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BANG! @southernvangard radio Ep435! We are back after an unintentional month off - Doe was traveling for work and then life was life and then Doe got diverticulitis aka DOETICULITIS last week but he's fine so here we are. Gobs of new joints including WORLD EXCLUSIVES from the homies EFF YOO, DEEP of 2HUNGRYBROS, VANDERSLICE & UFO FEV. Support these brothers with your dollars by purchasing MERCH or the digitals on BANDCAMP. Til the wheels fall off it's that #SMITHSONIANGRADE and #YOUWAAAAALCOME // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on all platforms #hiphop #undergroundhiphop #boombap ---------- Recorded live April 27, 2025 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA southernvangard.com @southernvangard on all platforms #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard twitter/IG: @southernvangard @jondoeatl @cappuccinomeeks ---------- Pre-Game Beats - DJ Madhandz “Southern Vangard Theme” - Bobby Homack & The Southern Vangard All-Stars Talk Break Inst. - “Gettin Loose” - K-Def “Shepherd's Rod” - Vinnie Paz (prod. Hobgoblin) “The Loyal” - Precyce Politix “No Dice” - Aupheus ft. El Da Sensei “Promotional Ad #3 Free Weed!!” - OC From NC “Hit Different” - Pretty Bulli & Castle Money Beats “L.I.T.” - Big Shug “Hennessy Straight” - Kenn Starr x Kev Brown ft. DJ Jon Doe Talk Break Inst. - “Sonic Trip” - K-Def "Egypt" - Westside Gunn (prod. Cee Gee) “Here I Come” - Sadat X “Aint No Big Thing” - Grand Puba ft. Stunna Gang “Seasons” - Cashus King, Blu, Jeff Johnson II (Johnson & Johnson & John's Son) (prod. Mr. Nobody, cuts Yamin Semali & DJ Jon Doe) “Black Metallica” - OC From NC “Shut Da Fuck Up” - Bernadette Price ft.. Sean Price (prod. Da Beatminerz) “A Song about Nothing” - Eff Yoo (prod. Deep of 2Hungrybros) ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE ** Talk Break Inst. - “It's A Mood” - K-Def “Razor Keys” - Vanderslice & UFO Fev ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE ** “Lorraine” - Shottie x Lupara “Facelift” - Dead Perry ft. Estee Nack, Raz Fresco & Daniel Son “97 Tape Master” - CRIMEAPPLE & DJ Skizz “Two Knights Forced” - Vinnie Paz (prod. Evidence) “Wicked Games” - Willie Mays Blaze & Nexus Z ft. Snotty “Hundreds, Hookers & Handguns" - Ill Clinton ft. Snotty Talk Break Inst. - “Funky Scraps” - K-Def *** TWITCH ONLY SET *** “Celestial Blues” Gary Bartz NTU Troop ft. Andy Bey “Celestial Blues” Andy Bey DJ Jon Doe Crates Set

Y'all, the plot is plotting. Our BAMS were BOOZLED and our FLABBERS were GASTED. Avoid spoilers for the climax (unfortunately no pun intended) by reading ahead (chapters 26-28!). Catch up before the Bride finale with a special guest!Write to us at twilightphasepodcast@gmail.com.Join the Coven! Follow us to catch our updates or subscribe for bonus eps and stickers over at Patreon.com/TwilightPhasePodcast.Please rate, review, and subscribe, and follow us @Twilight_Phase on Twitter and Instagram, Twilightphasepodcast.tumblr.com

I interview Patrick about being a paranormal investigator and GOBS more! Thank you Patrick!This is a video podcast on Spotify and YouTube.Want to know more about Patrick?Patrick Keller is the host of the Big Seance Podcast.https://bigseancepodcast.comSupport the podcast! The best way is to subscribe and listen!Want to be a guest? Email me at lisa@wereallpsychic.com.https://www.wereallpsychic.com/Thank you for watching and listening.

Misty and I talk about attention span, concentrating and ways to feel your own energy field. This is audio only. Special thanks to our sponsor Everclear.com, where you can get the clarity you need to create the life you deserve from psychics and empaths. Support the podcast! Subscribe and listen GOBS. https://www.wereallpsychic.com/ Thank you for listening.

I denne uge i Hva så?! gik jeg ture med Gobs og Martin Kanstrup!Selvom de fulde episoder nu findes eksklusivt på Podimo, vil vi stadig dele små glimt af samtalerne her i dit feed, så du kan høre Hva' du gik glip af så?!.Det er vores måde at holde dig opdateret på, hvad der sker i Hva så?! - Tak fordi du stadig lytter med!Gå fornøjelse, Christian.

Why is the Queen so hard to kill for tanks on Heroic? We'll get into it and hopefully help you with your team's attempts. Plus Arcane is great but just keeps reminding us that Blizzard should be doing this stuff. More thoughts on what we heard in the 30 year anniversary event. Everything we know about 11.0.7 and The Siren Isle. And thanks, Flame Blessed Iron, we def needed more currencies in the game. :) Whats new with Plunderstorm. 11.1 and Undermine(d), and what we expect from getting to know the Gobs a bit better. New delves, new Mythic+ rotation, and The Liberation of Undermine on the horizon! Your feedback on housing with emails texts and more! Also follow the show on BlueSky at TheInstance! (Scott and Bobby are there too!)Video version: https://youtu.be/W5LJibqzz1I Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mysteriet om spildt radio, der eksisterer i et parallel-universkontinuum, toppen af timen med The New York Times, historien der nægter at dø om Michael Learns to Rock, ugens serieanbefaling om Aarhus i 80'erne, en finke for panden i rapporten, tak for sidst – skud ud til Gobs, interkontinentale ballistiske missiler fra Rusland, har I glemt invasionen af Ukraine?, 12/10 til statsministeren for stålsatheden, synk den kinesiske møgbåd i Kattegat, en latterlig postlov og jammerligt skrammel til Danmark, minderne om bagsædet af en Mercedes Vito i Moskva, Stiig Markager siger det rigtigt: “Det er nu,” vi glemmer aldrig at Esben Lunde aldrig mødte op, lad vær med at tage billeder af et trafikuheld og Den Grønne Trepart forklaret.Vil du høre hele episoden, eller andre episoder?Få 30 dages gratis prøveperiode (kan kun benyttes af nye Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdg (79 kroner herefter)Eller få 3 mdr. med 50% rabat (kan bruges af tidligere Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdgtilbud (79 kroner herefter) Værter: Esben Bjerre & Peter Falktoft Redigering: PodAmokKlip: PodAmokMusik: Her Går Det GodtInstagram: @hergaardetgodt @Peterfalktoft @Esbenbjerre

In part three of my conversation with multiple New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of "A Very Inconvenient Scandal" and "The Deep End of the Ocean," among many other titles, we talk about how having writer friends is so important, even if you "jealous them", the vision of the future that's fueling her to keep writing, and the recent books that made her swoon. This week's episodes are replays. I have a ton of interviews on the books for the next few weeks so never fear–fresh content is on its way! In the meantime, enjoy this re-visiting of a conversation with a fiction legend. - The writers--and books--that make Jacquelyn jealous (a word that she uses as a verb, as in, "I'm jealousing her." - Her love for British crime shows, including the ones that are currently keeping her up way too late - The BBC podcast she's addicted to - The beauty of enjoying nature--through a window - The saying on the mug that she brought home from the Erma Bombeck conference that is her current motto - The songs Jacquelyn listens to when she needs a pick-me-up - The meal "that's probably 2,000 calories per bite" that she would ask for if someone said they would make her anything she wanted For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Thank you for listening! And thanks to this week's sponsor, Air Doctor Pro. Visit airdoctorpro.com and use code KATE to save 30% off an amazing indoor air filter *and* receive a free three-year warranty (an $84 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With Apple going all in on AI to boost its next round of hardware and services with Apple Intelligence, data is needed now more than ever—massive data. More data than one company can provide, if they hope to make AI services quickly and efficiently do what's asked, without getting bogged-down. Another California company attacking AI plumbing problems is Teradata, one of the largest cloud analytics platforms with a focus on harmonizing data. Starting as a hardware company, making things like the first system over 1 terabyte for Walmart, Teradata has transitioned into a software company, with 7,000 employees in 41 countries who delivered $1.8 Billion in revenue last year. On this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, Teradata CEO Steve McMillan, unpacks how he has rebooted the company and brought it into the 21st century. Listen in as we discuss how they made that transition, how AI is impacting their growth, his personal journey, and where they may end up in the revolutionary times ahead.

BANG! @southernvangard radio Ep406! Schools back in this week here in the A, folks - which means that traffic is jacked for the next 9 months and you need some good listening in the morning to get you through carpool drop off - look no further, Doe and Meeks are hear for ya. Gobs of new joints this week per the usual, and our good friend C.O. The Don dropped in to help us close out the show. If you missed our Twitch stream on Sunday night, make sure you head over there for the replay, as we paid tribute to the one and only DJ POLO, who unfortunately passed last week with a barnstorming Twitch Only set. One day we might have these Twitch Only mixes up somewhere…THAAAAANK YAAA and YOU WAAAAALCOME!!!!! #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on all platforms #hiphop #undergroundhiphop #boombap ---------- Recorded live July 28, 2024 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA southernvangard.com @southernvangard on all platforms #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard twitter/IG: @southernvangard @jondoeatl @cappuccinomeeks ---------- Pre-Game Beats - Masta Cypher Devine & Goomson "Southern Vangard Theme" - Bobby Homack & The Southern Vangard All-Stars Talk Break Inst - "Assembly Line" - Sirplus "Without Love" - Eddie Meeks & DJ Pocket ft. Little Clayway & Supastition "Sign Of Se7en" - Rakim ft. Prodigy, X-Raided, Method Man & Big Twins "Get Yours" - Flee Lord (prod. Tom Soyer) "Temptation" - Jamal Gasol & Cedar Law$ ft. Aaqil Ali "True Identity" - Ty Farris (prod. Don The Jeweler) "Alligator Plates" - Termanology ft. The Musalini & Silent Snipers (prod. Nef) "UFO Teknology" - UFO Fev & Fredro Starr ft. Termanology & Tek "Memory Lane" - DJ Muggs x Raz Fresco Talk Break Inst - "Love Is A Game" -Sirplus "Proxy" - Abyss, Apathy. DC the MIDI Alien, DJ TMB "International" - Rakim ft. Kool G Rap, Joell Ortiz & Tristate "It's All Fair" - Punchline & Confidence "Zoë´ Lund" - Vinnie Paz "Seein' Em" - M-Dot ft. Chaundon (prod. Es-K, cuts Lp2) "Raised In The Sand (Intro)" - Flee Lord (prod. Jansport J) "Earned Eons" - Left Lane Didon Talk Break Inst. - "El Mero Mero" - Sirplus "Staircase Stories" - DJ Muggs x Raz Fresco "Suppa Koopa" - Money Mogly x NoEmotion "The Enigma" - Ty Farris (prod. Don Carrera) "Stay Down" - Maticulous ft. Eddie Kaine "Keep Playing" - Rufus Sims "Cucumber Water" - Bub Styles "Peace God" - UFO Fev & Fredro Starr Talk Break Inst. - "Mo To The…" - Sirplus ** TWITCH ONLY SET ** RIP DJ POLO ** "Ill Street Blues" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Truly Yours" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Money In The Bank" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "It's A Demo" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Road To The Riches" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Poison" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Men At Work" - Kool G Rap and DJ Polo "Apache" - Incredible Bongo Band

French, Gobs, and Blank lead us to Australian kisses, whoopie pies, Mad Libs, and more.New episodes every Tuesday.Editing by: Julia WD HarrisonTheme by: Arne Parrott Logo by: Casey BordenYou can email the show at twapod@gmail.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In part three of my conversation with multiple New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of "A Very Inconvenient Scandal" and "The Deep End of the Ocean," among many other titles, we talk about how having writer friends is so important, even if you "jealous them", the vision of the future that's fueling her to keep writing, and the recent books that made her swoon. - The writers--and books--that make Jacquelyn jealous (a word that she uses as a verb, as in, "I'm jealousing her." - Her love for British crime shows, including the ones that are currently keeping her up way too late - The BBC podcast she's addicted to - The beauty of enjoying nature--through a window - The saying on the mug that she brought home from the Erma Bombeck conference that is her current motto - The songs Jacquelyn listens to when she needs a pick-me-up - The meal "that's probably 2,000 calories per bite" that she would ask for if someone said they would make her anything she wanted For full show notes, with links to everything Jacquelyn and I discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. And if you'd like to receive these episodes ad-free, become a paid subscriber at katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best of the underground, week of April 9, 2024: Denim vest. (All podcasts are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.)  

'SAM IS A GOBS****' - BILLY NELSON GOES IN ON SAM JONES, NOT INTERESTED IN HUNTER & WARDLEY/CLARKE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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På tronen af samtlige danske hitlister sidder Gilli. Vodka og sodavand er stort set ikke blevet blandet til en forfest, uden at takterne fra den danske rapper har hængt i væggene. Han streamer i milliarder, og musikken er allestedsnærværende. Selv er han sky og lever et tilbagetrukket liv i Spaniens sol og musikkens skygge. Nu har han stukket næsen frem i det danske rampelys - og anklaget den yngre musiker Gobs for at kopiere ham. Genstart spørger musikredaktør på Soundvenue Kristian Karl, hvor grænsen mellem plagiat og inspiration går. Vært: Simon Stefanski. Program publiceret i DR Lyd d. 22/2.

Nogle åbner virksomheder, for at trække deres børns playstation fra i skat - andre betaler overhovedet ikke skat. Men hvem der gør hvad, er ikke så simpelt. Hassan bringer den midtjyske guide i hustling/harakat til folket, Ahmed bringer det bedste guld fra black Twitter, og som Gobs engang rappede: "Sorte penge fuck SU". Eller var det Gilli...?Værter: Ahmed Omar & Hassan Hagi

Mike recently paid GOBS of money to attend a conference with other software developers. What did Mike learn about software, himself, and his "why"? The takeaways are important and need to be heard. Tha @Apple vision pro is out in the wild. Mike and Lee debate the use case and what the long term pros and cons will be for this new wearable technology. This is one episode you don't want to miss!

La Cabra er det nye ARoS, Zuckerberg leverer en bredside til en ny brille, “Merlin er en lortebiks.”, nyt russisk supermissil, Trolex har leveret på 2% af BNP, Rum-Krig er det nye, ungdommen bevæger sig nye veje politisk, millennial-myten, de unge er ikke dovne - alligevel, turen går til Odense Zoo, ingen sne i Alperne - vi kigger østpå. ugens ros går til klimaordføreren i Moderaterne, landmændene er klar på barrikaderne, og eksperterne stjæler overskriften i plagiat-sag.Vil du høre hele episoden?Få 30 dages gratis prøveperiode (kan kun benyttes af nye Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdg(79 kroner herefter)Eller få 3 mdr. med 50% rabat (kan bruges af tidligere Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdgtilbud(79 kroner herefter)Værter: Esben Bjerre & Peter Falktoft Redigering: PodAmokKlip: PodAmokMusik: Her Går Det GodtInstagram: @hergaardetgodt @Peterfalktoft @Esbenbjerre

“Nogle gange ville jeg ønske, at sociale medier slet ikke fandtes.” Det er ret store ord, når de kommer fra den 26-årige model og influencer Melissa Bentsen, som har gjort sociale medier som Instagram og TikTok til en del af sin levevej. I denne anden del af ugens Portrætalbum kan du høre Melissas bud på, hvad sociale medier gør ved især unge mennesker og blive klogere på, hvilket ansvar hun selv syntes, hun har overfor sine næsten 200.000 følgere på Instagram. Du kan også lytte til, hvorfor Gobs albummet 'Knuste hjerter heler aldrig' var med til at gøre 2023 til et af de bedste år i Melissas liv. Udsendelse nr.: 110 Vært: Anders Bøtter Klip og lyddesign: Emil Germod Redaktør: Michelle Mølgaard Andersen Produceret af: Bowie-JettSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Det er første gang i mit liv, at jeg har hørt et helt album.” Mødet med musik af Gobs er ret vildt for model og skuespiller Melissa Bentsen, som blandt andet er kendt fra DR-serien 'Min søster ser spøgelser,' hvor seerne får et indblik i søsterens mange psykiske diagnoser, og hvordan de påvirker hele familien. Melissas musikforbrug er normalt playlister og singler. Men da hun falder over Gobs albummet ”Knuste hjerter heler aldrig,” sker der noget helt særligt. For første gang i hendes 26-årige liv taler alle sangene på et helt album til hende. Der er både smerte, glæde, sorg, kærlighed, vrede, melankoli og kæmpe fest. Og som du kan høre i denne første del af ugens Portrætalbum, er det noget, der virkelig ramte Melissa Bentsen, som er et meget sammensat menneske med et stort hjerte. Udsendelse nr.: 110 Vært: Anders Bøtter Klip og lyddesign: Emil Germod Redaktør: Michelle Mølgaard Andersen Produceret af: Bowie-JettSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Overenskomstforhandlingerne er en 'fuckfinger' til offentligt ansatte. Rusland stopper betalinger til Arktisk råd: "Det kan være begyndelsen på en opløsning". Landbruget er blandt de farligste erhverv i Danmark. Forperson for Børnerådet: Klap hesten og indstil heksejagten i sagen om Borup Skole. Rapperen Gilli anklager rapperen Gobs for plagiat. Værter: Anne Phillipsen & Kasper Harboe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De tilbagevendende antisemitiske udmeldinger fra den albumaktuelle amerikanske rapper Kanye West har nu igen skabt problemer. Den her gang har han raget uklar med en anden gammel provokatør, den aldrene rocksanger Ozzy Osborne. Vi ser dykker ned i sagen og prøver at besvare spørgsmålet: Hvad er det med Kanye West og antisemitisme? De er kendt for at toppe de danske hitlister, men nu er to af landets mest populære musikere endt i strid. Repræsentanter for musikeren Gilli har nemlig rettet en anklage om plagiat mod musikeren Gobs og fremsat et krav om forlig. Vi ser nærmere på grænsen mellem kopi og original, når vi taler med en musikolog og en juraprofessor. Værter: Chris Pedersen & Jesper Dein.

Imagine discovering that the ultimate demonstration of power lies not in the spectacle of unleashing forces but in the quiet authority of halting them. That's the profound lesson we uncover as we examine the biblical plague of Barad (Hail) and its sudden cessation. This episode offers an enlightening perspective on the true nature of control and ownership as exemplified by the Divine. We're not just revisiting ancient narratives; we're learning how to harness our abilities to command our actions and traits, stepping into a realm of self-mastery inspired by the Almighty's example.Join us on a journey through the ten plagues, where each serves as a chapter in understanding divine might—Gevurah—and cultivating deep faith—Emuna. With insights that resonate through the ages, we dissect Moshe's interactions with Pharaoh and how these stories transcend time as lessons in recognizing Hashem's sovereignty. Our exploration leads to an inspiring reflection on personal growth, encouraging listeners to mirror the divine model of complete authority. This isn't just a history lesson; it's a transformative exploration of spiritual and personal significance.Support the showJoin the WhatsApp community for daily motivational Torah content! JOIN HERE ---------------- SUBSCRIBE to The Weekly Parsha for an insightful weekly shiur on the Parsha of the week. Listen on Spotify or the new Jewish music and Podcast streaming platform 24six! Access all Torah talks and listen to featured episodes on our new website, themotivationcongregation.org ---------------- Questions or Comments? Please email me @ michaelbrooke97@gmail.com

We've got some posh new characters in Waterloo Road as we return for another chunk of baffling action from Scotland's most bizarre school. Waterloo Road superfan Tom Beasley and Luke Stevenson are your hosts, as always. Watch SERIES 9, EPISODE 11 of Waterloo Road here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03pjbws/waterloo-road-series-9-episode-11/ Prepare for SERIES 9, EPISODE 12 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q9w0c/waterloo-road-series-9-episode-12/ *** If you want to subscribe to the PATREON page, visit http://www.patreon.com/waterlooroadpod/ for full details. There's a new Waterloo Road Awards episode now, and we're doing more Ackley Bridge and fanfiction very soon. *** Many thanks to our current Patrons: Erin, Matthew Kumar, avidcollector, Laura, Natalie (@nataliethebookreader on Instagram), Eve, Sarah Mythen, Lottie Smith, Eliza (@waterlooxroad_ on Instagram), Ollie C, Helen, Kat, Charlotte, Joe Buckle, Mel, Hannah Louise (NHS Mental Health Services), Peter, Lou Parsons, Bryn, Emmy, Rebecca Grimshaw, Helen (@red.head.read on Instagram), Megan, Laura A, and Matthew. Please do follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for updates, clips and probably terrible jokes also. And, of course, hit that subscribe button and leave a rating/review on your podcast service of choice!

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All the Gobs are ded.Email us questions at: TightBox@theanimetraphouse.comWebsite: TheAnimeTrapHouse.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnimeTrapHouseDiscord: https://discord.gg/QBbpA3QTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theanimetraphouseFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealAnimeTrapHouse/Twitter: https://twitter.com/animetraphouseIG: https://www.instagram.com/anime_trap_house/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AnimeTrapHouse Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/animeraphouse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Det kommer ikke til at holde”, siger hun til Victor, inden det overhovedet er begyndt. De har to forskellige religioner. Og hendes gør, at hun føler sig nødsaget til at holde forholdet hemmeligt. Men Romeo-og-Julie—følelsen forstærker forelskelsen - og her begynder en flere år lang og forbudt kærlighedshistorie med hjertesorgen som fast passager fra dag ét…I dagens afsnit fortæller rapstjernen Gobs aka Victor Gaardboe om at forelske sig på tværs af religion. Om at leve i et hemmeligt forhold og være i hjertesorg fra første kys, hvor hun fortæller ham, at det, der endnu ikke er begyndt er dømt til at dø. Han fortæller om at få succes med sin musik imens, men ikke kunne nyde noget af det. For hvad betyder det egentlig at få sine drømme opfyldt - hvis det ikke er med den, man elsker? Gobs er aktuel med albummet ‘Knuste Hjerter Heler Aldrig' - og her er hele hans hjertesorgs-proces og hans følelse af nu endelig at være kommet videre komprimeret ned til en fortælling gennem 14 sange. Gobs gør selvfølgelig også sit allerbedste for at hjælpe dig, der sidder med hjertesorg lige nu.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has been in gestation at the Defense Department longer than a baby elephant. CMMC is still not operational, but, boy, has it produced documents. Just out, new scoping documents. Do contractors need to read them? To discuss that topic, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin was joined in studio by Holland and Knight contracting attorney Eric Crucius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has been in gestation at the Defense Department longer than a baby elephant. CMMC is still not operational, but, boy, has it produced documents. Just out, new scoping documents. Do contractors need to read them? To discuss that topic, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin was joined in studio by Holland and Knight contracting attorney Eric Crucius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The goblins begin the incredibly lethal process of building their fart rocket on the Magical Explosion Testing Grounds, gathering additional tools and supplies from a nearby junk pile.  

This week we welcome The Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society! The Ozarks Greater Bluegrass Society is a Springfield based organization commited to preserving, and promoting Bluegrass and traditional music in the Ozarks through education and exposure or local Missouri Bluegrass groups. The group coming to perform with us is comprised of: David Maravilla-Giutar, began his pursuit of bluegrass in the late 70's. He assisted in forming the band, Second Wind, whose personnel included Rhonda Vincent, and later, Alison Krauss. Afterward, David was invited to join Alison in her band, Union Station, to enter the 1988 S.P.B.G.M.A International Band Contest, which they won. David is the President of GOBS. Leevon DeCourley-Bass, grew up in rural southeast Missouri near the community of Arab. He attended college at Southeast Missouri State University during which time he worked with bands such as The Men of the Week and Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass. Leevon now makes his home in Crane, Missouri with his wife Kadee along with their son Walker and soon to be DeCourley Baby #2, due in March. Leevon is working to bring bluegrass to the forefront in the Crane area through events such as Bluegrass on the Backstage at the Crane Broiler Festival and other jams and events throughout the area. Leevon is the Vice-President of GOBS. Gil Turk-Banjo, grew up on a farm in the Springfield area, Gil says,I starting playing banjo when I was about 13 and after I discovered Earl Scruggs, I was totally obsessed. I found gobs at about the same time and it was instrumental, no pun intended, in helping me grow as a bluegrass musician. I met so many wonderful people through gobs who helped me a lot, chief amongst those were Roy and Betty Jo Craft, with whom I played in my first band. Gil currently play in two bands, Missouri 65 and Ozark Mountain Five, the former on banjo and the latter on mandolin. Gil is 21 and out of college. Gil currently does landscaping for Ryan Lawn and Tree, but hopes to be a conservation agent soon. Gil is a board member with GOBS. Mark Withers-Mandolin, started playing mandolin and guitar at age 13. He played with his dad Luther and uncle Russell's bluegrass band, The Bluegrass Ramblers, for several years, playing numerous shows with Jim & Jesse, The Lewis Family and Bill Monroe. Mark also fronted his own band for years, and for almost 20 years co-hosted a bluegrass gospel program, Believers Bluegrass, with close friend Gene Reasoner, and was emcee and stage manager at the Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival for 37 years. Mark is the Executive Director of GOBS. Bill Gage-Fiddle, started playing fiddle at 7 but found bluegrass about 20 years ago. Early bands Bill played with include The Roving Gamblers, South 14 and JC Bonds. Bill is one of the founding members of Big Mill and has played fiddle with them for over 10 years. Bill also plays mandolin for George's Creek. He lives near Harrison AR. Bill is a member of GOBS. For more information, call 417-880-0343 or www.GoBluegrass.org.

Den nye danske artist Gobs, som i en alder af blot 24 år har udgivet to albums og i 2021 var nomineret til årets nye navn ved Danish Music Awards,besøger AFTENKLUBBEN til en snak om sin karriere, ambitioner og samt nye single "Et Sted Herude". Vært og tilrettelægger: Daniel Cesar.

In this episode we look into the Celtic roots of English words like gob and beak. The Proto-Celtic word *gobbos means muzzle, snout or beak. It comes from PIE *ǵebʰ- (jaw, mouth) [source]. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include: gob [ɡɔbˠ] = beak, bill, tip, point or projection in Irish. gob [ɡob] = beak, […]

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Mayors in America's largest cities are pushing back against Biden's migrant relocation policies. The media is trying to outright deny the Durham Report's existence. America is experiencing a lack of Godly men. Gobs vetos ANOTHER bill. Rep Debbie Lesko talks about her Women's Bill of Rights.

DT!HQ takes a firm stance against gatekeeping. Whether your favorite games are on a console, a PC, or a mobile device, we consider you a gamer and you are valid. Unless, of course, you're one of the perverts still playing Facebook games in 2023. If you aren't keeping up with the news out of the Meta-camp, the Metaverse isn't exactly headed to the moon. Well luckily for old Zucks, the execs called us in to help revitalize that smooth VR hellscape. Today, we're gathered around the proverbial Round Table to decide which Facebook game would be the best to integrate into the Metaverse. You're going to hear about a lot of games today, most of them you'll at least remember hearing about. Matt's answer is not one of those games. Todd and Kyle, on the other hand, went with games that you'll be much more familiar with. Or you will be, if you're into match three and idle games. Recommended Reading: Debate This! Ep. 103: Come and Funge It This episode was sponsored by MANSCAPED! Join over 7 million men (and probably plenty of not-men too) who trust MANSCAPED by using code "DEBATETHIS" at Manscaped.com. Score 20% off and free world wide shipping by using our code "DEBATETHIS" at checkout! Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail. Are you listening to this episode thinking to yourself, "Man, I hate hearing ads on my favorite podcast! I didn't think Debate This! would ever sell out!" Well neither did we and honestly, we try pretty hard to make our ads funny and worth the listen. But, if you'd prefer to listen to our show without ads, you can listen to every DT! episode ad-free right now at patreon.com/debatethiscast! Patrons of all tiers get ad-free episodes, bonus content and access to our Patron-only discord server. Higher tiers unlock the DT! Extended Good Vibes Aftershow and tons more. Get all the details at patreon.com/debatethiscast. Properties we talked about this week: Mob Wars, Mafia Wars, Farmville, Harvest Moon, Bejeweled, Bejeweled Blitz Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

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Bill Hampton is not from the south, but he got there as fast as he could. At age 24, while moving from Atlanta to Nashville to build his music management and concert promotion business, he tuned into a radio station and heard a "hillbilly" talking about money. And Bill understood every word he was saying. As someone who was making money but never had any, when Bill arrived at his new apartment complex, he immediately went upstairs and called the show. And that's how he became a lifelong friend and a longtime business colleague of Dave Ramsey. "I got through because he had no listeners back then. He was probably just happy to talk to somebody," Bill recalled. Bill signed up for Dave's Financial Peace University class and started applying the principles. Three years later, Dave asked Bill to teach the class. From there, they built an empire. During their 13 years together, Bill helped Dave sign book deals, build the marketing and digital business, design high school and college curricula, and launch a new radio show, one that today is heard by 4.5 million listeners each week on 500 stations. Dave Ramsey's company rose from a $2 million to a $70 million business by the time Bill left. But Bill had to leave. Gobs of money, private jets, and living on his achievements left him in search of a new challenge. In this week's episode of Chiseled Bill shares the journey from joining Dave Ramsey to founding Hampton Strategies, a consulting firm that helps businesses grow. He tells how he built a multimillion-dollar peach business from the back of a truck and engineered an Amish shed company, and he discusses the guiding principles and spiritual forces behind every decision along the way.

This week we welcome the Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society! The Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society is a Springfield based organization commited to preserving, and promoting Bluegrass and traditional music in the Ozarks through education and exposure or local Missouri Bluegrass groups. The group coming to perform with us is comprised of: David Maravilla-Giutar, began his pursuit of bluegrass in the late 70's. He assisted in forming the band, Second Wind, whose personnel included Rhonda Vincent, and later, Alison Krauss. Afterward, David was invited to join Alison in her band, Union Station, to enter the 1988 S.P.B.G.M.A International Band Contest, which they won. David is the President of GOBS. Leevon DeCourley-Bass, grew up in rural southeast Missouri near the community of Arab. He attended college at Southeast Missouri State University during which time he worked with bands such as The Men of the Week and Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass. Leevon now makes his home in Crane, Missouri with his wife Kadee along with their son Walker and soon to be DeCourley Baby #2, due in March. Leevon is working to bring bluegrass to the forefront in the Crane area through events such as Bluegrass on the Backstage at the Crane Broiler Festival and other jams and events throughout the area. Leevon is the Vice-President of GOBS. Gil Turk-Banjo, grew up on a farm in the Springfield area, Gil says,I starting playing banjo when I was about 13 and after I discovered Earl Scruggs, I was totally obsessed. I found gobs at about the same time and it was instrumental, no pun intended, in helping me grow as a bluegrass musician. I met so many wonderful people through gobs who helped me a lot, chief amongst those were Roy and Betty Jo Craft, with whom I played in my first band. Gil currently play in two bands, Missouri 65 and Ozark Mountain Five, the former on banjo and the latter on mandolin. Gil is 21 and out of college. Gil currently does landscaping for Ryan Lawn and Tree, but hopes to be a conservation agent soon. Gil is a board member with GOBS. Mark Withers-Mandolin, started playing mandolin and guitar at age 13. He played with his dad Luther and uncle Russell's bluegrass band, The Bluegrass Ramblers, for several years, playing numerous shows with Jim & Jesse, The Lewis Family and Bill Monroe. Mark also fronted his own band for years, and for almost 20 years co-hosted a bluegrass gospel program, Believers Bluegrass, with close friend Gene Reasoner, and was emcee and stage manager at the Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival for 37 years. Mark is the Executive Director of GOBS. Bill Gage-Fiddle, started playing fiddle at 7 but found bluegrass about 20 years ago. Early bands Bill played with include The Roving Gamblers, South 14 and JC Bonds. Bill is one of the founding members of Big Mill and has played fiddle with them for over 10 years. Bill also plays mandolin for George's Creek. He lives near Harrison AR. Bill is a member of GOBS. For more information, call 417-880-0343 or www.GoBluegrass.org.

1. The a**holes are out. 2. Lettuce. 3. Fired. 4. Insulin. 5. $5. 6. Stunt. 7. All over. 8. Gobs. 9. My heel. 10. Ed. 11. Sleep walker. 12. Organized.

Fictional Page presents, Read Before Midnight - Episode Four- "GOBS". A man at the edge of space must struggle between his trust in technology and his own survival.  The fourth episode in the series, of the horror and science fiction anthology Read Before Midnight - inspired by the works of Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker, Suzanne Collins, Anne Rice, and more. Thank you very much for listening. Your thoughts and time are very valuable, so thank you for choosing to spend some of it here with me. If you enjoyed this story, please like and subscribe, and tell friends and family who like this sort of stuff.If you want to support me directly, please consider checking out my other works at www.fictionalpage.com, or become a patron at patreon/fictionalpage. We also have a reddit at r/fictionalpage.Until next time.THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE COLLECTORS EDITION NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON. Gathered from the episodes of the "Read Before Midnight" original horror podcast, comes a collection of tales about survival, the consequences of choices, and the monsters we make of them. Read Before Midnight invites you to question the darkness lurking outside your window and confront the monsters that we create.Inspired by rural Appalachia, the independent stories weave locations and characters together in a way that builds as the echoes of their shared worlds and divergent timelines begin to overlap. If you are a fan of Stephen King's unnerving prose, Isaac Asimov's brilliant vision of the future, Adam Nevill's bone-chilling horror, Shirley Jackson's haunting mysteries, or Ted Chiang's mind-bending concepts, this collection by W.H. Maxwell is tailor-made for you.https://www.amazon.com/Read-Before-Midnight-Season-One-ebook/dp/B0CDVLC9PM?ref_=ast_author_mpbThank you very much for listening. Your thoughts and time are very valuable, so thank you for choosing to spend some of it here with me. If you want to support me directly, please consider checking out my other works at www.fictionalpage.com, or become a patron at patreon/fictionalpage. We also have a reddit at r/fictionalpage.Until next time.

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Read last week's Episode hereChapter FourWalkerSome in the district had known this one as Walker. Few in fact still recalled the name by which he went these days. It had been many a year since the stranger, a man with a ragged scar about his throat, had been through these parts. In the days prior to the night of the Telling of the Show at the Last Friendly Inn, Walker had been seen “close and thereabouts” as the Littles like to say of strangers passing along the road to the south, or the smaller lanes and even trails that wove on out toward Olive Hills and the Dry Stretch. Or even further into the unreckoned neighborhoods of Barrows Valley and all that unknown that lay beyond its eastern edge.But there had been many dark figures on the road and out in the hills lately. Some said Gobs. Others, the Hobbs themselves. Goblins or the larger and nastier variety hobgoblins[NC1] . But of course the Littles always defaulted to their favorite boogedyman… ‘warewoofs.Now the candles were burning very low within the inn, and the fire within the hearth had reduced itself to little more than ash and an orange glow. This was the last of the night at the inn and now all that lay ahead in the darkness was quiet, and perhaps one low candle burning. And of course, the lanterns out along the roads and lanes kept going by the Night Watch. Outside the inn, occasional bursts of the windy thunder came off the distant coast and roared across Strawberry Flats sending small disquieting moans down its antique length just inland from the shores.No one moved and there was no sound in the inn until once more Walker began to speak, only the creaking of his road-wearied leathers breaking the silence just before he began.“The enemy was not defeated at Sirith Osildor,” rasped the stranger the Littles knew as Walker. He moved closer to them, and one would think his old high hard-worn boots would have made some soft thump across the ancient boards as he moved. Like some cheap travelling tragedian playing the stage to effect. But the strange man, and weren't all men strange, moved without a sound and this gave truth to the rumor that he leagued with the Forest Watchers, a dangerous lot of Northern Men long come down out of the North whose ways and beliefs were strange and mysterious to the elves of Indolién and even more so to the many good folk of the Gentle Lands.Walker made eye contact with them all and then returned to watching the last embers of the fire. His grim face was made even more so by the little light left in the room.“The enemy were not turned back and sent to flight…” he paused. Then, “… as you saw in the wizard's tricks and lying glamours.”“But we saw the truth?” stammered old Hoot TacMavish who'd been in the kitchen and had sliced his own cut of the wheel. “How cannee be different in what we saw, stranger?”He chewed his cheese as they waited for the response he'd seemed to angrily demand.But the stranger did not answer Hoot directly and continued to stare into the orange coals as he moved closer from out of the darkness and toward the hearth so they could see him better.“Nor did Adoras strike a blow among many against the Wyrm. Coming in against the flanks of the shadow, as you have been told. None of those things happened. And if you want to know what is true… then that is not it and never has been from the lips of the Elves of Indolién.”“Then Adoras did not ride?” piped up one of the Littles.Walker smiled. It was not the smile of a man playing with prey. Nor was it the smile of someone who despises a question in the middle of their speech. No, it was a sad, yet kind smile.“Did you see in the last week a great host move along the road, heading south to the battle you were told of?” asked Walker softly. As though[NC2]  it was a real question, and no one had asked was because the answer is known, and the asker merely wants to make the listener seem foolish. No. It was an honest question. One that almost seemed like he'd prefer the answer that made him the liar. As though, a different answer would have been better than the one that was.The Little said nothing.“Because surely you would have seen so many of the Elven Cavalry and Spear, glittering and bright in Indolién's sacred armors. I tell you… you would not have missed such a sight.”“It's no[NC3] t like that,” said the Little. Walker replied nothing. The Little stammered and sallied on which is their way when they're on about something. Not easily dissuaded those Littles aren't. “Well… ‘tis all tactics like, Walker. Thas' what your name is, isn't it? They came at them from the flank as good ol' Malrond says so. The way I figures the maps, they must've taken the Eastern Hills road and gone out through Olive Wood or even Wild Tangle… or maybe…” and here the Little crossed himself and made a sign at this next bit, “Or Even Barrows Valley though I don't like to even say it much less think it.”“Aye,” piped in Tom MacTarthy who ran the stable and had come in to find his last pint of the night. Something had made him uneasy out there in the dark all alone, and the ponies had gone skittish, and it had taken him much hay and whispering to calm them down. Like there was some predator about but none that he could see. Maybe it was the wind, he'd decided after a bit, when he'd made up his mind to go pull himself a pint and found Fatty and others still gathered by the main hearth listening to the palaver of the stranger. A man no less. But the mood in the inn felt just as a thunderstorm, he'd tell others later when they'd listen.Walker stopped and didn't turn to look at a one of them. He was still before the dying fire. Behind him near the bar, the sound of Tom blowing the froth of his pint was the only sound that could be heard for a moment. Then the wind ran through the eaves high up on the third story and through the ancient section that was known as the Old Count's Tower that was part of the inn and far older than anyone suspected.But that is an older tale and has nothing to do with this one. Which is how things often are. There are more stories out there than you can imagine. On every walk in every out of the way place, there are many lying in the shadows and down undiscovered trails.“And so…” continued Walker, “… no one came from down the Barrow Hills ways and gave account of the long snake of an elven army in full armor and on the march for battle? Not to one of you ever talkative lot of Littles… well, I find that hard to believe.”Silence.“Well, t'wouldn't it be secret-like?” asked one of the other Littles near the fire. “Elves is queer strange and who knows them ways of our betters and all. But ifn' anyone could do it… well stands to reason t'would be mighty Prince Adoras and the lot o' his generals.”“Are you saying Good Ol' Malrond lied to us?” said another quickly on the heels of this.“No,” said Walker more to himself than to his audience. “Prince Adoras did not come to battle in the South. In fact… there was no elven host to give battle to the Shadow himself or that wyrm that curls about the tower even now.”“How say'ee that? How do ye know?” asked another, his eyes and lips full of incredulity.“Because I was there, my Little friend,” said Walker after a long cool moment, and then sat down in a low chair near the fire. His coal black eyes still intent on the fire regardless.“I will tell you a story then, my friends,” he began with a tired sigh. A dog barked outside, savagely for a few seconds and to this the man listened. When it stopped, he told Fatty to lock the doors to the inn and gave no reason for it. Fatty, jangling his big ring of keys, dashed off to do just that. Then Walker began to speak.“The story of the fall of Sirith Osildor, Tower of the Golden Eagle as it was once known by another name. Maldornesoron it was once called. But not now. Not anymore in these dark and treacherous days. The warriors who died holding a line there a few nights ago, held for help that would never come from fair Indolién.”Now the weathered man cast his tired yet kind gaze about them all and it was not unkind, or even prideful or arrogant as most elves can be. No. It was the look of a long-suffering and patient friend in times that are difficult. Or of the kind one wears when explaining difficulties to young ‘uns. He seemed to nod to himself regarding what he might say next before continuing on. And when he was satisfied with the answer he had decided to give, he began his story in full.It was just words. Not like magics. Not like the wizard's smoke and shadows. But there was power in these. And more so some would say later.“The armies of the Shadow came howling out of the southern waystes on the first full moon of spring. Earlier than expected, but the Tower Watch had gone deeper into the waystes, scouting in small bands, than it ever had before that winter, and it was clear the orcish tribes would be on the move come spring. Some said just another war between themselves. Or against the Eastern lands and the Ancient Kingdoms of Men. Or even the Indaar. But Bear Killer of the Watch said it would be Osildor if it was anywhere. So, we gathered to assist the elves of the Tower where we could, and within days, we found ourselves fighting for the outskirts of the river and dock district as the forces of the Shadow gathered across the waters of the river. The wizard's sorceries were true enough in some respects, outright lies in others. But isn't that how the best lies always are… some sweet grains of truth to wash down the bitter lies one finds in the cup. What we wouldn't have given for a good wall to fight from. But the throne of Indolién has long thought the Black River to be a good enough defense, though why anyone would think that has always been a mystery to Men of the Watch. It's easier to cross than most and in almost every place, and sometimes near dry as bone when the rains don't come down in the Eastern Mountains.“But there was no wall and so we fought side by side with Gaelrandir's Spear along the docks and into the city dregs near the river. The orcish war chiefs were crafty and very clever the first night. Never coming straight on at the tower where our might was most gathered. But instead forcing us into a battle for blocks and neighborhoods long abandoned and some say even haunted.“In one such street my brotherhood faced one of the Eld Longdarks, and it was there we gave battle and lost half our number in combat.”Several of the Littles gasped in amazement.The Eld were the stuff of nightmares and boogey tales of the long ago from the Age of Darkness before the lands were the way they would be. Longdark Trolls were considered the worst predators of the night and known to dine on the bones of their enemies in preference to the flesh they stripped away with stone daggers.“A named beast this was,” continued Walker as he watched the embers unblinkingly. As though he were seeing it all as it had been seen on the dark night. “Fell and Eld indeed was this one. Oggrindaar he was known by in the speech of the Eldarin Elves who once ruled from mighty Easold the Lost. He came out from the ruins of an ancient temple, fangs dripping with blood and red murder in his burning eyes. His hide though leathery, was tough and scarred from a thousand years of battle in the deep halls of the earth where few have ever been. And fewer still returned from. Girded with fabled Giant's Plate, like those of its kind wore who fell in battle before the Malantur, the eld troll who little feared our small company of watchers armed with bow and sword. But they are men of the road, the watchers, and no mere foe to be trifled with even when a dread troll is in the mix. And I will say this, the elves were there too, and the elves do not spend their lives cheaply.”Silence as Walker turned from the fire to watch their small yet expressive faces. Their minds did more work and saw more truth that the glimmers of the wizard could have manufactured. The mind is so much more powerful than the mere trickeries of image and light. When given the chance, it destroys those things.“We strove hours into the late night against the enemy there and three of us were killed by dark fire from the black arrows of the shadow orcs supporting the raging dread troll. Greybeard was wounded sorely but fought on at the front of the company, facing down the roaring troll, trading blows with his ancient blade and driving the beast back into the burning ruins of the temple he'd come out from. A moment later the whole rotting structure collapsed when the great troll was mortally wounded and gave out a horrific cry at its last, defeated. But in the same moment our clan lord was gone from this earth. We gave not a moment to our grief and pressed the attack against the orc archers and infantry surging into the street from every direction because even their chiefs, fiends every one of them, knew the battle was here this night.“I would tell you that right there we won the district and turned the tide of battle, reclaiming the lost street and putting the Shadow host to the sword wherever they could be found. But I cannot for that would be a lie… and a betrayal to my oath as a storyteller.”Now at the word storyteller all the Littles as one seemed to lean back in their chairs or shift their feet uncomfortably.Why so, you might ask at such an innocuous word. Isn't a storyteller a tale teller? A bard? A skald? An entertainer or even a mountebank in some low cases? A tragedian as has been mentioned?No.No, a storyteller is none of those things. And so, Walker was not.During those dark and uncertain times, a storyteller was something much more than just a gossip with a gift for fine speech. In the years since the rise of the wizards in the Emerald Council, the once noble storytellers had long fallen out of favor with the lands. It was rumored, whispered constantly, and even mocked in the murmurings of court before the Emerald Throne and among the pleasures of the Feather Gardens, that to be called a ‘storyteller' in polite company, was to be awarded the highest insult with the most dismissive of slurs.To admit to being one, that is another thing altogether. And one you shall see the nature of as we go along here for a bit.But Walker did not mind their discomfort and continued on with the tale, seeing that they would listen more now. Which is all a storyteller needs.Someone to listen to the truth the storyteller is telling. Instead of locking it up in a tower, or beneath the lost Vaults of Unthur where living eye has not been for long years to see what truly lies buried there in the deeps of time.“Within days we had lost the district and many valiant warriors,” continued Walker plainly. No tricks. No smoke. No shadows. “Elves and men who serve despite the pleasures of the throne, fought valiantly to the last for such is the way of warriors. Stagg the Swift, a watcher, fell in the Water Courts beneath the shadow of the tower. Daeanor Longblade himself, against the orcs holding the way between Straight Street and the Mire Warrens where strange things haunt the nights. Daeanir, brother of the Longblade himself, fell too, hours later at the foot of the tower as we sought to make our last stand. I could tell you all on this strange and quiet night, of many others who fell, many names to be recorded in the Book of Deeds when this is done, told in countless tales high in the Eastern Mountains to keep their memories alive during the dark and uncertain times we face, but all the defeats were the same and the endings as grim as we fought to cede as little ground as possible to the ravening orcish tribes streaming across the Black River and coming for the tower.“There seemed that night to be no end to them.“In the end we were trapped inside the tower and that's when she came. A great drake from the south, an ancient thing from the lost Age of Darkness when Vaugamir Blackhand cast aside the ways of elves and became Lord Sauth and did make war against his brothers and the children.“The drake struck the tower with living black flame, searing the uppermost defenders before trumpet or call to battle could be sounded. We fought it back with our best archers, but no weapons seemed strong enough to drive her off. And meanwhile the orcish host had come against the Mythildor which is the fabled silver gate of the Sirith Osildor crafted long ago by the Eldaar Elves as a gift to men.At once the tower was struck and the great wyrm landed among the uppermost battlements and began wreaking much havoc against the Silver Guards who have long held that watch. I say this now and will say it until I am convinced otherwise… not one of Foemor's warriors survived, instead choosing to give their all against the drake in hope of driving her off the tower, even as it began to collapse along the outer galleries, with great sheets of the fabled marble of Easold's quarries crashing down like foam-tossed surf from the rocky coasts of Nurth.“It was Bearkiller who bade us understand that the tower was lost now and we should flee to our missions. He speaks for the Watch, and so every one of us did as we must and disappeared among the chaos and slaughter, for there was nothing that could be done. No charge. No Adoras. No Norsus striking a fatal blow. And now I have come north into the Gentle Lands as I was bid, to tell you what has truly happened in the South and to seek the trail of the task I have been given. These are the things you must know instead of the glimmers of the wizards who serve the Emerald Court, who would have you believe many other things instead of really what was, and what now is.”“And…” asked Old Barley who'd sat quietly with his pipe in the chair as he always did, dozing and listening. Apparently, he'd been listening more than dozing. “If'n the tower was lost and surrounded by orcs and the like even more terrible than such… well then, a simple farmer like me'self has to ask how came ye through the fight?”    Walker studied the crowd of Littles in the inn close to midnight now. Again, he seemed to hear something afar off in the night that none of them could, and it must be said Littles have fine ears for hearing when they're not going on about something with their mouths. For a moment the man waited, seeking to hear it again so he could confirm his suspicions that it was soon time to move on.But then he continued after a bit.“There were ancient halls beneath the old tower. Carved out during the time of the Mad Kings of Men from the Old Age. The Watch knew of its locations beneath the crypts and led the survivors out through wraith-haunted halls, but not…”And here Walker paused.For a moment the Littles thought his rasping throat that made the whisper voice grim and determined, had merely gone dry. Fatty swept his great bulk toward the taps like some blustering storm at sea suddenly changing course and filled a mug of his best. A moment later he was handing it to the stranger like an offering and backing away like one might from a wild animal found on a forest path late one winter afternoon far from village and home. And safety.But that was not the case. No. Not the case at all. Something had happened down there in the crypts, and it was not to be forgotten. Not since, and not ever. And even as Walker had this thought, the siren call of its truth, which seemed a completely ironic thing compared to what it really was, called to him from the bundle he'd left in the darkness near where he'd first appeared.He cast his dark eyes toward the pack on the floor. It was old, leather, and much used.It seemed to all the Littles in the room that night that a look crossed the stranger's face that seemed to say, or indicate, that he only wanted to be free of its burden for a moment.Wrapped in oilcloth… it… called… to him.And for a moment, something cold and unseen could be felt by the Littles in the room though they knew it not.I'm here. Here with you now, outcast wanderer whose true name I know. Here. Touch me.The man drank the offered pint and wiped his lips with the back of his weathered and dark hand.That bit, that was not for Little ears. Or for any.The Truth is a funny thing, Immaradir the Old had once reminded Walker. Sometimes it is so powerful, it convinces you that you must lie for it.There was that. And there was something else. There were orders. Orders from Bearkiller as he held the hall beneath the crypts, surely dead by now for he's spent his life against crypt wraiths to see our fellowship free of the dark.“… Not without cost,” Walker finished after the long, strange moment that had passed there in the inn. “Many of the Watch there at the Battle of Sirith Osildor perished in the flight through the lower reaches of the halls. Dark things long asleep tried to prevent our passage but the knowledges of the Watchers are useful against such old ghosts. Lore and wisdom regarding how to defeat such is kept as ready as sharp sword and a keen knife for any of the Watch. Still… it was not without cost… to us.”There was another sound out there in the dark tonight. And now Walker could sense the hour and what was going to happen.He heard them now. Gathering out there in the dark. Coming in from the fields and tracks they'd followed him along from the fields of battle… and slaughter. Or had they been waiting there ahead of him all along? Had the wizard's tale been bait, to draw him into the inn.“So why'ee tell us?” asked one of the Littles, unaware of the dark thing at the door to the inn as the Walker was even now. “And who's to say whether Malrond or ye is right in the tellin' of such things as don't concern us of the Gentle Lands. Indoly…” which is what Littles called Indolién, “…is but a day's ride to the north. The elfs may not have marched south but the Army of the King is still there, and I doubt they'll abide a black host coming north anytime soon.”“Tis true enough,” said Walker rising, hand on the hilt of his old sword. “I doubt they'll abide what they can afford to ignore but little longer.[NC4]  But such behaviors as I thought once unexpected have become the norm for such times now and it is best to track by them. Duty and honor are things put on and off like the dress and jewelry of fine elven maids in Indolién. The truth is a piece of thrown pottery that can be shaped as needed and broken when finished with. As long as there is clay, new truths can be manufactured every day and all day. The wizards shape the clay and feed you what they want you to believe.”“But why?”“Why is it ever so, my Little friend? For power and power alone is the answer. And so you must ask yourself good people, and you are truly good, for the Watchers and those who still strive against the Shadow know of what stuff you are made and can count on you, you who were once known by another name long before the elves came into the lands, a name the Storytellers have not forgotten though some of you have even now. What will you do with the truth when it has come home to you? That is really the question for this night.”No one spoke.Walker moved toward his ruck on the floor. The thing wrapped in oilskin inside an old blanket that had been rolled up along the top of the weathered carry.He checked his blade. Felt his knife at his side. Knew that was all he had to face the ones waiting out there in the dark for him.Knew that was a lie.He had so much more. Craft. Knowledge. Truth.“And me, outcast. Hecil. One lost or forsaken by friends, waif, outcast. You have me,” cooed the thing wrapped in oilcloth. Don't forget about me, Hecil.“If it's orcs, or even ‘warewoofs', why we'll fight ‘em to keep our lands free as we always has, Walker,” cried Cormic, swinging his empty mug aloft like it was one of the great swords of fabled renown.Many of which were lost now.Walker watched the burly and brave Little for a moment as he pulled his battered cloak over his head. Piercing eyes stared out from the darkness within at them all. Once more the wind came up like a wild thing from off the coasts and moors and raced along the eaves of the old pile and down into the chimney.It was a strange night indeed.“I know you will, Cormic. The Bobbin always have answered when the Old Kings called, even back to the days of Eld when the Dark Elf ruled the land and there was much terror, and few heroes in those days. The stories have always said so of bobbins.Only a few of the Littles knew that old calling of their race. None were asleep now as they watched the man among them, sure that dark times and trouble were to be had and on their way.“And the stories have always been true. As they must be,” said Walker.Then he was gone out into the late night as Fatty let him out, locking the great lock as soon as the stout and well-kept door was closed and the bolt shot.Also… we'll be doing a Book Club Discussion tomorrow night, Saturday, on my YouTube Check out some books by NickThe American Wasteland TrilogyThe Old Man and the WastelandThe Savage BoyThe Road is a RiverSoda Pop Soldier BooksSoda Pop SoldierPop Kult WarlordCTRL ALT RevoltGalaxy's EdgeForgotten Ruin SeriesThe Tragedy of the Strange Company SeriesStrange CompanyVoodoo WarfareThe End of the World as We Knew ItFight the Rooster This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nickcole.substack.com/subscribe

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Probably every society goes through revisionist history. Usually this happens gradually, over time, as stories become myths which become legends. Truth or fiction, it doesn't really matter, does it? Even now, stories are being retold to serve various agendas. The story of the election in 2020 has become a dark and witchy fairy tale on the left and a religious persecution story on the right. Each side clings to the myth that helps them sleep better at night. Yes, there are monsters roaming the countryside but it's okay because we have MSNBC to protect us. Trump didn't really lose the election because superhumans do not lose. Trump is an omnipotent force two ways it seems. Devil or Diety. Take your pick. The truth is much less complicated but it is risky to abandon the myths because the myths define us. There probably isn't a single event that can't be told a different way, or from a different perspective. I often think about that one Quaker back in Salem who spent a year in jail to make sure the story of mass hysteria and hangings was told. The horrors of Salem are so much bigger and so much more terrifying that the kitschy way Salem is remembered as witch hats and broomsticks is misleading. These are stories of children being forced to condemn their parents as witches. Poor women and their babies dying in prison. A man being crushed to death because he would not confess. Hangings that were applauded by the townspeople in the town square. Fear does strange things to us humans. Collective fear is unmanageable. The Monica Lewinsky myth is being retold because in the post Me Too era even the die-hard Democrats have turned on the withering charmer. He isn't now an echo of JFK whose romps with women were part of his legend at a time when men were applauded for their James Bond-like sexual allure. I remember being at a party in the 90s and making the joke about the Lewinsky scandal, “when they were handing out b*******s in the Oval Office where was I?” It wasn't much of a joke. But people did laugh. I suspect every single person at that dinner party now believes Clinton Me Too'd Monica. Or Monica Me Too'd Clinton.We women who lived through these eras remember full well what things were like, and even as far back as the 1970s when it was not uncommon for 12 and 13 year-olds to lose their virginity and brag about it. Molestation was everywhere, hidden from view or barely noticed or addressed. Adulthood was cool, childhood wasn't. Not until the 1990s. Then those of us who grew up in the careless 70s began to notice that it was all bad, hardly any of it good. No seatbelts, smoking at 10, smoking pot, watching porno, rated-R movies. The parents who protected their kids tended to be Conservatives who still went to Church on Sundays. But kids of the Left? We were raised like weeds. Some of us made it, some didn't. Then in the 90s we all watched Oprah and went to therapy. Then we figured out that everything was bad. We vowed to raise our kids better. Monica was a kid of the 70s too who grew up in the 90s to think it was cool to chase a married guy with seismic charisma. She famously flashed him her thong to show interest. And back then, wearing a thong was kind of risque. Not like now when everyone wears them. Poor Monica thought he was in love with her and that he would treat her well. She didn't realize that when she became a problem she'd be tossed in the garbage. And trust me, as someone who knows all too well what it's like to get in the way of a man who is using you as a side piece, that doesn't feel good. To her credit, Monica doesn't entirely blame “Predator Bill” for the affair. But she does tell a big lie in the casting. Beanie Feldstein is no Monica Lewinsky. They want it to look like Bill Clinton cornered a wallflower who isn't used to male attention, and while that might have been how Monica saw herself, that isn't how the world saw her then or now. She was vivacious and pinup-like in her beauty. Beanie Feldstein is pretty in a different way. There is no polite way to talk about the differences between the two women - it is a matter of taste and the fact is, Monica was his taste and Beanie Feldstein would have been easier to resist. Although I suspect that if she flashed her thong at Bill he would have still gone for it. It isn't so much an insult to Beanie Feldstein as it is a distortion by Monica to edge ever so slightly to the person she wants the public to think she was, rather than the bubble-headed girl she actually was.You see, the Me Too movement depends on one simple fact - women are never to be held accountable ever for anything they do regarding sex. It is always the man's fault because men are predators and women are innocent. Always. To tell this story from the vantage point of now requires Monica be rewritten as Beanie Feldstein because that is the only way to see the power imbalance between the two. If they had cast someone more Monica-like, the show would have been accused of trying to blame the victim. They would say the show sexualized a child, even though Monica was in her early 20s. It's gross what Bill Clinton did, what Hillary Clinton did, and how all of us defended them for so long. To me, the worst thing he did was move her out of the White House when she became a problem. That is sexual harassment because he's punishing her for their affair when in fact, he was an equal participant. Why should she have to suffer? No, he should not have been impeached for it, and yes it was yet another in an ongoing string of attacks to bring down the Clintons. And the public back then did not care because being “good” was not the ultimate goal of the left like it is now. Goodness rules everything. Monica wants to be seen as good and so this story helps her do that. Bill Clinton also wants to be seen as good but there isn't much he can do about it now except keep apologizing and hiding from the press. But still, Monica was punished more or less and Bill Clinton wasn't. I guess punished might be too strong of a word - after all, Monica has relied on this story her entire life for both her work and her image. What bothered me most was the attention and time it took to chase the Clintons and the attention Bill Clinton had to pay to his impeachment instead of focusing on the job of the American people. After all, 9/11 would happen not too long after this. We need our elected officials with their eyes on the ball. That is their job. But the opposition party wanted the Clintons out because they had held onto power for so long because his charisma put him in power for two terms. I feel that way now about the four years Trump was in office and how badly we all handled COVID in his last year. We could have and should have worked together rather than continue to rip the country apart to make sure Trump left office. The truth is that the Democrats wasted time and energy chasing Trump, energy that could have been spent a different way. The Democrats are now in the same place the Republicans were back then - doing everything they can to destroy the other side to remain in power.The Lewinsky story will always be told only one way from now on. Those of us who lived through it will soon die off, and all that will be remembered is that Bill Clinton was not JFK but something closer to Harvey Weinstein. The Academy Museum is a Beautiful LieIt is indeed beautiful, what the Academy wants to be. They, like all of Hollywood, all of science, all of the medical-industrial complex, heck even Nike and the NFL have decided that their very existence is exemplary of “White Supremacy” and that their history, their achievements, their glory and everything the public loves about them is not a source of pride but a source of shame. White shame. Or, as we used to say in the 80s, white guilt. I didn't used to know what a “self-hating Jew” was back when I first heard the term. I was in my 20s and a Woody Allen fan. I would hear that phrase a lot back then, along with “white guilt.” Now I know what a “self-hating Jew” is. I know why they would be self-hating. I guess it's similar to being called an “Uncle Tom.” It's about moving beyond your own station, which is defined by your ethnicity, to join the ranks of the WASPs. Woody Allen was called a “self-hating Jew” because his movies were, for a time, about escaping his own history and his own heritage and remaking himself as someone of that privileged, white elite on the Upper East Side. Being Jewish in Hollywood was never all that popular when it came to whom they'd cast in movies, even if it was popular in who made those movies. The reason there were so few Jews in movies was probably baked-in anti-semitism throughout the country, but it was also because the country was mostly white and mostly Christian. The market decided what got made and justified its “white wall” when it came to the Oscars. We woke up from 2020 without the free market to remind us of what actually sells and what doesn't. 2020 was like a massive ship wreck that sends all of the debris floating to the surface, with everything seen in one big picture to be judged. Just as the Titanic had lower and upper classes, how the rich survived and the poor didn't, the ship wreck tells the tale. There was no market so there was no justification and suddenly the ruling class scattered in a panic, caught in the bright light, their entire past suddenly upended and floating on the surface.It did not go well. By the end of it, the Academy implemented an inclusion mandate to “instruct” production companies and creatives to make sure they hired BIPOC and women - at a time when there is some debate over what the word “woman” even means. My friends who crow at me about being a conservative apologist on abortion always say, “wait, you're defending the side that is robbing women of rights they've fought for over decades.” I always think, but don't say, “you mean birthing people?”The Golden Globes were cancelled when Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo were SHOCKED, shocked that racism was going on here, even though the HFPA nominated a black female director before the Academy ever did. Oh, wait, the Academy never has. The British Film Academy (BAFTA) took the voting rights away from its members entirely, opting instead for a select committee to hand-pick nominees to meet the diversity and inclusion standards 2020 demanded. In the end, they picked two white actors for the leads anyway who they went on to win Oscars. And we have the Academy museum, a beautiful building with some film memorabilia that is worth seeing, and a drop dead gorgeous Hayou Miyazaki exhibit, but it is most definitely a somber reflection to ease the pain of so many good people in the Academy who do not want to be seen as dirty rotten racists. That isn't really something any good liberal in this town would want to admit, but take it from someone who knows Oscar history inside and out and has been covering it for 20 years — this is the Oscar museum that would very much catch 2020 Hollywood in a time capsule but it is not Oscar history. Every part of it is like trying to head off any potential criticism that would become clickbait for the major newspapers and Twitter. The lesson of 2020: don't become someone's sanctimonious, self-righteous think piece that goes viral. They definitely subverted 90% of their actual history and cherry-picked what diversity they could find here and there to portray a reimagined version of the last 94 years. I know about the Academy's White Wall. I have been writing about it since 2001. I wrote about it so emphatically that I lost half my readership in 2011. For a long time I was known as the only person covering the Oscars who wrote from the POV of “diversity and inclusion.” I remember when no one used the word “inclusion” at all and then suddenly just using “diversity” was wrong. I pushed for movies by black directors to be recognized, and for black actors to be recognized. I did this every year because I thought it mattered. Walking through the museum you'd never know what their history was or why activists fought so hard for inclusion in the first place. Sacheen Littlefeather is now a point of pride for the Academy when it was a point of embarrassment way back when. To date, only one black female has won in Lead, Halle Berry in 2001, but she is featured at the Academy Museum. They have devoted an entire room to Spike Lee and walking through you might think Do the Right Thing was nominated for Best Picture. It was not. He has won a single Oscar for writing BlackKklansman. You also might think that Citizen Kane, featured prominently at the museum, won Best Picture. It did not. How Green Was My Valley did but it is nowhere to be seen. They have the gorgeous backdrop for North by Northwest hung on a wall. You might think Hitchcock won an Oscar for directing. He did not. Or that he was nominated for North by Northwest. He was not. They could not even show Mount Rushmore, however, without affixing a mea culpa:Then why use it at all? Why hang the backdrop to begin with if you are ashamed of it? And if you are ashamed of it, why not put up all of the things you are ashamed of? I guess because this way they can have their cake and eat it too. They can display the cool art as long as they slap down the whites for their bad bad dirty rotten behavior of the past. Gee, sounds fun, doesn't it?What you won't see are the icons the Oscars were actually made on, maybe because their histories are too problematic? The big studios aren't even represented a little bit. The major icons who won Oscars aren't there - no Marlon Brando, or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep? Where was Meryl? Did I see her there, icon that she is? I cannot recall. Steven Spielberg's Jaws was nominated for Best Picture, but not Director. He is a big donor and has quite a presence in the museum. There are bits and pieces of the empire that Hollywood once was but they have been sidelined in order to amplify the marginalized faces and voices who fought so long and hard to be seen in an industry that was driven by the market and a market that was driven by the white majority. That's the truth. But Hollywood does not want that to be the truth.That's why you're seeing so much awkward colorblind casting now. I just watched a movie that took place in the late 70s that was based on a memoir of a working-class white male who got into Yale and pined for the Westport girl who was simply out of his league. She slept with him but never really considered having a relationship with him and ends up marrying the right kind of man. This is based on a true story but they thought casting a black female in that role was “inclusive” — in fact, it throws the whole thing off because you're thinking about Yale and Westport and WASPS and the Great Gatsby and actual white supremacy and the white wall - and working-class New York who aren't exactly woke and weren't then. You can't just erase that history. That is what led to the activism now. Otherwise, there is no need for diversity and inclusion. But the point is to look good. That is what everyone in Hollywood and on the left wants more than anything. I felt a little funny walking around the museum, knowing everything I know about the Oscars. But it's very much in keeping with how I feel now, as a person from the left trying to make sense of what has become the left in 2021. I barely recognize it and they barely recognize me. The good people of the Left will love this museum. It is a monument to their new religion, after all, their utopia's screed writ large. This is who they will be going forward, and all they ever wanted to be looking backward. They are happy to have the heat of accountability taken off, even if it means sweeping everything under the carpet for a time. Maybe someday it will all be told, the good, the bad, and the ugly. But that day is not today. And that museum is not this one. Kim Kardashian is Finally Accepted It was a long hard road for Kim Kardashian. Hated for so long by a culture that just didn't know she was what it wanted. She hung on. Her family has built an empire worthy of the gilded age and is maybe the best example of America in decline. How many billions do they make in a year? Kim is vegan now, as is her sister Kortney and Kylie Jenner has announced her entire product line will be going vegan. They display their massive wealth - their many cars - their huge mansions - their luxurious vacations - their revolving door of men - their next generation ready to carry on in their high heeled footsteps. America's new aristocracy.Twitter and Reality TV might have birthed Trump, but Instagram and Reality TV birthed the Kardashians. There isn't any stopping any of them, especially since Kim is now part of the ruling class and an accepted member of the new woke elites who have gamed the system in order to indulge in their excess, guilt-free. Just signal your virtue and you'll be fine. I can't criticize Kim too much. After the 2016 election, the only thing I could do was watch Keeping up with the Kardashians. I watched the entire show, season by season because it was so empty-headed, so pointless, there would never be a single thing to trigger me in any direction. I could just lay there and stare at them under all that makeup, eating their Health Nut salads and blathering about this or that. But Kim has made it. She hosted SNL. She is now one of them. Like all of Hollywood, especially comedy, finding anything funny is not easy. They have sadly been sucked into the overly sensitive ideology of the new left where offending anyone is off the table. It's a win-win to bring on Kim, a subject often mocked by the likes of SNL. Now they can scramble for ratings somehow, some way. Their ratings were way down for their premiere so they are in desperate need of Gen-Z love. Kim's appearance boosted SNL's ratings from a 3.5 to a 3.8. They saw a similar boost when Elon Musk hosted, according to The Wrap. It's not hard to figure out why that might be. Hollywood overall is alienating people with its politics. Take out politics completely, or people whose identities are wrapped up in politics and maybe you can start to bring around the rest of the country. It's a trade-off. Success via the market or virtue without it. It's a beautiful thing, revisionist history. Gen-Z would never know, and will never know, just how hated the Kardashians once were. They'll never know why anyone would care whether there was Reality-TV or not. The Kardashians aren't doing anything major corporations haven't been doing for decades: selling beauty to women whose identities still depend on it. It's funny that in a time when gender is fluid and female sexuality is being purged from Hollywood action movies, the Kardashians wear their hyper-extended curves with such pride, caked in layers of makeup, stuffed full of fillers and implants - so female it's practically visible from outer space.How do those kids make sense of all of it? The cameras everywhere, the social media personas, the millions of likes on pictures of them, the massive birthday and Christmas displays of their lives for Instagram, the balloons, the flowers, the private jets, the makeup tutorials, the closets, the playhouses. Gobs and gobs of money and stuff. Kim can now tell her life's story with pride about all that she's accomplished in the time she's been in the spotlight. She's finally gotten back her old body from before she had kids. She's working on her law degree and freeing people from prison. The Academy, Kim, Monica have erased how others saw them and have reimagined a better story. Those stories have become legends and will one day be myths. No one ever has to know the truth. After all, isn't truth, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Get full access to Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone at sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

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