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Folks, Shaun Murphy joins us on this week's all new ep where we hear about a grumpy seal terrorizing a town, a battle over surfers riding river waves in Germany, ancient bees in the caribbean that lived inside bones, a drunk guy who stole two mandolins from a music store, and Drake getting a RICO charge from an online gambling schemeFollow Shaun on Inistagram @iamshaunmurphy and check out his new special 'Long Story Think right here on January 6th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgJfhnpBN8BUY ELI'S NEW STAND UP ALBUM HERE: https://eliyudin.bandcamp.com/album/humble-offeringOR WATCH IT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2wwdrpjcBecome a patron for weekly bonus eps and more stuff! :⁠⁠www.patreon.com/whatatimepod⁠⁠Check out our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/whatatimetobealive⁠⁠Get one of our t-shirts, or other merch, using this link! ⁠⁠https://whatatimepod.bigcartel.com/whatatimepod.com⁠⁠Join our Discord chat here:⁠⁠discord.gg/jx7rB7J⁠Theme music by Naughty Professor⁠: ⁠https://www.naughtyprofessormusic.com/⁠@pattymo // @kathbarbadoro // @eliyudin// @whatatimepod©2025 What A Time LLC

Send us a textThis week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale takes you Dogsledding with the owner of Basecamp Bigfork, Mark Schurke! You have got to see this one gang! Folks are having a blast with this, and it is likely because of the way Mark does it. Yeah, you can sit and ride on the dog sled, which is a ton of fun, but Mark actually lets you become the Musher! That's the person that, for the lack of a better word, drives the dog sled and that makes it even more fun. In fact, when click here to watch this week's video of the podcast you will get to watch the dogs and mushers in action. Another incredible thing you will learn is that the dogs that Mark uses are Inuit Dogs, that is the oldest dog breed in the world. They are unbelievable at what they can do and if you want, they can make your trip with them pretty wild. Click here to watch them jump over streams and take the sled flying right over it as well and other cool stuff! You are going to love this Podcast! Not only do folks get to become the musher they also get out into some of the most beautiful places in Northwest Montana. DO NOT miss this podcast. So, click that play button and get to mushing!!Links:Click here to learn more about Basecamp Bigfork.If you would like to watch even more videos and see more awesome pictures, click here to see them on Facebook or you can click here to see more on Instagram.Questions for Mark? Click here to send him an email.As always, your old buddy Rigger would love to hear what you thought of this week's Podcast. Click here to shoot him an email!Remember to tune in to The Montana Outdoor Radio Show, live every Saturday from 6:00AM to 8:00AM MT. The show airs on 30 radio stations across the State of Montana. You can get a list of our affiliated radio stations on our website. You can also listen to recordings of past shows, get fishing and and hunting information and much more at that website or on our Facebook page. You can also watch our radio show there as well.

Thanks for sticking with us through 6 seasons and, like...seven years?  It's been a long run, but now's a good a time as any to close the book.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the fabulous duo of JOE TALBOT (Idles) and GRACE NEUTRAL (tattoo legend)! Part 2 of 2!Folks used to the yearly custom of the DrunkCast need not go thirsty, for this is the season of powerful teamups on the podcast in order to celebrate the year and really go in on what's been going on, really with the triple perspective of past, present and future. Or, everything everywhere all at once. Grace and Joe have been on in the not too distant past and were excellent as expected, and made for perfect repeat custom right here as they all form the pyramid of chat and goodness, with all the ingredients for a straight up proper podcast. No pivoting to video, no hot takes for the thumbnails, just straight up audiotory goodness. So let's start as we mean to go on, and check in with Pip, Grace and Joe on part 2 of this two part roundup!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureIDLESFFTV (Grace Neutral)SPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leaders with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's treatment and recovery services say they're making strides in opioid addiction treatment in both the tribal community and in neighboring towns and cities. Jennifer Worth is the Operations Director for Great Circle Recovery in Oregon. “There are no throwaway people, everybody deserves the chance for hope and help.” Kelly Rowe is the Executive Director of Health Services for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. “It’s changed lives. It’s saved lives for us.” Kelly Rowe and Jennifer Worth talk about Grand Ronde’s recovery services. Worth says Great Circle started out of an idea to help figure out what to do about overdoses. “Folks were coming in and out of jail, there was a pattern where they were kind of noticing that there would be higher overdoses. And that’s because when people have an opioid use disorder and they go into incarceration and there’s no support during that time and they come out, they are more at risk and more vulnerable of an overdose. Being able to find other tools and avenues to support that was part of the vision of Great Circle.” The care is located on the reservation and off through Great Circle Salem, Great Circle Portland, and two mobile clinics. “Great Circle is steeped in the cultural and community values that Grand Ronde shares. And the way they care for their people is the way that we care for every patient that walks through these doors. And everybody matters. Everybody heals in community. And there is hope for each person that walks through that door. “ Taking care of the health and wellness of community members is a key tribal value, says Rowe. “We are doing it not just for Indian people, but for each other. And I know that when I’m coming to work and we’re building programming or giving services, it’s for me, my relatives, it’s for my son, my grandson, and so on and so on and so on. And truly is the seven generations ahead … the substances that are out there now that are so hard to get away from it's been difficult to make sure that we have enough services available to give to our people and we fight for beds, we fight for space to send our people to and that's what really led for us to make these services our own.” Chairwoman Cheryle Kennedy is the tribe's longtime leader and also has a long career in Native American health care, which includes addressing drug and alcohol addiction treatment. “I don’t believe that anyone, if you ask them today, ‘How many want to be an alcoholic or an addict?’. how many people are going to raise their hand? ‘Yeah, me, let me.’ No one starts like that, but it creeps in and it takes over, it consumes you. And pretty soon you have no life. You are then under the power of either the drink or the drug of choice, whatever it might be … as Native people, we think about ourselves in the whole. Colonization had those kind of effects … addictions, of use, misuse, need to be addressed.” The state, like many other states in the U.S., has been hit by the opioid crisis, including the misuse of prescription and illicit drugs. Addressing stigma around opioid use disorder is part of the work. Worth says this type of treatment shouldn't be any different than having a chronic health condition that needs to be managed. “Substance use shouldn’t be any different, but yet it is. And so, the more we can normalize and have these clinics out and available and embedded into the other services that are happening, it just destigmatizes that for everybody.” Great Circle is the first tribally-owned opioid treatment program in the state. This story is a collaboration with First Nations Experience Television (FNX TV) with support from the Public Welfare Foundation. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FOLKS! And what a year it's been. Hopefully you're all getting fat, gorging on cheese in that strange window of time between Christ's Birth and The Day the Teens Black Out. We put together a little highlight reel of some of our favourite stories of the year to you to enjoy, as well as do a deep dive into the latest with the Michigan football coach- you know the one. Cheers to you, Roaches. Another one in the books. Something tells me ‘26 is going to be just as depraved as the last twelve months were…so don't be shy. Give us your best at JoshPotterShow@gmail.com ★★★ This week's Intro Music: “Ultra” by Griff Parker Outro Music: “Live From The Roach Motel (feat. Hendawg)” by Brothers ⁠⁠⁠ @HendawgMusic ⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ★★★ See Josh Live! ALL STAND UP LINKS CAN BE FOUND HERE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thejoshpotter.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ★★★ Josh Potter:

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the fabulous duo of JOE TALBOT (Idles) and GRACE NEUTRAL (tattoo legend)! Part 1 of 2!Folks used to the yearly custom of the DrunkCast need not go thirsty, for this is the season of powerful teamups on the podcast in order to celebrate the year and really go in on what's been going on, really with the triple perspective of past, present and future. Or, everything everywhere all at once. Grace and Joe have been on in the not too distant past and were excellent as expected, and made for perfect repeat custom right here as they all form the pyramid of chat and goodness, with all the ingredients for a straight up proper podcast. No pivoting to video, no hot takes for the thumbnails, just straight up audiotory goodness. So let's start as we mean to go on, and check in with Pip, Grace and Joe on part 1 of this two part roundup!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureIDLESFFTV (Grace Neutral)SPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Folks, on this week's all new ep we hear about someone trying to bring their cat in the HOV lane, why garlic mouthwash is the best for bad breath, how StubHub accidentally promoted the metal band 'Lamb of God' as a church Christmas show, why hundreds of Victorian shoes washed up on a beach, and how a relative of the Dodo was spotted in the rainforestBUY ELI'S NEW STAND UP ALBUM HERE: https://eliyudin.bandcamp.com/album/humble-offeringOR WATCH IT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2wwdrpjcBecome a patron for weekly bonus eps and more stuff! :⁠⁠www.patreon.com/whatatimepod⁠⁠Check out our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/whatatimetobealive⁠⁠Get one of our t-shirts, or other merch, using this link! ⁠⁠https://whatatimepod.bigcartel.com/whatatimepod.com⁠⁠Join our Discord chat here:⁠⁠discord.gg/jx7rB7J⁠Theme music by Naughty Professor⁠: ⁠https://www.naughtyprofessormusic.com/⁠@pattymo // @kathbarbadoro // @eliyudin// @whatatimepod©2025 What A Time LLC

Episode #10 is about my thoughts on why most Founders of wineries or wine brands are not the brilliant or savvy business people they would like you to believe they are. No,  more often than not, their success, if they have any, is usually attributable to timing or causes outside of their control.I use my experience with Brice Cutrer Jones, the Founder of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, as one example of why I formed this theory. I have said many times in the past that there were two people who were responsible, in my opinion, for the foundational success at Sonoma-Cutrer, and neither of their names is Brice Jones or Fred Reno.Take a listen and see what you think. Thanks for being a listener to the Fine Wine Confidential Podcast. For more information go to www.finewineconfidential.com

Are the bowl games dead in college football? Most of them aren't the teams that played this season, some aren't coached by the coach from the season-teams are turning Bowl Game BIDS, DOWN!

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 28th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Proverbs 18:24:”But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Then we go to the Gospel of John 15:14, Jesus says: ”You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” Are you lonely today? Christmas is over. Some of your loved ones, your children, maybe your parents, have been to see you. Now they have to go back, back to work. Some have got to go back overseas, and you say you don't know when you will see them again, and you are feeling lonely. Well, I want to share something with you today. What you sow is what you reap. If you sow no seed, you will reap no crop, so in order to have friends, you need to be friendly. (Proverbs 18:24).I want to tell you a story about a rich woman. She was a godly woman but she was very wrapped up with herself, but there was a maid who worked and stayed in a little room in the back of the house. She was a friend of Jesus, and Jesus was her friend, and she spent lots of time with the Lord, praying and reading scripture. When she got old, she died. She went to Heaven and God gave her a beautiful home in Heaven because He was so fond of her. Then the rich old lady died and she went to Heaven and when she arrived in Heaven St. Peter took her down a street of gold and said, “I am going to show you your home.” She walked passed this beautiful palatial home, and Peter said to the rich old lady, “See that house? That belongs to your maid. That is where she stays.” The old lady was so excited, “Well, if my maid stays in a house like that, obviously I am going to stay in a palace.” But the golden road ran out, and then it was a silver road, and then it was a tarmac road, and then it was a dirt road, and then it was a path. No more houses, just little shacks with a few sheets of corrugated iron and some poles. And then eventually Peter said, “There is your home.” And the lady was shattered. She said, “How can you do this?” He said, ”You sent no material up for us to build your home.”Folks, it's just a story but I want to tell you, if you want to have friends and if you want to know Jesus Christ as your personal Friend, the secret is, you have got to spend time with Him, every single morning. 1 Timothy 6:6 says, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain.” Spend more time with Jesus and you won't be so lonely!God bless you and goodbye.

Good news: Kids in New York City public schools are benefitting from a system-wide ban on cell phone! They're socializing, and there is a noticeable improvement in focus. Bad news: Without their phones to assist them, these kids have no idea how to read analog clocks. Nicole and Jack discuss and weep for the nation's future. Also discussed in this episode of Hardly Focused: Nicole recounts her trip to Goodsprings, Nevada for the annual gathering of Fallout fans! "Mr. Goodman, please report to the office." Folks in the Massachusetts town of Haverhill are actually upset over the new Dunkin' plant smelling of fresh-baked donuts. FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE! https://hardlyfocused.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this special Christmas Day episode, Suze and KT reveal a major change in their lives and pass along some great advice about getting older. Watch Suze’s YouTube Channel Jumpstart financial wellness for your employees: https://bit.ly/SecureSave Protect your financial future with the Must Have Docs: https://bit.ly/3Vq1V3GGet your savings going with Alliant Credit Union: https://bit.ly/3rg0YioGet Suze’s special offers for podcast listeners at suzeorman.com/offerJoin Suze’s Women & Money Community for FREE and ASK SUZE your questions which may just end up on the podcast. Download the app by following one of these links: CLICK HERE FOR APPLE: https://apple.co/2KcAHbHCLICK HERE FOR GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/3curfMISee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Folks, we're releasing this week's Patreon bonus episode here on the main feed where we talk about an AI vending machine that went horribly wrong, what it might be like to live like a fish in an aquarium, and delve into Rumpelstiltskin againBecome a patron for weekly bonus eps and more stuff! :⁠⁠www.patreon.com/whatatimepod⁠©2025 What A Time LLC

00:08 From Bruce Lee's San Francisco origins during the segregationist era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and family's immigration story, to his role in the lives and minds of young Asian Americans, a new book traces Lee's story. We talk with Jeff Chang, cultural historian, about Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. “He was a marker of culture, a sign, a signifier that put us in the pop culture conversation,” Chang says. “Folks want to whitewash his story… as if to separate him from other immigrants. No. Bruce was part of a class of people that was completely shunned and looked down upon… He's dealing with racism every day. Part of the story here is to recover that, so people really understand what that means.” Jeff Chang won the American Book Award for Can't Stop Won't Stop, his history of the early years of hip hop. The post Cultural Historian Jeff Chang on the Life of Bruce Lee appeared first on KPFA.

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Merry Christmas and welcome to another episode of Fratello On Air! We're back with an episode on Christmas Eve, and we're talking about our favorite Seiko watches of all time. That's a tough mission, but like Santa's job of delivering toys to all the children, we're up to the task! Grab some mulled wine, settle in by the fireplace, and enjoy the banter.Folks, we've been on the road for the last few weeks. America, Japan, and Germany are just some of the places we've been. However, we're back just in time for Christmas, and we're excited to talk about one of our favorite brands. Seiko has an impressive history and has made significant contributions to watchmaking. In this episode, we discuss our six favorite Seiko references. It wasn't easy, but we've somehow whittled it down to a handful and a thumb!HandgelenkskontrolleTo kick things off, we return to sneakers. We've been a little disappointed in the Nike and New Balance releases leading up to the holiday season. Balazs brings up a set of Chicago Bulls championship rings that sold at Sotheby's on December 12th for over $400,000. Mike then discusses the Imperial Fabergé Winter Egg that recently sold for $30.2 million at Christie's. It was on preview at Christie's in London before going under the hammer earlier this month. For the Handgelenkskontrolle, Balazs is wearing his lovely Rolex GMT-Master reference 1675. Mike is still addicted to his Ming 37.11 Odyssey on the Polymesh bracelet.Our favorite Seiko watchesIf you haven't figured it out, Seiko is one of our favorite brands. When reviewing its back catalog, the number of significant references is mind-boggling. There are an incredible number of amazing watches in so many genres. Somehow, we've boiled our list down to six favorites. Some are surprises, and some are not. Still, all are fun and worth mentioning. Our picks are:The 6139-7070, a fantastic reference showcasing Japan's first automatic chronographThe Grand Seiko 44GS, 4420-9000, is one of the most significant designs from the brandA King Seiko 5626-7000, a Hi-Beat legend still available at an amazing priceSeiko's Champion Alpinist J13043, an incredibly distinct model with a stunning dialGrand Seiko's modern collection, one of the most gratifying and well-designed lineups on the market todayThe Seiko 6215-7000, a watch that broke boundaries for the brand and set a design standard that persists to this dayWe hope you enjoy today's episode, and while we expect some controversy from our discussion, we'd love it if you would contribute to the comments section with your favorite Seiko references. Most of all, we wish you a safe and joyous holiday period and thank you for your endless support. We look forward to our next episode!

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Welcome, my Haunted Hearts, to Paranormal Heart podcast, paranormal talk, with heart and soul. I'm your host, Kat Ward. Thank you so much for tuning in.Looking for another great podcast? Join my friends Justin Cancilliere and Erik Scerbak on ParaTruth Reborn. Explore the mysteries beyond the veil every Tuesday at 10 PM EST on UPRN, YouTube, and wherever you listen to podcasts. And tell them Kat sent you.Folks, tonight, we welcome back a dear friend Sir Bryan M. Bowden. Bowden is a seasoned investigator and researcher known for his extensive work in Ufology, high strangeness, and unexplained phenomena. With decades of experience, he brings sharp insight, firsthand encounters, and a no-nonsense approach to some of the most mysterious cases in the field. Bowden is widely respected for connecting patterns across paranormal, cryptid, and extraterrestrial activity, making him a powerful voice in today's anomalous research community. On this segment, Bowden will be discussing the Cattle and Human Mutilation Phenomena.Before we begin, a quick warning that tonight's topic may contain sensitive and potentially disturbing material that some listeners may find unsettling. Listener discretion is strongly advised. A huge thank you to my special guest tonight and to you, my wonderful audience, for tuning in. I also want to thank UPRN 107.7 New Orleans and 105.3 the Gulf Coast for carrying the show. If you enjoyed tonight's episode, please Like, Subscribe, Share, and Comment—it truly means the world to me. And if you'd like a little piece of Paranormal Heart to call your own, you can grab some podcast swag, like a mug, by emailing me at paranormalheart13@gmail.com. Until we meet again, take care of yourselves and each other. Sending you all much love.Bryan's Links:https://linktr.ee/bryanmbowden

Comedian Matt Storrs came over and told me about the life, death, and memory of his brother, what it's like grieving people even before they're gone, and how humor can help unpack the pain of grief.FOLLOW MATT STORRS:Instagram.com/mtstorrsFOLLOW MICAH WALSH:Instagram.com/micah_walshFOLLOW THE PODCAST:Instagram.com/illgrieveyouwiththispodcastTHANKS FOR LISTENING, FOLKS!TELL YOUR FRIENDS.LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, RATE, REVIEW PLEASE.

Folks, we've got a quick holiday treat in the form of a podcast recorded while Alan was in Japan NOTES: Alan going Wolverine mode, what to do if you get attacked by mercenaries on an airplane, Zootopia 2 is the first movie not about LOVE, Fruitopia 2/Brendan Refreshers Soda Gallery, Alan's saving the Suica Penguin, We talk DOG from Mug Root Beer, Russ is MAD about Coco Ichinbanya, Japanese Cold Chili, Shadow in the Nice Timbs, Built By Gamers: Feudal Japan Edition, The Blue Dragon's Trick.

Har du ett gammalt pepparkaksrecept du fått av din mormor eller annan släkting? Folks handskrivna recept undersöks i ny studie. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. När Annelie Sjölander Lindqvist började bläddra i sin mammas gamla receptbok såg hon berättelsen om mammans liv. Här fanns kakrecepten från grannfruarna hon gick till bokbussen tillsammans med på 70-talet. När barnen blivit lite större och hon börjat jobba igen dyker grytor och andra recept från middagar med kollegor upp i boken.Hör också om ett bortglömt yrke, festkokerskan! Och vad smågrisar är för maträtt!Medverkande: Annelie Sjölander LindqvistReporter: Cecilia Ohléncecilia.ohlen@sr.seProducent: Lars Broströmlars.brostrom@sr.seTekniker: Victor Bortas Rydbergvictor.bortas_rydberg@sr.se

For this week's show, we are going to dive into a topic uniquely suited for Christmas, and that's unity. The goal is to inspire more people to engage in Workamping and outdoor recreation regardless of their backgrounds. Today, I am joined by Earl B. Hunter Jr., the founder and president of The Unity Folks. It is an award-winning company focused on helping the outdoor and RV industries to invite and welcome people from all backgrounds. Earl spent decades as a business executive, including time as one of the few Black executives in the RV industry, where he helped grow a company from under $1 million to nearly $20 million in revenue. That experience shaped how he now approaches diversity, workforce development and long-term sustainability in outdoor recreation. Through The Unity Folks, Earl works with campgrounds, state and national parks, manufacturers and retailers to help them better understand why many people, especially those from underrepresented communities, have historically felt disconnected from the outdoors. In this conversation, we talk about generational barriers, the importance of education and empathy, and why campgrounds play a critical role in shaping outdoor culture. We also explore how Workampers can serve as ambassadors for unity simply by the way they welcome and interact with guests. My conversation with Earl reinforces how powerful campgrounds can be as places of connection, learning and shared experience. Earl made it clear that inviting people into the outdoors is not about checking boxes or making symbolic gestures. Rather, it is about understanding why some people have not felt welcome, taking the time to educate and listen, and creating environments where respect and empathy come first. For Workampers, that means recognizing the influence you have on guests who may be camping or RVing for the first time. Simple things like explaining campground etiquette, answering questions without judgment and modeling kindness can make a lasting difference. Earl also shared how The Unity Folks works directly with campgrounds and outdoor businesses to provide training and Unity Blaze certification to help them create more welcoming spaces for visitors and workers alike. If you would like to learn more about Earl's company or explore how your campground or business can get involved, visit www.theunityfolks.com or email info @ theunityfolks.com. You can also find The Unity Folks on all major social media platforms. Today's episode is sponsored by Workamper News. Much more than just a job-listing website, when you put the tools of this professional service into action, you'll find out just how easy it can be to turn your Workamping dreams into reality. A Workamper membership opens the door to a one-stop-shop for all-things Workamping. Being the original resource for Workamping, you'll find the largest number of job listings, be able to connect with a community of Workampers, and view resources compiled by experts who have been enjoying the RV lifestyle for many years. If you're serious about leading a successful and enjoyable Workamping lifestyle, then membership is for you. Join today at www.workamper.com. Embark on new adventures today with the support of Workamper News behind you! That's all for this week's show. On behalf of all of us at the Workamper organization, we wish you a happy and memorable Christmas holiday. We have a special episode planned for next week to explain some important changes and updates to the new Workamper website. It will help make 2026 your best year ever for Workamping. Thanks for listening and Merry Christmas.

For this week's show, we are going to dive into a topic uniquely suited for Christmas, and that's unity. The goal is to inspire more people to engage in Workamping and outdoor recreation regardless of their backgrounds. Today, I am joined by Earl B. Hunter Jr., the founder and president of The Unity Folks. It is an award-winning company focused on helping the outdoor and RV industries to invite and welcome people from all backgrounds. Earl spent decades as a business executive, including time as one of the few Black executives in the RV industry, where he helped grow a company from under $1 million to nearly $20 million in revenue. That experience shaped how he now approaches diversity, workforce development and long-term sustainability in outdoor recreation. Through The Unity Folks, Earl works with campgrounds, state and national parks, manufacturers and retailers to help them better understand why many people, especially those from underrepresented communities, have historically felt disconnected from the outdoors. In this conversation, we talk about generational barriers, the importance of education and empathy, and why campgrounds play a critical role in shaping outdoor culture. We also explore how Workampers can serve as ambassadors for unity simply by the way they welcome and interact with guests. My conversation with Earl reinforces how powerful campgrounds can be as places of connection, learning and shared experience. Earl made it clear that inviting people into the outdoors is not about checking boxes or making symbolic gestures. Rather, it is about understanding why some people have not felt welcome, taking the time to educate and listen, and creating environments where respect and empathy come first. For Workampers, that means recognizing the influence you have on guests who may be camping or RVing for the first time. Simple things like explaining campground etiquette, answering questions without judgment and modeling kindness can make a lasting difference. Earl also shared how The Unity Folks works directly with campgrounds and outdoor businesses to provide training and Unity Blaze certification to help them create more welcoming spaces for visitors and workers alike. If you would like to learn more about Earl's company or explore how your campground or business can get involved, visit www.theunityfolks.com or email info @ theunityfolks.com. You can also find The Unity Folks on all major social media platforms. Today's episode is sponsored by Workamper News. Much more than just a job-listing website, when you put the tools of this professional service into action, you'll find out just how easy it can be to turn your Workamping dreams into reality. A Workamper membership opens the door to a one-stop-shop for all-things Workamping. Being the original resource for Workamping, you'll find the largest number of job listings, be able to connect with a community of Workampers, and view resources compiled by experts who have been enjoying the RV lifestyle for many years. If you're serious about leading a successful and enjoyable Workamping lifestyle, then membership is for you. Join today at www.workamper.com. Embark on new adventures today with the support of Workamper News behind you! That's all for this week's show. On behalf of all of us at the Workamper organization, we wish you a happy and memorable Christmas holiday. We have a special episode planned for next week to explain some important changes and updates to the new Workamper website. It will help make 2026 your best year ever for Workamping. Thanks for listening and Merry Christmas.

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Five wins. Seven wins. These were the predictions of Rob and Patrick halfway through what has turned into a magically fun season for the Chicago Bears. Over the weekend, the team that has haunted them their entire adult lives, the Green Bay Packers, fell in spectacular fashion, as the Bears launched a sports existential crisis throughout the state of Wisconsin. Folks, it's glorious.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Folks, on this week's all new ep we hear about stressed out rats using cannabis to relax, a woman who was fired for continuously showing up early to work, which english speaking country swears the most, people in China buying venomous snakes after seeing Zootopia 2, and a Grinch that terrorized a school in EnglandBUY ELI'S NEW STAND UP ALBUM HERE: https://eliyudin.bandcamp.com/album/humble-offeringOR WATCH IT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2wwdrpjcBecome a patron for weekly bonus eps and more stuff! :⁠⁠www.patreon.com/whatatimepod⁠⁠Check out our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/whatatimetobealive⁠⁠Get one of our t-shirts, or other merch, using this link! ⁠⁠https://whatatimepod.bigcartel.com/whatatimepod.com⁠⁠Join our Discord chat here:⁠⁠discord.gg/jx7rB7J⁠Theme music by Naughty Professor⁠: ⁠https://www.naughtyprofessormusic.com/⁠@pattymo // @kathbarbadoro // @eliyudin// @whatatimepod©2025 What A Time LLC

Folks, I am joined by Mollie and you know, I like this episode A LOT. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and big joy to all ye who enter here. Much love!(0:00) - Banter(19:32) - AITA for telling my wife she was being difficult due to a seating issue at a restaurant?(35:03) - AITA for never eating lunch with my colleagues?(46:44) - AITA for wanting friend's mom to pay for our uber?BEST way to Submit a sitch or comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/AITApod/Email - amitheahole@gmail.com Join Patreon! https://patreon.com/aitapodWhat's on Patreon?- 250+ Bonus eps- NO ADS and accurate timestamps- Complain and comment DIRECTLY to Danny :D TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@aitapodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/aita_pod/

Vincent and Joel sit down with guest, FITSNews' own Will Folks, to discuss the crazy developments in South Carolina Politics, the course of state policy, proposed judicial reform, changes in the journalism industry, panhandling regulations, the governor's race, the decisions your elected officials are making, and much more!Get your latest Statehouse update and hear firsthand the rationale behind some of the legislature's most controversial bills. Join Senators Sheheen and Lourie in this week's episode where they take a deeper look at upcoming legislation and lawmakers' actions in S.C.  Support the showKeep up to Date with BITBR: Twitter.com/BITBRpodcastFacebook.com/BITBRpodcasthttps://bourboninthebackroom.buzzsprout.com

Folks it's Holy Smokes! The comedy podcast where we sm*ke w**d and tell Bible stories.The dog stepped on a cord so we lost scoochie's camera, apologies for the technical difficulties!Our guest for ep 78 is improv legend Ryan Rosenberg (@mandogpod, Big Grande). Scoochie tells the story of Moses sitting on a rock with his hands up to win a battle.Go listen to Ryan's improv podcast Man Dog Pod. Truly one of the best improv shows out there, Scoochie Boochie and Groovebox were guests on it a while back.In honor of our 69th episode, use promo code: NICE to get 69% off your first month on the patreon.patreon.com/holysmokespodPatreon members get exclusive monthly videos including unreleased songs, discounts on Scoochie merch, and a Cameo from Scoochie Boochie

Welcome to the podcast Hacking the Afterlife. I tend to put information here that gives context to the podcast. In that vein, for those unfamiliar with what we're doing: At what point in time is it okay to ask recently deceased people questions on the flipside? When is too soon? When is it inappropriate?  Some context: as a filmmaker, I've written and or directed 10 feature films, made a number of documentaries about the afterlife, and have spoken at UVA Medical school DOPS regarding how the footage shows consciousness is not confined to the brain. Jennifer Shaffer works with law enforcement agencies nationwide on missing person cases. I've interviewed some of those agents from the FBI, LAPD (NYPD) who work with her on a daily basis. A third of her practice is pro bono work with law enforcement. She also works with a number of people who knew Rob and Michelle, and the families of Kobe Bryant and Steve Jobs have allowed her to mention that she works with them. Ten years ago, I began working with Jennifer - we met for lunch and have been talking since then. The past five years on our podcast. Our moderator on the flipside is Luana Anders - who worked with Rob Reiner in the film THE LAST DETAIL. Luana died in my arms, and began visiting me not long after (back in 1996). It took me until 2004 to investigate how it was possible she could communicate with me - and upon meeting Jennifer I realized I could have conversations with her. And indeed - we've been doing that nonstop for over ten years. Luana was in many films - worked with Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and others - and in my case, I worked with Ray Charles in the film LIMIT UP where he plays “God.” The point is that it's “six degrees of separation.” If Luana knows someone, or I worked with someone, it's easier for us to verify those details. I knew Penny Marshall, we did a gig together once, I appeared on Laverne and Shirley once (cutting room floor because Harry Dean Stanton's song went long.) So when this question is asked; “Are you going to be speaking to Rob and Michelle soon?” it comes from the couple of hundred interviews we have on the podcast HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on YouTube. In terms of our podcast, people tend to miss the notion that we aren't in charge of the guest list. Since Jennifer and I have begun to talk to the flipside, it's really up to Luana Anders to decide who is “ready to be interviewed.” In terms of how that works, sometimes I “hear” a voice from someone I knew or know - and when that happens, I'll say to myself “Well, if this person wants to show up for a conversation, they know where to find us.” And then - since Jennifer and I have been doing that for over the past ten years, frequently I'll show up for a meeting with her - and she'll say “so and so is here.” That has happened more often than I can recall. I can report that I heard Robert Kennedy's voice one day saying “I understand you're the person I need to speak with to get a message to my family.” I had the presence of mind to not judge that I heard his distinct voice - and said to him; “Actually I'm not the guy, you need to find Luana.” The next day I went to meet with Jennifer and she said before I could say anything; “Robert Kennedy is here.” The other day during the Frank Gehry interview, I heard his voice (or had the impression of hearing his voice) saying “Yes, I'll be on your podcast.” And not believing that it was actually him and not my imagination, I said to him “Well, we met through Sally Kellerman, so if you do want to speak to us, Sally should show up and I'll know it's you.” And during that podcast, at first Jennifer said “Luana says you have someone” and then said “Hot Lips is here.” (Sally Kellerman's role in the film MASH.) So I knew that Frank was available to converse. In this case, we have spoken to Rob Reiner's ex, Penny whom I was pals with. When she crossed over, we have a conversation with the one and only. We've also interview Garry Marshall, whom I knew when he was still on the planet - so it wasn't hard for us to connect with Penny. Generally - what we've learned recently is that Luana Anders is teaching a class in the flipside in how to communicate with us. The class - is large. We've spoken to quite a few people in the past ten years. So all that being said, I was wondering if we'd be speaking to Rob and his wife Michelle this week. A friend of mine who has done a guided meditation session with me said “I have the feeling you're going to be speaking to Rob Reiner this week.” I said “It may be too soon - but I have to be open to whomever does show up.” In other words - I know how tragic the event is, I know how raw his friends feel - and some of them I know well enough to say that I know they'd be upset to hear that we were inviting him to our podcast. This week - I'm about to post it - he does show up. I ask Luana “Who is here on your guest list” and Jennifer makes a face and says “Rob Reiner.” Then she said “He's just observing. He doesn't want to speak. But he's observing the class.” We've had that before - where people show up to just observe this give and take to see what it is. In the Frank Gehry podcast I asked him if he was ready to converse (He was friends with Luana and I told him at a party that I had scattered some of his old friend's ashes at the Guggenheim in Bilbao) - and we ask him about that on the podcast. The point is - without context it may seem exploitive to converse with someone who is recently passed. I know that some people are offended that we speak to anyone in this fashion - however, as I try to point out, as a filmmaker for the past 40 years, a music critic at Variety, and since Luana was in over 100 films and TV shows - between us we know many folks on the flipside, and she has many of them in her class on how to “communicate with the denser realm.” (Folks onstage). So Rob and Michelle may talk to us in the future. That's up to them. Again - it's not my opinion, theory or belief that people exist after leaving the stage - it's what the footage, data and research show. People can spend their lives believing that life ends, and be completely startled, shocked to realize life goes on. That our manner of passing isn't as relevant as our many of living - and how many people we've affected or cared about. Love is all there is. So it's a cogent question, and the answer is revealed in today's podcast: “Yes, he still exists and No, he's not ready to talk about it yet.” We'll see if he is at a future date. The point of the podcast (and the underlying point of the question) is that “everyone can communicate with people offstage” - our loved ones are not gone, they just aren't here. I'm sorry that bothers some people - but I wouldn't be accurate if I didn't report verbatim what the data, research or footage was showing. Hope this helps someone. For people who want to communicate directly with loved ones, I can recommend Jennifer's help - there's also her "Wine & Spirits" events in Manhattan beach. For those willing to do hypnotherapy, I recommend Scott at LightBetweenLives.com - a way to explore in detail. For those who are familiar with guided meditation, I can help them access their teachers and guides via RichardMartini.com Hope this helps.

Supergirl finally takes flight with her first teaser, Steven Spielberg's long-rumoured UFO project now has an official title and a teaser trailer, and Marvel fans can catch the first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday in cinemas… or, if you dare, seek out the leaked version online. Plus, could this be the apocalypse? Netflix makes a massive move by buying Warner Bros., and we break down what it could mean for the future of movies, streaming, and Hollywood as a whole.

Folks! It may be the end of 2025, but it's a brand new era, a brand new season, and a brand new Doctor for Erik and Kyle. Having bid a fond farewell to the Eleventh Doctor, this month they discuss the first adventure of the Twelfth. That is, of course, Deep Breath, written by showrunner Steven Moffat. How well does this 11-year-old episode hold up, and what can we already learn about what will be the most divisive season of the Moffat era? WOOHOO!

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The FBI cracks a mostly imaginary terror case. Indiana Republicans bravely face death threats to do nothing. Trump finally signs his executive order banning AI regulation, so you're free to buy Christmas toys that sell your kids on the brilliance of Chairman Mao. How will we power all these toys? We're getting rid of Christmas trees, folks. All a part of a very sensible plan.Support the show

WhoMike Giorgio, Vice President and General Manager of Stowe Mountain, VermontRecorded onOctober 8, 2025About StoweClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail Resorts, which also owns:Located in: Stowe, VermontYear founded: 1934Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass: unlimited access* Epic Local Pass: unlimited access with holiday blackouts* Epic Northeast Value Pass: 10 days with holiday blackouts* Epic Northeast Midweek Pass: 5 midweek days with holiday blackouts* Access on Epic Day Pass All and 32 Resort tiers* Ski Vermont 4 Pass – up to one day, with blackouts* Ski Vermont Fifth Grade Passport – 3 days, with blackoutsClosest neighboring U.S. ski areas: Smugglers' Notch (ski-to or 40-ish-minute drive in winter, when route 108 is closed over the notch), Bolton Valley (:45), Cochran's (:50), Mad River Glen (:55), Sugarbush (:56)Base elevation: 1,265 feet (at Toll House double)Summit elevation: 3,625 feet (top of the gondola), 4,395 feet at top of Mt. MansfieldVertical drop: 2,360 feet lift-served, 3,130 feet hike-toSkiable acres: 485Average annual snowfall: 314 inchesTrail count: 116 (16% beginner, 55% intermediate, 29% advanced)Lift count: 12 (1 eight-passenger gondola, 1 six-passenger gondola, 1 six-pack, 3 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 2 doubles, 2 carpets)Why I interviewed himThere is no Aspen of the East, but if I had to choose an Aspen of the East, it would be Stowe. And not just because Aspen Mountain and Stowe offer a similar fierce-down, with top-to-bottom fall-line zippers and bumpy-bumps spliced by massive glade pockets. Not just because each ski area rises near the far end of densely bunched resorts that the skier must drive past to reach them. Not just because the towns are similarly insular and expensive and tucked away. Not just because the wintertime highway ends at both places, an anachronistic act of surrender to nature from a mechanized world accustomed to fencing out the seasons. And not just because each is a cultural stand-in for mechanized skiing in a brand-obsessed, half-snowy nation that hates snow and is mostly filled with non-skiers who know nothing about the activity other than the fact that it exists. Everyone knows about Aspen and Stowe even if they'll never ski, in the same way that everyone knows about LeBron James even if they've never watched basketball.All of that would be sufficient to make the Stowe-is-Aspen-East argument. But the core identity parallel is one that threads all these tensions while defying their assumed outcome. Consider the remoteness of 1934 Stowe and 1947 Aspen, two mountains in the pre-snowmaking, pre-interstate era, where cutting a ski area only made sense because that's where it snowed the most. Both grew in similar fashion. First slowly toward the summit with surface lifts and mile-long single chairs crawling up the incline. Then double chairs and gondolas and snowguns and detachable chairlifts. A ski area for the town evolves into a ski area for the world. Hotels a la luxe at the base, traffic backed up to the interstate, corporate owners and $261 lift tickets.That sounds like a formula for a ruined world. But Stowe the ski area, like Aspen Mountain the ski area, has never lost its wild soul. Even buffed out and six-pack equipped and Epic Pass-enabled, Stowe remains a hell of a mountain, one of the best in New England, one of my favorite anywhere. With its monster snowfalls, its endless and perfectly spaced glades, its never-groomed expert zones, its sprawling footprint tucked beneath the Mansfield summit, its direct access to rugged and forbidding backcountry, Stowe, perhaps the most western-like mountain in the East, remains a skier's mountain, a fierce and humbling proving ground, an any-skier's destination not because of its trimmings, but because of the Christmas tree itself.Still, Stowe will never be Aspen, because Stowe does not sit at 8,000 feet and Stowe does not have three accessory ski areas and Stowe the Town does not grid from the lift base like Aspen the Town but rather lies eight miles down the road. Also Stowe is owned by Vail Resorts, and can you just imagine? But in a cultural moment that assumes ski area ruination-by-the-consolidation-modernization-mega-passification axis-of-mainstreaming, Aspen and Stowe tell mirrored versions of a more nuanced story. Two ski areas, skinned in the digital-mechanical infrastructure that modernity demands, able to at once accommodate the modern skier and the ancient mountain, with all of its quirks and character. All of its amazing skiing.What we talked aboutStowe the Legend; Vail Resorts' leadership carousel; ascending to ski area leadership without on-mountain experience; Mount Brighton, Michigan and Midwest skiing; struggles at Paoli Peaks, Indiana; how the Sunrise six-pack upgrade of the old Mountain triple changed the mountain; whether the Four Runner quad could ever become a six-pack; considering the future of the Lookout Double and Mansfield Gondola; who owns the land in and around the ski area; whether Stowe has terrain expansion potential; the proposed Smugglers' Notch gondola connection and whether Vail would ever buy Smuggs; “you just don't understand how much is here until you're here”; why Stowe only claims 485 acres of skiable terrain; protecting the Front Four; extending Stowe's season last spring; snowmaking in a snowbelt; the impact and future of paid parking; on-mountain bed-base potential; Epic Friend 50 percent off lift tickets; and Stowe locals and the Epic Pass.What I got wrongOn detailsI noted that one of my favorite runs was not a marked run at all: the terrain beneath the Lookout double chair. In fact, most of the trail beneath this mile-plus-long lift is a market run called, uh, “Lookout.” So I stand corrected. However, the trailmap makes this full-throttle, narrow bumper – which feels like skiing on a rising tide – look wide, peaceful, and groomable. It is none of those things, at least for its first third or so.On skiable acres* I said that Killington claimed “like 1,600 acres” of terrain – the exact claimed number is 1,509 acres.* I said that Mad River Glen claimed far fewer skiable acres than it probably could, but I was thinking of an out-of-date stat. The mountain claims just 115 acres of trails – basically nothing for a 2,000-vertical-foot mountain, but also “800 acres of tree-skiing access.” The number listed on the Pass Smasher Deluxe is 915 acres.On season closingsI intimated that Stowe had always closed the third weekend in April. That appears to be mostly true for the past two-ish decades, which is as far back as New England Ski History has records. The mountain did push late once, however, in 2007, and closed early during the horrible no-snow winter of 2011-12 (April 1), and the Covid-is-here-to-kill-us-all shutdown of 2020 (March 14).On doing better prepI asked whether Stowe had considered making its commuter bus free, but it, um, already is. That's called Reeserch, Folks.On lift ticket ratesI claimed that Stowe's top lift ticket price would drop from $239 last year to $235 this coming season, but that's inaccurate. Upon further review, the peak walk-up rate appears to be increasing to $261 this coming winter:Which means Vail's record of cranking Stowe lift ticket rates up remains consistent:On opening hoursI said that the lifts at Stowe sometimes opened at “7:00 or 7:30,” but the earliest ski lift currently opens at 8:00 most mornings (the Over Easy transit gondola opens at 7:30). The Fourrunner quad used to open at 7:30 a.m. on weekends and holidays. I'm not sure when mountain ops changed that. Here's the lift schedule clipped from the circa 2018 trailmap:On Mount Brighton, Michigan's supposed trashheap legacyI'd read somewhere, sometime, that Mount Brighton had been built on dirt moved to make way for Interstate 96, which bores across the state about a half mile north of the ski area. The timelines match, as this section of I-96 was built between 1956 and '57, just before Brighton opened in 1960. This circa 1962 article from The Livingston Post, a local paper, fails to mention the source of the dirt, leaving me uncertain as to whether or not the hill is related to the highway:Why you should ski StoweFrom my April 10 visit last winter, just cruising mellow, low-angle glades nearly to the base:I mean, the place is just:I love it, Man. My top five New England mountains, in no particular order, are Sugarbush, Stowe, Jay, Smuggs, and Sugarloaf. What's best on any given day depends on conditions and crowding, but if you only plan to ski the East once, that's your list.Podcast NotesOn Stowe being the last 1,000-plus-vertical-foot Vermont ski area that I featured on the podYou can view the full podcast catalogue here. But here are the past Vermont eps:* Killington & Pico – 2019 | 2023 | 2025* Stratton 2024* Okemo 2023* Middlebury Snowbowl 2023* Mount Snow 2020 | 2023* Bromley 2022* Jay Peak 2022 | 2020* Smugglers' Notch 2021* Bolton Valley 2021* Hermitage Club 2020* Sugarbush 2020 with current president John Hammond | 2020 with past owner Win Smith* Mad River Glen 2020* Magic Mountain 2019 | 2020* Burke 2019On Stowe having “peers, but no betters” in New EnglandWhile Stowe doesn't stand out in any one particular statistical category, the whole of the place stacks up really well to the rest of New England - here's a breakdown of the 63 public ski areas that spin chairlifts across the six-state region:On the Front Four ski runsThe “Front Four” are as synonymous with Stowe as the Back Bowls are with Vail Mountain or Corbet's Couloir is with Jackson Hole. These Stowe trails are steep, narrow, double-plus-fall-line bangers that, along with Castlerock at Sugarbush and Paradise at Mad River Glen, are among the most challenging runs in New England.The problem is determining which of the double-blacks spiderwebbing off the top of Fourrunner are part of the Front Four. Officially, the designation has always bucketed National, Liftline, Goat, and Starr together, but Bypass, Haychute, and Lookout could sub in most days. Credit to Stowe for keeping these wild trails intact for going on a century, but what I said about them “not being for the masses” on the podcast wasn't quite accurate, as the lower portions of many - especially Liftline - are wide, often groomed, and not particularly treacherous. The best end-to-end trail is Goat, which is insanely steep and narrow up top. Here's part of Goat's middle-to-lower section, which is mellower but a good portrayal of New England bumpy, exposed-dirt-and-rocks gnar, especially at the :19 mark:The most glorious ego boost (or ego check) is the few hundred vertical feet of Liftline directly below Fourrunner. Sound on for scrapey-scrape:When the cut trails get icy, you can duck into the adjacent glades, most of which are unmarked but skiable. Here, I bailed into the trees skier's left of Starr to escape the ice rink:On Vail Resorts' leadership shufflesTwelve of Vail's 37 North American ski areas began the 2024-25 ski season with a different leader than they ended the 2023-24 ski season with. This included five of the company's New England resorts, including Stowe. Giorgio, in fact, became the ski area's third general manager in three winters, and the fourth since Vail acquired the ski area in 2017. I asked Giorgio about this, as a follow up to a similar set of questions I'd laid out for Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz in August:I may be overthinking this, but check this out: between 2017 and 2024, Vail Resorts changed leadership at its North American ski areas more than 70 times - the yellow boxes below mark a new president-general-manager equivalent (red boxes indicate that Vail did not yet own the ski area):To reset my thinking here: I can't say that this constant leadership shuffle is inherently dysfunctional, and most Vail Resorts employees I speak with appreciate the company's upward-mobility culture. And I consistently find Vail's mountain leaders - dozens of whom I have hosted on this podcast - to be smart, earnest, and caring. However, it's hard to imagine that the constant turnover in top management isn't at least somewhat related to Vail Resorts' on-the-ground reputational issues, truncated seasons at non-core ski areas (see Paoli Peaks section below), and general sense that the company's arc of investment bends toward its destination resorts.On Peak ResortsVail purchased all of Peak Resorts, including Mount Snow, where Giorgio worked, in 2019. Here's that company's growth timeline:On Vernon Valley-Great GorgeThe ski area now known as Mountain Creek was Vernon Valley-Great Gorge until 1997. Anyone who grew up in the area still calls the joint by its legacy name.On Paoli Peaks versus Perfect NorthMy hope is that if I complain enough about Paoli Peaks, Vail will either invest enough in snowmaking to tranform it into a functional ski area or sell it. Here are the differences between Paoli's season lengths since 2013 as compared to Perfect North, its competitor that is the only other active ski area in the state:What explains this longstanding disparity, which certainly predates Vail's 2019 acquisition of the ski area? Paoli does sit southwest of Perfect North, but its base is 200 feet higher (600 feet, versus 400 for Perfect), so elevation doesn't explain it. Perfect does benefit from a valley location, which, longtime GM Jonathan Davis told me a few years back, locks in the cold air and supercharges snowmaking. The simplest answer, however, is probably the correct one: Perfect North has built one of the most impressive snowmaking systems on the planet, and they use it aggressively, cranking more than 200 guns at once. At peak operations, Perfect can transform from green grass to skiable terrain in just a couple of days.So yes, Perfect has always been a better operation than Paoli. But check this out: Paoli's performance as compared to Perfect's has been considerably worse in the five full seasons of Vail Resorts' ownership (excluding 2019-20), than in the six seasons before, with Perfect besting Paoli to open by an average of 21 days before Vail arrived, and by 31 days after. Perfect's seasons lasted an average of 25 days longer than Paoli's before Vail arrived, and 38 days longer after:Yes, Paoli is a uniquely challenged ski area, but I'm confident that someone can do a better job running this place than Vail has been doing since 2019. Certainly, that someone could be Vail, which has the resources and institutional knowledge to transform this, or any ski area, into a center of SnoSportSkiing excellence. So far, however, they have declined to do so, and I keep thinking of what Davis, Perfect North's longtime GM, said on the pod in 2022: “If Vail doesn't want [its ski areas in Indiana and Ohio], we'll take them!”On the 2022 Sunrise Six replacement for the tripleIn 2022, Stowe replaced the Mountain triple chair, which sat up a flight of steep steps from the parking lot, with the at-grade Sunrise six-pack. It was the kind of big-time lift upgrade that transforms the experience of an entire ski area for everyone, whether they use the new lift or not, by pulling skiers toward a huge pod of underutilized terrain and away from longtime alpha lifts Fourrunner and the Mansfield Gondola.On Fourrunner as a vert machineStowe's Fourruner high-speed quad is one of the most incredible lifts in American skiing, a lightspeed-fast base-to-summit, 2,040-vertical-foot monster with direct access to some of the best terrain west of A-Basin.The highest vert total in my 54-day 2024-25 ski season came (largely) courtesy of this lift - and I only skied five-and-a-half hours:On Stowe-Smuggs proximity and the proposed gondola and a long drive in winterAdventurous skiers can skin or hike across the top of Stowe's Spruce Peak and ski down into the Smugglers' Notch ski area. An official ski trail once connected them, and Smuggs proposed a gondola connector a couple of years back. If Vail were to purchase sprawling Smuggs, a Canyons-Park City mega-connection – while improbable given local environmental lobbies -could instantly transform Stowe into one of the largest ski areas in the East.On Jay Peak's big snowmaking upgradesI referenced big offseason snowmaking upgrades for water-challenged (but natural-snow blessed), Jay Peak. I was referring to this:This season brings an over $1.5M snowmaking upgrade that's less about muscle and more about brains. We've added 49 brand new HKD Low E air-water snowmaking guns—32 on Queen's Highway and 17 on Perry Merrill. These aren't your drag-'em-out, hook-'em-up, hope-it's-cold-enough kind of guns. They're fixed in place for the season and far more efficient, using much less compressed air than the ones they replace. Translation: better snow, less energy.On Perry Merrill, things get even slicker. We've installed HKD Klik automated hydrants that come with built-in weather stations. The second temps hit 28 degrees wetbulb, these hydrants kick on automatically and adjust the flow as the mercury drops. No waiting, no guesswork, no scrambling the crew. The end result? Those key connecting trails between Tramside and Stateside get covered faster, which means you can ski from one side to the other—or straight back to your condo—without having to hop on a shuttle with your boots still buckled. …It's all part of a bigger 10-year snowmaking plan we're rolling out—more automation, better efficiency, and ultimately, better snow for you to ski and ride on.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Retatrutide is years away from FDA approval and yet the fight over access, price, control of this medication is already well underway. That's what this podcast is going to be about today. There's well over a hundred thousand people by my estimates who are already on some form of this medication today. And that should tell you enough about how disruptive this molecule is and will be. It is a game changer among game changer. We've been talking about it for three years here at On The Pen, well before any of your favorite gym bros were talking about Retatrutide. We were talking about Reta, who tried Retatrutide here at On The Pen. And that's because we identified this triple agonist as a game changer among game changers. So This is going to be a very Retatrutide heavy episode, and so I hope you'll join us and stick with us if this is a topic you enjoy, because I think this is really going to effectively lay the groundwork for what accessibility to this medication will look like. So let's get into it. Welcome to the On The Pen Podcast with your host, Dave Knapp. Welcome to the On The Pen, the weekly dose podcast. This is our weekly roundup in incretin memetic news. And frankly, there's no news that is bigger than Reta-Trutide news. Just find me any news that is bigger than the data that we got on Reta-Trutide. Now, we already did a video about the Triumph Phase II clinical trials that we got in osteoarthritis of the knee. You can go back and check out that video if you'd like more data. So we're not gonna super... rehash the data. We'll go over at a high level what the data showed us. We're not going to go over how the medicine works, because by now we all know that it's the triple agonist, right? If terzapatide was a dual agonist, GLP-GIP, Retatrutide is the triple agonist that adds to it a glucagon component, which is absolutely just shredding, shredding liver fat. It is absolutely revving up people's metabolism and showing a tremendous amount of weight loss. So let's get into what the weight loss looked like in this first trial, because there are longer obesity trials where, where the primary outcome is the weight loss this was again a specific trial in measuring pain reduction in folks with osteoarthritis of the knee but check out these numbers these are placebo adjusted meaning it's taking the two percent out that people lost on placebo but looking at these numbers Folks on one milligram over forty eight weeks lost seventeen percent. They bumped up to four milligrams. Those folks lost twenty two percent. So right there at the lowest dose, you're already reaching the efficacy of today's drugs that are on the market, like triseptide and semaglutide in their various forms. If you bumped up to eight milligrams, you saw twenty four percent placebo adjusted weight loss and at twelve milligrams, twenty six point four percent weight loss. Adding back in that two percent of the placebo that those on placebo loss, that's twenty eight point four percent weight loss in these forty eight weeks at the highest dose. When you adjust for some of the more real world outcomes, you kind of ding the numbers a little bit based upon people who quit the drug, et cetera. Those numbers look more like a twenty percent weight loss and twenty three point seven percent weight loss at the highest dose. But even then, you're still seeing a drug that is better than the current drugs that are on the market. around forty eight percent of patients on Retatrutide lost greater than twenty five percent. And then if you were at that twelve twelve milligram dose, that highest dose patients lost fifty nine percent of patients lost more than twenty five percent of their body weight. There was a subset that lost thirty percent of their body weight and some even over thirty five percent of their body weight on Retatrutide. So the lower doses compete with today's best drugs and the upper doses are entering into bariatric surgery level weight loss. And that's putting the whole obesity system on notice and probably a lot of surgeons nervous because typical body weight loss was something like the street sleeve gastrectomy. For example, it's about eighteen to twenty five percent body weight. The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass twenty five to thirty five percent weight loss or the duodenal switch thirty to forty percent weight loss. So the upper doses of Ritutrutide overlap with sleeve and bypass outcomes without any surgery. It's incredible. It is a game changer among game changer. It is the new benchmark in obesity medicine. And there's actually more data, like I said, landing in later twenty twenty six. The longer duration will historically, if history is a marker, equal more weight loss than we even see here at this forty eight weeks. We have an interview that will be airing later this week on our channel and on our podcast with our friend Mimi from Australia who just wrapped up her clinical trial on Retatrutide. They ended it like ten weeks early on her, which was a huge bummer to her. So we're going to hear from her because she had to end abruptly. We're going to hear her story, an incredible story. She's one of those folks that got up that thirty five percent body weight loss in the time that she was on Retatrutide. So, this is just showing you that these drugs are not simply an alternative to bariatric surgery. We are approaching a point in time where these are on par with bariatric surgery, and as people are on this Reta-Trutide trial, you see that these numbers aren't plateauing either. So we will see stronger weight loss numbers the longer that these folks are on this trial. And I think you'll see some of those numbers in that population of folks on the higher doses eclipse maybe even some of what we see with some of these bariatric surgeries. the real story that i think is taking shape here is not in how powerful Retatrutide is because we've literally been expecting or anticipating this kind of data for more than three years at on the pin we've been talking about this and i think that's sort of reflected in the fact that you didn't see this massive spike in eli lilly stock wall street was expecting this as well Um, so it was on par, I think with expectations, but the expectations are astronomical compared to previous options that were available to patients and all the innovation in the world. All of these drugs, we talked at last week about WV, E double Oh seven, the James Bond of weight loss that targets fat, not only targets fat loss, but it also targets the promotion of building of, of lean muscle mass. We're talking about an insane future in obesity medicine. But none of it means anything if people can't access it. And that's really where we are today in terms of ensuring that there's going to be an option for everyone. And that's sort of what I want to get into today, because Lilly wants Retatrutide to be classified as a biologic, so not a traditional small molecule drug like you've seen every other incretin and nutrient-stimulated hormone-treating obesity on the market to date. They're trying to get this classified as a biologic. Now, we talked about this before on the podcast. That matters in three major ways. It affects the exclusivity length of time that a pharmaceutical company has on a drug. That goes from, I believe, five years of market exclusivity to twelve. It affects compounding rules because biologics cannot be compounded. And then that gives the pharmaceutical companies a tremendous amount of pricing power in the marketplace, because essentially there's no competition and there's no competition for a long time. But this whole argument about getting this classified as a biologic is not about safety. It's about protection and we're going to get into it. So let's explain this here. This is why Retatrutide really is not a biologic arguably. So biologics are large proteins. There are hundreds of or even thousands of amino acids grown in living cells that are sensitive to tiny manufacturing changes. Retatrutide is a short chain peptide. It's chemically synthesized and it is below the traditional biological size thresholds when it comes to how those things are defined. We'll just leave it at that. So even though it acts like a biologic in the body, it's made like a drug. It's made like a small molecule drug. And if it's treated as a drug, they get, like I said, five years of market exclusivity. Now, really a lot of confusion around what this means, but essentially the first five years of the life of a drug, the patent can be challenged for a number of reasons. We've seen patent challenges right now are going on in the courts for both semaglutide and terzepatide. But these companies are guaranteed that five years of market exclusivity, no matter how those patent lawsuits shake out. That five years jumps to twelve years with the biologic. So ultimately, there's no biosimilars that are allowed during that twelve year window. Again, with terzapatidin and semaglutide, it's five years. They could lose their market exclusivity within five years of the release of the patent. twelve years with a biologic. So if they lose their patent challenges on Trezabitide, they still have some time left with market exclusivity for the drug. They likely will not lose those, but that jumps to twelve years. And I think the most important thing to understand about the reclassification of Reta-Trutide to a biologic would mean that, 503A and 503B pharmacies are effectively locked out of compounding this medication, 503Bs would have some latitude arguably, but they would face extreme barriers. Routine compounding becomes legally and technically restricted because biological status doesn't slow compounding down. It actually shuts the door or almost completely shuts the door. Biologics not only would allow Lilly to have longer market exclusivity, no compounding, but it would allow them to command a higher price in the marketplace because A, they get this designation and there's an assumption when they bring this to market that they're harder to manufacture, that they're harder to copy, that there are fewer negotiating alternatives for payers. They can command a higher price with the insurance companies, and the price pressure stays muted for much longer because, again, you don't have those pressures of compounding. You don't have the pressures externally from lawsuits that could end your market exclusivity in that first five years of the drug's existence. So there's just a lot of price pressure upwards on a biologic compared to a normal small molecule drug. And when there's no credible alternative or backup option, which to Retatrutide, there wouldn't be, it'd be the first drug that has bariatric surgery level results. The prices won't come down. They'll command a massive price and the prices won't come down. So let's talk about where this currently stands because ultimately the Eli Lilly went to the FDA. We've been covering this for well over a year, maybe close to two years now, a year and a half at least. Lily went to the FDA, they said, we want this classified as a biologic, here are the reasons why. The FDA initially said, no, we're not gonna do that. So Lily challenged that decision in court. So the point that we're at today is the court told the FDA to reconsider and better explain itself So the first no given to the FDA to Lilly didn't stick. The courts looked at it and they said, you need a better, you need to reconsider your decision and you need to explain your decision better to Lilly. So ultimately we're sitting now at the point where the court has made its decision that the FDA has to go back and now we await basically what the FDA has to say on this. But if this thing is classified as a biologic, that would be a massive massive loss for patients. Now, again, we're, we're focusing on the accessibility of this drug into the future. And, and I think that this is an important conversation to have. One of the interesting points that I have to bring into the conversation is the fact that I got to sit in on a, on a closed session question and answer with the media. I didn't get to answer or, excuse me, excuse me, ask a question at this time, but shortly after the most favored nations announcement, with eli lilly and the trump administration in the oval office that day there was a press briefing that i was invited to dave ricks was asked by max bayer reporter of endpoints who we've interviewed here on this very podcast and he was asked was Retatrutide included in the most favored nations discussions meaning will we get a cash pay version of Retatrutide uh that is you know circumventing the pbms uh will we get these cheaper prices will will it be be two hundred fifty dollars also and there was a hard no there was a hard no like no that was not included that was not part of these discussions even though what we heard from the trump administration was that those these companies that were jumping on to the most favored nations agreement were also agreeing to offer future drugs at most favored nations pricing now was lily saying that no they're not going to offer it at the it wasn't part of the negotiations in terms of the price points that they had discussed for triseptide maybe or did it mean altogether there won't be a cash pay option of this medication i don't know um that we would love to get clarity on But I highly doubt we're going to get any more information than necessary at this point in time. So, Reta-Trutide is being positioned to be a drug that, and well so, should be offered at a premium. This is a drug that is far exceeding the current drugs that are on the market. I think that we're gonna see even the indications of Reta-Trutide far beyond simple obesity, but it is going to be their crown jewel for the next decade, more than likely. Reta-Trutide is going to be a massive drug, and so they're attempting to build a moat around it. And these are things that we need to be aware of as a community so that we can hold our positions and conversations about these and basically, you know, be able to articulate to people in positions of power like this is an important thing to us. This is an important thing in the advocacy of obesity and sort of the next frontier of the fight of accessibility, which marches on. each and every day because of course the current drugs, while as great as they are and as much as access is expanding, there are still people with sicker or rather more advanced versions of metabolic disease that are gonna need these newer treatments and price is going to be a huge factor. So let's talk about the gray market right now because I think it's also nearly impossible to talk about this topic without including a discussion about the gray market because there are, as I mentioned at the outset, hundreds of thousands of people on this medication already. So research grade Retatrutide exists. It's in the gray markets of the Internet. It's where people are going and they're buying, you know, basically versions of these these peptides that are made in factories overseas. They're being imported into the United States, oftentimes illicitly in shipments that are marked as something else. The FDA has tried to crack down. There's no doctor involved in this. It's a very, that's why it's called the gray market, right? So it's not a prescription medicine, but the demand for this is massive. And all you have to do is really scroll your TikTok for about fifteen minutes. You're going to come across a insane amount of content on the topic of Retatrutide. An insane amount of, and oftentimes, you know, what I find most disturbing is oftentimes it looks like very young people. very young people taking Retatrutide. Crazy, it's crazy. But the demand is massive and there's a whole gray market for it proliferating over on TikTok and in the far reaches of the internet. And I would estimate that tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people are already or have already used it. And I think it's a testament to a to to the effectiveness of this drug. It's also a testament to the fact that there needs to be more guardrails, I think, around this stuff than there currently is, because gray markets appear and they thrive when legal access lags the reality of the demand for the medication. And you saw this earlier this week as we launched a petition to fight back against the Safe Drug Act of twenty twenty five, a drug, a drug act that is in theory designed to put guardrails around compounding. But in practice, I think is creating a new battlefield for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to shut down compounding on the current classes of medications, which is why We as a community need to be loud about our opposition to it. If they were really concerned about the safety of compounds, they would do two very simple things. They would require reporting around the active pharmaceutical ingredient of a compound. Patients ought to be able to know where the actual source of their medication is coming from. And they should know that those places are FDA approved and inspected. And the second thing is they should require adverse event reporting. Those are required of 503Bs. They should be required of 503As as well. 503As are making a tremendous amount of money. They're making thousands and thousands of these scripts. So when there are adverse events, they should be required to report those to the FDA. Simple. None of that is in this bill. None of it. None of it. Instead, it seeks to put caps on the amount of compounds that can be made by a compound pharmacy without them having to report to the FDA. And then it seeks to codify the definition of essential copy. Again, all of these things that will become law and then argued in court and then a battlefield for Lilly to potentially win a legal battle and thwart compounding. It's creating a new battlefield for them. They're losing in the courts. They're losing with the current language that exists in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. So we create new language. We create new law. Just vague enough to pull some threads and hopefully win something in court. That's how I see it. You may see it differently. If you do, curious to hear from you. But if you want to fight back against this legislation, you can go to otplinks.com and fight back against that. piece of legislation, because I think that we need as a community to have our voices heard on this, especially those who have gotten healthier by way of compounded medications. So the rumor on the gray market, to get back and close the thought loop here, There's been no specific FDA cutoff announced, but what the rumors going around are that that the compounded versions of GLP ones, especially obesity medicine in the gray market, are all going to turn off like a sieve on January first. Now, I seem to feel like this is probably more of a marketing tactic by these companies to sell a whole bunch of peptides at the end of the year. I think that's probably creating some panic and probably panic buying on people's parts. And so these companies are benefiting greatly. Again, that's why there should be guardrails around this. There's no guardrails around this at all. I mean, at the end of the day, they can say whatever they want to say, so long as they cloak everything in research grade. And these rumors proliferate around and people spend thousands, tens of thousands of dollars. I've heard of people having twenty years worth of Retatrutide in their freezer. Why? For what purpose do you need that? So just a massive amount of money made in this gray market. And that's not to knock people who use it. I say this all the time, but I think it's worth qualifying the statement. It's not knocking people who use it. I get it. But at the same time, we're talking about an industry that is, there's no altruism here. They're in it for money just as much as Eli Lilly is, except they have actually done nothing in the way of advancing medicine. They've just taken intellectual property, copied it, and sold it to you with a label that says, don't put this in your body. So you know where I stand on the gray market. I've heard from many people who've been injured by gray market stuff. It's just what it is. It's a gray market. You're taking your health into your own hands. Please, whatever you're doing out there, as risky as it may be, please involve your doctor and let your doctor know what you're doing so you can be monitored for the things your doctor believes you should be monitored for if you're using this. But this all underscores, again, the need for accessibility to these medications, the need for us to be aware of the fact that a moat is already being built around the most advanced metabolic drug in the pipeline. And we just need to be aware so that when it comes time to fight, we're all ready and informed. And that's what this podcast is serving to do. Before we jump into the next topic, I do want to thank our sponsor, our headline sponsor of this podcast. is a company called Shed. Now, if you are looking for access to care for obesity, then look no further than our partners at Shed who believed in this podcast enough to help us do it full time. You can go to Trished.com and use code OTP25 to save twenty five percent at Trished.com, where you're going to get connected to a doctor who will when medically necessary prescribe medication to treat your obesity. You also get access to coaching. You'll get access to all sorts of medication, whether it's the branded or the compounded versions, depending on your specific situation. All of it is available at Trished.com. They use one of my favorite compound pharmacies in the game, Strive Pharmacy, which I've gotten the chance to dig into on my own. I really love what they do there. They're a It functionally operates a lot more like a 503B. Uh, and I think that they're doing great work over at a strive pharmacy. They partner with shed. So I just love this, this, and when we were looking for somebody to offer a compounded versions, I wanted to make sure that I trusted the pharmacy. People always ask me, Dave, who, who should I go to? I'm like the pharmacy matters more than anything because you want to trust the source of your medication. So try shed.com use code OTP25. Listen, you're going to want to learn about taking any new medication before you take it. Learn about the potential side effects. Learn about the trade offs. There's no free lunch, but all of the information that you're going to need, you can find it. Try shed.com and be familiarizing yourself with all of your options there. So thank you to Shed for being a wonderful partner here at On The Pen. Now let's talk about some data that dropped. We're talking about accessibility and all of the sort of advancements in the world mean very little if people can't access it. That's why I think this data that dropped this past week from our friends over at Rowe is incredible. Absolutely game changing data. So check out this data. Real world telehealth data looking at sixty eight weeks. This is looking at patients who were enrolled in their row body program and on a GLP one specifically some maglutide mean weight loss in this study looked at again patients in over sixty eight weeks. The mean weight loss was sixteen point six percent on average. Thirty three percent of patients lost more than twenty percent and the safety in this study and looking at this data match the clinical trials. So what we're seeing here is that care for obesity can be delivered through a telehealth platform at scale and match clinical trial results. So that scalability decides how many people get access. There are not enough doctors out there to serve the over hundred million people in the United States living with overweight or obesity. so when you hear these blowhard doctors online calling all telehealth platforms except their own a pill mill or as i like to say pin mill the data is actually showing something quite different in that this type of obesity care can be delivered at scale through telehealth platforms it can meet people where they're at and allow people to get care without the shame, without the stigma, without their doctor just pointing to the door and saying, if you want a GLP-I, get out of my office. I ain't going to get it here. How ridiculous. But these people can go to platforms like Rho or Shed or any number of telehealth platforms that are out there and not only get access to medicine, but get access to care. So of course, not all telehealth companies are created equal. Of course, not all compound pharmacies are created equal. You want to do your homework and all of that. But this is data that shows that This kind of care can be delivered at scale via a virtual platform and show similar results to a clinical trial. I think, and this is peer reviewed data, and I think that this is just absolutely great news because when we talk about the problem, we need scalable solutions. The old brick and mortar ain't going to work when you don't have enough doctors to serve enough patients. If we want to get life-changing treatments like ritatratide or terzapatide, semaglutide, whatever, into the hands of the people who need it the most, we need companies to innovate scalable tech platforms that can meet patients where they are, that can leverage current technologies to find people the care that they need. And in this case, it's access to a doctor. It's access to a platform. It's access to prescription medication when appropriately prescribed. And it can be done, and it is being done. So I think this is great news, and will play a huge part in the future. As we talk about Retatrutide, even though it's a year and a half away, maybe a little bit longer, it's already exposing – the issues around accessibility and pricing. Hopefully there will be compounded versions available if they're medically necessitated, if there are shortages. We hope that the battleground for that is not already set and won by Lilly before this drug even comes to market. But there are strategies being done to keep people boxed out But I can tell you that whatever happens with Retatrutide, the future of obesity medicine is in virtual care. And platforms are rising to the occasion. Retatrutide hasn't reached patients yet, but it's already forcing the system to show us, you know, are you ready? Are you ready to deliver bariatric surgery level results at scale to the people who need them? So I am so thankful that you joined me here on this podcast today. 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Folks, Ben Hosley from 'Blank Check' joins us on this week's episode we hear about how fruit from a cargo ship washed ashore in the UK, why scientists hoarding research is known as the 'Gollum Effect', a fugitive in Italy who hid in a nativity scene, what items authorities found on a drone headed for a prison, and a street brawl during a Nantucket Christmas paradeCheck out Ben's new album 'Slow Christmas 5' here: https://tinyurl.com/mtt2e44tBUY ELI'S NEW STAND UP ALBUM HERE: https://eliyudin.bandcamp.com/album/humble-offeringOR WATCH IT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2wwdrpjcBecome a patron for weekly bonus eps and more stuff! :⁠⁠www.patreon.com/whatatimepod⁠⁠Check out our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/whatatimetobealive⁠⁠Get one of our t-shirts, or other merch, using this link! ⁠⁠https://whatatimepod.bigcartel.com/whatatimepod.com⁠⁠Join our Discord chat here:⁠⁠discord.gg/jx7rB7J⁠Theme music by Naughty Professor⁠: ⁠https://www.naughtyprofessormusic.com/⁠@pattymo // @kathbarbadoro // @eliyudin// @whatatimepod©2025 What A Time LLC

As we continue our series, Ending the Year Well, we look at a very important question we could ask ourselves at the close of the year: what does the healthiest version of myself look like? If I'm as healthy as I want to be, what does that look like emotionally, physically, mentally, professionally, sexually, and so on. Then we do some inventorying: who is going to help me get there and who isn't? Folks, it's time to "clean out the closet" of our relationships. We're going to talk about recruiting, reconciling, and releasing... and we're looking ahead into 2026 with purpose, intention, and full responsibility for who we are. To look at the "Yearly Inventory" from years past, click here:1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanessa-londino-podcast/id1555914519?i=10005887743442: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanessa-londino-podcast/id1555914519?i=10005898247483: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanessa-londino-podcast/id1555914519?i=10005905945794: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanessa-londino-podcast/id1555914519?i=1000591292133If you'd like to send me a message, email me at: contact@vanessabentley.co (not .com)

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Vaughn & Dr. Tankersley – Several of the committee members spoke about the need for a return to humility in science, and the truth that followed was refreshing. Folks, we're making major gains in the advance toward truth in medicine! Dr. Cody Meissner stated, "There's no doubt that the COVID recommendations were dishonest and disingenuous."

Folks always ask me how I "do it all" but the truth is, that I don't. Listen in as I talk about I do NOT have a balanced life and what I do instead.Podcast Episode HighlightsMy thoughts on 'balance' in lifeMy summer as an exampleDealing with guilt and the aftermath Learning how to say 'No'Thoughts on using a team for helpDetails on how I use my planner Final thoughtsResources Mentioned in This Podcast Episode:Find my Old-Fashioned on Purpose planner here: https://www.prairieplanner.com/Sign up for my Substack here: https://jillwinger.substack.com/See more details on how I use my planner here: https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2025/11/my-un-instagrammable-planner-system.htmlOTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR YOUR HOMESTEAD: Sign up for weekly musings from my homestead: http://theprairiehomestead.com/letter Get my free homesteading tutorials & recipes here: www.theprairiehomestead.com Jill on Instagram: @jill.winger Jill on Facebook: http://facebook.com/theprairiehomestead Apply to be a guest on the Old-Fashioned on Purpose podcast: https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/podcast-guest-application Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review to let us know. This can help other folks learn about this podcast and we also really appreciate the feedback!

Folks, buckle up because today Ben is diving into "Wicked: For Good". Watch to see Ben's full take on one of the most talked-about movies of the year. - - - Today's Sponsor: Express VPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/ben and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices