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The best decision-makers aren't better at deciding. They're better at controlling when, where, and how they decide. It took me twenty years to figure that out. Most people spend that time trying harder: more discipline, more willpower, more resolve to think clearly under pressure. It doesn't work. That's when mindjacking wins. Not through force. Through the door you left unguarded. The answer isn't trying harder. It's building systems that protect your thinking before the pressure hits. By the end of this episode, you'll have four concrete strategies for doing exactly that, and a one-page system you'll build before we're done. And I have something else to share at the end. Something I've been working toward for twenty years. Let's get into it. Why Willpower Fails and Design Works Ulysses knew his ship would pass the island of the Sirens. He also knew the song was irresistible. Sailors who heard it became incapacitated and drove straight into the rocks. He didn't try to be stronger than it. He had his crew fill their ears with wax and tie him to the mast, with strict orders not to release him, no matter what he said when the music reached him. His calm self setting rules for his compromised self. That's the core of everything in this episode. These are called commitment devices. The decision gets made early, when your thinking is clear, before you're tempted to take the wrong path. Studies tracking self-imposed contracts found that when people added meaningful stakes to their commitments, their follow-through nearly doubled. Not because they became more virtuous, but because they'd taken the choice off the table at the moment they were most likely to get it wrong. Stop asking "How do I resist?" Start asking, "What can I decide now, so I don't have to decide under pressure?" Before you can build the right commitments, you need to know exactly where your thinking breaks down. Not decision-making in general. Yours. Finding Your Personal Vulnerability Think back across the last few months. Where did your thinking most clearly cost you? Some people stall. They keep researching past the point of useful information, using "I need more data" as cover for avoiding a commitment they know they need to make. Others make their worst calls at the end of long days. Saying yes when they mean no, because no requires energy they've already spent. Some get caught by urgency. A deadline appears, the pressure closes off their thinking, and they move fast. Only later do they discover the deadline was manufactured to do exactly that. Others walk into a room with a clear position and walk out agreeing with the loudest voice, unable to explain exactly when they shifted. And some defend decisions past the point where the evidence says stop, because stopping would mean admitting something about themselves they're not ready to face. Identify yours. Write it down before we go further. Your primary vulnerability is a design target, not a character flaw. You can't build around something you haven't named. Four Strategies for Protecting Your Judgment Strategy 1: Control When You Decide Every morning I put on the same thing: a black golf shirt, blue jeans, and cowboy boots. Same brands, same routine, no decisions. My wife tolerates it. I've stopped apologizing for it. It's not a fashion choice. It's a cognitive load choice. Your brain has a finite amount of decision-making capacity each day. Every trivial choice draws from the same reserve you need for the decisions that actually matter. What to wear, what to eat, which route to take. Eliminating those choices doesn't just save time. It protects the mental fuel you'll need later. Decision-making capacity isn't flat across the day. It peaks early, when you're rested and fresh. It degrades, measurably, as conditions erode. The same call made at 8 a.m. and at the end of your seventh consecutive meeting aren't equivalent. Same person, different machine. Pull up your calendar from the last two weeks. Look at when your biggest decisions actually happened. For most people, it's not in a calm moment with a clear head. It's in the hallway, on a rushed call, in the last fifteen minutes of a meeting that ran over. That's not bad luck. That's the default you haven't changed yet. Write a standing rule: no significant, hard-to-reverse commitments after a certain hour or after a certain number of back-to-back meetings without a mandatory pause. Hold it like a policy, not a preference. Because preferences are exactly what disappear under the conditions where you need them most. Strategy 2: Build Your Kitchen Cabinet One of the things I credit most for whatever success I've had in my career isn't a framework or a methodology. It's four people. I call them my kitchen cabinet. They've seen my best decisions and my worst ones. They know when I'm rationalizing. They know when I'm avoiding. And they are not afraid to call me out when I'm off the tracks. Here's what surprises people when I describe them. They're not senior executives. They're not peers from inside my industry. They don't work in any organization I've ever worked for. They're a deliberate mix: different backgrounds, different areas of expertise, different ways of seeing the world. One of them has been in my cabinet for nearly thirty years. I trust them completely, and everything we discuss stays between us. That independence is the whole point. The people inside your organization have something at stake in your decisions. Your peers have their own agendas, even when they don't mean to. Your boss has a preferred outcome. None of that makes them bad advisors. It just means they can't give you the one thing you need most when a decision gets hard: a perspective with no skin in the game. Your kitchen cabinet can. Because they have nothing to gain or lose from what you decide, they can ask the question everyone else in the room is avoiding. They can tell you what you don't want to hear. And they'll do it before you've committed, when it still matters, not after the fact, when all they can do is watch. Build yours deliberately. Four to six people is enough. Prioritize independence over seniority. Look for people who will push back, not people who will reassure. And make the relationship reciprocal. You show up for their decisions too. The cabinet only works if the trust runs both ways and the conversations stay private. You don't need them for every decision. You need them for the ones where you're most at risk of fooling yourself. Strategy 3: Write Your Position Before the Room Fills Up I've sat in enough rooms where I walked in with a clear position and walked out having said almost none of it. Not because I was wrong. Because by the time the senior voice spoke and the heads started nodding, my own analysis felt less certain than it did twenty minutes earlier. The brain doesn't just nudge your answer when social pressure arrives. It rewrites your perception. What you saw before entering the room changes to match what the room already believes, before you've consciously registered the pressure. Before any consequential group decision, write down where you stand. Three sentences. What you believe. What evidence supports it. What would genuinely change your mind. A note on your phone is enough. It doesn't need to be formal. It needs to be external, because your memory will quietly revise itself once the social pressure arrives. Those three sentences are a record of what you actually concluded before the room had a chance to work on you. When the discussion moves toward a position, you can then distinguish between "I'm updating because I heard something new" and "I'm caving because the silence is uncomfortable." Without that record, those two experiences feel identical in the moment, and one of them will reliably win. Strategy 4: Assume the Failure Before You Commit In August 2016, Delta Air Lines ran a routine scheduled test of the backup generator at their Atlanta data center. A transformer caught fire. Three hundred of Delta's 7,000 servers, improperly connected to a single power source, went dark. They couldn't fail over to backups. The servers that stayed online couldn't communicate with the ones that hadn't. The entire system collapsed: passenger check-in, baggage, websites, kiosks, and airport displays. Gone. Delta cancelled 2,100 flights over three days. $150 million in losses. Thousands of passengers slept on airport floors. The system had redundancy designed in. The backup had been tested. The specific failure mode, servers with no alternate power connection, was a known vulnerability that nobody had ever stopped to question. A year before the fire, cognitive psychologist Gary Klein, the researcher who developed the pre-mortem, had written a thought experiment describing almost this exact scenario. Imagine, he wrote, that an airline CEO gathered top management and asked: "Every one of our flights around the world has been cancelled for two straight days. Why?" People would think terrorism first. The real progress, Klein said, would come from mundane answers: a reservation system down, a backup that didn't activate, a cascade nobody had traced in advance. Delta built what Klein described. Without running the question that would have found it. The pre-mortem is that question. Before you commit to a significant decision, assume it's six months later, and the decision failed. Not possibly, but definitely. Then ask: What went wrong? What did you know but not say? What did someone sense but find too awkward to raise in the room? "What could go wrong?" produces hedged answers. People soften concerns to preserve harmony. "It failed. What happened?" changes the psychology entirely. You're not being negative. You're being forensic. The things that surface, the concerns that felt impolitic, the risks that seemed too small to mention, are frequently the ones that end up mattering most. Each of these four strategies is a designed defense against the same thing: the systematic capture of your judgment before you notice it happening. That's mindjacking. And now you have four ways to make it harder. But strategies only work if you remember to use them. And you won't remember. Not when you're depleted at 7pm, not when the room is staring at you, not when your identity is on the line. That's not a character flaw. That's just how it works. So we're going to take everything you just learned and put it on one page. A page you'll sign. A page you'll keep somewhere you'll actually see it. Your calm self, right now, is building the system your future self will thank you for. The people who shape outcomes consistently aren't necessarily the sharpest thinkers in the room. They're the ones whose judgment is still intact when everyone else's has degraded. That's a practice, not a talent. The full video and written deep-dive on mindjacking are linked below at philmckinney.com/mindjacking. Your Decision Constitution Remember the Ulysses insight from the beginning of this episode. Your calm self setting rules for your compromised self. That's exactly what this is. A Decision Constitution is one page. Five commitments. Written when your thinking is clear, so the version of you under pressure has something to stand on. Not a to-do list. Not a productivity hack. A contract with yourself. Here's what goes in it. Your Timing Rule. You already know that your judgment degrades as the day runs long. So name it. What are the specific conditions (time of day, number of back-to-back meetings, hours of sleep) that disqualify you from making a high-stakes, hard-to-reverse call without a mandatory pause first? Write that line. Hold it like a policy. Your Pre-Decision List. Think of the situations where you consistently make choices you later regret. The late-day request you said yes to when you meant no. The urgency that overrode your better judgment. Pick three. Write a standing rule for each, specific enough that you can invoke it without having to think. "I don't make new commitments without sleeping on it." That's a rule. "I'll try to be more careful" is not. Your Pre-Meeting Anchor. Before any meeting where a significant decision will be made, you write down where you stand. Three sentences. What you believe, what evidence supports it, and what would genuinely change your mind. Not in the car on the way. Before. That record is what protects your thinking from the room. Your Pre-Mortem Trigger. Name the threshold that makes a decision significant enough to require a pre-mortem. A dollar amount. An impact on more than a certain number of people. A commitment lasting longer than six months. Whatever your threshold is, write it down. Once a decision crosses it, the pre-mortem is non-negotiable. Your Kitchen Cabinet Trigger. Your cabinet is only useful if you engage them before you've decided, not after. So name the conditions that require you to bring a decision to them first. A decision that's hard to reverse. A situation where you have significant personal stakes in the outcome. A moment where you notice everyone around you wants you to decide a certain way. A decision you find yourself avoiding thinking about clearly. Any one of those is enough. Two or more is non-negotiable. Now print out your decision constitution. Sign it. Put it somewhere you'll actually see it before the moments that count. This is your Ulysses contract. Your clear-headed self, right now, is setting the terms your compromised self will have to honor when the pressure is real, and the easy path is pointing the wrong way. Closing That's Part 2 of the Thinking 101 series. Fifteen episodes. If you've been here from the beginning, you've built something real. The series has been running for 21 weeks. The show behind it has been running for 20 years. And how we got here traces back to a single conversation. Twenty years ago, a mentor of mine, Bob Davis, gave me a challenge I couldn't shake. I'd asked him how I could ever repay him for what he'd done for my career. He laughed and said I couldn't. The only option, he said, was to pay it forward. That's why this show exists. That's why it has always existed. The show was called Killer Innovations because that's what felt right in 2005. Bold, a little provocative, built for a moment when podcasting was brand new, and nobody knew what it was supposed to be. Tens of millions of downloads later, we're still here. We have regular listeners in more than 50 countries. Some of you are younger than the podcast itself. But somewhere along the way, the show became something more specific. It stopped being about innovation tips and started being about the innovation decisions that actually shape outcomes. About the patterns underneath the decisions. About the skills that matter most when the pressure is real. On March 23rd, the show's 20th anniversary, we're making major changes. The podcast. The YouTube channel. All of it. And if you have thoughts about where we've been or where we're going, I want to hear them. There's a contact form at philmckinney.com. Send me a note. I'll see you on the 23rd.   Endnotes  "their follow-through nearly doubled": Gharad Bryan, Dean S. Karlan, and Scott Nelson, "Commitment Contracts," Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 73 / Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 980 (October 23, 2009). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1493378. The research draws on Karlan and co-founders' development of StickK.com, a commitment contract platform launched in 2008 at Yale. Platform data consistently shows that users who add meaningful stakes — financial or reputational — to their commitments achieve their goals at roughly double the rate of those who don't. The underlying mechanism was established in Karlan's earlier field research in the Philippines: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin, "Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines," Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2 (May 2006): 635–672. doi:10.1162/qjec.2006.121.2.635. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/121/2/635/1884028. Pre-commitment works not by increasing virtue but by removing the decision from the moment of temptation. For accessible application, see Ian Ayres, Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done (New York: Bantam, 2010), ISBN 978-0-553-80763-9. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6794/carrots-and-sticks-by-ian-ayres/.   "a finite amount of decision-making capacity each day": Roy F. Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne M. Tice, "Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74, no. 5 (1998): 1252–1265. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252. https://roybaumeister.com/1998/03/16/ego-depletion-is-the-active-self-a-limited-resource/. Also see Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (New York: Penguin, 2011). Baumeister's strength model of self-control proposes that willpower, decision-making, and self-regulation all draw from a single, depletable resource — what he termed "ego depletion." Subsequent work has debated the precise mechanism, with some researchers arguing the effect is motivational rather than metabolic. The practical implication, however, is consistent across studies: decision quality degrades as the day progresses, and the effect is most pronounced for complex, high-stakes choices. For a summary of the current scientific debate on the mechanism, see Michael Inzlicht and Brandon J. Schmeichel, "What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control," Perspectives on Psychological Science 7, no. 5 (2012): 450–463. doi:10.1177/1745691612454134. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26168503/.   "It rewrites your perception": Gregory S. Berns, Jonathan Chappelow, Caroline F. Zink, Giuseppe Pagnoni, Megan E. Martin-Skurski, and Jim Richards, "Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation," Biological Psychiatry 58, no. 3 (August 1, 2005): 245–253. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.012. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15978553/.  This fMRI study at Emory University extended Solomon Asch's classic conformity experiments by imaging participants' brains as they conformed to or resisted incorrect group answers. The key finding: when participants went along with the group, the activity appeared not in the prefrontal cortex — the seat of conscious decision-making — but in the occipital-parietal network responsible for visual and spatial perception. In other words, participants who conformed weren't consciously deciding to lie; the group had altered what they actually perceived. Standing alone, by contrast, activated the amygdala, a region associated with emotional distress — consistent with the experience of social dissent as genuinely uncomfortable rather than merely inconvenient.   "Three hundred of Delta's 7,000 servers": Yevgeniy Sverdlik, "Delta: Data Center Outage Cost Us $150M," Data Center Knowledge, September 8, 2016. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/outages/delta-data-center-outage-cost-us-150m.  Also see W. H. Highleyman, "Delta Air Lines Cancels 2,100 Flights Due to Power Outage," Availability Digest (September 2016). https://availabilitydigest.com/public_articles/1109/delta.pdf. On the morning of August 8, 2016, a fire triggered during a routine backup generator test at Delta's Atlanta data center caused a transformer failure. Approximately 300 of Delta's 7,000 servers were improperly connected to a single power source with no alternate feed, and when that feed failed, those servers went dark. Because those servers couldn't communicate with the rest of the system, the entire network collapsed. Delta cancelled roughly 2,100 flights over three days, leaving an estimated 250,000 passengers stranded. Total losses reached $150 million.   "cognitive psychologist Gary Klein, the researcher who developed the pre-mortem": Gary Klein, "Performing a Project Premortem," Harvard Business Review 85, no. 9 (September 2007): 18–19. https://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem.  Klein developed the pre-mortem method over several decades of applied research in naturalistic decision-making. The technique asks teams to assume, before committing to a plan, that the plan has already failed — definitively, not possibly — and then work backward to identify causes. Klein's research found that this reframing dramatically increases the willingness of team members to surface concerns they would otherwise suppress to preserve group harmony. The method has since been endorsed by Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler as a practical tool for reducing overconfidence in planning. For Klein's broader framework of naturalistic decision-making, see Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262343251/sources-of-power/. 

Today's episode of the show returns to the final pre-Combine positional Rankings & Divisional Review series covering 2026 QBs, AFC South, & the NFC South + Jeremiah 2nd Mock Changes.TIMELINE || 2026 QB Rankings -- 2:15 || Divisional Review -- 17:30 || Texans -- 18:15 || Colts -- 31:00 || Jaguars -- 46:00 || Titans -- 58:00 || Falcons -- 01:07:15 || Panthers -- 01:09:45 || Saints -- 01:27:45 || Bucs -- 01:39:45 || Endnotes -- 01:51:00 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Jam-packed show today primarily featuring my detailed discussion of the best prospects remaining in CFB + starting the show making a Fantasy Big Board using Dane Brugler's Top 100 as Draft CapitalTIMELINE || Brugler Big Board Part 1 (1-11) -- 2:45 || BBB Part 2 (12-28) -- 13:15 || 2027 Breakdown -- 23:45 || Top 8 QBs -- 24:30 || QB Part 2 + Trinidad Chambliss -- 52:30 || Top RBs -- 59:30 || RB Part 2 -- 01:21:15 || Top 14 WRs -- 01:25:15 || WR Part 2 -- 1:56:30 || TEs -- 02:09:00 || Endnotes -- 02:12:45 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

With Sadiq declaring & Moore returning, the 2026 class is nearly set for the long haul, so it is time to rank the class 1-to-50+. Additionally, I will obviously discuss that Dante Moore decision. TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || BIG BOARD BEGINS -- 2:00 || Tier 1 Part 1 (#1) -- 2:15 || Tier 1 Part 2 (#2-#5) -- 5:30 || Tier 1 Part 3 (#6-#7) -- 12:30 || Tier 2 Part 1 (#8-11) -- 16:15 || Tier 2 Part 2 (#12-17) -- 26:00 || Tier 2 Part 3 (#18-#23) -- 34:30 || Tier 3 Part 1 (#24-#34) -- 43:30 || Tier 3 Part 2 (#35-53) -- 49:00 || Dante Moore Decision -- 56:30 || Endnotes & 2025 Big Board Review -- 01:07:00 || National Championship Preview -- 01:11:45 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Jampacked episode today with Deeper Dives for Z Branch, T Simpson, & S Bell. Additionally, a brief review of the QB/RB positions in Redraft & an update on Moore & Sadiq. TIMELINE || Intro + Declaration Notes -- 0:00 || Zachariah Branch -- 5:55 || Skyler Bell -- 25:45 || Ty Simpson -- 41:45 || QB -- 01:09:15 || RB -- 01:18:15 || Endnotes + the Dante Moore Decision -- 1:31:00 Branch -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYKuxUIm4UBell -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1i9JfSAmHMSimpson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_20-ksfxTo Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's episode features three new Deeper Dives on K.C. Concepcion, Antonio Williams, & Cade Klubnik alongside previews for the four Quarterfinal match-ups in the College Football Playoffs.Timeline || K.C. Concepcion -- 1:30 || Antonio Williams -- 20:00 || Cade Klubnik -- 35:00 || Endnotes -- 50:45 || Miami/OSU -- 51:30 || Oregon/TTU -- 55:15 || Alabama/Indiana -- 60:00 || Ole Miss/Georgia -- 64:30 || Concepcion -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JjdblLQJVMWilliams -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjVacEVM-9Q Klubnik -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEO9-d02fE Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's show breaks down the three latest Deeper Dives from the podcast on Jadarian Price, Makai Lemon, and Ja'Kobi Lane. More on the CFB Playoff on the next episode! TIMELINE || Jadarian Price -- 1:15 || Makai Lemon -- 22:15 || Ja'Kobi Lane -- 38:15 || Endnotes -- 54:45 Price - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eh0t1yyLc0Lemon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRWtbcLOUELane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbRwriQPPFE Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

This early Wed edition of the FFR podcast looks over every 2026 Rookie Mock from the 2025 Season going player-by-player and giving an overview of how things have changed this season. + Game Previews.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Mock Review -- 1:45 || Week 1 Players -- 2:15 || Week 2+ Players -- 13:45 || Weekly Previews -- 32:15 || Friday Game of the Week -- 33:30 || Friday -- 39:15 || Top Saturday Games -- 46:00 || (3:30) -- 57:15 || (7:30) -- 66:30 || Tier 2 Games -- 74:30 || Tier 3 Games -- 85:00 || Endnotes -- 93:15 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's FFR podcast covers some brief NFL Leaderboards for statistics like Yards per Route Run and Missed Tackles Forced, looks at Week 13 in CFB, and covers the CFB Postseason for Fantasy.TIMELINE || NFL Notes -- 1:30 || WRs -- 2:30 || RBs -- 9:00 || NFL Notes PSA -- 13:00 || Postseason Overview -- 16:30 || Teams -- 17:30 || Conferences -- 39:30 || Seeds -- 49:00 || Week 13 Preview -- 55:30 || Friday Night -- 56:45 || Game of the Week -- 60:15 || Other Top Games -- 64:00 || Other Games -- 69:15 || Endnotes -- 81:30 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's FFR covers the Risers, Fallers, and 2-Round 1QB Weekly Mock Draft after Weeks 9 & 10 of the CFB Season. Last week had the 2026 Big Board and 2027 First Pass, but now the Risers return.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Risers Begin -- 2:10 || QB Risers of the Week -- 2:45 || WR Riser of the Week -- 10:15 || TE Riser of the Week -- 13:45 || QB Faller of the Week -- 15:15 || RB Faller of the Week -- 18:15 || RB Future Riser of the Week -- 26:30 || WR Future Riser of the Week -- 35:00 || Weekly Notes Begin / Friday Night Review -- 40:30 || QB Notes (Sellers, Mateer, Sayin, Raiola) -- 43:45 || Additional Risers Notes (RB/WR) -- 59:30 || TE Notes -- 83:45 || Mock Draft -- 90:00 || Mock Begins -- 93:00 || Round 2 -- 103:45 || Mock Recap: 112:30 || Endnotes -- ~115:00 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's show features a look even further into the future than normal, focusing in on the sophomores / 2nd year players around College Football. + as always the Weekly College Football preview.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || 2026 First Pass Review -- 2:45 || Raw #s 2026 versus 2027 -- 9:15 || Brief Positional Overviews (2027) -- 16:00 || QB Player Notes -- 22:15 || RB Player Notes -- 37:30 || WR Player Notes pt. 1 (Top 6) -- 56:30 || WR Player Notes pt. 2 (WR7+) -- 79:45 || Trey'Dez Green -- 94:45 || Week 10 Preview -- 96:15 || Endnotes -- 120:15 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

New Risers, Fallers, and Weekly Mock Draft after Week 8, covering the ND RB Room, Carnell Tate, another poor week for Sellers, as well as diving into future notes and doing a 2026 2-RD SF Rookie Mock.TIMELINE || Risers Intro -- 2:00 || RB Risers -- 6:00 || WR Risers -- 14:15 || Fallers QB -- 20:30 || Fallers RB -- 33:00 || Future Risers -- 40:30 || Weekly Notes || Friday Night Reactions -- 49:30 || Oregon Bounceback -- 60:00 || Re-Assessing Maiava -- 69:00 || Additional Risers -- 72:15 || Future Notes -- 79:00 || Weekly Mock Draft -- 96:30 || Mock Draft Recap -- 117:00 || Endnotes -- 118:30 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's Thursday show features the standard NFL Notes as well as a preview of a deep roster of games for this upcoming week in College Football. Additionally, I take a look at QB Breakouts this decade.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || NFL QB Notes -- 2:30 || NFL Buy/Sell -- 7:45 || Breakout QBs in the 2020s -- 13:40 || WEEKLY PREVIEWS || Friday Night Lights -- 37:50 || Game of the Week -- 47:15 || Next 3 Games -- 53:15 || Other Games to Watch -- 70:00 || "Don't Sleep on it" Game of the Week -- 81:40 || Endnotes -- 91:35 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Back to Risers, Fallers, and a 1QB Mock Draft. This show covers the previous two weeks of CFB with the biggest QB/WR Risers, updates with brief notes on the 2027 Class, and of course the weekly Mock.TIMELINE || Risers -- 1:40 || Riser of the Week -- 2:30 || QB Risers -- 9:00 || WR Risers -- 22:30 || Fallers -- 38:45 || Future Risers -- 48:00 || Notes + Additional Risers -- 58:45 || 2027 Class Updates -- 70:20 || 2028 RBs -- 91:00 || 1QB Mock Draft -- 96:00 || Endnotes -- 108:00 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

It is time to update some Rankings! This is really the first time sitting down with the 2026 Class exclusively since Early May, so it is time to see what all has changed in that time period. TIMELINE ||QBs -- 2:10 || Tier 1 -- 10:00 || Tier 2 -- 38:30 || Tier 3 -- 43:30 || Honorable Mentions -- 51:15 ||RBs -- 53:45 || Tier 1 / Love -- 55:00 || Tier 2 -- 58:45 || Tier 3 -- 70:30 || Honorable Mentions -- 78:00 || WRs -- 80:45 || Tier 1 -- 86:45 || Tier 2 -- 91:00 || Tier 3 -- 106:45 || Gadgets, Athletes, & Mentions -- 123:30 ||TEs -- 133:00 || Endnotes -- 143:00 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

On today's episode of the FFR podcast, I touch on my news and notes across the NFL after Week 2. Additionally, the show highlights the games to look forward to in the upcoming week of College Football. TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Intro Ends -- 1:25 || QBs (Maye, Darnold, Williams, Young, McCarthy) -- 2:00 || RBs (Cook + Rookie RBs) -- 22:40 || WRs (Odunze, TMac, Franklin, Ayomanor) -- 36:50 || TEs (KRAFT TIME) -- 47:25 || Week 4 Best Games in CFB -- 51:15 || Other Games -- 62:20 || Endnotes -- 79:15 || Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

On this special episode of Brookfield Perspectives, Nick Goodman, President and CFO of Brookfield Corporation, and Sachin Shah, CEO of Brookfield Wealth Solutions, share some of their top takeaways from Brookfield Investor Day 2025. Listeners of this podcast should refer to the ‘Endnotes' and ‘Notice to Recipients' contained in BN's Investor Day Presentation (https://bn.brookfield.com/sites/brookfield-bn-v2/files/BN-IR-Master/Presentations/2025/bn-investor-day-presentation-2025.pdf), available on BN's website.

On this special episode of Brookfield Perspectives, Connor Teskey, President of Brookfield Asset Management, and Hadley Peer Marshall, CFO of Brookfield Asset Management, share some of their top takeaways from Brookfield Investor Day 2025. Listeners of this podcast should refer to the ‘Endnotes' and ‘Notice to Recipients' contained in BAM's Investor Day Presentation (https://bam.brookfield.com/sites/brookfield-bam-v2/files/BAM-IR-Master/Presentations/2025/bam-ir-day-sep-2025-presentation.pdf), available on BAM's website.

With no NFL News or Games to cover as of yet, today's edition of the Fantasy for Real features primarily the weekly preview for Week 2 of the CFB season, which most prominently features Mich @ OklaTIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Week 2 Preview: Michigan @ Oklahoma -- 2:00 || Next Two Games -- 16:15 || Other Games -- 23:00 || EndNotes -- 37:15 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Football is BACK! Reactions to the 1st Week of the CFB Season including a disappointing performance by Arch Manning + the first 2026 Rookie Mock Draft of the Season.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Risers/Fallers -- 3:00 || 2026 WR/RB/TE Risers -- 5:15 || Future (2027+) Risers -- 28:55 || Week 1 Fallers -- 50:15 || SF Mock Draft 1.0 -- 68:45 || Endnotes -- 89:00 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

On this week's FFR, the Regular Season is (kinda) back. I'll be previewing Iowa State v Kansas State, covering injuries, and discussing BillTIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Injury News -- 4:45 || NFL News -- 15:20 || Week 0 Preview -- 26:35 || Week 1 Thursday -- 37:50 || Week 1 Friday -- 46:20 || 2026 QB Consensus -- 65:00 || Endnotes -- 80:50 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Jamie and Sam are joined by Felix from the Berlin-based discussion and publication group Friends of the Classless Society to discuss their piece “Contours of the World Commune, ” which can be found in Endnotes #5. This text offers an exciting glimpse of what this world commune might look like, so we can keep our eyes on the prize as we build revolutionary power in the here and now. What is the relevance of Marx's transitional “first stage” of communism in a late-capitalist economic landscape? Should we abolish the suburbs? Are rural land projects an escapist delusion or is there something there, after all? All this and more in this week's audio-only episode. Read the piece: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/contours-of-the-world-commune.pdf *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Check out our newly launched video channels: Rumble: rumble.com/user/partygirlspod Kollektiva: kolektiva.media/a/partygirls/videos Follow us on ALL the Socials: Instagram: @party.girls.pod TikTok: @party.girls.pod Twitter: @partygirlspod BlueSky: @partygirls.bsky.social Leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify if you feel so inclined: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/party-girls/id1577239978 https://open.spotify.com/show/71ESqg33NRlEPmDxjbg4rO Executive Producer: Andrew Callaway Producers: Charlotte Albrecht, Jon B., Ryan M. Design: Julie J.

Today's ep features an extensive breakdown of future Draft prospects in the SEC not just for the 2026, but also including underclassmen not eligible until 2027 and even 2028. 80+ Players Featured.SEC PLAYER LIST -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/10bW7o4le-C7nXEbzyk6KMFmYqtCeCz8LoQpv2W2iy-E/edit?usp=sharing TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || College Futures (Intro) -- 3:25 || QBs (Tier 1) -- 14:10 || Nussmeier -- 14:30 || Manning -- 19:00 || Sellers -- 29:55 || Underclassmen (Lagway + Russell) -- 34:45 || Tier 2 / John Mateer -- 42:55 || Tier 3 -- 47:00 || RBs/WRs (Intro) -- 51:00 || RB Tier 1 (Durham, Frazier) -- 55:15 || Tier 2 Draft Eligible (Baxter, Ott) -- 59:20 || Tier 2 Underclassmen -- 63:55 || Tier 3 -- 72:05 || WR Tier 1 (Williams, Coleman) -- 91:00 || Tier 2 Draft Eligible -- 97:50 || Tier 2 Underclassmen -- 106:10 || Tier 3 -- 112:15 || TEs -- 139:00 || Endnotes -- 147:30 || Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's edition of the Fantasy For Real podcast is the last in our redraft series, concluding with a full 12-Tm, 12-Rd, 1QB Mock Draft. I make every pick for every team and record the journey live.Draft Board: https://clickydraft.com/draftapp/board/277211As always, the Substack has write-ups and updated rankings that are attached to this episode of the Fantasy for Real podcast.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Mock -- 4:40 || Pick 1.01 -- 6:05 || Round 1/2 Turn -- 10:15 || 2/3 Turn -- 19:50 || 3/4 Turn -- 27:55 || 4/5 Turn -- 35:00 || 5/6 Turn -- 45:10 || 6/7 Turn -- 55:15 || 7/8 Turn -- 65:00 || 8/9 Turn -- 77:50 || 9/10 Turn -- 92:00 || 10/11 Turn -- 101:35 || 11/12 Turn -- 111:20 || Endnotes -- 121:30 || Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's show focuses on some recent news, briefly touches on the 2026 QB Class, but primarily focuses on breaking down the teams in the NFC and AFC East with a focus on redraft leagues & projections.TIMELINE: Intro + A Rodgers & E. Stewart News -- 0:00 || Divisions -- 6:45 || Cowboys -- 7:30 || Commanders -- 19:40 || Giants -- 33:25 || Eagles -- 40:30 || Patriots -- 46:50 || Dolphins -- 54:40 || Jets -- 64:45 || Bills -- 70:50 || Endnotes* + 2026 QB Discussion -- 79:00*meant to say TreVeyon Henderson and Nicholas Singleton returned to school, not Henderson/Judkins. Projections -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HiQZqspMPHDfYHlGyIOZUQLDLWGT-wIn_KiA9v_egSc/edit?usp=sharing Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

On today's episode, the show pivots to a redraft mindset. While some of these numbers are relevant to dynasty, today's show will discuss the methods and some surprises from my 2025 Redraft Projections.TIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || Methods & Examples -- 2:15 || Projection Surprises -- 31:55 || Start-up Wrap-up -- 63:00 || Endnotes -- 83:20 Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Today's episode will wrap up the Start-Up Mock and 2026 Big Board series. Additionally, a look at prospect's ages in '25. Keep in mind rankings (particularly TE rankings) are changing!Redraft Projections and eventually divisional breakdowns begin on the next showhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x4k2FHqDOjiQADDFbC5WhnyX9HbPqu16zjsE57enjB4/edit?usp=sharingTIMELINE || Intro -- 0:00 || SF Mock Rds 9-12 (7:00) || '22-'25 Age List (54:20) || RB+TE 2026 PFF Big Board (66:00) || Endnotes (86:20) Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

CHAPTERS00:00 - Intro & Outrageous Hooks3:29 - Athletes & Celebs Marketability7:29 - Utilizing Captions in Content8:45 - Athletes Content Potential11:31 - Foreshadowing, First Shot, Caption14:00 - Long-Form Captions15:48 - Bryson DeChambeau's YouTube18:17 - Power of Quantitative Comparison19:59 - Copy & Script Writing22:15 - Psychology and Buying25:32 - Recreating YT Hooks27:55 - Jenny Hoyos' Power Words29:31 - Ads in the 1800s33:44 - Repetition in Writing37:10 - Endnotes & Italy DESCRIPTIONWe decided to unpack what makes content truly stick – starting with outrageous hooks and ending with the psychology behind buying. We explore Bryson Dechambeau's content strategy, the underrated power of captions, and why celebrities are content goldmines waiting to be tapped. From YouTube hooks to 1800s copy, this episode covers how to craft messages that captivate user attention. Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in Italy next week!As always, appreciate you all listening, and don't forget to leave us a review and submit your questions for Alex and Brian at the email address below. See you next week.--------------------WANT FREE GAME? Or just have a question for Brian & Alex?Submit your questions here: www.marketingexamined.com/podcastOR email us at podcast@marketingexamined.com--------------------WATCH THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE:For full video versions, and short highlights of every episode, head tohttps://www.youtube.com/@marketingexamined?sub_confirmation=1NEWSLETTER:For growth playbooks, deep dives, and marketing case studies, get subscribed atwww.marketingexamined.com--------------------Follow Alex & Brian on Twitter and IGwww.twitter.com/@alexgarcia_atxwww.twitter.com/@brian_blum1

Sam and Jamie are back with a classic Party Girls news episode, and there's much to discuss. The Party Girls pour one out for Pope Francis, and another for the pope of anti-state communism, Jacques Camatte. Trump wages war on higher education. Emrata calls out Katy Perry for taking a ride in Jeff Bezos' douche-rocket. Endnotes in the New York Times(!) All this, plus Jamie got too high on 420. In memoriam Jacques Camatte (1935-2025): https://editionslatempete.com/in-memoriam-jacques-camatte-1935-2025/ *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Join our YouTube channel as a member to get access to bonus videos (the same one's you'd find on Patreon!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0T-lzkTsMt1tBSvp958UGQ/join Follow us on ALL the Socials: Instagram: @party.girls.pod YouTube: @partygirlspod TikTok: @party.girls.pod Twitter: @partygirlspod BlueSky: @partygirls.bsky.social Leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify if you feel so inclined: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/party-girls/id1577239978 https://open.spotify.com/show/71ESqg33NRlEPmDxjbg4rO

Two titanic figures in contemporary theory join us for two separate and strongly divergent episodes on the status of revolutionary thought in political philosophy today. Ray Brassier influenced a generation of philosophers not only with his outstanding and highly rigorous writing, but also his absolutely stunning translations of Quentin Meillassoux and François Laruelle, and in so doing is subcutaneously responsible for literally a decade of earthquakes in the discourse. Ray joins us to evaluate the status of Marx in the 21st century.Ray traces the long arc from Nihil Unbound through Marx, Sellars, and the inferentialist tradition, opening up an unapologetically rationalist framework for understanding both science and emancipation, without reducing either to liberal platitudes or metaphysical fantasies. We discuss the seductive dangers of naive anti-humanism, the legacy of German idealism, the automation of reason, and why political theory today needs to be deeply embedded in materialist accounts of scale, finance, and abstraction. Ray shares a trenchant critique of both the empiricist and idealist strands of Enlightenment thought, offering instead a dialectical, normatively grounded, socially embedded concept of rationality that returns to Kant and Hegel by way of Wilfrid Sellars. We strongly recommend:Ray's book Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction His essay “The View from Nowhere”His exceptional piece "Politics of the Rift" on Théorie Communiste in e-fluxWork from the journal Endnotes (https://endnotes.org.uk/)In the episode, we also discuss theorists such as Badiou, Larouelle, Meillassoux, and Marxist reinterpretations by Moishe Postone, Théorie Communiste, and the German “New Reading” school. Ray elaborates on how capital's increasing abstraction—especially in financialized regimes where labor is decoupled from value—is not the end of Marx, but a reason to read Marx more seriously and materially than ever.

On today's show, we finish up the two segments from last week, covering the NFL Combine and also giving some more detailed discussion to the 7-Round Start-Up Mock Draft from last episode.TIMELINE: Combine Reactions -- 1:30 || Start-Up Mock Part 2 -- 32:00 || Endnotes -- 53:00Mock Rosters -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gJqCNCMtabSGjQVD2OfUtcR-AwSLinrqzbBazwpAGBk/edit?usp=sharing Get full access to C.J.'s Substack at cjfreel.substack.com/subscribe

Ralph and Lauren get into the shifting tides of advertising, breaking down Meta's upcoming restrictions and what they mean for businesses in 2025. From sensitive ad categories to the growing challenges of personalized advertising, they lay out strategies to adapt and thrive in a world where privacy laws are rewriting the rules. Along the way, they reflect on co-host dynamics, swap sharp takes on the future of marketing, and leave you with advice to stay ahead of the curve.Chapters00:00:00 - Opening Loops & Layers: What's Coming Up?00:00:13 - New Energy in the Room: Meet the Co-Host!00:01:28 - Rewind Chronicles: Co-Hosts of the Past00:02:45 - Meta's Maze: Surviving a Shifting Landscape00:04:55 - The Future is Delicate: 2025's Red Flags00:05:06 - Wellness Hit: Brands Brace for Impact00:12:21 - Privacy Wars: Personalization vs. Boundaries00:15:37 - Rulebook Rewritten: Navigating Ad Chaos00:17:41 - Looking Ahead: Staying Sharp in the Storm00:28:14 - Endnotes and Epiphanies: Wisdom to GoLINKS AND RESOURCES:Episode 649: Fix These 17 Biggest Mistakes You Are Making Right Now With Your Meta AdsChoosing a Special Ad CategoryAgency Freedom LiveTier 11 JobsPerpetual Traffic on YouTubeTiereleven.comMongoose MediaPerpetual Traffic SurveyPerpetual Traffic WebsiteFollow Perpetual Traffic on TwitterConnect with Lauren on Instagram and Connect with Ralph on LinkedInThanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Perpetual Traffic? Have some feedback you'd like to share? Connect with us on iTunes and leave us a review!Mentioned in this episode:AdCritter for AgenciesTier 11 Data Suite

On today's episode, we dive deep into top WR McMillan as well as other 2025 Draft Prospects in Ollie Gordon and Tre Harris + Conference Championship Game Reactions. TIMELINE || NFL Notes (incl. Braelon Allen & Young RB Discussion) -- 1:45 || DEEPER DIVES || Tetairoa McMillan -- 24:45 || Ollie Gordon II -- 38:45 || Tre Harris -- 51:45 || CONFERENCE CHAMP & Other College Notes -- 64:15 || Endnotes -- 76:30 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cjfreel.substack.com

In which we encounter the unknowable concept of the S P H E R E. Reading: The Logic of Gender (2013) from Endnotes 3 by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4r47b7UF

My takeaways and endnotes from the life of Augustus Caesar. Plus a conversation with Alex Petkas, and a review of Gladiator II! ---- Come join us at the Austin Cost of Glory Retreat - Use code Takeover for $200 off. Subscribe for the full episode at takeoverpod.supercast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of FFR, I walk through my biggest reactions to the NFL and College games this past weekend. NFL notes go position-by-position before heading into CFB to discuss future risers. TIMELINE || NFL || Jauan Jennings -- 1:30 || Rookie QB Performance -- 5:50 || Sam Darnold -- 9:50 || Chase Brown & James Cook -- 11:30 || WRs (JSN, McConkey, Worthy, Watson, Shakir, Boutte, Johnston, Waddle) -- 13:50 || TEs (Bowers, Njoku, Andrews) -- 24:30 || College || 2025 Risers (Hampton, Beck) -- 28:30 || Future Risers (Coleman, Robinson, Mosely, Love, & more) -- 35:00 || Endnotes -- 47:10 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cjfreel.substack.com

Today we hear from a mother of two who has a degree in public health and was trained as a doula before her first pregnancy. She didn't expect her water to break the way it didShe didn't expect a retained placenta or the hemorrhage that followed  and thanks to both her resilience, and the skillful work of her doula, that experience was followed by a second pregnancy and birth. She also shares great tips about managing the chaos of postpartum with a whiteboardWhat follows is the first part of our conversationDoula care is currently covered by insurance in 21 states:https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/challenges-and-strategies-in-expanding-non-traditional-pregnancy-related-services-findings-from-a-survey-of-state-medicaid-programs/#:~:text=Endnotes,reimbursed%20through%20a%20bundled%20payment).To find more from Darla:Website:howtoaffordeverything.comSocials:instagram.com/my_finansisyoutube.com/@my_finansis

The end of season three of the Other States of America: History Podcast. Endnotes appear in video as word limit will not allow everything to fit in this description. Thank you for listening! Eric Yanis --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support

Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution. Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factoryPhil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1cPhil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-KomiteGuido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdfStarosta's book: Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=enSome background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire

What's up, Patrons. I sat down with my buddy, Spencer Wirth-Davis (The What If? Podcast) to talk about David Grusch's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. From one man's martyrdom, to a talk about muscle cars and A.I., episode 2065 of the JRE will leave you annoyed as hell and wondering what you just listened to. Don't worry, Spencer and I have got you. From talks about alien life, to talks about muscle cars, orangutans using sticks and AI, this conversation leaves no stone unturned, dives into the "white wing" of ufology, and goes places you don't even see coming.

How did Arnold Schwarzenegger train? What was his approach to failure? Why did he just make things up during interviews? Find out on this endnotes episode! --- Sponsors: Premium Feed - To hear every episode as it comes out, including endnotes, bonus episodes, and mini-episodes. --- Sources: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger --- Writing, production, and sound design by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was John Rockefeller a good man or a bad one? What did he do after he retired? How do his charitable contributions affect us to this day? Find out on this endnotes episode. --- Sponsors: Premium Feed - To hear every episode as it comes out, including endnotes, bonus episodes, and mini-episodes. --- Sources: Titan by Ron Chernow Random Reminiscences of Men and Events --- Writing, production, and sound design by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More of my takeaways about obsession, cloning yourself, keeping a schedule, and more. --- New Website: TakeOverPod.com Talk with Ben Ask a question for upcoming AMA episode YouTube Channel To sign up for premium tier, go here. If you are broke and would like to beg for premium tier, send me an email: Ben@httotw.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this endnotes episode, I cover Napoleon's psychology, his leadership style, his love life, his children, why France accepted an emperor so soon after ejecting their king, and much more. If you are interested in a premium subscription but can't afford one - email me at Ben@httotw.com. Also, check out my new website at TakeOverPod.com - major thanks to Tamba for the redesign. Sponsors: Premium Feed - To hear every episode as it comes out, including endnotes, bonus episodes, and mini-episodes. Tamba.Digital - For all of your website, web app, and mobile app design needs --- Sources: The Mind of Napoleon by J Christopher Herold Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grade Armee by John Elting The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze --- Writing, production, and sound design by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and FactoryAlso check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn RailFor part 2 of the episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Song: The Cure - A Forest (Tree Remix)

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TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE (AND ALL FUTURE BONUS CONTENT) SUBSCRIBE HERE ---> Takeoverpod.supercast.com ----- Topics Covered: - Mongol invasion of Europe - The rise and fall of Christianity in Asia - Genghis Khan's red hair - "Don't let him be frightened by dogs" - Mongols in England - + more! ---- Follow me on social media: Twitter: @BenWilsonTweets Instagram: @HTTOTW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What did the movie Oppenheimer get right? What was historically inaccurate? Did they manage to capture the true spirit of all the characters involved? What does J Rober Oppenheimer's life ultimately mean? I answer all of these questions and share some of my unused notes about the life of J Robert Oppenheimer. --- Sponsors: LinkedHacker.com/Ben - Follow this link for $100 off your next LinkedIn advertising campaign Indeed.com/Takeover - Use this link for $75 off your next hiring campaign Founders Podcast --- Sources: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes --- Writing, production, and sound design by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

M.E. O'Brien joins us in Hell to discuss her new book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" published by Pluto Press. M.E. co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Her writing has been published by Work, Employment and Society, Social Movement Studies, Endnotes, Homintern, Commune, and Invert. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at NYU, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. Find her on twitter (at)genderhorizon and at her website https://genderhorizon.com/ Support This is Hell! on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

The second half of the life of Leonardo Da Vinci - artist, inventor, scientist, writer, playwright, and genius. --- Sources: Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Leonardo Da Vinci by Kenneth Clark Leonardo Da Vinci biography by Vasari --- Writing and production by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices