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Shortly before Kelsey Grammer rose to fame playing Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and then Frasier, he experienced a horrible personal tragedy: His 18-year-old older sister Karen was brutally murdered in 1975. “The grief was so enormous. I don't blame anybody for grieving to that extent, I get it.” And now he's memorializing Karen's memory—and searching for answers—in Karen: A Brother Remembers (May 6). He says the book “came from what is a shared sadness, a depth of sadness that we have to go through these things,” and hopes that others will feel a “lifeline” with this book. “There is a personal, human cost struggle that is forever. From the moment that happens, it's forever. So I think that one of the goals of the book would be to actually extend the hand of love to everybody that's felt the same way, who will spend the rest of their lives remarking on it.” While the “grief is always there,” Grammer says writing this book “let the grief roll back just enough to be able to remember her story is my story, and that our love that we had is forever, and that's been great.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the 2010s, the video game industry saw an ENORMOUS boom, with annual revenues jumping from 80 billion dollars to TWO HUNDRED billion over that decade, according to a report by investment research group Epyllion. But in recent years, that exponential growth hit a plateau. “Games were so successful both prior to & during 2020 & 2021, that they set kind of impossible standards for 2023 & 2024… And when the uptick flattened, it was seen as a tremendous failure.” That’s video game writer and creator Alanah Pearce from her recent video titled, “The games industry is screwed.” While the industry remains profitable, volatility has shaken investors and large game studios – and created major instability for workers. Last week, EA, which has a local footprint in Kirkland, announced a new round of layoffs – affecting hundreds of employees including workers at Respawn, the studio behind games like Apex Legends and the Star Wars: Jedi series. Things are changing for consumers, too: Microsoft recently announced that it’s raising prices across the entire XBOX platform, … hot on the heels of Nintendo announcing price hikes for its Switch 2 games. The gaming industry appears to be at a crossroads. GUEST: Jason Schreier, author & reporter at Bloomberg RELATED LINKS: The games industry is screwed. Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game - Bloomberg Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Around 100 Employees Impacted - IGN Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game - Bloomberg PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The artist Jeremy Deller can't really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet By Charlotte Higgins. Read by Richard Coyle. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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April 14, 1935. Enormous clouds of dust and dirt sweep across Oklahoma and Texas in the worst storm of the Dust Bowl.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

0:34: The Warriors F'd around and found out: 4:16: The Jonathan Kuminga situation is weird and odd: How is he on the team and not playing? 6:27: The James Harden beard rant: 8:51: Best case scenario the Warriors are headed for a matchup with the Rockets which is not good 10:14: The worst-case scenarios that *could* be on the horizon: 12:09: IF the Warriors get dumped out of the play-in, firing Steve Kerr is on the table: 15:55: The Warriors did ALL of this to themselves: Whatever they get they deserve 17:08: The Kuminga DNP in the most important game is WEIRD: 18:58: Is Buster Ball really a thing??? 23:350: That was one of the best Masters of Damon's life 38:14: Today in history:

Markets dropped again Thursday as investors and businesses focused on the escalating U.S.-China trade war and what it could mean for the economy. For his part, President Trump showed no immediate signs of easing the Chinese tariffs. John Yang reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Markets dropped again Thursday as investors and businesses focused on the escalating U.S.-China trade war and what it could mean for the economy. For his part, President Trump showed no immediate signs of easing the Chinese tariffs. John Yang reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

What a crazy day it was today. Enormous downswing. Then an upswing. Then big downswing on slots. Then big upswing on slots. And then hearing some bad news about a friend.

On the podcast today we have Milana Cap, and she's here to talk about her presentation at WordCamp Asia in Manila, titled "WordPress gems for developers: fresh new features you'll actually want to use." Milana, a WordPress Engineer at XWP from Serbia, discusses the significance of the Interactivity API and HTML API in modern WordPress development. The Interactivity API enables communication between Gutenberg blocks, while the HTML API simplifies server-side DOM manipulation using PHP. These advancements enhance WordPress' interactivity, boost performance, and provide standardised solutions for developers, improving efficiency and moving WordPress into the future. If you're a developer looking to leverage these new WordPress features, this episode is for you.

On the podcast today we have Milana Cap, and she's here to talk about her presentation at WordCamp Asia in Manila, titled "WordPress gems for developers: fresh new features you'll actually want to use." Milana, a WordPress Engineer at XWP from Serbia, discusses the significance of the Interactivity API and HTML API in modern WordPress development. The Interactivity API enables communication between Gutenberg blocks, while the HTML API simplifies server-side DOM manipulation using PHP. These advancements enhance WordPress' interactivity, boost performance, and provide standardised solutions for developers, improving efficiency and moving WordPress into the future. If you're a developer looking to leverage these new WordPress features, this episode is for you.

We're BACK With the West's Greatest Spy Against Russia. RIP Oleg Gordievsky. Alex & Bryan tell us about when baby poo saved the world, when rudeness is required, and how ...

Episode 285 features inspiring stories from athlete, Dave Stevens, a seven-time Emmy Award winner and congenital amputee, while Jimmy Carbone and Sean Ludwig promote upcoming barbecue events and barbecue's enormous growth.  Dave Stevens is an athlete and a seven-time Emmy Award winning sports broadcaster.  Dave is a congenital amputee and has wrestled, played football, and played baseball, all without legs.  Dave played college football and had a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys.  Dave was featured on the television show, That's Incredible along with a very young and future golf pro, Tiger Woods.  Dave had baseball tryouts with the 1984 Olympic baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Minnesota Twins, as well as a three-week contract with the minor league baseball team, St. Paul Saints where he played alongside Darryl Strawberry and even pinch-hit for Strawberry.  Dave worked at ESPN for over 20 years.  He has covered Super Bowls, World Series, Final Fours and many other events.  Dave volunteers as a board member for NubAbility Athletics, which organizes sports camps for “Limb-Different” Athletes. He also co-hosts the Celebrity Amputee Golf Classic and is an Ambassador Athlete for the Dave Clark Foundation which hosts free clinics with Minor League baseball teams for children with disabilities. Jimmy Carbone is back with a preview of his food events which we can look forward to this year, including Brisket King, Rib King, and Pig Island NYC.  Each year these events become more popular and we spend part of our time discussing the outstanding growth of barbecue and the various flavors being added which are changing the way we think of the cuisine.  It is an exciting time to be a foodie in New York as well as the surrounding areas and Jimmy's events are among the reasons why. Sean Ludwig is the founder of NYC BBQ, http://www.nycbbq.com a website and newsletter with news and information on all things barbecue in the NYC metro are.  He is also a co-founder with Ryan Cooper of The Smoke Sheet, https://www.bbqnewsletter.com which is a weekly newsletter that curates the latest national barbecue news, upcoming events, books to read, podcasts to listen to, videos to watch, recipes, and so much more.  Barbecue is experiencing tremendous growth and Sean provides unique insights as to why. We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/   We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe. If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you.   Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  baseballandbbq@gmail.com Twitter:  @baseballandbbq Instagram:  baseballandbarbecue YouTube:  baseball and bbq Website:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq

Today, don't focus too much on your pride but on the Prince of Peace instead. In so doing so, you'll receive the spirit of humility.-------- Thank you for listening! Your support of Joni and Friends helps make this show possible.   Joni and Friends envisions a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ. Become part of the global movement today at www.joniandfriends.org.   Find more encouragement on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West' (Simon & Schuster). This is the second part of a two-part conversation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West' (Simon & Schuster). This is the second part of a two-part conversation.

The Cheney brothers invented a process for mastering nature's magical creation of silk, driving their business to the #1 position globally. They made the parachutes used on D-Day. They also introduced corporate paternalism, providing employees with housing, schools, and more.

Is Europe really the “stalwart” of democracy? While the radical Left in America failed to imprison President Donald Trump, their Europeans counterparts are having a successful time prosecuting their political enemies, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today's edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “Europe is copying the lawfare of the United States. Remember that Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and E. Jean Carroll, in civil and criminal suits, for four years tried to destroy Donald Trump. And they had over $400 million in fines that were leveled at one point. And there were 91 felony indictments… “Ms. Le Pen, the head of the most conservative party in France, who has got enormous momentum. Enormous momentum, because, of the violence of radical Islamic groups, inside France. The open borders, the dissatisfaction with the blank check, given Ukraine, etc., I could go on and on… “[The high court] said that she had expropriate funds, campaign funds. In other words, that she was blending—does this sounds familiar—blending her own campaign with funds allotted from the European Union, for other purposes. In other words, there was a difference—a distinction without a difference. “In other words, they only applied this law to her because they were terrified she was going to win, in the next presidential election.” Watch the full epsiode now! Link in show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many of us will face desperate situations. Terminal Illness. A wayward brother. A lay off. Enormous debt. Relational conflict. Loneliness. Mental illness. We feel like everything we do fails to make things better. What should we do when we find ourselves in a desperate situation?

Episode 1678 - brought to you by our incredible sponsors:   Turtle Beach:  Level up your game and get 10% off @TurtleBeach with code HARDFACTOR at turtlebeach.com/HARDFACTOR! #turtlebeachpod Fitbod: Level up your workout. Join Fitbod today to get your personalized workout plan. Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at www.Fitbod.me/HARDFACTOR  Birddogs: For a limited time, our listeners get a FREE HAT with any order when you use code HARDFACTOR at birddogs.com. Get their best-selling hat completely free when you use code HARDFACTOR at birddogs.com. Support our show and let them know we sent you!   DeleteMe: Get 20% off your data protection DeleteMe plan by texting Hard Factor to 64000   Timestamps: 00:00:40 - Show teases 00:08:00 - New Jersey police chief pulls off some AGGRESSIVE pranks 00:27:15 - Enormous man rams Tesla on mini four-wheeler 00:37:45 - Babysitter finds “monster” under kid's bed 00:40:15 - Utah bans predators on VR 00:43:45 - Six figure Renoir painting found at flea market THANK YOU for listening! Join our community and get access to Discord App Chat w/ the hosts, and Bonus Podcasts @ patreon.com/HardFactor but Most importantly... HAGFD! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Matt meets a taller, better-looking version of himself! Chris is thoroughly humiliated! The podcast gets an official mascot! This week's Wild Card is delightfully cruel!

In this special bonus episode, we're hitting pause—so that you can learn the power of pressing pause.  This episode dives into the growing conversation around sabbaticals—not just as a nice-to-have, but a strategic leadership development tool. You'll hear a compelling narration of our latest white paper, inspired by a powerful Harvard Business Review article and infused with our own research and years of practical coaching insights from the Stay Forth team. Whether you're a leader on the verge of burnout or an organization seeking sustainable impact, this episode offers a practical and transformative take on why sabbaticals matter now more than ever.

"The original filed recording by Robert Cole Rizzi is for the most part a rather minimalist recording. We hear a faint breeze, the small rustles of people indistinctly chatting and walking along, all organic sounds lulling us into a peaceful scene. But then we get the eruption of the church bells! Enormous and arrhythmic, they seem to gather the parishioners into the church through sheer volume. There is shuffling and scuffling, the coming together of people, the opening and closing of doors, and then near-silence again. "I wanted to capture this sense of church-going in my composition: the call to sanctuary, the peacefulness sound within, the summoning by bells. Alongside remixing and manipulating the original recording, and inspired by the metallic rapture of the church bells, I worked exclusively with metal percussion: a small bell of my own, singing bowl cymbal, steel tongue drum and wire brushes. I found symmetry in the call of the bell, and the single note chimed from a singing bowl signalling the start of a meditation, and how church-going is a form of meditation in itself. "At the same time of recording this, I found out that our friends in a local charitable organisation, Open Arts, were being evicted by their landlord. The property there are in had gone into receivership, and was being sold off. Part of Open Arts outreach is in running a gamelan group for adults with disabilities, who come together and create wonderful metallic soundscapes on the vast range of gamelan equipment Open Arts us. I couldn't help but see a sad reversal of the scene from Denmark: instead of people joining together peacefully under the sound of bells, they were being uprooted and disrupted." Morning worship, Christiansfeld reimagined by DARDIS. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world's most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

A wave of viral speculation has swept across social media following claims by an Italian research team that new satellite-based radar technology has revealed vast hidden structures beneath Egypt's Giza Plateau. Enormous underground cylinders, spiral shafts, and five mysterious chambers allegedly lie beneath the Pyramid of Khafre—some even linking them to the legendary Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. But does the data hold up under scrutiny? And where is the promised evidence? We break down the wild claims, the strange cast of characters, and the very real science behind the tech—while asking: is this a revolutionary discovery… or just another echo from the esoteric fringe? Then in our Plus+ extension, we dive into the depths with a look at invisible residents—unidentified submerged objects (USOs), strange water-based anomalies, and the theory that we may be sharing our oceans with a hidden aquatic intelligence. Links Yuga Shift: The End Of The Kali Yuga & The Impending Planetary Transformation Comunicato stampa..Piana di Giza SAR Scan of Khafre Pyramid Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Harmonic analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data Space geodetic monitoring of engineered structures Andrew Côté Khafre SAR scan Mar 2025 Corrado Malanga HUGE Structures Discovered 2km BELOW Pyramid of Khafre?! 36,400 BC: The Historical time of the Zep Tepi Theory The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean Gérard de Nerval Journey to the Orient Great Pyramid Plus+ Extension The extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE. A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects: Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969 UFOs and Water: Physical Effects of UFOs On Water Through Accounts By Eyewitnesses Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs Are Underwater UFOs an Imminent Threat? The U.S. Government Sure Thinks So UFOs, Alien Abductions, and High Strangeness: Otherworldly Encounters from the Hudson Valley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Self-love is not a weak sport.By healing your hurts and building your strongest self you reap enormous business rewards. Seems strange right? Yet you can be part saint and part CEO and business titan. By learning how to appreciate, respect and honor yourself MUCH more.Take good care of yourself. Please. Your brilliance—and the rebuilding of a better world—depends upon it.If these insights speak to you and you're willing to do a little work on the ideas, tools, and habits I'll happily teach you inside my new world-class digital training program, then I'd love to help you here.FOLLOW ROBIN SHARMA:InstagramFacebookTwitterYouTube

Hour 1 – The Drive opened the show explaining how the high asking price and high contract demands likely mean KC is out on DK Metcalf.

In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Liam Cahill sits down with Simon von Bromley to discuss the hottest tech trends from the first spring classic of 2025.   Back in the UK after a weekend in Belgium, Liam gives us the skinny on Visma–Lease a Bike's head-turning helmets, all the unreleased kit the likes of Specialized and Zipp and trying to hide, and why some teams are turning to gravel groupsets for road races.   Enormous aero helmets, 30mm tyres and gravel gearing – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2025 tech gallery Lidl-Trek using prototype automatic chain waxing machine at the Tour de France Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a textPrepare to take a humorous journey as the guys kick-off their 6th Season of ENORMOUS! Explore the elusive world of the “ham map”. Harley and KC share heartfelt tales of finding the perfect dog and the memorable moments surrounding their furry friends. Discover how friendships evolve and the myriad ways pets enrich our lives, bringing joy and laughter during both good times and bad.In their unique relaxed style, KC and Harley recall fond memories, reflect on the qualities that make dogs truly special, and the magic way they connect to our hearts.  They highlight the essential traits to look for in a canine companion, illustrating how personality and connection win us over. With each story, they showcase the smiles that pierce through sadness and the joy that a dog brings to our lives. Sit back, relax, and join the adventure of laughter, love, and meaningful connections. Make sure to subscribe, share, and leave a review to keep the conversation going! Enormous Website: www.EnormousPodcast.comVoice mail: (303) 351-2880Email: EnormousPodcast@gmail.comTwitter: www.Twitter.com/@EnormousPodInstagram: www.Instagram.com/Enormous_PodcastFacebook: www.Facebook.com/EnormousPodLink: The Soundtrack Of Our Life Video PlaylistLink: Male Diva EDM Spotify  Play ListLink: Songs Of Our Life Spotify Play List  

Hello, I'd really like to grow this email list. If you enjoy this newsletter, it would mean the world to Jola and I if you encouraged one friend/fellow immigrant/colleague to subscribe…Very likely, the the only thing you will get in return is warm fuzzy feelings, and if I can attribute it to you, I'd personally send you a thank you email.Join us as we explore the bitter-sweet world of the immigrant.In this episode, I'm speaking with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times bestselling author. He's the author of Open Borders, one of the best books on immigration in my opinion, The Myth of the Rational Voter, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, and Build, Baby, Build.It is human nature to find someone or something else to blame for our problems. And it's been a well-played hand in the Canadian immigration debate in the past ten months or more.But as Bryan says, 'Shouldn't we be focused on addressing the real problems? If we have a housing problem, focus on deregulating the housing sector and build more housing. If the problem is crime, then improve law enforcement rather than blame the newcomers.'In this conversation, Bryan and I chat about the economic gains from immigration. We also explored:* Scapegoating versus tackling the real problems* Lessons from the Gulf Monarchies approach to immigration* The Canadian immigration conversation* Why Open Borders is back in print, and a lot of other good stuff. Official Links

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BIG NEWS! Celebrating the very first ADHDAF+ Charity in-person Peer Support Group, happening on Wednesday 5th March 2025 - back where it all began - in Aberdeen, Scotland(!) AND introducing the Board of Trustees, and first Volunteer Peer Support Group Facilitator.  Edinburgh, Cardiff and London groups will start in April 2025, with MANY MORE beginning in May and beyond... ADHDAF+ Charity aims to connect and empower ADHD adults of marginalised genders in Scotland, England and Wales. If you would like to Volunteer to host an in-person Peer Support Group in your local area, fundraise or donate to ADHDAF+ Charity, you can do so HEREYou can sign up to our newsletter by adding your email address at the bottom of our website to be the first to know about upcoming groups, events and more HEREIf you are an ADHD adult of marginalised gender and you happen to be anywhere near Aberdeen on Wednesday 5th March; come and connect with peers at Four Pillars Community Room, Regents Quay at 6pm at the first ever ADHDAF+ Charity Peer Support Group.  Enormous thanks to the Board of Trustees, Volunteers, Fundraisers, ADHDAF Podcast Online Community Members, all event attendees and every single listener - YOU have helped make this happen! It has been a long old safari to get here, but WE DID IT!THANK  YOU SO MUCH!Laura * though ADHDAF Podcast, Online Community and ADHDAF Emporium all help to promote and raise funds for the Charity, ADHDAF+ is an entirely separate entity *Support the show

On the Postgame Pod, Nathan King and Patrick Bingham break down how Auburn responded to Alabama's second-half surge, held Alabama's guards to paltry shooting, got production from up and down its lineup, and moved into sole possession of first place in the SEC with three weeks to go. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson chats with Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation about the enormous cost of creating energy in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dive into the DARK SIDE of rock with Neeley and Chris on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW! Uncover the hidden truths behind Dokken's wild night in Indiana, and brace yourself for the CONTROVERSIAL changes hitting The Classic Metal Show. We're not just talking music; we're exposing the raw, unfiltered health struggles of Neeley's close friend. Are these the secrets the industry wants BURIED? Get the inside scoop, or stay blind to the REALITY of rock 'n' roll. Join us on our Locals page for the UNCENSORED version of events! Are you ready to face the music, or will you keep living in denial? Brace yourselves for the SHOCKING revelations on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW as Jewel grovels for forgiveness over her RFK ball performance. Was it a political faux pas or a calculated move? Dive deep into the controversy with Neeley and Chris. But wait, there's more! We dissect Anthony Cumia's BOMBSHELL theory on liberal women's foreheads - is it science or sheer madness? Uncover the TRUTH behind these explosive topics. Don't miss out on this UNCENSORED dissection of culture, politics, and the peculiar anatomy of the progressive elite! Do you believe Jewel's apology was genuine, or just damage control? Dive into the SHOCKING world of rock 'n' roll with Neeley and Chris as they dissect Lorraine Lewis's BOLD move to OnlyFans at 66! Is this the new frontier for rock legends or a desperate grab for attention? We'll explore the transformation of 80s icons - are they still as hot as in their heyday? Then, prepare to be mesmerized by Sydney Sweeney in the latest Dr. Squatch commercial - beauty, scandal, or both? Uncover the TRUTH about aging in rock and the objectification in modern advertising. Don't miss this UNCENSORED journey through time, beauty, and controversy! Is joining OnlyFans a sign of strength or desperation? Unleash the shocking revelations from the new documentary "SONS OF ECSTASY" where Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, after escaping the clutches of the John Gotti saga, plunges back into a life of crime in Arizona. Neeley and Chris dissect this jaw-dropping return to the dark side, questioning if the leopard can ever truly change its spots. Was this a desperate grab for power or an inevitable return to his criminal roots? Dive into the murky waters of mob life, family betrayal, and the ecstasy trade's allure. Get ready for a rollercoaster of truth, lies, and the raw reality of crime in America. Can Sammy Gravano ever escape his criminal past, or was he always doomed to repeat it? Join Neeley and Chris on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW as they tear into the world of aging Hollywood stars who refuse to hang up their acting boots. From John Wayne's legendary last roles to Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's never-ending performances, are they driven by passion or just clinging to the limelight? And let's not forget Julia Roberts - can she still capture hearts? But the real shocker - Carly Simon's ENORMOUS mouth! Dive into this controversial critique of age in cinema, where we question if these icons should retire or continue to entertain. Are these aging actors still bringing quality to cinema, or just milking their fame? Sponsor: Sponsor: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu Box Set: https://amzn.to/40rIryj Don't let the curtain fall on this debate - SUBSCRIBE, comment, and hit that bell for more! NOTE: Everything said here, and on every episode of all of our shows are 100% the opinions of the hosts. Nothing is stated as fact. Do your own research to see if their opinions are true or not. Please SUBSCRIBE, click the notification bell, leave a comment or a like, and share this episode!

Join Neeley and Chris on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW as they tear into the world of aging Hollywood stars who refuse to hang up their acting boots. From John Wayne's legendary last roles to Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's never-ending performances, are they driven by passion or just clinging to the limelight? And let's not forget Julia Roberts - can she still capture hearts? But the real shocker - Carly Simon's ENORMOUS mouth! Dive into this controversial critique of age in cinema, where we question if these icons should retire or continue to entertain. Are these aging actors still bringing quality to cinema, or just milking their fame? Sponsor: Sponsor: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu Box Set: https://amzn.to/40rIryj Don't let the curtain fall on this debate - SUBSCRIBE, comment, and hit that bell for more! NOTE: Everything said here, and on every episode of all of our shows are 100% the opinions of the hosts. Nothing is stated as fact. Do your own research to see if their opinions are true or not. Please SUBSCRIBE, click the notification bell, leave a comment or a like, and share this episode!

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Dive into the DARK SIDE of rock with Neeley and Chris on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW! Uncover the hidden truths behind Dokken's wild night in Indiana, and brace yourself for the CONTROVERSIAL changes hitting The Classic Metal Show. We're not just talking music; we're exposing the raw, unfiltered health struggles of Neeley's close friend. Are these the secrets the industry wants BURIED? Get the inside scoop, or stay blind to the REALITY of rock 'n' roll. Join us on our Locals page for the UNCENSORED version of events! Are you ready to face the music, or will you keep living in denial? Brace yourselves for the SHOCKING revelations on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW as Jewel grovels for forgiveness over her RFK ball performance. Was it a political faux pas or a calculated move? Dive deep into the controversy with Neeley and Chris. But wait, there's more! We dissect Anthony Cumia's BOMBSHELL theory on liberal women's foreheads - is it science or sheer madness? Uncover the TRUTH behind these explosive topics. Don't miss out on this UNCENSORED dissection of culture, politics, and the peculiar anatomy of the progressive elite! Do you believe Jewel's apology was genuine, or just damage control? Dive into the SHOCKING world of rock 'n' roll with Neeley and Chris as they dissect Lorraine Lewis's BOLD move to OnlyFans at 66! Is this the new frontier for rock legends or a desperate grab for attention? We'll explore the transformation of 80s icons - are they still as hot as in their heyday? Then, prepare to be mesmerized by Sydney Sweeney in the latest Dr. Squatch commercial - beauty, scandal, or both? Uncover the TRUTH about aging in rock and the objectification in modern advertising. Don't miss this UNCENSORED journey through time, beauty, and controversy! Is joining OnlyFans a sign of strength or desperation? Unleash the shocking revelations from the new documentary "SONS OF ECSTASY" where Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, after escaping the clutches of the John Gotti saga, plunges back into a life of crime in Arizona. Neeley and Chris dissect this jaw-dropping return to the dark side, questioning if the leopard can ever truly change its spots. Was this a desperate grab for power or an inevitable return to his criminal roots? Dive into the murky waters of mob life, family betrayal, and the ecstasy trade's allure. Get ready for a rollercoaster of truth, lies, and the raw reality of crime in America. Can Sammy Gravano ever escape his criminal past, or was he always doomed to repeat it? Join Neeley and Chris on THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW as they tear into the world of aging Hollywood stars who refuse to hang up their acting boots. From John Wayne's legendary last roles to Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's never-ending performances, are they driven by passion or just clinging to the limelight? And let's not forget Julia Roberts - can she still capture hearts? But the real shocker - Carly Simon's ENORMOUS mouth! Dive into this controversial critique of age in cinema, where we question if these icons should retire or continue to entertain. Are these aging actors still bringing quality to cinema, or just milking their fame? Sponsor: Sponsor: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu Box Set: https://amzn.to/40rIryj Don't let the curtain fall on this debate - SUBSCRIBE, comment, and hit that bell for more! NOTE: Everything said here, and on every episode of all of our shows are 100% the opinions of the hosts. Nothing is stated as fact. Do your own research to see if their opinions are true or not. Please SUBSCRIBE, click the notification bell, leave a comment or a like, and share this episode!

As the Rex Heuermann spool continues to unroll, we are learning more and more information about the man who is alleged to be the Long Island Serial killer, and each bit of information we find out, is more disturbing then the next it would seem.   In this episode, we hear how Rex Heuermann was present at a gun club in Manorville the day before Jessica Taylor went missing.  In our second article, we head out to Moscow to get an update on the financial impact that the Kohberger case has had on Latah county and what the state and county plan on doing to mitigate the costs.   (commercial at 8:08)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Latah County budgets for Kohberger murder trial in Moscow | Idaho Statesmansource:Suspected Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann allegedly visited LI gun club day before victim Jessica Taylor disappeared (nypost.com)

As the Rex Heuermann spool continues to unroll, we are learning more and more information about the man who is alleged to be the Long Island Serial killer, and each bit of information we find out, is more disturbing then the next it would seem.   In this episode, we hear how Rex Heuermann was present at a gun club in Manorville the day before Jessica Taylor went missing.  In our second article, we head out to Moscow to get an update on the financial impact that the Kohberger case has had on Latah county and what the state and county plan on doing to mitigate the costs.   (commercial at 8:36)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Latah County budgets for Kohberger murder trial in Moscow | Idaho Statesmansource:Suspected Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann allegedly visited LI gun club day before victim Jessica Taylor disappeared (nypost.com)

Is Agile still relevant in today’s fast-paced world? Brian and Joshua Kerievsky reveal the four game-changing principles of Modern Agile that prioritize safety, empowerment, and continuous value delivery. Overview In this episode, Brian Milner sits down with Joshua Kerievsky, a pioneer in the Agile community and the creator of Modern Agile. They discuss how Agile practices have evolved, the critical role of safety and empowerment, and how to deliver value continuously in today’s fast-paced world. Don’t miss these insights into creating better teams, products, and results through simplicity and experimentation. References and resources mentioned in the show: Joshua Kerievsky Industrial Logic Joy of Agility by Joshua Kerievsky Modern Agile #33 Mob Programming with Woody Zuill #51: The Secrets of Team Safety with Julie Chickering Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Experimentation Matter: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation by Stefan H. Thomke Agile For Leaders Mike Cohn’s Better User Stories Course Accurate Agile Planning Course Join the Agile Mentors Community Subscribe to the Agile Mentors Podcast Want to get involved? This show is designed for you, and we’d love your input. Enjoyed what you heard today? Please leave a rating and a review. It really helps, and we read every single one. Got an Agile subject you’d like us to discuss or a question that needs an answer? Share your thoughts with us at podcast@mountaingoatsoftware.com This episode’s presenters are: Brian Milner is SVP of coaching and training at Mountain Goat Software. He's passionate about making a difference in people's day-to-day work, influenced by his own experience of transitioning to Scrum and seeing improvements in work/life balance, honesty, respect, and the quality of work. Joshua Kerievsky is the founder and CEO of Industrial Logic and author of Joy of Agility. An early pioneer of Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, and Lean Startup, Joshua is passionate about helping people achieve genuine agility through principle-based approaches like Modern Agile. Auto-generated Transcript: Brian (00:00) Welcome in Agile Mentors. We're back. And this is another episode of the Agile Mentors podcast. I'm here as I always am. I am Brian Milner and today I am joined by Joshua Kerievsky and really excited to have Joshua here with us. Welcome in Joshua. Joshua Kerievsky (00:16) Thank you so much, Brian. Happy to be here. Brian (00:19) Very excited for Joshua to be here. Joshua's been around for a while. He's been doing this for a long time. He said, you know, when we were talking before, and he's been involved with Agile before, it was called Agile. And, you know, that probably tells you all you need to know there. But a couple other things here about him, just so that you kind of can place him a little bit. His company is Industrial Logic, Inc. and he's the CEO and founder of that company. He has a book called Joy of Agility that's out there that I highly recommend. It's a really great book. And he's also closely associated with something that maybe you've been aware of, maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't, but something called Modern Agile. And that's what I thought we'd focus on here for our discussion is really to try to understand a little bit about it. especially for those of you, maybe you haven't heard of it, haven't been around it before. So... Why don't we start there, Joshua? Tell us a little bit about what was the need that was trying to be filled with something like modern Agile. Joshua Kerievsky (01:19) Well, it goes back to a conference I attended in Prague back in around 2015. And I was giving a speech, a keynote speech there, and that ended. And then I went and said, well, I'm going to go join the OpenSpace. And I was just looking at what people were talking about at the OpenSpace. And at that point in time, I had already been experimenting with a ton of stuff that just kind of different from what we had been doing 10 years earlier or even later than that. I mean, just this was new things that we were doing, whether it was continuous deployment or ideas from lean startup or ideas from the pop and dykes and lean concepts applied to agility or just a lot of things that were just different. And none of the sessions I was seeing in the open space seemed to be talking about any of that stuff, like giving up story points or moving away from sprints until continuous flow. just nothing was being talked about. So I just said, well, I'm going to host a session, and I'll call it, I don't know, a modern Agile. And so that's as far as I got in terms of thinking about the name. I just wanted to run a session where we could talk about, there's a lot of new things we're doing that kind of display some of the older ideas. And they're very useful, I found. So the session ended up getting a lot of attention. 60, 70 people showed up there. So we had a big group. And it was well received. People were fascinated by the stuff that they weren't aware of. And so I then repeated this open space event in Berkeley. Like a month later, was Agile Open Door Cal in Berkeley was running and did it again. And again, there was tremendous interest. in this, so much so that I decided to write a blog and wrote the blog and started getting more conversations happening. And that sort of began the movement of describing this thing called Modern Agile. And it took a few twists and turns in the beginning, but it wasn't sort of, I guess, if anything, I felt like Agile needed to be a little more simple. in terms of what we were explaining, because it was starting to get very complex with frameworks, enterprise frameworks coming along like safe and just too many moving parts. And so what ended up happening is I wrote some things and people started to notice, there's kind of like four things there that are really valuable. One of them was The names changed a little bit over time. But anyway, what ended up was four principles emerged. And that really became modern Agile. Brian (03:58) That's awesome. just for listeners here, I've pitched attending conferences in the past. If you've listened to this podcast, you've heard me say that, and I'll create things come out of that. And here's an example, right? This is something that was open space discussion. Open space, if you're not familiar with that, at conferences, can, if there's an open space day or a couple of days, then anyone can present any topic they want. And whoever shows up is who shows up. And this one got a lot of attention. And a movement grew from this open space topic, which is awesome. So let's talk. You mentioned there's four principles here. And I like the distinction here we're making also between the frameworks and the practices versus the cultural aspects or the philosophy behind it. And returning to those roots a little bit more from what Agile originally was. So you mentioned there's kind of four areas of this. Let's walk our way through those. I know the first one, or one of the first ones here is make people awesome. So help us understand, what do you mean by make people awesome? Joshua Kerievsky (04:59) Probably the most controversial of principles, because you'll get people coming along saying, wait a minute, people are already awesome. What are you talking about? And it comes from my, I'm a big fan of Kathy Sierra. And her blog was incredible. And her book, she wrote a book called Badass, Making Users Awesome. And in her book, she was really wonderfully clear about Brian (05:07) You Joshua Kerievsky (05:24) that teams that build products ought to focus on the user of the products more than the product itself. In other words, she would say, don't try to create the world's best camera. Try to create the world's best photographers. Big subtle difference there. Like that is focusing so much on empowering the users, making them awesome at their work or whatever they're doing, whether it's art or accounting or whatever, whatever your product does, how can you give them something that elevates their skills, that gets them to a point of awesomeness faster? And that's what she was talking about. So I thought, what a wonderful message. And initially, I used language like make users awesome. you know, having been an entrepreneur myself and created products and sold them and You learn a heck of a lot when you make your own product. And we've made several products over the years at Industrial Logic, probably the most successful of which was our e-learning software. And that has taught me so many, so many lessons. One of them is you have to serve an ecosystem of people. You can't just make your main user awesome. What about the person who's buying the software? How do you make them awesome in terms of helping them buy something that's going to get used? If they buy your e-learning and they never use it, they've wasted a lot of money. So we've got to make sure that their reputation is intact because they made an excellent investment and it got used and it got into valuable, it created value in the company. So how do I make the buyer awesome? How do I make the person that like rolls out the licenses to people awesome? How do I make their experience awesome? How do I make my colleagues awesome so that we love what we're doing and really enjoy working together? So it kind of morphed from make users awesome to make people awesome. And it's so expanded. If anything, we set the bar higher. And all of the principles of modern agile are like unachievable. They're all kind of high bars, right? But they're the goal that we go towards. So that really is it. It's about creating Brian (07:23) Ha Joshua Kerievsky (07:35) you know, wonderful, you know, the in Great Britain, they use awesome kind of sarcastically sometimes, right? They'll say, well, that's awesome. You know, and so for them, it would be brilliant. You know, I thought of making an English version. We have many translations of modern agile, and I thought of making an English version, which would be a proper British English version, make people brilliant. But it's meant to be to empower folks to give them something. And it's so it is. Brian (07:43) Ha You Joshua Kerievsky (08:04) It does have a product focus in the sense of we're typically building a system or a product that someone's going to use and it's going to give them skills they didn't have before or abilities they didn't have before that are going to be very valuable. Brian (08:18) Yeah, I love that. And there's a sort of a servant nature to that servant leaders, not servant leadership as much, but servant nature of I'm serving these people and how do I, how do I serve them in a way that really empowers them? Kind of reminds me of like, you know, the, the great principle with, with dev ops of just, know, if I can, if I can empower the developers to be able to do these things on their own. And so they don't need someone else to come and check the box and do everything for them. You're making them awesome. You're empowering them to be more than they were otherwise. Joshua Kerievsky (08:54) Yes, yes, absolutely. I I think we've seen a history in the software field of a lot of tools coming along and helping. It's not just tools, it's also methods as well. I mean, I'm entirely grateful to the Agile software development movement because it helped nudge everything towards a far better way of working and to make us more awesome at our craft. yeah, you have to have a North Star though. If you're going to build something, You have to know, what are we going for here? What are we shooting for? And with Cathy's influence, again, it's not so much make the greatest product in the world. It's, that focus on the users, the people who are going to be using the work, using the product. Brian (09:34) That's really good. Let's talk about the second one then on my list here, the make safety a prerequisite. What was the point here behind this principle? Joshua Kerievsky (09:40) Yes. So starting probably around 2011 or so, I could not stand going to the Agile Conference anymore. It had just become too commercial and too filled with just people hocking stuff. And it just was bothering me too much. I couldn't go. So I ended up going to South by Southwest, which is an Brian (09:54) You Joshua Kerievsky (10:09) Enormous conference tens of thousands of people show up So it'd be 20,000 30,000 40,000 people showing up for these for this event, which is musical film technology just it's just wild and I came across this book by Charles Duhigg called the power of habit. He was there that year and In that book. Well, first of all that particular year was 2012 that I went my first year there it poured The rain, it was every day, it was unusual for that time, but it was just like pouring rain. So what could you do? I bought some books and I was sitting there in my room reading them. And I'm reading this book, The Power of Habit, and I come across this chapter called The Ballad of Paul O'Neill. Now who the heck's Paul O'Neill? Well, it turns out Paul O'Neill is this incredible guy, a complete business maverick. He ended up becoming the treasury secretary under Bush and not. in 2000 for a short period of time, but that's another story. And he ran Alcoa for about 13 or 14 years. And so the Ballot of Paul O'Neill is very much about what he did at Alcoa to turn the company around. And in essence, you could say he made safety a prerequisite. That safety was his guiding light in turning that company around, which meant left people empowered to do all kinds of things. So it went way beyond safety, but started there. And it's an incredible story. I've written about it in Joy of Agility. I got so into Paul O'Neill that I ended up interviewing his main lieutenant. And then I got a chance to interview him a couple of times. the man's a genius. He passed away a few years back. Absolute genius. this concept of safety started to really pull at me in the sense that I felt, first of all, extreme programming, and I'm a big practitioner of extreme programming, brings a tremendous amount of safety to software development. It may not be as explicit in saying safety, safety, safety. When you look at extreme programming, doesn't really talk about safety, but it's implicit. And these days, Kent Beck's much more vocal about, you One of his missions is to make software development safer for geeks. But safety to me is almost like I found my home. Like safety was something that, what I learned through Paul O'Neill was that it's a doorway to excellence. And he transformed a hundred year old company with safety. I would complain about companies we were working with that were 25 years old and had an embedded culture. Like, how are we gonna change this company? But safety started to be this thing that I hadn't really thought enough about, and making it explicit opened up a lot of doors, right? And I became very interested in the work of Amy Edmondson, who's extremely famous today, but back then she was not so famous. And huge fan of hers. I, you know, I can email her and she'll email me back and she wrote a nice thing about my book. So. She has done some incredible work there. And so when we talk about safety in modern agile, it's psychological safety. It's financial safety. It's any of the safeties. There are many safeties that we could talk about. And it looks at all of them, right? It's brand safety, software safety in terms of security. you know, of the software and on and on and on. So make safety prerequisite is vast and big in terms of what we're trying to do there. Making it a prerequisite means it's not an afterthought and it's not a priority that shifts with the winds. It is permanent. It is something that we know we have to have in place. And it's very, very hard to achieve. Just like make people awesome is hard to achieve. Boy, is make safety a prerequisite difficult. Brian (13:43) Hmm. Yeah, I love Amy Edmondson's work as well. I'm just kind of curious. does the safety kind of inclusive of things like quality as well? Do you intend that to be part of what you mean by safety? Joshua Kerievsky (14:11) Well, mean, to the extent that it makes it safer to do good software development. So if bugs are happening all the time, you can't make people awesome, typically if you don't have quality. If you have really poor quality, nobody's being made awesome. They're experiencing all kinds of problems with your product. So make people awesome and make safety a prerequisite are very much tied together. That is, there is no real excellence without safety. You could think you're having an excellent experience, so that all of a sudden there's a major problem, and boy, are you unhappy. So they really go hand in hand. You could have the most incredible restaurant, and then one day you've got food poisoning happening. Great, no one's come to your restaurant. So you will not make anyone awesome if you don't make safety a prerequisite, and quality is part of that. Brian (14:57) Awesome. Well, let's move on to the next one then, because the next category is one that just resonates with me a lot. Experiment and learn rapidly. What was kind of the thought behind this one? Joshua Kerievsky (15:06) Yeah, and this is one where it that's shorthand, if you will, because you can only fit so many words on a wheel there. But it's important to know that that really means experiment rapidly and learn rapidly. And that comes a lot out of it in the influences of something like Lean Startup. I'm a huge fan of that book and of Eric's work, Eric Reese's work. Brian (15:13) Ha Joshua Kerievsky (15:29) And the fact that we can experiment rapidly and learn rapidly rather than just building everything and then learning slowly. Right? How can we do cheap experiments quickly to decide what's important to work on and what isn't? Let's not build stuff nobody wants. Let's find more time with our customers and understand their needs better so we can build the right things that make them awesome. In other words, and a lot of these are interconnected. In many respects, modern Agile is a Venn diagram. ideally want all four principles to be overlapping. And right there in that middle is where you really want to be. Not easy. But experimenting, learning rapidly, yeah. So challenge yourself to find ways to do quick, cheap, useful experiments. You can do lot of unuseful experiments. Amazon experienced that. There's a story in my book about how Amazon had to start just shepherding the experiments a little more and having some better criteria. Because you could do an endless array of experiments and not get anywhere. There's a wonderful book called Experimentation Matters by a Harvard business professor. Wonderful book as well. But I love experimentation and learning. And I see it as critical to building great products. So that's that principle there. Brian (16:46) Yeah, there's a real difference, I think, in organizations that put value on that learning process. if you see it as a valuable thing, that we invest time to gain knowledge, then that really can truly make an impact when you go forward. I know I've talked about this in classes sometimes where people will say, isn't it a little bit selfish from the organization to try to always just figure out what's going to sell the best? or what's going to work the best in advance of putting something out. My response is always, well, yes, there is a benefit to the business, but there's a benefit to the customer as well because they would rather you work on things that they care more about. Joshua Kerievsky (17:24) That's right. Yeah. I mean, we once put out an experimental product to a large automotive company. And we were really excited about it. We had a whole list of features we wanted to add to it. But we were like, you know what? Let's just get this primitive version kind of in their hands just to see what happens. it turned out that we learned very rapidly that they couldn't run the software at all. There was some proxy. that was preventing communication with our servers from their environment. So it was like, excellent. We learned really quickly that instead of those fancy new features we want to add to this thing, we're going to fix the proxy problem. And to me, that's the nature of evolutionary design is that we create something, get it out there quickly, and learn from it rapidly and evolve it. So it goes hand in hand with that as well. Brian (18:11) That's awesome. Well, there's one category left then, and that is deliver value continuously. So what was the genesis of that? Thinking about delivering value continuously. Joshua Kerievsky (18:19) So that was heavily influenced by my own journey into continuous delivery and continuous deployment and that whole world. We got into that very early. I was lucky enough to catch a video by Timothy Fritz, who he worked with Eric at IMBU. And he coined the term continuous deployment. And that video is actually no longer on the Brian (18:43) Ha Joshua Kerievsky (18:44) But this was something that I became enamored of was doing continuous deployment. And we started doing it at Industrial Logic with our own e-learning software back in about 2010. And by the time you get to like 2015, it's like, hey folks, there's this thing where you can do a little bit of work and ship it immediately to production in a very safe way, a safe deployment pipeline. It's friggin' awesome. But the principle doesn't just apply to that because this modern agile is not just about software development. It's how can I work in a way that gets value in front of people as fast as possible? So for example, if I'm working on a proposal, great, I'm not going to work for two weeks and then show you something. I'm going to put something together, a skeleton, I'm going to show it to you and say, what do you think? Does this add value? Where would we improve this? Blah, blah, Again, going hand in hand with evolutionary design. continuous delivery of value is something that is a way of working. With artists that I work with, they'll do a quick sketch or two or three sketches of something first before we start settling in on which one do we like the best and how do we want to craft and refine that. So there's a way of working in which you're delivering value much more finely grained and approaching continuously instead of in bigger batches. Brian (20:05) Yeah. I love the connection there between artists as well, because I've got a background in music, and I'm thinking about how when you go to write a song or create a new work like that, you start off with the roughest of demo tapes, and you move from there to increasingly more sophisticated versions of it until you finally have the finished product. But no one thinks that's strange or thinks that's weird in any way. But you're right. Sometimes there's this attitude or kind of I think in some organizations of, we can't let anyone see that until it's absolutely finished, until it's done. Joshua Kerievsky (20:39) Yeah, yeah, and that maybe that's that there's some fear there, you know, because they don't want to be thought of as, you know, being lesser because they put something rough in front of someone. Whereas I view it as a, you know, to me, it's a sign of weakness when you when you only send something polished because you haven't had the courage or the sense of safety to put something rough where we can make better decisions together early on. So. There's a lot of learning, I think, around that. But it's a challenging principle of its own, deliver value continuously. And people would say, well, what does value mean? Value is one of those words where it's unclear, because you could improve the internal design of a software system. Is that value? It probably is. But you've got to be able to quantify it or prove that it's going to help make things more graceful in terms of flowing features out. yeah, quantifying, communicating what the value is. is important. I'm also a big fan of maximizing the amount of work not done, as it says in the manifesto. So how can we do less and deliver more sooner? Our motto in industrial logic now is better software sooner. And a lot of these principles go straight into that. that drives it. Brian (21:38) Yeah. That's really great. Yeah, I love these four principles and I think that they really represent a lot. There's a lot that's baked into each one of these things. And I'm sure as you kind of put this together with the community and started to talk more about it, I'm sure there were some challenges. I'm sure people came up to you and said, well, what about and how about this? Is there anything now looking back on this that you'd say, gosh, we really... really didn't quite cover this or, know, this is maybe I could fudge it and squeeze it in this area, but you know, there's this other thing that I really think would be important to kind of mention here as well. Joshua Kerievsky (22:28) Well, you know, it's funny, because I thought I was going to write a book. I started collecting stories. I love telling stories, and I find stories to be a great way to help educate people. Not the only way, right? But as part of some of the workshops I give, you tell a story. Hopefully it's a story that's sticky, that sticks in the person's brain. And over the years, I collected stories like that, stories of agility. I thought I'd be writing a book about modern agile when I started writing Joy of Agility. Gradually, as I wrote more and more stories, they didn't quite fit into all those four principles. And I think the lesson I learned there was that I was starting to talk about what pure Agile means, the word Agile. What does it really mean to be Agile? Whereas modern Agile is really almost in the context of product development, of building services or products for people. Whereas Agile itself is even more pure. And so the... the book itself got into the difference between quickness and hurrying, which you can relate to this. You could say experiment and learn rapidly. Well, OK, maybe we shouldn't rush it. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry is one of the mantras in Joy of Agility. So adapting, right? Adapting, we talk about adapting all the time. So to be agile, you need to be able to adapt quickly. These four principles in modern agile don't say anything about adapting. Brian (23:46) Ha Joshua Kerievsky (23:48) So that's kind of implied, but it's not there. So it's a different lens on agility. If anything, I'd say the make people awesome principles are not meant to. It created some dislike, I'd say, from some people. It could have been called empower people, potentially, although a lot of people really love make people awesome. I don't know so much what I'd change there. I'd say we have a .org. So it's a modernagile.org is a website. There's a pretty large Slack community, which, know, four or 5,000 people on that. We don't certify anyone in modern agile, so there's no certifications, but it's something that is neutral in the sense that whether you practice Scrum or Kanban or Safe or whatever, these principles can influence you. And, you know, but again, this all came out of like, when I went to that open space conference in Prague, I had no idea I was going to talk about modern agile. You know, it was not like a predetermined thing. It was just like, my God, they're not talking about the modern ways we're doing stuff. So, and I always encourage people to, you know, keep pushing the limits and keep modernizing. I said to my own company the other day, our wonderful ways of working that we've been doing now for years that have evolved, they're probably antiquated as of today. You know, with generative AI, what would we do differently? Let's have a perspective on our own work as it needs to be modernized constantly. So the term modern in modern agile means always be modernizing, always be looking. Okay, I've had people say, well, Josh, some things don't need to be modernized. There's things that are just evergreen. They're classic. I'm like, absolutely. I'm not changing evolutionary design anytime soon. I find it to be quite useful in so many contexts. So yes, there's the evergreen stuff. And then there's the stuff where you can, indeed, discover a better way. The manifesto itself says, we are discovering better ways of working. Great. Keep that going. Keep modernizing and looking for easier, simpler, quick, easy grace. as the dictionary definition of Agile says, how can we work with quick, easy grace? That's always going to be improving, hopefully. Brian (26:12) Love that, yeah. And you're right, I mean, think there's some, to some people I think that there's, I guess at times an attitude of, you this is all new stuff or this is a brand new concept and something they don't really see the connection backwards in time to how these things are all built on other ideas that have been progressive over the years. So the idea of, yeah, this is, you know, we're, we're not saying that certain ideas are bad because now we're trying to modernize them. We're just saying we're trying to apply that same principle forward into kind of the context of today, which I don't see anyone should have a problem with that. Joshua Kerievsky (26:48) That's right. That's right. Well, and if you are experimenting and learning rapidly with your own process, which I highly encourage, chances are the way you work today will be different than it was yesterday. You will be exploring, like we use discovery trees today. We didn't use them before. Years ago, no one knew what a story map was. There wasn't such a thing as a story map. Now we have story maps. There's constant improvement happening. And you've got to be open-minded and willing to try new things and drop old stuff. We thought sprints and iterations and extreme programming was absolutely fundamentally part of the way to work. Then we started experimenting with dropping them and turned out, wow, this is pretty cool. We like this. It works pretty darn well for our purposes. That came through experimentation. some of our experiments were terrible, just terrible. It's not an experiment if you already know the outcome. keep pushing the limits of what can make you happier and more joyful at work in terms of producing great stuff. Brian (27:46) Awesome. That's great stuff. Well, I can't thank you enough for coming on, Joshua. This is great stuff. just, you know, we'll put all the links to the books mentioned and everything else in our show notes for everybody. But as Joshua said, you can go to modernagile.org and find out more about this if you'd like to. You'll find information there about Joshua himself or his company again is Industrial Logic, Inc. And, you know, his book again, just to mention that, Joy of Agility. We were talking how some people get that title a little mixed up or whatever, but it's just the three words, joy of agility. So just look out for that book. I think you'll find it a rich resource for you. Joshua, thanks so much for coming on. Joshua Kerievsky (28:25) Thank you, Brian. Thanks to you. Thanks to Mountain Goat and the folks there. And I really appreciate chatting with you. It was really wonderful.

Even before the fires in Los Angeles, California's insurance market was under enormous pressure. Extreme weather events like wildfires, which have been supersized due to climate change, previously led national carriers like Allstate and State Farm to stop writing new homeowners policies. And some property owners are facing non-renewal for homes deemed by insurance companies to be at risk. California is not alone in this dilemma. Florida has the highest insurance rates in the country, and its residents pay 37% more for coverage as compared to national averages. We'll talk to experts about how these latest fires will impact the state's insurance industry and the future of insurance in a climate change-charged world. Guests: Michael Wara, policy director, Sustainability Accelerator at the Doerr School of Sustainability, director, Climate and Energy Policy Program, senior research scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment; Stanford University Dave Jones, former Insurance commissioner, California Department of Insurance; Dave Jones is the director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE). Amy Bach, executive director and cofounder, United Policyholders - a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates for insurance consumers.

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined once again by one of my favourite guests and yours, my good friend Rod Bennett. Rod is a Catholic convert with a unique way of looking at the faith and a penchant for asking some of the most penetrating questions about what connects as divides us as Protestants and Catholics. On this episode, we talk about the question of Christian unity and how can Protestants, ever, accomplish what Jesus prayed for in John 17? It's an utterly fascinating conversation with some of the best insights Rod has ever brought us including how do Protestants find a Bible-believing church when they first become Protestant and don't know their Bible yet? How Protestants agree to disagree and still have unity?What are the essentials that Protestant Christians agree on? And more... With charity and his trademark cordial, down-home demeanour, Rod challenges our non-Catholic Christian listeners to think hard about these tough questions and our Catholic listeners to humbly, in charity, have answers at hand.For more from Rod Bennett, check out his numerous previous appearances in the archives of the show including conversations about Catholic Witnesses to the Early Church (Episode 141) and Were the Early Christians Catholic? (Episode 089).And check out These Twelve, Rod's latest book from Catholic Answers Press and his many, many other fantastic books available everywhere.For more, visit The Cordial Catholic. Send your feedback to cordialcatholic@gmail.com. Sign up for our newsletter for my reflections on episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and exclusive contests! To watch this and other episodes please visit (and subscribe to!) our YouTube channel.Please consider financially supporting this show! For more information visit the Patreon page.  All patrons receive access to exclusive content and if you can give $5/mo or more you'll also be entered into monthly draws for fantastic books hand-picked by me.If you'd like to give a one-time donation to The Cordial Catholic, you can visit the PayPal page.Thank you to those already supporting the show!This show is brought to you in a special way by our Patreon Co-Producers. Thank you to Elli and Tom, Fr. Larry, Gina, Heather, James, Michelle, Noah, Robert, Shelby, Susanne and Victor, and William. Beyond The BeaconJoin Bishop Kevin Sweeney for inspired interviews with Christians living out their faith!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showFind and follow The Cordial Catholic on social media:Instagram: @cordialcatholicTwitter: @cordialcatholicYouTube: /thecordialcatholicFacebook: The Cordial CatholicTikTok: @cordialcatholic

January 6th 2024 Yuriy breaks down the recent military and political upheavals in Syria, revealing the broader implications for Putin's Russia and the global stage. Delving deep from the frontlines, Yuriy uncovers the hidden narratives and draws strategic insights on striking back against aggression. Check out Yuriy's latest blog on his substack here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-153574207  You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)      It is January 6th.  What is happening in Syria right now is not just the collapse of the Assad regime: it is also a loud and resound and defeat for Putin's Russia. You can't even imagine how significant this defeat is. Unfortunately, Western politicians don't fully grasp this.  Otherwise, we would draw proper conclusions from this failure. Let's start with the fact that during the early years of Syrian civil war, Moscow did not offer much help to Assad. Most of the assistance was limited to miserable food supplies sent as humanitarian aid to Syrians. I remember seeing firsthand in 2012 how bags of gray, cheapest Russian pasta delivered with great pomp to Latakia airport were discarded by the roadside. When I asked locals why they treated the aid  that way, they replied, "We won't reject help when it's offered, but we can't eat this stuff. Have you seen this pasta? Even our dogs won't touch that garbage."  Putin turned his attention to Syria only after starting the war against Ukraine in 2014, that's when Russia got involved in a foreign war. From the outset, Putin pursued several objectives in Syria: trying to find common ground with the West, which was already fighting ISIS there, supporting the kindred dictatorship of Assad and testing weapons and military tactics for later use against Ukraine. For years, Syria became the top topic of Russian propaganda. It was declared Russia's closest ally. TV broadcasts proclaimed Syria as the birthplace of orthodox Christianity, emphasizing the need to protect it from Islamists. Instead of pasta bullets, missiles and mercenaries were sent to Latakia and Damascus.  Here I need to pose and remind you that the only way this podcast is monetized is through your donations. It's tough without them. Please check the episode description for all the necessary details on how to support me. Thank you.  Back to Syria. Russia poured tens of billions of dollars into the conflict. These funds were spent on weapons, infrastructure, propaganda, and even Russian language textbooks, which suddenly became mandatory in Syrian schools. Enormous sums were spent on the war that was supposed to be Putin's triumph. He even visited Syria himself boasting about how he had won and how everything would now be wonderful.  In return for these billions, the Russians secured from Assad the continued operation of a Soviet era level base in Tartus. This base became the primary supply hub for Russian allies and mercenaries in Libya, the Central African Republic, and our countries of region. And now, all of this has suddenly vanished. Assad, Russia's best friend, is gone. A country so significant for Christianity has been surrendered. Russia is on the verge of losing its basis, and billions have been wasted for nothing. And what does Putin do? Nothing. His propaganda machine simply blames Iran, claims that the Syrians did something wrong, or insists that the Russian operation there ended long ago. There's been no nuclear escalation, no mass mobilization, nothing. Their main ally has simply been abandoned it. And this is precisely how Russia will abandon occupied parts of Ukraine. Propaganda  will spin the narrative, but it was actually a victory, not a defeat, that all objectives were achieved and everything is fine.  What's happening in Syria demonstrates to the entire world that Putin will abandon everything and everyone, relinquish any conquests if he's hit hard enough. Don't fear Putin. Strike him. He must lose.     

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Two momentous events have recently rocked the computing world: First, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger abruptly stepped down this week, less than four years after taking the company's helm, and before completing the ongoing transition to its next-generation chip fabrication, and second, Microsoft has removed the venerable WordPad from current and future versions of Windows. We convene to try to make sense of both of these unexpected happenings (and talk a lot about word processors along the way).Cling to WordPad for dear life: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376881/how-to-get-wordpad-back-windows-11-24h2.htmlThe Microsoft Fandom wiki: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_95 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod