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Hey everyone,Fresh out the Reactor this week, we got new tunes from Place 2b, CrucifyMe, It Is Jev, TMVT, Ventex and lots moreIn the Demo room we are looking at upcoming heat from HighThere & O&P & Sindicate, Impex , Croo, Tesseracts & Receptor (Finalfix Remix)Check out the track list below and let's dive in!Sindicate - Watch Ya Maafcygnusmusic.link/rokkb5oTRACKLIST AND MORE INFO: www.stonxmusic.co.uk/stonxcast-ep175

Oud-premier Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) wordt directeur van de UN Development Program, dat is de op twee na hoogste functie binnen de Verenigde Naties. Exit België dus. Hoe zal hij de nationale geschiedenis ingaan en wat houdt zijn nieuwe job in? Moeten we fier zijn als Belgen? Tot slot: wie komt hier bekaaid vanaf? CREDITS Journalisten Bart Beirlant en Valerie Droeven | Presentatie Marjan Justaert | Redactie Kaja Verbeke | Eindredactie Bas Schueremans | Audioproductie en muziek Brecht Plasschaert | Chef podcast Alexander Lippeveld See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A violent crime, a terrible betrayal, a shocking death… and mongeese. From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” is a complicated and compelling puzzle of a story that circles around betrayal, disability, empire, real-world events and Victorian geopolitics. Content warning: CROO is chock full of Victorian racism, ableism, and imperialism. It comes baked into the plot of this one. More info, that illustration we reference, and our reading list: https://www.howeverimprobablepodcast.com/listen/the-adventure-of-the-crooked-man Find recommended reading, more stories, info about the show and more on our website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.howeverimprobablepodcast.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/improbablepod⁠⁠⁠

1. Croo: Dash 2. Croo & NERV3: Gravity's Pulse 3. Kije: Ride 4. Kije: Not Them 5. Kije & Nu4m: GRNK 6. Haneto: Nocturnal Bloom ft. Model 501 7. Omni Trio: Trippin' On Broken Beats 8. Deep Blue: The Helicopter Tune 9. DJ Patience: Vortex 10. 2 Nasty: Slice It Up 11. RedOne: Strangled Duck 12. Krust: Warhead (Ram Trilogy rmx) 13. Hired Gun: Earthquake 14. 2 Nasty: Tommy Don't Do It 15. Hired Gun: No Competition (DJ Patience rmx) 16. Hired Gun: Me & You 17. Micky Finn & Aphrodite: Bad Ass (Urban mix) 18. U.T.I.: I'm Finished (Hired Gun rmx) 19. Moving Fushion: Thunderball 20. Moving Fushion: Atlantis 21. GNTLMAN: Tonight

Komentovaný videosúhrn diania v kresťanskom svete od Pavla Hudáka, Imricha Gazdu a Pavla Rábaru Zdalo sa, že apoštolská cesta pápeža Františka do Belgicka nebude pre našinca príliš zaujímavá. Opak je však pravdou a pontifik si musel v Belgicku vypočuť kritiku. Belgický premiér Alexander de Croo vyzval Rímskokatolícku cirkev, aby podnikla konkrétne kroky, ktorými bude riešiť otázku sexuálneho zneužívania maloletých páchaného katolíckymi duchovnými. Takisto zazneli výhrady, že cirkev by mala v tejto oblasti konať, nielen hovoriť. Pápež čelil od rektora Katolíckej univerzity kritike, že cirkev podľa neho príliš často poskytuje „raz a navždy“ všetky univerzálne odpovede. „Nebola by cirkev vrúcnejšou komunitou, ak by tu bolo prominentné miesto pre ženy, a to aj v kňazstve?“ pýtal sa rektor a zároveň nabádal na väčšiu otvorenosť voči komunite LGBTI. „Nezískala by cirkev v našom kúte sveta morálnu autoritu, keby nebola taká rigidná vo svojom prístupe k otázkam rodu a diverzity a preukázala by väčšiu otvorenosť voči komunite LGBTQIA?“ spýtal sa rektor Sels pápeža. Prečo sa pápežovi v Belgicku dostalo takejto tvrdej kritiky? V komentovanom súhrne diania sme sa pozreli aj na to, čím môže prekvapiť zasadanie Synody o synodalite a kde sa stratili napríklad obavy zo svätenia žien či z manželstiev pre homosexuálne páry. Vo videu sa tiež dozviete, čím pozitívne prekvapil predseda KBS arcibiskup Bernard Bober. Spomínané témy: 00:00 Úvod 00:57 Pápež schytal v Belgicku kritiku za zneužívanie. 04:40 Boli voči pápežovi v Belgicku netaktní? 08:02 Pápež nasvietil krytie škandálov 11:10 Pápeža si nevypočuli a už mali stanovisko 13:00 Kritika od liberálnych katolíkov 15:53 Je kritika v Belgicku precedensom 18:03 Druhé zasadanie Synody o synodalite 25:39 Synodálne stretnutie na národnej úrovni 29:40 Vyhlásenie predsedu KBS k dianiu v parlamente 31:10 Stretnutie medzi ruským ministrom a Vatikánom 32:28 Knižná bodka

Evropská unie má za sebou volby do europarlamentu. Posílila pravice a výsledky otřásly Francií a Belgií. Francouzský prezident Macron se rozhodl rozpustit parlament a vypsat nové volby, belgický premiér de Croo rezignuje. Oslabili také sociální demokraté německého premiéra Scholze. V Česku volby do EP vyhrálo hnutí ANO, bude mít 7 europoslanců. Druhá skončila koalice Spolu, získala 6 křesel. Třetí je koalice hnutí Přísaha se stranou Motoristé sobě, má 2 mandáty. Stejný počet europoslanců budou mít koalice Stačilo v čele s KSČM a taky vládní hnutí Starostů. Po jednom mandátu budou mít Piráti a SPD kandidující s Trikolorou. Pořadem provázel Jiří Václavek https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/11412378947-90-ct24/224411058130610/

Open VLD doet het niet goed in de peilingen. Maar premier Alexander De Croo zou geen liberaal zijn mocht hij zijn optimisme over de verkiezingsuitslag ineens overboord gooien. Bart Brinckman volgde de premier tot in het Witte Huis, waar hij Joe Biden ontmoette. En vorige week spraken we de Vivaldipremier, die na tien juni liever met centrumrechts zou besturen. Waarom wil hij dat? Wat is de strategie daarachter? En kan hij nog eens premier worden?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Premier Alexander De Croo en N-VA-voorzitter Bart De Wever hebben elkaar de voorbije jaren nauwelijks gesproken. In het VTM-programma Het Conclaaf deden ze dat wel maar de verwijten vlogen heen en weer. Waarom is het water tussen beide zo diep en wat betekent dat voor deze verkiezingen en de regeringsvorming die daarop volgt? Intussen trekt onze collega Bart Brinckman op campagne met Open VLD en hij ondervindt elke keer weer hoe optimisme voor de liberalen nog steeds een tweede natuur is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wat zit er in de derde aflevering van 'De 7 Kiest?'De afgelopen dagen ging het in de campagne over zeer uiteenlopende onderwerpen: extra vakantiedagen, minder belastingen voor de laagste lonen, indexsprongen voor uitkeringen en zelfs het beperken van de schermtijd voor kinderen. Een breed palet, zullen we zeggen.Maar voor ons hier bij De Tijd was dinsdag een hoogdag: Het Planbureau kwam toen naar buiten met de doorrekening van de wilde plannen en voorstellen van de politieke partijen. Wat kosten die en wat brengen die op?Daar moeten we het zeker over hebben met Isabel Albers, de algemeen hoofdredacteur van De Tijd en L'Echo en Politiek journalist Dieter Dujardin, de begrotingsman hier op de redactie. De host is Bert Rymen. Luister zeker ook naar 'De 7 van De 7'. Dat is nog een verkiezingspodcast van De Tijd waarin we aan elek partij de zeven vragen stellen die er volgens ons echt toe doen. Deze keer met Sammy Mahdi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nog een goeie vijftig dagen en we trekken naar de stembus. Om je mening goed te vormen, wil je natuurlijk weten hoe de huidige regering gepresteerd heeft. Daarom heeft De Standaard een rapport voor elke minister en staatssecretaris gemaakt. Met goede punten voor sommigen, met zware onvoldoendes voor anderen. En met de vraag of enkele excellenties zelfs niet ronduit overbodig waren. Hoe heeft de regering-De Croo het gedaan de voorbije legislatuur? U kunt deze podcast ook als video bekijken via deze link.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Tim Tinsley prefers not to use the label of nuclear waste, instead referring to "legacy material". And it's not hard to see why, given the projects currently taking place to extract radionuclides from the material for use in pioneering treatments for cancer. It is also providing a new source of power and heat for spacecraft.Tinsley, Professor of Space Nuclear Power at the University of Leicester and Account Director for Space and Radioisotopes at the National Nuclear Laboratory in the UK, joins host Alex Hunt to give details on the life-saving and space-exploring projects and  explains what value there is hidden within what has long just been seen as a problem.With the promising early stage clinical trials, and the plans to provide power for a mission to Mars in 2028,  the newly discovered value in the legacy material is one of the factors which may be taken into account in plans for the safe longterm disposal of the material. There could yet be future discoveries that more of the material could become valuable in the years ahead, so, suggests Tinsley, being able to dispose of the material in a form that it is retrievable at minimal cost might be a good idea.Also this month, there is a report on the gathering of leaders and senior government representatives at the first-of-its-kind Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, including snippets of what the IAEA's Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and co-host Belgian PM Alexander de Croo had to say. Plus Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, French President Emmanuel Macron and COP29 host Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov. Key links to find out more:World Nuclear NewsLeaders commit to 'unlock potential' of nuclearNational Nuclear LaboratoryUniversity of LeicesterNuclear Energy SummitWNN Email newsletter:Sign up to the World Nuclear News daily or weekly news round-upsContact info:alex.hunt@world-nuclear.orgEpisode credit:  Presenter Alex Hunt. Co-produced and mixed by Pixelkisser Production 

De ramadan begon deze week, maar de gehoopte wapenstilstand tussen Israël en Hamas is nog niet bereikt. Er zijn ook nog steeds grote zorgen over een mogelijk Israëlisch grondoffensief in Rafah. Premier Rutte was deze week in Israël om Nethanyahu onder druk te zetten dat vooral niet te doen. Te gast is Han ten Broeke, directeur politieke zaken bij het Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies.  Luister ook | Super Tuesday was wél spannend Geert Wilders wordt geen premier terwijl zijn partij wel de grootste is. Europa-verslaggever Geert Jan Hahn keek hoe dat in andere Europese landen gaat. Zo is de Belgische premier Alexander de Croo afkomstig van de achtste partij van het land. Kan in Nederland een CDA'er dan in het torentje kan komen? Luister ook | Dossier Europa Russische verkiezingen  Het resultaat staat al vast, maar toch kunnen de Russen dit weekend naar de stembus. Van een oppositie is niets meer over, en het moet wel héél raar lopen, wil Poetin niet nog zes jaar aan de macht blijven. Waar we dan wel op moeten letten deze verkiezingen vraagt Bernard Hammelburg aan Joost Bosman, correspondent in Moskou. Luister ook | Amerika Podcast  De campagne is nu echt losgebarsten | Postma in Amerika  Sinds dinsdag zijn er officieel twee presidentskandidaten in Amerika. En dus kan het moddergooien naar elkaar beginnen. De leeftijd van Trump en Biden staan centraal en ook de versprekingen van beiden komen uitgebreid aan bod. Biden verspreekt zich vaak, maar de vier jaar jongere Trump toch ook. Waarom komt hij daar makkelijker mee weg? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special episode recorded at the Munich Security Conference, Andrew Mueller sits down with the prime minister of Belgium, Alexander de Croo, the prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, former CIA director General David Petraeus, Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, the prime minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the prime minister of Bulgaria, Nikolai Denkov. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wat zit er in De 7 vandaag?De federale regering stelt de beslissing over een al dan niet fiscaalvriendelijke staatsbon uit tot het allerlaatste moment. De brutocoupon wordt wel al vandaag bekendgemaakt.In de haven van Antwerpen is er vandaag een Europese industrietop. Heel wat CEO's leggen daar samen hun eisen op tafel om de toekomst van de industrie in Europa te verzekeren.En vergeet de Magnificent 7 van Wall Street. Heb je al gehoord van de 'Granolas'? Dat zijn 11 Europese steraandelen. Host: Bert RymenProductie: Lara DroessaertSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Olivier HANRION revient sur les paroles très prophétiques d'Alexandre de Croo cette semaine à Strasbourg : “N'ayez pas peur du grand méchant loup américain qui repointe le bout de son nez”. Merci pour votre écoute Matin Première, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 6h à 9h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Matin Première sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/60 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Wat zit er in De 7 vandaag?Er is maar weinig interesse in het Vlaamse uitkoopbod voor varkensboeren. Amper zeven zijn er al op ingegaan. Moet de Vlaamse regering bijsturen?Onze redacteur in Davos zag Bill Gates speechen in het Belgium House en blikt terug op een bewogen dag op het Wereld Economisch Forum.Uranium doet het dit jaar verbazend goed op de beurs. Hoe komt dat? Moet je daar als belegger nog op inspelen? En hoe dan?En blijf hangen tot het einde, voor goed nieuws over je loon! Host: Bert RymenProductie: Roan Van Eyck De Aionauten, onze podcast over artificiële intelligentie, is genomineerd voor de Kastaars. Dat zijn de Vlaamse mediaprijzen.We krijgen daar wel echt straffe concurrentie, dus we hebben je stem meer dan ooit nodig.Ga naar stemmen.kastaars.be en kies De Aionauten.Het duurt maar een minuutje en van ons krijg je eeuwige dank.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C'est la grande messe de l'économie en ce moment en Suisse… C'est le troisième jour du forum économique mondial de Davos. Le premier ministre Alexander De Croo, accompagné du Roi Philippe et de la Reine Mathilde sont arrivés hier dans l'après-midi/ La mission est double – faire exister la Belgique dans l'esprit de nombreux investisseurs et dirigeants d'entreprise… Alexander De Croo représente également la présidence belge de l'union européenne… Tom Denis, quelle est l'ambiance dans les couloirs du forum de Davos ¨ ((Tom Imaginez un village alpin niché à 1500 mètres d'altitude – sous 80 centimètres de neige. -14 degrés enregistrés hier matin. Alors, entre les montagnes : à l'intérieur du palais des congrès, les 2800 femmes et hommes d'affaires, intellectuels et politiques, sont pour la plupart équipés de bottines et de manteaux chauds. Un colloque hors du temps où se retrouve les puissants pour parler du monde. Au programme des rencontres, des discussions, du réseautage et sur toutes les lèvres : l'intelligence artificielle, les conflits, l'instabilité géopolitique, la chine, les semi-conducteurs… etc. .. Sophie Marenne est journaliste pour le journal économique suisse, nommé Agefi. Elle nous raconte l'ambiance particulière sur place. Marenne ok C'est ce que l'on appelle les maisons. La Belgique, et c'est une première cette année, a elle aussi investit dans la sienne. Un million d'euro financé par des sociétés privées belges pour organiser ces fameuses rencontres dans son pavillon. )) ((RELANCE)) Cette année ; La Belgique est représentée par le Roi et la Reine accompagné du premier ministre Alexander de Croo … Quel est son programme, pourquoi c'est important d'y être? ¨ ((Tom 36 heures sur place – Un marathon – Le premier a pu rencontrer hier déjà, le CEO de Coca Cola – Ils ont pu discuter de l'emploi à Bruxelles. Il y a aussi eu une rencontre avec la CEO de Solvay. Une autre avec Bill Gates qui investit dans les biotech belges. Aujourd'hui le premier ministre rencontrera également le CEO de l'agence internationale de l'Energie atomique. Alexander de Croo ira ensuite à la rencontre des dirigeants d'entreprises pharmaceutiques – Sanofi, Takeda, Astra Zeneca… En plus de ces rencontres officielles, Il y a aussi toutes celles informelles dans les couloirs… On dit que régulièrement certains accords entre états et gros industriels se nouent dans les salons de Davos. Mais ce rassemblement est aussi très politique – il y a 60 chefs d'état présents. Avec l'instabilité géopolitique… Le repli sur soi de certains pays… Davos est baignée dans une atmosphère peut-être un peu différente qu'auparavant. Par exemple : Hier Le premier ministre belge a pu s'entretenir avec le président ukrainien – Zelinski. J'ai pu contacter Alexander De Croo juste après cette rencontre... Alexandre de Croo Les dirigeants européens – appellent en effet à se retourner sur soi, valoriser l'Europe, se développer par eux même.)) ((RELANCE)) Dans ce contexte-là, est-ce que Le forum économique de Davos est-il encore vraiment utile ? ne représente-t-il pas un temps révolu ? ¨ ((Tom Certains disent qu'il est dépassé, ce congrès serait Hasbeen. C'est ce que pense en tout cas l'économiste Xavier Dupret. Xavier Dupret Pour d'autre, il ne faut pas passer à côté d'une telle occasion de réseautage - pour développer une stratégie économique globale, tisser des liens. Les grands acteurs de l'économie et de la politique s'y bousculent encore. Roland Gillet est professeur d'économie à la Sorbonne et à l'ULB. Roland Une chose est sûre, c'est qu'à Davos en ce moment pour sa 54-ème édition, le capitalisme est fracturé. Davos est-elle une institution en fin de course ? et bien, peut-être pas. Les puissants du monde économique sont encore au rendez vous cette année.)) Merci pour votre écoute Matin Première, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 6h à 9h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Matin Première sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/60 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

In 1958 was België het eerste land dat de nieuwe Europese Gemeenschap mocht voorzitten. Het komend halfjaar mogen onze zuiderburen onder leiding van premier Alexander de Croo voor de dertiende maal hun politiek vernuft inzetten voor een hele reeks complexe EU-vraagstukken. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger kijken vooruit, analyseren de aanpak en zwaartepunten van de Belgen en waarom ‘de Ollanders' hen eigenlijk nooit écht begrijpen.***Betrouwbare Bronnen is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Deze aflevering bevat een advertentie van NordVPN. Met deze vpn-verbinding kun je overal je favoriete websites bezoeken en je privacy is beschermd. Kijk op https://nordvpn.com/bronnen - Als je voor 9 januari 2024 een abonnement neemt, krijg je er een Amazon cadeaubon bij!Deze aflevering heeft ook een advertentie voor Bamigo. 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Dit is leerzaam voor de Belgen, want ook hen wachten verkiezingen, zelfs 'megaverkiezingen' op alle politieke niveaus.België moet in elk geval de principeakkoorden uit het Spaans halfjaar concreet invullen: toetredingsonderhandelingen met Moldavië en Oekraïne, de nieuwe Maastricht-criteria en het akkoord over asiel en migratie. En er moet een afspraak komen over de meerjarige EU-begroting. Een mooie uitdaging aan de behendige minister van Financiën, Vincent van Peteghem. En ook daar zal een nieuw kabinet in Den Haag niet omheen kunnen.De Belgen hebben een stevig inhoudelijk werkprogramma opgesteld. Jaap en PG vinden daarin een reeks interessante acties en initiatieven. Van een onvermijdelijk Kuifje-accent op de ruimtevaart tot een fiks pakket rond de 'sociale pijler' van de EU. Daarin wordt voortgebouwd op het 'Jaar van de vaardigheden' de lessen uit de pandemie en het historische werk van Jacques Delors.Het geopolitieke Europa krijgt forse nadruk. De Belgen noemen dat 'mensen en grenzen beschermen'. Bovendien krijgt het Europese antwoord op Xi Jin Ping en zijn Zijderoute nadrukkelijk aandacht.Natuurlijk kijken Jaap en PG ook met een schuin oog naar de komende Belgische verkiezingen. Die verrassen met de herrijzenis van oud-premier Elio di Rupo als Europees kandidaat voor de socialisten. En er dreigt electorale ellende voor de liberale Open VLD. Premier De Croo blijkt niettemin een positivist à la Mark Rutte, gelet op zijn nieuwste boek ‘Het beste moet nog komen'.Niet alleen bij zulke verkiezingen is merkbaar dat de noorderburen meestal weinig snappen of weten van de Belgen. PG zoekt een verklaring daarvoor en vindt die in de zo fundamenteel andere historische wortels binnen de Nederlanden na de Bourgondische eeuw en de afscheiding van de Republiek. Het huidige België bleef eeuwenlang een soort 'lidstaat' van een barok, multicultureel, katholiek, Europees en mondiaal imperium van de Habsburgers. 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Het is maandag en dan blikken we altijd vooruit op de week die komt met een gast. Vandaag is dat Isabel Albers, de algemene hoofdredacteur hier bij De Tijd en L'Echo.Het akkoord met Engie over de verlenging van twee kerncentrales is nu ook op papier helemaal rond. Maar Open VLD wil nog verder gaan en meer inzetten op kernenergie. Ook op de klimaattop in Dubai gaan daar stemmen voor op.Wat beslist de federale regering deze week over het krantencontract en wat betekent dat voor Bpost? Of wordt de hete aardappel doorgeschoven naar de volgende regering?Er wordt deze week gestemd over de splitsing van een iconisch Belgisch bedrijf: chemiereus Solvay.En dinsdag komen we te weten wie de onderneming van het jaar wordt. We blikken al eens vooruit op de genomineerden. Host: Bert RymenProductie: Lara DroessaertSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wat zit er in De 7 vandaag?Nu de verkiezingszege van de uiterst rechtse PVV bij onze noorderburen wat is bezonken: wat betekent die voor de rest van Europa? Komt er volgend jaar een algemene ruk verder naar rechts?Laaste dag van premier De Croo in Israël en Palestina. Wat heeft hij daar verwezenlijkt? Onze verslaggever is erbij.En we weten alweer iets meer over wat precies tot het ontslag van CEO Sam Altman heeft geleid bij OpenAI. Het was een brief over de volgende stap in de richting van artificiële super-intelligentie. Host: Bert RymenProductie: Roan Van EyckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C dans l'air du 23 septembre - Migrants : quand le Pape nous sermonne ! C'est un message fort, à la hauteur de l'urgence migratoire. En visite à Marseille, le Pape François a tenu un long discours sur l'immigration ce vendredi à quelques mètres de la basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, qui veille sur la ville et ses marins. "Devant un tel drame, les mots ne servent à rien." Il faut "des actes", a ainsi déclaré le souverain pontife quelques jours après les arrivées massives de migrants subsahariens sur l'île de Lampedusa qui ont fait la une de l'actualité. La tragédie migratoire "qui ensanglante la Méditerranée" est un thème cher au pape, qui a rencontré Emmanuel Macron ce samedi. Des camps de migrants de Lesbos en 2021 à Marseille en passant par Lampedusa, François n'a cessé de d'appeler les Européens à un sursaut collectif. "Ne nous habituons pas à considérer les naufrages comme des faits divers et les morts en mer comme des numéros", a-t-il averti, tout en encourageant les ONG qui patrouillent en mer Méditerranée au grand damne du gouvernement d'extrême droite italien. Ce discours a d'ailleurs irrité l'extrême droite française, à l'image d'Éric Zemmour qui s'est fendu d'un tweet : "Que veut le pape ? Il veut que l'Europe chrétienne, berceau du christianisme, devienne une terre islamique ?". Marion Maréchal a de son côté pointé la "vision un peu naïve du Pape" sur l'immigration : "Le pape n'a pas à se mêler de politique, il ferait mieux de remplir les églises qui sont aujourd'hui désespérément vides." L'extrême droite a aussi été à la manœuvre, en Belgique cette fois, où les cours d'éducation sexuelle instaurés à l'école (4 heures entre la 6e et la seconde) depuis la rentrée sont devenus la cible d'une violente opposition complotiste. Les militants, qui accusent le gouvernement de vouloir imposer "un nouvel ordre mondial sexuel", ne se sont pas limités à de la désinformation sur les réseaux sociaux, mais ont aussi vandalisé ou incendié 8 écoles ces derniers jours, à Charleroi et Liège. "Comment a-t-on pu en arriver à un tel niveau de désinformation ?", déplorent certains instituteurs, dépassés par l'ampleur des événements. Dimanche dernier, 1500 personnes se sont rassemblées à Bruxelles pour demander le retrait du fameux livret "Evras", parmi lesquels le leader de l'association catholique traditionnaliste Civitas, et des militants musulmans. "On peut avoir un débat, des points de vue différents, mais ça ne peut jamais déboucher sur de la violence", a prévenu le Premier ministre belge Alexander de Croo. "On s'attaque ici à des libertés publiques, à la liberté d'enseignement, et c'est pour moi une forme de terrorisme qui est absolument inacceptable", a de son côté dénoncé le maire de Charleroi, Paul Magnette. Un autre débat, qui suscite de fortes oppositions, doit revenir sur le devant de l'actualité française d'ici la fin du mois : celui du droit à mourir. En décembre dernier, le gouvernement avait lancé une convention citoyenne sur le sujet pour faire évoluer la loi actuelle, qui limite la sédation profonde aux malades en phase terminale et en très grande souffrance, dont la vie est menacée "à court terme". L'exécutif veut désormais présenter son projet de loi la semaine prochaine, tandis que des sénateurs de gauche entendent rédiger leur propre proposition de loi sur le sujet auquel 70% des Français se disent favorables. Tout le débat portera justement sur les conditions de ce doit à mourir dans la dignité : aide active à mourir ? Euthanasie ? Suicide assisté ? Les débats au Parlement s'annoncent houleux. Quelles conséquences le discours du Pape sur les migrants peut-il avoir en Europe ? Face aux divergences politiques sur le sujet, comment les États européens peuvent-ils s'accorder sur l'accueil des migrants ? Pourquoi les cours d'éducation sexuelle suscitent toujours autant de polémiques en Europe ? Le gouvernement français va-t-il trouver la voie pour faire évoluer le droit à mourir dans la dignité ? LES EXPERTS : - Yves THRÉARD - Éditorialiste, directeur adjoint de la rédaction - Le Figaro - Eve ROGER - Journaliste spécialiste des questions de société - RTL - Rachel BINHAS - Journaliste au service société - Marianne - François BEAUDONNET - Chroniqueur international, rédacteur en chef Europe - France Télévisions - Isabelle DE GAULMYN - Rédactrice en chef - La Croix DIFFUSION : du lundi au samedi à 17h45 FORMAT : 65 minutes PRÉSENTATION : Caroline Roux - Axel de Tarlé - REDIFFUSION : du lundi au vendredi vers 23h40 PRODUCTION DES PODCASTS: Jean-Christophe Thiéfine RÉALISATION : Nicolas Ferraro, Bruno Piney, Franck Broqua, Alexandre Langeard, Corentin Son, Benoît Lemoine PRODUCTION : France Télévisions / Maximal Productions Retrouvez C DANS L'AIR sur internet & les réseaux : INTERNET : francetv.fr FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/Cdanslairf5 TWITTER : https://twitter.com/cdanslair INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/cdanslair/

The Challenges of Cannabis Regulation with Solomon Hatch #120 Solomon Hatch is the Illinois Deputy Cannabis Regulation Oversight Office (CROO) administrator. The CROO makes recommendations for administrative and statutory changes and collects data regarding the regulation of cannabis. They also assist in the compilation of any reports required by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Next, they ensure the coordination of efforts between various State agencies involved in regulating and taxing the sale of cannabis in Illinois. Lastly, they encourage and promote best practices for ensuring diversity in the cannabis industry in Illinois. In this episode, we take the temperature of the state of the cannabis industry and discuss what we can expect in the future.  Cannabis Advocate Podcast The Cannabis Advocate podcast advocates for businesses in the cannabis industry and explores the unique challenges they face. Despite hurdles in legislation, regulation, and culture, there are tremendous opportunities for growers, manufacturers, and retail sellers of cannabis products. Many of these issues are unique to the cannabis industry. This podcast speaks to these common concerns and shares stories of success. This is a production of Habanero Media.  https://habaneromedia.net To subscribe to the podcast go to  https://cannabisadvocatepodcast.com/listen/ If you have a question or comment, https://cannabisadvocatepodcast.com/contact  

Ik ben de politicus die het land door enkele crisissen heeft geloodst en ik wil ook na de verkiezingen gerust premier blijven. Dat was de boodschap van Alexander De Croo in zijn rentree-interviews na de zomervakantie. De Croo is een notoir optimist voor wie het glas altijd half vol is. Maar misschien was dit wel erg optimistisch van hem. Of kan hij gewoon moeilijk iets anders zeggen? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Egbert Lachaert stopt als voorzitter van Open VLD. Hij kan naar eigen zeggen zijn rol als voorzitter niet voluit spelen en maakt ruimte voor premier Alexander De Croo als enig boegbeeld van de partij. Is dat geen vreemde redenering? En kan de exit van Lachaert de liberale partij nog redden? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I encourage my listeners to explore the content showcased in this episode. While I don't imply any malicious intent, I want to bring attention to a significant omission or oversight in the CROO's new website. It appears that something crucial is missing or has been neglected. You can watch the video version of this episode and see the full show notes for this episode here: https://chillinois.net/2023/06/12/297-gifting-gone/

Invité : Thierry Breton, commissaire européen au Marché intérieur. L'Union européenne et les États-Unis viennent d'annoncer un projet de code de conduite commun sur l'intelligence artificielle (IA). De quoi s'agit-il ? Faut-il aller plus loin dans la coopération internationale en matière de règlementation numérique et de normes environnementales européennes ? Emmanuel Macron a demandé une « pause réglementaire » pour faciliter la réindustrialisation et Alexander de Croo, Premier ministre belge, a dit « redouter une situation où il y a tellement de règles que notre industrie ne peut plus les gérer ». L'UE tente de réagir face à ses problématiques d'approvisionnement et d'autonomie en ressources, révélées par la pandémie de Covid-19, la guerre en Ukraine et le programme de subventions des entreprises et des technologies américaines. Les ambitions et normes environnementales pénalisent-elles la compétitivité de l'Union ou, au contraire, le plan industriel du Pacte vert est-il une aubaine pour les entreprises européennes ? Plus largement, où en est l'Europe dans sa quête de souveraineté ? Thierry Breton répond. Présentation : Antoine Genton (TV5MONDE), Philippe Jacqué (« Le Monde »).

Le débat qui porte sur la chasse aux riches fascine une partie des politiques aujourd'hui. On l'a vu récemment en Belgique avec un homme politique qui arbore une veste avec comme slogan taxe de riches sur le dos. Le slogan d'ailleurs n'est pas très original puisqu'il l'a piqué à un défilé de mannequins à Paris en 2018. Et vous avez maintenant nos voisins français qui voudraient proposer de financer la transition écologique en taxant un peu plus les 10% de ménages les plus riches, et cela sur une période étalée de 30 ans. Je cite la France. Pourquoi ? Mais parce que nos politiques wallons ont la fâcheuse tendance de s'inspirer de ce qui se passe dans l'hexagone. Et chez nous, la taxation des riches est censée financer la baisse de la fiscalité du travail, tandis qu'en France, c'est pour financer la transition écologique. Et c'est là où le débat va donc démarrer. Je me lance, quitte à recevoir une volée de bois vert. D'abord, j'ai envie de rappeler que les riches ne sont pas des parasites et que dans l'immense partie de cette planète, ils ne sont pas critiqués mais au contraire enviés dans le bon sens. En France, par exemple, certains ont fustigé le fait que Bernard Arnault était devenu l'homme le plus riche du monde. Une honte selon Mélenchon. Oui, sauf qu'en Allemagne, il y a plus de milliardaires qu'en France. Et pourtant, le taux de chômage est nettement plus faible. Cherchez l'erreur. Ensuite, instaurer une sorte d'impôt sur la fortune pour financer la nécessaire transition écologique, c'est mettre en place ce qu'on appelle un impôt imbécile, surtout s'il s'étale sur 10, 20 ou 30 ans, comme vient de le proposer un économiste pourtant proche d'Emmanuel Macron. Alors pourquoi cet impôt est–il qualifié d'imbécile ? Mais parce qu'il va inciter à l'exil fiscal des personnes les plus productives et les plus doués. Parce qu'il va écorner l'image de la Belgique ou de la France auprès des investisseurs étrangers. Je rappelle que nous venons de dégringoler dans le classement des pays attractifs et notamment la Wallonie. Et puis parce qu'il va décourager les investissements productifs. Je rappelle qu'une entreprise wallonne intéressante a décidé, pas plus tard qu'il y a quelques jours, d'installer une usine ailleurs qu'en Belgique. Et pourtant, l'investissement porte sur 500 millions d'euros. Et je rappelle aussi que ce sont les riches, comme certains disent, qui sont susceptibles de rénover le parc de logements. Mots-clés : infrastructures, État, régions, réindustrialisation, pays, Premier ministre, Alexandre de Croo, textes législatifs, environnemental, détracteurs, réchauffement climatique, réalité, normes contraignantes, monde, matière, industries, polluant, kilomètres, textes coercitifs, schizophrénie, réflexe pavlovien, problème, taxes, artisan, outil, emploi, impôts, cotisations, financement, compétence, enfants, chômeurs, diplômés, qualifiés, avenir, école, revalorisation, métier, enseignant, influenceur, tik tok. --- La chronique économique d'Amid Faljaoui, tous les jours à 8h30 et à 17h30 sur Classic 21, la radio Rock'n'Pop.

Wat zit er in De 7 vandaag?We zijn met z'n allen heel trouw aan onze thuisbank. Dat blijkt uit een cijferonderzoek door onze redactie. Loont het stilaan niet om je spaarboekje eens te verhuizen?Premier De Croo heeft de top van de Duitse economie proberen warm maken voor ons land. Is hem dat gelukt? En hoe speelt dat hier thuis in zijn kaarten?En eten en drinken zoals Mathieu Van der Poel? Het kan voortaan dankzij een gratis app. Maar hoe verdient het bedrijf daarachter daar dan geld aan? We vragen het aan de wielergekke oprichter. Genoten van De 7?Check dan onze nieuwste podcastreeks 'Wat dit land nodig heeft'In vijf afleveringen neemt host Bert Rymen je mee naar de op zoektocht naar de oplossingen die dit land nodig heeft om er weer te staan. Of het nu gaat over werk, onderwijs of gezondheidszorg, het komt allemaal aan bod.Luister nu naar de derde aflevering over onderwijs. De gasten daarin zijn directeur Joke Knockaert die van haar technische school in Zeebrugge de eerste Vlaamse havenschool maakte.En ook Kande Kazadi is erbij. Die is partner bij adviesbureau Bain & Company, maar ook gepassioneerd door onderwijs en gelijke kansen, als lid van De Vrijdaggroep en bestuurder bij ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir in Brussel.Dat allemaal, samen met de opinie van Isabel Albers, te beluisteren in de nieuwste aflevering van 'Wat dit land nodig heeft'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Hidden in Plain Sight: The Enterprise Revenue Intelligence Podcast, James McArthur, CEO of CROO, joins Mariana Cogan to understand why on average, sixty to seventy percent of accounts within a territory have little to no engagement and how RevOps can tackle that challenge.

Vandaag moet premier Alexander De Croo naar de Kamer. De oppositie heeft zijn munitie vast al klaarzitten. Want wat rest er nog van zijn regering nu coalitiepartner MR constant stokken in de wielen steekt, zijn partijvoorzitter wegsprint van de camera's en nu zijn begroting eigenlijk ronduit een beschamend werkstukje blijkt? Hoe werkbaar is Vivaldi nog? Credits op standaard.be/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het goede nieuws is dat onze regering een begroting heeft voor 2023 en verkiezingsjaar 2024. Het slechte nieuws is dat er geen geld is om ingrijpend beleid te voeren. Erger nog: verschillende partijen hebben niet eens de ambitie om iets wezenlijks aan te pakken. Vivaldi faalt daarom als hervormingsregering.  Omschrijving + Credits op standaard.be/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chief Customer Officer at Lean Data, Rachael McBrearty discusses the important role RevOps leaders play in organizations. She also looks at the possibility of having a CROO, or Chief Revenue Ops Officer, to help organizations create strategies that work for the benefit of the customer. Today, Rachael discusses the potential rise of the CROO position. Show NotesConnect With:Rachael McBrearty: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

De energiecrisis slorpt alle aandacht op van onze toppolitici. Onze regering is van het ene crisismanagement – corona weet u nog? – in het andere beland. En dat is dan misschien een goeie zaak voor de leider van dat crisismanagement: premier Alexander De Croo.   Credits op standaard.be/podcast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neen, we werden niet echt vrolijk van de boodschap van premier Alexander De Croo eerder deze week. Niet alleen deze winter wordt moeilijk, waarschuwt hij. Maar de komende vijf winters, zelfs tien winters worden moeilijk. Credits op standaard.be/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Digital Insurance Pint Podcast, Dave Lechasseur and Julian Stillitano from The Croo Group (Croo.io) join us on this podcast. A crew, in breakdance folklore, is a collective of b-boys and b-girls. In this episode, Dave and Julian throw it down as their company, croo.io, is cyphering the insurance industry and keeping things fresh, popping and locking with their nifty communication product. A crew, in breakdance folklore, is a collective of b-boys and b-girls. In this episode, Dave and Julian throw it down as their company, croo.io, is cyphering the insurance industry and keeping things fresh, popping and locking with their nifty communication product. Croo is redefining custom communication with their kick-ass managed cloud phone system, designed for insurance brokers at a great price and backed with fantastic service from real people who care. Their phone system is easy to implement, cheaper than many of the VOIP phone competitors, scales well is feature-rich, and has API integrations with popular CRM software and broker management systems. Throw in the fact act that you get most of the feature enhancements over the next five years, and you have an insurance vendor that is poised to keep growing in North America. In this episode, the DIPP team breaks down the following with croo crew: How croo.io is focused on providing phone systems to insurance brokers and agents with a human touch We learn about their 99.7 %customer satisfaction ratio How croo.io does not have any hidden setup or support fees Why should brokers be choosing a VOIP System and where their new clients are originating? Why Steve Earle and Jeff Roy use and love the Croo.io We unpack some of the most extraordinary things brokers are doing with their system. What enhancements are on their product roadmap for 2021(hint: texting enhancements, unified messaging and sentiment analysis) To steal a 1984 Breakdance song from Germany – Say What – Say Who – Alex and the city Croo.io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2otNQA0Y0I Croo.io brings the moves to the broker communication dance floor and “It's like that, and that's the way it is.” Resources: Tom Reid Jeff Roy Steve Earle Adam Mitchell Digital Insurance Pint Podcast

Op maandag blikken we in De 7 altijd vooruit naar de week die komt, en vandaag doen we dat met Algemeen Hoofdredacteur Isabel Albers van De Tijd en L'Echo. Het wordt een week vol economisch nieuws: prognoses van enkele banken, cijfers van de nationale bank en de vooruitzichten ook van de OESO, de club van rijke landen. Die prognoses zullen zeker ook met argusogen in de gaten worden gehouden door de FED, de Amerikaanse centrale bank die deze week zal beslissen met hoeveel de rente moet stijgen om de inflatie onder controle te houden. De beleggers in ons land kijken morgen ook uit naar de jaaresultaten van de Colruyt-groep. Dat aandeel staat onder druk, verloor al wat waarde. Kunnen ze daar in Halle het tij keren? En met Isabel Albers moet je het natuurlijk ook over politiek hebben. Met name over die sociaal-economische hervormingen die de federale regering nog wil doorvoeren. Host: Bert Rymen Productie: Joris Vanderpoorten See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chief Customer Officer at Lean Data, Rachael McBrearty discusses the important role RevOps leaders play in organizations. She also looks at the possibility of having a CROO, or Chief Revenue Ops Officer, to help organizations create strategies that work for the benefit of the customer. Today, Rachael discusses the potential rise of the CROO position. Show NotesConnect With:Rachael McBrearty: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Le roi des Belges, Philippe, arrive ce mardi 7 juin au matin dans la capitale congolaise, accompagné notamment de la reine Mathilde et du Premier ministre Alexander de Croo. « Une visite reportée à plusieurs reprises, notamment en raison de la crise sanitaire, relève le site congolais Cas-Info. Un déplacement historique qui verra le roi de Belgique passer six jours en RDC. Le dernier voyage d'un souverain belge remonte à 2010. Le roi Philippe va prononcer demain mercredi un discours devant le Parlement congolais réuni en congrès, avant de se rendre à Lubumbashi puis à Bukavu. » Cette « visite du roi des Belges en RDC intervient à un moment particulièrement crucial pour la RDC, souligne le Nouvel Observateur à Kinshasa. Un moment marqué par le conflit avec le Rwanda, son voisin oriental. Cette visite se déroule aussi dans un contexte de crise économique et sociale pour la population congolaise, conséquence directe de la guerre en Ukraine, mais également de la mauvaise gestion des richesses nationales par les gouvernants. À côté de ce sombre tableau, poursuit Le Nouvel Observateur, il y a lieu d'ajouter la crise économique et morale savamment entretenue par une classe politique gloutonne, immature et peu soucieuse de la misère et de la pauvreté qui touche les trois quarts de la population congolaise. » Le lourd héritage du passé colonial Réaction de quelques Kinois interrogés par le site Actualités CD : « Nous allons lui offrir un accueil chaleureux, affirme l'un. Ce n'est pas parce que le roi vient que nous allons oublier le passé. Les Belges ont tiré des leçons de ce qu'ils ont fait aux Congolais. La vie humaine est sacrée. Maintenant qu'ils nous présentent leurs excuses, nous devons leur pardonner et regarder dans l'autre direction. » « Cette visite est une repentance, affirme un autre, pour souffler un air diplomatique et politique nouveau pour notre pays. » Non, estime un autre kinois interrogé par Actualités CD, « la Belgique a colonisé notre pays, et vous savez les résultats de la colonisation. On n'attend rien de son arrivée ici. » Alors, « Philippe au Congo, à partir d'aujourd'hui, c'est une passerelle pour cimenter un passé cruel et douloureux avec un avenir que Congolais et Belges espèrent prometteurs », commente pour sa part le quotidien Aujourd'hui au Burkina Faso. « La Belgique et la RDC ont tout à gagner de relations saines et cordiales, renchérit Le Pays, toujours à Ouagadougou, plutôt que de passer leur temps à ressasser un lourd passé colonial auquel on ne peut plus rien changer. C'est dire s'il faut savoir avancer. » Pas de coup de baguette magique ! Les relations entre les deux pays ont donc connu « des hauts et des bas », souligne Afrikarabia, site spécialisé sur la RDC : « la fin du mandat de Joseph Kabila avait été particulièrement agitée entre Bruxelles et Kinshasa, rappelle le site. La Belgique avait fortement contesté le maintien au pouvoir du président Kabila au-delà des délais constitutionnels, jusqu'à suspendre sa coopération. (…) Son départ et la victoire surprise de l'opposant Félix Tshisekedi a changé la donne en 2019. Le nouveau président congolais s'est rapidement rendu à Bruxelles pour renouer les fils d'une relation qui s'était distendue. » Alors, « pour Bruxelles, ce voyage est surtout une occasion de tourner la douloureuse page du passé colonial avec les Congolais, pointe encore Afrikarabia. En 2020, le roi Philippe avait déjà fait un pas important en regrettant les "actes de violence et de cruauté" commis à l'époque où son ancêtre Léopold II avait fait du Congo sa propriété personnelle. (…) En assumant son lourd passé colonial, la Belgique espère pouvoir renouer sa relation privilégiée avec le Congo. Mais tous ces gestes symboliques semblent bien éloignés des préoccupations des Congolais, relève le site, qui oscillent entre conditions de vie miséreuse et guerre ouverte à l'Est du pays. 78 % de la population vit avec moins de 2 $ par jour, et malgré les richesses de son sous-sol, le PIB par habitant de la RDC reste l'un des plus faibles au monde. La royale visite ne changera malheureusement pas d'un coup de baguette magique les difficiles conditions d'existence des Congolais. »

Visite reportée à plusieurs reprises – notamment en raison de la crise sanitaire – le roi Philippe se rend à compter du 7 juin et pendant six jours en RDC. Un déplacement historique. Le dernier voyage d'un souverain belge remonte à 2010. Accompagné de la reine Mathilde et du Premier ministre, Alexander De Croo, le roi Philippe doit prononcer mercredi un discours devant le Parlement congolais, avant de se rendre à Lubumbashi puis à Bukavu. Pour évoquer les enjeux de ce voyage, Thomas Dermine, le secrétaire d'État belge pour la relance et les investissements stratégiques. En charge de la politique scientifique, c'est lui qui a ouvert la voie aux restitutions d'œuvres d'art à la RDC. RFI : Le roi Philippe effectue à partir de ce mardi sa première visite en RDC. Il est accompagné de la reine Mathilde, du Premier ministre Alexander de Croo. Vous faites également partie de la délégation, quel est le but de ce voyage très symbolique ? Thomas Dermine : Écoutez, c'est un voyage qui a été reporté plusieurs fois, qui était prévu à la base au mois de juin 2020 dans le cadre du 60e anniversaire de l'indépendance du Congo. Donc c'est un voyage qui est effectivement symbolique, puisque c'est le premier voyage du roi Philippe au Congo et qu'il y a toute une série de sujets importants en matière de coopération en développement, mais aussi en matière de restitution de patrimoine spolié durant la période coloniale qui sont prévus à l'agenda. Et cette visite revêt une forte dimension historique, dans un rapport remis à l'automne aux parlementaires belges, des experts avaient éreinté le passé colonial belge, parlant d'une cruelle histoire d'extraction des ressources. Ils soulignaient que la violence et le racisme avaient été les éléments centraux de l'occupation belge au Congo. Vous diriez qu'il y a une volonté aujourd'hui en Belgique de regarder ce passé colonial en face ? Je pense qu'il est indéniable que nous avons une histoire commune avec le peuple congolais, qu'il y a dans cette histoire certaines zones d'ombre qu'il faut pouvoir étudier aujourd'hui, avec plusieurs décennies de recul, et que quelque part la reconstruction de ce passé commun est une étape indispensable pour construire un avenir. Un avenir de fraternité entre nos deux peuples. Depuis près d'un an, vous avez ouvert le dossier de la restitution des biens abusivement acquis durant la colonisation. Vous avez remis en février au Premier ministre congolais l'inventaire des 84 000 pièces originaires de l'ancien Congo belge, qui sont actuellement dans vos réserves. C'est maintenant aux autorités congolaises de formuler des demandes précises de restitution parmi ces objets ? Oui, tout à fait. C'était une première étape symbolique importante de donner de la transparence, parce que souvent on se rend compte que les Congolais eux-mêmes n'ont pas une idée complète du patrimoine qui leur a été dérobé durant la période coloniale. Et donc sur cette base-là, nous avons effectivement entamé un dialogue bilatéral avec les Congolais, pour que le cas échéant, ils puissent effectuer des demandes de restitution qui seront traitées dans le cadre très balisé d'une commission paritaire composée de scientifiques, d'historiens. La Belgique va restituer, dans deux semaines, la dépouille de Patrice Lumumba à sa famille. Pourquoi ne pas avoir fait coïncider la visite avec cette restitution ? Ce sont des démarches qui s'inscrivent dans un cadre tout à fait différent. Il y a d'un côté la question sur le patrimoine, et puis il y a la question spécifique des restes humains, et la question spécifique autour de monsieur Lumumba et qui méritait d'avoir un traitement séparé, et qui sont deux questions toutes les deux évidemment symboliques et très importantes mais qui ne s'inscrivent pas je dirais dans la même logique. Est-ce à dire que le roi Philippe n'évoquera pas l'assassinat de Patrice Lumumba dans ce voyage ? Il appartient au roi de définir l'agenda, et surtout dans la discrétion de ces échanges avec les autorités congolaises, mais je pense qu'il n'y a pas de tabou sur ce sujet, que ça s'inscrit dans une relation bilatérale diplomatique excellente entre la RDC et la Belgique, et aucune question ne sera taboue, mais je pense que ça s'inscrit juste dans une temporalité, dans un cadre qui est différent. On a le sentiment que les relations entre Bruxelles et Kinshasa sont aujourd'hui bien meilleures qu'elles n'ont pu l'être par le passé ? Je pense que c'est lié non seulement à une évolution du contexte en Afrique qui fait qu'aujourd'hui, effectivement, avec le président Tshisekedi, une certaine forme de stabilité qui permet le renforcement de ces liaisons s'établie, mais aussi je pense qu'il y a une question générationnelle en Belgique. Aujourd'hui au sein du gouvernement belge vous n'avez plus qu'un ministre qui était né au moment de la période coloniale et donc nous avons, je pense, un rapport qui a changé par rapport au Congo. Nous voyons le Congo avant tout comme une grande puissance économique à devenir, comme un partenaire commercial avant de le considérer comme une ancienne colonie avec laquelle nous avons des rapports historiques. Et donc moi j'inscris résolument les relations entre la Belgique et le Congo dans ce cadre, et dans l'optique de construire les bases d'une relation d'amitié partagée et qui aura des bases importantes pour la prospérité de nos deux pays. ► À lire aussi : Le roi des Belges va se rendre en RDC en juin, une première depuis dix ans

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"Nous avons vraiment besoin de repenser tout notre raisonnement". Interrogé longuement ce week-end dans le journal flamand De Zondag, le Premier ministre Alexander De Croo a indiqué qu'il était prêt à revoir sa position sur la question de la vaccination obligatoire."Vous vous faites vacciner pour votre propre santé, mais aussi pour celle des autres, a-t-il expliqué. Je crois davantage en la persuasion qu'en l'obligation, mais quand on voit qu'il y a cinq fois plus de non vaccinés en réanimation, on ne peut plus éviter cette question. L'objectif est clair : il faut vacciner tout le monde. Si la voie de la vaccination obligatoire peut aider, alors j'aimerais l'envisager".Alexander De Croo s'était jusqu'ici montré sceptique à propos d'une éventuelle obligation vaccinale généralisée, estimant encore récemment la mesure impossible à mettre en œuvre. Mais la situation difficile qui perdure dans les unités de soins intensifs le pousse à revoir son jugement."Un groupe relativement petit (les personnes non-vaccinées, NDLR) a trop d'impact sur nos soins. Nous ne pouvons l'admettre, a estimé le Premier ministre dans les colonnes de De Zondag. En fait, c'est une leçon importante de cette crise : restez ouvert d'esprit et osez reconsidérer votre point de vue. Nous avons vraiment besoin de repenser tout notre raisonnement. Autrefois, le plan était : comment éviter les nouvelles vagues ? Aujourd'hui, cela devrait être : comment garder les vagues aussi plates que possible ? Car soyons réalistes : Omicron ne sera pas non plus la dernière vague. Le virus va proliférer dans les années à venir. Il faut apprendre à vivre avec lui."Rappelons que le débat sur la vaccination obligatoire n'est pas neuf, qu'il divise le monde politique, et qu'il figure encore au menu de rentrée du parlement fédéral.

Ben and Lexi are dorking out about all things food! What gross food combinations bring you the most comfort? If you had one last meal before the great beyond - what would you eat? What does a latch key eat when they are too afraid to use the stove? Listen in as they dork out with their forks out. SHOW NOTES:We are talking food BUT safety first - here is a helpful video on how to save yourself from choking on food if you are alone!Lexi's Last Meal:Yam fries and miso gravy from the Coup Caesar salad from Lexi's mom "Pseudo"  Lasagna , again from Lexi's mom Mocha Cake from Glamorgan Bakery Ben's Last Meal: Fancy pants Shepard's pie NOT cottage pie  (maybe some gravy or ketchup) Disgusting Food We Love:Spoonfuls of ice tea mix, straight up Saltine crackers  with peanut butter and chocolate chips (sad snacks) Saltines with pb & j Saltines with  margarine Christmas Crack (saltine recipe): https://www.littlesweetbaker.com/christmas-crack-saltine-cracker-toffee/Marble cheese, pasta sauce and crackers (saltines, Breton crackers, Ritz crackers or Stone Wheat Thins)White pasta, Zesty Italian salad dressing and A LOT of parmesan (sprinkle)   cheese...like a lot The Dylan special, the Pregnant woman wrap - whole wheat pita, sauerkraut, nut butter (not a sweet one) and  lacinato kale Imitation crab and melted butter OR wasabi OR a sriracha mayo Just melted cheese out of a bowl Maybe not gross food? Brie covered in butter, brown sugar and maple syrup and then wrapped in puff pastry Brie covered in Kahlua and then melt and eat with crackersBrie and raspberry jamCottage cheese and raspberry jam  Door Dash or Skip the Dishes Go To Order: Vietnamese  food is the winner! Subs or anything with noodles (Jess agrees!)Strangest Food  We Have TriedLexi will eat pineapple but only on pizza but will NEVER eat pineapple on its own. Pineapple is gross.  Ben ate a kangaroo , frog and crocodile We talked about:Jordan Witzel's beloved Glamorgan Cheese bun Halloween costume from 2020. Can't make this stuff up folks Luke's Drug MartBlack Foot Crossing Historical Park Calvin and Hobbes If you have gross food for our dork cook book, send those recipes in! Especially SALTINE CRACKER recipesTayce and Heniz beansCommunity Natural FoodsByblos Bakery and Lake View Bakery Wheat Crunch Lexi can only eat cheese pizza pops when she is sick  Let's get going with that lab grown meat!People who are allergic to shellfish might also be allergic to bugs Lexi alluded to the Queasy Bake oven Would you eat lab grown extinct animals? What about human lab grown meat? Lexi ate at Yamazato Restaurant in Amsterdam and it was amazing The Lucca Comics and Games festival Scoma's Restaurant  Ben would travel back to France for the food  and wants to visit Japan for a good noodle house Lexi would travel to Korea for the food  and wants to go back to the Netherlands  for foodRed Fish Blue Fish Mango Rash - it is real Grizzly House in Banff Man  has leg amputated and friends eat it Wendigo  BONUS CONTENT:Amazing producer Jess says:Jess' last meal:  avocado rolls. They are the perfect food and absolutely the last thing I would want to taste before the grand exitJess' disgusting food :  cheddar cheese on tortilla chips, you can't put anything else on them it needs to be just grated cheese (slices if you're feeling really lazy) on plain ass tortilla chipsFun fact: engineered meat grows better in space so we could potentially have like satellite labs sometime in the future when commercial space flight becomes more viableSOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi's website and twitter and instagramBen's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagramIf you're enjoying Dork Matters, we'd really appreciate a nice rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. It would very much help us get this show to the other dorks out there"I was that I was skinnier, but I love sandwiches"-  Hobo Johnson TranscriptLexi  I knew someone once, who grabbed a bag of chips and was eating the chips and, like, absent-mindedly just snacking away, as one does with chips,  and he said that he was eating the flavoring at the bottom when he finally looked into the bag and realized it was just filled with, like, maggots at the bottom. Like, something had obviously gotten in and he was like, "I don't actually know how many maggots I ate."Ben  I'm literally gonna throw up. That's... I can't handle maggots. Lexi  I can't remember what type of chip it was.Ben  Apparently something that looked and felt like maggots because think about it. A chip and a maggot are not in the same realm of--Lexi  Yeah.Ben  --you know, feel or texture when chewed. [chuckles]Lexi  But, doesn't it also tell you like the state of mind of a person sometimes, when they're eating where they're just like absolutely snacking? Like, they never actually think to themselves.Ben  I mean, I think that's just how I eat. [both laugh] That's just my way of eating.Lexi  You just come to you when the food's gone.Ben  Oh, unless it was Cheezies. Then, maybe. Like, a Hawkins Cheezie, but even still, you're eating a maggot. They squirm and they're squishy.Lexi  Look what I found today. I hope you're excited about it. It is...Ben  Oh, Wheat Crunch!Lexi  Yeah.Ben  Shit. Is that an Alberta-centric thing?Lexi  I don't even know if it's like popular outside of Calgary. Ben  I forgot that those even existed. Lexi  Well, I was in line at Canadian Tire, and I was like, "What the shit?!" and I bought, like, five, and then there's a big thing on the packaging saying, "You can order online," and I was like, "I will."Ben  Holy shit. I'm gonna order some too. Every kid had those in their lunchboxes here. Lexi  Yes. And then, just one day they were gone. Like, and no one said anything. They were just gone, and we just carried on with our lives like nothing happened. Ben  They were just gone, like Hickory Sticks which also exist, still.Lexi  That's-- that's shocking to me, but I really feel like Hickory Sticks are a good bang for your buck. Like, the bag is never ending. Ben  It does feel like it was more full than other chips. Lexi  Oh, yeah.Ben  It was a good choice from the vending machine, and it was also usually like a quarter less.Lexi  Mm-hmm, 75 cents or something. Ben  Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let's see. Food stores. What do I got? I've got when I almost killed myself by breaking the tab off of a pop can that I was drinking, dropping it into the can.Lexi  Oh, and then did you choke?Ben  And then, forgetting I put it in there. I drank it. I didn't choke. It went into my esophagus, perforated my esophagus. [Lexi gasps] I didn't think much of it. I was just like, "Oh crap. I'm gonna have to deal with that." Worked the rest of the day [Lexi chuckles] at this warehouse job I was working. Lexi  [laughs] My god.Ben  I finally got home and was like, "Crap. I think I need to go to the hospital," so I called my dad. He took me, and yeah, I'd perforated my esophagus. It was like, letting air into [Lexi gasps] and I'm just giving you what I remember. I was pretty drugged at the time, but the explanation I remember was that it had perforated my esophagus and was letting air into the areas around my heart so every time I was breathing, more air was getting in and crushing my heart, so I was just in immense pain. Lexi  Holy shit. Ben  Yeah, sort of like, out of it at one point, and going through surgeries and stuff, and they're asking me like, "On 1 to 10, what's your pain?" and I'm like, "I don't know. 13." [Lexi laughs] And then I got, like, morphine to high hell, and I was more or less out of it for nearly two weeks, like, just recovering--Lexi  Wow.Ben  --drugged out so that I wasn't awake on an IV drip. So I wasn't eating or drinking.Lexi  Holy.Ben  I was 18. It was a real fucked-up situation. Lexi  Wow. I think yours is better than maggots. Ben  What else do I got? Wait. I got two more. I'll do 'em quick, rapid fire. We were in Bermuda - Fiona and I, for like my first ever real vacation - and at one point, I bit a "tor-till-a" chip the wrong way or "tor-tee-ya" chip the wrong way and sliced my gum in the front here. Lexi  Yep, that'll happen.Ben  Had to get a gum graft.Lexi  That... Didn't know that was a thing. That's gross. Ben  It was so bad. Yeah, so you can get gum from what they call the tissue bank or the donor bank, so what I ended up having put into my mouth [Lexi laughs heartily] is a slight piece of somebody else's, like, jawbone. So they cut it open, they fold over the flaps, they drill into my jaw a little bit and then place this tiny piece of, like, bone with, like, gum tissue on it in there, and then let it grow up and stitch it into where it should be. And then, it just becomes part of me, and my personality changed after that.Lexi  Well, I was gonna say, "Did your taste change?" Were you like, "All of a sudden, I like mango"?Ben  Everything about me changed and I remembered dark crimes that I don't remember committing.Lexi  Well, obviously, my next question is, "Was this from a dead person or a living person?"Ben  Oh, it's definitely from a dead person. Lexi  Eugh! Ben  From what I understand, the donor bank is not from living people, so they just have a bank filled of tissue that's been donated. I could be wrong, but that's what the dentist told me. [laughs]Lexi  Well, I'm not sleeping tonight. That's... Wow.Ben  Last story is I used to have a huge gap in the front of my teeth. It was before you knew me, before I got braces, and my party trick was eating mashed potatoes and shooting them out like a playdough machine. Lexi  Oh, god.Ben  Just a long stream of mashed potatoes coming from between my teeth.Lexi  Speaking of food party tricks, I'm gonna send you a video and we'll see if we can put it on Instagram or Twitter or something, of me shotgunning a cupcake at a party once, because I had just come from work and I was all fancy, and they had mini cupcakes and I remember saying to Tim Belliveau, "I could eat this in one bite," and he was like, "Nah." And so the video is me just like deepthroating this cupcake and everyone cheering for me. Just, you know--Ben  College.Lexi  --like a person without food issues.Ben  Yeah, and if you haven't guessed, we're talking about food tonight. Welcome to Dork Matters. [theme music "Dance" by YABRA plays] Voiceover  [echoing] Dork Matters.Ben  Hello and welcome to Dork Matters, the show that is created by some dorks for all of you dorks out there, with dork content, ready to roll, and you might be wondering, "What's dork content?" and it's everything that matters to dorks.Lexi  It's whatever we say it is. Ben  [laughs] Whatever. We're dorks, and so if we wanna talk about it, it's a dork matter. [mystical electronic tone] You get it? You get it, right?Lexi  Yep.Ben  That's the name.Lexi  They get it. Ben  Yeah. I am your Doofus Dork, Ben Rankel, and with me, as per always, is...Lexi  Your Thrown-Off Dork. You always introduce yourself as Dad Dork. Now I'm like, "Well, am I the Dad Dork now?"Ben  I know. I've been thinking it and I thought, "If Lexi can change what kind of dork she is, I wanna be a different dork sometimes." [Lexi laughs]Lexi  Um, I am your Gourmand, Gourmet Dork. I had to look up the difference between those.Ben  Okay, record scratch. [scratching record, DJ-style] Gourmand and gourmet?Lexi  Yeah. Ben  Oh, and what is the difference?Lexi  A gourmet-- oh, that's what I was gonna tell you. Okay. There's a whole story. So, a gourmet is someone who likes you know, like the quality of food, so it's a quality over quantity, and a gourmand is quantity over quality, so they like to eat a lot.Ben  Wow, I just assumed they're completely different words that had, you know, like, maybe gourmet refer to the food, and a gourmand was the person who made it, but that's cool. I didn't realize they were kind of diametrically opposed.Lexi  They're polar opposites. I read this collection of, like, mixed-up fairy tales written for adults, and there was a story of a gourmet and a gourmand who lived together and basically, their obsession with food killed them because the gourmet eventually starves to death because no food is good enough, and the gourmand eats himself to death. Ben  So, kind of an opposite of the Jack Spratt situation. Lexi  Yes. Yeah. Ben  So you were a gourmand or a gourmet?Lexi  A little bit of both. I like to eat a little bit of a lot.Ben  Yeah, I feel the same.Lexi  Or a lot of a little bit. I don't know.Ben  A lot of a little.Lexi  I like high quality, but I like small bits of it. Like, I'm the type of person that I'll go to a restaurant and wanna have, like, just appetizers for dinner instead of like a full meal. Ben  So you could do a charcuterie dinner or a...Lexi  Oh, I love charcuterie. That's like my go-to meal.Ben  A "crud-ite" dinner.Lexi  Love it. Crudité.Ben  "Croo-deh-tah". Lexi  That's-- I've always wanted to go to Spain because of an Anthony Bourdain--Ben  RIP.Lexi  --episode where they're in Spain and they basically just, like, go from restaurant to restaurant, like, because, if you order booze, they just keep bringing you tapas--Ben  Mmm.Lexi  --and it's like, yeah. So, as long as you're buying a drink, you get free food, and so the type of drink that you get tells you the type of food that you're gonna get, so if you're gonna get a glass of wine, it might be, like, cheese and olives, or if you get a beer, it might be... I don't know, like bread and something or other. So that's-- that's the life for me right there.Ben  So just get hammered and keep eating. That sounds lovely.Lexi  Well, just like little-- little snacks. Little snacks throughout the evening. That's my go-to.Ben  That's your go-to. Skip dinner. Just eat snacks all night.Lexi  I'm a snack person.Ben  I mean, I'm a snack person too, but I still eat dinner, and that is the problem. [both laugh]Lexi  Oh, this isn't my dinner. This is just my pre-dinner snack. [chuckles]Ben  Okay, well, like, this brings us to a good place to chat which is, you know, exactly that, what kind of snacker you are, and I think I am both a bored snacker, and also a, what is it called? Like, grazer? I just wanna put things in my mouth if I'm trying to keep my mind occupied on something else. I guess what I'm saying is, I have every possible reason to continue eating and I think it shows. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  I've been trying to eat, like, just at my meals instead of grazing all day because that's a slippery slope. Ben  Mm-hmm.Lexi  But, man, there are... Low-calorie food is garbage, except for BOOMCHICKAPOP. That stuff is amazing.Ben  Yeah. Popcorn's great as a snack. You can just eat as much as you want of it. I think we should probably lay down some ground rules since we are talking about food. We are not looking to shame anybody's body types. We have our own body types. I have previously described mine as being pancake batter in a Ziploc bag. [Lexi laughs] And that's not what we're gonna do, so if we're talking a little bit, and we're hitting some stuff like talking about body type, or the way we eat and stuff, we're just discussing food for the love of food and--Lexi  YeahBen  --and our own issues with how we approach it, and we are not looking to give anybody a vibe or, you know, make anyone feel bad about their approach to food. You love to eat? Eat as much as you want. Do what you gotta do. Lexi  Yeah, this is a celebration. Ben  Do what makes you happy. A celebration of food. Lexi  We're celebrating food, and I'd like to also say, a celebration of local food, because I think, sometimes, people have this image of Alberta being like, "Ah, you all like beef out there." I'm like, "Yeah, but there's also lots of really amazing other food here," so this is a celebration of all things food, today.Ben  I love it. I love food. Where do we go from here? What is your favorite food? Let's talk about it.Lexi  Ooh. Okay, so I have two different favorite foods, and there's like, my favorite meal. Like, if I was gonna have, like, one last meal, what I would cook, and then there's like my secret gross foods that I think people, like if they hear me, they're like, "That's disgusting. I'm gonna go home and try it just to make sure."Ben  Okay, I think we have to do this through different categories here. Lexi  Yeah.Ben  I want, first, last meal. What would you eat? What would be the last thing? You have finally done it. You have-- you've committed that crime that you've been considering for so long. [Lexi laughs] You finally decided it was time, and you got caught. You were sloppy. You weren't good at the crime. You thought about it a lot, but not how to execute it. Poor choice. So you're caught now. You're on death row, in the US, I guess, 'cause we don't fuck with that here.Lexi  Yeah, we don't execute people in Canada.Ben  So yeah, [chuckling] you've moved to the US at some point to commit this crime. [Lexi laughs] This crime of passion, I assume, and yeah, you're on death row. Last meal, what is it?Lexi  Okay, I thought about this a lot. First of all, I was actually going through my cookbooks to decide [chuckling] which my meal would be.Ben  Oh, that's great. Lexi  And I think my appetizer for my last meal would be the yam fries and miso gravy from The Coup, which is a local vegetarian restaurant here in Calgary, and they released this cookbook of their vegetarian food, like years ago - they probably have a newer one - but I bought it specifically to get their miso gravy recipe, and it's the one fucking thing they don't have the whole book, so that pissed me off. But, I have cooked almost every single thing in here, and I would say, that would be my appetizer of my last meal. Ben  Okay.Lexi  It's delicious. Yam wedges with delicious warm miso gravy. So good. Then, I would have my mom's Caesar salad 'cause she makes it just so delicious.Ben  What does your mom do that's different?Lexi  Um, she makes a dressing from scratch, and she gets, like, these really high-quality anchovies, and like mushes them into a paste with a mortar and pestle.Ben  Oh, my god. I want your mom's Caesar now. Lexi  Oh, I'll bring it for you. It's so good. Like, she makes a vat of it.Ben  I love anchovies.Lexi  Oh my god. It's my favorite. And she just puts like a shit-ton of lemon juice in it. It's just so, so refreshing and delicious. So, I would have my mom's Caesar salad, and then, in the old Lexi household, my mom is an amazing cook. She, like, she was a Home Ec teacher a million years ago. I mean, 10 years ago, 'cause she's so young and vibrant.Ben  [laughs] Does your mom listen to this?Lexi  No, but you know, I wanna be respectful. She's, you know...Ben  Sure yeah.Lexi  She's a young babe. But she just-- she's such an incredible cook. But, I love lasagna, but lasagna takes 8 million years to make, so she makes something called "pseudo-lasagna", which is just what we called it, where it's like a ziti, like a stovetop-- you just put noodles and sauce and cheese and meat and shit in a pot. Ben  Yeah, yeah.Lexi  And that's my favorite 'cause she lets the sauce sit for just hours. It's so, so delicious, so I'd have that, and then, as my final dessert, I would have a really nice coffee 'cause I like a good coffee, and then I would have mocha cake from the Glamorgan Bakery.Ben  Wow, you're just pulling out all the locals here. Lexi  'Cause they're so good! Okay, if no one knows about Glamorgan Bakery, I almost don't wanna tell you because it's so popular.Ben  This is a good time to let you know that most of our listeners aren't in our city or even our country. Lexi  That's why I have to explain it to them. Okay, so American listeners, because apparently that's where a lot of you are, and Western Australia--Ben  And the UK and Sweden. Welcome. Lexi  Yeah, welcome foreign--Ben  Dignitaries.Lexi  --outside people. We love you. [both laugh]Lexi  Four of the best--Ben  Yeah.Lexi  There's this bakery and it is-- like, it hasn't changed from, like, I'm gonna say 1965. Like, it is dingy inside, but my god, they make the best food, and they're known for a cheese bun to the point that, like, a local weatherman, as his Halloween costume, dressed up as a cheese bun one year for Halloween.Ben  We have a sort of, hip... It's a drug mart/grocery/record store/...Lexi  Ice cream dispensary?Ben  Post office/ice cream place/coffee shop called Luke's in our city, and their big announcement recently was that they're carrying now Glamorgan Bakery cheese buns for those in the know.Lexi  That shit, like it sells out.Ben  So you have to get there early and pick those up.Lexi  That's what I ask for, for my birthday every year, is cheese buns. My mom just goes and buys me like a couple of bags of cheese buns 'cause they freeze well.Ben  That's pretty cool. I have now decided I'm gonna take my son to a bakery tomorrow morning. [chuckling]Lexi  You know what the great thing is? You can try some mocha cake because they have-- they're not even pieces of cake that you can buy individually. They just have, like-- they're like bite-size, brownie-sized pieces of cake so you just a little bit.Ben  Nice. Just cake bites. Lovely. And that rounds out the meal.Lexi  Yeah, that's my meal. That's my meal of, "I'm about to die."Ben  And now you're dead. Lexi  Yep, now I'm dead, probably from all the cholesterol.Ben  Oh, who do you have come in to redo your last rites? What-- what religion?Lexi  I was raised Protestant. I couldn't tell you which kind. Um, the sarcastic Protestants? Which one is that? I don't know.Ben  I mean, sure. Yeah. No, I am familiar with them, myself. My dad was Protestant, my mom was Baptist, and I am nothin'.Lexi  Yeah, I'm nothin'. I think I'd probably have like-- I'd say goodbye to John. Ben  Will Shortz. Lexi  Maybe-- you know what I would do is I would have Ashley Shaw come read to me from the book of "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". Ben  Oh, nice.Lexi  Just because I'd wanna say goodbye to her because I think she'd be like, "Nah, you're fine. You got this." Ben  Yeah, yeah.Lexi  "You'll be okay."Ben  Hey, get back to us. Let us know what's on the other side. And now you're dead. Sorry about that.Lexi  Yeah. Get out of there. What about you?Ben  [chuckles] I'll keep it simple. I would have shepherd's pie. I don't know from where exactly or exactly whose, but it would be some form of shepherd's pie, maybe the most expensive one I could find, like Wagyu beef or something. So, like, yeah. I just want a nice comforting--Lexi  I was gonna ask, like, "Are you a lamb person?"Ben  Yeah, ah, right. So we should get into, just very briefly, the difference between shepherd's pie and cottage pie, which is the meat that you use, and not everyone knows that, and it also, I don't think matters anymore. Just call it all shepherd's pie. Who cares? It's all shepherd's pie. But yeah, I'm into lamb. I'm into turkey ones. I'm into beef. I think the layering of the meat and the vegetables, and the mashed potatoes is just the most magical combination. You get one slice of that and it's a full, proper meal all on its own. It's so fucking comforting. That would be a way I could say goodbye to the world is with a big piece of well-made shepherd's pie. Little bits of gravy. Lexi  Do you put ketchup on it?Ben  I have been known to put ketchup on it. I'm not-- I'm not above that. I generally think a good shepherd's pie can, you know, stand on its own with just gravy, but if you wanna throw ketchup on there, do it. If you want some of that sugary tomato jam, go for it.Lexi  My grandma used to make a shepherd's pie, but instead of mashed potatoes, she would make dumplings and put them on top. Ben  Mmm. Like, biscuit dumplings?Lexi  Yeah, but like not... I don't even know how to describe it because they were more doughy than bready.Ben  Yeah, yeah, just like a proper, actual, like the soup dumpling or something, your sort of Pan-Euro, North American food. I get you.Lexi  So, my mom's side of the family is Scottish, and there're all these like, kind of, nuanced, like, little bits of like Scottish history in the food that has been, like, bastardized by Canadian... As like-- probably all of Canada's just like a bastardization of where we've all come from, unless you're indigenous, and then you're the true people of Canada.Ben  That's not sarcastic. We both actually firmly believe that. Lexi  [chuckling] Yeah, we firmly believe that.Ben  We are colonial settlers that are doing our best to figure that shit out, and, yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting thing that I don't think we're maybe prepared to talk about, but it's interesting to at least bring up is sort of the idea of North American indigenous foods from different tribes and stuff like that, and different nations, and, sort of, also how it was informed by the way they were treated by European colonialists, and, like, making certain foods and dishes that became sort of synonymous with different nations, based on the food products they had available from a government that was basically trying to kill them, in Canada, specifically, starve them out. So that's interesting, and it'd be cool to talk about that someday, but today is not that day. But, god, there is such a great history of food with the different nations in this territory.Lexi  So there's this place called Blackfoot Crossing, which is this historical museum in southern Alberta, which is just south of Cluny, and it is this amazing, beautiful cultural center, and I highly recommend everybody go there, especially because the cafeteria, the last time I was there, they had-- I think it was bison burgers on fry bread, and it-- I can still taste it. It was so amazing. Just the fry bread was absolutely incredible, so if ever you are in southern Alberta... People come from all over the world to go to Banff, which is awesome, but if you're in Alberta, do yourself a favor, and head out to Blackfoot Crossing and see the amazing center there, and eat the food.Ben  Yeah. Good tip. Good travel tip. Next. I love it. Let's keep going. What are we talking about next? We're both dead now from eating delicious food. Okay, what's the thing that you eat that you think is absolutely disgusting and vile that nobody else would like?Lexi  Your gross food.Ben  It doesn't have to be elaborate. It could just be a snack or something weird. Like, maybe you scoop, powdered iced tea by the teaspoon and just shove in your mouth. Lexi  Is that? Is that what you do?Ben  I'm not saying I've done that. I don't do that. I may have done that in the past. I don't currently do that. I am an adult, and I don't have to tell you.Lexi  [laughs] "Look, and I don't wanna talk about it anymore." [laughs]Ben  It might have been something I did as a younger person. [chuckles]Lexi  I think that I have like four, and two of them are just like, "Oh, are you an adult or are you eight?" and then the other two, I think, are like more legitimately gross, but I'm like, "This is my comfort food."Ben  Okay. I came with one, but I'm really curious to see if I get inspired by any of yours, so let's hit 'em.Lexi  Okay.Ben  Rapid fire. Lexi  We'll start with the not-so-gross one. I love a good saltine cracker. Actually, growing up, I would go-- No, no, no. I'm not done yet. You put shit on the saltine. It's not just the cracker.Ben  Okay. For the listeners, I made a bit of a motion and facial expression that suggested that there was nothing weird about eating a saltine cracker. Lexi  No.Ben  Except that it's basic and boring. [chuckles] There's nothing wrong with it.Lexi  My grandma used to put margarine on the saltine crackers for me. She'd be like, "Ah, here you go." Okay, but not that.Ben  All right.Lexi  So, a saltine cracker with just tons of peanut butter and then chocolate chips. That's like my, "I'm sad, and I wanna eat something."Ben  I like that. Lexi  It's so good.Ben  I don't think that's gross. I'm with you. I used to make little sandwiches out of peanut butter and jam on saltine crackers, and I'd make a whole plate of them, just a little tray when I was a kid, still living at home, and it was just like my beautiful little snack, and I was gonna munch those while I watched a cartoon or something. Lexi  Those are my Calvin and Hobbes snacks. Like, while I was reading the comics, I would eat my chocolate peanut butter saltines. Num-num-num-num. So delicious.Ben  I love it. I think it's beautiful, and I don't think it's gross. I'm passing judgment on your choices.Lexi  We should make the food and then do, like, a little photoshoot for everybody. Mm-hmm.Ben  We should. We can make a shitty cookbook. Lexi  So, number two, and this is my sister. I'm calling out Megan because she and I used to do this together. 'Cause my parents both worked, like, serious-people, adult jobs when we were growing up, and so, we would have to, like, cook food for ourselves all the time, but we were like gross teenagers.Ben  Were you a proverbial latchkey kid?Lexi  Yes. 100% So we would be like, "I don't know. What are we gonna eat?" So here's what you eat, is you grate some marble cheese, okay? Just the Co-op-brand marble cheese into a giant pile, put it in a little bowl, and then pour pasta sauce right out of the jar, right on top of it. Ben  Whoa.Lexi  Now you're gonna microwave that bad boy.Ben  Wow. I was-- I thought I knew where this was going, and it was to the microwave.Lexi  It's to the microwave because that's how latchkey kids cook.Ben  I did not ever put pizza sauce on my-- or tomato sauce, or pasta sauce on my cheese though. I would microwave it and just eat it and it was always that big block from Co-op.Lexi  Oh yeah, the big block from Co-op but then-- so then you have like a cheesy tomato-ey mess, and then you eat it, again with the saltines or Ritz crackers, Breton crackers or Stoned Wheat Thins. Any type of cracker will do.Ben  Ooh! Somebody was fancy with their four types of crackers.Lexi  I like a charcuterie. I don't know.Ben  We should try to get a saltine sponsorship from Nabisco or whoever, or Mr. Christie, whoever the fuck--Lexi  Oh, my god. Yes.Ben  Yeah. Let's do a photoshoot of...Lexi  [laughing] Of our saltine crackers. Ben  Yeah, I'm not joking.Lexi  Ooh, all the different ways you can use a saltine.Ben  And also, if you're listening to this and you have a great saltine cracker recipe, I want you to 100% message us on social media or email us. We want those recipes. I will, at the very least, talk about them or make a list that we share in show notes or something, someday, But yeah, I, 100%, mean it. We're gonna make ourselves a mini little saltine cracker cookbook.Lexi  We're doing it. There was this drag queen that was on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, and all she did the entire season was talk about how much she loves Heinz beans on toast, and sure enough, Heinz decides to sponsor her, and she gets a lifetime supply of canned beans. And she made a comment of like, "This was the plan all along," and so... saltine crackers, nothing can be better than a saltine. Hey, Ben...Ben  We need to be very clear about which brand of saltine cracker we want. [Lexi laughs] The one in the red box. Ben  Yeah, yeah. I think that's Mr. Christie.Lexi  Is that it?Ben  I'm gonna double check.Lexi  We want this delicious, small saltines. They're delicious in a soup. You can have them as a dessert.Ben  You get four giant pillars of them in one red box, and if you're having chicken noodle soup, you crush up half of the package, [Lexi laughs] dump it in till it's just-- it's just a fucking swamp in your bowl and then eat that shit.Lexi  So, more like a stew by the time...Ben  Yeah, a saltine and chicken stew. Yeah, it's Christie's.Lexi  I like to put it in Campbell's-- like, probably their chowders. Delicious. Where it's less soup than it is sludge by the time you have, like, 10 crackers in there.Ben  Yeah. I want some more. Hit me with your next gross one.Lexi  Okay. This is maybe not as gross, but it makes me feel like a toddler every time I eat it, but this is my go-to. I'm having a bad day. I just wanna feel nostalgia. I will boil up a bunch of pasta and then it has to be zesty Italian salad dressing.Ben  Oh, that is weird. I've never heard that one. Lexi  And then I just pour it all over the pasta and then just absolute boatloads of Parmesan cheese.Ben   I'm not even sure I think any of these are gross yet. I think they're all very college.Lexi  I think they're disgusting.Ben  I think they're absolutely like,  "I'm 18 and living on my own for the first time," but... [Lexi laughs]Lexi  I shame-eat the pasta thing. Like, John hates cheese, and so, first of all, he thinks that parmesan, or as I like to call it, sprinkle cheese--Ben  Jesus.Lexi  He thinks it's disgusting.Ben  The stuff that comes out of the can from Kraft? Lexi  Yes. Ben  Yeah, that's not cheese.Lexi  The stuff that... No, it's powdered foot?Ben  I don't know. Probably-- no, it's yes. Powdered, like, you know the stuff you scrape off your feet? The bunions or the whatever, the hard part?Lexi  Yes.Ben  Just put it into a jar. They collect it, and then you shake.Lexi  Then, I eat it.Ben  Smells about the same. [Lexi chuckles] Lexi  That is my go-to.Ben  Now we made it gross.Lexi  Okay, okay, and so--Ben  I love it. It's delicious. Lexi  This is my ultimate gross one, and I have to say, so a good friend of mine is-- he's a produce person at Community Natural Foods, here in Calgary, which is kind of like our version of Whole Foods, I guess you could say.Ben  It's the closest we get. Whole Foods has never really executed on opening a store in our city for some reason. Lexi  I thought they did have one here. Ben  They have had a couple that were supposed to open, and it never ended up happening. Maybe they saw what happened to Krispy Kreme and Target here.Lexi  Or Target, yeah.Ben  Decided they couldn't take that risk.Lexi  I would like to say that I tried my best to keep Target open. I feel like I single-handedly kept a store open here but I mean, there's only so many socks you can buy.Ben  Bright pink. The women's section was where I liked to buy all my socks for a long time, and I do miss it.Ben  Let's keep it local and alienate all our listeners. Go to Byblos Bakery here in Calgary to get your pitas.Lexi  Yeah, I liked the socks there, and pajamas. Oh, I miss Target. Anyway, so my friend Dylan, he is an incredible cook, and so, anytime he's like, "This is a great food combination," I just trust him because everything he's ever made has been absolutely delicious. So one day, he's like, "Just stay with me. It's gonna sound disgusting, but it's so good." So you get a pita, like a whole wheat pita that's like maybe the size of your face. Like, a large one.Lexi  [laughs] Or Lakeview.Ben  Eh, I feel like Byblos is a little more Calgary.Lexi  The gluten-free option. Okay, now we're just arguing about neighborhoods. Anyway. Ben  Good, good podcast. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  It's so accessible to people.Ben  [chuckling] Listen to Lexi and Ben argue about Calgary communities. That's what you came here for, folks. Okay. You get your pita.Lexi  Yeah. Your whole wheat pita and then some type of nut butter, and it can't be sweet. It can't be like a sweet peanut butter. It has to--Ben  Can we stop for just a quick second and appreciate the term "nut butter"?Lexi  Yeah. It's-- it could be an almond.Ben  Let's just sit there for a second.Lexi  [not pausing] It could be cashew.Ben  It's funny. You can't-- you can't say nut butter in a conversation and not just stop to appreciate how funny it sounds. Lexi  You've never worked in an organic food store before because that sentence comes up a lot. [chuckles]Ben  And you don't snicker every single time? Lexi  No, I'm like, "What type of nut butter do you use the most?" [Ben laughs]Ben  Nut butter. [laughs] Maybe you just need somebody more immature around to help you appreciate how silly it sounds.Lexi  Well, it's like truffle butter or whatever that thing. You know what? Okay, so you take a nut butter and a not-sweet one. [Ben laughs] Ben  I can't stop.Lexi  While Ben can't stop giggling, I'm just gonna go on with the recipe 'cause it is delicious. So I, personally, like an almond nut butter, [Ben continues laughing] but, I mean, like you do you. You can use a peanut or cashew.Ben  [stifling laughter] Yeah.Lexi  It just can't be sweet.Ben  [laughing] So, you don't want a sweet nut butter. Is it salty? [still laughing] Lexi  Apparently, in some parts of the world, you can get a spicy nut butter. [Ben laughs heartily] [Lexi, unlaughing] Like, a savory or like a spicy. Ben  [laughing] I'm sorry. I'm gonna actually die. Lexi  [unlaughing] Yeah, Ben's having a cry right now.Ben  Oh, Jesus.Lexi  We're adults here, folks. We like to keep it above board.Ben  [laughing] Okay, you've got your peanut or your nut butter, spicy, apparently.Lexi  [unlaughing] Well, I like just a plain one, like almonds.Ben  [stifling laughter] Okay, okay, okay. I'm good. I've got this.Lexi  So, you got your whole wheat pita, the almond butter, we'll just say, so Ben doesn't peel off into more laughter.Ben  I appreciate it. Thank you. [laughs]Lexi  And then you need kale, like, a dark leafy green like "laciento", "lacento"?Ben  You lost me.Lexi  A dark kale, like dinosaur kale, like a really dark green, and then sauerkraut, like, from the jar.Ben  This is... This is a crime. You just committed a crime.Lexi  It's so good, and then you wrap that bitch up. Ben  This is what you went to death row for. Canada brought it back and put you on it for this crime against culinary...Lexi  Dylan would not steer me wrong. And so, one day he said it and I was like, "That's disgusting," and another guy that I worked with was like, "Nah, I'm doing it," 'cause Dylan has never made a bad meal, and he made it, and was like, "This is legit delicious," and so every so often I make it and I call it, like, my "pregnant woman wrap", and it is so delicious. Sauerkraut, kale, pita, nut butter. Delicious.Ben  Okay, what we're gonna do at some point, along with our saltine cracker recipe, mini recipe book PDF that we're gonna put out for you all, complete with photos, is we're gonna make some sort of small video where Lexi makes me this god-awful, disgusting-sounding thing, and I will put it in my mouth, and we'll see what happens. We will film that reaction.Lexi  And then, when he loves it, I will accept his praise and his apology for giggling like a wee child.Ben  Wait. Why do I have to apologize? That was about nut butter. [laughs] Just said it sounded gross, and you brought it here to me.Lexi  No, you said that I was gonna die because the food was so gross. Ben  Yeah, I did say you committed a crime.Lexi  You just said I deserve death. What's your gross food now?Ben  I don't even know if I have anything anywhere near as bad as yours. Now all of my snacks seem pretty normal. I guess the grossest one is I'll get imitation crab. Lexi  Okay.Ben  Alaskan Pollock, and I'll break it up into a bowl and put like a pat of butter on it. Lexi  Oh.Ben  And melt it and just eat that. Lexi  [pauses] Okay.Ben  It's like eating butter crab, right. Like, I can't eat that. I'm allergic to shellfish, but it's still sort of gross when you think about the idea of just like taking a chunk of butter out of the fridge and putting it on top of imitation crab and microwaving it.Lexi  When we were in college, when we would have, like, late nights out at the old Art Hotel, which was the pub.Ben  You mean the Fart Hotel? [laughs]Lexi  The Fart Hotel 'cause it was the pub called The Art Hole.Ben  The Fart Hole.Lexi  Anyway, you know, you can see how a couple, you know, beautifully-drawn letters...Ben  Graffitied letters.Lexi  Yeah, I would go home, and I was like, "I need something in my stomach to help me you know, not be inebriated."Ben  Yeah, yeah. Lexi  And all-- my mom would just buy me packages of imitation crab at Costco. I lived at home during college, and I would just stand there with the fridge door open and just eat like half a package of imitation crab after a night out.Ben  It's so good. Lexi  It's so good.Ben  Did you ever melt butter on it?Lexi  No. I would dip it in wasabi. Ben  Oh, that's even better. Shit. I'm putting imitation crab on my grocery list. This episode's making me hungry. Lexi  Oh, you know what you get, is a spicy Sriracha mayo.Ben  Ohh, that sounds good. It's like an aioli. Lexi  Yeah. Ben  [laughs] Please write us to let us know what you think of our food choices. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  We are not high right now, also.Ben  [laughing] Oh, my god. I wish. What did I choose? I think that's the grossest thing I got. I can't think of anything else.Lexi  That's weak. I'm ashamed.Ben  I'm sorry. I'm trying, but when I was a kid, I would take, as I mentioned, on occasion, spoonfuls of iced tea powder mix. That's pretty disgusting. Lexi  No, whaaat? That was you?!Ben  [chuckles] This is my dark secret coming out. And I was with you on that melting marble cheese 'cause I used to do the same thing, but I would just eat the melted cheese from a bowl, like some sort of monster. Lexi  Yeah, you need some tomatoes in there to cut that shit.Ben  I don't know. So that's what I got. Nowadays, I just eat like beef jerky if I want a snack. Lexi  Boo. Where's the gross?Ben  Some sort of sort of meat. I know. I feel so disappointed in myself. What's gross? I bet Fiona could come up with something gross that I do. Or eat, I mean. [laughs] She can definitely come up with gross shit that I do, but...Lexi  Some gross shit that you eat. It has to be specific to that.Ben  We should have asked our partners what the most disgusting thing they've seen us eat is.Lexi  Well, John would definitely say the cheese because he thinks all cheese is disgusting, and I love a good blue cheese. Ben  Oh.Lexi  And he's like, "Oh, so you eat mold?" Like, "Yeah, I do. It's delicious."Ben  Yeah, why not? It's not the first time.Lexi  Oh, I went to a cheese party once.Ben  That sounds like it would be delicious, but also trouble for my stomach, long term.Lexi  Well, none of us smelled good for a few days. I'll just put that out there. Ben  That's okay. Lexi  Oh.Ben  Well, this way you don't roll in the cheese.Lexi  One of the girls there, she made-- so she bought Pillsbury, just pastry dough, and a wheel of brie, and then she covered the brie with butter and maple syrup and brown sugar and then wrapped it in the pastry dough and then baked it.Ben  I've made that. It's good. Lexi  Oh, it's so good. Ben  You could also do it where you take a wheel of brie and just dump, like, Kahlúa on it, and then you light it up and then dip crackers in it after the flame goes out.Lexi  I like to put raspberry jam on top of my brie.Ben  I don't know if this is disgusting or not, but I like to put jam in cottage cheese and eat that. Is that weird?Lexi  Eh, that's-- no, 'cause you can - I don't know if you still can - but you used to be able to buy individual cottage cheese things that came with jam.Ben  Right. At the bottom and you're supposed to like mix them up, right?Ben  Yeah, okay. Not weird. I'm sorry. I guess I eat more normal than I thought I did. That brings us to the halfway mark of our show, and, as always, we've got... [both, along with "Who's That Pokémon" theme music] Who's that Pokémon? [only Ben] What do you got for me this week?Lexi  Yeah.Lexi  When last we met, I talked about a wet bag of sand. This time, I'm gonna use a cheese analogy. So imagine... [laughs]Ben  Okay.Lexi  There was a guy at art school who made a bust of Jesus out of Velveeta cheese, and it was called "Cheesus".Ben  "Cheesus", yeah.Lexi  Okay, this individual is-- it's a dark silhouette, but filled with piss and vinegar, and it's like a blue cheese silhouette of a man.Ben  It's like we've never seen Pokémon. Lexi  No. [both laugh]Lexi  And I'm just describing flavors and, I think, shadows. [Ben laughs]Ben  Okay, so we have a dark shadow that tastes like piss and vinegar.Lexi  And blue cheese. [Ben laughs heartily]Ben  And blue cheese. Lovely. Boy, this sounds like something I'll be able to guess.Lexi  Mmm. The silhouette is tall, and it's got a big square for a head and then bunched up shoulders like they're around its neck. Rrr. So grouchy, like this. And then, two little sticks, and that's all I got for you. Who is it, Ben?Ben  I have no fucking clue. Chester the Cheetah?Lexi  I'm disappointed. It's Gordon Ramsay. Come on.Ben  Gordon. [laughing] Oh, Gordon Ramsay. You're right. I should have gotten that silhouette. Gordon Ramsay, as everyone knows, has a very well-designed character silhouette. Lexi  Yeah, it's like a block of cheese. Ben  Known as average white male. [laughs]Lexi  Square head.Ben  Okay, someday I'm gonna take a shot at this and see if I can do any better. I love it. Gordon Ramsay.Lexi  I was really impressed that you got Margaret Atwood last time.Ben  Yeah. Did I? I don't remember.Lexi  I think, eventually, after I kept yelling "bag of sand" at you, and then you were like, "Margaret Atwood?" I'm like, "Yeah!"Ben  All right. Now we have to do the end part of it. [Pokémon theme music] [shouts] It's Gordon Ramsay! [at usual volume] 'Cause they always yell it. I'm gonna send you the clip so you know what "Who's That Pokémon?" is all about. [chuckles]Lexi  I know what--Ben  Oh, I really, actually thought you didn't-- you'd never seen it.Lexi  No, remember, I drew Nurse Joy as one of my characters for Inkto, Ben. [Ben laughs] I have had people message me and be like, "I think you mean October." I'm like, "No, I mean--"Ben  Inktober? Actually, glasses up, like actually, I don't.Lexi  I know what I'm doing.Ben  Check out this cool new hashtag. Only one of the words on the list was misspelled.Lexi  Which is impressive. I mean, that's good. Ben  Welcome back. We are here again after that wonderful break. I got sick a year and a half ago. Lexi  Oh, good from food. Ben  No, I don't know why I got sick. And no doctor that I went to see over the course of however many months was able to help me, and then eventually it stopped. But the point is, during that, I could only eat-- like, basically, chicken noodle soup and saltine crackers were the only-- and Pedialyte, and that was all I ate for like, two and a half, three months, and I lost like 40 pounds, and people kept asking me if I was dying. That's a good anecdote, right?Lexi  Oh, I've got a good one. Like, one time, it was Christmas Eve, and I think John and I had been dating for like, I don't know, a couple of years, still fairly new in the relationship.Ben  Yeah, Fiona and I are 11, and, you know, we got married after seven, so I feel like two is still relatively fresh.Lexi  Yes. Like, who are you, again? John? Yeah, so it was Christmas Eve, and I remember I was at my sister's house, and I was like, "I'm not feeling well," and she was like, "You're fine," and then, I was staying at my parents' house and John was gonna come meet us on Christmas Day, and halfway through the night I just got super, super sick, and this is when I knew he was a keeper because I text him and I was like, "I'm sick. I can't go to Christmas Day anything." Like, it was bad news, and he was like, "Can I bring you anything? Like, I'll come pick you up from your parents' house and I'll take you home," 'cause I was too sick to drive, and he said, "Well, you know, it's Christmas. Like, what's open on Christmas Day?" and especially, like 10 years ago. And I was like, "When I get super, super sick, all I can eat are pizza pops."Ben  Wow.Lexi  Like, cheese, pizza pops. That's like, that's all I can stomach.Ben  I bought some of those recently to see if they're as good as I thought they were as a kid and they're not.Lexi  No, they're sick food for me, so I only eat them when I'm sick. So if I eat them are healthy, I feel like I'm gonna be s-- Like, it's a whole thing.Ben  Wow. That could be a self-perpetuating cycle.Lexi  Oh, yeah, probably. I mean, they're not food. They're just chemicals, but anyw-- well, all food is chemicals.Ben  You eat them. It makes you sick, and then you eat them because that's all you can eat while you're sick, and then you get better so then, you keep eating them. Yeah.Lexi  But I told him, "Like, all I want right now is a pizza pop and ginger ale," and so, god bless that man, he drove around the city looking for an open 7/11 or gas station or whatever, and he came, and he picked me up, and he took me home and he made me pizza pops and ginger ale and for, like, four days, I was sick as a dog. But he fed me pizza pops, and I will love him forever for that 'cause it was so nice of him.Ben  Was it swine flu?Lexi  I think I actually had was it Norwalk or norovirus? I was teaching kindergarten at that time, and I've never been so sick in my life as when I taught kindergarten. Ben  Probably--Lexi  Like, god bless the kindergarten teachers. Oh.Ben  Yeah, it's disgusting. Lexi  Okay, I have to tell you a story and it's not mine, and I hope she'll forgive me for telling this, but it is my favorite food poisoning story.Ben  Is it somebody I know that we should put on blast, or should we bleep their name? Lexi  No. We should bleep their name. Ben  Okay, say it really loud so Jess can bleep it. [simultaneously] Bleep. [bleep] [laughs]  Beeeeep.Lexi  My beloved friend, we used to go for Indian food all the time, and she loves, loves, loves butter chicken. And one time, she went to this place, and she was like, "Yeah, the food was like, it tasted off," and she ate the butter chicken. She was living at home with her parents, and she got wicked, wicked food poisoning, just sick as a dog, and she was throwing up so badly that she couldn't catch her breath. And so, because she couldn't get enough oxygen into her system, like, she was starting to cramp up, so like she was-- like, she couldn't move. She was literally, like, passed out next to the toilet [chuckling] and her mom had to call an ambulance. It's not funny. Ben  Jesus.Lexi  But, her mom had to call an ambulance 'cause it was--Ben  You're laughing a lot for something that's not funny. Lexi  Just stay with me. Ben  Okay, I'm here. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  She's so sick. She's like, "I lit-- it, like, it was awful." The paramedics show up at her parents' house and come into the bathroom and they're like, [in stern voice] "What drugs are you on?" She's like, "Butter chicken." [Ben laughs] [Lexi laughs]Ben  I mean if you haven't ground up and snorted some butter chicken, are you really living?Lexi  Oh. I still, like, that's my fav... Every time I eat butter chicken, I think of her and I'm like, "God, I loved her." [laughs] She was so awesome.Ben  I love it. It's perfect. Lexi  Oh.Ben  We're movin' on. We are talking about your go-to DoorDash order now. Lexi  Ooh.Ben  if you don't want to leave the house and you want someone to bring you food and, in the past, that meant calling a specific place and finding somebody that did delivery. Now, it's as easy as a click of a button, I think is what old people say when they talk about the internet. What do you get? What's your go-to order for DoorDash? What is the thing that is simple, easy, and if you can't think of anything else, you want that?Lexi  Oh, Vietnamese, easily.Ben  Okay, then we get we get a Daily Double. [Jeopardy's Daily Double electronic zapping]. Lexi  Oh, do you also?Ben  Yeah,  Banh Mi. Lexi  Yes. Ben  Yeah, I want a Vietnamese sub if we can't figure out what else we want, don't wanna go super unhealthy. I can convince myself that a Vietnamese sub is pretty good for me.Lexi  I love a good, like, noodle bowl. Delicious. I like noodles at the best of times, so any type of noodle soup, delicious, charbroiled meats--Ben  Sure. Lexi  I like the salad rolls.Ben  You can get three or four meats in one vermicelli bowl. Lexi  Yes. Ben  Why would you not?Lexi  So good. Ben  You get the ball, you get the spring roll, you get the intestines? Lexi  Yep. Ben  And sometimes you get that like charred version of whatever meat it is, as well. I love it. I'll eat it all.Lexi  Hey, speaking of intestine meats, do you hotpot?Ben  I have hotpotted. It isn't something I'd call a regular, but it's good because--Lexi  Okay.Ben  --you just reminded me of something I tried not long ago that I love, and I will continue eating, which is a version of pig intestines that are cooked, sort of deep fried, sort of battered. Lexi  Okay. Ben  They come from a local restaurant. It's a Chinese dish and it is the best. Lexi  I'll try anything. Ben  I have no problem. [Lexi chuckles] Yeah. If you're not allergic to it, why not? Lexi  Well, I mean, again, like I said, my family is Scottish, and so, I don't get the big deal, like when people are like, "Ew, haggis!" I'm like, "Are you eating a hotdog right now? Same thing."Ben  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've got no problems with haggis. I've made haggis. Nothing. Nothing wrong with intestine meat, folks. If you're gonna eat an animal, you might as well eat as much of that animal as you can. Lexi  Yeah, make it worth it's... You know, it honors the animal. Ben  Don't be disrespectful to its death. Okay, wait. We never go on tangents, as everyone knows. It's never happened. It will never happen again. Since we're talking food, one of the things that I'm super interested in is lab-grown meat protein. Lexi  Ooh, interesting. Ben  Are you down with that? Lexi  Oh, yeah. Ben  Does it gross you out? Lexi  No. Ben  Right?Lexi  Fuck it. Just do it.Ben  I feel like, if we have a way of making meat protein that we don't have to kill something, why would we not do that?Lexi  I'm all about sustainable agricultural practices and meat pr... Like, if there's a way that we can be cruelty free, and have access to your protein source, do it up. If there's a way that we can sustainably produce food for our massive population?Ben  Mm-hmm.Lexi  Do it. I don't care if it's bugs. I don't care if it's lab-grown.Ben  Vertical farming, yo.Lexi  Yeah. I wish that people would do that more. Ben  I'm probably allergic to bugs, unfortunately. Lexi  How do you know? Ben  I don't know for sure, but I'm too scared to try. I was reading an article about, you know, this sort of advent of bug food and all that, and there was sort of a caveat, at one point, about how people who are allergic to shellfish are--Lexi  Oh!Ben  --more often allergic to bugs, as well, due to a shared protein. Lexi  Okay, I can see that.Ben  And, I am allergic to shellfish so I will die when we all transition to bug food. I will starve.Lexi  Well, my hope is that the people who can eat the bug food, do eat the bug food, so that you can have...Ben  No. All the beef and pork and chicken--Lexi  But, lab grown, right? That seems fine. Like, I don't see what the big deal is. Just eat it.Ben  I've definitely run into folks that I talked about it, and they're like, "I don't trust science, and I'm not gonna eat lab-grown stuff," and I'm like, "Okay."Lexi  Do you remember back in like, the late '80s, early '90s, there was like, an Easy-Bake oven, but it was for gummies.Ben  Yeah, my sisters had one. Lexi  We ate that shit. What's the difference between eating crap like that, or, like, all of the different snack foods?Ben  Oh, we're gonna go on a tangenty tangent, a tangent from our tangent, which is now we're getting into, "Just take the fucking vaccine."Ben  "You don't know what's in it? You don't know what's in that package of Oreos you ate either, but you ate it all. [Lexi laughs] Take the fucking vaccine."Lexi  [frustratedly] Oh.Lexi  Like, "You just pounded a Monster energy drink, You're fine."Ben  Yeah. "You know what all those ingredients are? I don't think you do."Lexi  No.Ben  "So stop coming up with 'scuses. 'Scuses is what I call excuses when I feel angry. [Lexi laughs] Call 'em 'scuses. [Lexi laughs] You know I'm mad when I say 'scuses. Stop coming up with 'scuses and just take the jab. I've done it. Lexi did it. We're fine."Lexi  Yep.Ben  "Everyone's fine."Lexi  We're fine. Ben  "Stop it."Lexi  If anything, I feel stronger. Ben  I feel better, and my Wi-Fi has never been better.Lexi  I just like being able to eat in a restaurant. Ben  Yeah.Lexi  Like, go do things. Like, be a part of society again.Ben  I'm still holding back a bit because I've got a two year old who cannot get vaccinated at this point and a soon-to-be infant, and I have to be ultra-cautious, and...Lexi  Yeah.Ben  I would be lying to myself if I said my lifestyle had really changed at all since before I had kids or was... I've always been a shut-in misanthrope, so...Lexi  I will say, like, we're homebodies at the best of time, so, like, I've gone to friends' houses less, and we've eaten out maybe five times in the past year?Ben  Yeah, seeing less friends means, instead of two to three times a year, it's been once, from a distance.Lexi  Yeah. You're just waving across the parking lot at somebody.Ben  Okay, the lab-grown meat brings us to an ethical quandary, which is, would you eat extinct animals if they could grow that meat in a lab?Lexi  Mmm, that's a great question.Ben  So they found some genetic data and they're able to, you know, bring us a dodo. Just, they can't make the dodo live again, but they can bring us dodo protein. We can find out what that dodo tasted like. Would you do it?Lexi  Okay, so here's the thing about me. I feel like fancy foods are wasted on me. As we have heard, I garbage trash, so someone coming to me and being like, "Oh, this very fancy, like Wagyu beef," I'm like, "Arg, I can't tell." Like, one time, my uncle gave John and I like a sip of whiskey from this, like, it was like a super fancy, really old, like, $1,000 bot-- like, I don't know. I was like, "It tastes like burning. I don't know."Ben  Yeah. Lexi  Like, fancy things are wasted on me.Ben  I'm the same with coffee.Lexi  Yeah, coffee is coffee is coffee.Ben  I love coffee. I used to be a huge coffee snob. You have a kid and see how long that lasts. You know what I drink now? No Name brand instant coffee and I fucking love it. It's fine.Lexi  I know. I've had it. [laughs] Every time I go out, and I find instant coffee. I think of you guys. I'm like, "Oh, I should buy this for Ben and Fiona."Ben  No, see, when you were by, you had fancy Nescafe, and then I found out all the ethical issues with that company.Lexi  Yes. Then you stopped wanting to buy it.Ben  Yeah, and now we get No Name brand, which is an actual name of a brand from Superstore chain here where we live, and it's about as cheap and unassuming as you can get, and that's what I drink now, and it's fine. I have no problems with it. I've lost... [Lexi laughs] I've lost any sort of foodie snobbery that I used to have. It's gone.Lexi  Years and years ago, we went to Amsterdam for Christmas-- or, no, for New Year's Eve, and it was awesome. Best New Year's Eve ever, but a friend of ours who booked the trip, he asked his credit card company, for some reason, to-- he was on the phone like, "Hey, just so you know, my credit card hasn't been stolen. I'm going to Amsterdam. By the way, do you have any recommendations?" And the person was like, "Yeah, there's this really awesome Japanese restaurant. If you want, I'll book it for you," and he was like, "Yeah, for sure." And so, we wound up going to this restaurant. I couldn't tell you the name of it. Later on, we found out it was like this three-star Michelin Japanese restaurant, and I don't know. I just went and I was like, "This. Bring me this food. I don't know."Ben  That's a great, like, chunk of this story is the fanciest place you've ever eaten, and it sounds like that was it.Lexi  Oh, it was so fancy. Ben  The three-star Japanese place that you can't remember the name of.Lexi  I'll find it. It was, to this day, the best food I've ever had in my life. There was, like, wine pairings with everything. It was, like, six courses or something. Everything was like the size of a loony.Ben  Yeah.Lexi  Just absolutely tiny. I had to have-- a person came and explained to you how to eat the food, and it was unbelievable. What's the fanciest food you've ever had?Ben  So we went to Italy--Lexi  Ooh.Ben  --for a book festival. I got to tag along with Fiona, and we were there for, it's called Luca. That's the name of a town and the name of the festival. It's a comic book festival. Huge deal there. But we flew into Milan and we're jet lagged as F. I don't know what time it is. The lighting's all weird. We crossed like the famous, like, Milan Canal and it's drained and full of garbage 'cause apparently, they were doing some sort of construction work somewhere along the line. I'm like, "What the fuck is happening? Where am I? What's going on?" And then, our hosts take us into this beautiful tiny, little hole-in-the-wall restaurant, and it's like one of those, what are they called now? The arch where they start, like, doing funny food with, like, the intent of it being more like scientific. Why can't I remember this word?Lexi  Gastro?Ben  Gastro... something. Yeah, I got the gastro. I don't know what the other part is.Lexi  The fancy food. The sciency.Ben  Yeah.Lexi  The science people make the food.Ben  Yeah, they were doing that sort of thing. Yeah, we have these beautiful meals. They're just fantastic. I have no idea where we are. I'm just like this, like, boorish, slovenly-looking north American person who's just like dazed and confused, and yeah. It turns out, he's like, "Did you enjoy the food?" our host, and I'm like, "Yeah. It's great. It's lovely." And he's like, "This is a Michelin-starred restaurant. It's like one of the best in Milan," and I was like, "Oh, okay."Lexi  Cool. Ben  And I feel like I wasn't adequately appreciative enough, and then they brought out this strawberry-- or no, wait, wait, wait, wait. They brought out what looked like a strawberry or tomato. I can't-- you can tell how jetlagged I was.Lexi  Oh, it was a red thing. Ben  Yeah, and I tried to eat it, and then it all, sort of like, evaporated in on itself and melted down, and it was like a dessert cream or something. It was insane. And it was also like a fever dream. And then we went to this weird old church that was converted into a hotel and slept in a room, and I didn't know where I was or what was happening so I just played on my DS, [chuckles] and couldn't fall asleep.Lexi  Like a true Canadian. [chuckles] There was one restaurant we went to, 'cause we drove to San Francisco, maybe like 10 years ago, eleven, whatever. We drove to San Francisco, and we went to this place 'cause John went down there 'cause, when he was working for Apple, he was at Cupertino for a bit, and he took me to this restaurant called Scoma's, and it was a place where like, there's pictures of JFK eating there, you know, like, and Marilyn Monroe, one of those types of places where the waiters are like 70.Ben  Legacy.Lexi  And it is probably the best seafood I've ever had in my life. Like, I had ravioli with like a big lobster tail and, like, the place where they the boats come and drop off the fish is like 10 feet away from the restaurant. Ben  Mm-hmm. Lexi  Oh.Ben  All the best meals I've had are at restaurants I can't remember the names of.Lexi  This is the only one where I'll remember it. Scoma's. So good. Ben  Yeah, getting to tag along on book tours and that sort of thing, I've been to just a wild variety of restaurants in places that I just can't remember.Lexi  Ooh, I've got a question.Ben  Hit me.Lexi   If you were going to travel to any country for cuisine, where would you go?Ben  I think it's France, for me. I think that's been... Well, hold up. You asked if I could travel somewhere to try the cuisine, not where I'd go back to if-- Like, what my favorite cuisine I think is, generally speaking, French cooking.Lexi  Interesting.Ben  My favorite experiences, generally speaking, have been in France. It's been just lovely going there. Lexi  Oh.Ben  The food is fantastic. The people are lovely. I think they get a bad rap overall. [both laugh] They're all dressed lovely, though, and I always feel like

Last fall, FasterSkier spoke with former Williams Ski Team member Jordan Fields after his impressive effort on the Presidential Traverse in the White Mountains of Northern New Hampshire. This classic point-to-point route leads travelers over eight summits in roughly 18 miles, including Mt Washington, which clocks in at 6,288 ft as the highest elevation peak in the Northeast. Over the years, many have raced the clock against the storied challenge of traversing the range as fast as possible, and the fastest known time (FKT) has slowly been whittled down from roughly five hours in 2010 into uncharted territory. Stopping his watch at the bottom of Crawford Path 3 hours and 42 minutes after leaving the northern trailhead in Appalachia last September, Fields smashed the previous record by an astounding 22 minutes. “One of the silver linings of COVID was that it maybe left me with a little too much flexibility,” Fields laughed as he discussed the steady stream of impressive days he spent in the mountains this summer.Despite also being fully plugged into a graduate program in Geology at Dartmouth College studying the impact of climate change on the ecology of rivers, he set a new FKT each month beginning in June on the Kinsman Ridge Traverse near Franconia, NH, followed by Mt. Katahdin in northern Maine in July. From there, Fields turned his focus to two other iconic White Mountains routes: the 29 mile Pemigewasset (Pemi) Loop and the 45 mile Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) Hut Traverse.Like the Presi Traverse, the Pemi Loop has been a test piece for hardy New England mountain runners, boasting 9,100' of climbing with ample scrambling up and down the rocky granite peaks above tree line. (Jessie Diggins ran this as her “Big Stupid” birthday adventure in early September.) As Fields explains in the interview, his Pemi Loop FKT on August 1st was a bit impromptu. The day started as a scouting mission with a friend, but when he realized at the top of the first major climb 8 miles in that they were on record pace, he decided to leave his friend behind, go for it, and see what happened. Woefully unprepared for a race effort, Fields went on to experience the most epic of bonks. He had packed food that was appropriate for a casual jaunt, but wouldn't sit while chasing a record. Because the route stays high along the ridge line there is only one reliable opportunity to fill water, and it was a 90 degree day, Fields found himself wishing he had packed more than two 500 mL soft flasks. Nevertheless, he made it back to the trailhead in 5 hours and 27 minutes for a new record. Though he feels he can significantly drop the time, he opted not to return to the Pemi Loop this fall and began piecing together the Hut Traverse. For those who have spent a season working as AMC “Hut Croo”, or even perhaps stayed at one of the huts, this pilgrimage likely gives you goosebumps. With records dating back to the 1930's, connecting the eight huts beginning at Carter and finishing at Lonesome Lake has long been a right of passage for Croo and trail stewards in the rich lore of the White Mountains. And get this: the route encompasses the Presidential Traverse, though you get to skip a couple of the peaks, and roughly a third of the Pemi Loop, racking up over 16,000 ft of climbing and ending on a steep climb out of Franconia Notch. Chasing former Greenleaf Croo member Jeff Colt's 2018 record, Fields dropped the time to 10 hours 24 minutes. With the FKT on the Presi Traverse and the Pemi Loop, this also finished out the “Triple Crown” of the Whites, and Fields became the first person to hold all three records simultaneously.  During the interview, Fields discussed the role community played throughout his attempts, particularly with the hut traverse. Though he missed out on the baked goods and encouragement normally offered at the huts because of a combination of COVID and seasonal closures, he had the irreplaceable support of family and friends, and beta from the previous record holder.Fields explained that he contacted Colt for advice, sheepishly apologizing that he was trying to best his time. Colt was happy to pass on the torch, saying, “That's what it's all about: a shared history of experience in the mountains.” This phrase stuck with Fields as he put his head down and powered his way through the Whites, encompassing why he enjoys such arduous pastimes. In this conversation, Fields shares a deeper look into his FKT attempts and discusses his perspective on the likely COVID-induced  increase in use seen in the White Mountains (and many other mountain regions) this summer. He also talks about his goals for the seasons ahead. Thanks for listening.