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I am so excited to bring you this beautiful conversation with the incredible Sarah Thomson, founder of Online Social Butterfly, digital business coach, educator, and one of the most generous souls I've met in the online space.Sarah and I met at Fusion, and I was instantly drawn to her bright, grounded energy. She has this rare combination of brilliance, heart, humour, and depth that makes you feel instantly safe and inspired all at once. And the more I got to know her, the more I realised that this woman is truly walking her talk.In our conversation, Sarah opened up about the defining moments that shaped her into the leader she is today. From her mum's courage leaving a difficult marriage to watching her rebuild a life rooted in strength, determination, and deep belief… it's no surprise Sarah leads with so much heart for women building businesses on their own terms.We talked about so much in this episode:Childhood roots & generational strengthThe messy, real beginning of her businessMoney mindset, self-worth, and charging wellBuilding a team with heart and clarityDigital evolution, AI, and adapting with courageThe power of testing, refining, and letting things 'not work'Women empowering women in real, embodied waysEverything Sarah does is about lifting women up, not from ego or strategy, but from genuine belief. It's contagious.If you're a business owner navigating growth, leadership, money, team, digital evolution… or you just want to feel inspired again, send me a message and let's unpack it.✨ Connect with SarahInstagram: @onlinesocialbutterflyWebsite: onlinesocialbutterfly.com.auPodcast: The Social Circus✨ Connect with MeInstagram: @emma_lou_campbellLinkedIn: Emma CampbellWebsite: www.emmacampbell.com.auDM me anytime — I love hearing what lands for you.
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In this episode I go through the middle 5 games of r25 for nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the first game of r25 for nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through my trades and loops heading into r25 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Scoop talks through r25 for nrl fantasy and supercoach from his perspective!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the potential holds and sells heading into round 25 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the potential best buys heading into round 25 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the round 25 team lists from an nrl fantasy perspective!!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the round 24 nrl fantasy results discussing my plans and where everyone is at with 3 weeks left!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Mitch talks through his r24 results and mostly non fantasy related banter heading into r25 haha!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Nikki and I go through the finish to r24 and discuss the best mid range picks, his team and trades for r25!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the first game of the week for nrl fantasy r24! Incredible HarryJoin the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through r24 captaincy, trade thoughts and looping for nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Scoop goes through his take on everything heading into round 24 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the potential holds and sells heading into round 24 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the potential best buys and team lists analysis heading into round 24 of the nrl fantasy season!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You Get (4 Tiers)JBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes.- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me in the thread.- Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Mitch talks through his week, all vibe and a little fantasy heading into r24 of nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the round results of r23 for nrl fantasy and where to from here!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Nikki and I go through the last 5 games of r23 and talk through his team and potential moves for r24!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the 2nd and 3rd game of r23 for nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through the 1st game of r23 for nrl fantasy!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through my likely trades and looping for nrl fantasy in r23 of 2025!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I go through round 23s nrl fantasy holds and sells for nrl fantasy 2025!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode Scoop runs through his thoughts heading into r23 of nrl fantasy and Supercoach 2025!Join the new Facebook group which is replacing the discord group herehttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AQavXJogu/?mibextid=K35XfPCome and join a big group of people that love talking NRL Fantasy. Receive advice from myself and other superstar players including Riley 5th, Bevan 8th, Hayden 9th and Mitch 21st (2024). Be in the running for big prizes as seen last year with 2 x $1000 winners.What is included in this year private group is below:- Massive Top 10 Written Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 included for comparison)- Massive Top 10 Video Analysis (20th, 50,100,500,1000,2000 include for comparison)- The 3 Best Season Long Trading Strategies after analysing the top 10- The 4 Different ways the top 10 made the top 10 (Each strategy works)- My Trading Checklist- My clear team structure plans (how many guns, cows etc)Full Season Pricing & What You GetJBFA Private = $20 AUD- Access to the exclusive private Facebook Group & Group Chat with likeminded people which includes:My weekly best buys, teams to target, captaincy rankings, trades discussion, late mail, my late changes- Post your questions in the weekly thread answered by me - Contribute to the private group consensus team- Finals fantasy accessPayment DetailsAustralian Bank AccountJamie BrownBSB: 062692AN: 41028639Wise.com. (good overseas option)Or PayPalJamie@wattlecomms.com.auDM me or email me at jamie@wattlecomms.com.au when you have paid.#nrl #nrlfantasy #nrlfantasy2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city's freight trains, one man stood out. What made him memorable wasn't his criminality so much as his giddy enthusiasm for trespassing. That man, Victor Llamas, was a self-taught expert of the supply chain, a connoisseur of shipping containers. Even in custody, as the detectives interrogated him numerous times, after multiple arrests, in a windowless room in a police station in spring 2022, a kind of nostalgia would sweep over the man. “He said that was the best feeling he'd ever had, jumping on the train while it was moving,” Joe Chavez, who supervised the task force's detectives, said. “It was euphoric for him.”Some 20 million containers move through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach every year, including about 35 percent of all the imports into the United States from Asia. Once these steel boxes leave the relative security of a ship at port, they are loaded onto trains and trucks — and then things start disappearing. The Los Angeles basin is the country's undisputed capital of cargo theft, the region with the most reported incidents of stuff stolen from trains and trucks and those interstitial spaces in the supply chain, like rail yards, warehouses, truck stops and parking lots.In the era of e-commerce, freight train robberies are going through a strange revival.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
On April 26, 2019, a beluga whale appeared near Tufjord, a village in northern Norway, immediately alarming fishermen in the area. Belugas in that part of the world typically inhabit the remote Arctic and are rarely spotted as far south as the Norwegian mainland. Although they occasionally travel solo, they tend to live and move in groups. This particular whale was entirely alone and unusually comfortable around humans, trailing boats and opening his mouth as though expecting to be fed.News of the friendly white whale spread quickly. In early May, a video of the beluga went viral, eventually earning a spot on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” By midsummer, he had become an international celebrity, drawing large groups of tourists. All the while, marine experts had been speculating about the whale's origin. Clearly this animal had spent time in captivity — but where?In the years since the whale, publicly named Hvaldimir, first entered the global spotlight, the very qualities that make him so endearing — his intelligence, curiosity and charisma — have put him in perpetual danger. Hvaldimir is now at the center of a dispute over his welfare. Even as he swims freely through the ocean, he is caught in a tangle of conflicting human ambitions, some noble, others misguided, nearly all distorted by inadequate understanding. Whether to intervene, and how to do so, remain contentious subjects among scientists, activists and government officials.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Liz Flatt drove to Austin, Texas, mostly out of desperation. She had tried talking with the police. She had tried working with a former F.B.I. profiler who ran a nonprofit dedicated to solving unsolved murders. She had been interviewed by journalists and at least one podcaster. She had been featured on a Netflix documentary series about a man who falsely confessed to hundreds of killings.Although she didn't know it at the time, Flatt was at a crossroads in what she had taken to calling her journey, a path embarked on after a prayer-born decision five years earlier to try to find who killed her sister, Deborah Sue Williamson, or Debbie, in 1975. It was now 2021.She had come to Austin for a conference, CrimeCon, which formed around the same time that Flatt began her quest, at a moment now seen as an inflection point in the long history of true crime, a genre as old as storytelling but one that adapts quickly to new technologies, from the printing press to social media. Flatt met a woman who would later put her in touch with two investigators who presented at the conference that year: George Jared and Jennifer Bucholtz. They were podcasters, but Jared was also a journalist and Bucholtz an adjunct professor of forensics and criminal justice at the for-profit American Military University. Their presentation was on another cold case, the murder of Rebekah Gould in 2004, whose killer they claimed to have helped find using a technique that has quickly become a signature of the changing landscape of true crime: crowdsourcing.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.'s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet's taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.”Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, Brian Melillo, an audio engineer for NBC Sports' flagship N.F.L. telecast, “Sunday Night Football,” arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening's game against the Detroit Lions. It was a big occasion: the annual season opener, the N.F.L. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by the winner of last season's Super Bowl. There would be speeches, fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship banner. A crowd of more than 73,000 was expected. “Arrowhead is a pretty rowdy setting,” Melillo said. “It can present some problems.”Broadcasting a football game on live television is one of the most complex technical and logistical challenges in entertainment. Jody Rosen went behind the scenes of the mammoth broadcast production.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, one of the world's mightiest mountains. Things quickly went wrong. Two climbers died. Their bodies were left behind.Here is what was certain: A woman from Denver, maybe the most accomplished climber in the group, had last been seen alive on the glacier. A man from Texas, part of the recent Apollo missions to the moon, lay frozen nearby.There were contradictory statements from survivors and a hasty departure. There was a judge who demanded an investigation into possible foul play. There were three years of summit-scratching searches to find and retrieve the bodies.Now, decades later, a camera belonging to one of the deceased climbers has emerged from a receding glacier near the summit and one of mountaineering's most enduring mysteries has been given air and light.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Last fall, Alexandra Duarte, who is now 16, went to see her endocrinologist at Texas Children's Hospital, outside Houston. From age 10, she had been living with polycystic ovary syndrome and, more recently, prediabetes. After Alexandra described her recent quinceañera, the doctor brought up an operation that might benefit her, one that might help her lose weight and, as a result, improve these obesity-related problems.Alexandra, who smiles shyly and speaks softly but confidently, says she was “a little skeptical at first because, like, it's a surgery.” But her mother, Gabriela Velez, suggested that her daughter consider it. “Ever since I was a toddler, my mom knew that I was struggling with obesity,” Alexandra says.The teasing started in fifth grade. Alexandra couldn't eat without her classmates staring at and judging her. Though she sought counseling for her sadness and anxiety, these troubles still caused her to leave school for a month. The bullying finally stopped after she switched schools in 10th grade, but Alexandra's parents knew how deeply she continued to suffer. How much more could their daughter endure? After the doctor suggested bariatric surgery, an operation on the gastrointestinal tract that helps patients lose weight, they spoke to friends who had successfully been through the procedure as adults. They decided it was a smart option for her. Alexandra wasn't sure.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
As an incubator of life, Earth has a lot going for it, something we often fail to appreciate fully from within its nurturing bounds. Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won't do. For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce! — we insist upon taking our corporeal selves off-world too. Multiple private companies have announced plans to put hotels in space soon. NASA is aiming to 3-D-print lunar neighborhoods within a couple of decades. And while it will probably take longer than that to build and populate an outpost on Mars, preparations are being made: This summer, four NASA crew members began a 378-day stay in simulated Martian housing at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Here's some of what we know about how Earthlings fare beyond the safety of our home world.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
The Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2019. The initiative had been shaped within the armed forces and Congress over the previous 25 years, based on the premise that as satellite and space technologies evolved, America's military organizations had to change as well.From the start, the Space Force had detractors. Air Force officials wondered if it was necessary, while some political observers believed that it signified the start of a dangerous (and expensive) militarization of another realm. What seemed harder to argue against was how nearly every aspect of modern warfare and defense — intelligence, surveillance, communications, operations, missile detection — has come to rely on links to orbiting satellites.The recent battles in Eastern Europe, in which Russia has tried to disrupt Ukraine's space-borne communication systems, are a case in point. And yet the strategic exploitation of space now extends well beyond military concerns. Satellite phone systems have become widespread. Positioning and timing satellites, such as GPS (now overseen by the Space Force), allow for digital mapping, navigation, banking and agricultural management. A world without orbital weather surveys seems unthinkable. Modern life is reliant on space technologies to an extent that an interruption would create profound economic and social distress.For the moment, the force has taken up a problem not often contemplated outside science fiction: How do you fight a war in space, or a war on Earth that expands into space? And even if you're ready to fight, how do you make sure you don't have a space war in the first place?This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
The beginning of the story was strangely familiar, like the opening scene in a shopworn police procedural: A woman runs screaming down a street in Oak Beach, a secluded gated community on Long Island's South Shore, only to vanish, it seems, into thin air. It was almost dawn on May 1, 2010. Hours earlier, Shannan Gilbert traveled from New Jersey to see a man who had hired her as an escort from a Craigslist ad. By the time the police arrived, she was gone. They talked to the neighbors, the john and her driver and came up with nothing. A few days later, they ordered a flyover of the area and, again, saw no sign of her. Then they essentially threw up their hands. She went into the ocean, they decided, either hysterical or on drugs.None of this made the news, not at first. A missing sex worker rarely does. Not even when another woman advertising on Craigslist, Megan Waterman, was reported missing a month later.This was, quite obviously, a serial-killer case. The only person not saying as much was the Suffolk County police commissioner, Richard Dormer. “I don't want anyone to think we have a Jack the Ripper running around Suffolk County with blood dripping from a knife,” he said in a frenzied news conference. In fact, they had something almost exactly like that. All eyes were on the Suffolk Police now — wondering who killed these women, if they would ever find Gilbert and what it would take to solve the mystery.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
On Oct. 19, 2021, Armando Linares López was writing up notes from an interview when his cellphone buzzed with an unknown number. Linares, 49 and stocky with black hair that was just starting to show gray streaks, ran an online news site in a small Mexican city called Zitácuaro. He knew his beat so intimately that calls from unfamiliar phone numbers were rare.But the man on the other end spoke in a way that was instantly familiar. Linares had come to know that pitched, menacing tone from years of run-ins with every kind of Mexican gangster.“This is Commander Eagle,” the voice said. “I'm from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.”Zitácuaro, in the hills of the state of Michoacán, had for years mostly been known for its fertile avocado orchards and the pine-oak forest where tourists came to see the annual arrival of the monarch butterflies. But its central location had made it increasingly attractive to the drug trade. Farmers grew marijuana and opium poppy, the source of heroin, in nearby mountains, and in recent years international drug cartels had been using Michoacán as a way station for methamphetamine and fentanyl shipments. Linares's rise as a journalist coincided with the drug boom, and he watched its devastating effects on Zitácuaro: severed heads dumped in front of a car dealership, business owners kidnapped for ransom and a government that seemed unwilling or unable to do anything about it.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Kihekah Avenue cuts through the town of Pawhuska, Okla., roughly north to south, forming the only corridor you might call a “business district” in the town of 2,900. Standing in the middle is a small TV-and-appliance store called Hometown, which occupies a two-story brick building and hasn't changed much in decades. Boards cover its second-story windows, and part of the sign above its awning is broken, leaving half the lettering intact, spelling “Home.”One winter day in February 2021, Jack Fisk stood before Hometown with Martin Scorsese, explaining how beautiful it could be. For much of the last week, he and Scorsese had been walking around Pawhuska, scouting set locations for the director's 28th feature film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The film, which is based on David Grann's best-selling book, chronicles the so-called 1920s Reign of Terror, when the Osage Nation's discovery of oil made them some of the richest people in the world but also the target of a conspiracy among white people seeking to kill them for their shares of the mineral rights.To render the events as accurately as possible, Scorsese had decided to film the movie in Osage County. It would be a sprawling, technically complicated shoot, with much of the undertaking falling to Fisk. Unlike production designers who use soundstages or computer-generated imagery, he prefers to build from scratch or to remodel period buildings, and even more than most of his peers, he aspires to exacting historical detail. His task would be to create a full-scale replica of a 1920s boom town atop what remains of 2020s Pawhuska.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
The triumphant return to Rome of Måneskin — arguably the only rock stars of their generation, and almost certainly the biggest Italian rock band of all time — coincided with a heat wave across Southern Europe. On a Thursday morning in July, the band's vast management team was officially concerned that the night's sold-out performance at the Stadio Olimpico would be delayed. When Måneskin finally took the stage around 9:30 p.m., it was still well into the 90s — which was too bad, because there would be pyro.The need to feel the rock may explain the documented problem of fans' taste becoming frozen in whatever era was happening when they were between the ages of 15 and 25. Anyone who adolesced after Spotify, however, did not grow up with rock as an organically developing form and is likely to have experienced the whole catalog simultaneously, listening to Led Zeppelin at the same time they listened to Pixies and Franz Ferdinand — i.e. as a genre rather than as particular artists, the way the writer Dan Brook's generation experienced jazz.The members of Måneskin belong to this post-Spotify cohort. As the youngest and most prominent custodians of the rock tradition, their job is to sell new, guitar-driven songs of 100 to 150 beats per minute to a larger and larger audience, many of whom are young people who primarily think of such music as a historical artifact. Starting in September, Måneskin brought this business to the United States — a market where they are considerably less known — on a multivenue tour, with their first stop at Madison Square Garden.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
The first time Tony Ford played Dungeons & Dragons, he was a wiry Black kid who had never seen the inside of a prison. His mother, a police officer in Detroit, had quit the force and moved the family to West Texas. To Ford, it seemed like a different world. Strangers talked funny, and El Paso was half desert. But he could skateboard in all that open space, and he eventually befriended a nerdy white kid with a passion for Dungeons & Dragons. Ford fell in love with the role-playing game right away; it was complex and cerebral, a saga you could lose yourself in. And in the 1980s, everyone seemed to be playing it.The game has since become one of the most popular in the world, celebrated in nostalgic television shows and dramatized in movies. It is played in homes, at large conventions and even in prisons.When Ford, who is now on death row, first overheard the other men playing D.&D., they were engaged in a fast, high-octane version. The gamers were members of the Mexican Mafia, an insular crew that let Ford into their circle after they realized he could draw. The gang's leader, Spider, pulled some strings, Ford recalls, and got him moved to a neighboring cell to serve as his personal artist. Ford earned some money drawing intricate Aztec designs in ink. He also began to join their D.&D. sessions, eventually becoming a Dungeon Master and running games all over the row.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
As China strove for a larger role on the international stage at the turn of the century, the arrival of the internet and a relatively relaxed political environment spurred a boom in self-expression. Many writers tested the boundaries of Chinese literary culture, experimenting with subjects that were quotidian but taboo on the page: corruption, sexual desire and evolving gender roles.In today's China, though, the pursuit of free expression requires writers to operate under the ever-watchful eye of a complex state surveillance system. This can resemble a high-stakes game of Whac-a-Mole in which writers, editors and online publishers try to outmaneuver the Chinese Communist Party's apparatus, using any opportunity and resource at their disposal to chronicle life as they see it.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
“The weird thing about growing up kidnapped,” Shane McCrae, the 47-year-old American poet, told me in his melodious, reedy voice one rainy afternoon in May, “is if it happens early enough, there's a way in which you kind of don't know.”There was no reason for McCrae to have known. What unfolded in McCrae's childhood — between a day in June 1979 when his white grandmother took him from his Black father and disappeared, and another day, 13 years later, when McCrae opened a phone book in Salem, Ore., found a name he hoped was his father's and placed a call — is both an unambiguous story of abduction and a convoluted story of complicity. It loops through the American landscape, from Oregon to Texas to California to Oregon again, and, even now, wends through the vaster emotional country of a child and his parents. And because so much of what happened to McCrae happened in homes where he was beaten and lied to and threatened, where he was made to understand that Black people were inferior to whites, where he was taught to hail Hitler, where he was told that his dark skin meant he tanned easily but, no, not that he was Black, it's a story that's been hard for McCrae to piece together.McCrae's new book, the memoir “Pulling the Chariot of the Sun,” is his attempt to construct, at a remove of four decades, an understanding of what happened and what it has come to mean. The memoir takes the reader through McCrae's childhood, from his earliest memories after being taken from his father to when, at 16, he found him again.his story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Twenty years ago, a glamorous platinum-blond widow arrived at the Paris law office of Claude Dumont Beghi in tears. Someone was trying to take her horses — her “babies” — away, and she needed a lawyer to stop them.She explained that her late husband had been a breeder of champion thoroughbreds. The couple was a familiar sight at the racetracks in Chantilly and Paris: Daniel Wildenstein, gray-suited with a cane in the stands, and Sylvia Roth Wildenstein, a former model with a cigarette dangling from her lips. They first met in 1964, while she was walking couture shows in Paris and he was languishing in a marriage of convenience to a woman from another wealthy Jewish family of art collectors. Daniel, 16 years Sylvia's senior, already had two grown sons when they met, and he didn't want more children. So over the next 40 years they spent together, Sylvia cared for the horses as if they were the children she never had. When Daniel died of cancer in 2001, he left her a small stable.Then, one morning about a year later, Sylvia's phone rang. It was her horse trainer calling to say that he had spotted something odd in the local racing paper, Paris Turf: The results of Sylvia's stable were no longer listed under her name. The French journalist Magali Serre's 2013 book “Les Wildenstein” recounts the scene in great detail: Sylvia ran to fetch her copy and flipped to the page. Sure enough, the stable of “Madame Wildenstein” had been replaced by “Dayton Limited,” an Irish company owned by her stepsons.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
In early 2021, a Wikipedia editor peered into the future and saw what looked like a funnel cloud on the horizon: the rise of GPT-3, a precursor to the new chatbots from OpenAI. When this editor — a prolific Wikipedian who goes by the handle Barkeep49 on the site — gave the new technology a try, he could see that it was untrustworthy. The bot would readily mix fictional elements (a false name, a false academic citation) into otherwise factual and coherent answers. But he had no doubts about its potential. “I think A.I.'s day of writing a high-quality encyclopedia is coming sooner rather than later,” he wrote in “Death of Wikipedia,” an essay that he posted under his handle on Wikipedia itself. He speculated that a computerized model could, in time, displace his beloved website and its human editors, just as Wikipedia had supplanted the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which in 2012 announced it was discontinuing its print publication.Recently, when I asked this editor if he still worried about his encyclopedia's fate, he told me that the newer versions made him more convinced that ChatGPT was a threat. “It wouldn't surprise me if things are fine for the next three years,” he said of Wikipedia, “and then, all of a sudden, in Year 4 or 5, things drop off a cliff.”This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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Where did it come from? More than three years into the pandemic with untold millions of people dead, that question about the origin of Covid-19 remains widely disputed and fraught, with facts sparkling amid a tangle of analyses and hypotheticals like Christmas lights strung on a dark, thorny tree. One school of thought holds that the virus, known to science as SARS-CoV-2, spread to humans from a nonhuman animal, probably in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, an emporium brimming with fish, meats and wildlife on sale as food in Wuhan, China.Another school argues that the virus was laboratory-engineered as a bioweapon to infect humans and cause them harm, and was possibly devised in a “shadow project” sponsored by the People's Liberation Army of China. A third school, more moderate than the second but also implicating laboratory work, suggests that the virus got into its first human victim by accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research complex on the eastern side of the city, maybe after undergoing well-meaning but reckless genetic manipulation that made it more dangerous to people.If you feel confused by these possibilities, undecided, suspicious of overconfident assertions — or just tired of the whole subject of the pandemic and whatever little bug has caused it — be assured that you aren't the only one.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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When Barb's father all but left, her mother turned inward, sitting quietly in front of the television, always smoking, often with a cocktail. Something had overtaken her, though it wasn't clear what.Six years later, Barb was 20 and in college when someone else in the family needed help. Her sister Christy was the second-born, 24 years older than Barb and the star of the family in many ways. But where once Christy was capable and professionally ambitious and socially conscious, now, at 44, she was alone, her clothes unkempt and ripped, her hair unwashed, her marriage over.Depression was the first suspected diagnosis, then schizophrenia, though neither seemed quite right. Christy wasn't sad or delusional; she wasn't even upset. It was more as if she were reverting to a childlike state, losing her knack for self-regulation. Her personality was diluting — on its way out, with seemingly nothing to replace it.What was left of Christy was chaotic and unpredictable. She refused to bathe and stopped bothering to make meals. She crashed a neighbor's party and made odd conversation with strangers. She clogged a toilet with tampons and flooded the house. She was gleefully impulsive, spending thousands of dollars a year on magazine subscriptions. That strange, reckless profligacy made Barb think of their mother, who in her final years sat at home, saying yes to every sales phone call. How heartbreaking but also interesting, Barb thought, that Christy shared the same peculiar tendencies — a family trait of sorts.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant plume of water rose over their heads, and chunks of concrete began flying down the hillside toward the Feather River. The dam's spillway, a concrete channel capable of moving millions of gallons of water out of the reservoir in seconds, was disintegrating in front of them. If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the dam — the tallest in the United States — to fail.Kory Honea, the sheriff of Butte County, which includes the dam and the town it is named for, first heard that something was wrong from Dino Corbin, a local radio personality, who called him at his office: “Are you aware there's a hole in the spillway?” Around the same time, one of the sheriff's dispatchers received a confusing message from California's Department of Water Resources, which owns the dam, saying it was conducting a “routine inspection” after reports of an incident.At the dam, department officials closed the gates at the top of the spillway to prevent any more of its concrete slabs from being lost in what an independent forensic report prepared after the incident described as “a sudden, explosive failure.” The flow of water stopped. The rain, however, didn't.In the six years since the near-failure of the Oroville Dam, dam operators across the country have begun to reassess the structures under their control, looking for hidden weaknesses: the cracks in the spillway, the hillside that crumbles at the first sign of water. That work is necessary, but it may not be enough to prevent the next disaster. Bigger storms are on the way.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered. The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical research center in Maryland. Dean started asking the physicians she knew how they felt about their jobs, and many of them confided that they were struggling. Some complained that they didn't have enough time to talk to their patients because they were too busy filling out electronic medical records. Others bemoaned having to fight with insurers about whether a person with a serious illness would be preapproved for medication.The doctors Dean surveyed were deeply committed to the medical profession. But many of them were frustrated and unhappy, she sensed, not because they were burned out from working too hard but because the health care system made it so difficult to care for their patients.By the time the journalist Eyal Press met Dean, the distress among medical professionals had reached alarming levels. Professional organizations like National Nurses United, the largest group of registered nurses in the country, had begun referring to “moral injury” and “moral distress” in pamphlets and news releases. Mona Masood, a psychiatrist who established a support line for doctors shortly after the coronavirus pandemic began, recalls being struck by how clinicians reacted when she mentioned the term. “I remember all these physicians were like, Wow, that is what I was looking for,” she says. “This is it.”This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
HF0, or Hacker Fellowship Zero, is a start-up accelerator that provides 12-week residencies for batches of fellows from 10 different start-ups. Their experience, which culminates in a demonstration day, is supposed to be the most productive three months of the fellows' lives. Dave Fontenot, one of HF0's founders, was inspired by the two years he spent living in monasteries in his 20s: While monastery life was materially ascetic, he found that it was luxurious in the freedom it gave residents to focus on the things that really mattered. And this year at the Archbishop's Mansion in San Francisco, the home of the fellows, almost everyone has been monastically focused on what has become the city's newest religion: artificial intelligence.The A.I. gospel had not yet spread in 2021, when Fontenot and his two co-founders, Emily Liu and Evan Stites-Clayton, started the accelerator. Even a year ago, when HF0 hosted a batch of fellows at a hotel in Miami, six out of the eight companies represented were cryptocurrency start-ups. But at the mansion in San Francisco, eight of the 10 companies in HF0's first batch this year were working on A.I.-based apps.That generative A.I. has largely supplanted crypto in the eyes of founders and venture capitalists alike is not exactly surprising. When OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, it set off a new craze at a time when the collapsing crypto and tech markets had left many investors and would-be entrepreneurs adrift, unsure of where to put their capital and time. Suddenly users everywhere were realizing that A.I. could now respond to verbal queries with a startling degree of humanlike fluency. “Large language models have been around for a long time, but their uses were limited,” said Robert Nishihara, a co-founder of Anyscale, a start-up for machine-learning infrastructure. “But there's a threshold where they become dramatically more useful, and I think now it's crossed that.”This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.