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On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Gavin Newsom's bill requiring companies that operated before 1965 to search their records for ties to slavery is misguided and hypocritical. Why are businesses targeted when the Democratic Party had deep historical ties to slavery, the Confederacy, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan. What does Newsom have to say about the family that owns the New York Times, whose ancestors were slaveowners and were involved in the slave trade, and covered for Stalin's massacre of Ukrainians in 1932 and covered for Hitler and the Nazis, and is currently Hamas' mouthpiece? If Newsom wants to investigate slavery, look no further than current day Africa and the Middle East.  Also, the Atlantic describes how Democrats are preparing a wide range of investigations if they win congressional majorities; this is proof that their focus is not on affordability or the issues Americans care about most, but on targeting President Trump, his administration, his family, and his allies. Democrats are organizing investigative strategies, compiling lists of potential targets, and planning aggressive oversight efforts that amount to political retribution disguised as accountability. These investigations, potential impeachment efforts, and plans to subpoena administration officials and even members of Trump's family are part of a broader effort to weaken Trump's presidency, advance partisan power, and position themselves for future political gains. This reflects a push toward one-party control, distracts from economic concerns, undermines institutions and traditions, and threatens the agenda voters elected Trump to carry out. Later, Zohran Mamdani says socialism means everyone should have what they need to live a dignified life and that it is the government's job to provide it. This removes personal responsibility and requires taking money from hardworking people to give to others.  Socialism does not create prosperity, put groceries on shelves, or increase people's income, but instead empowers bureaucrats while restricting individual freedom. Why would Americans would abandon a constitutional republic and capitalist system that has created opportunity and prosperity in favor of socialism promoted by Mamdani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The guys get into driverless cars, Florida's python problem and the possibility of simply pushing the entire state into the Atlantic before Marney Gellner and Gophers basketball coach Niko Medved join the show. Medved looks back on a wild first season, discusses Cade Tyson's eligibility situation, explains why he thinks youth sports have gotten completely backwards, talks about the new St. Thomas rivalry and reveals Hakeem Olajuwon's apparently ridiculous ping-pong skills.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot welcome their old colleague and former Sound Opinions host Bill Wyman back to discuss his new book, Bill Wyman's Rock & Roll Lists, in which he ranks every song by some of rock's biggest artists.Join our Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3sivr9TBecome a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvcSign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4frcVZoMake a donation via PayPal: https://bit.ly/3dmt9lUSend us a Voice Memo: Desktop: bit.ly/2RyD5Ah Mobile: sayhi.chat/soundops Featured Songs:The Beatles, "Good Day Sunshine," Revolver, Parlophone, 1966The Beatles, "With a Little Help from My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967The Eagles, "Lyin' Eyes," One of These Nights, Asylum, 1975Pink Floyd, "Atom Heart Mother," Atom Heart Mother, Harvest, 1970Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On," Led Zeppelin II, Atlantic, 1969Led Zeppelin, "Moby Dick," Led Zeppelin II, Atlantic, 1969The Eagles, "Hotel California," Hotel California, Asylum, 1976The Eagles, "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture," Long Road out of Eden, Eagles, 2007Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nevermind, DGC and Sub Pop, 1991Nirvana, "Something in the Way," Nevermind, DGC and Sub Pop, 1991Bruce Springsteen, "Outlaw Pete," Working on a Dream, Columbia, 2009Pink Floyd, "Mother," The Wall, Columbia, 1979Bob Dylan, "Shelter from the Storm," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975John Prine, "Angel from Montgomery," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In his second term, President Trump has aggressively targeted immigrant communities away from the border, and tens of thousands of immigrant parents are being detained and deported without their children. More than 200,000 children—most of them American citizens—have been separated from their parents, and many have been left behind with temporary caregivers. Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Caitlin Dickerson's latest investigation for The Atlantic, “The Babies Left Behind in America,” documents the policy changes that have allowed ICE to prioritize deportation quotas over child welfare. We speak with Dickerson about the hidden toll of this domestic separation crisis and what it means for families across the country. Guests: Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer, The Atlantic, 2023 Pulitzer Prize recipient for her reporting on immigration, author of new article “The Babies Left Behind in America.” Kelly Kribs, co-director, Technical Assistance Program, The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Halloween meant costumes, candy, and smiling jack-o'-lanterns, it meant something considerably more dangerous.When Irish and Scottish Halloween traditions crossed the Atlantic, they collided with American harvest parties, fortune-telling games, pumpkins, Victorian entertainment—and a growing tradition of October vandalism.Kids blocked railroad tracks. Wagons ended up on barn roofs. Windows were smashed. False fire alarms were pulled. People were shot. And by the 1930s, some American cities were seriously considering getting rid of Halloween altogether.Instead, they made a deal with the kids.Give us something good, and nothing bad happens to your house.This is the strange, occasionally violent story of how America created the Halloween we know today—and how three little words turned a night of chaos into a national tradition.Welcome to Day Two of 31 Days of Halloween. VERB Energy - Promo Code - HAUNTED Tales from the Shadows Weekend in Lancaster PA CONDEMNED links - https://linktr.ee/CondemnedYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistoryTikTok - @hah_podcasthauntedamericanhistory.comPatreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In 1988, someone found a striped mussel the size of a fingernail in Lake St. Clair. Within a few years, zebra mussels coated pipes, boats, and the bottom of the Great Lakes, and they became the poster child for "it's too late." Andrew closes Marine Pollution week with the pollutant that breaks every rule: a living one that reproduces instead of diluting. He follows two invaders. Zebra mussels rode in on ship ballast water, clogged power plant intakes, and stripped plankton from the base of the food web. Lionfish, likely released from home aquariums, spread from Florida across the Caribbean and cut the number of young native fish settling on reefs by about 79% in one experiment. Then comes the fight back. Ballast water rules tightened between 1993 and 2008, and new invasions in the Great Lakes fell 85%, to the lowest rate in two centuries. In the Bahamas, keeping lionfish low on small patches of reef let native fish rebound by 50 to 70%. Andrew wraps with the role every boater and paddler plays: clean, drain, and dry, every time. Takeaways: Invasive species are biological pollution, and they multiply over time. Zebra mussels arrived in ballast water and were found in Lake St. Clair in 1988. Densities at one Michigan power plant topped 700,000 mussels per square metre within a year. Lionfish likely reached the Atlantic through aquarium releases and now range from North Carolina to the Caribbean. Lionfish cut the number of young native fish settling on test reefs by about 79% in five weeks. Stricter ballast rules dropped new Great Lakes invasions from 26 to 4 per 13-year period. Keeping lionfish numbers low on targeted reefs let native prey fish rebound by 50 to 70%. Florida divers removed 31,773 lionfish in the 2024 Lionfish Challenge. Ontario has required boaters to drain water and remove plants and animals before moving a boat overland since 2022. Clean, drain, and dry every boat, canoe, kayak, or paddleboard between waterways. Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube    

Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about corruption, authoritarianism, and America's retreat from the world. They discuss her Atlantic cover story, the revolutionary project behind Trump's second term, US support for Europe's far right, the AfD, European rearmament, the state of the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda, Witkoff and Kushner's deal-making in Moscow, Venezuela as a union of kleptocracies, JD Vance's nativism, the midterms, the challenge of depoliticizing institutions, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.  

The world has waited almost a decade for a new novel by Min Jin Lee. In 2017, she published the best-selling historical epic “Pachinko,” which became a National Book Award finalist and was named one of The New York Times' 100 best books of the 21st century. Her new book, “American Hagwon,” is out this week, and at its center is a close examination of the pressure and promise of education. Lee joins “Radio Atlantic” to discuss the novel, her own upbringing, and what it means when education is more important than money or religion.  - - - Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You'll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/Listener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"I made a decision in my head, I'm going to America. I'm going to come here, build a business, live a life, get a green card, then get citizenship, do it all above board. But the decision was massive. How do I make it stick?"Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this Alumni Spotlight, Dan pulls up a chair with Julian V. Taylor — a British-born media entrepreneur who spent more than two decades building businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Julian started in magazine publishing in London, launched RedCoat Publishing in Boston, and produced television for networks like the History Channel and Discovery. Now he speaks to CEOs and leadership teams through his workshop, "Decisions That Stick," part of his broader Bold Bridge Method for working with the C-suite.Julian walks through how a couple of outreach phone calls landed him in front of Vistage groups — one of the toughest rooms there is — and what it was like running his first workshop for a brand-new group in Tallahassee after losing his voice on a London work trip. He breaks down the hands-on tools he brings into those rooms, including a Decision Contract (each participant writes a contract with themselves to keep a decision on track) and a Consequence Ladder that maps where a choice actually takes you. He also gets honest about the session that didn't go well: a third workshop with too many people dialing in remotely, a score that came back below where it needed to be, and the rule he built from it.But the real surprise? The content wasn't the hard part. Julian expected building his curriculum to be the biggest climb. It wasn't — that flowed naturally. The brick wall was everything else: who to call, who to talk to, and the hours it takes to work the phones. Dan and Julian dig into what's actually working now — from a longtime friend who told Julian poolside that his team needs exactly what he teaches, to Vistage chairs recommending his workshop to other chairs. Dan coaches on depth over breadth (go deeper into rooms you've already been in before going wider) and the 85/15 reality of speaking: maybe 15% of the time is on stage, and the other 85% is everything that gets you there.Whether you're building your first workshop, trying to crack into executive peer groups, or grinding through the middle stretch where the content is ready but the pipeline isn't — this conversation is full of practical, honest insight on what it actually takes.You'll learn:How two outreach calls to business owners in Ohio turned into three back-to-back Vistage meetings in FloridaWhy Julian ran his first Vistage workshop with almost no voice, and why not overthinking it helpedThe Decision Contract: the agreement each CEO writes with themselves, on paper, to keep a decision on trackThe Consequence Ladder, Julian's three-lane interstate for seeing where a decision's consequences push youWhy you can't blanket-call or blanket-email Vistage chairs, and what to do insteadWhat a low score on his third workshop taught him, and why he now turns down rooms full of people dialing in remotelyThe part Julian expected to be hardest (building the content) vs the part that actually is (finding planners with an event six months out)Dan's 85/15 rule: how little of a speaking business actually happens on stageWhy a friend's comment by the pool and chair-to-chair referrals beat a bigger list, plus Dan's case for 30 minutes of outreach a dayHow speaking pulled Julian into consulting, including a succession plan for an owner whose four kids are buying the business"I've got two or three other chairs that are considering my curriculum and my workshop. And they've spoken to the other chairs. So now they're, oh, you came highly recommended. How would you do this for my group? That's worth its weight in gold."Are your best opportunities hiding in rooms you've already been in? Take the free Speaker Business Assessment and find out where your speaking business actually stands.Episode Resources:Speaker Business AssessmentJulian V. TaylorJVH Media GroupMySpeakerFeeApple PodcastsSpotifySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Before Halloween had pumpkins, candy, costumes, or trick-or-treating, there was Samhain.At the edge of winter, the cattle came home, the fires burned, and old stories warned that the boundaries between worlds had opened. The dead could return. Fairies came out of the earth. Headless riders crossed the countryside. And sometimes, something followed you home.From a warrior who carried a talking corpse into the night to spectral black sows, fairy armies, divination rituals, sacred fires, and the old legends that eventually crossed the Atlantic and became part of Halloween as we know it, we're going back to where so much of it began.Welcome to Day One of 31 Days of Halloween. Tales from the Shadows Weekend in Lancaster PA CONDEMNED links - https://linktr.ee/CondemnedYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistoryTikTok - @hah_podcasthauntedamericanhistory.comPatreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode you will hear: (18:45) Chris Teare and Mark Stucker discuss an article that appeared in the Atlantic on August 30th, entitled, "A Society of Cheats"; the article is written by John Paul Rollert (44:37) Andy joins Mark to answer a Frequently asked question, "How do colleges actually find students". This is the deepest dive we have ever done on Student Search. Part 1 of 3 Preview for Part 1 q Andy explains what Student Search is, aka Proactive Recruitment q Mark explains some of the various ways that colleges find and recruit students, and Mark and Andy discuss why Student Search is by far a more comprehensive approach to finding students q Andy discusses the different criteria that a school can choose to use when they are trying to target students through student Search. q Andy explains the three different models that are out there when it comes to how a college implements Student Search Recommended Resources JG Talks: Helping prospective and current college students achieve success Colleges that allow self-reporting of test scores Colleges that Allow Self-Reporting of SAT and ACT Scores Great source for questions about finances and college Edvisors: Financial Aid, Student Loans, Scholarships and Money Management FAFSA Walkthroughs Mark recommends Kentucky Higher Ed Association (short version) HB 257 FAFSA Walkthrough for 2027-2028 College Aid Pro (short version) 2027-2028 How to Fill Out Your FAFSA Tutorial Utah System of Higher Ed (medium length) (44) 2027-28 FAFSA Deep Dive - YouTube University of the Pacific (medium length) How to Fill Out the 2027-28 FAFSA: Step-by-Step for Students & Parents Road to College (longer version) How to Fill Out the 2027-28 FAFSA: Step-by-Step Guide CSS PROFILE Walkthroughs MEFA Institute: A Deep Dive into the CSS Profile Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. 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Emily Balcetis, PhD, social psychologist, professor at New York University, author, researcher, and speaker, joins me on this episode. Emily directs NYU's Social Perception, Action and Motivation Lab and has spent more than 20 years studying behavioral science, judgment and decision-making, self-regulation, goal setting, and motivation. She has published more than 70 scientific manuscripts, delivered TEDx talks viewed by millions, and is the author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily's research has been featured in Forbes, TIME, NPR, Scientific American, The Atlantic, and other major media outlets. She has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

This week on The Hudson Valley Disc Golf Podcast: Corey, Alex, Joe, Ryan, Evan, and Randy are joined by special guest Justin Park AKA Dr. Rocks. Before he packs his bags and heads across the Atlantic, he sits down with the crew to give us his Disc Golf story from RPI to PhD. Joe recaps a trio of Summer Battle Royale matches against Greg Kurtz, Dave Chaiken, and Peter FitzSisti, while Corey breaks down his match with Nick Warren and tries to figure out where he and Ryan will play next. Also, Randy shares his behind-the-scenes volunteer experience working live scoring amid heavy wind, rain and tattoos at the MVP Open. Ryan wings a “Hockey Minute”, Joe and Randy tell us about their experience at the New York State Putting Championships and Corey gives us all of the Season finale action at J-Dubz including payouts and year-end stats, plus we go over results from the other local leagues. We finish it off with a round of Disc or No Disc where they should have just listened to Corey.Tim launched HVDGPicks.com—make sure to get your New York Team Challenge Week 1 picks locked in before the deadline on October 9th.Support the showSpecial Thanks to our Patreon Supporters: Branden Cline, Tim Goyette, Peter Hodge, Ryan Nelson, Kevin T. Kroencke, Brian Monahan, Corey Cook, Evan Parsley, Mark Bryan, Nick Warren, Jasan Lasasso, Justin Mucelli, Terry Hudson, Kyle Hirsch, Brian Bickersmith, Sparky Spaulding, Mike Schwartz, Erich Struna, William Byrne, Jeff Wiechowski, Sean Dollard, Jack Bradley, Marcia Focht, Justin Hickok, Troy Vassari, Erik Haenel, Ross O'Toole, Peter FitzSisti, Jake Huwe, Patt Jeffries, Greg Kurtz, BluejayDiscGolf and Connor Eckhardt.

In Bailick Park in Midleton, County Cork, nine immense stainless-steel feathers rise from the earth and curve toward the sky, forming an empty bowl. From a distance, they look almost weightless, like the remains of an immense bird. Up close, they are ribbed steel with riveted joints, casting a dark industrial sheen against their soft green surroundings. Their shape carries the invisible weight of famine, but also something more receptive and circular, like palms in open prayer.The sculpture is called Kindred Spirits. It honors the Choctaw Nation's gift to Ireland during the Great Famine of 1847. Only fifteen years after the Trail of Tears—when starvation, disease, and death plagued the Choctaw as they marched from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States—the tribal nation learned of the treatment of the Irish people under British colonial rule. They were themselves still impoverished, still living in the aftermath of trauma and devastation. Yet they gathered $170, roughly $5,000 today, and sent it across the Atlantic to feed families they would never meet.Kindred carries the old root of kin and kind. I'm reminded of the distinction between being kind, which is an expression of our feeling of belonging, and being nice—which derives from the root word nescius, meaning “ignorant” or “not knowing.” To be nice is to be polite no matter how we feel. But to be kind is to extend our relational and ethical imagination beyond those familiar to us: to recognize ourselves in lives we cannot see, in people whose language, history, and stories are not our own, yet whose tender aliveness is no less real than our own.In The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coined the word sonder: “the profound realization that every random stranger you pass is living a life as vivid, complex, and real as your own.” I think of sonder as I move through airports and hotel lobbies, glimpsing faces illuminated by phones, people pulling suitcases through corridors. Everyone is carrying a world unseen: a diagnosis, a divorce, a child asleep at home, a hope they have yet to speak.I arrived in Ireland a few days before I was set to teach at Ballymaloe House. It was late September, and I had given myself the unusual permission of having nowhere I needed to be. I stayed in small inns and drove along stone-walled lanes, past fields bright with rain, lakes shagged with green moss, farmhouses with whitewashed walls. I sat in framed windows, holding porcelain cups of tea, and watched clouds and sunlight move gradually across the morning. With no schedule pressing against presence, I spent long stretches in strange conversation with myself about my desires and regrets, and my ancestry, and the land, and how I want to embody this life.One afternoon I drove to Lough Gur, where the Grange Stone Circle—the largest of its kind in Ireland—stands. The stones are enormous, weathered, low to the earth, arranged in a ring that has lasted for thousands of years. Archaeologists have surmised some things about the people who gathered here from remnants of beaker pots and animal bones, but they cannot say exactly how they prayed, what they feared, what they remembered, or how they ritualized the cross-quarter days, when sunlight angled through the dark. The stones don't explain themselves. But the circle's near-perfect shape and the discovery of a posthole in its center suggest it was measured from a central stake with a rope, the entranceway aligned with the sunset on the festival of Samhain in early November.I sat down in the grass and leaned my back against one of the circle's largest stones. The afternoon was calm, with no other visitors nearby. The lake rippled beyond the field. A bird called once. And I had the rare perception that whatever needed to happen could happen, that nothing in me had to be managed or made useful.To my surprise, I began to weep.Long ago, I learned how not to cry, and why. I am more inclined to be the person listening, comforting, finding the next practical step. But this grief—this ancient tenderness—asked nothing of me but to reverberate. It did not arrive with a question, a name, or even a reason. It was elemental, like weather; a movement whose only condition was presence and whose only message belonged to the humble ground on which I sat.Grief is one of devotion's most honest forms. It breaks the hardened surface, asking us to place ourselves on the soft earth, where we cannot manage its outcome or coax its meaning. I cried beside that stone for a time, my heart held by its weight. And when I finally stood, my body felt emptied and rearranged.After my previous visit to Ireland, I dreamed of spirals for weeks—of the spirals I had seen in the Neolithic carvings at Newgrange and in the springtime fiddle ferns, but also of a colossal, sweeping spiral of time. A spiral is what happens when a circle begins to climb, to move, to leave and return. We come back to old questions carrying new losses and gains, new resources, new capacities for understanding. We revisit familiar landscapes and find that they have changed, and so, too, have we.Our culture loves the spiral. We celebrate motion, growth, progress, expansion, becoming. We ask where we are going and what we have become. But the headlines have gone mad, and half the human world seems to be shaking itself loose from its axis. In our individualistic pursuits, we have too often let go of the rope that connects us to the people, places, creatures, rituals, sensibilities—and yes, griefs—that have given us all the conditions we have needed to survive.Carl Jung often quoted the Hermetic maxim: “God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”This season, I am less in the spiral's aspiration than in the circle's belonging. At the closing circle of our retreat at Ballymaloe, after a week of practice and connection, I named a simple fact: we do not know what the future holds. But instinct shows us that gathering is medicine. We must make room in our lives to be together—to nurture recognition and reconciliation, to make strangers into friends. Our hard edges give way, and our values restore themselves inside these wider fields of relationship: family, community, land, history, and the more-than-human world. We come full circle and remember our innate belonging. And when we do, new questions emerge. Not: What do I want from life? What can I extract from this brief and bewildering existence? But instead: What does life ask of me? How can I live within this belonging?Nothing in the garden is self-made. Each thing belongs to the same field of attention. The spiral carries us outward; it asks for the courage to become. But to live well is not to become more accomplished in our self-sufficiency. It is to become more conscious of—and more responsible for—the reciprocity of our lives. In the presence of all we cannot fix, the circle gathers us back, asking that in all our becoming, we do not leave one another behind.Upcoming Gatherings+ November 20-22, 2026: A Doorway Into Thanks: A Mary Oliver Retreat co-taught with Mary Oliver's official biographer, Lindsay Whalen, at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA.Free offerings for your practice+ Full-Length Yoga Practices+ 10-15 min Guided Meditations+ Music Alchemy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shawnparell.substack.com

For this live episode, Brandon Caputo and Austin Broad of Elite Prospects preview the Buffalo Sabres regular season opener tomorrow night in Columbus, takeaways from the preseason, injury concerns early on, where this team shakes up in a reloaded Atlantic Division, players of note to take bigger roles and have bigger production, bold takes for the season and more!SegmentsIntro: 0:00Cap Update w/ Noah Ostlund extension: 5:53Matt Grzelcyk depth signing: 13:23Injury Update/Lines for Opening Night: 17:58Fan Poll Reactions/Discussions: 32:15Bold Predictions for the Sabres Season: 49:18October Schedule Outlook: 1:07:10Sabres Semantics is proudly brought to you by Global Pet Foods' three Niagara Region locations. Check them out at: https://globalpetfoods.com/*Audio goal highlights and postgame audio courtesy of MSG Networks and Sabres.comPromotion with Buttendz #1 hockey grips to get 10% off your order as part of the network: buttendz.com/discount/ArmchairGMArmchair Merchandise Site: https://the-armchair-gms-sports-ne-shop.fourthwall.com/en-cad/== Follow along with our Sabres Content ==https://x.com/SabresSemantics== FOLLOW THE NETWORK ==X: https://x.com/ArmchairGMPodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@UCJUaG5QNg1jwQ5a_32rZs1QFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArmchairGMsNetworkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/armchairgmsportsWebsite: https://www.armchairgmsports.com/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@UCJUaG5QNg1jwQ5a_32rZs1Q== ALSO AVAILABLE TO LISTEN TO ON ==Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/thearmchairgms​Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-armchair-gms-sports-network/id1462505333Spotify: http://bit.ly/ArmchairGM​== FOLLOW THE HOSTS ON TWITTER ==Brandon: https://x.com/BCaputo_AGMAustin: https://x.com/Austin_Broad“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

How do you know what's safe to eat?You don't. And after a summer full of food recalls from lettuce to blueberries and even jalapeños, a regular trip to the grocery store can start to feel like a dangerous game. But how are the flaws in our food safety system creating issues beyond what we choose to grab in the produce aisle? To find out, Brittany is joined by Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.Want more episodes on food, access, and power? Check these out:The politics of hungerThink the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again.You can read Eric's piece, "Should We Be Afraid of Our Food?" in the Atlantic. Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

More than half of men under 50 in the U.S. have an open online sports book. Public health experts warn it's easier than ever to get addicted to gambling. Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins spent a year exploring the world of sports betting, and why the pastime is particularly bad for young men. *** Thank you for listening. Help power On Point by making a donation here: wbur.org/giveonpoint

Day 1,676.Today, amid yet more deadly strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding oblast – and as parts of airspace above Poland are once again shut down – we bring you developments causing deep concern across Europe. President Trump, frustrated by the lack of progress and eager to unlock a path to business, is reportedly considering a deal with the Kremlin that would see the US ease sanctions on Russia in exchange for the release of political prisoners. Then, Francis is joined by journalists from the Kyiv Independent to talk about why Ukrainians feel “betrayed” by Europe.Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.With thanks to Francis Farrell, Toma Istomina, and Dominic Culverwell of the Kyiv Independent.Senior Producer: Lilian FawcettVideo Producer: Sophie O'SullivanSocial Producer: Tom SteedStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Editor: Francis DearnleyCreated by David KnowlesNOW IN FULL VIDEO WITH MAPS & BATTLEFIELD FOOTAGE:Every episode is now available on our YouTube channel shortly after the release of the audio version. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineTheLatestCONTENT REFERENCED:Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem (Kyiv Independent)https://kyivindependent.com/trumps-push-for-a-ukraine-energy-truce-runs-into-a-putin-problem/Putin envoy, US officials discussed Ukraine war and energy initiatives, US official says (Reuters)https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-envoy-us-officials-discussed-ukraine-war-energy-initiatives-us-official-2026-09-29/Trump's Latest Appeal to Russia Could Outrage Even His Allies (Simon Shuster for The Atlantic)https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/09/trump-russia-putin-ukraine-sanctions/688808/Frontline Club Event with the Kyiv Independent on 1st October (Francis Dearnley moderating):https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-discussion-ukraine-inside-their-war-tickets-2000033706656?aff=oddtdtcreator The Kyiv Independent Live in London on 2 October:https://tickets.kyivindependent.com/events/thekyivindependentlive/2281999/r/frontline If you're interested in sponsoring Dom's upcoming defence event, email our colleagues at events@telegraph.co.ukEMAIL US:Contact the team on ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk. We continue to read every message, and seek to respond to as many as possible.HIGHLIGHTS:Fleeing Russians using Ukrainian civilians as 'human shields' in KharkivHuge blaze after Russian bomber crashes in Far East Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#992 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/992Presented by: Smitty's Fly Box, Togiak River Lodge, Stonefly Nets, Yellowstone Teton Territory - Visit Idaho Sponsors: https://www.wetflyswing.com/sponsors Jan Erik Granbo lives near Trondheim in central Norway, where he has around 40 Atlantic salmon rivers within his region. We dig into everything Atlantic salmong fishing, from the June salmon window and Scandinavian two-handed setups to finding resting fish, planning a Norway trip, and fishing dry flies later in summer.Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/992

After days of pursuit, King George V and Rodney finally close with the crippled Bismarck in the stormy Atlantic. This episode follows the brutal final battle from the opening salvos through the destruction of Bismarck's guns and superstructure, the British battleships' point-blank bombardment, and Dorsetshire's torpedo attack as Germany's most powerful warship slips beneath the waves. Credit Logo Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/state_library_south_australia/3331881750/in/album-72157623232407924 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howie Kurtz on President Trump's Capitol Hill meeting with tech titans over the future of AI, growing GOP concerns ahead of the midterms, and The Atlantic's scathing critique of Taylor Swift's updated tracks on The Life of a Showgirl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Episode is Sponsored by StayFi Your ultimate tool for Vacation Rental WiFi marketing allowing you to collect guest emails automatically via custom captive WiFi login splash pages. Drive repeat direct bookings and convert your OTA bookings to book direct for their next visit. Visit https://stayfi.com/vrsuccess/ and use code VRSUCCESS for 50% off 3 months of StayFi service. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everybody in short-term rentals is talking about AI. So when Heather sat down with European consultant Cristiana Carpini, the question she really wanted answered was whether property managers on the other side of the Atlantic are talking about it too, or whether something else entirely is keeping them awake. The answer was blunt. Margins are shrinking, OTA dependence is rising, owner acquisition is harder, and teams are overloaded. Operators call Cristiana believing AI is the fix, and she tells them what they do not want to hear: AI cannot repair a broken business model, it can only automate a broken business faster. From there the conversation opens out into the real differences between running this business in Europe and in North America, from GDPR and owner expectations to employment law and competitive culture. It also covers what makes a property management company sellable, why that takes three years rather than three months, and why Cristiana founded the Women Vacation Rental European Conference. About Cristiana Carpini Cristiana Carpini is the founder and CEO of Tara Home Consulting, working with property managers across Europe on audits, business plans, restructuring and exits. She came into the industry by accident after five years as a guest relations manager on cruise ships, then spent years inside the big European brands including Novasol, Interhome and Belvilla, running markets in Italy, France and Croatia. She launched Tara Home Consulting during the pandemic, giving free advice to panicking operators, and never stopped. She is also the founder of the Women Vacation Rental European Conference. Key Takeaways AI cannot repair a broken business model. If the margin structure underneath the business does not work, automation makes the problem arrive faster rather than fixing it. What European operators actually bring to a consultant is shrinking margins, OTA dependence, harder owner acquisition and overloaded teams. AI is further down the list than the conference circuit suggests. Owner relationships are the one thing not to automate. Cristiana describes an owner who complained about pricing when the real problem was his mother's illness and his need for more money. No AI would have surfaced that. Europe is not one market. Drive two hours and you are in a different country with different tax, language, rules and owner expectations. Southern European owners are emotionally attached to their homes; northern European owners often are not. Employment rules vary just as sharply. An Italian employee may accept a 24 hour emergency call-out where a French employee is protected by far stricter rules, so expansion planning has to account for labor law, not just demand. Preparing a company for sale usually takes three years. Sell faster than that and you leave money on the table, because valuation looks at reviews, brand, website and direct bookings, not just EBITDA. The business has to become independent of its founder. Heather hired her own replacement three years before selling Cottage Link, precisely so the buyer was not buying a company that only worked with her in it. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In this powerful episode, we sit down with JJ Rose 777—metaphysical teacher, lightworker, energy and entity cleaner, and white witch—for a riveting exploration of one of history's darkest chapters.We dive into the chilling legacy of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General of 17th-century England. Operating during the English Civil War, Hopkins led a ruthless campaign of accusation, interrogation, and execution that claimed the lives of dozens—and, by some accounts, far more—across East Anglia during a brief but brutal reign of terror.His methods and the climate of fear he helped intensify did not remain confined to England. The same wave of paranoia and persecution crossed the Atlantic, helping set the stage for the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. Among those caught in that tragedy was Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed in 1692—and a direct ancestor of our guest, JJ Rose 777.We also examine the turbulent era of King James I and the influential figures who shaped the legal, religious, and cultural landscape that made the witch hunts possible. JJ shares her personal connection to the Malleus Maleficarum (“The Hammer of Witches”), the notorious 15th-century treatise that became a handbook for identifying, prosecuting, and eliminating alleged witches across Europe.Can the energetic imprint of persecution, fear, and ancestral trauma persist through a bloodline for generations?Join us for a conversation that weaves history, metaphysics, and personal lineage into an unforgettable journey.Welcome to Let's Get Freaky Podcast! We explore strange encounters, paranormal phenomena, cryptids, UFOs and the unexplained. If you enjoy the show, you can support us by buying us a coffee. Every contribution helps towards producing new episodes and keeping the podcast going. Thank you for being part of the Freaky Family! https://buymeacoffee.com/letsgetfreakypodcastGear up and get freaky with official Let's Get Freaky merchandise! Our spooky-cool collection features hoodies, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more—perfect for showing your love of the paranormal while staying comfy and stylish. Dive into the full range now: https://www.teepublic.com/lic/wX4lEJj3DMIGot a mind-blowing paranormal encounter, cryptid sighting, UFO experience, or any high-strangeness story that still gives you chills? We want to hear it—and we want YOU on the show! Become a guest on Let's Get Freaky and share your true story with our growing freaky community. Drop us a line at: letsgetfreakypodcast@mail.com Or slide into our DMs on socials: Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, or YouTube → @tcletsgetfreakypodcast.

Send us Fan MailHockey is back!! Jobes and Obi steal one last toke with the final Division Doobie Pass on day 1 of the season. The Atlantic Division will be tough so we do our best to give our outlook. Looking forward to sharing some tokes, takes, and laughs with all you podheads in season 4 of HighStickingFollow Black Tie, a High Times Cup award winning brand. Follow LoDo THC Spirits. Make some pour decisions and check out LoDo for your next event or just to chill. Promo Code: HighSticking15 for 15% Off your purchasehttps://drinklodo.com/discount/HighSticking15https://blacktiecbd.net/?ref=highstickingPromo code: highsticking for 20% off of your purchaseMust be 21 to purchase.

Kevin covers and discusses the following stories: an update on Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes; the U.S. Commerce Department reported August Durable Goods Orders; the University of Michigan released their September Consumer Sentiment Index; the Conference Board's September Consumer Confidence Index was released; the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS); S&P Dow Jone Indices reported July S&P Cotality Case-Shiller data; Anderson Trucking Service enacted driver pay adjustments; oil prices react to Middle East crude oil production and exports; Kevin has the details, digs into the data, puts the information into historical perspective, offers his insights and opinions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another episode of The Intrepid Traveler! Join Robin Cline and co-host Abby Laub as they dive into Robin Cline's recent adventure through Panama; a country where the sun rises over the Pacific, sets over the Atlantic, and vibrant cultures intersect with stunning geography. In this episode, you'll hear about kayaking through the famous Panama Canal, meeting the indigenous Emberá people, exploring the bustling streets of Panama City, and tasting the incredible local cuisine. Whether you're intrigued by the history of the canal, looking for the best local tips for exploring, or dreaming of your next off-the-beaten-path excursion, this episode will inspire you to put Panama on your travel wish list.Thanks for joining us on today's episode of The Intrepid Traveler podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review our show to help us reach even more aspiring travelers. Don't forget to check out our website, visit us on Facebook,  Instagram or follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our latest epic travel adventures!Use the following links when planning your own travel!TRAVEL INSURED INTERNATIONALMEDJETVIRTUOSOPROJECT EXPEDITION

Scott Ohsman of Always Off Brand and I recorded our Slightly Off Commerce collaboration at Shoptoberfest in Nashville, and two of our guests came at the same business from opposite sides of the Atlantic. Timo Weltner co-founded NETFORMIC in Germany, where it has been a Shopware partner for years. Tom Sieger runs the United States side.We cover why regulated industries have to solve complexity in the data model before the storefront, how a pricing engine built on a product information system found two ways a customer was losing money, and what a European engineering mindset changes in a sales conversation.Guests: Tom Sieger, Partner, NETFORMIC USA, and Timo Weltner, CEO and Co-Founder, NETFORMIC GmbH.The B2B Commerce Trends and Opportunities Report, written and researched by Content Cucumber and presented by Shopware, is free at contentcucumber.com.

Gale-force winds wrecked the Warren Sawyer on Nantucket's south shore 142 years ago. This weekend's storm stripped away enough sand to expose what appears to be part of it. Also, the Atlantic has yet to produce a hurricane in 2026, putting the season within reach of a record set in 1905 for the latest first hurricane. AccuWeather is now forecasting 0-2 hurricanes through the end of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The division preview is complete!The guys have officially previewed every single Atlantic Division team ahead of the 2026-27 season (although the Toronto Maple Leafs episode may be outdated). And the final episode brings us to the Tampa Bay Lightning.Despite surrendering the division title to the Buffalo Sabres, they are coming off a season where Nikita Kucherov won the Hart Trophy, Andrei Vasilevskiy won the Vezina, and Jon Cooper (somehow) won his first Jack Adams. However, they had quite a bit of roster turnover during the summer.So tune in to find out where we think they are headed this season!(0:00) Recapping Tampa's 2025-26 season(11:58) Key Departures/Additions(17:12) Key Storylines(21:49) Lineup Comparison(31:11) Lightning Predictions/Projection(34:38) Closing ThoughtsThanks for watching!

“Gradually, then suddenly, America reached the precipice of authoritarianism.”That's how author Richard North Patterson begins his exploration into key turning points in the last quarter century that have altered the course of American history. He breaks it down in his new book, “Tripwires: 15 Twenty-First-Century Events That Undermined American Democracy — and How to Reclaim It.”“The fire hose of stuff around Trump has been so great that we can't keep track of it,” Patterson told me. “If we don't understand how we got here, then we can't figure out how to get out of this place and restore and reinvigorate our democracy.”Starting with the Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore that awarded George W. Bush the 2000 presidential election, Patterson itemizes the fateful turns. There was the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008; the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court in 2010 that unleashed unlimited campaign cash; future President Donald Trump's demand for then-President Barack Obama's birth certificate in 2011; and Sen. Mitch McConnell's refusal to convict Trump for the Jan. 6 attempted coup by supporters in 2021.The culmination of the events that undermined democracy was Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court ruling in 2024 that the American president had immunity for his actions, thus creating an unbounded presidency.Patterson is internationally renowned as the author of 23 novels, 16 of which have been New York Times bestsellers, including “Protect and Defend” and “Degree of Guilt.” Patterson is a former trial attorney whose articles have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times and elsewhere.For the last decade, Patterson has devoted his energies to political commentary because, as he wrote in The Atlantic, “Trump rendered fiction redundant.”As a fiction writer, Patterson recognized Trump's gift for crafting a compelling story. “Trump creates a fantasy world in which we are beset by numerous forces, some real in themselves, some not real at all, like the great attack of communism and socialism he claims that we are suffering from,” he told me. “And then he creates the heroic narrative where Trump and Trump alone can save us from all of this.”Patterson understands the allure of the story and its inherent danger.“You had a meeting of the man and his megalomaniacal fantasies in a moment of extreme unease in the American polity, where people were willing to turn to someone who promised to be the all-purpose solution to their unease.”“He claimed to make America great again. I would argue he made America hate again,” Patterson continued. “If you look at authoritarians throughout time, they've always found an enemy. And for Trump, they were racial minorities.”Patterson predicted that “2026 and 2028 are really democracy's last good shot at getting itself turned around.”“If we have a JD Vance or somebody else who's going to pick up on Trump's proto fascism, then we are farther down the road to going from democracy to the authoritarianism in Hungary under (Viktor) Orban and beyond, where we simply can't retrieve what we — what we once believed was secure.”

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Methanol Market Puts-and-Takes podcast, part of the Chemical Conversations series. In this episode, Senior Analyst Cassidy Staggers talks with Dave McCaskill, Argus VP of Methanol and Derivatives and Becky Zhang, Argus lead methanol consultant on: Argus Methanol & Ammonia Conference recap Pricing trends, supply constraints, and trade flow adjustments in Asia/China Outlook for Atlantic Basin considering ongoing political tensions in the Middle East Argus offers methanol prices, news, analysis, forecasts, and consulting. Get more information and request a free trial. 

On Atlantic Tales this week we continue our series ‘Music Makers' - musicians who also make musical instruments. Pat Flynn meets Pete Spelman whose journey to making musical instruments differs somewhat from our previous guests. He began making instruments after retiring. That's Atlantic Tales, Sundays at 6.00pm or catch the Replay on Wednesdays at 6.00pm.

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Anne Applebaum joins Paul Wells to discuss her Atlantic magazine cover story, "Empire of Grift." She argues that Donald Trump's foreign policy now has two engines: ideologues who see the Western Hemisphere as America's to run, and grifters using U.S. power to enrich themselves and Trump's circle.She describes her recent trip to Venezuela, discusses the standoff over Greenland, and discusses MAGA's strange fascination with breaking up Canada.For more from Paul Wells, subscribe to paulwells.substack.com

How a Swiss mountain call crossed the Atlantic and helped define the sound of country music. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Pyrenees stretch 270 miles from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, separating France from Spain, and most people think of them as a natural barrier: remote, barren, and largely untouched. They would be wrong. These mountains sit at the edge of where early humans were supposed to have settled, yet a cave above the village of Tautavel contains the oldest human face ever found in Europe, a skull 450,000 years old, with sixteen feet of unexcavated sediment below it that may hold remains older still. And from that moment forward, humans never stopped reshaping these mountains. They cleared forests so aggressively that Louis XIV sent an inspector to survey the damage in 1672 and he found entire valleys stripped bare. They carved terrifying paths into vertical cliffs so oxen could drag tree trunks down for the navy's masts. They built 5,000-year-old agricultural terraces, Roman marble quarries, medieval fortified caves, zinc mines at nearly 10,000 feet altitude so deadly they were called the Man-Eater, and dueling World War II fortification lines on opposite sides of the same ridge. By one measure, the Pyrenees may be the most thoroughly human-altered mountain range on earth, and almost nothing about them, from the treeline to the meadows to the shape of the valleys, is actually natural. Today's guest is Colin Duncan Taylor, author of The Pyrenees: A Human History. We discuss how prehistoric artists worked 3,000 feet inside a mountain to paint bison and horses that a nineteenth-century archaeologist dismissed as "funny sketches by amateurs," why a 5,000-year-old massacre in a Spanish cave reveals the violent birth of farming in Europe, and how transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock between lowland and mountain pastures, created a cross-border legal system that predates any nation-state by centuries. We look at how the French navy hacked a terrifying path into a cliff face so oxen could drag tree trunks down for ship masts, why a village of fifty-five people built a museum for a 5,500-year-old goddess statue that someone had chopped up to build a tomb, and how both Franco and Hitler simultaneously fortified opposite sides of the same mountain range to fight each other. Taylor argues that the Pyrenees are not a barrier between France and Spain but a bridge that humans have been crossing, shaping, and fighting over for thousands of years, and that almost nothing about these mountains is truly natural.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we talk about EU membership, trade deals, and association.We also discuss Australia, Ursula von der Leyen, and Brussels.Recommended Book: Being You by Anil SethTranscriptJust off the coast of Newfoundland, there's a small group of islands that belongs to France. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are close enough to Canada that, at their nearest point, the two countries are separated by only a few kilometers of water.In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met French President Emmanuel Macron on these islands. The two leaders could stand on French territory and talk about a partnership with the European Union, while Canada was visible across the water.A few days earlier, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had made a similar, but possibly more significant proposal. Speaking before the European Parliament, with Carney in the room, she said she wanted to open the door for Canada to become the EU's first “associate member.”Depending on which headline you read about the statement, this may have sounded like Canada might be joining the EU, joining it partway, or joining an entirely new version of it. Soon after, Australia's trade minister said his country was “on the same page” as Canada regarding closer ties, and the European Parliament's president then suggested Australia and New Zealand might follow Canada's lead.Now, despite all those headlines and interpretations, there's one problem with all these stated ambitions: the European Union does not have an established category called associate member. No one has agreed on what rights or obligations an associate member country would have, and figuring that out—and getting some kind of resolution passed—would be necessary for anyone, including Canada and Australia, to get closer in that way with the EU.What I'd like to talk about today is why this proposal was made, what it could mean if it eventually becomes more concrete, and whatever happens, what these statements tell us about the way global alliances are changing.—The EU has 27 member countries, but there are already a few different ways to be connected to it.Full member nations help write EU law and send representatives to its institutions. They all participate in the single market, which means goods, services, money, and people can move across member nation borders under shared rules.The single market is distinct from the customs union, which sets common tariffs on goods imported from elsewhere. Both are distinct from the Schengen area, which removes most routine passport checks between participating countries. And nations that use the euro are another group entirely. These arrangements tend to overlap, but they're not the same thing, and membership in one does not automatically mean membership in all the others.There are also countries outside the EU that participate in some of its systems. Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein belong to the European Economic Area and are part of the single market. To do that they have to accept many EU rules, although they don't vote on those rules as that would require full EU membership. Switzerland has built its own set of bilateral arrangements with the EU. And Britain, after leaving the union, has also negotiated a special trade and cooperation agreement with it.So there are precedents for a country having a deep relationship with the EU without being a member. But there's no ready-made ‘associate' slot that Canada can just step into.There's a legal distinction here, too. The EU treaties say that a European state can apply to become a member, and Canada is not a European state. The treaties separately allow the EU to make association agreements with countries outside the bloc, and it already has many kinds of agreements with external partners. An association agreement, though, does not make that partner a member of the Union.“Associate member” could eventually become a useful name for a new collection of rights and obligations held by nations outside those existing parameters. For now, though, it's a political invitation and a negotiating idea, not a defined legal status.All that said, Canada isn't starting from scratch on this. Its trade agreement with the EU, called CETA, has been applied provisionally since 2017. Most of it is already in effect, though ten EU countries still haven't completed the ratification required for the whole of the agreement to go into force.CETA removes most tariffs and opens some opportunities for companies on each side, but it doesn't make Canada part of the single market. A Canadian product can be easier to sell in Europe without a Canadian worker gaining a general right to take a job there. That's part of the distinction between a trade deal and the sort of relationship people sometimes imagine when they hear the phrase “union membership.”Canada also joined Horizon Europe, the EU's major research funding program, in 2024. It has a security and defense partnership with the EU, and it became the first country outside Europe to join an EU defense financing initiative called SAFE.That means some of the proposed future relationship already exists, but in pieces rather than as a unified whole. The question is whether those pieces can be connected and extended into something much more ambitious and holistic.Now, important to understanding the why of all this is understanding Canada's relationship with the US, and how that relationship has been fraying, of late.Canada's economy is deeply integrated with that of the United States. Its proximity to the massive US market has brought enormous benefits, but it also means a change in American trade policy can have an immediate and dramatic effect on Canadian businesses. President Donald Trump's tariffs and repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st state have made that dependence more than a little politically uncomfortable.For Carney, a closer European relationship offers a way to reduce the risk of having too many economic and security decisions shaped by one increasingly unpredictable and at times belligerent neighboring country. Europe has its own reasons to be interested in closer ties. Canada has energy and critical minerals, industrial capacity, research institutions, and a role in the Arctic. Both sides also support Ukraine and work together through NATO and other forums.Von der Leyen has proposed cooperation with Canada on batteries, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, and defense production. Carney has added ideas about financial services and opportunities for young people to live, work, and study across the Atlantic.This isn't a plan to move Canada's economy from one continent to another. Geography still matters. A car part crossing the US-Canada border may be part of a production chain built up over decades; a new trade agreement with Europe doesn't instantly recreate or replace that chain.But diversification doesn't require replacing one partner with another. It can mean having additional buyers, suppliers, research collaborators, and sources of investment, so that a disruption in one relationship is less damaging.The costs and limits matter here, too. Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has warned that deeper EU ties could mean higher costs and Canadian industries being regulated from Brussels. His motives in bringing this up are likely at least partly political, but it's a question worth asking: if Canada wants more access to a tightly regulated European market, which European standards would it have to accept as a tradeoff?Europe would face its own questions. EU governments have spent decades building shared rules among countries that accept reciprocal obligations. They may not want to give a distant partner the benefits of those standards without comparable commitments. The fact that ten member states have yet to ratify the existing Canada trade agreement is a reminder that closer ties require more than an enthusiastic speech from the Commission president; there are real, practical realities to consider, here.If something like this were to move forward, we don't yet know whether the final result would be one major agreement or a series of smaller ones. The latter might be easier to negotiate: a defense arrangement could advance while mobility or food standards remain unresolved, for instance. But calling the package an associate membership could also raise expectations that every difficult issue will be solved at once, which probably isn't realistic.And none of this automatically grants Canadians the right to settle anywhere in the EU, or Europeans the right to settle in Canada. Carney has talked about expanding opportunities for young people, but the scope of any mobility arrangement would have to be negotiated. A youth work or study program would be a very different proposition from full freedom of movement.And as all of this has played out, Australia has watched with interest.Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell said Australia and Canada were “on the same page” about building stronger ties with Europe, and that he would watch what Carney did. Then European Parliament President Roberta Metsola named Australia and New Zealand as examples of countries with which the EU could deepen its relationship.Those remarks generated another round of headlines about countries joining Europe, but as with Canada, things are more complicated than most of the reporting on this would suggest.Australia and the EU finished negotiating a free trade agreement earlier this year, but it still has to be signed and brought into force. They also have a security and defense partnership and have discussed bringing Australia into Horizon Europe. At a September meeting, their leaders focused on those steps, along with potential agreements related to critical minerals and technology.All of which illustrates the difference between a political signal and a policy commitment. Whether the involved negotiators eventually decide on some kind of associate terminology is arguably less consequential than the real-deal agreements being worked out piecemeal, today.If the associate model were to become a real thing and catch on with Canada and Australia, that could open the doors for more and deeper collaborations by the EU with non-member states, though, which could be long-term impactful, even if it took a while to spin-up.Looking across the channel at Britain, we find evidence that an associate membership with the EU might have real appeal, even for union skeptics.In a YouGov survey published ten years after the Brexit vote, 57% of Britons said leaving had been the wrong decision, and 55% said they supported rejoining the EU in principle. But when asked about rejoining without Britain's old exceptions to EU rules, support fell to 35%. Meanwhile, 59% supported a closer relationship without rejoining the EU, its single market, or its customs union.Those results don't tell us what Britons would think of a hypothetical Canadian-style agreement, but they do suggest that the details are important. “Closer ties” can sound attractive to people who are uncomfortable with shared laws, movement across borders, and which institutions get the final say, because it suggests more benefits with fewer organizational constraints. There's a non-zero chance any new, tighter agreement with Canada would face similar, detail-oriented issues, and a mix of approval and disapproval from Canadian citizenry.Show Noteshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/von-der-leyen-mark-carney-canada-eu-first-associate-memberhttps://www.politico.eu/article/australia-on-the-same-page-as-canada-on-deepening-eu-ties-says-key-minister-trade-don-farrell/https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendumhttps://sentiers.media/the-map-fiction-missed/https://cyprus.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/2026-state-union-address-president-von-der-leyen-2026-09-16_enhttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-delivers-address-european-parliamenthttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/20/prime-minister-carney-delivers-remarks-conclude-his-visit-saint-pierre-ethttps://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-deepens-ties-trusted-allies-visit-france-andhttps://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/video/I-294577https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/treaty-on-european-union-joining-the-eu.htmlhttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/ This is a public episode. 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Suzanne Roberts joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about why writing prompts are so powerful, images that haunt us, avoiding revenge prose, revising to create a rounded character, writing our truth, getting better at dialogue, how to navigate AI, the joy of creating something from start to finish, writing about family and friends, writing about our bodies, building writing community, how reading time is writing time, enjoying exploration, essay as immediate gratification while writing memoir, making stories from shame, and her new multi-genre craft book divided by theme 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for Writers.    Suzanne's first Let's Talk Memoir interview: https://ronitplank.com/2023/02/28/lets-talk-memoir-season-2-episode-16-ft-suzanne-roberts/   Camille Dungy's Let's Talk Memoir interview: https://ronitplank.com/2023/05/02/lets-talk-memoir-episode-41-ft-camille-t-dungy/   Also in this episode: -reading broadly and deeply -memoir as a gift to the universe -writing for hands and hearts you cannot see   Books mentioned in this episode: - The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat - The Art of Description by Mark Doty - The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts - Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway - The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick  - The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo - I Would Die if I Were You by Emily Rapp Black - The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller - Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard    Suzanne Roberts is the author of the essay collection Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, the memoir-in-essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, and the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, four full-length poetry collections, and a creative writing craft book: 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer (October 2026, The University of Nebraska Press). Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic's Traveler, Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and included in The Best Women's Travel Writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, National Geographic Traveler, Ploughshares, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and lives in South Lake Tahoe, California. More information may be found on her website: www.suzanneroberts.net   Website: www.suzanneroberts.net IG: @suzanneroberts28 X: suzannneroberts FB: https://www.facebook.com/suzanne.roberts.798/ BSky: @suzanneroberts   Here are the links Suzanne's books: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496239563/52-writing-prompts/ https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496231024/animal-bodies/ https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9781496236920/almost-somewhere/ https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496222848/bad-tourist/ – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

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“What if we fell out with the Brits? What if the agency and the Brits started spying on each other again?” — David McCloskeyWhat if the Americans and the British started spying on each other again? That's the premise of London Station, David McCloskey's fifth novel, out today. It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Before the Second World War those perfidious Brits did spy on America, breaking American ciphers and running influence campaigns in New York to drag the United States into the war.McCloskey spent eight years as a CIA analyst working on Syria, then a spell at McKinsey, before writing a series of successful spy novels and co-hosting the popular The Rest Is Classified podcast. The Dallas-based author has also, he admits, become an Anglophile — which hasn't stopped him giving MI6 what the Brits would call a “good kicking” in London Station.His returning heroine is Artemis Aphrodite Procter, so named by a father obsessed with Greek mythology and raised on a Florida alligator farm. Described by another of McCloskey's characters as a competent extremist, she is short, dark, hard-drinking and equally mirthful and menacing. Probably not the type of Yank best suited to a pseudo-diplomatic posting in the capital of the former empire. Although I'm guessing there are many British fellows, both inside and outside MI6, not averse to spying on Ms Artemis Aphrodite Procter.Further Reading:• London Station by David McCloskey (W. W. Norton, September 29, 2026) — his fifth novel, after Damascus Station, Moscow X, The Seventh Floor and The Persian.• The Rest Is Classified — the espionage podcast McCloskey co-hosts with the BBC's Gordon Corera, where he and Gordon Corera have also discussed Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling.• London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, a recent guest on this show — the dark-money London that runs in parallel with McCloskey's subterranean city of espionage.• Earlier this year on Keen On: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon — the other American spy novelist with a thing for the Brits.  Five Takeaways •       What If We Fell Out With the Brits? McCloskey never expected to set a novel in Britain, for a technical reason: the CIA–MI6 relationship is so institutionalized that it is hard to get the stakes right, and a thriller needs life or death. Then the question arrived — what if we fell out? What if the two services started spying on each other again? That is not fantasy, and the history is the reverse of what most people assume: before the Second World War the British spied on the Americans, broke their ciphers and ran influence campaigns in New York designed to pull the United States into the war. The novel imagines a new administration installing a brash CIA director skeptical of the cousins across the Atlantic, agents on both sides beginning to die, and a thriller that turns into a mole hunt. He is rude about MI6 throughout, which his British friends appear to enjoy — his theory being that Brits are self-deprecating enough to relish being picked on.•       Classified Journalism. He joined the CIA in 2006 as an undergraduate intern and left in 2014, working almost the whole time on Syria. His description of the job is the best short account of intelligence analysis you will hear: it is classified journalism. You have a question your consumer needs answered — and when your consumer is the president and the question is how long Assad can hold on, the sourcing is satellite imagery, stolen documents, intercepted calls and texts, all of it fragmentary and some of it more credible than the rest. You stitch together the what, the why and the so what, and you write it up clean and apolitical so someone can decide something. Everything he publishes now, from a novel to a résumé, still goes to the agency's publication review board — though he argues the genuinely sensitive material would make for bad fiction anyway. Afterwards came McKinsey, where the work was pricing concrete pipe and clearing a rail bottleneck through Chicago, and where he was, as far as he knows, the only McCloskey.•       Artemis Aphrodite Procter. The character began with a real colleague — short, dark curly hair, not physically imposing but with a genuine physicality, and possessed of what he calls a mix of mirth and menace: someone you can drink and gamble with who will terrify you two days later. Then, as good characters do, she started speaking for herself. Her biography is a small comic masterpiece: named by a father obsessed with Greek mythology, raised outside Kissimmee in central Florida on the family business, the nation's third largest alligator-themed amusement park, called Gatorville; university in Ohio; a first husband who didn't work out; an application to the agency made more or less on a whim. Not upper class, not really middle class, and it shows in how she dresses, eats and speaks to people — which is exactly why putting her in London was irresistible. One character calls her a competent extremist. The running question across the books, he says, is what it means to be loyal to a place that is not loyal to you.•       Can a Man Write Her? AK put the objection directly: some literary thought police would say a male former CIA officer has no business inventing a female one. Two answers. First, the same logic throws out Anna Karenina, and he would rather part company than follow it. Second, and more interestingly, he thinks the objection misunderstands what novelists do: you are not inhabiting a character's skin, you are hearing a voice and putting it on the page. His analogy is a reporter interviewing WNBA players — not sharing their background means more work, more research, more time with the subject, not a prohibition. On whether women make different spies he declines the generalization, while noting a real asymmetry: his analytical teams at the agency were at least half women, often majority, while the case officer cadre and the upper rungs of the Directorate of Operations remain heavily male. Which leaves the question he finds genuinely interesting about Procter — how much of her was always there, and how much the organization made.•       No Smiley Without Philby. On traitors, he separates the fiction from the trade. In literature they are everything, and Philby above all — not only because he turned an institution inside out but because his betrayal said something deep about the British class system that still resonates. Hence the line of the hour: you probably don't have George Smiley without Kim Philby, le Carré having essentially novelized the wound. (AK's reversal: perhaps you don't have Philby, in the public mind, without Smiley.) Inside the actual bureaucracies, though, nobody is wrestling with those ghosts day to day. And on Britain's place in all this, he refuses AK's harsher framing — a subtext to a subtext — while conceding the structural reality: the agency is much larger and much richer, and when it wants to do somet...

Send us Fan MailAbout this Episode Your dream job can still burn you out, and admitting that can feel like failure even when everything looks “successful” on paper. I sit down with DJ DiDonna to get real about what actually happens when you step away from work and why that choice can be one of the most authentic, bold decisions you ever make.We dig into the illusion of certainty that keeps so many of us clinging to “safe” paths, plus the push-pull dynamic behind most sabbaticals: burnout and breakdown on one side, curiosity and meaning on the other. DJ shares what his research has found about career breaks, sabbatical policies, and the psychological permission gap that shows up as resume fear, guilt, and the worry of what other people will think. We also talk about the parts nobody glamorizes, including, grieving an old identity, hearing your inner voice get louder, and learning how to be present again.Then we go deeper into the practical side of a transformational sabbatical. DJ explains why getting out of your head and into your body can be the fastest route to healing, and he tells the story of his 900-mile pilgrimage in Japan and the confidence it gave him to “launch into uncertainty.” If you're thinking about a career break, burnout recovery, entrepreneurship, or simply building a more meaningful life with better work-life balance, this conversation offers both encouragement and a clear way to start planning before a crisis forces your hand.In this Conversation• The illusion of certainty in “safe” career paths and why it keeps us stuck• Burnout as the push, and curiosity as the pull toward what matters• Why sabbaticals can start with grief, self-doubt, and an identity vacuum• Getting out of your head and into your body through exercise and creativity• DJ's 900-mile Japan pilgrimage and the confidence it built for uncertainty• Planning a sabbatical like routine maintenance rather than a crisis response• Treating time off as a career cycle and building real time wealth• How DJ's new book Big Time Off grew from lived experienceAbout DJ DiDonnaDJ DiDonna is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, entrepreneur, researcher, and founder of The Sabbatical Project, an initiative dedicated to understanding the role that meaningful extended time away from work can play in our careers and lives. Before turning his attention to sabbatical research, DJ co-founded EFL Global, a financial technology company that helped enable more than $2 billion in capital for underserved businesses and individuals around the world. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, TIME, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and other major publications.His new book,Big Time Off: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals and How to Take One, brings together nearly a decade of research, hundreds of interviews with people who have taken sabbaticals, and DJ's own experience stepping away after years of entrepreneurship. DJ's new book challenges the idea that extended time away is simply a luxury or an escape from work. Instead, he examines how purposeful time away can influence identity, relationships, creativity, career direction, and the way we think about what matters most. It also offers practical guidance for deciding when to take a sabbatical and how to design one that can create meaningful change.Additional ResourcesLinkedIn: @DJDidonnaWebsite: DJ DiDonnaNewsletter: Subscribe to the Sabbatical ProjectGet your copy of Big Time Off Support the show--------Stay Connected www.leighburgess.comWatch the episodes on YouTube Follow Leigh on Instagram: @theleighaburgessFollow Leigh on LinkedIn: @LeighBurgessSign up for Leigh's bold newsletter

Episode 438: In September 1755, more than four hundred men from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, were summoned to their parish church and told their land, homes, and livestock had been forfeited to the Crown. They would not be going home, and neither would their families. The Acadians, French-speaking Catholic settlers who had farmed the Bay of Fundy's tidal marshes for more than a century, were about to be deported in one of the largest forced removals in North American history. Here we tell the story of what the Acadians of Grand Pré built, why the British destroyed it, and what became of the families torn apart and scattered across the Atlantic world. More than ten thousand Acadians were forcibly removed from their homeland over the course of the operation, and by some estimates, nearly half did not survive the decade that followed. From Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow, who carried out the deportation, to René Leblanc, the elderly notary who refused to abandon his people, we follow the Great Upheaval from the shores of Grand-Pré to the bayous of Louisiana, where the Acadian legacy lives on as Cajun culture. Sources:L'Histoire de l'Acadie | Moncton.caExpulsion of the Acadians | WikipediaHeritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation | YouTubeHistory of Acadia | The Canadian EncyclopediaCentre d'études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson, Université de MonctonAcadian Expulsion (Plain-Language Summary) | The Canadian EncyclopediaView of The Deportation of the Acadians from Ile St.-Jean, 1758 | AcadiensisThe Records of British Government at Annapolis Royal, 1713-1749 | Nova Scotia ArchivesPapers Relating to the Acadian French - 1714-1755 | Akins, Thomas BeamishPapers Relating to the Forcible Removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia - 1755-1768 | Akins, Thomas BeamishNotes on Nova Scotian Privateers by George E. E. Nichols | Archives of New BrunswickGreat and Noble Scheme by John Mack FaragherThe Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History by Christopher HodsonParks Canada - Expulsion of the Acadians National Historic EventThe Acadian Deportation, Women, and Refugee Resettlement in the British and French Atlantic (1755-1793)Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGrand-Pré National Historic Site | Memorial churchLandscape of Grand Pré | UNESCO World Heritage Site 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As some Republicans back away from President Trump over Iran, diesel prices, and affordability, something unusual is happening: Trump is not getting mad at them. Is this what his lame-duck status will look like, or is Trump just a savvier political actor now? And will all the electoral-map-shifting help one side over the other, or just make voters mad? The Atlantic staff writers Toluse Olorunnipa and Madeleine Carlisle join “Radio Atlantic” host Adam Harris to discuss what they've been reporting on the midterm mess.  --- Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You'll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/Listener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get a $230 gift card after making a $500 payment with Melio (affiliate) - https://milestomemories.com/go/melio Mark is back from the Azores after four airlines in five days, and he has thoughts. First, though, Rakuten's increased card offers are some of the best we've ever seen, including a no annual fee Bank of America card worth up to 40,000 Bilt points plus a $250 bonus, and there's one catch for Membership Rewards members you need to know. Then the trip: Royal Air Maroc business class on Alaska miles (the seat is fine, the service is another story), a night in Lisbon that started with Uber chaos and ended at a rooftop sunset, and a TAP flight with seatmates Mark will never forget. The Azores themselves might be the best value trip in the Atlantic, with Hawaii-level scenery at mainland Europe prices, smoked pineapples, thermal springs, and an Amex FHR stay in Ponta Delgada. Plus how Mark dodged the Boston storms for free, whether he should have taken $700 to wait, and why short whirlwind trips are worth it for busy parents. Have you been to the Azores? Let us know in the comments. Episode Guide: 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel 0:23 Mark's Back From the Azores 1:01 Rakuten's Huge Card Offers (Up to 40K Bilt Points) 3:08 Royal Air Maroc Business Class Review 5:01 Where the Service Fell Short 7:55 Casablanca, Bus Gates & a Surprisingly Good Lounge 11:30 Lisbon: Uber Chaos & a Rooftop Sunset 14:48 Pizza Hut's Double Stuffed Crust 15:44 Why Portugal Is So Underrated 18:48 TAP to the Azores & the Middle Seat Debate 22:12 The Azores: Hawaii Without the Price Tag 27:00 Where to Stay: The Octant via Amex FHR 29:30 Pineapples, Tea & Thermal Springs 32:09 Escaping the Boston Storms for Free 36:05 Is Whirlwind Travel Worth It? 39:01 Final Thoughts Links Rakuten offers - https://milestomemories.com/rakuten-offering-extra-bonus-for-bank-of-america-cards/

It's Monday, September 28th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Muslims killed Nigerian pastor, wounded his son, and killed 12 others Armed Muslims killed a pastor and a believer on their way to worship God on Sunday morning in Plateau State, Nigeria, reports International Christian Concern. The pastor's son is in critical condition.  This was not an isolated attack. Just hours earlier, five laborers in the region were shot on their way to work. Gunmen also terrorized several surrounding communities, ultimately killing 13 people.  These murders reflect the heightened outbreaks against Christians and Christian-majority areas in the country.  According to TruthNigeria, this past week, 41 people were reportedly killed, and at least 100 were kidnapped. In Revelation 6:9-10, it says, “When [Jesus] opened the fifth seal, [John the disciple] saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the Earth and avenge our blood?'” Argentinian President: The United Nations is “useless” In a gutsy appearance before the United Nations, Argentinian President Javier Milei said, "[The United Nations] has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats.” Incoming Democrat Rep. arrested in anti-Israel protest Dozens of New York Democratic politicians, including incoming Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Darializa Chevalier, were among those arrested on September 24th for ignoring police orders during an anti-Israel protest of 250 people, reports The Western Journal. Chevalier is a socialist ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is expected to be in Congress come January. She was protesting the speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly whom she called a “war criminal.” She said, “As the Democratic nominee for New York's 13th Congressional District, I refuse to allow a war criminal to roam the streets of our city unchallenged. I refuse to play host to a man who has overseen the slaughter or injury of more than 64,000 children in Gaza with American taxpayer dollars.” While Chevalier has not yet won the election, a very deep blue New York 13th District practically guarantees a victory. The politician arrested for disrespecting the rule of law has previously tweeted about abolishing police, prisons, and borders, and has explicitly called for the government to seize private property.  In one now deleted September 2021 post, Chevalier wrote, “A world without borders—just like a world without prisons or police—is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.” Media commentator: We are not spin doctors for Democrats Appearing on PBS' NewsHour, David Brooks of The Atlantic surprised his leftist media colleagues by asserting that too many in the mainstream media have become too cozy with Democrat politicians from whom they should distance themselves. Listen. BROOKS: “Starting in 2015, we, in the mainstream media, learned that, if you bash Donald Trump, the clicks go up, the ratings go up. It became the business model. We play it straight. We do our job, but it's become the business model. “We get to go to dinners, sometimes off-the-record dinners, between journalists, columnists, and politicians. It used to be, when you were at a dinner, an off-the-record dinner with the Democratic politician, there was distance between the journalists and the Democrats, because they're politicians. Our job is to keep some distance. “In my view, at many places and in many of the dinners I have been to, there's no distance anymore. And that is a problem for the media. And that is our problem. We have got to re-establish some distance from the Democratic Party. “These are people we cover. They're not people we root for. They're not people we're spin doctors for. They're people we cover.” (You can see those comments at the 7:05 mark in this video) Supreme Court allows Trump to verify only U.S. citizens vote In a 6-3 decision on September 25th, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume its expanded voter citizenship verification program, which lets states use Social Security records to check voters' citizenship to ensure that noncitizens do not illegally vote in the upcoming November 3rd election, reports CBS News. That decision paused a lower court order by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in June that claimed that the voter verification system somehow violated federal privacy laws. Not surprisingly, Judge Sooknanan was a Biden appointee. Leftist Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Jackson dissented. New Jersey Lt. Gov. resigned over sexual harassment complaint On September 25th, New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that Democratic Lt. Governor Dale Caldwell resigned from his position amid allegations in an ethics report that claimed he violated state sexual harassment policies, reports The Epoch Times. A 61-page report, conducted by a law firm commissioned by the governor's office, found that Caldwell made an advance toward a female staffer's friend and allegedly made a crude remark to the staffer. The staffer also attempted “to distance herself from him and to avoid travel with him when possible.” Kind gesture of pizza delivery driver richly rewarded And finally, when a Domino's store in Boise, Idaho ran out of Diet Coke, the 68-year-old delivery driver, Dan Simpson, took it upon himself this past March to make a special trip to a nearby grocery store and personally pay for a 2-liter soda for the customer to accompany the pepperoni pizza, reports The New York Post. When the surprised customer heard about what happened, he offered to reimburse Dan.  Simpson refused, saying that they had tipped him well and he just wanted to make sure that their order was right. Listen to that encounter captured on the customer's Ring camera. SIMPSON: “We were out of Diet Cokes.” WILSON: “Okay.” SIMPSON:  “I stopped at the store, though.” WILSON: “Oh, you did not have to do that.” SIMPSON:  “That's okay.” WILSON: “Did you really?” SIMPSON: “Yeah, that's all right.” Brian Wilson, the man who placed the order, explained to Channel 2 News, why Dan's act of kindness meant so much to him and his wife. WILSON: “Our situation is unique in the fact that my wife and I are both visually impaired. We share the same retinal disease. Hers is more progressed than mine. “So, she doesn't unfortunately drive at all. I do still have daytime ability to drive, but at night, when you got those Diet Coke cravings, you can't just run up to the store, right? It's not as easy for us as it would be for someone else who is sighted completely.” Galatians 5:22 lists the fruit of the Spirit to include “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” According to the now viral video captured by the Ring camera, and seen by millions of people, the couple, who were dazzled by Simpson's helpfulness, created a social media donation page which raised enough money to help the pizza delivery man to retire. SIMPSON: “I checked my bank account, and there was $163,000. What a retirement gift that was!” Simpson was especially grateful because he had been juggling a full-time job in addition to delivering pizza at night for the past 13 years. In an interview with KTVB-TV, Simpson shared that he had previously abused alcohol, but had learned his lesson. SIMPSON: “I got in a lot of trouble with drinking and drugs, and I've been clean and sober now for well, this September, I think will be 24 years. I did go to prison twice for DUIs, and when I got out, I said, ‘That's it!' I knew I'd never drink again. I was just finally done. Ever since I stepped out of prison, I've basically worked two jobs and worked hard and tried to do the right thing.” Remarkably, he plans to continue to deliver pizza on the weekends, so he doesn't get bored in retirement. Close And that's The Worldview on this Monday, September 28th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Ambre Hasson learned to sail in 2020, then after owning a small cruising boat, she decided to train for the Mini Transat. She got the ball rolling, but lost her boat while qualifying for the 2023 Mini Transat race. Ambre persisted, got a new boat, prepared it, qualified, and completed the 2025 Mini Transat. She then sailed acrtoss the Atlatic back to France, her home country, in a Class 40. We talk about the 2025 Mini Transat, hiding from a hurricane in Peniche, Portugal, whales, hand-steering, tuning your autopilot, hand-steering pros and cons, why planing boats don't use windvane autopilots, beautiful moments on the ocean, the stars and bioluminescense, getting in tune with the weather, predicting wind shifts, squalls, thermal winds, clouds, sailing from Martinique back to France in the winter, comparing the mini 6.50 to a class 40, sailing two-handed, hallucinations, a visit from JarJar Binks, symptoms of sleep deprivation, losing her boat on the rocks in 2023 and lessons learned, and more. Photos and links are on the podcast website Sail in New England with Sailing Resolution List or browse sailboats on sailboatsforsale.com Shop tankless dive systems from BLU3 Shop sailing navigation lioghts from Signal Mate

This week on The Necessary Conversation Chad, Haley, and Mary Lou dig into the following topics, with a special appearance by Bob late in the episode.

From Apple News In Conversation: Americans spend billions of hours a year navigating government bureaucracy, whether filling out forms, waiting on hold, or standing in endless lines. Researchers call this hidden burden the “time tax.” In her new book, The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time — and How to Fix It, Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey argues all of this red tape is more than just annoying — it has real, lasting consequences for the country. Lowrey joins Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu to talk about who pays a disproportionate share of the time tax, why the system was designed to wear us down, and her ideas for how to fix it.