from 1849 (the Gold Rush!) to 1889. They were tiny little coins. I have one, and it is amazingly small—between 13 and 15 mm in diameter. “All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars…” C'mon! They're tiny little things. In fact, originally, the line was “one gold dollar,” but that changed at some point to the “ten” The crowning glory of the song, as in many other Garcia/Hunter compositions, is the bridge.The song culminates in this cry of hopefulness: “Last fair deal in the country, Sweet Susie, last fair deal in the town. Put your gold money where your love is, baby, before you let my deal go down—go down.” (It's noted that “Sweet Susie” was dropped at some point, but then, occasionally, brought back. I think it was an optional decoration to the line. Alex Allan, in his Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder site, notes that “Sweet Susie” rarely appears after 1972, but that it's sung in performances in 1974 and 1979.) Almost always played as a first set Jerry ballad. This version might have been the high point of this show.  So nicely played and sung by Jerry. Played:  353First:  February 18, 1971 at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, USALast:  June 28, 1995 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, MI  OUTRO:                   Good Lovin'                                    Track #27                                    3:25 – 5:04 "Good Lovin'" is a song written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a #1 hit single for the Young Rascals in 1966. The song was first recorded by Lemme B. Good (stage name of singer Limmie Snell) in March 1965 and written by Rudy Clark. The following month it was recorded with different lyrics by R&B artists The Olympics, produced by Jerry Ragovoy; this version reached #81 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. The tale has been told that Rascal Felix Cavaliere heard The Olympics' recording on a New York City radio station and the group added it to their concert repertoire, using the same lyrics and virtually the same arrangement as The Olympics' version. Co-producer Tom Dowd captured this live feel on their 1966 recording, even though the group did not think the performance held together well. "Good Lovin'" rose to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the spring of 1966 and represented the Young Rascals' first real hit. "Good Lovin'" is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and was ranked #333 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.[4] Writer Dave Marsh placed it at #108 in his 1989 book The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, saying it is "the greatest example ever of a remake surpassing the quality of an original without changing a thing about the arrangement." A popular version was by the Grateful Dead, who made it a workhorse of their concert rotation, appearing almost every year from 1969 on.[6] It was sung in their early years during the 1960s and early 1970s by Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and later by Bob Weir. The Weir rendition was recorded for the group's 1978 Shakedown Street album and came in for a good amount of criticism: Rolling Stone said it "feature[d] aimless ensemble work and vocals that Bob Weir should never have attempted."[7] On November 11, 1978, the Grateful Dead performed it on Saturday Night Live. Typically, at least by the time I started seeing them, usually played as a second set closer or late in the second set. As good buddy AWell always said, “if they play Good Lovin, everyone leaves with a smile on their face.”  Can't argue with that. Played:  442First:  May 5, 1965 at Magoo's Pizza Parlor, Menlo Park, CA, USALast:  June 28, 1995 at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI, USA Easy fast on Yom Kippur .Produced by PodConx Deadhead Cannabis Show - https://podconx.com/podcasts/deadhead-cannabis-showLarry Mishkin - https://podconx.com/guests/larry-mishkinRob Hunt - https://podconx.com/guests/rob-huntJay Blakesberg - https://podconx.com/guests/jay-blakesbergSound Designed by Jamie Humiston - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-humiston-91718b1b3/Recorded on Squadcast

Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farouq (one message foundation) come back on the Ansari podcast! For another insightful conversation about all things Quran, bible, politics & Islamic history! Sheikh Uthman ends all debate about Quranic preservation and dives into the history of it's Divine preservation. He tells beautiful stories of Imam Ahmed. And gives an insightful look into Afghani and Pashtun history. Also, UK vs. US Muslims? What's up with that?! The 2 western Muslim communities should be uniting and working together. So what are we missing and what's actually happening? And it wouldn't be Sheikh Uthman Farouq episode without mentioning the errors in the Bible. #muslim #podcast #history #dawah 00:00 The Pope, Korean Jesus, Buddha 07:00 Time Travel: Imam Ahmed 13:36 Sanaa Manuscripts 20:06 Did Uthman change the Quran? 34:10 Pashto & Afghanistan History 43:59 UK vs. US Muslims 54:27 Palestine & Epstein 1:03:45 the Bible 1:11:52 Will the west end up Muslim? 1:23:24 The Pashtun Mandelorian Way 1:29:30 How to get Wife to wear Niqab? 1:35:00 From Gang to Daee: Sheikh Uthman Reflections 1:37:27 Sheikh's dream of Prophet PBUH

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The very first article that we're going to discuss is coming from CNN. Nonetheless. Now, the reason I found this to be ironic  is the fact that  Oh, the irony involved in it.  MetaBan's Russian state media outlet RT over foreign interference activity.  Hmm. That's interesting. So let's go ahead and read this because the irony that this article sits on CNN is hilarious because if Facebook's gonna going to remove any news outlet that is associated with the government  and pushing propaganda, The first one that they would have to remove would be CNN.  So,  uh, here we go. It says, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced Monday, let me go ahead and share this with my screen here if you're watching, um, announced Monday that it has banned Russian state media broadcaster RT and other Kremlin controlled networks alleging the outlets have engaged in deceptive influence operations and attempted to evade detection.  After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets, uh, I don't know how you pronounce that. RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity, a meta spokesperson said in a statement.  Prior to Monday's ban, RT had 7. 2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million followers on Instagram. RT did not immediately respond to CNN for comment.  The move comes days after the U. S. Justice Department  Announced charges against two RT employees for funneling nearly 10 million into a U. S. company identified by CNN as Tenant Media to create and amplify content that aligned with Russian interests.  The Covert Influence campaign was aimed at the American public ahead of the 2024 U. S. presidential election. U. S. presidential election.  Tenet Media boasts a slate of high profile right wing pro Trump commentators, including Tim Poole, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, and several others. All of them have released statements saying that they are victims of the alleged Russian scheme. After the Justice Department announced Announcement RT responded with mocking statements that did not address it was actually pretty hilarious the response that they made they like basically just laughed at them  The Kremlin commented that in the band that by meta on Tuesday with these actions meta is discrediting itself This complicates the prospect prospects for normalizing our relations with meta. Definitely somewhat true  Now where I see this being a problem  Is the fact that if you're going to run with that, essentially, you're now saying that if anybody's a state run media that is pushing any type of propaganda, you know, like the CIA interfering with our elections,  the NIH having a portal to discuss what content should be removed  from Metta  and Twitter and all of these other organizations, right? Like, We know 100 percent they have the same access to the news outlets. So what is the, what is the, the bar here being set?  Because if this is the bar, almost every single major news outlet has to get kicked off of Facebook and Instagram. It says executives from Meta, Microsoft and F, uh, Microsoft and Alphabet, which owns Google are expected to testify before the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday on their platforms work to combat foreign relations to us elections.  So.  This is them trying to  fix without fixing the election, right? They're not going to do it in the same way. Mark Zuckerberg said, well, he just said this. Mark Zuckerberg just said he wasn't going to interfere.  Not allowing a, the  organization which is representing essentially a country  in their, their position on news news. to be seen by citizens. Why? Because you think we're stupid. This is where the privacy or the, the, the conversation surrounding  censorship really bothers me. Like who are you to discern anything? Who are you to tell me who to listen to and who not to listen to? Right? Like that would be your mom and your dad in high school telling you, Oh, that's a bad friend. Don't listen to them. It's like, no, let me judge for myself. I'm an adult. I'm intelligent. Very, very, very intelligent. likely much more intelligent than any individual of the government that's making these types of decisions.  So let me use my discernment, because you don't get to tell me what's truth, and what's not truth. Who's a, a factually based network, and who's not? That's not how this works. Freedom of speech has to go both ways, right? Now it says, uh,  well, this is the CNN  comment section, so this should be interesting.  It says if they are  banning deceptive influence operations, then the Harris campaign must be next. Yeah.  Uh, yeah.  Okay, so moving on. I thought that to be interesting. It is, it is quite ironic that it is META that is banning all of these, you know, the Russian state media when they were the ones taking directions from  our government. They were the controlled media. They were, that's exactly who they were. And now they're, they're just doing what they're being told again by the Harris campaign, because they don't want any, any information or news coming out from the entities that want to, I don't know, stop the war that they're in and not continue it like Kamala Harris would.  So there you go.  All right.  Now let's look at this real quick. Let's see if they have a list of all of the influencers.  Who were involved in this investigation?  Hmm. According to the indictment, some of the creators were told the project was being bankrolled by a man named Edward Gregorian.  Let's see the indictment.  I don't see a list here.  Here we go. Alright, let's see the indictment.  Where are the names? Where are the names? Hmm.  Let's see. Let's see. New  YouTube's Edward Gregorian. Founder 1 accepted interim payments.  So 8, 000 per month plus a percentage of any deals that Founder 1 closed with influencers.  Influencer talent scouting.  I want to see what the name of that was.  Anyways, maybe for another time after I've done the research.  But interesting, none the less. All right, moving on. This one is big.  P Diddy  was arrested in New York after a grand jury indictment. P Diddy is going to jail now, my friends. Finally, this human piece of garbage is getting what he deserves after 30 years, almost, in the music industry, tormenting, terrorizing, and blackmailing everybody in the industry, including celebrities, athletes,  you name it. He was blackmailing them, politicians, all of them.  He was the, the  P Diddy was the Epstein of the music industry and is now arrested  in jail in New York. Thank God.  Now, this article comes from the post millennial. It says Sean Diddy Combs has been arrested after a grand jury indictment in Manhattan on Monday.  The New York times has spoke with somebody who is not authorized to speak about it. What? Who spoke with somebody who was not authorized to speak about it. Okay. That's a weird statement.  said that the, but I'm going to speak on it. And they said charges in the indictment were not immediately clear. A federal official said in the spring.  Uh, so now if you go back, I could just riff off of this one.  I'll put this down for a second, but if you go back, do you, if you do not remember what was happening,  essentially there was a music producer named little rod and little rod  essentially went after.  P. Diddy for trying to blackmail him.  He was, he was saying that P. Diddy was, uh,  he was in a room when he shot somebody that he threatened to eat his face, that he put him in a position where Cuba Gooding Jr. was making sexual advancements on him. He then showed this little rod  a video of another famous producer engaging in sex acts with another man trying to convince him and say that, Hey, we're just going to do this one time so that you get used to this. Cause this is what the music industry is about.  It happens all the time.  And then he promised little rod. He promised this producer that if he engaged in these sex acts, that he would then get producer of the year awards.  Now, if you understand what Epstein was doing when he was blackmailing people, um, He was essentially taking them and giving them some sort of, you know, illegal, illicit drugs, activities, access to minors, and then using that blackmail against them in the future.  And this tells you  exactly how, what, what is happening, exactly what is happening behind the curtain in the music industry, which is the fact that all of the hits on the radio that you hear are fake. That is not something that has been a grassroots musician getting put into this position because they make the best music. No.  No. It's the same thing with  the movie industry. Hollywood. Right? By now you should know this.  It's all fake. They're blackmailing people. So you remember, you ever hear the selling your soul to the devil, signing the contract with the devil to get what you want in life?  That's what this is. That is the metaphor in action. They are essentially conducting themselves in a way that they commit these types of acts, sometimes knowingly, sometimes not, like in the P. Diddy case, because P. Diddy had cameras all in every single room of his house recording all of the time. Then he would bring all these people over, have these freak off parties,  bring in underage prostitutes, give those prostitutes alcohol,  drug the people that he wanted to then go have sex with these prostitutes,  videotape them doing it. And now he has you. He's gotcha. Now, is it he, that's the question that should be asked too. Is he the one that is using this blackmail against people? No, it's the head of, I believe it's the universal studio or not universal studios. Um, the Sony, uh, music industry record label.  So it was the head of this record label that essentially put him into power to begin with. He took a 21, 22 year old P. Diddy, Puffy, Sean Diddy Combs, whatever frickin name he had at the time, and he created Bad Boy Records with him. He essentially put him into this position in power, embedded him into the industry, and then had him collect blackmail on these individuals, and only he was the gatekeeper. He was the person who decided whether or not you passed go in the music industry, and the only way that you did that was by committing gay sex.  and letting them essentially videotape it, or sex with a prostitute that was underage.  And that's what this court document outlines. It's like 90 pages. Now, there's all sorts of horrific other things in there. He shot his son's friend in the bathroom and watched him essentially bleed out. Uh, he, he beat the hell out of this woman in the middle of a hotel on camera. P. Diddy is the worst person that you can imagine. And it couldn't have happened to a better person now that he's in jail.  Very happy to see this, but you have to understand that. I think that's the takeaway from all of this is Epstein was not on his own.  There is a Epstein in every major industry, whether it's finance, whether it's politics, whether it's music industry with P Diddy, whether it's Hollywood,  they're all rigged. Every single one of them has a gatekeeper.  And if you do not allow yourself to be blackmailed, you will not make it in the industry. That's the way it works. Every major musician, the same record label  that  picked up Sean Diddy, Combs,  P. Diddy,  and put him in this position,  that groomed Diddy to groom the entire industry to only allow certain types of, of  rappers into the industry,  also owns the contract of Taylor Swift.  Also brought to power, and this goes back decades, Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, all of these major musicians  were on this record label that was run by the single individual who had  Diddy do all of this.  There's a gatekeeper in every industry.  That is the takeaway here. Now what I wouldn't be surprised about is if what happened to Jeffrey Epstein very well may happen to Diddy. Diddy's probably going to get abstained. And the reason for that is because he has all of this blackmail and that man is going to chirp like a canary. I think the adages sing, but he's going to chirp like a canary because  I've heard him rap. He's not a very good singer, uh,  but he's going to sing like a canary as soon as he gets in there  and the very powerful people in, in those positions that he has blackmail on. Probably don't want him to do that, just like they didn't want Epstein to be able to talk about them, to get out of their sentencing.  That's the way it was.  Now, if you recall, the person that kind of was the,  the, his, his bodyguard was the one that was having all of this, uh, power and influence that had associations with, I think it was the Wharton school of business and all of these like very interesting potential three letter agency associations, uh, with these entities that are very closely tied to them.  So,  Ding dong. Diddy's dead. Happy, happy that that happened. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Very, very glad about it. All right. Now that leads us into our next topic, which is going to be about all about the alleged attempt, not alleged, the actual attempted assassination of Donald Trump.  Now I went into a deep dive on this and I tried to do as much of my own,  as much of my own digging as possible. So I'll tell you the tools I used, how I did it, all of that.  But I was able to find some very interesting things and I hit some dead ends that are even more interesting.  And I'll talk about those.  But first let's go ahead and hear exactly  what happened. And then we will hear from Trump himself.  And then we'll look into the history of this  shooter.  All right. So, I do have somewhere on here a video  where it explains  what happened.  Let's see.  Alright, and here is the Secret Service and FBI holding a press conference where they explain exactly what happened. Here we go.  According to the allegations in the complaint,  a U. S. Secret Service agent walking the golf course perimeter saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line.  After the agent fired a service weapon in the direction of the rifle, a witness saw a man later identified as Ralph fleeing the area in the tree line.  Ralph was later apprehended by officers from the Martin County Sheriff's Office in coordination with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.  The complaint alleges that in the area of the tree line from which Ralph fled,  Agents found a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded SKS style rifle with a scope,  and a black plastic bag containing food.  The serial number on the rifle was obliterated.  According to the complaint, Roth was convicted of felonies in North Carolina in December 2010.  Now, the weapon is interesting because this is a SKS style,  essentially a rifle, and  you can't buy those. I mean, it's really not a common weapon in the U. S. Now, this man wasn't able to actually have a weapon in the U. S. because he's had two felony charges, one for, uh, weapons of mass destruction, which we'll talk about in a few minutes here, but where did he get this rifle?  It's a very common rifle in where he was embedding himself trying to recruit Afghani soldiers for the Ukraine war. So how did he get back to the U. S. potentially with that rifle?  It's an interesting question to ask. 2002  and March 2010  and therefore  was prohibited from possessing a firearm.  Right. The FBI is leading this investigation, this ongoing investigation.  As the Attorney General stated earlier today, the FBI is continuing its investigation of this incident as an assassination attempt  upon the former president.  The investigation  So there you go. Essentially, Trump went to go golfing as a very spontaneous last minute golf outing, and somehow, this man was able to figure it out,  fly here from Hawaii, and  Not sure how that happened. And then post up for more than 12 hours cell phone data sets.  So there's a  video that went around.  that was talking about how the, I believe it was one of the, um, the sheriffs that were there or another individual that was involved in the case talking about how they had no idea. How did this man get access to know that he was going to be golfing on this golf course that day? And then how did this man that was either generally embedded in Ukraine or Afghanistan and lived in Hawaii, get to this golf course in time to be there for 12 hours. And this person alleges that there had to have been a leak. This had to have been a conspiracy. He had to have been tipped off by somebody who was involved in the close proximity of Trump's campaign, where he would have actually known to be at this golf course on that day, because it was very last minute, very spontaneous golf trip.  And nobody knew about it other than his campaign staff.  So how did this man know? Well,  Hopefully, one day, we'll find out.  Now, what's interesting about this too is that this is absolutely going to take the spotlight off of the first assassination attempt,  which was  absolutely atrociously handled by law enforcement and by the Secret Service.  Another interesting fact about it is that this man had a GoPro on himself during the time of committing this act. Who did he expect to watch this video? Why would you record yourself doing it?  So let's read up a little bit more about this after we hear Trump's response. And this happened just last night on the 16th. Here it is. I'm  relieved that you're here with us today after the second attempt, um, on your life at the Trump National Golf Club. It's just horrifying. Can you run us through what happened?  So, uh, I was playing golf with Some of my friends, it was on a Sunday morning and very peaceful, very beautiful weather. Everything was beautiful. Nice place to be. And all of a sudden we heard shots  being fired in the air  and I guess probably four or five.  And it sounded like bullets, but what do I know about that? But Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets.  And, uh, they grabbed me and, uh,  I think probably the other one, Steve is one of the people, Steve Woodcuff, a great friend of mine, a great, uh, great businessman from mostly New York and Florida, great businessman. And more importantly, just a fantastic person. So we're in the group. And, uh, everybody just, we got into the carts, and we moved along pretty, pretty good. Uh, I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job. There was no question that we were,  I would have loved to have sank that last putt. But, uh, we decided, let's get out of here. And, what the, uh, gunfire was, actually, interestingly, was a, uh, Secret Service agent  had seen a barrel of a AK 47, which is a very powerful gun.  And, uh, he started shooting at the barrel and started shooting in the bushes. Well, could only see the barrel. How good is that? Right. But could only see the barrel based on that. He started shooting  and, uh, ran towards the target and was shooting a lot of, I mean, those were the shots we heard. The other one never got a shot off and he ran across the street  and grabbed his car, hopped into his truck or car.  And amazingly a civilian.  In that area saw something and it looked very suspicious  and in the car, drove their car to the back of his  truck of some kind  and took pictures of the license plate, gave them to the sheriff's office, Sheriff Bradshaw is fantastic, great, great sheriff for a long time  and within a fairly short period of time they tracked him down on the highway, it was a pretty high speed chase and they ended up getting him, they got him. Yeah.  You wouldn't want to have somebody like that out there, you know, he dropped his gun, the AK 47, he left his gun, he left a cameras behind left a lot of things behind. So the agent did a fantastic job. The civilian did a phenomenal job, a woman. I mean, who would think you could take 1000 times like that? How many people would have the brainpower to follow him  and not many inches of the back of his truck so that they end up getting and the key was the license. So they got the license and After they had the license, you know, there's all sorts of technology where they can literally pinpoint where this truck is. I never knew something like that existed. And, uh, they pinpointed him on the highway.  They got him with a high speed chase. So, they got him.  It was amazing. So, Secret Service did a great job. And I think, I can say honestly, the Sheriff's Office, law enforcement, everybody really did a great job.  So, right from his mouth, that's what happened. And again, it goes back to the question, how did this man know that he was going to be on that golf course? It was a spontaneous trip. There's no reason that this, that he should have been able to be tipped off about this, unless it was somebody in Trump's campaign.  or the secret service or somebody doing security for him. But how would you even get to this individual? So this is where let's bring up. Who was Ryan Routh?  Who was this man?  It's a very, very interesting case.  And we have a bunch of different articles here that we'll look at that talk about who he is. We'll look at all the news articles that he's been speaking or he's actually been seen in the news. talking to the news companies about the Ukraine war. So he's a very, very active  recruiter,  a mercenary recruiter for the Ukrainian war.  Now, how does one go back and forth between here in Ukraine, into Afghanistan, do a bunch of news talks  and not be known by the FBI. This man had to have been on their radar. He was in an Azov commercial, which is the special forces arm of essentially of Ukraine.  The same one that was accused of being a extension of the Nazi party, essentially.  He was in their commercial.  So let's look at this timeline that discusses exactly who he is and where he's been seen and what we know about him.  Alright, this article just gives a bunch, a bunch of sources.  Uh, it says,  A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to The Guardian that the suspect in Sunday's case is 58 year old Ryan Wesley Routh, though law enforcement has not officially named him, which they have now, and was no immediate indication of a motive. The son of the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course Sunday night. Said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide the son, what the son described as humanitarian aid to troops defending the country from Russian forces that invaded in 2022, which is not the case. This man was there to recruit  foreign soldiers to the Ukrainian war saying that he had NATO trained soldiers ready to fight thousands of them.  How does a foreign mercenary recruiting for Ukraine  in commercials for the Azov battalion not be on the radar of the FBI? Especially when this man went on long, long, long tangents all day every day on social media talking about his motives  for doing so. It says he just so happened to be filmed in  2022 by Newsweek about his effort to recruit mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. So we'll look at that.  And then the New York times even wrote a profile on Ryan Roth back in 2023. So let's look at some of these articles where it talks about him.  The first being that  the son of the suspect talks out about the assassination attempt. And then in this, in this interview, he essentially says that he hated Trump.  It says the son of the man accused talks about, uh, assassinating Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday, said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide the son what the son described as humanitarian aid to troops.  Uh, now there's a video here that we can watch  where he's actually talking about this. And this man  has half blue hair and a U. S. flag t shirt on.  Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and, and generous and, and unselfish and, and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of,  you know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world. You know, when you talk to a 20 year old guy that sold everything he owns to come here and fight, that is heroism. You know, he's coming here to risk his life. for humanity, for the Ukrainians, you know, guys that sell everything they own to come here and support the Ukrainians while others sit at home and, and, and do nothing. Hmm. And that was the Guardian.  There's an extension of that,  uh, video that we'll watch here as well, but here's an actual video. I haven't seen this one yet. Body cam footage footage showing the arrest of the shooter.  Let's watch that real quick.  Driver,  take two steps to your right.  Take two steps to your right driver, and they're sitting here. There's three officers, four officers, five officers, six officers in view,  sheriff's  telling him to get out of his vehicle.  This man now has his shirt over his head and he's getting taken to the ground.  Should have tripped a leg. Just at least a nice take down. Uh.  Okay, so let's, let's see if we can find the next video, uh, the extension of that video where he continues to talk.  And here it is.  Who you are and why are you here? Uh, I'm 56 from the U. S., U. S., uh, from North Carolina originally. So I live in Hawaii now. So I flew all the way from Hawaii here. So the question as far as why I'm here. to me. You know, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white. This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we've ever watched this is definitely evil against good. I mean, we're battling a situation here where, you know, the Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and, and generous and, and unselfish and, and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of.  You know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world is just to show human beings that we're kind and we're caring and that we take care of one another and that the world is united so that we feed each other and make sure that, you know, we all move forward as as one collective whole unit. So, you know, we feel the pain of one country's failure and their conflicts and we enjoy the successes of other countries that are doing good and we all work together and for some reason. Russia does not grasp this concept that we're, we're all one unit and we have to get along and work together and, and, and,  and be normal human beings. This is 2022. We have to work together. It's, it's, it seems asinine that we have a leader in a country that does not understand the concept of, of being unselfish and being generous. Thank you very much. And being kind and just the basic moral values that are required by human beings these days. It blows my mind.  Now I want to listen to that video. Tell me who you are and why are you here? Uh, I'm 56 from the U. S., U. S., uh, from North Carolina, originally. Still live in Hawaii now, so flew all the way. I just wanted to hear him pronounce his own name, uh, but he didn't do that. Okay. So, uh, essentially this man has been in several, several news stations all over the world. He's been seen in written about in the New York times. He's been on news week. He's been plastered all over as a recruiter for, for mercenary teams.  And you're trying to tell me this man was not, no radar.  Has no ties to the FBI has no ties to the CIA has has not been on any list anywhere.  This man.  Absolutely has been tracked.  And here's yet another article by the newindian. in, which the title to this article is U. S. Mercenary Plans to Recruit Pakistani Based Afghan Refugees as Fighters in Ukraine. Now who is that mercenary?  Well you read on in the article here, and that's the same individual,  the same person  who tried to  kill Trump.  So when we start looking through more and more of these articles,  one thing that comes up is that there's actually a website that he ran recruiting foreign fighters and it says attempted Trump assassination or assassin. Ryan Ruth  ran a Ukrainian foreign fighter recruitment website  where he offered 1,  200 per month.  To Afghani soldiers  to fight in the Ukraine war  from all over the world on this site. He had advocated for nuking Russia, stealing bombs and weapons from other countries to give Ukraine. He seems to have been totally radicalized by the media. This says in the left in recent years, his writings are filled with lunatic MSNBC style takes on the Ukrainian war. His social media shows he was also a big fan of many Democrat politicians. Here's the recruitment website. Now I also understand that I think he actually voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Um, and then he actually wanted to push for it. So, so the assassin  that tried to kill Donald Trump actually wanted a Vivek  and Nikki Haley ticket, which he posted on his Instagram, crying to Vivek, asking him to jump on the ticket with Nikki Haley as the presidential candidate.  Now, why would some warmongering Democrat  Wanting to expand the war in Ukraine and how much we're offering them in terms of  Access to supplies and soldiers. Why would that want a Nikki Haley ticket? Hmm. I wonder if she's maybe the biggest war hawk that was on on the presidential  Candidacy,  so let's look at this website  This website is FightForUkraine. com. ua and it says military recruitment. It's a terrible website, by the way. Um, military recruitment. Pay 1200 USD per month for all ages, genders, and skill levels to none. Ukrainian Army wishes and hopes to pay every person helping in the fight for freedom and human rights, but the country is struggling and funds and support dwindling. So our expectations must be realistic, and what we each must give will be far beyond normal sacrifice. But it is what we all must do.  Each one of us is responsible for the outcome of this war, as our every single action must stand for humanity and show kindness, caring, selflessness, altruism, empathy, generosity, and all of the moral goodness that this battle is about.  Volunteering in Ukraine is the most honorable and noble sacrifice. And every human on the planet should be here for freedom and human rights, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  Uh, fighters do not waste time in the embassy of your country. Just come with gear and food and money. Expect nothing. Everyone must slowly be vetted and you must prove loyalty.  Now there's actually a way that he tells them how to basically traffic themselves  into Ukraine. And here's what it says. You do not need a visa. Simply get all military gear and money and fly to Krakow.  Take an intercity train or bus to this bus station.  Take a local train or bus to here. Make your way to the border with Ukraine.  Tell the border guard you want to join the International Legion, and they will take you to the office and meet with Nazar and the leaders. Now I wonder who Nazar is. If you do not have military experience, you must sell yourself that you are capable. They will run your passport and go through your phone and make sure you are not Russian. If accepted, you go directly to a nearby base and train. There is a tent located alongside the sidewalk to the border for the Foreign Legion. It is very casual.  You can sell yourself there to be shipped to the base in Western Ukraine. If all of the above fails, cross the border to Ukraine, take a bus to the border town, Lviv, get a train to Kiev, get in touch with me. We can call and visit countless units in need of help. We have unlimited places to fight and help, so please do not hesitate.  Insights from the fighters. I like how we use this like a, uh,  Customer review style. Uh, I was injured in the car accident and many people have been seriously killed or hurt just in transit from bad driving. So be careful who you ride with. Like, okay,  do not expect anything to be given to you. You will need to come with everything you need or you may, you may need or buy it here. Anything you are lucky to get given as a bonus and whatever food you can bring is smart as well.  Yeah. It doesn't sound like what,  I don't know. I want to ship myself for  And here is his face on this recruitment website.  And it has his email, his Facebook, his Twitter, his phone number, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber.  I want to see if this is a, uh, let's see, is this a link tree? Oh, it goes to his WhatsApp.  Well, I'm definitely going to be on some list somewhere. No.  Uh,  Here it is. So there's his literal mercenary recruitment website.  The assassin of Donald Trump had a mercenary recruitment website for Ukrainian fighters. Now, who he was trying to get to come over were Afghani soldiers that he was trying to convince to do this. Now, there is a whole, uh, let's see, there's a whole recording of every one of the tweets he ever made.  That is up on Twitter right now that I looked through and that's where I saw the Vivek and Nikki Haley ticket situation. Now here's a video of him, uh, talking about it.  To be cooperative. That's Ryan Ruth, a U. S. citizen who set up the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine to help connect foreigners to Ukrainian military units. Now I'm talking to over 100 soldiers every day and pretty much everybody,  all of my contacts in Ukraine, they were adamant and pretty much yelled at me every time that I suggested that we bring in Afghans. The Ukrainian government didn't respond to our request for comment.  Ukraine is reluctant to.  There you go. So another news outlet that had this man on camera, how does he have all of this, all of these connections? How does he have all these ties? How is he able to get to Ukraine? Know who to send these people to?  Sounds a little fishy to me.  And as we move through some more of these articles, he is found in this as of battalion ad campaign.  And here is that.  There he is.  Now, some people were saying this is a BlackRock ad. No, it's not.  It's an Azov Battalion ad. Just a Nazi ad.  And then,  there's more and more articles with his name on it. One being the New York Times. And if we search his name here, You'll see, with Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, North Carolina, is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh is, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan to Iran to Ukraine. So if the New York Times is writing about this person, if he's in an Azov battalion campaign, ad campaign.  There's no way this man's cell phone was not being monitored. There's no way this man didn't have ties to the CIA. There's no way they weren't on his radar at the very least to where they would be monitoring him. No way if this mercenary recruiter in Ukraine  from the United States  wasn't on their radar, wasn't being monitored, and didn't have some ties to people who may want to monitor him. alert this potential asset to go do a specific task at a specific time at a specific place when the opportunity arose.  This one is absolutely clear cut to me. There's no way this man didn't have associations with three letter agencies or at least weren't on their radar to where he would have been stopped.  But again, we go back to the fact that this had to have been leaked. Somebody knew about this and told this man where to go and when in this last minute golf outing.  We can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan since it's such a corrupt country, he said in an interview with Washington. It is not clear whether he has succeeded, but one former Afghan soldier said he had been contacted and was interested in fighting if it meant leaving Iran, where he was living illegally.  So, the New York Times was writing about him, and this was in, let's see,  this was written March 25th.  2023. So just last year,  uh, here is a picture of his blue house in Hawaii.  You can't make this stuff up. Uh, his blue house in Hawaii with a Biden Harris sticker on his truck.  Very interesting.  Now here's a, a  conspiratorial thought coming from, uh, a Russian.  Account, I believe this person is some sort of  Diplomat, excuse me. It's 6 a. m. Here  The deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation All right And he said I wonder what would happen if it turned out that the failed new Trump shooter Routh Who recruited mercenaries for the Ukrainian army was himself? Hired by the neo nazi regime in Kiev for this assassination attempt.  Now that's another interesting theory, right? Maybe it wasn't the CIA. Maybe it wasn't BlackRock or Vanguard. Maybe it was the entity that is in a foreign war  where if  he gets into office,  they may not get the funding they need. Maybe it was Zelensky that called this man who they knew had ties. How many United States individuals are over there recruiting mercenaries for that?  How many are there? 5, 10, 20, 1?  And why aren't we considering the fact  that it could have been the Azov Battalion, it could have been the Ukrainian Army, it could have been Zelensky himself  that called this man, told him where to be with military intelligence,  and told him what to do so that the cash cow could keep producing supplies, producing soldiers, producing more and more money to Ukraine so that they continue to fight this proxy war on behalf of the United States.  That's an interesting theory that I don't think anybody's really considering.  So  is it Ukraine wanting to continue their war? Is it somebody from Israel wanting to continue their war? Because they know if Trump gets in office, he is not pro war the same way that Kamala will be. He cannot be bought off the same way that Kamala can be. He is not a puppet for the powers that be the way that Kamala is.  So there's only one way to get rid of Trump on this ticket and this assassination. I do not believe this is going to be the last attempt on his life before the election. And I do not believe that the assassinations will stop. The assassination attempts will stop even when he gets in office. I don't believe that. There's no reason to. They're trying to stop him from being in office.  Not trying to stop him from being elected. It's trying to stop him from being the president. So these  assassination attempts will continue.  Especially now that the floodgates have opened. Not one, but two now.  Looking through the comments here of what was said underneath that.  Now some more information about here. Let's do a rapid fire round. Some more information here about this man.  Is that he has a long standing criminal record. Long standing criminal record. Let me go ahead and change this over here.  Um, everything from petty  traffic stops.  Many, many times he had his license revoked. Um, but here is a long list. So everybody has these screenshots. I went to the source.  This is the North Carolina Judicial Branch e courts portal website  where you can see every one of his criminal cases dating back to 2001.  And if we go look into some of these cases, the one that was most interesting to everybody involved weapons of mass destruction.  Now, everybody was curious about this. You couldn't seem to find any information about this.  And it doesn't say anything in the court records. You actually have to pull the full court file.  So I went  to pull the whole court file.  And you can do this only through one software, one platform, and it's called PACER, and it's what lawyers use to be able to pull legal files. It's what people can use in their own legal cases to pull these. It's essentially a government database where you can pull all of the, the files for, for publicly available court cases.  Now when I went to PACER,  made an account,  signed into that account, searched several other legal cases, I had no issues.  Now, I took this case, the one here about possession of a weapon of mass destruction from 4 29 of 2002,  and asked it to pull the full file of that case. Immediately when I did that, I was logged out of my account. My account was turned inactive,  and I cannot get a hold of anybody at PACER to be able to access these files. I stayed on hold for an hour and a half yesterday  trying to get on the phone with somebody. And every time they picked up, they hung up on me.  Now I don't think that part's as fishy as the fact that it automatically logged me out, deactivated my account. As soon as I searched for these files,  there's absolutely a coverup happening  and I might be, I, I, I, I commend you.  I don't commend you. I. I highly encourage you to go to PACER, the PACER website, which is pacer. psc. uscourts. gov.  Right? pacer. psc. uscourts. gov.  And you can go here and search for a case,  create an account, and I'll even show you that my account won't work.  But you can create an account and search a specific court case.  Now the court case that you're going to look up is going to be Ryan Routh vs. the state of North Carolina.  When you search that, you will be immediately logged out, your account will be deactivated, and you will not be able to log in or search for any more court cases. Now I  will show you exactly what I'm talking about here.  So if I go to log into PACER, again, the only governmental database where you can access these types of documents, I was going to pull the full court file because nobody was finding information out about  this man's case.  It says, Although you have a PACER account, your account is inactive. If you have questions or further details on how to activate your search privileges, contact PACER Service Center at 800 676 6856 between these hours. You may continue to log in and perform other activities, e file, request filing privileges, but you will not have PACER search privileges. Now when I continue,  it won't even let me logged in.  There's currently an issue with your Pacer account. For additional information, contact the Pacer Service Center at 800 676 6856. It won't even let me log in.  They won't pick up the phone. They answer why. And this happened immediately as I pressed the enter button to look up and pull that court case.  Now I was able to find one single article  that talks about what happened  back in 2002  and here it is.  This is from greensboro. com man with gun. And I don't think anybody really, there's been a couple of times I've seen this article referenced. Most people haven't seen this article. It was very, very difficult to find.  Man with gun barricades himself inside business says an armed man was arrested Monday morning after barricading himself in a business during a three hour standoff with police.  Now I would like you to note that this was updated in January 24th of 2015.  Interesting.  Uh, Ryan Routh, 36, was arrested without incident at 1 a. m. Monday at United Roofing, 1735 West Lee Street, Greensboro Police said.  Routh was pulled over at about 10 p. m. Sunday during a traffic stop, police said, but he put his hand on his firearm and drove to United Roofing where he remained barricaded inside.  Ralph was charged with carrying a concealed weapon in possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Now, everybody was like a weapon of mass destruction. Did he have a nuke? Did he have a chemicals? What was it? That that was this weapon of mass destruction. This is the only place that you can find it. After I tried to pull those court documents, a fully automatic  weapon.  So nothing too, too crazy there. Again, how did he get that weapon? What was he doing with that weapon?  All good questions. He was also charged with resisting, delaying, and obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving while his license was revoked.  So there you have it. Now,  when you do some searches on Ryan Routh, you can find his emails, his addresses, his phone numbers. And one of the emails that I found of his leads back to him,  a company.  And I'll show you how I found this here, but a company called icom design.com.  Now what's interesting about this is this is a Greensboro number  and when you look up Icom design, 'cause this is all it is, it was allegedly a website building company back in 2002 to 2004.  Um, but there's no information on it.  It's been updated to show a copyright of 2024.  There's an email that you can click.  And if you look on LinkedIn, there's a few individuals who are associated with ICOM Design.  This is one of them.  Ananda Rose Benet.  Interesting. Greensboro, North Carolina. An intern at ICOMdesign. com.  With a pretty recent picture with pink and blue hair. Ananda Rose Benet.  And it says she's a web designer, dah, dah, dah, dah, an intern at ICOM Design back in 2012 and has worked there for 11 years. Probably not, this might just be an old,  nobody's going to be an intern for 11 years. Um, but when you also look up more people who were a part of this ICOM Design, which is where I found, uh, an email that was associated with him, so I'll show you that.  So there's a website that you can go to and use.  And it will show you  addresses, phone numbers, associates,  family members,  job history, all of it.  So you can verify this information yourself. Look at his addresses,  um, phone numbers that he's associated with. This three, three, six area code is a Greensboro area code. You can see. Oh, this is his wife, Laura Routh. Sorry, I was doing some more digging here, but let's look up Ryan.  So his current address is Hawaii. Hers is North Carolina, which is interesting as well,  but  Previous addresses, but here's his website. Now you can see United roofing was a roofing company. He owned you can see GSO skate park at yahoo. com and that was basically his son 10 years ago or so was trying to create a skate park in local Greensboro area without a permit and it became this big news article thing and he was trying to raise money for it and he did with some oil company also sketchy.  GSO skate park at yahoo. com that he was trying to get people to send funds to. Um, I can validate that for you in several different ways. Um,  here I'll show you where I found that just so you can see it.  Uh,  here we go.  Where's the article?  That's the barricade article. That's not what we're looking for. Um,  oh.  That got pulled. That's interesting.  I just looked at that article yesterday and now it is scrubbed,  scrubbed from the internet.  That's interesting. Um,  so you can validate that by the skate park. Let's see if I'll just look it up for you.  Here's the article where you can see a skateboard park.  Skateboard park closed. Skate park violates zoning laws. And you can see that Ryan Routh was mentioned several times throughout this article because his son was one of the founders of this skate park. Here it is. Ryan Routh says he brought in the structural design engineer. Here's his what his company United Roofing Co.  Talked about how they were gonna charge some money so that they could put up a porta potty and all this stuff. All right. So just to show you that what we're looking at is true here. Even the GSO skate park at yahoo. com was accurate,  which I was like, no way. This guy's associated with, you know, a skate park. That makes no sense. But then I found the articles and there it is. And that tells you how far I've been digging into this personally. Um, you probably won't hear about that on any other channel or individual.  Um, but that led me to Matt at ICOM design. com. Now, why would he go by Matt is one question.  But ICOMdesign. com, then you go to ICOMdesign. com.  And this is the website that you're met with. It's a front website. It doesn't make any sense. There's a phone number, which I have yet to call.  And if you want to do that and let me know how it goes, let me know. 336 854 8500.  Click to email. This is it. Then you can take that and you go to LinkedIn and see who's associated with ICOMdesign. com. All right. There's five individuals who are listed under that.  Let's see if we can pull up the icomdesign. com people.  Let's go back. And there was three of them that were opera singers  and in Hawaii.  So icomdesign. com, Matt at icomdesign. com  is a front website that has employees in both states where he lives and operates.  And several of them are opera singers.  Now I would have thought the opera singers would have been a different entity altogether, but the fact that they live on the exact island  that he lived in  makes the association make sense.  It doesn't make it make sense, but it validates it.  Right? So if you go to, maybe not icomdesign. com, Well, let's go to ICOM design and we look up who are the employees.  It's not showing it anymore. It won't even try to let me access her. But if we go back, I was able to find,  get access to those individuals by going around it the same way that I was, I got to her. Um,  so let's see LinkedIn, but anyways, that was what I found on that front is that yeah. The people that were working at this ICOM Designs were located in  both states that he operates out of, Hawaii  and North Carolina,  and there's only a front website here, and his  name is associated with this mat at ICOMdesign. com.  Not sure where that's going to lead us, but we'll continue diving down that hole. It's very interesting.  Now back to the case here, possession of weapons of mass destruction, right? I tried to follow that, hold on as many strings as I could until I hit a dead end where they locked me out of my account and wouldn't give me any more information.  Um, found this article.  Now let's see what else we have here. Um,  he even had this soldier's passport and birth certificate.  Uh, In his posts on LinkedIn.  So his LinkedIn was still up when I looked yesterday. I'm not sure if it will be today. Let's look.  It's going to be pulled. I bet it is  because his picture's gone now.  Let's see. Oh, there it is. Okay. So here's his LinkedIn 10 connections would be really interesting to see who those 10 people are.  Now, sometimes you can look over here and it will recommend people  who are associated with them. It just won't tell you,  right? It's not going to tell you who their connections are,  but it shows that he was, uh, the owner of Campbox Honolulu for the last six years, they've made essentially one building the entire time. So where's this man getting his money from to make all these flights from here and back, uh, with no history whatsoever of any success in any business that he's had ever.  And then you can look at what were some of his comments. What has he  posted, what has he discussed, right? Go to activity, show all activity.  And you'll see some of his posts. Here's one of them that has a bunch of people commenting on it now. 144 comments. And then there was another one, if you go under comments,  where he had this.  person was, uh, some sort of recruiter, um,  onsite hiring. And then this man,  Carl Hugely  commented on this  and said,  um, details. Now that man's sense has removed  his comments since yesterday.  I have your passport and birth certificate here in Hawaii. Call me 808 379 9411. And it's this Carlton Hughley. Okay. So there's the comment. He said the interested, and he probably searched this man's name, tried to tell him I have it. Why would you have somebody's passport and birth certificate? That's pretty crazy situation to find yourself in. Uh, so that's his really, his only comment on LinkedIn.  So I will continue digging into this and seeing how many dead ends I hit.  But there's a lot of strings to pull on here, guys.  A lot of strings to pull on here.  Now I'm going to look through. I created a notes situation on this, um, so that I could track everything that we looked at. But, um, but anyways, there's your breakdown. There's the situation.  I will continue to do a deep dive on this. Hopefully more information comes out. This one is so sketchy.  So sketchy. Like I said, there's absolutely zero chance that this man has all these ties, all these associations, all these news network interviews  was in an as off battalion  advertising campaign  was being interviewed by the New York times by newsweek  was a recruiter, a mercenary recruiter in Ukraine going back and forth constantly and somehow managed to evade the radar of the CIA and the FBI.  And I do think that the idea is very interesting that this man was potentially put up to this by his association and his allegiance to, because you listed that to that video, he has a strong belief in what is happening in Ukraine, or at least he pretends to.  So if he was asked or tasked to do this  by Ukraine, because they want to stop Trump from getting an office because they know that  The money train will stop when Trump goes in office.  It's an interesting theory,  but I'm sure there's many mothers that are just as crazy, if not crazier, that could also be true.  So  subscribe, leave a five star review, head over to ronanbasics. com  and until next time,  thank you for listening.   

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A motley crew of soldiers, officers, and pilots embarks on a perilous trek through the Afghani desert to find Liam Morales. After learning the direction of the mysterious Black Valley by speaking to tribal leaders in Qluuj Khel, the officers realize they need Hyde's cooperation and agree to bring her along for the expedition. However, Afghanistan is a land fraught with danger, and it isn't long before the party finds themselves fighting for their lives. As the threats intensify, Hyde must confront the harsh question: how many of her allies is she willing to sacrifice to find her brother? And what will she do when she finally stands before “The Sleeper” in the heart of the Black Valley? This episode concludes our playthrough of the scenario “Kali Ghati” by Shane Ivey. Join the Mayday newsletter here: eepurl.com/iIVUjo TRIGGER AND CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, blood and gore, death, body horror, mental illness, cults. Implied self-harm, Blood, domestic turmoil, profanity, drug abuse, Fictious depiction of the war in Afghanistan, Military-industrial complex, Sexism in the workplace, Real-world Religion, Fake Religion and Cultural practices, Governmental Conspiracy Translation of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi in Recap: Brother, Where have you gone? What did the sands tell you that has set your heart to wander further from home? There is nothing in this world we cannot conquer together. Let me help you so we can return to the people we love. Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this podcast are © Mayday Roleplay, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property. CAST OF CHARACTERS • Lev (they/them) - Rory Lopez, Army Gunner (they/he) • Amanda (she/her) - Amy “Soups” Campbell, co-pilot (she/her) • Caleb (he/him) - Agent Pilgrim (he/him) • Eli (any/all) - Kona “Hyde” Morales, Army Pilot (she/her) • Zakiya (she/they) - Agent Ice (she/her) • Sergio (he/him) - The Handler MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound Supervision: Sergio Crego, Eli Hauschel • Mixed: Eli Hauschel • Original Music: Aaron A. Pabst • Soundstripe (soundstripe.com) • Glitch Machines (glitchmachines.com/) • Soundly (getsoundly.com/) DELTA GREEN LINKS • Delta Green (http://deltagreen.com/) • Kali Ghati (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/181675/Delta-Green-Kali-Ghati) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp) • Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp) • Our website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@Maydayrp)

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Episode 624: Has the time of the caterwaul ended? Andrew finds old CRV prices are ridiculous. Hard lines at McKees Rocks from a British mechanic. Lexus model years. Sleep patterns on Juneteenth. The Afghanis have a robotics team? Brett rides a magnificent beast named Petey. Tesla Model Why? The crashing prices of used EV's. Nostra-dumb-us.

Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com) presents our final interviews from the 2023 New York Comic Con (www.newyorkcomiccon.com). BTB's own Mike "The General" Zad talks to popular comic book creator and founder of Image Comics, Erik Larsen! In an exclusive interview we talk to Erik about his current relationship with the rest of the Image Comics founders, bringing back the Sinister Six to Marvel, and leaving Marvel for Image and creating Savage Dragon. We also ask Erik the reason for Savage Dragon evolving to get more adult and racy over the years. An entertaining interview not to be missed! In addition, General Zad talks to creator Ghezal Omar from "Pimpkiller" and "357 Magnum Opus" and the first mainstream Afghani in the U.S.! Ghezal talks about how her screenplay was developed into "357" and her filmmaker influences including Martin Scorcese, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino. She discusses her works as well as whether we could expect a live action version.

In this episode, recorded back in December, Mark Gillmore concludes his interview with brother Timur, and hears about how God led him from Siberia to several other Central-Asian countries to spread the gospel to those who have never heard. Hear how love literally put shoes on several Afghani men for Christ! Listen and be challenged to get creative and believe God to win the world to Christ!If you have your own unique story of gospel advance or if you sense God leading you toward a particular people group, we'd love to hear about it. Even if it's just a sentence or two, share what God is doing in an email to gomission@theegeneration.org.GoMission, hosted by Mark Gillmore, is a monthly, missions-focused program designed to expose young people to the people, stories, and opportunities happening across the globe in the world's harvest fields. If you've been encouraged by this podcast, please take the time to give us a five-star rating and write a brief review. That would help tremendously in getting the word out and raising the visibility of the Thee Generation for others. For more faith inspiring resources and information about joining Thee Generation, please visit theegeneration.org.

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It's 2019, and Two Delta Green agents, Ice and Pilgrim, posing as military intelligence officers, are flown to FOB Turner in Afghanistan. Their mission: track down the disappearance of fellow agent, Liam Morales, who went missing days ago. Unbeknownst to them, Liam's sister, Kona (call sign: Hyde), is the helicopter pilot flying them to the station, harboring her own intentions to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper, both parties discover unsettling details about Liam's recent behavior – heavy drinking, occult books, and strange dreams. Realizing the gravity of the situation, they prepare to venture into the Afghani countryside, knowing that the path to finding Liam leads to the unnatural…to Kali Ghati. This episode begins our playthrough of the scenario “Kali Ghati” by Shane Ivey. --- Merchandise Giveaway! Entries begin May 31st and run through June 28th. If chosen, you can win one of the following prizes; Perennial Airlines t-shirt Devil's Night poster, 12x24” Perennial Agents sticker collection (5 stickers total) 1 month of Patreon membership FREE (Repeater - $5 level) We'll announce the winners on June 28th in the intro to episode 27, “Death Awakens The Sleeper”. Receive one entry for each of the following: Write a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify (please send us a screenshot). Talk about the show on social media and @ us (@maydayroleplay). Join our Newsletter: eepurl.com/iIVUjo (please send us a screenshot) TRIGGER AND CONTENT WARNINGS: Implied self-harm, Blood, domestic turmoil, profanity, drug abuse, Fictious depiction of the war in Afghanistan, Military-industrial complex, Sexism in the workplace, Real-world Religion, Fake Religion and Cultural practices, Governmental Conspiracy, Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this podcast are © Mayday Roleplay, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property. CAST OF CHARACTERS • Lev (they/them) - Rory Lopez, Army Gunner (they/he) • Amanda (she/her) - Amy “Soups” Campbell, Hyde's co-pilot (she/her) • Caleb (he/him) - Agent Pilgrim (he/him) • Eli (any/all) - Kona “Hyde” Morales, Army Pilot (she/her) • Zakiya (she/they) - Agent Ice (she/her) • Sergio (he/him) - The Handler MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound Supervision: Sergio Crego, Eli Hauschel • Mixed: Eli Hauschel • Original Music: Aaron A. Pabst • Soundstripe (soundstripe.com) • Glitch Machines (glitchmachines.com/) • Soundly (getsoundly.com/) DELTA GREEN LINKS • Delta Green (http://deltagreen.com/) • Kali Ghati (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/181675/Delta-Green-Kali-Ghati) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp) • Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp) • Our website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@Maydayrp)

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Pablos: People are pissed off about social media all the time. They think that Facebook is making people vote for the wrong person. It's still very difficult to find somebody who thinks they voted for the wrong person because of Facebook, but they think everyone else did. Never mind that, there's this kind of, uh, very popular sensibility, which is to blame Facebook for all the problems in the world. They're doing fake news, they're doing, disinformation they're doing , every possible thing that could be wrong. Everybody wants to blame Facebook for getting wrong or Twitter or, any of the other social platforms. So if you think about it, in one sense, , yeah, Facebook got everybody together. I'm just going to use them as the example, we can extrapolate. They got everybody together. They, ended up getting too much content. you and your friends are posting too much shit. Nobody has time to see all of it. So you need the magical algorithm, which you should do like triple air quotes every time I say algorithm. They're like, the algorithm is supposed to figure out, okay, of all the shit that's supposed to be showing up on your feed, what's the coolest, or what's the stuff that you're gonna like the most? That's the job of the algorithm. And of course, we all believe the algorithm is tainted. And so, it's not really trying to find the things I care about the most or like the most. It's just gonna find the things that piss me off the most so that I get my, outrage, dopamine hit and keep coming back. So, which may all be true. We don't know. But, the point is, there's a fundamental problem, which is you cannot see everything that gets posted from all the people you follow. So, there does have to be some ranking. And then the second, thing is that you want that ranking to be tuned for you. And I think the thing that people, are missing about this is that you've got to have, a situation where it is very personalized because, not everybody's the same. Even if you and I followed the same thousand people, it doesn't mean we have identical interests. There are other factors that need to play into determining like what I want to see and what you want to see. And then I think that there's a whole bunch of things that, are classified as societal evils, that Facebook has to decide are not okay for anybody to follow. So if you have posts about Hitler, nobody should get to see those. Even if you're a World War II historian, nope, you don't get to see it. So there's a kind of, problem here, which is that all of this flies in the face of actual diversity, actual multiculturalism, we have 190 countries in the world. We have a lot of different peoples, different cultures, you and I just had a huge conversation about, different cultures and how they drive, we don't agree about these things. We have different ideas in different places in the world, even whole societies have different ideas about what's okay, and what's not okay, and that is the definition of Culture that is the definition of multiculturalism is valuing that that exists and letting everybody have their own ideas And and make let these different people operate in the way that suits them And when you travel, you get beaten over the head with that because, I can appreciate that people drive like this in Bangkok. That's not how I want to do it , that's kind of the fundamental point here. So anyway, what I'm trying to get at is you cannot create one set of rules for the entire world. That is not okay. Ash: 100% Pablos: And so what Facebook has chosen to do is try to create one set of rules for the entire world, at least the two billion people that are on Facebook. Ash: But then you become the government of Facebook. Pablos: You become the government of Facebook. And it's and we're all pissed off because they keep choosing rules that some people don't like or whatever. And so I think this is untenable and I don't think there's a solution there. I think it is a fool's errand and what I believe is, has gone wrong is that Facebook made the wrong choice long ago and they chose to control the knobs and dials and now they're living with the flack that comes with, every choice they make about where to set those knobs and dials. And what they should have done is given the user the knobs and dials. They should let me have buried six pages deep in the settings, have control over. What do you want more of? What do you want less of? Ash: More or less rant. Pablos: Yeah, They try to placate you with the like button and unfollow and all that, but it's not really control. So, contrast that with, the other fork in history that we didn't take, go back to like 2006, in the years before Facebook, We had this beautiful moment on the internet, with RSS. So RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, that hardly matters, RSS was an open standard that allowed any website to publish the content in the form of posts in a kind of machine readable way. And then you could have an RSS reader that could subscribe to any website. So we didn't have the walled garden of Facebook, but, you remember all this, of course, but I'm just trying to break it down here. What we had was, this kind of open standard. , anybody in the world could publish on RSS using their website, all the blog software did this out of the box. WordPress does it out of the box. In fact, most websites, would support RSS. And then you had a reader app, that could be any reader app. This is again, open standards so get any reader you want. And if you just subscribe to any website in the world, you are following them directly. When they publish a post, it show up in your feed. And when you followed too many people, you could start making filters. So I've been making filters. I still do RSS. So by the way, all this machinery still works 15 years later. The machinery still works almost any website if you just put /RSS or / feed on the domain name you'll see an RSS feed and you can subscribe to that so it goes into my reader app And then I've been building filters over the years. So I have filters like -Trump because I got sick and tired of all this bullshit about Trump regardless what you think about Trump I just wanted to think about other things and it was painful to have a feed filled with Trump during the election So I have also -Biden, I have -Kanye, I have -Disney, I have minus all kinds of shit that I don't want to see, I still follow the publishers, but it's weeding out articles that are about those things. And so I get this feed that's pretty curated for me and my interests, and I get more of the stuff I like and less of the stuff I don't like, but I'm responsible for the knobs and dials, I'm controlling the settings, and I get to have my own autonomy about what I think is cool and not cool. And if I don't want Hitler, I can easily just -Hitler. And what we did instead is we kind of signed up for this sort of, babysitter culture of having Facebook make those choices for us. And people not, taking responsibility for their own choices has put us in this situation where we just have an internet full of people want to blame somebody else for everything that they think is going wrong. What we need to do is, figure out a way to, shift the world back to RSS. And out of the walled garden. So that's my, that's where I'm at, and I have ideas about that. Ash: And it's interesting, go back to Delphi, So Delphi internet... Pablos: One of the first, before, before internet, this was like an ISP, like a, like AOL. Centralized ISP. Ash: Right. So, so Delphi was sold to Murdoch, to News Corp and, and then the founder, Dan Burns brought that back. He purchased it, he re acquired the company and then invited a couple of ragtag individuals, myself and, and Palle again, and Rusty Williams. Chip Matthes, and we had like, you know, a room with a VAX in the back. I was doing a lot of the stuff, but we were running forums. Dan had this crazy idea. It was like, Hey, what if you could just make your own forum? And this would be like way pre Facebook, it's like 97, 98. And 98, we started supplying that ability to websites. And the first one we did was a guy named Gil . And like we said to him, it's like, Hey Gil, like you guys really should have some forums, like, yeah, we totally should be. Wait, so how do we do that? And we wrote like a little contract, right? like the first, I think, business development contract that you could probably make. He was head of, , business development, eBay. Right. So he did that. I mean, he's very well known sort of angel kind of lead syndicate guy. Now I like an angel is for like for, for ages. Pablos: Oh, Penchina. I know who you're talking about. Yeah. Ash: We still have like the first document, you will do this. I will do this. I will give you a forum. You will use it for people to talk about, I don't know, the, the, their beanie baby or whatever they were selling back then. And the, the reality was that that took off and then we started supplying this technology, which we then enabled, we RSS enabled it, by the way, of course, at some point, right. When it was, when the, when the XML feeds were like ready to go, we upgraded from XML And then we, we, we took that and we said, all right, let's go, let's go for it. And at some point we're doing 30 million a month, 30 million people a month. Unique. We're like on this thing and we never governed. You could, you could go hidden, right? Kind of like your locked Instagram page versus not, but we didn't govern anything. Forums had moderators, they were self appointed moderators of that domain of, of madness. So if you didn't like that person's moderation, You know, like, all right, screw this guy. You know, like, I don't, I don't want to listen to you. You're crazy. And what we found, and this was the piece of data that I think that was the wildest. Servers are expensive back then. You actually have to have servers. Or in our case we were beating everyone else. Cause we had a VAX that was locked in a, Halon secure room. No, because it came when we repurchased it for a dollar. Like the VAX was still there and Lachlan Murdoch's, office became our like conference room. No, I'm not kidding. It was, it was really crazy. There was a, it was just a VAX sitting there and, Hey, look, you could run UNIX on it. We were good. We didn't care. It loved threads and it was good. And it could do many, many, many, many threads. So we were running this, this thing highly efficiently. There's six people in a company doing that much. That was the company, literally six. I look today and how many people we hire and I'm like, there were six of us. It was wild, the iceberg effect took place. So what ended up happening is the percent, and this is where I think Facebook can't do or doesn't want to do, is how do you advertise below the waterline? And when we were sitting there with the traffic, we're like, dude, why is there so much traffic, but we can't see it, right? It looked like we only had 20, 000 forums or something, and there was like all this mad traffic going on. And. It was something like the 80, 20 rule the other way. It was like 20 percent was indexable that you could see that you could join a forum. And it was 80 percent were, were insane things like Misty's fun house. That by the way, is a legitimate. Forum at one point, right? It was Misty's fun house. So I'm just saying, cause we're trying to figure out what was going on. Where were the people chatting and talking? And that's what we did. We let them bury themselves deeper and deeper and deeper. Usenet did that. If you just go back in time, what do you think BBSs were? It's the same. Pablos: Exactly. Ash: We always love talking. Pablos: Yeah. People love talking. Ash: You just figure out which one you want to dial into. Pablos: Nobody's pissed off about who they're talking to really. Usually they're pissed off about who other people are talking. They're pissed off about some conversation they're not really a part of. Or a conversation they can be a spectator on, but doesn't match their culture. That's one of the big problems with Twitter it's like BBSs, and it's BBS culture. Elon was the winner of the Twitter game long before he bought Twitter, because, that's just BBS culture that he had in his mind, IRC or whatever. All kinds of people who are not part of that culture, are observing it and think that it's a horrible state, of society that people could be trolling each other and shit. And that's just part of the fun. You have this problem when you try to cram too many cultures into one place, it takes a lot of struggle to work that out if you're in, Jamaica, Queens, then you're gonna, you're gonna work it out over time, with a lot of struggle, you're going to work it out and the cultures are going to learn to get along. But in, but on Twitter, there's no incentive. Ash: That's why we still have states. The EU still has, like, how many languages? That's why we have Jersey for New Yorkers. Pablos: The EU in their way has figured out how these cultures can get along. I think there's a real simple fix to this. The big death blow to RSS in some sense was that the winning reader app was Google Reader. And so the vast majority, of the world that was using RSS was using Google Reader. And then I don't totally have insight on how this happened, but, Google chose to shut down Google Reader. And I don't know if they were trying to steer people into their, Facebook knockoff products or whatever at the time. in a lot of ways I think what it did is it just handed the internet over to Facebook. Because anybody who was being satisfied by that, and just ended up getting, into their Facebook news feed instead. So it just kind of ran into a walled garden. I don't really blame Facebook for this, the way a lot of people want to. I blame the users. You've got to take some responsibility, make your own choice, choose something that's good for you, and most people are not willing to do that. But, I think to make it easier for them, and there is a case to be made that , people got better things to do than architect their own rSS reader process, but we could kind of do it for them. And so I think there's one, one big kingpin missing, which is you could make a reader app that would be like an iPhone app now. And you could think of it as like open source Instagram. It's just an Instagram knockoff, but instead of following, other people on a centralized platform by Instagram, it just follows RSS. And then it only picks up RSS posts that have at least one picture, right? So any RSS post that has one picture and then the first time you post it automatically makes a WordPress blog for you, that's free. And then, posts your shit as RSS compliant blog posts, but the reader experience is still just very Instagramesque. So now it's completely decentralized in the sense that like you own your blog, yeah, WordPress is hosting it, but that's all open source. You could download it, move it to Guam if you want, whatever you want to do. So now all publishers have their own direct feeds. All users are publishers, which is kind of the main thing that Facebook solved. Ash: Content is no longer handed over to someone, right? That's the other big thing. Pablos: Exactly. The content is yours and then your followers are yours, right? When they follow you, they follow you at your URL. And so you can take them with you wherever you go. And then to make this thing more compelling, you just add a few tabs. You add the Twitteresque tab. You add the TikTokesque tab for videos. And, add, the podcast tab. So now, posts are just automatically sorted into the tab for the format that matches them. Because people have different modalities for, for consuming this shit. So, depending on what you're in the mood for, you might want to just look at pictures because you're on a conference call. Fine. Instagram. Or, you know, you might want to watch videos because you're on a flight. Who knows? So, the point being, all of this is easy to do. You and I could build that in a weekend. And then the reason that this works, the reason this will win is because you can win over the creators, right? Because the sales pitch to a creator, and those are the people who drive the following anyway, you see TikTok and everybody else kissing the ass of creators because that's who attracts the following. The creators win because they're not giving anything up to the platform. Because they make money off advertising. So fine. We make an advertising business and we still, take some cut of what the creators push out. But if they don't like us, there's a market for that, right? The market is I'm just pushing ads out along with my content to my followers. Some of them watch the ads. Some of them don't. I have this much of an impact. And so now you get the platforms out of the way. Ash: If you do it right, Google has ad networks that they drop everywhere. Pablos: Everybody has ad networks already for websites. You could just use that. Amazon has one. So you can sign up for that if you want. Or the thing that creators want to do, which is go do collabs, go do direct deals with brands. Now you're getting 100 percent of that income. You pump it out to your fans. And there's no ad network in the middle. Nobody's taking a cut. Alright, if you could cut your own deals, then great, but you're in control and you can't be shadow banned, you can't be deprioritized in the feed, because that's the game that's happening. These platforms, they figure out you're selling something, you immediately get deprioritized. And so the creators are all pissed off anyway. So I think we can win them over easily enough. And then the last piece of it is, there's one thing that doesn't exist, which is you still need to prioritize your feed. You still need an advanced algorithm to do it. You don't want to be twiddling knobs and dials all day. You might put in -Hitler if you want. But what should happen is you should also be able to subscribe to feed ranking services. So that could be, the ACLU, or the EFF, or the KKK, whoever you think should be ranking your feed. Ash: Well, I was actually thinking you could subscribe to a persona. So people could create their own recipes. So this is the world according to Ash, right? Here you go. Like, I've got my own thing. I've done my dials, my tuning, my tweaks, my stuff. And you want to see how I see the world. Here we go. The class I teach, that's the first day I tell people, take Google news and sit down and start tuning it. And everyone's like, well, let me just start to just add, put ups and downs, ups and downs, add Al Jazeera, do whatever you want. Just do everything that you want, just make them fight and put all of that in and then go down the rabbit hole. But there's no way to export that. When we start class, I always talk about viewpoints And how all content needs a filter because we are filter. But if I want to watch the world as Pablos, I can't, there's no, you can't give me your lens. So if we look at the lens concept, today you can tune Google News, there is a little subscribe capability, but you could tune it and poke it a little bit, and it will start giving you info. It's not the same, quite the same as RSS, but it's giving you all the news feeds from different places, right? Could get Breitbart, you could get, Al Jazeera, you could get all the stuff that you want. And if you go back in time to, to when I was working with the government, that was actually my sort of superpower, writing these little filters and getting, Afghani conversations in real time translated. And then find the same village, in the same way. So then I would have two viewpoints at the same time. The good thing was that when you did that what I haven't seen, and I would love, love this take place, is for someone to build a, Pablos filter,? And I could be like, "all right, let me, let me go see the world the way he sees it." his -Hitler, his minus, minus, -election, - Trump, -Biden, that's fine. And then, and now I have a little Pablos recipe. I can like click my glasses, and then, then suddenly I see the world, meaning I filter the world through Pablos's. Pablos: Yeah, I think that, I think we're saying a similar thing because then what you could do is you could, subscribe to that. You could subscribe to the Pablos filter. You could subscribe to the... Ash: exactly, I'm taking your ACLU thing one step further. I think ACLU is like narrow, but you could go into like personality. Pablos: You could even just reverse engineer the filter by watching what I read. My reader could figure out my filter by seeing the choices that I make. Ash: Yeah, if it's stored it right, if we had another format, but let's just say that we had an RSS feed filter format. 'cause it's there. It's really the parameters of your RSS anyway. But if you could somehow save that, config file, go back thousand years, right? If you could save the config.ini, that's what you want? And I could be like, Hey, Pablo, so I can hand that over. Let's share that with me. And now what's interesting is works really well. And it also helps because each person owning their own content, the, the beauty of that becomes, you never, you never filtered, you never blocked you, you, you're self filtering. Pablos: That's right. Ash: We're self subscribing to each other's filters. Pablos: Publishers become the masters of their domain. If you've got a problem with a publisher, you've got to go talk to them, not some intermediary. The problem is on a large scale, control is being exercised by these intermediaries. And they have their own ideas and agendas and things. The job here is to disintermediate - which was the whole point of the internet in the first place - communication between people. Ash: Then the metadata of that becomes pretty cool, by the way. If I figured out that, okay, now it looks like 85 percent of the population has, has gone -Biden, -Trump. Let's think about that. Suddenly you've got other info, right? Suddenly you're like, Oh, wait a minute. and if you're an advertiser or you're a product creator, or you're a, like just sitting there trying to figure out how can I get into the world, that becomes really valuable, right? Because you could. Go in and say, people just don't give a shit about this stuff, guys. I don't know what you're talking about. Whereas when you have one algorithmic machine somewhere in Meta/Facebook, whatever we want to call it, pushing things up, it could be pushing sand uphill, right? It could be like stimulating things that you don't necessarily know you want. The structure that you just described flips that on its head because it says, Hey, I just don't want to listen to this shit, guys. Like, I just could not give a crap about what you're saying. Pablos: Right. Ash: And if enough people happen to do that, then the content creators also have some, some idea of what's going on. We try to decode lenses all day long,? We spend our life, like you said, in meetings or in collaborations or business development. What do you think we do? We sit there, we're trying to figure out the other person's view. We're trying to understand if you're a salesperson, "Hey, can I walk a mile in that guy's shoes" or speak like that person, I've never heard of anyone sort of selling me, lending me, letting me borrow their RSS, like, their filter. That would be phenomenal, that'd be great. And I bet you, if you did it right, you might even solve a lot of problems in the world because then you could see what they see, you know, I don't want to touch the topics that we know are just absolute powder kegs, but every time we get to these topics, I always tell the person, can you show me what you, what are you reading? Pablos: Yeah. Ash: Like, where did you get? Pablos: Yeah. Ash: You ever, you ever asked someone like, "where did you get that?" and then they show you, they show you kind of their, feed. And you're just like, what is going on? Like, if you, if you go to someone, whether they're pro or anti vax, it doesn't matter where it is. And just look at their feed, look at what they're listening to, because it's not the same thing I'm listening to, because the mothership has, has decreed which, which one we each get. But you look at it and then you're like, okay, maybe the facts that they were presented with were either incomplete and maybe not maliciously? I get it in the beginning of this, you started like, okay, is it malicious and didn't do it would get changed. But if you just cut out, I don't know, let's just say there's like 10 pieces of news, but I only give you five and I give the other person the other five. And they're not synchronous, you're going to start a fight. There's no question. What we don't have is the ability to say, Hey, like, let me, let me be Pablos for a second before I start screaming, let me see what he sees. that will probably change that could change a lot. Pablos: Think it could. That and certainly there's a cognitive bias that feels comfortable in an echo chamber. This is one of the issues that we're really experiencing is that, the process of civilization, literally means "to become civil" to do that. It's sort of the long history of humans figuring out how to control obsolete biological instincts. We've been evolved to want to steal each other's food and girlfriends. That's not specifically valuable or relevant at this point. We've had to learn how to get along with more people, we've had to learn to become less violent, we've had to learn to, play the long game socially, those things. And, there's work to do on that as far as like how we consume all this, this information, all the media. You're using the wrong part of your brain to tune your feed right now. You're using the lazy Netflix part of your brain to tune your news, and that's not really , how are you going to get good results. There's work to do to evolve the tools and work to do to evolve the sensibilities around these things. And so, you know, what I'm suggesting is like, we're not going to get there by handing it over to the big wall garden. You got to get there through this, again, sort of. Darwinian process of trying a lot of things and so you've described some really cool things that we'd want to be able to try that are impractical to try because things are architected wrong and using Facebook is the central switchboard of these conversations or Twitter or whatever and so you know what we need is a more open platform where like you know we can all take a stab at figuring out how to design cool filters that express our point of view and share them. And that's not possible in the current architecture. I think the last thing is, there are certainly other frustrations and attempts to go solve some class of these, some subset of these problems. You've got Mastodon, of course, and the Fediverse, and you've got Blue Sky trying in their way to make a sort of open Twitter thing. And then you've got, these other attempts, but a lot of them are pretty heavy handed architecturally. As far as I can tell, most of them end up just being some suburb of people who are pissed off about one thing or another that they get its adoption, right? So, Mastodon is basically a place for people who are, backlashing against Twitter. As far as I can tell. Ash: Yeah, and we even worked on one, right? Called Ourglass. Pablos: I don't know that one. Ash: It was coming out and we actually did an entire session on it. I actually worked on some of the product thought design on, on how that works. , it was like, it's all on chain. Part of the, the thing that, we did was very similar to what you're talking about. You wanted the knobs and the controls, and you wanted people to rant in their space. I know it gets pretty dark when you say, okay, but what are they allowed to talk about in in the dark depths of that sort of internet and and I say, "well, they already talk about it, guys" Whether they get into a smoky back room or, there's somewhere else that if they don't say it, I feel we get more frustrated. Pablos: The fundamental difference here is between centralized services. That's certainly Facebook and Twitter, but it's also Delphi and AOL, versus open, decentralized protocols and the protocols in time win over the services like TCP/IP won over AOL, AOL was centralized service, TCP/IP, decentralized protocol. At the beginning it was a worse user experience, harder to use, but It's egalitarian and it won and I think that that's kind of the moment we're in right now with with the social media. We're still on centralized service mode and it needs to be architected as decentralized protocol and we had a chance to do that before Facebook and we lost and so now there's just like the next battle is like how do we get back on the track of decentralized protocol, and I think if we just define them... That's why I think RSS won because it's called Really Simple Syndication for a reason. Because it's really simple. It was easy for any developer to integrate. Everybody could do it. And so it just became ubiquitous almost overnight. You could design something cooler with the blockchain and whatnot. But it's probably over engineered for the job. And the job right now is just like, get adoption. Ash: We started going down that path. So Delphi's sort of twin. Was, called Prospero. So Prospero was, little Tempest reference, was designed. As a way that you could just adopt it. That was that, that first eBay deal. And then we did about.com and most of the stuff. And right now you see Discuss. It's at the bottom of, of some comments. It's a supported service where, you had one party taking care of all of the threads and handles and display methods and posts and logins. And, you were seamlessly logged into the other sites. MD5 sort of hash and we did the first single sign on type nonsense, and we used to build gateways between the two, you're going to go from one to another, but the whole idea was that you provide, the communication tool, As a, as an open or available service. And you could charge for for storing it. And then what happens is you don't do the moderation as a tool. That's your problem. You strip it back to "look, I'm going to provide you the car and I don't care how you drive it." Go back to our story, whether you're in Vietnam or Riyadh or whatever you're doing, we're going to, we're not there to tell you which lane to go into, but that's, that's your problem. I think that one of the challenges with like RSS, cause we were RSS compliant, by the way. I'm pretty sure Prospero and I'm sure it's still around because it went XML to RSS. And I remember the fact that you could subscribe to any forum that was Prospero powered. You could subscribe to it a lot, like directly through your RSS reader. And I remember what was great about it is that people were like, "we don't want, your viewer." Just like we didn't want your AOL view of like, "you've got mail." I want my own POP server and then IMAP or whatever it is. I think there does need to be, like you said, someone putting together a little toolkit that's super easy. They don't need to know it's got RSS. They don't need to know anything. But it's like, "own your post." it can be like an Own Your Post service. And then the Own Your Post service happens to publish RSS and everything else, and it's compliant. Pablos: I think you just make an iPhone app and when you set up the app it just automatically makes you a WordPress blog and if you want you can go move it later. Ash: You got it. All that other stuff is just automated. Pablos: You don't even have to know it's WordPress. It's behind the scenes. Ash: If you were going to do this, what you would do is you'd launch and I would launch it like three different companies. Like three different tools. I've got a, "keep your content" tool and the keep your content guys are something compliant, RSS. You keep bringing it back. It's published, it's out there and then some new company, Meta Two, Son of Meta, creates a reader. Anyone that's got a RSS tag on it, we're a reader for it. So anyone using Keep Your Content or, whatever. the idea being that now you're showing that there's some adoption. You almost don't have to rig it. There is a way to do this because no one wants to download a reader if there aren't sources. Pablos: The thing can bootstrap off of existing sources because there's so much RSS compliant content. You could imagine like day one. If you downloaded this reader today. You could follow Wall Street Journal and just everything online. And some of it you have to charge for it. Like Substack has RSS. I follow Substacks. You could just follow those things in the app Substack has a reader, but it only does Substacks, and probably Medium has one that only does Medium. But we have one that does both, plus New York Times and everything else. So now, like any other thing, you just follow a bunch of stuff. And then, there's a button that's like post. Sure, post. Boom. Now that fires up your own WordPress blog. Now you're posting. All your content's being saved. You control it. You got some followers or if you have this many followers, here's how much you can make in ad revenue. Boom, sign up for ad network. Now you're pushing ads out. All This could be done with existing stuff, just glued together, I think, and with the possible exception of the filter thing, which, needs to be more advanced probably worth revisiting. Ash: I think what You could do is maybe the very first thing you do, create the filter company, like your RSS glasses. So instead of having to do that heavy lift, curate Pablos's, I would love to get your RSS feed list. How do you give it to me? How could you give me your RSS configured viewer? Pablos: A lot of RSS readers make it really easy to like republish your own feed. So like all the things I subscribe to, then go into feed... Ash: But then, that's blended, right? Pablos: Oh, it's blended. Yeah, for sure. Ash: Is blended, right? So now it becomes your feed. I'm saying, can I get your configuration? Pablos: I don't know if there's a standard for that. Ash: I'm saying that's maybe the thing you create a meta, Meta. Pablos: Honestly, I think these days what you would do is just have a process that looks at everything I read, feeds it into an LLM, and tries to figure out like how do you define what Pablos is interested in that way. You probably would get a lot more nuance. Ash: That's to find out what you're interested in. Pablos: It's almost like you want your feed filtered through my lens. Ash: That's exactly what I want. I want to read the same newspaper you're reading, so to speak. So if you assume that that feed that you get is a collection of stories. That's your newspaper, the Pablos newspaper, right? That's what it is, Times of Pablos and you have a collection of stories that land on your page, right? It's been edited. Like you're the editor, you're the editor in chief of your little newspaper. If you think of all your RSS feeds ripped down your, your own newspaper, I'd like to read that newspaper. How do I do that? That doesn't exist. I don't think that's easy to do. And if I can do that, that'd be great. Pablos: If you're looking on Twitter and people are reposting, if I go look at your Twitter feed and all you do is repost stuff and then occasionally make a snarky comment, that's kind of what I'm getting. I'm getting the all the stuff you thought was interesting enough to repost and I think that's a big part of like why reposting merits having a button in Twitter because that's the signal you're getting out of it. I don't love it because it's part of what I don't like about Twitter is I'm not seeing a lot of unique thought from the people I follow. I'm just seeing shit they repost. And so my Twitter feed is kind of this amalgamation of all the things that were reposted by all the people I follow and and to me, that's what I don't want. I would rather just see the original post by those people. Twitter doesn't let me do that, so I'm scrolling a lot just to get to the, first person content. I think it is a way of substantiating what you're saying, though, which is "There's a value in being able to see the world through someone else's eyes." Repost might just be kind of a budget version of that. Ash: The reason I say that it's valuable, it's like the old days you'd sit on train and maybe even today and you had a physical copy of the New York Times, and everyone, and you could see who reads the New York Times and who reads the Journal. Right. And who reads The Post and The Daily News, that's what you can tell. And those people had their lenses, you go to the UK and everyone, this is the guardian, the independent, whatever. And you were like, Oh, that's a time, Times reader. That's a Guardian reader or someone looking at page three of the sun. I have no idea what they're doing, but, you knew immediately where they were. Pablos: It's the editorial layer. Ash: You got it. Pablos: it's what's missing in today's context. What's missing now is you got publishers, and you got the readers. but the editor is gone. Ash: Well, it's not gone, that's the problem, right? So what we did is , in the, in the world of press, there was a printing press and an editorial group took stories and they shoved them through the printing press. And then, the next minute, another editorial group came in and ran it through the printing press. so if you went out , and you were making your sort of manifestos, the printing press probably didn't care, right? The guy at like quickie print or whatever it was didn't care. Today, Facebook claims it's the place to publish, but it's not. Because it's editorial and publish so that so what they're doing is they're taking your IP They're taking a content and then there's putting their editorial layer on it. Even if it's a light touch or heavy touch, whatever it is. But it's sort of like if the guy that was the printing press like "I don't really like your font." " Dude, that's how I designed it." I want the font. Like I like Minion, Minion Pro is my thing, right? That's what I'm going to do. But, but if they just decided to change it, you'd be really pissed off. Now, Facebook claims to be an agnostic platform, but they're not an ISP. They're not a, an open architecture. like we would have had in the past where like you host what you wanted to host. There, you host what you want to host, but they're going to down promote you. They're going to boost you. They're going to unboost you. So wait a minute, hold on a second. You're, you're not really an open platform. And I think that's what you're getting at, which is, either you're a tool to publish or you're the editorial, the minute you're both. You're an editorial. You're actually no longer a tool. Pablos: That's exactly right. I think, that's the key thing, we've got to separate those things. Ash: That's the element. And I think that that tells you a lot about why we get frustrated. If Twitter was just a fast way to shove 140 characters across multiple SMS, which we didn't have, because we're in the U.S. We were silly and we didn't have GSM. That's what Twitter was, right? Twitter was kind of like the first version of like a unified messaging platform. Cause it was like, you could broadcast 140 characters and it would work on the lowest common denominator, which was your StarTAC flip phone. So the point was that Twitter was a not unmoderated open tool. Then it got editorial. And now it's then it's no longer. And I think that's the problem, right? It used to be, you had a wall on Facebook and you did whatever the hell you wanted to. And then Facebook said I need to make money and it became the publisher, became the editorial board. Pablos: Okay, so we have a lightweight plan to save the internet. Let's see if we can find somebody to go build this stuff. Ash: If you could build that last thing, I think it's not a, it's not a complicated one, but they, I think they just need to sit down and, grab your feed. Or someone can come up with a collection of, Mixtapes, let's call it. Pablos: Yeah, cool. Mixtapes, I like that. Ash: Internet Mixtapes. There you go.

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In this special episode I welcome Rasul Rasekh, a mujahideen fighter who has defended his native country of Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion. Rasul fought alongside the allied nations and brought diplomacy to his countries many tribes. Since the withdrawal, the Afghan people have suffered at the hands of oppressors, poverty, weather and starvation. Hundreds of children perish on a daily basis. This is a call to actiong for both Afghanis and the international communities to help.

Want to destress your mind? Start with your body. Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a practice where you methodically tense and release your muscles to help unwind.  Studies show it can reduce anxiety, help you get better sleep and lower depression levels. Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y6stdy3b Episode summary: As a war correspondent and an Afghani refugee, Nelufar Hedayat is acutely aware of how stress feels in her body. For our show, Nelufar tried Progressive Muscle Relaxation: But what the practice's title doesn't mention is that you methodically tense your muscles,  before releasing them.. At first, it triggered feelings of distress for her. But after recently being diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, Nelufar was able to reframe her relationship to the exercise. By separating the sensation of tensing from stress, she completed the practice feeling empowered and euphoric. Later, we hear from psychologist Loren Toussaint about the importance of intentionally engaging our body's relaxation response. We also learn how Progressive Muscle Relaxation compares to other well-known relaxation techniques, like deep breathing and visualization. Practice: Listen to next week's Happiness Break on October 5th for a short guided version of this practice. Try following these steps for Progressive Muscle Relaxation from Kaiser Permanente: https://tinyurl.com/4k668ehv Today's guests: Nelufar Hedayat is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who has reported on numerous conflict zones. Her new podcast Ritually explores the role of wellness and spiritual practices in contemporary society. Listen to Ritually: https://tinyurl.com/mtzvf2kp Follow Nelufar on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/42ytnytw Follow Nelufar on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/y6abuvtp Follow Nelufar on Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/mr2weemp Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Learn more about Loren and his work: https://tinyurl.com/4ea2jx9x Follow Loren on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/mry2yb4s Resources from The Greater Good Science Center: Four Ways to Calm Your Mind in Stressful Times: https://tinyurl.com/6apdf52p How Resting More Can Boost Your Productivity: https://tinyurl.com/23h6rnvw How a Body Scan Can Help With Strong Emotions: https://tinyurl.com/59tyjbhr How Tuning In to Your Body Can Make You More Resilient: https://tinyurl.com/y2jhfmpe Five Ways Mindfulness Meditation Is Good for Your Health: https://tinyurl.com/3f79nsav More Resources for A Good Night's Sleep University of Toledo- Progressive Muscle Relaxation: https://tinyurl.com/2kadu7va Mayo Clinic - Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress:  https://tinyurl.com/2tfrnnew BBC - Can't stop your brain racing at 3am? Try these suggestions from a GP: https://tinyurl.com/yvz45x5w PTSD UK - How Progressive Muscle Relaxation can help people with PTSD: https://tinyurl.com/4b89auzw Tell us about your experience with the progressive muscle relaxation practice! Email us at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or use the hashtag #happinesspod. Help us share The Science of Happiness! Rate us on Spotify and share this link with someone who might like the show: https://tinyurl.com/ckd6yb46

It's been 22 years since Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes and smashed two of them into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. Heroic passengers fought back on the fourth flight to bring it down in a Pennsylvania field. It's a horrific event that changed so many lives in profound ways - and Sara is among them.One way Sara's life changed was moving to the nation's capital to write for the Washington Times. She embedded multiple times with American forces in Afghanistan and also managed to land an interview with Afghani warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Sara walks through this memory in vivid detail, what Dostum told her, and how it helped her understand the dynamics in play in Afghanistan on a much deeper level. It's a story you'll only hear from Sara Carter.Please visit our great sponsors:Allegiance Goldhttps://protectwithsara.comClick or Call 877-702-7272 tell them Sara sent you and get $5,000 of free silver on a qualifying purchase. Donor's Trusthttps://donorstrust.org/saraSimplify, increase and protect with Donor's Trust. HumanN Super Beetshttps://getsuperbeets.comUse promo code SARA to get 15% off your first purchase.Time Stamps:1:40 9/11 anniversary6:49 SIGAR7:38 People I met and things I learned12:39 I finally got permission14:48 We arrive at the gates16:49 Massoud was close to our government19:52 It's a love hate relationship20:39 I'm desperate to interview Dostum21:57 The briefings made me nervous23:56 The image in my mind26:06 An incredible nation27:37 Coming out of the Tunnel28:21 Dostum is bigger than life29:26 I arrive for the interview31:49 I meet Dostum34:35 The Courage to take it all the way36:41 Way different than Iraq38:42 I am invited to dinner39:34 The cape40:45 Shrapnel in the thigh43:29 Looking back46:39 There will me more wars

August marks two years since President Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. No doubt you remember the images of Afghanis clinging to airplanes and falling to their deaths in desperate hopes of escaping the Taliban. You also remember that Americans were left behind despite Biden's promises to stay until they all got out. And none of us can forget the horrific terrorist attack at Abbey Gate that killed 13 American servicemembers, badly injured others, and killed or wounded hundreds of civilians.But there's so much more that you might not know. Today, Sara welcomes Jerry Dunleavy, an investigator with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner, and co-author of the new book "Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End."Dunleavy explains how Biden was fully responsible for the timing of the withdrawal and made his decisions based on political considerations. He also details the stunning decision to shut down Bagram Air Base several weeks before the withdrawal and how that led to the release of many ISIS-K terrorists, including the one who perpetrated the deadly attack at Abbey Gate. Meanwhile, soldiers at the gate contend they spotted the terrorist moments before the attack but were denied permission to shoot him.This story is incredibly personal to Sara. Her husband was permanently blinded while serving in Afghanistan. They lost friends there. They worked around the clock to get Afghani friends out before the U.S. left Kabul permanently. And she knows the betrayal that so many military families feel. Don't miss this powerful conversation.Please visit our great sponsors:Allegiance Goldhttps://protectwithsara.comClick or Call 877-702-7272 to tell them Sara sent you and get $5,000 of free silver on a qualifying purchase. My Pillowhttps://mypillow.com/carterUse promo code CARTER to get the queen-size My Pillow for only $19.98 during the 20th Anniversary Sale. Or call 800-685-7221.Time Stamps:0:05 2 Year Anniversary 3:52 Hanging off the C176:54 Jerry Dunleavy joins the Sara Carter Show8:21 Fiasco11:51 There was no plan15:08 Biden's political pull out17:29 I was embedded18:37 President Trump's take19:48 Biden didn't care21:32 Totally preventable25:34 Foreign policy ripples29:45 We broke our promises31:38 Abbey Gate38:20 Who pays the price?40:57 Interview Close43:02 Show close