Podcasts about Arc

In The Money Media's Peter Thomas Fornatale sits with Total Performance Data's Adam Mills to analyze detailed in-race data on the major contenders for the King George Stakes 2026 at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday (July 25)!This year's King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes attracts a sterling field of runners including Aidan O'Brien's Benvenuto Cellini, who was mired by problems in the starting gate in the Epsom Derby and followed that misfortune with a strong victory in the 2026 Irish Derby at the Curragh. He is one of four runners for O'Brien in the race as he also sends last year's Arc de Triomphe runner-up Minnie Hauk as well as Action and Lambourn, the latter of which won the 2025 Irish Derby and 2025 Epsom Derby. The Aga Khan also has a major player in this year's King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Calandagan, who enters from a win in the 2026 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. He's the defending champion in the King George Stakes and has numerous other graded stakes wins on his elite resume including victories in the 2025 Champion Stakes at Ascot, the 2025 Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse and the 2026 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan.

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Before the conclusion of the Arc of Evolution, we take a week to dive deep into all the MTG previews we received from MagicCon Amsterdam. There's a ton to be excited about from a Universes Within  perspective as well as The Hobbit coming up in the next month! Join us for a fun and classic-vibe-feeling episode of Commander Cookout. Huge thank you to our sponsors, Fusion Gaming Online. They're your source for all of your gaming needs. You can find them here: www.FusionGamingOnline.com. You want a 5% discount off all of your MTG order? Head over to Fusion Gaming Online and use exclusive promo code: CCONATION at checkout.Want your deck or topic featured on Commander Cookout Podcast? Check out the reward tiers at Patreon.com/CCOPodcast. There are a lot of fun and unique benefits to pledging. Like the CCO Discord or getting your deck featured on the show.Ryan's solo podcast, Commander ad Populum:https://www.spreaker.com/show/commander-ad-populumYou can listen to CCO Podcast anywhere better podcasts are found as well as on CommanderCookout.com.Now, Hit our Theme Song!Social media:https://www.CommanderCookout.comhttps://www.Instagram.com/CommanderCookouthttps://www.Facebook.com/CCOPodcast@CCOPodcast and @CCOBrando on Twitterhttps://www.Patreon.com/CCOPodcast

Some of the most respected people in history claimed that information, warnings, visions, or guidance reached them from an intelligence outside their ordinary conscious minds.Socrates trusted a mysterious divine sign that had followed him since childhood. Joan of Arc said saints gave her a mission that changed the course of a war. Carl Jung held conversations with Philemon, a winged teacher who seemed to possess knowledge independent of Jung's conscious personality. Srinivasa Ramanujan believed the goddess Namagiri revealed mathematics to him through dreams. Nikola Tesla detected repeating signals through his experimental equipment and wondered whether another world was attempting contact.In this episode of Idiot Mystic, we examine what these five people actually reported, what their experiences led them to do, and the skeptical explanations involving intuition, dreams, neurological events, cultural expectations, unconscious cognition, and misunderstood technology.Were they encountering God, spirits, autonomous parts of the psyche, extraterrestrial intelligence, or something that does not fit comfortably into any of those categories?Whatever the source, these experiences became entangled with philosophy, warfare, psychology, mathematics, and the early search for intelligence beyond Earth.Maybe the strangest part is not that they believed something spoke to them. It is how much of history changed after they listened.Listen to Idiot Mystic on YouTube and Spotify, and read more at:Website: https://idiotmystic.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/idiotmysticTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@idiotmysticDiscord: https://discord.gg/dXKjhZrZmMShare the episode with somebody who enjoys strange history, spirituality, psychology, paranormal encounters, and questions that refuse to stay inside one explanation.Until next time, take care of yourself, please. Stay weird.

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The old joke about nuclear fusion power is that commercial deployment is 30 years in the future: it always has been and it always will be. It may be time to retire that joke. Private fusion companies have now raised billions in capital, and pilot plants are moving from slide decks and plans into steel and concrete. The questions now are not so much around whether fusion power can ever work, and more about how soon it can reach the grid, and at what costHost Ed Crooks and regular contributor Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Global Energy, Climate, & Sustainability Lab at NYU are joined by two fusion industry leaders to discuss the rapid progress they are making. Andrew Holland is founder and chief executive of the Fusion Industry Association, and Bob Mumgaard is chief executive of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, one of the companies vying to have the first commercial fusion power plant in operation.Andrew lays out the state of the sector. There are 56 private fusion companies globally, which between them have raised more than $14 billion in private capital. And there is a growing conviction inside the industry that commercial fusion could arrive in the early 2030s. Bob explains why Commonwealth believes SPARC, its demonstration project in Massachusetts, and ARC, its planned power plant in Virginia, can help make that timetable real.Fusion has moved beyond the era when government science programs defined the pace of progress. Research backed by governments and universities has played a vital role in moving the technology forward, but Andrew argues that competition, venture capital and milestone-based development have changed the industry's tempo. Crucially, the industry has not put all its eggs in one basket. Multiple companies are pursuing different technical paths, including both laser-based approaches and magnetic confinement systems, in a race to commerciality. Bob offers the clearest lay explanation of what fusion power means in practice. Commonwealth Fusion Systems uses a tokamak, which is essentially a magnetic bottle that holds a star inside it. Fusion creates heat, which can be used to run a steam turbine. Unlike wind and solar, fusion does not depend on weather or geography. Unlike fossil fuels, it does not rely on continual fuel deliveries.The episode also explores why fusion developers believe the technology could avoid some of the political and regulatory burdens that have constrained nuclear fission power. Because fusion reactions are hard to start and easy to stop, the risks are fundamentally different from those of a conventional fission reactor. Bob and Andrew argue that this changes everything from plant safety to siting to licensing, and could make fusion much faster to deploy if the technical hurdles are cleared.They also discuss what it will take to build an industry, not just a few prototypes. Amy pushes on fuel cycles, lithium, superconducting tape and supply-chain readiness. Bob argues that these challenges are real but manageable, and Andrew points to the growing ecosystem of manufacturers now positioning themselves for a future fusion market. The wider point is that fusion is increasingly starting to look like a manufacturing and industrial-policy story, not just a laboratory science story.That leads to the biggest question of all: if fusion works, how much could it matter? Bob sketches outcomes ranging from a valuable but still niche source of clean baseload power to a genuinely transformative technology. Andrew goes even further, arguing that fusion could decouple energy from geography and geopolitics in a way no fuel-based system ever has. If the industry's ambitions are realized, within the next ten years fusion could emerge as a commercial energy source with real consequences for grids, markets and global power. This episode of Energy Gang is brought to you by ENGIE, the smarter energy supplier. ENGIE doesn't just provide the power to run your business — they supply the energy to move it forward, with reliable, flexible solutions built for what's next. Learn more at engieresources.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A great ending is about much more than resolving the plot. Why do satisfying story endings stay with us for years, while others leave us empty? In this video, I explore the psychology of story endings. When we think about writing endings, we often focus on tying up loose ends or delivering a dramatic finale. But endings serve a much deeper purpose. They complete the character's transformation, reveal the story's true meaning, and fulfill the archetypal pattern that gives stories their enduring psychological power. In this post/podcast, I explore why endings matter—not only for craft, but as one of story's most important symbolic functions. We talk about: • Why the meaning of a story is found in its ending • How endings reveal a story's theme • Why transformation requires completion • The Death/Rebirth cycle at the heart of story structure • Why endless stories often lose their psychological resonance • The difference between a long story and a story that refuses to end • What Supernatural and the Marvel Cinematic Universe can teach us about satisfying endings • Five practical principles for writing endings that feel inevitable, meaningful, and emotionally complete Whether you're writing a standalone novel or planning a long-running series, understanding the psychology behind story endings can help you create stories that leave readers with a lasting sense of meaning, transformation, and completion. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:34 5 Questions About Endings Every Writer Must Answer 04:34 The Meaning of a Story Is Found in Its Ending 05:28 How Endings Change Everything 07:03 Endings Complete the Cycle of Transformation 07:38 The Many Shapes of Transformation 09:16 Why We Need to Witness the Entire Arc 10:37 Story, Society, and the End of Cycles 12:44 Ego Death and Cultural Transformation 14:07 The Modern Push Toward "Endless" Stories 16:06 Case Studies: Examples That Break the Arc 18:07 5 Ways to Write a Truly Satisfying Ending 18:23 Tip 1 – Connect Your Beginning to Your Ending 19:29 Tip 2 – Let Your Ending Reveal the Story's Meaning 20:37 Tip 3 – Complete the Transformation (Not Just the Plot) 21:29 Tip 4 – Use Third-Act Story Structure to Complete the Arc 23:08 Tip 5 – Know When the Arc Is Complete—and Have the Courage to End It 24:06 Master Character Transformation with Creating Character Arcs Read the transcript: https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/psychology-of-story-endings LINKS & RESOURCES Want More? Creating Character Arcs book: https://kmweilandstore.com/b/creating-character-arcs

Welcome to the Daily Disciple Podcast. As daily disciples, we seek to adore and follow Jesus, our teacher, into the abundant life that he offers. Because we find Jesus irresistible, fascinating, and incredibly practical, we want to be students of his scripture. Today's episode is found in Mark 1 "The Arc."

What do you do when there is turmoil around you? According to Mike Tatlock (A Compelling Faith in a Compromising Culture), the answer is to develop a deeper faith and orient your entire life around God.Ministry website: https://verticalpursuit.org/Mike's IG: https://www.instagram.com/mike_tatlock/ARC website: https://arcanswers.org/

My guest on the show today is returning guest and all-around friend of the pod David Sessions, a Boston-based freelance writer and the co-host, along with Blake Smith, of the relatively new Off Christopher Street Podcast and and Substack newsletter, about the history and present of gay male life and culture in America. David, Blake and I have recorded a crossover episode of Eminent Americans that focuses on their new endeavor, which should be out in the next month or two or three, but on this episode David and I are talking pornography, its ubiquity, the effect it may or may not have on our culture and kids, and related issues around technology, moral panic, and modern life. A few key differences between the two of us structure the discussion. One is our ages. David is 40. I'm now 50, and though it's not a huge difference from one angle, it represents a fundamentally different generational growing up experience when it comes the internet, social media, and smart phones, none of which I basically had growing up, all of which David got relatively early on.Another is kids. I have three of them. David doesn't have any. And a third is our backgrounds. I'm from a liberal secular Jewish home in the northeast where sex was discussed pretty openly, and porn wasn't permitted but wasn't really stigmatized either. David grew up in what he describes as a deeply conservative, Christian-nationalist home. He went to a Christian college, married a good Christian woman, and then came out as gay in his mid-thirties.One consequence of that background, for David, is that he's unusually attuned to some of the ways that mainstream discourse around issues like porn, smart phones, the internet, and social media has been influenced by savvy right wing Christian groups, who recognized pretty early on that if they wanted to move the mainstream they would have to find rhetorical frames that weren't aversive to establishment media. So instead of sin and god and traditional values they talk about public health harms, addiction, exploitation, objectification of women, etc.So David comes to these debates with an awareness of how they've often been covertly shaped by religious groups and motives. He also has the experience, as a gay man, of living a pretty flourishing social life that is enabled in all sorts of positive ways by the technologies that a concerned parent like me can easily fall into perceiving as purely pernicious.And one last thing I want to bring up, which I think is important as context for this conversation, is that so many of the discussions around the effects of tech on kids lack a real perspective on how it plays out differently depending on the socioeconomic class of the kids in question. Who is really speaking for, or from, the kids who aren't living with the kind of social and cultural capital that David and I both, albeit in very different ways, had growing up. Two parent homes, relatively intact communities, financially secure, high parental investment, and so on. David and I, and my kids, and his kids if he has them, have been or will be raised with psychological protective factor layered on top of psychological protective factor. What about the kids who don't have all that? Are we condescending to their parents in imagining that their kids are just at the mercy of the evil tech gods, that they're not able to sufficiently protect and nurture them. Or, alternatively, are we just basically ignoring them when we have these discussions, as elites, as though their kids are just like our kids, having basically the same experiences. I don't know, and David doesn't either, and – and this is maybe the worst part – who would I even turn to to help me answer it? So that's in the background of this conversation too.Two quick housekeeping notes. The first is a thanks to Joshua Howard for manfully editing this episode, as he has the last few. The second is that this the last episode of what I will retrospectively refer to as the scrappy, underground, indie era of this podcast. Starting in a week or two, I'll be launching a partnership with Arc Magazine, which is published out of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. I'll say more about that when we officially launch, but one thing I'll say now is that Arc's touch on the content and vibe of the show will be very very light. Occasionally I'll have on a guest who is doing something for the magazine, there will be brief promos for other Arc content, and I hope to do some fun experiments that I didn't have the bandwidth to do when it was just me and producer Robert. For the most part, though, I'm going to go about my business as I've done for the last few years. I'll have on whoever I want. We'll talk about whatever I want. And I'll swear whenever I fucking want.Peace. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com/subscribe

Miguel Ángel González Suárez te presenta el Informativo de Primera Hora en 'El Remate', el programa matinal de La Diez Capital Radio que arranca tu día con: Las noticias más relevantes de Canarias, España y el mundo, analizadas con rigor y claridad. España destrona a Argentina con un gol de Ferran en el minuto 106 y se proclama campeona del mundo por segunda vez. Luis de la Fuente: "Juntos somos más fuertes. Que no le quepa duda a nadie" Lionel Scaloni: "Somos grandes en la victoria y tenemos que ser grandes en la derrota" Venezuela eleva a 5.119 los muertos por los terremotos. Hoy se cumplen 1.613 días de guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. 4 años y 145 días. Hoy es lunes 20 de julio de 2026. Día del Amigo. El Día del Amigo tiene sus orígenes en la famosa llegada del hombre a la luna y es que este fue el suceso elegido por Enrique Ernesto Febbraro, un locutor argentino miembro de la logia masónica, para intentar incentivar en el mundo una celebración que girase en torno a una virtud altruista como lo es la amistad sincera. El mismo día en el que el coronel de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos, Edwin Aldrin hiciese su incursión a la luna junto con Neil Armstrong en el Apolo XI. La razón de esta decisión es que Aldrin también era masón y Febrano sentía mucha empatía hacia él. Así que se le ocurrió que una excelente manera de celebrar el logro de este hombre era conmemorar en la víspera de su viaje un día que tuviese como génesis un sentimiento humano limpio y puro, como lo es la amistad. 1535.- Conquista de Túnez por los tercios españoles de Carlos I y huída a Argel del corsario Barbarroja. 1876.- Alfonso XII firma la ley que anula el régimen foral de las vascongadas. 1904.- Parte desde Moscú hacia Vladivostok la primera locomotora del Transiberiano. 1921.- Trasladan los restos del Cid Campeador y su esposa, doña Jimena, del Ayuntamiento a la catedral de Burgos. El 20 de julio de 1969 rendimos homenaje a un hecho trascendental que impactó el curso de la historia de la humanidad: el aterrizaje de la primera misión de seres humanos en la luna, por parte de la misión lunar Apollo 11. 1970.- Finalizan las obras de la presa egipcia de Asuán. 1974.- Amparo Muñoz, primera y única española coronada Miss Universo, en Manila (Filipinas). 2011.- El Congreso de los Diputados español aprueba la reforma que eleva la jubilación a los 67 años. 2018.- Pablo Casado, elegido presidente del Partido Popular al imponerse a Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. Patrocinio del santo de cada día por gentileza de la Casa de las Imágenes, en la calle Obispo Perez Cáceres, 17 en Candelaria. Santos Julia, Lorenzo de Brindis, Daniel y Zótico. EE.UU. ataca a fuerzas iraníes vinculadas al atentado de Jordania, Kuwait informa de ataques. Un 20 de julio de 1988.- José Carreras vuelve a cantar en un recital en el Arc del Triomf de Barcelona, tras superar la leucemia. José Carreras - Alfonsina y el mar (con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Viena).

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In this latest Money Markets and More, I sit down with Francis Foster, co-host of Triggernometry and author of Uneducated: My Life as a Teacher and Why You Should Never Become One, to discuss Venezuela, socialism, inflation, the pound, and why he believes Britain is heading towards a financial crisis.You can also listen to this interview as a podcast in the normal way.Before becoming a comedian and broadcaster, Francis spent twelve years as a teacher. In fact, he wanted to call his book 12 Years a Teacher - a title I loved - but apparently his publisher vetoed it.From there, our conversation ranges from Britain's education system to government debt, money printing, wealth taxes and the lessons Britain should be learning from Venezuela's economic collapse. Drawing on his own family's experience, Francis explains what happens when governments lose fiscal discipline—and why he fears the UK is heading down a similar path.This interview was filmed at ARC 2026 in association with The Pure Gold Company. If you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here.⸻ICYMI here is this week's commentary⸻Francis Foster

Vivir Gitano en los primeros minutos de la mano del cantaor madrileño José del Curro y sus colaboradores como La Plazuela o también Israel Fernández o Jerónimo Maya. Viejín y su guitarra de Caño Roto suene por tangos. Escuchamos y anunciamos algunos de los artistas que esta próxima semana estarán en Ponferrada formando parte de la programación del Festival Bierzo al toque como Montse Cortés, Estrella Morente, José del Tomate o Arcángel. Terminamos con flamencos de Big Band.Escuchar audio

Recorded: January 6, 2025 - Episode 29We GO FULL INDEPTH ON the Movie In depth Acceleracers: IGNITION, WATCH to have your mind blown!!Andrew Duncan is the voice actor of Monkey from AcceleRacers... OH and the Director of some of World Race Highway 35... OH and the series director of AcceleRacers... OH and the MOCAP Of Shirako, Monkey, and Nolo... OH and he is the guest on today's PART 1 podcast, super excited to have him on and share a little about his time working on Hot Wheels World Race with William Lau. Please enjoy Episode 29 of the Squared Corner Podcast!Find Andrew Duncan here:https://www.andrewmonkeyduncan.comhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm1433999/https://x.com/Monkey_Duncan

What does it really mean to build bridges that last for decades? I want you to meet Bircan Unver, whose lifelong commitment to responsibility, creativity, and global citizenship has shaped more than 25 years of meaningful work through Light Millennium. From growing up as the eldest of seven children in Turkey to creating an internationally recognized nonprofit connected with the United Nations, Bircan shares how art, public media, and open dialogue can bring people together across cultures. We explore why responsibility begins with each of us, how local communities can help solve global challenges, and why issues like water security, environmental stewardship, and human connection matter more than ever. I believe you'll enjoy hearing how one person's unstoppable mindset continues to inspire collaboration, education, and hope for a better future. Highlights: 06:55 - How growing up with responsibility shaped Bircan's lifelong commitment to serving others. 18:30 - Why public access television became the foundation for sharing voices and building community. 26:15 - The story behind founding Light Millennium and creating a nonprofit built on dialogue and education. 36:55 - How local communities can play a meaningful role in advancing United Nations goals. 49:45 - Why water security, cybersecurity, and gender equality are becoming deeply connected. 55:40 - Bircan reflects on preserving ideas through books, creativity, and lifelong learning. About the Guest: Bircan Ünver is the Founder-President of The Light Millennium, a Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization (LMGlobal.Org, 2001, New York); Executive Producer of the LMTV Programs; Multi-Media and Event Producer; Host, Author, Publisher, Public Speaker; [Head] NGO Representative of The Light Millennium to the United Nations Department of Global Communications since 2005 (formerly, UN.DPI); and Chair, Outreach and Partnerships Subcommittee at Global NGO Executive Committee and director for the 2021-2023 term. She has been also a Content Provider at QPTV since 1992, and she is the editor and co-founder of the U.S. Turkish Library & Museum Project. She has undertaken the Organization's e-publications, public programs since its inception in August 1999, and #LightMillenniumTV Series and Specials in all aspects of it since January 2000; along with, the LMGlobal.Org's all UN-related activity and programs since 2005. Bircan is the author and director of the Compulsory Peace & ICTs Education from Kindergarten to K-12, and Beyond Campaign, which she launched it through the Light Millennium Global in support of the Summit of the Future in 2024. The Campaign has delivered its 8th session along with the Coalition for the Campaign, which contains 22 organizations and educational institutions including The Light Millennium Global as the leading organization. Further,  she is also author of the bi-annual international high school project, “J.U.C. Media, Research, Writing & Innovation Awards”. The third of its kind was dedicated to the “Water Action Decade” and was delivered  (virtually) on the World Water Day, March 22, 2025. Bircan served as a mentor to the GPODS for three consecutive terms in Winter'22, Summer'22, and Fall'22 Fellowship Programs; and delivered lectures on “How to associate with the UN-NGO”, Public Access TVs in the U.S., and the latest one was on the #WaterActionDecade and the #2023UNWater Conference. To attach that, on behalf of LMGlobal.Org, she organized and hosted an Outside-UN Side Event ID #W175, titled, “What Is Your Commitment To The #WaterActionDecade? ~ Seven Core Ideas Toward #WaterAwareness, #WaterConscience and #GameChangers” in NYC on March 21, 2023, and was the head delegate of the LMGlobal.Org at the #UN2023WaterConference. Based on LMGlobal.Org's Commitments to the #WaterActionDecade, she launched #OneMinuteWaterActionCommitment during the #W175 Side Event, along with continues to work toward #WaterAwareness toward building up #WaterConscience.  She served as the chair of the ATAA Committee on UN Relations, guided its association to the UNDGC in 2020, and also served as the New York Regional Vice-President of ATAA (Assembly of Turkish American Associations) from October 2019 to January 2022. Furthermore, she served on several Planning Committees of the UN-Civil Society Conferences, and the Planning Committee of the High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace (HLF-CoP). She has been a strong advocate of the UN Vision, Programs & Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) along with the relevant UN Days, which are in line with the LMGlobal.Org's Mission/Purposes since its association with the UNDGC (formerly, UN.DPI/NGO) in December 2005. Currently, Bircan is on the Advisory Board of the Turkish Forum (based in Germany). She encourages and guides interested civil society organizations and members of academia toward their educational institutions' associations with the UN, along with engaging them with the UN Programs that are within her networks and beyond. Further, she is an Ambassador of Peace and Goodwill for Anuvrat (Anuvibha) Global Organization (Jaipur, India, since 2014); and a Member of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP, since 2012). Bircan is also the founder and president of the IsikBinyili.Org Association based in Istanbul (2010), which is a sister organization and counterpart of the LMGlobal.Org. Author of the following four book titles in print (Turkish): “En Kutsalı Yaratmak” (The Most Sacred is to Create) (1995, 2022), “Sanatın Labirentlerinde” (The Labyrinths of Arts) (2016), and “Işık Yollarında (“The Ways of the Light”) (poetry, 2017), and “Bin Yıl Daha…” (2020, A Thousand Years More…). Also, she is the author of the concept and compilation of the “Hope Never Fades” (English) book (Istanbul, 2023). Bircan initially received her local and studio television production certificates at QPTV.Org in 1992. Based on this capacity, she produced and broadcasted near to 260 television programs through local channels in New York City, which are also available online through www.vimeo.com/channels/LightMillenniumTV including 36 #OneMinute #WaterAction PSAs. Bircan celebrated her 30th Anniversary at QPTV.Org through a video profile, titled, “A Turkish Experience in America” (Duration: ~9 min. Production Year: 2022). Her works through The Light Millennium Global is a recipient of various national (U.S.) and international awards and recognitions including two awards from the Foundation of Alliance Community 2023 Hometown Media Awards (F-ACM-HMA for her “GroundWater” Light Millennium TV program in Web-based Programming and Online Events / Independent Producer categories (received at Brick TV, New York), the Anuvrat Ahimsa Award For International Peace-2023 (received in Mumbai, India), and the 2023 International Volunteer President Award by Institution of Green Engineers (received in Chennai, India), and ashe is also the recipient of the 2024 Best Web-Based Program – Independent Producer for the #HopeNeverFades program by F-ACM-HMA, which was produced based on the 2023 J.U.C. Media, Research & Writing Awards (ACM HomeTown Media Awards, San Jose, CA). Bircan holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degree from the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul, 1988) and a Master's Degree (M.A.) from Media Studies of the New School University (New York City 1999). Ways to connect with Bircan**:** Websites: www.lmglobal.org  (active web site) | www.lightmillennium.org (serves as the organization's web archive)#LightMillenniumTV | www.vimeo.com/LMTV | www.vimeo.com/channels/LightMillenniumTV Social Media: Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bircan-ünver-7353207 X@lightmillennium Instagram@lightmillennium About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! 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This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Well, hello everyone, and I want to welcome you to another edition of Unstoppable Mindset, and today we get to talk to a very interesting person with a with a lot of roots in Turkey, but she is also doing a lot of work with the United Nations here in the U.S. and other places. Her name is Birchan Umfer, and I hope I got that right. And Bircan Unver  01:23 thank you. Michael Hingson  01:24 Oh, good. And Berjan is is with us, and is going to talk about a number of things that she is working on. She's working on, and for years has been involved with a program called Light Millennium, and we'll we'll talk about all that, but let's just start and and as usual we'll have a great conversation. So, Bir John, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're glad you're here. Bircan Unver  01:50 Thank you so much, Michael Hingston. It's great honor and privilege to have your guests. Especially, I love the title Unstoppable Minds. It's really inspiring and triggering the mind. Thank you. Michael Hingson  02:08 Well, my pleasure. We're glad that you have the time to to spend with us, and we will we will we will do it and make it work. Well, let's start. I love to start this way because I really want people to learn about you. Tell us kind of about the early Birchan growing up, and then we'll go from there. So tell us about Birchan and growing up, and and and all of that. Bircan Unver  02:32 Thank you. This will be a little bit different than most people know about me, my work. Well, we'll get to Michael Hingson  02:38 your work. Bircan Unver  02:40 Yeah, I know. I mean, the people who already know my work. What I'm gonna say now is completely too different from Berja. So I am a elder of seven siblings, and I was born in an ancient village in Mid Anatolia, actually nearby the Black Sea region, and I'm proud with my age, 1959, and my family moved to town first from the village, and then Istanbul for our educations for their kids, and but I don't know really as a girl child growing up with seven kids, as especially with a traditional family, being older girl is not a good idea. But but maybe it was a kind of tough childhood as a girl child. I I don't feel that I never been a child. That's really what I feel. But on the other hand, and that was you know when you are growing up, living through like I was a kind of second mom, and also our home was kind of everyone our guest from the village town and stay over not only one night, like or a week, like sometimes months, even years. You won't believe that, and it was not because either. So, but those kind of build up maybe my feeling to be responsible, so I consider myself a responsible person because I was responsible for my sisters, brothers, and also washing dishes, making helping my mom to prepare the meal, lunch, breakfast, and clean up. Like you know, I was kind of second person, second mom at home. So those early things, all those stolen my childhood, but at the same time, provide me being able to do everything from very early age. Even though I remember several times at the time. The bread wasn't, you know, you you weren't buying the bread from the market, but from the bakery, real where they were baking the bread. So she was, and time to time also she was making the the bread at home, and then she she wasn't sending me to school because then I had to stay with my brothers and kids so she can make the you know breads a big amount for a couple days. So that said, also gave my idea. I want to suddenly want to work as soon as you know I'm 17, 1617, So and then I started early working at a bank, and it was my first eight years. I worked at a bank in Istanbul. It is called Istanbul Bank, and then my graphic is like life graphic is a little bit different, like curvy, not like straight line. Then after eight years working at a bank, I started to university and fine arts, and then I had kind of interest art history, especially TV production, art history, arts in in the concept is producing art documentaries. That was kind of my vision. Also, it was also my reason initially coming to the U.S. learning TV production. Of course, English as first. So that was very much my childhood until you know 18 until starting at the bank, and then the rest is another story. I have, I must say, I would have three different life. Michael Hingson  06:48 Well, you had certainly an interesting childhood, needless to say, and I, I can understand what you're saying about being the oldest and all the challenges. I was not. I was the youngest, but we only had two siblings, and neither of us we were we were both males, and so we we did not do a lot in terms of preparing meals and all that sort of stuff. Except my brother and I were both in the Boy Scouts, and so when we went camping and other things like that, we learned how to cook on an open or an open fire and and things like that. But still, I understand that you you had a a lot that you had to do. What lessons did you learn by being the oldest child? What kinds of things do you think that you you carry over to what to your life today, because you were the oldest. Bircan Unver  07:44 I think two different components of that. One is also because it wasn't only I was the as a kid at the home and as a girl, girl, but also at the time there wasn't that kind of awareness which we have today. Which I mean, my mom got married with my dad at the age of 15, and she had birth. She had given me birth at the age of 16, the reason I'm bringing up this, when we were going to shopping Kapolechar, Grand Market of Istanbul, when I was 1516, and literally we were halfway age difference between my mom and myself. And when I was saying mom, and the people were surprised, and she and isn't your sister, other sister? They were asking me, and she was my mom. So, but this is in the long later years. I always become the best friend with my mom, and even my brother was saying, "Oh, now I understood that she, you are the joy of my mom because she can kind of a joke, and the others, my kids, like they are kids, but I'm her friend because they kind of feel similar. That is one, you know, lifetime developed feeling and strong connection, different connection with my mom, and the other also, as I mentioned at the beginning, it really this whole, you know, not selected, but where you, which house you born, which condition you grow up, that build up for me early high level responsibility. I feel responsible to do everything, and I, you know, that's a little bit tiring because that's what I want to say here. You say something in our after our initial Zoom meeting. It's really very inspiring. You say something. I just took note. We can solve all the worst problem. We can. You say you don't say we cannot. You say we can. Solve all the world's problems. So, like, it wasn't possible. It's not possible, but you know, as if I could solve the problems or I could carry everything. So it's kind of you know build up my bricks in my life. Michael Hingson  10:18 One of the things that you certainly, it sounds like you learned as you were growing up, though, was was all about responsibility and and and learning to take charge, but learning about responsibility and and feeling that it was okay to be responsible for others in your family and so on. And I think a lot of people don't necessarily learn a lot of lessons about responsibility, like they should. But you were put in a position where you had to do that, which is is certainly a good thing because you clearly have have done that in your life. Bircan Unver  10:54 That's very true, and also it goes with everything. Let's say sometimes some people think maybe unnecessary action when people cut trees, even in their you know backyard or front yard, whatever trees or any type of trees or fruit trees. I really get mad and upset because it is irresponsible to nature, to their own environment, just feeling they're responsible to trees, loving the trees, loving the you know, for instance, if when I was it was two weeks ago, I was working on at my desk, a bees was you know flying around me, and I don't like you know trying to hit and chase the bees, and I just left the window open, moved the room two hours, and it's gone. So I don't want to hurt things, even though if it bites, it would hurt me, right? So to kind of find a way, being responsible, because also I have a subconscious thinking that if I try to chase a herd, if an insect, any of them, they you know they react sharp. So I'm not a threat to them. So they are not threat to me. So I kind of make a subconscious connection, communication. Michael Hingson  12:22 Well, and it's it's better to to learn to love than than not. So I I hear what you're saying. Now you didn't go to college or university, right? Or you did? Bircan Unver  12:35 Of course, I did. That's what I was just briefly brought this stair at that level. That after eight years working at at Istanbul Bank, from literally actually 17 to 24 or 23 late 23 early 24 then I started at the Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and I mainly study both as major Turkish tradition arts and also along with as a minor. We didn't have a minor, but we had we didn't have the minor degree, but we had a selected course. So I was following up several like four years in a row and also whole year around, not a quarter semester base artist troy and contemporary art. So I started writing on art and exhibit and interviewing artists while I started study at the Fine Arts University, which is top university in Fine Arts in Istanbul, Myanmar, Sinan Fine Arts University. Michael Hingson  13:44 So you learned a lot about fine arts, and Bircan Unver  13:47 yeah, Michael Hingson  13:47 and you had obviously learned about finance from the bank, which Bircan Unver  13:51 is didn't learn that Michael Hingson  13:53 much, huh? Bircan Unver  13:53 Not at all, and I didn't like it. That's why I, you know, I changed all my life line. Michael Hingson  14:00 Right, but but you enjoyed art. Bircan Unver  14:03 Yes, and because also art always for me, and it as it is today. Whatever the life problems we cannot be resolved, art is always for me a branch to hold on and to kind of feel strength, connect with the nature, with the art culture, whom I never might met, or maybe you know through art, through music, through books. So it's kind of really, I think the the best human conscious and what we leave behind is what we produce. Creative might be a little bit another discussion. What is the term defined? And now everyone using like creative for everything, but creativity is like really what stays, you know, central. And something as what is already before, and what you brought it something new, that new perspective, like cubism and faism and expressionism and all that different genres or pop arts and another one Dali's movement. So all the Dadaism, so each of them brought something what is already existed, and then you know moved to different level, and also technology and communication brought where we are today. So and music, I'm not any degree. Degree train or understand, but I love music as most people about music and arts and literature and writing is always for me. Also taking pictures. I don't trust my memory much, but this is not new, not because of my age now. But I somewhat I always like take the pictures, whether I have cell phone, the oldest, you know, digital or the manual photo photographs. So even though when I run into where where was it, where I was, who was with, who next to me? I can't remember. But why I love that? Because really, it brings, it captures your life, even you don't remember, and then reconnect. Also, I I come up with a new concept. I haven't done anything yet, but it's kind of developing in my mind, that we can, we are able to capture the past, but we cannot capture the future, because you know whether you know unexpected the one photo comes up, or an audio recording, or all those movies, musics, and documentaries and paintings throughout artistry, you can really capture the past depending on what you know your background or interest and education, but you cannot capture the future. But you can imagine, we can imagine the future. We can invest into the future. Michael Hingson  17:16 Well, and and the the reality is that that the future is based on so many things that happen in the past, and so you can learn to to use some of that information and and have a better idea of what the future might be like, and that's that's pretty fascinating too. So so, how long did you go to college Bircan Unver  17:42 in in Turkey the basic four university education is annual base, not semester base. It's a four years, and actually when I started it was five years. Then later on they the system education board changed it to like four years plus two years. So I graduated from a four years fine arts, and then I have a master's degree based in New York News School University. Michael Hingson  18:20 Ah, in New York. Bircan Unver  18:21 Yeah. Michael Hingson  18:22 Okay. So that was was that two years. Bircan Unver  18:27 Yes, but it was a little bit different again. Yeah. See, because first when I was here for the first time, 18 919, 89 to 1994, I started and I took to six credits and I love it. But I had to go back to Istanbul, so then I got the you know absence live of absence, and then but coming back three years later, I readmitted, and then I finish it. I got my graduate diploma in 1999 May 1999 Michael Hingson  19:12 Okay, so Bircan Unver  19:14 you've been dealing late. You've been Michael Hingson  19:17 dealing with school for a while, but but while all that was going on, you got interested in, and you started to to do things regarding public access television. And you started that, if I read your biography correctly, in in 1991, you started doing things with public public access TV. Tell us a little bit about that, and why did you do that? Bircan Unver  19:41 That's really the kind of key point in my life. In as for the initial one of the two reasons that I came to the U.S. as the first time, I was you know the first aim to learn English. The second also. To learn the TV production, and then my first year was in the U.S. was in L.A. and then I was looking for the schools and just I'm I I'd like to get the formal education, formal training, and then one of my friends there, whom I met there, she said my aunt is TV producer at Queens Public TV in New York, and she is looking for someone like you who really wants to get in and all that. And then I think a couple months later, I had a very brief trip to New York, and I met with her, and then I met with her at QPTV. Now she is unfortunately not with us, but she was also she was the first Turkish producer at QPTV, and I'm forever grateful in memory of her. She was the one who introduced me QPTV, so I met Victor at QPTV in 1990, and then when I went back to LA, I decided to move to New York. So as soon as I moved to New York and I registered to QPTV's both field production and studio, and at the time, there were seven, eight months waiting list. Eventually, I got it on the list, 1991, and first I got the field production certificate, and it was I think six months something, and we had a group project and solo project, and then studio and studio production. It's when the same group project after you are learning all the equipment and then shooting and everyone is crewing everyone is helping each other within the same group of the class and then also producing group project and then the individual project that it is the similar step for the field production and the studio, that also provides a certificate to enabling us to use QPTV equipment, studios taking out the equipment, inviting studios, studios. Unfortunately, after COVID 19, there has been a long dragging issue. They haven't opened the studios. This is I don't want to get in because it is beyond our concept, but because that was my initial reason also moving to New York. And then once I started producing program and airing, I really loved idea from one idea, just idea, and then put paper and develop it. Bring yes, bring the crew, especially with the manual three-inch tapes, and to present, put everything in a tape, and then submit it an ARC schedule. I really love that. So then, while I was there, and then I said, "Okay, I want to really have a master's degree on TV production. So my master's degree from New Zealand University is in media studies. So and I got my diploma May 1999 So, but New Zealand was amazing. I learned all the first my you know my life although it was 39 maybe 3839 years old when I was Photoshop and Premiere or Evid and all the first offline digital all the software program I learned at the new school and I edited my first program offline at the new circle as well, but when I got diploma, and then I had nowhere no access to continue. Also, you know, it's just I, I never been about the person. My mind and my heart wealthy, but not financial terms. And then, so QPT was always my second home because it provides me continuing the producing and provides me access, provides me equipment. It's like provides the community. That's what it is exists for, especially in support of the Article First Amendment and freedom of expression, and also QPTV format is really, really not well known, or not QPTV loaned. It is public access, pack programming, public education and government programming, non-commercial. So it's it is not much known widely, but it is really one of the best symbol of democracy. And now it's kind of a little bit diminishing because also widespreading out other web streaming platforms like this or other, so that there are so many. Discussion and issues, and also there is one petition to the New York Senate that is called Team New York that could also bring in all the web streaming to this community media access public access media. So then, Michael Hingson  25:19 oh, go ahead. Bircan Unver  25:20 No, I mean the question is so QPTV had has been the longest since 1991. I've been providing content, and as long as I am in the US, if I'm out of the country, even if I am out of the country, my previously submitted programs are rerunning in different, you know, whenever they schedule for my new programs, I determine which time slot because I have a time slot to be scheduled, and whether 28 minutes or one hour. But especially again after COVID 19, I couldn't produce anything at the studio at QPTV, but like this Zoom-based programs, and then for the late million organization, the programs I produce and then edit them, reformat them to schedule for QPTV. But it wasn't as it used to be produced at QPTV, at the studio with the crew, that's the excitement teaming up. It's really, I love it. But Zoom, this type also make more maybe manageable, but also bring more intonation speakers. You know, through online connection. If Speaker 1  26:54 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the Unstoppable Mindset Community. Michael Hingson  27:28 So you you started in public access television and and and are still doing that essentially. But in 2000 you started Light Millennium TV. Tell us about Light Millennium Television. Bircan Unver  27:42 Thank you so much. Because Late Millennium, I still consider it's my third child because already 25th anniversary. The flyer on my back says 25th That also refers the 25th anniversary of the Light Millennium. I think a the experience and production, and also providing three platform QPTV, Queens Public TV, but actually the 1992 Communication Act and PAC programming, public government public education and government programming; those emerge with my new school education, like Fatrus, Plato, the concept of the two ways of messaging, and for the first time in my life, at the age of I think it was I was 39 I was able 3039, I was able to use. It was very new, also for the war. Internet. We had the internet at the new school as our media class, the open forum. One week media theory class. We have open discussion forum about Greek philosophy, further is communication, media theory. The other class we had the classic format. So all these together merged in my mind, and I really felt I found my medium. That medium is the internet, which me, especially someone is living in New York, who has you know 30 years first life in Turkey, Istanbul, that culture, and then I I didn't want to kind of disconnect from my root cultures, and internet provided me that connections, and also I always like to write and communicate, so so it becomes like natural medium. And then when I just graduated in May 1999 I send out by then like 40 people with my friends. Colleagues, and then I said, "Oh, I want to start a platform. This platform is going to be ours. And everyone wants to say, kind of to expand the QPTV's concept, because when I say QPTV's concept, this is the again First Amendment, and they don't control the content. They don't say anything you can do, you cannot unless it is a threat to someone's life. So it's all the content, or you are responsible as the producer. So I really love that freedom and responsibility again. And then then I was mentoring at the New York Food Moon Finance and Television, and I was kind of trying to find what I want to do, and I was already producing programs at QPTV. I never give up as as long as I could afford to produce the time and edit. Edit is always more time consuming, and then the executive director of the at the time 1999 Woman Film Man Television, she said you can form a nonprofit. I never taught it before, and I'm forever thankful to her. And then I said I don't know what to do where to start because she perhaps she saw the potential because I was producing non-commercial and publishing, trying to promote, you know, through group emails, and whatever the you know social media available at the time. Well, mostly email and group emails, and then she suggested me a volunteer lawyers of arts that she said they can help you, and I never knew and I never thought I if I never came to U.S. maybe I will never had a concept of forming a nonprofit or light minimum. So that U.S. and all combination brought me and news called Queens Public TV, First Amendment, United Nations Article of 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Everything together kind of merged in my mind. Also, the projects I produce, I communicate, is contact with people, I learn from them. So then, when I contacted with them, they ask me, you know, what is my statement this type? And then I drafted all of them, and they put in medical, you know, terms and terminology, and I was lucky that we got a pro bono at the time one of the you know major U.S. law firms. I I think I can say now because they even though I think merged K Shuler, but they took our case and they formed my organization on on a pro bono basis and officially the first as a non profit organization done with the 500 1c T V together. So we officially formed 2001 July 17, and we and then right after that they filed 501c3 for us, and then we granted that in September 18, 2002. Bircan Unver  33:14 My memory is not good, but I I remember that date as of today because it was kind of imprinted in my mind, but also the beauty was that the granted granting 501 c3 was effective of the formation date, which is July 17 2001 So then, since I developed started the light minimum concept, introducing speaking people trying creating an open platform that everyone can you know contribute be part of it, so then I started in January 2000 on January 13 2000 started first monthly the like TV series at like at QP TV. That's how it came about. Michael Hingson  34:02 Yeah, you have certainly created quite a niche in in the whole light millennium and all the other things that you've done, which is pretty fascinating. How did you get connected with the United Nations? Because I know you're doing work with them. Bircan Unver  34:18 Thank you. Actually, the concept with the UN use, I don't do work for them. Michael Hingson  34:29 Right. Bircan Unver  34:29 We do work with them. Right. You're connected Michael Hingson  34:34 with them. You're not working for them. I understand that. Bircan Unver  34:36 Yeah, I just you know one word, but it's key key differences. But as as I mentioned, how the light millennium concept emerged, and also my master's degree program, media studies at the New School, and also there is another person I have to mention here, also in. Separate for her respectful and loving memory, Danielle Camille. She was my advisor for my thesis project advisor at the new school, and all that TV ideas and my thesis project. And she loved, and I got all A. And my first TV ideas project was peace, reality, or utopian dream, and it was 11 minutes or so. It was just before the first Clinton administration election, just October, I think 2002 and then I interviewed many academicians, civil society, non-profits who whose focus area on peace and war and you know against nuclear or all that and and then that actually the concept peace reality or utopian dream that took me to the United Nations I don't know now as a as an outsider, at the time it was so welcoming, and I went to photo department. They share me with photos, and I got all the books I was looking for. Of course, public library. I got all the books about the peace and peace organization. So that 12 minutes program, peace rate or utopian dream, and physically led me to step in the UN for the first time, and then producing this project, searching kind of open to me new horizon, and also my advisor was persistent. Birjan, we know you are great. You produce fundamental programs on arts, but I want you to do something else. So that actually also forced me to move beyond producing something beyond arts. And so then then peace, reality, or utopian dream concept came in, but also it wasn't far topic in my life because my son was born 20 when I was 2022 Now he is 45 His name is Borush, and mean is in Turkish peace. Peace also at the time, you know, Africa hunger, and I was hoping when I get 4050, this will be over. It's not the case, but as a vision, I always look for humanistic positive for the humanity, not you know for myself well-being. Michael Hingson  37:38 Well, you you kind of act as a bridge between UN programs and local communities. Tell me more about that because you view that you view yourself as being a bridge between UN programs and the local community. Why do you why do you view yourself as more of a bridge? Bircan Unver  38:00 That's very nice metaphor, and I think it's very true for me too. Maybe I could take it two three step backs. One is the village I was born. There is a river, and and then there was a bridge, and that bridge was kind of fundamental. Really, going to where you know people are established, living in all the agriculture and large fields, and it was kind of nostalgic to me. It's a bridge, but it's a stone, short bridge. That's the the first part. The second Istanbul. You know, my life main path when I was in Istanbul, Turkey in Istanbul, and Istanbul the Bosphor and then the Istanbul Bridge. Now the name changed, and now three bridges, and not just the bridge itself, but also Turkish geographic Turkey's geographical space place on Earth and especially on in between Europe and Asia and Black Sea and then the Mediterranean Sea and then when you go down North Africa, and then you go up like Russia and North Europe. So you see that that connection physically, geographically, and troy physical bridges. We live, we grow up with this kind of as part of our DNA and vision. When I was working on this, the first the initial need you know in the non-profit world to describe the need need was to connect with my culture, people, friends, family, the internet medium, and then village is also metaphor, and when we associated with the. I let I'm proud to say it. Let the association process. That was also my vision from that small video for the class project. And then, then I realize this is also. I think today is real fact that local communities, even Queens here, people are paying 1000s of dollars to come to New York to get visas. All that trying to get the sponsor, you know, to attend a conference, and I I didn't see much interest within the local nonprofits there, and that little bit was shocking realization for me. So I brought to my programs UN visions programs, MDGs, UN days, sustainable development goals. For instance, when it was announced at the UN for the 2023 agenda, we created dreams for humanity. So we brought people from lots of life, poets, authors, and youths to really share their ideas for humanity, for peace. Michael Hingson  41:12 Well, you-it sounds like, from all that I've read and and studied, you're you're, or at some point, you kind of have moved more into dealing with a lot of things with the environment. So I know that your program has been able to get a credit accredited as an observer observer status with the UN Environment Program. How is how has that affected what you do and all of your work going forward. Bircan Unver  41:43 Thank you. This is also another important, I think, milestone for us. The first in connection with the UN, associated with the in the formerly United Nations Department of Public Information, and then it has changed to Department of Global Communications. Officially, we've been associated since 2005, active and good standing, and we are able to be presented at the UN with six representatives, and therefore we are able also to reflect back to our committee's networks from the UN and it's two ways. I really like the concept two ways messaging, and then always environment in somewhat it involves in our programs. But let's say through water, through energy, through, for instance, when the forest fires really burns my heart. So being sensible and trying to, as much as I could, to attend the meetings, especially MDGs for the first phase of the Millennium Declaration, really, it's. I consider UN is the best school I ever had, and it's for me lifetimes to call, and I learn about so many countries I will never otherwise know them much. Some of the names you hardly hear in media and anywhere else, so it's kind of opens and to see the global spectrum. Also, one of the things I really love at the UN, whether you you are a ambassador or president or prime minister of a country that has maybe a population 1 million or 2 million or 1 billion or two 1.6 billion, the largest one, so you have the same minutes of speaking time, same voting, especially of course, I'm talking about the general assembly. So those things I follow up, and we try to incorporate time to time. And water issue always, I wanted to involve. I want to do something about, but it's just not like because I love the tourists, and I'm not, you know, scientist, so I'm not officially trained. So also, I'm not able to protect the, you know, fires in the forest. And every year it's getting worse and worse. And then I'm sensible, but you know, you can't do much about it. And eventually, although our last name is same, but we are not blood connected. Professor Oljoymer, at the time he was vice president for the UN Water at the UN, and we connected. And I was following up, and I was aware his work before we met. We connected through the UN. So then, especially during the COVID era, then when I've seen his speeches, natural-based solutions, and then his piece on smart water, so I propose him if we can do something. About water, and then he was very supportive, very kind, very modest. We had our first water program on the World Water Day in March 2001 and then it has turned out an annual program, and we kind of made the global connections and collaborations, and especially first three, four of them, Professor Olja led and guide, and also we worked together in a sense that I brought one part of the speakers and he brought other parts. So it was also great, diverse speakers and also the level of the speakers from whether civil society, academia, UN, and youth, all that. So we already presented six of them, and 2023 we were part of the UN Water Conference. We presented a program, and then last year we participated and presented a program site event in Nice on the Ocean Conference, and we kind of we also had previously on the ocean again. So plastic also become whether ocean, whether water, whether land life, like plastic, is becoming a huge in every level. Not plastic, but also chemical, all all sorts of polluters on in environment. So then we become promoting, producing, and there are really great level of academicians and experts, and they also like to share and connect their research and their findings. So it's a platform to break down together, and then when it is a video, when it is posted as both a summary along with the full presentation or speech, so it becomes a really source where you know you can find diverse voices, diverse solutions, diverse ideas, and also we align them in support of the UN days, UN conferences, SDGs, sustainable development goals like Water Days. Also, we collaborate with an organization in India, IGEN Green Institution, Green Engineers Institute of Green Engineers. So they are focusing on energy SDG seven. So we contribute them, bringing speakers. Bircan Unver  47:40 So then they join us to our program. So really, it's an organic volunteer base. So that that actually, I was so proud that we got a call, invitation to submit the application for this accredited status, and it was June 2025 after the ocean conference. I think ocean conference kind of brought them cumulatively and maybe brought their attention. And then October they asked our official documents, the bylaws and and certificate of organization, which is the regular require any formal application at the UN, and then I I submitted them in I think it was October 1525 but I haven't heard anything, and then I thought maybe you know they didn't consider, and then literally a year later, in June, last June, we got approval, and with a, it's not just accredited for a special one particular conference. It is an observer status assembly to contribute draft ideas. I mean, to contribute drafts, draft resolution to observe, to participate, and then also to be responsible to provide every four-year quadrennial report. Let's say if we fail to produce contribution at any level to this cause, then you know we may lose that observed status, but of course we'll do our best to contribute and to continue. Michael Hingson  49:27 With all of the work that you've done in all of this, I want to come back to World Water Day in a moment. But with all the work that you've done and all the the the things that you've done in public television and so on, when you host these meetings or you participate in these meetings, do they get televised? Also, are you able to bring those to to the public through public television? Bircan Unver  49:53 When it is Zoom, then I edit within my time slot within the limits of. Time slots and QPTV provides two different time slots. One is 20-eight minutes, the other one is 50-eight minutes. So then, let's say if it's two-hour session, I you know a little bit edit and then title, etc. and part one, part two, and also depending on the length of the session or 20-eight minutes. So then I schedule them through the local channels, as we spoke at QPTV. Also, I make them available through our vmail.com/lmtv channel on web on the web. Also, when we have a summary or outcomes, so we also provide those links and share through social media. Try our best to make those information available, visible, and reachable. Michael Hingson  50:51 Well, that I'm glad you do that. I'm glad that it gets to be something that is a lot more publicized than you just attending a meeting-that's important, I would think, to do when when you talk about World Water Day and so on. One of the things that that I I understand you do is you compare water security directly with cybersecurity and gender equality. Those are three different sorts of things when you include water security. Tell us more about that. Bircan Unver  51:24 This was our latest program in last March, and we had in our prior program on AI a discussion on AI a public discussion on AI policy or AI arc. So he's a professor and at the SUNY, and he's a mathematician, and he's also teaching cybersecurity. And when I was talking about when we met about the water conference upcoming, actually in this December, in the United Emirates on I think December six to eight. Even I was thinking to attend, but I wanted part a bit this time virtually instead of going there. So when we were talking about and and I really like this idea and I say as I asked exactly what you asked for, and then his really statement explanation made great sense because everything is nowadays control troy some form of electronic or AI or a combination of those systems, right? Competing systems. So if or if there is a technical issues, that's one case. But if there is a hack, especially water is the life source for everyone, whether you are billion or trillion, or you are you know ordinary people on the you know everyday life. So water is the source for everything, including producing the energy. AI. So water is the life itself. So then, when he said, if any hacking, whether you know small you know some you know people with a bad intention or some maybe big corporation because some profit purpose they want to sell more you know bottled water whatever or some international security issues you you may name this many other things. So if a computer system, if the control mechanism, if the AI system, whatever that combination in that system, is hack, then everything is a huge risk, and that's number one. How it connects with the water. Also now you know we smart how everything is electronic. Everything and then when that somewhat the life collapses there. So including water, including energy. So everything is so much you know interconnected. And then how that the gender equality came. Also, we follow Michael the UN annual-based dedication team for each UN Day or conferences. For instance, last year, water and gender equality, because water and gender required is also so inseparable concept and conditions in many parts of the world, and then also our professor Emre Tokus, he also. Make beautiful connection that if woman or when woman, if and when women are more in the security, cyber security, IT technology sectors, they are more sensitive. They are more like maybe natural in their dealings, like mother protection. So more protective, so there is less risk than where it is now. So to increase the gender equality, both not burden on the woman, you know, where it's the water scarcity that woman has to carry the burden. Girls, even five, seven years old, when developing countries, when it comes to developing countries, and then if the girls are, and also that was staggering. Stats he gave sort of shocked me today because he is a professor at SUNY. So what I mean by that, he said one of his class has only four girls out of 31. of his class has only one girl. One of his class doesn't have no girl. So even though if if girls are girls are not getting in this field, how we gonna bring the gender balance in all cross-cutting sectors of society. So that's how both from the UN perspective, the dedication team, also cybersecurity, the profile from a university that girls are not showing attention, interest studying cybersecurity. That was the fact based on his class last semester. One Michael Hingson  56:46 of the things that you have done, as I understand, is you've written several books. Bircan Unver  56:53 Yes, there are more, but hopefully I could get work on them, publish them as well. The my first book was Michael, based on my interviews with artists and my reviews on art exhibits, and also when I had questionnaire surveys like with artists, galleries, academicians, professors, students. When I before my first life prior prior the U.S. So when I went back after four years and I was really eager to get in a job for as a TV producer and somewhat that didn't work despite all my efforts even I my project load and everyone was after me, but they want to take the project, but not give me the role what I deserve for. So then I kind of close myself, and then I said I want to compile my books, my articles, my interviews. So that was how my first book came about in Turkish. To create is the most sacred. So, like the value to give the highest value for the creativity, intellectual production. That is through all those interviews, reviews, and questions. So that's that was the first book. The second book is in a way a bridge again between U.S. and Istanbul, New York and Istanbul, or maybe L.A. New York and Istanbul. Because when I came in, also I've done freelance journalism, so I wrote some you know reviews and the magazine. I used to, you know, send and appear my interviews and reviews. So and it was include not too frequent, but it was include some of major exhibits, both from LA and also from the Metropolitan Museum in MoMA in New York. Also Turkish artists here. So I met them, you know, when I was living. I started living in here. So then I a combination of those, and also that was another metaphor developed in my mind when I was Istanbul. I was feeling like the labyrinths of arts. So that's my second book title in Turkish labyrinths in arts. So like you are like this kind of narrow and small world in Istanbul art worlds and very high competition, and then nobody expanding to New York and LA expansion means bringing some, for instance, Franz Bacon, Thomas Hart Benton, and Max Ernst and Marina Magritte. Those also the last part connecting with the New York Istanbul from my art based on my art background. Michael Hingson  59:51 So, were any of the books published in English? The Bircan Unver  59:54 last 120, 23 is English, but. It is a compilation concept is written me. I directed the project, and of course I have some pieces also beside the concept. But it is a compilation by 24 contributors. It is based on the JUC Media Research Writing Awards 2021 and 2023 High School Awards Project, and also it is also engaging the youth to involve the UN programs at an early age and encourage them award them. So that also the next one is going to be on the Water Action Decatur in the same line, same concept, and also I have a book project since 2022 I couldn't still 2022 2020 actually. I dream, therefore I am. I have 80% of the book manuscript is ready, but I couldn't finalize it, and so the other one also I was hoping but couldn't to have a book for the 25th anniversary of the latentium. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. It's a little bit seemingly not going to happen this year to come up 25th anniversary of late millennium, but I had 20 anniversary of the late millennium in Turkish, and so this is completely different issue because I introduced like Millennium both in Turkish and in English, so it's like Tiffany Sister is the Turkish one, and then I formed Turkish sister in 2010, and then so on the 20th anniversary of the Turkish organization, as it is association, official association. So I compile the first part, the concept vision, very much like Millennium, because it's the system. But the second part based on the programs, activities, and challenges in Istanbul. So this book also in English will be first the the manifesto and the first all the history will be very much in English, the original one. But the second part is going to be completely, you know, selected ideas and projects and programs from the website and public programs from the last 20-five years, and it's hard hard things to do. It it's very challenging. I couldn't do it. Michael Hingson  1:02:47 It's it's a lot of work. Well, Berjan, I I want to tell you that we have now been talking for more than an hour. Time flies when you're having fun. Man, I'm going to go. I'm going to have to go ahead and and end our time, but we'll have to do this again and and continue the discussion. But I really appreciate you taking the time to be here, and I hope that people will monitor your programs and and and read your books if they can read Turkish or English, whichever works. Troy Bircan Unver  1:03:18 has so many English pieces, and now everyone welcome to look out our website. And what's the Michael Hingson  1:03:26 website again? Bircan Unver  1:03:28 lmglobal.org. Michael Hingson  1:03:32 lmglobal.org. Okay. Bircan Unver  1:03:34 Yes, but the whole archive from 2019 to 2000 no, 2019 no. of course not 2019 1999 to 2018 The archive. Our initial website is light millennium.org Millennium is with double N double N. So the everything we are talking about, all the process, our UN programs, and the reports from the UN NGO briefings, some conferences we participated. If anyone has any question, I'll be happy to provide the link and you know to contact them. Michael Hingson  1:04:17 And we will put that information in the show notes, the notes for the podcast. So I want to thank you for being here. This has been absolutely informative. I really appreciate your time, and I hope the programs continue to go well. So I want to thank you again for being here, and this has just been a lot of fun. Bircan Unver  1:04:39 Thank you so much, Michael Kingston, it is great honor and privilege. Especially, you are a hero, and your your story is amazing, and you are also taking really one of the challenges works like producing these programs, and we never met in real life. And then this is also like Millennium and your work. How we connected through? Otherwise, there was no like regular environment or database environment that we could meet. Your work and your dedication and your inspiring contribution really connected us and bring us together in this session. Thank you, and I'm really grateful for that. Michael Hingson  1:05:29 Thank you for being here with me on Unstoppable Mindset. I hope today's conversation left you with a fresh perspective, a new insight, or at least something worth thinking about. If you're ready to go deeper into the ideas that shape how we see ourselves and others, I have a free gift for you. Head over to michaelhingson.com and download my free ebook, Blinded by Fear. It explores the invisible beliefs that hold us back and shows you how to reframe them so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share this show with someone who can use a reminder that growth starts with mindset. When people think differently, we all move forward together. 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Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25 1 The Imperium of Man Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction 2 Space Marines Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery 3 Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys' military papers, pulp battlefield fiction 4 Adeptus Mechanicus Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp 5 Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama 6 The Inquisition The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction 7 Rogue Traders Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction 8 Adeptus Custodes Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings 9 Adeptus Titanicus Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha Wells' Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods 10 The Horus Heresy Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer's rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises 11 Chaos Space Marines Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions Milton's Paradise Lost, Moorcock's Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy 12 Chaos Daemons Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction 13 World Eaters / Khorne Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy 14 Death Guard / Nurgle Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints 15 Thousand Sons / Tzeentch Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic 16 Emperor's Children / Slaanesh Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism 17 Chaos / Imperial Knights Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers 18 Orks Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies William Hope Hodgson's “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques 19 Tyranids Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons John W. Campbell's “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells' Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism 20 Genestealer Cults Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects 21 Necrons The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings Karel Čapek's R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses 22 Aeldari / Drukhari Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats 23 Night Lords Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment 24 T'au Empire / Leagues of Votann Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies 25 REDACTED Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia

Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25 1 The Imperium of Man Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction 2 Space Marines Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery 3 Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys' military papers, pulp battlefield fiction 4 Adeptus Mechanicus Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp 5 Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama 6 The Inquisition The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction 7 Rogue Traders Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction 8 Adeptus Custodes Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings 9 Adeptus Titanicus Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha Wells' Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods 10 The Horus Heresy Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer's rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises 11 Chaos Space Marines Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions Milton's Paradise Lost, Moorcock's Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy 12 Chaos Daemons Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction 13 World Eaters / Khorne Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy 14 Death Guard / Nurgle Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints 15 Thousand Sons / Tzeentch Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic 16 Emperor's Children / Slaanesh Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism 17 Chaos / Imperial Knights Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers 18 Orks Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies William Hope Hodgson's “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques 19 Tyranids Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons John W. Campbell's “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells' Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism 20 Genestealer Cults Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects 21 Necrons The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings Karel Čapek's R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses 22 Aeldari / Drukhari Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats 23 Night Lords Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment 24 T'au Empire / Leagues of Votann Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies 25 REDACTED Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia

In this next episode of Money, Markets and More, I sit down with Liv Boeree to discuss AI, risk, poker, game theory, incentives, state power and better decision-making. I thought this was a terrific interview and I hope you enjoy it.You can either watch the video above, or listen to the interview as a podcast in the normal way.Liv argues that, while AI could bring huge breakthroughs in health, drug discovery, efficiency and human flourishing, thi same technology can also be used to cause serious harm. We discuss regulation, bad incentives inside AI companies, state surveillance, privacy, human atrophy, automation versus augmentation, and why Liv believes poker is a better model for life than chess: imperfect information, luck, risk, emotion and long-term decision-making.This interview was filmed at ARC 2026 and made possible by The Pure Gold Company.If you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here.

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Coming up in Sports… Cayman may not have gotten all the results they wanted at the AmeriCup Pre‑Qualifiers, but the CIBA President says the tournament was a major step forward for the men's national team — and he breaks down the progress he saw on and off the court.Also ahead… Ground has officially broken on the new Cayman Aquatic Centre — a major milestone for local swimming and a project set to transform aquatic sports in the islands.And… More than 60 young athletes are packing the ARC each morning as Trinidad and Tobago standout Renelle Ford brings high‑level coaching and big energy to Cayman's Indoor Volleyball Camp — and the talent on display is turning heads.

Naked Viking Surf - T Knox Wolverine Finshttps://www.surfnvs.com/collections/taylor-knox/products/taylor-knox-wolverine-twin-apexNaked Viking Surf - T Knox Arc Twin FinsNVS - https://www.surfnvs.com/products/taylor-knox-twin-apexCleanline Surf - https://alnk.to/8iXk9BFNaked Viking Surf - C-Drive 2 plus 1 FinsNVS - https://www.surfnvs.com/collections/c-drive/products/c-drive-twin-stabilizer-apexCleanline Surf - https://alnk.to/2uJQs0wSo the Cado by  @firewiresurfboards  has become my daily driver. When the waves get bigger, I usually take out the Revo Max. But with that in the shop on a recent larger swell, I had to make do with the rest of my quiver.And this means the Machadocado was up at bat - though with having issues on similar boards (Too Fish, Mashup) not working the best on proper waves with some juice, I knew one of my  @surfnvs  fin configurations would do the trick.Out of a couple options, including the regular T Knox Arc Twins, and the kinda crazy C-Drive fins - I opted for the Wolverine Twins. These has slightly more rake than their little brother the Arcs, and the back trailer is 1/2 inch further set back than the Arc trailer. So, in theory, better for bigger waves. But I didn't have the best of luck with the Wolverines in the Revo Max - so I wasn't too sure.  @ThomyeSurfs  though has been saying he loves the Wolverine's in his Cado (I think) and he does no wrong and always knows best.Watch in real time (sort of) as I test drive the T Knox Wolverine Twin Fins in the Firewire Machadocado on a few recent, sometimes larger surf sessions - and how they ultimately went. I also have a short segment on what 'rake' truly is for surf fins - as it can be kinda confusing. Shoutout to the NVS crew for really explaining it to me - after all these years, I think I finally get it (kinda..lol). Timestamps:00:00 - Which Fins to Ride in the Firewire Machadocado when it's Big?02:07 - Fin Options: NVS T Knox Wolverine, T Knox Arc, & C-Drives04:10 - What is 'Rake' on a Surf Fin08:30 - Putting the Taylor Knox Wolverine Twin Fins in the Machadocado09:22 - Surf Sessions (Cado with the Wolverines) & Feedback13:50 - Outro Check out the rest of the NVS lineup on their site - tell them Travis sent ya - https://www.surfnvs.com Watch the rest of my Surf Gear videos here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIvxT-nQaqwhf6tyiXu4HUWxy50Q3JWr3&si=FNUySIHn2v7vL8urT Knox Arc Twin Fins in the Firewire Too Fish -https://youtu.be/4aYaFjfch68More in depth specifics about the Taylor Knox Wolverine Twin - Wolverine Twin was designed for Taylor to use overhead plus surf. Using the same general outline as his standard twin but by increasing the rake on the fronts and the moving the stabilizer back 1/2", these will have more hold and control in bigger surf.These will also work well on your standard thruster or a twin that feels a little too loose.Taylor's Arc Series Twins have wide bases, are relatively upright and utilize a hatchet style tip. These design characteristics bring balance to the template. You can expect these twins to be speed generating, offering down the line drive from the take off and through turns. The hatchet style tip will ensure that you can carve and stay on rail through the fullness of your turns. You won't have to baby your board through the last 1/3 of turns; these fins will help you stay locked in; allowing for more fluid, graceful surfing.Base: 5.04”Height: 5.55”Area: 21.18 in²Rake: 37.5°Foil: FlatMaterial: G10 StabilizerBase: 3.78"Height: 3.68"Area: 10.15 in²Rake: 29.0°Foil: 50/50Material: G10As an Avantlink, Cleanline Surf & NVS Associate, I earn commission from qualifying purchases on the links in the description.#twinfin #nvs #taylorknox #tknoxwolverine #wolverinetwinfins #taylorknoxtwinfins #nakedvikingsurf #surffins #rakedfins #firewiremachadocado #cado #machadocado #surfboards #surf #cleanlinesurf

The living ideas that Charlotte Mason says should inspire our education have been educating great minds since the beginning. The Inspired Homeschool is now available! https://amzn.to/4aKPCGJC.S. Lewis, Leonardo da Vinci, Blaise Pascal, and Joan of Arc were homeschooled. Jennifer Pepito reveals how history's greatest minds were educated, and what it means for your homeschool today.Jennifer Pepito, author of The Inspired Homeschool and host of The Restoration Home podcast, joins Mystie to share how Charlotte Mason's principles have been lived out through history's most inspiring figures. With over 25 years of homeschooling her seven children, Jennifer offers a vision for joyful, confident learning that goes far beyond boxed curricula.In this episode:✅ Why the most influential people in history were homeschooled — and what that means for Christian homeschooling today✅ How Charlotte Mason's living books approach transforms the way children learn✅ The surprising power of quiet time, free play, and time in nature✅ Why reading aloud is the most powerful thing you can do to pass on values to your children✅ How to stop comparing your homeschool to public school standards — and trust your children's God-given capacity to learn"We overestimate the power of a boxed curriculum or a trained teacher, and completely underestimate the power of our own love for God." — Jennifer PepitoWhether you're just starting your homeschool journey or 25 years in, this conversation will encourage you to build a homeschool rooted in faith, virtue, and joyful curiosity.

Commander Cookout's Arc of Evolution is nearing its final chapter. Join us with our favorite returning guest, and Izzet subject matter expert, Bald Tobi!Huge thank you to our sponsors, Fusion Gaming Online. They're your source for all of your gaming needs. You can find them here: www.FusionGamingOnline.com. You want a 5% discount off all of your MTG order? Head over to Fusion Gaming Online and use exclusive promo code: CCONATION at checkout.Want your deck or topic featured on Commander Cookout Podcast? Check out the reward tiers at Patreon.com/CCOPodcast. There are a lot of fun and unique benefits to pledging. Like the CCO Discord or getting your deck featured on the show.Ryan's solo podcast, Commander ad Populum:https://www.spreaker.com/show/commander-ad-populumYou can listen to CCO Podcast anywhere better podcasts are found as well as on CommanderCookout.com.Now, Hit our Theme Song!Social media:https://www.CommanderCookout.comhttps://www.Instagram.com/CommanderCookouthttps://www.Facebook.com/CCOPodcast@CCOPodcast and @CCOBrando on Twitterhttps://www.Patreon.com/CCOPodcast

Mason "Jar" Lemery is one of the most exciting riders to come up in snowboarding right now. A Vermont kid who made the move out west, Mason blew up in 2024 with a breakout season that earned him Slush Magazine's Rookie of the Year, capped off by his part in Brown Cinema's Knights of the Brown Table. Homie has zero hesitation, he's a beast. Nephew of the legendary Jake Blauvelt, Mason's spent time in the mountains with some of the best to ever do it, from John Jackson to Ben Ferguson and more. These opportunities present themselves to Mason because he's a SOLID guy and someone who truly loves the adventure of life. Whether he's sending it in the backcountry or lapping the park, he rides with an energy you can't fake. Big fan. Enjoy! Presented by Monster Energy  Supported by Arc'teryx, The Source, Baldface Lodge, Gibbons Whistler

This week we look at the murder of Anne Widdecombe; the death of Lord Mackay; the World Cup and religion; Norway v. England;  Are Argentina being supported by a Zionist plot? Are Brazil too evangelical?  Should Dundee have played Maccabi Haifa; Country of the week - Spain; Indonesia warns about LGBTQ culture; The UK Health Secretary now says that women can't have penises; the death and faith of Bonnie Tyler;  no. 1 guitarist - Mark Knopfler; Edinburgh ditches Knox's bonnet ceremony;  Kate Forbes at the ARC;  Jennifer Aniston on Religion; with music from Otis Redding;  Dire Straits; Bonnie Tyler; The Beatles; The Three Tenors; Lynard Skynard; Ruth Naomi Floyd

Segundo capítulo dedicado a las diferentes fórmulas interpretativas, a los variados conceptos estéticos y musicales y a la diversidad en el flamenco de esta época con piezas de Rafael Riqueni, Antonio Rey, Juan Antonio Suárez Cano, Ángeles Toledano, Juana la del Pipa, Carmen de la Jara, Kiki Morente, Niño de Elche, Rosalía y Arcángel.Escuchar audio

From Wayne Jackson Satudios, Adam and Michael look at all of the footy news. The AFL is out to get the Suns, new cameras are coming to the ARC plus do you want to own an MCG globe?Don't forget to grab your tickets to our Wildcard Round live show. Sunday, August 30 - tickets at oztix.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La montagne est-elle la meilleure école pour devenir un meilleur coureur et peut-être une meilleure version de soi ?Dans cet épisode enregistré en public à Chamonix lors de l'Arc'teryx Alpine Academy, nous explorons tout ce que la montagne nous apprend : l'humilité, la gestion de la peur, la prise de décision, le goût du processus et l'importance de l'expérience.Aux côtés d'Élise Poncet, Martin Kern et Louis Derrien, nous parlons de performance, de transmission, de santé mentale et de cette relation si particulière que les coureurs entretiennent avec la montagne.Cet épisode est réalisé en collaboration commerciale avec Arc'teryx, à l'occasion de l'Arc'teryx Alpine Academy.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Summary: Bernadette's been watching The Four Seasons on Netflix, and a beach scene between two strangers got her thinking about how easy it is to stay shallow, even with people we care about. She connects it to the ARC Method and a simple challenge: pick one conversation this week and actually ask something real. It's a short episode with one big question to sit with. Takeaways: Shallow is the default, not the exception. Most meetings and check-ins run on autopilot small talk, and it can take a long time before anyone notices what's missing. Ask, Respect, Connect, in that order. Skip a step and the ARC falls: asking without respecting breaks trust, and respecting without connecting to action turns it into venting. Silence is doing the work. After asking a real question, resist the urge to fill the quiet. That's usually where the honest answer shows up. Pick one conversation, not all of them. Real connection doesn't require overhauling how you talk to everyone. It starts with one question, with one person, this week. Connect with Me The Newsletter: This week in the newsletter, I wrote about Jersey saying yes to trans care, the first Pride festival ever held behind bars, Marvel spotlighting disability in their comics, and more. Subscribe to the 5 Things Newsletter here. Work with Me: Let's talk. Watch 5 Things on YouTube.   Join thousands of readers by subscribing to the 5 Things newsletter. Enjoy some good vibes every Saturday morning. https://5thingsdei.com/

Fluent Fiction - French: A Parisian Day: From Schedule to Spontaneity Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/fr/episode/2026-07-13-22-34-01-fr Story Transcript:Fr: Le soleil brille sur Paris en ce quatorze juillet.En: The sun shines on Paris this fourteenth of July.Fr: Les rues sont pleines de couleurs et de musique.En: The streets are full of colors and music.Fr: Les drapeaux tricolores flottent fièrement dans le vent doux de l'été.En: The tricolor flags flutter proudly in the gentle summer breeze.Fr: Éloïse et Matthieu viennent de descendre les marches de leur petit hôtel du Quartier Latin.En: Éloïse and Matthieu have just descended the steps of their small hotel in the Quartier Latin.Fr: Depuis le début de leur séjour, Éloïse avance avec un cahier en main.En: Since the start of their stay, Éloïse has been moving forward with a notebook in hand.Fr: Elle a tout planifié, chaque heure, chaque visite.En: She has everything planned, every hour, every visit.Fr: Aujourd'hui, elle veut voir la cathédrale Notre-Dame et le Palais de Justice.En: Today, she wants to see the cathedral Notre-Dame and the Palais de Justice.Fr: Pour elle, chaque minute compte.En: For her, every minute counts.Fr: Matthieu, cependant, propose une autre idée.En: Matthieu, however, suggests another idea.Fr: « Profitons des festivités », dit-il avec un sourire, espérant la convaincre de vivre le moment présent.En: "Let's enjoy the festivities," he says with a smile, hoping to convince her to live in the moment.Fr: Éloïse hoche la tête, mais son attention est déjà sur sa montre.En: Éloïse nods, but her attention is already on her watch.Fr: Matthieu soupire doucement mais accepte de la suivre.En: Matthieu sighs softly but accepts to follow her.Fr: Ils passent leur matinée à explorer le charme historique de l'Île de la Cité.En: They spend their morning exploring the historical charm of the Île de la Cité.Fr: Les rues sont bondées, les touristes s'émerveillent.En: The streets are crowded, tourists are in awe.Fr: À midi, ils s'arrêtent pour déjeuner dans un café pittoresque.En: At noon, they stop for lunch at a quaint café.Fr: Éloïse jette un regard satisfait à son planning, mais quelque chose dans le regard doux de Matthieu la trouble.En: Éloïse glances satisfactorily at her schedule, but something in Matthieu's gentle gaze unsettles her.Fr: Il se lève soudainement et lui tend la main.En: He suddenly stands and holds out his hand to her.Fr: « Viens », murmure-t-il, « faisons quelque chose de fou.En: "Come," he murmurs, "let's do something crazy."Fr: » Hésitante, Éloïse suit Matthieu.En: Hesitant, Éloïse follows Matthieu.Fr: Ils prennent le métro vers les Champs-Élysées.En: They take the metro to the Champs-Élysées.Fr: L'énergie dans les rues est électrisante.En: The energy in the streets is electrifying.Fr: Des musiciens jouent, des enfants rient.En: Musicians play, children laugh.Fr: Lentement, le poids de son planning s'allège sur ses épaules.En: Slowly, the weight of her planning lightens on her shoulders.Fr: Éloïse commence à sourire secrètement, puis librement.En: Éloïse begins to smile secretly, then freely.Fr: Matthieu achète deux glaces à une petite camionnette.En: Matthieu buys two ice creams from a small van.Fr: Ils savourent le moment ensemble, assis au pied de l'Arc de Triomphe.En: They savor the moment together, sitting at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe.Fr: Plus tard, alors que le soir tombe, les foules se rassemblent pour les feux d'artifice au Champ de Mars.En: Later, as night falls, crowds gather for the fireworks at the Champ de Mars.Fr: Éloïse, sa main dans celle de Matthieu, admire le ciel illuminé.En: Éloïse, her hand in Matthieu's, admires the illuminated sky.Fr: « Cela valait le coup, non ?En: "It was worth it, wasn't it?"Fr: » demande Matthieu doucement.En: Matthieu asks softly.Fr: Éloïse acquiesce, les yeux brillants.En: Éloïse nods, her eyes shining.Fr: Elle a appris quelque chose d'important aujourd'hui : chaque moment compte, mais certains plus que d'autres.En: She learned something important today: every moment counts, but some more than others.Fr: À la lueur des feux d'artifice, elle se tourne vers Matthieu.En: In the glow of the fireworks, she turns to Matthieu.Fr: « Merci », dit-elle, son sourire transformé, ses yeux remplis d'émotion.En: "Thank you," she says, her smile transformed, her eyes filled with emotion.Fr: Et Matthieu, heureux de voir le changement en Éloïse, réalise que cette journée a cimenté leur lien, peut-être même ouvert la voie à quelque chose de plus beau.En: And Matthieu, happy to see the change in Éloïse, realizes that this day has solidified their bond, perhaps even paved the way for something more beautiful.Fr: Ils rentrent à leur hôtel main dans la main, prêts à créer de nouveaux souvenirs, sans aucun autre plan que celui d'être ensemble.En: They return to their hotel hand in hand, ready to create new memories, with no other plan than to be together. Vocabulary Words:the breeze: la brisethe watch: la montrethe cathedral: la cathédraleto flutter: flotterthe charm: le charmeto glance: jeter un regardto murmur: murmurerto sigh: soupirerthe gaze: le regardto ponder: réfléchirquaint: pittoresquehesitant: hésitant(e)gently: doucementto savor: savourerthe fireworks: les feux d'artificecrowd: la fouleilluminated: illuminé(e)to trouble: troublersecretly: secrètementto bond: lierthe schedule: le planningto admire: admirerthe weight: le poidsunsettled: troublé(e)happy: heureux / heureusetogether: ensembleto lighten: s'allégerthe plan: le planthe hand: la mainelectrifying: électrisant(e)

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"The Lie of a Chained Elephant" | Rev. Angel Aureoles | 7.12.26 by ARC of Carson City, NV

Jeff and Phil welcome actor, martial artist, and stuntman Brian Le of MartialClub, whose credits include Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paper Tigers, and this summer's gritty action thriller The Furious. He talks about his humble beginnings from watching kung fu flicks on bootleg VHS, to making YouTube videos with his brother Andy as self-taught action stars; getting to work with some of the world's best film fighters in The Furious -- and the steep learning curve of making action movies in Asia; and channeling his inner baby to play the unstoppable henchman Ho. Also: The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of making The Furious. This episode is sponsored by National Asian American Theatre Company's acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts, which brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Performances from June 9 through July 19. Use code H6BC for $59 tickets!

The inaugural CPAC UK runs from July 16-18 in London. Speakers include the former PM, Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees Mogg and Yours Truly . No Count Binface as far as I'm aware. Flying Frisby readers can get 25% off with this link.A few weeks ago Josh from the Pure Gold Company asked if I'd be interested in recording some long-form interviews. It sounded like a good idea, so at ARC a fortnight ago we sat down and recorded six conversations. Season One, if you like.The focus is not just gold or markets, although they feature prominently. They are about the forces shaping the world: money, debt, geopolitics, technology, energy, incentives. You name it.I'll be running the interviews here on The Flying Frisby, on YouTube via Money Markets & More, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and the other major platforms.My hope is to make this a regular Sunday feature and, over time, build a library of conversations that remains valuable long after the headlines have faded.I hope you enjoy them.(And if you do enjoy them, please share them and let me know who you'd like me to interview next).To kick things off my first guest is Luke Gromen. Luke has been ahead of the curve on debt, fiscal dominance, the bond market and gold for a long time, and in this conversation he explains the bind facing the Federal Reserve, why markets may no longer be as free as we like to think, and why foreign central banks are buying gold instead of US Treasuries.We also discuss the reindustrialisation of America, why reversing decades of offshoring is likely to be inflationary and why China does not want the yuan to become a straight replacement for the dollar. You can read Luke's letter, the Forest for the Trees, here.My thanks go to Josh, Rachel Eyres, the Pure Gold Company for making these interviews possible. If you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here.Coming up soon we have* Liv Boeree* Steve Baker* Toby Young* Francis Foster* Toby BaxendaleThis interview was filmed at ARC 2026 in association with The Pure Gold Company. Nothing in this programme is intended as investment advice. It is an expression of opinion only. We do not know your financial circumstances. Do your own research.And …The Secret History of Gold is getting rave reviews and is available around the world at all good bookshops. The audiobook is especially popular. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Host Seth Swerczek is joined by Miles Neville and Preston Lentfer to explore the history, evolution, and enduring popularity of the 6mm (.243") caliber. From the groundbreaking 6mm Lee Navy and 243 Winchester to modern favorites like the 6 ARC, 6 Creedmoor, and beyond, the crew breaks down why the 6mm family has remained a favorite for hunters, competitors, and shooters for more than a century—and debates whether it truly is the best all-around caliber.

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The Dirt Division trio first mulls over one of the most anticipated shoes of the year, the Norda 055. Then, they dive into a two part conversation about recovery.Guest: Jane Maus and Kyle Richardson are true mountain athletes. They talk to Taylor about their draw to such terrain, background that led them there, and what it means to be supported by Arc'teryx.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORSNäak Nutrition: The Drop Listeners can get 15% off any Näak products by using code BITR15. Näak is a nutrition brand the leverages natural ingredients and research backed formulas to help athletes perform. They have a host of products like gels, drink, mixes, broths, bars, and recovery fuel. Their highest performance Boost line doubles down on the carbs for high-performance fuel that's also gut-friendly. Go to http://naak.com to explore and purchase.

For twenty years, Christian Wiman has lived with a rare, incurable cancer. In the fall of 2022, during a stretch when the illness was especially bad, he wrote to his friend and Yale colleague Miroslav Volf: “I don't know what faith means anymore. I'm a 56-year-old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don't know what faith means.” That letter became the seed of an extended correspondence between the poet and the theologian, now published as Glimmerings: Letters on Faith between a Poet and a Theologian. In this special collaboration with Arc Magazine, editor Mark Oppenheimer sits down with Volf and Wiman to unpack the letters that grew out of their long friendship and years of walking together through New Haven. They discuss what it means to love God, why doubt and absence might be constitutive elements of faith and presence rather than its opposite, and how a terminal diagnosis changed what each of them was willing to say and how freely they said it. They also trace the thinkers who shaped their thinking along the way, from Simone Weil's account of attention to Etty Hillesum's wartime writing, to Abraham Joshua Heschel's theology of the prophets, and they wrestle openly with where their understandings of Jesus Christ converge and diverge. Along the way, Wiman reflects on writing from a hospital room at Massachusetts General, on discovering that his fear was never death itself but the fear of dying without God, and on why grief, not fear, is what remains even after that fear falls away. Episode Highlights I don't know what faith means anymore. I'm a 56-year-old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don't know what faith means. I sometimes find it hard to think what it means to love God. I don't know how to love God. Faith is what matters. Belief seems to me a matter of the institution and ascending to creeds and things like that. I think most of my theological thinking is existentially motivated. It's motivated by the kind of inner logic of the trust in which I'm involved. Most of the books that I wrote, I've written for myself. I'm one of those writers who doesn't have an audience. There is grace in my life if I can just keep my eyes open enough to see it. His mistake in some ways lets him see that the world is right, that there's a rightness to the world. What becomes clear is one's longing for God. Everything is stripped away and very little else seems to matter. What I want most in my life is the presence of God. And I fear dying without that. Just being alone at the moment of death. I was worried that he won't have God in that situation of need because attention might be lacking. About Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is the author of Exclusion and Embrace, the NYT bestseller Life Worth Living (with Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Matt Croasmun), The Cost of Ambition, and more than twenty other books. Christian Wiman is the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School. He has written and edited numerous volumes of poetry. He has lived with a rare blood cancer, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, for more than twenty years, an experience he wrote about in his memoirs My Bright Abyss and Zero at the Bone. Helpful Links and Resources Glimmerings: Letters on Faith between a Poet and a Theologian, the book discussed in this episode: https://bookshop.org/p/books/glimmerings-letters-on-faith-between-a-poet-and-a-theologian-christian-wiman/1a13ad79a59080d1 Miroslav Volf, faculty bio at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/people/miroslav-volf Christian Wiman, faculty bio at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/people/christian-wiman Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera, the magazine that co-produced this episode: https://arcmag.org/ John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis: https://rap.wustl.edu/ My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman's earlier memoir on faith and his cancer diagnosis: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374534370/mybrightabyss/ Miroslav Volf: Disagreeing With You Feels Like Disagreeing With Myself, a Christianity Today profile of the two friends (by Andrew Hendrixson): https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/miroslav-volf-disagreeing-with-you-like-disagreeing-with-myself-christian-wiman/ Show Notes Summer break announcement, past-episode recap Special crossover episode with Arc Magazine Mark Oppenheimer, Arc's editor, hosts this conversation Origin story: a brief email exchange in fall 2022 Wiman's diagnosis, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, and a bone marrow transplant Twenty years of friendship, marked by weekly walks in New Haven The letter that started it: not knowing what faith means anymore What does it mean to love God? Faith versus belief: creeds compared to a personal relationship Doubt as a constitutive element of trust, not its opposite Absence and presence, sorrow and joy, held together Theology as existentially motivated rather than academic exercise Writing for an audience of one, and how that shapes honesty Whether a book contract changes how freely you write Simone Weil's idea that attention is what makes God present Disagreement over how central Jesus Christ is to each man's sense of God Volf's Pentecostal upbringing, Wiman's Southern Baptist roots Volf's sense of God as behind and underneath, not face to face Wiman's youthful epiphany and a memory of his grandmother's death A misread wildflower, a Richard Wilbur poem, grace found in error Shai Held's blurb and why Jewish thinkers rarely appear in Christian theology Etty Hillesum, her wartime diaries, her postcard thrown from the train Abraham Joshua Heschel's influence through Sabbath and The Prophets Heschel's idea that faith is fidelity to the moments you once had it A letter written from a hospital room at Massachusetts General Miroslav's fear that his letters carried condescension toward a friend in crisis Whether a cancer diagnosis changes the fear of death itself Grief, not fear, as what remains once the fear of dying is gone How the two friends met: through Volf's wife's poetry class Letter-writing as a lifelong practice for both men beyond this book #Glimmerings #MiroslavVolf #ChristianWiman #Faith #Doubt #Theology #YaleDivinitySchool #ArcMagazine Production Notes This podcast featured Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf with Mark Oppenheimer Special thanks to David Sugarman and Arc Magazine Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa Hosted by Evan Rosa Production Assistance by Noah Senthil A Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/about Support For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

This week on Commander Cookout's Arc of Evolution, we may have our more surprising color/color combination yet. We are looking at the Then vs. Now of Simic to see how commanders have changed over time. This was a beauty! Full of surprises and interesting take-aways. Join us on CCO 548.Huge thank you to our sponsors, Fusion Gaming Online. They're your source for all of your gaming needs. You can find them here: www.FusionGamingOnline.com. You want a 5% discount off all of your MTG order? Head over to Fusion Gaming Online and use exclusive promo code: CCONATION at checkout.Want your deck or topic featured on Commander Cookout Podcast? Check out the reward tiers at Patreon.com/CCOPodcast. There are a lot of fun and unique benefits to pledging. Like the CCO Discord or getting your deck featured on the show.Ryan's solo podcast, Commander ad Populum:https://www.spreaker.com/show/commander-ad-populumYou can listen to CCO Podcast anywhere better podcasts are found as well as on CommanderCookout.com.Now, Hit our Theme Song!Social media:https://www.CommanderCookout.comhttps://www.Instagram.com/CommanderCookouthttps://www.Facebook.com/CCOPodcast@CCOPodcast and @CCOBrando on Twitterhttps://www.Patreon.com/CCOPodcast

How can we spend less without giving up the stuff we need? Maybe you're furnishing your first apartment, replacing a broken toaster, looking for clothes for a growing child or trying to put together a professional wardrobe for a new job.MPR News host Angela Davis wraps up her “Cheap Week” series with ideas for saving money on the clothes we wear and the things that fill our homes. She and her guests talk about how to stretch your dollar by shopping secondhand at thrift stores, consignment shops and online resale sites, and how to get and give away things for free through neighborhood “Buy Nothing” groups. Guests: Roxanne Sanchez is co-owner of Nine Lives thrift store in St. Paul, which opened in 2024. She's also an administrator of her neighborhood “Buy Nothing” Facebook group and had a previous career as a costumer for television and movies.Anna Thompson is a Minneapolis mom and digital marketing strategist who loves to shop at thrift stores and online resale sites. She runs the sustainable fashion Instagram account @annazzon and previously worked as a personal stylist for Arc's Value Village thrift stores.

In this deeply personal and insightful episode of The Greatness Machine, host Darius Mirshahzadeh sits down with Adam Roa, a viral spoken word poet, executive coach, and author. The conversation explores themes of personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and authentic self-discovery. Both guests openly share their journeys through major life transitions in their 40s, discussing how they moved from external validation to inner alignment. Adam discusses his upcoming book "Crazy Love" and addresses controversial topics around spiritual bypassing in modern culture. The episode offers a raw, honest look at what it takes to overcome self-limiting beliefs and create lasting change. In this episode, Darius and Adam will discuss:  (00:00) Navigating Life's Transformations (03:08) The Journey of Self-Discovery (05:57) The Spiral of Growth and Learning (09:01) The Power of Identity and Authenticity (12:11) The Awakening: A Spiritual Journey (15:14) The Intersection of Creativity and Analysis (17:57) Understanding the Mystical and the Scientific (24:40) Understanding Manifestation and Spirituality (27:53) The Journey of Self-Discovery (28:28) Frameworks for Change (33:42) Managing Energetic Capacity (37:31) The Arc of Love: Adam's New Book (41:15) Spiritual Bypassing and Accountability Adam Roa is a transformational coach, speaker, and consultant who helps leaders and organizations unlock their potential, build resilience, and create meaningful change. With more than a decade of experience coaching executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and creatives, he combines practical leadership strategies with deep insights into human behavior to drive lasting growth and performance. A sought-after speaker, Adam has appeared at events including MindValley, the Oslo Freedom Forum, and The Rise. He is also the creator of the viral spoken-word poem “You Are Who You've Been Looking For,” which has reached over 250 million viewers worldwide. Through his podcast, The Creative Path, and his coaching and consulting work, Adam continues to empower individuals and organizations to lead with purpose, authenticity, and impact. Connect with Adam: Website: https://www.adamroa.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adam.roa/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdamRoaOfficial  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What starts as a shocking street murder in Paris turns into one of the most vicious civil wars in medieval Europe?Dr Eleanor Janega is joined by Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker to unravel the blood-soaked conflict between Burgundy and the Armagnacs, a struggle triggered by assassination, fuelled by propaganda, and made more dangerous by a mad king, a divided court and a war-torn France.They explore the brutal killing of Louis of Orleans, John the Fearless's rise as a populist strongman, the shocking revenge killings that followed, and how all of it opened the door for Henry V and Agincourt.MOREBattle of AgincourtListen on AppleListen on Spotify Joan of ArcListen on AppleListen on SpotifyGone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega. Audio editor is Amy Haddow, the producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music used is courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Gone Medieval is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit to watch Eleanor's documentary on Joan of Arc as well as hundreds of hours of original films, with a new release every week PLUS early access, ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The second Trump administration has made tearing down parts of the federal government a priority. And some of those efforts have been literal. In October, President Donald Trump ordered the demolition of the White House's East Wing to make way for the construction of a massive 90,000-square-foot ballroom. He's also overseen a now-problematic overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, given the White House a gilded makeover, bulldozed the famed Rose Garden, and even has plans for a so-called “Arc de Trump” that mirrors France's Arc de Triomphe. So what's behind all of this? Art historian Erin Thompson—author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments—says that whether it's Romans repurposing idols of leaders who had fallen out of favor or the glorification of Civil War officers in the American South, monuments and public aesthetics aren't just about the past. They're about symbolizing power today. On this week's More To The Story, Thompson sits down with host Al Letson to discuss why Trump has decked out the White House in gold (so much gold), the rise and recent fall of Confederate monuments, and whether she thinks the Arc de Trump will ever get built.This is an update of an episode that first aired in December 2025.Producers: Josh Sanburn and Artis Curiskis | Editor: Kara McGuirk-Allison | Theme music: Fernando Arruda and Jim Briggs | Copy editor: Nikki Frick | Digital producer: Artis Curiskis | Intern: Joni Binder | Deputy executive producer: Taki Telonidis | Executive producer: Brett Myers | Executive editor: James West | Host: Al LetsonListen: Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Reveal)Listen: Will the National Parks Survive Trump? (Reveal)Read: Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (W. W. Norton & Company)Read: America's Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues (Bloomberg)Read: Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled in 2020. What Happened to Them? (Mother Jones)Note: If you buy a book using our Bookshop link, a small share of the proceeds supports our journalism. Donate today at Revealnews.org/more Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at Revealnews.org/weekly Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices