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The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Trump went full Truth Social: “locked and loaded,” red lines, moral theatrics. Then the regime allegedly crossed the line with a brutal crackdown, and suddenly the White House is trapped by its own swagger. When you publicly promise to “do something,” you don't get to be surprised when you're asked what, exactly, you plan to...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today is part three of my book report on David Bentley Hart's book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. The past two weeks we covered the beginning of his book, the Introduction. I'm going to begin this section by reading out of his final remarks, because he does a good job of simplifying his arguments here at the end of the book. So we'll start with that. Hart says on page 201, It may offend against our egalitarian principles today, but it was commonly assumed among the very educated of the early church that the better part of humanity was something of a hapless rabble who could be made to behave responsibly only by the most terrifying coercions of their imaginations. Belief in universal salvation may have been far more widespread in the first four or five centuries of Christian history than it was in all the centuries that followed, but it was never, as a rule, encouraged in any general way by those in authority in the church. Maybe there are great many among us who can be convinced to be good only through the threat of endless torture at the hands of an indefatigably vindictive god. Even so much as hint that the purifying flames of the age to come will at last be extinguished, and perhaps a good number of us will begin to think like the mafioso who refuses to turn state's evidence because he is sure he can do the time. Bravado is, after all, the chief virtue of the incorrigibly stupid. He goes on to say, I have never had much respect for the notion of the blind leap of faith, even when that leap is made in the direction of something beautiful and ennobling. I certainly cannot respect it when it is made in the direction of something intrinsically loathsome and degrading. And I believe that this is precisely what the Infernalist position, no matter what form it takes, necessarily involves. And to remind you, if you didn't hear the past two episodes, Infernalist refers to the notion that there is an unending hell of pain and torture for the unregenerate or the unrepentant. Further down page 202, Hart says, I honestly, perhaps guilelessly, believe that the doctrine of eternal hell is prima facie nonsensical for the simple reason that it cannot even be stated in Christian theological terms without a descent into equivocity, which is equivocation, so precipitous and total that nothing but edifying gibberish remains. To say that, on the one hand, God is infinitely good, perfectly just, and inexhaustibly loving, and that, on the other, he has created a world under such terms as oblige him either to impose or to permit the imposition of eternal misery on finite rational beings is simply to embrace a complete contradiction. All becomes mystery, but only in the sense that it requires a very mysterious ability to believe impossible things. [Jumping down the page, he says,] Can we imagine logically, I mean not merely intuitively, that someone still in torment after a trillion ages, or then a trillion trillion, or then a trillion vigintillion, is in any meaningful sense the same agent who contracted some measurable quantity of personal guilt in that tiny, ever more vanishingly insubstantial gleam of an instant that constituted his or her terrestrial life? And can we do this even while realizing that, at that point, his or her sufferings have, in a sense, only just begun, and, in fact, will always have only just begun? What extraordinary violence we must do both to our reason and to our moral intelligence, not to mention simple good taste, to make this horrid notion seem palatable to ourselves. And all because we have somehow, foolishly, allowed ourselves to be convinced that this is what we must believe. Really, could we truly believe it all apart from either profound personal fear or profound personal cruelty? Which is why, again, I do not believe that most Christians truly believe what they believe they believe. So, what he's saying here, what I've been talking to you about, is the idea that God, the God Above All Gods, what we call the Father in Gnosticism, would condemn people to everlasting torment, everlasting torment, with no other goal than to punish, because they're never going to get out of it. That's what everlasting means. And so it's just punishment for the sake of punishment, and that that great, unlimitable God would impose this punishment on little, limited, finite beings who only lived a brief millisecond of time in the great span of time of God. That God would create these people for the purpose, basically, of condemning them to everlasting torment. You see, that is not even rational. It doesn't make any sense. Not if you believe God is good. It's impossible. Now, if you think that God is evil, well, then that's not God, is it? By definition, if you believe that God is cruel and vindictive and unreasonable, well, that's not the God Above All Gods. And this should come as relief to those of you who think you can't believe in God, because God is so cruel and vindictive. Perhaps you were raised in an extremely cruel household with extremely vindictive parents, or schoolteachers, or somebody got to you and, in the name of God, inflicted cruelty upon you. Then you have come to accidentally transpose their human cruelty onto God, because they told you to. But that's not God, by definition, you see? And when I say, by definition, that means, like, cold is not hot, by definition. Cold is cold. And if you're going to start arguing, oh no, cold is hot, well, then you're not talking about cold, you're talking about hot. Do you see what I mean? And if you have been rejecting God, the God Above All Gods, because you have this view of God as merciless and vindictive, cruel, illogical, unfair, unjust, take comfort, because that's not God you're talking about. Now, it may be the small g god of this world. It could be the guy whose best friend is Satan, because remember, that is a small g god of confusion. And its main job is to cause you to forget that you come from transcendent goodness, that you come from above, from the God Above All Gods, and that you do have freedom. You do have free will. You are meant to inherit joy. You are to do good works, and to be happy, and to be in love, and to love everybody else. Don't let some evil archon, or evil Demiurge, or evil human, redefine God in such a way that you reject God, because that's the mistake. That's a categorical error. And that's why I say, take comfort, have joy, receive the love that was meant for you. Throwing out the baby with the bath water means to reject the Good because you can't sort it out from the bad. Refusing to accept God or Christ because you reject the flawed Christian Church is an example of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Okay, back to the book. On page 205, Hart says, It was not always thus. Let me at least shamelessly idealize the distant past for a moment. In its dawn, the gospel was a proclamation principally of a divine victory that had been won over death and sin, and over the spiritual powers of rebellion against the big G God that dwells on high, and here below, and under the earth. It announced itself truly as the good tidings of a campaign of divine rescue on the part of a loving God, who by the sending of his Son into the world, and even into the kingdom of death, had liberated his creatures from slavery to a false and merciless master, and had opened a way into the kingdom of heaven, in which all of creation would be glorified by the direct presence of big G God, [or the Father, as we call him in Gnosticism]. And by the way, this paragraph that I just read about early Christianity, is entirely consistent with this Valentinian Christianity that I share with you here. That is the entire purpose of we second-order creatures being sent down here below, to bring the good tidings of life and love and liberty to the fallen Demiurge, and now subsequently to all of the people who have been hoodwinked by the Demiurge and Satan into believing in the false god that does not incorporate love. Hart goes on to say, It was above all a joyous proclamation and a call to a lost people to find their true home at last, in their father's house. It did not initially make its appeal to human hearts by forcing them to revert to some childish or bestial cruelty latent in their natures. Rather, it sought to awaken them to a new form of life, one whose premise was charity. Nor was it a religion offering only a psychological salve for individual anxieties regarding personal salvation. It was a summons to a new and corporate way of life, salvation by entry into a community of love. Nothing as yet was fixed except the certainty that Jesus was now Lord over all things and would ultimately yield all things up to the Father, so that God might be all in all. Now we're going to go back into the earlier part of the book to explain some of these concepts in more depth. Hart has broken his book into four meditations, or four subjects we could call it. The first meditation is, who is God? The second meditation is, what is judgment? The third meditation is, what is a person? And the fourth meditation is, what is freedom? A reflection on the rational will. So in the first meditation, who is God? Hart explains to us that, The moral destiny of creation and the moral nature of God are absolutely inseparable. As the transcendent good beyond all things, God is also the transcendental end that makes every single action of any rational nature possible. Moreover, the end toward which He acts must be His own goodness, for He is Himself the beginning and end of all things. This is not to deny that, in addition to the primary causality of God's act of creation, there are innumerable forms of secondary causality operative within the creative order. But none of these can exceed or escape the one end toward which the first cause directs all things. And so what he is saying here is that the first causality is the expression of God's goodness, the purity of God reaching out through the Son and into the Fullness of God—emanating. That is the principal causality. That is the prime mover of all things, what we call the base state of consciousness, the matrix. But then there is a secondary causality that takes place subsequent to that. And I guess the first act of secondary causality was probably the fall, in that it was the first act of will prompted by ego that apparently deviated from God's original plan, although the Tripartite Tractate does say we shouldn't blame Logos because the fall was the cause of the cosmos which was destined to come about. But whereas the Father is the prime mover and remains shielded in purity and fullness and goodness—you see, all the love emanates from the Father, evil doesn't swim back upstream. It's all emanating from the Father, and it's all good. But we do have secondary causality down here in the created cosmos, primarily due to the actions of the Demiurge and the never-ending war that runs amuck down here. Hart says, page 70, First, as God's act of creation is free, constrained by neither necessity nor ignorance, all contingent ends are intentionally enfolded within his decision. And second, precisely because God in himself is absolute, absolved, that is, of every pathos of the contingent, every affect of the sort that a finite substance has the power to visit upon another, his moral venture in creating is infinite. One way or another, after all, all causes are logically reducible to their first cause. This is no more than a logical truism. In either case, all consequence are, either as actualities or merely possibilities, contingent upon the primordial antecedent, apart from which they could not exist. In other words, all the things that happen down here in the cosmos couldn't have happened without God giving it the first start, without the Father giving it the initial emanation. He goes on to say, And naturally, the rationale of a first cause, its definition, in the most etymologically exact meaning of that term, is the final cause that prompts it, the end toward which it acts. If, then, that first cause is an infinitely free act emerging from infinite wisdom, all those consequence are intentionally entailed, again, either as actualities or as possibilities within that first act. And so the final end to that act tends is its whole moral truth. The traditional definition of evil as a privation of the good, lacking any essence of its own, in other words, what we would call in Gnosticism, evil is the shadow of the good. Evil is the shadow of Logos. It's not a thing in itself. It's the absence of the love and the light of the Father. It is also an assertion that when we say God is good, we are speaking of Him not only relative to his creation, but as he is in himself. All comes from God, and so evil cannot be a thing that comes from anywhere. Evil is, in every case, merely the defect whereby a substantial good is lost, belied, or resisted. For in every sense, being is act, and God, in his simplicity and infinite freedom, is what he does. He could not be the creator of anything substantially evil without evil also being part of the definition of who he essentially is, for he alone is the wellspring of all that exists. Jumping down the page on 71, Hart says, “God goes forth in all beings, and in all beings returns to himself.” That's how I describe as we all carry the Fullness of God within our being, and within every cell of our being. And since we are carrying the Fullness of God within us, we will have to return to the Fullness of God ultimately. We can't be lost in everlasting torment, because we are the Fullness of God, and God cannot torment itself. Hart says, God has no need of the world. He creates it not because he is dependent upon it, but because its dependency on him is a fitting expression of the bounty of his goodness. Doesn't that remind you of, in the beginning, the Father was alone, and he admired his goodness and beauty and love. He was full of love and beauty, and gave birth, so to speak—He emanated the Son. And the Son and the Father gave glory to one another. And in that giving of glory to one another, then the Son emanated the Fullness. And then in giving glory to one another in the Fullness and to the Son, the Fullness emanates us, the second order of powers. And it's all because you can't love without having an object to love, even if it's only in your own mind. Love requires an object of devotion, and giving glory is the reciprocal of love. We give glory because we were first loved. It's a fitting expression of the bounty of goodness, as Hart puts it. Then he goes on to say, This, however, also means that within the story of creation, viewed from its final cause, there can be no residue of the pardonably tragic, no irrecuperable or irreconcilable remainder left behind at the end of the tale. For if there were, this irreconcilable excess would also be something God has directly caused. Now, in our Gnostic gospel, there is a remnant “left behind at the end of the tale.” And that is the shadowy archons that were never a part of the original creation because they did not come from the “first cause” discussed earlier. The shadows of the Demiurge did not come from the Fullness or the fallen Aeon, but are only the absence of the qualities of that Aeon, this is why they are referred to as shadows. They are figments that do not have a reality outside of the Deficiency. Therefore, they have no home to return to in the Fullness of God. They are not from the Fullness. And he talks a bit about Hegel's system and dismisses it, and I'm not going to go into it. Hart says, The story Christians tell is of creation as God's sovereign act of love, neither adding to nor qualifying His eternal nature. And so it is also a story that leaves no room for an ultimate distinction between the universal truth of reason and the moral meaning of the particular, or for any distinction between the moral meaning of the particular and the moral nature of God. Only by insisting upon the universality of God's mercy could Paul, in Romans 11.32, liberate himself from the fear that the particularity of that mercy would prove to be an ultimate injustice, and that in judging His creatures, God would reveal Himself not as the good God of faithfulness and love, but as an inconstant God who can shatter His own covenants at will. Hart reminds us that down through the centuries, Christians have again and again subscribed to formulations of their faith that clearly reduce a host of cardinal Christian theological usages, most especially moral predicates like good, merciful, just, benevolent, loving, to utter equivocity, and that by association, reduce their entire grammar of Christian belief to meaninglessness. [On the next page, 75, he says], consider, to begin with the mildest of moral difficulties, how many Christians down the centuries have had to reconcile their consciences to the repellent notion that all humans are at conception already guilty of a transgression that condemns them justly to eternal separation from God and eternal suffering, and that in this doctrine's extreme form, every newborn infant belongs to a massa damnata, hateful in God's eyes from the first moment of existence. Hart loves to throw in Latin. Massa damnata obviously means that the masses would be damned. The very notion of an inherited guilt is a logical absurdity, rather on the order of a square circle. All that the doctrine can truly be taken to assert, speaking logically, is that God willfully imputes to innocent creatures a guilt they can never have really contracted out of what, from any sane perspective, can only be called malice. But this is just the beginning of the problem. For one broad, venerable stream of tradition, God, on the basis of this imputation, consigns the vast majority of the race to perpetual torment, including infants who die unbaptized. And may I point out that in Gnostic Christianity there is no inherited guilt at all because the Fall was not caused by the first humans, Adam and Eve, but occurred at the Aeonic level. Christianity carries a remnant of that understanding forward when it refers to “fallen angels,” but it does not connect the dots to realize their culpability in original sin. And then the theology of grace grows grimmer, for according to the great Augustinian tradition, since we are somehow born meriting not only death but eternal torment, we are enjoined to see and praise a laudable generosity in God's narrow choice to elect a small remnant for salvation, before and apart from any consideration of their concrete merits or demerits, and this further choice either to predestine or infallibly to surrender the vast remainder to everlasting misery. So it is that, for many Christians down the years, the rationale of evangelization has been a desperate race to save as many souls as possible from God. The time has really gotten away from us, and we've only touched the first meditation, so I hope you are enjoying this theology. It's theology, and I know that's difficult slog, but I'm sharing with you these thoughts because they comprise basically the sum total of Christian theology for the past 2,000 years, and it has gone through changes here and there. 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Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today is part three of my book report on David Bentley Hart's book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. The past two weeks we covered the beginning of his book, the Introduction. I'm going to begin this section by reading out of his final remarks, because he does a good job of simplifying his arguments here at the end of the book. So we'll start with that. Hart says on page 201, It may offend against our egalitarian principles today, but it was commonly assumed among the very educated of the early church that the better part of humanity was something of a hapless rabble who could be made to behave responsibly only by the most terrifying coercions of their imaginations. Belief in universal salvation may have been far more widespread in the first four or five centuries of Christian history than it was in all the centuries that followed, but it was never, as a rule, encouraged in any general way by those in authority in the church. Maybe there are great many among us who can be convinced to be good only through the threat of endless torture at the hands of an indefatigably vindictive god. Even so much as hint that the purifying flames of the age to come will at last be extinguished, and perhaps a good number of us will begin to think like the mafioso who refuses to turn state's evidence because he is sure he can do the time. Bravado is, after all, the chief virtue of the incorrigibly stupid. He goes on to say, I have never had much respect for the notion of the blind leap of faith, even when that leap is made in the direction of something beautiful and ennobling. I certainly cannot respect it when it is made in the direction of something intrinsically loathsome and degrading. And I believe that this is precisely what the Infernalist position, no matter what form it takes, necessarily involves. And to remind you, if you didn't hear the past two episodes, Infernalist refers to the notion that there is an unending hell of pain and torture for the unregenerate or the unrepentant. Further down page 202, Hart says, I honestly, perhaps guilelessly, believe that the doctrine of eternal hell is prima facie nonsensical for the simple reason that it cannot even be stated in Christian theological terms without a descent into equivocity, which is equivocation, so precipitous and total that nothing but edifying gibberish remains. To say that, on the one hand, God is infinitely good, perfectly just, and inexhaustibly loving, and that, on the other, he has created a world under such terms as oblige him either to impose or to permit the imposition of eternal misery on finite rational beings is simply to embrace a complete contradiction. All becomes mystery, but only in the sense that it requires a very mysterious ability to believe impossible things. [Jumping down the page, he says,] Can we imagine logically, I mean not merely intuitively, that someone still in torment after a trillion ages, or then a trillion trillion, or then a trillion vigintillion, is in any meaningful sense the same agent who contracted some measurable quantity of personal guilt in that tiny, ever more vanishingly insubstantial gleam of an instant that constituted his or her terrestrial life? And can we do this even while realizing that, at that point, his or her sufferings have, in a sense, only just begun, and, in fact, will always have only just begun? What extraordinary violence we must do both to our reason and to our moral intelligence, not to mention simple good taste, to make this horrid notion seem palatable to ourselves. And all because we have somehow, foolishly, allowed ourselves to be convinced that this is what we must believe. Really, could we truly believe it all apart from either profound personal fear or profound personal cruelty? Which is why, again, I do not believe that most Christians truly believe what they believe they believe. So, what he's saying here, what I've been talking to you about, is the idea that God, the God Above All Gods, what we call the Father in Gnosticism, would condemn people to everlasting torment, everlasting torment, with no other goal than to punish, because they're never going to get out of it. That's what everlasting means. And so it's just punishment for the sake of punishment, and that that great, unlimitable God would impose this punishment on little, limited, finite beings who only lived a brief millisecond of time in the great span of time of God. That God would create these people for the purpose, basically, of condemning them to everlasting torment. You see, that is not even rational. It doesn't make any sense. Not if you believe God is good. It's impossible. Now, if you think that God is evil, well, then that's not God, is it? By definition, if you believe that God is cruel and vindictive and unreasonable, well, that's not the God Above All Gods. And this should come as relief to those of you who think you can't believe in God, because God is so cruel and vindictive. Perhaps you were raised in an extremely cruel household with extremely vindictive parents, or schoolteachers, or somebody got to you and, in the name of God, inflicted cruelty upon you. Then you have come to accidentally transpose their human cruelty onto God, because they told you to. But that's not God, by definition, you see? And when I say, by definition, that means, like, cold is not hot, by definition. Cold is cold. And if you're going to start arguing, oh no, cold is hot, well, then you're not talking about cold, you're talking about hot. Do you see what I mean? And if you have been rejecting God, the God Above All Gods, because you have this view of God as merciless and vindictive, cruel, illogical, unfair, unjust, take comfort, because that's not God you're talking about. Now, it may be the small g god of this world. It could be the guy whose best friend is Satan, because remember, that is a small g god of confusion. And its main job is to cause you to forget that you come from transcendent goodness, that you come from above, from the God Above All Gods, and that you do have freedom. You do have free will. You are meant to inherit joy. You are to do good works, and to be happy, and to be in love, and to love everybody else. Don't let some evil archon, or evil Demiurge, or evil human, redefine God in such a way that you reject God, because that's the mistake. That's a categorical error. And that's why I say, take comfort, have joy, receive the love that was meant for you. Throwing out the baby with the bath water means to reject the Good because you can't sort it out from the bad. Refusing to accept God or Christ because you reject the flawed Christian Church is an example of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Okay, back to the book. On page 205, Hart says, It was not always thus. Let me at least shamelessly idealize the distant past for a moment. In its dawn, the gospel was a proclamation principally of a divine victory that had been won over death and sin, and over the spiritual powers of rebellion against the big G God that dwells on high, and here below, and under the earth. It announced itself truly as the good tidings of a campaign of divine rescue on the part of a loving God, who by the sending of his Son into the world, and even into the kingdom of death, had liberated his creatures from slavery to a false and merciless master, and had opened a way into the kingdom of heaven, in which all of creation would be glorified by the direct presence of big G God, [or the Father, as we call him in Gnosticism]. And by the way, this paragraph that I just read about early Christianity, is entirely consistent with this Valentinian Christianity that I share with you here. That is the entire purpose of we second-order creatures being sent down here below, to bring the good tidings of life and love and liberty to the fallen Demiurge, and now subsequently to all of the people who have been hoodwinked by the Demiurge and Satan into believing in the false god that does not incorporate love. Hart goes on to say, It was above all a joyous proclamation and a call to a lost people to find their true home at last, in their father's house. It did not initially make its appeal to human hearts by forcing them to revert to some childish or bestial cruelty latent in their natures. Rather, it sought to awaken them to a new form of life, one whose premise was charity. Nor was it a religion offering only a psychological salve for individual anxieties regarding personal salvation. It was a summons to a new and corporate way of life, salvation by entry into a community of love. Nothing as yet was fixed except the certainty that Jesus was now Lord over all things and would ultimately yield all things up to the Father, so that God might be all in all. Now we're going to go back into the earlier part of the book to explain some of these concepts in more depth. Hart has broken his book into four meditations, or four subjects we could call it. The first meditation is, who is God? The second meditation is, what is judgment? The third meditation is, what is a person? And the fourth meditation is, what is freedom? A reflection on the rational will. So in the first meditation, who is God? Hart explains to us that, The moral destiny of creation and the moral nature of God are absolutely inseparable. As the transcendent good beyond all things, God is also the transcendental end that makes every single action of any rational nature possible. Moreover, the end toward which He acts must be His own goodness, for He is Himself the beginning and end of all things. This is not to deny that, in addition to the primary causality of God's act of creation, there are innumerable forms of secondary causality operative within the creative order. But none of these can exceed or escape the one end toward which the first cause directs all things. And so what he is saying here is that the first causality is the expression of God's goodness, the purity of God reaching out through the Son and into the Fullness of God—emanating. That is the principal causality. That is the prime mover of all things, what we call the base state of consciousness, the matrix. But then there is a secondary causality that takes place subsequent to that. And I guess the first act of secondary causality was probably the fall, in that it was the first act of will prompted by ego that apparently deviated from God's original plan, although the Tripartite Tractate does say we shouldn't blame Logos because the fall was the cause of the cosmos which was destined to come about. But whereas the Father is the prime mover and remains shielded in purity and fullness and goodness—you see, all the love emanates from the Father, evil doesn't swim back upstream. It's all emanating from the Father, and it's all good. But we do have secondary causality down here in the created cosmos, primarily due to the actions of the Demiurge and the never-ending war that runs amuck down here. Hart says, page 70, First, as God's act of creation is free, constrained by neither necessity nor ignorance, all contingent ends are intentionally enfolded within his decision. And second, precisely because God in himself is absolute, absolved, that is, of every pathos of the contingent, every affect of the sort that a finite substance has the power to visit upon another, his moral venture in creating is infinite. One way or another, after all, all causes are logically reducible to their first cause. This is no more than a logical truism. In either case, all consequence are, either as actualities or merely possibilities, contingent upon the primordial antecedent, apart from which they could not exist. In other words, all the things that happen down here in the cosmos couldn't have happened without God giving it the first start, without the Father giving it the initial emanation. He goes on to say, And naturally, the rationale of a first cause, its definition, in the most etymologically exact meaning of that term, is the final cause that prompts it, the end toward which it acts. If, then, that first cause is an infinitely free act emerging from infinite wisdom, all those consequence are intentionally entailed, again, either as actualities or as possibilities within that first act. And so the final end to that act tends is its whole moral truth. The traditional definition of evil as a privation of the good, lacking any essence of its own, in other words, what we would call in Gnosticism, evil is the shadow of the good. Evil is the shadow of Logos. It's not a thing in itself. It's the absence of the love and the light of the Father. It is also an assertion that when we say God is good, we are speaking of Him not only relative to his creation, but as he is in himself. All comes from God, and so evil cannot be a thing that comes from anywhere. Evil is, in every case, merely the defect whereby a substantial good is lost, belied, or resisted. For in every sense, being is act, and God, in his simplicity and infinite freedom, is what he does. He could not be the creator of anything substantially evil without evil also being part of the definition of who he essentially is, for he alone is the wellspring of all that exists. Jumping down the page on 71, Hart says, “God goes forth in all beings, and in all beings returns to himself.” That's how I describe as we all carry the Fullness of God within our being, and within every cell of our being. And since we are carrying the Fullness of God within us, we will have to return to the Fullness of God ultimately. We can't be lost in everlasting torment, because we are the Fullness of God, and God cannot torment itself. Hart says, God has no need of the world. He creates it not because he is dependent upon it, but because its dependency on him is a fitting expression of the bounty of his goodness. Doesn't that remind you of, in the beginning, the Father was alone, and he admired his goodness and beauty and love. He was full of love and beauty, and gave birth, so to speak—He emanated the Son. And the Son and the Father gave glory to one another. And in that giving of glory to one another, then the Son emanated the Fullness. And then in giving glory to one another in the Fullness and to the Son, the Fullness emanates us, the second order of powers. And it's all because you can't love without having an object to love, even if it's only in your own mind. Love requires an object of devotion, and giving glory is the reciprocal of love. We give glory because we were first loved. It's a fitting expression of the bounty of goodness, as Hart puts it. Then he goes on to say, This, however, also means that within the story of creation, viewed from its final cause, there can be no residue of the pardonably tragic, no irrecuperable or irreconcilable remainder left behind at the end of the tale. For if there were, this irreconcilable excess would also be something God has directly caused. Now, in our Gnostic gospel, there is a remnant “left behind at the end of the tale.” And that is the shadowy archons that were never a part of the original creation because they did not come from the “first cause” discussed earlier. The shadows of the Demiurge did not come from the Fullness or the fallen Aeon, but are only the absence of the qualities of that Aeon, this is why they are referred to as shadows. They are figments that do not have a reality outside of the Deficiency. Therefore, they have no home to return to in the Fullness of God. They are not from the Fullness. And he talks a bit about Hegel's system and dismisses it, and I'm not going to go into it. Hart says, The story Christians tell is of creation as God's sovereign act of love, neither adding to nor qualifying His eternal nature. And so it is also a story that leaves no room for an ultimate distinction between the universal truth of reason and the moral meaning of the particular, or for any distinction between the moral meaning of the particular and the moral nature of God. Only by insisting upon the universality of God's mercy could Paul, in Romans 11.32, liberate himself from the fear that the particularity of that mercy would prove to be an ultimate injustice, and that in judging His creatures, God would reveal Himself not as the good God of faithfulness and love, but as an inconstant God who can shatter His own covenants at will. Hart reminds us that down through the centuries, Christians have again and again subscribed to formulations of their faith that clearly reduce a host of cardinal Christian theological usages, most especially moral predicates like good, merciful, just, benevolent, loving, to utter equivocity, and that by association, reduce their entire grammar of Christian belief to meaninglessness. [On the next page, 75, he says], consider, to begin with the mildest of moral difficulties, how many Christians down the centuries have had to reconcile their consciences to the repellent notion that all humans are at conception already guilty of a transgression that condemns them justly to eternal separation from God and eternal suffering, and that in this doctrine's extreme form, every newborn infant belongs to a massa damnata, hateful in God's eyes from the first moment of existence. Hart loves to throw in Latin. Massa damnata obviously means that the masses would be damned. The very notion of an inherited guilt is a logical absurdity, rather on the order of a square circle. All that the doctrine can truly be taken to assert, speaking logically, is that God willfully imputes to innocent creatures a guilt they can never have really contracted out of what, from any sane perspective, can only be called malice. But this is just the beginning of the problem. For one broad, venerable stream of tradition, God, on the basis of this imputation, consigns the vast majority of the race to perpetual torment, including infants who die unbaptized. And may I point out that in Gnostic Christianity there is no inherited guilt at all because the Fall was not caused by the first humans, Adam and Eve, but occurred at the Aeonic level. Christianity carries a remnant of that understanding forward when it refers to “fallen angels,” but it does not connect the dots to realize their culpability in original sin. And then the theology of grace grows grimmer, for according to the great Augustinian tradition, since we are somehow born meriting not only death but eternal torment, we are enjoined to see and praise a laudable generosity in God's narrow choice to elect a small remnant for salvation, before and apart from any consideration of their concrete merits or demerits, and this further choice either to predestine or infallibly to surrender the vast remainder to everlasting misery. So it is that, for many Christians down the years, the rationale of evangelization has been a desperate race to save as many souls as possible from God. The time has really gotten away from us, and we've only touched the first meditation, so I hope you are enjoying this theology. It's theology, and I know that's difficult slog, but I'm sharing with you these thoughts because they comprise basically the sum total of Christian theology for the past 2,000 years, and it has gone through changes here and there. David Bentley Hart is a scholar of Eastern Orthodoxy and a scholar of religion and philosopher and so forth, and I think that he has very clear sight. So we'll pick this up one more time next week, and I promise we'll wrap it up. Onward and upward! God bless us all! This book gathers the essential insights of gnosis into a clear, approachable form. Gnosis can be as simple or as intricate as you choose to make it, but its heart is always accessible. A Simple Explanation guides you through the often tangled vocabulary and shifting landscapes of Gnostic thought, offering a path that is both illuminating and easy to follow. The glossary alone is a treasure—an indispensable reference for anyone exploring ancient Christian mysticism, the Nag Hammadi texts, or the deeper layers of spiritual philosophy. Now available in paperback, hardback, Kindle, and audiobook editions through amazon and your local booksellers.

In this episode: Nathan survives the Bosun's curse.. the bromance however, does not and we farewell the Season 10 Bravado crew! Support the showClick the link above to head over to Patreon where you can join our community & access ad-free, early release episodes from $2 per month (USD) or for $5 USD per month enjoy all the above perks AND our weekly bonus episode 'The Wrap Up' for Patreon subscribers only! You can also support us by clicking the link below to purchase a 'virtual coffee'! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theaftdeckpodAs an entirely independent podcast, we appreciate ALL of your support!!! Ask us questions, give us your thoughts on the show or tell us what you'd like us to cover in future episodes at theaftdeckpod@gmail.com or DM us @theaftdeck.podMusic by: AudioCoffee (Denys Kyshchuk)

Seattle Jazz Hall of Famer Bill Anschell's 30-year career encompassed prog rock, jazz, and electronic music. Now he's added a book to his artistic accomplishments, "Benched: Jazz Stories." Join me for this conversation with Bill, including samples of his music and readings from his book.

During her trial, Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly hinted—both directly and through her defense team—that she might take the stand in her own defense. Those signals came through strategic courtroom moments: lawyers emphasizing her right to testify, references to her version of events during motions, and an overall posture that suggested the jury might eventually hear from Maxwell herself. The implication was clear: she wanted the panel to believe she was prepared to personally rebut the government's witnesses and allegations, potentially positioning herself as misunderstood rather than culpable.In the end, that suggestion never materialized. After the defense rested, Maxwell chose not to testify, a move that underscored the legal risk of subjecting herself to cross-examination under oath. Prosecutors had built a case grounded in victim testimony, documents, and corroborating witnesses, and taking the stand would have opened Maxwell up to devastating impeachment and questions about her role in Epstein's trafficking operation. The quiet reversal—from hinting at testimony to remaining silent—left jurors to weigh her absence against the evidence already presented, reinforcing the prosecution's narrative rather than challenging it.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Sarah and Kelli discuss Season 10 episode 15 of Below Deck Med. Topics include: an emotional night, Joe and V's talk, Nathan working hard to convince Gael to stay, V's realization, Love Actually, V and Max conflict, breast milk, spicy margs, jet ski difficulties and jamón troubles. In Hot Tub Convo we discuss launching a Patreon, Brianna Duffield's engagement, Captain Sandy and Leah's NYE cameo on CNN and V's time off the boat. Be like V and keep your standards high - a new episode of Above Deck is out now! Follow us on Instagram: @abovedeckpod   Get in touch: abovedeckpod@gmail.com  Get ya some Above Deck merch: https://shop.hurrdatmedia.com/collections/above-deck  Thank you to Coconut Bowls for sponsoring this episode! Go to http://coconutbowls.com and use code ABOVEDECKPOD20 for 10% off your order.  Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and tell a friend! This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a podcast network and digital media production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network by going to HurrdatMedia.com or the Hurrdat Media YouTube channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitch Nelles accuses Bears fans of having 'false bravado' full 523 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:23:01 +0000 oInFVzu2cy5DJ1wuSlYGaFkWeZ1gQOxd nfl,chicago bears,sports Spiegel & Holmes Show nfl,chicago bears,sports Mitch Nelles accuses Bears fans of having 'false bravado' Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson, former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday (2 p.m. - 6 p.m. CT) on 670 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app. © 2025 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 8, 2025 is: bravado • bruh-VAH-doh • noun Bravado refers to confident or brave talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people. // She tells the stories of her youthful exploits with enough bravado to invite suspicion that they're embellished a bit. // The crew of climbers scaled the mountain with youthful bravado. See the entry > Examples: "One problem that exists in the whitewater community overall is that people don't always understand the basic elements associated with water and their ignorance and bravado often lead to an incident where someone gets injured or killed." — Tracy Hines, The Durango (Colorado) Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Did you know? Displays of bravado may be show-offish, daring, reckless, and inconsistent with good sense—take, for example, the spectacular feats of stuntpeople—but when successful, they are still likely to be met with shouts of "bravo!" Celebrities, political leaders, corporate giants, and schoolyard bullies, however, may show a different flavor of bravado: one that suggests an overbearing boldness that comes from arrogance or from being in a position of power. The word bravado originally comes from the Italian adjective bravo, meaning "wild" or "courageous," which English can also thank for the more common brave.

In a culture obsessed with looking strong, confident, and in control, what happens when the mask finally cracks? In this message, “The Battle of Bravado,”  Kendal closes out the War & Peace series by contrasting empty bravado with the real, transformative power of Christ.Walking through the story of Samson in Judges 13–16, Kendal shows how someone blessed, called, and empowered by God can still be sabotaged by unchecked desires, toxic relationships, and a misplaced sense of strength. Samson's life becomes a mirror for our own battles with pride, performance, and hidden weakness.

201: On this episode, we talk about an Annie Oakley gun up for auction, the Sig P320 Reserve, the Henry SPD, Shoeld X Carry Comp, and Woox new Bravado stock for Marlin and Henry lever actions! There are already “switches” for the “Unswitchable” Glock V Models I shot a Mean Arms Maul PCC Jaki and Tony went hunting and Jaki got her first run in with a buck! If you guys want to save some on your own set of sexy Italian wood furniture from Woox for your shotgun or AR be sure to use code: laughnload10 For that Blackout Coffee link to support the show click https://www.blackoutcoffee.com?p=SJxs6gMea Be sure to use code LNL20 if it is your first order and get 20% off! Thanks for all of your guy's support! We love ya! Please help us out by rating and reviewing the podcast! Thank you! Got questions? Email us at pewtimepodcast@gmail.com If you want to book Tony for a class email him at performancegun@gmail.com Looking for some new range wear? Head over to https://www.laughnload.com to check out some of the shirts, hats, hoodies and more that are currently available. What to check out some more from us you can search Laugh n Load on IG, FB and YouTube. FB: https://www.facebook.com/252407111792056/ IG: https://instagram.com/laughnload?igshid=tm0tboj9syru YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvK8P5NQ_sCpz1Hwasmd62Q

201: On this episode, we talk about an Annie Oakley gun up for auction, the Sig P320 Reserve, the Henry SPD, Shoeld X Carry Comp, and Woox new Bravado stock for Marlin and Henry lever actions!There are already “switches” for the “Unswitchable” Glock V ModelsI shot a Mean Arms Maul PCCJaki and Tony went hunting and Jaki got her first run in with a buck! If you guys want to save some on your own set of sexy Italian wood furniture from Woox for your shotgun or AR be sure to usecode: laughnload10For that Blackout Coffee link to support the show click https://www.blackoutcoffee.com?p=SJxs6gMea Be sure to use code LNL20 if it is your first order and get 20% off!Thanks for all of your guy's support! We love ya!Please help us out by rating and reviewing the podcast! Thank you!Got questions? Email us at pewtimepodcast@gmail.comIf you want to book Tony for a class email him at performancegun@gmail.com Looking for some new range wear?Head over to https://www.laughnload.com to check out some of the shirts, hats, hoodies and more that are currently available. What to check out some more from us you can search Laugh n Load on IG, FB and YouTube. FB: https://www.facebook.com/252407111792056/IG: https://instagram.com/laughnload?igshid=tm0tboj9syruYT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvK8P5NQ_sCpz1Hwasmd62Q

Peter Crouch is a former professional footballer, sports pundit, and podcaster. What was it like playing in the Premier League alongside some of football's most intense personalities? In an era where a goal celebration, whether it was the robot or a knee slide, showed your confidence as much as your skill, what was life like for Peter Crouch back then, and what's he up to now Expect to learn why so many ex-footballers started doing podcasts, what the common psychological archetype of top flight football players are, what being inside Premier League dressing rooms taught Peter about masculinity, why there are still no publicly gay premier league players, how Peter dealt with anxiety and the adrenaline whilst being a footballer, what worst part of the job that the general public don't understand and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to $350 off the Pod 5 at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bleav Host Robert Land ask Moses Malone Biographer Paul Knepper about his new book "Moses Malone: The Life of a Basketball Prophet." Plus, we say goodbye to Chas McCormick & Luis Garcia and hit on how injuries could affect the Texans Sunday vs. the Jags. Today's Show Presented by FanDuel! (:36) Saying Goodbye to Chas McCormick & Luis Garcia! (3:12) Astros place 5 players on 40 man (3:35) Bet against Texans this week? (Key Injuries!) (5:00) New Moses Malone bio! (6:08) Why was Moses mysterious & under-appreciated? (9:12) Moses the Prankster? (10:06) Why was Moses a Prophet? (11:43) Moses College Recruiting = Crazy? (12:50) John Lucas & Moses connection? (13:47) Moses = brother of Rockets Caldwell & Major Jones? (15:35) How's Moses connected to Steven Adams? What was his elite skill? (19:45) Was Malone part of a Twin Towers before Hakeem & Sampson? (21:46) Did Moses Save the Rockets Franchise? (22:37) Was Malone a showman? (23:44) Did Moses cost the Rockets NBA Finals with Bravado? (26:30) How did Rockets lose MVP Malone in Prime? (29:45) Rough Childhood for Malone? (31:11) Charles Barkley says Malone Father Figure? (33:55) Was Moses loyal to his friends? (35:33) Malone's Dark Side? (37:05) Moses son grows up without Father! Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple & iHeart X @HSTPodcast #rockets #mosesmalone #charlesbarkley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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"Loading docks are weird, right?" Dan roots for the demise of a Shipping Container member's marriage in the name of content — which, frankly, seems like an HR violation — and the crew dives into the best from the NFL weekend, including an epic Titans comeback, Baker Mayfield slingin' it, Drake Maye's big night, and definitely not the Miami Dolphins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

[00:18–03:35] Injuries & NFL Landscape Shifts Chris and Mario start with the impact of injuries across the league—highlighting issues affecting team depth, quarterback changes, and shifting dynamics through two weeks. [03:36–05:22] 49ers at Jaguars & Saints at Seahawks They look at the Niners' depth issues and the Jaguars' need for offensive improvement. In Seahawks-Saints, Seattle's run game is solid, while New Orleans struggles for identity. [05:23–07:41] Steelers at Patriots & Jets at Dolphins Steelers-Patriots focuses on both teams' stagnant offenses and QB uncertainty. For Jets-Dolphins, the conversation covers Miami's home-field advantage and New York's inconsistency. [07:42–09:33] Bills at Cardinals & Chargers at Giants Bills-Cardinals centers on Arizona's competitive defense and Buffalo's firepower. Chargers-Giants is framed around Herbert's comfort level and NY's RB workload. [09:34–11:51] Eagles at Buccaneers & Rams at Colts Jalen Hurts' rhythm vs. Tampa's defense is key in Eagles-Bucs. Rams-Colts features praise for Indy's surprising start and LA's evolving backfield. [11:52–14:28] Browns at Lions & Bears at Raiders Cleveland's defense is stifling, while Detroit's offense continues to click. Bears-Raiders includes notes on Caleb Williams' growth and Vegas' need for big plays. [14:29–17:10] Cowboys at Packers & Falcons at Commanders Dallas' wideout injuries and Green Bay's balance are discussed. Falcons-Commanders revolves around QB options, a shaky Washington defense, and Kyle Pitts' reemergence. [17:11–19:06] Titans at Texans & Panthers at Patriots Stroud's regression and Cam Ward's tough matchups are noted in Titans-Texans. Panthers-Patriots doubles down on Maye's turnovers and Carolina's odd offensive efficiency. [19:07–21:02] Saints at Seahawks & Broncos at Chiefs A brief second take on Saints-Seahawks revisits Geno Smith's inconsistency. Broncos-Chiefs touches on KC's offensive identity and Denver's youth-driven lineup. [21:03–23:18] Vikings vs Steelers in London They highlight the London game as a potential turning point for both squads. QB performances and travel fatigue are touched on. [23:19–25:00] Bengals at Vikings & Quarterback Rotation Browning and Wentz are the focus in Cincy-Minnesota. The conversation addresses game speed, system fit, and execution. [25:01–26:41] Ravens at Chiefs & Monday Night Outlook The marquee matchup pits two contenders with postseason histories. They close with quick notes on how this game may define early AFC narratives.

Gaming Hosts Ace and Josh are back with another packed episode of This Week in Gaming. This week the video game world is in a bit of a funk as Borderlands CEO doubles down on it's performance, Nintendo hits us with another dull showcase, Expedition 33 hits another milestone and gaming hit Marvel Rivals may be heading the the video game graveyard. It's another awesome, video game packed episode from your favorite gaming podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol' Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf and Phelps   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, Patrick, NorwegianGreaser and PeopleWonder   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: ⁠https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz⁠ Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jann revisits this conversation from May 2021 with friend and fellow musician, Rose Cousins. They chat about keeping each other company through the pandemic and the 'benefits of being alone,' both in general, and the song off her pandemic release Bravado. Rose has since released more music! Find out more on her website. https://www.rosecousins.com/ Get tickets to our live show in Calgary! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.studiobell.ca/whats-on/event/the-jann-arden-podcast-live⁠⁠⁠ Leave us a voicenote! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jannardenpod.com/voicemail/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to bonus content and more on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/JannArdenPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order ONLYJANNS Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://cutloosemerch.ca/collections/jann-arden⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.jannardenpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/jannardenpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/jannardenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's Yankees highlights include BT and Sal talking with manager Aaron Boone about Aaron Judge's recovery, the team's fundamentals, and much more. Plus, Tommy Lugauer says the Yanks recent winning streak was "fool's gold," and nothing more than beating up on bad teams. He also says that Giancarlo Stanton is the most impactful and underappreciated Yankee of the past eight years.

This week's Yankees highlights include BT and Sal talking with manager Aaron Boone about Aaron Judge's recovery, the team's fundamentals, and much more. Plus, Tommy Lugauer says the Yanks recent winning streak was "fool's gold," and nothing more than beating up on bad teams. He also says that Giancarlo Stanton is the most impactful and underappreciated Yankee of the past eight years.

This week's Yankees highlights include BT and Sal talking with manager Aaron Boone about Aaron Judge's recovery, the team's fundamentals, and much more. Plus, Tommy Lugauer says the Yanks recent winning streak was "fool's gold," and nothing more than beating up on bad teams. He also says that Giancarlo Stanton is the most impactful and underappreciated Yankee of the past eight years.

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The Church today is missing its cowboy bravado—it's willingness to hop on the back of a bucking bull and ride it. Instead there is a passivity, a reticence, and a self-preservation that is controlling the actions of a high percentage of believers today. Wilbur and Orville Wright had cowboy bravado, and, as a result, learned to ride the bucking Wind—something all the experts believed was an impossibility in their day. For the strength of heaven to return to the Church, the cowboy bravado must once again return, too.

Seth and Sean lend some context to Shedeur Sanders' Mt. Rushmore, circle back to Dabo Swinney mixing up Brian Kelly and Brian Kelley, Sean tells his own name mix-up story, they react to John Smoltz dropping a rather odd name when talking about generational pitchers, dive into some of what Texans C Jake Andrews had to say on Texans All Access, and see what Reggie and Lopez have for the question of the day.

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Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have been jailed for 4 years and 3 months for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in 2023, in an act of "sheer bravado" according to the judge.Tom Barton is ITV Tyne Tees' Northumberland correspondent and has followed this unforgettable story and trial every step of the way. He joins Daniel Hewitt to breakdown how the damage they did and the impact their actions had led the judge to her decision.Watch Tom's documentary Sycamore Gap: Britain's Lost Landmark: https://www.itv.com/watch/sycamore-gap-britains-lost-landmark/10a7138a0001B

Federal troops paraded through MacArthur Park on Monday in an astonishing show of force. Mayor Karen Bass says LA is a testing site for a national project.  The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years closely covering capital punishment. She’s written a powerful and deeply personal meditation on what witnessing executions has revealed to her about her own faith, and the power of forgiveness. NPR’s Eric Deggans reviews the latest in TV: “Ballard,” “Dexter: Resurrection,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (season three), and “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.”   

Federal troops paraded through MacArthur Park on Monday in an astonishing show of force. Mayor Karen Bass says LA is a testing site for a national project.  The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years closely covering capital punishment. She's written a powerful and deeply personal meditation on what witnessing executions has revealed to her about her own faith, and the power of forgiveness. NPR's Eric Deggans reviews the latest in TV: “Ballard,” “Dexter: Resurrection,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (season three), and “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.” 

Send us a textStep back in time to July 4, 1884, when Dodge City, Kansas staged one of the most audacious spectacles ever seen on American frontier soil – a genuine Mexican bullfight. As the cattle trade slowed and prosperity waned, former Mayor A.B. Webster hatched a plan that would either save the town's economy or cement its reputation for lawlessness.The Great Bullfight of 1884 represents the fascinating collision of American frontier spirit with Spanish tradition. Within days, Webster raised $10,000 from local merchants desperate for economic revival. In less than two months, they transformed 40 acres into an arena capable of seating 2,500 spectators. When faced with legal opposition, Webster's response became legendary: "Hell. Dodge City ain't in the United States."The story unfolds like a frontier drama – five flamboyantly dressed Mexican matadors facing off against carefully selected ferocious longhorn bulls, thousands of spectators filling the stands, reporters from major newspapers documenting every moment, and special excursion trains bringing visitors from across the country. The pinnacle came when matador Gregorio Gallardo confronted "the meanest bull in the West" in a breathtaking display of courage that still echoes through Dodge City's history. What followed was a night of wild celebration, keeping the Marshal and his deputies scrambling to maintain order as the town enjoyed its last hurrah before settling into quiet small-town life.Join us for this remarkable tale of American ingenuity, defiance, and spectacle that changed Dodge City forever. Subscribe to Wild West Podcast for more fascinating stories from the American frontier, and share your thoughts at wildwestpodcast@gmail.com – we value your input and may feature your comments in future episodes.Support the showIf you'd like to buy one or more of our fully illustrated dime novel publications, you can click the link I've included. "Edward Masterson and the Texas Cowboys," penned by Michael King, takes readers on an exhilarating ride through the American West, focusing on the lively and gritty cattle town of Dodge City, Kansas. This thrilling dime novel plunges into the action-packed year of Ed Masterson's life as a lawman, set against the backdrop of the chaotic cattle trade, filled with fierce conflicts, shifting loyalties, and rampant lawlessness. You can order the book on Amazon.

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Ever catch yourself hoping for action? You're not alone. In this episode, Coach Ashlie Walton and Sergeant Clint Walton unpack the hidden psychology behind why some first responders crave high-adrenaline calls—and how to balance that urge without compromising your mental or emotional health (Amazon Affiliate).

Tracii Guns discussed his musical journey, including his time in LA Guns, Guns N' Roses, and various collaborations. Guns emphasized the importance of music in his life and his preference for older music. He praised tribute bands and shared insights on songwriting, noting the impact of his song "Let You Down" during the pandemic. Guns also reflected on his relationships, including his time with Axl Rose and the challenges of managing a band. He advised emerging artists to protect their vision and maintain open-mindedness.  Guns also reflects on his experiences with anxiety, addiction, and the evolving music industry, stressing the importance of song structure and the impact of his work with various bands.  He mentions Izzy Stradlin's reclusive nature and brilliant songwriting, noting Izzy's reluctance to seek unwanted attention. Tracii also talks about his upcoming album release, its availability in physical formats, and the unique cover art created through AI and hand painting.0:00:00 - Intro0:00:20 - Playing with Gilby Clarke0:02:18 - Old & New Music & Tribute Bands 0:06:30 - Embracing Your Influences 0:07:29 - New L.A. Guns Songs 0:10:49 - Writing Music 0:11:45 - Adam Hamilton: Drummer & Producer 0:13:37 - Touring as a Band & Member Roles 0:16:27 - Advice for Younger Artists 0:19:55 - Relationship with Singer Phil Lewis 0:20:55 - Vicious Cycle Album 0:24:46 - Deep Cuts & "Let You Down" 0:28:48 - Fan Reactions To Songs 0:30:20 - Mental Health, Anxiety & Trolls 0:33:33 - Brides of Destruction, John Corabi & Nikki Sixx0:37:05 - Attitude Towards People 0:40:30 - Peace with Old Bands & Dave Mustaine 0:43:27 - Psychology, Family, Girlfriends & Intense Relationships 0:49:33 - Run In with Guns 'N Roses Members 0:52:05 - Band Chemistry, Skid Row & Sebastian Bach 1:00:15 - Joe Leste of Bang Tango & Other Singers 1:02:05 - People on the Internet & Other Cultures 1:05:37 - People From Different Backgrounds & Commonality 1:08:25 - Michael Sweet & Religion & Acceptance of Differences 1:12:05 - Believing Lies, Immigration & Travel Issues 1:18:25 - Podcasts, Headlines, Context & Value of Information 1:21:35 - James Hetfield, Metallica & Personal Issues 1:24:45 - Duff McKagan, Sobriety, Drugs & Being Healthy 1:32:10 - Mystique, Followers, Clarity & Transparency 1:33:35 - Food Trucks, Budget Cuts & Living Wages 1:40:30 - Healthcare System & Caring for People 1:43:03 - Ozempic, Diet & Pharmaceuticals 1:54:10 - Mental Health, Anxiety & Drugs 1:58:09 - Cigarettes & Addiction 2:03:45 - Bravado & 80s Music Scene 2:06:57 - Contraband Supergroup & Richard Black 2:10:37 - Nikki Sixx & Egos 2:12:40 - GnR, Eazy E, NWA, Hip Hop & AC/DC 2:15:05 - Ballads & Music Business 2:18:08 - L.A. Guns Rarities & Unreleased Songs 2:19:30 - Unreleased GnR Music & Izzy Stradlin 2:25:45 - New Record 2:27:00 - Outro LA Guns website:http://www.lagunsmusic.com/Chuck Shute link tree:https://linktr.ee/chuck_shuteSupport the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Zelensky's booted from the White House in a meme-fueled meltdown, while the EU's army dreams vanish like CO2 — can't have a military industrial complex when you've de-industrialized.  Starmer's UK brags ‘boots and planes,' but Russia has to wipe off a smirk-ov. Musk and & Massie push a NATO exit.  Crypto's a con—$200M bets and Fort Knox audits mask a cash grab. English-only? Money's the real language of US govt. Fentanyl lies fuel tariffs, cops rob drivers blind for “smuggling cash, and Texas hides 2,300 pedo-teachers as the CIA pimps trans clinics in India.2:00White House Meltdown as Trump Kicks Out Ukraine's ‘Comedian Puppet' After a heated clash filled with insults, lies, and a humiliating ejection, the ‘little guy' comedian—whose ‘jokes' stink worse than his war games—saw his dreams of endless American handouts crumble. And the entertainment doesn't stop there — the memes are flying—think pacifiers and T-shirts, capped off with the hilarious expressions on the faces of Rubio and the Ukrainian Ambassador.  There may be a shortage of eggs, but NOT of egos 34:13EU Dream of an EU Army: Is It Too Late for the Declining Continent?Zelensky is demanding EU microwave Russia's frozen assets for him to feast on — far more than the $177B he stole from USA ($100B of which he doesn't know the whereabouts).  After pampering their citizens with welfare and being pampered with state welfare from USA for 80 years, can they get it together?  Even IF they could summon the will, the “green” deindustrialization has them deep within the hole they dug for themselves 46:09“Boots on the Ground, Planes in the Air”?Bravado from UK PM Keir Starmer.  But how does UK stack up against Russia militarily? 53:13Musk, Massie, and Mike Lee Plot U.S. Exit from NATO“Toss the cold war relic into the Smithsonian dumpster”.  If we don't exit NATO, will the EU warmongers drag us into yet another European World War? 57:56 LIVE comments from audience1:05:25Robert E Lee vs Zelensky: Is the Ukraine War a “Just War”?Yes, there's a right to self-defense but that's NOT THE ONLY CRITERIA 1:09:16Trump's Crypto CurveBall: “Bitcoin Reserve” is NOT About BTC Ignoring Bitcoin Trump hyped XRP, Solana, and Cardano for a U.S. strategic reserve, only to backtrack and crown BTC and ETH the ‘heart' after a firestorm.  - So what's he and his crypto-conspirators up to? - And what about that $200 MILLION insider bet? CBDC is turning into PPP-DC (Public Private Partnership Digital Currency) 1:28:14What's the PURPOSE for the CIRCUS? How Will Trump and Musk Use the Ft Knox “Audit”? Swiss banker scoffs at Bitcoin as a reserve for SEVERAL very good reasons.  But Fort Knox audit and $200 trillion land grabs expose the chaos plan to trash trust in everything but Musk and Trump. 1:44:38 LIVE comments from audience 1:54:15 Trump's “English Only” Exec Order: MONEY is the REAL Language of Government, Especially the Trump AdministrationActually the pushback against Bill Clinton's mandate to use non-English is a LOT more nuanced.  While hockey fans boo Canada over tariffs and influencers peddle fentanyl lies, Trump and Musk are shredding the rule of law for profit. Is this America's last stand or a chaotic con to auction it all off?" 2:10:39 Trump's Lying About the Canadian Fentanyl Crisis as an Excuse for TariffsSo who is the biggest supplier of fentanyl? 2:12:28“Smuggling Cash” is a Crime.  Should It Be?Cops snatch ‘cartel cash' from drivers whose crime is “smuggling cash”.  They want us to believe that after 54 yrs of a failed “War on Drugs”, we're winning? This isn't a Drug War—it's a war on, the Constitution, your God-given rights protected by the Constitution, and your wallet!  “Civil Forfeiture”?  Cops are not to be involved in “civil” procedures and “forfeiture” is just another name for THEFT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS 2:25:49 LIVE comments from audience 2:30:15Texas Hides 2,300 Pedophile Teachers, CIA Pushes Trans Chaos in India, Thieves Snag Ten CommandmentsTexas schools hiding 2,300 predator teachers and abortion pills driving women to despair.  The CIA/USAID is up to darker deeds, funding transgender clinics in India to spread demonic chaos.If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Zelensky's booted from the White House in a meme-fueled meltdown, while the EU's army dreams vanish like CO2 — can't have a military industrial complex when you've de-industrialized.  Starmer's UK brags ‘boots and planes,' but Russia has to wipe off a smirk-ov. Musk and & Massie push a NATO exit.  Crypto's a con—$200M bets and Fort Knox audits mask a cash grab. English-only? Money's the real language of US govt. Fentanyl lies fuel tariffs, cops rob drivers blind for “smuggling cash, and Texas hides 2,300 pedo-teachers as the CIA pimps trans clinics in India.2:00White House Meltdown as Trump Kicks Out Ukraine's ‘Comedian Puppet' After a heated clash filled with insults, lies, and a humiliating ejection, the ‘little guy' comedian—whose ‘jokes' stink worse than his war games—saw his dreams of endless American handouts crumble. And the entertainment doesn't stop there — the memes are flying—think pacifiers and T-shirts, capped off with the hilarious expressions on the faces of Rubio and the Ukrainian Ambassador.  There may be a shortage of eggs, but NOT of egos 34:13EU Dream of an EU Army: Is It Too Late for the Declining Continent?Zelensky is demanding EU microwave Russia's frozen assets for him to feast on — far more than the $177B he stole from USA ($100B of which he doesn't know the whereabouts).  After pampering their citizens with welfare and being pampered with state welfare from USA for 80 years, can they get it together?  Even IF they could summon the will, the “green” deindustrialization has them deep within the hole they dug for themselves 46:09“Boots on the Ground, Planes in the Air”?Bravado from UK PM Keir Starmer.  But how does UK stack up against Russia militarily? 53:13Musk, Massie, and Mike Lee Plot U.S. Exit from NATO“Toss the cold war relic into the Smithsonian dumpster”.  If we don't exit NATO, will the EU warmongers drag us into yet another European World War? 57:56 LIVE comments from audience1:05:25Robert E Lee vs Zelensky: Is the Ukraine War a “Just War”?Yes, there's a right to self-defense but that's NOT THE ONLY CRITERIA 1:09:16Trump's Crypto CurveBall: “Bitcoin Reserve” is NOT About BTC Ignoring Bitcoin Trump hyped XRP, Solana, and Cardano for a U.S. strategic reserve, only to backtrack and crown BTC and ETH the ‘heart' after a firestorm.  - So what's he and his crypto-conspirators up to? - And what about that $200 MILLION insider bet? CBDC is turning into PPP-DC (Public Private Partnership Digital Currency) 1:28:14What's the PURPOSE for the CIRCUS? How Will Trump and Musk Use the Ft Knox “Audit”? Swiss banker scoffs at Bitcoin as a reserve for SEVERAL very good reasons.  But Fort Knox audit and $200 trillion land grabs expose the chaos plan to trash trust in everything but Musk and Trump. 1:44:38 LIVE comments from audience 1:54:15 Trump's “English Only” Exec Order: MONEY is the REAL Language of Government, Especially the Trump AdministrationActually the pushback against Bill Clinton's mandate to use non-English is a LOT more nuanced.  While hockey fans boo Canada over tariffs and influencers peddle fentanyl lies, Trump and Musk are shredding the rule of law for profit. Is this America's last stand or a chaotic con to auction it all off?" 2:10:39 Trump's Lying About the Canadian Fentanyl Crisis as an Excuse for TariffsSo who is the biggest supplier of fentanyl? 2:12:28“Smuggling Cash” is a Crime.  Should It Be?Cops snatch ‘cartel cash' from drivers whose crime is “smuggling cash”.  They want us to believe that after 54 yrs of a failed “War on Drugs”, we're winning? This isn't a Drug War—it's a war on, the Constitution, your God-given rights protected by the Constitution, and your wallet!  “Civil Forfeiture”?  Cops are not to be involved in “civil” procedures and “forfeiture” is just another name for THEFT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS 2:25:49 LIVE comments from audience 2:30:15Texas Hides 2,300 Pedophile Teachers, CIA Pushes Trans Chaos in India, Thieves Snag Ten CommandmentsTexas schools hiding 2,300 predator teachers and abortion pills driving women to despair.  The CIA/USAID is up to darker deeds, funding transgender clinics in India to spread demonic chaos.If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

Sarah Isgur is joined by Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes to discuss President Donald Trump's latest saber-rattling tactics against our allies and enemies—and whether his bluffs will pay off. The Agenda: —Did free trade policies fail? —Global saber rattling (IEEPA?) —Scott Lincicome: Why Donald Trump is wrong about tariffs —Trump fishes with dynamite —Gaz-a-Lago —Will Trump ever follow through? —USAID: Carrot-and-stick or waste? —Let's not commit war crimes —David Hogg as Democratic National Committee vice chair Show Notes: —Thank God for the stock market. —Our fact check on the Politico-USAID story —Lara Trump to join Fox News The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning - Clips are a bit loud. If you got buds in I'd lower the volume before clips. Flying out in the AM and won't have a chance to remaster and post the video. I made the adjustment. First clip is at 16.08. Next clip is 34.02 but I think it's better leveled by then. Porches - ROBSNEWSROOM@GMAIL.com if you have a backyard we can porch, location and months that make sense for it. Merch Here - https://robbernsteinmerch.printify.me/ TODAYS TOPICS: Wild trump week. The good and the bad and coverage from confirmation hearings and Musk doing dodge stuff. SPONSORS: YOKKRATOM FENIX AMMO SHEATH

MUSICSoundgarden are reuniting for charity.Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd will be joined by Seattle singer Shania Shepherd (who is no relation to Ben) filling the shoes of the late Chris Cornell. They'll do a brief set under the name Nude Dragons at the SMooCH benefit for Seattle Children's Hospital at The Showbox in Seattle on December 14th. NINE INCH NAILS are coming back with a NEW ALBUM! Trent Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter, “We're taking the inspiration we've garnered [from scoring] and funneling it into a Nine Inch Nails project, which we're working on now. We're ready to be back in the driver's seat.”The Offspring singer Dexter Holland has shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence in the music industry with Oui FM.A couple of U2 impersonators have stirred up controversy in Paris after claiming they really were the band while playing in front of the Bataclan.The Rolling Stones have gotten into the fragrance business. RS No. 9 was made by fragrance company Nirvana Brands and Bravado and was designed to capture the feeling of London's Soho area in 1962, which is when The Stones played their first live show at the Marquee ClubJessica Biel might be tired of helping Justin Timberlake heal his self-inflicted wounds. The not-always-reliable RadarOnline.com says Jessica and Justin are on a MARITAL BREAK.David Lee Roth has posted another of his dancing videos, this time to the song "Balloon."TVAfter more than twenty years since The Simple Life, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are reuniting in a three-part reunion special on Peacock.Pete Davidson recently revealed how much cast members make on Saturday Night Live. MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:Bob Dylan will be the subject of the new film A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chalamet portraying himAND FINALLY In case you haven't seen it all over social media, Spotify dropped their annual Wrapped lists yesterday. Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist for a second year in a row, both in the U.S. and around the world. Here are some Top 5 highlights from the U.S. charts AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams - Check out King Scott's Linktr.ee/kingscottrules + band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MUSIC Soundgarden are reuniting for charity.Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd will be joined by Seattle singer Shania Shepherd (who is no relation to Ben) filling the shoes of the late Chris Cornell. They'll do a brief set under the name Nude Dragons at the SMooCH benefit for Seattle Children's Hospital at The Showbox in Seattle on December 14th.  NINE INCH NAILS are coming back with a NEW ALBUM! Trent Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter, “We're taking the inspiration we've garnered [from scoring] and funneling it into a Nine Inch Nails project, which we're working on now. We're ready to be back in the driver's seat.” The Offspring singer Dexter Holland has shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence in the music industry with Oui FM. A couple of U2 impersonators have stirred up controversy in Paris after claiming they really were the band while playing in front of the Bataclan. The Rolling Stones have gotten into the fragrance business. RS No. 9 was made by fragrance company Nirvana Brands and Bravado and was designed to capture the feeling of London's Soho area in 1962, which is when The Stones played their first live show at the Marquee Club Jessica Biel might be tired of helping Justin Timberlake heal his self-inflicted wounds. The not-always-reliable RadarOnline.com says Jessica and Justin are on a MARITAL BREAK. David Lee Roth has posted another of his dancing videos, this time to the song "Balloon." TV After more than twenty years since The Simple Life, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are reuniting in a three-part reunion special on Peacock. Pete Davidson recently revealed how much cast members make on Saturday Night Live.  MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS: Bob Dylan will be the subject of the new film A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chalamet portraying him AND FINALLY  In case you haven't seen it all over social media, Spotify dropped their annual Wrapped lists yesterday. Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist for a second year in a row, both in the U.S. and around the world.  Here are some Top 5 highlights from the U.S. charts  AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams - Check out King Scott's Linktr.ee/kingscottrules + band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After 8 years of showing up, laughing, and growing alongside each of you, we've reached the bittersweet moment of saying farewell. In this final episode, we take a walk down memory lane—sharing the stories, laughs, lessons, and challenging moments that shaped The Black Girl Bravado. We are forever grateful for the space we've built here, and for every one of you who made this community feel like home. Thank you for rocking with us, for showing up, and for being the best part of this journey. We love y'all down!!! Here's to everything we created together, and all the magic that's still to come.Your Forever Homegirls, Germani and Brittany Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/BRAVADO* Check out Chime: https://chime.com/BRAVADO* Check out Mochi Health and use my code BRAVADO for a great deal: www.google.com* Check out The Wonderful Company: https://www.wonderfulpistachios.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-black-girl-bravado1502/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you ever feel drained after social events, wondering how others seem to thrive in the chaos? Are you struggling to balance your need for solitude with the demands of an extroverted world? In this episode, we explore the quiet power of introverts and how they can leverage their unique strengths to succeed without compromising who they are. Whether you're an introvert looking to empower yourself or someone who wants to understand introverts better, this episode is for you! In this episode we discuss: How deep thinking and focus can be used for personal and professional advantages Tips on boundary building and ways to prevent burnout Share low-pressure effective communication strategies Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/BRAVADO* Check out Chime: https://chime.com/BRAVADO* Check out Chime: https://chime.com/BRAVADO* Check out Mochi Health and use my code BRAVADO for a great deal: www.google.com* Check out The Wonderful Company: https://www.wonderfulpistachios.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-black-girl-bravado1502/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we're putting ourselves in other people's shoes and wondering what we'd do in their situations. It's time for “AITA?”What would you do if your best friend said your wedding plans were unrealistic? Is it fair to block a girl on your husband's Instagram if she's flirting with him? Should you pay your sibling's rent if they only work part-time? Join us as we dissect these controversial stories and offer our own perspectives on the drama.Watch video on YoutubeOur Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/BRAVADO* Check out Chime: https://chime.com/BRAVADO* Check out Chime: https://chime.com/BRAVADO* Check out Mochi Health and use my code BRAVADO for a great deal: www.google.com* Check out The Wonderful Company: https://www.wonderfulpistachios.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-black-girl-bravado1502/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy