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After Sarah died, Abraham decided it was time for Isaac to marry. Only he didn't want Isaac to marry a Canaanite woman neither did he want him to return to their homeland. He insisted that a woman from their kindred be brought to Canaan to be Isaac's wife. So Abraham sent his trusted servant on a mission to find a suitable wife for his son. All God's Women is a Bible study podcast  and syndicated radio show where we journey through the Bible one woman at a time. If you enjoy learning about women in the Bible, tune in each week to learn about a different Bible woman.Want to dig deeper? Find the full transcript and free Bible study questions for each episode on the All God's Women website.Social Corner:All God's Women on FacebookAll God's Women Bible Study Group on FacebookHost Sharon Wilharm on FacebookHost Sharon Wilharm on LinkedInHost Sharon Wilharm on PinterestListed in Top 30 Christian Women Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021Host Sharon Wilharm is a Christian speaker, female filmmaker, and women's ministry leader. Check out her movies available Amazon Prime, TubiTV, and other online streaming platforms. To learn more about Sharon and her movies, visit her website. 

Rashi writes at the beginning of this week’s parasha, Beha’alotecha , when Aharon saw all of the Nasi’im bringing big donations to the inauguration of the Mishkan, חלשה דעתו – he felt bad that he did not have a part in them. Hashem told Aharon שלך גדול משלהם – your portion is better than theirs. Your job will be to light the Menorah and prepare the wicks . How is that better? Some of the ba’aleh mussar explain the give and take as follows. Aharon saw how others were serving Hashem and he felt bad that he couldn’t serve Hashem like they were. Hashem told Aharon, I don’t get impressed by how big a donation is or by what it consists of. What impresses Hashem is that each person does the job that He wants them to do – שלך גדולה – you have to consider your job the greatest job of all because only you could do it and nobody else could. Sometimes we look around at what others are accomplishing and we feel bad that we aren’t doing the same. Everybody has a different job in this world to do. It does not matter what others are doing. What matters is if we are doing what we are capable of doing. Hashem loves each and every person’s avodah , not because of what it is but because of who it is coming from. Even if someone has been underachieving in the past, Hashem is waiting, kavayachol, with open arms to once again become close with him. Whatever we do He adores and when we want to get closer, Hashem helps us do it. Rabbi Yechiel Spero told a story about a young couple who moved to Baltimore. On their first Shabbat as newlyweds, the bride Sarah escorted her husband to shul on Friday night. As she was sitting in the ladies’ section, she noticed it was messy and decided to clean it up and organize it. While she was putting away the siddurim on the bookshelf, she saw a tefillin bag buried underneath a bunch of objects. Sarah took it and put it on a noticeable shelf so the one who it belonged to would be easily able to find it. After she finished cleaning, she admired what she did and decided to come back and do it every week. She noticed week after week the tefillin were always in that spot she put them in. She came back on a weeknight and took a picture of the bag and put up a sign with her number saying, whoever knows whose tefillin these are should please call her. She then took the tefillin to her house for safekeeping. Weeks later, she got a phone call from a woman who said she recognized the name on the bag. She was almost positive that it belonged to her old neighbor’s son. That family had moved to Israel five years earlier. Although she hadn’t spoken to them in years, she did have their phone number and happily gave it to Sarah. When Sarah called, the phone rang twice and then was declined, so she left a message. Two minutes later, Sarah’s phone rang - it was the woman in Israel. After Sarah told her about her experience with the tefillin , she asked this woman if by any chance those tefillin belonged to her son. She heard silence on the line and then some muffled cries. Then the woman began to speak. “My son had gone off the derech 5 years ago. He struggled terribly and stopped wearing his tefillin . Our relationship has been extremely strained. We speak once or twice a year when he needs something. Today, my son called me and said, ‘Mom, I want to come home. I am going to start praying again. Do you know where my tefillin are?’ While he was asking me that question, your phone number came across my screen. I told him I would find them. Then I heard your message saying you had them.” Hashem loves our avodah so much. Even a boy who was off the derech for 5 years, when he wanted to put his tefillin on again, Hashem orchestrated the events with amazing hashgacha to have them ready and waiting at that exact moment. Shabbat Shalom.

Rashi writes at the beginning of this week's parasha, Beha'alotecha , when Aharon saw all of the Nasi'im bringing big donations to the inauguration of the Mishkan, חלשה דעתו – he felt bad that he did not have a part in them. Hashem told Aharon שלך גדול משלהם – your portion is better than theirs. Your job will be to light the Menorah and prepare the wicks . How is that better? Some of the ba'aleh mussar explain the give and take as follows. Aharon saw how others were serving Hashem and he felt bad that he couldn't serve Hashem like they were. Hashem told Aharon, I don't get impressed by how big a donation is or by what it consists of. What impresses Hashem is that each person does the job that He wants them to do – שלך גדולה – you have to consider your job the greatest job of all because only you could do it and nobody else could. Sometimes we look around at what others are accomplishing and we feel bad that we aren't doing the same. Everybody has a different job in this world to do. It does not matter what others are doing. What matters is if we are doing what we are capable of doing. Hashem loves each and every person's avodah , not because of what it is but because of who it is coming from. Even if someone has been underachieving in the past, Hashem is waiting, kavayachol, with open arms to once again become close with him. Whatever we do He adores and when we want to get closer, Hashem helps us do it. Rabbi Yechiel Spero told a story about a young couple who moved to Baltimore. On their first Shabbat as newlyweds, the bride Sarah escorted her husband to shul on Friday night. As she was sitting in the ladies' section, she noticed it was messy and decided to clean it up and organize it. While she was putting away the siddurim on the bookshelf, she saw a tefillin bag buried underneath a bunch of objects. Sarah took it and put it on a noticeable shelf so the one who it belonged to would be easily able to find it. After she finished cleaning, she admired what she did and decided to come back and do it every week. She noticed week after week the tefillin were always in that spot she put them in. She came back on a weeknight and took a picture of the bag and put up a sign with her number saying, whoever knows whose tefillin these are should please call her. She then took the tefillin to her house for safekeeping. Weeks later, she got a phone call from a woman who said she recognized the name on the bag. She was almost positive that it belonged to her old neighbor's son. That family had moved to Israel five years earlier. Although she hadn't spoken to them in years, she did have their phone number and happily gave it to Sarah. When Sarah called, the phone rang twice and then was declined, so she left a message. Two minutes later, Sarah's phone rang - it was the woman in Israel. After Sarah told her about her experience with the tefillin , she asked this woman if by any chance those tefillin belonged to her son. She heard silence on the line and then some muffled cries. Then the woman began to speak. “My son had gone off the derech 5 years ago. He struggled terribly and stopped wearing his tefillin . Our relationship has been extremely strained. We speak once or twice a year when he needs something. Today, my son called me and said, ‘Mom, I want to come home. I am going to start praying again. Do you know where my tefillin are?' While he was asking me that question, your phone number came across my screen. I told him I would find them. Then I heard your message saying you had them.” Hashem loves our avodah so much. Even a boy who was off the derech for 5 years, when he wanted to put his tefillin on again, Hashem orchestrated the events with amazing hashgacha to have them ready and waiting at that exact moment. Shabbat Shalom.

On today’s pod, Sarah and David give us an update on the goings on at the Supreme Court, with an in-depth look at a union takings case out West. “A California regulation allows union representatives to meet with farm workers at their work sites for up to three hours a day for as many as 120 days a year,” Sarah explains. “And so the question is: Is this a per se taking under the Fifth Amendment?” After Sarah and David discuss oral arguments for the case, they do a deep dive on a 9th Circuit Second Amendment case, Twitter’s lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case on the ministerial exception. They wrap things up with some much needed Netflix recommendations and a conversation about D.C. statehood.   Show Notes: -Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid and Supreme Court oral arguments. -New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett and Holloway v. Garland. -Twitter, Inc. v. Ken Paxton. -Deweese-Boyd v. Gordon College. -Torres v. Madrid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There was no doubt about it–the old man’s coordinates were in the Orubus Belt. The Belt was a lawless zone, claimed by none of the prefectures. Whispers of missing ships and entire crews gone mad kept all but the most foolhardy of adventurers far from its borders. All trade routes between neighboring systems circumnavigated it, leaving the Belt almost entirely uncharted. Zuli was a more than a little apprehensive, but she had promised to deliver the old man to his coordinates. And Zuli was not one to break her promises. Zuli made the sign of the Prophets across her face and muttered a short prayer. She pressed the comm button next to the navigational display on her console. “Are you certain of these coordinates?” Zuli said. “They are taking us into…” “Yes, I’m sure!” the old man’s voice came crackling over the comm system. “I know where it’s taking us. You promised! You can’t back out now!” Zuli frowned. She had no intention of breaking her promise. “No worries,” Zuli said. “The Prophets shall watch over us, even in the Orubus Belt.” “Yeah, yeah,” the old man’s voice blurted. “Just let me know when we approach the coordinates. I’ll have preparations to make.” Zuli scowled and released her finger from the comm button. She made the sign of the Prophets once more and asked for a blessing of patience. Zuli had taken pity on the old man at the New Antilles spaceport. She noticed him at the docks, dragging his large cargo container behind him and begging every passing merchant and trader for passage aboard their ship. Those who didn’t ignore him outright were quick to dismiss him once they learned of his destination. Now Zuli understood why. Zuli flicked her finger across the navigational chart on her console and flung it to the bridge’s main display. A spider web of specks and lines appeared near the bottom of the large glass screen, illuminating Zuli’s face with their dull green glow. The top half of the screen remained ominously blank. The blank space gradually expanded downward, pushing the web of charted systems and trade routes off the bottom edge of the display. Soon they would cross the border into the Orubus Belt. A red dot started flashing inside the empty map of the Orubus Belt. Zuli blinked and stared at the spot. The hairs on the back of her neck tingled, the way they always did when the Prophets were about to test her. Pulsing concentric circles expanded around the dot and faded away, like ripples in a red pond. A distress signal! Based on its proximity to their destination, intercepting the distress signal would require a slight deviation from their current heading. She tapped the alteration into her control panel, and felt an almost imperceptible shudder from the ship as it adjusted course. “What are you doing? Why have you changed course?” the old man’s voice boomed over the comm. “You promised!” Zuli sighed. “No worries, friend,” she replied. “I have detected a distress signal not far from your coordinates. I must investigate and help if I can. It is on the way.” “No!” cried the old man. “You promised to take me!” “I did promise,” said Zuli. “And I will take you. If you are unhappy with the path the Prophets have chosen for me then you are free to disembark and seek another ship whose captain is more willing to…” “Gah!” the old man cut Zuli off with a frustrated grunt. “Do what you must, but remember your promise.” Zuli sighed. The ship’s sensors indicated that the old man was still in the cargo hold. “It will be several cycles yet before we reach the distress signal or your destination,” she said into the comm. “Perhaps you would be more comfortable in one of the crew quarters, or here on the bridge with me.” “I’m fine where I am,” said the old man. The old man’s answer didn’t come as a surprise. He hadn’t left his cargo container alone for a nanocycle since boarding the ship. It was, perhaps, for the best; Zuli didn’t think he’d be very good company on the bridge. Something about the old man’s demeanor and the way he coddled that cargo container unsettled Zuli in a way she had never experienced before. Zuli released the comm button and returned her attention to the main display. The red pulsating dot–still alone in the wide empty space of the Orubus Belt–captivated her. She had heard dozens of tales of the Orubus Belt, and dismissed them as absurd. But now, as they approached its border, the seeds of doubt crept into her mind. The tales often told of dark, incomprehensible cosmic forces dwelling deep within the Belt. Zuli closed her eyes, recalling the horrific tales, and wondering what the Prophets had in store for her. Desmond sat under the desert planet’s perpetual night sky at the edge of what used to be a giant sand-worm pit. The nightly howling windstorms had filled it up, burying the sand-worm’s remains and turning the pit into more of a slight depression. Desmond stroked Bae in his lap and listened to Doyle calling Sarah to join them outside of the ship. “I am not eating one more of those… Those things!” Sarah shouted from inside. “Fine,” said Doyle, looking down at the mound of oozing baby sand-worms in his arms. “Just promise me you’ll crawl off somewhere before the end, I don’t want to see what death by starvation looks like.” That could take a while, thought Desmond. With an adequate supply of water even the frailest of human-derived species could potentially live for months without food. Desmond wondered how he knew that. It seemed to him that ever since he managed to side-load himself into the strange robot that now served as his body, he had gradually been gaining access to new knowledge. He was still an unprivileged user process running on the robot, though. Without root access, most of the robot’s systems outside of basic sensory input and motor functions remained an inaccessible mystery to him. “Don’t worry I’ll keep my distance,” Sarah called back. “The stench will keep me away.” Doyle sniffed his armpit and scrunched his nose. “Oh, you’re one to talk,” Doyle yelled toward the door of the ship. “Not exactly miss cinnamon and spice yourself.” Doyle trudged across the sand to where Desmond was sitting. He tossed the armful of baby sand-worms onto the ground. Bae leapt from Desmond’s lap to eat them. Doyle sighed as he watched the animal gleefully munching and snorting. “Is there anything we can do to get the stove or the bath back? Even for just a few hours?” Doyle asked Desmond. Desmond shook his head. “No bueno, bruh. There’s barely enough juice for the water purification and distress beacon.” Sighing, Doyle collapsed to a sitting position next to the pile of sand-worms. He grabbed one and shoved it in his mouth, making a face of disgust as he swallowed. “Any response to the beacon?” “Nah, it’s one-way. If there’s a response you’ll know. Dudes will just show up.” Sarah appeared at the ship’s doorway. She stomped across the sand to where Desmond and Doyle were sitting and, without saying a word, scooped a handful of baby sand-worms from the pile. Bae bounded after Sarah as she headed back to the ship. “You know,” said Desmond. Sarah stopped, her back still turned. “I think Heady would be pretty impressed with you guys,” continued Desmond. “He consumed thirty seven point five bugs in all the videos I had access to on the Ark. You guys probably got him beat a hundred times over by now. You should be proud.” Doyle gave a snort of laughter. “Fuck it,” said Sarah. She turned and sat down next to Doyle and Desmond. “I’ll do it for the content.” Sarah ate a worm. Desmond looked past Sarah to the large mound of sand in the distance where he had buried Bae’s mother. In spite of Doyle’s objections, Sarah had refused to consider the large rhino-pig’s potential value as a food source. The supply of baby sand-worms had also been dwindling since Desmond had killed the giant worm. Desmond had noted that the rate at which Sarah and Doyle were losing weight had accelerated, and both were suffering from a lack of energy. He wasn’t sure how much longer they could survive like this. A sudden gust of wind from above kicked sand up around the ship. Bae snorted and scurried over to Sarah, who scooped the tiny animal up in her lap. Another gust of wind hit, harder this time. “Is that a sandstorm?” asked Doyle. Desmond looked up. “Nah, bruh,” he said, and pointed. “Look!” A glowing spherical craft descended from the sky, blasting gusts of wind downward as it slowed. It settled on the sand twenty feet from the awe-struck trio. Desmond got to his feet and grabbed grub-smasher–the large metal scrap that Doyle used when fishing for sand-worms. The sphere went dark, then a doorway slid open and a ramp extended to the ground. A woman with short silver hair and orange eyes stepped out of the ship. Her silky dark blue robe flowed hypnotically in the wind. The woman made a gesture in front of her face with her hand, then started to speak. Desmond did not recognize the language. Doyle jumped to his feet. “Yeah! Oh God do we ever!” he cried, and started approaching the woman. “Dude, keep back, we don’t know why she’s here yet…” said Desmond. “What? She got the distress signal! She literally just asked if we needed a ride,” Doyle said. “Wait, you can understand her?” asked Sarah. A confused expression crossed Doyle’s face. He ran a finger across his forehead, like he was feeling for something. “Yeah,” said Doyle. “I mean, I know she’s not speaking English, but I understood every word she said.” The woman spoke again. “That’s right!” said Doyle. “That asshole who took the Ark, he shot something onto my forehead. She said it’s like a universal translator or something.” “Universal translator?” said Sarah. “What is this, Star Trek?” “Fascinating,” said Desmond. “The man who took your ship gave you this?” Zuli asked, turning the small white slate over in her hands. Its black markings didn’t look like any language she was familiar with. The man named Doyle stuffed two more green food cubes into his already-full mouth and nodded. “I’m sorry but I have no idea what this is,” said Zuli. She handed the slate back to Doyle. The man and his young female companion ate ravenously as Zuli watched. “So the two of you were stranded all alone on that planet? You poor things,” said Zuli. “Four of us,” said the girl named Sarah. Sarah pointed at the large robot who sat silent at the end of the mess-hall table, and at the tiny creature in her lap. “Ah, yes, my apologies,” said Zuli, bowing her head. The translator patch that Zuli had fabricated for the girl seemed to be working, but she couldn’t do anything for the robot. The robot had not understood any of the languages that Zuli knew how to speak, leaving her with no means of direct communication with the machine. The robot spoke to Doyle in their native tongue. Doyle nodded, then turned to Zuli. “Desmond says if you’ll grant him access to your ship’s computers, he can try to learn your language,” said Doyle. The robot spoke to Doyle again. “Also he wants to know if he can recharge somewhere.” “Of course,” said Zuli. “As you must eat food to live, your friend must also have sustenance. Desmond may join me on the bridge to interface with the computers and recharge once you are finished eating.” Zuli continued to watch Doyle and Sarah as they ate. The poor things were starving–she wondered what they had been surviving on, stranded for so long on that desert planet. They looked malnourished by any humanoid standards, and their clothing was ragged and stained. “I imagine you two could use some rest,” she said. “Perhaps while Desmond accompanies me to the bridge, you two would like to avail yourselves of the beds, baths, and clean clothes in this ship’s crew quarters…” “Baths!?” Sarah interrupted. Chunks of green food cube and spittle sprayed from her mouth. “Did you say baths?” Zuli smiled and nodded. “Please, for as long as the Prophets’ paths for us are aligned, this ship is your home as much as it is mine. There is one other passenger, an old man who has requested transport to coordinates that we currently approach. Once we have delivered him to his destination, I shall help you find your ship, if that is your wish.” Doyle grinned and nodded. Sarah shrugged and continued eating. The strange robot continued to sit in silence. Zuli crossed her hands in her lap and quietly asked the Prophets to bless her and her new companions as they ventured deeper into the Orubus Belt. Sarah stared awe-struck at a small nozzle jutting from the wall above her tub. The mere idea of soap had become such a distant memory that she refused to get excited. Then she tapped the dispenser and the minty aroma filled her nostrils and she felt like she might cry. It was the longest, most luxurious bath Sarah had taken in all the twenty two years she had been alive. She had shampooed her hair five times before it started to resemble something she was familiar with. She had initially avoided looking at the bathroom’s body-length mirror, afraid of what she might see. But after her bath, she managed to muster the courage. Sarah didn’t recognize the frail, alarmingly thin girl who stared back at her from the mirror. She used her finger to trace the hollow depression under her rib cage where her belly used to be, then the sunken shadows around her eyes. She wasn’t hungry–she felt bloated and wished she had eaten less of the green cubes that Zuli had given them. She wondered how that idiot Doyle was doing–the way he scarfed down those cubes had been embarrassing. He probably ate ten times the amount Sarah had. Despite her tummy ache, the bath had invigorated Sarah, and she decided to do some exploring before bed. She left her soiled security uniform on the bathroom floor and headed to her closet to find it stocked with clean clothes. Sarah dressed in a pair of tan cloth pants and a black silk top that fit her well enough, along with a pair of slippers. When Sarah opened the door that led to the ship, Bae jolted up, leaped from the bed, and bounded out behind her. To Sarah, the ship felt strangely reminiscent of the Nikola’s Children compound back on Earth. Clean, colorless, utilitarian hallways and rooms that served their purpose with little flourish. Everything in the ship seemed somehow softer than the compound had been. Rounded corners replaced sharp right angles. Instead of solid concrete, the floor felt slightly spongy, as though carpeted with a thin layer of rubber. The walls felt smoother–like some kind of plastic. The lighting–provided by a continuous illuminated strip running along the center of all the ship’s walls–felt warmer than the compound’s harsh fluorescents. It felt strange to think that her life with Nikola’s Children was over. She had spent almost her entire life inside the compound. Sarah had known it would end–they drilled the idea of colonizing the New Home into all the kids who grew up there, but that idea never seemed entirely real. Sarah had believed only because It’s what her father told her to believe. After Sarah passed through the mess hall and into another hallway, the lights flickered and took on a reddish hue. Sarah’s vision went hazy and she felt nauseated. Was it the ship that was trembling? Or her?. A whispering noise tickled the edge of Sarah’s perception. The whispering washed over her in waves, coming from further down the hall. Sarah placed her hand on one wall, bracing herself, and took a few shaky steps. Bae made distressed noises at her feet. “Shhh,” Sarah hushed the rhino-pig as she followed the whispering to its source. As she drew closer it sounded like a man’s voice, coming from a room further down the hall. Sarah stepped gingerly as she approached the doorway, then peeked inside. Stacks of gray crates filled the room, surrounding an old man at its center. Beneath a dark, hooded robe Sarah saw the man’s thin white beard below his shadowy, sunken eyes. He stood next to a container–different from the others in the room–and muttered at it. When his back turned, Sarah crept into the room and hid behind a crate. “We’ll be together again soon,” the man said in a strained, raspy voice. “I’ll perform the sacrament. I’ll deliver the sacrifice. Blood for blood. Blood for…” The old man started whimpering. Was he crying? “Oh my child,” said the man. “Oh my sweet, sweet child what have I done? What have I become?” The ship trembled and Sarah’s vision went blurry again. Fear gripped her chest. She leaned her back against the crate, breathing heavily. The old man’s raspy weeping terrified her. The noise of somebody falling in the hallway startled Sarah. “What was that? Who’s there?” the old man barked. Sarah grabbed Bae and scuttled to the other side of the crate, barely avoiding the old man’s gaze as he walked past on his way out of the room. The sound of the old man in the hallway faded. Sarah stood and looked at the container that the old man had been talking to. The ship trembled. The lights flickered. Sarah’s head felt hazy, like a fog had descended upon her senses. She walked to the container, and knelt to study it. There was a small dial at its base. The sense of dread that had gripped Sarah intensified, but she felt compelled to twist the dial. Bae backed away, growling. The container’s locking mechanism clicked, and white mist vented from its sides. Bae yelped, then scampered away. Sarah’s heart pounded as she gripped the edges of the lid, and pried it open. The billowing mist in the open container gradually thinned, revealing its grisly contents. Sarah’s eyes widened, and she gasped. Doyle rolled around on the sweat-soaked sheets covering the bed in his quarters. The discomfort had started while eating, and had grown into a bowling-ball sized pain in his gut. Laying on his back, Doyle tried massaging his abdomen, sending shivers of pain through his whole body. He swung his legs over and sat up on the edge of his bed. Did the ship have any laxatives? Did laxatives even exist three million years in the future? His legs wobbled as he stood up. Clutching his stomach, Doyle walked into the bathroom and splashed water on his face. He studied himself in the mirror. His grime-stained beard–fuller than it had ever been–was in stark contrast against the fresh, clean clothes he had managed to change into earlier. He needed to shave and clean up, but first he had to deal with the pain. Doyle stumbled across his quarters and out into the hallway. He started in the direction of the mess hall. Maybe there was medicine there, or maybe he could find some kind of sickbay. A ship this big had to have medical facilities. All Doyle knew was that bad things were happening inside of him, and he needed help. As he lurched through the hallway, Doyle felt his body tremble. Was that me, he thought, or did the whole ship shake? He remembered the tremors on the desert planet. His eyes darted to the ground. Was it… moving? His vision blurred and spun. The ground swirled, collapsing beneath him like a whirlpool of sand. The sand-worm, thought Doyle. How did it get on the ship? A sudden jolt of pain in Doyle’s abdomen sent him crashing to his knees. He clutched his stomach. There was a shriek–the sand-worm was attacking! Doyle raised his arms to cover his face. He opened his eyes, expecting to see the giant creature’s rows of concentric teeth closing in around him, but all he saw was the hallway ceiling. There was no shrieking monster. There was only Doyle, screaming at phantoms in his delirium. Doyle struggled back to his feet and continued down the hallway. He regretted eating all those food cubes. He regretted leaving his quarters. He should have tried to call Zuli for help. The quarters had nothing obvious like a telephone, but there were panels and buttons on the walls–surely there was something he could have used to communicate. Doyle reached the mess hall and spotted some green food cube leftovers. The sight made him retch. This was a terrible idea, he thought. Doyle rushed past the tables and chairs and into the hallway on the opposite side of the hall. He felt his legs–or the ship?–tremble again and he lost his balance. He teetered sideways and slammed hard into the wall before collapsing to the ground. “What was that? Who’s there?” Doyle heard a voice say from further down the hall. It was a man’s voice he didn’t recognize. “Help,” Doyle tried to yell. It came out as more of a hoarse whisper. “Get Zuli, I need help.” Through pain and blurry vision, Doyle saw what looked like an old man in a dark hooded robe approaching. “Yes,” said the old man. Doyle’s spirits lifted. He had done it! He had found help! The old man, Doyle’s savior, spoke as Doyle’s senses faded and he lost his grip on consciousness. “Yes,” the man said again. “You’ll do nicely.” “We’re less than a cycle away now, I should let the old man know,” said Zuli. She sat in a chair at the center of the bridge, facing a large curved glass display behind an array of control panels. Desmond was plugged into one of the control panels, charging his power banks and providing him access to the ship’s data stores. “My friends?” Desmond asked. He had learned enough of the woman’s language from the ship’s computer for rudimentary communications. It surprised him how efficiently his body was able to run his training routines–the Ark’s computers had processed data at a snail’s pace by comparison. “In their quarters,” said Zuli, after glancing at one of the control panels. “Getting some rest, I hope. They looked… weary.” “They had, difficult time on planet,” said Desmond. Zuli nodded. “It is good that the Prophets led me to you.” “Prophets?” Desmond asked. The word Zuli had used was unknown to him. “Yes, the Prophets,” said Zuli. “You do not know the Prophets? You have no… religion?” Desmond recognized that word. Heady Armstrong, the Youtuber whose videos his training routines had ingested for three million years, had strong opinions about religion. “Ah, religion,” said Desmond. “No, I have no religion.” Zuli nodded somberly. “Perhaps I can teach you of…” The ship shook slightly and one of the panels in front of Zuli started flashing. Desmond’s training algorithms stopped executing. Running diagnostics on his connection to the ship didn’t reveal any obvious problems. Why had his body terminated the processes? He stepped closer to Zuli and looked at the control panel. “What happened?” asked Desmond. “I do not know,” said Zuli. “A millicycle ago there was nothing at the old man’s coordinates. Now there is something.” “Something?” asked Desmond. “Yes,” said Zuli. She looked up at Desmond. “Oh! You are glowing!” Desmond looked down. Glowing blue lines had appeared, tracing intricate geometric patterns over his body. His body started spinning up dozens of new processes that he had never seen execute before. “Are we close to it?” asked Desmond. “Too close,” said Zuli. “I cannot stop our approach. The ship has stopped responding.” The ship shuddered again. “Can I see?” asked Desmond, pointing at the large curved glass panel. “Yes,” said Zuli. She made some gestures against the control panel, and the large glass display went dark. “Is that it?” asked Desmond. Zuli nodded and pointed at the large darkened screen. “Something is there,” she said. Desmond looked again. There was a spot at the center of the screen that looked darker than its surroundings. Desmond adjusted the gamma of his ocular sensors to get a better look. The dark mass at the center of the screen seemed to be moving–like its surface was a living, writhing thing. A series of whirring and clacking noises rang through the bridge. Desmond felt his body moving on its own, lowering its center of gravity, exposing concealed components. Canons extended from his forearms; his legs divided into an array of spider-like limbs; a device extended from his back and emitted a flash of blue light, surrounding Desmond’s transformed body in a translucent, shimmering honey-combed shield. Even if Desmond didn’t know what that thing on the screen was, his body did–and its response was to prepare for battle. “We should leave,” said Desmond. Zuli stared with her mouth open. “I am trying,” she said. An alarm sounded and another panel started blinking. Zuli tore her eyes from Desmond to look at it. “There is a new problem!” she cried. “What is it?” asked Desmond. “One of the ship’s airlocks is opening,” she said. “Your friend is inside!” “Whoah,” said Desmond. He tested his control over his new robot spider legs and prepared to see how fast they could go. “Tell me where.” – It was a child. Or at least what remained of one. Sarah stared at the grotesque figure inside the container in horror. It couldn’t have been more than five or six when it had died. The body was too twisted and mutilated to tell if it had been a boy or girl. The sound of footsteps in the hallway broke Sarah from her stupor. She grabbed the container’s lid and slid it back into place. The locking mechanism clicked, and the dial that had released the lid started tightening on its own. Sarah scrambled to another stack of containers. She peeked out from behind in time to see the old man reappear at the door. The old man scuffled to his container at the center of the room, muttering under his breath. The old man knelt next to his container and turned the dial to release the lid. Sarah tried to make out what he was saying. “The sacrifice is ready,” she heard, and a shiver ran down her spine. The old man tenderly lifted the corpse and cradled it in his arm. Then he reached back into the container and pulled out a rifle of some sort. Damn, thought Sarah–if she had known that had been hiding under the body she could have grabbed it herself. The old man started walking back toward the door. Sarah crouched, getting ready to sneak after him, but a familiar sound stopped her cold. The high pitched bark was unmistakable–Bae had made the same sound on the planet during the sand-worm attack. Still hiding, Sarah desperately looked toward the old man. She could hear Bae, but cargo containers by the door obscured her view. All she could see was the old man from the waist up, as he pointed his rifle at the ground in front of him. “Filthy creature,” the old man said. The rifle fired before Sarah could react, and then there was silence. It felt like her heart had stopped in her chest. Sarah wanted to scream, but she had lost the ability to speak; she wanted to lunge at the old man–to turn him into a mangled corpse like the one cradled in his arm, but she had lost the ability to move. She could only watch, grief-stricken as the old man kicked something from his path, then walked out into the hall. Sarah’s mind was a jumble–whether seconds passed or minutes, she wasn’t sure. She thought of Bae, and her anguish gradually dissipated, leaving blind rage in its place. She never had a pet growing up–they were unheard of in the Nikola’s Children compound. She knew from the internet that keeping pets was something that other people did, but she never understood why–until Bae. The little rhino-pig was everything to her–had been her sole source of happiness since she woke up on the desert planet. And now Bae was gone. It pained Sarah to think of Bae’s little body–kicked aside like a piece of trash. She shielded her eyes as she ran to the door. She would return for Bae later. Now was not the time for mourning. Now was the time for one thing and one thing only–seared into every fiber of Sarah’s being: Revenge. The ship started trembling again as Sarah stormed after the old man. The light emitted by the strips along the walls seemed to dim as she went. She slowed when she heard the old man’s voice around a corner ahead. An image of the rifle aimed at her face flashed through Sarah’s mind–a head-on assault wouldn’t work. She needed to be careful. She needed to keep the element of surprise. The dim lights were flickering now, creating an eerie strobe effect as Sarah peeked around the corner. The old man had laid the child’s body on the ground. He clutched the rifle and chanted, waving his hands over the corpse. Sarah couldn’t hear his words over the deep rumble of the trembling ship. A control panel jutted from the wall behind the old man. Across the hall was a large sealed door with a long window. It looked like the door they had boarded the ship through–on the other side had been a decompression chamber and another door that opened to the ship’s exterior. Something was moving in there. It was a man, frantically banging his fists against the window. Doyle! The old man continued his ritual around the child’s corpse, ignoring Doyle. Sarah blinked. She thought her mind was playing tricks on her–it looked like the area around the dead child’s body had grown darker. The black aura seemed to swell outward as the old man chanted. It almost looked alive–like a shadowy mass of writhing black tentacles. The ship’s trembling intensified. The old man finally glanced toward Doyle, who still pounded at the door. The old man leaned his rifle against the wall, turning his back to Sarah to face the airlock’s control panel. Now was her chance! Sarah charged into the hallway and sprinted as fast as she could. The old man turned to face her, and grabbed for his rifle. But it was too late–Sarah barreled into the old man, sending him soaring down the hallway. The rifle clattered on the ground and slid out of the old man’s reach. Sarah regained her balance and turned to the airlock. Doyle stared out at her. Sarah turned to the control panel and slammed her fist down on a large red button near its center. The inner airlock door hissed and slid up into the ceiling. Doyle didn’t look so good. He clutched his stomach and winced. “What the fuck, Sarah!” Doyle said. “How did you know that button would open this door and not the other one?” Sarah looked at the control panel. She hadn’t noticed before that there was a large green button next to the red one she had pressed. She opened her mouth to say “oops,” but the butt of the old man’s rifle slamming into the back of her head interrupted her. She cried out and stumbled into Doyle. “You’re too late!” cried the old man. “The sacrament is complete! All that remains is the sacrifice!” The old man pointed his rifle at Sarah and Doyle and took a step forward. Sarah stepped back into the airlock. “Why are you doing this?” she shouted. The old man, still aiming the rifle, glanced back at the child’s body on the ground. “It was my fault,” the old man said. His demeanor changed–a profound sadness replaced the vitriol in his voice. He wept. “She was all I had, and it was my fault. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. This is the only way.” Sarah inched forward while the old man’s attention was on the child’s body. She stared at the rifle in his hands. Just a little closer and she could reach it. The old man spun to face Sarah. The sadness in his eyes vanished. “This is the only way,” he repeated. The venom had returned to his voice. “I have performed the sacrament of rebirth, now I offer the sacrifice. Blood for blood, a life taken for a life given!” Sarah saw the old man tighten his grip on the rifle. She shoved Doyle out of the way, then dove in the opposite direction. The blast passed between Sarah and Doyle, hitting the window on the door behind them–the one leading directly to the ship’s exterior. A crack formed across the window, and a creaking noise rang through the air. “Grab something!” Doyle shouted. Sarah scrambled toward the hallway and grabbed the edge of the inner doorway. The glass on the outer door shattered. A blast of air blew past and lifted Sarah’s body off the ground. Holding on for dear life, she looked up and saw the old man clutching the airlock control panel. His beard and the hood of his cloak flapped furiously in the rushing air. “Blood for blood!” the old man screamed over the howling wind. Then he let go of the control panel. Sarah watched aghast as the old man’s flailing body blew past, slammed into the outer door, then bent backwards at a horrifying angle as it squeezed through the shattered window and ejected into the cold vacuum of space. As Sarah watched the old man’s body tumble away from the ship, she felt something take hold of her arm. She looked and saw Desmond–at least, she thought it was Desmond. Blue luminescent lines covered his body, and he glowed with a shimmering light. His lower body had transformed into a dozen articulated spider-like legs. Desmond retrieved Doyle with one arm and pulled Sarah from the airlock with the other. Once they were both clear of the doorway, Desmond used one of his insect legs on the control panel, and the inner airlock door hissed shut. The gusting wind ceased, and silence descended upon the hallway. The blue lines on Desmond’s body and the light surrounding him faded away. His insect legs recombined into the humanoid legs Sarah was more familiar with, and what looked like a pair of cannons retracted back into his forearms. “I didn’t know you could do that!” Sarah said excitedly. “Dude, neither did I!” said Desmond. “Doyle did you see that? Did you know he could do that?” Doyle curled up into a fetal position and moaned. A familiar sound rang out from further down the hallway. Sarah perked up and spun around, hunting for the sound’s source. Could it be? But the old man had shot her! There at the end of the hallway, a large sooty stain on her side, stood Bae. The rhino-pig gave a honk, then started charging toward Sarah. Sarah felt like her heart was going to explode as she ran toward Bae. She scooped the little animal up in her arms and squeezed tight as she tumbled to the ground, laughing as Bae squealed with glee and licked her face. “Aw, look at that,” said Desmond. “Isn’t that cute?” “I think I shit myself,” moaned Doyle. Desmond sat at the mess hall table and stroked Bae in his lap. Despite a little charring, it seemed that the rhino-pig’s thick hide had absorbed most of the rifle’s shot. “So do you think you can do that blue glowy thing again? And those legs! Wow that was insane!” said Sarah. “I know right? But I can’t control it,” said Desmond. “It’s some kind of automated defense system.” “What triggered it?” asked Sarah. “Something that old man was doing?” “Nah,” said Desmond. He still didn’t know what the thing was that his body’s sensors had reacted to. “Something outside caused it. Whatever messed the ship up and made the lights go screwy also affected me.” Zuli entered the mess hall, carrying a covered tray in her arms. “Whatever that thing was, it weakened enough after the old man died that I was able to pull the ship away,” she said. She placed the tray on the table between Sarah and Doyle. “Did anyone see what happened to that gross corpse the old man had in his container?” asked Sarah. Doyle shrugged. “Probably blown out the airlock.” “I watched the old man go, but I didn’t see that,” said Sarah. “Did you see that?” “Where else could it have gone?” asked Desmond. He hadn’t seen the body when he arrived, after the old man had already died. “Anyway, what’s on the menu?” Doyle asked, staring suspiciously at the covered serving tray that Zuli brought. “Do not worry,” said Zuli. “The ship’s harvester drones processed a new food supply from the last planet they harvested. You will not have to eat food cubes again.” Doyle sighed with relief. “I’ll eat anything,” said Sarah. “I mean, anything is better than…” Zuli pulled the cover off the tray, revealing a steaming pile of baby sand-worms in a puddle of purple goo. Desmond looked down at Bae, who was squirming to get out of his arms. He lifted her onto the table. The little animal scampered to the pile of worms and started gobbling them down. Sarah calmly slid her chair away from the table, stood up, and turned away. “Where are you going?” asked Zuli. “To the airlock,” said Sarah. “There’s a big green button calling my name.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines last week for his dissent to the majority’s denial of cert in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid. Even though his dissent mainly focused on the mootness of the case, many media outlets seized on the opportunity to mischaracterize Justice Thomas’ argument by claiming he promoted President Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims. After Sarah and David give us their spiel about how media outlets often botch Supreme Court coverage, University of Chicago Law professor William Baude joins today’s show for an extremely nerdy conversation about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket that you won’t want to miss.   Show Notes: -Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid. -“Dissent by Justice Thomas in election case draws fire for revisiting baseless Trump fraud claims” by Mark Joseph Stern in Slate. -“Clarence Thomas Promotes Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies in Alarming Dissent” by John Fritze in USA Today. -“Foreword: The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket” by William Baude in the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty. -Feb. 18 House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. -Supreme Court Practice by Eugene Gressman. -South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom. -Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FEBRUARY TOPIC: Haunted Houses Check out Buzz Killers every Sunday for new episodes! In episode twenty four, we discuss the Winchester Mystery House. After her husband's death, she inherited her husband's massive fortune and bought a small farm house in San Jose, California. From 1886-1922, the house continued to grow with construction seeming to go around the clock, and they mystery grew. After Sarah's death in 1922, the house became a tourist attraction. The legend of Sarah's house is shrouded in mystery and many believe the property to be haunted.  For this episode we drank Coyote Moon's Semi-Sparkling Moscato! Check out their website to view their wine selection. Music made by M.Eighmey on Soundtrap Sources: https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com   https://www.biography.com/personality/sarah-winchester    http://thetruthaboutsarahwinchester.com    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marasmus    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/real-story-of-sarah-winchester-mystery-house-12552842.php    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3SldnYWw9c    Ghost Adventures: Season 5 Episode 8    Ghost Adventures: Season 15 Episode 11    Ghost Hunters: Season 2 Episode 11    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM31fgkxn2I    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx8JkGHaGUI    https://patch.com/california/milpitas/5-spooky-tales-famous-winchester-mystery-house    https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/hidden-in-the-clouds/

Biden administration folks are claiming they inherited a nonexistent coronavirus vaccine rollout plan from the Trump administration, with one anonymous administration official going so far as to tell CNN last week that the team will “have to build everything from scratch,” a claim that even top epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci later disputed as patently false. Joe Biden spent months on the campaign trail criticizing Trump for deliberately misleading the public. Is his administration now falling into the same trap? “It’s a meaningful stumble,” Steve says on today’s podcast, “and I think they got caught basically misleading the public about the status of the vaccine program.” After Sarah and the guys chat about vaccine distribution logistics, they discuss Trump’s upcoming second impeachment trial, the media and its rewriting of history, and the latest drama with former DOJ officials in the Trump administration.   Show Notes: -“Come on, President Biden. Set some loftier COVID vaccination goals” by Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. -“Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say,” by CNN’s MJ Lee. -“The Washington Post Tried To Memory-Hole Kamala Harris' Bad Joke About Inmates Begging for Food and Water” by Eric Boehm in Reason. -The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project. -“Send In the Troops” by Sen. Tom Cotton in the New York Times. -Take our podcast survey See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a special bonus recording with author Sarah Sandel in front of this week's interview. Sarah reads day 15 in her Advent study which you can download for free on her Instagram page, here: https://www.instagram.com/stsandel/If you have been reading through her Advent study (podcast #45) you know today's reading is about joy... So, enjoy! :) (Thanks Sarah!)After Sarah reads day 15 -- We get to hear from the Founder and Executive Director of the House of Prayer Learning Center, Mrs. Shannon. She tells us about the power prayer has over our children. She also encourages us to put up scripture in our kids rooms (and our rooms) to encourage them into what God is calling them into.Mrs. Shannon shares this scripture -- "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)I love how Mrs. Shannon leads by example! She is a gift from God and friends... I pray you enjoy hearing what God has on her heart!Be encouraged by both of my sisters in Christ, sharing what God has put on their hearts in this week's episode! All for God's gain and glory!

How do we create a life that is a true expression of who we are? Today, my soul-sister Sarah Jenks joins the show for an incredibly powerful conversation. Before Sarah had kids, she devoted years of her life to being at peace with her body. The freedom and joy she experienced birthed her international program, Live More Weigh Less, where thousands of women have found freedom from emotional eating and fallen in love with their bodies. Live more weigh less was celebrated in publications such as Forbes, Success Magazine, Health Magazine, Parenting Magazine and Martha Stewart Living. After Sarah had her first child, she felt like all of the freedom, magic, and sparkle of her life and soul were sucked out of her. Being a mother was so all-consuming, and she realized she was falling into the trap that so many women get stuck in. The trap of putting everybody's happiness before our own. Sarah spent many years in a tireless search for her soul through working with shamans, coaches, spiritual teachers and traveling to many sacred sites. This helped Sarah land in a life that feels like a true expression of who she is. Sarah rarely does things that she doesn't want to do + she feels fully supported by her husband in their home life. Sarah has an incredibly deep connection with her kids, husband, soul, nature, and the magic that exists in the world around us. Now Sarah stands for women to end the pattern of taking scraps after everyone in their lives has feasted. In this episode, Sarah Jenks and I talk about navigating the internalized ways the patriarchy gets us stuck and how women need a sacred feminine practice to understand their life and the world. Through Sarah's transformational work, she teaches us how to reconnect with our relationships with ourselves, our marriage, our motherhood and our nature.   In this Episode You'll Learn:  All about today's guest, Sarah Jenks [ 1:20 ] How Sarah grew into the woman she is today [ 5:50 ] The ways Sarah found her divine feminine [ 11:00 ] About our ancestral fears [ 18:50 ] How to navigate mom guilt as an ambitious woman [ 26:40 ] Why our children will not feel internalized patriarchy [ 35:25 ] How to take responsibility in our marriages [ 44:25 ]   Soul Shifting Quotes:  “Feel permission to be yourself.” “Experience who we truly are.” “We have everything we need within us.” “When we look at life as a mystery school, we can have more compassion for our lessons.” “Be a woman, have feelings, and show them.” Links Mentioned:  Learn my 7 Secrets to Uplevel Your Brand & Land Your Dream Clients  Grab your FREE training, How to Call in Your Tribe + Create Content that Converts  Text me at 603-931-4386 Learn more about Sarah by following her on Instagram or heading to https://sarahjenks.com Sign up for Whole Woman Tag me in your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom  Did you hear something you loved here today?! Leave a Review + Subscribe via iTunes  Listen on Spotify   

With 15 years of branding and design experience, Sarah Masci is a leader in the online industry for clients looking for high-quality, aesthetic digital design. As the founder of Book Me For A Day™, her signature one-day intensive program, she thrives on compressing professional branding, web and digital design into one day, versus weeks or months. When she's not doing intensives for her own clients, Sarah teaches fellow designers how to ditch the feast or famine cycle and create more income and freedom with a one-day intensive business model, following her exact blueprint. Sarah's down-to-earth personality and distinctive way of simplifying even the most complex problems have earned her the trust and respect of hundreds of clients and students over the years. Here's what we covered on the episode: How Sarah helped me when I switched my membership site to MemberVault how we were both in Krista Miller's Simply Profitable Designer Summit in 2020 When Sarah started 15 years ago she wasn't doing design, she was doing more blogging and had an online boutique for children's products Sarah had a successful Etsy business, doing printables and custom iPhone cases but started dipping her toes into freelancing in 2012/13 where she then let go of her business and started in branding While branding, Sarah got into web design around 2014 which is what she does today Sarah shares her Book Me for a Day offer which is a one day intensive for her design clients When Sarah was doing traditional design projects she had heard people talking about designing in a day but didn't give it much thought because she never thought she could do it Sarah tells the story of how she helped an interior designer with a simple website in a day, which was the first time Sarah proved to herself she could do work in a day but didn't do anything about it for 2 or 3 months Sarah says the idea to do a day rate really came to her while doing a punch list for a client and telling them she could get it all done in a day Slowly, Sarah started offering it to other people and soon it was all she was doing, which caused her to give up all the traditional client work she had been doing Why Sarah only books a few intensives while her school aged kids are home for the summer How Sarah makes sure there are no distractions, including kids when she starts her intensive at 8:30am and how she works until around 4:00pm Sarah explains that it's has taken a lot of testing to figure out how much work she can get done in a day and makes sure not to promise a client more than what she believes she can get done When people book a day with Sarah, she explains that they have to understand that they're not going to get an elaborate design logo or website and explains what she can get done in a day Sarah explains that people can book multiple days with her and shares a story of a client who booked three days and how she tackled the tasks that client needed Sarah uses Divi Theme and WordPress to develop and design so she doesn't have to outsource development Sarah shares that she will use SquareSpace, but feels limited on how creative she can be with the design because she does custom designs for all her day rate clients and doesn't use templates When working on a day rate project, Sarah sets it up for them to message throughout the day and lets them know what she'll be working on at the start of the day Sarah explains that clients need to be available all day during an intensive because she relies on their feedback and is sending them screenshots and concepts throughout the day She guarantees her time for the entire day, not necessarily the outcome and explains if the design is going in the wrong direction she'll get on a call with them How most people find sarah through word of mouth, social media or through referrals and how on her website they can send her a message through a chat feature, which has cut down the amount of discovery calls she has to do After a discovery call, Sarah explains that everything is automated so she doesn't have to do anything until their kick-off call a few days before the intensive When kick-off calls happen in relation to the intensive and how it gives clients enough time to finish any pre-work Sarah has asked for and ensures the information is fresh in her head Why Sarah put the chat box on her website for her clients' convenience and how it works with messaging and notifications Sarah shares that she is in a Facebook group with other designers where they share what they are working on and how she told them about her day rate offer How some other people in her group were interested so she created a 30 minute walk through of her process and received great feedback from them After Sarah shared her video with them she thought she could teach other people how to do a day rate offer since her process is so detailed Sarah shares that she always wanted to create a course but never had time due to always working with clients on long and draining projects When Sarah started doing day rates, she had more time to create a course because she was only working 1 - 2 days a week Sarah explains that she sells her course concept before she makes it by having buyers who want the course and then building it one week at a time through the live course Sarah shares a story of how she opened a waitlist to see interest and then opened up the course and how she designed it to cater the people taking it How Sarah shares her waitlist on her personal page, Facebook group pages and takes advantage of promo days within Facebook groups Sarah can't say enough good things about the day rate model and how it can give you time to build courses or work on other projects and how even testing it with one client might do you wonders Connect with Sarah on her website and check out her free training for day rates   Links mentioned: Connect with Sarah on her Website Sarah's Free Training on Day Rates   Like what you heard? 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After Sarah left from her interview it hit her hard and she realized she just relived 2 years of trauma and shared it in 90 minutes. She knew there were only 2 options for her. She could either spiral down the rabbit hole of losing herself in her attachments to her lost love or she could travel down a new road. Listen and she shares where she is today with all of this.

Sarah Bazey is identified as “One woman’s inspiring path from helicopter crash survivor to Mrs. International 2012.” She is a former pageant queen, a Harvard Business School graduate, and an accomplished business professional. You may have known this from her website www.sarahbazey.com, but we are going to learn more about her and how she became Mrs. International 2012 and the leader in manufacturing reinforced steel used in concrete paving throughout Canada and the United States.Sarah had been competing in pageants since 1983. Sarah started her pageant journey with American Pageants when it was the Miss Teen of America organization. She purchased the program in 2014 and it was rebranded to American Pageants in 2017 when she expanded it to additional age divisions. Her first pageant was Miss Teen of Minnesota which she won. This opened up many opportunities for her when she learned the true beauty of pageantry is to better yourself, the people around you and to build lasting relationships. This allowed her to compete at Miss Teen of America in 1984 where she remained a finalist. After Sarah competed in Miss Teen of America, she went on to support the organization as a staff assistant and became close with the founder, Warren Alexander. He encouraged her to branch out and compete in the Miss America system. Her original talent was figure skating on plastic ice, however, when MAO established a time limit for set ups she had to find a different talent. Again it was Warren who suggested she try ventriloquism, which helped her win the Miss Metropolitan title.To learn more about Sarah Bazey listen to this week’s episode. Additional Resources: Shop pageant shoesClick Pageant Questions to read our top 25 pageant questions asked in every pageant system.Pageant Prep Paid daily mentoring program compete with Mock Interviews, 1:1 coaching sessions, and access to a hidden portal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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After Sarah died, Abraham had children with his concubine. He died at the age of 175 and was buried in Hebron with Sarah. Today Hebron is in the West Bank and the area is a large source of contention for the 3 major religions, Jews, Christians, & Muslims, who all claim Abraham as their descendant. We talk about modern day Israel some & then summarize Abraham's life & the lessons we should learn from him.

After Sarah takes a brief dive into the utterly bizarre Transparent Musical Finale, Sarah and Amanda discuss a number of women-fronted crime shows, including the UK's Scott & Bailey and Netflix's Unbelievable. A story about the investigation of a serial rapist told through a distinctly feminist lens, Unbelievable isn't without its flaws, but nearly everything about it feels revolutionary. Shows discussed: Unbelievable, Transparent, Detective Anna, Scott & Bailey

After Sarah and Sarah watch an episode of Ghosted, the new show from MTV, it got the gals thinking about all things ghost-worthy. Who deserves the disappearing act? How many times have we ghosted someone? Is ghosting better than CONFRONTATION? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Our first guest "First Date / Last Date" story comes from Rachel who brings us a tale about a man who had the personality of murky dishwater.

After Sarah dies at an old age, Abraham tries to buy some burial ground for her—and there's something important going on here that we might easily miss if we don't pay attention.

After Sarah's death, Abraham now sets his eyes on finding a wife for Isaac. Consider this...the father, seeking a bride for the son of promise, sends out a servant to find the one willing to become part of the family. God the father, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and willing believers, invites those outside the family to be the bride for his only begotten Son. This passage demonstrates for us the 5 steps that take place when we invite unbelievers to join the family of God. You will be blessed by this study!

In this episode, we first hear a short, speculative fiction audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising” that explores the future of gene editing. Sarah Saxton created this piece for a course on the politics of reproductive health taught by Vanderbilt anthropology professor Sophie Bjork-James. After Sarah’s audio piece, Derek Bruff talks with Sophie about the course and her podcast assignment. “Hagar Rising” originally aired as an episode of another Vanderbilt podcast, VandyVox, which features the best student-produced audio from around campus. The podcast also has student audio exploring names and identities at a Hispanic-serving nonprofit in Nashville, a narrative produced for a women’s and gender studies course called “Women Who Kill,” and an excerpt from a graduate student-produced podcast taking a critical look at video games, among other student work from around campus. To find these episodes, search for VandyVox in your favorite podcast app, or head to VandyVox.com. If you visit the website, you’ll also find some behind-the-scenes information about the assignments that led to these student podcasts, which should be of particular interest to the Leading Lines audio. Links • VandyVox, http://vandyvox.com/ • Sophie Bjork-James’ faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/sophie-bjork-james • “Sarah Saxton Strassberg: From Summer Camp to Student Author,” https://vanderbilthustler.com/life/sarah-strassberg-from-summer-camp-to-student-author.html

Once again we are back from an unannounced hiatus but this time our lack of content was caused by something much more dire. After Sarah’s ankle reconstruction surgery she spent 4 days in the ICU due to a massive blow clot in each of her lungs. Everything is good now and she is almost back to normal but it was touch and go for a while there. 

On a lighter note, we were able to check out a few Disney resort restaurants while Sarah was confined to a wheelchair. Whispering Canyon Cafe at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Artist Point Storybook Dining also at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, and Sanaa at Kidani Village in the Animal Kingdom Lodge.

Rob, Sarah & Chan discuss their impending trip to Las Vegas to celebrate our good friend Bennett Webber’s bachelor party as well as what they each did for the Super Bowl. After Sarah makes everyone hungry listing off the awesome food she had at her party they discuss some of the controversial calls in the weeks since they last recorded and propose some of their ideas for ways to make the game more fair, exciting and compelling. Rob also talks about his great experience at Royals’ Fantasy Baseball camp and the nicknames and injuries collected during the week. They also touch on the potential trade that the Lakers are trying to make to acquire Anthony Davis from the Pelicans and the inherent differences between player power in the NBA vs. in the NFL.

Today we discuss a hot topic in the fitness world: BALANCE. After Sarah heard Dusty Hanshaw talk about harmony on Advices Radio Network, she decided to hear what Mike's take on it was. What followed is a discussion on the relationship between chaos, balance, and harmony and why we should strive for a harmonious path. Feedback: roughruggedandrawpodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by gomdfu.com! Mike's Dollar Shave Club of training and nutrition

Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the show has left. How many times can it repeat the same cycles? How much longer can it really expect to keep Kumail Nanjiani? And seriously, what's with all the barfing? After Sarah celebrated a Real Housewife Tiny Triumph, we went Around The Dial with Roseanne, Splitting Up Together, the new Queer Eye, grandpa show American Experience, Barry, and a Will Dave Hate This? update on The Terror, before our guest pitched a first-season Leftovers episode, "Guest," for the Canon. Dirty John was a winner, another gross man was our loser, and Dan Cassino's Italianate pronunciation vincit omnia in a Latin-geek-nip Game Time. Grab a mug of your favored office coffee and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. Show Topics Lead Topic Silicon Valley Tiny Triumph Around The Dial Roseanne Splitting Up Together Queer Eye American Experience Barry The Terror The Canon The Leftovers S01.E06: Guest Winner and Loser of the Week Dirty John Nickelodeon Game Time Will Dave Say This? Show Notes The Who? Weekly podcast Special Guest: Bobby Finger. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

God does what He says He will do. After Sarah died and Abraham's life was drawing to an end, Isaac needed a wife for the promise of God blessing the world to continue. Would God provide? How would He do it? Pastor Jacob encourages us in this sermon to look for God's hand and keep following Him no matter what.

Clearing The Air. After Sarah’s announcement on Monday everyone thinks Paul is leaving the show, we discuss. Plus, here are the 5 signs a woman wants to have sex with a guy according to real women! This therapist says women SHOULD NEVER date a man who has NO female friends. OMG, have you thought about getting plastic surgery because of a selfie? This engineer says we’re not ugly, we’ve just been taking selfies the wrong way.

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Learn How to Write your Comeback Story After Being Cheated On. In this Millennials and Money Cafe Podcast, Sarah Cline & Samantha Messersmith discuss their new book Revived: Life After the Affair which is being launched Nov. 1st, 2016. After Sarah's husband had an affair she had to find a way to write her comeback story.  Sarah shares in a raw, vulnerable, and courageous way what it took for her to overcome this trauma in her life. Sarah and Samantha are motivational speakers, life coaches, authors and co-founders of Never Be Average. With 14 years of experience in overcoming adversity and triumphing through traumatic events they are helping women all over the world write their comeback story.   If you share this podcast and tag them in the share they will send you their, So What Now ~ 8 tools to start living your best life now.  FB: NeverBeAverage.com

Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall kindly subjected himself to our very first Extra Hot Great franchise draft as we all picked from our favorite detectives, ADAs, MEs, and baddies to form Law & Order-verse superteams. Who emerged victorious? That's up to you, and you'll have to listen to know what we mean! After Sarah recommended Netflix's inconveniently timed but still solid Making A Murderer, we went Around The Dial with the Fargo finale, iZombie, 30 For 30, the Globe noms, and a vintage Star Wars ad. Someone's agent won, Eli Gold lost, and we were family for the last Game Time of 2015. Thanks for making it a great year, listeners! Insert your own "should auld acquaintance be my first ex-wife" joke here, and enjoy backseat general-managing another episode of Extra Hot Great.Special Guest: Alan Sepinwall. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our esteemed colleague Nick willingly trapped himself Under The Dome as CBS's summer "hit" returns for another season of crappy acting, bad CGI, and inexplicable character beats. After Sarah ripped off a rant about jeans and we compared jazz unfavorable with a certain True Detective's anti-bullying regime, we went around the dial with Key & Peele, A History of Radness, European shows of Dave enjoyment, and the excellent wardrobe in a bad ad. The Panel considered The Alias for The Inclusion in The Canon and we cringed at Messrs. Trump and Lecter before a Game Time on finales. If you can jump the chasm of killer butterflies, join us at the Zenith of fun on an all-new Extra Hot Great.Special Guest: Nick Rheinwald-Jones. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Introduction: Cast introduction and discussion on whether the weaknesses in episode 1 of season 2 helped to strengthen the plot of episodes 2 and 3. Episode 2 Plot: Episode 2 starts after with the fallout from the decision on whether to save Nick or Pete. All podcast members choose to save Nick and as such end up running through the woods and end up in a cabin. After fighting to make it out of the cabin you make it back to the main house of the group. You are left with Sarah at the house as the rest of the group goes searching for Nick and Pete. While waiting in the house a "creepy" guy shows up and starts looking around. He ends up leaving, but not before recognizing that Sarah is with you. When the rest of the group returns everyone decides to leave after finding out what happened. After walking for a while you make it to a bridge by a river. Luke and Clem decide to scout the bridge when walkers show up. While fighting them off a nice guy shows up and helps you. Nick appears and still shaken from early events shoots the man and kills him. The group continues over the bridge and makes it to a cabin up the hill. When you begin to enter the cabin Kenny shows up alive. As you go through some exploration and chores around the cabin you meet a woman Bonnie. After going through an emotional encounter with Walter, telling him of the death of Matthew (guy on the bridge), the wind electric generator stops. After going to restart the generator a group of walkers appear. In the ensuing chaos Carver (the "creepy" guy) and his group appear and take the group hostage. After a standoff with Kenny who managed to avoid capture, Carver's group is successfully in capturing everyone. Episode 2 Questions: 1) Kenny? - Brian hated Kenny in season 1 and immediately changed to loving him in episode 2. Will - Best buddy with Kenny in season 1 and continued to be so into episode 2. Everyone in agreement that the immediate emotion upon seeing Kenny was happy with everyone choosing the option to hug Kenny. During the dinner at night Brian and Will choose to sit with Kenny and the cabin group while Nate choose to sit with the group from the house. Will describes all this emotion as being from a known entity, while Nate describes this as the closest thing to family that exists in the current world. Brian adds that he might me crazy and creepy with the new beard, but you ultimately know he will not screw you over. 2) Dude (Matthew) on the bridge - Nate asks about moment when Nick killed Matthew. Nate is furious with how Luke handled the whole situation. Brian talks about how this is a moment that you know will come back to bit you in the end. Will brings up the fact that Nate thinks that Matthew and Walter were in a relationship and more then just friends. Will and Brian didn't get that feeling, but could see that being a possibility. All the cast members agreed that each wanted to tell Walter that the group was responsible for Matthew's death. 3) Back to original house - What is the deal with Sarah? Nate says that she is a sheltered child while Will thinks she is more of a foil to the group. Are we irritated with Sarah's father for the way she is being brought up? Brian states that it is definitely irritating, but he still tried to be friendly and understanding with her. Nate told Sarah the truth about the situation and where everyone had gone. Brian asks Nate if telling her made any difference, to which Nate explains that is made her more self aware and more pissed at her father. Will notes that Sarah has been treated with kid gloves for a long while. Brian adds that in this world kids can not afford to not know what is going on and the inevitable munching that will occur makes it that much more important to be prepared. Episode 2 Notes: Will - Clem's voice was annoying. Will - Plot hole on the bridge as the team splits up. Will - Cabin was very unsettling after just playing The Last of Us. Will - War on Christmas with choice to pick angel or star for tree topper. Will - Another walker with a letterman jacket during end of episode walker attack. Episode 2 Ending: Large number of walkers attack due to noise from wind turbine generator being restarted (turbine sabotaged by Carver's group). Carver captures the group (except for Luke and Kenny) in the ensuing chaos. Brian notes that the group seemed to be over-run by Carver's group a little easier then they should have. Will thought Carver did it well waiting for the group to run low on ammo before going after them. Once inside Clem sneaks upstairs and you are faced with a choice to either surrender to Carver or sneak outside. (Will and Nate's choice) If you sneak outside you meet up with Kenny who has a sniper rifle. Kenny snipes a generic guy in Carver's group. You then have choice to tell Kenny to shoot Carver or surrender. If you choose to have Kenny shoot, he grazes Carver who grabs Alvin and kills him. Carver then grabs Sarita and threatens her. Kenny then surrenders and everyone is captured. (Brian's choice) If Clem surrenders everyone comes downstairs and Carver asks for Kenny the remaining person not captured. Kenny snipes a generic guy. Carver picks up Walter and kills him. You are then given a choice to yell to Kenny to keep firing or surrender. If you tell him to surrender Kenny comes in. Carver picks up Alvin and attempts to shoot him. You can then choose to push him out of the way and you get grazed. Everyone then surrenders and is captured. Confrontation With Walter: Everyone in the podcast felt that the confrontation was going to lead to something big. Will felt this was another example of a great character setup to ultimately die. Nate felt worse in this part of the game then any other game moment. Nate also felt this was unavoidable confrontation. Episode 3 Plot: Episode 3 starts with everyone being transported in the back of a truck. You end up making it to a strip mall with a home improvement store. You are led to the garden section which becomes your new place of residence. Your are immediately introduced to Reggie (the Walking Dead version of Nate) and other new characters. After the first night you start new work and help Bonnie at the armory. Afterwards you are brought to a greenhouse to prune plants with Sarah and Reggie. After Sarah fails her part Reggie is killed by Carver. You next are sent to the end of the strip mall where you see Kenny arguing with another guy. After a walker attack you make it to a comic book store and meet up with Luke who has been sneaking around. He suggests a plan to you and asks for you to get a walkie-talkie to communicate. When you get back to the garden section you tell everyone else the plan and at night you sneak into the home improvement store via the roof and steal a walkie-talkie. The next day you get Luke the walkie-talkie and he explanis that a herd of walkers are headed to the store. Knowing that defense is week you sneak back into the store via the roof at night to turn on the PA system to attract the walkers and after killing Carver you escape in the ensuing chaos. Episode 3 Questions: Did you watch Kenny beat and kill Carver? - Brian and Nate did, Will did not. Pissed at Luke? - Brian was after liking him the first episode of the season hated him both episode 2 and 3. Will liked to keep secrets in season 1, but hated them in season 2 and hated Luke for doing so. Nate didn't much care about Luke. Carver really wants Clem's group to join? - Will states that Carver is in charge and basically can have his way (cult-like). Nate adds that it is annoying that this is not explored and explained further. Reggie - Will talks about how Reggie is the guy who tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one. He's the second interesting guy introduced only to be killed immediately. Nate's explains this is his favorite character for obvious reasons. Conversation in the back of the truck - Will talks about how this was a great scene with conversation so fast that you can not here it all and make the required choices presented to you. Kenny garden scene - In the garden scene where you are discussing plan to escape Carver comes in and asks about the missing walkie-talkie. You are about to take the blame when Kenny grabs the walkie-talkie and says he took it. Carver then proceeds to savagely beat Kenny. Doctor forced to hit Sarah - Will notes that Clem reminds Sarah that Carver made him do it and really Carver hit him. Episode 3 Ending: Final scene involves you walking through a herd of walkers covered in walker guts. Will notes "Wow what a scene". Brian notes this is reminiscent of season 1 episode 5 where you walk through walkers hacking as you go. A guy on the roof shoots the doctor and Sarah runs off scared causing walkers to go crazy. As Clem you continue to fight off walkers only to turn around and see Sarita with a walker biting on her arm. You can then either attack the walker or chop off her arm. Everyone in the podcast chose to chop off her arm. Brian notes that chopping off limbs has now become common place and almost automatic at this point. Episode 3 Notes: Will - We still don't know if the game has the notion that everyone is already infected. Nate - Beating of Carver with crowbar by Kenny was crazy. Brian - Did anyone see a lettman jacket in the final scene (no one did). Brian - Scenes sneaking on the roof were meant to be stealthy, but really were not. Brian - Bonnie you go from liking her to hating her to liking her again in 400 days, episode 2, and episode 3 respectively. Will - 400 days characters end up as Carver's group. Will - External reference to Penny Arcade comic strip. Ratings (Episode 2 and 3 combined): Brian - 8.0 Nate - 8.0 Will - 8.0 Final Comments: Everyone agreed episodes 2 and 3 were much much better then episode 1.

Introduction: Cast introduction and discussion on whether the weaknesses in episode 1 of season 2 helped to strengthen the plot of episodes 2 and 3. Episode 2 Plot: Episode 2 starts after with the fallout from the decision on whether to save Nick or Pete. All podcast members choose to save Nick and as such end up running through the woods and end up in a cabin. After fighting to make it out of the cabin you make it back to the main house of the group. You are left with Sarah at the house as the rest of the group goes searching for Nick and Pete. While waiting in the house a "creepy" guy shows up and starts looking around. He ends up leaving, but not before recognizing that Sarah is with you. When the rest of the group returns everyone decides to leave after finding out what happened. After walking for a while you make it to a bridge by a river. Luke and Clem decide to scout the bridge when walkers show up. While fighting them off a nice guy shows up and helps you. Nick appears and still shaken from early events shoots the man and kills him. The group continues over the bridge and makes it to a cabin up the hill. When you begin to enter the cabin Kenny shows up alive. As you go through some exploration and chores around the cabin you meet a woman Bonnie. After going through an emotional encounter with Walter, telling him of the death of Matthew (guy on the bridge), the wind electric generator stops. After going to restart the generator a group of walkers appear. In the ensuing chaos Carver (the "creepy" guy) and his group appear and take the group hostage. After a standoff with Kenny who managed to avoid capture, Carver's group is successfully in capturing everyone. Episode 2 Questions: 1) Kenny? - Brian hated Kenny in season 1 and immediately changed to loving him in episode 2. Will - Best buddy with Kenny in season 1 and continued to be so into episode 2. Everyone in agreement that the immediate emotion upon seeing Kenny was happy with everyone choosing the option to hug Kenny. During the dinner at night Brian and Will choose to sit with Kenny and the cabin group while Nate choose to sit with the group from the house. Will describes all this emotion as being from a known entity, while Nate describes this as the closest thing to family that exists in the current world. Brian adds that he might me crazy and creepy with the new beard, but you ultimately know he will not screw you over. 2) Dude (Matthew) on the bridge - Nate asks about moment when Nick killed Matthew. Nate is furious with how Luke handled the whole situation. Brian talks about how this is a moment that you know will come back to bit you in the end. Will brings up the fact that Nate thinks that Matthew and Walter were in a relationship and more then just friends. Will and Brian didn't get that feeling, but could see that being a possibility. All the cast members agreed that each wanted to tell Walter that the group was responsible for Matthew's death. 3) Back to original house - What is the deal with Sarah? Nate says that she is a sheltered child while Will thinks she is more of a foil to the group. Are we irritated with Sarah's father for the way she is being brought up? Brian states that it is definitely irritating, but he still tried to be friendly and understanding with her. Nate told Sarah the truth about the situation and where everyone had gone. Brian asks Nate if telling her made any difference, to which Nate explains that is made her more self aware and more pissed at her father. Will notes that Sarah has been treated with kid gloves for a long while. Brian adds that in this world kids can not afford to not know what is going on and the inevitable munching that will occur makes it that much more important to be prepared. Episode 2 Notes: Will - Clem's voice was annoying. Will - Plot hole on the bridge as the team splits up. Will - Cabin was very unsettling after just playing The Last of Us. Will - War on Christmas with choice to pick angel or star for tree topper. Will - Another walker with a letterman jacket during end of episode walker attack. Episode 2 Ending: Large number of walkers attack due to noise from wind turbine generator being restarted (turbine sabotaged by Carver's group). Carver captures the group (except for Luke and Kenny) in the ensuing chaos. Brian notes that the group seemed to be over-run by Carver's group a little easier then they should have. Will thought Carver did it well waiting for the group to run low on ammo before going after them. Once inside Clem sneaks upstairs and you are faced with a choice to either surrender to Carver or sneak outside. (Will and Nate's choice) If you sneak outside you meet up with Kenny who has a sniper rifle. Kenny snipes a generic guy in Carver's group. You then have choice to tell Kenny to shoot Carver or surrender. If you choose to have Kenny shoot, he grazes Carver who grabs Alvin and kills him. Carver then grabs Sarita and threatens her. Kenny then surrenders and everyone is captured. (Brian's choice) If Clem surrenders everyone comes downstairs and Carver asks for Kenny the remaining person not captured. Kenny snipes a generic guy. Carver picks up Walter and kills him. You are then given a choice to yell to Kenny to keep firing or surrender. If you tell him to surrender Kenny comes in. Carver picks up Alvin and attempts to shoot him. You can then choose to push him out of the way and you get grazed. Everyone then surrenders and is captured. Confrontation With Walter: Everyone in the podcast felt that the confrontation was going to lead to something big. Will felt this was another example of a great character setup to ultimately die. Nate felt worse in this part of the game then any other game moment. Nate also felt this was unavoidable confrontation. Episode 3 Plot: Episode 3 starts with everyone being transported in the back of a truck. You end up making it to a strip mall with a home improvement store. You are led to the garden section which becomes your new place of residence. Your are immediately introduced to Reggie (the Walking Dead version of Nate) and other new characters. After the first night you start new work and help Bonnie at the armory. Afterwards you are brought to a greenhouse to prune plants with Sarah and Reggie. After Sarah fails her part Reggie is killed by Carver. You next are sent to the end of the strip mall where you see Kenny arguing with another guy. After a walker attack you make it to a comic book store and meet up with Luke who has been sneaking around. He suggests a plan to you and asks for you to get a walkie-talkie to communicate. When you get back to the garden section you tell everyone else the plan and at night you sneak into the home improvement store via the roof and steal a walkie-talkie. The next day you get Luke the walkie-talkie and he explanis that a herd of walkers are headed to the store. Knowing that defense is week you sneak back into the store via the roof at night to turn on the PA system to attract the walkers and after killing Carver you escape in the ensuing chaos. Episode 3 Questions: Did you watch Kenny beat and kill Carver? - Brian and Nate did, Will did not. Pissed at Luke? - Brian was after liking him the first episode of the season hated him both episode 2 and 3. Will liked to keep secrets in season 1, but hated them in season 2 and hated Luke for doing so. Nate didn't much care about Luke. Carver really wants Clem's group to join? - Will states that Carver is in charge and basically can have his way (cult-like). Nate adds that it is annoying that this is not explored and explained further. Reggie - Will talks about how Reggie is the guy who tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one. He's the second interesting guy introduced only to be killed immediately. Nate's explains this is his favorite character for obvious reasons. Conversation in the back of the truck - Will talks about how this was a great scene with conversation so fast that you can not here it all and make the required choices presented to you. Kenny garden scene - In the garden scene where you are discussing plan to escape Carver comes in and asks about the missing walkie-talkie. You are about to take the blame when Kenny grabs the walkie-talkie and says he took it. Carver then proceeds to savagely beat Kenny. Doctor forced to hit Sarah - Will notes that Clem reminds Sarah that Carver made him do it and really Carver hit him. Episode 3 Ending: Final scene involves you walking through a herd of walkers covered in walker guts. Will notes "Wow what a scene". Brian notes this is reminiscent of season 1 episode 5 where you walk through walkers hacking as you go. A guy on the roof shoots the doctor and Sarah runs off scared causing walkers to go crazy. As Clem you continue to fight off walkers only to turn around and see Sarita with a walker biting on her arm. You can then either attack the walker or chop off her arm. Everyone in the podcast chose to chop off her arm. Brian notes that chopping off limbs has now become common place and almost automatic at this point. Episode 3 Notes: Will - We still don't know if the game has the notion that everyone is already infected. Nate - Beating of Carver with crowbar by Kenny was crazy. Brian - Did anyone see a lettman jacket in the final scene (no one did). Brian - Scenes sneaking on the roof were meant to be stealthy, but really were not. Brian - Bonnie you go from liking her to hating her to liking her again in 400 days, episode 2, and episode 3 respectively. Will - 400 days characters end up as Carver's group. Will - External reference to Penny Arcade comic strip. Ratings (Episode 2 and 3 combined): Brian - 8.0 Nate - 8.0 Will - 8.0 Final Comments: Everyone agreed episodes 2 and 3 were much much better then episode 1.

In 2015, Star Wars will be bigger, better, and even more worthy of #fangirlflails! To keep up with the fandom happenings, co-hosts Teresa Delgado and Tricia Barr turned to one of their podcasting friends, Sarah Woloski from Skywalking Through Neverland, to help cover this amazing era of the franchise. Lucasfilm’s Senior Editor Jen Heddle’s piece on Marvel’s return to Star Wars comics got us excited for this week’s Star Wars #1 release. Teresa shares her initial thoughts after reading the issue. This weekend, Sarah will be running in the first Star Wars runDisney Star Wars Half-Marathon at Disneyland. At the end of the month, Tricia attends the grand opening of the Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume Smithsonian touring exhibit in Seattle, where Anthony Daniels is scheduled to appear. After Sarah shares her passion for Star Wars and its music, the fangirls discuss Vanessa Marshall’s comments in her EW.com interview on whether Kanan and Hera are space-married. Feel free to share your thoughts on Fangirls Going Rogue’sFacebook page or Twitter. With the help of our amazing listeners, Luke Skywalker was chosen for this episode’s character discussion. The discussion isn’t over when the show ends. Drop us a voicemail at 331-213-8657 and tell us what movie has your favorite version of Luke in it. After the podcast, check out the latest episode of Fangirl Chat, where Tricia and Geek Kay talk to Star Wars author and fangirl extraordinaire Tish Pahl about the history of fandom and convention tales with legends like Timothy Zahn, Michael Stackpole, and Aaron Allston. Fangirls Going Rogue: @FGGoingRogue Tricia: @fangirlcantina Teresa: @icecoldpenguin Sarah: @JediTink Email: contact@fangirlsgoingrogue.com  Facebook: Fangirls Going Rogue Tumblr: fangirlsgoingrogue.tumblr.com Instagram: @FGGoingRogue Voicemail: 331-21 Ewoks or 331-213-9657 Please go like Fangirls Going Rogue on iTunes and leave a positive review, and in your review mention how much you like the show.