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This week, we continue this murderous story, with Robert being a witness at the trial of 15 murders. He's quite the character on the stand, wearing his hair in a unique way, and brazenl;y showing no remorse for his murders. Yahweh himself also takes the stand to deny even having "followers", and claiming everyone is taking "kill white devils" the completly wrong way, and he actually only wants love & peace, while we just heard about brutal murder details. At the same time, people involved with the trial keep dying. Coincidence?   Take the witness stand & claim that even though you murdered, it wasn't your fault, wear your hair in a single braid, hanging off the left side of your head, and listen to Yahweh Ben Yahweh himself tell you how you have it it all wrong with Robert Rozier - Part 5!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports crimeinsports@gmail.com

England finished off their World Cup warmups with a 3-0 win over Costa Rica in Orlando, but only after they'd been made to wait by adverse weather. Declan Rice, Anthony Gordon and Ollie Watkins scored as attention now turns to the game against Croatia next week, as Thomas Tuchel's men look to finally bring football home. Back on domestic soil, one of England's stars is the subject of a mega-money bid from Manchester City. Elliot Anderson is a wanted man, with City reportedly having bid over £100m for the Nottingham Forest midfielder. Despite being no longer a Premier League side, Wolves are making headlines too. They've sacked Rob Edwards just days after he was instrumental in the signings of Kieran Trippier and Raul Jimenez, and are replacing him with Portuguese boss Cesar Peixoto. All that PLUS our World Cup Sweepstake draw on today's FSD! SUBSCRIBE NOW: https://footballsocialdaily.supportingcast.fm/ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/fsdpod?igsh=MjQ5d29veGdoMmZ4&utm_source=qr⁠  X: ⁠https://twitter.com/FSDPod⁠  TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@footballsocialdaily⁠  Telegram Group: ⁠https://t.me/FootballSocial⁠ Merch Store: ⁠https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FootballSocialDaily⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Donald Trump shared a lighthearted memory of his late mother during his speech commemorating America's 250th anniversary celebrations, noting her "crush" on King Charles.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

About 190 human bodies have been found in Houston bayous since 2017. Visit https://themetaphysical.tv for uncensored After Hours episodes, exclusive content, and access to a library of 1,000+ mind-expanding videos on hidden history, forbidden knowledge, and otherworldly topics! Nobody knows who is responsible for the mysterious deaths in the waterways, but many fear there's a serial killer on the loose. Bizarrely, the police have been able to find no official evidence of a serial killer. With heaps of bodies being found there every single year, though, a retired NYPD sergeant and criminal justice professor said, “Something is afoot. A coincidence? Unlikely.” You have to wonder how these missing people are winding up in the bayous and whether something else mysterious could be going on entirely. Some claim they've even seen a Houston bayou “creature” in the area, among the other strange beings that lurk in the Gulf Coast states. Are these sightings related? What's causing all these tragedies? Join investigative researcher Rob Counts and remote viewer John Vivanco for a Metaphysical show that's out of this world. In this episode: freaky true crime, the psychology of murderers, missing people cases, creatures like Mothman and Dogman, remote viewing data, addiction discussions, and more

At last, someone with some common sense in their head, some basic humanity in their heart, and some fundamental democratic values in their soul – is speaking out.Many someones, actually. Indeed, a coalition of dozens of progressive groups representing millions of Americans is uniting in straightforward populist opposition to the far-out right wing's loopy assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion.Bizarrely, Trump's menagerie of extremist Republican politicos has been waging a furious war against these basic egalitarian ideals, trying to turn DEI into a partisan bugaboo. That's goofy and ultimately self-defeating, for they are asking voters to reject their lifelong admiration for these positive social goals. Consider the value of D, E, and I:One, diversity. That's “us,” the marvelous mix of common people, cultures, and beliefs that gives America vitality and resilience.Two, equity. That's just another word for “fairness,” so why do they want to demonize that?Three, inclusion. Hello – that's what “democracy” means – we all belong and our voice matters.Yet, the Trumpians are using brute authoritarianism to try ripping these core democratic values out of the fabric of our society. And, pathetically, many major corporate powers, universities, media outlets, and other institutions that ought to stand against these Orwellian dictates, have pusillanimously capitulated, hoping the GOP's imperious regime will reward them with financial favors.When institutions fail the people, We the People have to rise up. That's the momentous rallying cry of some 70 nationwide groups of gutsy democracy fighters organized by Color of Change to stand up for the invaluable Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion that make America… America! To connect, go to ColorOfChange.org.Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimhightower.substack.com/subscribe

President Trump ordered a new offensive in Iran over the weekend, taking out top Iranian tyrants like Ayatollah Khamenei. Bizarrely, our media composed puffy obituaries for the Ayatollah and gave Iran's foreign minister a softball platform, unlike when they all pressure each other to be ever more hostile in questioning our elected president. 

As we take the week off to celebrate Groundhog Day (or something), we're re-airing this conversation with James Kessler of NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab. In it, Stuart and Carolyn speak with James Kessler of the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab about lake ice coverage, spaghetti diagrams, and shoveling snow for ice hockey. Enjoy!

In a case which shocked the city, a 56-year-old Londonderry man has been jailed for preventing the lawful burial of his father. Bizarrely, John Garrett O'Sullivan of Culmore Road, had kept his father's body in a fridge for days. Noel O'Sullivan, who was 86, died in July 2024, but the exact date and cause of death could not be verified. John Garrett O'Sullivan, who has a PhD but has never had a job or claimed benefits, pleaded guilty. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by court reporter, George Jackson. [Warning – some listeners may find some parts of this podcast disturbing] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We open this episode as we often do, by discussing today's current events. Then we bring you historical events that we find odd/strange/bizarre. Whether we are looking at a slice of life from the present or from days gone by, the human condition remains just plain weird.

It's often said online that if a product is free, you're the product, but what if that bargain was no longer true? What if, depending on the device you paid hard-earned money for, you still became a product yourself, to be measured, anonymized, collated, shared, or sold, often away from view?In 2024, a consumer rights group out of the UK teased this new reality when it published research into whether people's air fryers—seriously–might be spying on them.By analyzing the associated Android apps for three separate air fryer models from three different companies, researchers learned that these kitchen devices didn't just promise to make crispier mozzarella sticks, crunchier chicken wings, and flakier reheated pastries—they also wanted a lot of user data, from precise location to voice recordings from a user's phone.As the researchers wrote:“In the air fryer category, as well as knowing customers' precise location, all three products wanted permission to record audio on the user's phone, for no specified reason.”Bizarrely, these types of data requests are far from rare.Today, on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit a 2024 episode in which host David Ruiz tells three separate stories about consumer devices that somewhat invisibly collected user data and then spread it in unexpected ways. This includes kitchen utilities that sent data to China, a smart ring maker that published de-identified, aggregate data about the stress levels of its users, and a smart vacuum that recorded a sensitive image of a woman that was later shared on Facebook.These stories aren't about mass government surveillance, and they're not about spying, or the targeting of political dissidents. Their intrigue is elsewhere, in how common it is for what we say, where we go, and how we feel, to be collected and analyzed in ways we never anticipated.Tune in today.You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and whatever preferred podcast platform you use.For all our cybersecurity coverage, visit Malwarebytes Labs at malwarebytes.com/blog.Show notes and credits:Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro Music: “Good God” by Wowa (unminus.com)Listen up—Malwarebytes doesn't just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.Protect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium for Lock and Code listeners.

In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up.On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the “restrictions” that his company previously placed on their flagship product, ChatGPT, would be removed, allowing, perhaps, for “erotica” in the future.“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues,” Altman wrote on the platform X. “We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.”This wasn't the first time that OpenAI or its executive had addressed mental health.On August 26, OpenAI published a blog titled “Helping people when they need it most,” which explored new protections for users, including stronger safeguards for long conversations, better recognition of people in crisis, and easier access to outside emergency services and even family and friends. The blog alludes to “recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises,” but it never explains what, explicitly, that means.But on the very same day the blog was posted, OpenAI was sued for the alleged role that ChatGPT played in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy. According to chat logs disclosed in the lawsuit, the teenager spoke openly to the AI chatbot about suicide, he shared that he wanted to leave a noose in his room, and he even reportedly received an offer to help write a suicide note.Bizarrely, this tragedy plays a role in the larger story, because it was Altman himself who tied the company's mental health campaign to its possible debut of erotic content.“In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”What “erotica” entails is unclear, but one could safely assume it involves all the capabilities currently present in ChatGPT, through generative chat, of course, but also image generation. Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Deb Donig, on faculty at the UC Berkeley School of Information, about the ethics of AI erotica, the possible accountability that belongs to users and to OpenAI, and why intimacy with an AI-power chatbot feels so strange.“A chat bot offers, we might call it, ‘intimacy's performance,' without any of its substance, so you get all of the linguistic markers of connection, but no possibility for, for example, rejection. That's part of the human experience of a relationship.”Tune in today.You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and whatever preferred podcast platform you use.For all our cybersecurity coverage, visit Malwarebytes Labs at malwarebytes.com/blog.Show notes and credits:Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

On this episode, my guest is Stephen Jenkinson, culture activist and ceremonialist advocating a handmade life and eloquence. He is an author, a storyteller, a musician, sculptor and off-grid organic farmer. Stephen is the founder/ principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School in Canada, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. Also a sought-after workshop leader, articulating matters of the heart, human suffering, confusions through ceremony.He is the author of several influential books, including Money and the Soul's Desires, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), A Generation's Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), and Reckoning (2022), co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson. His most recent book, Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work, was released in August 2025. He is also involved in the musical project Nights of Grief & Mystery with singer-songwriter Gregory Hoskins, which has toured across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.Show Notes:* The Bone House of the Orphan Wisdom Enterprise* Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart's Work* The Wedding Industry* Romantic Sameness and Psychic Withering* The Two Tribes* The Roots of Hospitality* The Pompous Ending of Hospitality* Debt, And the Estrangement of the Stranger* More Than Human Hospitality* The Alchemy of the Orphan Wisdom SchoolHomework:Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work | PurchaseOrphan WisdomThe Scriptorium: Echoes of an Orphan WisdomTranscription:Chris: This is an interview that I've been wondering about for a long time in part, because Stephen was the first person I ever interviewed for the End of Tourism Podcast. In Oaxaca, Mexico, where I live Stephen and Natalie were visiting and were incredibly, incredibly generous. Stephen, in offering his voice as a way to raise up my questions to a level that deserve to be contended with.We spoke for about two and a half hours, if I remember correctly. And there was a lot in what you spoke to towards the second half of the interview that I think we're the first kind of iterations of the Matrimony book.We spoke a little bit about the stranger and trade, and it was kind of startling as someone trying to offer their first interview and suddenly hearing something [00:01:00] that I'd never heard before from Stephen. Right. And so it was quite impressive. And I'm grateful to be here now with y'all and to get to wonder about this a little more deeply with you Stephen.Stephen: Mm-hmm. Hmm.Chris: This is also a special occasion for the fact that for the first time in the history of the podcast, we have a live audience among us today. Strange doings. Some scholars and some stewards and caretakers of the Orphan Wisdom enterprise. So, thank you all as well for coming tonight and being willing to listen and put your ears to this.And so to begin, Stephen, I'm wondering if you'd be willing to let those who will be listening to this recording later on know where we're gathered in tonight?Stephen: Well, we're in... what's the name of this township?Nathalie: North Algona.Stephen: North Algona township on the borders, an eastern gate [00:02:00] of Algonquin Park. Strangely named place, given the fact that they were the first casualties of the park being established. And we're in a place that never should have been cleared - my farm. It should never have been cleared of the talls, the white pines that were here, but the admiralty was in need back in the day. And that's what happened there. And we're in a place that the Irish immigrants who came here after the famine called "Tramore," which more or less means "good-frigging luck farming."It doesn't technically mean that, but it absolutely means that. It actually means "sandy shore," which about covers the joint, and it's the only thing that covers the joint - would be sand. You have to import clay. Now, that's a joke in many farming places in the world, but if we wanted any clay, we'd have to bring it in and pay for the privilege.And the farm has been in [00:03:00] my, my responsibility for about 25 years now, pretty close to that. And the sheep, or those of them left because the coyotes have been around for the first time in their casualty-making way... They're just out here, I'm facing the field where they're milling around.And it's the very, very beginnings of the long cooling into cold, into frigid, which is our lot in this northern part of the hemisphere, even though it's still August, but it's clear that things have changed. And then, we're on a top of a little hill, which was the first place that I think that we may have convened a School here.It was a tipi, which is really worked very well considering we didn't live here, so we could put it up and put it down in the same weekend. [00:04:00] And right on this very hill, we were, in the early days, and we've replaced that tipi with another kind of wooden structure. A lot more wood in this one.This has been known as "The Teaching Hall" or "The Great Hall," or "The Hall" or "The Money Pit, as it was known for a little while, but it actually worked out pretty well. And it was I mean, people who've come from Scandinavia are knocked out by the kind of old-style, old-world visitation that the place seems to be to them.And I'd never really been before I had the idea what this should look like, but I just went from a kind of ancestral memory that was knocking about, which is a little different than your preferences, you know. You have different kinds of preferences you pass through stylistically through your life, but the ones that lay claim to you are the ones that are not interested in your [00:05:00] preferences. They're interested in your kind of inheritance and your lineage.So I'm more or less from the northern climes of Northern Europe, and so the place looks that way and I was lucky enough to still have my carving tools from the old days. And I've carved most of the beams and most of the posts that keep the place upright with a sort of sequence of beasts and dragons and ne'er-do-wells and very, very few humans, I think two, maybe, in the whole joint. Something like that. And then, mostly what festoons a deeply running human life is depicted here. And there's all kinds of stories, which I've never really sat down and spoken to at great length with anybody, but they're here.And I do deeply favour the idea that one day [00:06:00] somebody will stumble into this field, and I suppose, upon the remains of where we sit right now, and wonder "What the hell got into somebody?" That they made this mountain of timber moldering away, and that for a while what must have been, and when they finally find the footprint of, you know, its original dimensions and sort of do the wild math and what must have been going on in this sandy field, a million miles in away from its home.And wherever I am at that time, I'll be wondering the same thing.Audience: Hmm.Stephen: "What went on there?" Even though I was here for almost all of it. So, this was the home of the Orphan Wisdom School for more than a decade and still is the home of the Orphan Wisdom School, even if it's in advance, or in retreat [00:07:00] or in its doldrums. We'll see.And many things besides, we've had weddings in here, which is wherein I discovered "old-order matrimony," as I've come to call it, was having its way with me in the same way that the design of the place did. And it's also a grainery for our storage of corn. Keep it up off the ground and out of the hands of the varmints, you know, for a while.Well that's the beginning.Chris: Hmm. Hmm. Thank you Stephen.Stephen: Mm-hmm.Chris: You were mentioning the tipi where the school began. I remember sleeping in there the first time I came here. Never would I have thought for a million years that I'd be sitting here with you.Stephen: It's wild, isn't it?Chris: 12 years later.?: Yeah.Chris: And so next, I'd like to do my best in part over the course of the next perhaps hour or two to congratulate you on the release of [00:08:00] your new book, Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work.Stephen: Thank you.Chris: Mm-hmm. I'm grateful to say like many others that I've received a copy and have lent my eyes to your good words, and what is really an incredible achievement.For those who haven't had a chance to lay their eyes on it just yet, I'm wondering if you could let us in on why you wrote a book about matrimony in our time and where it stands a week out from its publication.Stephen: Well, maybe the answer begins with the question, "why did you write a book, having done so before?" And you would imagine that the stuff that goes into writing a book, you'd think that the author has hopes for some kind of redemptive, redeeming outcome, some kind of superlative that drops out the back end of the enterprise.And you know, this is [00:09:00] the seventh I've written. And I would have to say that's not really how it goes, and you don't really know what becomes of what you've written, even with the kind people who do respond, and the odd non-monetary prize that comes your way, which Die Wise gamed that.But I suppose, I wrote, at all partly to see what was there. You know, I had done these weddings and I was a little bit loathe to let go, to let the weddings turn entirely into something historical, something that was past, even though I probably sensed pretty clearly that I was at the end of my willingness to subject myself to the slings and arrows that came along with the enterprise, but it's a sweet sorrow, or there's a [00:10:00] wonder that goes along with the tangle of it all. And so, I wrote to find out what happened, as strange as that might sound to you. You can say, "well, you were there, you kind of knew what happened." But yes, I was witness to the thing, but there's the act of writing a book gives you the opportunity to sort of wonder in three-dimensions and well, the other thing I should say is I was naive and figured that the outfit who had published the, more or less prior two books to this one, would kind of inevitably be drawn to the fact that same guy. Basically, same voice, new articulation. And I was dumbfounded to find out that they weren't. And so, it's sort of smarted, you know?And I think what I did was I just set the whole [00:11:00] enterprise aside, partly to contend with the the depths of the disappointment in that regard, and also not wanting to get into the terrible fray of having to parse or paraphrase the book in some kind of elevator pitch-style to see if anybody else wanted to look at it. You know, such as my touchy sense of nobility sometimes, you know, that I just rather not be involved in the snarl of the marketplace any longer.So, I withdrew and I just set it aside but it wasn't that content to be set, set aside. And you know, to the book's credit, it bothered me every once in a while. It wasn't a book at the point where I was actually trying to engineer it, you know, and, and give it some kind of structure. I had piles of paper on the floor representing the allegation of chapters, trying to figure out what the relationship was [00:12:00] between any of these things.What conceivably should come before what. What the names of any of these things might be. Did they have an identity? Was I just imposing it? And all of that stuff I was going through at the same time as I was contending with a kind of reversal in fortune, personally. And so in part, it was a bit of a life raft to give me something to work on that I wouldn't have to research or dig around in the backyard for it and give me some sort of self-administered occupation for a while.Finally, I think there's a parallel with the Die Wise book, in that when it came to Die Wise, I came up with what I came up with largely because, in their absolute darkest, most unpromising hours, an awful lot of dying people, all of whom are dead now, [00:13:00] let me in on some sort of breach in the, the house of their lives.And I did feel that I had some obligation to them long-term, and that part of that obligation turned into writing Die Wise and touring and talking about that stuff for years and years, and making a real fuss as if I'd met them all, as if what happened is really true. Not just factually accurate, but deeply, abidingly, mandatorily true.So, although it may be the situation doesn't sound as extreme, but the truth is, when a number of younger - than me - people came to me and asked me to do their weddings, I, over the kind of medium-term thereafter, felt a not dissimilar obligation that the events that ensued from all of that not [00:14:00] be entrusted entirely to those relatively few people who attended. You know, you can call them "an audience," although I hope I changed that. Or you could call them "witnesses," which I hope I made them that.And see to it that there could be, not the authorized or official version of what happened, but to the view from here, so to speak, which is, as I sit where I am in the hall right now, I can look at the spot where I conducted much of this when I wasn't sacheting up and down the middle aisle where the trestle tables now are.And I wanted to give a kind of concerted voice to that enterprise. And I say "concerted voice" to give you a feel for the fact that I don't think this is a really an artifact. It's not a record. It's a exhortation that employs the things that happened to suggest that even though it is the way it is [00:15:00] ritually, impoverished as it is in our time and place, it has been otherwise within recoverable time and history. It has.And if that's true, and it is, then it seems to me at least is true that it could be otherwise again. And so, I made a fuss and I made a case based on that conviction.There's probably other reasons I can't think of right now. Oh, being not 25 anymore, and not having that many more books in me, the kind of wear and tear on your psyche of imposing order on the ramble, which is your recollection, which has only so many visitations available in it. Right? You can only do that so many times, I think. And I'm not a born writing person, you know, I come to it maniacally when I [00:16:00] do, and then when it's done, I don't linger over it so much.So then, when it's time to talk about it, I actually have to have a look, because the act of writing it is not the act of reading it. The act of writing is a huge delivery and deliverance at the same time. It's a huge gestation. And you can't do that to yourself, you know, over and over again, but you can take some chances, and look the thing in the eye. So, and I think some people who are there, they're kind of well-intended amongst them, will recognize themselves in the details of the book, beyond "this is what happened and so on." You know, they'll recognize themselves in the advocacy that's there, and the exhortations that are there, and the [00:17:00] case-making that I made and, and probably the praying because there's a good degree of prayerfulness in there, too.That's why.Chris: Thank you. bless this new one in the world. And what's the sense for you?Stephen: Oh, yes.Chris: It being a one-week old newborn. How's that landing in your days?Stephen: Well, it's still damp, you know. It's still squeaky, squeaky and damp. It's walking around like a newborn primate, you know, kind of swaying in the breeze and listening to port or to starboard according to whatever's going on.I don't know that it's so very self-conscious in the best sense of that term, yet. Even though I recorded the audio version, I don't think [00:18:00] it's my voice is found every nook and cranny at this point, yet. So, it's kind of new. It's not "news," but it is new to me, you know, and it's very early in terms of anybody responding to it.I mean, nobody around me has really taken me aside and say, "look, now I want to tell you about this book you wrote." It hasn't happened, and we'll see if it does, but I've done a few events on the other side of the ocean and hear so far, very few, maybe handful of interviews. And those are wonderful opportunities to hear something of what you came up with mismanaged by others, you know, misapprehend, you could say by others.No problem. I mean, it's absolutely no problem. And if you don't want that to happen, don't talk, don't write anything down. So, I don't mind a bit, you know, and the chances are very good that it'll turn into things I didn't have in mind [00:19:00] as people take it up, and regard their own weddings and marriages and plans and schemes and fears and, you know, family mishigas and all the rest of it through this particular lens, you know. They may pick up a pen or a computer (it's an odd expression, "pick up a computer"), and be in touch with me and let me know. "Yeah, that was, we tried it" or whatever they're going to do, because, I mean, maybe Die Wise provided a bit of an inkling of how one might be able to proceed otherwise in their dying time or in their families or their loved ones dying time.This is the book that most readily lends itself to people translating into something they could actually do, without a huge kind of psychic revolution or revolt stirring in them, at least not initially. This is as close as I come, probably, to writing a sequence of things [00:20:00] that could be considered "add-ons" to what people are already thinking about, that I don't force everybody else outta the house in order to make room for the ideas that are in the book. That may happen, anyway, but it wasn't really the intent. The intent was to say, you know, we are in those days when we're insanely preoccupied with the notion of a special event. We are on the receiving end of a considerable number of shards showing up without any notion really about what these shards remember or are memories of. And that's the principle contention I think that runs down the spine of the book, is that when we undertake matrimony, however indelicately, however by rote, you know, however mindlessly we may do it, [00:21:00] inadvertently, we call upon those shards nonetheless.And they're pretty unspectacular if you don't think about them very deeply, like the rice or confetti, like the aisle, like the procession up the aisle, like the giving away of someone, like the seating arrangement, like the spectacle seating arrangement rather than the ritual seating arrangement.And I mean, there's a fistful of them. And they're around and scholars aside maybe, nobody knows why they do them. Everybody just knows, "this is what a wedding is," but nobody knows why. And because nobody knows why, nobody really seems to know what a wedding is for, although they do proceed like they would know a wedding if they saw one. So, I make this a question to be really wondered about, and the shards are a way in. They're the kind of [00:22:00] breadcrumb trail through the forest. They're the little bits of broken something, which if you begin to handle just three or four of them, and kind of fit them together, and find something of the original shape and inflection of the original vessel, kind of enunciates, begins to murmur in your hands, and from it you can begin to infer some three-dimensionality to the original shape. And from the sense of the shape, you get a set sense of contour, and from the sense of contour, you get a sense of scale or size. And from that you get a sense of purpose, or function, or design. And from that you get a sense of some kind of serious magisterial insight into some of the fundament of human being that was manifest in the "old-order matrimony," [00:23:00] as I came to call it.So, who wouldn't wanna read that book?Chris: Mm-hmm.Thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you, Stephen. Yeah. It reminds me, just before coming up here, maybe two weeks ago, I was in attending a wedding. And there was a host or mc, and initially just given what I was hearing over the microphone, it was hard to tell if he was hired or family or friends. And it turned out he was, in fact, a friend of the groom. And throughout the night he proceeded to take up that role as a kind of comedian.Audience: Mm-hmm.Chris: This was the idea, I guess. Mm-hmm. And he was buzzing and mumbling and swearing into the microphone, [00:24:00] and then finally minimizing the only remnant of traditional culture that showed up in the wedding. And his thing was, okay, so when can we get to the part where it's boom, boom, boom, right. And shot, shot, shot, whatever.Stephen: Right.Chris: There was so much that came up in my memories in part because I worked about a decade in Toronto in the wedding industry.Mm-hmm. Hospitality industry. Maybe a contradiction in terms, there. And there was one moment that really kind of summed it up. I kept coming back to this reading the book because it was everything that you wrote seemed to not only antithetical to this moment, but also an antidote.Anyways, it was in North Toronto and the [00:25:00] owner of the venue - it was a kind of movie theatre turned event venue - and there was a couple who was eventually going to get married there. They came in to do their tasting menu to see what they wanted to put on the menu for the dinner, for their wedding.And the owner was kind of this mafioso type. And he comes in and he sees them and he walks over and he says, "so, you're gonna get married at my wedding factory."Audience: Mm-hmm.Chris: In all sincerity.Stephen: Mm-hmm.Chris: Right.Without skipping a beat. Could you imagine?Stephen: Yeah.I could. I sure could.Chris: Yeah. Yeah.Stephen: I mean, don't forget, if these people weren't doing what the people wanted, they'd be outta business.Audience: Mm-hmm.Stephen: No, that's the thing. This is aiding and abetting. This is sleeping with the enemy, stylistically-speaking. [00:26:00] The fact that people "settle" (that's the term I would use for it), settle for this, the idea being that this somehow constitutes the most honest and authentic through line available to us is just jaw dropping. When you consider what allegedly this thing is supposed to be for. I mean, maybe we'll get into this, but I'll just leave this as a question for now. What is that moment allegedly doing?Not, what are the people in it allegedly doing? The moment itself, what is it? How is it different from us sitting here now talking about it? And how is it different from the gory frigging jet-fuelled aftermath of excess. And how's it different from the cursing alleged master of ceremonies? How can you [00:27:00] tell none of those things belong to this thing?And why do you have such a hard time imagining what doesAudience: Hmm mmChris: Well that leads me to my next question.Stephen: Ah, you're welcome.Chris: So, I've pulled a number of quotes from the book to read from over the course of the interview. And this one for anyone who's listening is on page 150. And you write Stephen,"Spiritually-speaking, most of the weddings in our corner of the world are endogamous affairs, inward-looking. What is, to me, most unnerving is that they can be spiritually-incestuous. The withering of psychic difference between people is the program of globalization. It is in the architecture of most things partaking of the internet, and it is in the homogeneity of our matrimony. [00:28:00] It is this very incestuous that matrimony was once crafted and entered into to avoid and subvert. Now, it grinds upon our differences until they are details.And so, this paragraph reminded me of a time in my youth when I seemed to be meeting couples who very eerily looked like each other. No blood or extended kin relation whatsoever, and yet they had very similar faces. And so as I get older, this kind of face fidelity aside, I continue to notice that people looking for companionship tend to base their search on similitude, on shared interests, customs, experiences, shared anything and everything. This, specifically, in opposition to those on the other side of the aisle or spectrum, to difference or divergence. And so, opposites don't attract anymore. I'm curious what you think this psychic [00:29:00] withering does to an achieve understanding of matrimony.Stephen: Well, I mean, let's wonder what it does to us, generally, first before we get to matrimony, let's say. It demonizes. Maybe that's too strong, but it certainly reconstitutes difference as some kind of affliction, some kind of not quite good enough, some kind of something that has to be overcome or overwhelmed on the road to, to what? On the road to sameness? So, if that's the goal, then are all of the differences between us, aberrations of some kind, if that's the goal? If that's the goal, are all the [00:30:00] differences between us, not God-given, but humanly misconstrued or worse? Humanly wrought? Do the differences between us conceivably then belong at all? Or is the principle object of the entire endeavor to marry yourself, trying to put up with the vague differences that the other person represents to you?I mean, I not very jokingly said years ago, that I coined a phrase that went something like "the compromise of infinity, which is other people." What does that mean? "The compromise of infinity, which is other people." Not to mention it's a pretty nice T-shirt. But what I meant by the [00:31:00] phrase is this: when you demonize difference in this fashion or when you go the other direction and lionize sameness, then one of the things that happens is that compromise becomes demonized, too. Compromise, by definition, is something you never should have done, right? Compromise is how much you surrender of yourself in order to get by. That's what all these things become. And before you know it, you're just beaten about the head and shoulders about "codependence" and you know, not being "true to yourself" as if being true to yourself is some kind of magic.I mean, the notion that "yourself is the best part of you" is just hilarious. I mean, when you think about it, like who's running amuck if yourself is what you're supposed to be? I ask you. Like, who's [00:32:00] doing the harm? Who's going mental if the self is such a good idea? So, of course, I'm maintaining here that I'm not persuaded that there is such a thing.I think it's a momentary lapse in judgment to have a self and to stick to it. That's the point I'm really making to kind of reify it until it turns ossified and dusty and bizarrely adamant like that estranged relative that lives in the basement of your house. Bizarrely, foreignly adamant, right? Like the house guest who just won't f**k off kind of thing.Okay, so "to thine own self be true," is it? Well, try being true to somebody else's self for ten minutes. Try that. [00:33:00] That's good at exercise for matrimony - being true to somebody else's self. You'll discover that their selves are not made in heaven, either. Either. I underscore it - either. I've completely lost track of the question you asked me.Chris: What are the consequences of the sameness on this anti-cultural sameness, and the program of it for an achieved understanding of matrimony.Stephen: Thank you. Well, I will fess up right now. I do so in the book. That's a terrible phrase. I swear I'd never say such a thing. "In my book... I say the following," but in this case, it's true. I did say this. I realized during the writing of it that I had made a tremendous tactical error in the convening of the event as I did it over the years, [00:34:00] and this is what it came to.I was very persuaded at the time of the story that appears in the chapter called "Salt and Indigo" in the book. I was very, very persuaded. I mean, listen, I made up the story (for what it's worth), okay, but I didn't make it up out of nothing. I made it up out of a kind of tribal memory that wouldn't quite let go.And in it, I was basically saying, here's these two tribes known principally for what they trade in and what they love most emphatically. They turn out to be the same thing. And I describe a circumstance in which they exchange things in a trade scenario, not a commerce scenario. And I'm using the chapter basically to make the case that matrimony's architecture derives in large measure from the sacraments of trade as manifest in that story. [00:35:00] Okay. And this is gonna sound obvious, but the fundamental requirement of the whole conceit that I came up with is that there are two tribes. Well, I thought to myself, "of course, there's always two tribes" at the time. And the two tribe-ness is reflected in when you come to the wedding site, you're typically asked (I hope you're still asked) " Are you family or friend of the groom or friend of the bride?" And you're seated "accordingly," right? That's the nominal, vestigial shard of this old tribal affiliation, that people came from over the rise, basically unknown to each other, to arrive at the kind of no man's land of matrimony, and proceeded accordingly. So, I put these things into motion in this very room and I sat people accordingly facing each other, not facing the alleged front of the room. [00:36:00] And of course, man, nobody knew where to look, because you raised your eyes and s**t. There's just humans across from you, just scads of them who you don't freaking know. And there's something about doing that to North Americas that just throws them. So, they're just looking at each other and then looking away, and looking at each other and looking away, and wondering what they're doing here and what it's for. And I'm going back and forth for three hours, orienting them as to what is is coming.Okay, so what's the miscalculation that I make? The miscalculation I made was assuming that by virtue of the seating arrangement, by virtue of me reminding them of the salt and indigo times, by virtue of the fact that they had a kind of allegiance of some sort or another to the people who are, for the moment, betrothed, that those distinctions and those affiliations together would congeal them, and constitute a [00:37:00] kind of tribal affiliation that they would intuitively be drawn towards as you would be drawn to heat on a cold winter's night.Only to discover, as I put the thing into motion that I was completely wrong about everything I just told you about. The nature of my error was this, virtually all of those people on one side of the room were fundamentally of the same tribe as the people on the other side of the room, apropos of your question, you see. They were card carrying members of the gray dominant culture of North America. Wow. The bleached, kind of amorphous, kind of rootless, ancestor-free... even regardless of whether their people came over in the last generation from the alleged old country. It doesn't really claim them.[00:38:00]There were two tribes, but I was wrong about who they were. That was one tribe. Virtually everybody sitting in the room was one tribe.So, who's the other tribe? Answer is: me and the four or five people who were in on the structural delivery of this endeavour with me. We were the other tribe.We didn't stand a chance, you see?And I didn't pick up on that, and I didn't cast it accordingly and employ that, instead. I employed the conceit that I insisted was manifest and mobilized in the thing, instead of the manifest dilemma, which is that everybody who came knew what a wedding was, and me and four or five other people were yet to know if this could be one. That was the tribal difference, if you [00:39:00] will.So, it was kind of invisible, wasn't it? Even to me at the time. Or, I say, maybe especially to me at the time. And so, things often went the way they went, which was for however much fascination and willingness to consider that there might have been in the room, there was quite a bit more either flat affect and kind of lack of real fascination, or curiosity, or sometimes downright hostility and pushback. Yeah.So, all of that comes from the fact that I didn't credit as thoroughly as I should have done, the persistence in Anglo-North America of a kind of generic sameness that turned out to be what most people came here ancestrally to become. "Starting again" is recipe for culture [00:40:00] loss of a catastrophic order. The fantasy of starting again. Right?And we've talked about that in your podcast, and you and I have talked about it privately, apropos of your own family and everybody's sitting in this room knows what I'm talking about. And when does this show up? Does it show up, oh, when you're walking down the street? Does it show up when you're on the mountaintop? Does it show up in your peak experiences? And the answer is "maybe." It probably shows up most emphatically in those times when you have a feeling that something special is supposed to be so, and all you can get from the "supposed to" is the allegation of specialness.Audience: Mm-hmm.Stephen: And then, you look around in the context of matrimony and you see a kind of febral, kind of strained, the famous bridezilla stuff, all of that stuff. [00:41:00] You saw it in the hospitality industry, no doubt. You know, the kind of mania for perfection, as if perfection constitutes culture. Right? With every detail checked off in the checkbox, that's culture. You know, as if everything goes off without a hitch and there's no guffaws. And in fact, anybody could reasonably make the case, "Where do you think culture appears when the script finally goes f*****g sideways?" That's when. And when you find out what you're capable of, ceremonially.And generally speaking, I think most people discovered that their ceremonial illiteracy bordered on the bottomless.That's when you find out. Hmm.Chris: Wow.Stephen: Yeah. And that's why people, you know, in speech time, they reach in there and get that piece of paper, and just look at it. Mm-hmm. They don't even look up, terrified that they're gonna go off script for a minute as [00:42:00] if the Gods of Matrimony are a scripted proposition.Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that with us, that degree of deep reflection and humility that I'm sure comes with it.Stephen: Mea Culpa, baby. Yeah, I was, I got that one totally wrong. Mm-hmm. And I didn't know it at the time. Meanwhile, like, how much can you transgress and have the consequences of doing so like spill out across the floor like a broken thermometer's mercury and not wise up.But of course, I was as driven as anybody. I was as driven to see if I could come through with what I promised to do the year before. And keeping your promise can make you into a maniac.Audience: Hmm hmm.Chris: But I imagine that, you [00:43:00] know, you wouldn't have been able to see that even years later if you didn't say yes in the first place.Stephen: Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I wouldn't have been able to make the errors.Chris: Right.Stephen: Right. Yeah. I mean, as errors go, this is not a mortal sin. Right, right. And you could chalk it up to being a legitimate miscalculation. Well, so? All I'm saying is, it turns out I was there too, and it turns out, even though I was allegedly the circus master of the enterprise, I wasn't free and clear of the things we were all contending with, the kind of mortality and sort of cultural ricketiness that were all heirs to. That's how I translated it, as it turns out.So, PS there was a moment, [00:44:00] which I don't remember which setting it was now, but there was a moment when the "maybe we'll see if she becomes a bride" bride's mother slid up to me during the course of the proceedings, and in a kind of stage whisper more or less hissed me as follows."Is this a real wedding?"I mean, that's not a question. Not in that setting, obviously not. That is an accusation. Right. And a withering one at that. And there was a tremendous amount of throw-down involved.So, was it? I mean, what we do know is that she did not go to any of the weddings [00:45:00] that she was thinking of at the time, and go to the front of the room where the celebrant is austerely standing there with the book, or the script, or the well-intentioned, or the self-penned vows and never hissed at him or her, "is this a real wedding?"Never once did she do that. We know that.Right.And I think we know why. But she was fairly persuaded she knew what a real wedding was. And all she was really persuaded by was the poverty of the weddings that she'd attended before that one. Well, I was as informed in that respect as she was, wasn't I? I just probably hadn't gone to as many reprobate weddings as she had, so she had more to deal with than I did, even though I was in the position of the line of fire.And I didn't respond too well to the question, I have to say. At the moment, I was rather combative. But I mean, you try to do [00:46:00] what I tried to do and not have a degree of fierceness to go along with your discernment, you know, just to see if you can drag this carcass across the threshold. Anyway, that happened too.Chris: Wow. Yeah. Dominant culture of North America.Stephen: Heard of it.Chris: Yeah. Well, in Matrimony, there's quite a bit in which you write about hospitality and radical hospitality. And I wanted to move in that direction a little bit, because in terms of these kind of marketplace rituals or ceremonies that you were mentioning you know, it's something that we might wonder, I think, as you have, how did it come to be this [00:47:00] way?And so I'd like to, if I can once again, quote from matrimony in which you speak to the etymology of hospitality. And so for those interested on page 88,"the word hospitality comes from hospitaller, meaning 'one who cares for the afflicted, the infirm, the needy.' There's that thread of our misgivings about being on the receiving end of hospitality. Pull on it. For the written history of the word, at least, it has meant, 'being on the receiving end of a kind of care you'd rather not need.'"End quote.Stephen: That's so great. I mean, before you go on with the quote. It's so great to know that the word, unexamined, just kind of leaks upside, doesn't it? Hospitality, I mean, nobody goes "Hospitality, ew." [00:48:00] And then, if you just quietly do the obvious math to yourself, there's so much awkwardness around hospitality.This awkwardness must have an origin, have a home. There must be some misgiving that goes along with the giving of hospitality, mustn't there be? How else to understand where that kind of ickiness is to be found. Right? And it turns out that the etymology is giving you the beginnings of a way of figuring it out what it is that you're on the receiving end of - a kind of succor that you wish you didn't need, which is why it's the root word for "hospital."Chris: Hmm hmm. Wow.Audience: Hmm.Chris: May I repeat that sentence please? Once more."For the written history of the word, at least, it has meant, [00:49:00] 'being on the receiving end of a kind of care you'd rather not need.'"And so this last part hits home for me as I imagine it does for many.And it feels like the orthodoxy of hospitality in our time is one based not only in transaction, but in debt. And if you offer hospitality to me, then I owe you hospitality.Stephen: Right.Chris: I'm indebted to you. And we are taught, in our time, that the worst thing to be in is in debt.Stephen: Right?Chris: And so people refuse both the desire to give as well as the learning skill of receiving. And this is continuing on page 88 now."But there's mystery afoot with this word. In its old Latin form, hospice meant both 'host' and 'guest.'"Stephen: Amazing. One. Either one, This is absolutely amazing. We're fairly sure that there's a [00:50:00] acres of difference between the giver of hospitality and the receiver that the repertoire is entirely different, that the skew between them is almost insurmountable, that they're not interchangeable in any way. But the history of the word immediately says, "really?" The history of the word, without question, says that "host" and "guest" are virtually the same, sitting in different places, being different people, more or less joined at the hip. I'll say more, but you go ahead with what you were gonna do. Sure.Chris: "In it's proto Indo-European origins, hospitality and hospice is a compound word: gosh + pot. And it meant something like [00:51:00] 'stranger/guest/host + powerful Lord.'It is amazing to me that ancestrally, the old word for guest, host, and stranger were all the same word. Potent ceremonial business, this is. In those days, the server and the serve were partners in something mysterious. This could be confusing, but only if you think of guest, host, and stranger as fixed identities.If you think of them as functions, as verbs, the confusion softens and begins to clear. The word hospice in its ancient root is telling us that each of the people gathered together in hospitality is bound to the others by formal etiquette, yes, but the bond is transacted through a subtle scheme of graces.Hospitality, it tells us, is a web of longing and belonging that binds people for a time, some hithereto unknown to each other is a clutch of mutually-binding elegances, you could say. In its ancient practice, [00:52:00] hospitality was a covenant. According to that accord, however we were with each other. That was how the Gods would be with us. We learn our hospitality by being on the receiving end of Godly administration. That's what giving thanks for members. We proceed with our kin in imitation of that example and in gratitude for it."Mm-hmm.And so today, among "secular" people, with the Gods ignored, this old-time hospitality seems endangered, if not fugitive. I'm curious how you imagine that this rupture arose, the ones that separated and commercialized the radical relationships between hosts and guests, that turned them from verbs to nouns and something like strangers to marketplace functions.[00:53:00]Stephen: Well, of course this is a huge question you've asked, and I'll see if I can unhuge it a bit.Chris: Uhhuh.Stephen: Let's go right to the heart of what happened. Just no preliminaries, just right to it.So, to underscore again, the beauty of the etymology. I've told you over and over again, the words will not fail you. And this is just a shining example, isn't it? That the fraternization is a matter of ceremonial alacrity that the affiliation between host and guest, which makes them partners in something, that something is the [00:54:00] evocation of a third thing that's neither one of them. It's the thing they've lent themselves to by virtue of submitting to being either a host or a guest. One.Two. You could say that in circumstances of high culture or highly-functioning culture, one of the principle attributes of that culture is that the fundament of its understanding, is that only with the advent of the stranger in their midst that the best of them comes forward.Okay, follow that. Yeah.So, this is a little counterintuitive for those of us who don't come from such places. We imagine that the advent of strangers in the midst of the people I'm describing would be an occasion where people hide their [00:55:00] best stuff away until the stranger disappears, and upon the disappearance of the stranger, the good stuff comes out again.You know?So, I'm just remembering just now, there's a moment in the New Testament where Jesus says something about the best wine and he's coming from exactly this page that we're talking about - not the page in the book, but this understanding. He said, you know, "serve your best wine first," unlike the standard, that prevails, right?So again, what a stranger does in real culture is call upon the cultural treasure of the host's culture, and provides the opportunity for that to come forward, right? By which you can understand... Let's say for simplicity's sake, there's two kinds of hospitality. There's probably all kinds of gradations, [00:56:00] but for the purposes of responding to what you've asked, there's two.One of them is based on kinship. Okay? So, family meal. So, everybody knows whose place is whose around the table, or it doesn't matter - you sit wherever you want. Or, when we're together, we speak shorthand. That's the shorthand of familiarity and affinity, right?Everybody knows what everybody's talking about. A lot of things get half-said or less, isn't it? And there's a certain fineness, isn't it? That comes with that kind of affinity. Of course, there is, and I'm not diminishing it at all. I'm just characterizing it as being of a certain frequency or calibre or charge. And the charge is that it trades on familiarity. It requires that. There's that kind of hospitality."Oh, sit wherever you want."Remember this one?[00:57:00]"We don't stand on ceremony here.""Oh, you're one of the family now." I just got here. What, what?But, of course, you can hear in the protestations the understanding, in that circumstance, that formality is an enemy to feeling good in this moment, isn't it? It feels stiff and starched and uncalled for or worse.It feels imported from elsewhere. It doesn't feel friendly. So, I'm giving you now beginnings of a differentiation between how cultures who really function as cultures understand what it means to be hospitable and what often prevails today, trading is a kind of low-grade warfare conducted against the strangeness of the stranger.The whole purpose of treating somebody like their family is to mitigate, and finally neutralize their [00:58:00] strangeness, so that for the purposes of the few hours in front of us all, there are no strangers here. Right? Okay.Then there's another kind, and intuitively you can feel what I'm saying. You've been there, you know exactly what I mean.There's another kind of circumstance where the etiquette that prevails is almost more emphatic, more tangible to you than the familiar one. That's the one where your mother or your weird aunt or whoever she might be, brings out certain kind of stuff that doesn't come out every day. And maybe you sit in a room that you don't often sit in. And maybe what gets cooked is stuff you haven't seen in a long time. And some part of you might be thinking, "What the hell is all this about?" And the answer is: it's about that guy in the [00:59:00] corner that you don't know.And your own ancestral culture told acres of stories whose central purpose was to convey to outsiders their understanding of what hospitality was. That is fundamentally what The Iliad and The Odyssey are often returning to and returning to and returning to.They even had a word for the ending of the formal hospitality that accrued, that arose around the care and treatment of strangers. It was called pomp or pompe, from which we get the word "pompous." And you think about what the word "pompous" means today.It means "nose in the air," doesn't it? Mm-hmm. It means "thinks really highly of oneself," isn't it? And it means "useless, encumbering, kind of [01:00:00] artificial kind of going through the motions stuff with a kind of aggrandizement for fun." That's what "pompous" means. Well, the people who gave us the word didn't mean that at all. This word was the word they used to describe the particular moment of hospitality when it was time for the stranger to leave.And when it was mutually acknowledged that the time for hospitality has come to an end, and the final act of hospitality is to accompany the stranger out of the house, out of the compound, out into the street, and provision them accordingly, and wish them well, and as is oftentimes practiced around here, standing in the street and waving them long after they disappear from view.This is pompous. This is what it actually means. Pretty frigging cool when you get corrected once in a while, isn't it? [01:01:00] Yeah.So, as I said, to be simplistic about it, there's at least a couple of kinds, and one of them treasures the advent of the stranger, understanding it to be the detonation point for the most elegant part of us to come forward.Now, those of us who don't come from such a place, we're just bamboozled and Shanghai'ed by the notion of formality, which we kind of eschew. You don't like formality when it comes to celebration, as if these two things are hostile, one to the other. But I'd like you to consider the real possibility that formality is grace under pressure, and that formality is there to give you a repertoire of response that rescues you from the gross limitations of your autobiography.[01:02:00]Next question. I mean, that's the beginning.Chris: Absolutely. Absolutely. Mm-hmm. Thank you once again, Stephen. So alongside the term or concept of "pompe," in which the the guest or stranger was led out of the house or to the entrance of the village, there was also the consideration around the enforcement of hospitality, which you write about in the book. And you write that"the enforcement of hospitality runs the palpable risk of violating or undoing the cultural value it is there to advocate for. Forcing people to share their good fortune with the less fortunate stretches, to the point of undoing the generosity of spirit that the culture holds dear. Enforcement of hospitality is a sign of the eclipse of hospitality, typically spawned by insecurity, contracted self-definition, and the darkening of the [01:03:00] stranger at the door.Instead, such places and times are more likely to encourage the practice of hospitality in subtle generous ways, often by generously treating the ungenerous."And so there seems to be a need for limits placed on hospitality, in terms of the "pompe," the maximum three days in which a stranger can be given hospitality, and concurrently a need to resist enforcing hospitality. This seems like a kind of high-wire act that hospitable cultures have to balance in order to recognize and realize an honorable way of being with a stranger. And so I'm wondering if you could speak to the possibility of how these limits might be practiced without being enforced. What might that look like in a culture that engages with, with such limits, but without prohibitions?Stephen: Mm-hmm. That's a very good question. [01:04:00] Well, I think your previous question was what happened? I think, in a nutshell, and I didn't really answer that, so maybe see how I can use this question to answer the one that you asked before: what happened? So, there's no doubt in my mind that something happened that it's kind of demonstrable, if only with the benefit of hindsight.Audience: Right.Stephen: Or we can feel our way around the edges of the absence of the goneness of that thing that gives us some feel for the original shape of that thing.So you could say I'm trafficking in "ideals," here, and after a fashion, maybe, yeah. But the notion of "ideals," when it's used in this slanderous way suggests that "it was never like that."Chris: Mm-hmm.Stephen: And I suggest to you it's been like that in a lot of places, and there's a lot of places where it's still like that, although globalization [01:05:00] may be the coup de grâce performed upon this capacity. Okay. But anyway.Okay. So what happened? Well, you see in the circumstance that I described, apropos of the stranger, the stranger is in on it. The stranger's principle responsibility is to be the vector for this sort of grandiose generosity coming forward, and to experience that in a burdensome and unreciprocated fashion, until you realize that their willingness to do that is their reciprocity. Everybody doesn't get to do everything at once. You can't give and receive at the same time. You know what that's called? "Secret Santa at school," isn't it?That's where nobody owes nobody nothing at the end. That's what we're all after. I mean, one of your questions, you know, pointed to that, that there's a kind of, [01:06:00] what do you call that, teeter-totter balance between what people did for each other and what they received for each other. Right. And nobody feels slighted in any way, perfect balance, et cetera.Well, the circumstance here has nothing of the kind going with it. The circumstance we're describing now is one in which the hospitality is clearly unequal in terms of who's eating whose food, for example, in terms of the absolutely frustrated notion of reciprocity, that in fact you undo your end of the hospitality by trying to pay back, or give back, or pay at all, or break even, or not feel the burden of "God, you've been on the take for fricking hours here now." And if you really look in the face of the host, I mean, they're just getting started and you can't, you can't take it anymore.[01:07:00]So, one of the ways that we contend with this is through habits of speech. So, if somebody comes around with seconds. They say, "would you like a little more?"And you say, "I'm good. I'm good. I'm good." You see, "I'm good" is code for what? "F**k off." That's what it's code for. It's a little strong. It's a little strong. What I mean is, when "I'm good" comes to town, it means I don't need you and what you have. Good God, you're not there because you need it you knucklehead. You're there because they need it, because their culture needs an opportunity to remember itself. Right?Okay. So what happened? Because you're making it sound like a pretty good thing, really. Like who would say, "I think we've had enough of this hospitality thing, don't you? Let's try, oh, [01:08:00] keeping our s**t to ourselves. That sounds like a good alternative. Let's give it a week or two, see how it rolls." Never happened. Nobody decided to do this - this change, I don't think. I think the change happened, and sometime long after people realized that the change had had taken place. And it's very simple. The change, I think, went something like this.As long as the guest is in on it, there's a shared and mutually-held understanding that doesn't make them the same. It makes them to use the quote from the book "partners," okay, with different tasks to bring this thing to light, to make it so. What does that require? A mutually-held understanding in vivo as it's happening, what it is.Okay. [01:09:00] So, that the stranger who's not part of the host culture... sorry, let me say this differently.The culture of the stranger has made the culture of the host available to the stranger no matter how personally adept he or she may be at receiving. Did you follow that?Audience: A little.Stephen: Okay. Say it again?Audience: Yes, please.Stephen: Okay. The acculturation, the cultured sophistication of the stranger is at work in his or her strangerhood. Okay. He or she's not at home, but their cultural training helps them understand what their obligations are in terms of this arrangement we've been describing here.Okay, so I think the rupture takes place [01:10:00] when the culturation of one side or the other fails to make the other discernible to the one.One more time?When something happens whereby the acculturation of one of the partners makes the identity, the presence, and the valence of the other one untranslatable. Untranslatable.I could give you an example from what I call " the etiquette of trade," or the... what was the word? Not etiquette. What's the other word?Chris: The covenant?Stephen: Okay, " covenant of trade" we'll call it. So, imagine that people are sitting across from each other, two partners in a trade. Okay? [01:11:00] Imagine that they have one thing to sell or move or exchange and somebody has something else.How does this work? Not "what are the mechanics?" That can be another discussion, but, if this works, how does it work? Not "how does it happen?" How does it actually achieve what they're after? Maybe it's something like this.I have this pottery, and even though you're not a potter, but somebody in your extended family back home was, and you watched what they went through to make a fricking pot, okay?You watched how their hands seized up, because the clay leached all the moisture out of the hands. You distinctly remember that - how the old lady's hands looked cracked and worn, and so from the work of making vessels of hospitality, okay? [01:12:00] It doesn't matter that you didn't make it yourself. The point is you recognize in the item something we could call "cultural patrimony."You recognize the deep-runningness of the culture opposite you as manifest and embodied in this item for trade. Okay? So, the person doesn't have to "sell you" because your cultural sophistication makes this pot on the other side available to you for the deeply venerable thing that it is. Follow what I'm saying?Okay. So, you know what I'm gonna say next? When something happens, the items across from you cease to speak, cease to have their stories come along with them, cease to be available. There's something about your cultural atrophy that you project onto the [01:13:00] item that you don't recognize.You don't recognize it's valence, it's proprieties, it's value, it's deep-running worth and so on. Something happened, okay? And because you're not making your own stuff back home or any part of it. And so now, when you're in a circumstance like this and you're just trying to get this pot, but you know nothing about it, then the enterprise becomes, "Okay, so what do you have to part with to obtain the pot?"And the next thing is, you pretend you're not interested in obtaining the pot to obtain the pot. That becomes part of the deal. And then, the person on the making end feels the deep running slight of your disinterest, or your vague involvement in the proceedings, or maybe the worst: when it's not things you're going back and forth with, but there's a third thing called money, which nobody makes, [01:14:00] which you're not reminded of your grandma or anyone else's with the money. And then, money becomes the ghost of the original understanding of the cultural patrimony that sat between you. That's what happened, I'm fairly sure: the advent, the estrangement that comes with the stranger, instead of the opportunity to be your cultural best when the stranger comes.And then of course, it bleeds through all kinds of transactions beyond the "obvious material ones." So, it's a rupture in translatability, isn't it?Chris: You understand this to happen or have happened historically, culturally, et cetera, with matrimony as well?Stephen: Oh, absolutely. Yeah.Yeah. This is why, for example, things like the fetishization of virginity.Audience: Mm-hmm. [01:15:00]Stephen: I think it's traceable directly to what we're talking about. How so? Oh, this is a whole other long thing, but the very short version would be this.Do you really believe that through all of human history until the recent liberation, that people have forever fetishized the virginity of a young woman and jealously defended it, the "men" in particular, and that it became a commodity to trade back and forth in, and that it had to be prodded and poked at to determine its intactness? And this was deemed to be, you know, honourable behavior?Do you really think that's the people you come from, that they would've do that to the most cherished of their [01:16:00] own, barely pubescent girls? Come on now. I'm not saying it didn't happen and doesn't still happen. I'm not saying that. I'm saying, God almighty, something happened for that to be so.And I'm trying to allude to you now what I think took place. Then all of a sudden, the hymen takes the place of the pottery, doesn't it? And it becomes universally translatable. Doesn't it? It becomes a kind of a ghosted artifact of a culturally-intact time. It's as close as you can get.Hence, this allegation of its purity, or the association with purity, and so on. [01:17:00] I mean, there's lots to say, but that gives you a feel for what might have happened there.Chris: Thank you, Stephen. Thank you for being so generous with your considerations here.Stephen: You see why I had to write a book, eh?Audience: Mm-hmm.Stephen: There was too much bouncing around. Like I had to just keep track of my own thoughts on the matter.But can you imagine all of this at play in the year, oh, I don't know, 2022, trying to put into motion a redemptive passion play called "matrimony," with all of this at play? Not with all of this in my mind, but with all of this actually disfiguring the anticipation of the proceedings for the people who came.Can you imagine? Can you imagine trying to pull it off, and [01:18:00] contending overtly with all these things and trying to make room for them in a moment that's supposed to be allegedly - get ready for it - happy.I should have raised my rates on the first day, trying to pull that off.But anyway.Okay, you go now,Chris: Maybe now you'll have the opportunity.Stephen: No, man. No. I'm out of the running for that. "Pompe" has come and come and gone. Mm.Chris: So, in matrimony, Stephen, you write that"the brevity, the brevity of modern ceremonies is really there to make sure that nothing happens, nothing of substance, nothing of consequence, no alchemy, no mystery, no crazy other world stuff. That overreach there in its scripted heart tells me that deep in the rayon-wrapped bosom of that special day, the modern wedding is scared [01:19:00] silly of something happening. That's because it has an ages-old abandoned memory of a time when a wedding was a place where the Gods came around, where human testing and trying and making was at hand, when the dead lingered in the wings awaiting their turn to testify and inveigh."Gorgeous. Gorgeous.Audience: Mm-hmm.Chris: And so I'm curious ifStephen: "Rayon-wrapped bosom." That's not, that's not shabby.Chris: "Rayon-wrapped bosom of that special day." Yeah.So, I'm curious do you think the more-than-human world practices matrimony, and if so, what, if anything, might you have learned about matrimony from the more-than-human world?Stephen: I would say the reverse. I would say, we practice the more-than-human world in matrimony, not that the more-than-human world practices matrimony. We practice them, [01:20:00] matrimonially.Next. Okay. Or no? I just gonna say that, that's pretty good.Well, where do we get our best stuff from? Let's just wonder that. Do we get our best stuff from being our best? Well, where does that come from? And this is a bit of a barbershop mirrors situation here, isn't it? To, to back, back, back, back.If you're thinking of time, you can kind of get lost in that generation before, or before, before, before. And it starts to sound like one of them biblical genealogies. But if you think of it as sort of the flash point of multiple presences, if you think of it that way, then you come to [01:21:00] credit the real possibility that your best stuff comes from you being remembered by those who came before you.Audience: Hmm.Stephen: Now just let that sit for a second, because what I just said is logically-incompatible.Okay? You're being remembered by people who came before you. That's not supposed to work. It doesn't work that way. Right?"Anticipated," maybe, but "remembered?" How? Well, if you credit the possibility of multiple beginnings, that's how. Okay. I'm saying that your best stuff, your best thoughts, not the most noble necessarily. I would mean the most timely, [01:22:00] the ones that seem most needed, suddenly.You could take credit and sure. Why, why not? Because ostensibly, it arrives here through you, but if you're frank with yourself, you know that you didn't do that on command, right? I mean, you could say, I just thought of it, but you know in your heart that it was thought of and came to you.I don't think there's any difference between saying that and saying you were thought of.Audience: Mm-hmm.Stephen: So, that's what I think the rudiments of old-order matrimony are. They are old people and their benefactors in the food chain and spiritually speaking. Old people and their benefactors, the best part of them [01:23:00] willed to us, entrusted and willed to us. So, when you are willing to enter into the notion that old-order matrimony is older than you, older than your feelings for the other person, older than your love, and your commitment, and your willingness to make the vows and all that stuff, then you're crediting the possibility that your love is not the beginning of anything.You see. Your love is the advent of something, and I use that word deliberately in its Christian notion, right? It's the oncomingness, the eruption into the present day of something, which turns out to be hugely needed and deeply unsuspected at the same time.I used to ask in the school, "can you [01:24:00] have a memory of something you have no lived experience of?" I think that's what the best part of you is. I'm not saying the rest of you is shite. I'm not saying that. You could say that, but I am saying that when I say "the best part of you," that needs a lot of translating, doesn't it?But the gist of it is that the best part of you is entrusted to you. It's not your creation, it's your burden, your obligation, your best chance to get it right. And that's who we are to those who came before us. We are their chance to get it right, and matrimony is one of the places where you practice the gentle art of getting it right.[01:25:00] Another decent reason to write a book.Chris: So, gorgeous. Wow. Thank you Stephen. I might have one more question.Stephen: Okay. I might have one more answer. Let's see.Chris: Alright. Would I be able to ask if dear Nathalie Roy could join us up here alongside your good man.So, returning to Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart's Work. On page 94, [01:26:00] Stephen, you write that"hospitality of the radical kind is

3I/ATLAS is a hostile UFO. Visit https://themetaphysical.tv for uncensored After Hours episodes, exclusive content, and access to a library of 1,000+ mind-expanding videos on hidden history, forbidden knowledge, and otherworldly topics! In July of 2025, an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS passed into our solar system for only the third time on record. Most objects out in space are bound to a star. They don't traverse the galaxy because gravity keeps them locked around their own sun. But what about the incredibly rare exceptions that defy these expectations? Bizarrely, all three instances happened in a relatively short time frame, given how long humans have been studying and mapping the stars—the first called 1I/'Oumuamua in 2017, the second called 2I/Borisov in 2019, and this 3I/ATLAS in 2025. The frequency of interstellar sightings has everyone wondering whether these are 1) intentionally directed probes from another world, 2) alien visitors in foreign spacecraft, like a Harvard professor suggested, or 3) just meteors that somehow wandered into our segment of the galaxy. Between Rob's investigative research and John's remote viewing data, there's a lot to uncover about the truth of these interstellar objects. Join investigative researcher Rob Counts and remote viewer John Vivanco for a Metaphysical episode that's out of this world. Discussions in this episode: alien visitors from other worlds, UFOs and UAPs, Avi Loeb's claims about interstellar objects, intergalactic travel, real Star Wars, spaceships, types of aliens, Oumuamua, remote viewing across the galaxy, if 3I/ATLAS is a spaceship, hostile aliens, and more

The Rich Zeoli Show- 6:05pm- During an appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Attorney General Pam Bondi made controversial comments regarding “hate speech.” She stated: “There's free speech, and then there's hate speech. And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." But isn't that a First Amendment violation? 6:10pm- Bizarrely, AG Bondi doubled down on her controversial statement via a post to X: “Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It's a crime. For far too long, we've watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.” 6:20pm- Rich notes, Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) established a three-pronged standard that speech advocating illegal action is not protected by the First Amendment if and ONLY if: 1. Intent—The speaker must intend to incite or produce lawless action. 2. Imminence—The lawless action must be imminent, meaning that it's expected to occur right away rather than at some indefinite future time. 3. Likelihood—The speech must be likely to actually incite or produce that imminent lawless action. 6:40pm- Embarrassing: Sen. Cory Booker lost his mind during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel—at one point continually screaming, “I'm not afraid of you!”

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Show (09/16/2025): 3:05pm- On Tuesday, Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray held a press conference where he announced charges against Tyler Robinson and confirmed he's seeking the death penalty for the murder of Charlie Kirk. Gray stated: “The defendant is believed to have targeted Charlie Kirk based on Charlie Kirk's political expression and did so knowing that children were present and would witness the homicide." 3:20pm- On Monday, October 13th at 7:30pm—Rich will host New York Times best-selling author Jack Carr at the Zlock Performing Arts Center (at Bucks County Community College) in Newtown, PA. They'll sit down for an engaging discussion about Jack's latest thriller, Cry Havoc—the newest installment in his acclaimed James Reece series. Known for his real-world military experience and gripping, action-packed storytelling, Jack Carr brings an unmatched authenticity to the world of political and military thrillers. For tickets visit: 1210wpht.com 3:30pm- Hans Von Spakovsky—Senior Legal Fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show and reacts to charges brought against Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Spakovsky also weighs in on comments recently made by Attorney General Pam Bondi during an appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast regarding “hate speech.” Bondi explained: “There's free speech, and then there's hate speech. And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." But isn't that a First Amendment violation? 4:05pm- Utah County D.A. Jeff Gray, on Tuesday, charged Tyler Robinson in the killing of Charlie Kirk and said he will seek the death penalty. Gray read what he described as texts between Robinson and his roommate in which Robinson allegedly confessed to the crime. 4:30pm- Mike Donohue—Chair of America First Policy Institute (AFPI) New Jersey, Cape May GOP Chairman, & former New Jersey Superior Court Judge—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a big event happening on October 10th at the boardwalk in North Wildwood, NJ with gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli! “Let us show them that we are not afraid. We will not be silenced. We will only grow stronger now.” Admission is free. Register here: https://www.capegop.com/. 5:00pm- Bill D'Agostino— Senior Research Analyst at Media Research Center—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to break down some of the best (and worst) moments from corporate media and Democrats. D'Agostino compiles an unbelievable montage of media outlets claiming we still know nothing about the motives of Charlie Kirk's shooter. Plus, Kirk's alleged assassin makes his first court appearance. 5:40pm- How many Robert Redford movies has Matt seen? One: “All is Lost”—which is, of course, a film no one else has even seen. Rich and Justin are appalled but not surprised. 5:50pm- During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asked FBI Director Kash Patel if doing pullups is inherently sexist. 6:05pm- During an appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Attorney General Pam Bondi made controversial comments regarding “hate speech.” She stated: “There's free speech, and then there's hate speech. And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." But isn't that a First Amendment violation? 6:10pm- Bizarrely, AG Bondi doubled down on her controversial statement via a post to X: “Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It's a crime. For far too long, we've watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.” 6:20pm- Rich notes, Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) established ...

Artemaeus Treadwell is an American experiencer. After meeting paranormal intermediary Tillie, his life took thousands of unforeseen, unforgettable turns, from witnessing Tillie's psychic abilities, to bumping into a faerie, meeting mimics, dark entities, maybe an Egyptian god or two, seeing UFOs and strange planetary behavior and more. At home, extreme electrical events, strange scientific anomalies, apports and disappearing objects, time glitches and the Mandela Effect are positively common events. Bizarrely, his foray into the deep paranormal has transformed his personality, beliefs and understanding of psychology, reality and life in measures and ways no short of miraculous. He believes that the unknown holds many gifts, if only we can learn to embrace them- and the unique messengers who carry them.

MPs have voted – by a narrow 23-vote margin – in favour of legalising assisted dying. Bizarrely, the 51.9 to 48.1 per cent breakdown is the exact same as the 2016 referendum result, although hopefully this issue doesn't divide the Labour party in the same way that Brexit did for the Tories.The whole process is far from ‘Parliament at its best', as it has often been claimed. Despite hours of passionate and emotional debate, key concerns about the drafting of the bill forced some who would naturally back assisted dying to oppose it. The overwhelming feeling is that a private member's bill was not the right forum for this kind of legislation.So what comes next? The bill will now pass to the House of Lords, after which comes the business of putting the measures into practice. This raises a multitude of problems for the Labour government, as it must now decide, for example, whether the responsibility will fall on the NHS or private doctors; who will pay for it; and what legal protections will be given to doctors and nurses. Other key questions remain: did Keir Starmer break a voting pact with David Lammy? And how could the decision to go against the party impact ambitious members of the shadow cabinet?Lucy Dunn, James Hale and Rajiv Shah, former adviser in No. 10, discuss.Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

Artemaeus Treadwell is an American experiencer. After meeting paranormal intermediary Tillie, his lifetook thousands of unforeseen, unforgettable turns, from witnessing Tillie's psychic abilities, to bumpinginto a faerie, meeting mimics, dark entities, maybe an Egyptian god or two, seeing UFOs and strangeplanetary behavior and more. At home, extreme electrical events, strange scientific anomalies, apportsand disappearing objects, time glitches and the Mandela Effect are positively common events. Bizarrely,his foray into the deep paranormal has transformed his personality, beliefs and understanding ofpsychology, reality and life in measures and ways no short of miraculous. He believes that the unknownholds many gifts, if only we can learn to embrace them- and the unique messengers who carry them.Please do subscribe to my channels, leave me a comment, like my videos, and share my content withyour friends! Find all of the links below.YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/omiWACdpXnMArtemaeus Treadwell's Links:The Weird Walk Home Channel on YouTubeThe Intermediary Diaries: Ep. 1https://youtu.be/U4TZS5EXCnM?si=eo3EAhU3M-PB2PjbKaren Holton's Links: Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/karenholtontv Download my exclusive audio content found only on SPREAKER, Spotify, Apple, Podbean,iHeart, Goodpods and more – https://www.spreaker.com/show/quantum-guides-show-with-karen-holton TRANSDIMENSIONAL: Meet the New Neighbours by Karen Holton (paperback & Kindle nowavailable from Amazon Worldwide) US:https://www.amazon.com/dp/1069173509?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520& Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/TRANSDIMENSIONAL-Neighbours-Ms-Karen-Holton/dp/1069173509TRANSDIMENSIONAL 2: Meet the Greys Picture Book by Karen Holton (paperback & Kindlenow available from Amazon Worldwide) US: https://www.amazon.com/TRANSDIMENSIONAL-Meet-Greys-Picture-Book/dp/B0DVSRX8BQ & Canada:https://www.amazon.ca/TRANSDIMENSIONAL-Meet-Greys-Picture-Book/dp/B0DVSRX8BQ Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/karenholtontv Join My YouTube Channel to receive my perks!https://www.youtube.com/@KarenHoltonTV/join Website: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/ Inspired Images: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/inspired-images/ Signed Books: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/signed-books/ Vital Services: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/services/ Zen Domes Orgonite: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/zen-domes-orgonite/ Comfort Crystals: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/comfort-crystals/ Inspired Images: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/product-category/inspired-images/ Free Resources: https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/free-resources/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarenHoltonTV Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2423374 (KarenHoltonTV) Odysee: https://odysee.com/@KarenHoltonTV X (Twitter): https://x.com/KarenHoltonTV Telegram: https://t.me/KarenHoltonTV Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karen.holton3 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenholtontv Forbidden Knowledge News Network: www.forbiddenknowledge.newsThe Quantum Guides Show and the Aliens & Angels Podcast are now part of the Forbidden KnowledgeNews Network! https://forbiddenknowledge.news/Other podcast series from Karen Holton:Quantum Health Transformation V.3.0 - a free, no strings attached, 9 Step online, lifestyle course to giveyou the tips and resources you need to thrive! By following my own channeled advice, I made mydreams come true! Whether you are in the ascension process, or simply want more out of life, thiscourse is for you.Complete Quantum Health Transformation V3.0 Playlist on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSmOYvGXBA&list=PLe1pNMTCSTLlzyU9vc_SmK4zs4_JCcpa1&pp=gAQBiAQBor watch the Quantum Health Transformation program on Karen's website:https://www.karenholtonhealthcoach.com/quantum-health-transformation-free-online-course/

With cohost Tim Swartz on "Special Assignment," Gene presents a genuine paranormal power couple, Tillie Treadwell and Artemaeus Treadwell. Tillie, who is our guest cohost on this episode, is an American author and experiencer. Her very earliest memories include what seem to be paranormal encounters, and the other side has always played a central role in her life. She was co-lead of an exorcist and investigative team with the Catholic church, has worked as an independent tarot interpreter, healer, medium and advisor, and today is an author for Zontar Press, a publishing house run by Tim R. Swartz, co-host on The Paracast. She also writes for Outer Limits Magazine and The Quad Coalition of Sciences. Notably, later this year a piece of hers will appear in a new book by Malcolm Robinson of SPI in the UK, and she is currently hard at work on several other book inclusions and some standalone volumes with Zontar Press. Artemaeus is an American experiencer. After meeting  Tillie, his life took thousands of unforeseen, unforgettable turns, from witnessing her psychic abilities, to bumping into a faerie, meeting mimics, dark entities, maybe an Egyptian god or two, seeing UFOs and strange planetary behavior and more. At home, extreme electrical events, strange scientific anomalies, apports and disappearing objects, time glitches and the Mandela Effect are positively common events. Bizarrely, his foray into the deep paranormal has transformed his personality, beliefs and understanding of psychology, reality and life in measures and ways no short of miraculous.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

The #GetBelindaHome arc, companion dynamics, new aesthetics, mechanical pathos, and the looming future of the show — we discuss that, and much more, in covering The Robot Revolution, Russell T Davies' 2025 Doctor Who Season 2 premiere. (00:00:00) Intro & initial thoughts (00:02:29) Belinda & her dynamic with 15 (00:12:47) #GetBelindaHome ‘arc' (00:22:37) Belinda's character arc in the episode (00:27:32) Time fracture contrivances (00:33:55) The unreasonably cool visuals (00:39:02) Handling of themes (00:47:49) Bizarrely convoluted plot (00:51:21) Belinda's mature response to the Doctor (00:58:47) 15 being told off; implications of Mundy (01:04:55) Sasha-55, mechanical pathos (01:13:17) X-ray blanket; Sutekh noise (01:16:58) The spectre haunting Who (01:31:21) Leak zone begins: Season 2 leaks timeline (01:40:30) Leaks: Episode 3 (01:43:56) Leaks: Mrs Flood (01:48:27) Leaks: Eps 3, 5, 2, 6 (01:52:00) Leaks: Finale antagonist (02:04:06) Leaks: Ending surprises (02:12:21) Leaks: Critique of the idea (02:19:32) Leaks: Aftermath, spinoffs (02:23:40) Outro… Continue reading →

This week's show features stories from France 24, Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr250502.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- Discussions of Trump's first 100 days dominated the international press this week. First press reviews from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on the effects Trump is having on international security, global economics, and changes in the world order. Then press on the tension between India and Pakistan, with the Indian Navy test firing missiles and Pakistan saying it has missiles targeting Indian nuclear weapons. Then an interview with Avril Benoit, executive Director of Doctors Without Borders USA on the effect of US cuts to USAID- she points out that medical and health services have been completely vanished by the cuts to many organizations in the third world, calling it a human made disaster. Doctors without borders receives no funding from the US, depending on donations, and that they are attempting to lessen the dire problems arising from the cuts to many aid providers around the globe. From GERMANY- The victory of Mark Carney as the Prime Minister in Canada came in the face of threats by Trump to Canadian sovereignty, resulting in a more unified nation. An interview with Janelle Dumalaon about the feeling among Canadians and the positive response from European leaders. From JAPAN- Delegates from the US, Russia, and China fought at a UN nuclear disarmament meeting. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute pointed out a nearly 10% increase in global military spending last year. From CUBA - US lawyer Kerry Kennedy, representing 10 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador, was denied access to her clients at the notorious prison there. The EuroMed Human Rights Monitor based in Switzerland says 94% of those killed by Israel in Gaza are civilians. UN Secretary-General Guterres warned the the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the worst it has ever been. Available in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml PODCAST!!!- https://feed.podbean.com/outFarpress/feed.xml (160kb Highest Quality) Website Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts "People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale." --Matt Taibbi Dan Roberts Shortwave Report- www.outfarpress.com YouthSpeaksOut!- www.youthspeaksout.net

Top officials of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau erupted in cheers this month.How odd. The cheers were for a federal court that had just ruled in favor of letting big banks gouge us with exorbitant feeds when we're late making a credit card payment. Bizarrely, agency officials joined jubilant bank executives in declaring, “This is a win for consumers.”Huh? The court's blatantly plutocratic ruling lets financial giants slap us credit card customers with punitive fees of $32 or more for every late payment. The court is legalizing their consumer robbery, allowing credit card lenders to pluck an extra $10 billion a year in excess fees from our pockets. Adding to their shame, the profiteering bankers will mainly squeeze this windfall from low-paid working families who're living paycheck to paycheck, having to rely on credit to make ends meet.So why in hell are the government's consumer protectors cheering this? Because these officials are no longer “ours,” but corporate operatives been installed by Trump's brigade of billionaires. The supreme goal of their autocratic government is to further empower the rich over the rest of us.Indeed, displacing consumer protectors with agents who'll protect corporations from consumers was an explicit goal of Project 2025. That extremist manifesto was co-authored by Russell Vought, a fanatical right-wing politico from the Christian Nationalist cult. What's he doing now? Trump has put Vought in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Thus, a national agency meant to help average consumers have a bit more of a fighting chance against financial greed has been perverted by Trump into just another tool helping moneyed elites rip off working families. How great does that make America?Do something!Consumer Reports and the Consumer Federation of America are both working to save the CFPB; additionally, a lawsuit has been filed by Gupta Wessler, a high-stakes litigation firm in D.C., on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union, National Consumer Law Center, NAACP, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Pastor Eva Steege, and the CFPB Employee Association.Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimhightower.substack.com/subscribe

This is episode 219 — a new Governor has sailed into Table Bay. Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, born in 1811, eldest child of Edmond Wodehouse who married his first cousin Lucy, daughter of Philip Wodehouse, uncle Philip to Sir Philip Edmond. How very Victorian. Queen Victoria herself, who married her first cousin Prince Albert—did allow and even encourage cousin marriage, particularly among royalty and the upper classes to consolidate power, property, and lineage. But it also increased the risk of birth defects by 2 percent, and if both parents carry a recessive gene mutation, their child has a 25 percent chance of expressing the disorder. Scientists have a well-worn phrase for this — its called inbreeding. Wodehouse junior entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1828, and was installed as superintendent of British Honduras between 1851 to 1854. From there he sailed to British Guiana where he served as Governor between 1854 to 1861 — before heading to the Cape in 1862. It's illuminating to touch on Sir Philip Wodehouse's disastrous time in British Guiana. Two years after he took office in the South American country, the Angel Gabriel riots broke out. His implacable opponent was John Sayers Orr, whose nom de guerre was the Angel Gabriel, was half Scottish, half African. Edinburgh's Caledonian Newspaper of the time reported that his mother Mary Ann Orr was a respectable coloured woman and married to a respectable Scot — John Orr senior. Young John Sayer Orr was rabidly anti-papal, hated the Pope and had an anti-Catholic obsession. He took to the Guianese streets with bullhorn in hand, whereupon the distant Glasgow Herald noted he spoke “rampant anti-papist froth and lies..” Between 1850 and 1851 he popped up in Boston, then New York, Bath in Maine, and Manchester in New Hampshire. In 1854 he was hustled off by police in Boston. Apart from the usual racial insults levelled at him, the Boston police report says he had more impudence than brains .. “…who with a three cornered hat and a cockade on his head, and old brass horn .. took advantage of the political excitement .. travelled around the city …tooting his horn … collecting crowds in the streets, delivering what he called his political lectures and passing around the hat for contributions…” Sounds like a modern political influencer, the bullhorn, the disinformation, the extreme rhetoric, not to mention his hat which is literally crowd sourcing. He was arrested at least 20 times for what was called his international harangues tour — where he'd shout confusing messages like “Scorn be those who rob us of our rights — purgatory for popery and the Pope — Freedom to man be he black or white — Rule Britannia…!!” Bizarrely, the resonances to today's crazy politics continued, Orr was associated with the fantastically named Know Nothing Party in America. Wait to hear about this bunch, you'll recognise bits of modern USA. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, and that providing the group with its colloquial name. Before you wonder aloud what relevance all this has, let me quickly point out that the so-called Know Nothing Party had 43 representatives in Congress at the height of its power in the late 1850s. In 1855 this strange 19th Century character pitched up in British Guiana, and Sir Philip Wodehouse had his work cut out. Soon Orr was up to his old tricks, walking about with his bull horn, carrying a flag and a British imperial badge, followed by a group of …. Well .. followers. They were not repeating they Knew Nothing, but attacking the British establishment. We'll also hear about the Angel Gabriel riots. By 1862 Wodehouse who survived a public stoning in Guiana, had arrived in the Cape as Governor. Here he was to face the implacable enemies - the Westerners and the Easterners. Two parts of the Cape that did not get along.

In this episode, Shanté and Danny watch a film that presents an intriguing question to the two of them. Bizarrely though, Danny is only aware of this movie as a childhood favorite of a friend of his.

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In a House hearing, Republicans pressed the bosses of PBS and NPR on the blatant leftist bias of their news shows, and both leaders claimed these networks are unbiased and nonpartisan. No one believes this.

Shannon Airport says Ireland must re-examine its aviation policy which it claims "bizarrely penalises" smaller airports experiencing growth in passenger numbers. The Clare base and a major Irish airline have issued a joint call for the passenger cap of the Government's Regional Airports Programme to be increased so as to ensure Shannon can continue to avail of State funding. The call comes as Ryanair has unveiled its summer 2025 schedule for Shannon Airport which features 26 routes including a new route to Madeira. Increased frequencies have been confirmed for eight other routes, specifically Alicante, Edinburgh, Faro, Kaunas, Krakow, Malaga, Porto, and Reus. The airline has also announced that extra seats have been added to and from La Rochelle in April ahead of Munster's highly anticipated European Rugby Champions Cup match with the French side. Having operated out of Shannon for 38 years, the announcement sees Ryanair's traffic growth at the Clare facility grow by 17%. The airline's Chief Marketing Officer Dara Brady says if more routes are to come to Shannon, the region must demonstrate that tourists want to come here. Coinciding with the schedule's release, a joint call has been issued by Shannon Airport and Ryanair for a seismic shift in Irish aviation policy. Over the past number of years, Shannon has benefited from the Government's Regional Airports Programme which supports facilities carrying up to one million passengers. As Shannon saw 2.1 million passengers pass through its gates last year, it now falls outside the eligibility criteria for the programme. Both the Clare base and Ryanair are now calling for this cap to be lifted to three million, and the inclusion of a commitment to conducting a review of National Aviation Policy in the Programme for Government has offered hope that this could become a reality. Shannon Airport Group CEO Mary Considine says the facility mustn't become a victim of its own success.

Nikola Jokic got in foul trouble in the first few minutes of tonight's game and it got weirder for King Jok from there. Jamal Murray had a valiant effort in Jokic's absence to keep the Nuggets in the game but it wasn't enough. What do we make of such a bizarre game from Jokic? Where do the Nuggets go from here after a skid? Harrison Wind, Brendan Vogt, Duvalier Johnson, and D-Line CO. come to you LIVE from the DNVR Bar to break down everything you need to known  in this postgame edition of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast!Start - 0:00Fast recap - 2:00Dev's big takeaway - 5:05D-Line's big takeaway - 6:45Vogt's big takeaway - 10:05Wind's big takeaway - 13:35Big shakeup needed? - 19:35Michael Porter Jr - 23:00The Defense - 35:10The new starting lineup - 37:45Jamal - 49:55Strawther - 54:15Superchats - 56:00An ALLCITY Network ProductionPARTY WITH US: https://thednvr.com/eventsALL THINGS DNVR: https://linktr.ee/dnvrsportsMERCH: https://store.allcitynetwork.com/collections/dnvr-lockerSUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DNVR_SportsBUY GOLDEN ERA: https://www.triumphbooks.com/golden-era-products-9781637273692.php?page_id=21Breck Brew Ice Deck Giveaway: http://breckbrew.com/icedeckbet365: Go to https://www.bet365.com/hub/en-us/app-hero-banner-1?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=usapp&utm_medium=affiliate&affiliate=365_03485318 or use code DNVR365 when you sign up. Must be 21+ and physically located in CO.  Please gamble responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help call or TEXT 1-800-GAMBLEREmpire Today: Schedule a free in-home estimate today! All listeners can receive a $350 OFF discount when they use the promo code DNVR. Restrictions apply. See https://empiretoday.com/dnvr for detailsGo to https://millerlite.com/dnvr to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller Time. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Rugged Road: Gear up for your next adventure with Rugged Road Coolers - Your ultimate outdoor companion! Head to http://ruggedroadoutdoors.pxf.io/ALLCITY and use code DNVR for 10% off!Download the Circle K app and join the Inner Circle or visit https://www.circlek.com/inner-circle!Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code DNVR for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.Check out FOCO merch and collectibles here https://foco.vegb.net/DNVRNugs and use promo code “DNVR10” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items.Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to https://shadyrays.com and use code: DNVR for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people.Birdcall: Right now, DNVR fans can score 20% off at Birdcall with promo code “DNVR”! Get down to Birdcall or order online at https://eatbirdcall.com and grab this offer now through the end of the month. Offer valid for any order of $10 or more. Limit 1 per guest per day. Not valid on catering orders or through 3rd party delivery sites.This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/dnvr today to get 10% off your first month and get on your way to being your best self.Get 10 FREE meals at https://hellofresh.com/freenuggets. Applied across 7 boxes, new subscribers only, varies by plan.When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions.Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.#Nuglife

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Are the drones over New Jersey a nuclear threat, “Project Blue Beam” in action, or something else entirely?

[This blog will always be free to read, but it's also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription, shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com.]It's been six days since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered outside the New York Hilton Midtown just before 7am.The assassin, 26 year-old Luigi Mangione, was apprehended yesterday at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA after an employee there recognized him from publicly released images and called the police.He was carrying a 3D printed gun, a 3D printed silencer, several fake IDs, and a three-page manifesto in defense of the murder. Was he hoping to get caught? It sure seems like it.As with so many other issues in our increasingly divided country, the incident has become far less about discussing the particulars in good faith and more about aggressively rationalizing our biases and shutting down anyone who challenges them.America's health care system is severely broken, held in place by insurance companies who routinely engage in unethical practices for which the primary goal is prioritizing corporate profits over sick people, enabled by enough lawmakers who directly benefit from preserving that status quo.Meanwhile, the country is quite clearly veering into an era in which political violence is increasingly seen by many as not only acceptable but necessary.In his manifesto, Mangione wrote: “I do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites had it coming.”Bizarrely, in his Goodreads four-star review of “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczynski—better known to us plebs as “The Unabomber Manifesto”—he wrote that Kaczynski was “rightfully imprisoned” but also:“When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution… […] Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense.”Yeah, that's certainly one way to sum it up.Here's another way: Ted Kaczynski was a vile, self-absorbed piece-of-s**t who intentionally murdered and maimed innocent people from the comfort of his remote cabin and justified it with a narcissistic pseudo-intellectualism instead of, you know, having the guts to engage in the hard work of advocacy.He was not a revolutionary. He was a terrorist and a coward whose actions only served to inspire a generation of more self-absorbed extremists, and I'm really glad he's no longer walking the earth.Of course, some will whine this is unfair framing because Mangione targeted a horrible enabler of this unfair system rather than innocent people, he's merely agreeing with Kaczynski on the principle of violence as necessary, and our disgust should be with corporations who have willingly bankrupted and/or enabled the deaths of millions.Of course we should be disgusted with these corporations. They're cruel and predatory and inhumane. They knowingly exploit the suffering of innocent and sick people to maximize profit.But just for the sake of argument, let's briefly allow these other things to be true: Mangione was right to murder Thompson, health care executives deserve any violence coming to them, etc.Okay, so, what now? Tell me what happens next. Because in the past week, I have read zero commentary that answers this with any degree of sufficient reason.The hopeful wish—and I think even that's generous—is that health care executives will somehow be intimidated into curbing their unethical practices out of fear being targeted next. Are you kidding me? Health care executives aren't going to let a little homicide get in the way of their profits. They'll beef up security, hire the best PR professionals money can buy, increase lobbying to complicit lawmakers, and leverage this murder for sympathy.And it will work. You know how I know that? Because we just had an election in which an openly corrupt champion of corporate greed who still hasn't released his supposed health care plan since he first ran for president eight years ago was picked over a policy expert who had a defined health care plan and was nominated by a political party that achieved the greatest health care reform in modern history.How many millions of people openly cheering on Mangione stayed home or even voted for Trump? How many of them had time to share memes online but not organize family and friends and neighbors to get out the vote because of purity politics or VP Harris just isn't likable or Democrats aren't good enough or both parties are the same (they are clearly not) or, hell, someone else will do that work, so why bother?Mangione is one of them. Here's this Ivy League educated young man from a privileged family and an impressive social network who could have tried to use those resources to change the system. But he didn't even try. He didn't venture into health care advocacy or do any political organizing on this. He read a manifesto written by a violent clown and decided it better served either his ego or convenience to murder a health care executive on the street than undertake the difficult work of reform.My issue is not with the millions of people in this country who have said over the past week that they're not mourning the murder of Thompson because Thompson sure as hell didn't mourn their loved ones who have been cruelly victimized by corporations like UnitedHealthcare. They're well within their right to feel that way. I come from a family background in which it was obvious growing up that insurance companies would sooner allow us to die or be financially ruined than grant us the care we need. I get it.My problem isn't with the millions people who are rightly pointing out all the ways in which UnitedHealthcare is evil and openly asking: where is the sympathy for the most vulnerable in this country when they perish because executives have decided their lives and livelihoods aren't profitable?That is absolutely necessary to ask and demand an answer to it.My problem is with Mangione and people like him who don't do the work that needs to be done and encourage political violence as a supposed last straw—not having really tried other approaches in good faith—which, in the end, will only further normalize a growing culture of political violence that overwhelmingly harms the innocent and most vulnerable.Murdering people in the street is ultimately wrong not because it's a question of whether or not the person murdered deserves it but because it further erodes the social guardrail, which is thinning at an alarming rate, that it's immoral to inflict violence on others out of political and policy disagreements.Political violence solves nothing. It never has. All it does is offer a brief sense of smug satisfaction for some, fuel for the worst people to continue doing what they do, and more than enough room for dead innocents after that.Charlotte's Web Thoughts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Charlotte's Web Thoughts at charlotteclymer.substack.com/subscribe

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A new scientific discovery in 2024 revealed the existence of a strange field of rocks on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that act as natural batteries. Bizarrely enough, they also seem to produce oxygen... But first, join Ash and Ty for a breakdown of the important astrological transits for the week: Venus enters Capricorn (November 11th) Mercury square Saturn (November 12th) Saturn retrograde ends (November 15th) Full Moon in Taurus (November 15th) Venus square Lunar Nodes (November 16th) Sun opposite Uranus (November 16th) Ash shares one of her personal ghost stories. Ty then educates us on the mysterious nature of Dark Oxygen. Ash analyzes the chart of a Scorpio with surprising ties to conservationist efforts in the ocean.  ☼ ｡˚⋆ฺ ✧ ೃ༄*ੈ✩ ☼ ｡˚⋆ฺ ✧ ೃ༄*ੈ✩ Please subscribe and give us a great rating, tell your friends, and join us next week for the astro forecast and more cosmic chit chat. Watch the video version of this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8a8eG2u9zA ✩Instagram: ⁠@uncloudedeye⁠ ✩TikTok: ⁠@uncloudedeye⁠ ✩Website / book a reading with Ash: ⁠http://uncloudedeye.net⁠  ✩Join our Patreon: ⁠⁠http://patreon.com/unclouded_eye⁠⁠ Patreon members get access to Ash's Planetary Potion podcast that discusses ALL the transits for the week in depth (even the transits we didn't talk about here!), plus special podcast content, shout outs on the podcast, and monthly horoscope guides. Thank you: Nick Nordfors, Erin Cross, Dawn Aquarius, Jay Caron, and to all our listeners ♡ Sources for this episode: -https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/july/deep-ocean-floor-produces-its-own-dark-oxygen/#:~:text=An%20international%20team%20of%20researchers%2C%20including%20a%20Northwestern%20University%20chemist,13%2C000%20feet%20below%20the%20surface. -https://www.un.org/en/messengers-peace/leonardo-dicaprio -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio 

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee—revealing new details about the July 13th assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Wray explained that "On July 6th, [shooter Thomas Crooks] did a Google search for 'how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?' and so that's a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind...that is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally." 6:20pm- In the days since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and selected Kamala Harris to be his successor, clips have emerged of Harris advocating for some truly bizarre policies—including a ban on fracking, a mandatory gun buyback initiated via executive authority, placing a limit on red meat consumption, providing universal health care with taxpayer funded care provided to undocumented migrants in the country illegally, and the complete abolition of private health insurance.   6:30pm- On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee—revealing new details about the July 13th assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Wray explained that he did not know why Trump wasn't removed from the stage when there was reasonable suspicion that a person had scaled a nearby rooftop, posing a threat. Bizarrely, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) blamed Trump's rhetoric for the assassination attempt.  6:40pm- On Tuesday, NBC election analyst Steve Kornacki revealed that polling indicates Donald Trump currently leads Kamala Harris nationally: 47% to 46%. However, perhaps more interesting, a closer examination of the numbers indicates Harris currently has a favorability rating of 38%—nearly identical to President Joe Biden's rating. Kornacki joked that the idea Harris will do better than Biden against Trump in November is “based more on hope” than any data collected so far.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (07/24/2024): 3:05pm- On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Notably, Vice President Kamala Harris—who is presumed to be the Democrat Party's presidential nominee—was not in attendance. Instead, she opted to visit a sorority in Indianapolis. 3:10pm-Kamala Bans Cheeseburgers: During a CNN presidential town hall event in 2019, Kamala Harris shamelessly expressed interest in using the power of the federal government to limit America's consumption of red meat. 3:20pm- On Tuesday, NBC election analyst Steve Kornacki revealed that polling indicates Donald Trump currently leads Kamala Harris nationally: 47% to 46%. However, perhaps more interesting, a closer examination of the numbers indicates Harris currently has a favorability rating of 38%—nearly identical to President Joe Biden's rating. Kornacki joked that the idea Harris will do better than Biden against Trump in November is “based more on hope” than any data collected so far. 3:30pm- On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held her first press briefing since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Jean-Pierre insisted that the President's decision had nothing to do with his health and that he plans to address the nation tonight. 3:40pm- Cliff Maloney—Founder of The Pennsylvania Chase—joins The Rich Zeoli Show. “The Pennsylvania Chase was launched by door-knocking guru Cliff Maloney. The project is a dedicated initiative aimed at matching the Democrat's tactics for mail-in ballot success and securing a significant victory for liberty-loving Republicans in the 2024 election. The PA Chase has a laser-like focus on driving up the number of GOP mail-in ballots in PA. This effort is spearheaded by Citizens Alliance, with the primary task of knocking on 500,000 doors in key target districts from September 1- November 5.” For more information, visit: https://www.pachase.com 4:05pm- Phil Kerpen—President of American Commitment—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest editorial, “Americans Blame Government and Big Insurance Conglomerates for Health Care Costs.” Kerpen also examines presumed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris' incredibly progressive record. Plus, who will be selected to be her running mate? Most think it'll be Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro or Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. 4:30pm- On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held her first press briefing since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Jean-Pierre insisted that the President's decision had nothing to do with his health and that he plans to address the nation tonight. At one point, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked if someone in the White House was responsible for covering up Biden's declining cognitive and physical health. Jean-Pierre, of course, denied that there had been any coverup. 4:40pm- While speaking with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec denounced the Democrat elite selecting Kamala Harris as the party's nominee—completely bypassing voters. Posobiec explained: "This is like watching the election results in North Korea." 4:50pm- While examining polling results, CNN Analyst Harry Enten revealed that Donald Trump has recorded his “highest ever favorable rating at 40%,” according to ABC News/Ipsos. Meanwhile, Quinnipiac University has his favorability rating at 46%. Most polls have Kamala Harris at 38%. 5:05pm- Will Joe Biden Resign Tonight?: On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held her first press briefing since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Jean-Pierre insisted that the President's decision had nothing to do with his health and that he plans to address the nation tonight. 5:10pm- On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Notably, Vice President Kamala Harris—who is presumed to be the Democrat Party's presidential nominee—was not in attendance. Instead, she opted to visit a sorority in Indianapolis. 5:15pm- During his speech to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out self-proclaimed progressives who have routinely opposed Israel and have sided with Hamas: "I have a message for these protesters. When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising, promoting, and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots." 5:30pm- In the days since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and selected Kamala Harris to be his successor, clips have emerged of Harris advocating for some truly bizarre policies—including a ban on fracking, a mandatory gun buyback initiated via executive authority, placing a limit on red meat consumption, providing universal health care with taxpayer funded care provided to undocumented migrants in the country illegally, and the complete abolition of private health insurance.   5:45pm- What's Kamala Harris' favorite pizza topping? Turns out it's anchovies! Plus, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has crashed! Thankfully no one was injured.   6:05pm- On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee—revealing new details about the July 13th assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Wray explained that "On July 6th, [shooter Thomas Crooks] did a Google search for 'how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?' and so that's a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind...that is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally." 6:20pm- In the days since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and selected Kamala Harris to be his successor, clips have emerged of Harris advocating for some truly bizarre policies—including a ban on fracking, a mandatory gun buyback initiated via executive authority, placing a limit on red meat consumption, providing universal health care with taxpayer funded care provided to undocumented migrants in the country illegally, and the complete abolition of private health insurance.   6:30pm- On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee—revealing new details about the July 13th assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Wray explained that he did not know why Trump wasn't removed from the stage when there was reasonable suspicion that a person had scaled a nearby rooftop, posing a threat. Bizarrely, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) blamed Trump's rhetoric for the assassination attempt.  6:40pm- On Tuesday, NBC election analyst Steve Kornacki revealed that polling indicates Donald Trump currently leads Kamala Harris nationally: 47% to 46%. However, perhaps more interesting, a closer examination of the numbers indicates Harris currently has a favorability rating of 38%—nearly identical to President Joe Biden's rating. Kornacki joked that the idea Harris will do better than Biden against Trump in November is “based more on hope” than any data collected so far.

They Said It: Sam Kennedy bizarrely walks back his underachieving comments

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (01/25/2024): 3:05pm- On Tuesday, New Hampshire held its Republican presidential primary with Donald Trump ultimately defeating Nikki Haley 54% to 43%. Meanwhile, despite not being sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee and consequently awarding no delegates, President Joe Biden defeated Rep. Dean Phillips 64% to 20%. Biden did not appear on the ballot—citing New Hampshire's prevention of South Carolina from becoming the party's first primary state—though his supporters did organize an extensive write-in campaign. According to CNN exit polling, 70% of the New Hampshire voters that cast their primary ballots for Haley in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary were not registered as Republicans—instead they were “undeclared” registrants. As the primary moves towards more conservative states, like South Carolina, will her support with independent-minded and moderate voters be enough to keep her campaign competitive? 3:10pm- Peter Navarro, former Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for defying a Congressional subpoena. Could Hunter Biden face a similar fate if he doesn't cooperate with his own Congressional subpoena? 3:15pm- Earlier this week, in a 5 to 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the Biden Administration has the authority to remove concertina wire erected by Texas officials along the U.S. Southern border—designed to prevent the unlawful border crossings that continue to plague the state. According to reports, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has continued to place “razor wire” along the border—arguing that the Supreme Court may have authorized the federal government to remove the wiring, but he remains legally permitted to use the wire when he deems it necessary. 3:20pm- On Wednesday night, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced that the union would be endorsing President Joe Biden for reelection during a conference in Washington D.C. During his speech, Fain referred to presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “scab” explaining: “If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn't be a UAW member. He'd be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker. Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union, as a society.” 3:40pm- In a New York Times editorial, Clark D. Cunningham—a law professor at Georgia State University—explains the legal consequences for the alleged improper relationship between lead prosecutor in the Donald Trump Georgia election interference criminal case, Nathan Wade, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Cunningham writes: “Mr. Wade was very involved in both the special grand jury investigation and the current criminal case, despite an absence of obvious qualifications. Although Ms. Willis has defended her decision to hire Mr. Wade, his previous experience as a prosecutor appears to have been largely limited to misdemeanors. The amount paid to Mr. Wade so far is substantial yet Mr. Wade's billing invoices obtained by Mr. Roman's lawyer are not well documented and don't always offer, for example, itemized time worked in increments of less than one day. If Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade are dismissed by Judge McAfee, it will be up to a state agency, the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, to appoint a prosecutor to take over from Ms. Willis. And that's where things could really go off the rails. Take one precedent: On July 25, 2022, Ms. Willis was disqualified from prosecuting Burt Jones, who was then a state senator, after she hosted a fund-raiser for Mr. Jones's eventual opponent in the race for lieutenant governor. Eighteen months later, the PACGA still hasn't appointed a special prosecutor, and Mr. Jones, now lieutenant governor, has not even been indicted. Delay is not even the worst possible outcome for the case if Ms. Willis is disqualified. A special prosecutor could decide to reduce or dismiss charges against some or all of the defendants, including Mr. Trump.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/opinion/fani-willis-trump-georgia.html 4:05pm- Despite endorsing Joe Biden over Donald Trump for president less than one day earlier, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain told Fox News that a “great majority” of his union members “will not vote for President Biden”—opting instead to vote with their “pay checks.” 4:10pm- On Wednesday night, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced that the union would be endorsing President Joe Biden for reelection during a conference in Washington D.C. During his speech, Fain referred to presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “scab” explaining: “If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn't be a UAW member. He'd be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker. Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union, as a society.” Meanwhile, Biden bragged to the crowd about how he has made buying America and building America a priority of his administration. However, Adam Cancryn of Politico writes: “In swing states and factory towns, Biden is making a resurgence in domestic manufacturing central to his reelection pitch. He's highlighting a surge of investments across the nation as evidence that an economic agenda centered on reviving the country's industrial core is just starting to pay off. But 10 months out from the election, those new factory projects remain in their early stages—and have yet to generate an anticipated wave of manufacturing jobs. And after a pandemic-era rebound, industry hiring overall has turned stagnant: Manufacturers added just 12,000 jobs in 2023 amid an extended business slowdown.” You can read Cancryn's full article here: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/19/biden-manufacturing-factory-jobs-00136473 4:20pm- Has your own gross negligence led to a razor wire injury? Well, Rich Zeoli and Mike Opelka have an exciting new law firm that may be able to help you win money you don't deserve: Moron & Moron Law! 4:40pm- Earlier this week, in a 5 to 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the Biden Administration has the authority to remove concertina wire erected by Texas officials along the U.S. Southern border—designed to prevent the unlawful border crossings that continue to plague the state. According to reports, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has continued to place “razor wire” along the border—arguing that the Supreme Court may have authorized the federal government to remove the wiring, but he remains legally permitted to use the wire when he deems it necessary. While appearing on Fox News, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said she would drive additional “razor wire” to Gov. Abbott, if Texas needs it. 5:05pm- Daniel Turner—Founder & Executive Director of Power the Future—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss new polling data from Power the Future and Public Opinion Strategies which “reveals that President Biden is bleeding Hispanic support in New Mexico, a state he won by 10 points in 2020. Of the Hispanics polled in the Power the Future survey, 63% disapprove of the job Biden has done—with 51% strongly disapproving—while 36% approve of his performance.” You can read more about the poll here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-dire-disapproval-ratings-among-hispanics-in-state-he-won-big-in-2020-poll. And you can learn more about Power the Future here: https://powerthefuture.com/about-us/ 5:25pm- A woman in Thousand Oaks, California was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after stabbing her date over 100 times and killing him after smoking cannabis. Bizarrely, she was sentenced to only 2 years-probation and 100 hours of community service for the crime. Her defense team had argued that she had been pressured into doing the drugs and experienced “cannabis psychosis” which caused her to act irrationally. Do you think the California legal system should have punished her more severely? Furthermore, if cannabis psychosis can be this dangerous, shouldn't California ban recreational marijuana use? 5:45pm- Kellen Browning writes: “The chairman of Arizona's Republican Party resigned abruptly on Wednesday, a day after the publication of a 10-minute recording of a conversation between himself and Kari Lake, a former nominee for governor, in which he appeared to offer a bribe to persuade Ms. Lake to drop her 2024 Senate campaign. In the recording, which was published by The Daily Mail, Jeff DeWit, the chairman, tells Ms. Lake that there are ‘very powerful people that want to keep you out' of the race, and suggests he is passing on a message from them. He says he had been told to ask her: ‘Is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on the payroll and give her—to keep her out?' Later in the conversation, which Mr. DeWit repeatedly urges Ms. Lake not to repeat to anyone, he starts to ask, ‘Is there a number at which—' before Ms. Lake interrupts, saying ‘I can be bought?' He replies, ‘Not be bought,' but instead wait a few years before running.” You can read the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/us/politics/kari-lake-arizona-gop.html 6:05pm- Matt Viser of The Washington Post writes: “Georges Bergès, an art gallery owner who gave small-dollar donations about 20 times to Donald Trump in 2020, signed an agreement shortly after that year's election to take on an unusual task: representing Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, who was pursuing a nascent career as an artist. The agreement produced arrangements that drew concern from ethics experts…In total, there have been 10 buyers of the art, who have paid a sum of $1.5 million. Under their agreement, the gallerist received 40 percent of the sales while Biden took 60 percent. Three of the buyers have been identified, while the other seven remain anonymous. The largest share of the work—11 paintings, for a total of $875,000—went to Kevin Morris, who has become one of Biden's closest friends while also acting as an attorney and financial benefactor.” You can read the full story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/hunter-biden-paintings-sold-15-million/ 6:15pm- During an interview with Katie Couric, Vice President Kamala Harris complained that Wikipedia inaccurately claims she is 5'2”—when in reality she is 5'4”…and 5'7” in heels! 6:20pm- Has your own gross negligence led to a razor wire injury? Well, Rich Zeoli and Mike Opelka have an exciting new law firm that may be able to help you win money you don't deserve: Moron & Moron Law! 6:30pm- During a press conference earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to ban Zyn nicotine pouches and energy drinks. 6:50pm- Peter Navarro, former Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for defying a Congressional subpoena. Could Hunter Biden face a similar fate if he doesn't cooperate with his own Congressional subpoena?

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: Daniel Turner—Founder & Executive Director of Power the Future—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss new polling data from Power the Future and Public Opinion Strategies which “reveals that President Biden is bleeding Hispanic support in New Mexico, a state he won by 10 points in 2020. Of the Hispanics polled in the Power the Future survey, 63% disapprove of the job Biden has done—with 51% strongly disapproving—while 36% approve of his performance.” You can read more about the poll here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-dire-disapproval-ratings-among-hispanics-in-state-he-won-big-in-2020-poll. And you can learn more about Power the Future here: https://powerthefuture.com/about-us/ A woman in Thousand Oaks, California was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after stabbing her date over 100 times and killing him after smoking cannabis. Bizarrely, she was sentenced to only 2 years-probation and 100 hours of community service for the crime. Her defense team had argued that she had been pressured into doing the drugs and experienced “cannabis psychosis” which caused her to act irrationally. Do you think the California legal system should have punished her more severely? Furthermore, if cannabis psychosis can be this dangerous, shouldn't California ban recreational marijuana use? Kellen Browning writes: “The chairman of Arizona's Republican Party resigned abruptly on Wednesday, a day after the publication of a 10-minute recording of a conversation between himself and Kari Lake, a former nominee for governor, in which he appeared to offer a bribe to persuade Ms. Lake to drop her 2024 Senate campaign. In the recording, which was published by The Daily Mail, Jeff DeWit, the chairman, tells Ms. Lake that there are ‘very powerful people that want to keep you out' of the race, and suggests he is passing on a message from them. He says he had been told to ask her: ‘Is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on the payroll and give her—to keep her out?' Later in the conversation, which Mr. DeWit repeatedly urges Ms. Lake not to repeat to anyone, he starts to ask, ‘Is there a number at which—' before Ms. Lake interrupts, saying ‘I can be bought?' He replies, ‘Not be bought,' but instead wait a few years before running.” You can read the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/us/politics/kari-lake-arizona-gop.html

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (11/15/2023): 3:05pm- On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment regarding social media usage while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haleys-crazy-plan-require-150320028.html 3:15pm- In response to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's bizarre call for ending anonymity online, her supporters pointed to a tweet from Donald Trump on May 24th, 2013, where he joked: “It should be mandatory that all haters and losers use their real name or identification when tweeting—they will no longer be so brave!” An end to anonymity online would be disastrous. As Rich notes, the essays that comprise The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay under the pseudonym “Publius.” 3:30pm- On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before a House Homeland Security subcommittee. During the hearing, Director Wray conceded that individuals on the terror watch list may have crossed into the United States illegally. Congressman Michael Guest (R-MS) noted that in 2019, former DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson referred to 1,000 illegal border crossing “overwhelms the system.” With thousands of migrants entering the U.S. illegally on a daily basis throughout the Biden Administration, Rep. Guest asked Sec. Mayorkas how many crossing—in his estimations—would be considered overwhelming? 3:50pm- During Wednesday's House Homeland Security subcommittee, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) quoted 18 U.S.C. Section 2 (a): “whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, and abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as the principal.” He then accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of “aiding and abetting” criminals that have exploited the Biden Administration's relaxed border security policies. 4:05pm- Pacific Legal Foundation Senior Attorney Brian Hodges joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Sheetz v. County of El Dorado—a property rights case which will be reviewed by United States Supreme Court. The Pacific Legal Foundation writes: “The government can't hold the right to use your property hostage in order to extract exorbitant fees. That's akin to extortion… Permit fees must be proportional to the public costs imposed by new development. Otherwise, the government may leverage the permit process to take property it is not entitled to, skirting the Constitution's Fifth Amendment prohibition against taking private property without just compensation.” You can read more about the case here: https://pacificlegal.org/case/sheetz-permit-extortion-scotus/ 4:15pm- Joe Lancaster of Reason writes: “When a state gives away tax money to a private company in an attempt to sway its business decisions, the least that a taxpayer can hope for is some openness in the process. Unfortunately, the state of Michigan's economic development agency is actively preventing transparency, leaving questions on how the state plans to spend billions of taxpayer dollars unanswered.” Could Michigan lawmakers signing a nondisclosure agreements impact how those lawmakers vote? You can read the full report here: https://reason.com/2023/11/14/michigan-lawmakers-signed-nondisclosure-agreements-cant-discuss-corporate-welfare-scheme/ 4:35pm- In an October 28th game between the Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers, former NHL hockey player Adam Johnson had his neck cut mid game by an opposing player's skate. That player has now been charged with manslaughter. You can read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/man-arrested-manslaughter-charge-uk-ice-hockey-players-death-rcna125134 4:45pm- While appearing on Fox News, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley argued that the government should prevent social media users from posting anonymously—requiring that accounts be verified with usernames and other identifying information. An end to anonymity online would be disastrous. As Rich notes, the essays that comprise The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay under the pseudonym “Publius.” Rich quotes Batman from The Dark Knight Rises: “the mask is not for you, it's for the people you care about.” You can read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haleys-crazy-plan-require-150320028.html 5:05pm- On Wednesday, President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. David E. Sanger and Katie Rogers of The New York Times write, “President Xi Jinping of China told President Biden on Wednesday that it was ‘unrealistic' for either of the two largest economic and military superpowers to expect to ‘remodel the other,' as both countries each tried, in their own way, to halt a downward spiral in their relationship.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/15/world/biden-xi-apec-summit 5:15pm- New Jersey's First Lady Tammy Murphy formally announced her intention to run for U.S. Senate—challenging Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for his seat. Menendez has been charged with acting as a foreign agent for Egypt and with accepting bribes in exchange for influence. 5:20pm- During Tammy Murphy's U.S. Senate campaign announcement, she referenced her husband, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's hair! 5:25pm- David Wildstein of The New Jersey Globe writes: “A shadowy dark money group that promoted a phantom candidate for State Senate in the 4th district is due in court next month to seek a dismissal of a judge's order to freeze their bank account. Jersey Freedom, a tenebrous independent expenditure group based in Jamaica, Queens, is now represented by William Tambussi, the longtime attorney for Democratic powerbroker George Norcross and the Camden County Democrats.” You can read the full article here: https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/dark-money-group-represented-by-south-jersey-democratic-lawyer-seeks-to-unfreeze-funds/ 5:40pm- Lisa Friedman of The New York Times reports that ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the United States and China reached a climate agreement that increases “wind, solar and other renewable [energies] with the goal of displacing fossil fuels.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/climate/us-china-climate-agreement.html 6:05pm- Fox News reporter Hillary Vaughn asked Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) if she was anti-Semitic five times—Tlaib refused to answer. 6:10pm- On Wednesday, President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. David E. Sanger and Katie Rogers of The New York Times write, “President Xi Jinping of China told President Biden on Wednesday that it was ‘unrealistic' for either of the two largest economic and military superpowers to expect to ‘remodel the other,' as both countries each tried, in their own way, to halt a downward spiral in their relationship.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/15/world/biden-xi-apec-summit 6:15pm- A local news report from Fox 2 in San Francisco notes that city officials miraculously cleared the streets of homeless encampments and public drug use ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC)—which is expected to result in many notable world leaders gathering in San Francisco for the week-long meeting. Local citizens are now wondering: why did it take the arrival of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping for local government to clean up this dangerous mess? Governor Gavin Newsom told reporters: “I know folks are saying, ‘oh they are just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town' and that's true… because it's true.” According to Zach Jewell of The Daily Wire, “a news crew from the Czech Republic was reportedly robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco on Sunday as the team reported on the Asia-Pacific Economic Partnership (APEC) summit taking place in the city.” You can read more here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-covering-apec-summit-in-san-francisco 6:20pm- While appearing on CNN with Jake Tapper, MIT graduate student Talia Khan—who is of Jewish faith—says she no longer feels safe on campus. Virginia Kruta of The Daily Wire writes: “The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took considerable backlash over a statement explaining why more actions hadn't been taken against students who promoted anti-Semitic and even genocidal slogans while participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus…the school had apparently refrained from taking action because they were concerned that foreign students—who make up nearly one-third of MIT's student body—could have their visas revoked.” You can read the full article here:https://www.dailywire.com/news/expel-deport-repeat-mit-blasted-for-protecting-anti-semitic-students-over-fears-theyd-lose-their-visas 6:30pm- According to reports, Hunter Biden is requesting that former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Bahr be subpoenaed in his criminal gun case. You can read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-asks-judge-criminal-case-subpoena-donald-trump-ex-doj-off-rcna125327 6:50pm- While appearing on Fox News, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley argued that the government should prevent social media users from posting anonymously—requiring that accounts be verified with usernames and other identifying information. An end to anonymity online would be disastrous. As Rich notes, the essays that comprise The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay under the pseudonym “Publius.” Rich quotes Batman from The Dark Knight Rises: “the mask is not for you, it's for the people you care about.” You can read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haleys-crazy-plan-require-150320028.html

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (11/14/2023): 3:05pm- In a social media post, Democratic political strategist David Axelrod expressed doubt that President Joe Biden could win reelection without strategic changes to his campaign and alterations to how the public perceives him—explaining that Biden needs to decide “whether it's in his best interest or the country's” to run again. According to reports, in response to the social media post, President Biden dismissed the critiques and referred to Axelrod as a “prick.” You can read more here: https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/biden-reportedly-called-axelrod-a-p-as-tensions-boil-over-with-former-obama-adviser/ 3:15pm- While appearing on CNBC, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced that he is endorsing Donald Trump for President. 3:20pm- In a new article featured in Politico, political statistician Nate Silver warns that “Democrats would be taking a huge risk by replacing Biden—but they're also taking a huge risk by nominating him.” Similarly, Russell Berman of The Atlantic wonders if President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is “toast.” You can read Silver's piece here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/13/biden-polls-2024-nate-silver-00126903. And you can read Berman's editorial here:  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/biden-2024-polling-reelection-obama-comparison/675972/ 3:30pm- David Wildstein of The New Jersey Globe writes: “A shadowy dark money group that promoted a phantom candidate for State Senate in the 4th district is due in court next month to seek a dismissal of a judge's order to freeze their bank account. Jersey Freedom, a tenebrous independent expenditure group based in Jamaica, Queens, is now represented by William Tambussi, the longtime attorney for Democratic powerbroker George Norcross and the Camden County Democrats.” You can read the full article here: https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/dark-money-group-represented-by-south-jersey-democratic-lawyer-seeks-to-unfreeze-funds/ 3:45pm-In her most recent article for The Wall Street Journal, journalist Catherine Lucy documents that Joe Biden is at serious risk of underperforming with Black voters in the 2024 presidential election—with many voters citing concerns about the economy under Biden's leadership. Lucy writes: “When Michelle Smith voted for President Biden in 2020, she thought he would help people like her, a Black mother working two jobs and raising three teenage boys in North Philadelphia. Now she says she won't vote for him again, citing higher prices, skyrocketing rent and a feeling she has been left behind.” A recent New York Times/Sienna poll suggests that 22% of Black voters would likely support Donald Trump in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 presidential race. In 2020, Biden won the Black vote 92% to 8%. You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/black-voters-show-signs-of-slipping-away-from-biden-in-2024-69ae78b0?mod=hp_listb_pos1 3:50pm- Don Purdy—Chairman of the Atlantic County Republican Party—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Jersey Freedom, a political organization, which spent tens-of-thousands of dollars backing third party candidates in hopes of diluting the Republican vote in New Jersey's November 7th election. The ad campaign even included endorsements for candidates that withdrew from the race. You can learn more about the Atlantic County Republican Party here: https://www.acrepublicans.org 4:05pm- On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/14/gov-kathy-hochul-ny-collecting-data-surveillance-efforts-social-media/ 4:30pm- Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a disturbing decline in the number of police officer recruits. Sheriff Golden also serves as Monmouth County Republican Committee Chairman. 4:50pm- Rich is broadcasting LIVE! from Atlantic City, New Jersey—for a local Republican Party conference. 5:05pm- Michael Donohue—former New Jersey Superior Court Judge & Chairman of Cape May County Republican Party—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Orsted, a Danish energy company responsible for offshore wind farm development, recently announcing that it will no longer take part in windmill development off the New Jersey coast. Many environmental experts hypothesize that offshore wind development's use of sonar to map the ocean's floor prevents whales from communicating with one another and inhibits accurate navigation. 5:15pm- During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Teamster President Sean O'Brien nearly came to blows. Thankfully, Senator Bernie Sanders was able to break-up the fight and save the day! Rich believes that Bernie is physically stronger than most people imagine…thanks to the power of Marxism! 5:20pm- While appearing on News Nation, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called out Chris Cuomo and the mainstream media for pushing narratives friendly to the Democrat Party. Ramaswamy notes that during the height of COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Cuomo wrongfully glorified the long-term lockdown policies adopted by his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. 5:40pm- Sarah Wilder of The Daily Caller writes: “Disney World is rolling out pronoun pins for its employees, according to multiple workers at the theme park… Employees at the EPCOT theme park at Walt Disney World can now fill out a form with their preferred pronouns to have them added to their name pin by scanning a QR code...The initiative is still voluntary, according to the employees, and is currently being rolled out to all janitorial positions.” You can read the full report here: https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/13/walt-disney-world-epcot-pronoun-pin-name-tags/ 5:50pm- A 440-pound man who was convicted of murder will now serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest due to his size and bad diet, according to a ruling from an Italian court. You can read more here: https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/440-pound-convicted-killer-spared-prison-over-bad-diet/ 6:05pm- On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/14/gov-kathy-hochul-ny-collecting-data-surveillance-efforts-social-media/ 6:25pm- Attorney Matt Rooney—Founder of the Save Jersey Blog & 1210 WPHT host—joins The Rich Zeoli to break down the November 7th election results in New Jersey. You can listen to Rooney's show every Sunday from 7-10pm on 1210 WPHT and you can find his blog here: https://savejersey.com/ 6:30pm- The Rich Zeoli Show is preempted for college basketball—the Temple Owls take on the Drexel Dragons on 1210 WPHT.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment regarding social media usage while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haleys-crazy-plan-require-150320028.html In response to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's bizarre call for ending anonymity online, her supporters pointed to a tweet from Donald Trump on May 24th, 2013, where he joked: “It should be mandatory that all haters and losers use their real name or identification when tweeting—they will no longer be so brave!” An end to anonymity online would be disastrous. As Rich notes, the essays that comprise The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay under the pseudonym “Publius.” On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before a House Homeland Security subcommittee. During the hearing, Director Wray conceded that individuals on the terror watch list may have crossed into the United States illegally. Congressman Michael Guest (R-MS) noted that in 2019, former DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson referred to 1,000 illegal border crossing “overwhelms the system.” With thousands of migrants entering the U.S. illegally on a daily basis throughout the Biden Administration, Rep. Guest asked Sec. Mayorkas how many crossing—in his estimations—would be considered overwhelming? During Wednesday's House Homeland Security subcommittee, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) quoted 18 U.S.C. Section 2 (a): “whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, and abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as the principal.” He then accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of “aiding and abetting” criminals that have exploited the Biden Administration's relaxed border security policies.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/14/gov-kathy-hochul-ny-collecting-data-surveillance-efforts-social-media/ Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a disturbing decline in the number of police officer recruits. Sheriff Golden also serves as Monmouth County Republican Committee Chairman. Rich is broadcasting LIVE! from Atlantic City, New Jersey—for a local Republican Party conference.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced that the state of New York will begin a massive data collection effort targeting social media accounts. Hochul explained the purpose of this new government surveillance program is “to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people.” Bizarrely, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed a similarly disturbing sentiment while appearing on Fox News—arguing that social media accounts should no longer be anonymous and that accounts need to be verified with the user's names and other identifying information. You can read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/14/gov-kathy-hochul-ny-collecting-data-surveillance-efforts-social-media/ Attorney Matt Rooney—Founder of the Save Jersey Blog & 1210 WPHT host—joins The Rich Zeoli to break down the November 7th election results in New Jersey. You can listen to Rooney's show every Sunday from 7-10pm on 1210 WPHT and you can find his blog here: https://savejersey.com/ The Rich Zeoli Show is preempted for college basketball—the Temple Owls take on the Drexel Dragons on 1210 WPHT.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: Dr. EJ Antoni—Economist & Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest piece at Fox News, “Yellen and Rest of Bidenomics Team Ignore Middle-Class Misery Their Policies Create.” PLUS, Nobel Prize winning-economist, and New York Time editorial columnist, Paul Krugman manipulates data to make it appear as though “the war on inflation is over.” You can read the full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/yellen-rest-bidenomics-team-ignore-middle-class-misery-their-policies-create Will the Philadelphia Phillies close out their series against the Atlanta Braves tonight? The Phillies currently lead the series 2 -1 in the best of five series. Jack Crowe of National Review writes: “The head of a prominent Iranian-backed militia in Iraq threatened to attack U.S. military bases should America intervene in the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel, just hours after the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday to deter Israel's hostile neighbors from widening the conflict.” You can read Crowe's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/iranian-backed-militia-threatens-to-strike-u-s-targets-as-american-carrier-arrives-in-mediterranean/