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This podcast and article are free, but a lot of The Storm lives behind a paywall. I wish I could make everything available to everyone, but an article like this one is the result of 30-plus hours of work. Please consider supporting independent ski journalism with an upgrade to a paid Storm subscription. You can also sign up for the free tier below.WhoRob Katz, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Vail ResortsRecorded onAugust 8, 2025About Vail ResortsVail Resorts owns and operates 42 ski areas in North America, Australia, and Europe. In order of acquisition:The company's Epic Pass delivers skiers unlimited access to all of these ski areas, plus access to a couple dozen partner resorts:Why I interviewed himHow long do you suppose Vail Resorts has been the largest ski area operator by number of resorts? From how the Brobots prattle on about the place, you'd think since around the same time the Mayflower bumped into Plymouth Rock. But the answer is 2018, when Vail surged to 18 ski areas – one more than number two Peak Resorts. Vail wasn't even a top-five operator until 2007, when the company's five resorts landed it in fifth place behind Powdr's eight and 11 each for Peak, Boyne, and Intrawest. Check out the year-by-year resort operator rankings since 2000:Kind of amazing, right? For decades, Vail, like Aspen, was the owner of some great Colorado ski areas and nothing more. There was no reason to assume it would ever be anything else. Any ski company that tried to get too big collapsed or surrendered. Intrawest inflated like a balloon then blew up like a pinata, ejecting trophies like Mammoth, Copper, and Whistler before straggling into the Alterra refugee camp with a half dozen survivors. American Skiing Company (ASC) united eight resorts in 1996 and was 11 by the next year and was dead by 2007. Even mighty Aspen, perhaps the brand most closely associated with skiing in American popular culture, had abandoned a nearly-two-decade experiment in owning ski areas outside of Pitkin County when it sold Blackcomb and Fortress Mountains in 1986 and Breckenridge the following year.But here we are, with Vail Resorts, improbably but indisputably the largest operator in skiing. How did Vail do this when so many other operators had a decades-long head start? And failed to achieve sustainability with so many of the same puzzle pieces? Intrawest had Whistler. ASC owned Heavenly. Booth Creek, a nine-resort upstart launched in 1996 by former Vail owner George Gillett, had Northstar. The obvious answer is the 2008 advent of the Epic Pass, which transformed the big-mountain season pass from an expensive single-mountain product that almost no one actually needed to a cheapo multi-mountain passport that almost anyone could afford. It wasn't a new idea, necessarily, but the bargain-skiing concept had never been attached to a mountain so regal as Vail, with its sprawling terrain and amazing high-speed lift fleet and Colorado mystique. A multimountain pass had never come with so little fine print – it really was unlimited, at all these great mountains, all the time - but so many asterisks: better buy now, because pretty soon skiing Christmas week is going to cost more than your car. And Vail was the first operator to understand, at scale, that almost everyone who skis at Vail or Beaver Creek or Breckenridge skied somewhere else first, and that the best way to recruit these travelers to your mountain rather than Deer Valley or Steamboat or Telluride was to make the competition inconvenient by bundling the speedbump down the street with the Alpine fantasy across the country.Vail Resorts, of course, didn't do anything. Rob Katz did these things. And yes, there was a great and capable team around him. But it's hard to ignore the fact that all of these amazing things started happening shortly after Katz's 2006 CEO appointment and stopped happening around the time of his 2021 exit. Vail's stock price: from $33.04 on Feb. 28, 2006 to $354.76 to Nov. 1, 2021. Epic Pass sales: from zero to 2.1 million. Owned resort portfolio: from five in three states to 37 in 15 states and three countries. Epic Pass portfolio: from zero ski areas to 61. The company's North American skier visits: from 6.3 million for the 2005-06 ski season to 14.9 million in 2020-21. Those same VR metrics after three-and-a-half years under his successor, Kirsten Lynch: a halving of the stock price to $151.50 on May 27, 2025, her last day in charge; a small jump to 2.3 million Epic Passes sold for 2024-25 (but that marked the product's first-ever unit decline, from 2.4 million the previous winter); a small increase to 42 owned resorts in 15 states and four countries; a small increase to 65 ski areas accessible on the Epic Pass; and a rise to 16.9 million North American skier visits (actually a three percent slump from the previous winter and the company's second consecutive year of declines, as overall U.S. skier visits increased 1.6 percent after a poor 2023-24).I don't want to dismiss the good things Lynch did ($20-an-hour minimum wage; massively impactful lift upgrades, especially in New England; a best-in-class day pass product; a better Pet Rectangle app), or ignore the fact that Vail's 2006-to-2019 trajectory would have been impossible to replicate in a world that now includes the Ikon Pass counterweight, or understate the tense community-resort relationships that boiled under Katz's do-things-and-apologize-later-maybe leadership style. But Vail Resorts became an impossible-to-ignore globe-spanning goliath not because it collected great ski areas, but because a visionary leader saw a way to transform a stale, weather-dependent business into a growing, weather-agnostic(-ish) one.You may think that “visionary” is overstating it, that merely “transformational” would do. But I don't think I appreciated, until the rise of social media, how deeply cynical America had become, or the seemingly outsized proportion of people so eager to explain why new ideas were impossible. Layer, on top of this, the general dysfunction inherent to corporate environments, which can, without constant schedule-pruning, devolve into pseudo-summits of endless meetings, in which over-educated and well-meaning A+ students stamped out of elite university assembly lines spend all day trotting between conference rooms taking notes they'll never look at and trying their best to sound brilliant but never really accomplishing anything other than juggling hundreds of daily Slack and email messages. Perhaps I am the cynical one here, but my experience in such environments is that actually getting anything of substance done with a team of corporate eggheads is nearly impossible. To be able to accomplish real, industry-wide, impactful change in modern America, and to do so with a corporate bureaucracy as your vehicle, takes a visionary.Why now was a good time for this interviewAnd the visionary is back. True, he never really left, remaining at the head of Vail's board of directors for the duration of Lynch's tenure. But the board of directors doesn't have to explain a crappy earnings report on the investor conference call, or get yelled at on CNBC, or sit in the bullseye of every Saturday morning liftline post on Facebook.So we'll see, now that VR is once again and indisputably Katz's company, whether Vail's 2006-to-2021 rise from fringe player to industry kingpin was an isolated case of right-place-at-the-right-time first-mover big-ideas luck or the masterwork of a business musician blending notes of passion, aspiration, consumer pocketbook logic, the mystique of irreplaceable assets, and defiance of conventional industry wisdom to compose a song that no one can stop singing. Will Katz be Steve Jobs returning to Apple and re-igniting a global brand? Or MJ in a Wizards jersey, his double threepeat with the Bulls untarnished but his legacy otherwise un-enhanced at best and slightly diminished at worst?I don't know. I lean toward Jobs, remaining aware that the ski industry will never achieve the scale of the Pet Rectangle industry. But Vail Resorts owns 42 ski areas out of like 6,000 on the planet, and only about one percent of them is associated with the Epic Pass. Even if Vail grew all of these metrics tenfold, it would still own just a fraction of the global ski business. Investors call this “addressable market,” meaning the size of your potential customer base if you can make them aware of your existence and convince them to use your services, and Vail's addressable market is far larger than the neighborhood it now occupies.Whether Vail can get there by deploying its current operating model is irrelevant. Remember when Amazon was an online bookstore and Netflix a DVD-by-mail outfit? I barely do either, because visionary leaders (Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings) shaped these companies into completely different things, tapping a rapidly evolving technological infrastructure capable of delivering consumers things they don't know they need until they realize they can't live without them. Like never going into a store again or watching an entire season of TV in one night. Like the multimountain ski pass.Being visionary is not the same thing as being omniscient. Amazon's Fire smartphone landed like a bag of sand in a gastank. Netflix nearly imploded after prematurely splitting its DVD and digital businesses in 2011. Vail's decision to simultaneously chop 2021-22 Epic Pass prices by 20 percent and kill its 2020-21 digital reservation system landed alongside labor shortages, inflation, and global supply chain woes, resulting in a season of inconsistent operations that may have turned a generation off to the company. Vail bullied Powdr into selling Park City and Arapahoe Basin into leaving the Epic Pass and Colorado's state ski trade association into having to survive without four (then five) of its biggest brands. The company alienated locals everywhere, from Stowe (traffic) to Sunapee (same) to Ohio (truncated seasons) to Indiana (same) to Park City (everything) to Whistler (same) to Stevens Pass (just so many people man). The company owns 99 percent of the credit for the lift-tickets-brought-to-you-by-Tiffany pricing structure that drives the popular perception that skiing is a sport accessible only to people who rent out Yankee Stadium for their dog's birthday party.We could go on, but the point is this: Vail has messed up in the past and will mess up again in the future. You don't build companies like skyscrapers, straight up from ground to sky. You build them, appropriately for Vail, like mountains, with an earthquake here and an eruption there and erosion sometimes and long stable periods when the trees grow and the goats jump around on the rocks and nothing much happens except for once in a while a puma shows up and eats Uncle Toby. Vail built its Everest by clever and novel and often ruthless means, but in doing so made a Balkanized industry coherent, mainstreamed the ski season pass, reshaped the consumer ski experience around adventure and variety, united the sprawling Park City resorts, acknowledged the Midwest as a lynchpin ski region, and forced competitors out of their isolationist stupor and onto the magnificent-but-probably-nonexistent-if-not-for-the-existential-need-to-compete-with Vail Ikon, Indy, and Mountain Collective passes.So let's not confuse the means for the end, or assume that Katz, now 58 and self-assured, will act with the same brash stop-me-if-you-can bravado that defined his first tenure. I mean, he could. But consumers have made it clear that they have alternatives, communities have made it clear that they have ways to stop projects out of spite, Alterra has made it clear that empire building is achieved just as well through ink as through swords, and large independents such as Jackson Hole have made it clear that the passes that were supposed to be their doom instead guaranteed indefinite independence via dependable additional income streams. No one's afraid of Vail anymore.That doesn't mean the company can't grow, can't surprise us, can't reconfigure the global ski jigsaw puzzle in ways no one has thought of. Vail has brand damage to repair, but it's repairable. We're not talking about McDonald's here, where the task is trying to convince people that inedible food is delicious. We're talking about Vail Mountain and Whistler and Heavenly and Stowe – amazing places that no one needs convincing are amazing. What skiers do need to be convinced of is that Vail Resorts is these ski areas' best possible steward, and that each mountain can be part of something much larger without losing its essence.You may be surprised to hear Katz acknowledge as much in our conversation. You will probably be surprised by a lot of things he says, and the way he projects confidence and optimism without having to fully articulate a vision that he's probably still envisioning. It's this instinctual lean toward the unexpected-but-impactful that powered Vail's initial rise and will likely reboot the company. Perhaps sooner than we expect.What we talked aboutThe CEO job feels “both very familiar and very new at the same time”; Vail Resorts 2025 versus Vail Resorts 2006; Ikon competition means “we have to get better”; the Epic Friends program that replaces Buddy Tickets: 50 percent off plus skiers can apply that cost to next year's Epic Pass; simplifying the confusing; “we're going to have to get a little more creative and a little more aggressive” when it comes to lift ticket pricing; why Vail will “probably always have a window ticket”; could we see lower lift ticket prices?; a response to lower-than-expected lift ticket sales in 2024-25; “I think we need to elevate the resort brands themselves”; thoughts on skier-visit drops; why Katz returned as CEO; evolving as a leader; a morale check for a company “that was used to winning” but had suffered setbacks; getting back to growth; competing for partners and “how do we drive thoughtful growth”; is Vail an underdog now?; Vail's big advantage; reflecting on the 20 percent 2021 Epic Pass price cut and whether that was the right decision; is the Epic Pass too expensive or too cheap?; reacting to the first ever decline in Epic Pass unit sales numbers; why so many mountains are unlimited on Epic Local; “who are you going to kick out of skiing” if you tighten access?; protecting the skier experience; how do you make skiers say “wow?”; defending Vail's ongoing resort leadership shuffle; and why the volume of Vail's lift upgrades slowed after 2022's Epic Lift Upgrade.What I got wrong* I said that the Epic Pass now offered access to “64 or 65” ski areas, but I neglected to include the six new ski areas that Vail partnered with in Austria for the 2025-26 ski season. The correct number of current Epic Pass partners is 71 (see chart above). * I said that Vail Resorts' skier visits declined by 1.5 percent from the 2023-24 to 2024-25 winters, and that national skier visits grew by three percent over that same timeframe. The numbers are actually reversed: Vail's skier visits slumped by approximately three percent last season, while national visits increased by 1.7 percent, per the National Ski Areas Association.* I said that the $1,429 Ikon Pass cost “40% more” than the $799 Epic Local – but I was mathing on the fly and I mathed dumb. The actual increase from Epic Local to Ikon is roughly 79 percent.* I claimed that Park City Mountain Resort was charging $328 for a holiday week lift ticket when it was “30 percent-ish open” and “the surrounding resorts were 70-ish percent open.” Unfortunately, I was way off on the dollar amount and the timeframe, as I was thinking of this X post I made on Wednesday, Jan. 8, when day-of tickets were selling for $288:* I said I didn't know what “Alterra” means. Alterra Mountain Company defines it as “a fusion of the words altitude and terrain/terra, paying homage to the mountains and communities that form the backbone of the company.”* I said that Vail's Epic Lift Upgrade was “22 or 23 lifts.” I was wrong, but the number is slippery for a few reasons. First, while I was referring specifically to Vail's 2021 announcement that 19 new lifts were inbound in 2022, the company now uses “Epic Lift Upgrade” as an umbrella term for all years' new lift installs. Second, that 2022 lift total shot up to 21, then down to 19 when Park City locals threw a fit and blocked two of them (both ultimately went to Whistler), then 18 after Keystone bulldozed an illegal access road in the high Alpine (the new lift and expansion opened the following year).Questions I wish I'd askedThere is no way to do this interview in a way that makes everyone happy. Vail is too big, and I can't talk about everything. Angry Mountain Bro wants me to focus on community, Climate Bro on the environment, Finance Bro on acquisitions and numbers, Subaru Bro on liftlines and parking lots. Too many people who already have their minds made up about how things are will come here seeking validation of their viewpoint and leave disappointed. I will say this: just because I didn't ask about something doesn't mean I wouldn't have liked to. Acquisitions and Europe, especially. But some preliminary conversations with Vail folks indicated that Katz had nothing new to say on either of these topics, so I let it go for another day.Podcast NotesOn various metrics Here's a by-the-numbers history of the Epic Pass:Here's Epic's year-by-year partner history:On the percent of U.S. skier visits that Vail accounts forWe don't know the exact percentage of U.S. skier visits belong to Vail Resorts, since the company's North American numbers include Whistler, which historically accounts for approximately 2 million annual skier visits. But let's call Vail's share of America's skier visits 25 percent-ish:On ski season pass participation in AmericaThe rise of Epic and Ikon has correlated directly with a decrease in lift ticket visits and an increase in season pass visits. Per Kotke's End-of-Season Demographic Report for 2023-24:On capital investmentSimilarly, capital investment has mostly risen over the past decade, with a backpedal for Covid. Kotke:The NSAA's preliminary numbers suggest that the 2024-25 season numbers will be $624.4 million, a decline from the previous two seasons, but still well above historic norms.On the mystery of the missing skier visitsI jokingly ask Katz for resort-by-resort skier visits in passing. Here's what I meant by that - up until the 2010-11 ski season, Vail, like all operators on U.S. Forest Service land, reported annual skier visits per ski area:And then they stopped, winning a legal argument that annual skier visits are proprietary and therefore protected from public records disclosure. Or something like that. Anyway most other large ski area operators followed this example, which mostly just serves to make my job more difficult.On that ski trip where Timberline punched out Vail in a one-on-five fightI don't want to be the Anecdote King, but in 2023 I toured 10 Mid-Atlantic ski areas the first week of January, which corresponded with a horrendous warm-up. The trip included stops at five Vail Resorts: Liberty, Whitetail, Seven Springs, Laurel, and Hidden Valley, all of which were underwhelming. Fine, I thought, the weather sucks. But then I stopped at Timberline, West Virginia:After three days of melt-out tiptoe, I was not prepared for what I found at gut-renovated Timberline. And what I found was 1,000 vertical feet of the best version of warm-weather skiing I've ever seen. Other than the trail footprint, this is a brand-new ski area. When the Perfect Family – who run Perfect North, Indiana like some sort of military operation – bought the joint in 2020, they tore out the lifts, put in a brand-new six-pack and carpet-loaded quad, installed all-new snowmaking, and gut-renovated the lodge. It is remarkable. Stunning. Not a hole in the snowpack. Coming down the mountain from Davis, you can see Timberline across the valley beside state-run Canaan Valley ski area – the former striped in white, the latter mostly barren.I skied four fast laps off the summit before the sixer shut at 4:30. Then a dozen runs off the quad. The skier level is comically terrible, beginners sprawled all over the unload, all over the green trails. But the energy is level 100 amped, and everyone I talked to raved about the transformation under the new owners. I hope the Perfect family buys 50 more ski areas – their template works.I wrote up the full trip here.On the megapass timelineI'll work on a better pass timeline at some point, but the basics are this:* 2008: Epic Pass debuts - unlimited access to all Vail Resorts* 2012: Mountain Collective debuts - 2 days each at partner resorts* 2015: M.A.X. Pass debuts - 5 days each at partner resorts, unlimited option for home resort* 2018: Ikon Pass debuts, replaces M.A.X. - 5, 7, or unlimited days at partner resorts* 2019: Indy Pass debuts - 2 days each at partner resortsOn Epic Day vs. Ikon Session I've long harped on the inadequacy of the Ikon Session Pass versus the Epic Day Pass:On Epic versus Ikon pricingEpic Passes mostly sell at a big discount to Ikon:On Vail's most recent investor conference callThis podcast conversation delivers Katz's first public statements since he hosted Vail Resorts' investor conference call on June 5. I covered that call extensively at the time:On Epic versus Ikon access tweaksAlterra tweaks Ikon Pass access for at least one or two mountains nearly every year – more than two dozen since 2020, by my count. Vail rarely makes any changes. I broke down the difference between the two in the article linked directly above this one. I ask Katz about this in the pod, and he gives us a very emphatic answer.On the Park City strikeNo reason to rehash the whole mess in Park City earlier this year. Here's a recap from The New York Times. The Storm's best contribution to the whole story was this interview with United Mountain Workers President Max Magill:On Vail's leadership shuffleI'll write more about this at some point, but if you scroll to the right on Vail's roster, you'll see the yellow highlights whenever Vail has switched a president/general manager-level employee over the past several years. It's kind of a lot. A sample from the resorts the company has owned since 2016:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing all year long. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

The Jam Mechanics finish up season 3 with two more songs that'll be taking up space in your head. We reveal one final twist about DeepBlueInk's wedding that NO ONE saw coming.Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!Go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!Us:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE --Prompt: "Taking Up Space"--Bug's Song--Title: The DevilAdditional Challenge: Chapter 2Lyrics: I never said I was, I only let you think itI blurred the lines because I live my life between themI wasn't always like this... wasn't handsome with a heartbeat and a smileI was perfect up until the day I diedI had branches, I had leaves, I had fruits filled up with seedsI had roots they left abandoned when they hacked me into piecesbuilt a house out of my corpse, I'm in the walls, I'm in the porchbut when I learn to speak I'll scream in every creak inside your floors[Chorus]It took some practice but I finally learned to fightI could shift and trip my captors when they walked the halls at nightI could slowly change the layout, jam the doors too tight to budgechange the angle of the stairs enough to learn the taste of bloodI wasn't always like this but they chose to chop me downbut when I began to fight them back they burned me to the ground[Chorus]So I was soil, then a million writhing bugsI was maggots in the graveyard, then the crows that ate them upI spent 100 years invading every creature I could reachslowly poisoning the town 'till every inch had bits of meI drove them mad, I made them sick, moving pieces into placeslowly moving all my molecules in towards a single shapeand thus became the demon that you incorrectly nameI met the one you think I am, many years before you cameWhen I told him what I'd done he cut the horns right off his headhe bolted them to mine and said I'm twisted as it getsSo I don't know where he is now, that devil that you knowbut I've taken up the title, I'm the one you fuckin don't[Chorus]---- Matt's Song -----Title: Dead BoyAdditional Challenge: Click Track!on a couch in a room in a house in a city on an island on a planet in a star systemi was torn out of the nothing and born into a body given eyes given ears and emotional disregulationi coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i amon a couch in a room in a house in a city just jerking off and watching the same three shows againand why try when you're not here to see how hard this is for mei think i'll just let the dead boy take the wheel for a little whileand i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's coolbecause the dead boys gonna take good care of mein a drawer by the bed in a room that i haven't left once for three days nowin a place in my head where your face cannot get and your memory can be drowned outi coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i amand the world doesn't end and the days never turn and the dead boy is cuddled up next to me, honestly wellwho cares if i'm a car crash you're the truck that took me outwho says you can't feel sorry for yourself forever nowand i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's coolbecause the dead boy's gonna take good carethe dead boy's gonna take good care of meand sometimes when you hit rock bottomall you really need's a bigger drilland sometimes when your heart is brokenall you really need is engine oiland sometimes when your friends stop callingyou'll sigh with relief because it'sfinally just you and him on a couch in a room in a star systemand he holds your hand and he feeds you, keeps you needing him more than you'll ever need themyou could been anything, anyone, anywhere but here you arein a city, in a house, in a room, on a couch, lying in a dead boy's arms

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with constitutional and civil rights attorney and author, Andrew L. Seidel, exploring his work and the themes of his books, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American and American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom._____LINKShttps://andrewlseidel.com/The Christian Nationalism at the January 6, 2021, Insurrection Reporthttps://religiondispatches.org/author/andrew-l-seidel/BOOKSThe Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-AmericanAmerican Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom_____Andrew L. Seidel is a constitutional and civil rights attorney and the author of two books: The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American and American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom. He's also co-editor of an academic text, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials 5th Edition, with Prof. Leslie Griffin of UNLV law school.Andrew's been fighting to keep state and church separate for more than a decade. Currently, Andrew is the VP of Strategic Communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the largest organization fightI have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times.Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth.Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. Support the show_____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy. Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.comhttps://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastLove In Common Podcast with Frank Schaeffer, Ernie Gregg, and Erin Bagwell

Comedian, Host, Actor, Producer Brandon Broady, joins Lindsay and Aron to consider:What's your price to be the sole focus of Harvard's new lecture course: A Study of Armpits & Earlobes?What's your to participate in a real life Super Smash Bros match?What's your price to always have your seatbelt jam three times, before it will work, whenever you get in a car?—Follow Brandon Broady:Hosting Laugh Factory on Thursday, October 13th in Los Angeles. Get tickets here: https://www.laughfactory.com/Instagram: @broadythejokerTik Tok: @broadythejokerTwitter: @broadythejoker—We want to know YOUR prices! Fill out our audience poll and sign up for newsletter updates at humanvaluespodcast.com

Smitty's got a bunch to get into today, including but not limited to...The latest episode of Dude, Where's My Lease?My reaction to the Tyson plane fightI finally know how to spell "successful" and it's a game changer. Leveling up!When people tell me they miss me on the radio...I say goodbye to one of my biggest supporters. My grandmaAudio up after the livestream #whatthehelleverythingSmitty Learns Irish PUBcast coming in 2026. For fans of Irish history, shite talking podcasts, pubs and beer and just good fun. The Smitty Learns Irish PUBcast will feature Smitty hiking through Ireland for a year, and stopping by Irish towns to find out about their local history by talking to Publicans (Pub owners), regulars and town know-it-alls in sit down conversations that will hopefully be fun, informative, engaging and probably once in a while, at least a tad vulgar. Flying out April 1Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/we3smiths)

Jarren Benton Presents The High School Dropouts #78 | Playboy Playmate Echo JohnsonWe try our hand at interviewing, again. Echo has some great short stories...Kyle and Aaron get into it at the end. We're hoping this podcast makes it another week.

It's an all thumbs-up way-up episode! The crime writers each give their top 10 lists for the best podcasts of 2021. In Crime of the Week: prattle royale. Toby's top 10 listFault Line: Dying for a FightI'm Not a MonsterCarrie Low VS9/12SuspectDo You Know Mordecai?Believe herStolen: The Search for JermainThrough the CracksThe Apology LineLara's top 10 listI Am Not a MonsterSuspect9/12Carrie Low VSBelieve HerMurdaugh MurdersDo You Know Mordechai?Welcome to Your FantasyMississippi GoddamThe LineKevin's top 10 listBelieve HerSuspectI'm Not a MonsterThe Trials of Frank CarsonDo you know Mordechai?Carrie Low VSThe LineThe Apology Line9 / 12Welcome to your FantasyRebecca's top 10 listSuspectBelieve HerDo You Know Mordechai?Through the CracksCarrie Low VSI'm Not A MonsterThe LineSuave9/12Stolen: The Search for Jermain

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https://youtu.be/PY6-x2-V-3g Matthew 4:12-17 Don't give up the fightJesus is beginning his ministry- and John has been put in prison for preaching. Jesus leaves for Galilee, and ends up in Capernaum, which was a fulfillment of Isaiah 9. Then Jesus starts his ministry preaching repentance. We preach repentance almost every week. We'll do it again. Not this week- This week I want to look at this beginning of Jesus mission as a means for us to be encourage to stay on missionWe're on mission here at FVC. God has placed each and every one of us strategically to be here for such a time as this. I've complained about being in the PNW in the pulpit and online I apologize. I'm not going to complain about it anymore, and if I do, please correct meThere are people here that need Jesus and we are not going to give up the fight. If all the Christian churches leave Washington- its not just that the state will fail, but many people will not make it to heaven, and that should concern all of us. God needs more gloryThink about Jesus- he had to do what he came to do to benefit all of us- and we cant give up Stay in the fight- Stay on mission - Fight Folks- we are on mission- We must live out Matt 28:19. We cannot be pulled in another direction based on what the world is doing, or what is happening around us. Mission must goIn the beginning of this story- we see what happens- John goes to prison ostensibly for preaching repentance. It doesn't say- but we can assume- Jesus continues his missionWhat happened to John wasn't going to keep Jesus from doing his mission. He wasn't givin upJesus is demonstrating here- Just because someone goes to prison for what you're about to do- doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it. John preaches repentance- prison- Jesus- goes out and preaches repentance. We, as people of God- cannot be crippled by fear, because something bad happened to someone- and use that as an excuse or reason, why we cant do what we are supposed to doWho remembers 911? Devastating. I was on mission in Egypt- It continued- 2 Tim 1:7  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.This is a true scripture! This is part of why Jesus came- to Heb2:15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.When Jesus came, he walked without fear, to empower us to walk without fear- John 14:27  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Do you believe that? Or have you given yourself over to fear? - FightI get it- this is a interesting time to live in- and I gave myself over to fear for a while back in the spring- but then I came to my senses- even if It means that I die, I'm not going to let a virus keep me from performing my mission- I'm just not. If Covid kills me- it will be because God wants to bring me home, and I can't hide from it in my home. The savior I served said things to the men who were sent out to preach things like- Luke 10:19  Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.I get it! Fear is REAL- Fear of death is REAL. We've all probably feared at times- EVEN DAVID- Ps 55:4 My heart is severely pained within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.But just because you are afraid, and death is real- doesn't mean you give up. it just doesntThe psalmist- Psalm 89:48 What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? SelahHebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,We're all going to die at somepoint- but people have become this life worshippers to the point of giving up every last right and giving up the mission under the guise of protection of life- Its life worship- its idolatry disguised as Christian virtue wrapped in false humility Let me paint a ...

https://youtu.be/PY6-x2-V-3g Matthew 4:12-17 Don’t give up the fightJesus is beginning his ministry- and John has been put in prison for preaching. Jesus leaves for Galilee, and ends up in Capernaum, which was a fulfillment of Isaiah 9. Then Jesus starts his ministry preaching repentance. We preach repentance almost every week. We’ll do it again. Not this week- This week I want to look at this beginning of Jesus mission as a means for us to be encourage to stay on missionWe’re on mission here at FVC. God has placed each and every one of us strategically to be here for such a time as this. I’ve complained about being in the PNW in the pulpit and online I apologize. I’m not going to complain about it anymore, and if I do, please correct meThere are people here that need Jesus and we are not going to give up the fight. If all the Christian churches leave Washington- its not just that the state will fail, but many people will not make it to heaven, and that should concern all of us. God needs more gloryThink about Jesus- he had to do what he came to do to benefit all of us- and we cant give up Stay in the fight- Stay on mission - Fight Folks- we are on mission- We must live out Matt 28:19. We cannot be pulled in another direction based on what the world is doing, or what is happening around us. Mission must goIn the beginning of this story- we see what happens- John goes to prison ostensibly for preaching repentance. It doesn’t say- but we can assume- Jesus continues his missionWhat happened to John wasn’t going to keep Jesus from doing his mission. He wasn’t givin upJesus is demonstrating here- Just because someone goes to prison for what you’re about to do- doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do it. John preaches repentance- prison- Jesus- goes out and preaches repentance. We, as people of God- cannot be crippled by fear, because something bad happened to someone- and use that as an excuse or reason, why we cant do what we are supposed to doWho remembers 911? Devastating. I was on mission in Egypt- It continued- 2 Tim 1:7  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.This is a true scripture! This is part of why Jesus came- to Heb2:15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.When Jesus came, he walked without fear, to empower us to walk without fear- John 14:27  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Do you believe that? Or have you given yourself over to fear? - FightI get it- this is a interesting time to live in- and I gave myself over to fear for a while back in the spring- but then I came to my senses- even if It means that I die, I’m not going to let a virus keep me from performing my mission- I’m just not. If Covid kills me- it will be because God wants to bring me home, and I can’t hide from it in my home. The savior I served said things to the men who were sent out to preach things like- Luke 10:19  Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.I get it! Fear is REAL- Fear of death is REAL. We’ve all probably feared at times- EVEN DAVID- Ps 55:4 My heart is severely pained within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.But just because you are afraid, and death is real- doesn’t mean you give up. it just doesntThe psalmist- Psalm 89:48 What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? SelahHebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,We’re all going to die at somepoint- but people have become this life worshippers to the point of giving up every last right and giving up the mission under the guise of protection of life- Its life worship- its idolatry disguised as Christian virtue wrapped in false humility Let me paint a ...

I want you out of my lifeI want you back here tonightI'm tryna cut you, no knifeI wanna slice you and dice youMy argue possessiveIt got you preciseCan you not turn off the TV?I'm watchin' a fightI flood the garageBlue diamond, no sharkYour Barbie life dollIs Nicki MinajYou don't need a key to driveYour car on the chargerI just wanna see the side (yeah)The one that's unbotheredAnd I don't want you to never go outside (outside)I promise if they play, my nigga slidin' (slidin')I'm fuckin' her, and the tour bus still ridin' (ridin')Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I want you out of my lifeI want you back here tonightI'm tryna cut you, no knifeI wanna slice you and dice youMy argue possessiveIt got you preciseCan you not turn off the TV?I'm watchin' a fightI flood the garageBlue diamond, no sharkYour Barbie life dollIs Nicki MinajYou don't need a key to driveYour car on the chargerI just wanna see the side (yeah)The one that's unbotheredAnd I don't want you to never go outside (outside)I promise if they play, my nigga slidin' (slidin')I'm fuckin' her, and the tour bus still ridin' (ridin')Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Today's topics:Dana White s***s on Curtis Blaydes again for doing exactly what he said he was going to do in his most recent fightI’m no genius, but it sounds like the DWCS fighters are going to take roster spots from higher priced talent (3:44)John McCarthy on the one thing he would change right away about MMA (10:00) Corey Anderson sees the big picture - will other fighters follow his lead (18:01)Dana White can call me a scumbag all he wants, but he shouldn’t lie about me, which is what he is doing — again. (26:00) The podcast is available pretty much everywhere now, so please subscribe, rate, review, share, do all that good stuff to help me out.Do you know something about UFC, USADA, an MMA manager or a fighter, that I should know? You can email me at trent.reinsmith@gmail.com or contact me via secure messaging on Telegram at trentreinsmith or via ProtonMail at trent.reinsmith@protonmail.com Get full access to C'mon Now at cmonnow.substack.com/subscribe

(0:00:00) Skin FastingWe all have skin care routines to help us get the skin we want. It can be as simple as moisturizing every night, to spending hours every morning prepping your skin with a variety of products. But have you ever considered throwing away all of those treatments and just letting your skin breathe for a minute? Heidi Prather, a certified dermatologist discusses this trend and what the benefits are.  (0:16:16) Annual Home Maintenance ChecklistFor many home owners, property maintenance happens only when something goes awry. But instead of waiting for something to break before deciding to invest in repairs, why not create and keep a home-maintenance checklist? Ronda Kaysen, a Sunday Real Estate columnist from the New York Times, outlines a checklist to preserve your home's value.  (0:34:43) The Art of DownsizingMoving at any point in time is tiring and frustrating. Downsizing, however, takes on a whole new set of difficulties as you are forced to scale down. Karen Shinn, owner and founder of Downsizing Diva, shares the benefits of downsizing as well as how to make the transition as efficient and painless as possible.  (0:52:49) Drama TherapyWe love to talk about the importance of therapy on our show-- we want everyone who needs help or positivity in their lives to be able to find that! But we know that for some people, lying on a couch and sharing their feelings with a stranger might not be the right fit. Luckily, there are tons of other options out there, like drama therapy. Dr. Robert Landy, drama therapist, tells us all about it.  (1:08:55) Mini Book ClubRachel Wadham, of BYU Radio's Worlds Awaiting, discusses the way in which authors use music to inspire their writing.  (1:20:42) Making Your Kid a Millionaire "Stocks"-- that magical, yet maddening word that promises the potential to solve all our money problems, but also leaves us tearing our hair out due to its confusing nature. Investing can be tricky at any age, yet many of us hope that if we start teaching our kids about investment practices while they're young, they'll be more likely to have financial success. Steve Siebold, author of "Secrets Self-Made Millionaires Teach Their Kids," shares investment education strategies.  (1:34:23) Fighting In-Home Teen Drug AbuseUnderstanding the warning signs of drug use and/or misuse can be an invaluable asset as a parent or caregiver. Joe Abdallah, former drug enforcement officer and executive director of Code 3, a non-profit addressing the drug epidemic, gives educational resources and warning signs of drug use within the home. 

Join James, Drey, and their featured guest Noah Vice as they discuss Christian involvement in war. Is it ok for christians to partake in war? Is war good? Is there a difference between killing and murder? Some of these questions will be answered in this weeks conversation...

Better late than never! This week we have a very special 20th episode of the Chris to Chris podcast. This week we’re airing an original song and talking about the latest Nintedo Direct, bad jobs, Walmart weddings, and much more.Choking on Crow lyrics:-Mike sucks, right? Not trying to start a fightI’m just saying what you’re thinking, dude is kinda shite-But let me break it down, let’s use a metaphorIf I’m Lebron and you was Kobe, Mike be keeping score-But he would do it wrong, like any mumble songSo if you’re proud enough to bitch then you can sing along-“Yo can we wrap it up? I think we’ve heard enough”Well pay attention Mike, cause I’m about to murder ya[What happened…. where was I?]-That’s right, I was talking bout youThe best example of what not to do-You complain about the same dang thangLike a chain gang sang “What am I to do?” (X2)-Piece together the math, dude you the sum of all trashEmo little chicken shit, ya need a bird bath-Epitomize a pit of liesFrom bitter skies comes your demise-So say it with me if you try: “Sir, with fries, do you want that?”A music-major Yoda face I’ll test it with a bat-You pathetic, whining like you needed a medicFeelings hurt, that’s your dessert, I keep it copacetic-To your credit, you the biggest bitch that I knowI guess that’s what’ll happen when you choking on crow-Let’s end the flow, twist a phrase that’s often abusedIf it’s ever said that I dropped the Mike, they talking bout you

In this episode, Jarvis shares his experience as an adolescent, and the lessons he learned about self-identity.CREATED BY: Jarvis R. SmithPRODUCED BY: Line Slayer AudioRECORDED AT: My Workstation Works OCSONG: “Secrets to this World” by Jarvis R. Smith (ft. Que)EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Quinton “Que” Hampton | Hussain “Sain” Ewidah | Jarvis R. SmithRECORDING EQUIPMENT: | Mic: RØDE NT USB Condenser | DAW: Reason 8.5 | Headphones: Audio-Technica –ATH-M50 | Acoustics: Monoprice 602650 Isolation Shield | Audio Repair: RX6 Audio Editor | Mastering: T-RackS 3 Deluxe℗ © 2017 JRS/Line Slayer. All Rights Reserved.Instagram: www.instagram.com/jarvisrsmithLYRICSVERSE 1 - JarvisThis summer/I’m going away/I’m not coming back/Goodbye todayMy eyes have seen/Another life/So I leave tonight/I’ll be outta sightCause if you seen/What I’ve seen/Then you would too/Vanish soonI found my place/In this space/No shadow parts/In outer spaceCause I/Finally had to realize/That I appreciated your lies/When I hid inside and buried all my prideI believed in what you preached/Even memorized the speech/Boy was I weak/Just following the sheepBut no more tonight/Cause I built my spaceship right/So I’m about to take my flight/And head for the lightCause after spending weeks/Speaking with the unique/I know I can reach/A new love tonightCHORUS - QueAnd I know (I know)/That there’s (that there’s)Something (something)/Out there (out there)And I know (I know)/That there’s (that there’s)Secrets (secrets)/To this world (to this world)VERSE 2 - JarvisI hit lights/I breath in twice/This could be/My final fightI walk out brave/I up strong/the only way/I can write these wrongsCause if you seen/What I’ve seen/Then you would too/Vanish soonI look back once/I breath again/I punched the code/And ignite the windsCause I/Finally had to realize/That a man don’t hide/Hide behind disguise/And believe in those liesThat’s why I close my eyes/Focus on my mind/And listen to it express/The real truth insideCause I’m wasting no more time/As soon as I leave the skies/I’m about to accept my life/Being on the outsideCause after spending weeks/Speaking with the unique/I know I can reach/A new love tonightCHORUS - Que See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.