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Conspicuously absent on last month's Better Call Saul podcast, Josh Sarnecky returns to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender with his brother Aaron.Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated action-adventure series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The series premiered on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2005. It ran for three seasons and 61 episodes, finishing on July 19, 2008.The series takes place in a fantasy world where “benders” can manipulate the elements of water, earth, fire, and air.  The world fell out of balance when the Fire Nation invaded its neighbors. Protagonist Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen) is the last surviving Airbender and the Avatar, who can control all four elements. He must defeat the Fire Lord (Mark Hamill) to end the war. Aiding Aang are his Water Tribe friends Katara (Mae Whitman) and Sokka (Jack DeSena), as well as Earthbender Toph (Michaela Jill Murphy).Other characters include the Fire Lord's banished son Zuko (Dante Basco), Zuko's ruthless sister Azula (Grey DeLisle), and their Uncle Iroh (Mako, Greg Baldwin).Many critics regard Avatar: The Last Airbender as one of the greatest animated series of all time, praising it for its blend of lighthearted comedy, deep themes, character growth, mythology, and martial arts-based action. The series won one Primetime Emmy for Individual Achievement in Animation and was nominated for another for Outstanding Animated Program.The cartoon spawned a sequel series, The Legend of Korra, as well as multiple comics and books. More shows and movies are in the works, including a movie following Aang and a sequel to The Legend of Korra called Avatar: Seven Havens.Aaron and Josh talk about their history with Avatar: The Last Airbender before going into the show's plot, characters, animation, and legacy. They also discuss the show's live-action adaptations and the new projects coming from Avatar Studios.For more Nicktoons, you can listen Josh and Aaron's podcasts on SpongeBob SquarePants and Rugrats.Avatar: The Last Airbender is streaming on Netflix and Paramount+

The drama and tragedy of Titanic's sinking has spawned all manner of myths about the passengers who left Southampton on the 10th of April 1912, and for four days luxuriated in her modern facilities, sumptuous interiors, and comfortable cabins. Particularly, in part thanks to the tremendous exploits of James Cameron's Rose and Cal, the ship's extravagant millionaires, tycoons and aristocrats. The truth of their lives exceeds even the legends. From J.J. Astor, the richest man on board, with his child bride, to Ben Guggenheim - an icon of Gilded Age America - and his mistress, to Sir Cosimo Duff Gordon and his wife, a lingerie entrepreneur, and Archie Butt, a beloved aide to President Taft, with his lover Francis. Conspicuously absent, however, was John Pierpont Morgan, who cancelled his booking at the last minute, and in one fell swoop found his greatest business competitors eliminated…Just as intriguing though, and often overlooked, were Titanic's second class passengers: middle-aged men with their teenage mistresses, a father who had his kidnapped his children, excited families, and Joseph Laroche, a brilliant engineer and the only black man on board, for whom Titanic provided the chance to sail into a new life. The same was true for many others. Little did they know that their marvellous adventure would come at a terrible cost. Join Tom and Dominic as they explore the dazzling, eccentric and endlessly fascinating First and Second Class passengers of Titanic, whose extraordinary lives shine all the brighter for the terrible danger and tragedy waiting for them on the icy horizon… *The Rest Is History LIVE in 2024* Tom and Dominic are back onstage this summer, at Hampton Court Palace in London!  Buy your tickets here: therestishistory.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Late last month, the Vital Statistics Council for Canada released new data about the country's 2022 death rate, citing cancer, heart disease, and COVID-19 as the leading causes of death. Conspicuously absent was the number of Canadians killed under their country's “Medical Assistance in Dying” program, which was 13,241 deaths last year.  When the public noticed the omission, Canadian officials clarified: MAiD deaths are officially attributed to whatever ailment the person cited as the reason for their suicide. Given how expansive MAID has become, that means there will be deaths attributed to autism, anxiety, and other non-fatal conditions.  Not only will this hide the skyrocketing numbers of people in Canada dying by state-assistance, it will distort the data public health officials need to track diseases and health trends. Worst of all, it sends the message that disabilities, mental illness, and suffering in general can be as fatal as cancer if we're not strong enough to handle them.   That is, like this “official report,” a lie. 

Sometimes (understatement?) Gia and Keisha just don't feel very sharp. This is one of those times. But they still manage to touch on some Hospital-related matters. Conspicuously absent characters: Willow (!) and maybe an oncologist (Terry!? Jason Momoa?!) . And Willow's crew isn't even Googling treatments and outcomes so they can sound like doctors (Gia!). Did they even listen to TJ? On the plus side, Gia discovered how much she likes to say Chechnya.  #generalhospital #generalhospitalpodcast #gh #ghpodcast #atableatthetano  #mauricebenard  #kellythiebaud #maurawest #delirious #tshirtgiveaway #barshampoo #daydrinkingwithsethmeyers #hillstreetblues #kinshriner #saveava #nicholaschavez #savediane #stonewallkitchen #hallandoates #superstore #freaksandgeeks #waitingonafriend #memyselfi #freefallin  #whosgonnarideyourwildhorses #maneater #whippingpost #colonoscopy #takethenap #alleymills #billylibby #chickadee #fortgorgeous #daydrinkingwithsethandlizzo #marcuscoloma #useastaplegun #riptwitch #ripepiphany #ripsonyaeddy  #waywardchickadee #barshampoo #ripmiffy #lovedogs #justinebateman #brookeshields #neilgaiman #dnice #cq #deborahcox #malcolmjamalwarner #lume #ripjacklynzeman #jasonmomoa

One year after the Crypto Bowl, which saw many crypto companies spend big money to advertise during the Super Bowl...crypto is totally absent from this year's big game. Brandon Sutton of The Discourse joins Matt Binder on Scam Economy to discuss what happened to companies like Coinbase, Crypto.com, eToro, and, of course, FTX. Also, who *is* advertising during the Super Bowl LVII? Articles discussed in the episode: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/01/24/crypto-bowl-ii-will-not-be-returning-for-super-bowl-lvii/?sh=7e977bd5b1ce https://fortune.com/2023/02/06/super-bowl-ads-sold-out-beer-crypto/?queryly=related_article https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2023/02/06/fox-sports-super-bowl.aspx Visit: http://www.ScamEconomy.com Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about human hair, ants, the biggest animals to ever exist, duckweed, haemostatic microneedle technology, the Tongass National Forest, California toxic waste, Republicans cutting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, a melting liquid robot, a liquid telescope, a lunar oxygen pipeline, dog-bots, human fetal tissue, SUV pepper spray mirrors, where your rectum is, the newly elected serial liar, and so on.

The ANC caucus in Parliament managed to ward off a rebellion against President Cyril Ramaphosa with only 5 of its members of parliament voting for the adoption of the Section 89 panel report on the Phala Phala theft that found that he may have violated the Constitution. Notably voting in favour of proceeding with impeachment was his arch-rival for top positions in the ANC, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Conspicuously absent from voting was Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and the man who plans to challenge Ramaphosa for the ANC leadership, Zweli Mkhize.  It means the obstacles have been cleared  for him to stand as president of the ANC for another 5 years when the organisation convenes at Nasrec, near Soweto for its 55th National Conference on Friday.  At his election in December 2017, Ramaphosa said he would focus on tackling corruption and that he was the unity candidate. Ramaphosa essentially made a deal to hold the ANC together, but the deal prevented him from making big decisions that he needed to make to take the country forward - and his decision to keep his friends close and his enemies closer almost cost him the presidency.  Political analyst Prof Theo Venter from the University of Johannesburg told Biznews he believes President Ramaphosa will emerge victorious to lead the ANC for a second term. Venter expects the biggest battle to be for the position of deputy president of the ANC, as the candidate would become president should Ramaphosa's Phala Phala theft force him to fall on his sword.  - Linda van Tilburg   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Pelosi assault is evil & indefensible. What needs pointing out, however, is that crime affects everyone. Conspicuously, his assailant was an ILLEGAL immigrant, and Pelosi called… the COPS! So much for Dems hypocritical Pro-Illegal Immigration and Defund the Police rhetoric!

Paul Pelosi assault is evil & indefensible. What needs pointing out, however, is that crime affects everyone. Conspicuously, his assailant was an ILLEGAL immigrant, and Pelosi called… the COPS! So much for Dems hypocritical Pro-Illegal Immigration and Defund the Police rhetoric!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing, published by JoelMcGuire on August 11, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This essay was written for the Worldview Investigations category of Open Philanthropy's Cause Exploration Prizes by staff at the Happier Lives Institute Summary Open Philanthropy recognises the need to measure benefits beyond health and income. We think that subjective wellbeing is the best tool for the task. Subjective wellbeing (SWB) is measured by asking people to rate how they think or feel about their lives. We propose the wellbeing-adjusted life year (WELLBY), the SWB equivalent of the DALY or QALY, as the obvious framework to do cost-effectiveness analyses of non-health, non-pecuniary benefits. As our previous work has shown that using WELLBYs can change funding priorities by giving more weight to improving mental health, compared to DALYs or income measures; and they may reveal different priorities in other areas too. The advantages of SWB over alternatives are fourfold. (1) SWB captures and integrates the overall benefit to the individual from all of the instrumental goods provided by an intervention. This avoids the challenging problem of assigning moral weights to different goods, makes spillover effects easier to estimate, and clarifies the importance of philosophy. (2) SWB is based on self-reports by the affected individuals whereas Q/DALYs rely on flawed predictions about how good or bad we think a malady will be for ourselves or others. (3) Using SWB will reveal previously under-captured benefits, such as it has already done for psychotherapy. (4) Measures of subjective wellbeing already exist, are easy to collect, and widely (and increasingly) used in academia and policymaking across an extensive array of circumstances and populations of interest. Furthermore, subjective wellbeing measures are reliable and valid instruments and the existing evidence supports consistent use across people. Having said that, SWB is not without its disadvantages. (1) There is little research on the comparability between SWB scales across people. (2) We don't know where the ‘neutral point' lies on SWB scales. (3) We're unsure how to choose the best measure of SWB (e.g., life satisfaction or happiness) or how to convert between them. (4) There are very few cost-effectiveness analyses using WELLBYs. Fortunately, we think these issues can be resolved and we are actively working towards doing so. 1. The problem and a solution Open Philanthropy's mission is to help others as much as possible. Its human-focused Global Health and Wellbeing grantmaking aims to save lives, improve health, and increase incomes. However, Open Philanthropy recognises that measuring changes to health or income does not capture all the benefits experienced by the recipients. So, they ask, how should they account for the effects of injustice, discrimination, empowerment, and freedom? To that list, we could also add crime, loneliness, and corruption. Whilst the standardised health metrics, QALYs and DALYs, make it easier to compare different health states in the same units, the broader challenge is to find a common currency that allows sensible trade-offs between health, wealth, and non-health, non-wealth outcomes. How could this be done? We take it that Open Philanthropy is interested in funding interventions that improve wellbeing. Therefore, reducing discrimination (or injustice, etc.) is good mostly because it increases wellbeing, any other reason is secondary. But what is ‘wellbeing'? Philosophers have three main theories: (1) positive experiences, (2) satisfied desires, and (3) a multi-item ‘objective list' that includes ‘objective' goods such as knowledge, achievement, and love. Conspicuously absent from this list are wealt...

Conspicuously missing from so many Christian Bible Studies, conversations, and overall theology is the Finished Work of Jesus Christ. Long discourses about behavior (erroneously termed "holiness"), obedience, and human striving, accompanied by God's anger and disappointment, His judgment, and blotting out our names (loss of salvation), are prevalent. These Christians are perpetually striving under guilt, failure, and hopelessness, and begging for forgiveness, or else they are declaring their own righteousness (which is filthy rags in God's sight).  The book of Hebrews unequivocally shows that our sins are forgiven, Christ's righteousness is now ours, and we are eternally saved.

Who are the people and the organisations that have had the most influence over planning during the past couple of years? One could make a case for Jack Airey and Policy Exchange. Airey, who joined Localis having graduated in geography, became Head of Housing at Policy Exchange before being appointed Downing Street's special adviser on housing and planning. In the spirit of Dominic Cummings' shake-up of government apparatus, the attraction of Airey could have been his Policy Exchange paper called ‘Rethinking the Planning System for the 21st Century', some of which found it's way into the albeit now seemingly-jettisoned ‘Planning for the Future' White Paper. One could also make a case for Nicholas Boys-Smith and Create Streets. Boys-Smith, a history graduate, desk officer in the Conservative Research Department and banker, founded Create Streets in 2013; was a co-chair of the Build Better, Build Beautiful Commission; and was appointed by the previous Secretary of State as chair of an ‘Office for Place'. Conspicuously neither are planners... Could a case be made for present planning policy being influenced by Think Tanks to a degree not seen since the simplified planning promoted by right-leaning Think Tanks like the Centre for Policy Studies in the 1980s? Either way, it is a reminder of the influence of Think Tanks on the planning policy agenda, which makes it a topic worthy of conversation on a town planning-based podcast. Why and how do Think Tanks do what they do? Where do policy ideas come from? And how do bright ideas get turned into actual policy? Sam Stafford puts these questions to Samuel Hughes (@SCP_Hughes), Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Senior Follow at Policy Exchange; Anya Martin (@AnyaMartin8), Director at PricedOut and a researcher in the social housing sector; and Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh), Head of Public Policy at the IEA. Some accompanying reading. 'Rethinking the Planning System for the 21st Century' by Jack Airey https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/rethinking-the-planning-system-for-the-21st-century/ ‘Beware of ‘Policy Intern Brain' – the source of so many bad ideas' by Anya Martin https://capx.co/beware-of-policy-intern-brain-the-source-of-so-many-bad-ideas/ ‘Build me up, level up: popular homebuilding while boosting local communities' by Matthew Lesh https://www.adamsmith.org/research/build-me-up-level-up ‘Strong Suburbs' by Samuel Hughes and Ben Southwood https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/strong-suburbs/ ‘Living Tradition' by Samuel Hughes https://www.createstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Living-Tradition.pdf ‘Learning from History' by Ben Southwood https://www.createstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Tottenham-Paper-1.9.pdf ‘The Green Noose: An analysis of Green Belts and proposals for reform' by Tom Papworth https://www.adamsmith.org/news/press-release-free-up-3-7-percent-of-londons-green-belt-to-build-one-million-new-homes-says-new-report ‘A place in the sun' by Anya Martin https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/a-place-in-the-sun/ ‘Housing Politics in the United Kingdom' by Brian Lund https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/housing-politics-in-the-united-kingdom Some accompanying listening. Wah Wah (Think Tank) by Happy Mondays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyERDM7cbSo Some accompanying viewing. How policy is formulated in Westminster (Part 2 - Please see episode 55 for Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZXpeH28MpM 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that... 'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'. Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html

Nate Smith and the two Chrises (Mr. Lyden and Mr. Francis) hop into the CtB podcast studio resort to bask in the glory of the Cavs' statement win against the Milwaukee Bucks, 115-99. The win puts the Cavs in 3rd place of the Eastern Conference and in the hunt for the first seed. The Cavs dominated the game even though they were easily the more shorthanded team and the Bucks came out like gangbusters in a fantastic first quarter performance. But NBA Champion Kevin Love and Cedi "the Jedi" Osman stepped up for the team and delivered MVP performances and serving a beatdown of the reigning champions. Conspicuously absent from the CtB trademark rap session was trade talk because, why ruin the good vibes? One of the most underrated aspects of team building is chemistry, and the Cavs have found something special. Just watch NBA Champion Kevin Love's postgame comments, he knows what winning at the highest level looks like. So no trade talk, just good vibes... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laranth vs. Aurra Sing!  In hindsight this is sorta depressingly predictable.  Anyway they have a noir-grade showdown in the midst of a very weird festival, then Jax heads off to […]

October 22, 2021, Sarah Pulliam Bailey wrote for The Washington Post, 'In a post-Trump world, these pastors are ditching the evangelical label for something new.' In her piece, we find a number of contradictions and internal inconsistencies. New communities of faith are forming which are predicated on nothing solid except affirming the LGBTQ+ movement, abortion, and so-called racial justice. Literally everything else is up for grabs. Conspicuously absent is what God has to say about these matters. Instead, these are the Woke outcasts who love radical doubt and deconstructionism, and they love the trappings of Christianity without the Christianity itself. Even calling their new movement 'post-evangelical' is called into question because referencing evangelicalism in a negative sense is going to trigger people still angry that 8 in 10 evangelical Americans reportedly voted Republican in the 2016 election. To be clear, the concern for me is not with whether we vote Republican. By all means, and increasingly as time goes on, let us call out people with 'R' behind their name if they are being unbiblical. But let that be the standard rather than our feelings. This group in Bailey's Washington Post piece, however, like worshiping God - whoever the deity is or is not in their minds - in spirit, but not in truth. As the Preacher says in Ecclesiastes, there is no new thing under the sun. And that holds true in the case of this new movement which is not so new as it seems. Historically, since the beginning of Church History, there have always been heretics, apostates, and false teachers. And that is what we should call these post-evangelicals who elect a Black-Mexican lesbian to be their "spiritual guide." Thankfully, by the grace of God, we have a better way. Let Christ be our spiritual guide, and let God's Word be our test for what is good and true. All other ground is sinking sand. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

"The 30-minute war" on Friday night between WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage has concluded. We have news of the fast nationals for each program. Conspicuously only total viewership numbers are available and not 18 to 49 ratings. We unpack what that might mean. Plus Miz & Mrs. was renewed by USA Network. And we discuss the members of WWE's board of directors.A subscription to the Wrestlenomics Patreon is a must for understanding wrestling business. Subscribers get:- TV ratings reports and analysis almost every weekday- Viewership Spreadsheet with 15,000+ data points- Emergency audio and more!Just $5/month:http://patreon.com/wrestlenomicsFollow Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrandonThurstonFollow Chris Gullo on Twitter https://twitter.com/ChrisGulloFollow Wrestlenomics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrestlenomicsSubscribe to Wrestlenomics on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_WfonwdEwz91hcv3MhsogRead Brandon's written work at https://wrestlenomics.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"The 30-minute war" on Friday night between WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage has concluded. We have news of the fast nationals for each program. Conspicuously only total viewership numbers are available and not 18 to 49 ratings. We unpack what that might mean. Plus Miz & Mrs. was renewed by USA Network. And we discuss the members of WWE's board of directors.A subscription to the Wrestlenomics Patreon is a must for understanding wrestling business. Subscribers get:- TV ratings reports and analysis almost every weekday- Viewership Spreadsheet with 15,000+ data points- Emergency audio and more!Just $5/month:http://patreon.com/wrestlenomicsFollow Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrandonThurstonFollow Chris Gullo on Twitter https://twitter.com/ChrisGulloFollow Wrestlenomics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrestlenomicsSubscribe to Wrestlenomics on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_WfonwdEwz91hcv3MhsogRead Brandon's written work at https://wrestlenomics.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/wrestlenomics-radio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/wrestlenomics-radio2532/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Guy Lancaster. Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Lancaster is a White Man and freelance writer for the Arkansas Times magazine. He's also published monographs on the 1919 racial cleansing in Elaine, Arkansas. We'll discuss his 2021 publication, American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching. Lancaster analyzes White Terrorism in Arkansas specifically and specifies how lynchings and White Mob Violence was the product of the entire White collective. We'll relate Lancaster's work to the current White Terrorism from Jan. 6th, as well as the ongoing savagery targeting school officials and flight attendants. Conspicuously, reports neglect to specify that these domestic terrorists are overwhelmingly individuals classified as White. #WhiteCultureIsWhiteTerrorism INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#

Monday, October 11th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Guy Lancaster. Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Lancaster is a White Man and freelance writer for the Arkansas Times magazine. He's also published monographs on the 1919 racial cleansing in Elaine, Arkansas. We'll discuss his 2021 publication, American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching. Lancaster analyzes White Terrorism in Arkansas specifically and specifies how lynchings and White Mob Violence was the product of the entire White collective. We'll relate Lancaster's work to the current White Terrorism from Jan. 6th, as well as the ongoing savagery targeting school officials and flight attendants. Conspicuously, reports neglect to specify that these domestic terrorists are overwhelmingly individuals classified as White. #WhiteCultureIsWhiteTerrorism INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-605-313-5164 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

Monday, October 11th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Guy Lancaster. Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Lancaster is a White Man and freelance writer for the Arkansas Times magazine. He's also published monographs on the 1919 racial cleansing in Elaine, Arkansas. We'll discuss his 2021 publication, American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching. Lancaster analyzes White Terrorism in Arkansas specifically and specifies how lynchings and White Mob Violence was the product of the entire White collective. We'll relate Lancaster's work to the current White Terrorism from Jan. 6th, as well as the ongoing savagery targeting school officials and flight attendants. Conspicuously, reports neglect to specify that these domestic terrorists are overwhelmingly individuals classified as White. #WhiteCultureIsWhiteTerrorism INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-605-313-5164 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS There were a multitude of momentous events this week. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. This led to the Pentagon and other employers mandating vaccines for all employees, and President Biden strongly encouraged other companies to do the same. The Taliban is accused of a terrorist attack on a Kabul airport, where at least 60 Afghans (non-white people) and thirteen U.S. citizens perished. These events were drowned out in some quarters where attention was focused on the so called "milk crate challenge." Conspicuously, viral videos erupted where almost exclusively black people harmed themselves while scaling a pyramid of milk crates. The very same FDA commented that before joining the challenge, folks should check with their hospital to be sure beds are available. #VaccineSurcharge INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

Saturday, August 27th 9:00PM Eastern/ 6:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS There were a multitude of momentous events this week. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. This led to the Pentagon and other employers mandating vaccines for all employees, and President Biden strongly encouraged other companies to do the same. The Taliban is accused of a terrorist attack on a Kabul airport, where at least 60 Afghans (non-white people) and thirteen U.S. citizens perished. These events were drowned out in some quarters where attention was focused on the so called "milk crate challenge." Conspicuously, viral videos erupted where almost exclusively black people harmed themselves while scaling a pyramid of milk crates. The very same FDA commented that before joining the challenge, folks should check with their hospital to be sure beds are available. #WhiteGeneticAnnihilation INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-605-313-5164 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

Saturday, August 27th 9:00PM Eastern/ 6:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS There were a multitude of momentous events this week. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. This led to the Pentagon and other employers mandating vaccines for all employees, and President Biden strongly encouraged other companies to do the same. The Taliban is accused of a terrorist attack on a Kabul airport, where at least 60 Afghans (non-white people) and thirteen U.S. citizens perished. These events were drowned out in some quarters where attention was focused on the so called "milk crate challenge." Conspicuously, viral videos erupted where almost exclusively black people harmed themselves while scaling a pyramid of milk crates. The very same FDA commented that before joining the challenge, folks should check with their hospital to be sure beds are available. #WhiteGeneticAnnihilation INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-605-313-5164 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

A new alliance of power conferences was formally introduced Tuesday, when commissioners Kevin Warren of the Big Ten, Jim Phillips of the ACC and George Kliavkoff of the Pac-12 met with reporters to lay out their plans for consolidating influence in the wake of the SEC's recent power-grab of Texas and Oklahoma. Conspicuously absent from that allied group? Bob Bowlsby and the Big 12. In this episode of our daily SportsBeat KC podcast, K-State beat writer Kellis Robinett and Drew Davison, who covers TCU for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, discuss the alliance with host Blair Kerkhoff and attempt to determine what it all means for the Big 12. After a break, you'll hear from the commissioners, who were asked directory about the future of the Big 12. Story links: What does the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 alliance mean for the beleaguered Big 12? The Big 12 column I'd rather not write: Options for the league's remaining eight schools stink What's next for the Big 12 and realignment? We make some predictions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is in no way condemning any of the names on this list, but simply a matter of fact that despite entering training camp with key roles, we haven't heard much about these four players quite yet. Maybe that will change when the pads come on in week two. Subscribe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We had a break and a breather and back with a NEWWWWW Tights and Fights!What better way to bring us back than Hal geeking out about the love that the 76ers got from all the wrestlers this past week? But that’s not the only NBA crossover into wrestling: Basketball booted AEW from it’s regular time slot!Plus we’ll discuss what appears to be Kofi Kingston’s return to the main event title picture, Big E beginning his feud with Aleister Black and the very first title win of Tamina’s career.Main EventBooker T recently got a career documentary on the A&E Network. Conspicuously absent was one of the biggest matches of his career: against Triple H for the World Championship at WrestleMania 19. The feud is mainly known for how truly racist the language was on the build to the event. How bad was it? Could it have been saved?Hosted by Hal Lublin, Danielle Radford and Lindsey KelkProduced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun.If you want to talk about more wrestling throughout the week be sure to join us on Facebook and @TightsFights on Twitter and Instagram. PLUS! Check out our Tights and Fights Discord!If you liked the show, please share it with your friends and be sure to leave us a quick review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.Plus our brand new T-Shirt is available now!

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Kev Zettler * http://radcade.com/ * Xalavier Nelson, Jr. * https://xalaviermakeswords.itch.io/strange-scaffold-comics-vol-1 Topics: * The fine art of professional wrestling * Stealing the declaration of independence to save Nicolas Cage's life * Atari 2600 Adventure's effectiveness as a port of Crowther and Woods Adventure * Larry asks "That one time Taco Bell promised every American a free taco if the Mir space station hit a taco target in the indian Ocean but it missed by an entire hemisphere." * Non-violent communication * The threshold between an object/entity being large, and SO large that your brain can no longer process it effectively and you're no longer impressed * Sucking a glass onto your face Microtopics: * Still the raddest place to play web games. * An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs. * Interacting with dogs in a whole new way. * Being clean and dirty at the same time. * Dog synergies. * The legal standing of a game downloading a random guitar tab from the internet to make a dog play guitar. * A scope creep game that ships. * Whether professional wrestling is trashy. * Audience-reactive improv theater performed by professional stunt men. * Pro wrestling jargon creeping into your * A work for marks who are smart marks and don't know when they're being worked or if they're not. * Stealing vocabulary from Victorian urchins. * Whether women's wrestling is still about macho posturing. * Meme warfare thought devices. * Muscled theatrical performers doing their dangedest * Whether GDC is ever going to happen again. * Whether GDC will be the same without Simon Carless. * Whether Lost Levels can exist without GDC bringing everyone physically together and secretly reserving the physical venue. * Every D-level game dev celebrity entering an arena and only one D-level game dev celebrity leaving. * A contract sealed in blood that is a matter of public record. * Having an hour and 45 minutes to save Nicholas Cage's life by stealing the Declaration of Independence. * Finding out that Nicholas Cage was injured in a bear fighting accident and realizing that now's your time to shine. * Finding out that isnicholascagenexttoabear.com isn't based on geolocation technology, it just scrapes TMZ for headlines that contain both "cage" and "bear." * Why we still have to steal the Declaration of Independence if everyone is aware of the Nicholas Cage situation. * Conspicuously walking down the street with the Declaration of Independence rolled up under your arm like a newspaper so that an urchin can snatch it away from you and you can pretend to be incensed. * Finding out what Habeas Corpus means. * Atari 2600 Adventure vs. Crowther and Woods Adventure. * Adapting a text adventure to computer system that can't render text. * Making a game where you explore until you find an ending in a context where all anyone's ever seen is games where you play for a high score. * Remakes changing the meaning of the original. * Inventing a 4D game platform to port Demon's Souls to. * Hitting a taco target in the Indian ocean. * Whether 40'x40' is a big taco or a small target for a space station. * All of America having a taco-in-the-streets party. * Dipping your girlfriend and smooching her as taco cheese falls from the sky. * Mir falling from the sky every day being a small price to pay to solve world hunger. * Taco Bell beginning to sweat as they realize the revolution is about to start. * Alternate history fiction where the branch point is that Taco Bell gave every American a free taco after Mir hit their taco target. * Non-Violent Communication. * Communicating your lived experience backed with justification and couched in empathy. * Instead of saying "you're annoying me," saying "I am annoyed because of you." * The HALT principle. * Big things making your brain go "ooh!" * Being terrified of the scale of Jupiter but the sun being like "meh" * Being terrified by an enormous mammoth but less terrified of the Earth when the Earth is bigger and closer than the mammoth. * Being unable to process the scale of a large city but eventually becoming desensitized to it. * Deciding whether to be impressed by something's size based on whether it's horizontal or vertical. * The relief and comfort of realizing that humans don't make any fricking sense. * Making New Year's Resolution of finally making sense of yourself and of the world. * Different goals emerging from the same root: hubris. * Not being able to form a seal on your face because you have a beard. * Normalizing shaving a hole in your beard sized and situated to suck a drinking glass onto your face. * Putting a drinking glass on your face in various configurations until one feels right. * A drinking glass size rooted in a human arrogance that you can appreciate but that you can't encourage. * Learning to suck a glass onto your face from the kid next to you at Applebee's.

First big development in the case to break up big techThe Justice Department filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit alleging that Google uses anticompetitive tactics to preserve a monopoly for its flagship search engine and related advertising business, illegally stifling potential competition.It's the biggest anti-trust case since Microsoft back in 1998Joining the feds are attorneys general from 11 states. Interestingly, all states are republicaan Conspicuously absent from that group are dozens more AGs comprising a bipartisan coalition of nearly every top state prosecutor in the country that has been investigating the company on antitrust grounds for more than a year.That doesn't mean the other AGs oppose bringing antitrust action against Google. The remaining states may want to move ahead with separate legal actions and join the case later, DOJ officials told reporters Tuesday, and the agency doesn't take their sitting out the initial filing as "non-support."Google says the Justice Department's lawsuit alleging competitive abuses is "deeply flawed" and would fail to help consumers.From Google's blog:We understand that with our success comes scrutiny, but we stand by our position. American antitrust law is designed to promote innovation and help consumers, not tilt the playing field in favor of particular competitors or make it harder for people to get the services they want. We're confident that a court will conclude that this suit doesn't square with either the facts or the law. Photoshop 21 includes a mind melting neural filters, allowing you to adjust the lighting, age, mood of a person in a photoSome of this was expected, as modern phones already include lightning changes -but the adjustability here is nuts TweetPremiere ProAutomatic speech-to-text caption generation in 12 languages, including translation.Earnings day! Snap and Netflix report earningsNetflix experienced explosive growth during the first half of the year. It wasn't expected to match that growth this quarter, when lockdowns lifted and after new competitive services had launched, but analysts were still expecting it to meet expectations of at least 3.3 million net new global subscribers.So while more people are joining and binging Netflix, the company is still spending crazy amounts of money to acquire new users, including their amazing new Europe studio designed to pump out content across a bunch of languagesCriminal is the beta test of this studio Meanwhile, Snap's stock price shot up by more than 23% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company posted Q3 results that beat analyst estimates. Advertisers are back! From Snap "As businesses adapted and began to look for opportunities to increase their marketing budgets in Q3, we were pleased to see existing advertisers resume and even increase their budgets, as well as new advertisers allocate spend to drive real business... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a look at a significant but often overlooked event during the Civil War, the Draft Riots of July 1863. Protests against drafting men into the Union Army broke out in many places, but the worst occurred in New York City. For four days rampaging crowds tore the city apart, destroying property and leading to the deaths of more than 100 people, including 11 African Americans who were lynched. To this day, the Draft Riots remain the largest civil uprising in US history. Feature Story: The Civil War Draft Riots On July 13, 1863 - 157 years ago this week - the streets of New York exploded in a violent episode known as the Draft Riots. It lasted four days and claimed the lives of more than one hundred people and destroyed millions of dollars in property – all while the Union struggled to defeat the Confederacy on the battlefield. The event terrified northerners, many of whom were convinced that it was the result of a Confederate plot, and it prompted the Lincoln administration to rush thousands of troops from the battlefield at Gettysburg to NYC. To this day, the Draft Riots remain the greatest civil uprising in American history.       At the outset of the Civil War in 1861, no one in the North or South could have imagined that there would ever be a shortage of volunteers that would necessitate a military draft.  Union and Confederate Army recruiting stations were overwhelmed by men eager to join the fight.  Few men on either side expected the war to last more than a few weeks. But subsequent events made clear just how unrealistic these hopes were.  Beset by a series of incompetent generals and a host of other problems, the Union's Army of the Potomac in the east performed poorly in the field.  By mid-1862 it was clear that the war would be long and very, very bloody. Later that year, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which effectively announced the abolition of slavery.  Lincoln had deemed emancipation necessary to win the war, but it also produced intense opposition among certain groups of northerners.  War weariness, not to mention anti-war sentiment rose in the North and soon Union Army recruiting stations were empty.  If Lincoln was to make good on his promise to preserve the Union at all costs, a second drastic measure was needed.  In March of 1863 Congress passed the Conscription Act (the first in U.S. history) which declared all male citizens (and immigrants who had applied for citizenship) aged 20-45 eligible to be drafted into the Union Army.  If drafted, a man had several options short of serving in the Union Army.  He could pay a “commutation fee” of $300 to the government; or he could hire a substitute to serve in his place; or he could disappear – something that more than twenty percent of draftees did. The draft, like emancipation, proved intensely controversial. Some protesters denounced the draft as an affront to democratic liberty.  Others focused on what they termed its "aristocratic" provisions that allowed the wealthy to buy their way out of service (the $300 commutation fee exceeded the annual income of many poor laborers). More and more, they argued, it was becoming “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” The draft also incited anger among those northerners, principally Democrats, who initially had been willing to support a war to preserve the Union, but who now balked at fighting a war for emancipation.  Many politicians in the years before the war had used the issue of emancipation and the specter of cheap African American labor flooding northern cities to rally urban workers -- especially the Irish -- to the Democratic Party.  The message to the Irish was clear: if you think it's tough to earn a living now, just wait until you have to compete with hundreds of thousands of black workers willing to work for less money.  It was an opportunistic message of fear that ignored the fact that for the past thirty years it had been Irish immigrants who had taken jobs from free blacks living in northern cities.  Nonetheless, it stoked racist animosity among the Irish and other poor white workers.  When the draft began in July 1863, opposition to it turned violent. Violence broke out in Boston, Troy, New York, Wooster, Ohio, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and other cities. The worst incidents of anti-draft violence, of course, occurred in New York City.  The first day of the draft, Saturday July 11, resulted in 1,236 names drawn.  Despite grumblings and rumors of protest, it ended without incident.  The plan was to resume the draft on Monday morning.  Discontent among working-class New Yorkers was palpable Saturday night and on Sunday (when no draft was held) as people pored over the lists and found names of men they knew.  Conspicuously absent were the names of any wealthy or prominent New Yorker. The mood in the city’s working-class tenement districts grew ugly by Sunday night. Signs that there would be trouble when the draft resumed emerged early Monday morning when crowds of workers – among them a large percentage of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans - formed and began moving north towards the draft office at East 46th Street and Third Ave.  And the weather was hot and humid -- prime conditions, sociologists assert, for a riot.  By the time the draft office opened, an angry crowd of five thousand had gathered in the surrounding streets.  Moments after the first names were drawn, the crowd stormed the office, destroyed the lottery wheel used to draw names, and set the building on fire.  The riot was on. The violence at the draft office at East 46th Street quickly spread throughout the city. To stymie efforts to restore order, crowds built barricades, tore up streetcar tracks, and cut telegraph lines.   As in most riots, the crowds that coursed through the streets did not engage in purely random acts of violence.  Instead, they focused on very carefully chosen targets that symbolized their grievances.  Anything associated with the Union Army came under attack, including recruiting stations and draft offices.  Rioters also attacked anything associated with the Republican party – which they viewed as the party of war, emancipation, and the draft.  Both the New York Times and Tribune, staunchly pro-Republican and pro-war papers (not to mention pro-emancipation), were attacked several times.  In addition, rioters attacked the wealthy – people they derided as “three hundred dollar men” -- who were able to buy their way out of the draft. Mansions on Fifth Avenue were sacked and burned, as was the Brooks Brothers store. Rioters also took out their anger on local symbols of authority, most especially members of the New York Police Department.       And rioters also assaulted and killed African-Americans.  One of the first institutions attacked was the Colored Orphans Asylum, located near the present-day New York Public Library on 42nd Street.  Rioters burned it to the ground, but amazingly none of the children or staff inside was killed. Other African Americans, however, were not so fortunate.  At least eleven blacks were lynched by rioters. Many of these lynchings included particularly savage acts, including burning and dismemberment. One of the reasons the rioting escalated and spread so quickly was that New York City had only a minor military presence made up primarily of injured soldiers recovering from their wounds. When they turned out to quell the violence, they were quickly scattered by the much larger mob.  Squads of police were likewise attacked and driven away.  With the mob in control of the streets of the Union's largest city, officials sent frantic telegrams to Washington, DC pleading for troops.  Late Monday night the heavens opened up and the city was deluged with a most welcomed downpour. The rain extinguished most of the fires and prevented a much larger conflagration from developing. It also drove the rioters indoors for the night. City officials hoped the relatively peaceful night meant the riot was over.  But Tuesday morning brought more steamy weather and renewed rioting.  Again, African Americans, Republicans, soldiers, policemen and the wealthy came under attack. But increasingly the original focus of the rioting -- protest against a class-biased draft  and a war for emancipation – had expanded to include widespread looting and score settling by the city's poor and marginalized underclass who seized on the riot as an opportunity to vent their rage at a system they viewed as oppressive and unjust -- not unlike the rioting we’ve witnessed in 2020. On Wednesday, day 3 of the riots, the tide began to turn as the first of several thousand troops arrived fresh from the smoldering fields of Gettysburg.  All day Wednesday and Thursday, they stormed the rioters' strongholds using howitzers loaded with grape shot to mow down the crowd. In some neighborhoods they engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat as they moved building to building.  By now the police had also regrouped and began to retake streets and make arrests.  By Thursday night the violence ceased and it appeared the riot might be over. When the sun rose on Friday morning, July 17, New York City awoke wondering if the Draft Riots would resume.  But all was quiet, except for a steady procession of people to the midtown residence of Archbishop John Hughes, the leader of the city’s Irish Catholics.  In handbills distributed all across the city the day before, he announced that he would address the crowd from the balcony outside his residence. Hughes delivered a message that expressed sympathy with the rioter’s grievances, but urged them to cease the violence.  The reputation of the Irish in America, he said, was at stake. When he concluded, the crowd broke up and went home without incident.  The Draft Riots were over. In the aftermath of the riot, city officials tallied up the damage and death toll.  One hundred buildings lay in ashes, part of more than five million dollars in property destroyed.  Of the hundreds arrested for their role in the riot, only sixty-seven were convicted at trial.  None were the primary instigators and rabble-rousers and they received sentences that averaged five years in jail. As for the number killed, some early estimates ranged from several hundred to several thousand.  These exaggerated figures were clearly the result of the shock and horror produced by the riot.  As well as anti-Irish sentiment. But the most accurate assessment of the riot’s death toll, one based on a close reading of the press and death certificates, put the total at 119. Among those killed were at least eleven African Americans.  The racial pogrom aspect of the riot led more than half the city's black residents to flee. It would be years before the city’s black population returned to its pre-war level.  Not surprisingly, the city’s Irish population came in for harsh condemnation in the wake of the riot.  A seething voice of indignation emanated from pulpit, meeting hall, and editorial page denounced the Irish for engaging in a treasonous riot against the government as it struggled to win a civil war.  These critics ignored the fact that many of the rioters were German immigrants and German Americans, not to mention men of American birth. They also ignored the fact that many Irish soldiers, policemen, and priests helped stop the rioting.    But there still was a war to win, so city and state officials came up with a plan that eliminated the draft as a source of social unrest. They appropriated two million dollars to pay the commutation fee of any man who was drafted who did not want to serve. When the draft resumed on August 19, there was no violence. Because there was a war that had to be won, New Yorkers and Americans in general did their best to forget about the Draft Riots.  This became even easier once the war ended in Union victory. No one wanted to be reminded that the path to victory had been marred by disunity, protest, and violence. But the Draft Riots never quite disappeared from public consciousness, especially among America’s wealthy citizens, who viewed it as a nightmarish spectacle of social unrest that haunted their minds for several generations.  For Irish Americans, their widely publicized role in the riots remained a black mark on their collective reputation for decades to come.  For African Americans, the Draft Riots endured as a harrowing reminder of the depths of racial animosity in American life.  It was not the first incident of massive anti-black violence and it would not be the last. Sources: Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford, 1990). Barnet Schecter, The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America (Walker, 2005). For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com  Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) The Joy Drops, “Track 23,” Not Drunk (Free Music Archive) Sergey Cheremisinov, “Gray Drops” (Free Music Archive) Ondrosik, “Tribute to Louis Braille” (Free Music Archive) Alex Mason, “Cast Away” (Free Music Archive) Squire Tuck, “Nuthin’ Without You” (Free Music Archive) Ketsa, “Multiverse” (Free Music Archive) The Rosen Sisters, “Gravel Walk” (Free Music Archive) Soularflair, “Emotive Beautiful Irish Feel Gala” (Free Music Archive) Dana Boule, “Collective Calm” (Free Music Archive) Ondrosik, “Breakthrough” (Free Music Archive) Cuicuitte, “sultan cintr” (Free Music Archive) Jon Luc Hefferman, “Winter Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © In The Past Lane, 2020 Recommended History Podcasts Ben Franklin’s World with Liz Covart @LizCovart The Age of Jackson Podcast @AgeofJacksonPod Backstory podcast – the history behind today’s headlines @BackstoryRadio Past Present podcast with Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young, and Natalia Petrzela @PastPresentPod 99 Percent Invisible with Roman Mars @99piorg Slow Burn podcast about Watergate with @leoncrawl The Memory Palace – with Nate DiMeo, story teller extraordinaire @thememorypalace The Conspirators – creepy true crime stories from the American past @Conspiratorcast The History Chicks podcast @Thehistorychix My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist Professor Buzzkill podcast – Prof B takes on myths about the past @buzzkillprof Footnoting History podcast @HistoryFootnote The History Author Show podcast @HistoryDean More Perfect podcast - the history of key US Supreme Court cases @Radiolab Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell @Gladwell Radio Diaries with Joe Richman @RadioDiaries DIG history podcast @dig_history The Story Behind – the hidden histories of everyday things @StoryBehindPod Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen – specifically its American Icons series @Studio360show Uncivil podcast – fascinating takes on the legacy of the Civil War in contemporary US @uncivilshow Stuff You Missed in History Class @MissedinHistory The Whiskey Rebellion – two historians discuss topics from today’s news @WhiskeyRebelPod American History Tellers ‏@ahtellers The Way of Improvement Leads Home with historian John Fea @JohnFea1 The Bowery Boys podcast – all things NYC history @BoweryBoys Ridiculous History @RidiculousHSW The Rogue Historian podcast with historian @MKeithHarris The Road To Now podcast @Road_To_Now Retropod with @mikerosenwald © In The Past Lane 2020

Anthony aids and abets? Cowboys of the future. Don't be a Bill Cosby. Be careful what you wish for. Conspicuously absent: @mooreamoore.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/soberingthoughts)

We talk philanthropy, ether spiders, adaptive and much more in our Deck Discovery episode with Keyforge blogger AuroreFOLLOW the deck discussion: https://decksofkeyforge.com/decks/e4a66b73-6402-4d3c-9297-96287b898887 Follow us on Twitter: @callofdiscoveryLike us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callofdiscoverypodcastFind us on Instagram: @callofdiscoveryEmail us: discoverkeyforge@gmail.comAurore's Blog: https://timeshapers.com/

A crime summit held recently in St. Louis was a virtual who's-who of high ranking city and state government officials. Conspicuously absent from the gathering were the progressive, African American district attorneys of St. Louis and Kansas City, who were excluded despite having been elected to the top law enforcement post in Missouri's two largest cities. We look at the latest in a trend of anti-democratic attacks on reformist elected prosecutors. Support Criminal Injustice at $5/month to unlock extra bonus episodes and more on the Members feed: patreon.com/criminalinjustice

This week on the show, some Ghostbusters (2020) developments, merch news, and a discussion topic that makes us feel old (what doesn’t, at this point?). First up, merch news including a Mondo soundtrack release, Cakeworthy clothes, NYCC Diamond Select exclusives, and some video game news including Left For Dead 2 DLC up for sale. Then, in our first Ghostbusters (2020) segment in a long time, Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd were at Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight may have gotten them to spill a few (spoilerific beans) including who Paul Rudd might be playing in the new film. And, Dan appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast confirming something that we already knew - but it set the internet abuzz. In the last segment of this week’s show, Troy and Chris explore the anachronisms of Ghostbusters. Things that have been phased out that the new generation of fans will never understand. Check the card catalog for the episode’s location and join us, won’t you? Plus - stay tuned to the very end for a fun contest, Stewart-style!

Animal colouration is fascinating! Conspicuously affected by natural selection, an animal's colour pattern can impact many aspects of its life: from how well it can attract a mate to its success at avoiding predation. Of course, they can also be incredibly beautiful. In this episode, we hear from Dr Jake Morris (University College London – UCL) about his recent research investigating the genetic basis of wing patterns in the postman butterfly (Heliconius melpomene): a delicate, visually striking, toxic mimic found across South and Central America. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the ink hardly dry on their year-end lists, Adam and Josh offer up a 2018 Preview in the form of their top 5 questions about the new movie year. Conspicuously absent from those best of '17 lists? Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD. Fresh off a second viewing, the hosts give the film the lovingly in-depth review it deserves. Plus, Massacre Theatre, the return of Larsen Recommends and, in the post-credits "Hot Mics" segment, bonus thoughts on "I, Tonya" and "The Greatest Showman." 0:00-1:23 - Intro 2:18-39:29 - 2018 Movie Preview Sufjan Stevens, "Tonya Harding" 42:50-48:44 - 2018 Preview, cont. 48:44-56:21 - Next Week / Larsen Recommends: "Mom and Dad" 56:21-1:06:09 - Massacre Theatre Jonny Greenwood, "The House of Woodcock" 1:07:12-1:47:55 - Review: "Phantom Thread" 1:47:55-1:59:28 - Close / Hot Mics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trump Administration has framed regulation as a drag on the economy and jobs. Yet how much do we really understand about the true benefits and costs of protecting the environment? Two legal and regulatory experts weigh in. --- Early in his administration, President Trump vowed to focus on rolling back regulatory oversight of the energy industry and to lift the regulatory burden on business. Conspicuously absent from two of Trump’s early executive orders targeting environmental oversight, however, was any mention of the benefits that regulation has brought in the areas of environment and health. Regulatory experts Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, and Cary Coglianese, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Program on Regulation, take a look at the benefit-cost equation underlying the development of regulations, and at the actual benefits, and costs, of key policies. Alan Krupnick’s work at Resources for the Future focuses on analyzing energy and environmental issues, in particular the design of pollution and energy strategies. He was a senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors during the Clinton Administration, and president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes and has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is the founder of the Regulatory Review, the flagship publication of the Penn Program on Regulation.

Another giant episode: we talk about Vine's demise and social media platforms being merely temporary canvases, the advent of male contraception and its significance, books as status symbols, and what the first contact with aliens will mean.

In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Philip asks for ways to incorporate the beat cycle from Robin’s book Hamlet’s Hit Points into game systems that don’t already support it. The Tradecraft Hut peers into the dossier of Yakov Blumkin, the so-called Soviet James Bond. We gather in the Gaming Hut to wonder why breaking […]

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Last night’s State of the Union address had one conspicuous omission, and it’s huge. It’s bigger than all the wars, it’s bigger than the stock market, it’s bigger than the government, it’s bigger than the wages of all the people in America, it’s bigger than the economy. It’s bigger than America itself. And it seems incredibly strange to me that the President of the United States failed to mention it even once (nor was it mentioned in the Republican response). In today's podcast we discuss what this omission was, why it's so dangerous, and what it means for the direction the US is choosing to go.

  While the African community in Guangzhou has taken to the streets to protest the suspicious death of a foreign national in police custody, the Chinese internet has proven equally volatile as gruesome photos of a late-stage abortion have circulated online to the shock and horror of many netizens. This week, Sinica turns its attention to both events, but mostly to the one-child policy, as we discuss first the history of China's family-planning restrictions and then the political forces within China arrayed for and against the status quo. Trying to steer the discussion through these controversial waters is your host Kaiser Kuo, who is joined in our studio by Alexa Olesen, a long-time China watcher and journalist for the Associated Press who has written extensively on how China's family-planning policies work at the local level. We're also delighted to be joined by Evan Osnos, a staff writer for the The New Yorker, who has covered the African community in Guangzhou. Conspicuously absent for the second week running is Sinica's co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn, who, any minute now — and probably by the time you're reading this — will have become father to a baby girl named Viola!  

TRANSCRIPT A couple of weeks back, the archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron, in line to be the next president of the U.S. bishops conference, publicly bemoaned to the faithful that, for the first time in generations, the Detroit archdiocese would have no men ordained to the priesthood. In fact, Detroit's track record for ordinations under Vigneron has been nothing less than abysmal, ordaining fewer than 50 men in his going-on 14 years as archbishop here. In the past 10 years, specifically, he's ordained just 42 men to the priesthood while, over those same ten years, 125 Detroit priests either retired or died. But at least he can pass the buck and say, "it's not my fault, it's happening everywhere." On that score, at least, it would be the most truthful thing he's ever said during his reign over Detroit. Church Militant contacted every archdiocese in the country and compiled their numbers for ordinations this year. Here's what we found — for the 34 archdioceses in the United States, there will be, this year, around 100 ordinations. That is not only beyond pathetic, it is completely unsustainable. Consider that 40% of all Catholics in the United States live in those archdioceses, 28 million souls. And yet, there will only be 100 newly ordained priests to serve their spiritual needs. That breaks down to just one priest for every 280,000 Catholics. Good thing most Catholics don't go to Mass or believe the Faith because, if they did, the few priests there are would not be able to keep up. The premiere diocese in the country, New York, also will ordain no one this year. For the 34 archdioceses in the United States, there will be 100 ordinations. In fact, 5 of the 34 will ordain no new priests. And 11 will ordain either one or two. In short, half of the biggest dioceses in the nation will ordain two or fewer men to the priesthood this coming year. According to a recent study from the bishops' own official bean counters, in the last half century, 1970–2020, there has been a whopping dropoff in the number of priests in the United States of 60%. Last year, 2021, there were only 441 priestly ordinations. Now, what's curious in all this is the ecclesiastical head scratching going on, the question of why this is happening. In an interview addressing that very question, Detroit's vocations director, Fr. Craig Giera, said, "I don't know, statistically, why this [shortage] is happening, but I think the culture and secularization of our world is taking God out of everything, and men are not thinking about coming to the priesthood." Conspicuously missing from his answer is the truth that the U.S. hierarchy has taken God out of everything in the Church. The bishops have not only de-Catholicized the Church, but most have embraced the secular culture that Giera points to as the cause. For example, does Fr. Giera realize that one of his predecessors as vocations guy, Fr. Jim Bilot, used to screen seminary applicants to see if they would be suitable for sex with some other Detroit clergy? Church Militant was informed of this directly by one of the victims — which is why we called Bilot and left him a voicemail to get his response. He never returned our call. The bishops themselves are 100% responsible for their situation. They have refused to preach the fullness of the truth. A hefty portion of them are homosexual, which completely skews their thinking process, being more afraid of being rejected for saying the truth because, if there is one thing the entire gay mind orbits around, it is fear of rejection. That single fact defines their entire identity. Half of the biggest dioceses will ordain two or fewer men this coming year. Likewise, a practical result of not telling the truth is the major drop off in family size among Catholics — down from multiple children to the standard 1.4. It's simple arithmetic. The fewer young men there are, the fewer there will be available to be ordained. Likewise, as the bishops have greatly accelerated the cultural acceptance of sodomy and the whole gay culture has become dominant (and thereby more accepted), there is no longer a need for same-sex attracted males to go hide in the priesthood. Through their inaction, the bishops have created a sexually immoral atmosphere in the culture, which is now causing earthquakes as it flows back into the Church. Of course, none of the ladies in mitres will have the testicular fortitude to admit any of this. Their sins of omission (and in some cases commission) are now being visited on them and, in a display of hubris unmatched by most, Allen Vigneron now calls on the laity to pray for vocations. Give me a break. How can you ask God to step in and do something when you continually, consciously, actively work against the will of God at every turn? The U.S. bishops need to fess up publicly to their sins — all of them. They need to admit the damage they have caused, the severe damage and everlasting damage, and then step down. They need to condemn themselves and their predecessors, predecessors who constructed an "old queens network" and chased heterosexual faithful males from the seminaries in droves. They created an old queens network they have personally profited from as they set the Church on fire, and, for clarity, bishops, that's Hellfire, not the fire of the Holy Spirit. Weak men, homosexual men, unfaithful men created the vocations crisis, nothing else. That is the problem — tired old queens who can't vacate their current posts fast enough, one way or the other. The only question is, will the next generation of bishops be any better? They have been "formed" under these feminine clowns, these Judases, these homosexuals. We'll know soon enough because, in the next roughly two years, almost all of them will be gone: Dolan, Vigneron, Gregory, Cupich and so forth, a cavalcade of destruction the Church in America cannot survive another generation of. The next group must loudly and publicly denounce their predecessors and the carnage they have caused, pick up the pieces and try to salvage whatever can be. The current homosexualist bishops may have already pushed the Church over the cliff. That we won't know for perhaps another few years, but, in the meantime, those waiting in the wings had better wake up fast.

TRANSCRIPT A couple of weeks back, the archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron, in line to be the next president of the U.S. bishops conference, publicly bemoaned to the faithful that, for the first time in generations, the Detroit archdiocese would have no men ordained to the priesthood. In fact, Detroit's track record for ordinations under Vigneron has been nothing less than abysmal, ordaining fewer than 50 men in his going-on 14 years as archbishop here. In the past 10 years, specifically, he's ordained just 42 men to the priesthood while, over those same ten years, 125 Detroit priests either retired or died. But at least he can pass the buck and say, "it's not my fault, it's happening everywhere." On that score, at least, it would be the most truthful thing he's ever said during his reign over Detroit. Church Militant contacted every archdiocese in the country and compiled their numbers for ordinations this year. Here's what we found — for the 34 archdioceses in the United States, there will be, this year, around 100 ordinations. That is not only beyond pathetic, it is completely unsustainable. Consider that 40% of all Catholics in the United States live in those archdioceses, 28 million souls. And yet, there will only be 100 newly ordained priests to serve their spiritual needs. That breaks down to just one priest for every 280,000 Catholics. Good thing most Catholics don't go to Mass or believe the Faith because, if they did, the few priests there are would not be able to keep up. The premiere diocese in the country, New York, also will ordain no one this year. For the 34 archdioceses in the United States, there will be 100 ordinations. In fact, 5 of the 34 will ordain no new priests. And 11 will ordain either one or two. In short, half of the biggest dioceses in the nation will ordain two or fewer men to the priesthood this coming year. According to a recent study from the bishops' own official bean counters, in the last half century, 1970–2020, there has been a whopping dropoff in the number of priests in the United States of 60%. Last year, 2021, there were only 441 priestly ordinations. Now, what's curious in all this is the ecclesiastical head scratching going on, the question of why this is happening. In an interview addressing that very question, Detroit's vocations director, Fr. Craig Giera, said, "I don't know, statistically, why this [shortage] is happening, but I think the culture and secularization of our world is taking God out of everything, and men are not thinking about coming to the priesthood." Conspicuously missing from his answer is the truth that the U.S. hierarchy has taken God out of everything in the Church. The bishops have not only de-Catholicized the Church, but most have embraced the secular culture that Giera points to as the cause. For example, does Fr. Giera realize that one of his predecessors as vocations guy, Fr. Jim Bilot, used to screen seminary applicants to see if they would be suitable for sex with some other Detroit clergy? Church Militant was informed of this directly by one of the victims — which is why we called Bilot and left him a voicemail to get his response. He never returned our call. The bishops themselves are 100% responsible for their situation. They have refused to preach the fullness of the truth. A hefty portion of them are homosexual, which completely skews their thinking process, being more afraid of being rejected for saying the truth because, if there is one thing the entire gay mind orbits around, it is fear of rejection. That single fact defines their entire identity. Half of the biggest dioceses will ordain two or fewer men this coming year. Likewise, a practical result of not telling the truth is the major drop off in family size among Catholics — down from multiple children to the standard 1.4. It's simple arithmetic. The fewer young men there are, the fewer there will be available to be ordained. Likewise, as the bishops have greatly accelerated the cultural acceptance of sodomy and the whole gay culture has become dominant (and thereby more accepted), there is no longer a need for same-sex attracted males to go hide in the priesthood. Through their inaction, the bishops have created a sexually immoral atmosphere in the culture, which is now causing earthquakes as it flows back into the Church. Of course, none of the ladies in mitres will have the testicular fortitude to admit any of this. Their sins of omission (and in some cases commission) are now being visited on them and, in a display of hubris unmatched by most, Allen Vigneron now calls on the laity to pray for vocations. Give me a break. How can you ask God to step in and do something when you continually, consciously, actively work against the will of God at every turn? The U.S. bishops need to fess up publicly to their sins — all of them. They need to admit the damage they have caused, the severe damage and everlasting damage, and then step down. They need to condemn themselves and their predecessors, predecessors who constructed an "old queens network" and chased heterosexual faithful males from the seminaries in droves. They created an old queens network they have personally profited from as they set the Church on fire, and, for clarity, bishops, that's Hellfire, not the fire of the Holy Spirit. Weak men, homosexual men, unfaithful men created the vocations crisis, nothing else. That is the problem — tired old queens who can't vacate their current posts fast enough, one way or the other. The only question is, will the next generation of bishops be any better? They have been "formed" under these feminine clowns, these Judases, these homosexuals. We'll know soon enough because, in the next roughly two years, almost all of them will be gone: Dolan, Vigneron, Gregory, Cupich and so forth, a cavalcade of destruction the Church in America cannot survive another generation of. The next group must loudly and publicly denounce their predecessors and the carnage they have caused, pick up the pieces and try to salvage whatever can be. The current homosexualist bishops may have already pushed the Church over the cliff. That we won't know for perhaps another few years, but, in the meantime, those waiting in the wings had better wake up fast.