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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 30, 2025 is: audition • aw-DISH-un • noun An audition is a short performance to show the talents of someone (such as an actor or a musician) who is being considered for a role in a play, a position in an orchestra, etc. // Auditions will be held next week for the spring musical. // She had an audition for a small part but ended up landing a starring role. See the entry > Examples: “When she was 18, Hannah D'Amato auditioned for a spot at the Berklee College of Music. Midway through her audition, one of the male judges walked up to her guitar amp and lowered the volume knob. Demoralized and insulted, D'Amato decided to bypass the prestigious institution and start a band on her own. Thus the origin story of Fake Fruit, the Bay Area punk trio she's been fronting over several incarnations since 2016.” — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 23 Aug. 2024 Did you know? Today, audition most often refers to an artistic performance, but that wasn't always the case. Audition has roots in the Latin verb audīre meaning “to hear,” and was first used in the late 16th century to refer to the power or sense of hearing. Audīre is also the root of such hearing-related words in English as audible (“capable of being heard”), audience (which first meant “the act or state of hearing”), and the combining form audio-, which appears in various words relating to sound. It wasn't until the late 19th century that the noun audition began being used for an entertainer's trial performance. And the verb audition, meaning “to test or try out in an audition,” didn't appear on the English language stage until the mid-20th century.

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The Left is completely demoralized in the wake of Trump's 2024 Election Landslide victory. MAGA/conservatives have a chance to finish them off for good but we MUST REMAIN ENGAGED. 1 million new users flock to "blue sky" social media platform as leftists flee the X platform. John Thune warns Democrats NOT to obstruct Trump's cabinet nominees: He better follow his own advice. MI Senate Candidate Mike Rodgers is apparently under consideration for FBI Director. New reporting suggests Trump will pardon J6ers on a "case by case" basis. PLUS LIVE CALLS: 631-527-4545 Join UNGOVERNED on LFA TV every MONDAY - FRIDAY from 5pm to 6pm EASTERN!   www.FarashMedia.com www.LFATV.us www.OFPFarms.com 

In this interview, Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, Inventor of Email, Scientist, Engineer and Candidate for President, Talks about Trump Tranquilized MAGA Kamala Demoralized Dems What WE MUST Do

Steve, Todd, and Aaron are joined by BlazeTV host Jill Savage for the Deace Group, and the panel discusses where, exactly, the Democrat Party goes from here after a demoralizing loss in the 2024 election. In Hour Two, it's another round of Feedback Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(0:00) Felger, Mazz & Murray discuss the Red Sox missed opportunity to make the playoffs. (13:56) Red Sox coverage is too positive for this season's outcome. (20:02) Callers weigh in during the Lightning Round! (27:31) The updated Felger & Mazz power rankings for where Bill Belichick will coach next year.

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Steph is joined by Rob to discuss if the 49ers can turn things around even with all of the demoralizing injuries.

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George Clooney joins other Democrats in calling for Biden to step aside. Gretchen Whitmer appears on Stephen Colbert.. could she be an option to replace Biden? Democrats sound off on the SAVE Act. Kari Lake joins the show.

For the Demoralized:Evan Carlson, COO at EasyVista, shares his incredible story of a challenge that tested his entire organization and what they learned that ultimately inspired their success.Change can reveal weakness and even destroy……it can also represent OPPORTUNITY for growth, innovation, and unity.There is ALWAYS more change coming. Have you acknowledged it?Have you communicated it?Are you preparing for it?Evan gets that leaders win when they proactive in anticipating the change vs reacting and being caught on their heals.His message helped me look at leading teams through change in a MUCH different way!It likely will for you too.—--EasyVista provide IT Service Management and IT Operations Management solutions that are innovative and sustainable. He was the first employee over 14 years ago in the US for the Europe headquartered company, joining at a time of significant transformation in the IT Service Management market. His professional career has been in technology where change is a constant and something that he embraces and thrives on.LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/evancarlson/Company Link: https://www.easyvista.com/it/What You'll Discover in this EpisodeThe Leadership Secret He Learned “Dialing for Dollars”An Unexpected Twist that Led to His Success.The Rock Band That Motivates Him.-----Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben FanningSpeaking and Training inquiresSubscribe to my Youtube channelLinkedInInstagramTwitter

00:00 Nuggets demoralized the Lakers last night.8:50 Broncos draft Bo Nix.33:20 Dan Hyatt joins the show to give us Nuggets stats.

In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue discusses what to with discouragement and desolation. How do we fight back against our spiritual enemies? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass.   Show Notes St Ignatius of Loyola's Prayer Against Depression – EWTN Global Catholic Television Network Depressed? Demoralized? What's the Difference? (Fr. Robert McTeigue S.J.) 6/10/22 Christian resilience is not what you think  What Should You Do When You Are Discouraged?  The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times Doomscrolling Past Christ When It's Time to Fast from the News  Doomscrolling Past Christ (Dr. Darrick Taylor) 8/15/22 "Devout Catholic" Joe Biden makes sign of the cross at pro-abortion rally to deride Florida's abortion ban | Not the Bee Black athletic director of Baltimore high school arrested for creating AI deepfake of white principal to stage race hoax | The Post Millennial  Tennessee passes death penalty for child rapists. Here's some of the twisted reasoning why some Dems opposed it.  59-year-old Breaks Women's World Record for the Longest Time in an Abdominal Plank Position Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Are Americans Being Subverted And Demoralized? And What On Earth Is Wrong With Boeing?

In October 1992, Dr. Ellen Haskell begins a new therapy practice in Princeton after a tragic error with a former client. Demoralized by her failure, Ellen strives to restore her emotional and professional confidence. Her parents have departed for Greece, leaving Ellen alone in their secluded country house. As her clients are introduced through their individual sessions, Ellen becomes unnerved when she receives hang-up phone calls and a series of bizarre gifts from an anonymous admirer—first at her office and then at home. As the obsessive lover increasingly invades her life, Ellen's anxiety crescendos and she begins to fear the stalker's behavior will escalate into violence.The Psychologist's Shadow is a simmering literary suspense and a portrait of a compassionate, introspective therapist who finds herself in a dangerous struggle. As tension accumulates, the reader gains insights during sessions and through the stalker's journal entries, which serve as discordant counterpoints. Who is the shadow lover? An acquaintance, a shopkeeper, an old boyfriend, or a client?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

0:00 — Welcome!10:30 — Miguel was influenced with all the talks about Applebees; which never ending food promotion is best? 16:20 — Woman accidentally sends cringe video to man she was crushing on… have you ever done that?20:50 — WE WON A BET! AFC and NFC Championship game yielded a nice return for the IJMS crew 23:30 — AFC Championship Game recap: Hate Taylor Swift? Get over it! 26:30 — Chiefs dared Lamar Jackson to beat them and he couldn't; perplexing decisions by Ravens; Chiefs defense is dominant; How does Travis Kelce always get open?!37:35 — Where does the Chiefs hatred come from? Is there less interest now in a Chiefs and 49ers Super Bowl?40:25 — Crushing outcome for the Lions; did Dan Campbell get in his own way and outcoach himself?  50:15 — Did analytics get in the way of Lions' chance to make the Super Bowl? 55:00 — Brock Purdy has such a small room for error vs. Chiefs, better play like he did in 2nd half vs. Lions; 49ers should be terrified of the Chiefs 1:02:00 — Gut reaction… who wins the Super Bowl? 1:08:15 — If Patrick Mahomes wins the Super Bowl yet again, where do you rank him? Will guys like Patrick Mahomes play as long as Tom Brady? 1:12:55 — NFL Coaching Carousel: Ben Johnson stays in Detroit, Harbaugh to Chargers; why Bill Belichick isn't getting a gig 1:23:15 — NBA scoring has gotten out of control, but is that the way they want it?1:32:30 — Joel Embiid and Tyrese Haliburton on the verge of not being eligible for postseason awards… is the load management rule good or bad for the sport? 

How To Play New Edo, a tabletop roleplaying game.  Transcript: Hello! I'm the GM for an upcoming episode of Firebreathing Kittens. I'll be running using the gameplay mechanics from a game called NewEdo, a Neon Samurai role-playing game. This is a rules discussion episode meant to help teach my players and any listeners the basic mechanics of NewEdo so it's easier to begin playing. I'll be going over two main topics. The first topic is character creation, where I'll discuss Paths, Lineages, and the Priority Buy System, that's B-U-Y buy, with its five associated Priority Abilities. I'll explain starting equipment and cash at the end of this topic. The second topic is gameplay mechanics. Since NewEdo is a 300 page rulebook, I won't have time to go over every single mechanic, but I will go over mechanics that pertain to some of the characters playing in my upcoming episode, as well as common mechanics used in most TRPGs. I'll also discuss Legend and Fate, two important mechanics that are exclusive to NewEdo.   With that said, I'll begin discussing character creation, starting with Paths and Lineages.   Paths   A Path is similar to a class, but instead of defining your character's archetype going forward, it sets up your character's purpose with some starting features and equipment, allowing you to build yourself however you want. You can decide which Path best suits you and what it provides starting on page 72.   Lineages   A Lineage is what would be considered a race in other TRPGs. With the exception of Hisanaka, you have unrestricted access to all Lineages, each with two Cultures to choose from, providing unique gameplay differences. Hisanaka is a special Lineage only available with a Priority A Ranking in Augmentations, and has no special Culture. Lineages are found starting on page 132.   The Priority Buy System   After deciding your Path and Lineage, you need to decide what order you prioritize your Priority Abilities. You have five Priority Abilities to consider:   ● Backgrounds   ● Magic   ● Augmentations   ● Skills   ● and Core Traits   You must assign Ranks A through E (highest to lowest) between these five Priority Abilities in order to determine your character building resources. Refer to the Priority Buy Resource Allocation Table on page 58 to know what you get at each Rank.   Backgrounds   Backgrounds are associated with your character's backstory and grant certain benefits. There are five Backgrounds you can invest points into:   ● Contacts   ● Followers   ● Soul   ● Status   ● and Wealth   You can study up on what each Background provides at each Rank starting on page 144. Refer to the Background Score to Rank table on the same page to know how many points are needed to increase your Rank. All Backgrounds begin with 1 point each, and no Background may be higher than 61 at character creation.   Magic   Depending on your Path, Lineage, and Priority Rank, you can gain access to Magic. If you're looking for a Path with access to multiple spells, called Rotes in this system, choose Shugonshi. If you just need a single Rote, such as an attack or heal, look through TIer Zero through Three for an appropriate Rote, then choose D through A for a Magic Priority Rank that gives you access to the Rote you chose. Keep in mind the Casting Skill associated with each Rote, as you need to roll that Skill plus Shinpi Rank to cast.   When you gain access to Magic through methods mentioned earlier, you should receive a bonus amount of Shinpi. Shinpi is a special Core Trait that, unlike other Core Traits, begins at zero instead of ten. You'll need to raise your Shinpi Rank through bonuses mentioned previously and Trait points received from Priority Buy in order to cast Magic effectively.   If you happen to choose the Shugonshi Path, Awakened Kitsune Lineage, or Priority A Magic, you gain access to a Mikata Kami. You can choose any Kami you have access to and gain the associated Mikata Kami bonus. A Mikata Kami is also a pet with its own character sheet. For more details, read pg. 268 through 274.   Augmentations   Each Augmentation, or Aug, has a Noise Rating and Biofeedback Percentage. The points from the Priority Buy System are spent on the combined Noise Ratings of each Aug you get. If you increase an Aug's Rank, you multiply the Noise cost by the Aug's Rank. You need to have enough Core Trait points to install any Augs. If the combined Noise of a single Trait from all Augs exceeds the associated Trait, you can't install anymore with that Trait.   For any leftover points, you can spend four points for a permanent 1d4 bonus to any Skill. This doesn't count as a Skill Rank; rather it's an external bonus to those Skill rolls. Any other leftover points may be added to the Wealth Background one for one.   Biofeedback Percentage is added to the Fate Card for each Aug you gain. Keep in mind the percentage does not multiply with each Aug Rank. So if you install a Rank 5 Aug with 1% Biofeedback, it's still 1%.   Skills   The list of Skills starts on pg. 191. You have a certain amount of dice to spend on Skills called Focus. You're limited to three Focus per Skill at character creation. Each Focus you put into a Skill increases that Skill's Rank, which may grant a bonus. Bonuses can be found under each Skill's description.   Traits   There are seven Core Traits to choose from:   ● Heart   ● Power   ● Reflex   ● Presence   ● Perception   ● Savvy   ● and Shinpi   Each of them, except Shinpi, begin with ten points. Shinpi begins with zero. For every ten points in a Trait, you gain a d10 to all associated checks. You can only invest up to 15 points in any Trait, though bonuses from things like Lineage and Backgrounds don't count towards this limit. At the end of character creation, your highest Trait becomes your starting Legend Score. There are also four Derived Traits that are affected by the previously mentioned Core Traits:   ● Resolve   ● Move   ● Initiative   ● and Defence   Starting Equipment and Cash   You gain basic starting equipment from your Path. The Path descriptions each include a note on starting equipment, and all of them grant at least one weapon. That weapon, and any other items, will be described only by its Quality rating. You can look up item qualities on the tables in Chapter 13 starting on pg. 233. In addition, you start with cash equal to a Wealth roll, 1d10 per Rank in the Background, times 100.   That wraps up Character Creation. I'll now begin going over various combat mechanics that my players and I will be using in our upcoming session. Again, this won't be a list of every mechanic in the 300 page rulebook, but I'll be going over some universal actions and their mechanics in NewEdo. I'll end with an explanation of this system's unique Legend and Fate mechanics.   Movement   One of the first things everyone needs to understand in any TRPG is movement. In NewEdo, your Move determines how many metres you can shift per turn. Move is equal to your Reflex and Heart Trait divided by your Size rounded up.   Moving takes up a Move Action, which is one of three types of actions a character can make on their turn. The three types of actions are:   ● Move Action   ● Quick Action   ● and Full Action   You can make one of each of these actions per turn. As I mentioned earlier, moving uses up a Move Action, however there may be other actions that specify using a Move Action other than just moving, such as Taking Aim or driving a vehicle.   Attacking   Another common mechanic in any TRPG is attacking. An attack is usually a Full Action, but can also be a Quick Action in some cases. Two common types of attacks are Melee and Projectile. I'll explain the mechanics of each.   ● Melee Attacks are made by rolling Power plus the appropriate weapon Skill, and your   Target Number is your opponent's Defence.   ● Projectile Attacks are made by rolling Perception plus the appropriate weapon Skill, and   your Target Number is your opponent's Size multiplied by your weapon's Range Modifier.   ○ You may call Raises before attacking to increase damage. Each Raise adds five   to your Target Number, but increases the weapon's damage by 1d10. After hitting with an attack, you need to roll for damage. Here's what you need to roll:   ● For Melee, roll Power plus the weapon's damage dice.   ● For Projectile, roll the weapon's damage dice. Remember to add any d10's from Raises.   Taking Aim, Advantages, and Disadvantages   When setting up for a Projectile Attack, you can use your Move Action to Take Aim in order to gain an Advantage. An Advantage is simply an extra d10 added to a roll, one that can explode like a Trait dice. A Disadvantage is the opposite, removing a d10 from a roll. If there are no d10's remaining, you remove the highest dice instead. Advantages and Disadvantages come up in many different scenarios, and can cancel each other out if both are present. Taking Aim is one of the most common ways to gain an advantage in combat.   Rolling Skill Checks   To determine what dice you roll during an attack or skill check, you need to check the appropriate Trait and Skill. For your Trait, the tens place of your Trait determines how many d10 you can roll for the check. Keep in mind that d10's explode, meaning that if you roll a ten, you can re-roll that dice and add the next result to the total. After determining how many d10's from your Trait, add the Focus Dice from the appropriate Skill. These dice can range from a d4 to d12, but they don't explode on rolling max. The Target Number of non combat related skill checks is determined by the GM based on the difficulty. A Sample Contest Target Number table can be found on pg. 212.   Casting Magic   Similar to attacks and skill checks, casting magic also uses a Trait and Skill. All Rotes use Shinpi as its Trait, and with the exception of the four Common Rotes, all Rotes have an associated Skill that is rolled when casting. For example, the Soothe Rote uses the Meditation Skill, so if you plan on using Soothe, it's recommended you also have training in Meditation. You can find a list of all Rotes starting on pg. 158. Each Rote lists the following:   ● Name   ● Action   ● Target Number   ● Legend Cost   ● Range   ● Duration   ● Casting Skill   ● and a Description   Restoring Legend   If you find yourself casting a lot of magic and running out of Temporary Legend, you can use your Followers Background to restore some lost Legend Points. Rolling for Followers takes a Full Action, and you roll d10's equal to your Followers Rank. You can roll Followers once per session.   Stealth   To make an attempt at Stealth, there must be some reasonable chance of you not being seen: darkness, fog, a distraction, someone or something blocking sight of you. You don't necessarily need to know where your (potential) observers are to attempt Stealth, but if you're able to scout out all observers (guards, cameras, etc.) prior to or during your Stealth attempt, you gain Advantage on subsequent Stealth rolls.   A Stealth roll is made as an Opposed Contest, where the character attempting Stealth rolls Reflex plus the Stealth Skill against any opponent's passive or active Perception. Passive Perception is a Free Action, rolled using only Perception, and is for situations where no one's actively watching. Active Perception is a Quick Action Interrupt, rolled using either Perception plus Survival or Perception plus Investigation.   While in Stealth, you may only move at half your Move speed and must end your turn obscured or hidden in some way, or you immediately lose Stealth. If you dash across an open space while in Stealth, you may become Exposed if any observers catch sight of you.   Cover   Cover can only protect you from Ranged attacks. There are three types of Cover:   ● No Cover: Protects less than 30% of your body. Provides no bonuses.   ● Half Cover: Protects between 30 to 95% of your body. Ranged Attacks against you have   Disadvantage.   ● Full Cover: Only 5% of your body is exposed. You can't be targeted by Ranged Attacks   barring a few exceptions.   With some of the basic mechanics out of the way, I'd like to focus on some specific Skills that certain players for my upcoming game have chosen. There are 37 different Skills to choose in NewEdo, so this is only a small fraction of what's available.   Dodge   Dodge is a unique Skill that adds to a character's Defence against Melee Attacks. An invaluable Skill for an up close and personal fighter. At Rank 3, you can start Dodging Projectile Attacks. Dodging is a Quick Action Interrupt, so it's useful in conjunction with moving and acting while being attacked. Perfect for a martial fighter or ninja.   Banter   A fun social Skill that uses the Reflex Trait. Banter is used to steer a conversation with multiple people, helping or hindering others. At Ranks 2 and 3, you gain the Abilities Chime In and Burn, which allow you to make a Quick Action Interrupt to either add or subtract your Banter Roll from someone else's Social Roll.   Athletics   Like in most TRPG's, Athletics is your physical prowess in running, jumping, climbing, swimming, etc. In NewEdo, you unlock some special bonuses at later Ranks. At Rank 2, your Climb, Swim, and Lifting modifiers all increased. At Rank 3, you gain Tumble, an ability that allows you to reduce falling damage by the amount rolled from an Athletics Check.   Unarmed   Unarmed is your ability to fight without a weapon. It increases your ability to Grapple, and quickly increases damage to unarmed attack early on at Ranks 1 and 2. At Rank 3, you gain the ability to call Raises with unarmed attacks, a mechanic usually reserved to Projectile Attacks.   Tactics   Tactics checks are made right before the beginning of a fight. The leaders of both squads roll Savvy plus Tactics plus 1d10 for every active teammate to determine who's superior. The losing team begins combat Demoralized, a status condition that reduces their Initiative and Resolve by 5 each, and they can no longer take Quick Action Interrupt Attacks against Exposed targets.   If you need to look up other Skills and what bonuses you get at each rank, begin on pg. 191. I'll finish things up by going over two of NewEdo's unique mechanics: Legend and Fate.   Legend   Legend is your character's overall power level, and measures how “Legendary” you are in the world. At a certain Legend ranking, your Path is increased, giving you new abilities. In addition to acting as your power level, it also fuels a resource known as Temporary Legend. Your Temporary Legend is restored between sessions, and it's used to cast Rotes and activate certain abilities, usually from Skill Ranks. It also acts as a last ditch HP Pool, known as Burning Legend. If you take damage past zero, you begin burning through Temporary Legend. Once all of your HP and Temporary Legend are depleted, you die for good.   Fate   Every character has a Fate Card, which acts as a personal random d100 roll chart. There are many things you can add to your Fate Card that come from character creation. You can roll for Fate once per turn, unless otherwise specified, to gamble for good fortune versus bad luck. When rolling for Fate, it's important to remember you can only roll when there are stakes, and only before you roll for a normal check. If you roll a Critical Success, you automatically succeed. Rolling a Botch means you automatically fail.   And that concludes this episode of Rules Explanation for NewEdo! I hope that my players can use this to help prepare them for their upcoming game, but it should be noted that there's much more to learn than what was mentioned here. I encourage my players and anyone else listening to read up on more of the rules, especially those that pertain to your character. This is a large game, so it'll require a lot of trial and error, even for veterans like myself, however this system holds a lot of potential for detailed character development, tactical combat, and immersive storytelling. If you haven't picked this game up yet, and it sounds interesting, please consider buying it from Salty dash Games dot com. That's Salty, HYPHEN, Games dot com. If you still aren't convinced, please listen to my upcoming episode, listen in on our game, and decide then! Thank you, and goodbye!

01:00 Danielle Allen: Justice By Means of Democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153926 05:00 Richard Spencer Space on anonymity and dissident politics, https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1746318372705648953 28:00 NYT: How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/politics/trump-college-educated-voters.html 38:00 Building the greatest stereo and destroying your family in the process, https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fritz-greatest-stereo-auction-cost/ 50:00 Elites and democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153860 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/us/politics/mideast-war-israel-yemen.html 1:04:00 Genocide in Gaza: Dimensions of an Unfolding Catastrophe, Featuring John J. Mearsheimer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxeqfgPzVc&t=2726s 1:11:30 Not a war crime, but GENOCIDE: Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1CvtfbXPLE 1:20:00 NYT: ‘The Regional War No One Wanted Is Here. How Wide Will It Get?', https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153948 1:38:30 Dooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid 1:45:00 Richard Spencer has been neutered 2:23:00 Tunneling for meaning under 770 (Chabad headquarters) 2:35:00 I am the biggest cause of my own misery due to my lack of consideration for others 2:46:00 My Dennis Prager story, https://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=31620 3:15:00 The Investigator in the Enneagram, https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-5 3:29:50 Patrick Casey 3:33:45 Elliott Blatt joins 4:20:20 Middle East war escalates, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlL9uHaeNqo

The New York Islanders played a listless game against the Pittsburgh Penguins Wednesday and lost 7-0 at home. But how will the coaching staff and leadership of this team handle things? Will they be determined or demoralized? We discuss some comments by the players and coaches and how they did at practice on Thursday.Plus, we have the latest injury updates including two new players who missed practice and one who returned to the ice and we update you on the two Isles prospects playing at the World Juniors.And we preview this weekend's important divisional games vs Pittsburgh and Washington.All this and more on today's Locked On Islanders Podcast with Gil Martin.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!AG1If a comprehensive solution is what you need from your supplement routine, then try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. Go to drinkAG1.com/NHLNETWORK.SleeperDownload the Sleeper App and use promo code LOCKEDONNHL to get up to a $100 match on your first deposit. Terms and conditions apply. See Sleeper's Terms of Use for details.GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime.Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNHL for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelScore early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The New York Islanders played a listless game against the Pittsburgh Penguins Wednesday and lost 7-0 at home. But how will the coaching staff and leadership of this team handle things? Will they be determined or demoralized? We discuss some comments by the players and coaches and how they did at practice on Thursday. Plus, we have the latest injury updates including two new players who missed practice and one who returned to the ice and we update you on the two Isles prospects playing at the World Juniors. And we preview this weekend's important divisional games vs Pittsburgh and Washington. All this and more on today's Locked On Islanders Podcast with Gil Martin. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! AG1 If a comprehensive solution is what you need from your supplement routine, then try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. Go to drinkAG1.com/NHLNETWORK. Sleeper Download the Sleeper App and use promo code LOCKEDONNHL to get up to a $100 match on your first deposit. Terms and conditions apply. See Sleeper's Terms of Use for details. Gametime Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime.Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNHL for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel Score early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beenawake.substack.comWelcome to the show, in this full 1 hour 46 minute livestream for premium subscribers we take another peek behind the machinations of the media cycle and stories that cause us all to feel a little demoralized from time to time. Want immediate access to the full livestream? become a member of the Been Awake Elite NOW otherwise subscribe and segments will be released for you weekly for free. For the price of a dinner you can join the mission of better sensemaking and help keep the lights on at BeenAwake.comIn fact? that's where we start with my recent piece “Dear Patriot, you're supposed to be demoralized” We then check in with the conflict in the Holy Land, which brings up an interesting question for our post modern democracy - who precisely gets to have an identity? and who doesn't? It bears meditation considering how many of these conflicts we see bubbling up around the world and in our backyard have to deal with this subject.

Demoralized by the Evil Empire. Making the worst of a decent situation.

Mark Schlereth, an NFL insider for Audacy, joined Bobby and Mike to break down the Saints' 24-15 loss to the Falcons. He evaluated Atlanta's effective rushing attack vs. New Orleans. He also shared his thoughts on the Detroit Lions. 

https://youtu.be/mgOHTkhJwXA Notice how quickly we went from “We're just criticizing Israel's policies!” to celebrating executions of Jews and bombing synagogues. Hamas's barbaric terrorist attack not only exposed Israel's fragility, but a global network of antisemitism in academia, media, and our very own friendships. The veil has been lifted. We're in a Roger Waters wet dream, where he can finally slay Jews and stop milking 50-year-old songs. This episode takes on many of the lost narratives the media won't dare touch, including: 00:00:00 Why The Deafening Silence, "Friends" and Neighbors? 00:14:55 Donny Deutsch & The Silence of Corporations 00:18:14 The Socialist Macro-Aggressors 00:22:32 Larry Summers & The Ivy League Terror Cells 00:29:56 Three Drivers of Malignant College Leftism 00:32:45 (1) Decolonization 00:38:44 (2) Intersectionality 00:41:43 (3) Demoralization & The KGB 00:47:55 Media Complicity 00:51:32 Jonathan Rosenthal on Moral Equivalency 00:52:45 Dumb & Dahmer: Hamas's Mission (Golda Meir, Sam Harris, Casey Neistat & Ami Horowitz) 01:01:11 Jared Kushner on The Perils of Negotiating with Palestine 01:07:03 Reluctant Conquerors & Noble Victims 01:11:10 What to do with Terror Sympathizers? 01:14:42 Democratic Cleansing 01:16:35 About Colonialism... (featuring Ike Saul) 01:25:27 The Iran Hack 01:33:26 How America Made Iran 01:34:43 How Israel Made Hamas 01:37:52 The Problem With Weaponizing Extremism 01:43:50 Israel's Three Options 01:49:07 More Guns!! 01:50:01 The Shocking Power of X (Twitter) & Corruption of Corporate Media 01:54:20 Conspiracies & Reruns If you enjoy this, please support the show on Patreon & get tons of member exclusives!  Also please give a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. Really helps with visibility. Share & subscribe on: YouTube, iTunes,  Spotify,  Google,  Stitcher,  TuneIn, RSS

Pastor Jamie returns from Sabbatical and continues our What Does God Say About..? series. He preaches about the importance of not believing the LIE. When we believe the Lies of this world we Isolate ourselves from God and His people. When we do that we are more easily Enticed by sin. Check it out!

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2/2: #DoD: The Biden Administration and the demoralized recruiting shortfall. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution https://www.hoover.org/research/how-demoralization-undercuts-recruitment1944 B-29 Kansas

Highlights of the Podcast00:00 - Intro03:17 - Battered and Demoralized the Truth about Ukraine06:35 - Goldman Commodities research Chief Jeff Curie set to leave10:04 - U.S. LNG, the Global Economy, and Environmental Solution 12:44 - Biden Admin cracking down on another popular home device. 15:18 - Texas will fall behind without transmission development18:53 - Market Updates19:55 - Talks about Earnings around Saudi Aramco23:05 - Outro– Get in Contact With The Show –Follow Stuart On LinkedIn and TwitterFollow Michael On LinkedIn and TwitterENB Top NewsENBEnergy DashboardENB PodcastENB Substack

On today's Q&A episode, I answer questions about:Should a man reconcile with his family after he left them, or is it ever okay to move on and start a new relationship?Getting demoralized from a wife's lack of buy-inWomen who are afraid to let their husbands lead because it's all they've ever knownHow long it takes to earn trust back from your wife once you've lost itTraits of a good fatherShould you use daily affirmations?How to lead your family as a young fatherPrioritizing achieving great things outside the home and your responsibility in the homeResources, Links, Show Notes:https://dad.work/podcast/Follow Dad.Work:https://instagram.com/dadwork.curt/https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtstorring/https://twitter.com/CurtStorringHOW TO BECOME AN ELITE MAN, HUSBAND, AND FATHER: FREE TRAINING:https://dad.work/training/

To be “Demoralized” means to be deflated of all that makes you strong – to have too many bad and discouraging things happen to you until you lose your mental clarity, and lose your drive to bring good into the world. It includes disempowerment, but it takes it one terrible step further – to where you lose your awareness of what is GOOD, and what is right. The most important first step of healing is to recover your faith that GOOD is real, and it matters. Heal Trauma in Just One Year? https://bit.ly/3JrPdvx Take my FREE Course or Quizzes: https://bit.ly/40M2YeW Enroll in my Courses or Membership: https://bit.ly/3HP5qcf Send your questions & comments to: Hello@CrappyChildhoodFairy.com

Not to put a damper on the Supreme Court win, but as Yuri Bezmenov once said, "People will refuse to believe what they see with their own eyes" because we've grown-up programmed a certain way. World News with BK. KBJ's SCOTUS dissention on affirmative action. Trump's trial in deep, commie blue New York. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not to put a damper on the Supreme Court win, but as Yuri Bezmenov once said, "People will refuse to believe what they see with their own eyes" because we've grown-up programmed a certain way. World News with BK. KBJ's SCOTUS dissention on affirmative action. Trump's trial in deep, commie blue New York. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danny Lavery welcomes Laura Cathcart Robbins, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Stash: My Life In Hiding, and host of the podcast, The Only One In The Room. Lavery and Robbins offer advice to someone who is wondering if they can handle a bad boss and salvage their dream job. Another letter writer is wondering why she is always confused by family and social etiquette. Also, a deep dive into Robbin's memoir, Stash, and a listener update from “Conflicted and Demoralized”. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis This Pride Month, make an impact by helping Macy's and The Trevor Project on their mission to fund life-saving suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Lavery welcomes Laura Cathcart Robbins, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Stash: My Life In Hiding, and host of the podcast, The Only One In The Room. Lavery and Robbins offer advice to someone who is wondering if they can handle a bad boss and salvage their dream job. Another letter writer is wondering why she is always confused by family and social etiquette. Also, a deep dive into Robbin's memoir, Stash, and a listener update from “Conflicted and Demoralized”. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis This Pride Month, make an impact by helping Macy's and The Trevor Project on their mission to fund life-saving suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You live in a nation where half of the population doesn't share the same basic decency as you. A major shakeup is needed to turn America around but how will it take shape? Car guy Jesse. The 2nd silent auction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I was in Jerusalem last week sitting shiva for our father, after folks gave their condolences and shared their memories, they would ask me for my take on Israel. The conversation was sobering, making me feel naïve and disconnected from the real Israel that is. Me: In Greater Jewish Boston, we are so excited to be marking Israel at 75. A big contingent from our shul is going to celebrate Israel at 75! A big contingent from the whole Boston Jewish community is going to mark this joyful and incredible milestone! How are you thinking about Israel at 75? Comforters: One of two responses. The less common: “Not on our radar screen at all. We've given it no thought till you just mentioned it.” By far the more common: “I hope we get there. Not clear that we will make it to 75 as one country.” In the shiva house, I had the sinking feeling that there was not one death I was mourning, but two. Something has died in Israel beyond our father – a belief of Israelis in a bright future for Israel. Nothing makes that clearer than two titles of Danny Gordis. When he and his family made Aliyah in the 90s, during Oslo, his first book about Israel was called If a Land Can Make You Cry. The title evoked the pathos, the emotion, the ups and downs, the resilience, but the fundamental hopefulness of a nation whose national anthem is Hatikvah. That title seems long gone. The new title, from his piece this week: Drowning in a Sea of Resentment and Hate, It's Far from Clear that Israel Can Make it Back to Shore. This piece details how numerous tribes within Israel—settlers, Haredis, Israeli Arabs, Palestinian Israelis, Ashkenazi, Mizrachi—feel betrayed (his word) by the state. One can sense this hate in the friction over dedicated war hero pilots who are protesting the erosion of Israeli democracy being called a “pathetic bunch of deserters” by the ruling coalition. What do we do about it? This week Thomas Friedman offered us another sobering essay with a sobering title: “American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel.” He quotes Rabbi Sharon Brous who speaks of rabbis giving Death by Israel sermons. Is he right? Is our response to this moment to see it as a political fork in the road, and we have to choose, and bear the consequences of our choice? Is there another way to frame and respond to this moment? How does our weekly Torah portion (uncannily, it involves a civil war, a milchemet achim, in the wake of the sin of the golden calf) help us frame this sad and sober moment in the history of Israel? How can we help? Can we take a principled stand in favor of democracy and against Israel becoming an authoritarian regime without checks and balances without adding to the division of this moment?

Taking back your country will take time, especially when it is so demoralized, people refuse to believe the facts in front of their face. Scanning your brainwaves. When it's appropriate to send food back to the kitchen. Breakfast burrito vs. taco.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 - Rich opens the show discussing the border crisis and the response, or lackthereof from Biden, and possible Presidential candidate Gavin Newsome is saying something about it. But another couple busloads of immigrants are expected to hit Philly tomorrow. 310 - Are we in a pandemic? Democrats actions depict the border as not a problem, but fight to pay off student loans under the guise of Covid.  330 - If Democrats end the filibuster and are able to bring in Puerto Rico as a state it will be over for the current political spectrum. 340 - Republicans are all talk until they get into power and then they start spending like Democrats. Doesn't the timing of Scam Bankman-Fried's arrest come at quite the convenient moment? Rich gives his insight on the situation. 4 - Democrats don't comment on the flood of immigrants coming into the country. 410 - Rich moves to discussing the Twitter files and CNN's response to not being the ones to receive the files to break the story. They also made another erroneous claim that the laptop story is still disinformation. These people don't stand up for anything except for their pet projects, but no tangible issues and all their principles. 420 - The Luggage Thief gets his slap on the wrist. 430 -  Rick Grimaldi joins the show to talk about the war on employers. The National labor board seems to be way out of their realm trying to advance their progressive agendas. It's always the corporation's philosophy that is the problem according to the Democrats instead of allowing businesses to make the best decisions for the company. 450 - The Luggage Kleptomaniac also worked to keep parents in the dark when it comes to schools giving gender-affirming care to their child. We cannot be complicit in allowing this to happen to our youth. 5 - If we lose Title 42, we will lose more than a 747 plane's worth of people daily as the gates will be wide open. 510 - Democrats are willingly letting illegal immigrants in and rather than treating the immigration problems, they would rather cater to the ones that come in. Just playing straight politics on this issue.  520 - Representative Amen Brown joins us once again to discuss his big announcement tomorrow, and his fight to better the city one day at a time. He discusses law enforcement at all levels, the minutiae of Philadelphia politics(especially on a notorious day in the city), and his view for a brighter tomorrow for Philadelphia.  550 - Did you know unvaccinated drivers are the worst? What a ludacris article. 6 - Rich talks with Tom Homan about border control, Title 42, fentanyl, and the overall morale of everyone stationed down Mexico way. 620 - Have you watched the White Lotus? How about Derry Girls? What do you think of the Sixers stadium news?  630 -  Need makeup for your euthanization? 640 - The White House keeps pushing the false narrative of the vaccine saving lives. Fauci is so unbelievably tone deaf in this clip.

Multiple factors came together to demoralize the Qurayshi coalition and got them to retreat, ending the battle:- Imam Ali's victory over Amr ibn al-Wadd - Shortage of food and fodder. They had prepared for quick battle, not a month-long seige - A violent storm that trashed the Qurayshi camp - Distrust sown between the kuffar and the jews by a secret convert - Some Arabs deciding they'd rather be ruled by Arab than by Jews, even of those Arabs are MuslimsLecture notes available at http://www.why-quran.org/?p=586.Subscribe at http://www.why-quran.org/subscribe to watch the lectures live and participate in the Q&A at the end of each class.Video recording of this lecture + Q&A available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL9k-WuTfFE&list=PLpkB0iwLgfTat-Pgh4W3WFmupPamiC9UT.

On this episode I'm speaking with Sam about learning Japanese. He is the Marketing Director for Coto Academy, and we talk about his language learning journey and his advice on becoming fluent faster! Check out Coto Academy. Check out the video podcast on Spotify or our YouTube. For the best place on the internet to find your next job in Japan, go to JobsinJapan.com.

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Eric Vilas-Boas who wrote If Rotoscoping Isn't Animation, Nothing Is for Vulture. Here's what I wrote about it:This year director Richard Linklater released the film Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, which is animated through rotoscoping. Essentially, live-action footage is painstakingly animated over using a technique that harkens back to the dawn of animation, a process that required a suite of about 200 2D animators for costs upwards of $20 million. The animated film, however, has been rejected by the animation committee of the Academy Awards, arguing it relies on live-action footage even though the film clearly surpasses the requirement 75 percent of running time must be animated. Linklater and company are ticked off, claiming that the branch has been captured by corporations and aimed at children, with 19 of the past 21 awards for Best Animated Feature going to CG-animated kids movies, and with just two independent studies winning.Eric is brilliant on the topic of animation, he was one of the founders of The Dot and Line animation blog and is one of the most plugged-in writers on the topic these days. We spoke about why the awards scene around animated film is chaotic, why it's a demoralizing moment to be in the field, and how streaming has upended the industry. Eric can be found at @e_vb_ and at Vulture.This interview has been condensed and edited. You wrote a really fascinating story about a new film that's coming out from director Richard Linklater. Before we dive into the whole concept of rotoscoping and whatnot, do you want to tell folks a little about your history with animation? You're currently at Vulture, you've got a long history of working in this space. What's been your journey in covering animation so far?I've been interested in this area of coverage for a long time. I always wanted to be an entertainment journalist. I always wanted to angle my career in that direction. A buddy of mine and I looked around at the space of magazine journalism a few years ago and we noticed, "Oh, there's no The New Yorker for animation coverage." No one covers cartoons with what we thought was a level of both consistency and seriousness.We started this website called The Dot and Line based off an iconic Chuck Jones short cartoon; that was in 2016. My friend and I, John Maher, started that site. That site was just our way of covering animation from a fan perspective and a magaziney perspective, a bloggy perspective, and also covering the business through the same lens.We never made any money. The Dot and Line shut down, we gave it a viking funeral in 2020, in the beginning of the pandemic, very lovingly.I always really loved cartoons and animation. I wanted to cover it more deeply and make sure that it had a place in the media ecosystem that I was working in. These days I've parleyed that experience into writing about animation for Vulture, for Thrillist in the past, for Hyperallergic, for The Observer. Now I'm currently in Vulture where I edit most of our streaming coverage, and then also work on the occasional animation and cartoons piece, which brings me to this topic today.I just wanted to make sure that we got that set up, because there's this idea that you've always been reporting on how there's tension in animation, how there aren't a lot of people who treat it seriously, that there's a tremendous amount of effort and art that goes into it but that mainstream sources oftentimes don't necessarily understand what some of the power and appeal of it is. That all really comes to a head in the story. Do you want to talk a little bit about Apollo 10 ½ and how it was made?It definitely hits a lot of points for me. Apollo 10 ½ is a rotoscoped movie directed by Richard Linklater, a very well-regarded indie filmmaker who has done both animated movies like A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life as well as live-action movies like the Before trilogy and Dazed and Confused, and a few other things that you might have seen before. Apollo 10 ½ is basically his latest animated effort. It was made by a large team of around 200 animators through a studio called Minnow Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, where Richard Linklater is also based. Apollo 10 ½ is essentially a coming-of-age fantasy story about a kid who gets to experience sitting in a NASA space mission.The opening hook of the movie is like, "Oh, we made the space capsule too small and now this preteen child must be signed up for a NASA mission." And it's a fantasy. It's meant to be fantastical in a way that live action can't be. Richard Linklater has talked about this, so that's all well and good. Apollo 10 ½ was released on Netflix earlier this year, over the summer. It was also submitted for Academy Award consideration for Best Animated Feature.Best Animated Feature is an interesting category and we can get into why. But long story short, the film was rejected from consideration over the summer on the grounds that it "did not meet the definition of animation" according to the Academy's feature animation committee.That's ticked a lot of folks off, because it is animated with a technique used called rotoscoping which as you wrote, goes back to some of the earliest days of not just animation but film, period. Do you want to talk about what the controversy is there?To give just a definition, rotoscoping is essentially you'll film something in live action. The tool that was invented was literally called the rotoscope, and it was invented by this animator Max Fleischer, who people might know from the Superman cartoons. These old 1940 Superman cartoons are some of the best cartoons of their kind even to this day; they're very well respected. He invented this thing in 1915 called the rotoscope. What the rotoscope is is essentially a multi-plane camera on steroids that allows you to film something in live action, and then to trace the images of what's been filmed into an animated form — to trace the outlines of something and create art out of it, essentially.The Fleischer brothers used this on a number of their animated cartoons. They had this series called Out of the Inkwell: They traced Cab Calloway, the jazz musician, dancing and doing some awesome moves in some of their cartoons. The upshot of all this is that it looks really good. It's an easy way to capture fluidity and a certain level of realism, without having to draw every single thing from nothing, essentially. It's a technique that's been used for decades upon decades by not just the Fleischers but also animators at Disney. Snow White heavily referenced a performer named Marge Belcher using similar techniques.It goes all the way to Ralph Bakshi's 1970s Lord of the Rings film, which famously uses rotoscoping. You can argue one way or another over whether Ralph Bakshi's rotoscoping looks good or not. I think a lot of it looks really good. Lord of the Rings is not a very good-looking movie, but it's interesting, I think.People feel a lot of different ways about rotoscoping. Part of the mystique of animation is that something is artistic and being delivered in front of you, in a moving way that literally tricks you to think that these images that are just layered on top of each other very, very fast are actually moving. That's the point. I think that it takes an element of the mystique out of it, or the artistry out of it, to hear later on, "Oh, that was traced," or something like that. But the reality is this is just a tool, it's just a technique that a lot of animators and a lot of your favorite movies have actually deployed over the years. A lot of movies that you might know.The crux here is that the animated film division of the Academy came to the determination that this wasn't an animated film, because it required rotoscoping as much as it did. And it's got a lot of people ticked off for a lot of different reasons.2D animators obviously have had a hell of a time just continuing their craft. Just in general, the category as you wrote has been really dominated by fairly colossal corporate interest for a while. Do you want to talk a little bit about what specifically this tempest is all about?I think it's really frustrating to anybody who knows about the history of animation to call a decades-old technique used in animation not animation. So that's one side of that argument.Another side of this argument is the corporate aspect of the specific animated feature award. It's not Best Picture, which has been around for forever. It's not as clear-cut as Best Actor or Best Actress or something like that. Best Animated Feature has been around since the year 2001, so it's newer. Ever since 2001, it's always been largely dominated by either 3D CGI movies and/or films that are owned or have been distributed by Disney-Pixar. To pull out some examples, I think Shrek won the first year, and last year Encanto won.I don't have the history in front of me, but every year it's an ongoing joke in the animation community like, "Oh, another CGI movie is going to win." And it's very rare that, number one, a 2D film wins, even more rare I think than that a film that's not owned by a large mega-conglomerate, either Disney or Dreamworks, wins.They've all been Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, with the exception of one Aardman picture, and then Spirited Away.Two independent studios have won over the past 20 years, which is like, I personally don't like those numbers. A lot of folks can say otherwise.And then there's this other side of the argument, and I think the animator Phil Lord got into this a little bit when he tweeted last year and a lot of people tweeted: The larger cultural understanding of the animated feature category is that it's made for children. That animation is just for kids, and that this is a juvenile pursuit. I think that the presenters at last year's Academy Awards leaned into that.It was really patronizing, if I recall.Yeah. The tone of that is very patronizing. You look at the animator Richard Williams who passed away a few years ago, this is a person who is known for a hyper-realistic, very, very fluid animated style. He's the reason that Who Framed Roger Rabbit looks as good as it does, because he impressed upon his animators, "You have to make sure the eyelines match up between the cartoon characters and the actors on stage."You look at artists on his level or on a Miyazaki level, or to go back even further a Chuck Jones level, and to say that they are making stuff that's only for kids is, if it were me, if I were in their shoes, I would find it very offensive. I would find it very patronizing.It's an interesting category for a lot of reasons. I looked at it last year because I'm obsessed with the Oscars, and Pixar usually gets a bid, Disney usually gets a bid, Dreamworks usually gets a bid, one of the other biggies gets a bid. And then they'll usually get an international feature or one of the Ghibli, Aardman worlds.It's weird that there's clearly a degree to which the animators within the division have enough clout to get those nominees for those international features and those smaller indie features, but it does seem that the branch is dominated by the kind of folks who just want to give it to Pixar, Disney or Dreamworks.That's the story the numbers seem to tell us. I think one of the frustrations, and I understand why it has to be this way, is that you do want to know how these voting bodies work, but it raises a wide variety of complications if we knew exactly how everybody voted, but a lot of the stuff happens in a very opaque way. Richard Linklater, in my story, when I interviewed him for this Apollo 10 ½ thing, his words I think were, "We really just don't know who's behind this decision making." The only way that he can conceive of it is that like, they must have something against rotoscoping, or, against us, "us" speaking for the independent animators that he works with.To him, to them, it feels like a David and Goliath situation where I'm sure a film like the latest Disney-Pixar thing that is made for $150 or $200 million or whatever it is, they would probably have no trouble getting nominated for anything, for clearing through any of the rules that are stipulated. This film, which is made for $20 million and there's definitely an outsider feeling there on the part of him and his animators, they're running into trouble.It's a challenging category because again, the work is really fairly incredible coming out of even the larger houses, not to diminish any of that. It is just weird.That's the thing too. No value judgment, it's not an artistic judgment on the artistry of a film like Encanto or Turning Red which are stunning, beautiful animated movies. I cried during Encanto not quite like I'd cried in any movie that year that it came out. But I think the tension is really like, "Oh, why is animation only this?" I think that's the question that is on some of these other animators' minds and on Linklater's mind.It's almost entirely 3D animated stuff. Again, I'm a LAIKA stan, and it's just shocking to me that they occasionally get the nominations, but it's a little evident that the body is just going to be predisposed toward 3D computer-animated graphic stuff instead of the 2D stuff, instead of the anime stuff, instead of the rotoscoping and stop-motion stuff.Yeah. LAIKA is a perfect example; just everything that they put out is amazing, it just looks stunning and it feels like if they get a nomination, it's a good year.You also cover a lot about just how the business of animation and streaming has really fundamentally changed; a lot of that, whether it's Crunchyroll merging with Funimation, whether it's all these streaming services jumping directly into the world of animation and then some of them getting cold feet and then getting the hell out. It's been an interesting couple of years for the business itself. Do you maybe want to talk a little bit about streaming and how that's changed some of the math for animated stuff?I'm glad you asked about that because we're in this moment right now, this sense in the animated world that this idea that animation and animators are playing second fiddle constantly to the world of live action. It shouldn't really be that way. These movies and shows take a lot of effort to produce and they do connect with kids and with adults in very, very profound ways. But we're in this moment where it's like, "Oh, you have this corner of the entertainment industry that is doing all this stuff but it feels like it's not getting recognized."Even within that side of the entertainment industry, you have these aspects of it that are, like anything else, it feels like the big dogs are running the show, like the indie animators are doing their own thing, doing something different but then maybe they're being shut out of awards consideration.The same is happening on a macro level. In terms of what I've been covering, to take the streaming wars for example, part of the larger capitalist world in which we operate — for example, Warner Brothers Discovery, the company removed I think 36 titles off of HBO Max without warning over the summer as they were trying to carve down on overhead and slash $3 billion worth of debt which the merged company had inherited.A big part of that was animated shows. A lot of animated shows were in that mix. A few of them, like Infinity Train for example, an amazing show, a brilliant genius show, very not of the same mold as other programming like it, Infinity Train was spiked from the service and all their social media accounts were eliminated. I think the music on Apple Music was removed. This all happened within a span of a few days to a week.I don't know the status of Infinity Train's physical media, but the sense of it was that this show had disappeared off the internet, completely disappeared. And as a fan, you're kind of like, "What the f**k?" As a fan, you're like, "What just happened here?" Offhandedly, I talked to people who worked on the show, and they were also just confused like, "What's going on?" I think that they were all blindsided. The creator of the show, Owen Dennis, wrote a very good Substack post on that exact thing, that feeling of blindsidedness.You've got all these things going on and it's not helping. Animators, or people who are fans of animation, it doesn't help them that some movies are being treated with seemingly a different set of rules as other movies, debatable on whether those rules should exist or not as they pertain to the Academy Awards. It feels like they're being devalued by some of these large companies that own some of the titles that they worked on, either to slash them to just offload debt or to eliminate them entirely for no reason. It seems like the reason is money, which to me doesn't really seem a good reason at all.Then at the same time, something like the Academy Awards, and the award is presented, are we then going to be treated to some hacky line from the last year's best supporting actress or whatever saying, "Oh, animation is so good for kids. It's so great to watch when you grow up, this is what you do when you're a child, and that sense of wonder" or whatever.I don't know, man. If all this stuff is happening to you and you're an animator and you're already baseline underpaid, because everybody's underpaid in Hollywood or anywhere in media, you learn that your work is being devalued by the company you work for. You learn that, an opportunity that I have to go on stage and accept this award is being seen as this purely juvenile pursuit that only appeals to children. Again, we're speaking hypotheticals for all of this, but the multinational company worth billions upon billions of dollars that happens to have billions upon billions of dollars in debt, essentially disappears your cartoon from the service that it was running on?I would be demoralized. I'd be very demoralized.Demoralized is a really good word. It's also fascinating because it's objectively wrong. Adult animation, it's really hit a stride recently; demand is only going up.I alluded to Crunchyroll earlier, but again we've seen demand for anime go through the roof. It seems like it's very much a dated mentality that animated programming is exclusively for kids. It is just a separate art form in a way.You've written a lot in particular about how creatively we've been in a bit of a renaissance when it comes to what one can do with animation and who animation can be for.Yes, absolutely. I don't know, some of the best action filmmaking that I have ever seen has come from Genndy Tartakovsky, director and creator of Primal and Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory. I interviewed him a few years ago and I can't remember the exact quote, I've got to pull it up in my notes. I think I asked him something on the level of, "Would you want to direct a live-action film?" or something like that. And for him, it's not about that. It's not about "graduating" from animation into live action. I can't remember the exact quote, but he told me, basically, it's all about filmmaking. It's all about composing shots, creating storyboards, getting the timing, getting the action and putting a film together.I just saw a tweet today, it's Steven Spielberg getting interviewed about something 30 or 40 years ago. He talks about how animation is the father of live-action filmmaking. The quote is like, "They need to know how a chipmunk rolls into a bank of snow or whatever, because they need to paint every motion of that chipmunk rolling over and over and over across 12 cells per second." This is Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg gets it. Why can't anybody else get it?I talk to folks in the comics world who say very similar things, where it's just, they're not trying to storyboard Marvel movies 10 years from now. They're trying to do something in a format that you can uniquely only accomplish in that. You can do things in animation that you cannot do in live action and that's what makes it very cool.It's not for nothing, but the conversations that are happening in the film and TV animated world are probably also happening at the same time in the VFX animation world. We're hearing a lot about these video effects workers on these Marvel movies talking about their labor issues, everything from increased workload leading to overly demanding schedules, and so the product resulting in it looking bad, the product looking not what a movie should look like and not adhering to some of these basic rules of filmmaking, framing and making sure what the stakes are. I think we're just in an interesting period where a lot of these big productions are coming out, you've got Star Wars, you've got all these Marvel movies, you've got the DC Extended Universe. All those require intense special effects like animators. And these two practices are very closely linked, even if they're not going after the same goals.Where can folks find you, Eric? Where can folks find your work and what are you working on these days?Yeah, I'm at Vulture. 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