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The final day of the Oregon Coast Trail adventure begins at Barview Jetty with one major decision: take the short road walk toward Garibaldi or head back onto the beach for one last stretch of hiking. The beach wins, giving James and I a fitting final chapter to our first successful backpacking trip in years—and plenty of time to start thinking about what comes next. maybe James won't cause us to miss a bus next time? Pedalshift Live - September 11, 5pm PT! Topics TBA, but it's a summer closeout and certainly a preview of some stuff coming in the fall. ALSO we're doing a super fun giveaway exclusively for people that make it to the live show itself… there's some incentive for ya! ALSO ALSO, some special previews of all sorts of things. Am I being cagey? YES. Show up anyways! Chat room is fun, live shows are fun… but if you can't make it, it's the pod for the following week. pedalshift.net/live! Email reminders coming too. Maybe some previews of my previews? Who knows? Sign up here. "My Tent is not Viable" Check out this absolutely hysterical special design awarded to Brock and I to memorialize our night 1 mishap... See more of Simone's designs here. The Pedalshift Project 450: Oregon Coast Trail - Part 3 Waking up at Barview Jetty after a slightly better night's sleep—and some bonus fireworks from Garibaldi Days. Breaking camp with damp tents, questionable battery-charging logistics and a decision to make about the day's route. Road walk toward Garibaldi or return to Rockaway Beach? Naturally, the beach wins. A few physical reminders of the previous day's nearly 11 miles, including the lingering consequences of bad sand. Meeting a touring cyclist at camp with an impressive résumé that includes the C&O, GAP and Empire State Trail. Another reminder that there were considerably more bicycle tourists on the Oregon Coast than expected. Tim and James make it official: they're backpackers again. Why backpacking may be easier to share with more people than bike touring—and why it may become a regular part of future Pedalshift adventures. Heading north along the beach toward Rockaway for the final hiking segment of the trip. Yesterday's brutal headwind finally becomes today's much gentler tailwind. A little filtered sunshine and substantially easier conditions make Day 3 feel like a victory lap. An IT band issue provides one last reminder that walking on soft sand changes your gait in some interesting ways. Looking back on three days that provided a surprisingly complete shakedown: climbing, beach walking, rain, wind, good sand, bad sand, camping and multimodal transit. Arriving in Rockaway Beach and wrapping up the hiking portion of the adventure. Food, another encounter with the cyclist from camp and the beginning of the journey home. Back into multimodal mode: bus to Tillamook, bus to Portland, retrieve the car and eventually drive back to Seattle. Plenty of waiting around reminds everyone that transit-based adventures occasionally involve the advanced outdoor skill of sitting somewhere for a while. Final verdict from James: "Great trip." Three days later, the experiment feels like a pretty staggering success. Backpacking appears destined to become part of the Pedalshift adventure mix—including the possibility of combining hiking and cycling on future trips. Next up: the takeaways episode, including gear lessons, what worked, what didn't and why this backpacking thing might stick. Statistics Route choices 2 Sand types still 2 Wind normal! Bicycle tourists encountered MORE! Transportation segments after Rockaway 3 Buses James is permitted to cause me to miss 0

What happens when a cidermaker decides to do less and give cider more time? Spencer Morris of Sowams Cider Works in Warren, Rhode Island, makes cider with more than 70 apple varieties, old mechanical rack-and-cloth presses, glass demijohns and a remarkably hands-off approach. Explore still cider, single-varietal apples, long aging on the lees, native fermentation, and why some Sowams ciders aren't released until they are three or four years old. Timestamps 00:00 Doing Less and Giving Cider Time 00:25 Meet the Guest 01:59 Single Varietal Cider 05:25 News from Ciderville 08:24 Fall Cider Festivals 10:29 Arriving in Rhode Island 12:55 Inside Sowams Cider Works 14:38 Spencer's Cider Story 18:38 Orchard and Rootstocks 22:37 Harvest Timing 24:55 Fermenting in Demijohns 31:59 No Sulfites, No Filtration 35:15 Aging Cider and Favorite Apples 37:07 Storing Apples Before Pressing 37:49 Concentrating the Fruit 38:30 Culling Apples and Sediment 40:53 Hands-Off Fermentation 42:07 Customers and the American Palate 46:15 Rhode Island Heritage Apples 48:53 Tasting the Orchard Blend 51:44 Serving Cider and Batch Numbers 55:03 Blending Apples at the Press 58:04 Tasting Rhode Island Greening 01:01:13 Weather and Vintage Variation 01:02:17 Visit Sowams and Final Thoughts   Listen & Subscribe

Send us Fan MailLieutenant Frank D. Baldwin led a ferocious, five-hour cavalry and infantry assault against a Cheyenne camp at McClellan Creek, sending the encampment into chaos as warriors mounted a desperate rearguard defense. Amid the gunfire and smoke, soldiers shot a warrior just before he could kill seven-year-old captive Julia German, discovering her hiding beneath a buffalo robe while her five-year-old sister, Adelaide, was found unharmed in a nearby dry wash. Hardened troopers were moved to tears by the young sisters' emaciated, bruised state and bloodied feet, immediately wrapping the girls in heavy overcoats, feeding them rations, and placing them in the care of field surgeon Dr. Junius L. Powell.Dr. Powell escorted the rescued sisters north across the frontier—traveling by ambulance to Camp Supply, where officers' wives nursed their wounds, and onward by train via Fort Dodge to Fort Leavenworth. Arriving at the headquarters of General John Pope on December 1, 1874, the girls finally reached safety, only to have the tragic fate of their family confirmed. General Pope revealed that infantrymen had discovered the burned remnants of the German family wagon along the Smoky Hill River, finding the bodies of their parents and siblings alongside an untouched family Bible that identified their kin and brought a somber close to their plains ordeal.Support the showIf you'd like to buy one or more of our fully illustrated dime novel publications, you can click the link I've included. 

Send us Fan MailAaron, Trent, and Peaches sit down with Justus, a Security Forces airman out of Moody Air Force Base, to talk about one of the nastiest, coolest, and most under-discussed opportunities in the Air Force: jungle warfare training in Panama.Justus walks through how he ended up in the Air Force, why Security Forces was not what he expected, and how a career field that gets roasted constantly can still open doors if you are fit, positive, prepared, and willing to say yes when opportunities show up.He breaks down life in Security Forces, deploying to Prince Sultan Air Base, supporting the F-22 demo team, competing in Defender Challenge, and eventually getting to the 820th Base Defense Group at Moody — a unit built around defending and opening forward air bases in contested environments.Then the episode gets into the real reason he is here: Panama Jungle School.We talk tents, heat, humidity, malaria meds, mosquitoes, botflies, leaf cutter ants, black palm, trench foot, dysentery, wet boots, wet uniforms, and the harsh reality that the jungle itself is usually the hardest enemy. Justus explains the combat water survival assessment, jungle 5K, knot tests, survival phase, food and water procurement, firecraft, shelter building, rope systems, Z-pulley, one-rope bridge, jungle tactics, and the final Green Mile.The best part? He is not bitter, negative, or trying to scare anyone away. His message is simple: Security Forces has opportunities everywhere, but you have to be ready when they appear. Be in shape. Ask questions. Find the people doing hard things. Say yes.If you are in Security Forces, stop telling yourself the job is just gates and patrol cars. There is more out there. Go find it.00:00 - Intro and Ones Ready01:04 - Panama Jungle School Preview03:44 - Justus Joins the Team Room04:20 - How Justus Joined the Air Force06:08 - Security Forces Is More Than the Jokes06:42 - Basic Training and Tech School09:10 - Langley, Gates, Patrols, and Reality11:44 - Defender Challenge Opportunity12:21 - What Is the 820th Base Defense Group?14:12 - Mindset Changes the Career Field17:36 - Base Defense Group Mission and Schools20:28 - Air Assault on Short Notice22:05 - Panama and the Jungle School Opportunity24:23 - Training, Tryouts, and Preparation27:07 - Arriving at Fort Sherman29:18 - Bugs, Plants, and Things That Want You Dead33:25 - Wet Boots for Three Weeks34:16 - Combat Water Survival Assessment36:38 - Fail Early, Stay Anyway37:04 - The Jungle 5K Gut Check40:18 - Why Jungle Movement Is Different42:05 - Survival, Tactics, and the Jungle Is Neutral44:44 - Food, Water, Traps, Fire, and Shelter46:27 - Finding Fun in the Suck47:04 - Jungle Tactics Are Different48:51 - Rope Systems and the Z-Pulley50:48 - Boot and Training Recommendations52:58 - Can Airmen Outside the 820th Go?54:09 - Culminating Exercise Prep54:58 - Accepting the Jungle59:12 - The Green Mile01:01:44 - What Is Next for Justus?01:03:10 - 824th Base Defense Squadron Shoutout01:03:52 - Why More Airmen Should Go01:04:16 - Final ThoughtsSupport the showJoin this channel to get access to perks: HEREBuzzsprout Subscription page:  HERERegister for our Operator Training Summit:  OperatorTrainingSummit.comFind an Air Force Recruiter: AirForce.comCollabs:Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code:  ONESREADY ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code):  ATACLeteDanger Close Apparel - Promo Code:  ONESREADYDFND Apparel...

Day two on the Oregon Coast Trail takes us south from Nehalem Bay for a day dominated by beach walking, a tiny boat crossing, unexpected rain, relentless headwinds and the discovery that not all sand is created equal. What initially looks like an easier day turns into nearly 11 challenging miles, and  convincing proof that MJ and I might actually be backpackers after all. My Tent is Not Viable! Because this pod has become all Oregon Coast all the time (and no, spoiler… more to come) I have to share yet another special creation. Newly minted Pedalshift listener and merch designer Simone was so moved by the Brock and Tim Sprocketshift disaster of night 1 that she created a special design just for the two of us… yes, my tent is not viable has now been memorialized on an ornament. But you have to see it in the shownotes at pedalshift.net. It features the classic line and… because of course… a flooded tent. Plus the new Pedalshift logo, which you might get to see soon on other things! COMING SOON. Super excited to show you what we've been working on! Go check out the special edition my tent is not viable design and more Simone's designs at her Etsy shop… link in the shownotes! Live Show! Friday September 11th, 5pm PT - 8pm ET Topics TBA, but it's a summer closeout and certainly a preview of some stuff coming in the fall. ALSO we're doing a super fun giveaway exclusively for people that make it to the live show itself… there's some incentive for ya! ALSO ALSO, some special previews of all sorts of things. Am I being cagey? YES. Show up anyways! Chat room is fun, live shows are fun… but if you can't make it, it's the pod for the following week. pedalshift.net/live! Email reminders coming too. Maybe some previews of my previews? Who knows? Sign up at the site. Oregon Coast Trail – Part 2   Breaking camp at Nehalem Bay State Park after a less-than-restful first night. The day's route comes with an unusual Oregon Coast Trail feature: a small boat crossing of the Nehalem River. Hiking out the Nehalem Bay spit rather than road walking Highway 101 or relying on another bus. A $10, on-demand boat ride that you essentially hail like a water taxi. Naturally, Tim is delighted. Early beach walking into a surprisingly strong south wind—and the realization that hiking into a headwind can be plenty annoying too. Overcast, cool Oregon Coast weather turns out to be pretty much perfect hiking weather for Tim and James. Then the rain finally arrives. Rain gear gets its first legitimate test as wind, rain and cold hands briefly turn the morning into some genuine Type 2 fun. Reaching the mouth of the Nehalem River, where ocean waves, river current and fishing boats all converge. Calling for the boat and crossing the Nehalem River to continue south. Boat-crossing soundscapes, fishing stories and a little local wildlife discussion along the way. An unexpected rail walk after the crossing, followed by some improvised navigation back toward the beach. The terminology of the trip is established: good sand is firm and easy to walk on; bad sand is soft, energy-sucking nonsense. Continuing south toward Rockaway Beach with sea stacks appearing down the coast. Sustained headwinds approaching 20 mph turn what should have been a helpful prevailing wind into an all-day adversary. Rockaway Beach provides a badly needed break from the wind—and Indian food for the day's big meal. Back into full rain gear for the final push toward Barview Jetty. Headwinds + rain + bad sand = a surprisingly demanding backpacking day. Despite the conditions, Tim and James finish just shy of 11 miles. Another successful test for the new backpacking gear, including Tim's Hyperlite Southwest 40. Arriving at Barview Jetty Campground thoroughly cooked and very ready for dry clothes and tents. The campsite itself gets mixed reviews, particularly when Tim discovers that "level tent site" is apparently more of an aspirational concept. Day two verdict: challenging, fun and another successful proof of concept. Bigger conclusion: Tim and James may officially be backpackers again—and longer trips suddenly seem entirely plausible.   Statistics Miles hiked 11  Nehalem Rivers crossed by boat 1 Prevailing tailwinds received: 0 Headwinds: Yes Sand varieties identified 2 Indian food recs in Rockaway Beach 1 Campground rating: 7 Flats: N/A

Ronald Long is a United States Marine Corps veteran who served from 2009–2013, leaving the Marines as an E-4 Corporal. In this episode of Urban Valor, Ronald shares his incredible story of joining the U.S. Marines, experiencing combat, surviving an IED explosion, losing a fellow service member beside him, and confronting experiences that would follow him long after the battlefield.But Ronald's story started LONG before the Marine Corps...He grew up in Northern California in a Puerto Rican family that endured financial hardship, his sister's battle with cancer, his mother's addiction, abuse inside the home, and eventually the breakup of his family.As a kid, Ronald learned pretty damn quickly how to survive.By his teenage years, that meant helping raise his sisters, trying to help keep his family financially afloat, getting involved in selling marijuana, witnessing violence around his friends, and reaching adulthood without much of a plan for what came next.Then life changed FAST.Ronald began a relationship, discovered he was about to become a father, and suddenly needed a way to provide for a family.Then, seemingly out of nowhere...A Marine Corps recruiter called.Ronald signed the paperwork, went to boot camp, and began a path that would eventually put him into situations very few people can truly understand.And somehow, even surrounded by some incredibly dark moments, Ronald's Marine Corps stories can also be absolutely hilarious.From doing boot camp practically BLIND because nobody gave him his glasses......to Marines breaking into the WRONG barracks......to a drill instructor apparently studying World of Warcraft just so he could figure out new ways to destroy the recruits playing it. But combat was different.Ronald describes transporting bodies, seeing horrific injuries become almost routine, and the moment a pressure plate detonated feet away from him.For a moment, his mind transported him somewhere completely different.Then Abdul came crashing back into his reality.And Ronald realized his friend was dead.Thank you to Ronald Long for trusting us with his story.

n this episode of the Matthews Mentality Podcast, Kyle Matthews sits down with Payam Zamani, founder and CEO of One Planet Group, CEO of Buyerlink, entrepreneur, investor, and author of Crossing the Desert.Payam shares his incredible journey from fleeing religious persecution in Iran as a teenager to arriving in the United States as a refugee with just $75 in his pocket. Less than 11 years later, he and his brother had built an early online automotive marketplace and taken the company public at a $1.2 billion valuation.But Payam's story goes far beyond financial success. After navigating the dot-com crash, divorce, family illness, and the loss of much of his wealth, he began rethinking the relationship between business, purpose, faith, and fulfillment. Those experiences ultimately shaped his philosophy of "spiritual capitalism," the belief that companies can pursue profitability while creating meaningful value for employees, customers, communities, and society.Topics covered in this episode:- Payam Zamani's escape from religious persecution in Iran- Being smuggled out of the country at 16 years old- Arriving in America as a refugee with $75- Starting over and building his first technology company- Taking an early online automotive marketplace public at a $1.2 billion valuation- The dot-com crash and losing much of his wealth- Why money alone failed to create fulfillment- The philosophy behind spiritual capitalism- Building One Planet Group without outside capital- How Buyerlink connects consumers with automotive dealers and service providers- Turning around Inspirato by cutting roughly $45 million in expenses and reaching profitability- Leadership, humility, and putting people ahead of short-term profits- Work-life balance and the sacrifices behind entrepreneurship- Gratitude for America and the opportunities it gave his family- Concerns about social media, young people, and the loss of spiritual grounding- Writing his memoir, Crossing the DesertPayam also shares why he believes business can be a powerful force for good, why leaders should think beyond maximizing shareholder value, and how some of the most difficult periods of his life ultimately reshaped his definition of success.Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, executive, or someone navigating adversity in your own life, this conversation offers powerful lessons on resilience, leadership, faith, gratitude, and building businesses with purpose.Follow Payam Zamani:LinkedIn: Payam ZamaniLearn More About One Planet Group:Website: https://oneplanetgroup.comLearn More About BuyerLink:Website: https://buyerlink.comRead Payam's Book:Crossing the Deserthttps://crossingthedesertbook.comFollow Kyle Matthews CEO:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylematthewsceoTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylematthewsceoX: https://x.com/kylematthewsceoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylematthewsceo00:00 America as Hope00:39 Meet Payam Zamani02:32 Life and One Planet04:02 Buyerlink Explained06:30 Growing Up in Iran08:38 Persecution and Survival14:57 Decision to Escape16:26 Smuggled Through the Desert19:56 U.S. Embassy Breakthrough22:42 Landing in America27:56 Starting Over in California30:03 First Tech Venture32:23 Dot-Com IPO Reality Check36:25 Crash, Divorce, and Faith38:57 Work-Life Balance42:17 Spiritual Capitalism Begins43:13 Greed Versus Community43:47 Spiritual Capitalism45:09 One Planet Breakthrough47:04 Unicorn Doubts48:43 Writing Crossing the Desert52:24 Memoir Truths Revealed57:49 Inspirato Turnaround Playbook01:04:20 Rapid Fire Reflections01:07:26 Youth, Screens, and Faith01:13:35 Closing and Daughter's Music

This episode was originally published in April 2026.John O'Brien's scam was simple. Arriving in the US on a tourist visa in 2021, he set himself up as a building contractor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. By the time the authorities caught up with the 28 year-old, he had conned more than 100 victims out of an estimated $2.5 million.Many of the homeowners who handed him their life savings for promised building work were charmed by his Irish accent and friendly demeanour.Sentencing him to four years and eight months in prison, the judge talked about “the extent and breadth of the harm” done to victims who opened their doors to O'Brien out of kindness and trust. He had pleaded guilty.Many of his victims gave statements in court including Candace Gauvin, a retired school crossing guard, who emptied a life insurance account, eventually paying him more than $90,000 for shoddy work.One of the more than a dozen people who provided character references for O'Brien included fellow Traveller Senator Eileen Flynn who advocated for his early release for the “benefit of his young family”.Local reporter Susan Zalkind was in court in Rhode Island for O'Brien's case and she explains how the scam worked, how it funded his lavish lifestyle and the impact on the victims.Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Operation Midnight Hammer through the eyes of the people who flew it. SSgt Dray was a weapons technician responsible for the munitions and countermeasure systems on the F-16s, arming the Wild Weasels who flew Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses ahead of the B-2 strike on Iran. Watch the three-part documentary series on Afterburn Defense: Part I: https://youtu.be/MgQ_X3Td8a4 Part II: https://youtu.be/GzdL6NMYDso Part III: https://youtu.be/Xc22-2RaGSY This is the full interview. He is one of the airmen who put the weapons on the jets. In this conversation he explains what it actually takes to reconfigure a fleet of F-16s from one mission to another, the failure he chased down that nobody could explain, what changed for him when he realized this was not training, and the night the loading told him something was about to happen. Before Iran, the 55th Fighter Squadron fought over Yemen in Operation Rough Rider, a sustained air campaign against Houthi surface-to-air threats. What they learned there is the reason the F-16 Block 50 and the AGM-88 HARM were part of the strike package on June 21st, 2025. These interviews were recorded between December 2025 and January 2026 and preserve firsthand accounts from pilots, maintainers, intelligence officers, and logistics airmen who were there. 0:00 What a Weapons Technician Actually Does 2:10 Spinning Up Before the Deployment 8:30 Reconfiguring a Fleet of F-16s 12:35 Arriving in Theater During Rough Rider 14:42 The Failure Nobody Could Explain 19:24 This Wasn't Training Anymore 20:48 The Night Something Was About to Happen Have a story? Want to Connect? Advertise? https://theafterburnpodcast.com/contact/

What happens when the busyness of life drowns out the beauty right in front of you? Sometimes all the Lord is asking for is your "BRAVE YES". This season, Rhythms That Restore is exploring what it means to REMAIN with Jesus — not just on a Sunday morning, or at a  Silent Retreat, but in the middle of an ordinary, full, busy life. Some weeks it'll be just us. Other weeks, I'll pull up a chair with a friend who's helped shape my faith journey — on our next episode, you will hear from my friend who is a Spiritual Director & Retreat Host, Allison Bradsher. In this first episode of a new season, I'm sharing what happened when I finally said "yes" to three full days of silence at a 3 Night Silent Retreat — a tree planted right outside my window, an unexpected conversation at the dinner table, and a rest I couldn't have planned or earned. I'm learning that the rhythm of rest bears a fruit I've been searching for in so many other ways: freedom. If you're curious about Allison's next Silent Retreat — her next one starts Monday evening, November 2nd at 6:00pm through Thursday, November 5th at 10:00am — you can reach her directly for more info at allibrad@gmail.com. Pull up a chair, friend. I'm so glad to be back with you. If this episode touched your heart, if it resonated deep within you, or if you just have something you want to share — I'd love to hear from you. Find me on Instagram @cherissehixson01 or connect via email: Cherissehixson@hotmail.com Episode Highlights 00:03:59 — The word "nothing" surfaces during a moment of silence, and the funny, tender idea of inviting friends to "come do nothing" is born 00:05:36 — A six-year journey of learning to sit in silence, starting with a single 3-hour retreat back in 2021 00:08:21 — Arriving at the retreat to find a tree planted right outside her window — an echo of the Psalm 1 image she opened with 00:09:35 — A new friend at the dinner table shares how she found her own spiritual director through the Rhythms That Restore podcast — a moment that breaks something open 00:12:24 – 00:13:51 — Two full days of unplanned rest: sleeping, eating, watching birds and a storm roll in, with nothing to accomplish 00:16:50 — The question she's carrying into the new season: "Can 'remain' survive a season like this one?" 00:18:31 — A preview of next episode with Allison Bradsher — on questions as portals, not problems to solve

Arriving at the entrance to a long sealed tomb, the adventurers must defeat the goblins and save the blacksmith's daughter…before it's too late.The quiet village of Little Bend is unfamiliar with this kind of calamity - the blacksmith's daughter kidnapped by goblins! Can a group of adventurers pick up the trail and save her? Our crew for this game includes:Kate as Grammy JeanCarl as EstelleDavid as AvantisLeigh as NobleAustin is the Game MasterMusic for this episode includes:Chariots of War by Aakash GandhiNicolas MF Cage by Ezra LippTend to It by Osiris SalineEBB by Density & TimeIncursion by Per Kiilstofte

Settle in for a full hour of whispered calm with Clara Berg. This is an unhurried meditation for the end of any long day — a soft place to stop carrying, stop solving, stop pushing. Through slow breath, a full body softening, and three quiet images — a cabin by a still lake, a small boat drifting on glassy water, and a sky full of stars — you are gently invited to return to yourself. Nothing here is asked of you. Nothing here needs to be fixed. Just breath. Just body. Just a quiet hour held open for you. Ideal as an evening wind-down, a sleep meditation, or simply a restorative pause. Voice-only, with long pauses between phrases. No music, no sound effects, no interruptions. Pure presence, in a Scandinavian whisper.Chapters:⏱ 00:00 — Arriving and Letting the Day Go⏱ 10:00 — Softening the Body from Forehead to Feet⏱ 20:00 — Letting the Mind Drift Like a Lake⏱ 30:00 — Softening and Restoring the Heart⏱ 40:00 — A Cabin by a Still Lake at the Edge of the Forest⏱ 50:00 — Drifting on the Water, Looking at the Stars⏱ 58:20 — Returning Gently to the Room—This episode was created with AI assistance for script, narration design, and audio assembly. The spoken voice is a synthesized voice crafted for this series. Every word, breath, and pause was shaped to support a genuine moment of rest for the listener. Thank you for giving this quiet hour to yourself.DISCLAIMER

A midday reset for the breath you forgot you had. This is a guided breathing practice for the middle of a long day, an invitation to stop the doing and remember that the body has been carrying you all along. This episode meets you where you are. Not refreshed. Not rested. Already tired. Already mid-thought. Already halfway to the next thing. We begin with a quiet arrival, settle the shoulders, soften the jaw, and let the breath become the doorway back to yourself. From there we move through a long midday breathing practice - slowing the inhale, lengthening the exhale, resting in the small pause between - and we close with a slow return so you can step gently into the rest of your day without losing the quiet. Timestamps: 00:00 - Arriving however you are 04:00 - A breath to land in 09:30 - The breath that returns you 16:00 - The morning you are carrying 22:00 - The midday invitation 28:00 - The quiet ritual of pausing 35:00 - The ordinary breath is enough 42:00 - The space between one breath and the next 49:00 - A long closing meditation 52:30 - Goodbye for now Your Quiet Moment is a daily contemplative podcast produced by HustleStudios. Each episode is a single whispered meditation designed to help you arrive in your body, release what you are carrying, and find the stillness that has always been yours. This episode was created with AI assistance. The breathing exercise was researched for accuracy, narrated in a calm voice, and reviewed for safe pacing.DISCLAIMER

Begin your morning with stillness. In this gentle meditation, James Ookafor guides you into the slow, patient quality of morning light — a light that does not rush, a breath that has kept you company all night, a body that carries ten thousand quiet processes on your behalf.This is not a meditation about productivity or motivation. There is nothing to achieve here. The morning is simply asking you to arrive. To notice the air on your skin. To feel your feet on the ground. To remember that you are not behind, not late, not failing — you are simply here, in this one breath, in this one body, on this one morning.Each word is offered slowly, with the warmth of a wise uncle speaking from long experience. James's Nigerian English voice carries a calm authority — unhurried, deep, and reassuring. There is space between sentences for you to feel what was just said. There is no rush. There is no race.If you have been waking up feeling hurried, or if your body carries the tension of yesterday's unfinished things, this practice is an invitation to begin again — softly, gently, with the patience of light itself.Use this meditation seated or lying down. Close your eyes if it feels right. Let the words wash over you. Let the breath be your anchor. And when the day begins to call you back to its tasks, carry the quiet knowing that the breath is always available, the light is always arriving, and you are always exactly where you need to be.Good morning. May this day be kind to you.Chapters:00:00 — Arriving in the Breath01:30 — The Patience of Light03:15 — The Pause Between Breaths05:00 — Trusting the Body07:00 — Returning to the Morning09:30 — Carrying the Stillness ForwardThis episode was created with AI assistance and a human-guided creative process.DISCLAIMER

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Good morning. Before the day asks anything of you, let it begin with welcome. Not for what you have done, but for who you are in this breath.A Quiet Welcome is a ten-minute Morning Calm practice for arriving fully. James Ookafor gently guides you through setting down what you have been carrying, opening a quiet doorway inside the chest, and inviting every part of yourself into the morning. The session includes a small tabletop exercise for placing one burden down, a chosen companion word, and a simple return to the breath. It is appropriate for any morning, especially ones that feel heavy or uncertain.Chapters:00:00 Arriving and Gathering01:40 Welcoming Every Part03:20 The Doorway Inside05:00 Welcome as Practice06:40 A Small Table for Burdens08:20 Choosing a Companion10:00 Closing GratitudeMorning Calm, A Quiet Welcome, James Ookafor, daily meditation, gentle morning practice, ten minute meditation, voice only meditation, your quiet moment, morning affirmation, calm morning routine, return to the breath, awareness practice, soothing voice, soft spoken meditation, daily calm, rest and welcome, inner doorway, breath and presence, simply arriving.This episode was created with AI assistance and featured a synthesized voice performance generated through audio design. The composition, themes, and gentle pacing of this Morning Calm session are intended to support a quiet beginning to your day.DISCLAIMER

The quiet you have been searching for is already here. It is not at the end of a to-do list. It is not in a future moment when everything finally slows down. It is underneath the noise, underneath the effort, underneath every breath you have taken today.This episode is an invitation to stop chasing stillness and start noticing it. We move through the body — from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet — giving each region permission to release. We explore the weight of being, the kindness of empty hands, and the peace that exists between one inhale and the next. You are not a project to be completed. You are a person to be lived. And the quiet already belongs to you.Timestamps:00:00 — Arriving however you are05:30 — The ordinary breath and the space between12:00 — The weight of being and letting it rest20:00 — Empty hands and the freedom of open palms28:00 — The noise that follows you and how to let it pass35:00 — Belonging without performance42:00 — The patience of the body48:00 — The softness underneath the armor55:00 — A full-body meditation from head to feet60:00 — Goodbye for nowYour Quiet Moment is a daily contemplative podcast produced by HustleStudios. Each episode is a single whispered meditation designed to help you arrive in your body, release what you are carrying, and find the stillness that has always been yours.This episode was created with AI assistance.DISCLAIMER

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

What on earth do we do now? The dinghy has been swapped for the mega-dinghy, one so big that is overwhelmed The Sun's front page. Arriving at about 2.30am this morning it was carrying 230 migrants, reportedly the largest number to cross the Channel successfully on one vessel. Brits are asking at what point the government will wake up and smell the crisis. Discussing this major development with Talk's Ian Collins: Political commentator Benedict Spence, former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, justice advisor for Reform UK Vanessa Frake, Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, former Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley, and Labour MP Sam Rushworth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/photography

Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.Arriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges us to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism.Taking its title from a song by the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, My City Need Something (Common Notions, 2026) challenges readers to strive for clarity in a time of Black suffering, in a city resplendent with Black joy. Christopher R. Rogers, PhD is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He is a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad. You can find Chris on Instagram @justmaybechris. After listening to this episode, head over to the Additions to the Archive Substack, where Chris and Sullivan talk further about community education and activism. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

I met Yonatan Sompolinsky in Romania during his summer holiday, so we decided to do a roadtrip interview about covenants, the state of Kaspa development, why intents are more interesting than smart contracts & stag hunts. 00:00:54 – Intro: a road trip with Yonatan Sompolinsky 00:01:50 – Life since S16 E41: Oxford Union & the state of Kaspa 00:02:53 – Kaspa shipped covenants while Bitcoin debates OP_CAT 00:04:24 – Sequencing commitments & based apps explained 00:06:48 – Why OP_CAT alone can't do censorship-resistant based rollups 00:07:21 – BitVM & optimistic vs optimistically verified rollups 00:08:05 – ZK was born for privacy but lives for scaling 00:09:18 – "For the record, I'm very bearish on rollups" 00:12:27 – Ethereum quietly abandons the L2 roadmap 00:13:33 – What ZK is actually for: a thin L1 & separation of layers 00:15:05 – Kaspa follows Bitcoin's UTXO design principles 00:16:04 – Ephemeral logic: generalized atomic swaps 00:17:25 – Camera gymnastics & an Aston Martin 00:19:28 – What covenants won't give you: the DeFi Lego box 00:20:05 – One-time logic vs contract deployment 00:23:18 – The use case question & crypto's crisis of utility 00:26:17 – Bitcoin the turtle & the DAGKnight progress report 00:28:17 – DAGKnight: 49% Byzantine resilience, no latency parameter 00:29:50 – Why 100 BPS on GHOSTDAG would 8x confirmation times 00:30:21 – Sponsors: Cake Wallet, LayerTwo Labs, Braiins, Orange Rock & SideShift 00:34:33 – Zcash made a comeback 00:35:19 – The mental map: where Kaspa is unique 00:38:49 – Real-time decentralization: sampling the honest majority 00:39:47 – Solana & Hyperliquid: fast, but led by one 00:42:46 – Only proof of work bundles proposing & content 00:44:35 – A bear market in usage, not just price 00:45:53 – Old-world use case: bridges & oracles 00:47:22 – Tourism break: Bușteni, mascots & ski resorts 00:49:38 – Hit-and-run agents & the agentic economy 00:51:06 – Having your cake and eating it too 00:54:32 – Vlad on Ecash, miner fees & Satoshi's biggest bet 00:56:37 – Sinaia & the royal train station 00:57:38 – "Bitcoin is dead boring to me at this stage" 00:59:50 – Ironwood, verifiable supply & Tachyon 01:00:39 – Driving like six confirmations 01:01:59 – The tectonic shift nobody noticed: verifying the supply 01:03:43 – The bug & Zcash's unfixable history 01:06:04 – Kaspa's pruning vs historical correctness 01:08:12 – How Zcash's rise paves the way for Kaspa 01:09:17 – The Zooko sleeping-in-the-car story 01:10:32 – "Just launch": Zooko one day before the Sapling bug 01:12:05 – Downplaying the bug & the counterfeit scenario 01:14:34 – Peter Todd's demurrage & the Ironwood migration 01:17:25 – Would any other coin survive this? 01:18:55 – Ethereum's identity crisis 01:21:28 – Back to L1: too little, too late; Solana's cohesion 01:22:46 – Oxford Union & political ambitions 01:24:44 – Hayek: true vs false individualism 01:26:04 – The isolated individual: Lopp, Poelstra & early Bitcoiners 01:32:52 – The enthusiastic individualist 01:34:52 – Coordination markets & Project Stag Hunt 01:35:19 – Prisoner's dilemma vs stag hunt 01:36:24 – Moloch, the demon of defection 01:37:18 – Part 2: stag hunt as the optimistic game 01:42:43 – Intents & NEAR Intents 01:44:03 – Intents vs smart contracts 01:45:21 – Part 3: Rousseau's ape men 01:49:45 – Intendos: "if many sign this, consider mine signed" 01:51:44 – Example: migrating a liquidity pool together 01:53:34 – Pack formation & threshold homomorphic encryption 01:55:42 – Actionable but not committed 01:57:18 – The Netflix example: voice for the scattered majority 02:01:36 – Who are the stags we need to hunt? 02:02:11 – Minarchist, anarchist or libertarian? 02:03:32 – Stag = shared utility; escaping Ethereum's L2 mess 02:06:28 – Composable Intendos 02:07:58 – Exiting network effects 02:09:11 – The Kaspa-Ethereum overlap: GHOST & Casper 02:11:55 – "I don't like DAGs": it's just a data structure 02:12:51 – Why DAGKnight survives a world war 02:15:22 – Michael Sutton & the Argent language 02:16:58 – Bypassing the impossibility theorem 02:18:06 – Ahead of his time or poor communicator? 02:19:31 – BPS vs TPS: the shift already happened 02:21:05 – Falling between the cracks 02:23:17 – The next narrative: coordination markets 02:24:26 – Brașov to Bucharest: documenting the trip 02:25:31 – Roles reversed: Yonatan interviews Vlad 02:27:06 – ACTA protests, internet freedom & political science 02:28:53 – Sztorc's party metaphor 02:29:57 – Zcash at $30 & the Coldcard hack 02:31:40 – What Kaspa actually needs: wallets, not exchanges 02:33:56 – Broadening cypherpunk: from protective to positive 02:37:16 – What have we really accomplished? 02:39:33 – Arriving at the Palace of Parliament 02:43:57 – The secret handshake & farewell

At around 4.30am on March 19, 1996, a panic alarm alerted gardaí to a disturbance at Jack White's Inn near Brittas Bay in Co Wicklow. Arriving at the scene, the guards discovered Tom Nevin dead in the kitchen of his pub in what initially appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. The place was in disarray and Mr Nevin had been shot dead at close range. His wife, Catherine Nevin, was found nearby, behind the hall door of the pub, her hands tied with a dressing gown cord. She would claim that a hooded man had threatened her with a weapon as she slept, tied her up, ransacked the area in search of money and valuables, and murdered her husband in the process. One part of her story would turn out to be true – her husband was indeed murdered, but his grieving widow was not the innocent bystander she claimed to be. Thirty years on from the killing, host Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Mary Wilson, former RTÉ legal affairs editor and host of Drivetime and Morning Ireland, on the first of a two-part Indo Daily special to look back at the emergence of one of Ireland's most notorious criminals; The Black Widow. This episode of The Indo Daily was first released in March 2026. The Indo Daily is part of the Trust Project. You can see our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalismSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria Conchita Alonso has lived one of Hollywood's most fascinating lives. She joins Steve Kmetko to discuss escaping Cuba, growing up in Venezuela, becoming an international music star, starring alongside Robin Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Nicolas Cage, and why she sacrificed career opportunities to stand up for her beliefs. She also reflects on aging, fame, animal rescue, Broadway, activism, and what truly matters most after four decades in entertainment.   00:00 Opening 00:37 Cuba, Venezuela and finding home 03:30 Lessons from her parents 06:47 Beauty pageants and Hollywood 10:08 Arriving in Hollywood 11:39 Robin Williams memories 15:29 Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Running Man 18:03 Venezuela today 20:55 Why activism changed her career 23:16 Her animal rescue foundation 27:09 Rescuing Cookie 29:49 Colors, Sean Penn and Danny Glover 35:42 Hollywood memories 38:47 Hollywood then vs. now 40:46 Social media and today's entertainment business 42:10 Acting vs. music 44:49 Her new album Caliéntame 47:50 Politics and career consequences 49:21 Aging and growing wiser 51:00 Regrets and forgiveness 53:02 Legacy and helping others 55:35 Closing Show CreditsHost/Producer: Steve KmetkoAll things technical: Justin ZangerleExecutive Producer: Jim LichtensteinMusic by: Brian Sanyshyn https://stillherehollywood.comhttp://patreon.com/stillherehollywoodSuggest Guests at: stillherehollywood@gmail.comAdvertise on Still Here Hollywood: jim@stillherenetwork.comPublicist: Maggie Perlich: maggie@numbertwelvemarketing.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What would your life look like if you had brushed your teeth for just ten seconds longer?In January 2020, 27-year-old paramedic Emma Mickle made a last-minute decision to join her friends on a hike through New Zealand.On the final day, just ten kilometres from the finish, Emma sat down to remove her wet-weather gear. At that exact moment, a three-metre tree branch fell from approximately 20 metres above and landed directly on her.In this remarkably honest episode of ListenABLE, Emma speaks about learning to live with incomplete paraplegia, chronic nerve pain, impaired bowel and bladder function, invisible disability and the loss of her career as an operational paramedic.Emma's story is about terrible luck, extraordinary recovery and what she describes as “forced resilience”.Emma discusses:The split-second accident that changed her lifeWaiting three hours for a helicopter rescueBeing diagnosed with incomplete paraplegiaHer partner proposing in intensive careThe moment she discovered she could no longer standBowel and bladder function after a spinal cord injuryLiving with daily chronic nerve painCompleting an Ironman after leaving hospitalLosing her career as an operational paramedicFinding freedom and relief through cyclingLiving with an invisible disabilityWhy strangers react differently when shaking her handThe reality of hiding pain from loved onesHow disability changed her perception of safety and riskHer ambition to compete at the LA 2028 Paralympic Games00:00 A one-in-20-million accident01:27 The New Zealand hiking trip03:12 Emma's spinal cord and nerve injuries04:39 Being told to prepare for life in a wheelchair05:42 A hospital proposal Emma cannot remember08:16 Feeling both incredibly unlucky and incredibly lucky09:22 Why Emma cannot remember the accident10:44 How her friends kept her alive14:06 Arriving at spinal rehabilitation15:13 The moment Emma discovered she could not stand17:22 Would Emma undo the accident?18:33 Bowel, bladder and chronic pain21:20 Recovery as a professional athlete22:09 Completing an Ironman after her injury24:17 Why cycling makes Emma feel normal25:42 Road racing and time trials26:11 The dream of LA 202826:46 Losing her career as a paramedic29:45 Living with an invisible disability31:47 How to handle an unexpected handshake33:11 The reality of “forced resilience”34:27 How the accident changed Emma's perspective35:19 Living with daily pain36:35 The Bowl of Uncomfortable38:24 Vulnerability and a changed perception of risk40:49 The perfect handshakeEmma Mickle, Emma Mickle cyclist, Australian para-cyclist, para-cycling Australia, spinal cord injury recovery, incomplete paraplegia, incomplete spinal cord injury, brachial plexus injury, chronic nerve pain, invisible disability, disability awareness, adaptive sport, rehabilitation through sport, Ironman after spinal cord injury, Australian Paralympic cycling, LA 2028 Paralympics, disability podcast Australia, ListenABLE podcast, Dylan Alcott, Angus O'Loughlin.This episode includes discussions of traumatic injury, spinal cord injury, bowel and bladder function, chronic pain, sexual health and personal safety.#ListenABLE #EmmaMickle #ParaCycling #SpinalCordInjury #InvisibleDisability #AdaptiveSport #Paralympics #LA2028 #DisabilityPodcast #ChronicPain

The silence your body has been keeping is not something you need to create. It is something you need to uncover.In this quiet meditation, we settle into the stillness that lives beneath the noise of the mind. The body has been faithfully preserving this silence since before you had words — in the rhythm of the breath, the pulse of the heart, the quiet work of cells and nerves. Today we return to it.This episode invites you to:— Notice the alive silence that exists in the body at rest— Let the mind's narration become background noise, not the foreground— Discover the fullness of the silence between one thought and the next— Grieve the quiet you have been missing, and let the silence hold that grief— Trust that the stillness is always there, even when the world is loudYou are not the thoughts that pass through you. You are the silence that holds them. And that silence has been here since the beginning, and it will be here when everything else falls away.Welcome to Your Quiet Moment. This is your time to rest.⏱ Timestamps:00:00 — Arriving into the silence02:30 — A breath to land in05:00 — The noise of the mind10:00 — The body's tiredness of listening15:00 — Letting the body teach the mind20:00 — The fullness of the silence28:00 — The practice of returning35:00 — The room as silence made visible42:00 — The grief of forgetting the quiet50:00 — The body's alive silence57:00 — Closing meditation and farewellDISCLAIMER

In this episode I am joined by Samuel Bercholz, a senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of Shambala publications, and author of “Rude Awakenings: An Unconventional Guide to the Buddhist Path”. Samuel recalls his childhood as the son of holocaust survivors, his arrival in America as a refugee, his rapid ascent in the Democratic party as part of the Kennedy campaign, and his eventual disillusionment with politics. Samuel describes his early spiritual seeking in theosophy and Buddhism, details his first experience of satori, and explains the process of learning to trust his gurus. Samuel tells stories of his years of discipleship under controversial spiritual teachers such as Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, offers his insights about how to be a vajrayana student, and reflects on what it takes to be the disciple of tough masters. … Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics include: 00:00 - Intro 01:02 - Rude Awakenings 02:46 - Child of the holocaust 05:03 - Arriving in America 07:18 - Interest in literature and politics 08:21 - Working for Kennedy 09:32 - Disillusionment with politics 11:16 - Exploring spiritual traditions 12:36 - Theosophy and Buddhism 14:56 - First satori 15:42 - Samuel's mother's preference for Russia 17:24 - Difficulties in America as a refugee and becoming a citizen 10:26 - Samuel's resilience and processing past trauma in meditation 22:22 - Becoming part of the Kennedy office 25:02 - Refugee confidence 26:16 - Samuel's doubts about himself 28:57 - Witnessing politicians lying about Vietnam 30:42 - Having a breakdown 32:32 - Disappointing spiritual teachers and politicians 34:15 - Experience with Lama Anagarika Govinda 38:17 - Developing trust in spiritual teachers 39:42 - Founding of Shambala Publications 41:00 - Years of discipleship under Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 43:14 - Being with tough gurus 44:10 - Skepticism about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 45:34 - Death of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 46:43 - How to be a Vajrayana student 49:56 - Samuel's special relationship with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 51:37 - Stories about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's personal teaching 54:44 - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's dark side 58:20 - Comparing enlightened teachers 01:03:09 - Becoming a disciple of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche 01:11:24 - Lineage stories are real 01:12:31 - Lama's commission to Samuel 01:13:19- So easy to miss spiritual opportunities 01:15:19 - Rude Awakenings, breadth and depth 01:16:12 - Why “Rude Awakenings”? … To purchase “Rude Awakenings: vist: - https://www.shambhala.com/rude-awakenings.html For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - https://www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

Your hands have been speaking a language older than words — and you have not been listening. In this quiet meditation, we explore the extraordinary intelligence that lives in your palms, your fingertips, your wrists. From the first grasping reflex to the gentle release of letting go, your hands carry the whole story of your life in the simple, sacred act of touch.00:00 Arriving — landing with your hands, noticing their weight and warmth04:00 The Breath and the Hands — connecting breath to the body's oldest instruments08:00 What the Hands Remember — accumulated touch, the library of contact15:00 The Courage of Reaching — how hands know before the mind decides22:00 Holding and Releasing — the rhythm of grip and open, the body's dance30:00 The Empty Hand — finding freedom in not holding, not reaching38:00 Hands and Time — the hand's relationship with the present moment45:00 The Partnership of Two Hands — left and right, doing and being52:00 The Body's Chain — shoulders to arms to wrists to fingertips60:00 A Meditation for the Hands — a longer, quieter space for the body70:00 What the Hands Knew Before You Did — the deepest wisdom of touch78:00 Closing — returning to the original shape, the womb's giftThis episode continues the series arc of returning inward — from the space between your breaths, through the softness beneath the surface, into the room you keep coming back to, and now into the hands that have been faithfully carrying you all along. A whispered meditation for anyone who has ever forgotten how to simply open their palms and rest.DISCLAIMER

*This episode contains content that may be triggering for some listeners.* Today we’re joined by author and speaker Sarah Jakes Roberts, who invites us to rethink what true strength looks like—shifting from building a tolerance for the world’s noise to finding stillness in our calling. From stepping back from social media to anchoring identity in daily prayer, Sarah shares the liberating truth she discovered when she finally hit “mute” on the digital world. Next, we hear from human rights defender Timothy Cho, who recounts his harrowing escape from North Korea. He recounts the oppression and lies that were leveled at him from an early age and the moment he was labeled a traitor in his own country, driving his daring escape to experience the freedom truth brings, and how he now advocates for others to find their own freedom. Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned: Jesus Calling Podcast Jesus Calling Jesus Always Jesus Listens Past interview: Cyntoia Brown-Long Upcoming interview: Heather Land Sarah Jakes Roberts Woman Evolve 2 Corinthians 12:9 www.SarahJakesRoberts.com The Power in Surrender Timothy Cho Tumen River Timothy Cho’s Instagram Interview Quotes: “Strength is not our tolerance for whatever comes our way. It is our ability to stay focused regardless of what comes our way.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “Coming to a place where you can admit that I don’t have to be strong enough takes so much pressure off of yourself.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “My gratitude becomes more magnified because I realized just how unworthy I am, and how good God has been in allowing me this space and opportunity.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “When we talk about trying to figure out our identity in Christ in a world that is so noisy, we have to be the one to turn the volume down. You have to remember that you hold the remote control. At any given moment, you can hit mute. And in the process of hitting mute, you have to be willing to confront some of those voices that exist within our own head.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “Our identity is constantly being developed, and we get to decide whether we allow it to be formed by digital algorithms or by words from God, affirmations that come from stillness and prayer.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “Connecting with God daily allows us to be rooted and anchored in such a way that when we show up to the world, we’re not asking the world to tell us who we are.” - Sarah Jakes Roberts “I asked God, ‘If you are really there and you give me freedom, I will give my life to you.’” - Timothy Cho “Arriving in a democratic country, a free country, I thought it was the end. What I didn’t realize was that it was the beginning of another part of the journey.” - Timothy Cho “I was [able to] fight back against a wave of darkness and trauma. In my desperation and screaming out and tears, I would keep hearing, ‘Son, I love you, I love you, I love you.’” - Timothy Cho “We are facing a lot of hatred in this world at the moment. But hatred never [wins]; only love can overcome all of this hatred.” - Timothy Cho ________________________ Enjoy watching these additional videos from Jesus Calling YouTube channel! Audio Episodes: https://bit.ly/3zvjbK7 Bonus Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3vfLlGw Jesus Listens: Stories of Prayer: https://bit.ly/3Sd0a6C Peace for Everyday Life: https://bit.ly/3zzwFoj Peace in Uncertain Times: https://bit.ly/3cHfB6u What’s Good? https://bit.ly/3vc2cKj Enneagram: https://bit.ly/3hzRCCY ________________________ Connect with Jesus Calling Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Website TikTok Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Chris and Amy booked a last-minute week in Bora Bora that would have cost over $20,000, almost entirely on points. They break down how it came together, why they chose Bora Bora over Fiji, the Marriott award search quirk that hid available rooms, flying business class in both directions by mixing two airlines, and using card travel credits on the inter-island flights. Then, three nights in, they decided to abandon the deal and pay more to switch resorts. They compare and rank the major Bora Bora resorts, weigh points versus cash, and explain what makes French Polynesia one of the easiest long-haul trips from the West Coast. Link to Full Show Notes: https://chrishutchins.com/bora-bora-on-points-2026/ Partner Deals Haven: Skip the waitlist for the best sauna. Gelt: ⁠Skip the waitlist on personalized tax guidance to maximize your wealth Thrive Market: ⁠30% off your first order of organic groceries + a free $60 gift Bilt Rewards: ⁠Earn the most valuable points when you pay rent Superhuman: ⁠Free month of the fastest and best email with code ALLTHEHACKS For all the deals, discounts and promo codes from our partners, go to: ⁠chrishutchins.com/deals Resources Mentioned Hotels & Resorts Hotel Upgrade Program The Westin Bora Bora Resort & Spa Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort Conrad Bora Bora Nui The Brando Le Taha'a Nanuku Resort Waldorf Astoria Costa Rica Products Monopoly Deal Health & Sauna Research Bryan Johnson — Is Sauna ACTUALLY Good For You? (90-Day Experiment) ATH Podcast #285: Why Net Fulfillment Beats Net Worth with Bill Perkins #287: Putting Die With Zero Into Practice with Brad Barrett Hotel Upgrade Program Best Cards Page Gift Cards Page Newsletter AMA: Submit Questions Leave a review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Email for questions, hacks, deals, and feedback: podcast@chrishutchins.com Full Show Notes (00:00) Introduction (02:09) How a Kid-Free Trip Came Together (03:33) How Chris and Amy Choose Vacation Destinations (13:09) Why French Polynesia Over Fiji (14:59) Booking The Westin (20:43) Flying Business Class Both Ways on Two Different Airlines (26:22) Air Tahiti Nui and the Inter-Island Flights (31:15) A Surprise First Class Upgrade on Air Moana (32:47) Arriving in Bora Bora and Checking Into The Westin (34:29) First Impressions: A Brand-New Property with Great Bones (37:33) A Thousand Little Cuts: The Westin's Service Problems (44:50) The Math Behind Checking Out Early (52:21) The Four Seasons vs. The Westin: What the Extra Money Buys (59:23) Why the Four Seasons Spa Facilities Stood Out (01:00:37) Getting Serious About Sauna Again (01:05:51) Pickleball, Paddleboarding, and Space to Get Lost (01:08:00) Did the Four Seasons Save the Trip? (01:13:18) How to Actually Get Deals at the Four Seasons (01:16:20) Ranking All Four Bora Bora Resorts (01:19:32) Why Fiji Is Still at the Top of the List (01:21:45) Where AI Can Go Wrong (01:23:15) Packing a Travel Med Bag for Remote Destinations (01:24:20) Final Thoughts and Why Bora Bora Keeps Winning Connect with Chris ⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠ | ⁠Membership⁠⁠ | ⁠X⁠⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ Editor's Note: The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date; however, some of our partner offers may have expired. Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out the new Smart Travel PodcastThis episode is supported by Smart Travel a new podcast from Nerd Wallet. Travel smarter — and spend less — with help from NerdWallet. Follow Smart Travel wherever you get your podcasts.Smart Travel PodcastWinging It On Location – Day 1: 5-Hour Layover in Amsterdam & Arriving in TallinnThe European tour is officially underway.In this first on-the-road episode, I take you through my journey from Toronto to Tallinn via Amsterdam, including what you can realistically do with a 5-hour layover at Schiphol Airport. I share the exact train route into the city, why I chose the Jordaan district, and the coffee stop that made the short visit worthwhile.After a quick wander through Amsterdam's canals, bridges, and tree-lined streets, I head back to the airport for my flight to Estonia. Once in Tallinn, I give my first impressions of the city, explain the easiest tram connection from the airport, and meet up with friends for dinner in the heart of the Estonian capital.If you're planning an Amsterdam layover, a Tallinn city break, or simply enjoy hearing authentic travel stories from the road, this episode is for you.In this episode:How to do Amsterdam on a short layoverUsing contactless payment on Dutch trainsThe best area to wander for 2–3 hours in AmsterdamCoffee recommendation in the Jordaan districtArriving in Tallinn and getting into the city for €2Hotel informationDinner, drinks, and the start of the Baltic adventureSupport Winging It Travel PodcastIf you enjoyed this episode:⭐ Leave a 5-star rating or review on your podcast app☕ Support the show at buymeacoffee.com/wingingit

00:00 Arriving — you are welcome here, exactly as you are04:00 A breath to land in — the ordinary miracle of breathing08:00 The softness beneath the surface12:00 What your body does when you stop holding16:00 The shoulders, the jaw, the place you hold tight20:00 The practice of releasing without knowing24:00 What softness is not — strength as gentleness28:00 The room holds you32:00 The hands, open — the beauty of empty palms36:00 The chest, the breathing — ribcage as cathedral40:00 The quiet courage of softness44:00 What returns when you stop clenching48:00 The memory your body keeps52:00 A long breath meditation58:00 The feet and the ground62:00 The spine and the back66:00 The silence and the dark70:00 The old stories releasing74:00 The body as landscape at night78:00 Gratitude toward the body82:00 Water imagery86:00 The long body scan — crown to sole89:00 Closing meditation and restA gentle, whispered meditation on the natural softness your body carries beneath daily tension. This episode guides you through a slow exploration of what happens when you stop holding — shoulders releasing, jaw unclenching, hands opening. You are invited to remember a gentleness that has always been there, waiting beneath the noise. Through breath work, a full body scan from crown to sole, and imagery of water and night landscapes, this meditation offers your body permission to return to its original state of ease. Perfect for winding down before sleep, for moments of overwhelm, or for anyone who has forgotten that softness is not weakness — it is where you began.DISCLAIMER

00:00 — Arriving. You land here, however you are. You are not late. You are not early. You are right where you need to be.05:00 — A Breath to Land In. We begin with the body. The shoulders. The jaw. The ordinary breath that asks nothing of you.10:00 — The Space You Rush Past. There is a crack in every exhale — a pause where the breath has left but the next breath has not yet arrived. We linger there tonight.18:00 — The Habit of Filling. How we rush to fill every silence, every gap, every empty moment. What happens when you stop reaching across the pause.25:00 — The Weight of Noticing. The quiet cost of awareness — and why it is not a burden but a kind of seeing.32:00 — The Unhurried Hours. The hours that belong to no one. The breath of the day itself.38:00 — The Night Knows Your Name. How the darkness holds you without asking anything in return.44:00 — The Letting Go That Is Not Forgetting. Setting things down gently. Freeing the hands that have been gripping too long.50:00 — The Body Learning to Be Still. A slow body scan from crown to feet. Each area gets its own quiet attention.58:00 — The Breath Continues. You are being breathed. The one act of your life that happens without your help.63:00 — Closing Words. Permission to rest. Permission to let the day end. Goodbye for now.A quiet meditation on the pause between breaths — the space where something new begins. For anyone who has been rushing through their days, filling every silence, reaching for the next thing before the last thing has finished. Tonight, we stop. We let the gap exist. We discover it was never empty at all.Your Quiet Moment is a daily contemplative meditation podcast from the HustleStudios network. New episodes every day. Subscribe wherever you listen.DISCLAIMER

A gentle guided reflection for anyone carrying the weight of incomplete things. This episode explores the quiet guilt of unfinished projects, half-sent messages, abandoned hobbies, and conversations that trail off without resolution. You are invited to sit with the discomfort of open loops and discover that not everything needs to be closed before you can rest. We move through the body — noticing tightness in the chest, tension in the jaw, the way your shoulders hold what your mind refuses to release. Through present-tense body awareness and whispered narration, you are given permission to let things be unfinished. Not forever. Just for now. Just for this breath.Timestamps:00:00 Arriving — you can come as you are05:00 A breath to land in — letting the body settle12:00 The half-finished things — recognizing what you carry22:00 The weight of undone — the guilt of incompleteness30:00 Your body has been keeping score — where you hold it38:00 You are not behind — the lie of the finished life48:00 A practice for the coming days — letting it be unfinished55:00 An extended closing meditation — body-led release70:00 Goodbye for nowPerfect for unwinding after a long day, processing the guilt of things left undone, or simply being present with yourself in a quiet room. No music. No agenda. Just your voice, your breath, and the gentle reminder that you are allowed to rest without resolution.DISCLAIMER

In this podcast, Richard Jerram talks about The Makoto Murders, living in Tokyo, Japan, winning the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award, and much more. [3:15] Early life lessons growing up. [6:00] The best and worst things about taking a creative writing MA. [10:15] Retirement from work as an economist and decision to pursue writing fiction. [11:45] Arriving in Tokyo, Japan in 1987. [14:55] The Makoto Murders launch event. [17:25] The Makoto Murders elevator pitch. [20:20] Writing a novel with a sociopathic protagonist. [28:15] Japan setting. [29:35] Planning and writing process for The Makoto Murders. [34:55] Workshopping two endings. [37:10] Including specific details to Japan. [38:50] Next books and projects. [43:55] Advantages and disadvantages of living in Japan, Singapore, and London. [45:30] Becoming fluent in Japanese. [49:10] Life and art imitating one another: winning the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award. [54:00] Landing a literary agent. [58:10] Film and TV rights. Full podcast show notes are available here: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-673-richard-jerram-on-the-makoto-murders-living-in-tokyo-japan-and-winning-the-crime-writers-associations-debut-dagger-award Support This Is Horror Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishorror

As public understanding of neurodiversity continues to grow, evaluators face a shifting landscape when assessing clients whose traits don't match traditional, less nuanced pictures of autism. Many individuals—especially women and girls—learn to navigate daily social interactions through pattern recognition and learned strategies rather than intuitive processing, masking their traits enough to miss early identification. Dr. Jeremy Sharp, a licensed psychologist, founder of the Colorado Center for Assessment, and host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, joins Emily to unpack the realities of camouflaging and what it takes to catch these less obvious presentations during a diagnostic evaluation. TAKEAWAYS The increasing prevalence of self-identification and online research requires evaluators to look beyond traditional, high-support presentation models when assessing for autism. Camouflaging and masking rely on active cognitive problem-solving and pattern recognition rather than intuitive social processing, creating high internal fatigue that standard testing environments can miss. Structured, one-on-one assessment settings can artificially boost a person's immediate social performance, making ambiguous or unstructured interactions essential during clinical observations. Traditional assessment tools like the ADOS can be less sensitive when evaluating females, who often demonstrate higher surface social fluency and culturally common special interests. Arriving at an accurate diagnostic picture requires gathering broad collateral information from parents, partners, and teachers rather than relying on a single test score. You can register now for our upcoming continuing education course for mental health professionals, Clinical Implications of Late-Identified Neurodivergence: Strategies for Identity Integration and Therapeutic Support. The course will be presented by Dr. Amy Marschall, author of the book Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy, and will be available both as a live event on Friday, August 7 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM Eastern, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific, and afterwards in video form. Both versions are worth 1.5 hours of APA and NBCC-approved CE credits. Register here. Dr. Jeremy Sharp is a licensed psychologist and Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment, a multimillion-dollar private practice that he founded in 2009. He specializes in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast and consultant for clinicians, Dr. Sharp provides private practice coaching for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow assessment services in their practices. In 2020, Dr. Sharp partnered with a seasoned software developer to co-found Reverb, the premier AI report-writing platform for testing psychologists that helps clinicians write faster, better reports and get their time back for what matters most. Dr. Sharp earned his undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting a Master's and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife (also a therapist) and two teenagers. BACKGROUND READING Jeremy's website, Testing Psychologist podcast, Facebook, LinkedIn The Neurodiversity Podcast is on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, and you're invited to join our Facebook Group. For more information go to www.NeurodiversityPodcast.com If you'd like members of your organization, school district, or company to know more about the subjects discussed on our podcast, Emily Kircher-Morris provides keynote addresses, workshops, and training sessions worldwide, in-person or virtually. You can choose from a list of established presentations, or work with Emily to develop a custom talk to fit your unique situation. To learn more, visit our website.

OpTic Gaming Merch: https://shop.opticgaming.com/Check out the OpTic SCUF collection and use code “OpTic” for a discount: https://scuf.co/OpTicCheck out the OpTic Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optic-podcast/id1542810047https://open.spotify.com/show/25iPKftrl0akOZKqS0wHQG00:00 Intro01:00 Special guest & Gambling recap 05:00 Maniac went missing 12:00 What games to play 14:00 Vegas energy 20:00 Arriving in Paris Vegas 36:30 Do we take or winnings? 40:00 Best show in Vegas 44:00 Big club guys 48:00 Found a jungle 51:20 Getting mogged 53:00 Fighting in Vegas

It's another throwback to a heartwarming 90s Christmas classic thanks to Ry-Guy! ABOUT SANTA AND PETE It's the first Christmas without Grandma and a difficult time for the family, until Grandpa (James Earl Jones) decides to share a story with his ten-year-old grandson Terence. AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR SANTA AND PETE December 5, 1999 | CBS CAST & CREW OF SANTA AND PETE Director: Duwayne Dunham Writers: Greg Taylor, Christopher Moore, Pamela Johnson Cast: James Earl Jones as Grandpa Nicholas Hume Cronyn as Saint Nick Flex Alexander as Pete BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS The movie kicks off with Santa doing Santa stuff. Checking that list twice. Looking at a globe to see if anything's changed. You know the stuff. We meet Grandpa Nicolas decorating his house for the first Christmas since his wife passed away. His daughter Cassie shows up with her husband James and son Terence and they all start to decorate the tree. Little Terence pulls out a Santa ornament. Grandpa insists there's one more ornament in there that goes with Santa. Sure enough, there is one more ornament of some random dude. Terence is like who is this? Grandpa Nicolas is like well have I got a story for you. Before Santa was Santa, he was Saint Nicolas, a Christian Bishop and Patron Saint of Children who would travel around, giving presents to children. One day he is arrested by the Spanish government who suspect he is actually a spy and their concerns only grow when they discover that he carries around a book called The Book of Life that has a ton of names in it and stuff about each of those people. Gotta be honest...sounds like a spy. While in jail, he meets a guy named Peter who is shocked when this old dude knows his name and knows that he wants to travel the world. When Pete finds out that he's St. Nicolas, they spend the night talking, and Pete decides to bust St. Nick out. They become partners and years later they decide to head to the New World. Before they leave they are approached by a dude who wants them to find someone named Elizabeth Van Olden to give her an engagement ring and a promise to join her as soon as he can. Santa and Pete are shocked to find out that the New World is not the perfect paradise they had heard about. People are too busy to celebrate Christmas and there's hostility between the settlers and the Native Americans. There's no open lodging for the famous Santa and Pete, so they're forced to sleep in a barn for the night where they find a little girl named Marlene. She tells them that she lost her parents while they were building a cabin in the woods. Santa promises that they'll find her parents and Pete is like whoa that's a big promise. Santa and Pete meet with the governor to ask for help finding Marlene's parents. He tells them that the Native Americans took them and he's planning an attack. So that's not great. On Christmas Eve, they travel by carriage and reindeer to go visit the Dangola family, including Janet who Pete thinks is FINEEEEE. On the way back, they are stopped by the Native Americans. They say they've been waiting for the man with the white beard to fulfill the prophecy. Santa requests they return Marlene's parents and they give Santa a bright red coat. Santa and Pete begin delivering presents and find that the village boot boy has made Nick some black leather boots. Arriving at the governor's house they realize there are no traditional wooden clogs to put gifts in and end up going down the chimney and leaving gifts in stockings instead. They also meet the governor's maid, who turns out to be Elizabeth Van Olden, and after giving her the engagement ring she gives Nick a bright red hat. Returning to the Dangola house, the Native Americans appear with Marlene's parents. The snow starts to come down super heavy and they're now unable to navigate the snow in their carriage. Maria's husband, Big Manuel, replaces the wheels with runners, transforming it into a sleigh, now with 6 reindeer. As Santa and Pete leave, the sleigh suddenly lifts into the sky and they fly away into the night. Back in the present, Terence wakes up in the middle of the night and finds that the Book of Life is in the living room. He finds his name inside and finds out that he is related to Pete. But when he tries to tell Grandpa Nicolas, the book disappears and he cannot remember anything he read. Classic Santa. Watch the show on Youtube - www.deckthehallmark.com/youtubeInterested in advertising on the show? Email bran@deckthehallmark.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.