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"Laughing on the busPlaying games with the facesShe said the man in the gabardine suitWas a spy, I said, "Be carefulHis bow tie is really a camera"Counting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey've all come To look for America"It's here, please join me this afternoon as we reveal it's existence through a wondrous thing we call music. Joining us on are journey are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, Radiohead. U2, The Hollies, Beatles, Byrds, Los Bravos, RE.M. Velvet Underground, Bob James, Steely Dan, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Harry Chapin, Pat Metheny, The Wallflowers, The Mark-Almond Band, Patti Smith, The Grass Roots, Mamas & Papas and Simon & Garfunkel...

Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger PictureThe EV market is falling apart, another manufacture goes belly up. Illegals have been taken American jobs. Trump shutdown the congestion price in NYC. Inflation is back and the Fed is caught in a trap. Trump says its Biden fault, and it is. Trump has set the stage with more tariffs. The [DS] is now pushing protests in multiple cities, they are panicking because Trump cannot be stopped. Trump just signed more EO and he has wiped out 90 years of [DS] power. The executive branch is changing, Trump and the patriots are taking back control. The people in the end will see the criminal activity. Trump is letting the [DS] destroy themselves.   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1892206394511647184 https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1891860052631269819   making electric cars. Today immigration came and hundreds of people left running, jumping fences” “Who do not have documents, who do not have legal status in America” It seems you're celebrating the recent news about congestion pricing in New York City! As of today, February 19, 2025, the Trump administration has indeed moved to rescind federal approval for the program, which was designed to charge drivers a $9 fee to enter Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours. The decision, announced earlier today, has sparked a mix of reactions—some see it as a victory for drivers and small businesses, while others argue it jeopardizes billions in funding for the city's subway and bus systems. The program's termination is already facing pushback, with the MTA filing a lawsuit to keep it alive, claiming it's been a success in reducing traffic and boosting transit use. What's your take on this twist? Are you relieved, or do you think there's more to the story? The Fed Has Stopped Pretending That Price Inflation Is Going Away   So much for the Fed's dog-and-pony show of late summer 2024 when Jerome Powell repeatedly assured the public that the economy was in great shape and that price inflation was rapidly disappearing. What the Fed Should Do    Source: zerohedge.com   Trump says ‘inflation is back': ‘I had nothing to do with it' President Trump is seeking to distance himself from a rise in inflation, arguing the uptick had “nothing to do” with his return to the Oval Office. Trump instead placed the blame on former President Biden in an interview Tuesday, decrying what he characterized as reckless spending during the previous administration. “Inflation is back. No, think of it: Inflation's back,” the president told Fox News's Sean Hannity during an interview alongside tech billionaire Elon Musk that aired Tuesday night. “And they said, ‘Oh, Trump,' and I had nothing to do with that.” “These people have run the country. They spent money like nobody has ever spent. … They were given $9 trillion to throw out the window — 9 trillion,” he added. Source: thehill.com https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1892050348723834934 Trump Warns 25% Tariffs On Cars, Drugs And Chips Coming In April   Trump tried to reassure the market that tariffs are indeed coming and said he would likely impose tariffs on auto, semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports of around 25%, with an announcement coming as soon as April 2. “I probably will tell you that on April 2, but it'll be in the neighborhood of 25%,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club when asked about his plan for auto tariffs. “When they come into the United States and they have their plant or fac...

In this transformative episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Heneka Watkis-Porter sits down with Richard Walsh—entrepreneur, US Marine, champion boxer, internationally recognized steel sculptor, and author of Escape the Owner's Prison. As the CEO of Sharpen the Spear Coaching and a father of six, Richard shares his journey of balancin personal fulfillment with professional success, proving that entrepreneurs can thrive in both business and life without sacrificing their well-being. Richard brings a wealth of actionable strategies to help entrepreneurs escape the "owner's prison" by building self-sustaining businesses that align with their life goals. He emphasizes the importance of prioritizing the four pillars of life—family, finances, fitness, and friendships—and explains how creating a clear exit strategy can guide decision-making and keep entrepreneurs focused. Heneka and Richard's conversation dives deep into the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, offering listeners the tools to transform overwhelm into clarity and control. Richard's book, Escape the Owner's Prison, serves as a guide for entrepreneurs looking to delegate effectively and design businesses that thrive without constant oversight. As a special bonus, Richard is offering a free audio version of his book to listeners who reach out to him. This episode is a must-listen for driven entrepreneurs seeking balance, freedom, and success. Hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, The Entrepreneurial You connects listeners to globally renowned thought leaders and innovators, inspiring them to uplevel their business and personal growth. Richard Walsh's insights and strategies are sure to empower listeners to reclaim their lives, set clear goals, and build businesses that work for them, not the other way around. Tune in to unleash your potential and transform your entrepreneurial journey today! COMMUNITY CONNECTION: In this segment, I invite you, our community to share your reviews, questions, feedback, ect to engage with us. This week I am sharing a book review from my book podcast power ...Monique Russell from United States of America★★★★★It is only fitting that veteran podcaster, Heneka Watkis-Porter write a book about the ins and outs of Podcasting. She has left no stone unturned. From ensuring you understand your audience, to equipment, monetizing, she has covered it all. This book is an essential resource for anyone thinking about starting a podcast or who has an existing podcast as well. It was very pivotal for me starting my own podcast show. CONTACT RICHARD WALSH: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/richard.walsh.9231 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-walsh-866ab237/ TRENDING NOW: Nearly 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, primarily due to poor management and burnout. A key factor is that owners often try to wear all the hats themselves, leading to overwhelm and inefficiency. Learning to delegate and seek support is essential for long-term success. If you enjoyed this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, leave a rating, and share it with your friends. Visit henekawatkisporter.com to download a free eBook on how to conduct podcast interviews like a pro! AFFIRM WITH ME: I embrace change, nurture my creativity, and witness how innovation opens doors to extraordinary possibilities. I believe in my power to rebuild, rethink, and renew. I will keep pushing forward, staying inspired, and remembering that the best is yet to come. Until next time, I'm Heneka Watkis-Porter, and this has been 'The Entrepreneurial You.' Stay blessed and keep shining bright! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is Jesus viewed on YouTube? I can't say overall, but man, I can show you some stuff from our comment section. This is one of the reasons I'm glad to be on YouTube, even though we can't talk about real things on YouTube. And, Praise God, because I finally see a change in President Trump that I've been praying to see. Maybe you saw the same exact change that I did.What does God's Word say? Proverbs 22:4 ESV  The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.James 4:10 ESV  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.Episode Links:Kamala Harris has no clue what to say after CNN's Anderson Cooper asks her to think of one mistake that she has learned from in her life.Zachary Levi went live on IG to talk about his support for Donald Trump- and towards the end, he sent a message to the women on The View-Jesus Said More about Hell Than Anyone in the BiblePRESIDENT TRUMP: "My faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania where I was knocked to the ground by what seemed like a supernatural hand -- I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose and that's to make our country greater than ever before."TRUMP: "I am here tonight to deliver a simple message to Christians across America: It is time to stand up and SAVE YOUR COUNTRY. On November 5th, Christian voters need to turn out in the largest numbers ever."President Trump had TRUE and REAL humility and joy working at McDonaldsWisdom Nutrition https://trywisdomnow.com/toddStock up on Wisdom for 33% off plus free shipping. Visit trywisdomnow.com/todd.Alan's Soaps https://www.alansartisansoaps.comUse coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price.Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/toddMake Bonefrog Cold Brew at home!  Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com)Get a second opinion on the health of your retirement portfolio today.  Schedule your free Know Your Risk Portfolio review go to KnowYourRiskRadio.com today.My Pillow https://mypillow.com/toddUse promo code TODD to save big on the entire MyPillow classic Collection with the Standard starting at only $14.88.  Renue Healthcare https://renue.healthcare/todd Your journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit renue.healthcare/Todd

"So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's piesAnd walked off to look for AmericaCounting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey've all come to look for AmericaAll come to look for America all come to look for America"It's been a long week and Democracy prevailed. Whether you're celebrating or grieving please join me for 2 hours of terrific tunes with this week's Whole 'Nuther Thing on KXFM 104.7.Joining us are Randy Newman, XTC, Coldplay, The Who, Rolling Stones, Sons of Champlin, Love, Vanilla Fudge, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Traffic, Radiohead, Buffalo Springfield, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, Chuck Mangione, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Simon & Garfunkel.

America: It's Make It Or Break It! | Todd Coconato Show To support this ministry: www.ToddCoconato.com/give Website: www.PastorTodd.org App: www.ToddCoconato.com/app   Today on The Todd Coconato Show, we're diving into election issues that you won't hear covered in mainstream media — especially from a Christian perspective. In this crucial time, we'll explore what's at stake for believers, from policy changes that affect religious freedom to issues like the economy, education, and the integrity of our nation's foundational systems. We're unpacking why it's essential to stay informed and how this election could impact our faith, family, and future. Don't miss it; this conversation is vital for every Christian voter.  

How is Jesus viewed on YouTube? I can't say overall, but man, I can show you some stuff from our comment section. This is one of the reasons I'm glad to be on YouTube, even though we can't talk about real things on YouTube. And, Praise God, because I finally see a change in President Trump that I've been praying to see. Maybe you saw the same exact change that I did.What does God's Word say? Proverbs 22:4 ESV  The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.James 4:10 ESV  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.Episode Links:Kamala Harris has no clue what to say after CNN's Anderson Cooper asks her to think of one mistake that she has learned from in her life.Zachary Levi went live on IG to talk about his support for Donald Trump- and towards the end, he sent a message to the women on The View-Jesus Said More about Hell Than Anyone in the BiblePRESIDENT TRUMP: "My faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania where I was knocked to the ground by what seemed like a supernatural hand -- I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose and that's to make our country greater than ever before."TRUMP: "I am here tonight to deliver a simple message to Christians across America: It is time to stand up and SAVE YOUR COUNTRY. On November 5th, Christian voters need to turn out in the largest numbers ever."President Trump had TRUE and REAL humility and joy working at McDonaldsAlan's Soaps https://www.alansartisansoaps.comUse coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price.Bioptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/toddStart your journey to better health with MassZymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/todd today to get your MassZymes 10% off.  Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/toddMake Bonefrog Cold Brew at home!  Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com)Learn about Bulwark's strategies with their FREE Common Cents Investing Guide. Get yours by calling 866-779-RISK or go to KnowYourRiskRadio.com.Renue Healthcare https://renue.healthcare/toddYour journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit renue.healthcare/Todd

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show.IN THIS EPISODE: When hiring a ghost writer, you are paying someone to do some or even all of the writing of a book or novel for you – using your notes and outline – without taking any credit for themselves. But on the flip side, there are books written who give all credit to the ghost writers… because those ghost writers are literally authors who are ghosts. (Paranormal Prose: Books Written By Ghosts) *** When getting married, it's always best to tell your future spouse everything about yourself – no matter how sordid it might be. For if the news comes out after you've taken your vows, not only might it lead to divorce – but it could also lead to murder! (A Double Murderer Murdered) *** And while we're on the subject of marriage device – it's also never a good idea to cheat on your spouse, not matter how powerful and influential you are in society. That too can lead to brutal murder, very possibly your own, as Harvey Burdell found out. (Bond Street Tragedy) *** There are numerous eerie tales of the supernatural involving ghost brides and haunted wedding dresses. It makes you wonder if you plan on saying “I do”, if you're not also welcoming a residual haunting once “til death do us part” arrives. (Ghostly Bride of America) *** It happened in September of 2022 – hundreds of students all across the country of Mexico just fainted with no warning, while those around them were perfectly fine. Authorities still aren't sure they have found the explanation. (The Case Of Passed Out Pupils) *** Berkely Square is one of the most famous places in London, known for its beautiful garden and upscale living. Winston Churchill once lived here, as did Charles Rolls – cofounder of Rolls-Royce. The location has also been used for works of fiction, such as the television miniseries “Berkeley Square”, and even the home of fictional character Cathy Lane – Patty Lane's “identical cousin” from “The Patty Duke Show” on television. But Berkely Square also has a dark side – a building in the middle of the square, said to contain something not of this earth. (The Indescribable Beast of Berkely Square) *** But first… look out men, if you are approached by a beautiful woman seemingly out of nowhere – remember the saying: “if it's too good to be true, it probably is.” She may be less interested in your looks or money – and more interested in whats on your insides. Literally. We begin there! (Kidney Crooks)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Cold Open and Show Intro00:05:00.056 = Kidney Crooks00:15:07.284 = Paranormal Prose: Books Written by Ghosts00:22:31.191 = The Bond Street Tragedy00:32:36.768 = A Double Murderer Murdered00:42:24.605 = Ghostly Brides of America00:52:11.699 = The Case of The Passed Out Pupils01:01:21.351 = The Indescribable Beast of Berkley Square01:13:42.205 = Show Close01:16:07.508 = BloopersSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Kidney Crooks” by Nikkie Miller for Paranormal Daily News: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckshxzv“Paranormal Prose: Books Written By Ghosts” by U Kate Gorisert for Moon Mausoleum: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/m7r3y4tu“A Double Murderer Murdered” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck5vxwv“The Bond Street Tragedy” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s44pkf5“The Indescribable Beast of Berkely Square” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p88rjy2“The Case Of The Passed Out Pupils” from Oddity Central: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdfsj85m“Ghostly Brides of America” by Darren Marlar and ChatGPT; Source: Ashley Watson at Notebook of Ghosts:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4x9a9hb7Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library= = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: August 21, 2023CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/ParanormalProse

JLP Tue 8-6-24 Country & Western Tuesday! Hr 1 South Africa in America, Riots in England. They want you angry, fighting. Calls: Religion? // Hr 2 Calls: Did Renee sin against the Holy Spirit? Does Josh have a self? Supers… Lee knows how to make boys first. But, DNA test… // Hr 3 Lee: Sons with ex-wife turning away. Wife makes money. Ryan: It's the J's? Anna: Abortion guilt. Tony: Divorced "sucker"? Aman chasing "peace" // Biblical Question: Do you suffer the consequences of your actions? TIMESTAMPS (0:00:00) HOUR 1 (0:04:04) Country & Western Tuesday (0:06:09) South Africa in America: It's only going to get worse (0:19:30) Riots in England: Attack on little girls (0:29:04) They want you rioting. Overcome anger. BREAK (0:32:39) Govt against the people. Fear to speak up. Riots (0:37:31) Muslims, whites, fighting in England. Drop anger, fear. (0:41:14) "Free Palestine" in England. (0:44:04) Visitors in your home! You're lost. (0:46:19) COLTON, MO, 1st: Religion? Overcome thoughts. How to forgive mother (0:51:10) RENEE, Australia, 1st, filled with Spirit, unforgivable sin with ex? HOLD (0:55:00) NEWS … HOUR 2 (1:04:04) RENEE: Holy Spirit? BF. What's the unforgivable sin? Let HS be Teacher (1:09:04) RENEE: You're tripping. Let it go. God is clear in all things. (1:16:04) RENEE: You thought! All thoughts, all lies! Don't say won't do it (1:19:24) JOSH, GA: What self you judge? … BREAK (1:34:14) JOSH: BQ (1:35:34) Supers: Beta Nick? Women, wife. Darling, JLP sings (1:45:14) CHRISTOPHER, FL, 1st: War coming? Thanks. God's work, overcome! (1:47:02) LEE, FL, 1st: Thought JLP a troll! Boys first! DNA test, Fear, Pray? HOLD (1:55:00) NEWS … HOUR 3 (2:03:15) LEE: Mama's boys from prior marriage: Let 'em go. Fathers. (2:09:59) LEE: Wife makes more money! Worth more than the soul? Watch. (2:12:58) RYAN, MD, 1st: Children of evil is spiritual, more than Jewish people (2:19:16) RYAN: No power, just as whites, blacks! Wish them well. Freemason! (2:24:24) RYAN: True name of God is Father, not Yahweh (2:25:21) ANNA, Canada, 1st: Unborn babies' souls? She aborted. Guilty. (2:33:19) ANNA: Cheated, aborted. Let that go. God's not holding it against you. (2:37:01) ANNA: Impossible to judge with Wisdom… (2:39:38) ANNA: Mother a saint! Deceased. Don't know father, adopted. Pray! (2:42:52) TONY, NY, 1st: Divorce, signed under duress. Forgive unrepentant ex? (2:45:18) TONY: Never, ever give one thought what others think of you. "Sucker" (2:49:04) Supers: Clean homeless? BlaqRose (2:51:34) AMAN, India, 24: Don't call me sir. Tryna get peace back. Thrill (2:55:44) Closing: You're in your thoughts!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comNancy and Sarah are back after a brief summer hiatus to talk about: white women for Kamala, “brat” and its aftermath, why Gen Z has so many slang terms for oral sex (or is that just our intern?), and how JD Vance radicalized childless cat ladies and prompted Twitter to make jokes about sex with a couch. America: It's going great! Note: This episode gets pretty blue, might want to keep it out of the little ones' earholes. Also discussed:* “Did I miss anything?” asks Sarah, after emerging from a literal cave in the desert.* Gen Z pop star Charli … MCM?!* Childless cat ladies were trending, and nobody called Sarah for a quote?!?* You say KOMM-uh-lah, I say Kuh-MAH-lah, let's call the whole thing off.* Trump avoiding an assassin's bullet was 60,000 news cycles ago. * The Kamala Harris prosecution that Nancy cannot get over* What is the sound of 100,000 white women clapping? * "I am here tonight, embracing myself in your incredible, profound white women midst, because we've got a fucking job to do, y'all” is a thing that was said.* Race essentialism + radical self-care = cringe-fest* Brat, cap, munch, throat goat: Nancy learns to speak Gen Z * That time Sub Pop Records trolled the New York Times* Did Elon Musk succeed in making Twitter a public square?* “Ass play is not my jam.”* Ben Shapiro for president?* Steve Kornacki will chase down that Snackwells truck* J.D. Vance, the punching bag for a post-assassination-attempt TrumpPlus, the wisdom of NOT talking politics, report cards on how Biden dipped, and that time Hemingway married an African woman when he was already married. We are here tonight, embracing ourselves in your incredible, profound audio-listener midst, because you've got a fucking subscription to pay, y'all

2021 marked a dark anniversary for America: It was the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, a two-day long white supremacist reign of terror that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma's thriving Black Wall Street. To honor the 100th anniversary, a group of Tulsa rappers came together as Fire In Little Africa to produce a mixtape that told the story of that terrible event.In this episode, originally taped in 2021, Ebro sits down with Tulsa artists Steph Simon, Dr. View, and Saint Domonick to talk about the legacy of the massacre, and what the Black community can do to support the Tulsa community.Stream the Fire In Little Africa mixtape and their Message playlist only on Apple Music.

Ordinary Christians in extra ordinary times - By Pastor George Lehman What the world needs is NOT more Christianity but more Christians who practice Christianity. We cannot live ordinary lives anymore! Here Jesus is speaking to the scribes an Pharisees: Mark 7:13 – Jesus said, “Tradition destroys the effect of the Word”. We become comfortable with traditionally doing church and spiritual things, We go through the motions in a way that's marked with ordinary and don't by faith - rise up to an extra ordinary life. A life touched by Jesus cannot be the same. Story of a statue in a cemetery in America: It was not a statue of a man, angel, or Mary, but a statue of a dog.  They say when his master was buried.  The dog followed the procession to the graveyard, and he lay on the grave and wouldn't leave until he died.  They put up a memorial next to his master because he demonstrated extraordinary loyalty. Here's a story of extra ordinary loyalty: 2 Samuel 15:13-21 (Amp) - 13And there came a messenger to David, saying, the hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.  14David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise and let us flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Make haste to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly and bring evil upon us and smite the city with the sword.  15And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king says.  16So, the king and all his household after him went forth. But he left ten women who were concubines to keep the house.  17The king went forth with all the people after him and halted at the last house.  18All David's servants passed on beside him, along with [his bodyguards] all the Cherethites, Pelethites; also all the Gittites, 600 men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.  19The king said to Ittai the Gittite, why do you go with us also? Return to your place and remain with the king [Absalom], for you are a foreigner and an exile.  20Since you came only yesterday, should I make you go up and down with us? Since I must go where I may, you return, and take back your brethren with you. May loving-kindness and faithfulness be with you.  21But Ittai answered the king, As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or life, even there also will your servant be.  What an extra ordinary dedication to serve his King, “no matter what”. Paul writing to the church in Corinth: (over a period of time ordinary will become lukewarm / backslidden) 1 Corinthians 3:3 (Amp) - For you are still [unspiritual, having the nature] of the flesh [under the control of ordinary impulses]. For as long as [there are] envying and jealousy and wrangling* (stryery) and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men? (Clearly by this message it's clear that Paul is talking about an Extra Ordinary life!) Our ordinary should be Extra Ordinary. The Moffett's translation says:  “Are you behaving like ordinary people?” Why did God allow these disciplining correcting verses in the Bible?  “It was for our good so we can change and serve Him correctly. To live an extra ordinary life. We have come to a time in the history of the world when, for those of us who are Christians it's not acceptable it's a sin to live ordinary. It's no longer enough to live nominal (not real) lives in a time of phenomenal need. Acts 17:30 -31a(Amp) – 30Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people every where to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways with abhorrence of their past sins). 31Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world. The words of Josiah G. Holland:  God give us men!  A time like this demands great hearts, strong minds, and willing hands. (Simply – Extra ordinary Christians) It's not enough that we just be “ordinary people”.  This is what Paul was addressing in our scripture – there were ordinary Christians of that day! The gospel would never have been launched if it wasn't for a multitude of extraordinary christians. People who were committed in an extra ordinary way to a truly extra ordinary gospel. It's no different.  Today we serve the same reigning God; have the same powerful anointing an extra ordinary gospel; the same challenges in a needy world. That's why we need to rise above the ordinary, basic, empty, ineffective life and live extra ordinary lives. My greatest desire is to see this church rise up and live extra ordinary Christianity. Serving – going the extra mile. Giving God our reasonable service. Living committed Holy, effective lives – building unity. Being salt and light to a dying world – saying NO to ordinary Christianity. This means we will first of all have to have... Extra ordinary faith. How do you make ordinary extra ordinary – you add a little extra.  Fighting the good fight of the faith. We must believe the “But God” factor in our lives.  It's knowing and being motivated that God is near and will not forsake us. Extra ordinary faith knows “The Lord is my shepherd” and “we shall not want”. Take a faith step and attempt something extra ordinary in an extra ordinary way. We also need... 2: Extra ordinary conduct. Philippians 1:27 (Amp) - Only be sure as citizens so to CONDUCT yourselves (that) your manner of life (will be) WORTHY of the good news (the gospel) of Christ... As someone has said:  The world at its worst needs the church at its best. Jesus asked a very pointed question of His disciples – which can be asked of us...Matthew 5:47(Amp) - “... what more than others are you doing?” Are you behaving like ordinary people? We are not saved to stagnate.  We are saved to serve in an EXTRA-Ordinary way. It's not what you say with your lips that count.  It's what you do with your life that matters. In these extra ordinary times, the WORLD is much more concerned with our extra ordinary demonstration of the Christian life than it is with our declaration of the Christian truth. Demonstration beats declaration every time.   The question is: Have you been saying one thing with your lips and another with your life? Does your life encourage people or discourage people? NB: All souls are of equal WORTH to God, but not all souls are of equal USE to God. How about you?  Will you rise to the challenge?  Will you contribute to that uncommon conduct the world needs so desperately today? Conduct: Personal behaviour; living with God's standards. A young Chinese communist (Christian) stood before the firing squad of Chinese soldiers.  As the captain gave the order to aim, the girl cried out, “I'm dying for a cause!!  What are you living for??” (What is your contribution?)   Have you chosen “ordinary” or “extra ordinary”? Colossians 1:10 (Amp) - That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves in a [extra ordinary] manner) worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in ALL THINGS, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by knowledge of God (with fuller, deeper and clearer insight, acquaintance and recognition. Will you like Ittai, say “I will follow you “no matter what”?

This is a look at priorities, again. People like RFK Jr are speaking the truth about one of the biggest issues in our country: chronic disease. He says that chronic disease is being caused, and I agree. We will also talk about the overprescription of antidepressants, and another case of the war on protein. In a video from Planned Parenthood, the continued effort to remove boundaries with kids is evident. Planned Parenthood, who is pushing STDs as sexy. Wait, didn't RFK Jr say chronic disease could be the biggest threat to America?What does God's Word say? Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.2 Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,Episode 1,403 Links:Far Out to Sea: Dark Lessons of a Trump Trial; America, you're in troubleGERMANY: Trans-Identified Pedophile Spared Prison After Claiming He Viewed Child Porn To Help Him Develop His “Gender Identity”Vox Gets Roasted for Pushing Idea “Americans are Obsessed with Protein”; Vox earns a spectacular X-ratio, and we get reminded that dietary science is perhaps the most unsettled science of all.New Report: “Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm; “Europe has tested many of these policies aggressively for years, and the results have been an unmitigated failure.”RFK Jr. making a compelling case that Chronic Disease is the biggest issue facing America: "It's bankrupting our country and rising exponentially and no one is saying anything.Overprescribed: Suicides Haunt the Dubious Approval of Antidepressants; Antidepressants are being prescribed for more than just depression and the consequences include an increased risk of suicide.'I want you to look into my eyes Rishi Sunak and I want you to look at the pain, the trauma and the regret I have in my eyes.' An audience member asks the Prime Minister why he and others affected by the covid vaccine 'have been left to rot'.Planned Parenthood's “Virginity” videoJesus washed the feet of friends and enemies. No ego or hate. He humbly loved his neighbors. How can we do the same?4Patriots https://4Patriots.com/Todd Stay connected when the power goes out and get free shipping on orders over $97. Alan's Soaps https://alanssoaps.com/TODD Use coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price. Bioptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/todd Use promo code TODD for 10% off your order. Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/todd Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions. Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com) Call 866-779-RISK or visit online to get their FREE Common Cents Investing Guide. GreenHaven Interactive Digital Marketing https://greenhaveninteractive.com Your Worldclass Website Will Get Found on Google!

This is a look at priorities, again. People like RFK Jr are speaking the truth about one of the biggest issues in our country: chronic disease. He says that chronic disease is being caused, and I agree. We will also talk about the overprescription of antidepressants, and another case of the war on protein. In a video from Planned Parenthood, the continued effort to remove boundaries with kids is evident. Planned Parenthood, who is pushing STDs as sexy. Wait, didn't RFK Jr say chronic disease could be the biggest threat to America?What does God's Word say? Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.2 Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,Episode 1,403 Links:Far Out to Sea: Dark Lessons of a Trump Trial; America, you're in troubleGERMANY: Trans-Identified Pedophile Spared Prison After Claiming He Viewed Child Porn To Help Him Develop His “Gender Identity”Vox Gets Roasted for Pushing Idea “Americans are Obsessed with Protein”; Vox earns a spectacular X-ratio, and we get reminded that dietary science is perhaps the most unsettled science of all.New Report: “Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm; “Europe has tested many of these policies aggressively for years, and the results have been an unmitigated failure.”RFK Jr. making a compelling case that Chronic Disease is the biggest issue facing America: "It's bankrupting our country and rising exponentially and no one is saying anything.Overprescribed: Suicides Haunt the Dubious Approval of Antidepressants; Antidepressants are being prescribed for more than just depression and the consequences include an increased risk of suicide.'I want you to look into my eyes Rishi Sunak and I want you to look at the pain, the trauma and the regret I have in my eyes.' An audience member asks the Prime Minister why he and others affected by the covid vaccine 'have been left to rot'.Planned Parenthood's “Virginity” videoJesus washed the feet of friends and enemies. No ego or hate. He humbly loved his neighbors. How can we do the same?4Patriots https://4Patriots.com/Todd Stay connected when the power goes out and get free shipping on orders over $97. Alan's Soaps https://alanssoaps.com/TODD Use coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price. Bioptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/todd Use promo code TODD for 10% off your order. Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/todd Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions. Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com) Call 866-779-RISK or visit online to get their FREE Common Cents Investing Guide. GreenHaven Interactive Digital Marketing https://greenhaveninteractive.com Your Worldclass Website Will Get Found on Google!

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Live from the Heart of America—I'm Steve Gruber— Your Soldier of Truth—the Tip of the Spear against socialists—here ready to fight for you from the Foxhole of Freedom—AND—please my friends REMEMBER TO THINK while its still legal—this is the Steve Gruber Show—   Here are 3 big things you need to know right now—   Number One— There is a housing crisis in America—there simply are not enough to go around and that is pushing prices through the roof while mortgage rates are also sky high—   Number Two— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did exactly as expected on Monday—and declared that he is now an independent candidate for President—and he dumped the Democrat Party—   Number Three— On the frontlines of the brand new Gaza War with Israel and Hamas—the brutality is gut wrenching—   And sadly there is no leadership at all coming from America—   It took Joe Biden 8 hours on Saturday to issue any statement on the vicious surprise attack by terrorist soldiers—attacking and murdering men women and children indiscriminately in Israel—   And on Monday—with the world looking down the barrel of a global war—Joe Biden and his team called a lid at 11:32 in the morning—meaning he was done for the day—and would have nothing to say about the massacres unleashed by the radical islamist killers—   The truth is clear:   Joe Biden is not capable of being President of the United States and the blunt truth is—he never was—not even before he was consumed by senility and whatever else is going on—he cannot lead the greatest nation on earth—he is weak—and because he is weak—we are seeing wars break out—in Ukraine in February of last year—and now the first declared war by Israel since 1973—50 years!   Weakness allows our enemies and the enemies of our allies to be bold and attack—because they do not expect America to respond in a coherent and meaningful way—we will see what happens now—because this weakness could mean we are fully involved in this Middle East war—and it could easily lead all the way to Tehran—because we all suspected and now know—the mullahs in Iran were behind the coordinated attack on civilians—including little kids, grandmothers—and young people attending a music festival—   The level of depravity included burning young women alive in the streets while crowds cheered—beheading and desecrating soldiers killed in the fighting—and worse—   There is no solution except the total eradication of Hamas— and while Joe Biden was nowhere to be found, the former President of the United States—who could be the next President as well, Donald Trump had plenty to say—   But even more shocking than the complete failure of leadership by Joe Biden and his useless administration—was the repeated stupidity of trying to say a nuclear war is less of a concern than Global Warming—yeah—I can't make that one up—and that asinine assertion continued yesterday at the highest levels of the Biden Administration— Israel—having seen its citizens slaughtered in their homes by blood thirsty radical monsters—don't seem as worried about climate change as the clowns on team Biden—I mean seriously who believes any of that garbage?   And there are plenty of people in our government that are not interested in hearing about climate change—and are willing to take the war to its logical conclusion—once and for all—BUT remember, that could trigger a global war—a world war—   And yet there are those that think murdering kids and old folks is a good thing—and they cheer on the slaughter—

Live from the Heart of America—I'm Steve Gruber— Your Soldier of Truth—the Tip of the Spear against socialists—here ready to fight for you from the Foxhole of Freedom—AND—please my friends REMEMBER TO THINK while its still legal—this is the Steve Gruber Show—   Here are 3 big things you need to know right now—   Number One— The soon to be fired head football coach at Michigan State University, Mel Tucker, who is accused of sexually harassing a rape survivor—decides to insinuate race may be a factor—   Number Two— Ford is laying off hundreds of workers who lack parts to build anything—and Chrysler could close 18 plants as a result of the UAW strike against the companies—what will GM do?   Number Three— There is a lot of anger in the halls of Congress these days and on the streets of America—   It seems the discontent is growing—and people are more frustrated by the day—and while the media might want you to think that its only the Republicans that are in disarray—the facts point to something else altogether—   But the GOP is certainly fighting an internal war—and the current battles are being fought over more spending being put forth in a continuing resolution to fund the government—as we as a nation have crossed the $33 Trillion dollar debt mark—   A deal cobbled together by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy fell apart Tuesday—as hardline conservatives are rejecting the deal as just more of the same—and I honestly think I have to agree with them—I mean when was the last time anyone in Washington from any Party actually cut spending in any meaningful way? Try never on for size—I mean not that I can remember—   Those opposed to just going along say the idea of Republicans once again signing on to a so-called clean continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown—would once again leave the GOP emasculated—with not one bit of negotiating power left for them to use on anything—   One proposal put forth by the Freedom Caucus that found support from the more pragmatic Main Street Caucus would fund government for one month—BUT it comes with an 8% spending cut—and attaches a border security measure—BUT without the E-Verify portion—   And that sent some Republicans including several that one swing districts in New York last time around—to admit they will work directly with Democrats on a deal to avoid a partial Government shutdown that will come if a deal is not put together by September 30th—   All of this is being played out against the backdrop of Kevin McCarthy losing support of Republicans from all corners of the Party—   There are huge fractures that hardliners and moderates seem hard pressed to overcome—   But the hardliners are not apologizing—including some that have not been in Congress long—BUT have been abused in socialist countries previously—ones that say America is drifting far to the left—and it puts the entire country in peril if we do not right the ship and return to our roots of free-enterprise and capitalism—   But its not just the hardliners that are angry with Kevin McCarthy—   And remember it took how many votes for him to get the gavel? Was it 15—something like that—and in order for that to happen—you may recall McCarthy had to make a lot of promises—to just about everyone—and now those bills are coming due—AND its not just the Freedom Caucus folks demanding he honor the promises he made—BUT more mainstream conservatives are also voicing disapproval for his failure to deliver on what he said he would do—   BUT don't think for a second that its just the Republicans that are facing the winds of change—or more accurately huge storms inside their Party—   Democrats may want you to believe everything is running smoothly for them—BUT that is certainly not the case—   Fear is rising on the left—because Joe Biden is getting rejected in his re-election bid by more and more voters that pulled the lever for him in 2020—and are completely disenchanted with his performance in the White House—and that has some Democrats in a near full blown panic—because right now it looks clear that if the rematch with Donald Trump were held today—the 45th President would also become the 47th—and if Kamala Harris somehow gets the keys to Air Force One—Donald Trumps margin of victory would grow dramatically—   And if you factor in the Green Party candidate Cornell West—a far left activist and nut job—Trump wins by even a wider margin—so now the progressive power brokers are working frantically behind the scenes—desperately looking for a way out of this mess they created by anointing the senile but arrogant Joe Biden as Commander in Chief—   The only other Democrat in the race for the nomination in 2024 that has any significant support is RFK Jr. and the party bosses do not want him in power anymore than they wanted his father or uncle running the show—they just don't do as they are told and they have this annoying habit of supporting the Constitution and actually believing in America as a concept and as a great nation—and that government over-reach is the biggest threat to us all—even in the near term—   Meanwhile—the games with our elections are still being played in every single state that will allow for it—like Pennsylvania—where putting as many mail in ballots in circulation is key to gaming the entire system

Full-text: TriMet's Blue rail line to Hillsboro opened on September 12, 1998. Westside MAX was unlike any light rail line previously built in America: It was deliberately routed through vacant land with the expectation that it would be a catalyst for so-called “Transit-Oriented  Development” (TOD). TriMet planners claimed, “The success or failure of the public's nearly $1 billion investment in Westside MAX will be determined in large part by what happens around its 20 stations. Unlike the East side MAX line, a substantial amount of land around the Westside is primed for development.” After 25 years, has the strategy succeeded? Not really. Much of the land near light rail stations has been developed at high densities; but density is expensive so many of those projects were subsidized with below-cost land deals, tax abatements, or cash grants. And few people who live or work near rail stations actually use the train. At Orenco Station in Hillsboro, a fully developed transit-oriented neighborhood, light rail ridership at the afternoon peak is only about seven percent of all passenger trips. Ridership is even lower at most other times. The “Field of Dreams” strategy was a nice metaphor, but it has no basis in reality. TriMet and Metro should shut down their TOD programs and stop building light rail. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coffeewithcascade/message

According to an article in The Daily Chatter, government officials decided to alter academic standards to be more in line with “decolonization” to offer a more favorable view of leftist ideas, and to fit better with the latest sexual ideologies. In response, conservative parents in southern states took the government to court and destroyed some of the proposed new schoolbooks.   Politicians then claimed it was all about partisanship.  But this wasn't America: It was Mexico. The parents protesting were indigenous people out of the state of Chiapas, whose traditional culture and centuries-old Christian heritage drove them to protect their children and protest the ivory tower fads that threaten them.  The most obvious form of colonization today is ideological colonization, and it is being conducted, not by Christians or traditional religious institutions, but by Western progressives who are committed to sexual values and lifestyles found only in the modern West. If parents from Chiapas can resist, so can we.

PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too! Find all of podcasts I host at https://weirddarkness.com/links.IN THIS EPISODE: When hiring a ghost writer, you are paying someone to do some or even all of the writing of a book or novel for you – using your notes and outline – without taking any credit for themselves. But on the flip side, there are books written who give all credit to the ghost writers… because those ghost writers are literally authors who are ghosts. (Paranormal Prose: Books Written By Ghosts) *** When getting married, it's always best to tell your future spouse everything about yourself – no matter how sordid it might be. For if the news comes out after you've taken your vows, not only might it lead to divorce – but it could also lead to murder! (A Double Murderer Murdered) *** And while we're on the subject of marriage device – it's also never a good idea to cheat on your spouse, not matter how powerful and influential you are in society. That too can lead to brutal murder, very possibly your own, as Harvey Burdell found out. (Bond Street Tragedy) *** There are numerous eerie tales of the supernatural involving ghost brides and haunted wedding dresses. It makes you wonder if you plan on saying “I do”, if you're not also welcoming a residual haunting once “til death do us part” arrives. (Ghostly Bride of America) *** It happened in September of 2022 – hundreds of students all across the country of Mexico just fainted with no warning, while those around them were perfectly fine. Authorities still aren't sure they have found the explanation. (The Case Of Passed Out Pupils) *** Berkely Square is one of the most famous places in London, known for its beautiful garden and upscale living. Winston Churchill once lived here, as did Charles Rolls – cofounder of Rolls-Royce. The location has also been used for works of fiction, such as the television miniseries “Berkeley Square”, and even the home of fictional character Cathy Lane – Patty Lane's “identical cousin” from “The Patty Duke Show” on television. But Berkely Square also has a dark side – a building in the middle of the square, said to contain something not of this earth. (The Indescribable Beast of Berkely Square) *** But first… look out men, if you are approached by a beautiful woman seemingly out of nowhere – remember the saying: “if it's too good to be true, it probably is.” She may be less interested in your looks or money – and more interested in whats on your insides. Literally. We begin there! 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Courage & Conviction Investing on his 1st half performance (returns up 46%) and small cap alpha (2:00), how gains in RCM Technologies and TravelCenters of America exemplify investing strategy (7:50), why the macro picture is not worth following (34:00), commodity supercycles (42:40) and his top stock idea (51:40).Subscribe to Second Wind CapitalTranscripts on Seeking AlphaShow Notes:First Half 2023 Performance (+46.5% Vs. +7.4%)Advanced Emissions Solutions, Inc.: Why I've Tripled Down In The $1sAs Peter Lynch Said: 'If You Spend 13 Minutes A Year On Economics, You've Wasted 10 Minutes'Commodity Supercycles And The Role Of Luck (One Year Later)TravelCenters of America: It's Fun When It WorksKirkland's: I'm Bullish (Again) For The First Time Since October 2020CVR Partners, LP: My Best Current Commodity Idea

Seth Holehouse, Man in America – It's obvious to most of us now that the Covid “Pandemic” was not an accidental lab leak but an event that had been years in the making. The key to making the pandemic succeed, however, relied on the ability to brainwash the masses and put them into some sort of trance that would have them lining up for their third and fourth booster shots. According...

Seth Holehouse, Man in America – It feels like the globalist plan for a Great Reset is moving forward at a nearly unstoppable rate and that there is little we can do to prevent it. However, according to my guest today, Dr. Simon Goddek, there are many simple and easy steps we can take to not only prevent the Great Reset from happening but...

Will Elon really step down as Twitter CEO because of poll that was likely influenced by bots? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/results-final-twitter-poll-leftists-vote-elon-musk-step-ceo-twitter/ Tolling is coming in 2 years but we can stop it with petition to vote on it first: https://votebeforetolls.org/ Tollings pile up. https://oregoncatalyst.com/64556-tollings-political-pileup.html Massive I-5 bridge replacement cost overrun  is so bad even uber liberal Seattle Times editorial board opposes, sort of: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/rising-costs-oregon-sloth-demand-a-shrewd-study-of-new-i-5-bridge/ Liberal economist also dumps on new bridge cost: https://cityobservatory.org/the-ibr-project-too-much-money-for-too-many-interchanges/ Uber liberal newly appointed state Rep decries cost of bridge replacement: https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2022/12/opinion-up-to-75-billion-for-interstate-bridge-replacement-project-time-to-rightsize-for-reality.html?outputType=amp Kate's death sentence commutations may allow some killers to be paroled: https://oregoncatalyst.com/64586-browns-death-row-purge-killers-ability-leave-prison.html Fed judge will block ‘loser pays' in radical CA gun bill: https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-to-block-tyrannical-california-gun-law-provision_4930996.html 6 big takeaways from latest Twitter dump: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/19/6-huge-takeaways-from-the-sixth-dump-of-twitter-files/ 10 steps to save America: It can't happen if elections are stolen: https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/18/10-steps-to-save-america/   

The cost of going to college and university is growing daily. For students from low income families, student loans are the only way to fund college/university. Professor Willie Elliott of the University of Michigan argues instead, that building assets as early as possible will set youth up for success. 

“People with financial intelligence can change the world for better.'- Jake Stenziano On this episode, Jake and Gino are discuss the contrast between U.S. and European economic systems. They share their list of pros and cons of both, and what to consider when choosing one of them to live in. When looking at traditional family culture, and enriched values through food and faith, Europe tops the list of places to live and is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. However, the downside includes big factors such as disorganized laws regarding citizens' rights, low economic growth rates, and less-effective financial systems.  There seem to be more avenues to make money in the United States, through entrepreneurship. But- when comparing pros and cons- the U.S. is a far more expensive economy to live in, with high tax rates challenging your savings, investments, innovation and allocation of resources in various ways. What is important, is that you have the opportunity and freedom of choice. This freedom of choice however comes with the responsibility of being financially intelligent. We cannot decide properly for our futures without being educated on these important economic systems, and what each can mean for you and your family.  Key Insights: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Pros of living in Europe, specifically Italy- family, faith, food and tradition  08:33 Living in America: It's about living proactively with responsibility in U.S. 09:20 Power of choosing the place to live in, especially for Real Estate Investors 11:42 What economic factors can hurts the lower-to-middle class? 15:09 Caution: Tricky property rights that can lead to no rights to property you inherit 19:30 Wrap-up   We invite you to continue expanding your financial knowledge by starting a conversation on long-term personal financial engineering with our Team at www.100year.com Bonus resources: DOWNLOAD our Dual Asset Strategy eBook and learn how YOU can leverage cash value life insurance to advance your financial plan: https://100yearrei.com/ebook-download/  SCHEDULE A Call: https://100yearrei.com/callnow/  About The 100 Year Real Estate Investor         The Whole Life Insurance Policies offered by the 100 Year Real Estate Investor are specially-designed. This means they work harder toward achieving your financial objectives, no matter what they may be. Check out this blog for 7 facts about our specially-designed strategies that may not be true about typical whole life policies: https://100yearrei.com/7-facts-about-...  #legacywealth #lifeinsurance #financialplanning #personalfinancialengineering #generationalwealth #useconomy #europreaneconomy  The contents of this video are for informational and educational purposes only. They should not be considered investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Jake and Gino are not licensed in the insurance or securities industries and is not in the business of selling, soliciting or negotiating the sale of any insurance contract, security or other investment vehicle. About Jake & Gino Jake & Gino are multifamily investors, operators, and mentors who have created a vertically integrated real estate company that controls over $4,000,000,000 in assets under management. They have created the Jake & Gino community to teach others their three-step framework: Buy Right, Finance Right and Manage Right®, and to become multifamily entrepreneurs. Subscribe to this channel: https://ytube.io/3McA Sign up for free training: https://jakeandgino.mykajabi.com/freetraining The resources you need to succeed at every level of apartment investing: https://jakeandgino.com/resources/ Apply for Mentorship: https://jakeandgino.com/apply/ #realestate #multifamilyrealestate #multifamilyinvesting #investing #apartmentinvesting Jake & Gino Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jakeandgino/ Jake & Gino Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeandGino Jake & Gino Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jake-and-gino-llc/ Jake & Gino Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakeandgino/ More ways to engage with the Jake & Gino Investor Community: MM5: https://jakeandgino.com/mm5/ Rand Cares: https://jakeandgino.com/randcares/ The 100 Year Real Estate Investor: https://www.dualassetstrategy.com

In a very special bonus episode of Acton Unwind, Eric Kohn is joined by Dylan Pahman and Daniel Baas to discuss the fourth season of the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things.” They explore the show's depiction of communism, the satanic panic of the 1980s, concepts of good and evil, and tease out some possible religious allegories.Supernatural thriller Stranger Things shows the all-too-human evil of communism | Dylan PahmanCronyism vs. free markets in ‘Stranger Things' | Dylan Pahman Stranger Things on America: ‘It's not rigged!' | Jordan BallorStranger Things' Impressive Run | Bradley Birzer, National ReviewStranger Things 4 | Eddie Munson's Upside Down Guitar Scene | Netflix See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/woodshoplife This episode is sponsored by: Shaper Tools, makers of Shaper Origin   Sean 1)Thank you all great information from both the podcast. Right now I have a woodriver spoke shave, wood river shoulder plane, i have buck brothers #4 four plane and block plane, both from home depot, totaling $50.  I have learned to sharpen well and get whispy shaving and a mirror surface on most woods.  Though the plane seems to loose it's setting quickly and the blade chips on any thing harder then pine.  I have some money and want to buy a new plane.  I only have about $350 to spend.  Which plane would you recommend? I think Bevel up veritas or wood river and buying a second 50 degree blade. Scott 2) Thanks for the informative podcast. I have a  question regarding dado blades.  I have a 10 inch delta table saw (36-725T2), and I am wondering what blade to get.  Most of the dado blades I see for sale are 8", and some 6".  Being that my table saw motor is not overly powerful , would a 6" blade be better to reduce the weight?  What are your recommendations on size and maybe some brands you have used and suggest?   Thanks. Trevor   Guy 1) I have a question about drilling pilot holes for wood screws. There seem to be 2 types of pilot hole/contersink bits. One style has a straight bit and the other style has a tapered bit. I have read conflicting information about the different types. Are the tapered bits only for tapered screws and the straight bits for newer straight shank woodscrews or are the tapered bits preferable for everything? When drilling the pilot holes should I drill a larger hole through the top board to pull the boards closer? If using the tapered bits how is the countersink adjust for longer or shorter screws as the hole depths are different? Should I just forget about the combination drill/countersink bits and use a separate drill and coutersink. Thanks for your advice. Bob 2) I recently started monetizing my woodworking skills as a side hustle, which has been great as it has allowed me to upgrade a lot of my tool arsenal. I just bought a Sawstop professional cabinet saw, and of course, the differences between it and a jobsite saw are night and day. I have managed to cut both of my hands on 2 separate occasions with my DeWalt table saw (without removing digits, fortunately), so if there ever was a person who needed to invest in a Sawstop, I am that man. I think my next buy will be a Festool (most likely) track saw, or perhaps a helical blade planer. Currently my bread-and-butter work tends to be sliding barn doors. I don't claim to be an extremely highly skilled woodworker who does intricate joinery at this point; I simply realized that I could capitalize on my accrued skills and make smaller-scale projects for extra "shop money".  The one tool I have not invested in yet is a Jointer. I highly desire to have one but I have been able to get by for this long without it, so I am in no particular hurry to get one. My question is this: How beneficial does having a jointer tend to be in your experience, and is it something you use all the time? Is it something you would consider a must have for any serious woodworker? I apologize for this being long-winded. Thanks in advance. Nate   Huy 1)Good Evening Gentlemen....and I use that term loosely I have been blessed to be a Dad for a little son who is now 3.5 years old.  I have had him out in the workshop trying out some of the tools....spokeshaves, hand planes, drill press, clamps and vises, and some other hand tools that I deem safe under direct supervision.  It is so much fun to see the wheels turn as he experiments with them.  I have made a decision to expose and introduce him to these experiences early on in the hope of planting the seed for curiosity and establishing a foundation of fundamental skills and understanding of how things are created.  I do worry though as he becomes comfortable with different tools, he will eventually want to try and experiment on his own.  I am always reinforcing that he is not allowed to do things without me, but at some point, I do worry that he might try and do things while I am gone.  At this time, I flip all of the breakers for the power tool circuits and I am comfortable with this solution now, however, as he gets older and might understand why I am opening and closing that grey panel, I am looking for some more control of when things run.  Are you guys aware of any solutions with new smart breakers ect that would allow more direct control over how and when circuits can have power?  I have looked online at square D's website and I am not finding a simple solution for this in terms of a retro fit solution on a standard electric panel.  It seems like a few smart breakers that are password protected would be a perfect solution.  Some of the tools have those yellow plastic inserts in the switch, but I was looking for something a little more elegant to control the power at the circuit level.  Benjamin and I often listen to the show after the lights go out for bed time, so if you can keep the jokes reasonably clean that will save me some explaining later for his mother.  Love the show and keep up the great work. Brad 2) Thanks for your podcast, I enjoy it tremendously and it is obvious that the three of you are really good friends! I recently saw a short Y.T. video from WWGOA/George Vondruska about a track saw guide rail set that can be adapted to almost any regular circular saw,  and provides accurate straight line cutting of sheet goods and dimensional lumber on a standard track rail.  (Please see the video on YT from WWGOA: "Benefits of a Track Saw | Woodworkers Guild of America ") It would appear that you can buy these track saw rails and adapter plate,  and if the instructions are followed correctly,  bolt your regular circular saw to a base that indexes on their track accurately and with repeatability for making straight cuts.  The purpose of this is to reduce the expense of buying a single purpose saw, when you already generally have one that can be used for this purpose. The adapter plate is bolted to your regular circular saw base with 4 bolts. (Which are supplied by True Trac), using a guide to index for square positioning of the saw onto the adapter plate.  The guide rail track is then trimmed perfectly using the saw, and performance at that point is identical to any other track saw. There are several video clips on YT about this track, and it's available on Amazon as well as direct from the manufacturer. It gets excellent reviews if you place any faith in them. I believe all 3 if you esteemed gentlemen already have either the Festool or Makita track saws & guide rails, so you are extremely knowledgeable and experienced with this type of device. Your thoughts,  please? Thanks again for your great service to the woodworking community. John Malcolm  

Buck hosts Open Line Black Friday. Woke craziness: Should the term "Black Friday" be changed even when reporter points out it usually just means companies moving from the red into the black as of that big shopping day? Just in time for the holiday season, a super stain of covid is discovered and stock markets react. Fauci has to explain the confusing definition of "vaccinated" yet again. Fauci tries to scare America: It's "possible" that the new dangerous variant is in the U.S. Democrats want you to ignore the record 500 murders this year in Philadelphia. Out-of-touch actor, Seth Rogen, tweets crime is just a fact of life of "living in a big city." Did you know you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner on "stolen land," according to BLM? Media tries to bury the news of Waukesha Christmas parade killer Darrell Brooks, implying it's just a "tragedy," Buck says, and not due to a man with a "motivation." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

1) This is a Big win for Sen(s). Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema - Also, the $1.75T spending bill on expanding social safety net and climate faces major hurdles *SALT CAPS pushed to help wealthy 2) Voters cared about the following issues: Economy, Education, Jobs, Inflation, the Pandemic, Labor issues and Police Security 3) Voters did not care about identity politics, Defund the police, Donald Trump and climate change - Everything Democrats stand for. Only 34% of Americans support Build Back Better and Climate provisions 4) Democrats are NOT connecting with average American voters - People do not want Build Back Better bill - Voters recognize it as a social welfare state expansion 5) High turnout did NOT hurt Republicans. Democrats are now seen as Tax and Spend Socialists with Sanders, AOC and the Squad, Biden and Pelosi as the faces of the party 6) China, India, and U.S. say NO to abandoning coal - GOOD! 7) Biden Approval at 38% a new low - Harris is worse at 28% *64% do NOT want to see Biden run again (28% of Democrats) *58% do NOT want to see Trump run again (24% of Republicans) 8) Administration warns of $4 gas prices average in America - It's already $5 in CA - Consumer confidence for next 6 months hits new low of 38% 9) Republicans lead in the Generic ballot 43.3 to 42.8 for first time since 2014 foretelling a potential bloodbath for Democrats in 2022 10) 50 shot in Chicago over the weekend - 9 killed 11) Vaccine Mandates may cause loss of 50% of border patrol agents while 200K per month try to cross - Opioid floods into U.S 12) Biden reverses course and says families separated deserve compensation

VISIT MY WEBSITE: https://www.lettiann.com/my-blogWelcome to Season 5, Episode 6 of Podcast: Real Estate U with Lettiann!In this audio Lettiann and Trish Morin mix up some Limoncello and talk about:➜ Why she got her real estate license➜ Flipping houses ➜ Leaving corporate America➜ It's great being my own bossOur guest's name is Trish Morin. Trish shares her journey to getting a realtor's license, leaving corporate America and demonstrates how to make some Limoncello.Get all the season 5 recipes!https://www.lettiann.com/season5recipes======================IF YOU THINK THIS AUDIO CAN HELP SOMEONE ELSE, PLEASE SHARE! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL.Follow and connect with us here for more cool stuff:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lettiann_realestate/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lettiannandassociates/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lettiann1LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lettiannmogentalebetts/----------------------------------------------------------------------------For any questions about Real Estate, please don't hesitate to contact me personally. Best Regards, Lettiann Southerland https://www.lettiann.com/ 913-283-7651lettiann@lettiann.com

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Richard Farrand is a senior director at Conduent, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is responsible for the APAC CX business and globally for resource planning. Richard was previously the Global COO for Bank of America IT and BPO systems and before that he was leading IT and BPO inside HSBC. In the interview we talked about how CX is transforming companies and how better design thinking can lead to great CX. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfarrand/ https://www.conduent.com/

In this video I cover “The Left and Their Hate of America”

Guest Pastor Jonathan Boegl “Seek My Face: 7 Judgments of the Lord to the Church in America”It features a prophetic "word" and "sign" that, with sincere humility, we believe speaks a vital message to the Church in America. It also...​a.) ...explains how the Lord views judgement, repentance and righteousness - typically much different than the ways we use these terms,​b.) ...gives the body insight and courage to navigate the "time of trouble" (Psalm 27:5),​c.)...is a trumpet call to prayer - a practical guide for prayer groups, small groups and churches.

Do you ever feel like your faith and values are under siege in America- It seems like, everywhere we turn, even simple rationality is being upended, as our world begins to look and sound increasingly like we've gone through the looking glass.--On this program, you will see a powerful call from Dr. Kennedy to stand against the insanity. The battle against traditional morality, gender roles, and even history really comes down to one thing- at root, it's a war on truth. Join us for this report.

On today's episode, U.S. wrestler (and Marvel superfan) Alexis Porter joins the show to discuss her illustrious wrestling career and a tough decision she's recently made regarding it. But before that, Alexis and Troy get real while talking about AP's unfortunate experiences as a Black woman in America and how they pushed her to become an activist. We also talk about Colorado and Troy nerds out over NFTs. Alexis Porter is a 24-year-old currently living in Colorado Springs, CO. Since 2008, she's dreamt about representing the U.S.A. in the Olympics. AP made her high school varsity wrestling team in 7th grade, eventually winning all sorts of honors and national recognition. She then wrestled at McKendree University in Illinois, helping create a program (as an Adidas athlete!) that is now one of the best in the country. She graduated with a degree in professional writing. After McKendree, she continued her training at the University of Wyoming, where she also attends graduate school. Right now, she lives with her boyfriend and enjoys superheroes and speaking her mind. Her younger brother, Jesse, is also very close to achieving his own Olympic dream. You can follow Alexis on Instagram @ayyylexis14. You can follow our show on Instagram and TikTok @thetroyfarkasshow. For more podcasts, blogs and videos, check out our site over on TheTroyFarkasShow.com. You can also see clips from today's show on our YouTube channel. If you enjoyed today's episode, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or on our web site. It will take 20 seconds to complete. Today's cause: Black Wrestling Association, which inspires, connects and empowers Black wrestlers and allies to grow through wrestling, representation, equality and opportunity. You can donate here as part of the show's "all-natural" initiative. Memorable quotes: "I can say, honestly, this past year has been horrible, but also illuminating in a positive way because I think finally people are starting to see the kind of injustices that Black people have been seeing for generations." - AP on racism in America "It's crazy to believe that people today in 2021 still think this way. But that just goes to show how much work there has to be done because the scars that were created 400 years ago have never healed." - AP on activism "There's a certain stigma among depression and mental health issues for athletes. Because you are the tough people. You're the ones that are supposed to get through anything. You can go get treatment for your hurt knee, but not necessarily your hurt brain. And you are seen as weak by your teammates and your coaches." - Troy on mental health issues among athletes "We all have DNA. We are all citizens of the planet Earth. Let's take care of the planet. Let's take care of each other and just love. Love solves all things. It solves all problems. I'm not better than you. You are not better than me. Let's co-exist together peacefully, happily." - Troy on treating others right

Episode 125: In this episode, Alisha is going solo and talking about the importance of breaking the pot when you’re root bound, how making a leap can be like stepping into technicolor after you’ve been living your whole life in black and white, and knowing what seeds you’re planting in your garden. Details:It’s Spring in NC: I love getting my hands in the soilI have a jade plant that is about 24 years old and it’s not doing wellMy jade plant is losing a ton of leaves. My jade plant Helen has mealybugs and is dying because she wasn’t in the right environment. If I want my Jade plant to make it then I need to break the pot she is in. I worked in corporate America for a decade and I knew then I had outgrown that pot. If I wanted to save Helen I had to break the pot. When in corporate America It was like I was in black and white, and when I left my life turned into technicolor. This weekend my boyfriend and I broke the pot the jade plant is in. Then we pulled the pieces of the pot away. The Jade plant is totally root boundWe removed as much of the old soil as we could and put as much new soil in as I can. The new soil, the new pot is fresh soil a new homeI received a call from a former manager and he asked me if I would ever consider working on his desk again. Once you break the pot you can’t go back When I work with clients one on one and in a group capacity, for the clients that do the work, they are stepping into technicolor. They are breaking the pot and there’s no going back. If you stay in the pot there’s no chance that you’ll surviveWhat pot are you in right now that’s too small?What change could you make that would make it like stepping from black and white into technicolor. I thought really hard about what it is that I’m doing here at Yoke and Abundance. I won’t feel complete in this work here at Yoke and Abundance until I know that all of the women I work with at Yoke and Abundance are wise. Until everyone believes that their divine feminine qualities matter and make for good leadershipI won’t be done with this work until women believe that it’s safe to extend your hand to another woman and believe like Robert Ingersoll says “We rise by lifting others”I won’t be done until you believe that your dreams are worth going after unapologetically. Playing small doesn’t serve you and it doesn’t serve anyone else eitherThose are the seeds that I’m planting in my garden here at Yoke and AbundanceMy Garden is full of dreams and the divine feminine. We are gonna need a bigger pot. It is so scary to break that damn pot. What seeds are you planting, what’s important to you?What seeds do youYou need to be planting? What pot do you need to break to get after it?You can join RAW, The Gathering, You can do one-on-one coaching or group coaching. Think about how beautiful your life can be if you break the pot and go get after it. Do you have questions you want me to answer on the show? Email me at awielfaert@yokeandabundance.comPlease Support Our Sponsor: Fike + Co.Join us in our Yoke and Abundance Facebook Group -> If you love the Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Podcast Consider Supporting us through Patreon.

America: It feels like your weird drunk uncle finally left the family bbq and now we can exhale. But there’s still work

This special re-broadcast of a Season 4 episode is in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. A look at the right-wing counterrevolution in the face of expanding democracy in America: It started long before Donald Trump. By host and producer John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Nancy MacLean, Wendy Brown, and Rhon Manigault-Bryant.   The series editor is Loretta Williams. Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. 

What is happening to the soul of America? It’s a question the whole world is asking as Americans start voting in the most bizarre general election in their history. Yet regardless of who wins the 2020 Presidential race, it’s clear that something is going horribly wrong in the world’s oldest democracy. Tempting as it may be to blame America’s malaise exclusively on Donald Trump, to do so would be naive. Trumpism is a symptom of a disease that’s ravaged America’s body politic for generations. In this episode we meet the American author and political commentator, Jared Yates Sexton to discuss his new book "American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People". We explore the myth of American exceptionalism, and how white identity, evangelical Christianity, and conspiracy theories like QAnon are weaponised in American politics. SHOW NOTES If you’d like to do some further exploring of the themes that we cover in this episode, below are some links you may find helpful. The two books by Jared Yates Sexton that are mentioned in this episode are “The People Are Going To Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage”, which chronicles Jared’s experience of covering Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in 2016. His most recent book, “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed It’s People” explores the myth of American exceptionalism, white identity, and evangelical Christianity as a powerful political tool. Reply All is a podcast about the internet, but in many ways it’s a show about making sense of modern life, and how to survive it! They’ve recently done two episodes dedicated to Q Anon: episode #165 (The Mold and the Beautiful) and episode #166 (Country of Liars) which explores who’s behind QAnon. Rabbit Hole is an 8-part podcast series produced by the NYT tech columnist, Kevin Roose. The show explores how the internet is affecting us and what can happen when we move our lives online. It doesn’t look exclusively at Q Anon per se but the wider digital environment, and how You Tube in particular has been directing people to extremist content for years. If you’d like to understand more about the Satanic panic of the 1980s, Gimlet Media has produced a brilliant podcast series called Conviction: American Panic. Conviction tells the story John Quinney who grew up in the 1980s and at the age of 10 falsely accused his own father of being the leader of an underground satanic cult that was sacrificing babies and sexually abusing children. What John’s family didn’t realise at the time was that right across America there were hundreds of families being swept up in this religious panic, and by the time it subsided scores of people were in jail on little to no evidence. It’s one of the most bizarre chapters in American judicial history, but it’s also very relevant to today’s satanic hysteria and the cult of QAnon. NPR’s regular podcast ‘Throughline’ explores stories from history that have a modern day resonance, and two recent episodes are particularly relevant to this episode; Conspiracy, which delves into how and why conspiracy theories are fundamental to American life, and how they’re so easily manipulated by political opportunists; and The Evangelical Vote which looks at what it means to be an evangelical Christian in America today and how evangelicals have become a powerful electoral bloc in US politics. Throughline has also just started a new series called “(mis)Representative Democracy” which unpacks some of the myths and popular assumptions about American democracy. The first episode tells the not-so-democratic history of how and why America’s Electoral College was created - the body that elects the President of the USA and which you’re likely to hear a lot more about over the coming weeks and months. The long history of white supremacism and systemic racism in American comes up several times in this episode, although we didn’t have time to explore it in depth. Scene On Radio, produced by the Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is a Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by veteran broadcaster John Biewen. He recently produced and co-presented a 14-part series called ‘Seeing White’ which explores what’s happening in mainstream white identity in America (not the KKK and neo-Nazis) and how the idea of whiteness has evolved over the centuries. The series also has a study guide and fully referenced bibliography for further reading and listening. More recently, Scene On Radio produced a 12-part series earlier this year called “The Land That Never Has Been Yet”. It tells the less well known story of democracy in America going right back to the beginning of the republic. It looks at authoritarianism, voter suppression, gerrymandering, foreign intervention and the role of money in America’s elections. ***FOLLOW THE SHOW***  You can subscribe to Standing Places on iTunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify and please rate, review and share the show so that more people can hear about it. You can also like and follow the Facebook page.

Inside Edition reports…You’ve heard the warnings…avoid possible super spreader events this Labor Day weekend. Health officials worry that if guidelines are ignored, we could see a spike in two weeks. Has the Commander in Chief disrespected those who died in service to America? It was a long voyage home for a dachshund named Pipsqueak. And next week, Tyra Banks will begin her gig as the new host of Dancing with the Stars and she spoke with Jim Moret about how things will be different in the ballroom.

During their high school years, Rod Haydel and his brother joined their father, the iconic Eli Haydel, in the garage where they mixed sometimes imperfect compound resins to cast clear polymer duck calls that were marketed as "Blows When Wet." At the time, when only about 20 duck calls were being plied in hunting catalogs, it seemed like a great way for the boys to offset their upcoming college expenses. Looking back decades later, it transformed the duck call manufacturing industry, becoming a hugely successful family-owned business. It also became the late Eli Haydel's - and the Haydel family's - endearing legacy.  But how'd Eli Haydel get the idea for producing these calls and what'd his mother think when he quit a steady job to pursue the dream? What are some of Rod's fondest memories growing up duck hunting among family? When did he realize that his father was different, maybe more famous in the duck hunting world, than other dads? How has Haydel's Game Calls grown since the earlier days, what new product got Ramsey fired up, and why do they remain Made in America? It's another great Duck Season Somewhere episode from deep in Louisiana.     Related Links: Haydels.com   Episode Sponsors: BOSS Shotshells Benelli USA GetDucks USHuntList   Connect with Ramsey Russell as he chases ducks worldwide, year-round Instagram @ramseyrussellgetducks YouTube @GetDucks Facebook @GetDucks

- DeTrumpification  - Get on my grass - Based curry man - Lover boy Toddles To support the show, please subscribe on Podbean, iTunes or Patreon Join the live audience on D-Live Follow on Twitter @BoogieBumper Join the Discord Grab Daily Boogie Merch Show links;  On the de-Trumpification of America: It definitely won't be easy, but it must be done Victoria records 439 new COVID-19 cases, 11 more deaths overnight Jim's Mowing boss shut down by Victorian premier over Stage 4 COVID rules So that settles that, I guess. Jim's Mowing founder vows to defy Vic govt lockdowns Late night curry craving ends in whopping lockdown fine my next attempt to be POTUS 2020! i took a girl out. 2day. cool!

What does it take to begin the healing process between whites and blacks in America? It starts with talking about slavery and acknowledging the truth of slavery. Yes, it's hard to talk about and it would've been hard to live it. Whites can begin by speaking that truth and much more as we continue our talk about #BLM.

Ryan Fitzpatrick and Stevie Johnson going at Darrelle Revis all afternoon. What more could you want America? It’s November 2011, Bills-Jets. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events submerged in history that reveal inflection points relevant to today. I’m your host Thomas Emerick, and my guest is host of the PFF Fantasy Podcast and author of so many great reads over at Pro Football Focus this offseason, Ian Hartitz. Also check out:This Stevie Johnson vs. Darrelle Revis supercut A play that exemplifies Hartitz's Keenan Allen compStats from the game on Pro Football ReferenceGame highlights (YouTube)

Today, we're taking a short break from all things knitting and sharing some of the OTHER crafts we've been experimenting with lately. At Knit Picks, we are knitters too and we also do other things. First up, Hillary and Hannah talk about what it's like to learn a new craft from scratch. Hillary has been exploring the wide world of ceramics at home and Hannah has been dipping a tentative toe into punch needle! Everyone's process of learning something new is different. They give some examples of things that have been helpful in their new craft explorations.  Next, Stacey and Lee describe their recent forays into sewing. Both of them have been sewing for years but recently it's grown into a full time interest. The common theme for both Stacey and Lee was discovering the perfect, challenging project that meant they reached a new experience level. These themes and milestones apply to knitting and many crafts. Also, stay tuned for some great audiobook and podcast recommendations to keep you entertained while you craft!  As always... happy crafting! Mentioned in this Episode: Lisa Congdon Instagram Stone and Wave Pottery Ceramics Monthly Ball Winder Swift Arounna Instagram Double M Pottery Instagram Modern Punch Needle Punched: Techniques and Projects for Modern Punch Needle Art Lee's sewing pinterest boards Love to Sew podcast LB Pullover pattern Fen Dress pattern Yanta Overalls pattern Lee's portfolio top Lee's Yanta Overalls Lee's first (of many) LB Pullover In the Folds Sew House Seven Helen's Closet Cashmerette Eloquent Rage Lies My Teacher Told Me Something That May Shock and Discredit You How to be an Antiracist Such a Fun Age His Dark Materials series Six of Crows Duology I'm Judging You The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell OverDrive and Libby (both free with library card) Scribd audible Rabbit Hole Dolly Parton's America It's Been a Minute Code Switch Pop Culture Happy Hour Who Shot Ya? Stop Podcasting Yourself Consider ThisThe Daily The Benjamin Dixon Show On the Media Throwing Shade Reply All 1619 This Had Oscar Buzz NPR podcasts Maximum Fun network podcasts Extra Hot Great The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Keep It (and Crooked Media) BingeMode (and Ringer network) It's The Pictures That Got Small You Must Remember This The Storm I Don't Even Own A Television Casefile Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction with Hannah 1:03 Hannah and Hillary talk about learning new crafts 21:13 Lee and Stacy talk about their love of sewing 49:55 Credits

Layne Gneiting has cycled 38 countries, led bicycle treks through 18 countries, dream-managed for a multi-million dollar company, and taught (and currently teaches) Leadership and Integrative Thinking at Arizona State University. 11 years ago, Layne did a coast-to-coast bicycle trip with his family and opened up horizons for himself. Today he merges principles of leadership with cycling in various places throughout the world, packing life experiences into 11 days to create the conditions of change. David Fielding is a stake president in Indiana. His brother encouraged him to join one of Layne's cycling trips and he finally agreed and arranged to go with the group to Spain. What he learned in his preparation and adventure there transformed him and his approach to leadership. Highlights 5:35 What Layne’s cycling trips do for leaders 8:30 How David got involved in this trip to Spain 12:20 Learning happens in action, in the body Seven Principles 15:15 Principle 1: Vision How vision was part of Layne’s experience biking across America It begins with determining what you truly desire 20:30 David’s experiences training for the trip and how it created his vision 29:20 The difference between vision and goals 30:50 People can’t walk in a straight line without vision 33:25 Principle 2: Risk Rest/play and the essence of creation: lessons learned off the planned path 39:20 David’s elders quorum experience following Hurricane Katrina 42:00 Rejection therapy 45:20 Principle 3: Simplification leading to flow Getting ego, plans, and control out of the way 48:20 David’s trek experience with pondering and journaling alone 53:20 Principle 4: Flow Creating flow through journaling; writing by the Spirit 56:20 Principle 5: Endurance Partnering with the mountain and harmonizing instead of slogging it out to the end 1:00:40 David’s trek experience with resistance and choosing the hills 1:05:20 Principle 6: Fusion “Every horizon bears a thread of gold”: all perspectives have value and inform ours; being willing to not be quiet 1:08:20 President Eyring’s observations about how the apostles counsel and debate in meetings 1:12:45 “If we are united, we all things can do” 1:14:40 Principle 7: Compassion Compassion is inclusion: reach out and include people in genuine, validating ways 1:16:55 David’s experience learning compassion and openness from a family who took them in 1:22:30 Changes in David’s leadership after his experience on the trek through Spain “We are only going to pass this way once” 1:26:20 Creating your own experience: GUIDE (Generative - Unpredictable - Immersive - Daring - Enticing) 1:28:00 How these experiences have made both Layne and David better disciples of Jesus Christ Links wayofthehero.com Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel Pres Eyring's observations about meetings: News Conference | Summary Article

This episode explores the Globalist/Marxist connection and funding behind Black Lives Matter as well as the stories behind SDNY Federal Attorney Geoffrey Berman, General Michael Flynn, and the handwritten notes of Peter Strzok. Host: Todd Workman Guest: Bill Luznicky This is a weekly update for the grassroots Primary the Ruling Class movement (PRC PAC). PRC PAC is dedicated to a […] The post #96 – America – It’s Time to Stand Up! appeared first on Primary the Ruling Class.

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Racial tensions and police brutality in America have caused protests, riots, and citizens becoming the victims of war crimes committed by our military-police force. How did we get here? Where do we go? How can we effectively reform policing in America? It’s a complicated issue and a couple of white guys are going to do their best to introduce you to the topic and form a basic foundation on which to build a base of knowledge about these subjects. We also take a look at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints angle of race, as this is a Mormon-centric podcast. We encourage you to use the resources and further reading below. We wrap the episode with the final installment of Case for the Book of Mormon, a tool of genocide and racial supremacy which shaped American history. Links: First Presidency statement https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/president-nelson-shares-social-post-encouraging-understanding-and-civility Church’s social media post: https://twitter.com/Ch_JesusChrist/status/1268233951719510016 The Negro: A Proclamation to the World https://www.missedinsunday.com/memes/race/proclamation-1949/ Resources: SISTAS in ZION Twitter Blacks and the Priesthood by 3 Mormons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN5Gp07zaZE Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams https://www.akpress.org/our-enemies-in-blue.html Read the Stanford Prison Study https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html @Mica_McGriggs presentation June 15, 2020 “Racial Equity & Social Impact” weekly classes https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-equity-social-impact-tickets-104768040028 Mormon Stories #630 Black Lives Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgViT0zuSrk Black and Mormon by Darron Smith https://books.google.com/books/about/Black_and_Mormon.html?id=lSvRnQgJAx8C https://8cantwait.org/ for police reform The Dollop - Furgeson Episode 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1uF67UeyY Ibram X. Kendi How to be an Antiracist https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1 Donate: https://www.joincampaignzero.org Joanna Brooks Mormonism and White Supremacy https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mormonism-and-white-supremacy-9780190081768?cc=us&lang=en& Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson https://www.oupress.com/books/14220363/moroni-and-the-swastika Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoMn1DeUek Watch: Just Mercy, released free on all platforms by Universal Killer Mike speech about George Floyd and protests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSWasOhArfM Stand By Me by Liesa (Lisa) Rodger https://www.thebeehive.com/stand-by-me/ Check your blindspot BYU diversity project https://www.checkyourblindspot.org/ Historian’s take on police brutality against Black people https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gvu38i/george_floyd_was_murdered_by_america_a_historians/ Talking to kids about this: https://www.amazon.com/Belle-Last-Mule-Gees-Bend/dp/0763687693/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28 https://www.amazon.com/Juneteenth-Mazie-Fiction-Picture-Books/dp/1479558206/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591332700&sr=1-1 Donate to groups working or advocating for racial justice and end of racism https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fre... https://justiceforbreonna.org https://www.joincampaignzero.org https://www.naacp.org/ https://www.aclu.org/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/ Show Links:Website http://www.glassboxpodcast.com/index.html Find us on Facebook and Twitter @Glass Box Podcast

This week, Gutta B Mee talks about all the important things going on in our country. He will help you understand what’s really happening.Qwake Up America is a hosted by Gutta B Mee. This show pulls back the curtain to reveal what’s really going on in America.He covers topics that are important to America:It’s Gutta Be Mee’s birthdayGutta Be Mee gets stopped by the police for not wearing a maskDo masks make you sicker?Monday May 4th rally with Jeff KuhnerWhat did President Trump mean by injecting disinfectant?Qwake Up America is a proud member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at the Studio 21 Podcast Café located high atop Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, NH.

The conservative, neoliberal counterrevolution in the face of expanding democracy in America: It started long before Donald Trump. Even before Ronald Reagan and his like-minded counterpart across the Atlantic, Margaret Thatcher.   By host and producer John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Nancy MacLean, Wendy Brown, and Rhon Manigault-Bryant.   The series editor is Loretta Williams. Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.   

To those that think it’s impossible to ramp up the intensity without ever lifting a weight or turning on the elliptical machine, think again. Joe and Brian meet up with Land Tawney at quite a telling location to discuss the sweat equity they put into their passions. It’s time to turn up the heat!Topics discussed:- The most visited and successful wilderness in America- It’s our job to use our voice- The “Oh my god!” moment- Losing a father at a young age- The Land Legacy Effect: Teller Wildlife Refuge- Raiding Retirement Homes- A quick way to raise $60k and lose 20lbs- Hiking in moon boots and platform shoes- Hunting benefits and drawbacks after a scorched earth- The ridiculousness of coming home to mow the lawn- Solace of the wild- When to embrace the grit and when to throw in the towel - Long distance equestrian riders- Sometimes it’s learning the story of being a Public Land Owner- Democracy is driven by those that show up - 5 ways to turn up the heat as a Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) memberJoin BHA: https://www.backcountryhunters.org/joinFollow BHA: @backcountryhunters Follow Land Tawney: @landtawney

Money is the #1 cause of stress in America? It causes anxiety, PTSD, suicide, and divorce. Let's get our financial affairs in order.

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE. Eve Picker: [00:00:03] Hi there! Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Janine Firpo. Janine is a writer, values-aligned investor and entrepreneur. Janine's background is fascinating. She left a career in the tech world many years ago to pursue a more meaningful work experience. This led her into the world of microfinance and philanthropy. She has consulted and lived all over the world. And now for almost 10 years, she has been on a personal mission to invest all of her assets so they create a positive impact. It's a bold move and she is all in. Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Janine on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve: [00:01:21] Hello Janine, thanks so much for joining me today.   Janine Firpo: [00:01:24] It's my pleasure, Eve. Thank you so much for asking me and for being interested in what I'm doing.   Eve: [00:01:30] Yeah, well, you've had a really fascinating career, starting with technology companies when they were startups, and are household names now. And you left that path to follow a very different one. But I wanted to ask you how you started your career?   Janine: [00:01:45] I'd be happy to tell you. So, I actually started my career very early in 1981. It's a long time ago for many people. And I sort of fell into the computer industry, first in Louisiana, and then when I really got into it, I moved back to the Silicon Valley where I was originally from and I'm still here. And I worked in high tech for about 15 years, worked at Apple Computer in the 80s, and then also did some startup work. And then in 1995 I left a job and I did a solo backpacking trip through sub-Saharan Africa. And what was really interesting about that is when I left on my trip, I was in something called the CD-ROM and multimedia industry. And when I came back, everyone I knew was in the Internet industry. So the internet literally turned on in the four months that I was away.   Eve: [00:02:37] Wow.   Janine: [00:02:38] And I was perfectly positioned to get on that ride, that dot com ride. But when I was in Africa, I saw poverty like I had never seen it before. And I decided that I wanted to use my life in a way that had meaning. And so I set out on a track to figure out how could I use the skills I had, technology and business knowledge, to bring change to the levels of poverty that I was seeing in Africa. And so that launched me on then what became a twenty-year career in international development and bringing technology into Africa, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. And while I was on that trajectory, I got involved in something called microfinance, which is making loans to poor women, primarily in developing countries around the world. And in looking at what is the role that tech could play in really scaling microfinance, it was reaching 100 million people in the world when I started, and the need was to reach two and a half billion people. That inquiry, other people were involved in it as well, led to something called 'mobile money,' which is using the cell phone as a bank for the poor.   Eve: [00:03:50] I was at the Bellagio Foundation in Italy, a few years back, with someone who was writing a book about the M-Pesa.   Janine: [00:03:58] Exactly! M-Pesa, which was one of the first incidences of this, it actually started in the Philippines, but M-Pesa was the example that just shot off the charts within the first year. It came out in 2007, and within its first year it had a million people using the service. And in the second year it was many more millions. And it's now serving, over 85 percent of the population of Kenya uses M-Pesa now, and it has become a de facto way to move money. And now people are getting loans over it. It's being used as a financial mechanism for all sorts of things. So, it became an amazing industry. There are now over 250 incidences in more than 90 countries around the world.   Eve: [00:04:44] But it really started because people had cell phones. Right? And they needed to move money.   Janine: [00:04:51] They had cell phones, well, actually the way it really started was  the people behind M-Pesa was Vodacom, and they were trying to apply the cell phone technology to microfinance. And they started in 2004 with a microfinance institution in Kenya. And it just didn't work for a lot of reasons that I won't go into. But what they found that was really interesting when they were trying to help this microfinance industry scale its business was that people were using the phone just to move money back and forth. And they saw a real opportunity. So, they retrenched. They rethought everything. They set up all the infrastructure that they needed. And then in ... February of 2007, they launched M-Pesa as we know it today, which was a money transfer service. Now, super-fascinating the way it all unfolded.   Eve: [00:05:40] Yeah.   Janine: [00:05:41] Yeah. And then so I had this great career for 20 years. I traveled all over the world. I've been to more than 80 countries. I worked all over the world. It was amazing. I loved it, but I was also traveling 50 to 70 percent of the time for 20 years. And the industry became huge. And I was always more interested in startups and new things. And so it just became time, a couple years ago, for me to leave that. And so I retired from that career. And along with being involved in all of that, so, I was sort of a social entrepreneur before that kind of word became a thing. And because I was in the Bay Area I was involved in all of these conversations around what has ultimately become known as impact investing. I was working at Hewlett Packard in the corporate social responsibility world. So, part of just that entire conversation about the new philanthropy and different ways of using our money. And about 10 years ago, even though I am not a high net wealth individual myself, I realized I'd made the choices in my life to live and lead from a life of value, and something where I was making a difference in the world, and I realized my money was working against me. And so I decided I was going to figure out how to invest all of my own money, from my cash to my public stocks to private stuff. If I could do that to real estate, all of it, how do I invest all of that in a way that lines with my values and is supporting the world I want to see.   Eve: [00:07:18] That's a pretty powerful step to take, Janine.   Janine: [00:07:19] Well, it just was really in alignment with who I was. And it was because I was watching, I was going to these conferences and I was seeing these ultra-rich people and financial, you know, foundations and institutional investors doing this. And I thought, well, why can't, why can't the rest of us do this? Why is this yet another thing that's just being left to the very rich? And so I decided to try on my own. And in the 10 years I was working super hard, so I had financial advisors. They didn't get me where I wanted to go. And so when I retired a couple of years ago, I took a lot of my assets back. And I've been working on this myself.   Eve: [00:08:01] Wow.   Janine: [00:08:03] And I have realized that in the 20 years that I was, have been sort of watching this space, it's really evolved. And I now think we've gotten to a point where the goal of investing your money in alignment with your values is becoming mainstream. At this point, one of four dollars that are invested by institutional investors are invested in socially responsible ways. It just hasn't trickled down enough to those of us who aren't wealthy. And it shouldn't be that way, because there are now products across virtually all asset classes that you can invest in a values-aligned way, even if you're a non-accredited investor, which means even if you don't have a million dollars in net worth, you can invest this way. And so I have corralled a bunch of the brilliant women I know who are now helping me develop a book, helping people, primarily women, because we have been really left out of the financial services conversation in a lot of ways, to help them think about how to be smarter about their investing overall and how to do this in a way that aligns with their values, too.   Eve: [00:09:12] That's pretty fabulous. So, just shifting gears a bit, when we talked awhile back, you mentioned that you were interested in investing in impactful real estate, the next step in this process for you. And ...   Janine: [00:09:25] Yes.   Eve: [00:09:25] First of all, I'm wondering why that's an interest now?   Janine: [00:09:28] Because, well, I currently own real estate. So, when I was a kid, I actually learned a lot about money from my mom, and my mom when I was a really young kid, we didn't have very much money. In fact, we were kind of poor. We didn't always know where we were going to get food. We were wearing secondhand clothes. My mom was a coupon shopper. And at some point along the way, she decided that she needed to find a way to make more money. And so she got herself into real estate. She became a real estate professional. And she started learning about buying property, buying and selling property. And so she, we're talking like back in the 60s, I think, she started going to the courthouse steps and buying foreclosed property and sometimes sight unseen. She would buy them and then she would turn my sisters and I into her crew and we would go ... we were, like, this is how I spent my summers, my teen years. Ripping up carpets, refinishing carpets, painting interiors, painting exteriors, cleaning, you know, all of that. We were her crew. And then she would rent these properties out. Sometimes she'd sell them. So, I learned about real estate and I'm in the Bay Area. This is a really hot real estate market. And so I've, you know, I've learned something along the way. And ... I bought my first house when I was 30, and have purchased real estate. So, I have those assets. Now, if I am truly aligning all of my money with my values, then that has to include my real estate. And so I've gotten to the point where I've pretty much figured out a strategy for all of my other asset classes. My cash has all been moved in alignment with my values. I'm working on doing that with my public equity stuff. My fixed income is moving that way. I'm an angel investor. I only invest in socially responsible businesses and I primarily am investing in companies that are started by female CEOs, because women get less than two percent of the private equity capital in this country. So, we need to support more women founders. So, I'm doing that with a lot of my money already. It's time for me now to start shifting my focus to the real estate. So how do I get out of, so I'm starting to think about, how do I get out of single family residences, and what might have more values aligned real estate set of opportunities look like.   Eve: [00:12:02] That's really interesting. I have the reverse problem, so I'm going to probably ask for your help in dealing with my other assets.   Janine: [00:12:11] Happy to do that.   Eve: [00:12:12] So, you've been looking. And what does real estate impact investing look like to you? What does that mean?   Janine: [00:12:19] Well, that's a really good question. And I have to be honest that I'm in the early days of this journey. And so I'm just starting to learn and that's how I found you. Actually, I was out on the Web and I was kind of searching around and thinking, well, who's doing anything out there in real estate? And that's how I found you. So, I know a little bit. So, and I've invested in a little bit. So, my last job was up in Seattle working through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And when I was up there, I heard about a company, that basically what they were doing was they were buying distressed property in Seattle, and they were single family, and they were gutting a lot of these places and then rebuilding them green. And could actually tell the buyer this is what you're energy saving is as the result of buying this house. So, green is one way of thinking about this. I'm also somewhat familiar with affordable housing. And my current financial advisor actually has me in an affordable housing fund. I forget the name right now. I apologize for that. But they had me in that kind of fund. I've been aware of the whole opportunity zone set of things that are cropping up around the country. Although I've heard varied things about those opportunities. And, you know, those are basically things that I know. I also am invested, a very small amount of money, this particular deal could only take a thousand dollars from each investor. But it's a woman here in Oakland, the city that I live in, who is basically raising down payments through gathering money from many, many investors. And then she's getting loans and she's buying multi-unit properties that already have tenants, low-income tenants, and what she's doing is, she's setting up structures where these tenants, as they're paying rent, are actually in basically a buy-to-own situation. And she's turning these buildings into cooperatives that are owned by the people that live in them. So, I think there's some interesting models out there. I just don't, I only have seen a smattering of them so far.   Eve: [00:14:40] Yeah, actually, I think, I just interviewed Rebecca Foster, who is also in the Bay Area on the Housing Accelerator Fund, which is a different model, they are working on raising money to preserve existing affordable housing in San Francisco. Yeah, I think there's lots of ways to make impact and you're just really scratching the surface. Right?   Janine: [00:14:59] Exactly. And there's a, yeah, there's a man that I met recently through something I'm involved in who's in the real estate business out here. And he's starting to think about building his career around socially responsible real estate. So, he and I have had a couple of conversations. And one of the things that he sort of suggested to me, although I don't know that I have enough assets to do this, but he talked about wouldn't it be cool to like have a building where you could have businesses in it and and tenants in it, residential and office space combined. But really determine that you want a certain kind of business. Like create a space where these are all businesses that are run by women, or these are, you know, so ... or these are all businesses that are in this kind of vertical and they're helping each other and that particular vertical is good for the world. That was kind of an interesting thought.   Eve: [00:16:02] I think a lot of people are thinking about this in many very different ways. Like, I built a portfolio of what I believe are socially responsible projects, but really starting before green was the theme. And I focused on underserved neighborhoods and blighted architecture ...   Janine: [00:16:26] Right.   Eve: [00:16:27] And so what I think is interesting about the real estate impact investing world is there's really 1001 ways to make an impact. You just really need to figure out what matters the most for you.   Janine: [00:16:41] I totally agree. In fact, that's one of the things that I'm talking about in this book I mentioned is I am moving away from the words impact investing and socially responsible investing and all of that, because I think so many people use those words and they mean different things by them. And what I and it's, so it's hard to get a clear definition on it. And what I've found is when push comes to shove and you talk to people who are thinking about impact investing, they're usually talking about private deal flow, private debt and private equity. And I'm really interested in looking across all of your assets. So, what I've come to realize is even though I believe that if enough of us move our money this way, we can change the economy. At the end of the day this is really about our individual choices and who we think we are as people and how we want our money to reflect who we are in the world.   Eve: [00:17:35] Yes.   Janine: [00:17:36] Right?   Eve: [00:17:37] When you take money, you use it, you spend time on it as well. So, for me, it's even more than money. It's how I spend the time around it.   Janine: [00:17:47] Exactly. In fact, I realized the other day, it's, for me ... so much of this conversation about values align or impact investing, it's always the extra thing that people have to talk about. It's, like, here's your financial issues and how you invest in all of that. Oh, and then there's this impact investing thing. And I realized, particularly for women and millennials, who the vast majority of us want to invest our money this way, it's not the extra thing. It's sort of like the icing on the cake. Yeah, you can go out and you can invest your money to maximize return or whatever. But it's really kind of boring, in a way, to do, at least to me, it's like, yeh, so my money is out there and it's doing whatever and I don't even know what it's doing, and all I really care about is the return? No, I want more from my money than that. I've worked hard to get it. I care about everything I do in my life. Why wouldn't I care about what my money is doing? And when I get feedback from the people that I invest in about how my money is being used and what it's doing in the world, that makes me so insanely happy. And it's really fun to be able to talk to people about the cool stuff that my money is doing. I love it. It changes the game.   Eve: [00:19:08] Are you still getting your return?   Janine: [00:19:10] Oh, my God, yes! This is not about giving up return. This has never been about giving up returns. I can meet or beat the return that you that any other investment is giving. So, for example, if you look at public equities markets, so, one of the things that I'm invested in is the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. This is like one of the things that people talk about all the time. Go into an index fund, Vanguard is really cheap, blah, blah, blah. Right? Great thing to be invested in.   Eve: [00:19:41] Right.   Janine: [00:19:41] But if you actually look at that from the perspective of environmental sustainability, there is a website out there called As You Sow that ranks, if you look up As You Sow 'Invest Your Values,' you will go to a page that you can say, "I care about fossil free stuff" or "I care about gender diversity" or whatever. And you can put your stock tickers into this tool and it will tell you, it'll show you a grade that that particular holding gets across all of these different variables. And it will show you how much of that fund is invested in the things you don't want it to be in it. What are those holdings? And so that stock gets a D on As You Sow. Now, I did some homework on As You Sow and I actually found another Vanguard Fund, an FTSE Social Index Fund, and other funds that not only are getting a better grade like A's and B's, but they also get better returns over a 10 to 15 year time horizon than what I'm in, that's getting a D.   Eve: [00:20:54] Wow.   Janine: [00:20:55] So why am I in that?   Eve: [00:20:57] Yes.   Janine: [00:20:57] I'm going to get out.   Eve: [00:20:59] Well, I have to ask, you spent a lot of time on this, right?   Janine: [00:21:02] Yes.   Eve: [00:21:03] What about those who are just trying to find time in between the cracks to figure out where to put our money?   Janine: [00:21:12] Right. Well, that's why I'm writing a book, because I realized that this shouldn't be this hard, and people shouldn't have to do the level of work that I've had to do to figure this out. So, the book is going to tell you how to do it. It's going to basically, what it's going to do, it's going to have three different sections, and the mid-section goes asset class by asset class and tells you this is what this asset class is, here's how it works, here's how it's generally thought about, and here's all the ways you can invest in this asset class in a values aligned way.   Eve: [00:21:42] Wow. Let's go back to real estate. So, on your journey to find impact impactful real estate ... Now I'm feeling very self-conscious about the word ... What information haven't you been able to find? What's missing out there for someone who wants to figure this out?   Janine: [00:22:00] There is no place that really says these, this is what this space looks like, and here's all the different kinds of deals that are available. And, you know, this is what's going on, these are the cool things that people are doing. I mean, I think that you're trying to do that through your podcast, and I applaud you. And that's it. I mean, I realize in order to figure this out, I'm going to have to go do serious homework and talk to a lot of people and see what other people are doing and then start to piece together what feels like an interesting way for me to move forward. Finding the information is super, super hard.   Eve: [00:22:46] Yup, it's very hard. There's a lot of high level information that I'm aware of that I, that is really for sophisticated investors. I find it difficult to follow myself and, there is sort of an ... exclusiveness around it ... investing that I agree with use a little bit disappointing.   Janine: [00:23:10] So, there are financial advisers out there who are socially focused, but they don't share information about the things that they invest their clients in.   Eve: [00:23:21] Oh.   Janine: [00:23:21] Because that knowledge is sort of their intellectual property. Right? So, there has been an opaqueness around this for a long time. And I feel like it's time to blow that up, too, and just make this stuff completely transparent. There's no reason why this information shouldn't be easily available and easily accessible.   Eve: [00:23:43] Well that's very exciting. So, have you found anything you want to invest in real estate?   Janine: [00:23:48] Not yet, because I haven't gone far enough down the path. But I will say the other thing that has intrigued me is the idea of co-living or shared housing kinds of situations. I've been intrigued by some of the things that you've had on your show and, you know, have added them to my list of possibilities. But I've been so focused on the other asset classes and just trying to get this book, bringing this book to life, that I haven't had the time to do the real homework on real estate.   Eve: [00:24:24] I mean, I think if I was starting out now, I'd be making a list for myself and not expecting to check every box, you know? Certainly if I think about moving other assets, top of my list would be women-owned businesses. You know, it's just things that you, that I care about, that really matter to me that the next person, you're about something else more.   Janine: [00:24:48] That's exactly right. And there is there will be a chapter on this book, in this book about private debt and revenue-based financing and private equity and how women can get involved in that. Angel groups that are women-based angel groups, and some new innovative models that are coming out to bring women in, even at relatively small value points, and online platforms that are available now if you're not accredited investors. So, there's actually tons of ways to start investing in women, in businesses and things like that for anyone.   Eve: [00:25:24] So, I'm in the early, right at the beginning stage of talking to a group about a women's development fund, a fund, not a huge one, a small one that would invest in women-led real estate projects.   Janine: [00:25:36] Oh, interesting.   Eve: [00:25:38] It's going to take a little while to develop, but I'm very excited about that. I think it's a, you know, a very strong purpose, right?   Janine: [00:25:47] Yeah, no, it's great. So, I actually have a question for you. Because I seem to remember and I may have gotten this wrong, but I seem to remember in listening to one of your podcasts at one point that you talked about the fact that people who do impact real estate investing aren't necessarily going to see the same kind of returns as people would in regular real estate deals. So, first of all, did I hear that right? And if I did, could you say more about that and why that's the case? And also, what do you think is a good return?   Eve: [00:26:21] I think that's not necessarily true across all types of real estate; affordable housing is the most difficult.   Janine: [00:26:30] Ah.   Eve: [00:26:30] And that's because the more you return to an investor or a bank, the higher rents are going to be for the tenants.   Janine: [00:26:38] Right. I get it.   Eve: [00:26:39] So, if subsidy goes away as it has been, and we get a bigger and bigger and bigger need for affordable housing, which we have, this gap, ok? And if investors continue to want to be, quite frankly, a little bit greedy and expect 20 percent internal rate of return, I don't know how you build those projects and keep housing affordable if that continues. So ...   Janine: [00:27:09] Yeah.   Eve: [00:27:09] There are many examples of affordable housing projects we've done on Small Change that are offering quite generous returns. But they can do that because they have, they are a mixed-use project, they have new market tax credits, they have a grant from the city, they have, you know, historic tax, they do public-private financing, maxxed to be able to squeeze out the best return they can for investors. Very difficult. And so I think that's not true for all real estate, but definitely for that class of real estate. I think a lot has to happen for it to be kind of a normal market driven ...   Janine: [00:27:55] That actually makes a ton of sense. I totally hear what you're saying. And I think those kinds of things in real estate and other verticals like health and education, perhaps. That not everything is going to deliver market rate returns. I mean, I think one of the fallacies and the problems that have come out of the impact investing movement, if you want to call it that, is the belief, or that's come out of our very, the way we think about capitalism, is that everything has a market ... everything can be done through the market. And that's just totally not true. There's a, there are brilliant things that can happen, like what you're talking about with affordable housing that can deliver a good return to an investor. If there is a subsidy brought in, or if there is a recognition that, you know, this business model is not going to completely wash its face, it's not going to completely be able to return what it needs to return. But there's lots of ways that you can bring in guarantees or you can bring in first tranches of money that are willing to take a greater loss. Or very interesting things you can do with a financial stack.   Eve: [00:29:23] But ultimately is it right for a private investor to get a 15 to 20 percent return on a project that will only move forward if there's tons of subsidy. Kind of wrong.   Janine: [00:29:37] I'm not sure it is because, look at the alternative. The alternative, and this is kind of what happened in the microfinance world. So, in microfinance, it was reaching 100 million people. It definitely was shown to help bring people out of poverty. It was completely driven by grants. And there was, when I got involved in it in 2002, there was this huge battle going on between proponents of, like, the Grameen Bank, of keeping it completely the way it had always been and fully driven by grants, and a new group of players who were saying, yes, but we can actually commercialize these microfinance institutions and turn them into commercially viable institutions. And there was this huge battle between those two. They hated each other, actually. And what ended up happening is the commercial play actually got proven out. It was shown that you can, in fact, commercialize microfinance and you can reach a lot more, and the whole technology piece that I talked about came out of that as well. And now you've got, from the time I got started, so that two and a half, in a basically a 10 year span in that two and a half billion people who were previously unbanked. It's now gone below two billion. So, by bringing capital that was seeking a return into the mix, that whole thing was able to scale in a way that it would never have scaled just on grants. Right?   Eve: [00:31:18] But I think when I'm talking about is, we had an offering on Small Change that was an homeless housing project in L.A., just a small offering. But the developers were determined to open it up to the community. And the funds they get, the rent they get is actually from the government. So, it's going to be affordable housing in perpetuity. It's not going to, you know, increase in value and be sold at a profit. So ...   Janine: [00:31:48] Right.   Eve: [00:31:49] ... was a fixed return, OK, return over years, which was a nine percent return, which I thought was pretty generous. And that offering actually filled up faster than any we've had.   Janine: [00:32:01] Yeah. I'm not surprised.   Eve: [00:32:03] So that question to me was, do you think we could offer a little less and still raise money, because that's hard, to add in a nine percent return to a project like that? And I don't know the answer.   Janine: [00:32:14] Well, you try. I mean, I'm ... I think the thing is, you know, people are going to look at this like anything else. They're going to look at it from a risk returns scenario. So in my own personal portfolio, I have money in bonds that are returning me three or four percent. Right. So that's OK, because I know that those are pretty secure and chances are I'm not going to lose my principal.   Eve: [00:32:42] Right.   Janine: [00:32:42] So getting three or four percent is OK. But if I'm going to put money into a private business where in five years, 50 percent of private businesses will be out of business, then my risk is a lot higher because I don't know that that business is actually going to succeed and I could lose everything. Right? So I'm looking for a better return in a three to four percent. The same thing is going to be true in a real estate deal. I mean, if you're asking me to invest in something and I'm going to get a five percent return on it, then I'm going to need to feel pretty dang confident that I'm going to get that five percent return and I'm going to get my principal back. And that's not always possible in a real estate deal.   Eve: [00:33:27] And you get to feel good because you'll be housing most people, right?   Janine: [00:33:34] Yes. Yes, I get that. And I also get that people need to make enough return on their money to be able to retire and have the things that they want, too. And they're not going to put that at risk. So, I think there's a, but I, you know, I talked to a woman yesterday who's on the other side of this discussion, and I really liked her a ton. She was great. She's very committed. She is very, you know, in integrity with herself. And she really believes that people should be willing to make investments and get no return if they're doing good stuff in the world. And that that is the way the world should go and that we should stop even thinking about return at all. So, she's got a very different perspective on it.   Eve: [00:34:19] I think if you have enough wealth that you can do that with some of your money, that's fantastic. But you're right, most people can't,.   Janine: [00:34:26] No, they can't.   Eve: [00:34:27] They need to live, too.   Janine: [00:34:29] So, yeah, in fact, in doing the research on this book, I found that in the United States, there are 14 million people who are millionaires, about 14, 15 million people. Right? Five percent of this, five, six percent of the country. So, if that's true and if 95 percent of us aren't millionaires, then, you know, asking people to not get a return on their money is a pretty big ask.   Janine: [00:35:03] Yeah. An I don't think, and I don't think that one percent of us who really have wealth are sufficient to solve this problem.   Eve: [00:35:15] Yes.   Janine: [00:35:17] So, we have to find ways that the majority of us can participate in solving this problem. And that means that we need to do this in a way that they can feel comfortable with the return they're getting. And I think subsidizing to help them do that is not necessarily a bad thing. And I actually think that's where the really rich people could come in, is that they could provide some of those subsidies, so they can take lower return to help other people's money come in at a higher level of return.   Eve: [00:35:51] So do you think that these new crowdfunding rules, like my platform, Small Change, where we use regulation crowdfunding to let anyone invest? Do you think that is a path towards a solution?   Janine: [00:36:02] I think it's one of them, and I think it's, Yes, I do. I think it's a really interesting path. And I think that people who are non-accredited, it's been kind of fascinating to me as well how differently wealthy people invest than people who aren't. And it's not right that people who aren't wealthy shouldn't be allowed to invest in vehicles that can provide them with more direct opportunities to have impact with their money and to provide them with greater return. I mean, there is way more risk, for sure. And some people could make bad decisions. You need to do your homework with this. But there are a lot of really smart people out there who are non-accredited who would put in the time and effort to make the right decisions and they should be allowed to.   Eve: [00:36:56] No, you and I agree about that. And I also, I really don't like the idea of classes of investors. So that, you know, I've had discussions with developers who think that accredited investors want more, deserve more, and I ...   Janine: [00:37:14] Yeah.   Eve: [00:37:14] ... can't agree with that. I think money should be given the same opportunity. And unaccredited investors who had absolutely zero opportunity to get, you know, a half a percent return from your bank account if you're lucky.   Janine: [00:37:26] Right.   Eve: [00:37:26] That's just not OK. So ...   Janine: [00:37:29] No, it's not. And you know, the truth is, there's a great book I read a long time ago by a guy named Nocera about sort of the evolution of money. And, you know, actually even before him, if you go back, San Francisco history. So, this is a story I absolutely adore. The Bank of America. Do you know the origin story of the Bank of America? It's sort of incredible.   Eve: [00:37:53] No, I don't.   Janine: [00:37:55] So, quick version. So, it started in before 1906. There was an Italian immigrant in the San Francisco, in San Francisco itself, actually, who decided that, at that time, the only people who could have bank accounts were extraordinarily wealthy people. J.P. Morgan, you know, that kind of ilk of person. And so he decided, you know what, I think the average man and woman should have bank accounts and be able to get loans. And so he started this bank. It was called the Bank of Italy. And nobody used him because nobody trusted banks. And so then came 1906, the famous earthquake of San Francisco. And he rushed to his bank. He took all the cash out of his safe. He put it in a wheelbarrow. He put, you know, fruit and vegetables over this thing that he had all his money in. And he carted it out of San Francisco. And then he met with the other bankers and they were talking about what they were going to do for the city. And the other bankers were saying, well, we've got to wait six months before we can open our banks. It's too dangerous. You know, bad stuff is going to happen. And so this man, his name is A.P. Giannini. He took that cart or whatever he had of money and he brought it to Fisherman's Wharf and he set up a little table using barrels and a log, and he started giving out money.   Eve: [00:39:30] Wow.   Janine: [00:39:30] People came to him and he gave them loans. And all he asked was their signature. He trusted them. And the people were so responsive to that,  they had so much gratitude, that his bank grew and the Bank of Italy became the Bank of America.   Eve: [00:39:50] That's a great story. Yeah.   Janine: [00:39:51] Right? So, and if you look at the history of money and you look at, what you find is that time and time again, there was some innovator like him who said, "You know what? This shouldn't only be for the rich." That's how we got money, mutual funds, and that's how we got invested in, that's how anyone can invest in the stock market. It wasn't always that way either. That was also just something for the rich. So, time and time again, we have seen these things come online for wealthy people. And then some innovator says, you know what? It doesn't have to be this way.   Eve: [00:40:32] Yes.   Janine: [00:40:34] And then the rest of us can participate.   Eve: [00:40:35] Fascinating. So given all of that, what do you think the future of real estate impact investing lies?   Janine: [00:40:43] I'm going to take a step back first and say, where does the future of impact or values aligned investing lie first, and I believe it is going to become ubiquitous. I believe that ultimately this is the way people are going to invest writ large, that their values are going to matter to them as much as their return. And they're going to realize they don't have to give up both. And I think that the real estate piece of this, because it's more complicated for people, is going to be a little longer to come online. But I think there will ultimately be a lot of really interesting opportunities, for all of us, to invest in real estate, too, because it is a great diversifier.   Eve: [00:41:23] Yes.   Janine: [00:41:25] And I'm a huge fan. When I was a young girl, my favorite movie of all time was Gone With the Wind. And, you know, I totally love that she always goes back to the land and she realizes that regardless of what's happening around her, the land is something tangible and real. And it's something that she can hold on to. And I think that's still true today.   Eve: [00:41:49] Well, that was some really fascinating conversation. Thank you so much for joining me, Janine. I'm sure we're going to be talking again soon.   Janine: [00:41:58] My pleasure. Thank you so much. I enjoyed it, too.   Eve: [00:42:03] That was Janine Firpo. Here are some of the things I learned during our fascinating conversation. First, not only can you expect financial return when you make a socially responsible investment, you can meet or even beat the market. Second, only five percent of the U.S. population is a millionaire. That means that 95 percent of the population does not have access to investment opportunities that are largely available for the wealthy. Finally, figuring out what impact means in real estate investing is difficult for someone starting out. It's impossible to find consistent metrics. You can find out more about impact real estate investing, and access the show notes for today's episode at my website, EvePicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. And thank you, Janine, for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

The fellas are back once again. Today they are back talking about the royal family, and why the hell do we care so much about them over here in America? It seems everywhere you look the world is talking about the royal split. Then the fellas transition into talking about babies. Dan and Brando talk about their experiences when their daughters were born. As always it's a fun and entertaining episode, so, make sure to share with all your friends and family. Give the fellas a follow on Twitter, Adam: @Adrock503, Brando: @RKRV3, Dan: @RomeroOnAir, and the show across all platforms at, @CPPod100. We're always looking for our awesome listeners to be a part of the show by contributing stories, videos, questions and comments by emailing inbox@comfortablypoor.com or calling the studio and leaving a voice mail at 844-997-0775. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cppod100/support

Larry Kummer. Are these the Crazy Years in America? Larry is The editor of the Fabius Maximus website. FabiusMaximus.com He has 37 years experience in the finance industry in a variety of roles, retiring as a VP and Senior Portfolio Manager at a global investment bank. He was a Boy Scout volunteer leader for 15 years, running a Troop for 7 years and retiring as Director and VP-Finance of the Mt Diablo-Silverado Council. For 20 years he was an active Republican, working on many campaigns — until the party abandoned its traditional principles. He began writing about geopolitics in 2003 A sampling of important posts from Fabius Maximus:  America isn’t falling like the Roman Empire. We're falling like the Roman Republic. Welcome to ClownWorld, the final meme for America - It is the next phase of the "crazy years", long ago predicted by Robert Heinlein. A new, dark picture of America’s future - our institutions are falling like a line of dominoes. Larry says, “I’ve written 140 posts about ways to reform America. They are the least popular posts. We want simple morality tales, to cheer the good people and boo the bad. We flee from talk about responsibility and work like vampires from daylight. None of the risking "our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" for us. We see ourselves as customers in a restaurant, whining that the menu isn't good enough for people so awesome.”

Bernie Sanders says it will take a movement to change America: “It can’t all be Bernie.”  John Nichols comments on his interview with the candidate, who is now back in second place in the polls.  And we play clips from the interview, originally broadcast on the Next Left podcast.  Also: deporting the immigrants called “undesirable”--now, under Trump, and a hundred years ago.  Historian Adam Hochschild notes that  it’s the 100th anniversary of the Palmer Raids, where J Edgar Hoover got his start rounding up and trying to deport immigrant radicals—and when one heroic Labor Department official blocked thousands of deportations. Plus: Martin Scorcese’s new film “The Irishman” opens on Netflix this week; it claims to tell the true story of the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Teamsters Union, who disappeared in 1974.  But nobody who’s studied that history thinks the movie is right about what happened to Hoffa.  Does that fact change our judgement about the film?  John Powers comments; he’s critic at large for Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: http://thenation.com/podcastsubscribe

Larry Kummer is The editor of the Fabius Maximus website. FabiusMaximus.com He has 37 years experience in the finance industry in a variety of roles, retiring as a VP and Senior Portfolio Manager at a global investment bank. He was a Boy Scout volunteer leader for 15 years, running a Troop for 7 years and retiring as Director and VP-Finance of the Mt Diablo-Silverado Council. For 20 years he was an active Republican, working on many campaigns — until the party abandoned its traditional principles. He began writing about geopolitics in 2003 A sampling of important posts from Fabius Maximus: America isn’t falling like the Roman Empire. We're falling like the Roman Republic. Welcome to ClownWorld, the final meme for America- It is the next phase of the "crazy years", long ago predicted by Robert Heinlein. A new, dark picture of America’s future- our institutions are falling like a line of dominoes. Larry says, “I’ve written 140 posts about ways to reform America. They are the least popular posts. We want simple morality tales, to cheer the good people and boo the bad. We flee from talk about responsibility and work like vampires from daylight. None of the risking 'our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor' for us. We see ourselves as customers in a restaurant, whining that the menu isn't good enough for people so awesome.”  

Ever thought about taking a road trip across America? It's a fantasy for many, and with some planning and due thought achievable. In the latest episode of 'Experience the World' the isango! Travel Podcast, join content writer Gavin and Guidebook freelancer Sasha as they discuss her road trip around the Western Side of the US including Las Vegas, LA and San Diego. What advice would she give?  What route did she take? Listen to find out more as they Road trip across the USA (with the bells of St Paul's Cathedral ringing in their ears!) Places that featured in the episode include: Las Vegas Los Angeles Chicago

This time on Shootin' The Shizzat, the Buck and Broda shoot about the 3rd week into the Wednesday Night Wars and if there is a clear winner in sight or are each brand coming onto hard times? Also! We go over NWAs POWERRR Episode 2 "Click Bait" and see if NWA was able to keep its bar raised high! AND! New Japan Pro Wrestling... of America? It's coming folks! as well as a NJPW womens division?! -Buck and Broda

Say what you will about Trump but it's refreshing to hear an elected leader defend religious freedom and the origin of our rights. What's the worst thing that could happen to America? It's already happened. Ryan McMaken has a solid take on why our happiness and well-being can't be measured in mere dollars. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Despite the mediocrity of the current presidential campaigns, Ajay Raju writes that it is important to remember the essential truth about America: It’s only great when it includes everyone

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In episode two of the Border Mic we discuss answering a simple question, will the wall solve the drug crisis in America? It is a simple question that deserves an answer. Listen in for the answer. It might surprise you.

What is the least diverse place in America? It's the institution that most actively seeks racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity: the college campus! Colleges want students to look different, but think the same. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, explains.

Excellent! Another new episode of Eat! Drink! Smoke! The weekly review of bourbon, cigars and great food mixed with conversation of the news and culture of the day with radio host and entertainer Tony Katz. **THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS The Drink? – Maker's Mark Private Select The Smoke? – Davidoff Millenium With Thanksgiving coming up, is it ok to go out to eat for the holiday? And how much should it cost you to make the meal? Fingers and April have a serious disagreement about how much to spend on the family. Medical tourism is a real thing. But if you go to Mexico for a nose job, you're on your own. And Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wants your guns, and demands that you fall in line...or he'll nuke you. Exactly how would gun confiscation work in America? It's clear that Rep. Swalwell has never thought through his own terrible ideas. Eat! Drink! Smoke! was recorded at Blend Bar Cigar in Indianapolis, IN. Joining Tony are radio host Fingers Malloy and social media maven and podcaster April D. Gregory.

In another blockbuster foreign policy Friday with Jordan Schachtel, we discuss the latest with the Khashoggi saga and juxtapose the media’s disregard of the truth and consequences of their advocacy. Why is the media not concerned about immigration from Saudi Arabia, yet they hate the new Saudi government that is actually fighting terrorists? Just how powerful is the MB influence in America? It would shock you. We move on to Afghanistan, where the top U.S. commander was almost killed in an “insider” attack that left a top Afghani official dead. We prove once and for all that the situation is irremediably broken, and to pull out is actually a victory for us, not a defeat.  Finally, we discuss immigration policy from a terrorism standpoint and how Trump can add to his promising week of diplomacy with Mexico.  Show links Finally! They will process bogus asylum in Mexico, not in the U.S. The war in Afghanistan is over Focusing on immigration and terror finance is a much better counterterrorism strategy  What the media isn’t telling you about the Khashoggi affair Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Moore talks about his new documentary, "Fahrenheit 11/9," opens Friday May 21 across America--It's a passionate argument about how the Democrats helped pave the way to Trump's election, and a call to arms to change our politics and vote on Nov. 9.

Do you know the #1 cause of death in America? It is not what you think - our diet has surpassed smoking as a cause of death. Michel Nischan, chef and Founder, President and CEO of Wholesome Wave, and Lindsey Seegers, Program Manager of Nutrition Education at Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, MD know that food-related disease is both deadly and preventable. They join Share Our Strength founders Debbie and Billy Shore to explain some promising ways they are addressing the root causes of diet-related diseases. “We spend about $1.4 trillion a year on diet-related disease,” says Nischan. Yet the economic disparities of a disease like Type 2 Diabetes are stark. “I learned that the majority of the people that struggle with that condition lived at income levels so low they couldn’t even afford the basic ingredients to help them prevent the disease in the first place.” Seegers works with thousands of families in Montgomery County on nutritious eating. “Healthy eating is not just for the rich,” she stresses. “What parents want so much is to feed their children well – they want the best for their kids. The challenge is to be able to afford adequate and enough wholesome staple foods.”Both guests believe that systemic changes are needed to impact health outcomes, and they are making real progress. Seegers’ work at Manna Food Center focuses on nutrition education – not just food distribution – to help families learn how to identify and afford healthy foods on a budget. They are also launching a retrofitted school bus that serves as a mobile kitchen and pop-up pantry. Wholesome Wave began a 2-for-1 program for buying fruits and vegetables with SNAP food stamps with private funding which grew into a federally-funded program in the Farm Bill called the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program with $100M over 5 years. Nischan did not predict the success of the model. “However complicated the root causes are, something as simplistic as providing affordability thru incentives can be so powerful – it’s mindboggling.” FINI has also had larger economic impacts because farmers whose produce is purchased through the program are responding to this increased demand by making infrastructural improvements and expanding their enterprises.These food justice leaders also discuss the recent threats to the SNAP food stamp program and the effect that cuts would have on families and the economy. “Food is where people are going to cut when things get really tight,” reports Seegers, which means that preventing diet-related disease will be even more difficult. “It’s just wrongheaded,” says Nischan. He cites the return on investment of giving people access to healthy food vs. paying for expensive health care treatments like dialysis. “$100 thousand dollars saves $4 million dollars.”

(silence) Okay. It's not frozen. I was going to maybe be a silent picture live stream. Like a silent movie. Why do you think I chop my own head off all the time? How do you like my gangster unicorn? Hello. I was gonna do the whole live stream as a mime. (silent) I think I could be quite good at it if I practised. I don't think I care enough to practise. I think that's the problem. This live stream comes to you, obviously, from a place of great power and depth. I don't think anyone understands the gravity of what is gonna happen in this live stream, and I'll tell you how I know that. Hello, badass people who I see joining me. Firstly, something is happening inside the system of Katrina Ruth. I feel things happening. I feel that my voice is possibly making some kind of argument that it should get to go on vacation. Can you hear that? I'm all blocked up. I don't know why, what's happening. And my voice is a bit croaky. So I was like probably I shouldn't live stream at fricking 11:34 pm at night. Or yell. Clearly, welcome to breaktheinternet.com. But you know, when you gotta live stream, you gotta live stream. What's up Mac? New viewer. Welcome. Then though, here's how I know for sure, for sure, that this live stream is going to be beyond. Beyond what, you ask? Beyond your wildest fucking dreams and imaginations about life, about the universe, about the internet, and about yourself. Have you joined breaktheinternet.com, because it freaking closes tomorrow, in less than a day. What day is it even right now in America? It's definitely Monday morning, for sure. For sure it's Monday morning. For sure it's probably as late as like 10 pm in some parts of the US, 10 am I mean. What that means is I don't even know. I don't even know. The doors are gonna close at midnight eastern standard time. [Giana 00:03:19] is ready. Of course she is. Join. If you haven't joined Break the Internet, run, run, run to the back of the room and join the programme. I'll give you the details momentarily. There's no back of the room. Get to wherever the back of your own room is, to wherever your credit card or whatever it is that you've got is. Okay. But here's ... Ready. Here's how I know for sure that this live stream right here is gonna be insane, because not only was I like I probably shouldn't live stream when it's nearly midnight and I'm having surgery tomorrow. Don't worry, it's for exciting, fun purposes only. But still, it's surgery. I don't know, maybe it's not a big deal. Although I can't have any fucking coffee or water from five am. I find it very upsetting to the psyche, more nerve racking than the idea of the surgery itself to be frank with you. And then that, and then my voice is not really working, and now apparently I'm gonna yell at the internet with it anyway, and I've already done like four live streams today, two ones in my members group and one public one earlier today in the park. And then, and then, and then, the other thing was not once, not twice, but ... I can't use that nail, that's the one where the whole nail ripped off ... Three times, three times this live stream tried to crash its own ass, and it would not let me go live. We know what that means. All right, I'll give you the details right now about Break the Internet. I just popped it in there so you don't miss out. You would be next level insane to not be part of breaktheinternet.com. Do not go to the URL breaktheinternet.com. You would think that that would be a logical thing to do based on the fact that that's the name of the programme. You would need to think again. This situation here does not really know or understand logic. I don't know why I clicked my fingers at the end, it just kinda happened. Kind of embarrassed now. You'd be crazy not to be part of this. It is beyond, beyond, beyond whatever your idea of of beyond already is. But, but ... Okay, just reminding myself of those people that go to those circuit gyms and think that they're boxing and they're just like "Aah." All right. Three times this live stream crashed before it would let me go live. So put the title in - actually it was a less interesting title than the one I ultimately went for. It was more boring. So maybe it was meant to be. I put the title in, the title that I put in originally was Are You Selling or Are You Selling? There's a Difference. Like that. I think it would have gotten some good traction anyhow. And then I was like nah, fuck that title. But my whole phone shut down. It just black screened its own ass. It was quite traumatic for a minute or two as when your phone just dies for no reason and it was fully charged and it was a relatively new iPhone X. So I plugged it in, I found it charged, but nothing, nothing. I was like okay, I do have at least 89 backup phones in this house. But still, I want this one. And then it came back to life. I'm like fuck this shit, now I have to type the whole title in again, I already did it. So it did that, and then it just exits itself out of the screen and won't let me go live and blanked out the whole thing again. And then finally the third time ... Oh no, three times. It blanked out two times. Or one time I accidentally exited and didn't save the title. I had to type it like four times total, by which time I changed it, and maybe it was meant to be. But there was a moment where I stood in the kitchen and I was like maybe this is a sign that I shouldn't go live and I should go to bed, because it's blanked itself out X amount of times now. And now here we are, and you know the whole story, and you're all up to date. Except for how do you think this cushion ... Because I feel that I can't really communicate anymore until you've seen it. And by the way, I established with my private empire ... Rich Hot Empire 101 clients earlier on in a live stream this evening that this unicorn, which Linda, my friend, brought for the kids I think, but I've commandeered it. This unicorn, which lives now on this couch set, is the most gangster unicorn in the world. The reason we know that is because he's extraordinarily fluffy and cute looking - I'm gonna hold him by the scruff of his neck. Too bad. And I think that makes him a gangster unicorn, because he's extra cute. Don't you think? It's logical. I'm all about logic. And then this pillow, if you've not seen it, I normally do a whole show around it, but I really don't have the time or inclination for that. But I'm still gonna blow your mind. I did put a ... Maybe I'm gonna blow my own mind by not remembering how to use it. I did put a blow mind emoji in the live stream title so it would be rude if I didn't blow your mind. Here you go. You ready for it? We're gonna do it quick, we're gonna do it hard and fast. That's how it's needed sometimes. Look at what it says. The message in the cushion. Life is now, press fucking play. Okay, so what you should be ... And then we bling it back up again, because you can never have too much bling. It's a rule of life. And then, and then ... Okay, I forgot my point. I don't know if I have one at all. But I think what I was gonna say is breaktheinternet.com is off the hook. There is no URL. I feel like I've gotta say that every time. Don't type it in. You don't know what you're gonna get. Maybe Kim Kardashian's ass, I don't know. I haven't even looked. I don't care. The first live training went down today. It feels like it was 700 years ago. Exactly. The more bling, the better. I've got blinged up cushions everywhere. Everywhere. There's about 40 of them in this house, for sure. It was about getting angry. The first training, the first deep dive training was today. There was already two badass pre-work trainings last week. People were having shifts and transmissions and transmutations. I don't know if that's ideal. But things were definitely happening in the group already from last week before we even started, just from the pre work. Before even the pre work. I need that URL then, Lea. Send it to me energetically. That's shocking. Don't you think that's shocking? Is somebody storing it? I feel like I need a wine break to recover from that information. Anyway. Don't go there, though. No need to do that. The vibe is off the hook. The whole thing is off the hook. You would be crazy, like batshit crazy, like do you want to die crazy, are you seriously telling me you're not joining this programme, you're going to die if you don't join this crazy programme. That's how crazy you would be. No, the only disclaimer is if you kinda hate me and you think I'm a hoity toity bitch - sometimes I am, it's true. I don't know if maybe you're only here for the unicorn, or I don't know, why the fuck are you here if you don't love me? Just give me a reason already. But at the end of the day, say what you want, if you're watching this right now and you're like, "That Katrina fucking Ruth." I'm sorry, but if you're here, technically, you're magnetised to me and you love me. It is what it is and that's all it is. So you might as well join and just find out why it is you can't look away, even though you're just looking in horror half of the time. But for those of you who are looking in fascination and with great amounts of love, and maybe you're only a little bit abhorred from time to time, then the reason you'd be crazy ... Like do you wanna die, that level of craziness. Because, don't you fucking wanna know how to be magnetic? Well, you already know anyways. It's nothing I have to tell you about it, except I will show you, and I will reach into your soul and wrench forth whatever's in there that needs to come out. Mandy knows all about it. She saw it already many times. She's doing it already herself many times. It's what happens. Watching a bad movie. Exactly. See, Sarah Jane's making a fantastic comment here. This is a perfect example of somebody who maybe thinks that they can't stand me or maybe they think what the hell is she doing and when is she getting to the point but yet cannot watch away, cannot look away. Love your audacity, so horrific, macabre, fascination, you haven't said anything yet. That's the exact fucking point. But those who know and are ... See? This is one of those, is that a backward compliment, or is that a forward insult? What was that exactly? Somebody decipher what Sarah Jane just said. I'm gonna decipher it myself in my own way. For those people who think I haven't fucking said anything yet, oh, it just makes me be so happy to be one of the 1% within the 1% people who actually fucking gets it, and it makes me so happy that the people who are here, which is everybody, sorry, except for Sarah Jane, are my people. It makes me so fucking happy to be this good. It was totally shade. It's totally shade. She says she may love my audacity, or maybe many people love my audacity, but I haven't said anything yet, it's horrific, it's macabre, fascination. I don't know, maybe it is a backward compliment or a forward insult. It's an in between one, isn't it? Whatever it is, it doesn't feel like the most obvious expression of love that I've ever received. So there we go. But I'm gonna decipher it anyway. My deciphering is this. There's nothing to fucking tell. What am I here to tell? I'm the Katrina Ruth Show. I'm a show. I'm not a show and tell. I don't have anything to tell. I just be. That's what I do. But actually, if you wanted to break it down ... I'm in the wrong app, Leah. It's gonna be embarrassing if I admit why I'm in a different app, but I think you could probably figure it out, Leah, based on what you said yesterday. It's actually all your fault. That's why the sticker's not here. Whoops. You know, if anybody who actually had a brain on top of their heads somewhere up in there, or some sort of access to soul and higher being and self, wanted to reverse engineer what's already happened on this live stream, you'd find that there's enough fucking content there to expand out into an entire book on how to make millions of dollars alone on the internet each year just by being you, which is indeed precisely what I do, and all without saying a single fucking thing. It's a mystery. It's not a mystery to those who actually get it, but it will eternally be a mystery to those who are not us. I feel like I could have found a better way to say that, but it came out that way, I'm sorry. So, you know, the point is that the less you say about anything, the more you actually reveal from the soul. Thank you Kiana, I appreciate it. It's a talent and it's also somewhat of a entity that has taken control of oneself. It's sort of a mix between that. Hello from Denmark. Thank you for saying where you're from. It's interesting to me to know. Thank you Christine. It's the gangster eye makeup. I don't know what happened to my eye makeup, because I didn't put that much on, but it seems to have taken on a mind of its own. It's like another entity now. And then it's obviously the art, and it's also the fact that it's 12 pm and I'm supposed to fricking stop drinking and eating at 5 am in the morning, so I figure I should just stay up until then and drink and eat until then. Not a mystery but definitely a wonder. Well, it's all about, it's all about, it's all about the slate of [inaudible 00:15:10], it's all about the pattern interrupt. I kinda hate that expression just because it's overused, but it still makes very good sense. It's all about the oh, oh, oh, oh, you thought I was over here, you thought I was doing that, you thought this is how you sell online, this is how you market, you do this thing, you do it like that, you thought it was that. Oh no, now I'm over there, and you didn't see, and you're still there. Oh now you're trying to catch up here, that's cute, because I'm over there. That? You're doing that? Oh my god. I'm sorry for you. No, no, I'm over here, 45,000 fucking steps ahead of you, and you'll never catch me. And by the way, when I say I, I mean the royal I, which is not a thing, but I've just created it into a thing, which means I mean the I of all of us who are the actual ones, the ones, the chosen ones who know about these things, who know about the mysteries and the wonders, and don't need to put them into words. And if anybody just tries to ask us how it works and what we do and can you explain that to me, I mean, yes, but no. Please go away, please don't ask me that, because it makes me want to claw my own eyeballs out, because you should just fucking magnetically, energetically know. Even if you don't fully have it in implementation yet, that's fine, but you definitely should fricking know. Your soul should be like, "I see what is happening here." You should recognise that we are each others' spirit animals. Exactly. Exactly Talisha. Your soul should be like, "I completely ..." I mean, this is what it's about. When you see how I show up, here's how you know if you're one of my people and I'm your person too and we're just each other's I, because your soul says "Aha." Maybe not aha. Your soul says "Yes, I recognise you, there you are." Right? Something like that. Your soul is like, "Oh, she's me. I'm her. Oh shit. Okay." Maybe you still don't fully quite get the pieces of how it all works together, which is obviously precisely why you're gonna join breaktheinternet.com. It closes tonight, midnight eastern standard time. Not this current night that I'm living in in Australia. I mean, I'm many places all at the same time. But it closes Monday night US time. Right, because your soul is like, "I fully recognise and understand this situation. It makes total soul sense to me. I 100% have always known that this is how it's meant to be. I still can't quite explain it, I don't really quite know what she's doing, but I know it's exactly who I am and exactly what I'm here to do and exactly how it fucking works and all the other bullshit that they may have told you about." They, not the royal they, because obviously there's nothing fucking royal about them. All the other bullshit that they may have told you about, you're finally able to be like, "I fucking knew it. I knew I didn't have to do that shit. I knew it." That's how you should feel when you watch me. But some people are gonna feel more like how Sarah Jane felt where it's like she's appalled and fascinated and it was ... What did she say? Did she say barbaric? I don't think barbaric, but it was something along those lines. Macabre. She said macabre. Which is a great word, really, if you think about it. Michael says he feels my soul. This makes sense. I read your comment wrong and I thought you said you feel for my soul, kind of like I'm praying for you. I was like oh well. Then I read it properly. Thank you. See? He said it exactly how I'm trying to say it. This goes both ways, what I was saying. He feels my soul. This is what I mean. You feel it. You're like, "Yes, this is what I've been looking for. Holy shit, she's reading my mind. I can see that she's clearly bat shit crazy and I love it, and how am I gonna let that shit up myself," and then you're just gonna do it. You're just gonna do it. I'll show you. And then the other thing was, which was my original live stream title ... What time is it? My laptop says 5% battery left, so I guess that's exactly what time it is. What's this over here? Doesn't matter. Don't concern yourselves with it. The other thing, the other thing was ... I feel like I should go to a higher level in order to talk about this. I'll get up on some more cushions. The other thing was ... Okay, now this one halfway up inside of me. Not in a weird way. The other thing was how are you selling? I don't really wanna talk about it, because it feels like a boring conversation already. But it is important. "This is why I can only listen to a handful of people," says Angela. Well, I got a throne right there. See, I could sit on the throne. I just really loving this art that my sister in law made for me. She downloaded it from her soul for all of our souls. Sorry, I just killed the unicorn. Yes, they either get it or they don't. Exactly right. Exactly, and we don't care for the ones who don't. But we do use them to create fabulous jokes and things, which sounds horrible, I'm sorry. Maybe just quietly. I think they like it. I think they appreciate it. That's what I'm going with. The other thing which definitely sounds a bit boring but I'm gonna tell you anyway because I'm gonna make it exciting for you. It's not even boring. I don't know what I'm talking about. It's the whole reason I was doing this live stream, because I was telling this to my clients earlier, and I was like, "The world must know about it." The whole reason ... Ooh, blue unicorn. How good is this shirt, right? It's badass. The whole entire reason that I was originally gonna do this live stream is because I was giving a live demonstration, a live demonstration you understand, to my clients earlier on this evening in a live stream training in our group. It was about the energy. Are you selling, are you selling, or are you selling. All right? I'm gonna explain it to you. It is a huge part of what we're doing in breaktheinternet.com. Reminder, again, it closes tonight, midnight eastern standard time. You would be off your tiny little beautiful head if you didn't join this programme, unless you're one of those people that's like, "She's macabre," right? I still think it's a fancy word, and you get points for using macabre. But whatever. When I get really in flow, I feel the need to stretch when I'm on my live streams. What do you think that's about? I don't understand it at all. If you like the crazy and if you are the crazy and if your soul says yes to the crazy and if when you saw my crazy your soul was like, "Holy shit, that's my crazy," then you would be a crazy person in a not good way though to not join breaktheinternet.com. If you never buy another programme of mine again, make it this one. That's the wrong way to say it. If you only ever buy one more programme of mine, or you're never gonna spend any more money again, this is the money you should spend before you never spend any money again, except that really, based on the results that are already coming through, and we only just started, then once you join the programme and you do the programme, you're gonna be like, "Kat, just take all my money all the time, because I get so much fucking flow and so much results from your stuff. How much can I pay you?" You will do that. I'm just letting you know, and you'll do it with glee, because you'll be 10X-ing every dollar back to you. It's just how we do. Already, already, already epic results, and I only did the first deep dive training today. You can still get it. You'll get straight into the Facebook group. So I think I'm making somewhat of my point. I'm just gonna shake my head and whoa at you quite frankly if you don't join. I'm just gonna not even understand it. But I mean, maybe the reason you don't join is you're like, "Bitch please, I am fully already in my magnetism, I am owning my shit all the time, every day, I don't need any of your magnetic juju, I got it all sorted." Well, you probably do, or you wouldn't be here. Of course you've got it all sorted. The question is are you letting it the fuck out? Are you the only one who knows it's sorted, or does everybody else know as well? Okay. Amanda told me not too long ago that nobody knows what I mean when I say sorted, except she's appropriated the word and started using it with her team. [inaudible 00:23:44] Amanda, who many of you know. If you don't know what I mean when I'm saying sorted, I mean organised, like fixed up, done. But just take on the language. Please just adopt all Australian language and mannerisms and cultural behaviours and knowledges. Otherwise it's just gonna be difficult. I'm just saying. On a side note, because I said this earlier as well. If you come to my house and it's established at some point during your stay here that you don't have a tripod on your person, I may have to ask you to leave, because it would be very odd. Very odd. I only feel a little bit bad that I'm rolling that joke out again. I only said it two hours ago with my Rich Hot Empire clients. But it was so good and it was so true, like legit true, that I had to say it again. Nobody's gonna ask, Talisha, why you're talking Australian. They're gonna understand that it came from me because you'll tell them. Okay. There's a difference between selling and selling. That was really the primary point that I came here to make, and then I was supposed to be going to bed. The difference is nobody fucking cares if you send 7,000 sales emails. Well, some people might care, and they might unsubscribe. But you might send all the sales emails in the world, and you might do all the messaging and all the content online, and many things about many things ... I need a purple cushion just there. Right? Christine. Well, you know to get one before you come here. I mean, I have many backups, but I would just be a little concerned for your mental well being if I found that you were travelling without a tripod on your person. And preferably a selfie ring light as well. I'm just talking practicalities of life, really. Posting shit on the internet. That is not a thing that makes you money, by the way. I post a lot of shit on the internet. I just make shit up all day long and post it on the internet, messaging and stories and blogs and live streams and then a sales call to action. And then the wrong people are like, "She hasn't even said anything." Never mind them. But if you think that the system is post a lot of shit on the internet or email out sales emails or yes, I'm promoting my launch and doing my shit all the time, you're getting the skeleton of it but not the one that it wants to live in. You're getting the ... What's it called when the caterpillar leaves behind its scaly exterior? What's the exterior bit of a caterpillar that it leaves behind called? I'm gonna Google it. 1%. What is shell of ... There's only one percent on this. That's a problem. But, stop the phone, so I don't know why I'm freaking out. But I really wanna know what it's called so I can tell the story properly. It's a chrysalis. No, when it gets excommunicated out of it though. Fine, whatever. The scaly old shell. No, the actual shell itself is called a chrysalis. Interesting. I'm sure you're glad you came along to learn that today. Valerie just knew that. Did you just know that? How did you guys just know that? What are you, some kind of scientific experts? That's fascinating. I didn't know that at all. I got stuck on a symmetry question today on my third grade daughter's math quiz. It was very stressful, and then she only got 97% or something on the test. It was like an online, maths online. I just freaked out. And I'm like an A plus math student. I couldn't help her with the question, and she was not happy with me because she only got 97%. And it's not even a required test or homework or something that she had to do. I literally had to say to my child like four times, "Stop doing math now. That's enough math." Because we had to get ready for bed. She's obsessed with doing extra homework that nobody asked her to do. She just goes onto the online curriculum websites for the government, for the standard maths curriculum or whatever it is and just does extra homework like a weirdo. I mean, it's amazing, but I still think it's super weird. I'm listening to myself, and I'm saying, "Alyssa, that's enough maths now. Stop doing math. I already asked you to stop doing math. Put the math down." I literally was like ... She's like, "Just one more." I'm like, "You're a little addict." And then she's like, "I can't believe it," when she got 97%, because I didn't help her properly with the question about symmetry. It was very confusing. And now I feel upset about it. I feel like I'm gonna have to go study up on it. Anyway. So when you step out of your caterpillar shell and then you discard the old shell behind you, right? Ooh, I'm gonna read that comment in a moment from Michael. Then you discard the disgusting old shell behind you. Well, it's beautiful still because it was part of you. But my point is that when you're just doing fricking sales emails ... Okay, I gotta say one more thing about the homework. When my daughter had been in school for a full year and a half, I remember I was suddenly like, "Do they still do homework at school?" I've gone, "Do you get homework?" She's like, "Yeah." I'm like, "How often?" She's going, "Every day." I'm like, "Who helps you with it?" She's like, "I just do it." This is bad, but she had been in school 18 months before it occurred to me that she might have homework. Now I'm a very hands on mother in many areas, but not the homework area, apparently. But I was top academically, always. I got in the top 3% of the whole country, and I was always the top student in each class. I just expect the same from Alyssa, and I just assume it. It's just freaking manifestation. It's an identity thing. It's like this is just who we are. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really concern myself with matters around doing work to get results, because results come from belief. But I definitely felt bad that it hadn't occurred to me. But she was like, "What are you even asking me for? I'm all over this shit." Okay, she didn't say it like that, obviously. It's very relevant, anyway, to our topic at hand. Yeah, but isn't the parent supposed to help? Aren't you supposed to know when your six year old child is doing homework? I don't know. Maybe they've changed their systems. Now there's an app where you can text the teacher. You can text them on an app, and they send you photos and shit. It's amazing. It's all very high tech. Digital age, I really don't know much about it. I just know how to make money with it. Actually, what I just said is so relevant to what I'm even freaking talking about here as far as how to make money online and how to make sales online and all that good stuff, which is there's nothing you need to do. You don't need to concern yourself with how many emails you should be sending or what you should be posting or fricking what process to use in your sales copy. It's making me wanna bash my head on the table in front of me just thinking about it. Here's the difference between selling, like selling, like you're kind of like an old caterpillar shell. I don't know why that, but that's what came to mind. And the difference between selling, where people are like, "Give me the thing, give it to me now," and I don't freaking ... Like money, whatever, it's an energy exchange. But people are like, "Yes, I'm gonna be in, and then they're in, and then the second they even sign up and pay, before the damn thing even begins, they already get results, of course, because they said yes to their soul. The difference is, of course, the whole fucking thing that I'm demonstrating on this live stream without saying anything, apparently, according to some people ... Okay, maybe I'm a little bit defensive. It's fine, I allow myself to be human sometimes, on occasion. The caterpillar shell is the chrysalis. We discussed that. You're missing bits. Keep up. Do your fucking homework. It's the protective shell. It even said it on Wikipedia. So there. Said protective shell. The difference is the energy, the energy. People will buy from you when they feel your energy. Alyssa would know all about it. She probably has 49 caterpillars right in there in her little toy room, where I go in to see if she wants to play something with me, which I find a little painful, to be perfectly honest with you, depending on what it is, but I do it anyhow. And then she's like, "Leave, I have to do my homework." Then she comes out. I'm like, "Okay, let's spend some time together relaxing, like relaxed time." And then she makes me do fucking maths online with her in her play time before bed. It's the energy. I was gonna scroll back and look for comments. Fuck them. But, but, but, leave me a comment anyway. Leave me a comment anyhow, because I'll ... Look at that other picture. Did you see it? Rachel made that one too. Isn't she a genius artist? It's on its side. Oh, fuck you phone. Okay, the phone just did not care to be turned on its side. Okay, it's a very long picture. My sister in law Rachel painted it just for me. It's supposed to be sitting above another couch. Anyway, now you've seen the mess that was behind there. But we just had to come in here to get some more wine, didn't we? It's logical. Look at this little gift area that Linda left for me. She left me an amazing card. I'm not gonna read it to you. She left me some Vegemite. She's a true friend. And these pictures of her and I, we [inaudible 00:33:28] some really cool sayings on them. And the flowers. And also a box of seashell chocolates, which have been hidden, hidden in order that the children don't get them. Tonight we're drinking Yangarra Estate Small Pot Whole Bunch Shiraz. Whole bunch. Whole bunch of what? I'm putting you up there, even though you can only see the top of my head. I can't hold a tripod and pour wine at the same time. The seashell chocolates are right there on top of the toaster. I didn't hide them very well. I'll show you. That was the other part of Linda's offering. She knows they're my favourite chocolates. What an amazing friend. I came in off a flight yesterday. She'd been in my house while I was away for a few days. She's now left. But I came in off my flight feeling quite fucked up, to be honest with you, because there was a small infidel on the flight, which was my four year old son, who did his utmost best to break the psyche of every person on the flight, starting primarily with me. There were a few moments when he prevailed. There were a few moments where instead of trying to be the good mom bringing him to some sense of order, the stewardess coming up and trying to be polite and helpful but really being fucking pissed off, where I just had my hand on the tray table and I was just like ... And I was in, I don't even give a fuck, I'm broken, there's nothing I can do. Then something deep within me went, "You're stronger than this cat. You're growing stronger. You're turning into a warrior right now on this flight. Arm yourself with inner strength and power and go back into the fray." Then I turned to the tiny little curly haired monster that he was being, who was jumping up and down, standing up on top of the seat, and flinging a bowl of fucking lamb meatballs with red sauce in it, which seems like a perfectly logical thing to give a four year old on a plane, flinging it atop the person in front of him. He was perfectly sweet on the plane on Friday, and then on yesterday's flight he activated all known terrorist systems. Repeatedly. Which was actually somewhat valid, because when we got on the plane, they told us the entertainment system's not working, and the kids have the Virgin app on their iPad, and they can use the entertainment system and watch movies. It had been already like a two hour drive from my brother's. So I was like, "You're gonna watch a movie on the plane, we'll put a movie on." We get on there, it's not working. There's literally no entertainment for the kids because I didn't bring anything, because it's only a two hour flight. And then, the plane doesn't take off. We sit on the tarmac for an hour. I should have understood. I was like, "Well, he's going through the stages of grief now, and everybody's gonna have to suck it." And that's exactly what happened, and it went for the entire two hours plus the extra hour on the tarmac. All right, let's have some wine in honour of that terrible moment. What was I up to? Energy. It wasn't just meatballs. There was pretzel sticks, there was nuts, what else was on that tray. He took the whole tray. He's nothing if not grandiose in his behaviour. He picked up the entire tray, and I tried to bluff him, because he picked it up, and he was looking at me, and he was like, "I'm gonna do it," and he started to raise it slowly. And he was like, "I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna pour it over the seat." And I was like, "Okay Nathan." I was calling his bluff. And he just went higher and higher, and I was kinda like ... And he just kept going. Yeah, it went down over the top of the seat. It was very embarrassing. But I'm very proud of myself because I maintained an aura of calm. I was like ... On the inside I was screaming. Screaming. But externally I was a perfect example of conscious parenting. I was a delight to behold. I think everybody was quite delighted to see the back of us by the time we left. It was really hard. It was really one of those flights. It was the second worst flight that I've had with him, which means that I must get many blessings that are given to me this week, I imagine. They've already begun, so. What was I up to? I'm making some kind of point about energy. Is this like the time he came in and maintained eye contact as he ... Oh. Oh. Oh, wait until you hear what he did to Linda today. I don't know if I should even tell this story. He's the sweetest child. He's a fairy child. He's an indigo child. He's a crazy one. He's like us. The problem is that when you've got somebody like us in the ... Oh, I gotta tell you what he did. It's so bad. Like, so bad you can die. Before you die, join breaktheinternet.com, because if you didn't join that you might die just from woe at your own recklessness and foolhardy behaviour. He's one of us, right? But when you've got some ... Oh, it's way worse than the boob grabbing. You'd love to have your boob grabbed anytime over what happened tonight in this house. It was so bad, I was like ... I couldn't even ... I didn't even know how to communicate about it when I found out. It happened while I was out. And Serafina was here. Yeah, so when you've got somebody who's like a crazy rule breaker soul person like us who's in the body of a four year old boy, that person can be kinda hard work, alternated with incredibly powerful and charming and you just love and adore him, and of course you do anyway. He may ... I'm gonna tell you now what happened. He may have spread faeces all through Linda Doctor's bag of her possessions as she was about to leave the house to go on her next trouble adventure. I was out. She was about to leave. And he went and used her bathroom. Then for whatever reason unknown to anybody except him, and maybe probably not even him, he then took that shit, literally, and he put it in Linda's bag. It was apparently everywhere through the bag, and all over her toiletry bag. I'm not laughing ... I'm laughing in horror, you understand. It's a similar horror to the horror of that girl earlier who didn't like me. So I get home and Serafina's finishing tidying up, cooking dinner for the kids or whatever, and I'm like, "Did Nathan eat his dinner?" She's like, "Yeah, I've gone." "Cool, what else?" Like what else went on tonight, what else is news or [inaudible 00:40:13]. She's like, "Oh." And then she told me. I was just like, "I don't know what ... Oh my god. He's never done anything like that. Like, never." And then I'm messaging Linda, I'm like, "I'm so ... I'm mortified." I mean, she just laughed, but I don't think she was impressed. She didn't just laugh. I think she had whatever internal reaction that she obviously had. Then she told me what she said to him, which was very perfect, really. I was like, oh my god. Oh my god. Why? Why would he do that? And, by the way, he completely adores and is in love with Linda, just in case you've got only questions around that for anyone who doesn't fully know the story of Linda and everything. Like, he loves her. He is in love with her, and he thinks she's the most beautiful, amazing person, and he talks about her all the time, and he calls her Linda the unicorn, because the first time the kids met Linda, she stayed overnight and had a slumber party, and she wore a unicorn onesie the whole time, then gave the children unicorn rides on her back. That was the same time when she brought this cushion and some kind of unicorn pillow also. So he loves her. Why would he do that to a woman he loves. Men, answer for your gender. All of you. Now. Of course, he threw some undies with poo on them off the balcony a few weeks ago. That's quite different to spreading poo through somebody's bag. That was also an isolated event. I feel that he's starting to build somewhat of a rap list of some kind, and I should probably keep some of his stories quiet now. This was definitely the worst thing that I've ever known him to do, or just the most ghastly thing, I must say. So anyway. I think we've said all that we came here to say. I just wonder, when you're selling things, are you selling from a place of reaching into their souls and telling them why they must buy and really fucking meaning it, or are you just like, "Yes, I've got this thing, and it's quite a good thing. I think it's a good thing. It's something of a thing. Here's 49 bullet points as why you should buy it, and then yeah, now here's 29 more emails that get sent out every day, and I'm gonna keep telling you about it, but I'm a little embarrassed, and I'm a little self conscious, and I wouldn't ... I don't want you to think I'm selling to you. I don't wanna be salesy." So you're kind of like, "Yeah, I'm just gonna meekly pop it in the corner here and hope that you see it, then I'm gonna apologise energetically even if not literally, then I'm gonna do it again, because that's what you're supposed to do, but I won't say what I'm really thinking, because that might scare some people off. And I don't want people to think that I'm trying to make them buy, so I'll just kind of casually mention my thing and maybe they'll just know that it's for them and that they should pay me a lot of money." No. Are you crazy? Not the good crazy. Why are people doing that? Why? Why are you doing that if you're doing it? I'll tell you why. It's because you didn't kick your own ass properly. It's because you didn't join breaktheinternet.com. Join before we close. Why would you not just tell them that they're gonna be off their tiny little beautiful minds if they don't join your thing? Why would you not just tell them that if they never spend another cent with you again, they better fricking join the thing? Why would you not bring the energy and the passion and the fire to what you're selling? Or is it that you don't really believe in it? If that's the case leave and never return. But presumably you believe in what you're selling. Right? Right. Hi. Hi Janine. Thank you for saying hi. Send me a love heart shower if you believe in what you're selling, because if you do, and you're carrying on like that, it's a travesty, and it's an embarrassment for the entire fucking community and yourself. You should fucking sit up straight and stick your boobs out and have some wine and own your queen power. Who the hell do you think you are? You're a queen sitting on top the throne. Be in the fucking energy of that. be gracious in your power. And be bold in your message. And don't take any fucking shit from that other voice inside of your head. That's basically the main point that I'm trying to say. I mean, why don't you just act like you fucking believe in it, if you believe in it, right? You can say you believe in it. Why don't ... Oh, fuck that was one of those moments where I nearly threw the glass of wine at the laptop. But it would have been for a worthy cause. Is there any way that I could show my passion and fire more than throwing a glass of beautiful organic red wine at my rose gold MacBook. It can be so tiring to keep being around, being this person when there's struggle around you. I thought you meant it's so tiring sometimes to around me. It's so energising to be around me. The more that you're around me, the more your energy raises, your vibe elevates. Just being in my presence makes you more powerful and you become more abundant and you make more money. So really you should join for that reason if no other reason. And I'm not making it up, it's obvious. Won't stick your boobs out because someone might lose an eye. Well, bully for you. Me too, as of tomorrow. What else did I miss here? It can be so tiring to keep being this person when there's struggle around you. I don't fully understand that, but I think there's wine all in the corners of my mouth. What does that mean? I'm missing something that I think is important. Okay. Stick them out. What do you mean? I don't understand. How am I missing this? It's going straight over my head. I think I've gotten too hyped up on my own excitement. You gotta fricking own it. You gotta own your awesome. I did a challenge one time, a free challenge called Own Your Awesome. It's really a similar type of thing that we're talking about here. You've got to fucking own it. Thank you. Thank you [inaudible 00:46:22]. You've gotta fucking own it. That's my whole point. It's not enough to just be posting shit on the internet. Nobody cares. I'll stick them out already. I've been doing a fabulous self pleasure routine, actually, on my breasts and on other parts of me. I've been covering myself with love. Not in a gross, sticky way. And just taking the time to love my body. I had a beautiful moment in yoga earlier this evening where I was like, I think ... I'm being super serious now, so sit up straight and pay attention. We turned into church now. I had this moment in yoga where I was like, "Well this is my last yoga class with these breasts before I do the surgery tomorrow." But in that moment in yoga, I suddenly was like, "I think I'm experiencing right now in this moment the purest love and acceptance that I've ever had for myself. I've spent most of my life completely fucking hating myself, and never even able to look my own self in the eye in the mirror. Took me like eight freaking years of doing 90-minute yoga classes nearly every day to finally be able to look myself fully in the eyes and not look away. I went into self love, true love of myself last year sometime I feel, but in that moment earlier today, I was like, "I think this is the purest moment of deep self love and acceptance," where I was just like, "I fully fucking love myself in a completely non-ego way." It was just beautiful, and I feel like it's quite a contrast that I'm saying that now to everything else I've been yabbering on about. But it really was, and I was like, "This is the most perfect moment in time ever, because I'm doing something tomorrow that's changing my body, that is daunting or whatever." And I know it's [inaudible 00:48:17] in the right decision. But there's still that part of me that's like, "Um, am I gonna lose a piece of myself, or something, that I'm changing myself?" Something like that. And it was just this moment of no, this is perfect, and it's exactly as it's meant to be, and you just get to fully honour and love yourself right now, and tomorrow's whatever it is. Something like that. It was a glimpse. Thank you Angela. It was a glimpse. And also all these things just fell down where I was just like, "Oh my god, I see everything so clearly now." Relationship stuff mainly. And I was like, "Holy shit. It's just so fucking clear and so fucking obvious." And I was like, "This is just how it is." I was in my queen energy. That's what happened. I was standing there and I was like, "I'm like a queen." I was elevated into a queen in that room somehow. Like, my posture changed, my whole presence changed, everything changed, I could see it. I don't know. I'm gonna write about it later. Now I feel a bit self conscious. That's the truth. It means you step in it again and again. Sometimes I feel like I've run out of poop. I'm like Nathan, who never runs out of poop. Aah. Unagi. I understand. Sometimes I feel that way as well. Sometimes fuck the full on live stream. Sometimes I'm gonna be super quiet and not even turn the fricking light on. The real one or the ... Well, this is the real one. But the other one over there, or the you know one. So that's fine. You can be whoever you need to be each day. But as a general rule, if you're gonna sell something, then you're gonna fucking sell it, right? You're gonna be like, "Buy the damn thing." Speaking of the queen, I'm feeling coterie. That was a great course, hey? What a good course that was. Many people were transformed by that course. Okay, I gotta go. What time is it even? Should I even go to bed or just, should I just stay up all night? Oh, this laptop died. I forgot about that. Breaktheinternet.com has already begun. It is off the hook. We cover many things about many things. The details are in the pinned comment. You would be out of your mind, and not in the good way, to not be part of this. If you remotely resonate with the way that I do business in life, with my soul speaks and your soul says, "Oh my god, yes, there you are, I was waiting for you." Not in a lover sort of way, but in the same sort of way but different. If you experience that with me, and you know that it's 12:22 am, two two two right here in Brisbane, thank you Lisa. It's not Brisbane, but close enough. Then join breaktheinternet.com. Details are down below. I'll see you inside. Doors close fully midnight eastern standard time tonight, Monday, May 28th. So you have a little bit of time left, but I don't know what the fuck you would be thinking if you would just wait until that final countdown. Join now. If you do it super quickly, I might even let you into the group before I go to bed. Otherwise, I'll be up in several hours, and I'll be doing many things, mostly going to hospital. But I'm sure I'll run a whole fucking business while I'm there somehow. All right. Love, love, love the badassery of this community. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being you. Thank you for remembering. Life is now. Press play.

KJ is an owner of PSISTORM esports, an organization out of Virginia that competes primarily in Starcraft II. He is an avid car fanatic and drives a Ferrari Scuderia, he met the rest of the owners through car events. In addition to his love of cars, we talk about Celebrate Fairfax a massive event in North VA., with 80-100,000 people attending where PSISTORM will be holding the PSISTORM Cup. KJ talks about bringing esports to a mainstream audience at the event on June 6th. In addition, we cover esports visa issues. With so many players coming from abroad, (PSISTORM has a couple now, and four more on the way) how do professional athletes visas work and what options do players have to get to America? *It was trash day when I recorded this and there was some added noise in the background as a result. I did my best to cut it out in editing but there is some choppy conversations as a result of waiting for trucks to go by.

Episode 10 of Becoming American Social I used to be verrrrry uncomfortable being naked in front of people. Then I became pretty accustomed to being nakey at Korean spas growing up. But with Americans in America?? It seemed weird. Day 10 challenge was to go to a nude spa or pool. After feeling all eyes on me for a moment, things settled down. Scrub-a-dub-dub. Subscribe, maybe suggest something uncomfortable for me to try, and join me in Becoming American Social. ... (Clips from the following were used, and filtered with a fade in and fade out): Sampler EP Vol. 9 by Vulpiano Records Artists 05. r.u.u.n.e. - GONNA WEAR IT ANYWAYS (03:52) freemusicarchive.org/music/Vulpiano…cords_Artists/ Manhattan Skyline (ID 761) by Lobo Loco 05. Manhattan Skyline (ID 761) (04:59) freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loc…Skyline_ID_761 Transmission by Parallel Park 05. Chicken Dance (03:41) freemusicarchive.org/music/Parallel…k/Transmission

You know what time it is. It’s time to open your ears and your mind, because Strange Days is back and this week’s episode is sure to leave you astounded. Do you remember reading George Orwell’s “1984” in school? Did you ever think, this can never happen in America? It’s time to rethink that because we ARE in Oceania right now. We have to address the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group forced their nearly 200 stations across the country to air their dog whistle propaganda and we found the rare opportunity to speak with an employee of Sinclair, keeping their identity hidden of course. As always, we continue to follow the Trump administration closely by speaking with David Corn, chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones, and author of the new book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump”. WAIT! You thought that was it? Oh no. To wrap up our show, we turn back the clocks to the days of jailhouse rock and blue suede shoes. We’re speaking of course about The King, Elvis Presley. We were humbled to speak with a member of the original Memphis Gang, Jerry Schilling, in anticipation of the new HBO documentary, “Elvis Presley: The Searcher”, that Schilling executive produced, airing April 14th. Enjoy!

This week, in honor of International Women's Day, Katja shares some of her thoughts and experiences with adult daughters who became caregivers for their elderly parents. There's a particular pattern of compromised lung health she's seen emerge in these women, which has been tightly tied to the complex stresses and emotional challenges of the role. Fortunately, she's found an herbal ally - pleurisy root, Asclepias tuberosa - who's been especially helpful to them - and may help you or someone you love, as well! Mentioned in this podcast: Health Care? Daughters Know All About It, Roni Caryn Rabin (NYT, May 2017) - "As Washington debates the relative merits of health care legislation, many families have already come up with what is arguably the most reliable form of care in America: It's called daughter care.Dementia Care, Women's Health, and Gender Equity, Bott et al (JAMA Neurology, July 2017) - "The best long-term care insurance in our country is a conscientious daughter."The Crisis Facing America's Working Daughters, Liz O'Donnell (The Atlantic, February 2016)Daughterhood - An excellent resource for women who are managing care for their parents.Support the show (https://commonwealthherbs.com/supporters/)

Today we are talking about church shopping & the consumer mindset. More than ever, Christians "shop" for the "perfect" churches. With a church on every corner in some areas of the country, we have no lack of choices. Just like we go to Starbucks and have thousands of drink options, we expect to go to church and find dozens of options for music and programs. Are we even "shopping" for the right things? What about looking for churches that preach from the Bible with people that love each other in true community? Is this good and healthy for the church in America? It's human nature to be always searching for more because we need to find satisfaction in Christ. Unfortunately, most people aren't finding satisfaction in Christ and continue trying to fill their lives with things. People have always struggled with self-control, so this isn't a new sin issue. It's important to search our heart motivations for the things we consume, the appetites we develop, and the expectations we have. How do you contribute to the consumer mentality in your home? We talk about a few things we've noticed in our own homes. Are we teaching our children to worship the right things? We encourage you to examine how many hours you spend consuming media vs. consuming scripture. It's not that we believe all media is evil, but there needs to be balance. Let's be intentional about what appetites we are feeding and what habits we are forming in our families.

Trump’s Teleprompter reading of his State of the Union speech was reprehensible in so many ways—why bother listening at all? Don’t we already know enough about him? Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect comments on the lies, and the inadvertent truths, in the president’s speech. Plus, injustice in America: It’s not just the police, it’s also the prosecutors—and their reliance on “forensics”—who create much of the injustice in the American justice system. Despite the portrayal on TV of forensic analysts on the show “CSI” as crime-solving seekers of truth, prominent scientists and criminal justice experts have questioned whether suspects can really be identified by forensic techniques like matching bite marks, hairs, shoeprints, tire tracks, or even fingerprints. According to the Innocence Project, faulty forensic science is a factor in nearly 50 percent of wrongful convictions. Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth explain in their Nation article, “The Crisis of American Forensics.”

The outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election was influenced by the rural vote. Host/Producer Julia Terhune talks to Michigan State University and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine students and faculty to see how perceptions of rural America have changed since the outcome of the election.  Transcript:  -[Julia] This Rural Mission is brought to you by Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Leadership and Rural Medicine programs. The podcast is funded in part by a generous grant provided by the Herbert H and Grace A Dow Foundation. To learn more about the Leadership and Rural Medicine programs please visit www.msururalhealth.chm.msu.edu. I'm your host Julia Terhune and stay tuned for more from This Rural Mission.    (folk music)   Just after the 2016 presidential election I did what every good wannabe podcaster does. I took my little voice recorder and I went and spoke to a bunch of undergraduate students. Well, maybe a few of them were graduate. I don't know.    (lively guitar music)   Every student that I asked, I asked the same question. What is your perception of rural America after the onset of the election? Most people I spoke to didn't even know what I was talking about when I said the words "rural America".   - [Man] Rural America? - [Woman] What do you mean be rural America exactly? - [Woman] What does this mean? Like which part of America are we referring to? Like just farmland America? - [Woman] I don't know honestly. Just like... I mean...Yeah, it's like farmland and stuff, but I don't know.   - [Julia] The other group didn't have much to say.   - [Woman] Um, it hasn't changed. - [Man] I think it's a hardworking community. They do a lot for our country. I mean, again, my opinion hasn't changed of them since the election. - [Man] I think that they're a very hardworking down to Earth people.   - [Woman] Honestly they kind of stayed the same.That there were hardworking people.   - [Julia] But of course I couldn't ask about the election and rural America without talking about racism.   - [Woman] Are you asking if I think that there are a whole bunch more racist people in the world or something? Um, I don't know. It kind of depends. Like, I'm from small-town Texas, so what could be considered rural America, and I know for a fact that my folks voted for Trump. And I was super against it but they didn't vote for Trump because they're racist. They vote for Trump because they're both in the military and, you know, what he was saying was gonna benefit the military more and Hillary, you know, did some horrible crap that military folks could just never forgive. - [Man] I just feel that people from rural America get like a lot of... Like a little bit of malice from the people from the city and people really aren't that bad from rural America, so.   - [Julia] Well what do you mean by "not that bad"?   - [Man] I don't know, there's kind of just like a sentiment that we're all like racist or we're all like, I don't know, anti-immigration. But really a lot of us are from different ends of the spectrum, and we're also... Admittedly we're not very...We're not quite as exposed to other, I don't know, other people, it is mostly white out there, but we don't feel like we're racist. We don't judge people, so, I don't know. But I feel like we still get a lot of malice for that.   - [Man] My mom grew up in like up north areas of Michigan and they seem to be a little, I don't know, a little far right. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing or a good thing. I just think that it's just sort of... They seem like they're a little bit disconnected from the rest of the, I guess millennial generation. I don't really know much about it 'cause I'm not from there but I think that they're just sort of closed... I'm not gonna say closed-minded because that's sort of, I don't know, sort of a stereotype. But I think that, I don't know, that somehow they need to get more involved but I don't know how they can do that because they're so far away from everything, you know what I mean? So, I mean, that's kind of it really.   - [Julia] And then there were instances like this.   - [Man] Undereducated. Believe what they want to instead of look at facts.   - [Woman] They're probably not exposed to the more urban, more current understanding of other people because they're stuck in their old ways in their little farmhouses. So they're not really exposed to a lot of different kinds of people.   - [Julia] It wasn't enough for me just to canvas  Michigan State University. I also wanted to hear from the people who are from rural America. The people who are serving rural America and the people who are vowing to serve rural America. The voices you're about to hear on this podcast consist of a number of individuals. We are going to start with Doctor Andrea Wendling, the director of Rural Community Health for Michigan State University and a family medicine physician in northern Michigan. She spoke at a round table we held with Leadership and Rural Medicine medical students after the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. All of the students sitting at that round table have devoted their clinical medical education to rural communities. This was Doctor Wendling's first comment to the group.   - [Doctor Wendling] Okay so our question for tonight is how did this election impact your vision of rural America or your feelings about rural America. My feeling is that, you know, my whole life is trying to figure out rural disparities, right? And trying to help rural populations. I think a lot about rural, I dream about rural, and so there was a lot that went on during this election around the time of the election where there were a lot of root words that were floating around like "racist" and "homophobic" and , you know, a lot of negative words. And you know, they were kind of being um...You know, they were kind of being assigned to people who supported Trump, okay, or people with conservative ideologies, right? And then it was really hard for me internalizing so much about rural America. Watching that night, like, county after county after county turn red and having people feel like okay every rural county is gonna be red and every urban county is gonna be blue when I knew that there were all these words attached to this feeling, right? You know I think at the beginning I was, you know, I was upset because all these words were attached to it, but then as you think about it there were a lot of reasons why... You know there was a lot of conversation that happened as part of the election, you know, I think that all of a sudden these issues that face rural America that are really significant, meaningful issues like the economic disparity and the educational disparity or lack of educational opportunities and lack of feeling hope,   you know, that your future will be different. You know, that kind of came to light and so there's part of me that feels like it might be an opportunity because this is stuff that was not a surprise to me, right? But seemed like it was this huge surprise to everybody. They're like what happened? Why is everybody so unhappy in rural America? It's like, have you looked at it? (laughs) You know have you seen why people are so unhappy?    (light piano music)   - [Julia] Doctor Joel Maurer is the Dean of Admissions at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. As a rural native himself and a physician for many years he also had a profound insight to the needs of rural America. - [Doctor Maurer] Understanding that, you know, I was disappointed with the result, I kind of admire rural America for kind of figuring out a way at the grass roots level to say you can't ignore me anymore. I kind of admired a marginalized group of individuals figuring out a way to have a major impact in the leadership of this country. At least for the next four years. You know, I use Nebraska as sort of my example. And the thing that I think people tend to overlook about the state of Nebraska is that at least if you look at the Democratic side of that state, in the primaries that state went Bernie. So did Oklahoma. So did Wisconsin.   - [Julia] So did Michigan.   - [Doctor Maurer] Michigan, right. I think that in and of itself should be an indicator to the, at least the leadership of the Democratic party, that there's a certain amount of unease and unrest that's going on in some of these states. They just need some attention from someone.    (light guitar music)   - [Julia] But what is more significant is what the students themselves had to say about serving a rural  community after the outcome of the election.   - [Woman] Oh yeah, I'll be really honest about how I felt, like the next day one of the first things I said was that I don't want to go to Traverse City anymore. Like it was really a shock and it was hard. And I think that one of the things that someone said to me, my brother said this to me right away, is that these are people that you're gonna be helping, like what you're describing and you have to understand where they were coming from.   -[Woman] I was a medical assistant in Marquette for a while before med school and would hear things from people that were kind of like a racist undertone or... It's these weird things. So I think I always in my head have kind of known if you're working with people, and not necessarily from like Marquette but people who are from these tiny little one stoplight towns outside who are driving two hours to come to Marquette because that's the big city where they're gonna get care, like, it just doesn't necessarily surprise me to hear certain, I don't know, I've heard certain viewpoints before that I disagree with and was still their medical assistant and was able to in my head be like wow I don't agree with what you just said but I can still treat you like a person. Their medical care is what... It's what matters. So I guess, yes it was made more public, but my whole viewpoint of I don't agree with these people I said I'm still gonna treat these patients didn't necessarily change for me.   - [Woman] One of the things that really bothered me was like the generalization of rural America. Because I know so many people that are very well-educated, very well established that both do and do not support Trump. And yet, both alike get thrown into this general stereotype that oh, because you're from this area you're uneducated, you're racist, you're this and that. If you're from these towns, regardless of your standpoints then this is what you are. - [Man] Another thing too though, that I also noticed with my conversations were we're all healthcare people and so we are super focused on healthcare. And I don't think I ever had a single conversation with people that did support Trump that started or ended with healthcare.   - [Woman] See, I have a different experience. I had multiple conversations that started with Obamacare. Very anti-Obamacare because of all the inflation and health costs and what they didn't realize was that the inflation of health cost comes from other things that we just had a lecture on. There was three pages of a document of just listed things that made healthcare more expensive. And when push comes to shove some of the general population just doesn't understand it because they're not from a healthcare perspective.   - [Woman] Also I'm confused.   - [Woman] I don't understand it.   - [Woman] Yeah it's really confusing too. And so when they bring up Obamacare and they say... They throw this one fact, this one fact that you're unfamiliar with, but you show them all this other facts but you're not able to address that one thing that you're just unsure of. It's like you cannot connect. Even though you know from a different perspective what may or may not be better or what's true.   - [Woman] Similar to that, I forgot where we sat, but someone was talking about how there is racism and sexism in this country. Like those are just things that exist. But they're really subtle and it's these tiny little things to have these nuanced discussions about ways sexism exists in everyday life, ways racism exists in everyday life, that you really have to dissect and think a lot about to understand, whereas if you don't like Hillary Clinton people can just be like oh she's crooked. But to explain why the subtleties of sexism and why sexism lead to why you think Hillary's so crooked. You know what I mean? Like, that's a very long, deep conversation versus just being like yeah, she's crooked so I would never vote for her. And that's the end of the conversation. Or like, explaining how racism exists in society versus being from an all white town where you've never dealt with minorities and being like racism is over, what are you talking about? We have a black president. And that's just the end of the conversation. You know, like it takes a certain level of education just to be able to dissect these issues enough to know that they're even there.   - [Julia] How do you think the perception of rural America in the media right now is going to affect future leaders, future medical leaders. Students right now who might want to go on and serve those communities. Do you think it's going to be a deterrent?   - [Doctor Maurer] I think for those who want... Who know in their heart they want to serve in that capacity it's not going to be a deterrent. I think what we struggle with is you have the rural kid who is able to pursue higher education, depending on where he or she chooses to go, that kid chooses to go to an institution that does have a history of a lot of progressive thought, exposures to people who are different from themselves. What I worry about is is that kid four years later still gonna wanna go back to rural America to serve? For that matter, the kid who is from rural Michigan who really chooses to go outside their comfort zone and I'm gonna go to the University of Southern California for four years. Are we gonna be able to get that kid to come back to serve his or her rural constituents? I think the answer is "I don't know". I mean it I think it depends on what their experiences were. But I think that it's possible that that four to five-year college education, depending on where they choose to go, probably is gonna have a huge, huge influence on whether or not someone wants or chooses to return to the rural community. And that... And so I think that probably plays a bigger role. I think part of our success in being able to get students to return to medically rural underserved communities, we're gonna have to... There's gonna have to be, I think a significant outreach effort that occurs before they even hit the medical school's door. We gotta figure out a way to keep them tied to their rural roots in a positive manner and how can they use these very interesting educational hidden curriculum experiences in a residential college and university. How can they use what they've learned about life and themselves in applying that to the care that they would be able to offer in rural America. I think that's where we need to focus right now.   - [Julia] For four years Doctor Andrea Wendling has been working with pre-med undergraduate students from rural areas of Michigan. Through the Rural Pre-medical Internship Program, Doctor Wendling and Doctor Todd Shepard have worked to mentor pre-medical students who want to become doctors and want to return to rural America. Through this program Doctor Wendling and Doctor Shepard have been teaching students what it takes to get into medical school and what it takes to become a rural doctor. After four years of this program there is significant fruit coming from all of Doctor Wendling's efforts. With the onset of the election, the media coverage, and the perceptions and ideas that have come from  and out of rural America, Doctor Wendling wants all  rural and rurally-minded medical students, healthcare professionals, and young people to know this.   - [Doctor Wendling] I came in and I said, you know, there's a lot of conversation about rural Americans happening right now. And this election has brought to light a lot of, you know, a lot of things that are happening to rural people in a lot of disparity. And you know, regardless of your political ideology that's a real thing. Like, this disparity is a real thing and it affects people and it affects people  in a really meaningful way. And you know, it affects all of you in this room. And you need to understand that MSU...You know, you are part of our mission. We want rural students and we want rural students who want to care for underserved populations and we know that your path to medical school may have been harder than the paths of many of your peers because of these disparities and that's okay. You know, we want you.    (mellow country music) ♫ Gathered near the lake ♫ Celebrate the union ♫ All of my old friends and me ♫ There was singing and dancing ♫ Till the morning had come ♫ And we sang and we danced some more ♫ So long my comrades ♫ Till we meet again ♫ Years pass more quickly ♫ And the reasons for gathering ♫ Are fading away ♫ But you know who I was ♫ And I know what you went through ♫ And nobody knows me like you   - [Julia] Thank you again for listening to This Rural Mission. This podcast is produced by me, Julia Terhune. I want to extend a great deal of thanks to Doctor Joel Maurer for taking time out of his schedule to speak to me. Doctor Maurer will be highlighted on several other podcasts. What he had to say was so tremendous and so interesting. I also want to thank all of the Leadership and Rural Medicine students who took time out of their Wednesday night to meet with us at a round table. And all of them gave their profound insight and perspective onto what happened in the election. I also want to thank all of the people that I terrorized while I was canvasing around Michigan State University. It was cold, it was wet, it was rainy and there were so many people who gave me the time of day  and answered my silly little questions. As always, thank you Doctor Wendling for making this project a key priority of the Leadership and Rural Medicine programs. Until next time, I'm your host Julia Terhune and I encourage you to make rural your mission.    (mellow country music) ♫ So long my comrades   ♫ Till we meet again ♫ Years pass more quickly ♫ And the reasons for gathering ♫ Are fading away ♫ But you know who I was ♫ And I know what you went through ♫ And nobody knows me like you ♫ My comrades and friends ♫ You don't who I am right now ♫ Years and the miles had their way ♫ But you know who I was ♫ Before I became who I am ♫ I can see where I've been in your eyes ♫ So long my comrades ♫ Till we meet again ♫ Years pass more quickly ♫ And the reasons for gathering ♫ Are fading away ♫ But you know who I was ♫ And I know what you went through ♫ And nobody knows me like you   - [Julia] To learn more about the Rural Community Health Program please visit our website at www.msururalhealth.chm.msu.edu. By joining our website you can connect to us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also find out more about our musician. Music today was provided by Horton Creek and Brian Edgars, a local musician and Michigan native. We hope you tune in next time to hear more from This Rural Mission.  

Do you know the #1 cause of death in America? It is not what you think - our diet has surpassed smoking as a cause of death. Michel Nischan, chef and Founder, President and CEO of Wholesome Wave, and Lindsey Seegers, Program Manager of Nutrition Education at Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, MD know that food-related disease is both deadly and preventable. They join Share Our Strength founders Debbie and Billy Shore to explain some promising ways they are addressing the root causes of diet-related diseases. “We spend about $1.4 trillion a year on diet-related disease,” says Nischan. Yet the economic disparities of a disease like Type 2 Diabetes are stark. “I learned that the majority of the people that struggle with that condition lived at income levels so low they couldn’t even afford the basic ingredients to help them prevent the disease in the first place.” Seegers works with thousands of families in Montgomery County on nutritious eating. “Healthy eating is not just for the rich,” she stresses. “What parents want so much is to feed their children well – they want the best for their kids. The challenge is to be able to afford adequate and enough wholesome staple foods.”Both guests believe that systemic changes are needed to impact health outcomes, and they are making real progress. Seegers’ work at Manna Food Center focuses on nutrition education – not just food distribution – to help families learn how to identify and afford healthy foods on a budget. They are also launching a retrofitted school bus that serves as a mobile kitchen and pop-up pantry. Wholesome Wave began a 2-for-1 program for buying fruits and vegetables with SNAP food stamps with private funding which grew into a federally-funded program in the Farm Bill called the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program with $100M over 5 years. Nischan did not predict the success of the model. “However complicated the root causes are, something as simplistic as providing affordability thru incentives can be so powerful – it’s mindboggling.” FINI has also had larger economic impacts because farmers whose produce is purchased through the program are responding to this increased demand by making infrastructural improvements and expanding their enterprises.These food justice leaders also discuss the recent threats to the SNAP food stamp program and the effect that cuts would have on families and the economy. “Food is where people are going to cut when things get really tight,” reports Seegers, which means that preventing diet-related disease will be even more difficult. “It’s just wrongheaded,” says Nischan. He cites the return on investment of giving people access to healthy food vs. paying for expensive health care treatments like dialysis. “$100 thousand dollars saves $4 million dollars.”

What is the least diverse place in America? The college campus! Colleges want students to look different but think the same. What is the least diverse place in America? It's the institution that most actively seeks racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity: the college campus! Colleges want students to look different, but think the same. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, explains. This video with Charlie Kirk is part of an exciting partnership between PragerU and Turning Point USA that will include videos with other young conservatives like Ben Shapiro, Antonia Okafor, Matt Walsh and more!  Visit FreetoThink.org to learn more.  It's appalling that, in the 21st century, there is still so little diversity on American college campuses. This. Cannot. Stand. It’s not who we are. It’s intolerable. It’s time we demand a change. It’s time to stage a protest, to storm the dean’s office. We will not be ignored. Diversity is our strength. I’m not talking about diversity of skin color. Been there, done that. Today’s campuses are more racially integrated than at any time in history. And I’m not talking about gender diversity. Women already make up the majority of college graduates. And if your concern is non-binary gender, there is no place on earth more accepting of hims, hers, zims and zirs than a college campus. I’m not even talking about sexual diversity. You can pretty much experiment with anyone you want, in any way you want, as long as you get a consent form signed and notarized in advance. No, the diversity I’m talking about is diversity… of thought! Let me say it again, in case you missed it: Diversity of thought. That’s right: people expressing different points of view on an issue. At most colleges today, that’s a dangerous, revolutionary idea – if that different point of view is not on the left. The moment you enter college, you enter an indoctrination center. Remember orientation week? It starts there and never stops. They tell you to be open-minded, but they don’t really mean it. Almost all your professors are on the left – nearly 12 to 1, left to right, according to a recent study by Econ Journal Watch. There are many departments at many colleges that don’t have a single conservative voice. The administration invariably supports leftist positions. And, all those diversity administrators – they depend for their livelihood (that means their paycheck) on creating victims. Diversity of race, or gender, or sexuality, or any of the other distinctions du jour that universities glorify are, at best, superficial and, at worst, just plain destructive. It’s destructive to any real learning. If you don't study Shakespeare because he was a white male, you have been deprived of learning from the most brilliant playwright who ever lived. And it’s destructive of a peaceful campus environment because it pits racial, ethnic, and gender groups against one another. In other words, diversity, as practiced on your typical college campus, divides – not unites – people. And diversity of thought? The free exchange of ideas?  You know, what college is actually supposed to be about? Not happening. If you’ve been in college for a few years, ask yourself this: When was the last time you heard a professor or a TA make the argument that capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system? Or that socialism always leads to poverty? Or that the post-World War II order created by America has been the freest and most prosperous time in human history? Or that the cause of high crime rates in black communities has very little to do with historic racism? And God forbid if a conservative speaker should show up on campus and dare to say any of these things. If the ideas of the people on the right have so little merit, why bother to protest? Shouldn’t their bad ideas just die on their own? Isn’t the purpose of a liberal education to expose students to differing points of view? Turns out that the “liberal” in “liberal education” means leftist. Here’s how the University of California at Berkeley, the pinnacle of political correctness, describes itself: “Our goal is to transform UC Berkeley into an equitable and inclusive academy of the highest caliber – one that fully honors the diversity of our students, faculty and staff." Give me a break! Berkeley needs to be transformed? It’s not diverse enough? After all these years of expanding equity and inclusion? Bull-crap! It positively reeks of cissexist heteropatriarchy! Say that three times. I don’t know what it means, but it sure sounds bad. Walk around the Berkeley campus, or almost any campus, and you will see plenty of blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians – even a straight white guy or two. College is a place where they want everyone to look different, but think exactly the same. It’s like a freaking cult! At some point you have to stand up, separate yourself from the crowd, and say, “Enough!” It’s time to diversify thought on campus. It’s time to demand a real education. God knows, you’re paying for it. I’m Charlie Kirk, President of Turning Point USA, for Prager University.

How did one boy's stuffed yellow elephant permanently intertwine itself in history? What is a data scientist? Why is right now the golden age for data science? We take a crack at all three of these questions—the second two, with the help of Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Ryan Henning. Transcript Ginette: “Over the past few years, we’ve seen these news flashes: “An article in Harvard Business Review in 2014, titled: Data Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century “Mashable’s article in 2015: So You Wanna Be a Data Scientist? A Guide to 2015’s Hottest Profession “Business Insider, 2016: Data Science was the #1 Profession as Rated by Glassdoor “A data science industry observer, KDnuggets, 2017: Data Scientist: Best Job in America, Again, which cites the most recent Glassdoor report outlining the very top jobs in America: “It turns out, four of the five top US jobs deal with data. In descending order, we find data scientist, devops engineer, data engineer, and analytics manager.” Curtis: “With four out of five of these top jobs orbiting data, clearly something’s going on here.” Ginette: “I’m Ginette.” Curtis: “And I’m Curtis.” Ginette: “And you are listening to Data Crunch.” Curtis: “A podcast about how data and prediction shape our world.” Ginette: “A Vault Analytics production.” Ginette: “Today is a culmination of everything we’ve talked about in our series on the history of data science. This is where all the contributions of Florence Nightingale, William Playfair, Ronald Fisher, Ada Lovelace, and many others come together in one place. We’ll add a couple more people to this list to answer these two questions: ‘What is a data scientist? And why is right now the golden age of data science?’” Curtis: “According to IBM, ‘everyday, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data.’ But what does a quintillion actually look like? “Well, if you take one quintillion pennies, you could actually place them face up end to end can and blanket the entire surface of the earth 1.5 times over. Or think about one quintillion ants. That would be like taking all of the ants that exist today on planet earth according to some estimates, and then you have to take that number and multiply it by 100. So, that ant pile in your front yard becomes 100 ant piles in your front yard. Basically ants take over the earth. And we make 2.5 quintillion bytes every single day! “The next question is, how much information does that actually represent? It’s 250,000 times the amount of information that all the printed material in the Library of Congress contains. And we make that every single day.” Ginette: “In 2013, SINTEF published this stat, quote: ‘90% of the world’s data has been created in the preceding two years.’ According to one Ph.D. technologist, this has been true for the last 30 years because every two years, we produce 10 times as much data.” Curtis: “This exponential growth is insane. Just as an example of this type of growth rate, if you take a hypothetical scenario, and you take the world’s population, and say it starts growing as rapidly as data is growing now, it would look like this: Currently, the world’s population, 7 billion people, could fit in the size of Texas if they were living as densely as they do in New York City. Now, in two year’s time with this growth rate, you’d actually have to cover the entire United States and half of Canada with people living in New York City-like density. And if you extrapolate that out ten years keeping the growth rate the same, you’d have to cover the entire planet, including all of the oceans, with New York Cities, and then you’d have to do that with 100–150 additional earths to fit all of those people. That’s the kind of growth rate we’re talking about.” Ginette: “With data collection on the rise, one report goes so far as to say that only the data literate will have the chops to be executives in the future, quote:

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Stand, Week 1 Jeff Ginn The eyes of our nation, this week, have been focused on small County in Kentucky. It’s called Rowan County. It's because there, a test case of sorts, has arisen. It swirls around a simple County Clerk. Her name is Kim Davis. Kim it turns out had lived a wild life and she had been married four times. Yet, at her mother-in-law's passing in 2011, the Lord got a hold of her and she came to know Christ as her Savior and it radically transformed her life. She says today that she's devout Christian. Well, when the Supreme Court ruled, earlier this year, that same-sex marriage was to be the law of the land, she was placed in a quandary. She was elected as clerk. In fact, her mother before her had been the County Clerk. Something of a family tradition, which is common they say in Kentucky. She had been elected under the premise that marriage was, as the Scripture teaches, between a man and a woman and now she found herself as the clerk with the responsibility of issuing marriage licenses for relationships that she did not believe comported with what the Scripture teaches. What would she do? What ought she do? It was a difficult question. She made a decision in her heart, in fact she resolved in her heart that she would not go against her conscience and what she believed was right. So she made an appeal to the governing authorities and it went to the Supreme Court and that she be heard, that her arguments be heard and that was denied. It fell back to a judge; I believe it was a federal judge there in Kentucky to rule in her case. He ruled that she must issue the licenses. If you're paid by the state of Kentucky and the law of Kentucky is that people can marry across all sorts of lines, then she, as an employee of the state, would have to issue those licenses or face the consequences. She decided that she would do the latter. She would face the consequences and so the judge decreed that this woman be cast into prison and as we worship, here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this morning, that woman sits in a prison jail cell in Rowan County, Kentucky. I suppose I imagine that perhaps we would live to see a day like today, but the I’m not sure I really believed it would come. When someone would be imprisoned for a tenet of their religious faith. Many of you'll remember that our nation was actually founded on the exact opposite premise. That people came here to say, everyone ought to be able to worship according to their dictates and live out their faith without coercion. Those days, it seems are passing. So she's made the decision to stand. Now some of you maybe thinking, well now wait preacher, if she's paid by the state of Kentucky and the law is as it is, then she ought to just resign and a forfeit her position. You know what, I think a case could be made for that. In fact, that actually did happen here in the state of Louisiana not so many weeks ago. It happens that there was a justice of the peace, a lady, in fact of all things; she's married to a Baptist preacher. She’s a young woman and she was elected to be the justice of the peace in, I think, Grant Parish up in Central Louisiana. Maybe some of you know where that is. She made the decision, with her husband, that when the Supreme Court ruled as it did, that she rather than get into all kinds of the legalities and a potential suit, she would just resign. She did: she just resigned her position, I for one, am glad that Kim Davis is taking a stand. II don't necessarily, I can’t judge whether or not she's been perfect in every moment of this journey. That’s for God to judge, but I’m glad she's taken a stand. Let me tell you why, because this forces us as a nation to consider some very significant questions. Now she has said she'll take whatever repercussions come her way and she's proven that she would. In fact, when the judge ordered her to jail, her response was “yes, your honor, thank you.” She responded with grace and she's taken her lumps and there she sits in jail today. But we, as a nation, have to make some decisions about how were going to live going forward. Do we want to live in a nation? Do we want our nation to be the kind of place where a devout Christian can no longer be a court clerk? Where, in our nation, it can never be again a devout Christian, who would stand for traditional marriage that could be a justice of the peace? Where no believer of this nature, could serve as a chaplain in our Armed Forces? Could not be a chaplain with the state police force? You say, preacher that’s crazy. What are you talking about? Did you know that just this year, again this is in the state of Kentucky, there was a young man who was a volunteer from his church, he would go every week, as I understand it, to a correctional Institute where they housed young offenders. He would go there to share the hope of the gospel, and to disciple these young men. Well the state Department of Corrections came up with a sheet and he had to sign it and sheet said, “you cannot say that homosexual behavior is sinful.” Well if you are a devout believer that places you in a quandary. How can you not say what the Bible says is the case? In fact, while I’m on this, don’t think I mean this to be a diatribe against one particular sin. Any sexual activity outside the simple bounds of a man and woman wed in matrimony is outside of the parameters of what God established. Be it premarital sex, extramarital sex, homosexual behavior, all of it alike is outside what God ordained and so they said before you can go back into that prison you’ve got to sign this is. That you will not say that these behaviors are sinful. The young man said, “I can't do it.” Are we prepared to live in a nation, where volunteers from churches can't go into the prisons and share the hope of the gospel as we’ve discovered in Christ and declare Christ saves from all sin? Is that the kind of nation we want to live in?  Just these past few weeks, here in the state of Louisiana, an edict was released from the judicial commission of the State of Louisiana. It went to every judge in the State of Louisiana and it said “you must comport yourself in accordance with the Supreme Court's edict or we will remove your judgeship.” no Christian judges? No Christian bakers? No Christian photographers? These are serious days in which we’re living. Now friends listen, Kim Davis Is right at least in this one sense, we have to be willing to take whatever consequences come, but we must stand! We must stand for what is right! God will sort the consequences. Now where do we find help in making decisions during these difficult days with these weighty issues? I've got good news for you. There is help for us so we can know how we ought to live in these trying times and it's found in the book of Daniel. Would you please open your Bibles to Daniel? Daniel, Chapter One is where we are going to be this morning, and to me it's wonderful to think that this series has been planned for months. Months ago, we laid out our preaching schedule for this year and Daniel was the book that we chose and wouldn’t you know, in God's wisdom, he gave us this, just at the moment we most needed it. And that's the way he is. So if would now as our title implies, Stand, would you stand in honor of God's word and we are going to read the first chapter. Now normally, I don't read such an extended passage at one time. It takes about three minutes to read this first chapter, and I’m going to read every word. And this will be the best three minutes you spend all day, all right? Listening to what God says. I want to listen to this and then consider how ought I to live where I am? Just as Daniel learned to live in the circumstances where he found himself. Let’s read together beginning in Daniel chapter one verse one. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. (I like it that the editors used a little g, that’s appropriate, all right now verse 3) Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: (now you may not the names Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, but I think you know these) Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, (there it is) Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego. (You know those names don’t you? Shadrach, Meshach and “away we go”, all right, you know these names. These are the great three friends of Daniel; now look in verse 8, what happens?) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables. As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom. And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus. Let’s pray. God, we thank you for this book in the Bible, the book of Daniel. We thank you for the courage and commitment of these young men. The way that they stood when it seemed that all was coming against them. I pray God, you would teach us, how will stand in these days and to go against the flow when it seems that all of culture would sweep us away from you. Give us wisdom. Give us learning. Give us courage. Help us to dare to be a Daniel. I pray in Jesus name, Amen. Please be seated. This morning we’re going to begin a study in the book of Daniel and were going to look at the life of Daniel, this courageous young man and his four compatriots. This morning we’re going to focus in the first chapter. I’m going to divide this story into three scenes. I want you to follow along carefully as the Lord teaches us. Now the very first scene I going to call, A Great Tragedy. This story begins with a great tragedy. Look at how the passage opens, there in versus one and two and see it projected on the screen. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand. Now this tragedy that I'm going to describe has two components to it. First of all, there's the component of Israel's defeat. It is a tragedy that Israel was defeated. Now remember Israel. Israel was that small band of, a tribe really, that came out of the descendants of Abraham. They were enslaved in Egypt and with a mighty hand, God brought them out of Egypt and Israel, in effect, defeated the mightiest force in its day, Egypt. Then arose the Kings, Saul and then David. David, you remember took down Goliath and the Philistines. He united the kingdom and David's reign was a rain of great might and power and renown and wealth. Then came his son Solomon. Israel was a top the world it seemed, but fissures began to appear in the veneer. It was because of the idolatry and immorality and fracturedness of their nation that that the people of Israel began to go into a decline, a steep decline, until, by the time we come to the life of Daniel, the nation is now totally defeated. Humiliated by what was then the world power, Babylon and its king Nebuchadnezzar. But the most sobering part of this defeat and of these verses that you see is that phrase “the Lord gave Jehoiakim into Nebuchadnezzar's hand. In other words it was not the might of the Babylonians, their armies, or their strategy of that enabled them to defeat Israel. What enabled them to defeat Israel was that God gave Israel over into its enemy’s hands. That is judgment came upon Israel. The Bible says righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. And when sin begins to weave its way into a nation and there's immorality and idolatry and fractured people, then judgment is soon sure to follow. And if God judged Israel for her sins and he did, God can judge the United States of America for our sins. It was a tragedy that they were defeated. And the tragedy of it was that God allowed it to happen. Now why would I do that? Why would God allow his own people to go into captivity and defeat? Do you know why? It was because of their disobedience God had warned them for decades on end, that they ought to repent. That they ought to get right, but Israel was stiff necked and it was bent on going its own way. Away from God, and so judgment was to come. In fact it’s interesting. It’s one of the proofs of the inerrancy of Scripture and its trustworthiness. Did you know that more than 100 years prior to the defeat of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, God prophesied it would happen? He did so through the prophet Isaiah. Listen! Listen carefully to the precision of this prophesy. This is from Isaiah Chapter 39 beginning at verse five. “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. And some of your sons, who shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall be taken away. And they shall become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon. Are you kidding me? A hundred years before it happened, God said there's going to come a day when judgment will fall. You’re going to be carried away the Babylonian in captivity, including some of your own defendants. What do recent discover here in Daniel chapter 1? That from the nobility, from the royal house, these young men were buried in the Babylon. GOD’S WORD CANNOT BE MOCKED! What a man sows, he will reap. What a nation sows, a nation will reap. And this story begins with a tragedy, but the tragedy did not have to happen. Had the children of Israel repented and turned back to God, judgment would not have fallen but they did not, they disobeyed, and thus, they were defeated. It’s a lesson for us in America. Could judgment fall on America? It could! I've said before and I'll say it again here now, with a heavy heart I tell you, I wouldn't be surprised if God allowed our worst enemies overrun us, to discipline us for our sin. We, the purported Christian nation, supposed Christian nation! Why is it that those who sell baby parts are free and the one who would stand for traditional marriage is in jail? You explain it to me! Don’t think it could happen to us. It could happen. I don’t say that with any glee, I say with a broken heart. I say God have mercy on America. Lord don’t have justice with us. We don't need justice. If justice were to fall we would be judged. No, we need mercy. God have mercy on us. Help us and especially those of us who know the truth that we would stand for righteousness. Not holier than thou, but just walk in obedience to the precepts of God's Word. Simple things. Like Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, Ashley Madison. Thou Shall Not Steal; Thou Shall Not Kill, including innocent babies and their mother’s womb! GOD HELP US! Lest this tragedy befall us. Now lets go to the second scene. I’ve talked to you about the great tragedy that befell the children of Israel. Now I want to say something about a great temptation. It came Daniel's way. Here they are, carried off to Babylon. And here's the strange twist of fate, if you will, Daniel has in front of him, in a way of thinking, a golden possibility. All right? He’s been held in captivity. His city has been besieged. They been starving in Jerusalem. Now this young man, country bumpkin, has been carried off to Babylon. Babylon was the greatest city of its day. It was the Washington DC or the New York City of its time. There is Daniel, living in that great walled city. He enrolled there, not in LSU; he enrolled in BSU Babylon State University. And he's got TOPS (scholarship program), he’s got full ride tuition, he got room and board, doesn’t the Bible say that? He’s given to eat and the king’s table. He’s standing in the king's palace. I mean he’s got the tiger by the tail. All he’s got to do is go along to get along. Just don’t ruffle feathers. Just keep your head down Daniel or you’ll get it lopped off. He’s got a golden opportunity. Here he is. He’s not eating at the Five; he’s eating at Galatoire’s, or Juban’s or Ruffino’s. I mean he eating the royal regimen, it’s being fed to him. What an opportunity he has. All he has to do is go along to get along. Daniel, just be cool man. Just fit in. just be like everybody else around you. That’s all you’ve got to do. I love Daniel, because in the face of this golden possibility, he stands for a Godly purpose. Look at would you in verse eight. But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food or with the wine that he drank. Daniel resolved, that is, Daniel purposed in his heart. Daniel was like this; everybody may be going this way. Everybody may be disobeying the Lord's commands, but I am going to go this way. I’m not going to be holier than thou about it, I’m not going to try to lift myself up as if I'm all that. But just in my own modest way, I'm going to stand for what's right. What a great word. You young people listen to me. You know how old Daniel was at this time? We believe he was probably about 14 years of age. Do I have any 14 year olds in here this morning? Stand up if you are 14. I want to see all our 14 year olds. Stand right up. How would you 14 year olds like if you were carried away into a foreign country? You 15 year olds stand up 15 year old. He may have been 15. There you are. There you are. 15 years old, carried away, all you have to do is go along. Just do whatever everyone else is doing. You don’t have to make a scene for crying out loud. You can be seated. Daniel wouldn't go along to get along. And he would keep his head down. He stood up. And he said I’m going to follow the Lords precepts. And you might even argue, it’s not that big a thing. I mean all you have to do is eat the king’s food. Just drink the wine that there serving. What? It’s not a big deal. It was to Daniel. Because God in his word had laid out some principles of how to live in obedience to him. And there were certain kosher foods among the Jewish people. And Daniel on what some might consider just the technicality said I'm not going the yield on this. I'm going to be faithful to the Lord. By his grace am going to stand true. And I want to challenge our young people and our parents who set the example and our grandparents who are here this morning. May God help us in this day of so much moral confusion, just to be true? True to God's word. To his truth. To his principles. And not yield. Daniel had a Godly purpose. You know what this leads to? It leads to peril. It leads to danger. There was a grave peril before Daniel. I mean you couldn’t buck King Nebuchadnezzar. I mean this is the ruler of the known world. It would be like being carried in before the Ayatollah Khomeini. You do what you want in his face. It’s a dangerous thing. You say how do you know that preacher? Well look at what the Bible says. They’re now in verse 10. ..and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king. What’s he saying? He’s saying man, if you don't do what the king said, we could all get our heads lopped off. This is serious business. But Daniel, no matter the risk, runs this apparel. And is willing to stand in the face of it. He is between a rock and a hard place. Look at this. If he pleases the king, he displeases the King of Kings. But he pleases the King of Kings, he displeases the king. And he has to make a choice. And all of us are going to have to make a choice. Who is the King that we will please? For whose pleasure do we live? And Daniel makes his choice. Now I love Daniel because he offers up, in this quandary, he offers up a very gracious proposal. He doesn’t stand up on the cafeteria table in the middle of the Five or something and start banging on the table. I want a new menu! I want a new menu! I want a new menu! He doesn't do that. He doesn’t hold up a placards and march, like Westboro does. No, what does Daniel do? He makes a very gracious proposal. He says look, I tell you what, would you be so kind as to just test us for 10 days? Just let us eat fruit and vegetables. Just test us. The word vegetable here is a word that means from the seed. So it would have included things like wheat and vegetables and fruit. Things that grow from seed. Just let us have a basic menu and then at the end of the 10 days just test us and see how we measure up against the others. It was a gracious kind proposal. And I want to advocate this for all of us. I’m not wanting you to leave today and go get placards and march and shout profanities and curse the darkness. I’m not asking you to do that. Nor do I believe the Word of God have us do that. Instead I'm asking you to live with what I’m going to call a convictional kindness. Now you just may want to jot these words down. The head or our Religious Liberty and Ethics Commission is a man named Dr. Russell Moore. And he coined this phrase as I know and I love it. Listen to it. Convictional Kindness. What does that mean? Well just think of each word individually. Conviction. God’s people, if you know Jesus as your savior, and you comport to be His disciple, you need to have some conviction about you. Things that you believe are right and wrong. And those things need to be rooted in the clear teachings of God’s word. Not some list you just came up with by tradition. But what does God’s word say? And knowing what he expects, you say, these are my convictions. I’m not looking to fight. I’m not looking down my nose at anybody else. These are jus the things I believe are expected of me by God and I have convictions about these. That’s conviction. That is, have a backbone. But then the word kindness. What does the word kindness mean? That means that you’re gentle. That you’re not up in people's faces looking for a fight. You’re going to plead your case. You’re going to make proposal and you’re going to do it with graciousness. And if it is not conceded to you, you are going to face the consequences. Convictional Kindness. Or you could turn it around and it is the same thing. Kind conviction. And those are the kind of people we need to be in the day in which were living. Kim Davis, whether or not we agree with every nuance of what she’s done, she’s made a proposal. She’s said I want to take this to the Supreme Court. I want there to be an adjudication. I believe that we need to have an adjudication in our nation. Let me remind us again. We are the government. If you are old enough to vote, you, in a sense, govern this nation. And you need to take seriously that right and that responsibility that falls to you. You better know the issues. Don’t vote for somebody because they handsome, or because they are good looking. Don’t vote for them because they are brash. Vote for someone who, to the best of your discernment, is going to stand according to biblical principle’s and again, whether or not we carry any election, we still have to stand for what is right. Stand! Stand! Stand! And Daniel did. And he did it, with convictional kindness. We are not looking for confrontation, but we are not going to capitulate either. May God help us to be people of convictional kindness? Isn’t that what the bible says? Listen to what the bible says. This now is 1st Peter, Chapter 3. Versus 14-15. But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.. Now folks, I tell you, I will be honest with you, you probably know this anyway, its hard for me not to get angry at times. Just to get upset and frustrated and bitter because things don’t go the way I think they ought to go. And the world often sees Christians an embittered, harsh, offensive people. Peter says, be ready to give an answer for the hope that’s within you when people ask you. Are you known as the person of hope? Am I known as the person of hope or do I think the roofs caving in. You know Chicken Little. The sky is falling. Friends we have a hope and our nation may go down the tubes and we may be imprisoned for your faith but I still have hope. We ought to be ready to give an answer. And he says do it with gentleness and respect. May God help us to live with convictional kindness? All right now here is the end. It ends and I’m so thankful to say this, on an up note. It ends in triumph, really. Look at how this the third scene in our story. It is what I call, a great triumph. It happens because of faithfulness to God. Daniel is faithful. He stays true to what he believes. He didn’t bow, he didn’t bend, he didn’t break. He stood. Stand. Stand. Stand. He did. He was faithful. And because he was faithful, he was favored by God. God favored him. Look at how this passage concludes. As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams and the king spoke with them and among all of them, none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. He found them ten times better than all. That’s amazing. Why were Daniel and his friends found ten times better? Was it because of innate intelligence in them? Did they have a natural higher IQ? I’m not sure that they did. I really believe that it was rooted in God’s favor. He blessed these boys. He helped them in their studies. He favored them and when we are faithful to God, he will favor us. He will bless us. He did with Daniel. Daniel rose to be; some might say the prime minister of Babylon. Now is it that all was easy for Daniel? Am I preaching a health and wealth gospel? No I am not! In fact, did you know that for the next seventy years of Daniels live, he was a captive, enslaved in Babylon? But he was still favored. This story set hundreds of years ago, could read as todays newspaper. It’s that applicable to where we are living. I pray God we wont go through any greater tragedy than what we have already experienced. I pray that we as a nation and as people will turn back to God. Listen friends, the problem isn’t in the courthouse, and the white house solely. It’s in the church house. Its preachers afraid to say what is true. It is church members who wont stand for what is true. It ought to begin the revival needs to begin here among us! In this day of difficulty, you young people, I know well, great temptations are going to come your way. You are going to be pressured to just go along to get along. I want to challenge you to purpose in your heart that you are going to stand for the Lord. And I want you do it with convictional kindness. And I want to do that myself. You pray for me that Ill be that kind of disciple. If we’ll do it, friends, I want to tell you something, God will bless it. He will favor us. He will be gracious to us. He’ll make his countenance shine upon us. He’ll give us peace. He will! Would you stand please with your head bowed? I want ask our musicians to come, our band. Were going to go out today singing. Were not defeated. Listen friend, no matter what happens we’re not defeated. We are more than conquerors through him who loved us. The ultimate victory is the Lord’s. We just need to make sure that we are on his side. That we know him that we been redeemed. That we been forgiven. That we’re standing. We need his grace to do it. We can’t stand in our own power, in our own strength. We need his grace. And so I want us to pray now for it. And then we will sing. God we thank you for your word and the light it is to our feet. The light it is to our path. God, I pray that today it's been illumined how we ought to live. With convictional kindness. Standing for what’s right in a hostile world. I pray for our young people that they’ll stand true. In elementary school, and middle school, and high school, for our collegiate at the University. That they will be gracious, faithful. I pray for adults out in the workplace, where there is dishonesty and immorality and deceit and all manner of temptation. Lord help us as adults to be faithful to you. Help us God to stand! We pray in Jesus name, AMEN.

Sermon text follows... Stand Daniel 1:1-21   Key Verse: But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank (Daniel 1:8a).   1.     A great tragedy a.     The tragedy of defeat b.     The tragedy of disobedience 2.     A great temptation a.     A golden possibility b.     A godly purpose c.     A grave peril d.     A gracious proposal 3.     A great triumph a.     Faithful to God b.     Favored by God   The eyes of our nation, this week, have been focused on small County in Kentucky. It’s called Rowan County. It's because there, a test case of sorts, has arisen. It swirls around a simple County Clerk. Her name is Kim Davis. Kim it turns out had lived a wild life and she had been married four times. Yet, at her mother-in-law's passing in 2011, the Lord got a hold of her and she came to know Christ as her Savior and it radically transformed her life. She says today that she's devout Christian. Well, when the Supreme Court ruled, earlier this year, that same-sex marriage was to be the law of the land, she was placed in a quandary. She was elected as clerk. In fact, her mother before her had been the County Clerk. Something of a family tradition, which is common they say in Kentucky. She had been elected under the premise that marriage was, as the Scripture teaches, between a man and a woman and now she found herself as the clerk with the responsibility of issuing marriage licenses for relationships that she did not believe comported with what the Scripture teaches. What would she do? What ought she do? It was a difficult question. She made a decision in her heart, in fact she resolved in her heart that she would not go against her conscience and what she believed was right.  So she made an appeal to the governing authorities and it went to the Supreme Court and that she be heard, that her arguments be heard and that was denied. It fell back to a judge; I believe it was a federal judge there in Kentucky to rule in her case. He ruled that she must issue the licenses. If you're paid by the state of Kentucky and the law of Kentucky is that people can marry across all sorts of lines, then she, as an employee of the state, would have to issue those licenses or face the consequences. She decided that she would do the latter. She would face the consequences and so the judge decreed that this woman be cast into prison and as we worship, here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this morning, that woman sits in a prison jail cell in Rowan County, Kentucky.   I suppose I imagine that perhaps we would live to see a day like today, but the I’m not sure I really believed it would come. When someone would be imprisoned for a tenet of their religious faith. Many of you'll remember that our nation was actually founded on the exact opposite premise. That people came here to say, everyone ought to be able to worship according to their dictates and live out their faith without coercion. Those days, it seems are passing. So she's made the decision to stand.   Now some of you maybe thinking, well now wait preacher, if she's paid by the state of Kentucky and the law is as it is, then she ought to just resign and a forfeit her position.   You know what, I think a case could be made for that. In fact, that actually did happen here in the state of Louisiana not so many weeks ago. It happens that there was a justice of the peace, a lady, in fact of all things; she's married to a Baptist preacher.  She’s a young woman and she was elected to be the justice of the peace in, I think, Grant Parish up in Central Louisiana.   Maybe some of you know where that is. She made the decision, with her husband, that when the Supreme Court ruled as it did, that she rather than get into all kinds of the legalities and a potential suit, she would just resign. She did:  she just resigned her position,   I for one, am glad that Kim Davis is taking a stand. II don't necessarily, I can’t judge whether or not she's been perfect in every moment of this journey. That’s for God to judge, but I’m glad she's taken a stand.  Let me tell you why, because this forces us as a nation to consider some very significant questions. Now she has said she'll take whatever repercussions come her way and she's proven that she would. In fact, when the judge ordered her to jail, her response was “yes, your honor, thank you.”  She responded with grace and she's taken her lumps and there she sits in jail today. But we, as a nation, have to make some decisions about how were going to live going forward. Do we want to live in a nation? Do we want our nation to be the kind of place where a devout Christian can no longer be a court clerk? Where, in our nation, it can never be again a devout Christian, who would stand for traditional marriage that could be a justice of the peace? Where no believer of this nature, could serve as a chaplain in our Armed Forces? Could not be a chaplain with the state police force?  You say, preacher that’s crazy. What are you talking about? Did you know that just this year, again this is in the state of Kentucky, there was a young man who was a volunteer from his church, he would go every week, as I understand it, to a correctional Institute where they housed young offenders. He would go there to share the hope of the gospel, and to disciple these young men. Well the state Department of Corrections came up with a sheet and he had to sign it and sheet said, “you cannot say that homosexual behavior is sinful.” Well if you are a devout believer that places you in a quandary. How can you not say what the Bible says is the case? In fact, while I’m on this, don’t think I mean this to be a diatribe against one particular sin. Any sexual activity outside the simple bounds of a man and woman wed in matrimony is outside of the parameters of what God established. Be it premarital sex, extramarital sex, homosexual behavior, all of it alike is outside what God ordained and so they said before you can go back into that prison you’ve got to sign this is. That you will not say that these behaviors are sinful.  The young man said, “I can't do it.” Are we prepared to live in a nation, where volunteers from churches can't go into the prisons and share the hope of the gospel as we’ve discovered in Christ and declare Christ saves from all sin? Is that the kind of nation we want to live in?     Just these past few weeks, here in the state of Louisiana, an edict was released from the judicial commission of the State of Louisiana. It went to every judge in the State of Louisiana and it said “you must comport yourself in accordance with the Supreme Court's edict or we will remove your judgeship.” no Christian judges? No Christian bakers? No Christian photographers?   These are serious days in which we’re living. Now friends listen, Kim Davis Is right at least in this one sense, we have to be willing to take whatever consequences come, but we must stand! We must stand for what is right! God will sort the consequences. Now where do we find help in making decisions during these difficult days with these weighty issues?   I've got good news for you. There is help for us so we can know how we ought to live in these trying times and it's found in the book of Daniel. Would you please open your Bibles to Daniel? Daniel, Chapter One is where we are going to be this morning, and to me it's wonderful to think that this series has been planned for months. Months ago, we laid out our preaching schedule for this year and Daniel was the book that we chose and wouldn’t you know, in God's wisdom, he gave us this, just at the moment we most needed it. And that's the way he is. So if would now as our title implies, Stand, would you stand in honor of God's word and we are going to read the first chapter. Now normally, I don't read such an extended passage at one time. It takes about three minutes to read this first chapter, and I’m going to read every word. And this will be the best three minutes you spend all day, all right? Listening to what God says. I want to listen to this and then consider how ought I to live where I am? Just as Daniel learned to live in the circumstances where he found himself. Let’s read together beginning in Daniel chapter one verse one.  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. (I like it that the editors used a little g, that’s appropriate, all right now verse 3) Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.  The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: (now you may not the names Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, but I think you know these) Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, (there it is) Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego. (You know those names don’t you? Shadrach, Meshach and “away we go”, all right, you know these names. These are the great three friends of Daniel; now look in verse 8, what happens?) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”  Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.  Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables. As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.  And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus.     Let’s pray. God, we thank you for this book in the Bible, the book of Daniel. We thank you for the courage and commitment of these young men. The way that they stood when it seemed that all was coming against them. I pray God, you would teach us, how will stand in these days and to go against the flow when it seems that all of culture would sweep us away from you. Give us wisdom. Give us learning. Give us courage. Help us to dare to be a Daniel. I pray in Jesus name, Amen.   Please be seated. This morning we’re going to begin a study in the book of Daniel and were going to look at the life of Daniel, this courageous young man and his four compatriots. This morning we’re going to focus in the first chapter. I’m going to divide this story into three scenes. I want you to follow along carefully as the Lord teaches us. Now the very first scene I going to call, A Great Tragedy. This story begins with a great tragedy. Look at how the passage opens, there in versus one and two and see it projected on the screen. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand.  Now this tragedy that I'm going to describe has two components to it. First of all, there's the component of Israel's defeat. It is a tragedy that Israel was defeated. Now remember Israel. Israel was that small band of, a tribe really, that came out of the descendants of Abraham. They were enslaved in Egypt and with a mighty hand, God brought them out of Egypt and Israel, in effect, defeated the mightiest force in its day, Egypt.  Then arose the Kings, Saul and then David. David, you remember took down Goliath and the Philistines. He united the kingdom and David's reign was a rain of great might and power and renown and wealth. Then came his son Solomon.  Israel was a top the world it seemed, but fissures began to appear in the veneer. It was because of the idolatry and immorality and fracturedness of their nation that that the people of Israel began to go into a decline, a steep decline, until, by the time we come to the life of Daniel, the nation is now totally defeated. Humiliated by what was then the world power, Babylon and its king Nebuchadnezzar. But the most sobering part of this defeat and of these verses that you see is that phrase “the Lord gave Jehoiakim into Nebuchadnezzar's hand. In other words it was not the might of the Babylonians, their armies, or their strategy of that enabled them to defeat Israel. What enabled them to defeat Israel was that God gave Israel over into its enemy’s hands. That is judgment came upon Israel. The Bible says righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. And when sin begins to weave its way into a nation and there's immorality and idolatry and fractured people, then judgment is soon sure to follow. And if God judged Israel for her sins and he did, God can judge the United States of America for our sins. It was a tragedy that they were defeated. And the tragedy of it was that God allowed it to happen. Now why would I do that? Why would God allow his own people to go into captivity and defeat? Do you know why? It was because of their disobedience God had warned them for decades on end, that they ought to repent. That they ought to get right, but Israel was stiff necked and it was bent on going its own way. Away from God, and so judgment was to come. In fact it’s interesting. It’s one of the proofs of the inerrancy of Scripture and its trustworthiness. Did you know that more than 100 years prior to the defeat of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, God prophesied it would happen? He did so through the prophet Isaiah. Listen! Listen carefully to the precision of this prophesy. This is from Isaiah Chapter 39 beginning at verse five. “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. And some of your sons, who shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall be taken away.  And they shall become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon. Are you kidding me? A hundred years before it happened, God said there's going to come a day when judgment will fall. You’re going to be carried away the Babylonian in captivity, including some of your own defendants. What do recent discover here in Daniel chapter 1? That from the nobility, from the royal house, these young men were buried in the Babylon.  GOD’S WORD CANNOT BE MOCKED!  What a man sows, he will reap. What a nation sows, a nation will reap. And this story begins with a tragedy, but the tragedy did not have to happen. Had the children of Israel repented and turned back to God, judgment would not have fallen but they did not, they disobeyed, and thus, they were defeated.   It’s a lesson for us in America. Could judgment fall on America? It could!  I've said before and I'll say it again here now, with a heavy heart I tell you, I wouldn't be surprised if God allowed our worst enemies overrun us, to discipline us for our sin. We, the purported Christian nation, supposed Christian nation! Why is it that those who sell baby parts are free and the one who would stand for traditional marriage is in jail? You explain it to me!  Don’t think it could happen to us. It could happen.  I don’t say that with any glee, I say with a broken heart. I say God have mercy on America. Lord don’t have justice with us. We don't need justice. If justice were to fall we would be judged. No, we need mercy. God have mercy on us. Help us and especially those of us who know the truth that we would stand for righteousness. Not holier than thou, but just walk in obedience to the precepts of God's Word. Simple things. Like Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, Ashley Madison. Thou Shall Not Steal; Thou Shall Not Kill, including innocent babies and their mother’s womb! GOD HELP US! Lest this tragedy befall us.    Now lets go to the second scene. I’ve talked to you about the great tragedy that befell the children of Israel. Now I want to say something about a great temptation. It came Daniel's way. Here they are, carried off to Babylon. And here's the strange twist of fate, if you will, Daniel has in front of him, in a way of thinking, a golden possibility. All right?  He’s been held in captivity. His city has been besieged. They been starving in Jerusalem. Now this young man, country bumpkin, has been carried off to Babylon.  Babylon was the greatest city of its day. It was the Washington DC or the New York City of its time. There is Daniel, living in that great walled city. He enrolled there, not in LSU; he enrolled in BSU Babylon State University. And he's got TOPS (scholarship program), he’s got full ride tuition, he got room and board, doesn’t the Bible say that? He’s given to eat and the king’s table. He’s standing in the king's palace. I mean he’s got the tiger by the tail. All he’s got to do is go along to get along. Just don’t ruffle feathers. Just keep your head down Daniel or you’ll get it lopped off. He’s got a golden opportunity. Here he is. He’s not eating at the Five; he’s eating at Galatoire’s, or Juban’s or Ruffino’s. I mean he eating the royal regimen, it’s being fed to him. What an opportunity he has.   All he has to do is go along to get along. Daniel, just be cool man. Just fit in. just be like everybody else around you. That’s all you’ve got to do.  I love Daniel, because in the face of this golden possibility, he stands for a Godly purpose. Look at would you in verse eight. But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food or with the wine that he drank. Daniel resolved,  that is, Daniel purposed in his heart. Daniel was like this; everybody may be going this way. Everybody may be disobeying the Lord's commands, but I am going to go this way. I’m not going to be holier than thou about it, I’m not going to try to lift myself up as if I'm all that. But just in my own modest way, I'm going to stand for what's right. What a great word. You young people listen to me. You know how old Daniel was at this time? We believe he was probably about 14 years of age.  Do I have any 14 year olds in here this morning? Stand up if you are 14. I want to see all our 14 year olds. Stand right up. How would you 14 year olds like if you were carried away into a foreign country? You 15 year olds stand up 15 year old. He may have been 15.  There you are. There you are. 15 years old, carried away, all you have to do is go along.  Just do whatever everyone else is doing. You don’t have to make a scene for crying out loud. You can be seated.  Daniel wouldn't go along to get along. And he would keep his head down. He stood up.  And he said I’m going to follow the Lords precepts. And you might even argue, it’s not that big a thing. I mean all you have to do is eat the king’s food. Just drink the wine that there serving. What?  It’s not a big deal. It was to Daniel. Because God in his word had laid out some principles of how to live in obedience to him. And there were certain kosher foods among the Jewish people. And Daniel on what some might consider just the technicality said I'm not going the yield on this. I'm going to be faithful to the Lord. By his grace am going to stand true. And I want to challenge our young people and our parents who set the example and our grandparents who are here this morning. May God help us in this day of so much moral confusion, just to be true? True to God's word. To his truth. To his principles. And not yield. Daniel had a Godly purpose. You know what this leads to? It leads to peril. It leads to danger. There was a grave peril before Daniel.  I mean you couldn’t buck King Nebuchadnezzar. I mean this is the ruler of the known world. It would be like being carried in before the Ayatollah Khomeini. You do what you want in his face. It’s a dangerous thing. You say how do you know that preacher? Well look at what the Bible says. They’re now in verse 10.  ..and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.  What’s he saying? He’s saying man, if you don't do what the king said, we could all get our heads lopped off.     This is serious business. But Daniel, no matter the risk, runs this apparel. And is willing to stand in the face of it. He is between a rock and a hard place. Look at this. If he pleases the king, he displeases the King of Kings. But he pleases the King of Kings, he displeases the king. And he has to make a choice. And all of us are going to have to make a choice. Who is the King that we will please?  For whose pleasure do we live? And Daniel makes his choice. Now I love Daniel because he offers up, in this quandary, he offers up a very gracious proposal. He doesn’t stand up on the cafeteria table in the middle of the Five or something and start banging on the table. I want a new menu! I want a new menu! I want a new menu! He doesn't do that. He doesn’t hold up a placards and march, like Westboro does.  No, what does Daniel do? He makes a very gracious proposal. He says look, I tell you what, would you be so kind as to just test us for 10 days? Just let us eat fruit and vegetables. Just test us. The word vegetable here is a word that means from the seed. So it would have included things like wheat and vegetables and fruit. Things that grow from seed.  Just let us have a basic menu and then at the end of the 10 days just test us and see how we measure up against the others. It was a gracious kind proposal. And I want to advocate this for all of us. I’m not wanting you to leave today and go get placards and march and shout profanities and curse the darkness.  I’m not asking you to do that. Nor do I believe the Word of God have us do that. Instead I'm asking you to live with what I’m going to call a convictional kindness.   Now you just may want to jot these words down. The head or our Religious Liberty and Ethics Commission is a man named Dr. Russell Moore. And he coined this phrase as I know and I love it.  Listen to it.  Convictional Kindness. What does that mean? Well just think of each word individually. Conviction.  God’s people, if you know Jesus as your savior, and you comport to be His disciple, you need to have some conviction about you.  Things that you believe are right and wrong. And those things need to be rooted in the clear teachings of God’s word. Not some list you just came up with by tradition. But what does God’s word say? And knowing what he expects, you say, these are my convictions. I’m not looking to fight. I’m not looking down my nose at anybody else. These are jus the things I believe are expected of me by God and I have convictions about these. That’s conviction. That is, have a backbone. But then the word kindness. What does the word kindness mean? That means that you’re gentle. That you’re not up in people's faces looking for a fight. You’re going to plead your case. You’re going to make proposal and you’re going to do it with graciousness. And if it is not conceded to you, you are going to face the consequences. Convictional Kindness.  Or you could turn it around and it is the same thing. Kind conviction. And those are the kind of people we need to be in the day in which were living.    Kim Davis, whether or not we agree with every nuance of what she’s done, she’s made a proposal. She’s said I want to take this to the Supreme Court. I want there to be an adjudication. I believe that we need to have an adjudication in our nation. Let me remind us again. We are the government. If you are old enough to vote, you, in a sense, govern this nation.  And you need to take seriously that right and that responsibility that falls to you.  You better know the issues. Don’t vote for somebody because they handsome, or because they are good looking.  Don’t vote for them because they are brash.  Vote for someone who, to the best of your discernment, is going to stand according to biblical principle’s and again, whether or not we carry any election, we still have to stand for what is right.   Stand! Stand! Stand! And Daniel did. And he did it, with convictional kindness. We are not looking for confrontation, but we are not going to capitulate either.   May God help us to be people of convictional kindness?  Isn’t that what the bible says? Listen to what the bible says. This now is 1st Peter, Chapter 3. Versus 14-15.         But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect..  Now folks, I tell you, I will be honest with you, you probably know this anyway, its hard for me not to get angry at times.  Just to get upset and frustrated and bitter because things don’t go the way I think they ought to go. And the world often sees Christians an embittered, harsh, offensive people. Peter says, be ready to give an answer for the hope that’s within you when people ask you. Are you known as the person of hope? Am I known as the person of hope or do I think the roofs caving in.  You know Chicken Little. The sky is falling. Friends we have a hope and our nation may go down the tubes and we may be imprisoned for your faith but I still have hope. We ought to be ready to give an answer. And he says do it with gentleness and respect.     May God help us to live with convictional kindness? All right now here is the end. It ends and I’m so thankful to say this, on an up note. It ends in triumph, really. Look at how this the third scene in our story. It is what I call, a great triumph.   It happens because of faithfulness to God. Daniel is faithful. He stays true to what he believes. He didn’t bow, he didn’t bend, he didn’t break.   He stood. Stand. Stand. Stand. He did. He was faithful. And because he was faithful, he was favored by God.  God favored him. Look at how this passage concludes. As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams and the king spoke with them and among all of them, none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.  Therefore they stood before the king. He found them ten times better than all. That’s amazing. Why were Daniel and his friends found ten times better?  Was it because of innate intelligence in them? Did they have a natural higher IQ? I’m not sure that they did. I really believe that it was rooted in God’s favor.  He blessed these boys. He helped them in their studies. He favored them and when we are faithful to God, he will favor us.  He will bless us. He did with Daniel.  Daniel rose to be; some might say the prime minister of Babylon. Now is it that all was easy for Daniel?  Am I preaching a health and wealth gospel? No I am not!  In fact, did you know that for the next seventy years of Daniels live, he was a captive, enslaved in Babylon?  But he was still favored.  This story set hundreds of years ago, could read as todays newspaper.  It’s that applicable to where we are living.  I pray God we wont go through any greater tragedy than what we have already experienced. I pray that we as a nation and as people will turn back to God.   Listen friends, the problem isn’t in the courthouse, and the white house solely. It’s in the church house. Its preachers afraid to say what is true.  It is church members who wont stand for what is true. It ought to begin the revival needs to begin here among us!  In this day of difficulty, you young people, I know well, great temptations are going to come your way. You are going to be pressured to just go along to get along. I want to challenge you to purpose in your heart that you are going to stand for the Lord.  And I want you do it with convictional kindness. And I want to do that myself. You pray for me that Ill be that kind of disciple. If we’ll do it, friends, I want to tell you something, God will bless it.  He will favor us.  He will be gracious to us.  He’ll make his countenance shine upon us. He’ll give us peace.   He will!    Would you stand please with your head bowed?  I want ask our musicians to come, our band. Were going to go out today singing. Were not defeated. Listen friend, no matter what happens we’re not defeated. We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  The ultimate victory is the Lord’s. We just need to make sure that we are on his side.  That we know him that we been redeemed. That we been forgiven. That we’re standing.  We need his grace to do it. We can’t stand in our own power, in our own strength. We need his grace. And so I want us to pray now for it. And then we will sing.      God we thank you for your word and the light it is to our feet. The light it is to our path. God, I pray that today it's been illumined how we ought to live. With convictional kindness. Standing for what’s right in a hostile world. I pray for our young people that they’ll stand true. In elementary school, and middle school, and high school, for our collegiate at the University. That they will be gracious, faithful.  I pray for adults out in the workplace, where there is dishonesty and immorality and deceit and all manner of temptation. Lord help us as adults to be faithful to you. Help us God to stand! We pray in Jesus name, AMEN.

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