Podcasts about Baku

Former Renault driver and F1TV commentator Jolyon Palmer joins Tom Clarkson to preview this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix. After their awkward team orders in Monza, how do Jolyon and Tom think McLaren are managing the title fight between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris? What impact will that incident have on the rest of this championship battle? Max Verstappen was back to winning ways in Italy, so will he be fighting for victory again in Baku? Or will Charles Leclerc, who has taken pole four years in a row at this track, lead Ferrari to their first Grand Prix win of the season? Plus, the guys discuss a ‘change in tone' from Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff on Kimi Antonelli, why Carlos Sainz is struggling at Williams and how crucial the upcoming races are for Alpine's Franco Colapinto, while Jolyon remembers his nightmarish race at Baku in 2017. Listen to more official F1 podcasts In-depth interviews with F1's biggest stars on F1 Beyond The Grid Your F1 questions answered by the experts on F1 Explains It's All To Drive For in 2025. Be there! Book your seat for a Grand Prix this season at tickets.formula1.com THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY... Square: F1 Nation listeners can get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/f1nation

Baku has trouble controlling his dreams when a new Nightmare shows up to wreak havoc. But that won't stop him from completing his mission: Stop the Bomber!Twitter: @comicrundownInstagram: @comicbookrundownThreads: @comicbookrundownEmail: comicbookrundown@gmail.comHosted by Joe JaneroEdited by Joe JaneroOpen music from TokuSFXFind our t-shirts at TeePublic http://tee.pub/lic/vBbIJZ4eLQ0

✩ Audio Version ✩ ► https://superderekrpgs.com/hitpoint/ SOCIAL LINKS --------------------------------------------------- ✩ Derek ✩ ►Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/SuperDerekRPGs►Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/superderekrpgs.com ►Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SuperDerek ►Discord: https://discord.me/superderek✩ Baku ✩ ►Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/BakusanOG►Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bakusanog.bsky.social ►Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/WeebSauce ►Discord: https://discord.me/ABC GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS--------------------------------------------------- ►Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Sagahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uh5D8GzaaQ ►The Coma 3: Bloodlineshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5mgHigDHBw ►Sushi Benhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alHUaR4IOBM  ►Rise Eterna IIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot44dhjkfQc ►Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AeGb_NfP1k ►Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSV9Sy28Mw ►Pokemon Pokopiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_bYri9p1Uk ►FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqotGof_VvI  ►Danganronpa 2×2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8LGot_GCEE   ►Metroid Prime 4: Beyondhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJNCNswbdG0 ►Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weavehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eNaiftiWE ►Dragon Quest VII Reimaginedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8xcYHboPs ►Last Moonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObLiaHYw6XE TIMESTAMPS---------------------------------------------------0:00:00 Welcome Back to HitPoint!0:01:08 Intro0:03:21 Baku: what were you up to last week?New Game Announcements0:11:45 Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga: Oct 10, 20250:14:36 The Coma 3: Bloodlines: 20260:17:42 Sushi Ben: Sep 18, 20250:21:33 Rise Eterna II: Oct 9, 20250:25:26 Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection: 20260:28:49 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment: Nov 6, 20250:33:56 Pokémon Pokopia: 20260:38:17 Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake: Feb 5, 20260:40:27 Danganronpa 2×2: 20260:43:43 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: Dec 4, 20250:46:15 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave: 20260:49:31 Dragon Quest VII Reimagined: Feb 5, 20260:53:16 Last Moon: 2026Industry News0:58:05 Star Ocean: First Departure R: version announced0:59:00 Upcoming Showcases1:00:15 Edia to Release Classic Nihon Falcom Ports1:02:53 Nintendo/Game Freak: Scarlet & Violet gameplay loop patentLast Week's Comments1:30:05 Voicemail: “My hot take on the Switch 2”1:42:31 Star Wars Outlaws: “Game card is too slow”Super Chats & Outro1:47:42 Super Chat 1: “I'm excited for Jack Bros. on the Virtual Boy”1:55:13 Announcement: Hit Point returns to the SuperDerek channel1:57:52 Outro

“Send us a Hey Now!”It's an off week before we head to Baku so this week with eight races left we decided to look at the eight story lines we see as being left to unfold.We'll make our way through those then have a preview of the race next weekend in Baku.Episode running order as always is...1) News & SocialAll the best bits from both the sports news out there as well as what caught our eye on the various social channels2) Brian's Video Vault       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JkwXh2FZ8. Inside Ferrari's F1 Bunker. Driver 61. 16 mins. WHAT? This was so cool. This is a real program! Holy Crap. https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corse-clienti/f1-clientihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuTEEErFps. Lando Norris Races $500 Car Across Europe. Quadrant. 30 mins. This was great. Not sure I understood the rules, but not sure they did either. Loved it anyway. And “Europe”? more like Spain. But ok.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQr0rUMA0y4. F1 Drivers Vote For The Best Bromance, Best Hair & More! | The 2025 F1 Yearbook. Formula 1 channel. 8 mins. Loved this. Esp “smartest” and Oscar was like “me”. Hang on son!3) The Dirty Side Super 8 stories left to unfold this season4) Baku PreviewIt's going to be a race week again so we preview the race in Baku and make our Casino game picks as well. Support the showWe would love you to join our Discord server so use this invite link to join us https://discord.gg/XCyemDdzGB To sign up to our newsletter then follow this link https://dirty-side-digest.beehiiv.com/subscribeIf you would like to sign up for the 100 Seconds of DRS then drop us an email stating your time zone to dirtysideofthetrack@gmail.comAlso please like, follow, and share our content on Threads, X, BlueSky, Facebook, & Instagram, links to which can be found on our website.One last call to arms is that if you do listen along and like us then first of all thanks, but secondly could we ask that you leave a review and a 5 star rating - please & thanks!If you would like to help the Dirty Side promote the show then we are now on Buy me a coffee where 100% of anything we get will get pumped into advertising the show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dirtysideofthetrackDirty Side of the Track is hosted on Buzzsprout https://www.buzzsprout.com/

“Əgər məqsədiniz yaxşı təəssürat əldə etməkdirsə, Dubaya getməyi məsləhət görməzdim”“Ərəb mədəniyyətini görmək istəyənlər üçün Doha yaxşı seçimdir”“Bir şəhəri kəşf etmək üçün üç gün kifayətdir”“Bura turist vizasını cəmi 24 saat ərzində əldə etmək mümkündür""Azərbaycanda çox zövqlü oxucu auditoriyası mövcuddur”"Romanımdakı bəzi səhnələri yazmaq üçün Praqadakı kilsədən ilham almışam"Qonağımız yazıçı Mürşüd Mehdiyev oldu

Have you ever been able to control your dreams? In this latest Kamen Rider series, being able to do that could mean the difference between life and death. Does our hero, Baku, have what it takes to defeat the Nightmares coming after him?Twitter: @comicrundownInstagram: @comicbookrundownThreads: @comicbookrundownEmail: comicbookrundown@gmail.comHosted by Joe JaneroEdited by Joe JaneroOpen music from TokuSFXFind our t-shirts at TeePublic http://tee.pub/lic/vBbIJZ4eLQ0

GUENTHER STEINER LIVE IN AUSTIN!!! BUY TICKETS HERE: https://tickets.austintheatre.org/12937/12938 Guenther, Matt and Brian recap all things Monza GP including McLaren's team orders, when Papaya Rules get too deep, does Max have a shot at 2nd in the Drivers Championship, is McLaren favoring Lando, should Kimi be demoted and Baku predictions! AND MUCH MORE! Thank you to our sponsors BetMGM, Omaha Steaks, and Factor for making this episode possible! Use bonus code DADDY when you sign up for BetMGM. Go to https://OmahaSteaks.com to get 50% off sitewide during their Red-Hot Sale Event. And use Promo Code VANKAH at checkout for an extra $35 off. Minimum purchase may apply. See site for details. A big thanks to our advertiser, Omaha Steaks! Eat smart at https://FactorMeals.com/VANKAH50OFF and use code VANKAH50OFF to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year. That's code VANKAH50OFF at https://FactorMeals.com/VANKAH50OFF for 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year. Get delicious, ready-to-eat meals delivered—with Factor. *Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Yaponlar dəqiq və intizamlıdırlar”“Yaponiyaya viza almaq asandır”“Ən çox məbəd olan şəhər Kiotodur”"Yaponlar bu tarixi Kiotonun bombalanmaması kimi qeyd edir" “Yaponiyada "matcha" populyardır”“Yapon fəlsəfəsinə əsasən, insan eqosunu aşmalıdır ki, həyatı anlasın”“Onlar restoranlarda çaypulu qəbul etməyi xoş qarşılamırlar”Qonağımız radio aparıcı Raqif Raufoğlu oldu

The Italian GP Monza Verstappen what a drive and driver this is why he's world champion . Mclaren were not on pace and Ferrari was good but not enough on to Baku

"Pekində əylənmək üçün yerlər yoxdur""Çinlilər ingiliscə danışa bilmirlər, ona görə də turistlərlə ünsiyyət üçün xüsusi cihazlardan istifadə edirlər""Çində istirahət, alış-veriş və əyləncə üçün ən yaxşı şəhər Şanxaydır""Çinlilər çox mehriban və yardımsevərdirlər""VPN-siz heç bir yerdə internet işləmir""Onların yaşlarının çox olmağından asılı olmayaraq çox cavan görünürlər""Orada cavanlar TikTok-dan istifadə edərək pul qazanırlar""Küçədə milli geyimlərdə gəzərək turistlərlə ödəniş əsasında şəkillər çəkirdilər"Qonağımız səyahətçi Sofiya Ağazadə oldu.

"Onlar ingilis dilini mükəmməl bilirlər, çünki məqsədləri turistləri "ovlamaqdır""Afrikada ən xoşbəxt anım təsadüfən daxil olduğum məktəblə bağlı oldu""Deyilənlərin əksinə, Tanzaniyada heç bir təhlükə ilə qarşılaşmadım""Hansı qəbiləyə getdiyindən asılı olmayaraq qəbilə başçısına ödəniş etməlisən""Dünyada qalan sonuncu ovçu qəbilə ilə birlikdə ov etdik""Onların hər bir heyvan üçün fərqli oxları var""Nqoronqoroya gedəndə yolu keçən aslanları da görə bilərsiniz" Qonağımız səyahətçi, videoqraf Orxan Rəhmanlı oldu.

In this episode, part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl, Steven is joined by friends of the show Adrian Bradley and AJ Clay, to discuss the year Azerbaijan put itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Loreen secured one of the easiest wins in Eurovision history, and, well... Engelbert Humperdink.If you love Eurovision as much as we do, don't forget to connect with us on social. DM us on Twitter at @Bingewatch_Pod and join our Facebook Page.You can also now support the show with a generous Douze Points of your own!And if you want more bingeworthy TV coverage, check out our other shows:BingewatchBitesize BingewatchDouze Points is a Podcasts By Liam production, presented by Steven Perkins and produced by Liam Heffernan. Original theme composed by Ian MacEwan. The Bingewatch network was created by Hannah Fernando and Ian MacEwan. For any queries, including advertising & sponsorship, please email hello@podcastsbyliam.com

In this episode, part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl, Steven is joined by friends of the show Adrian Bradley and AJ Clay, to discuss the year Azerbaijan put itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Loreen secured one of the easiest wins in Eurovision history, and, well... Engelbert Humperdink.If you love Eurovision as much as we do, don't forget to connect with us on social. DM us on Twitter at @Bingewatch_Pod and join our Facebook Page.You can also now support the show with a generous Douze Points of your own!And if you want more bingeworthy TV coverage, check out our other shows:BingewatchBitesize BingewatchDouze Points is a Podcasts By Liam production, presented by Steven Perkins and produced by Liam Heffernan. Original theme composed by Ian MacEwan. The Bingewatch network was created by Hannah Fernando and Ian MacEwan. For any queries, including advertising & sponsorship, please email hello@podcastsbyliam.com

Alex informs Simon that he believes a spy exists in the British Embassy in Baku. Scarlett and Thornton travel to a small village in the Glades to talk to a witness who saw Meredith get picked up. Scarlett confers with Kate about each other's case. Thornton brings good news back from his talk with Troy. Barnes consults with Holliday on the mysterious agent who revealed his identity at the storage facility. Gabby, JoMac and Marko track the transponder and finally pick up its signal. Simon's team starts their investigation of personnel when Alex brings breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex informs Simon that he believes a spy exists in the British Embassy in Baku. Scarlett and Thornton travel to a small village in the Glades to talk to a witness who saw Meredith get picked up. Scarlett confers with Kate about each other's case. Thornton brings good news back from his talk with Troy. Barnes consults with Holliday on the mysterious agent who revealed his identity at the storage facility. Gabby, JoMac and Marko track the transponder and finally pick up its signal. Simon's team starts their investigation of personnel when Alex brings breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Hamilton, Ont., Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers opening remarks at the Made in Canada: Ferries and Rail Summit. The event brings together industry leaders, suppliers, and government officials to discuss how they can use domestic steel and aluminum to build transportation infrastructure. Also speaking are Tammy Oommen (head of strategic initiatives at ArcelorMittal Dofasco), John Zerucelli (secretary of state for labour), Prabmeet Sarkaria (Ontario's minister of transportation), and Elvis Loveless (Newfoundland and Labrador's minister of transportation and infrastructure).  Jamie Moses (Manitoba's minister of business, mining, trade and job creation) and Doug Ford (premier of Ontario) provide remarks by videoconference. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters that Papua New Guinea has long led the charge for climate justice, as the UN Climate Conference approaches in Brazil, “the world must move faster to keep the 1.5 degrees limit alive” and also to produce a credible path to achieve the $1.3 trillion dollar objective decided in Baku during the last Climate Conference. During a press conference today (02 Sep) with Prime Minister James Marape, the Secretary-General said he was honoured to be the first UN Secretary-General to visit Papua New Guinea and to join in celebrating fifty years of the country's independence. For the past five decades, he said, Papua New Guineans have taken on a profound task: to weave their breathtaking diversity into one people, and one country that leaves no one behind, Guterres noted. He also reiterated his “strong appeal” for the reform of the international financial architecture that “must reflect the world of today with a much larger participation of developing countries in its institutions and their decision-making process.” “This is a basic condition for them to better serve countries like yours. This includes real action on debt relief; tripling the lending capacity of multilateral development banks; and the mobilization of private capital at scale to the service of developing countries,” Guterres added. Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will address a special session of the Parliament to mark the 50th anniversary of the country's independence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support.

Groong Week in Review - August 31, 2025In this Week in Review, we look at Armenia's role at the SCO summit, where Pashinyan struck a new “strategic partnership” with China while also meeting Putin, raising questions about Yerevan's shifting alignments. We examine the August 8 Washington documents on TRIPP, where words like “corridor” and “99-year lease” swirl despite Armenia's denials, and ask what Azerbaijan's demand for constitutional change really means. We cover rising tensions between Moscow and Baku after Aliyev called Russia an occupier and Zatulin warned against seeing Azerbaijan as a partner. And we discuss the UK's push to raise relations with Armenia to a strategic level, even as London courts Baku and maintains loopholes in its arms embargo.Topics:  - SCO Summit in China  - The UK in Armenia  - TRIPP / Zangezur Corridor  - Russian Azerbaijani RelationsGuest:  Benyamin PoghosyanHosts:  - Hovik Manucharyan  - Asbed BedrossianEpisode 467 | Recorded: September 1, 2025SHOW NOTES: https://podcasts.groong.org/467VIDEO: https://youtu.be/kTh52542vtUSubscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Live Interview with Tyler Mire (Composer) and Peter Ruibal, (Programmer) about their recently released, breakout Indie Hit: "QUARTET!"Wishlist Quartet on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307960/Quartet/HitPoint JRPG Podcast Ep 120✩ Audio Version ✩ ► https://superderekrpgs.com/hitpoint/ SOCIAL LINKS --------------------------------------------------- ✩ Derek ✩ ►Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/SuperDerekRPGs►Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/superderekrpgs.com ►Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SuperDerek ►Discord: https://discord.me/superderek✩ Baku ✩ ►Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/BakusanOG►Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bakusanog.bsky.social ►Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/WeebSauce ►Discord: https://discord.me/ABC UPCOMING RELEASES --------------------------------------------------- ►Shuten Orderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlfmevjGAk ►Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1MS44lS0HQ GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS --------------------------------------------------- ►Million Depthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TbFeXUbv8 ►STARBITEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPp99gfzO8►Ys Memoire: Revelationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqxCnLRPvo ►Ys X: Proud Nordicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjgJnBtV-j4►Tales of Xillia Remasteredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vky55fYInh8►Black Myth: Zhong Kuihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r1hl2nvAEY TIMESTAMPS---------------------------------------------------Welcome Back to Hit Point!0:00:00 Welcome Back to Hit Point!0:01:07 Intro0:01:30 Baku, how are you doing?0:02:41 Important Baku announcement0:05:08 Derek, what were you up to?Developer Interview – QUARTET (Tyler Mire & Peter Ruibal)0:08:25 Introduction0:10:00 Watching QUARTET trailers0:18:45 Are you founding members from Something Classic?0:24:07 How have your roles changed over time?0:26:15 How did demo feedback influence the game?0:32:24 Who was in charge of art direction?0:37:53 Musical influences for QUARTET0:45:39 Working with someone who studies JRPG classics0:47:59 How does the mission statement of Something Classic shape the game?0:53:19 Did “save anywhere” add complexity to programming or playtesting?0:56:08 What makes a great JRPG experience in 2025?1:00:52 How has remote work affected the project?1:02:50 How many bugs did the Oxford comma produce?1:08:50 Plans for post-launch1:14:37 Thoughts on Switch 2 and QUARTET1:15:36 Native resolution of QUARTET1:18:16 Future direction of Something Classic1:33:39 Does the game have any missables?1:36:45 Favorite front-row characters1:39:40 Is a longer game possible in the future?1:42:11 Prequel or sequel potential?1:48:22 Did you steal the 200+ lightning dodges from FFX?1:54:11 Any hopes for a Microsoft Store release?2:01:03 Possibility of a physical Collector's Edition?2:01:49 Can the Hippo become an overpowered dancer/tank?2:03:09 Was there a question you wished we asked?2:04:44 Interview OutroGame Delays2:08:13 Corpse Party – Delayed2:09:04 Edge of Memories – DelayedUpcoming Releases This Week2:09:49 Shuten Order2:14:45 Daemon X Machina: Titanic ScionNew Game Announcements2:19:11 STARBITES – 20262:21:35 Ys Memoire: Revelations – Early 20262:25:27 Ys X: Proud Nordics – 20262:31:19 Tales of Xillia Remastered – Oct 31, 20252:37:22 Black Myth: Zhong Kui – TBA2:46:53 Million Depth – Nov 12, 2025Industry News2:41:37 RGG Summit – Sept 24Responding to Super Chats2:46:00 Super Chat 1: Keep up the great work, Something Classic2:46:35 Super Derek Mug2:47:48 Super Chat 2: Breath of Fire Remastered when?Last Week's Comments2:49:12 Comment 1: Anime is Gakkougurashi (School-Live!)2:50:33 Comment 2: Still a market for physical games2:54:07 Comment 3: Ys vs Trails delay isn't about Switch 2 key cardsOutro2:55:10 Outro

John McMillan meets with Barnes' crew to talk about how they can work together. The BSS crew updates Jaffra on the status of Zardoz and his ship. Gabby Marko and JoMac depart the Mercury in the shuttle. They approach Cali City for a landing in the shuttle followed by the Mercury. Kate gets a tip on a possible drug shipment heading for Florida. Meanwhile Thornton and Scarlett meet with Cliff, the airboat operator who picked up McMillan. Simon's crew meet with director Cage then depart for Azerbaijan's capital, Baku where they meet with their contact DeLarge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John McMillan meets with Barnes' crew to talk about how they can work together. The BSS crew updates Jaffra on the status of Zardoz and his ship. Gabby Marko and JoMac depart the Mercury in the shuttle. They approach Cali City for a landing in the shuttle followed by the Mercury. Kate gets a tip on a possible drug shipment heading for Florida. Meanwhile Thornton and Scarlett meet with Cliff, the airboat operator who picked up McMillan. Simon's crew meet with director Cage then depart for Azerbaijan's capital, Baku where they meet with their contact DeLarge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John McMillan meets with Barnes' crew to talk about how they can work together. The BSS crew updates Jaffra on the status of Zardoz and his ship. Gabby Marko and JoMac depart the Mercury in the shuttle. They approach Cali City for a landing in the shuttle followed by the Mercury. Kate gets a tip on a possible drug shipment heading for Florida. Meanwhile Thornton and Scarlett meet with Cliff, the airboat operator who picked up McMillan. Simon's crew meet with director Cage then depart for Azerbaijan's capital, Baku where they meet with their contact DeLarge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John McMillan meets with Barnes' crew to talk about how they can work together. The BSS crew updates Jaffra on the status of Zardoz and his ship. Gabby Marko and JoMac depart the Mercury in the shuttle. They approach Cali City for a landing in the shuttle followed by the Mercury. Kate gets a tip on a possible drug shipment heading for Florida. Meanwhile Thornton and Scarlett meet with Cliff, the airboat operator who picked up McMillan. Simon's crew meet with director Cage then depart for Azerbaijan's capital, Baku where they meet with their contact DeLarge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Wednesday's Football Daily, Phillip Egan brings you the latest from the latest mess at the FAI plus Celtic get dumped out of the Champions League.Brendan Rodgers asks what sort of direction Celtic want to go in.Rangers aim for to make a comeback as do Robbie Keane's Ferencvaros.And Vinny Perth on a huge night for Irish football on Thursday.Become a member and subscribe at offtheball.com/join

SHOW SCHEDULE  8-25-25 Good evening. The show begins in Seoul, where the new President Lee Jae-myung has directed raids on churches and US military sites according to POTUS. 1927 VENEZUELA CABINET First Hour 9:00-9:15 ROK: President Lee Jae-myung in the Oval Office. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 9:15-9:30 PRC: Guangdong Province in shadow. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 9:30-9:45 Pakistan: Meets Bangladesh. Husain Haqqani, Hudson 9:45-10:00 Pakistan: Favored by POTUS. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Second Hour 10:00-10:15 Israel: Gaza propaganda and the final assault. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres @MHoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @TheAmGreatness 10:15-10:30 Armenia: Railroad to Baku. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres @MHoenlein1 10:30-10:45 PRC not welcome in Kyiv. Victoria Coates, Heritage, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 10:45-11:00 EU: Tariffs and morale. Theresa Fallon, Brussels. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Third Hour 11:00-11:15 Syria: At the UNGA. Ahmad Sharawi, FDD 11:15-11:30 Syria: And Israel accommodations. Ahmad Sharawi, FDD 11:30-11:45 #NewWorldReport: US flotilla off Venezuela. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire. Alejandro Pena Esclusa, Venezuelan writer and geopolitical commentator. 11:45-12:00 #NewWorldReport: Bolsonaro and lawfare. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire. Alejandro Pena Esclusa, Venezuelan writer and geopolitical commentator. Fourth Hour 12:00-12:15 Iran: And Afghanistan. Jonathan Sayeh, FDD 12:15-12:30 Iran and YEMEN. Jonathan Sayeh, FDD 12:30-12:45 India: Trump fences with Modi. Josh Rogin, WaPo 12:45-1:00 AM India: Trump fences with Modi. Josh Rogin, WaPo continued

Armenia: Railroad to Baku. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres @MHoenlein1 https://www.jpost.com/international/article-865024 1916 BAKU

Le Karibfutursound de Célia Wa ouvre le bal, le post dub noisy rock de Brain Damage le referme… (Rediffusion) Célia Wa est notre 1ère invitée dans la #SessionLive pour la sortie du 1er album Fasadé.                                                                                                                                 Célia Wa est une artiste guadeloupéenne née à Paris, chanteuse, flûtiste et multi-instrumentiste. Initiée dès son plus jeune âge aux musiques traditionnelles afro-caribéennes, elle développe un style unique qu'elle nomme «Karibfutursound», fusionnant soul, électro, gwo ka, jazz et hip-hop.   Après avoir intégré l'American School of Modern Music de Paris, elle multiplie les collaborations. Elle sort son premier «WA EP» en 2013, suivi de deux autres Adan on dòt solèy - Karibfutursound part 1 en 2018, puis Wastral en 2021. Célia Wa se distingue par son engagement pour le patrimoine culturel antillais et son désir d'affirmer son identité guadeloupéenne à travers sa musique. Après 3 EP, Fasadé, cet album de 9 titres qu'elle a puisé dans son « nan-nan » artistique comme elle le dit elle-même : une base Gwoka teintée de sonorités soul, jazz et même d'amapiano. Un univers électro-acoustique #Karibfutursound qui s'inscrit dans la mouvance « Kako », rencontre de tradition et modernité. Fasadé incarne la volonté de lier les cultures et de dépasser les seules limites de l'arc caribéen. Chaque morceau libère une énergie qui sublime aussi bien la colère que l'enthousiasme, pour aboutir à une véritable célébration de l'amour, de la détermination et de la liberté. Titres interprétés au grand studio - Ola (colère) Live RFI - Huey (lettre à son fils) Live RFI + Extraits de l'album - Rasanbleman Feat. Roger Raspail (Toto Bissainthe) - No Lies Feat. Ousmane Kouyaté - Sango Feat. Owomide Line Up : Célia Wa (voix,flûte), Xavier Belin (claviers, voix) et Christophe Négrit (batterie,voix) Son : Benoît Letirant, Mathias Taylor ► Album Fasadé (Heavenly Sweetness 2025). Site - Bandcamp - YouTube.   Puis nous recevons Brain Damage dans la 2nde #SessionLive pour la sortie de Oide Oide. La rencontre entre Brain Damage et la Japonaise Emiko Ota marque le début d'un fascinant projet à tiroirs, où récits et propositions musicales insolites se juxtaposent, s'entremêlent et s'entrechoquent. Ensemble, ils explorent l'univers mystique des yōkai japonais, ces créatures surnaturelles qui peuplent le folklore nippon. Emiko Ota s'inspire de cinq de ces chimères emblématiques : Katsura Otoko, Tenome, Isogashi, Azuki Arai et Baku, chacune représentant une facette mystérieuse de l'imaginaire japonais, du charme trompeur à la peur, en passant par la frénésie et les rêves dévorés. Tour à tour séduisante, inquiétante, agitée ou apaisante, Emiko navigue entre registres et émotions, donnant vie à ces créatures légendaires à travers une palette vocale riche et nuancée. La musique de Brain Damage, quant à elle, a subi une transformation radicale. Chaque morceau est sculpté avec précision, tantôt enjoué et énergique, tantôt contemplatif et mystérieux, capturant la nature imprévisible des yōkai et s'adaptant parfaitement aux récits mythologiques portés par la chanteuse japonaise. Dans une approche résolument expérimentale, Martin Nathan a fait appel à Mad Professor, l'une des dernières légendes vivante du dub international, pour remixer cette nouvelle création. Se pliant au jeu avec malice, le mythique producteur plus en forme que jamais, propose ici des versions incroyablement aérées et néanmoins apocalyptiques. Ensemble donc, ils proposent une certaine vision du dub, qui réinvente l'inattendu: le post-dub. Si les techniques de traitement sonores inhérentes au style demeurent : mixages évolutifs, échos, réverbérations et basses fréquences quasi palpables, les sources anglo-jamaïcaines du genre ont bel et bien été remplacées, re-conceptualisées, recomposées, réécrites. Une véritable renaissance artistique, avec comme prétexte le post-dub, pour à nouveau explorer, captiver, surprendre. Une oeuvre singulière, immersive, où l'audace et l'inventivité du propos musical s'accorde avec la narration allégorique portée par Emiko Ota. Une véritable exploration des ombres et des lumières, un voyage auditif et spirituel à travers les légendes japonaises. Entre la douceur des rêves et la morsure des cauchemars… Titres interprétés au grand studio - Tenome, Live RFI - Katsuro Otoko, extrait Cd Dub - Isogashi, Live RFI. Line Up : Martin Nathan : machines, Emiko Ota : chant. Son : Mathias Taylor, Benoît Letirant. ► Album Oide Oide (Jarring Effects 2025) Site - YouTube - Bandcamp - Instagram.   Réalisation : Hadrien Touraud.

Le Karibfutursound de Célia Wa ouvre le bal, le post dub noisy rock de Brain Damage le referme… (Rediffusion) Célia Wa est notre 1ère invitée dans la #SessionLive pour la sortie du 1er album Fasadé.                                                                                                                                 Célia Wa est une artiste guadeloupéenne née à Paris, chanteuse, flûtiste et multi-instrumentiste. Initiée dès son plus jeune âge aux musiques traditionnelles afro-caribéennes, elle développe un style unique qu'elle nomme «Karibfutursound», fusionnant soul, électro, gwo ka, jazz et hip-hop.   Après avoir intégré l'American School of Modern Music de Paris, elle multiplie les collaborations. Elle sort son premier «WA EP» en 2013, suivi de deux autres Adan on dòt solèy - Karibfutursound part 1 en 2018, puis Wastral en 2021. Célia Wa se distingue par son engagement pour le patrimoine culturel antillais et son désir d'affirmer son identité guadeloupéenne à travers sa musique. Après 3 EP, Fasadé, cet album de 9 titres qu'elle a puisé dans son « nan-nan » artistique comme elle le dit elle-même : une base Gwoka teintée de sonorités soul, jazz et même d'amapiano. Un univers électro-acoustique #Karibfutursound qui s'inscrit dans la mouvance « Kako », rencontre de tradition et modernité. Fasadé incarne la volonté de lier les cultures et de dépasser les seules limites de l'arc caribéen. Chaque morceau libère une énergie qui sublime aussi bien la colère que l'enthousiasme, pour aboutir à une véritable célébration de l'amour, de la détermination et de la liberté. Titres interprétés au grand studio - Ola (colère) Live RFI - Huey (lettre à son fils) Live RFI + Extraits de l'album - Rasanbleman Feat. Roger Raspail (Toto Bissainthe) - No Lies Feat. Ousmane Kouyaté - Sango Feat. Owomide Line Up : Célia Wa (voix,flûte), Xavier Belin (claviers, voix) et Christophe Négrit (batterie,voix) Son : Benoît Letirant, Mathias Taylor ► Album Fasadé (Heavenly Sweetness 2025). Site - Bandcamp - YouTube.   Puis nous recevons Brain Damage dans la 2nde #SessionLive pour la sortie de Oide Oide. La rencontre entre Brain Damage et la Japonaise Emiko Ota marque le début d'un fascinant projet à tiroirs, où récits et propositions musicales insolites se juxtaposent, s'entremêlent et s'entrechoquent. Ensemble, ils explorent l'univers mystique des yōkai japonais, ces créatures surnaturelles qui peuplent le folklore nippon. Emiko Ota s'inspire de cinq de ces chimères emblématiques : Katsura Otoko, Tenome, Isogashi, Azuki Arai et Baku, chacune représentant une facette mystérieuse de l'imaginaire japonais, du charme trompeur à la peur, en passant par la frénésie et les rêves dévorés. Tour à tour séduisante, inquiétante, agitée ou apaisante, Emiko navigue entre registres et émotions, donnant vie à ces créatures légendaires à travers une palette vocale riche et nuancée. La musique de Brain Damage, quant à elle, a subi une transformation radicale. Chaque morceau est sculpté avec précision, tantôt enjoué et énergique, tantôt contemplatif et mystérieux, capturant la nature imprévisible des yōkai et s'adaptant parfaitement aux récits mythologiques portés par la chanteuse japonaise. Dans une approche résolument expérimentale, Martin Nathan a fait appel à Mad Professor, l'une des dernières légendes vivante du dub international, pour remixer cette nouvelle création. Se pliant au jeu avec malice, le mythique producteur plus en forme que jamais, propose ici des versions incroyablement aérées et néanmoins apocalyptiques. Ensemble donc, ils proposent une certaine vision du dub, qui réinvente l'inattendu: le post-dub. Si les techniques de traitement sonores inhérentes au style demeurent : mixages évolutifs, échos, réverbérations et basses fréquences quasi palpables, les sources anglo-jamaïcaines du genre ont bel et bien été remplacées, re-conceptualisées, recomposées, réécrites. Une véritable renaissance artistique, avec comme prétexte le post-dub, pour à nouveau explorer, captiver, surprendre. Une oeuvre singulière, immersive, où l'audace et l'inventivité du propos musical s'accorde avec la narration allégorique portée par Emiko Ota. Une véritable exploration des ombres et des lumières, un voyage auditif et spirituel à travers les légendes japonaises. Entre la douceur des rêves et la morsure des cauchemars… Titres interprétés au grand studio - Tenome, Live RFI - Katsuro Otoko, extrait Cd Dub - Isogashi, Live RFI. Line Up : Martin Nathan : machines, Emiko Ota : chant. Son : Mathias Taylor, Benoît Letirant. ► Album Oide Oide (Jarring Effects 2025) Site - YouTube - Bandcamp - Instagram.   Réalisation : Hadrien Touraud.

Azerbaijan: Peace in the South Caucasus. Ambassador Elin Suleymanov continued 1890 BAKU

The signing of a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington has raised hopes of ending decades of conflict and reopening Turkey's border with Armenia. The deal, brokered by US President Donald Trump, commits both countries to respect each other's territorial integrity – the issue at the centre of bloody wars. The agreement is seen as paving the way for Turkey to restore diplomatic ties with Armenia. "Ankara has been promising that once there is a peace agreement, it will open the border," says Asli Aydintasbas, of the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "There was a brief period in the post-Soviet era when it [the border] was opened, but that was quickly shut again due to the Armenian-Azeri tensions." Aydintasbas says reopening the border could have wide-reaching consequences. "Armenia and Turkey opening their border and starting trade would be a historical moment in terms of reconciliation between these two nations, which have very bitter historic memories," she adds. "But beyond that, it would help Armenia economically because it's a landlocked country entirely dependent on Russia for its protection and its economy." Turning point In June, Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. The meeting was seen as a turning point in relations long overshadowed by the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, which Ankara still officially denies. "There's now a degree of personal chemistry between the Armenian prime minister and Erdogan. This was seen in a June historic meeting, the first ever bilateral contact, a face-to-face meeting," says Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Centre, a think tank in Yerevan. Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 after ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan seized the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. The enclave was retaken by Azerbaijani forces in 2022. Giragosian says the peace deal, along with warmer ties between Pashinyan and Erdogan, could now help Yerevan reach a long-sought goal. "In the longer perspective for Turkey and Armenia, this is about going beyond the South Caucasus. It's about Central Asia. It's about European markets, potentially a new Iran in the future," he says. Erdogan congratulated Pashinyan on Monday over the deal, but made no official pledge on reopening the border. That decision may lie with Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev. "They [Ankara] will be looking to Baku. Baku is basically able to tell Turkey not to move on normalisation with Armenia, not to open the border," says Aydintasbas. "Part of the reason is that Turkey has developed an economic dependency on Azerbaijan, which is the top investor in Turkey. In other words, little brother is calling the shots, and I think that Ankara, to an extent, does not like it, but has come to appreciate the economic benefits of its relationship with Azerbaijan." Azerbaijani demands on Armenia Azerbaijan is also pushing for changes to Armenia's constitution, which it claims makes territorial claims on Nagorno-Karabakh. "The Armenian constitution refers to the Declaration of Independence of Armenia, which has a clear clause on the unification with Armenia, with Nagorno-Karabakh," says Farid Shafiyev of the Centre for Analysis of International Relations, a Baku-based think tank. Shafiyev warned that without reform, the peace deal could unravel. "Let's say, imagine Pashinyan losing elections, a new person says: 'You know, everything which was signed was against the Armenian constitution.' For us, it is important that the Armenian people vote for the change of the constitution," Shafiyev says. Analysts note that changing the constitution would require a referendum with more than 50 percent turnout – a difficult and time-consuming process. Time, however, may be running short. Russia is seen as the biggest loser from lasting peace in the Caucasus. For decades Moscow exploited the conflict to play Armenia and Azerbaijan against each other. Pashinyan is now seeking to move away from Russian dominance and closer to Europe. Giragosian warned that Armenia's window of opportunity is limited. "There is a closing window of opportunity – that is Russia's distraction with everything in Ukraine. We do expect a storm on the horizon, with an angry, vengeful Putin reasserting or attempting to regain Russia's lost power and influence in the region." Weakening Russia's grip remains key, he adds. "Armenia, after all, is still a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Russian-dominated trade bloc. "But it's also a country that has a Russian military base. Russia still manages the Armenian railway network, for example. This is why, for Armenia, the real key here is going to be Turkey and normalising relations with Turkey." At present, Armenia's only open land borders are with Georgia and Iran – both close to Russia. Opening the Turkish border would give Armenia a vital new route, while also benefiting Turkey's economically depressed border region. But for now, Azerbaijan may seek further concessions before allowing any breakthrough.

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Qarabag FK is not only a refugee football club but also the most successful team in Azerbaijan. Located in Baku, they originally hail from the 'ghost' city of Aghdam, in the Nagorno Karabakh region of the South Caucasus. When a war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the late 1980s, Armenia forces seized Nagorno Karabakh - a disputed territory that both countries claim - and laid waste to Aghdam. The club relocated to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and rebuilt. But after the second Nagorno Karabakh war, which Azerbaijan won, the government has begun to rebuild Aghdam at breakneck speed. The centre-piece will be Qarabag's regenerated former stadium. The football club is a symbol of an Azerbaijani return to lands the government describes as "unlawfully stolen". But as one team returns, another has been forced out. Lernayin Artsakh FC was based in Stepanakert. As Azeri troops bore down on the city in September 2023, its players, officials and families fled for Armenia, an act that the Armenian government called "ethnic cleansing". The team is now based in Armenia, playing in the second division.As one team prepares to return to a city they once fled, another prepares for a life in exile. James Montague travels to Nagorno Karabakh to visit the two refugee football clubs who once played in the same league but who have come to represent division and displacement in the region. Presenter: James Montague Producer and Sound Mix: Ben Wyatt A Comuniqe production for the BBC World Service.(Image Credit: James Montague A no-score draw in Nagorno Karabakh

Today's discussion comes from our 2025 Annual Conference, The Rise of AI and Automation. For the next 4 weeks, we'll feature a series of panel discussions from our conference. Today's episode is part of our second panel, “Does AI Have an Ethics Problem?”, and will be followed by 2 panels on Practical Applications of AI and AI and Inequality.Our panel is led by Tom Rossman and was recorded in June of 2025.Mr. Rossman is a financier and investor, who specializes in developing nations and emerging markets. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Rossman helped establish investment institutions in Turkey, former Soviet Union states, and North Africa. Throughout his career, Tom has helped nations democratize and sustainably develop to bring new opportunities to these regions. He has spoken at conferences across the world, from Baku to London to Houston. He received his bachelor's degree in history and religious studies from Nyack College and earned his master's from Tufts in international relations. Currently, he is an advisor to the Telosa Community Foundation; a group hoping to build a futuristic from-scratch city that will revolutionize urban living. Together, we discussed Facebook's complicity in Myanmar's genocide, why AI is different from previous technologies, and why tech entrepreneurs abandoned their altruistic goals for their innovations.

Are Armenia and Azerbaijan on a path to peace, or is the latest deal signed at the White House a rushed agreement that lets Baku off the hook for its aggression - from the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh to its unlawful detention of Armenian POWs? Thanos Davelis digs into this question with Aram Hamparian, the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, as we look at what this deal means for peace and stability in the region.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Peace Pledge at White HouseIf Azerbaijan Breaks its Agreements, Are Armenians Prepared to Resist?Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the CaucasusWildfires sweep Greece, trigger mass evacuationsBrussels wants to ditch Russian gas. Turkey could keep it flowing undetected.

In this episode of The MMAnomaly Show: No Filter we will be going over our Reactions and what we think should be next for the biggest winner off UFC Baku: Hill vs Rountree Jr!Let us know your bets and picks in the comments below!Join in on the commentary in the comment section below! We might even throw your comment up in the video during the live stream! For the latest episodes of The MMAnomaly Show, subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, or iTunes.Subscribe to MMAnomaly on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MMAnomalyYoutubeSubscribe to The MMAnomaly Show: on iTunes: https://apple.co/3AQuoVlSubscribe to The MMAnomaly Show on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3HBMC0GLike MMAnomaly on Facebook: https://bit.ly/MMAnomalyFBFollow Olin/MMAnomaly on Twitter: https://bit.ly/MMAnomalyTweetsFollow Jive Turkey Nano on Twitter: https://bit.ly/JiveTurkeyTweetsTimestamps: 00:00 Intro 2:45 Mohammed Usman gets the win! 8:18 Tagir defeats tough opponent Azamat15:18 Klaudia wins19:05 Daria gets the win over Melissa 21:28 Jungyong Park weathers the storm and secures big WIN 29:27 Seokhyen KO with a dominant win35:44 Muhammad wins and we hit our bets! 46:18 Nazim is HIM with a big KO win57:27 Orolbai submission win 1:03:23 Curtis Blaydes gets another CB win 1:07:34 Rafael Fiziev with a statement win! 1:15:24 Khalil Rountree JR dominates and makes case for title contention All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them.Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.#ufc #mma #boxing #bjj #kickboxing #muaythai #jiujitsu #fight #wrestling #fitness #conormcgregor #martialarts #ufcfightnight #PFL #UFCBaku #AlexPerriera #UFCVegas106 #sport #gym #karate #danawhite #khabibnurmagomedov #mixedmartialarts #DDP #champion #motivation #workout #wwe #knockout #FantasyFootball #OneChampionship #SeanStrickland #MMAnomaly #Demmaboyz #NoFilter #MMApodcast #Parlay

On this week's Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the geopolitical implications of President Trump's tariff war escalation on trading partners; use of US economic might to force Russia to make a peace deal ending the Ukraine war; prospect of talks between Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin and what to expect if the two leaders meet; Washington's heavy sanctions on New Delhi with a heavy sanctions for violating US and EU sanctions on Russian oil as furious Indian leaders consider ending US weapons purchases; Ukraine's long-range attacks on Russia's refineries as existing sanctions continue to weaken the Russian economy; Australia's decision to pick Japan's Mogami-class frigate as its next major surface warship in a $6.5 billion deal that would be the biggest Japanese export contract since World War II; Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders agree to a US-brokered deal that gives Baku the transit corridor through southern tip of Armenia it has long sought but with 99-year US economic development zone in Armenia's Zangezur region; developments in Lebanon and Iran; and analysis of Israel's plan to occupy all of Gaza starting with Gaza City to defeat Hamas before handing it to Arab forces and Germany's decision to block export of German arms to Israel that could be used in Gaza.

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In EVN Report's news roundup for the week of August 1: The Prime Minister's speaker clarifies Armenia's position on the Syunik route; Armenia to temporarily host Palestine's endangered cultural heritage at the Matenadaran; ICRC's final visit to Armenian detainees in Baku as office faces forced closure by Azerbaijan and more.

Justin Timberlake BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Justin Timberlake has dominated headlines this week for all the wrong reasons—and plenty of social buzz proves it. The pop superstar, still riding off his Forget Tomorrow World Tour which wrapped in February, has been back on festival stages across Europe, and the fan reaction has gone viral for its overwhelmingly negative tone. After his July 17 performance at Electric Castle in Romania—his first-ever show in the country—angry concertgoers complained en masse, posting on TikTok and Instagram that Timberlake barely sang, coming on stage 45 minutes late, letting his backing track handle most of the vocals, and repeatedly shoving the mic out to the crowd instead of performing his hits himself. “When you pay for a concert but get a mute singer” became the running joke. Fox News reports that clips from the set were flooded with comments like "This performance could've been an email" and "I want my money back and I didn't even go," with a few even calling for refunds. The backlash only intensified after similar footage emerged from his Lollapalooza Paris set, with Cosmopolitan highlighting fans' disappointment and noting untamed complaints littering his Instagram posts.Timberlake has not publicly addressed the controversy. Instead, his touring machine rolled on. On July 27, he played the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, as part of his JT Live 2025 global tour, with another stop upcoming at ITU Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 30, according to posts from his official channels and corroborating coverage from the concert circuit. However, his Baku appearance drew further scrutiny, with Zartonk Media critiquing the show as part of a celebrity wave whitewashing Azerbaijan's ongoing human rights record—a reminder of how international bookings can come with loaded political baggage. Fans and commentators alike are closely watching to see if this spate of festival appearances is damaging his reputation in a lasting way.Beyond the stage, Timberlake is reportedly facing a business crunch. A widely shared Instagram reel alleged several of his side ventures are posting significant losses, specifically calling out his beverage brand, though direct financial figures have not been independently confirmed. The long shadow of his 2024 DWI arrest lingers too: Fox News reminds readers that his tour nearly derailed after the incident, in which Timberlake pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and made a court-mandated public apology and drunk-driving PSA.Social media, meanwhile, continues to roast him with memes and disappointment, making this week perhaps his toughest stretch of publicity in recent years. While Timberlake's next steps—both business and musical—are uncertain, the current wave of negative headlines seems likely to have some biographical significance if fan sentiment and professional setbacks persist.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta

Fresh off Chelsea's Club World Cup triumph, Chelsea Against The World is back with a massive post-season squad audit. Simon and Manny go player by player through the entire squad, delivering honest verdicts on who should stay, who should go, and who needs a loan move to develop or make way.They also reflect on where the dominant 3-0 win over PSG in the CWC Final ranks among Chelsea's greatest-ever victories. Does it stand alongside Munich, Porto, and Baku? The hosts debate its legacy and emotional impact for fans and the future of the club.Plus, there's an update on potential new arrivals at Stamford Bridge, with the latest transfer rumors and insights into which positions Chelsea are prioritizing as they look to build on this momentum.

Being Jewish podcast host Jonah Platt—best known for playing Fiyero in Broadway's Wicked—joins People of the Pod to discuss his journey into Jewish advocacy after October 7. He reflects on his Jewish upbringing, challenges media misrepresentations of Israel, and shares how his podcast fosters inclusive and honest conversations about Jewish identity. Platt also previews The Mensch, an upcoming film he's producing to tell Jewish stories with heart and nuance. Recorded live at AJC Global Forum 2025. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC. Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: Untold stories of Jews who left or were driven from Arab nations and Iran People of the Pod:  Latest Episodes:  Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: The Dinah Project's Quest to Hold Hamas Accountable Journalist Matti Friedman Exposes Media Bias Against Israel John Spencer's Key Takeaways After the 12-Day War: Air Supremacy, Intelligence, and Deterrence Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of the Interview: Manya Brachear Pashman:   Jonah Platt: is an award winning director of theater and improv comedy, an accomplished musician, singer and award winning vocal arranger. He has been on the Broadway stage, including one year as the heartthrob Fiyero in Wicked and he's producing his first feature film, a comedy called The Mensch. He also hosts his own podcast, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt:, a series of candid conversations and reflections that explore the many facets of Jewish identity.  Jonah is with us now on the sidelines of AJC Global Forum 2025. Jonah, welcome to People of the Pod. Jonah Platt:   Thank you so much for having me, happy to be here.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So tell us about your podcast. How is being Jewish with Jonah Platt: different from Jewish with anyone else? Jonah Platt:   That's a great question. I think it's different for a number of ways. I think one key difference is that I'm really trying to appeal to everybody, not just Jews and not just one type of Jews. I really wanted it to be a very inclusive show and, thank God, the feedback I've gotten, my audience is very diverse. It appeals to, you know, I hear from the ultra orthodox. I hear from people who found out they were Jewish a month ago. I hear from Republicans, I hear from Democrats. I hear from non Jews, Muslims, Christians, people all over the world. So I think that's special and different, especially in these echo-chambery, polarized times online, I'm trying to really reach out of that and create a space where the one thing we all have in common, everybody who listens, is that we're all well-meaning, good-hearted, curious people who want to understand more about our fellow man and each other.  I also try to really call balls and strikes as I see them, regardless of where they're coming from. So if I see, let's call it bad behavior, on the left, I'll call it out. If I see bad behavior on the right, I'll call it out. If I see bad behavior from Israel, I'll call it out. In the same breath that I'll say, I love Israel, it's the greatest place.  I think that's really unfortunately rare. I think people have a very hard time remembering that we are very capable of holding two truths at once, and it doesn't diminish your position by acknowledging fault where you see it. In fact, I feel it strengthens your position, because it makes you more trustworthy. And it's sort of like an iron sharpens iron thing, where, because I'm considering things from all angles, either I'm going to change my mind because I found something I didn't consider. That's going to be better for me and put me on firmer ground.  Or it's going to reinforce what I thought, because now I have another thing I can even speak to about it and say, Well, I was right, because even this I checked out, and that was wrong. So either way, you're in a stronger position. And I feel that that level of sort of, you know, equanimity is sorely lacking online, for sure.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Our podcasts have had some guests in common. We've had Dara Horn, Sarah Hurwitz, you said you're getting ready to have Bruce Pearl. We've had Coach Pearl on our show. You've also had conversations with Stuart Weitzman, a legendary shoe designer, in an episode titled Jews and Shoes. I love that. Can you share some other memorable nuggets from the conversations you've had over the last six months? Jonah Platt:   I had my dad on the show, and I learned things about him that I had never heard about his childhood, growing up, the way his parents raised him. The way that social justice and understanding the conflict and sort of brokenness in the world was something that my grandparents really tried to teach them very actively, and some of it I had been aware of, but not every little specific story he told. And that was really special for me. And my siblings, after hearing it, were like, We're so glad you did this so that we could see Dad and learn about him in this way. So that was really special.  There have been so many. Isaac Saul is a guy I had early on. He runs a newsletter, a news newsletter called Tangle Media that shows what the left is saying about an issue with the right is saying about an issue, and then his take. And a nugget that I took away from him is that on Shabbat, his way of keeping Shabbat is that he doesn't go on social media or read the news on Shabbat. And I took that from him, so now I do that too.  I thought that was genius. It's hard for me. I'm trying to even start using my phone period less on Shabbat, but definitely I hold myself to it, except when I'm on the road, like I am right now. When I'm at home, no social media from Friday night to Saturday night, and it's fantastic.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   It sounds delightful. Jonah Platt:   It is delightful. I highly recommend it to everybody. It's an easy one.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So what about your upbringing? You said you learned a lot about your father's upbringing. What was your Jewish upbringing? Jonah Platt:   Yeah, I have been very blessed to have a really strong, warm, lovely, Jewish upbringing. It's something that was always intrinsic to my family. It's not something that I sort of learned at Hebrew school. And no knock on people whose experience that is, but it's, you know, I never remember a time not feeling Jewish. Because it was so important to my parents and important to their families. And you know, part of the reason they're a good match for each other is because their values are the same.  I went to Jewish Day School, the same one my kids now go to, which is pretty cool. Manya Brachear Pashman:  Oh, that's lovely. Jonah Platt:   Yeah. And I went to Jewish sleepaway camp at Camp Ramah  in California. But for me, really, you know, when I get asked this question, like, my key Jewish word is family. And growing up, every holiday we spent with some part of my very large, amazing family. What's interesting is, in my city where I grew up, Los Angeles, I didn't have any grandparents, I didn't have any aunts or uncles or any first cousins. But I feel like I was with them all the time, because every holiday, someone was traveling to somebody, and we were being together. And all of my childhood memories of Jewish holidays are with my cousins and my aunts and my uncles and my grandparents. Because it was just so important to our family. And that's just an amazing foundation for being Jewish or anything else, if that's your foundation, that's really gonna stay with you. And my upbringing, like we kept kosher in my house, meat and milk plates. We would eat meat out but no pork, no shellfish, no milk and meat, any of that. And while I don't ascribe to all those things now, I'm grateful that I got sort of the literacy in that.  In my Jewish Day School we had to wrap tefillin every morning. And while I don't do that now, I'm glad that I know how to do that, and I know what that looks like, and I know what that means, even if I resisted it very strongly at the time as a 13 year old, being like what I gotta wrap this up every day. But I'm grateful now to have that literacy. And I've always been very surprised to see in my life that often when I'm in a room with people, I'm the most observant in the room or the most Jewish literate in the room, which was never the case in my life.  I have family members who are much more observant than me, orthodox. I know plenty of Orthodox people, whatever. But in today's world, I'm very grateful for the upbringing I had where, I'll be on an experience. I actually just got back from one in Poland. I went on a trip with all moderate Muslims from around the North Africa, Middle East, and Asia, with an organization called Sharaka. We had Shabbat dinner just this past Friday at the JCC in Krakow, and I did the Shabbat kiddush for everybody, which is so meaningful and, like, I'm so grateful that I know it, that I can play that role in that, in special situations like that.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So you've been doing a lot of traveling. Jonah Platt:  Yes. Manya Brachear Pashman:   I saw your reflection on your visit to Baku, Azerbaijan. The largest Jewish community in the Muslim world. And you went with the Jewish Federation's National Young leadership cabinet. Jonah Platt:   Shout out to my chevre. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And you posted this reflection based on your experience there, asking the question, how much freedom is too much? So can you walk our listeners through that and how you answered that question? Jonah Platt:   Yes. So to be fair, I make very clear I don't have the answer to that question definitively, I just wanted to give people food for thought, and what I hoped would happen has happened where I've been getting a lot of people who disagree with me and have other angles at which they want to look and answer this question, which I welcome and have given me a lot to think about.  But basically, what I observed in Azerbaijan was a place that's a little bit authoritative. You know, they don't have full freedom of the press. Political opposition is, you know, quieted, but there's no crime anywhere. They have a strong police presence on the streets. There are security cameras everywhere, and people like their lives there and don't want to mess with it.  And so it just got me thinking, you know, they're an extremely tolerant society. It's sort of something they pride themselves on, and always have. It's a Muslim majority country, but it is secular. They are not a Muslim official country. They're one of only really two countries in the world that are like that, the other being Albania. And they live together in beautiful peace and harmony with a sense of goodwill, with a sense of national pride, and it got me thinking, you know, look at any scenario in our lives. Look at the place you work, look at the preschool classroom that your kid is in.  There are certain rules and restrictions that allow for more freedom, in a sense, because you feel safe and taken care of and our worst instincts are not given space to be expressed. So that is what brought the question of, how much freedom is too much. And really, the other way of putting that is, how much freedom would you be willing to give up if it meant you lived in a place with no crime, where people get along with their neighbors, where there's a sense of being a part of something bigger than yourself. I think all three of which are heavily lacking in America right now that is so polarized, where hateful rhetoric is not only, pervasive, but almost welcomed, and gets more clicks and more likes and more watches. It's an interesting thing to think about.  And I heard from people being like, I haven't been able to stop thinking about this question. I don't know the answer, but it's really interesting. I have people say, you're out of your mind. It's a slippery slope. The second you give an inch, like it's all going downhill. And there are arguments to be made there.  But I can't help but feel like, if we did the due diligence, I'm sure there is something, if we keep the focus really narrow, even if it's like, a specific sentence that can't be said, like, you can't say: the Holocaust was a great thing. Let's say we make that illegal to say, like, how does that hurt anybody? If that's you're not allowed to say those exact words in that exact sequence, you know. So I think if it's gonna be a slippery slope, to me, is not quite a good enough argument for Well, let's go down the road and see if we can come up with something. And then if we decide it's a slippery slope and we get there, maybe we don't do it, but maybe there is something we can come to that if we eliminate that one little thing you're not allowed to say, maybe that will benefit us. Maybe if we make certain things a little bit more restrictive, it'll benefit us. And I likened it to Shabbat saying, you know, on Shabbat, we have all these restrictions. If you're keeping Shabbat, that's what makes Shabbat special, is all the things you're not allowed to do, and because you're not given the quote, unquote, freedom to do those things, you actually give yourself more freedom to be as you are, and to enjoy what's really good about life, which is, you know, the people around you and and having gratitude. So it's just something interesting to think about.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   It's an interesting perspective. I am a big fan of free speech. Jonah Platt:   As are most people. It's the hill many people will die on. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Educated free speech, though, right? That's where the tension is, right? And in a democracy you have to push for education and try to make sure that, you know, people are well informed, so that they don't say stupid things, but they are going to say stupid things and I like that freedom. Did you ever foresee becoming a Jewish advocate? Jonah Platt:   No. I . . . well, that's a little disingenuous. I would say, you know, in 2021 when there was violence between Israel and Gaza in the spring over this Sheik Jarrah neighborhood. That's when I first started using what little platform I had through my entertainment career to start speaking very, you know, small things, but about Israel and about Jewish life, just organically, because I am, at the time, certainly much more well educated, even now, than I was then.  But I was more tuned in than the average person, let's say, and I felt like I could provide some value. I could help bring some clarity to what was a really confusing situation at that time, like, very hard to decipher. And I could just sense what people were thinking and feeling. I'm well, tapped into the Jewish world. I speak to Jews all over the place. My, as I said, my family's everywhere. So already I know Jews all over the country, and I felt like I could bring some value. And so it started very slowly. It was a trickle, and then it started to turn up a little bit, a little bit more, a little bit more. I went on a trip to Israel in April of 2023. It's actually the two year anniversary today of that trip, with the Tel Aviv Institute, run by a guy named Hen Mazzig, who I'm sure, you know, well, I'm sure he's been on the show, yeah.  And that was, like, sort of the next step for me, where I was surrounded by other people speaking about things online, some about Jewish stuff, some not. Just seeing these young, diverse people using their platforms in whatever way, that was inspiring to me. I was like, I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna start using this more.  And then October 7 happened, and I couldn't pull myself away from it. It's just where I wanted to be. It's what I wanted to be spending my time and energy doing. It felt way too important. The stakes felt way too high, to be doing anything else. It's crazy to me that anybody could do anything else but be focusing on that. And now here we are. So I mean, in a way, could I have seen it? No. But have I sort of, looking back on it, been leaning this way? Kinda. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Do you think it would've you would've turned toward advocacy if people hadn't been misinformed or confused about Israel? Or do you think that you would've really been more focused on entertainment.  Jonah Platt:   Yeah, I think probably. I mean, if we lived in some upside down, amazing world where everybody was getting everything right, and, you know, there'd be not so much for me to do. The only hesitation is, like, as I said, a lot of my content tries to be, you know, celebratory about Jewish identity. I think actually, I would still be talking because I've observed, you know, divisions and misunderstandings within the Jewish community that have bothered me, and so some of the things I've talked about have been about that, about like, hey, Jews, cut it out. Like, be nice to each other. You're getting this wrong.  So I think that would still have been there, and something that I would have been passionate about speaking out on. Inclusivity is just so important to me, but definitely would be a lot lower stakes and a little more relaxed if everybody was on the same universe in regards to Israel. Manya Brachear Pashman:   You were relatively recently in Washington, DC. Jonah Platt:   Yeah. Manya Brachear Pashman:   For the White House Correspondents Dinner. I was confused, because he just said he was in Krakow, so maybe I was wrong. Jonah Platt:   I flew direct from Krakow to DC, got off the plane, went to the hotel where the dinner was, changed it to my tux, and went downstairs for the dinner.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Wow. Jonah Platt:   Yeah. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Are you tired? Jonah Platt:   No, actually, it's amazing. I'll give a shout out. There's a Jewish businessman, a guy named Andrew Herr, who I was in a program with through Federation called CLI in LA, has started a company called Fly Kit. This is a major shout out to Fly Kit that you download the app, you plug in your trip, they send you supplements, and the app tells you when to take them, when to eat, when to nap, when to have coffee, in an attempt to help orient yourself towards the time zone you need to be on. And I have found it very useful on my international trips, and I'm not going to travel without it again. Yeah. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Wow. White House Correspondents dinner. You posted some really thoughtful words about the work of journalists, which I truly appreciated. But what do American journalists get wrong about Israel and the Jewish connection to Israel?  Jonah Platt:   The same thing that everybody who gets things wrong are getting wrong. I mean, we're human beings, so we're fallible, and just because you're a journalist doesn't make you immune to propaganda, because propaganda is a powerful tool. If it didn't work, people wouldn't be using it. I mean, I was just looking at a post today from our friend Hen Mazzig about all the different ways the BBC is getting things horribly, horribly wrong. I think part of it is there's ill intent. I mean, there is malice. For certain people, where they have an agenda. And unfortunately, you know, however much integrity journalists have, there is a news media environment where we've made it okay to have agenda-driven news where it's just not objective. And somehow it's okay for these publications that we've long trusted to have a story they want to tell. I don't know why that's acceptable. It's a business, and I guess maybe if that, if the dollars are there, it's reinforcing itself. But reporters get wrong so much. I'd say the fundamental misunderstanding that journalists as human beings get wrong, that everybody gets wrong, is that Jews are not a group of rich, white Europeans with a common religion. That's like the number one misunderstanding about Jews. Because most people either don't know Jews at all on planet Earth. They've never met one. They know nothing about it except what they see on the news or in a film, or the Jews that they know happen to maybe be white, rich, European ancestry people, and so they assume that's everybody. When, of course, that's completely false, and erases the majority of Jews from planet Earth. So I think we're missing that, and then we're also missing what Israel means to the Jewish people is deeply misunderstood and very purposefully erased.  Part of what's tricky about all of this is that the people way behind the curtain, the terrorists, the real I hate Israel people agenda. They're the ones who plant these seeds. But they're like 5% of the noise. They're secret. They're in the back. And then everybody else, without realizing it, is picking up these things. And so the vast majority of people are, let's say, erasing Jewish connection to Israel without almost even realizing they're doing it because they have been fed this, because propaganda is a powerful tool, and they believe it to be true what they've been told.  And literally, don't realize what they're doing. And if they were in a calm environment and somebody was able to explain to them, Hey, here's what you're doing, here's what you're missing, I think, I don't know, 75% of people would be like, holy crap. I've been getting this wrong. I had no idea. Maybe even higher than 75% they really don't know. And that's super dangerous. And I think the media and journalism is playing a major role in that. Sometimes things get, you know, retracted and apologized for. But the damage is done, especially when it comes to social media. If you put out, Israel just bombed this hospital and killed a bunch of doctors, and then the next day you're like, Oops, sorry, that was wrong. Nobody cares. All they saw was Israel bombed a bunch of doctors and that seed's already been planted. So it's been a major issue the info war, while you know, obviously not the same stakes as a real life and death physical war has been as important a piece of this overall war as anything. And I wouldn't say it's going great. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Did it come up at all at the Correspondent's Dinner, or more of a celebration? Jonah Platt:   No, thank God. Yeah. It was more of a celebration. It was more of just sort of it was cool, because there was no host this year, there was no comedian, there was no president, he didn't come. So it was really like being in the clubhouse with the journalists, and you could sense they were sort of happy about it. Was like, just like a family reunion, kind of a vibe, like, it's just our people. We're all on the same page. We're the people who care about getting it right. We care about journalistic integrity. We're here to support each other. It was really nice. I mean, I liked being sort of a fly on the wall of this other group that I had not really been amongst before, and seeing them in their element in this like industry party, which was cool.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Okay, so we talked about journalists. What about your colleagues in the entertainment industry? Are you facing backlash from them, either out of malice or ignorance?  Jonah Platt:   I'm not facing any backlash from anybody of importance if I'm not getting an opportunity, or someone's written me off or something. I don't know that, you know, I have no idea if I'm now on somebody's list of I'm never gonna work with that guy. I don't know. I don't imagine I am. If I am, it says way more about that person than it does about me, because my approach, as we've discussed, is to try to be really inclusive and honest and, like, objective. And if I get something wrong, I'll delete it, or I'll say I got it wrong. I try to be very transparent and really open that, like I'm trying my best to get things right and to be fair.  And if you have a problem with that. You know, you've got a problem. I don't have a problem. So I wouldn't say any backlash. In fact, I mean, I get a lot of support, and a lot of, you know, appreciation from people in the industry who either are also speaking out or maybe too afraid to, and are glad that other people are doing it, which I have thoughts about too, but you know, when people are afraid to speak out about the stuff because of the things they're going to lose. Like, to a person, maybe you lose stuff, but like, you gain so many more other people and opportunities, people who were just sort of had no idea that you were on the same team and were waiting for you to say something, and they're like, Oh my God, you're in this with me too. Great, let's do something together, or whatever it is. So I've gotten, it's been much more positive than negative in terms of people I actually care about. I mean, I've gotten fans of entertainment who have nasty things to say about me, but not colleagues or industry peers.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So you would declare yourself a proud Zionist. Jonah Platt:   Yes. Manya Brachear Pashman:   But you wrote a column in The Forward recently over Passover saying, let's retire the word Zionist. Why?  Jonah Platt:   Yes. I recently wrote an op-ed and actually talked about on my pod as well about why I feel we should retire the word Zionism. Not that I think we actually are. It's pretty well in use. But my main reasoning was, that the way we all understand Zionism, those of us who actually know what it is, unlike a lot of people –is the belief that Jews should have self determination, sovereignty in some piece of the land to which they are indigenous. We have that. We've had it for almost 80 years. I don't know why we need to keep using a word that frames it as aspirational, that like, I believe we should have this thing. We already have it.  And I feel by sort of leaving that sentence without a period, we're sort of suggesting that non-existence is somehow on the table. Like, if I just protest enough, Israel's going to stop existing. I want to slam that door closed. I don't think we need to be the, I believe that Israel should exist people anymore. I think we should be the I love Israel people, or I support Israel people. I'm an Israel patriot. I'm a lover of Israel, whatever the phrase may be. To me, the idea that we should continue to sort of play by their framework of leaving that situation on the table, is it only hurts us, and I just don't think we need it. Manya Brachear Pashman:   It lets others define it, in their own terms.  Jonah Platt:   Yeah, we're playing, sort of by the rules of the other people's game. And I know, you know, I heard when I put that out, especially from Israelis, who it to them, it sort of means patriot, and they feel a lot of great pride with it, which I totally understand. But the sort of more universal understanding of what that word is, and certainly of what the Movement was, was about that aspirational creation of a land, that a land's been created. Not only has it been created, it's, you know, survived through numerous wars, it's stronger than ever. You know, third-most NASDAQ companies in the world. We need to just start talking about it from like, yeah, we're here. We're not going anywhere, kind of a place. And not, a we should exist, kind of a place. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So it's funny, you said, we all know what Zionism is. And I grinned a little bit, because there are so many different definitions of Zionism. I mean, also, Zionism was a very inclusive progressive ideology packaged in there, right, that nobody talks about because it's just kind of not, we just don't talk about it anymore.  So what else about the conversation needs to change? How do we move forward in a productive, constructive way when it comes to teaching about Jewish identity and securing the existence of Israel? Jonah Platt:   In a way, those two things are related, and in a way they're not. You can have a conversation about Jewish identity without necessarily going deep down the Israel hole. But it is critical that people understand how central a connection to Israel is, to Jewish identity. And people are allowed to believe whatever they want. And you can be someone who says, Well, you know, Israel is not important to me, and that's okay, that's you, but you have to at least be clear eyed that that is an extreme and fringe position. That is not a mainstream thing. And you're going to be met with mistrust and confusion and anger and a sense of betrayal, if that's your position.  So I think we need to be clear eyed about that and be able to have that conversation. And I think if we can get to the place where we can acknowledge that in each other. Like, dude, have your belief. I don't agree with it. I think it's crazy. Like, you gotta at least know that we all think you're crazy having that idea. And if they can get to the base, we're like, yeah, I understand that, but I'm gonna believe what I'm gonna believe, then we can have conversations and, like, then we can talk. I think the, I need to change your mind conversation, it doesn't usually work. It has to be really gently done. And I'm speaking this as much from failure as I am from success. As much as we try, sometimes our emotions come to the fore of these conversations, and that's–it's not gonna happen. You know, on my pod, I've talked about something called, I call the four C's of difficult conversation. And I recently, like, tried to have a conversation. I did not adhere to my four C's, and it did not go well. And so I didn't take my own advice. You have to come, like, legitimately ready to be curious to the other person's point of view, wanting to hear what they have to say. You know, honoring their truth, even if it is something that hurts you deeply or that you abhor. You can say that, but you have to say it from a place of respect and honoring. If you want it to go somewhere. If you just want to like, let somebody have it, go ahead, let somebody have it, but you're definitely not going to be building towards anything that. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So before I let you go, can you tell us a little bit about The Mensch? Jonah Platt:   Yeah, sure. So the Mensch is one of a couple of Jewish entertainment projects I'm now involved with in the last year, which, you know, I went from sort of zero to now three. The Mensch is a really unique film that's in development now. We're gonna be shooting this summer that I'm a producer on. And it's the story of a 30 something female rabbi in New Mexico who, life just isn't where she thought it would be. She's not connecting with her congregation. She's not as far along as she thought things would be. Her synagogue is failing, and there's an antisemitic event at her synagogue, and the synagogue gets shut down. And she's at the center of it. Two weeks later, the synagogue's reopening. She's coming back to work, and as part of this reopening to try to bring some some life and some juzz to the proceedings, one of the congregants from the synagogue, the most eccentric one, who's sort of a pariah, who's being played by Jennifer Goodwin, who's a fantastic actress and Jewish advocate, donates her family's priceless Holocaust-era Torah to the synagogue, and the rabbi gets tasked with going to pick it up and bring it. As things often happen for this rabbi, like a bunch of stuff goes wrong. Long story short, she ends up on a bus with the Torah in a bag, like a sports duffel bag, and gets into an altercation with somebody who has the same tattoo as the perpetrator of the event at her synagogue, and unbeknownst to the two of them, they have the same sports duffel bag, and they accidentally swap them. So she shows up at the synagogue with Jennifer Goodwin, they're opening it up, expecting to see a Torah, and it's full of bricks of cocaine. And the ceremony is the next day, and they have less than 24 hours to track down this torah through the seedy, drug-dealing, white nationalist underbelly of the city. And, you know, drama and hilarity ensue. And there's lots of sort of fun, a magic realism to some of the proceedings that give it like a biblical tableau, kind of sense. There's wandering in the desert and a burning cactus and things of that nature.  So it's just, it's really unique, and what drew me to it is what I'm looking for in any sort of Jewish project that I'm supporting, whether as a viewer or behind the scenes, is a contemporary story that's not about Jews dying in the Holocaust. That is a story of people just being people, and those people are Jewish. And so the things that they think about, the way they live, maybe their jobs, even in this case, are Jewish ones. But it's not like a story of the Jews in that sense. The only touch point the majority of the world has for Jews is the news and TV and film. And so if that's how people are gonna learn about us, we need to take that seriously and make sure they're learning who we really are, which is regular people, just like you, dealing with the same kind of problems, the same relationships, and just doing that through a little bit of a Jewish lens. So the movie is entertaining and unique and totally fun, but it also just happens to be about Jews and rabbis. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And so possible, spoiler alert, does the White Nationalist end up being the Mensch in the end? Jonah Platt:   No, no, the white nationalist is not the mensch. They're the villain.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   I thought maybe there was a conversion moment in this film. Jonah Platt:   No conversion. But sort of, one of the themes you take away is, anybody can be a mensch. You don't necessarily need to be the best rabbi in the world to be a mensch. We're all fallible, flawed human beings. And what's important is that we try to do good and we try to do the right thing, and usually that's enough. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Well, I thought that kind of twist would be… Jonah Platt:   I'll take it up with the writer.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Well, Jonah, you are truly a mensch for joining us on the sidelines here today. Jonah Platt:   Thank you. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Safe travels, wherever you're headed next.  Jonah Platt:   Thank you very much. Happy to be with you.   

Garnet and Steiner continue their journey from the South Gate all the way to Dark City Treno. Tot, Baku and Marcus are all feature prominently in this one, as well as the beautiful backgrounds and environments. These sequences of the game are masterfully crafted. Enjoy the podcast, and don't forget to become a part of our Patreon community if you have the means. Thanks for watching! Time Codes: 1. Intro (0:00) 2. **Listen On Spotify**: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gIzzvT3AfRHjGlfF8kFW3 **Listen On Soundcloud**: https://soundcloud.com/resonantarc **Listen On iTunes**: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-the-arc-podcast/id1121795837 **Listen On Pocket Cast**: http://pca.st/NJsJ Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/resonantarc Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/resonant-arc Twitter: https://twitter.com/resonantarc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/resonantarc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resonantarc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@resonantarc

In the past few days, Russian callousness and casual racism has led to conflicts with Azerbaijan on an unprecedented scale. Traditionally viewed as one of Kremlin's closest allies, Baku is now fed up with how it's imperialist neighbour is treating Azeri nationals and Aliyev is striking back. A lot of what's happening is amoral, dirty and outright petty - but it hits Kremlin straight into national pride.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's episode of UFC Unfiltered, Jim Norton and Matt Serra are joined by this past Saturday's biggest winner in Nazim Sadykhov and heavyweight contender Ciryl Gane in the wake of Jon Jones' retirement. Fresh off his acting debut in the new Netflix film K.O., Gane reflects on the surreal experience of being a movie star — and how choreographed fight scenes compare to the real violence of the Octagon. He also weighs in on Jon Jones' legacy and what the future holds for Ciryl now that Tom Aspinall has been elevated to undisputed heavyweight champion. Jim and Matt begin to unpack the action from this past Saturday's UFC Fight Night card before the fighting pride of Azerbaijan himself, Nazim Sadykhov calls in to reflect on the surreal feeling of winning in front of a roaring hometown crowd in Baku.

Khalil Rountree outclassed Jamahal Hill for five rounds in the main event of UFC Baku on Saturday to get back in the win column after getting stopped by Alex Pereira in his first championship opportuntiy. Did the lopsided win over a former champ get Rountree back in a title fight? On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what's next for Rountree after getting his sixth win in his past seven outings at Saturday's Fight Night event. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Rafael Fiziev after his decision win against Ignacio Bahamondes in the co-main event, Curtis Blaydes following his split decision win over Rizvan Kuniev, along with fellow main card winners Myktybek Orolbai, Nazim Sadykhov, and Muhammad Naimov, and more. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Alexander K. Lee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Michael Bisping and Paul Felder discuss all the action from UFC Atlanta including Kamaru Usman cementing his status as a challenger again, Rodolfo Bellato getting a very questionable no contest against Paul Craig, Malcolm Wellmaker's impressive KO win and more before previewing UFC Baku including Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree, Rafael Fiziev vs Ignacio Bahamondes and more plus a recap of the biggest news in MMA including Justin Gaethje considering retirement if he can't get a title shot, Paddy and Ilia chirping about fighting each other, Darren Till having trouble finding a fight and so much more! #Bisping #UFCAtlanta #Felder #UFCBaku Support Our Sponsors SKIMS - Shop SKIMS Mens at https://www.skims.com/believe #skimspartner Shopify - ⁠https://www.shopify.com/believe⁠ Follow the link (all lower case) for your 1 Dollar per month trial of the No.1 eCommerce platform for all businesses IndaCloud -⁠⁠ If you're 21 or older, get 25% OFF your first order + free shipping @IndaCloud with code BELIEVE at http://inda.shop/BELIEVE! #indacloudpod Follow the show on social media: Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/BYMPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3drq6ps⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow the hosts on social: Michael Bisping Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/bisping⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Michael Bisping Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mikebisping/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Michael Bisping YouTube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDrG2_1TcVkXKXXsD6Kjwig⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paul Felder Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/felderpaul⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paul Felder Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/felderpaul/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paul Felder YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@Ironlungfelder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Follow the team on social: Brian MacKay Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/bmackayisright⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Brian MacKay Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/bmackayisright⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Mike Harrington Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/TheMHarrington⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Mike Harrington Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/themharrington⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Mike Harrington YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@themharrington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices