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This episode is featuring another of the great singer-songwriters that will be a part of the RESISTANCE FEST-resist hate&reclaim love. The interview is with JESS KLEIN—check her out at: www.jessklein.com. During this episode we listen to a couple of Jess Klein's songs—The Big Table and Annie's Place. Join us at the RESISTANCE FEST in Burlington, NC on June 14 from 3pm-8pm. Get tickets at eventbrite.com

Today's poem shows us a teacher wrestling with the notion of “graduation.” Happy reading.Bill Knott was born on February 17, 1940, in Carson City, Michigan. When he was seven years old, his mother died in childbirth, and his father passed away three years later. He grew up in an orphanage in Mooseheart, Illinois, and on an uncle's farm. In the late 1950s, he joined the U.S. Army and, after serving his full enlistment, was honorably discharged in 1960.In the early 1960s, Knott moved to Chicago, where he worked as a hospital orderly. There, he became involved in the poetry scene and worked with John Logan, Paul Carroll, Charles Simic, and other poets. He published his first book, The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (Big Table, 1968), under the pseudonym Saint Geraurd in 1968. He also published Nights of Naomi (Barn Dream Press, 1971) and Auto-necrophilia (Big Table, 1971) under the same name.Knott went on to publish several poetry collections under his own name, including I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960–2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), edited by Thomas Lux; Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999 (BOA Editions, 2000); Becos (Random House, 1983); and Love Poems to Myself (Barn Dream Press, 1974). He also self-published many books and posted all of his poems online, where they could be read for free.Of his work, Lux writes, “As dense as some of his poems can be, they rarely defeat comprehensibility. Some are so lucid and straightforward, they are like a punch in the gut, or one's first great kiss…. His intense focus on every syllable, and the sound of every syllable in relation to nearby sounds, is so skilled that the poems often seem casual: Art hides art.”Knott taught at Emerson College for over twenty-five years. He received the Iowa Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors and awards. He died on March 12, 2014, in Bay City, Michigan.-bio via Academy of American Poets This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

In todays episode, Shelley and Phil sit virtually with Clare Carver with Big Table Farm to kick off Oregon Wine Month 2025! And what a kick off it is as Clare is truly a kick in the pants! Fine wine isn't the only thing they accomplish at Big Table Farm as we also go deep on their sustainable farming, so pour a glass of a delicious Oregon wine and learn along with us! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing Please visit http://www.bigtablefarm.com for information on everything going on at the winery!Wines this episode:2023 big table farm Wild Bee Chardonnay ($34 at the winery)

Bobby Lashley makes another huge statement when he has his in-ring debut taking on Matt Striker. The Hardy Boyz reunite for the first time in four years to battle the Full Blooded Italians. Rob Van Dam has a familiar roadblock put in front of him again as Paul Heyman puts RVD's spot in the Extreme Elimination Chamber on the line against Hardcore Holly. The budding romance between CM Punk and Kelly Kelly continues much to Mike Knox's disappointment.  Follow us on Instagram @GetItAgainPodcast Got 2 (or more) words for us? Email us at GetItAgainPodcast@gmail.com

Jeff talks with Kevin Finch, Executive director of Big Table. Big table focuses on building community and caring for those in crisis. Kevin shares about special ways to connect those working in hospitality to Christ in a powerful way. Christina "Crissy" Koons from the Colorado Mountain Brewery also joins the show to share how that is happening right here in the Pikes Peak region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Pastor David Hicks shares a powerful message on the ministry of Jesus and how the idea of God's Big Table shapes how we think and challenges us to live full of grace to those around us. We hope you will be encouraged.

Did you know that one in six hospitality workers live below the poverty line? On today's episode of On the Corner of Homeless & Hospitality, hosts Joe Ader and Emma Hughes talk with Chris Deitz of Big Table to explore the challenges facing this industry and how many of its employees are at risk of housing insecurity. Homelessness is a complex issue. We don't claim to explore every part of this intersection, but hope that each conversation brings new clarity to the reality as a whole. Please keep an open, curious mindset as you listen, and seek to learn, just as we are. Guest: Chris Deitz of Big Table Hosts Emma Hughes and Joe Ader of ⁠⁠Family Promise of Spokane⁠⁠. Produced by Cheree LaPierre and Gwyn Griffith Recorded at The Spokane Public Library Rick Clark - Giving Back Spokane Impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry: A supply chain resilience perspective AI in Hospitality Tipped Employees Minimum Wage by State Unreasonable Hospitality

Join Russ, Jess, and PJ in this week's episode of Morrus's Unofficial Tabletop RPG talk as they dive into the aftermath of a bustling RPG convention and post-con plague.  Level Up Gateway Alpha Testing Is Live! Dragonmeet 2024 Really Is London's Friendliest Gaming Convention Paizo's Advent Calendar Giveaway & Sale Event! Voltron RPG on Kickstarter Big Table: The Industry Body for tabletop games in Britain and Ireland

Big Table, Little Table: The Little Table 1st Thessalonians 5:18 by Beersheba Church

This is a special episode that was recorded in front of a live audience at Land Grant Brewing as a part of the Columbus Foundation's Big Table events. Celebrity Emcee Alissa Henry, ABC6/FOX 28, guides panelists through hot topics that ensure adults with disabilities have the right to choose if they date, drink alcohol and where they work. Panelists include Angela Bellin (Boundless program leader for Economic Connections), Ana Santos (Boundless residential manager), Julius Ghee (Boundless Direct Support Professional for 20 years), Jen Adkins and Kassandra Trunk (adults served by Boundless). Our staff and individuals share what makes them feel included and respected and also what not to say. 

In this episode of Loral's Real Money Talks, I sit down with Linda Allred, an inspiring entrepreneur and three-time bestselling author who has been a part of our Big Table community for over a decade. Despite facing incredible challenges—such as losing her home to floods, the death of her son, and being widowed after 54 years of marriage—Linda has overcome adversity to build a successful career and continues to help others through her work.Join my program manager Damon Stokes and I as Linda shares her journey from personal struggles to success, the power of mindset, and the importance of tapping into the subconscious to overcome negative thinking. Don't miss this uplifting and insightful episode, and be sure to check out Linda's latest book, "Journey To Happiness" available on Amazon!Loral's Takeaways:Linda's Personal Story (02:58)Big Table Experience (08:40)Linda's Book and Its Impact (11:31)Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs (13:38)Reflections on Sales and Closing (14:50)Linda's Future Plans and Final Thoughts (20:32)Meet Linda Allred:Linda Allred, acclaimed as The Bad Habit/Belief Breaker, is a renowned figure in personal development. She is famous for her expertise in assisting individuals and groups in overcoming the barriers preventing them from realizing their full potential. With a rich tapestry of experience and knowledge, Linda is celebrated as a two-time bestselling author, captivating speaker, and transformative practitioner.Website: https://lindaallred.com/ Meet Loral Langemeier:Loral Langemeier is a money expert, sought-after speaker, entrepreneurial thought leader, and best-selling author of five books.Her goal: to change the conversations people have about money worldwide and empower people to become millionaires.The CEO and Founder of Live Out Loud, Inc. – a multinational organization — Loral relentlessly and candidly shares her best advice without hesitation or apology. What sets her apart from other wealth experts is her innate ability to recognize and acknowledge the skills & talents of people, inspiring them to generate wealth.She has created, nurtured, and perfected a 3-5 year strategy to make millions for the “Average Jill and Joe.” To date, she and her team have served thousands of individuals worldwide and created hundreds of millionaires through wealth-building education keynotes, workshops, products, events, programs, and coaching services.Loral is truly dedicated to helping men and women, from all walks of life, to become millionaires AND be able to enjoy time with their families.She is living proof that anyone can have the life of their dreams through hard work, persistence, and getting things done in the face of opposition. As a single mother of two children, she is redefining the possibility for women to have it all and raise their children in an entrepreneurial and financially literate environment. Links and Resources:Ask Loral App: https://apple.co/3eIgGcXLoral on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askloral/Loral on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lorallive/videosLoral on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorallangemeier/Money Rules:

A future filled with with vibrant rural and urban small farms is good for the farmers, their customers and their community. Small farms help build human capacity, revitalize communities, supply regional food systems, and foster ecological resilience in a changing world. Since 2001, the Cornell Small Farms Program has fostered programs that support and encourage the sustainability of diverse, thriving small farms. Cornell Small Farm Program's Eric Frenay is able to walk the talk as a small farmer herself who sees the challenges and  real progress.  www.smallfarms.cornell.edu

This week, Nikki talks with Bill White. Bill is co-pastor of City Church Long Beach. Bill shares the story of his son coming out and how that experience challenged his theology and ultimately deepened his faith in Jesus. He discusses his church's journey of transformation through challenging conversations, and how critical it is for church communities to practice healthy modes of disagreement.You can also check out Bill's work at Small Church, Big Table.20 Minute Takes is a production of Christians for Social ActionHost and Producer: Nikki Toyama-Szeto Edited by: Wiloza Media + David de LeonMusic: Andre Henry

Malcolm Gray - All Nations | A Big Story and a Big Table - Coventry North - Sunday 30 June 2024 by CLM Church

America Emboldened with Greg Boulden and Chris Michaels – In a groundbreaking development, the Libertarian Party is extending invitations to political heavyweights like Donald Trump and Joe Biden for their upcoming convention. This unprecedented move signals a shift in the party's influence, potentially granting them a more prominent voice in national discourse. Join us as we delve into the implications of this bold...

America Emboldened with Greg Boulden and Chris Michaels – In a groundbreaking development, the Libertarian Party is extending invitations to political heavyweights like Donald Trump and Joe Biden for their upcoming convention. This unprecedented move signals a shift in the party's influence, potentially granting them a more prominent voice in national discourse. Join us as we delve into the implications of this bold...

Coach Burt talks about how to find yourself a seat at the big table. From Tennessee 

First broadcast on October 15, 1959. Includes Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading and discussing his poems from his books "A Coney Island State of Mind" and "Big Table."

We are back! Well… most of us. Sean is out sick this week and we had to cancel an interview. Hear all about the chaos on this week's episode of the Bull Mountain Brothers podcast.

Tonight, we wrap up the BTK Reboot series with part 3. We cover his last 2 murders, Vicki Wegerle, and Doris Davis. We also go much deeper into Factor X, and his delusions, and we cover his decades long hiatus, as well as what happened that baited him back onto the scene, the idiotic puzzles and boxes he sent to the police, more letters for Paul to struggle through, his obsession with three, and other serial killers, his wannabe book, and a little piece of technology that would lead to his totally comedic downfall, and finally, his confession, trial, imprisonment, and a possible account of some ‘Karenesque' misbehaving in prison. We also cover 2 of the murders that Dennis is strongly suspected in, and whether or not we think he is guilty of them. And, as promised, the Dennis Rader Haikus, spelled H-Y-K-O-O in 3-6-3 format. In the end, Dennis Rader got what he wanted. National infamy. But, he didn't get it how he wanted. Towards the end, he began to realize that whether he got caught or not, people would know that Dennis Rader was BTK. So, did he hit the big time? Is he worthy to sit with the other heavy hitter serial killers at the Big Kids Table? Or, should I say Big Table Kids? Instagram Twitter(X) YouTube Website Facebook Group (More interactive and fun) Facebook Page

The Wednesday drive with Coach Burt. 

Kevin Finch's journey takes us from the church pulpit to a different kind of ministry as he stepped away from preaching to start a non-profit organization around his love of food, and for the amazing people who work in the service industry. Big Table is dedicated to supporting hospitality workers in crisis. Kevin's commitment to making a difference and doing truly impactful work is uplifting. He has a life-changing vocation to help others in need.

Why Kevin quit his job as a pastor SO THAT he could better minister to people through his work, how NOT being explicit about his faith has led to more conversations about faith than most people ever have, and 3 things you can do to bless the most pained workers in our culture.Links Mentioned:Kevin Finch on LinkedInKevin Finch on XKevin Finch on InstagramBig TableStart with Why‘How to care while eating and sleeping'‘Highest-Paying Careers'Eugene H. PetersonActs 2IsaiahRocket FuelCuesEssentials of Classic Italian CookingSandra McCracken‘Request unexpected 20s'Contact JordanJordan Raynor

Podcasting 2.0 October 20th 2023 Episode 151: "One Big Table" Adam & Dave dive in to remote Items, the band of gypsies and more decentralization of the index The Only Boardroom that isn't available on YouTube ShowNotes We are LIT Reflex Service Jim Costello If podcast translations went to english they would be laughed out of town Breakdown of which apps send which bLIP-10 TLV record fields Third Wave of Nostr Grants Music Industry News - from Mark James in Barcelona Damus Dev 99% leave the app Can we use nostr with RSS as a better mechanism than relays? Follow-up on BetterHelp Podcast Partnership Inquiry ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 10/20/2023 14:36:58 by Freedom Controller

Podcasting 2.0 October 20th 2023 Episode 151: "One Big Table" Adam & Dave dive in to remote Items, the band of gypsies and more decentralization of the index The Only Boardroom that isn't available on YouTube ShowNotes We are LIT Reflex Service Jim Costello If podcast translations went to english they would be laughed out of town Breakdown of which apps send which bLIP-10 TLV record fields Third Wave of Nostr Grants Music Industry News - from Mark James in Barcelona Damus Dev 99% leave the app Can we use nostr with RSS as a better mechanism than relays? Follow-up on BetterHelp Podcast Partnership Inquiry ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 10/20/2023 14:36:58 by Freedom Controller

As we prime our book club model for post-COVID growth, we are programming a couple of longer late-summer episodes about our own books via Hat & Beard Press. To support Big Table or Hat & Beard, join our book clubs. You can find out more about them at hatandbeard.com. Your support fuels our books, podcasts, exhibitions, and events, and we thank you. On today's episode of Big Table, we've recorded a long-form conversation between our own Mandy Kahn and Dana Gioia, both accomplished poets. Masters of traditional lyrical forms and natives of Los Angeles, they are both also currently out with new books: Holy Doors, Mandy's third collection, is one of the first titles on our Hat & Beard Editions imprint. Meanwhile, Mr. Gioia has published, collected, or translated dozens of books throughout his storied career, which includes a stint as the director of the NEA and poet laureate of California. His most recent collection is Meet Me at the Lighthouse (Graywolf Press, 2023). Both are available now. This episode is more free form, with both poets reading from their work in dialogue with one another as they discuss their craft. Please enjoy Mandy Kahn in conversation with Dana Gioia discussing their new books and a whole lot more.

This week we welcome Tammy White, President/CEO of Leadership Knoxville! She brings extensive experience in the public, private, and civic sectors. Since joining Leadership Knoxville in 2009, she launched the Mayors' Leadership Luncheon, an annual event hosted by the City and County Mayors to inspire community leaders to positive action. While helping build a leaderfull community, she has overseen the addition of youth (YLK) and collegiate leadership programs (LK Scholars) to create a pipeline of leaders, from youth to seniors. Additionally, she helped launch Connect Knox and The Big Table, which serves as a civic solutions lab to convene stakeholders on pertinent issues in our community. She embraces servant leadership, with a strong sense of community and a desire to serve. Her journey to this role will leave you inspired and her actions in the community are just as amazing! If you are looking for a Realtor, don't forget to call The Landes Team to help you buy and sell! Yvonnca LandesRealty Executives Associates865.660.1186 or 588.3232www.YvonncaSellsRealEstate.comAdrienne LandesRealty Executives Associates865.659-6860 or 588.3232Click here: https://linktr.ee/talkintnwithyvonncaTurning Knox Rental (Event Rental Services): www.turningknoxrental.comLandes Home Collection Online Store: www.landeshomecollection.comFor promotion inquires please contact Yvonnca Landes. 865-660-1186All Copy Rights are owned Yvonnca Landes and the Landes Brand ©. To gain legal access contact David Landes 865.660.6860 or theappraisalfirm@charter.netProduced and engineered by: Adrienne LandesThank you for listening! Follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/talkintnwithyvonnca

We are on episode 50! Thank you all for listening along over the last couple of years. This one is special as it features a book published by Hat & Beard Press, one of Big Table's main partners in cultural pursuits.dublab: Future Roots Radio is the long-awaited book telling the story of the pioneering online radio station through interviews, photos, art, and more.The dublab universe springs to life from these pages, unveiling the ethos that has guided the storied station since 1999.We celebrated the release of the book with a live event at Neuehouse in downtown Los Angeles this past winter. The evening featured a panel moderated by DJ Mamabear with dublab DJs Rachel Day, Hoseh, Frosty, and Langosta.dublab: Future Roots Radio, out now on Hat & Beard Press, is an ode to the boundless power of creative music and community building in Los Angeles and beyond.Here's an excerpt from the conversation recorded at NeueHouse earlier this year. Music by Pharaohs

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. For Dan's first story, we go to the little mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, from 1892. Probably doesn't sound too terrifying. But, just imagine dealing with the worst kinds of paranormal horror that we've talked about here many times in the sense of it happening in recent years, where you can go stay with relatives, or get a priest or shaman, etc., to perform some kind of blessing - but now you have no one to help you and nowhere to go. You're just stuck - as in, snowed in a homestead cabin kind of stuck - with something evil. Then Dan shares some history and then a smattering of recent paranormal sightings from England's very historic Colchester  Castle. Lynze will share two similarly themed tales this week about little ghost boys showing up for different people in different places! What does it mean when a little boy shows up? Anything New Merch:  This one is for all you creeps and peepers who just can't wait for Halloween. The ones who would elect to celebrate year round. The 'Is it Halloween Yet?' tee is now available. Three vintage style halloween masks, kinda look like the old generic plastic ones, in a classic faded black orange and green color scheme.  Available on vintage cream and  creamsicle orange tees. Head on over to badmagicmerch.com and check it out! Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: This months' charity is Big Table, as you have heard us talk about already and we are excited to share that we will be donating $13,986 to Big Table with another $1,554 headed to the scholarship fund! To find out more about how to support Big Table or start a new chapter in your city, please visit www.big-table.com Standup:If you want to see a very different side of Dan than you see here and possibly see Lynze in the crowd, his Burn It All Down standup tour is in full swing! Go to dancummins.tv for ticket links to shows in Bloomington and Madison! This is your last chance to see Dan before he takes a little breather over the summer! Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so. Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcastPlease rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IGWatch this episode: https://youtu.be/6o8ltm5tY-AWebsite: https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/)Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Video/Audio by Bad Magic ProductionsAdditional music production by Jeffrey MontoyaAdditional music production by Zach CohenVarious free audio provided byhttp://freesound.orgOpening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened.  Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

Terry Blair. The Prospect Killer. Before he became a serial killer in the Prospect Avenue neighborhood of Kansas City in 2004, his mother, brother, and sister had all been convicted of different murders. He has two nephews in prison for life for murder. He has a half-brother in prison for life for rape and assault. He witnessed his stepdad get murdered. He has several other violent felons for relatives. After serving over two decades in prison for the murder of his children's mother, Terry went on a rampage in Kansas City in the summer of 2004, killing at least six sex workers, raping several other women, and assaulting others. Was violence inescapable for Terry due to how he was raised  and who raised him? Bad Magic Charity of the Month: We donated $13,986 to Big Table! They provide crisis care to workers in the restaurant and hospitality industry.  1 IN 6 restaurant workers are below the official poverty line – DOUBLE any other working population. To find out more, go to: https://big-table.com/Want to apply for the Cummins Family Scholarship fund? Click this link!: https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/cummins/  Deadline for application is April 24th at 3PM CT. Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp tickets are ON SALE!  BadMagicMerch.com Get tour tickets at dancummins.tv Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I-ZTVMmBTPUMerch: https://www.badmagicmerch.comDiscord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard?  Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcastSign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits

Sitting down with Kelly Owens and her 2 kids William and Avery for a conversation on where they started to where they are currently in their journey to their first million dollars.Kelly has been a part of our "Big Table" for quite some time; going from insecure in her business to having a $100,000.00 week. It was through her experience and encouragement that both her children were inspired to join her and start on their own path to generational wealth and business building.Meet Loral Langemeier:Loral Langemeier is a money expert, sought-after speaker, entrepreneurial thought leader, and best-selling author of five books.Her goal: to change the conversations people have about money worldwide and empower people to become millionaires.The CEO and Founder of Live Out Loud, Inc. – a multinational organization — Loral relentlessly and candidly shares her best advice without hesitation or apology. What sets her apart from other wealth experts is her innate ability to recognize and acknowledge the skills & talents of people, inspiring them to generate wealth.She has created, nurtured, and perfected a 3-5 year strategy to make millions for the “Average Jill and Joe.” To date, she and her team have served thousands of individuals worldwide and created hundreds of millionaires through wealth-building education keynotes, workshops, products, events, programs, and coaching services.Loral is truly dedicated to helping men and women, from all walks of life, to become millionaires AND be able to enjoy time with their families.She is living proof that anyone can have the life of their dreams through hard work, persistence, and getting things done in the face of opposition. As a single mother of two children, she is redefining the possibility for women to have it all and raise their children in an entrepreneurial and financially literate environment. Links and Resources:Ask Loral App: https://apple.co/3eIgGcXLoral on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askloral/Loral on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lorallive/videosLoral on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorallangemeier/Money Rules: https://integratedwealthsystems.com/money-rules/Millionaire Maker Store: https://millionairemakerstore.com/Real Money Talks Podcast: https://integratedwealthsystems.com/podcast/Integrated Wealth Systems: https://integratedwealthsystems.com/Affiliate Sign-Up: https://integratedwealthsystems.com/affiliates Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new...

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan will be telling the story of Char Man on today's show.  An urban legend coming from California that again will be exploring the intersection of fiction and MAYBE fact. Then he  shares the story of the only legally haunted house in the United States. 1 LaVeta Place Nyack, New York. Sometimes called The Ghostbuster House due to the so-called “Ghost Buster” legal ruling. Lynze has three incredible tales to share with you this week, the middle story being the scariest and sandwiched in between two head scratchers.  UFO's and attachments and ghosts, oh my!  New Merch:  Head to badmagicmerch.com Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation:Amount TBD as we are recording this April 18th Episode ahead of time. This months' charity is Big Table. Big Table exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building community and caring for those in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks. In short, Big Table exists to serve hope to everyone in the industry. In short, this charity is there for our friends working in the service industry when a life altering event occurs and they have to choose between working or not paying bills. As someone who worked in this industry and still has many friends and family working in it too, I really love their mission. To find out more about how to support Big Table or start a new chapter in your city, please visit big-table.com.Scholarship Fund: visit badmagicmerch.com and look for the scholarship tab for more info. Applications end on 4.24.23! Standup:If you want to see a very different side of Dan than you see here and possibly see Lynze in the crowd, his Burn It All Down standup tour is in full swing! Go to dancummins.tv for ticket links to shows in Phoenix, Bloomington and Madison! It's your last chance to see Dan before he takes a hiatus to spend the summer working on podcasts and hanging out with his family!Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so. Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcastPlease rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IGWatch this episode: https://youtu.be/cXLzCkIjFmMWebsite: https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/)Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Video/Audio by Bad Magic ProductionsAdditional music production by Jeffrey MontoyaAdditional music production by Zach CohenVarious free audio provided byhttp://freesound.orgOpening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened.  Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

Today we look into a series of murders, mostly occurring in the mid-1980s, in the southeastern US. The bodies of unidentified women kept being found along I-40. Collectively, these killings came to be known as the Redhead Murders. And a possible unknown serial killer thought to be responsible for killing many of these women was named the Bible Belt Strangler. Have any of these murders been solved? Who are the main suspects? And what new forensic advancements have recently made the identification of many of these victims possible? We look into all of this and more. Hail Nimrod! Bad Magic Charity of the Month: We are donating a TBD (at the time of this recording) amount to Big Table. They provide crisis care to workers in the restaurant and hospitality industry.  1 IN 6 restaurant workers are below the official poverty line – DOUBLE any other working population. To find out more, go to: https://big-table.com/Want to apply for the Cummins Family Scholarship fund? Click this link!: https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/cummins/  Deadline for application is April 24th at 3PM CT. Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp tickets are ON SALE!  BadMagicMerch.com Get tour tickets at dancummins.tv Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wJrFyLqiOJ4Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.comDiscord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard?  Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcastSign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits

The restaurant and hospitality industry is the largest in the country by a magnitude of 2x and is growing faster than any other. Yet – in addition to many truly amazing people – this one industry is the catch basin in our nation for all of the most vulnerable demographics. Including single parents, income insecure seniors, at-risk teens, immigrants, and those formerly incarcerated ready to make a new start. This concentration is the result of some very good news… anyone willing to work can get a job. But put so many at-risk individuals together under one roof and it is not surprising that this industry has the highest rates of people struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, massive amounts of divorce and broken relationships, redline stress levels, job instability, rapid turnover, and almost no safety net.Yet, because this is the HOSPITALITY industry, these employees must have smiles on their faces to greet the rest of us. This causes their stunning level of need to rarely be noticed.Learn more at https://big-table.com/san-diego/

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan found the first story I'm telling today on the web - a story I was pointed to by Curtis Rioux, fan, friend, and incredibly talented professional animator. The urban legend of Click… Clack… Slide… I don't want to spoil what that represents, but I'm guessing that many of our listeners have heard a version of this story - like Curtis - when they were kids. Can a monster be both a manufactured urban legend AND something you could truly encounter. That's what we play around with in this story. Then, a man who was horrifying in real life continues to haunt people even after his death: John Wayne Gacy. Next, we dip back into true crime and go over a few locations reported to be haunted in the Chicago area, by the ghost of infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy.Lynze has two fantastic stories this week! Her first tale will make you think twice about the sounds of footsteps you hear on the stairs. Are they coming from someone or some thing? Then she presents a story with no explanation or resolution. A fan shares their tale of happening upon a room full of blood, but where did it come from?  New Merch:  Really fun tee this week. The "I'm so tired my eyes are bleeding" tee is available now for those of you who know obscure sayings. Head to badmagicmerch.com Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: Amount TBD as we are recording this April 11th Episode at the end March. This months' charity is Big Table. Big Table exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building community and caring for those in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks. In short, Big Table exists to serve hope to everyone in the industry. In short, this charity is there for our friends working in the service industry when a life altering event occurs and they have to choose between working or not paying bills. As someone who worked in this industry and still has many friends and family working in it too, I really love their mission. To find out more about how to support Big Table or start a new chapter in your city, please visit big-table.com. Standup:If you want to see a very different side of Dan than you see here and possibly see Lynze in the crowd, his Burn It All Down standup tour is in full swing! Go to dancummins.tv for ticket links to shows in Phoenix, Bloomington and Madison! Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so. Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcastPlease rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IGWatch this episode: https://youtu.be/2-qebTRObeEWebsite: https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/)Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Video/Audio by Bad Magic ProductionsAdditional music production by Jeffrey MontoyaAdditional music production by Zach CohenVarious free audio provided byhttp://freesound.orgOpening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened.  Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first of two stories is based on around something we haven't really explored  before. Astral projection. If you could train your mind to actually be able to take your consciousness OUT of your body… leave it behind as a sort of empty vessel - could something else enter in its place? After that, off to Hawaii for a little bite-sized bit of horror. Some paranormal encounters alleged to have taken place at the Honolulu Police Department's training academy. Lot of horror on those little islands it seems. Then Lynze poses a great question about the paranormal and psilocybin. Can you bring back something from a trip? Lastly, a piece of jewelry seems to be the source of some kind of attachment. New Merch:   We heard some of you wanted Hawaiian button up shirts so... we got em!  The first tee is a fun cryptid pattern featuring cute critters from Logan's mind. Looks like there's clam shaped spiders,  bats, vampires, two headed snakes and more! Comes on a really cool Hawaiian style button up collared shirt with a left breast pocket. We also have a really cool Western style cowboy button up, featuring classy flower skulls.  These are hand cut and sewn so please allow a couple extra weeks delivery on these. Head on over to badmagicmerch.com and check these killer button ups out!Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: Amount TBD as we are recording this April Episode in mid March. This months' charity is Big Table. Big Table exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building community and caring for those in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks. In short, Big Table exists to serve hope to everyone in the industry. In short, this charity is there for our friends working in the service industry when a life altering event occurs and they have to choose between working or not paying bills. As someone who worked in this industry and still has many friends and family working in it too, I really love their mission. To find out more about how to support Big Table or start a new chapter in your city, please visit big-table.com.Standup:If you want to see a very different side of Dan than you see here and possibly see Lynze in the crowd, his Burn It All Down standup tour is in full swing! Go to dancummins.tv for ticket links to shows in  Cleveland, Columbus, Phoenix, Bloomington and Madison!Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so. Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcastPlease rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IGWatch this episode: https://youtu.be/goDx1-4BLg0Website: https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast/)Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Video/Audio by Bad Magic ProductionsAdditional music production by Jeffrey MontoyaAdditional music production by Zach CohenVarious free audio provided byhttp://freesound.orgOpening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened.  Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

02/05/23 The Values of Hope series continues with Pastor Don talking about the law of love from our values of Invite People to a Big Table and Put People First.

About AndiAndi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi's focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry's leading data platform for businesses. Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.Links Referenced: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andigutmans/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/andigutmans TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Sysdig. Sysdig secures your cloud from source to run. They believe, as do I, that DevOps and security are inextricably linked. If you wanna learn more about how they view this, check out their blog, it's definitely worth the read. To learn more about how they are absolutely getting it right from where I sit, visit Sysdig.com and tell them that I sent you. That's S Y S D I G.com. And my thanks to them for their continued support of this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. This promoted episode is brought to us by our friends at Google Cloud, and in so doing, they have gotten a guest to appear on this show that I have been low-key trying to get here for a number of years. Andi Gutmans is VP and GM of Databases at Google Cloud. Andi, thank you for joining me.Andi: Corey, thanks so much for having me.Corey: I have to begin with the obvious. Given that one of my personal passion projects is misusing every cloud service I possibly can as a database, where do you start and where do you stop as far as saying, “Yes, that's a database,” so it rolls up to me and, “No, that's not a database, so someone else can deal with the nonsense?”Andi: I'm in charge of the operational databases, so that includes both the managed third-party databases such as MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and then also the cloud-first databases, such as Spanner, Big Table, Firestore, and AlloyDB. So, I suggest that's where you start because those are all awesome services. And then what doesn't fall underneath, kind of, that purview are things like BigQuery, which is an analytics, you know, data warehouse, and other analytics engines. And of course, there's always folks who bring in their favorite, maybe, lesser-known or less popular database and self-manage it on GCE, on Compute.Corey: Before you wound up at Google Cloud, you spent roughly four years at AWS as VP of Analytics, which is, again, one of those very hazy type of things. Where does it start? Where does it stop? It's not at all clear from the outside. But even before that, you were, I guess, something of a legendary figure, which I know is always a weird thing for people to hear.But you were partially at least responsible for the Zend Framework in the PHP world, which I didn't realize what the heck that was, despite supporting it in production at a couple of jobs, until after I, for better or worse, was no longer trusted to support production environments anymore. Which, honestly, if you can get out, I'm a big proponent of doing that. You sleep so much better without a pager. How did you go from programming languages all the way on over to databases? It just seems like a very odd mix.Andi: Yeah. No, that's a great question. So, I was one of the core developers of PHP, and you know, I had been in the PHP community for quite some time. I also helped ideate. The Zend Framework, which was the company that, you know, I co-founded Zend Technologies was kind of the company behind PHP.So, like Red Hat supports Linux commercially, we supported PHP. And I was very much focused on developers, programming languages, frameworks, IDEs, and that was, you know, really exciting. I had also done quite a bit of work on interoperability with databases, right, because behind every application, there's a database, and so a lot of what we focused on is a great connectivity to MySQL, to Postgres, to other databases, and I got to kind of learn the database world from the outside from the application builders. We sold our company in I think it was 2015 and so I had to kind of figure out what's next. And so, one option would have been, hey, stay in programming languages, but what I learned over the many years that I worked with application developers is that there's a huge amount of value in data.And frankly, I'm a very curious person; I always like to learn, so there was this opportunity to join Amazon, to join the non-relational database side, and take myself completely out of my comfort zone. And actually, I joined AWS to help build the graph database Amazon Neptune, which was even more out of my comfort zone than even probably a relational database. So, I kind of like to do different things and so I joined and I had to learn, you know how to build a database pretty much from the ground up. I mean, of course, I didn't do the coding, but I had to learn enough to be dangerous, and so I worked on a bunch of non-relational databases there such as, you know, Neptune, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB Accelerator. And then there was the opportunity for me to actually move over from non-relational databases to analytics, which was another way to get myself out of my comfort zone.And so, I moved to run the analytic space, which included services like Redshift, like EMR, Athena, you name it. So, that was just a great experience for me where I got to work with a lot of awesome people and learn a lot. And then the opportunity arose to join Google and actually run the Google transactional databases including their older relational databases. And by the way, my job actually have two jobs. One job is running Spanner and Big Table for Google itself—meaning, you know, search ads and YouTube and everything runs on these databases—and then the second job is actually running external-facing databases for external customers.Corey: How alike are those two? Is it effectively the exact same thing, just with different API endpoints? Are they two completely separate universes? It's always unclear from the outside when looking at large companies that effectively eat versions of their own dog food, where their internal usage of these things starts and stops.Andi: So, great question. So, Cloud Spanner and Cloud Big Table do actually use the internal Spanner and Big Table. So, at the core, it's exactly the same engine, the same runtime, same storage, and everything. However, you know, kind of, internally, the way we built the database APIs was kind of good for scrappy, you know, Google engineers, and you know, folks are kind of are okay, learning how to fit into the Google ecosystem, but when we needed to make this work for enterprise customers, we needed a cleaner APIs, we needed authentication that was an external, right, and so on, so forth. So, think about we had to add an additional set of APIs on top of it, and management, right, to really make these engines accessible to the external world.So, it's running the same engine under the hood, but it is a different set of APIs, and a big part of our focus is continuing to expose to enterprise customers all the goodness that we have on the internal system. So, it's really about taking these very, very unique differentiated databases and democratizing access to them to anyone who wants to.Corey: I'm curious to get your position on the idea that seems to be playing it's—I guess, a battle that's been playing itself out in a number of different customer conversations. And that is, I guess, the theoretical decision between, do we go towards general-purpose databases and more or less treat every problem as a nail in search of a hammer or do you decide that every workload gets its own custom database that aligns the best with that particular workload? There are trade-offs in either direction, but I'm curious where you land on that given that you tend to see a lot more of it than I do.Andi: No, that's a great question. And you know, just for the viewers who maybe aren't aware, there's kind of two extreme points of view, right? There's one point of view that says, purpose-built for everything, like, every specific pattern, like, build bespoke databases, it's kind of a best-of-breed approach. The problem with that approach is it becomes extremely complex for customers, right? Extremely complex to decide what to use, they might need to use multiple for the same application, and so that can be a bit daunting as a customer. And frankly, there's kind of a law of diminishing returns at some point.Corey: Absolutely. I don't know what the DBA role of the future is, but I don't think anyone really wants it to be, “Oh, yeah. We're deciding which one of these three dozen manage database services is the exact right fit for each and every individual workload.” I mean, at some point it feels like certain cloud providers believe that not only every workload should have its own database, but almost every workload should have its own database service. It's at some point, you're allowed to say no and stop building these completely, what feel like to me, Byzantine, esoteric database engines that don't seem to have broad applicability to a whole lot of problems.Andi: Exactly, exactly. And maybe the other extreme is what folks often talk about as multi-model where you say, like, “Hey, I'm going to have a single storage engine and then map onto that the relational model, the document model, the graph model, and so on.” I think what we tend to see is if you go too generic, you also start having performance issues, you may not be getting the right level of abilities and trade-offs around consistency, and replication, and so on. So, I would say Google, like, we're taking a very pragmatic approach where we're saying, “You know what? We're not going to solve all of customer problems with a single database, but we're also not going to have two dozen.” Right?So, we're basically saying, “Hey, let's understand that the main characteristics of the workloads that our customers need to address, build the best services around those.” You know, obviously, over time, we continue to enhance what we have to fit additional models. And then frankly, we have a really awesome partner ecosystem on Google Cloud where if someone really wants a very specialized database, you know, we also have great partners that they can use on Google Cloud and get great support and, you know, get the rest of the benefits of the platform.Corey: I'm very curious to get your take on a pattern that I've seen alluded to by basically every vendor out there except the couple of very obvious ones for whom it does not serve their particular vested interests, which is that there's a recurring narrative that customers are demanding open-source databases for their workloads. And when you hear that, at least, people who came up the way that I did, spending entirely too much time on Freenode, back when that was not a deeply problematic statement in and of itself, where, yes, we're open-source, I guess, zealots is probably the best terminology, and yeah, businesses are demanding to participate in the open-source ecosystem. Here in reality, what I see is not ideological purity or anything like that and much more to do with, “Yeah, we don't like having a single commercial vendor for our databases that basically plays the insert quarter to continue dance whenever we're trying to wind up doing something new. We want the ability to not have licensing constraints around when, where, how, and how quickly we can run databases.” That's what I hear when customers are actually talking about open-source versus proprietary databases. Is that what you see or do you think that plays out differently? Because let's be clear, you do have a number of database services that you offer that are not open-source, but are also absolutely not tied to weird licensing restrictions either?Andi: That's a great question, and I think for years now, customers have been in a difficult spot because the legacy proprietary database vendors, you know, knew how sticky the database is, and so as a result, you know, the prices often went up and was not easy for customers to kind of manage costs and agility and so on. But I would say that's always been somewhat of a concern. I think what I'm seeing changing and happening differently now is as customers are moving into the cloud and they want to run hybrid cloud, they want to run multi-cloud, they need to prove to their regulator that it can do a stressed exit, right, open-source is not just about reducing cost, it's really about flexibility and kind of being in control of when and where you can run the workloads. So, I think what we're really seeing now is a significant surge of customers who are trying to get off legacy proprietary database and really kind of move to open APIs, right, because they need that freedom. And that freedom is far more important to them than even the cost element.And what's really interesting is, you know, a lot of these are the decision-makers in these enterprises, not just the technical folks. Like, to your point, it's not just open-source advocates, right? It's really the business people who understand they need the flexibility. And by the way, even the regulators are asking them to show that they can flexibly move their workloads as they need to. So, we're seeing a huge interest there and, as you said, like, some of our services, you know, are open-source-based services, some of them are not.Like, take Spanner, as an example, it is heavily tied to how we build our infrastructure and how we build our systems. Like, I would say, it's almost impossible to open-source Spanner, but what we've done is we've basically embraced open APIs and made sure if a customer uses these systems, we're giving them control of when and where they want to run their workloads. So, for example, Big Table has an HBase API; Spanner now has a Postgres interface. So, our goal is really to give customers as much flexibility and also not lock them into Google Cloud. Like, we want them to be able to move out of Google Cloud so they have control of their destiny.Corey: I'm curious to know what you see happening in the real world because I can sit here and come up with a bunch of very well-thought-out logical reasons to go towards or away from certain patterns, but I spent years building things myself. I know how it works, you grab the closest thing handy and throw it in and we all know that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary fix. Like, that thing is load-bearing and you'll retire with that thing still in place. In the idealized world, I don't think that I would want to take a dependency on something like—easy example—Spanner or AlloyDB because despite the fact that they have Postgres-squeal—yes, that's how I pronounce it—compatibility, the capabilities of what they're able to do under the hood far exceed and outstrip whatever you're going to be able to build yourself or get anywhere else. So, there's a dataflow architectural dependency lock-in, despite the fact that it is at least on its face, Postgres compatible. Counterpoint, does that actually matter to customers in what you are seeing?Andi: I think it's a great question. I'll give you a couple of data points. I mean, first of all, even if you take a complete open-source product, right, running them in different clouds, different on-premises environments, and so on, fundamentally, you will have some differences in performance characteristics, availability characteristics, and so on. So, the truth is, even if you use open-source, right, you're not going to get a hundred percent of the same characteristics where you run that. But that said, you still have the freedom of movement, and with I would say and not a huge amount of engineering investment, right, you're going to make sure you can run that workload elsewhere.I kind of think of Spanner in the similar way where yes, I mean, you're going to get all those benefits of Spanner that you can't get anywhere else, like unlimited scale, global consistency, right, no maintenance downtime, five-nines availability, like, you can't really get that anywhere else. That said, not every application necessarily needs it. And you still have that option, right, that if you need to, or want to, or we're not giving you a reasonable price or reasonable price performance, but we're starting to neglect you as a customer—which of course we wouldn't, but let's just say hypothetically, that you know, that could happen—that you still had a way to basically go and run this elsewhere. Now, I'd also want to talk about some of the upsides something like Spanner gives you. Because you talked about, you want to be able to just grab a few things, build something quickly, and then, you know, you don't want to be stuck.The counterpoint to that is with Spanner, you can start really, really small, and then let's say you're a gaming studio, you know, you're building ten titles hoping that one of them is going to take off. So, you can build ten of those, you know, with very minimal spend on Spanner and if one takes off overnight, it's really only the database where you don't have to go and re-architect the application; it's going to scale as big as you need it to. And so, it does enable a lot of this innovation and a lot of cost management as you try to get to that overnight success.Corey: Yeah, overnight success. I always love that approach. It's one of those, “Yeah, I became an overnight success after only ten short years.” It becomes this idea people believe it's in fits and starts, but then you see, I guess, on some level, the other side of it where it's a lot of showing up and doing the work. I have to confess, I didn't do a whole lot of admin work in my production years that touched databases because I have an aura and I'm unlucky, and it turns out that when you blow away some web servers, everyone can laugh and we'll reprovision stateless things.Get too close to the data warehouse, for example, and you don't really have a company left anymore. And of course, in the world of finance that I came out of, transactional integrity is also very much a thing. A question that I had [centers 00:17:51] really around one of the predictions you gave recently at Google Cloud Next, which is your prediction for the future is that transactional and analytical workloads from a database perspective will converge. What's that based on?Andi: You know, I think we're really moving from a world where customers are trying to make real-time decisions, right? If there's model drift from an AI and ML perspective, want to be able to retrain their models as quickly as possible. So, everything is fast moving into streaming. And I think what you're starting to see is, you know, customers don't have that time to wait for analyzing their transactional data. Like in the past, you do a batch job, you know, once a day or once an hour, you know, move the data from your transactional system to analytical system, but that's just not how it is always-on businesses run anymore, and they want to have those real-time insights.So, I do think that what you're going to see is transactional systems more and more building analytical capabilities, analytical systems building, and more transactional, and then ultimately, cloud platform providers like us helping fill that gap and really making data movement seamless across transactional analytical, and even AI and ML workloads. And so, that's an area that I think is a big opportunity. I also think that Google is best positioned to solve that problem.Corey: Forget everything you know about SSH and try Tailscale. Imagine if you didn't need to manage PKI or rotate SSH keys every time someone leaves. That'd be pretty sweet, wouldn't it? With Tailscale SSH, you can do exactly that. Tailscale gives each server and user device a node key to connect to its VPN, and it uses the same node key to authorize and authenticate SSH.Basically you're SSHing the same way you manage access to your app. What's the benefit here? Built-in key rotation, permissions as code, connectivity between any two devices, reduce latency, and there's a lot more, but there's a time limit here. You can also ask users to reauthenticate for that extra bit of security. Sounds expensive?Nope, I wish it were. Tailscale is completely free for personal use on up to 20 devices. To learn more, visit snark.cloud/tailscale. Again, that's snark.cloud/tailscaleCorey: On some level, I've found that, at least in my own work, that once I wind up using a database for something, I'm inclined to try and stuff as many other things into that database as I possibly can just because getting a whole second data store, taking a dependency on it for any given workload tends to be a little bit on the, I guess, challenging side. Easy example of this. I've talked about it previously in various places, but I was talking to one of your colleagues, [Sarah Ellis 00:19:48], who wound up at one point making a joke that I, of course, took way too far. Long story short, I built a Twitter bot on top of Google Cloud Functions that every time the Azure brand account tweets, it simply quote-tweets that translates their tweet into all caps, and then puts a boomer-style statement in front of it if there's room. This account is @cloudboomer.Now, the hard part that I had while doing this is everything stateless works super well. Where do I wind up storing the ID of the last tweet that it saw on his previous run? And I was fourth and inches from just saying, “Well, I'm already using Twitter so why don't we use Twitter as a database?” Because everything's a database if you're either good enough or bad enough at programming. And instead, I decided, okay, we'll try this Firebase thing first.And I don't know if it's Firestore, or Datastore or whatever it's called these days, but once I wrap my head around it incredibly effective, very fast to get up and running, and I feel like I made at least a good decision, for once in my life, involving something touching databases. But it's hard. I feel like I'm consistently drawn toward the thing I'm already using as a default database. I can't shake the feeling that that's the wrong direction.Andi: I don't think it's necessarily wrong. I mean, I think, you know, with Firebase and Firestore, that combination is just extremely easy and quick to build awesome mobile applications. And actually, you can build mobile applications without a middle tier which is probably what attracted you to that. So, we just see, you know, huge amount of developers and applications. We have over 4 million databases in Firestore with just developers building these applications, especially mobile-first applications. So, I think, you know, if you can get your job done and get it done effectively, absolutely stick to them.And by the way, one thing a lot of people don't know about Firestore is it's actually running on Spanner infrastructure, so Firestore has the same five-nines availability, no maintenance downtime, and so on, that has Spanner, and the same kind of ability to scale. So, it's not just that it's quick, it will actually scale as much as you need it to and be as available as you need it to. So, that's on that piece. I think, though, to the same point, you know, there's other databases that we're then trying to make sure kind of also extend their usage beyond what they've traditionally done. So, you know, for example, we announced AlloyDB, which I kind of call it Postgres on steroids, we added analytical capabilities to this transactional database so that as customers do have more data in their transactional database, as opposed to having to go somewhere else to analyze it, they can actually do real-time analytics within that same database and it can actually do up to 100 times faster analytics than open-source Postgres.So, I would say both Firestore and AlloyDB, are kind of good examples of if it works for you, right, we'll also continue to make investments so the amount of use cases you can use these databases for continues to expand over time.Corey: One of the weird things that I noticed just looking around this entire ecosystem of databases—and you've been in this space long enough to, presumably, have seen the same type of evolution—back when I was transiting between different companies a fair bit, sometimes because I was consulting and other times because I'm one of the greatest in the world at getting myself fired from jobs based upon my personality, I found that the default standard was always, “Oh, whatever the database is going to be, it started off as MySQL and then eventually pivots into something else when that starts falling down.” These days, I can't shake the feeling that almost everywhere I look, Postgres is the answer instead. What changed? What did I miss in the ecosystem that's driving that renaissance, for lack of a better term?Andi: That's a great question. And, you know, I have been involved in—I'm going to date myself a bit—but in PHP since 1997, pretty much, and one of the things we kind of did is we build a really good connector to MySQL—and you know, I don't know if you remember, before MySQL, there was MS SQL. So, the MySQL API actually came from MS SQL—and we bundled the MySQL driver with PHP. And so, kind of that LAMP stack really took off. And kind of to your point, you know, the default in the web, right, was like, you're going to start with MySQL because it was super easy to use, just fun to use.By the way, I actually wrote—co-authored—the tab completion in the MySQL client. So like, a lot of these kinds of, you know, fun, simple ways of using MySQL were there, and frankly, was super fast, right? And so, kind of those fast reads and everything, it just was great for web and for content. And at the time, Postgres kind of came across more like a science project. Like the folks who were using Postgres were kind of the outliers, right, you know, the less pragmatic folks.I think, what's changed over the past, how many years has it been now, 25 years—I'm definitely dating myself—is a few things: one, MySQL is still awesome, but it didn't kind of go in the direction of really, kind of, trying to catch up with the legacy proprietary databases on features and functions. Part of that may just be that from a roadmap perspective, that's not where the owner wanted it to go. So, MySQL today is still great, but it didn't go into that direction. In parallel, right, customers wanting to move more to open-source. And so, what they found this, the thing that actually looks and smells more like legacy proprietary databases is actually Postgres, plus you saw an increase of investment in the Postgres ecosystem, also very liberal license.So, you have lots of other databases including commercial ones that have been built off the Postgres core. And so, I think you are today in a place where, for mainstream enterprise, Postgres is it because that is the thing that has all the features that the enterprise customer is used to. MySQL is still very popular, especially in, like, content and web, and mobile applications, but I would say that Postgres has really become kind of that de facto standard API that's replacing the legacy proprietary databases.Corey: I've been on the record way too much as saying, with some justification, that the best database in the world that should be used for everything is Route 53, specifically, TXT records. It's a key-value store and then anyone who's deep enough into DNS or databases generally gets a slightly greenish tinge and feels ill. That is my simultaneous best and worst database. I'm curious as to what your most controversial opinion is about the worst database in the world that you've ever seen.Andi: This is the worst database? Or—Corey: Yeah. What is the worst database that you've ever seen? I know, at some level, since you manage all things database, I'm asking you to pick your least favorite child, but here we are.Andi: Oh, that's a really good question. No, I would say probably the, “Worst database,” double-quotes is just the file system, right? When folks are basically using the file system as regular database. And that can work for, you know, really simple apps, but as apps get more complicated, that's not going to work. So, I've definitely seen some of that.I would say the most awesome database that is also file system-based kind of embedded, I think was actually SQLite, you know? And SQLite is actually still very, very popular. I think it sits on every mobile device pretty much on the planet. So, I actually think it's awesome, but it's, you know, it's on a database server. It's kind of an embedded database, but it's something that I, you know, I've always been pretty excited about. And, you know, their stuff [unintelligible 00:27:43] kind of new, interesting databases emerging that are also embedded, like DuckDB is quite interesting. You know, it's kind of the SQLite for analytics.Corey: We've been using it for a few things around a bill analysis ourselves. It's impressive. I've also got to say, people think that we had something to do with it because we're The Duckbill Group, and it's DuckDB. “Have you done anything with this?” And the answer is always, “Would you trust me with a database? I didn't think so.” So no, it's just a weird coincidence. But I liked that a lot.It's also counterintuitive from where I sit because I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was teasing the idea of WinFS where they teased a future file system that fundamentally was a database—I believe it's an index or journal for all of that—and I don't believe anything ever came of it. But ugh, that felt like a really weird alternate world we could have lived in.Andi: Yeah. Well, that's a good point. And by the way, you know, if I actually take a step back, right, and I kind of half-jokingly said, you know, file system and obviously, you know, all the popular databases persist on the file system. But if you look at what's different in cloud-first databases, right, like, if you look at legacy proprietary databases, the typical setup is wright to the local disk and then do asynchronous replication with some kind of bounded replication lag to somewhere else, to a different region, or so on. If you actually start to look at what the cloud-first databases look like, they actually write the data in multiple data centers at the same time.And so, kind of joke aside, as you start to think about, “Hey, how do I build the next generation of applications and how do I really make sure I get the resiliency and the durability that the cloud can offer,” it really does take a new architecture. And so, that's where things like, you know, Spanner and Big Table, and kind of, AlloyDB databases are truly architected for the cloud. That's where they actually think very differently about durability and replication, and what it really takes to provide the highest level of availability and durability.Corey: On some level, I think one of the key things for me to realize was that in my own experiments, whenever I wind up doing something that is either for fun or I just want see how it works in what's possible, the scale of what I'm building is always inherently a toy problem. It's like the old line that if it fits in RAM, you don't have a big data problem. And then I'm looking at things these days that are having most of a petabyte's worth of RAM sometimes it's okay, that definition continues to extend and get ridiculous. But I still find that most of what I do in a database context can be done with almost any database. There's no reason for me not to, for example, uses a SQLite file or to use an object store—just there's a little latency, but whatever—or even a text file on disk.The challenge I find is that as you start scaling and growing these things, you start to run into limitations left and right, and only then it's one of those, oh, I should have made different choices or I should have built-in abstractions. But so many of these things comes to nothing; it just feels like extra work. What guidance do you have for people who are trying to figure out how much effort to put in upfront when they're just more or less puttering around to see what comes out of it?Andi: You know, we like to think about ourselves at Google Cloud as really having a unique value proposition that really helps you future-proof your development. You know, if I look at both Spanner and I look at BigQuery, you can actually start with a very, very low cost. And frankly, not every application has to scale. So, you can start at low cost, you can have a small application, but everyone wants two things: one is availability because you don't want your application to be down, and number two is if you have to scale you want to be able to without having to rewrite your application. And so, I think this is where we have a very unique value proposition, both in how we built Spanner and then also how we build BigQuery is that you can actually start small, and for example, on Spanner, you can go from one-tenth of what we call an instance, like, a small instance, that is, you know, under $65 a month, you can go to a petabyte scale OLTP environment with thousands of instances in Spanner, with zero downtime.And so, I think that is really the unique value proposition. We're basically saying you can hold the stick at both ends: you can basically start small and then if that application doesn't need to scale, does need to grow, you're not reengineering your application and you're not taking any downtime for reprovisioning. So, I think that's—if I had to give folks, kind of, advice, I say, “Look, what's done is done. You have workloads on MySQL, Postgres, and so on. That's great.”Like, they're awesome databases, keep on using them. But if you're truly building a new app, and you're hoping that app is going to be successful at some point, whether it's, like you said, all overnight successes take at least ten years, at least you built in on something like Spanner, you don't actually have to think about that anymore or worry about it, right? It will scale when you need it to scale and you're not going to have to take any downtime for it to scale. So, that's how we see a lot of these industries that have these potential spikes, like gaming, retail, also some use cases in financial services, they basically gravitate towards these databases.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking so much time out of your day to talk with me about databases and your perspective on them, especially given my profound level of ignorance around so many of them. If people want to learn more about how you view these things, where's the best place to find you?Andi: Follow me on LinkedIn. I tend to post quite a bit on LinkedIn, I still post a bit on Twitter, but frankly, I've moved more of my activity to LinkedIn now. I find it's—Corey: That is such a good decision. I envy you.Andi: It's a more curated [laugh], you know, audience and so on. And then also, you know, we just had Google Cloud Next. I recorded a session there that kind of talks about database and just some of the things that are new in database-land at Google Cloud. So, that's another thing that if folks more interested to get more information, that may be something that could be appealing to you.Corey: We will, of course, put links to all of this in the [show notes 00:34:03]. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.Andi: Great. Corey, thanks so much for having me.Corey: Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Databases at Google Cloud. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment, then I'm going to collect all of those angry, insulting comments and use them as a database.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

89: Big Table - Serving Hope Welcome to Surge's Faith, Work, and Rest podcast. Our goal is to help God's people discern their vocations and reimagine their occupations for the good of their neighbors and the glory of God. In this episode, we listen to a second conversation between Teena Dare and Jen and Kevin from Big Table as they discuss building community and caring for the least, last, and lost in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks. https://big-table.com/

In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy listen to the story of Kevin Finch, the Executive Director of Big Table and a former pastor who was moonlighting as restaurant critic. During his days as a pastor and a restaurant critic, Kevin was exposed to the high levels of need that existed among workers in the hospitality industry. As he sought a way to provide help and care for this often overlooked sector, he could not find a single nonprofit that was dedicated to serving this particular community. Then he received a very unusual and distinct calling from God to step up to the plate to address this need. This calling led Kevin to begin Big Table in 2009, a nonprofit solely dedicated to meeting the needs of workers in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Operating on a referral model, Big Table helps cover rent, provide cars, assist navigating health issues, etc. for those in the hospitality industry. Kevin impresses upon listeners the need to really see the people in your community and neighborhood who are so often overlooked because these relationships are too often viewed as purely transactional. He sparks a new way of thinking and a new population to consider when it comes to caring for the least in your neighborhood.Sara Joy and Eric also speak with two field guides who provide more insight into the work of Big Table and the needs that so many service and hospitality industry workers face in their daily lives. Paul Cunningham, head pastor of La Jolla Presbyterian Church, shares how his church helped establish a Big Table presence in the San Diego area. Through funds and connections to the local restaurants, the church has been a catalyst for expanding Big Table to southern California. Paul also shares how their collaboration with Big Table has inspired his congregants to be kinder and more generous people to those with whom they come in contact in the service industry. He reiterates the importance of seeing the unseen people in the community and caring for them in tangible ways.Eliza Harris Juliano, another field guide for this episode, provides a helpful perspective from urban planning as she notes that housing and transportation costs together are large factors that affect the livelihood of hourly wage workers, like those in the restaurant and hospitality industries. She highlights that when workers have to live far from their job, they are more dependent on reliable transportation which can be costly when it comes to maintaining a car. She also points out that deficient and/or unreliable public transit is another hurdle that these workers face, particularly when being late to a job because of a slow bus can actually cost them their job. Providing affordable housing in places near jobs and increasing public transit infrastructure to serve these areas are ways this sector of the community can be better supported. In that regard, she encourages listeners to pay attention to zoning and advocate for better policies that create the places where people of all socioeconomic classes can live together.Episode ContributorsKevin Finch is the Executive Director of Big Table based in Spokane, Washington.Rev. Dr. Paul Cunningham is the Head Pastor of La Jolla Presbyterian ChurchEliza Harris Juliano is a Principal in the Urban Design studio and serves as the firm's Director of Urbanism at Canin Associates based in Orlando Florida.Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on November 22, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today!More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website.Related ResourcesBig TableBig Table | Serving Hope VideoLa Jolla Presbyterian ChurchThe Center for Neighborhood TechnologyYes In My Backyard (YIMBY)Yes In God's Backyard (YIGBY)Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M. Nolan GrayKey Terms- Affordable Housing- Inclusionary Zoning- Missing Middle Housing- NIMBY (Not in my backyard)- YIMBY (Yes in my backyard)- ZoningShow CreditsHosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy ProppeEdited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice ProductionsTheme Music by Jacob ShafferArtwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative

How can the Greater Peoria region emphasize and improve the area's quality of life? That question was one of the big topics at last week's Big Table gathering at the Peoria Civic Center.

In today's episode, you'll get a recap of what happened at the Big Table event in Peoria, and what local leaders hope to see when it comes to improving the region's quality of life. And the keynote speaker at the event gives his perspective on the city and some areas of improvement that he believes will push Peoria to the next level. Plus, you'll get more information on the plans to build a 100-bed psychiatric facility in Peoria.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, September 28th. You'll hear about a debate between the two candidates running in the new Illinois 91st House District. Plus, the Big Table of Greater Peoria is back, and you're invited to take a seat at the table.

The Big Table of Greater Peoria is returning for a third year, and organizers want you to pull up a seat.

In today's episode, you'll hear from Illinois educators about what they think regarding the new curriculum requirement to teach a unit on media literacy. And the Big Table of Greater Peoria is returning for a third year, and one of the organizers is calling for everyone to pull up a seat and give their input. Plus, hear from the candidates for Peoria County Board districts 8, 9, and 10.

Nick Drnaso, acclaimed author of Sabrina, is back with Acting Class, his third book on Drawn & Quarterly. A tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation, Acting Class brings together 10 strangers under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable leader. The group of social misfits and restless searchers have one thing in common: They are all out of step with their surroundings and desperate for a change.With mounting unease, the class sinks deeper into Smith's lessons, even as he demands increasing devotion. When the line between real life and imagination begins to blur, the group's fears and desires are laid bare. Exploring the tension between who we are and how we present, Drnaso cracks open his characters' masks and takes us through an unsettling American journey.Like Sabrina—the first graphic novel short-listed for the Man Booker Prize—Drnaso's latest offering is an extremely sharp study of our everyday existence and how we live. His minimalist comic-drawing style is nevertheless awash in a cinematic haze of melancholy and the color palette is hued in a realism that is uniquely his.  A friend handed me Sabrina, several years ago, knowing I was somewhat of an outsider in the realm of underground comic culture, telling me, “You will love the book in the same way you love certain novels.” And he was right.While Drnaso is revered all over the world for his bleak honestness and sly, dark humor, he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Although we are of different generations, the subtlety of his style is familiar to me as a fellow Midwesterner and Chicagoan.Notably, this is Big Table's first episode centered around a graphic novel. It's certainly a change from our focus on nonfiction books, but Drnaso's storytelling pulls so effortlessly from real life that one feels his characters are meta comics versions of people encountered in our everyday lives.Here's my conversation with Nick Drnaso discussing his new book, Acting Class.Music by Japan

Today my guest is Kevin Finch, founder and executive director of Big Table, a non profit focused on the needs in the largest industry in the world, with the highest amount of need, the folks who work at restaurants. We will discuss the genesis of the vision for Big Table as a former pastor and food writer and continue through the cities where Big Table operates currently, how to get involved and the uniqueness of the "unexpected 20." You will love the energy and passion that drives Kevin as he shares his heart for those that cook for and serve us when we eat out. Quote: "To a guy with a hammer as his only tool, everything looks like a nail." You can find out more information at www.big-table.com.

PJ McIlvaine's debut picture book Little Lena and the Big Table (June 2019, Big Belly Book Co.), illustrations by Leila Nabih, is about a determined little girl tired of eating with her annoying cousins at the kid's table, only to discover that the big table isn't much better. PJ's second picture book, Dragon Roar (MacLaren-Cochrane Publishing, October 2021), art by Logan Robers, is about a lonely, sick dragon who has lost his mighty roar, and the brave village girl who helps him find it again. PJ is currently under contract with Oghma Creative Media for three picture books for a Creature Feature series and a standalone (pub date 2023-2024). PJ's middle grade supernatural historical fantasy Violet Yorke, Gilded Girl: Ghosts in the Closet is also out this week. PJ is also a co-host and founding member of #PBPitch, the premiere Twitter pitch party for picture book creators. PJ has been published in numerous outlets including The New York Times and Newsday, and is a regular contributor for The Children's Book Insider newsletter (paid firewall), writing about the path to publication and interviews with established and debut kid lit authors. Also, PJ's critically acclaimed Showtime original family movie My Horrible Year with Mimi Rogers, Karen Allen, and Eric Stoltz, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network