Podcast appearances and mentions of bill frist

Jenny Dyer, founder of the 2030 Collaborative and artist and music producer Charlie Peacock were part of a coalition of experts, artists, and policymakers such as Bono, Senator Bill Frist, and many others that were instrumental in building the awareness around the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and the consensus needed to keep the President's Emergency for AIDS Relief Plan or PEPFAR, which has saved over 26 millions lives from HIV/AIDS since its inception in 2003 moving forward. Dr. Dyer and Charlie joined Strategerist host Andrew Kaufmann to discuss PEPFAR's success and how art can truly help change the world.

How Can We Create Faith-Driven Solutions for a World in Need?   Host Curtis Chang sits down with Dana Wichterman, a former USAID and Department of Commerce development expert, and Bill Wichterman, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, to explore how faith-driven impact investing can help fill the gap left by reduced U.S. government aid to the “least of these.” They unpack practical ways Jesus followers can align their financial resources with their values, support global humanitarian efforts, and drive lasting change. Discover how people of all income levels can turn generosity into powerful, faith-fueled action.   Good Faith Live “Watch Party”: Russell Moore, David French, & Curtis Chang: Trump's First 100 Days   Resources mentioned in this episode: Timeline of USAID dismantling An oral history of PEPFAR with Gov. Bill Frist (video) The Europe cuts foreign aid and development Department of State to resume PEPFAR programming Conspiracy theories are fuelling attacks on NGOs and aid workers The State of Church Giving: Church Trends and Statistics [2025] I Peter 4:10 (all translations) 2 Corinthians 9:5-15 NLT Historical Poverty Tables: People and Families:1959 to 2023 Eric Ha (for TIME): Foreign Aid Is Retreating. The Church Must Not John Porter tells the story of Masaka Creamery (video) Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? Impact Investing Has Come of Age Why Christians Should Never Retire by Chris Cagle Philanthropic and Investable Organizations Mentioned: TRUSTBRIDGE Global International Justice Mission The Gathering of Christians in Philanthropy Masaka Farms Impact Foundation Verdant Frontiers (Scott Friesen) More from Dana & Bill Wichterman: www.stewardsnotowners.com Dana & Bill Wichterman's book Stewards Not Owners: The Joy of Aligning Your Money with Your Faith Follow Us: Good Faith on Instagram Good Faith on X (formerly Twitter) Good Faith on Facebook   Sign up: Redeeming Babel Newsletter

Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading causes of death—and premature death at that—in the US. These diseases all have several risk factors in common, like smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet, which policy often views simply as personal choices. We need to begin looking at disease prevention beyond individual decision-making. In this podcast, I talk with Dr. Anand Parekh, Senator Bill Frist, and Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian on the need for government policymakers to address disease prevention. Dr. Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center's chief medical advisor, providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization, particularly in the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. As a US Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. He is the author of Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America. Senator Bill Frist is a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US Senate majority leader. He led passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act and the historic PEPFAR HIV/AIDS legislation that has saved millions of lives worldwide. As the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, and published seven books. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Dean and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical School. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications on dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases and on evidence-based policy approaches to reduce these burdens in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory roles, including for the US and Canadian governments.⁣⁣ ⁣ View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman's Weekly Longevity Journal This episode is brought to you by BIOptimizers. Head to Bioptimizers.com/Hyman and use code HYMAN10 to save 10%.

Senator Bill Frist believes climate change impacts more than just our environment; it also has a significant effect on our mental and physical health. Sen. Frist joins Dr. Hildreth to discuss the reasons for rising incidences of diseases previously under control, and highlights the correlation between weather and increases in violent crime, suicide and natural disasters. They also explore the health impact those things have on marginalized communities who are disproportionately affected due to lack of access, transportation and resources for prevention and adaptation.

Whit Ayres, founder and president of North Star Opinion Research, has been a leading GOP pollster for more than 30 years. First a high school teacher then an academic, he cut his political teeth as state Budget Director for South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. As a pollster, upset Senate victories for Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell in 1992 and Tennessee Senator Bill Frist in 1994 put Whit and his firm on the map. And since then he's worked for some of the biggest names in GOP politics: Strom Thurmond, Lamar Alexander, Marco Rubio, Bob Corker, Lindsey Graham, Ron DeSantis, among others. In this conversation, Whit talks his path to politics, favorite campaign stories, most famous clients, best polling practices, thoughts on the trajectory of the GOP and much more.IN THIS EPISODEWhit's interest in politics sparks in an Ames, Iowa high school classroom...The "searing experience" that influenced him in 1970s Berlin...What Whit learned teaching 8th grade public school for three years...Whit's gets his start in politics working for future South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...How a vetoed pay raise encouraged Whit to take up political polling...Whit's first big client, Paul Coverdell, wins an upset Georgia Senate race in 1992...Whit's role in Lamar Alexander's insurgent 1996 GOP Presidential Primary campaign...Whit helps re-elect South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond at age 94 to his last term in the Senate...Whit polls for Marco Rubio's underdog first US Senate race in 2010 over Florida Governor Charlie Crist...Whit talks his role working for Ron DeSantis in 2018...and his take on the DeSantis 2024 presidential...Whit remembers the 1994 Bill Frist upset Senate win in Tennessee...Whit's take on the evolution of the GOP over the last decade...Whit on what makes for an effective pollster...Whit talks his time as active airplane pilot...AND academic towns, ballistic donors, Bob Barr, the Bernoulli Principle, bionic men, Brexit, Pat Buchanan, William Jennings Bryan, Checkpoint Charlie, Chris Christie, Bill Clinton, commuting marriages, Bob Corker, Steph Curry, Davidson College, Bob Dole, Mr. Enquist, flaming underdogs, Wyche Fowler, Cheryl Glenn, hail fellow well mets, Alex Haley, Nikki Haley, Tom Ingram, Dan Judy, Ted Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh, Huey Long, Dick Lugar, mainframe computers, Jon McHenry, Mike Murphy, Barack Obama, plaid work shirts, Adam Putnam, Dick Riley, Ronald Reagan, Jim Sasser, Floyd Spence, the Tea Party, totalitarian regimes, Donald Trump, two scrubs, Vanderbilt Hospital, George Wallace, Susie Wiles, Joe Wilson, & more!

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have a history and legacy dating back hundreds of years. Dr. Cortez Dial discusses the foundation of HBCUs, the opportunities they have provided Black Americans, and their impact on America's higher education system.   This podcast is made possible by generous funding from the Air Force Officers' Spouses' Club of Washington DC. To learn more, visit https://www.afoscdc.com/   Audio mixing by Concentus Media, Inc., Temple, Texas.   Show Notes:   Resources:   White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/   FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Highlights a Record of Championing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-highlights-record-championing-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-hbcus   HBCU Connect https://hbcuconnect.com/   Bio: Over a twenty-nine-year career with the Department of the Army (DA), Mr. Cortez K. Dial has held challenging positions in Human Resources, Professional Development, and Education with increasing executive responsibility. His career has been characterized by key assignments in personnel management, personnel services, and the formulation of programs, policy, professional development, and teaching. In his last military position as The Director of Family Programs, he was responsible for the formal education, development, and preparation of 17 (colonel and civilian equivalent) students for the broad responsibilities of future senior leadership in the Department of Defense, Joint, or combined organizations within the federal government. As a seminar leader (faculty member) at the United States Army War College, he prepared and presented a graduate-level core curriculum focusing on command, leadership, management, ethics, equal opportunity (EO), equal employment opportunity (EEO), diversity, and decision making at strategic levels.  He also served as a US Army War College point of contact for appropriate government agencies, private organizations, and educational institutions in the areas of human resources, family education, family support and service programs, along with personnel management, diversity management and human relations.  For these areas of concentration, he was the Army War College liaison with the Joint Staff, Department of Army (DA), Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Personnel Command (PERSCOM), Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), and the Soldier Support Institute (SSI). Lastly, he was the officer in charge of the annual three-day trip to Washington D.C. for over 350 senior military officers, International Fellows, and DA Civilians with the mission and organizational goal of gaining first-hand knowledge of executive and strategic leadership in government as they visited over seventy-five Members of Congress and more than fifty different departments, embassies, and agencies.   He continued his professional development with formal training, membership in societies, and participating in Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored forums addressing Human Resources and Professional Development. He is a graduate of the 2002 Pennsylvania Education Leadership and Policy Centers Fellowship Program while continuing to be a guest lecturer on Human Resource Policy and Organizational Culture. On April 5, 2003, he gave an extensive presentation to Senators, Bill Frist, George Allen, Rick Santorum, and Jim Kyl on changing organizational culture. He regularly lectures and facilitates workshops on diversity and organizational culture at The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute and he was one of the editors of the chapter on “Civilian Personnel” found in the U.S. Army War College publication, How the Army Runs. Additionally, he published two articles describing organizational culture: “Mentoring: A Road Paved with Good Intentions,” and “One Team, One Fight.” He is a recipient of the Army's Legion of Merit Award for distinguished service in the human resource field as Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel, Eight   United States Army. On August 10th, 2003, he became the Director of Residence Life at Virginia State University, was promoted to Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs in 2004. For the next nine years he served as the Presidents Chief of Staff before becoming an Associate Professor in the Mass Communication Department in the fall of 2014, retiring in July of 2017.    

This week on the podcast Thomas is joined by SNL SuperFan, Bill Kenney! Meanwhile jD and Matt talk trivia. Transcript:[0:43] All right, thank you so much Doug DeNance. It is a wonderful to be back here in the hallowed halls of the SNL Hall of Fame.Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. My name is JD and it is a thrill to be asking you inside.But before I get ahead of myself, please, for heaven's sake, please, wipe your feet.Now that you're in here, let me tell you what we're all about.The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, hosts, musical guests, or writer, and we add them to theballot for your consideration.Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame for perpetuity.[1:34] So there's that. I am, uh, pretty apt.I gotta be honest with you. This is the last episode of the, uh, well, the last nominee, I should say, of the fourth season of the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, never dreamed that we'd get tofour seasons and here we are, uh, we've, um, we're, we're gearing up for the fifth season as we speak, it's going to be just a blast.But in the interim, we've got 15 new nominees, we've got the Don Pardo Award winner, Don Pardo, and we had the draft episode.So this is 17 great episodes of SNL content for your ear holes.Hope you've enjoyed yourself.Let's walk down the hallway and talk to our friend, Matt Ardill, about our last nominee. And that is none other than the great Jason Sudeikis. Matt!Track 3:[2:38] Okay, uh, I'm, you know, kind of probably giving away my vote here, but this is one of the people that I'm most excited to hear an episode about, James. Yeah, I mean, oh, JasonSudeikis.Frickin' talented powerhouse. Like he is my favorite kind of improv actor.Yeah, he is a utility player. He is there for everything like like I loved him, from being a dancing fool.And and what's up with that to being?A English teacher or Japanese teacher and in the fun time sketch, he's just he lifts everybody up.OK, enough of my my ranting, sorry.Trivia for Jason Sudeikis, height 6'1", born September 18, 1975.[3:32] Almost one full year younger than me, which really reminds me of how much I have wasted my life.He is the nephew of George Wendt, which is why you see George Wendt's picture in Ted Lasso.He was born in Fairfax, Virginia. He was also born with anosmia, which means he has no sense of smell. That's got to be a weird life.I wouldn't I couldn't imagine living without a sense of smell.Now, he continues considers his hometown to be Overland Park in Kansas, where he graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School before attending a local community college on abasketball scholarship.He is an avid sports fan. He's played he played soccer and basketball in high school before getting that basketball scholarship.He did drop out of, you know, of university or college. Excuse me.[4:28] Now, he's actually attended multiple Olympics to support the US team. He's that big of a fan.After leaving college, he began as an improv performer in comedy sports, Iowa, Chicago and Second City as a tour co-member as touring company for those not indoctrinated into the cultof Second City.I am a level E improviser. I have given much of my heart and soul to the mighty improv gods. All hail Del Close.But yeah, so Jason was actually tapped to help found the Second City Las Vegas branch in the Flamingo.I can't think of anything that goes together worse than Improv and Las Vegas.That's dark. That must have been.[5:35] Divorce! I pawned my mother's ashes. I mean, just things got must have been dark.Yeah. Anyways, he has 84 acting credits, five writer credits and two producer credits with his most high profile post-SNL roles.[5:52] Obviously being Ted Lasso, which he's the co-creator on.It was based on a series of commercials that he'd done for Sportsnet.But many consider his breakout film role to be his turn on Horrible Bosses, which is a great movie. I just love that movie.He later produced the vastly underrated Tim Robinson comedy series The Detroiters and even appeared in two episodes.He was possibly the most homespun voice of a brand, the voice of Applebee's for the chain starting in 2012, he has played in two NBA celebrity all-star games in 2011 and 2016.An improviser through and through, he would regularly attend NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade ASCAT 3000 shows during his time in the city.And I have to say, I do agree with this one. Ranked 73rd sexiest man in Glamour UK's 160 sexiest men of of 2017 and people's sexiest man in both 2015 and 2016.I just think there's something sexy about the guy, just like he's got that old school charm.[7:11] Now, he is a huge karaoke fan. He would regularly go out and do karaoke with Will Forte during their time together on the cast of SNL.And that's continued to this day.He he would meet up with Will in New York. They go and do karaoke and which is why when they appear together on TV on Will's show, The Last Man on Earth, they did karaoke.He is a man after my own heart during his time in Las Vegas, he rode a Vespa, the best of the kinds of scooters out there, the best motorcycle, it's classy, it's cool, it keeps the wind off yourlegs, you just look good on a Vespa.No, classic Vespas, new Vespas.Interestingly, also during his time in Vegas, he kind of felt burnt out in the world of comedy, so he applied and tried out for the Blue Man Group, multiple times, he was rejected each time,which is an interesting choice.Now, he he he credits a lot of his early inspiration, actually, from seeing Beverly Hills Cop in the theaters with his dad.He was a huge Eddie Murphy fan. All right. That's it. Thanks.Track 2:[8:28] No, thank you, Matt. That was tremendous. So let's send it downstairs to Thomas Sena, our roving librarian, our chief conversationalist.We should be relabeling him at this point, but nevertheless, he is with Bill Kenney, and they are raring, chomping at the bit, in fact, to talk about Jason Sudeikis.Track 4:[9:27] All right, Matthew Ardill and JD, thank you so much for giving us all that great information. about the very wonderful cast member Mr.Jason Sudeikis is our topic this week.And joining me to talk about Jason Sudeikis and break him down is my main man Mr.Bill Kenny, my guest for Robert Smigel and Jan Hooks.Bill, how are you doing tonight?Thomas, I'm great. How are you? I am doing great.This is a, uh, an interesting one. One of the headliners, I think of, of season four of the SNL hall of fame, one that a lot of people are looking forward to you.I was telling you off mic, um, no pressure bill because everybody's counting on you to deliver the goods for Jason Sudeikis.No pressure at all. I'll do my best here.[10:20] So you were, so you did a great job. So you were my guest for Robert Smigel and Jan hooks and your close friend Robert Smigel is in the S.Snow Hall of Fame. Bill, well deserved, I think.Yes, yes. I'm very happy to see that.He was happy to hear that as well. He's waiting for his award in the mail, so as soon as you get that out to him.Yeah, it's coming from Canada, so I don't know. We'll have to ask Jamie what goes on with the postage in Canada and stuff.It's a little different, so he'll get it at some point. Yeah.[10:54] And I think Jan Hooks should be in, and I think she'll get there eventually, Bill, but she got, so she got nearly 40% of the vote her first time on the ballot, and 56% her second time.What do we have to do to get Jan Hooks in the Hall of Fame, Bill?Oh, I like that we're getting closer. I feel like we're educating the younger folks who didn't have the honor of getting to watch her live and in person.So hopefully we'll continue to move in the right direction. Sometimes it takes three or four ballots. You know that from sports as well.People who are more than deserving to get into a Hall of Fame take a little time.So that's okay. Just let's make it right.Yeah, yeah. This is a wrong that should be right at SNL Hall of Fame voters.Put Jan Hooks in the SNL Hall of Fame. I think we need t-shirts.Yes, we're gonna make t-shirts and have a little campaign. And hashtag, once Bill and I figure out what a hashtag is, we'll do that and get Jan Hicks in the SNL Hall of Fame.[11:54] That's it. So going into this episode, Bill, I'm challenging myself a little bit.So I have Sudeikis pretty high on my all-time list. You and I have shared with each other our all-time list.The SNN is doing a cast member countdown as we record this.And I have Sudeikis pretty high. I have him 11th, damn near top 10 on my list.You have him a 14th. Right. On yours?Yeah. But I'm wondering, and so I'm challenging myself, I'm wondering if I'm giving him a bump because of a successful post-SNL career or if I'm misremembering his time on SNL.So I wanted to ask you, Bill, you don't have to get into specifics maybe about Jason just yet, but do you feel that like that's a tendency for people to romanticize certain cast members basedon things not pertaining to their actual work on SNL?I think that's a definite problem that you could run into.I think we've seen that with people like Adam Sandler, David Spade, who have stayed in the spotlight in one form or another.And you do have to be careful with that, because it's not really fair.If you're just looking at what they did on SNL, that should be the only thing that matters.Now, if you want to take into account whether they hosted, whether they came back in cameos, I think that's fine.[13:14] That's part of the whole breadth of being on SNL, right?Like, if you come back, do a successful hosting gig, or you do a funny cameo in a political sketch, You know, everybody loves that, everybody looks forward to that.[13:28] So that's fine. But yeah, it is tough because he is one of the biggest stars out there because of Ted Lasso.But I don't think that either one of us has him too high because of that.So before I went back and did some rewatches and stuff, that was kind of the challenge that I was giving to myself.So I think that's my conclusion too, is we have him properly placed.I'm looking forward to seeing what the SNL voters, SNL Hall of Fame voters, think.I have a feeling he'll get in. Maybe we can give him a little bit of bump as far as percentage of the vote and everything with this episode today.But he's just a wonderful cast member, Bill. He's just awesome.So do you remember any early impressions you may have had of Jason?He became a cast member at the end of season 30, but really started hitting his stride in 31.Well, it's really interesting, and he's told this story before, but he gets hired as a writer in 29 and wanted to be a cast member.He went in with Kenan and J.B.Smoove and Rob Riggle to audition, and he doesn't get it.But he's on a season that's very uneven, some would say terrible, but he does write some really good sketches.He gets a lot of stuff on early. He does a Jack Black sketch where Jack Black is an acoustic guitar player playing for his father for the first time.And his father is dating Shelly Long from Cheers for some reason.[14:55] And it's so gonzo and so crazy that this is his entry into SNL.So if we had known, like we do now, the writers, the credits, we would have been like, well, this Jason guy, he's going to go places if he's writing stuff like this already.And then he almost immediately gets to write a Weekend Update piece for his uncle, George Went, with my BFF, Smigel, a Superfans redo where he, George Went and Horatio are talkingabout the Cubs collapse in the playoffs that year.So it's really interesting to see how well he does that first season.But then he gets to write in his second season, he's thinking about quitting.He doesn't want to come back, he wants to perform. and he writes a sketch with a few other people from the show for Tom Brady.It's a behind-the-music, do you remember this? Behind-the-music for Super Bowl Shuffle.[15:54] Yeah, okay, there you go. So you must have been going crazy when he did this, but... And he...Puts himself in as an extra, but he gets to be on stage with Brady by himself playing cowbell and dancing like a crazy person, and he catches the eye of Lorne.Now, he's been on the show for two years, Lorne probably didn't even know his name, but this caught Lorne's eye and he was made a cast member the next week.So that's fascinating to me. Who the hell is that dancing?Yeah. Probably Lorne and I had the same reaction and everybody else probably, and I bet Lorne even said that, who is that dancing?Marcy, can you get me his name?Lauren, he's on the staff. Who's staff?[16:39] That's a great origin story. So Jason, he was a writer, but he wanted to be a performer, and thankfully he got his wish.Right. And then, so he does the last few episodes of that season, season 30, another infamous season, if we're being fair, but comes back the next fall.And Andy and Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, and all of a sudden we've entered into a new era and Jason dominates right out of the gate.He has seven sketches in his second episode of that season, including Taco Town and he plays Bill Frist, he's a friend at the funeral.He's getting into, oh, he plays Napoleon Dynamite in the opening monologue.Oh, okay, does he do the dance?The Napoleon Dynamite dance? He mostly does the voice. Oh, he did the voice, okay.Yeah, because John Hader was hosting. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.That's when everybody had Napoleon Dynamite fever.Exactly. You had to be there, everybody. Kids, you had to, yeah.So he's right out the gates. Like, he's doing crazy characters, he's playing husbands, he's playing doctors, and a cast that's stacked, he stands out immediately.He, right away, even in that Super Bowl shuffle sketch when he wasn't officially a cast member, gosh he he just totally stood out right away.[17:58] What are some of the or maybe the first kind of standout sketch or character that comes to your mind?When you think of Jason Sudeikis Well, I mean we have to start with the a-holes, right?I mean, that's Pretty early on in that first season season 31 first full season He hooks up with one of his really good cast mates and Kristen Wiig playing these two completely obliviouspeople, and they're in different situations.I think the first one, was the first one a Christmas episode?It was, it might've been the Christmas tree one with Jack Black.I think it was the Christmas tree one, right, yeah.They did another Christmas one with Annette Bening, which was even funnier.But yeah, I mean, if you don't remember these, it was a very funny sketch where.[18:48] You know, they come into the scene clueless as to what's going on.They're trying to get a gym membership, or they're trying to buy a tree.One of them had them in a Mad Men sketch, and the straight people in these sketches are trying to put them back on track and try to figure out what they're...And Kristen and he played off each other so well in these. She was the more oblivious one.He had more of a clue of what was going on, but not so much.Yeah, and in a weird way, you could tell he loved her, and he wanted to, he said yes to everything, that any question that she had for whoever was helping them or whatever, Jason justwanted her to get whatever she wanted.Like they made a good match, but they frustrated the hell out of these people who are mostly trying to help them in these sketches.We got trees up to 12 feet. All right, how big a tree you want, babe?[19:39] That's a bug. I want something like that. Okay, well that's not very big.It's bigger than that. Okay, so you want a two-foot Christmas tree?What street are we on? Yeah, where are we? Look, why don't you guys just look around, grab me when you find something you like, okay?I know what I want. Hey dude, we got... What do you want, babe?I changed my mind. I do want a big tree.Fine! How big? Seven, nine, eleven feet? What? Fifty.[20:03] You want a fifty-foot tree? Yeah, we'll take a fifty-foot tree.Dude, we don't sell fifty-foot trees.All right, they're out of them, babe, huh? When are you getting more, huh? Tuesday?No. Probably Thursday, right? No, never. We don't sell 50 foot trees.And most of the time it was the host and they tried to keep their patience until no longer could keep their patience.And this was just such a great showcase for two brand new cast members to play.And they did it eight times, so.They did a really neat trick, he and Kristen.So they made those characters funny and you didn't like them, but not to an annoying degree where you just didn't like when they popped up as a sketch.So they weren't characters that you loved and that you rooted for necessarily, but you still like to see them on the screen.So that's like a fine line to kind of straddle.They're still entertaining while still being awful people.And they did that so well. Jason with his delivery bill, babe, yeah.You know that babe, Scotch Pines, babe?When's 24 come back? Jack Bauer is a pimp. Yes.[21:12] Is this their delivery was perfect the one with annette benning they play it to this day on all the christmas specials When he starts talking to the donkey loved working with you guysstand up dudes.[21:26] And kristen's just staring at her phone the whole time so annette benning does the smart thing and puts the phone, Near the baby jesus, but where they need to be looking so right,right exactly Yeah, that's a classic couple christmas classics with with the two a-holes and I know So it's very fondly remembered.We brought that up, John Schneider and I, during our Kristen Wiig episode, we definitely brought that up, the two A-holes.[21:49] So yeah, that was one where I think SNL fans, SNL Hall of Fame voters, I'm sure, will remember fondly.And you're right, that was his first full season, season 31.And this was probably the main recurring sketch, the main character that caught on for Jason. Bill, I wanted to bring up another recurring character that he did that a lot of fans willprobably think of.First, that we've seen kind of recently, actually. So it's his Joe Biden.Yeah. Yeah. So what'd you think of Jason as Joe Biden from like the mid to late 2000s, Joe Biden?It's interesting with political impressions that have lasted decades to get who's the best. You know, you have the Hillary Clintons, you have the Joe Bidens, even Bill Clinton, who's onlybeen portrayed by a few people.But Joe Biden's been played by nine different people on the show.Nine, as of this recording. It may be ten by the time this comes out, because we just had another one.Do you remember who the first one was, in the 80s? It was Kevin Nealon.Oh, that's right, yep. Yeah, so...[22:56] Jason's was really the first full-blown Biden that we saw.Now, some people will say Afghanistan's getting better. Well, of course it is. It's the worst place on earth.It can only get better. Afghanistan's a lot like the contestant on the first episode of The Biggest Loser.You know, just because it loses five pounds doesn't mean it suddenly missed America.I mean, come on, she's still a fat girl.[23:23] Hey, look, I'm just giving it to you straight Biden style.That place is a mess. He's running for president against Hillary and Barack Obama, and then he becomes the vice president to Barack Obama.And my feeling has always been SNL was not completely comfortable with Fred's Obama, rightfully so in some ways.And Joe was getting more headlines because of crazy things he'd say, or he'd say something that was kind of out of whack.Yeah, to the younger people, Joe Biden was like that in the mid to late 2000s, too.So he wasn't just like a gaffe machine, you were kind of wondering what he's gonna say next. That's not a recent thing.Yeah, it's not his age. No. That was Joe. That's just kind of him, yeah.Where Barack was kind of the straight man to his crazy man.Like, that was really the way, and Jason encapsulated this perfectly.We even got to see it when he came back to host, and they had the two Bidens, J.A.J.'s Biden versus his, and to see the differences.[24:36] I think it's a more subtle impression today, kind of whispers more, where he was more yelly back in the mid-2000s.[24:45] And Jason just did it great. He had the fake teeth in, he'd be sitting at the presidential desk even though Barack told him not to go in there anymore.It was just such a, it was a subtle impression, but a very good impression.It's not the kind of impression that you would think of from a Dana Carvey or a J.A.J., but he played it just right.Yeah, I think it stacks up. He said he was playing a version of himself and his dad. He said a lot of it was in the teeth.That's what he drew his motivation and inspiration for the character from, like the teeth. They used fake teeth for that.[25:22] It was just perfect. It was interesting because The Onion, Bill, I don't know if you remember around that time or when Joe Biden was vice president, how The Onion would runarticles sometimes about depicting Joe Biden as like this maverick who had a Camaro and who watched it.So it's interesting to me that the Onion and like SNL and Sudeikis kind of had the same take on Joe Biden.And I think I think Jason played the Biden that the Onion depicted in satire.Jason played that on screen like so well. I just connected with it really well.I did, too. And he would tell his Scranton jokes. I'm from Scranton.And so that was always really funny.He did that in the debates. He also did that when he'd be sitting in a White House sketch and just talking about Scranton being a hellhole.And I always found that really funny.[26:15] He would touch on that. But yeah, this was who Joe Biden was at this point, and Jason just found a lane and stayed in it and did it very well.I believe he played it 13 times, if I'm not mistaken, something to that effect.Sounds right. Thereabouts, but it feels like he did it a lot more because it was so memorable.Right. Yeah. And he had a lot of good political impressions.He came back for his ninth season and basically to play Mitt Romney.Warren, much as he had done with Dana, with the Bush debates and things like that, can you just come back one more year?[26:53] Because he had a good take on that too. And I think with Biden, but even more so with Romney, it's a hard impression.He's just kind of, he doesn't have an intonation in his voice that you can automatically, but that's what makes impressionists so brilliant like Jason.He found a really good way to do Romney as well, And those debates in 2012 against J.Farrow's Obama are some of the best that we've seen over the last 15 years.Yeah, those were great. And his Mitt Romney, I think, in terms of just a pure impression as far as looking like the person, maybe mannerisms true to that person, I think that Mitt Romneywas probably closer than the Joe Biden. His Biden was more of a caricature.Mitt Romney, he played that really well, like almost true to form.And he found the subtle things to make fun of.Like there was one sketch that I love where after they lost the election, he's on the balcony.He's drowning in his sorrows, drinking milk.I still love you, America. I do. But you've hurt my feelings very, very much.Father![28:02] Hello, Father. Uh, hello, Tag. I'm so very angry, Father. Mm-hmm.I wish I could... punch America in the face, I do, I tell you! Wow, now, now.It's... it's not a time for anger, Tag. So what's next for you, Father?Oh... I don't know, there's so much I wanna see and do. I'd like to learn how mayonnaise is made.[28:29] As I like mayonnaise very, very much. His wife, Anne, I think that's her name, she comes out and he hides the milk because he's not supposed to be like that, you know, drinkingand he offers his son milk and tear and kill him and he's like, I'm 30, I'm only 38, I can't be drinking this.[28:49] So I think Jason locked in on something and the writers who wrote this Mitt Romney character locked into something a little more subtle, a lot more subtle than the Joe Biden, but itreally worked for me for such a a bland human being as Mitt Romney is.They really found an angle, Bill.Absolutely, and I wanna bring up one more political impression, and he was the last of the Ws.It was an interesting trajectory with the show after Will Ferrell left.They could not figure out what to do with it. They handed it off to Parnell, they gave it to Daryl Hammond, and they all had different not great takes on it.And then Forte took it over at some point, had a completely different take on it, but then didn't want to do it anymore. He was just kind of tired of it.And so Jason ends up doing the last George W. Bush impression on the show.First, I'm pleased to report that this meeting has led to dramatic progress towards the resolution of a variety of contentious issues in such areas as trade, environmental protection, andnational security.Second, and this I truly regret to say, we're now at war with Vietnam.[30:07] I think he had a pretty good take on it for being the, what, seventh person doing it on the show, somewhere around there?Maybe not that many, but it was the most emotional turnover for a presidential impression on the show since Reagan.So to end on a kind of a high note as far as being able to do an impression, I think Jason handled that really well. Again, it was more subtle.He found a different way to take it where, where Fortes was kind of wacky and, and clueless.He was more of the Will Ferrell sort where he just kind of found a subtle lane to do it Yeah, I don't think I think it needed to be subtle and it needed to be less lovable because I think thatone of the Criticisms of Will Ferrell's George W which is iconic.I love it, but it almost made it made George W Bush seem too a little too likable, And fortes too, I think yeah, and maybe fortes too But I think we were around this time you got to lookwhere the country was when Sudeikis was playing George W. Bush.And I think it kind of matched the tone about how people were maybe feeling about George W.Bush at the time. So I don't think you could play it as like a big, lovable, loud, wacky character necessarily.[31:17] Right, you had to find a way to tone it down. Katrina was going on, and it was just kind of a burnout in the country overall with everything that had happened over six or sevenyears.So I think this was the right way to go, and Jason was the right person for that.I want to mention briefly something that he did in his early days, probably his second season, just real quick, showing, well, this won't be the first time we talk about his dance moves, butone that I came across, the first person in the history of the world to dance.[31:47] Oh my goodness, yeah. He had no lines. It was just all physical acting with Jason, and that was just so much fun to watch.You barely even knew it was Jason at the moment.That and What Up With That, right? Yes, he has no lines in that either.Yeah, but they retired that sketch even though Keenan's still been on the show another decade because Sudeikis wasn't there to do the running man to do the wordless dancing on the stage.Yeah Yeah, he's arguably one of, I've talked to some people who say that Sudeikis is their favorite part of What Up With That.[32:23] That's fair. That's absolutely fair. Yeah, and I could see that.It's incredible physical acting, Phil.Like his walk-offs, like how he walked off the stage, how he entered the frame.Yes. He would jump in, his slow motion dancing, oh my gosh.When he came back to host, I think that was the biggest surprise.Everybody was trying to guess What characters was he going to bring back?And we did get some of the characters that we had come to expect, Biden, the devil, things like that.But when they brought What Up With That back, that was incredible.That was just such an unlocked memory to see them do that again.And that just speaks to it, that he needed to be there to do that.You couldn't replace him like you replaced some of the other characters in that sketch.We're not going to be doing a Kenan Thompson episode anytime soon, because he's gonna, Kenan's gonna be on the show 15 years from now, long after this podcast even exists.So I doubt we'll do a Kenan episode.So this is my chance to express my love for What Up With That truly and deeply.For me, it's the most pure joy possibly that I've ever gotten from an SNL sketch, like in the 49 seasons of SNL, What Up With That might be the most joyful thing I've ever seen on SNLand Jason has a lot to do with that.I'm rewatching right now.[33:49] I forget which season it debuts in, but I just watched the first What Up With That just the other night again.And yeah, same. It's just such a variation from what the show typically does, to have cameos that have nothing to say, to have people who are stalwarts on the show, like Fred and Jason,have nothing to say.And somehow it still all works. Like, Keenan carries the load for sure, but all the moving parts are a major part of that.Yeah, that's gonna be, to me, when Keenan gets into the SNL Hall of Fame or when they start doing Keenan retrospectives, what up with that's gonna be maybe the first thing that peoplebring up DeAndre Cole.Absolutely. And yeah, and Jason. Lance, is that his name? I think he has an official name.I think it's Vance. Vance yeah, yes, you were close. Yeah, you're up one nothing in Jason Sudeikis trivia, right?[34:51] I'll try to get that back So we talked about his political sketch Sketches and impressions and stuff one character that he's really famous for that.I think Rewatching is very much borders on political and just in a different way It's definitely a character that has a lot of biting commentary as the devil on Weekend Update, and it wasstriking to me.I always remember I was entertained by Jason Sudeikis coming on as the devil, but I forgot just a lot of the biting commentary that came along with that character, Bill.He is one of those cast members who is able to do that in almost everything he does.Now, he does some wacky characters, which we're going to get into, and we've already mentioned the A-holes, But when he's playing that just kind of charming guy, and even in the devilcostume, it is striking that he's able to get those things in there.But because he's smiling, he's a good-looking guy just sitting there talking...[35:52] You're kind of drawn into it and then he hits you with the one-two punch with with the biting commentary.Absolutely Yeah, the devil is one of the best examples of that for sure.So what do you think the church should do?All right. Well protect its children's not its priests, Look Seth most priests in the in the church, you know are upstanding devout men I won't argue that but they need to do a better jobstopping the creepy ones I mean if someone anyone ever touched a hair on my son's head, I would go crazy Oh, who's your son? The TMZ guy. Oh.[36:27] Yeah, yeah, do people not know that? No, I don't think officially, but now that you say it, it totally makes sense. Yeah, yeah.I loved his comments. He would talk about what he was responsible for on Earth and to kind of celebrate.He'd be like, you know that, you know that ad that pops up and even when you scroll, it's still on your screen.That's me, I did that, I invented that. So I just, I love those little things, but then he's horrified by certain things that happened on earth.So that's where like the interesting commentary comes in.It's reminiscent of when Cecily, her last couple seasons went on update and did pieces about topics that were important to her.And when she did that in character, like when Jason went on, he did, uh, something about like the Penn State, uh, saga, Jerry Sandusky.He did something about the Catholic Church and their abuse of children like there was some heavy stuff in there And but he made it funny.It's like he straddled that line perfectly He made it light but also poignant no matter what side you are on an issue You don't want to be hit over the head with something.I mean, that's that's what's always important with comedy and When SNL can get preachy about things?I don't think that I think this is the perfect example of how not to be preachy.[37:47] Like you said, you're talking about very heavy topics, but finding the funny and being able to work your way through it and make people laugh, even if they may not agree withwhat you're saying.I think that's an important point. And Cecily is a great example of that as well.And it was so good, so memorable that he brought it back, Sudeikis did, when he came back and hosted.Yes, yes. We were all happy to see that. Yeah, absolutely.[38:13] Where do you want to go from here? You got a character sketch from Sudeikis that we should talk about I think one of the other characters talking about some of the crazycharacters that he was able to play and he only did this a couple Of times and it's towards the end of his tenure, but Marshall T.Boudreaux of main justice Okay, here we go now miss Tucker What's all this going on about this mess here with all this here miss now?Well, Judge, I loaned this man my house and I willfully included utilities, but then I come back and hoo-wee, he done run up the water bill like something I don't know what.[38:53] That's not true. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you shut your mouth.Mr. Mob, boy, you in Maine now. My goodness.Now, my wife is from right outside of Bangor, Maine, so when this debuted and it was the call letters from the main TV stand.Like, we both stopped and had to laugh at that.And then for it to take this sharp right turn into, they're from New Orleans, but they're not, and they all have these like, deep southern accents from the bayou. Thank you. Thank you.And it's just, they're referencing things in New England while they're, but then it's eventually said that they were stuck in a time-space portal where they spent half their time in Maine andhalf their time in New Orleans.Or it could have been that they were part of some exchange program, a courtroom exchange program.[39:49] Or they were transplants from Hurricane Katrina. Yes.Right, it was like they tried to, I think they tried to explain that because I was watching a interview with Sudeikis and he said, I think it was, he told, it was with Seth Meyers, I think, andhe said that, Seth said that he and Lauren pushed back on main justice as having no logic.So they possibly added some possible explanations in at the end, we're talking about the Jamie Foxx, I think the first one, the Jamie Foxx main justice, where they kind of, like thecharacters are like, just kind of throwing out possibilities of why the hell they sound like they're from Louisiana when they're supposed to be main justice.But Lauren and Seth pushed back on the lack of logic there, Bill.But do you need, as an SNL viewer, do you need total logic in your sketches?No, not at all. This was the perfect wacky thing that we could expect from a really good, I don't remember if it was 10 to one, but this is the quintessential kind of 10 to one sketch that welook for.[40:54] I love the lines like you you're a long way from Canada you and Maine like that stuff like that Talking about voodoo and jambalaya and gators voodoo lobsters, Voodoo lobsters andthen the there's a gator that pops up at the end of the second one.I think where yeah He's even got his own little gavel Yes.Yeah, absolutely. And there there was a part there. So You got to go back because it's visual so you got to go back and watch it But Jason just first of all Jason was having the time of hislife doing the main justice sketch You could tell like he was in an element. He was loose, but when he says.[41:33] We're gonna have the time of the uncle all wheels airboat and drag his bear, Lilywhite blood across the swamp to pull out that ass.[41:47] And then Jamie Foxx starts cracking up and then Jason leans in and kisses him on the arm.I don't know if you noticed that Bill. That's right. Yes, I did.You kissed him on the forearm and he just had Jamie break it.So you could tell Jason was felt like he was just so under in control of the moment.He was having so much fun. These are some of my favorite sketches.They only did it twice but there are a couple of my favorite things from that whole era.And the fun part is, especially for super fans like us, to be able to see him work with Kate and Adie right at the beginning of their tenures, you wouldn't... you kind of forget that theyoverlap after time passes.That's true. And to be able to see them in this perfect comedic sketch and to see them working together was a lot, a lot of fun.So that's another thing, kind of just kind of pulls at the heartstrings.Yeah, yeah. While laughing our asses off. Yeah.[42:39] And so you said that this was he played this character twice, but I would argue he played it three times because back in season 35 he did a, Truly bizarre wonderful sketch with WillForte and Blake Lively the potato chip thief Yes Thought by many to be one of the best sketches of the last 15 to 20 years, right?Yeah, it's up there It's it's definitely up there.If you don't remember, please go watch it. It's he plays a rich businessman and And he's got the same accent as you said Thomas like he's playing this by you southern gentleman, who'swants to become an astronaut he just decided yesterday and.[43:29] Forte works for NASA having a great conversation back and forth with with each other and Forte has to leave the room and tells him not to eat any of the potato chips.And of course, you know, what's gonna happen? and he eats one of the potato chips, and Forte comes back in, counts the potato chips into the 30s, 34, 35.[43:52] Missing one, and calls Blake Lively, and what a performance by her as well, by the way.And they just go back and forth screaming at each other.Genelda, what would you say if I'd have told you that that man right there is nothing but a common potato chip thief?And Now get the hell out of here!I'm not going nowhere until I'm an astronaut!Well I got news for you! You are blacklisted![44:33] Blacklisted?! Blacklisted! No! You will never be an astro! And this just goes on for five or six minutes. Like, it's fantastic.It's so gonzo. It's the kind of thing we would expect to see from Sarah Sherman today, right? Yeah.Yeah. It's so absurd. And then it eventually ends with...Jason spitting the remnants of the potato chip, would you even call it remnants at this point, into Forte's hand. It was basically like spit at that point. Yes.I don't even think there were any chips in it there at that point.And you could hear the audience just lose their mind and then Forte doubles down and drops the spit into the potato chip container. Yeah, yeah.I'm so happy you're back and... Well, I love that Jason, so he does some things here with his face and just kind of non-verbally that really make it.So the thing that you were talking about just now with the spitting of the potato chip, I just love how when he's about to do it, they create tension with the viewer because it doesn't do itright away.[45:34] Like Forte puts his hand out and Sudegis just kind of looks at him and then he's just giving him this look like he's telling Will Forte, the cast member, not the character that he'splaying, like I'm about to do this, here we go.Like you can kind of see the non-verbal communication with he and Will Forte so it creates that fun comedic tension right there and Jason and Will Forte pull that off so well and then Billlike before Jason's character even eats a potato chip just him looking around and looking at the chips like he's like forecasting like what he's about to do but just like you can see thethought process in his mind like should I?Nobody's here. Those chips look good. Okay, what the hell and he does all that non-verbally.It's great exactly, he's never gonna notice one chip being gone and They could have played this where Jason was just the innocent person who took a chip No, everybody in this sketch wascrazy.There was no straight man in this sketch in Blake I wasn't didn't play the straight man.She was no, no, she was crazy, too So it was just so great.There's no logic to it at all But yeah, this is one of the best moments and Forte is just one of those people He was able to work with so well as well, which I'm sure we're gonna talk aboutshortly as well Yeah, they had such good chemistry and almost when I think about Jason and rewatch a lot of his stuff He almost had a very steady presence almost like I'm not saying he'sin this.[47:00] Tier, but he had a steady presence like a Phil Hartman did He wasn't yeah complete command of the sketch just very steady hand.So, so seeing something like the potato chip thief, it was like seeing Phil Hartman in a bizarre sketch.Like when Phil Hartman would do unfrozen caveman lawyer, even that was more subtle than this.It was almost like seeing that steady hand go play in absurdity, which I love. That shows range.I think you can make a line, straight line from Phil Hartman to Will Ferrell to Jason Sudeikis.I don't think that's speaking out of, out of turn.I I think that's, there's so much there, something about the everyman, the glue, and Jason embodies that almost as much as Phil did. He really did.And the fact that he could play both sides of it, as you say, he could play the crazy character.I mean, think of all the newsmen he played, I mean, in the Herb Welch sketches, in the Kristen being obsessed with the woman sketches.He's playing the straight man in that. He has no funny lines.He's just there to keep balance between these two crazy worlds.But then he could do something like the potato chip thing.[48:10] You go, oh, wow, that's brilliant. That's a true comedic actor right there.Man, he's a pro's pro. I never felt like the sketch was gonna devolve into something or not work because of Jason.I always felt like Jason was gonna keep things together.I guess it's probably where the glue comes from in Glue Guy because you're confident that they're gonna keep things together, which Jason did just so, so well.So you teased that he had great chemistry with Will Forte, and I think I know where you wanna go, but I'll let you go there.I'm just gonna scroll to my note for it, but let's see if I'm right.Let's talk about ESPN Classic.Pete Twinkle and Greg Stink.[49:01] Probably my favorite running sketch of the last few decades, for sure. You're a big sports guy as well, so you get this.They're basically set in the 1980s. And if you don't know, ESPN didn't have the rights to major sports back then.They would run things like bull riding and darts and pool and things like that.And they kind of take that. You don't have to be a sports person to understand that that's what's happening here.But that adds to the fun of this, I think. They're set in a 1987 Virginia Slims pool contest, and they're just these two announcers.[49:42] And Jason is the more grounded one, although you could say he's not quite the straight man in this.And then Forte is Greg Stank, who has no clue what's going on, completely can't stay on topic, doesn't know what's going on with any of the sports that are happening.Yeah, you're wondering why they even hired him, But yeah, that's part of the fun and absurdity of it.[50:05] And they're always sponsored by a feminine product which is important to the joke for what jason gets to do in these, like the one line I can think of Uh, jason would be like, youknow, if you had to take a stab in the dark and and will for take a walk I'd probably kill someone, Yeah, and then he kind of brings it back because he could tell like no greg.That's that's not what i'm talking about here And he doesn't he doesn't get mad at greg stink He just kind of like goes with it, but then makes sure to bring it back to what they're actuallydoing, Exactly, and there's a lot of fun with wordplay and things like that They'll cut to it was I think it was always a women's sport as well. I think so.Yeah, okay and Kristen Wigg was almost always in these Kristen Wigg was always and the host But then they would do fun stuff with the feminine products and Jason would get thoseThose lines.When you've got something fungal down in your lady jungle, gynalotramine.When you've got a surprise between your thighs, Vagisil. I scream, you scream, we all scream for vagina cream![51:28] And that was always the button on the sketch, too.So he would do this two or three times, escalate the sketch, and eventually that would be where it would end as well.And he would just have this sly smile on his face as he ended it as well.Yeah, he delivered those ad reads with like perfect gusto and timing.And I don't think he to me.He didn't wink at the audience When when I deliver these ad reads he just delivered it like a sports announcer That's it.And that that was it. That was great. And he was just like when I talked about being a steady hand This is something that I was talking about He was the steady hand to the dim-wittedcharacter, but he still had funny laugh lines.[52:11] Oh, yeah He had his own lines for sure Like I said Forte was the crazy one, but he Jason got his laughs for sure.Yeah Yeah, it was so good And it reminds me for our listeners who who maybe didn't watch these sketches in real time It does remind me of what we saw like their their interactions Itreminded me of what we saw with Eric and Don jr. In recent years.So like Pete Twinkle who was Jason Sudeikis his character was almost like the Don jr.Of it and And Craig Stink was like the Eric Trump. And it seems like their interactions are so similar.Like the steady Don Jr., if you could even call him a steady hand, but in these he was.He wouldn't get mad at Eric for being dumb or whatever. He would be understanding, but then he would rein him back in.And so that almost reminded me of it. And I love that dynamic between performers, Bill.Absolutely. Wow, that's such a great comparison. I've never really thought of that. But yeah, that's a great comparison there.[53:10] He would rein him back in never get mad as you said Greg as the ladies continue to warm up What's the best way for them to get in the zone?Well, uh, they probably want to find a private room. Maybe grab a handheld mirror drop down in a squatting No.[53:26] Buddy, that's my fault, you know, I wasn't talking about a zone where you could put a fine product like gynaloachman I meant more of a mental zone.Oh like a daydream Yeah, sure, buddy.All right. You know what? Let's go down. Just keep the funny going.Yeah, that's that's great Yeah, go back and watch these.They did seven of them, I think. You could start... it was season 35, episode 3 was when the first one came on, then just kind of go into a rabbit hole there.And they did one for the 40th, too. Oh, yes. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.There's a reason why they did. People loved them.That's right. And there's one other Forte match-up that we need to speak of, right?You know what I'm speaking of? Think... am I... do I know?Oh, you might stump me here. I'll give you a hint. Okay, your hate is like good medicine John Bovee.Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. Yes, okay so, If you don't remember they started at a sketch, but then ended up on weekend update They did this I think four times and they were a Bon JoviOpposite band not a cover band because a cover band likes the band that they're doing, They would it's such a stupid concept, but it worked so well because of the performers.[54:39] They would sing the exact opposite words of Bon Jovi songs.We couldn't be further from Bon Jovi!But you dress like them and you call yourselves John Bovey. Yeah, yeah, well the similarities end there, Meyers. Check this.Two, three, four! No, no, no, it's three separate numbers. Three separate numbers, okay? Okay, got it. You got it? Okay, ready?[55:00] Alright, here we go. Two, three, four! Cause I'm an Indian!Indian! On a cat and horse I do not ride, and I'm unwanted. Unwanted![55:29] They would take a song like, your love is like bad medicine, and say, your hate is like good medicine.And that was the whole concept. It's stupid, but I love it. It's simple, but yeah. And they even dress like them, like they were dressed like 80s rock stars.And Forte's the kind of crazy one in this too, kind of the clueless one.He doesn't know how to, you know, where a rocker would go, one, two, three, four. He's, 1,234.No, no, no. That's not what it's one, two, three, four. So Sudeikis would have to direct him the same way he would in the ESPN classics. Yeah.[56:06] It's so great. They actually, I think they brought this back for Seth Myers as well.So this was a pretty popular one. Only done four times, but still, I don't know how many times you could do it.Jason could own the update desk when he wanted to. That's a thing.And we've talked, we were on the Saturday Night Network's cast member countdown together talking about it was the Rachel Dratch, Adam Sandler and Jan hooks.And one of the things I brought up about Adam Sandler was how he owned the update desk and how he made that his playground.I love seeing my cast members play at the update desk and Jason I mean he was, relied upon to do so much sketch work, but when he wanted to, he was wonderful on the update desk.Yeah, and I think that's an important mix.I think last year with Heidi Gardner, we didn't see her at the desk as much.So even though she was in all these great sketches, we were missing her when she had made her bones at the desk.And I think Jason was kind of the same way, where if he went 10 or 12 episodes and we hadn't seen him, it's like, what's going on? and we really need him over there.He had some great, great work done there, yeah.I love, you had called out that one as being like just a dumb concept or a dumb premise, and sometimes I preface my favorite things on SNL with that statement.[57:34] That it's just a dumb, dumb concept.So I'm reminded of, Jason did this in his last season with Tim Robinson, the round ball rock sketch, which was totally dumb.[57:47] He played John Tesh and Tim Robinson played his brothers, like Dave Tesh or something.They wrote, it's the famous NBC, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, the NBA and NBC song.And, but they had lyrics to it and they were pitching it to NBC.You remember this, Bill? Now I'm remembering it. Yeah, I had forgotten about this one.Yeah, that's a great one. That's a deep cut. Yeah, he could play an absurdity though.And Tim Robinson, who's more absurd over the past decade or so, 15 years on SNL than Tim Robinson.We're seeing it right now on, I think you should leave it.And Sudeikis matched absurdity with Tim Robinson in that sketch. It was wonderful.[58:38] If they're lyrics, it's no deal. Oof. Wow. Wow. Wow, okay, alright, well, uh, you know what then?No deal! I cannot believe this! You are making a big mistake!You guys stink, and this network is a dump! And you know what?In fact, I say we make it look more like a dump!How about that? What do you think, Dave? I am one step ahead of you, brother! Oh, hammer time!Pass it! You don't have to do this!One of the ones where he played the straight man. I don't know if you remember this sketch with Charlie Day Oh, I have that I have that written down.Yes This is up there for me. It's crime scene Jason's playing a cop and Charlie Day is the host and he comes in as the detective and it looks just like the Seinfeld apartment.[59:30] Jason references it and Charlie has no idea what he's talking about.What Seinfeld never heard of it.Oh, what do you mean? You never heard of Seinfeld? It's on TV. I don't own a TV.Okay. Well, you can almost let it go if it was there. Then he doesn't know what baseball is.He doesn't know what World War II is. And it just kind of keeps devolving.Like, what do you mean? Is that on the Seinfeld show too?Yeah. He's doing a reenactment of how the crime could have happened and he walks into the apartment like Kramer.Yes, exactly. And then he's like, yeah, that's Kramer. What do you mean?And then he spots the soup on the counter and he says it's like some kind of soup Nazi now You just referenced both Seinfeld and World War 2.[1:00:13] Yeah, yeah, that was great there's a subtle thing a really funny thing I mentioned comedic tension in one of the previous sketches and Jason has this wonderful line delivery.So we all know as soon as they show the set we all as viewers Recognize it as the Seinfeld set, right?You're wondering, are the characters gonna recognize it as the Seinfeld set?Is this just gonna be a joke that we're in on?Or are somebody gonna point it out? So that's kind of the comedic tension a little bit at the beginning of that sketch.And then Jason has that wonderful line delivery where he says, Hey, doesn't this place look a lot like the Seinfeld apartment?[1:01:02] What the hell are you talking about? It releases that tension and then you're just able to dive in to all the jokes that happen after that.That's just something subtle about Jason and the writing that I loved from that sketch.Yeah, exactly. And you can hear the audience reaction. Like you said, when that tension is released, it's like, oh, okay, okay, they do know what's going on.Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, that was a such a great call back to bring up Charlie Day.Charlie Day was in the first main justice He made an appearance on the Jamie Foxx main justice, too. So Charlie Day Really?I want him back. He was a great SNL host, by the way.Yes, he was and they went on to do horrible bosses together So yeah, actually they they found their comedic timing.Yeah, exactly Before we get out of here Is there anything else as far as Jason on SNL that you really took note of and highlighted?I think the only other one, again this is kind of a deep cut, I think, Jeff the boom mic guy.Oh yeah, yeah, he was like an antagonistic boom mic guy.So Bill Hader played the director and it would always be like they were taping a commercial, I think LeBron 

In this episode, Scott Becker shares 12 notes & headlines on what is currently happening in the venture capital space of healthcare.A huge explosion in HC VC in 2020 and 2021. Both fundraising and investing.A significant slowdown in 2022 particularly the 2nd half of 2022.There are lots of funds that do a huge number of smaller investments. Funds like Rock Health, Arch Venture Partners, New Enterprise, 7Wire Ventures, Martin Ventures, Flare Capital, Costonoa and Khosla for example.There are also mega funds that tend to make much larger investments per deal. For example, funds like Sequoia, A16Z (Andreessen Horowitz) General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest and more. Remiss to not mention rock star investment firms Frist Cressey and Thoma Bravo. Amazing what Bill Frist has accomplished. Bill Frist, M.D.There are an increasing number of partnerships between VC funds and health systems and payors. General Catalyst has really made great advances here. See also “Venture Capital firms are partnering with healthcare organizations to improve digital health” Forbes Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D.There are also an increasing number of systems that have funded and self manage or outsource their only venture efforts. For example, Advocate Aurora Enterprises led by Scott Powder. Providence Ventures formerly led by Aaron Martin and a ton more. Kaiser Ventures et Al.Earlier Series A rounds (and seed rounds) tend to be much smaller than larger rounds.VC investing generally is more binary than PE investing. Pre Ebitda vs Post Ebitda investing. VC studies show that an overwhelming majority of profits come from 10 to 20% of investing and more than 50% of investments barely return the invested capital. Generally the earlier stage the higher risk.Healthcare venture can include several different sectors- digital health, provider health, biotech, pharma, diagnostics and devices.See Modern Healthcare opinion piece by Eric Epstein and Douglas French "Healthcare Venture Capital Potentially Peaked-Now What".See also WSJ " Digital Health Venture Funding Pulls Back From Last year".Also see Kaiser Health News "Mission and money clash in non profit hospitals' venture capital ambitions." Kaiser Health News.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Essentia. Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading causes of death—and premature death at that—in the US. These diseases all have several risk factors in common, like smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet, which policy often views simply as personal choices. We need to begin looking at disease prevention beyond individual decision-making. In this podcast, I talk with Dr. Anand Parekh, Senator Bill Frist, and Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian on the need for government policymakers to address disease prevention. Dr. Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center's chief medical advisor, providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization, particularly in the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. As a US Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. He is the author of Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America. Senator Bill Frist is a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US Senate majority leader. He led passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act and the historic PEPFAR HIV/AIDS legislation that has saved millions of lives worldwide. As the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, and published seven books. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Dean and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical School. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications on dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases and on evidence-based policy approaches to reduce these burdens in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory roles, including for the US and Canadian governments.⁣⁣ ⁣This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Essentia. Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. Check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. For a limited time, when you sign up for ButcherBox, they will send you 2 pounds of 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef free in every box for the life of your subscription PLUS $10 off at ButcherBox.com/farmacy. Get an extra $100 off your mattress purchase, on top of Essentia's Black Friday sale, which will also take 25% OFF. Plus receive 2 FREE organic pillows (a $330 value) with your mattress purchase at myessentia.com/drmarkhyman. Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:Dr. Anand ParekhSenator Bill FristDr. Dariush Mozaffarian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Adam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85Guest: Natalie Davishttps://unitedstatesofcare.org/Natalie Davis has worked for nearly two decades shaping and implementing American health care policies to improve the lives of all people. In 2018, she and fellow national health care leader Andy Slavitt launched United States of Care to ensure that everyone in the country has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income. She is relentless in her person-centered approach to building health care solutions and has a history of building partnerships – with organizations, patient advocacy groups and everyday people – that work to create positive change in our country's health care system.From 2010-2016, Natalie served at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with the final two years as Senior Advisor to former CMS Administrator, Andy Slavitt. At CMS, she was deeply engaged in the implementation of one of the country's largest expansions of health care in modern history. Natalie provided strategic and tactical support during the development of the agency's internal and external priorities, and served as a liaison between CMS and stakeholders across the country.In 2017, Natalie served as the Director of Strategic Engagement at the Bipartisan Policy Center. There she worked to launch the Future of Health Reform initiative which serves as a resource to policymakers by developing effective and politically viable solutions to our nation's health care challenges. This effort is led by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, as well as by Andy Slavitt, Gail Wilensky, and other leaders. Natalie knows firsthand that it is possible to bring the smartest minds together to innovate and get things done — regardless of political party.A social entrepreneur, Natalie also helped found Town Hall Ventures and The Medicaid Transformation Project, both of which focus on bringing the best of innovation and care delivery to diverse communities. An advocate and a mother, Natalie currently serves on the board of directors of the Preeclampsia Foundation.Natalie believes that it has never been more important to make our health care system work better for everyone. She is dedicated to bringing together leaders and advocates from across the country who can help create meaningful change in our nation's inequitable health care system. She brings all her personal and professional experiences to the fight for better health care, working to expand access to quality, affordable health care to help people right now, while working towards durable federal policies centered on the needs of people to provide real and lasting solutions for everybody.Natalie holds an M.A. in Social Policy from George Washington University and is an alumna of Salisbury University schools of Sociology and Art History. Natalie lives in Washington, DC with her amazing husband and four children.

Host: Adam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85Guest: Natalie Davishttps://unitedstatesofcare.org/Natalie Davis has worked for nearly two decades shaping and implementing American health care policies to improve the lives of all people. In 2018, she and fellow national health care leader Andy Slavitt launched United States of Care to ensure that everyone in the country has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income. She is relentless in her person-centered approach to building health care solutions and has a history of building partnerships – with organizations, patient advocacy groups and everyday people – that work to create positive change in our country's health care system.From 2010-2016, Natalie served at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with the final two years as Senior Advisor to former CMS Administrator, Andy Slavitt. At CMS, she was deeply engaged in the implementation of one of the country's largest expansions of health care in modern history. Natalie provided strategic and tactical support during the development of the agency's internal and external priorities, and served as a liaison between CMS and stakeholders across the country.In 2017, Natalie served as the Director of Strategic Engagement at the Bipartisan Policy Center. There she worked to launch the Future of Health Reform initiative which serves as a resource to policymakers by developing effective and politically viable solutions to our nation's health care challenges. This effort is led by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, as well as by Andy Slavitt, Gail Wilensky, and other leaders. Natalie knows firsthand that it is possible to bring the smartest minds together to innovate and get things done — regardless of political party.A social entrepreneur, Natalie also helped found Town Hall Ventures and The Medicaid Transformation Project, both of which focus on bringing the best of innovation and care delivery to diverse communities. An advocate and a mother, Natalie currently serves on the board of directors of the Preeclampsia Foundation.Natalie believes that it has never been more important to make our health care system work better for everyone. She is dedicated to bringing together leaders and advocates from across the country who can help create meaningful change in our nation's inequitable health care system. She brings all her personal and professional experiences to the fight for better health care, working to expand access to quality, affordable health care to help people right now, while working towards durable federal policies centered on the needs of people to provide real and lasting solutions for everybody.Natalie holds an M.A. in Social Policy from George Washington University and is an alumna of Salisbury University schools of Sociology and Art History. Natalie lives in Washington, DC with her amazing husband and four children.

EPISODE 52: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) Elon Musk boasted of talking to Vladimir Putin before tweeting his moronic "Ukraine Peace Plan" that just happened to give Putin everything he wanted. Then he blasted the reporter who broke the story - but didn't deny it (3:30) Which fit perfectly in a day in which the fascists proved reality means nothing to them: it doesn't have to BE real; it only has to SEEM real. Take Herschel Walker, now accused of demanding TWO abortions and demanding she pay for them. Meanwhile back on the campaign trail he starts talking about a bull who has impregnated three females and wants to impregnate three more (6:09) And the other new darling of MAGA, Kanye West, turns out to have been plenty crazy in the Tucker Carlson interview, but they left it on the floor. All the antisemitic tropes you can eat! (10:30) And then there's Tulsi Gabbard, who blew all the dog whistles in 'quitting' the Democratic Party just two years after she was thrown out of it (12:30) While the fascists can do nothing with sincerity or love - like Joe Biden's for his broken son - but mock it (13:34) And I am reminded of when I shared a studio with Sean Hannity and he gave away the entire Far Right Game: "Why are they so upset? I mean, it's only TV - it's not REAL!" B-Block (17:40) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Morgana in Gardena, CA (18:35) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Prediction by analysis: Garland WILL indict Trump; How can an LA City Council member take a "leave of absence," and remembering Angela Lansbury and her all-time great performance in "The Manchurian candidate." (20:26) IN SPORTS: Baseball's Rusty Champs, and Hockey's Referee Hosts (21:20) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Some Trumpers want a declaration of war against something you can't declare war against. They compete with Kevin McCarthy and Saudi Arabia for the honors. C-Block (26:50) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Somebody asked me recently "Whatever happened to Matt Lauer?" A look inside his reign of terror at NBC, and when it was directed at me because the husband of the late Terri Schaivo wanted to do an interview with me and not him. And a reminder of how the utterly corrupted Joe Scarborough responded to that story by saying "The Democrats (are) the party on the side of death."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For today's show, you're going to hear an engaging, and wide-ranging, conversation between myself and my friend Dr. James Hildreth. We cover health equity, big data, climate change and the healthcare sector, and takeaways from the recent White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.    My co-panelist, Dr. James Hildreth, is the 12th President and CEO of Meharry Medical College, the nation's largest private, historically black academic health sciences center.  and in February 2021, Dr. Hildreth was named to President Biden's Health Equity Task Force. My conversation with Dr. Hildreth was part of an in-person event hosted on September 30th, 2022 by the Nashville Health Care Council.  Established in 1995, the Council is a premier membership association and has provided a foundation for collaboration in healthcare for nearly 30 years.   At this particular gathering, we convened nearly a decade of healthcare leaders who had graduated from the Council's Fellows program. Each year, a new class of experienced senior leaders from all of health care's sectors is brought together in Nashville to engage in a nationally unique discussion guided by renowned thought leaders. You can learn more about the Fellows program and how to apply at healthcarecouncilfellows.com.  I want to thank the Nashville Health Care Council for letting us share this event with our listeners.  

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 13, 2022 is: carceral • KAHR-suh-rul • adjective Carceral means "of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison." // The room was eerily quiet and had a carceral aesthetic. // Her article stressed the importance of rehabilitative measures in carceral institutions, such as career preparation and mental health support. See the entry > Examples: "Coordinate care inside and outside carceral settings." — Bill Frist, Forbes, 15 June 2022 Did you know? Carceral is a member of a small but imposing family: like its close relations incarcerate (meaning "to imprison") and incarceration (meaning "confinement in a jail or prison"), its ultimate source is the Latin word for "prison," carcer. All three words have been in use since the 16th century, and all three are more common today than they were a century ago. Carceral has always been the rarest of the group, but its use has increased significantly since the turn of the current century, most often within academic or legal contexts.

From serving in the Air Force, to his time in both the House and Senate, and rising to become Senate Majority Leader during the 9-11 attacks…few have led more impactful political lives than Tom Daschle. In this conversation, he talks the unusual confluence of events that led to his involvement in politics, his mentor George McGovern, being taken under the wing of Speaker Tip O'Neill, his meteoric rise to become Senate Democratic leader…with stories, lessons, and insight from a 50+ career of service that continues to this day.IN THIS EPISODEThe two candidates that inspired a young Tom Daschle's interest in politics (one you might guess and the other you won't)…The progressive political tradition of South Dakota…Senator Daschle talks about his “hero” and “mentor” George McGovern…Senator Daschle talks about his own service in the military and why it made him a better member of Congress…Memories of his time as a Senate staffer in the 70s during Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War…The factor that led Congressman Daschle to have a special relationship with Speaker Tip O'Neill…Winning three 50-50 races over the course of 8 years to win both a House and then a Senate seat…The story behind the unique name of the Daschle campaign committee…The story of how a first term Congressman Tom Daschle received a convention vote for Vice President in 1980…The decision to make the jump from the House to the Senate…The circuitous story behind Senator Daschle's 1-vote margin to become Senate Democratic minority leader after the 1994 election…The “up and down” relationship with President George W. Bush…Inside the decision of Jim Jeffords to switch parties and give the Democrats a brief Senate Majority in the early 00s…The legislative accomplishments of which Senator Daschle is most proud…Memories of the votes when emotions ran high on the Senate floor…How close did he get to running for President in 2004? (Very close)What made his longtime Chief of Staff Pete Rouse such an effective staffer…Senator Daschle talks his relationship with Barack Obama…A window into his current work with The Daschle Group…The Daschle pitch for us all to visit South Dakota…AND 50-50 Senates, 66 counties, Jim Abdnor, Aberdeen, Jim Abourezk, agent orange, Madeline Albright, anthrax, the anti-war movement, the Badlands, Howard Baker, biofuels, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Black Hills, Robert Byrd, CHIPs, Bill Clinton, the Cold War, Kent Conrad, Nathan Daschle, Chris Dodd, Bob Dole, Byron Dorgan, dugout press conferences, the Dust Bowl, early out programs, Food for Peace, the fragility of democracy, Bill Frist, Fritz Hollings, John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Bob Kerrey, Trent Lott, George May, John McCain, Jim Messina, Bob Michel, the Missouri River, George Mitchell, the National Democratic Institute, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Omaha, Claude Pepper, populist traditions, regional whips, Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Sasser, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, the Sioux River, Mo Udall, the Vietnam War, war heroes, Watergate…& more!

https://www.michaelshaneneal.com Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. Receiving his B.A. from Lipscomb University, Neal also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, Lyme Academy of Art, and he is a protégé of America's most celebrated figurative and portrait painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. Neal's work has been featured in publications such as American Artist, International Artist, The Artist's Magazine, Art News, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Nashville Arts Magazine. He has received numerous awards for landscape and figurative paintings as well as the Grand Prize Award from the Portrait Society of America in 2001. Neal is the chairman of the board of the Portrait Society of America. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Patrons for the National Library and Galleries of Scotland (APNLGS), the board of trustees for The Andrew Jackson Foundation, the Executive Board of Trustees for Cheekwood Museum of Art, and as a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum's National Council. He is a member of the Allied Artists of New York, the Artist Fellowship of New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Lotos Club, the Century Association, the Sloane Club of London, the Cumberland Society of Painters, the Economic Club of Nashville, and an Exhibiting Artist member of the National Arts Club in New York, among others. Neal, the father of two daughters, enjoys church and community outreach, golf, plein-air painting, travel, and reading with a particular interest in history.

Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. https://www.michaelshaneneal.com/ Receiving his B.A. from Lipscomb University, Neal also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, Lyme Academy of Art, and he is a protégé of America's most celebrated figurative and portrait painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. Neal's work has been featured in publications such as American Artist, International Artist, The Artist's Magazine, Art News, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Nashville Arts Magazine. He has received numerous awards for landscape and figurative paintings as well as the Grand Prize Award from the Portrait Society of America in 2001. Neal is the chairman of the board of the Portrait Society of America. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Patrons for the National Library and Galleries of Scotland (APNLGS), the board of trustees for The Andrew Jackson Foundation, the Executive Board of Trustees for Cheekwood Museum of Art, and as a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum's National Council. He is a member of the Allied Artists of New York, the Artist Fellowship of New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Lotos Club, the Century Association, the Sloane Club of London, the Cumberland Society of Painters, the Economic Club of Nashville, and an Exhibiting Artist member of the National Arts Club in New York, among others. Neal, the father of two daughters, enjoys church and community outreach, golf, plein-air painting, travel, and reading with a particular interest in history.

Dr. Bill Frist has served Americans and Tennesseans in many different ways throughout his life and distinguished career. He is a nationally-acclaimed heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, businessman, podcast host and humanitarian. From fighting for education reform or increased access to quality healthcare, Dr. Frist continues to fight for Tennesseans. Tune in to this week's episode of Freedom Rings with Senator Blackburn to learn more.

Bill Frist was a transplant surgeon before serving in the Senate, where he drove controversial legislation on embryonic stem cells and end-of-life care. Did he change politics? Or did politics change him?

Bryan Cressey is a pioneer in the field of private equity investing and is co-founder of four of the largest private equity firms in the United States. He has managed billions of dollars of private capital and is well known for generating consistently strong investment returns. With over 40 years of experience, Bryan is recognized as one of the country's greatest investors and builders of companies and leadership talent.Bryan began his career with First Chicago Equity Group in the 1970's and was one of the founders of the firm that became Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner. He co-founded TCB in 1998, Cressey & Company in 2008, and Frist Cressey Ventures in 2015 with longtime friend Senator Bill Frist.Bryan's leadership has been recognized by Fortune and Time magazines and was the subject of a feature article in Harvard Law Today. He is highly sought out to speak nationwide on healthcare, its future, and private equity investing. He serves on the board of many companies and was Chairman of a NYSE company (Belden).A member of the Chicago Business Hall of Fame, and Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, Bryan received his BS in Economics at the University of Washington and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School.PHILOSOPHY"The life of each person on earth has the same value as my life, or your life. No matter how bad a person is, or poor they are, or aged or ill, or mean, their life has the exact same importance as mine. This drives not just my attitude towards each person, but much of my behavior and actions."ABOVE AND BEYONDIn addition to his private equity firm, Cressey is the founder of Above and Beyond Recovery Center. Above and Beyond is a donor-funded addiction treatment facility in Chicago providing free services to the homeless and uninsured who would otherwise have no access to treatment. Above and Beyond employs evidence-based techniques, encouraging its clients to see the consequences of their behavior as something they can change by changing their beliefs about their lives—often complicated with challenging circumstances of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and addiction.www.bryancressey.comwww.livelifedriven.com

Ben Nelson has lived an iconic political life...two terms as Governor and two terms in the Senate as a Democrat in deep red Nebraska - and the key swing vote on landmark legislation from the Bush tax cuts to judicial votes to Obamacare. In this conversation, he talks his political career - beginning with his first Governor's race (starting at 0% and winning by 42 votes). And he goes into depth about his time in the Senate - weighing in on colleagues that impressed him and disappointed him, and touching on the themes of the breakdown of the body in his new book Death of the Senate.  IN THIS EPISODESenator Nelson reminisces about growing up in idyllic Western Nebraska…The significance of being an only child…A memorable first experience in the Nebraska's Governor's Office as a 17-year old…Senator Nelson talks about the importance of his political hero Senator George W. Norris…The value of a unicameral legislature…Why Senator Nelson gravitated toward Democrats despite growing up in very Republican turf…Senator Nelson's academic background in Philosophy…Winning his first race for Governor by 42 votes…Senator Nelson talks about his lone loss in the 1996  open Senate Seat…How he came back four years later to win a Senate race…Which of his new Senate colleagues were the biggest surprises to him?Senator Nelson pinpoints the transition from Trent Lott to Mitch McConnell as the start of the breakdown of the Senate…Senator Nelson talks his vote for the Bush tax cuts…Did he get close to switching parties?Senator Nelson explains his early primary endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton?Senator Nelson walks through the process that led to the passage of the ACA Obamacare…Setting the record straight on the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback”…The letter Senator Nelson wrote correcting Justice Scalia…Why did Senator Nelson forgo running for re-election in 2012?Senator Nelson's “rough” perspective on Donald Trump…Weighing in on the debate over eliminating the filibuster…Senator Nelson's advice on hiring and managing…Senator Nelson's itinerary for getting the Nebraska Experience…AND….Barbara Boxer, John Breaux, burrow-crats, Robert Byrd, Dick Cheney, circuit breakers, conference committees, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Chuck Hagel, hollow math, the Hyde Amendment, Interstate-80, Jeffersonian principles, JFK, kooks, Lala Land, laboratories of democracy, Joe Lieberman, Trent Lott, making it rain, Joe Manchin, One Nebraska, party theology, Harry Reid, ridiculous carrots, sophists and skeptics, Tom Sawyer, Saul Shorr, Olympia Snowe, so-called autobiographies, stare decisis, Toadstool Park, unfunded mandates, Wildcat Hills, & more!

Ken Abraham is a New York Times best-selling author, known around the world for his collaborations with popular celebrities and fascinating, high-profile public figures such as Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, mega-church minister, Joel Osteen; actor Chuck Norris; 9/11 widow, Lisa Beamer; NFL football coach and NASCAR team owner, Joe Gibbs; psychologist, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Senator Bob Dole, Neil Clark Warren, founder of e-Harmony.com; former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; champion boxer and entrepreneur, George Foreman; country music icon, Randy Travis, and ASCAP's Gospel songwriter of the century, Bill Gaither. Ken wrote the New York Times bestseller, WALK TO BEAUTIFUL, with country music artist Jimmy Wayne, a former foster child who walked 1,700 miles across America to raise awareness about foster kids. Ken's most recent New York Times bestsellers include NO DREAM IS TOO HIGH, with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin; and MORE THAN RIVALS, a gripping story of racial conflict and reconciliation, based on actual events. At present, Ken has more than twelve million books in print. Fifteen of Ken's collaborations have attained New York Times bestseller status, with three books soaring to the number one spot on that prestigious list. Ken worked with Lisa Beamer, widow of United Flight 93 hero, Todd Beamer to create the number one New York Times best-seller, LET'S ROLL! (Tyndale House Publishers, August, 2002), Lisa's story of hope in the midst of crisis. Ken collaborated with Joel Osteen to “get his heart on paper,” resulting in the runaway number one New York Times bestseller, YOUR BEST LIFE NOW (Time Warner, Warner-Faith, October, 2004) and the number one New York Times bestseller, BECOME A BETTER YOU (Simon & Schuster, Free Press, 2007). Ken and Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, produced the international bestseller in 2016, NO DREAM IS TOO HIGH (National Geographic), life lessons from a man who walked on the moon. Filled with personal anecdotes, wit, and insight, this book resonates with anyone risking a new adventure in his or her life, whether exploring a new career, new city, or a new relationship. One of Ken's most gripping works is a deeply personal story told by the author, WHEN YOUR PARENT BECOMES YOUR CHILD (Thomas Nelson, October, 2012), in which he chronicles his own journey through his mother's struggle with dementia. Ken is the sole author of nine books, including DON'T BITE THE APPLE ‘TIL YOU CHECK FOR WORMS, THIS ISN'T THE TRIP I SIGNED UP FOR, UNMASKING THE MYTHS OF MARRIAGE, and STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK! Buy Ken Abraham's Books on Amazon: Magnificent Desolation: https://amzn.to/3mqkp2X No Dream Is Too High - Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon: https://amzn.to/3kiPUJB Against All Odds - My Story with Chuck Norris: https://amzn.to/381AtA2 Payne Stewart - The Authorized Biography: https://amzn.to/3gpOLij Fairways - Inspiration for the Golf Enthusiast: https://amzn.to/383Mip8 More Than Rivals - A Championship Game and a Friendship That Moved a Town Beyond Black and White: https://amzn.to/2W9msOw Let's Roll! - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage (with Lisa Beamer, widow of United Flight 93 hero, Todd Beamer): https://amzn.to/3D9Y5kb When Your Parent Becomes Your Child - A Journey of Faith Through My Mother's Dementia: https://amzn.to/3kkurAl

In perhaps the most essential episode of the series, Andy gets a real sense of where we are now in the scientific response to COVID-19 with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner under President Trump. In this riveting conversation, they cover the science, the politics, and the policies that got us here and will lead us out. They also discuss the importance of their bipartisanship work together and Scott's forthcoming book, Uncontrolled Spread.   Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt.    Follow Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Twitter @ScottGottliebMD. Check out In the Bubble's Twitter account @inthebubblepod.   Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Support the show by checking out our sponsors!   Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/    Check out these resources from today's episode:    Watch Andy's interview with Sen. Bill Frist about his book, Preventable: https://www.c-span.org/video/?511975-1/after-words-andy-slavitt#! Read the study Scott mentioned about repeat infections in Denmark: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00575-4/fulltext Here's the latest on the effort to develop a COVID-19 antiviral pill: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/u-s-pledges-3b-plus-for-covid-19-antiviral-pill-within-a-year Learn more about the letter Andy and Scott co-wrote last year about contract tracing: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845165404/ex-officials-call-for-46-billion-for-tracing-isolating-in-next-coronavirus-packa Check out Scott's book, Uncontrolled Spread: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/uncontrolled-spread-scott-gottlieb?variant=39344420356130 Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/  Order Andy's book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165    Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For years there has been an ongoing debate about the causes of medical malpractice liability insurance premium spikes and their impact on access to care and defensive medicine. State legislatures responded to premium spikes by enacting damages caps on noneconomic, punitive, or total damages, and Congress has periodically debated the merits of a federal cap on damages in medical malpractice cases.Yet, there has been a shortage of evidence in support of the narrative that excessive damage awards are responsible for such premium spikes. What did cause those premium spikes? What effect did state‐​level medical malpractice reform have? Did it reduce frivolous litigation? Did it improve access to health care and/​or reduce defensive medicine? Both sides in the debate have strong opinions, but their positions are mostly based on anecdotes.In a new book, Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn't Helped, a politically diverse team of researchers provide an accessible, fact‐​based response to the questions that ordinary Americans and policymakers have about the performance of the medical malpractice litigation system.Join us to hear coauthor Dr. David A. Hyman, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute; Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company; and Dr. Bill Frist, a former U.S. senator, hold a lively discussion on the medical malpractice litigation system and the effects of limiting the right of malpractice victims to recover. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is the U.S. Senate Still the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body? Alex Vogel, CEO of The Vogel Group, the former Chief Counsel to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., a lawyer and expert on federal regulatory and legislative strategy speaks with host Richard Levick of LEVICK about today’s Senate. Is it still the same after Harry Reid’s nuclear option, the denial to President Obama of hearings for a Supreme Court justice and the rushing of confirmation hearings at the end of President Trump’s term, and the January 6th insurrection? Is bipartisanship still possible or even a good thing? What happens to the filibuster, PAC funding, debt and the infrastructure bill? Alex has views on all and generously shares them with us.

Expanding your search and stopping for directions podcast welcomes NY Times best selling author Ken Abraham to the show. @expandingsearch @brentthebigdog Ken Abraham is a New York Times best-selling author, known around the world for his collaborations with popular celebrities and fascinating, high-profile public figures such as Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, mega-church minister, Joel Osteen; actor Chuck Norris; 9/11 widow, Lisa Beamer; NFL football coach and NASCAR team owner, Joe Gibbs; psychologist, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Senator Bob Dole, Neil Clark Warren, founder of e-Harmony.com; former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; champion boxer and entrepreneur, George Foreman; country music icon, Randy Travis, and ASCAP's Gospel songwriter of the century, Bill Gaither.  Fifteen books on which Ken has collaborated have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers lists, with three of Ken's works reaching the number one position.  In our talk, Ken and I discuss some of his past classics and his next big project.......#expandingyour #expandingyoursearch #stopping #stoppingfordirections #expanding #podcast #encouraging #positive #jodbailey #communication #growingourcircles #positiveconversations #encouragingcommunications #authenticmessaging #brentbailey   #knowledge #faith  #expandingpodcast #expandingyourpodcast #stoppingfordirectionspodcast #fearvslove #KenAbraham #LetsRoll #Author #NYTIMESBESTSELLER #YourBestLifeNow, #NoDreamIsTooHigh #MoreThanRivalsSupport the show (https://directionchurch.churchcenter.com/giving)

Today's guest was recorded while on location with a client in Germany, Imre Varju MD, PhD, MPH, CHES Imre Varju aims at improving health on every level - from molecules to whole populations. Imre Varju, Fulbright Scholar holding an MD and a PhD in molecular medicine, a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a certificate in Health Communication from Columbia University, and a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) certification. Over the past 10+ years, Imre Varju has gained insight into a range of areas: -As a health communications specialist and behavior strategist for a major, multi-award winning healthcare and pharma advertising company, he helped design medical and health education strategy for a variety of drugs based on clinical trial data, using behavior science as well as adult learning and health literacy principles. -As a health communications consultant for public health NGOs, Imre has carried out needs assessments and helped design health promotion interventions and online social marketing campaigns to tackle widespread health issues such as diabetes, social isolation, or the opioid crisis with the help of artificial intelligence and chatbot development. -As a health advocate and health/science communicator, he published in public print media, hold webinars and give TV interviews, using his experience in public speaking to translate complex scientific topics for a range of lay audiences from Budapest (European Night of the Researchers events, OzoneTV) to New York (Fulbright Association events). -At the same time, as a seminar lead and lecturer in higher education, Imre Varju has been teaching and assisting 1000+ medical and public health students from all around the world, in three languages, within the areas of medical biochemistry, environmental, biological, and social determinants of health, leadership development, and strategy in health communications.  Behavioral Health & the Policies Practiced: focused on how health behavior is at the heart of COVID reactions Public Health Policy around 'a new world' - we spend some time on this with so many different aspects of policy around the world that it is hard to generally discuss: but we can talked about why policies alone are not a perfect solution (if people feel they are forced to do something they don't believe in) This Pandemic is Different, much different  The lack of Health Literacy & the Pharmacist's Opportunity  Herd Immunity in promoting "Evidence Based Data" (fighting Fake News)  To Mask or Not to Mask shouldn't be a discussion but it needs addressed  References:  https://jhealthcomm.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/why-we-are-not-listening/ https://fulbrightsplitscreen.com/articles/imre-varju/ http://science-union.org/articlelist/2020/3/28/in-conversation-with-dr-imre-varju-medical-scientist-amp-public-health-communiation-specialist Also, random fact that in my past academic research I had been focusing on neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which are now suspected as part of the pathogenesis of COVID complications. https://www.cshl.edu/global-network-studies-role-of-immune-cells-in-covid-19-deaths/ Review on NETs: https://www.thrombosisresearch.com/article/S0049-3848(19)30326-3/fulltext Special Intro from Senator Bill Frist, M.D. from "A Second Opinion Podcast"  https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/about/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Michael Abramoff is the founder and executive chairman of IDX Technologies, the artificial intelligence diagnostic company that became the very first company in any field of medicine to get FDA approval for completely autonomous artificial intelligence. His remarkable instruments can independently analyze images of the retina for early signs of diabetic eye disease that thousands lose their vision to each year. This is the first in a three-part series on innovation in medicine and health. I'm your host, Senator Bill Frist. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today on A Second Opinion, we bring you our third special episode in our continuing series of providing the most up to date coverage on the 2019 novel coronavirus. This is important information you can use today directly from the most trusted source, the CDC. I'm your host, Senator Bill Frist. We're joined today by Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's played leadership roles in CDC emergency responses including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza response, the 2003 SARS outbreak, and the 2001 bioterrorist anthrax response. We are taping on Wednesday, March 11th. This is a rapidly evolving epidemic changing day by day. So please continue to follow the very latest recommendations by the CDC. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Seema Verma is the Administrator for CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She oversees the federal agency that provides vital healthcare programs to over 100 million Americans. There, she is aggressively pushing regulatory change to reduce administrative burdens on providers and improve transparency and outcomes for patients. I'm your host, Senator Bill Frist. We are broadcasting from the Lake Nona Impact Forum in Lake Nona Medical City, Florida. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Senator Bill Frist is no stranger to American health and healthcare. He is an accomplished heart and lung transplant surgeon, as well as a two-term United States Senator representing Tennessee. Now he is using his influence to connect with leaders and innovators to bring awareness and understanding to more than just healthcare, but health in general. Listen, and hear Dr. Frist's second opinion.

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 69, originally published in August 2012. As the face of business evolves, more small and medium businesses are outsourcing work to remote employees or independent contractors versus maintaining the brick and mortar offices with onsite employees. The advances in technology have made it possible to find employees and contractors around the world. But what kinds of work should be done remotely, what can be effectively outsourced overseas or should be U.S. based, and how does an employer keep workers accountable? Jason Hartman visits with Leadership IQ founder and CEO, Mark Murphy, about these questions. Mark explains outcome-based management techniques, such as deadlines for projects, technologies to monitor employees, and various instant messaging programs to check in. Mark encourages outcome-based work accountability over technological monitoring to build a healthy relationship and accountability with workers. Mark also discusses screening and hiring from the remote workforce, describing the personality types that work best remotely. Additionally, he shares the importance of good leadership, stressing that leaders need to be much more explicit and transparent, and have clear expectations with a clear “why.” One of the major sources of remote employee dissatisfaction is feeling left out of the loop. Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ.  He leads one of the world's largest studies on goal-setting and leadership, and his groundbreaking research has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, and hundreds more periodicals.  Mark has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC's 20/20, Fox Business News, and other top broadcasts. Mark has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Yale University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Florida. And his clients include Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, MD Anderson Cancer Center, FirstEnergy, Volkswagen and Johns Hopkins. Author of the new book Hiring for Attitude (McGraw-Hill; Dec. 9, 2011), Mark has also written the international bestseller Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They'll Give You Even More, as well as Hard Goals, The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention, and Generation Y and the New Rules of Management. Among his many honors, Mark was a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare's “Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award,” joining a list of 300 luminaries including Hillary Clinton and Bill Frist -- among only 15 consultants ever to be nominated to this list. He was also awarded the prestigious Healthcare Financial Management Association's “Helen Yerger Award for Best Research” for being the first person to discover the link between patient mortality rates and hospital finances.  Some of his other well-known research studies include “Are SMART Goals Dumb?,” “Why CEO's Get Fired,” “Why New Hires Fail” and “Don't Expect Layoff Survivors to Be Grateful.” Previously, Mark was President of a joint venture with Mercer Human Resources Consulting.  Prior to that he was a partner in the management consulting subsidiary of VHA, Inc., the world's largest healthcare consortium.  He holds degrees from the University of Buffalo, executive coursework at The Wharton School and an MBA from the University of Rochester.  He lives in Atlanta and Washington, DC. Website: www.LeadershipIQ.com

BONUS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16902912 Media critic Adam Johnson sheds light on United States of Care, the shadowy organization whose board members include health industry execs and right wing ex-Senator Bill Frist. Adam breaks down the mission statement's language & reveals how and why the organization takes the wind out of Medicare for All's sails. In our bonus we finish our chat with Adam and hear from health care writer Tim Faust who determines that the organization is the... output of a certain mammal. Stand by for even more bonus from health care writer Natalie Shure and my appearances on Struggle Session & the Jimmy Dore show.

0731 Thinking Aloud : Bill Frist

0724 Thinking Aloud : Bill Frist

Steve and Trevor talk to Senator Bill Frist, M.D. and Brad Smith, co-founders of Aspire Health, a leader in the palliative care space. During Senator Frist's years representing Tennessee in the Senate from 1994-2006, he served on both the Finance and the Health Committees; he was instrumental in passing the Medicare Modernization Act and was ultimately elected Majority Leader of the Senate in 2003, after which he played an integral role in passing the Affordable Care Act. Brad Smith is rising entrepreneur who spent his early career as Chief of Staff at the Tennessee Department of Economic Development. Senator Frist and Brad discuss the path to founding Aspire Health, what they've learned in their three years since their first patient, and what it means to create an end of life experience filled with humanity and healing. The two share their experiences and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Show 18 features Mat Thomas from In Defense of Animals (IDA) who talks about the latest technological innovation from NASA - Vat-Grown Meat. This space age invention could be the harbinger of a new era in animal compassion, where animals no longer need to be killed and meat eaters no longer need to be killers. But will it happen, and what would the implications be?This time on the Naked News: First is the much-anticipated decisions of the International Whaling Commission at their meeting this week in St. Kitts. Second is new legislation in NYC to ban the use of wild animals in circuses. Third is Bill Frist the kitten killing senate majority leader who we hope will never be our president. We will also be featuring a poem from Richard King and music from the latest issue of Herbivore Magazine.