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The First Amendment prohibits the U.S. government from censoring speech. In this episode, drawing from internal Twitter documents known as “the Twitter files” and Congressional testimony from tech executives, former Twitter employees, and journalists, we examine the shocking formal system of censorship in which government employees are using their influence over private companies to indirectly censor speech in a way that they are clearly prohibited from doing directly. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! View the shownotes on our website at https://congressionaldish.com/cd270-the-twitter-files Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD224: Social Media Censorship CD141: Terrorist Gifts & The Ministry of Propaganda (2017 NDAA) CD113: CISA is Law The Twitter Files "Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary.” Matt Taibbi. Jan 4, 2023. Racket News. Matt Taibbi “The Democrats' Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties.” Matt Taibbi. Mar 12, 2023. Racket News. “#1940 - Matt Taibbi.” Feb 13, 2023. The Joe Rogan Experience. Hunter Biden Laptop Story “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.” “13. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. ‘The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, “Hey... you should be on high alert. 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Angus King Takedown Request Spreadsheet Audio Sources Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the Twitter Files March 9, 2023 House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Witnesses: Matt Taibbi, Journalist Michael Shellenberger, Author, Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition Clips 17:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): In the run up to the 2020 Presidential election, FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan, in his deposition in Missouri versus Biden, said that he repeatedly, repeatedly, informed Twitter and other social media platforms of the likelihood of a hack and leak operation in the run up to that Presidential election. He did it even though there was no evidence. In fact, he said in his deposition that we hadn't seen anything, no intrusions, no hack, yet he repeatedly told them something was common. Yoel Ross, Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, testified that he had had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and other folks regarding election security. During these weekly meetings, federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected a hack and leak operation. The expectations of a hack and leak operation were discussed throughout 2020. And he was told they would occur in a period shortly before the 2020 Presidential election, likely in October. And finally, he said "I also learned in these meetings, that there were rumors that a hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden." So what did the government tell him? A hack and leak operation was coming. How often did the government tell him this? Repeatedly for a year. When did the government say it was going to happen? October of 2020. And who did the government say it would involve? Hunter Biden. 19:35 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): How did they know? Maybe it's because they had the laptop and they had had it for a year. 21:50 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Finally, as if on cue, five days later on October 19, 51 former intel[ligence] officials signed a letter with a now famous sentence "the Biden laptop story has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Something that was absolutely false. 25:25 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): And the Republicans have brought in two of Elon Musk's public scribes to release cherry-picked, out-of-context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative, Elon Musk's chosen narrative, that is now being paroted by the Republicans, because the Republicans think that these witnesses will tell a story that's going to help them out politically. 25:50 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): On Tuesday, the majority released an 18 page report claiming to show that the FTC is quote, "harassing" Twitter -- oh my poor Twitter -- including by seeking information about its interactions with individuals before us today. How did the report reach this conclusion? By showing two single paragraphs from a single demand letter, even though the report itself makes clear that there were numerous demand letters with numerous requests, none of which we've been able to see, that are more demand letters and more requests of Twitter. 28:05 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Mr. Chairman, Americans can see through this. Musk is helping you out politically and you're going out of your way to promote and protect him and to praise him for his work. 28:15 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): This isn't just a matter of what data was given to these so-called journalists before us now. 31:35 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Mr. Chairman, I'm not exaggerating when I say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them. 32:30 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): We know this is because at the first hearing, the Chairman claimed that big government and big tech colluded to shape and mold the narrative and suppress information and censor Americans. This is a false narrative. We're engaging in false narratives here and we are going to tell the truth. 37:35 Michael Shellenberger: I recognize that the law allows Facebook, Twitter, and other private companies to moderate content on their platforms and I support the right of governments to communicate with the public, including to dispute inaccurate information, but government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. Often these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist, Section 230. If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship, and as one law professor, it raises serious First Amendment questions. It is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly. 41:50 Matt Taibbi: My name is Matt Taibbi, I've been a reporter for 30 years and a staunch advocate of the First Amendment. Much of that time was spent at Rolling Stone magazine. Ranking Member Plaskett, I'm not a "so-called" journalist. I've won the National Magazine Award, the I.F Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I've written 10 books, including four New York Times bestsellers. 45:35 Matt Taibbi: Ordinary Americans are not just being reported to Twitter for deamplification or deplatforming, but to firm's like Pay Pal, digital advertisers like Xandr, and crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe. These companies can and do refuse service to law abiding people and businesses whose only crime is falling afoul of a distant, faceless, unaccountable, algorithmic judge. 44:00 Matt Taibbi: Again, Ranking Member Plaskett, I would note that the evidence of Twitter-government relationship includes lists of tens of thousands of names on both the left and right. The people affected include Trump supporters, but also left leaning sites like Consortium and Truthout, the leftist South American channel TeleSUR, the Yellow Vest movement. That, in fact, is a key point of the Twitter files, that it's neither a left nor right issue. 44:40 Matt Taibbi: We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at [the Department of] State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi private entities doing the same thing, including Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and many others, many taxpayer funded. A focus of this fast growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed misinformation, disinformation or malinformation. That last term is just a euphemism for true but inconvenient. Undeniably, the making of such lists is a form of digital McCarthyism. 1:01:00 Matt Taibbi: So, a great example of this is a report that the Global Engagement Center sent to Twitter and to members of the media and other platforms about what they called "the Pillars of Russian Disinformation." Now, part of this report is what you would call, I think you would call, traditional hardcore intelligence gathering where they made a reasoned, evidence baseed case that certain sites were linked to Russian influence or linked to the Russian government. In addition to that, however, they also said that sites that quote, "generate their own momentum," and have opinions that are in line with those accounts are part of a propaganda ecosystem. Now, this is just another word for guilt by association. And this is the problem with the whole idea of trying to identify which accounts are actually the Internet Research Agency and which ones are just people who follow those accounts or retweeted them. Twitter initially did not find more than a handful of IRA accounts. It wasn't until they got into an argument with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee that they came back with a different answer. 1:06:00 Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Before you became Elon Musk's handpicked journalists, and pardon the oxymoron, you stated this on Joe Rogan's podcast about being spoon fed information. And I quote, "I think that's true of any kind of journalism," and you'll see it behind me here. "I think that's true of any kind of journalism. Once you start getting handed things, then you've lost. They have you at that point and you got to get out of that habit. You just can't cross that line." Do you still believe what you told Mr. Rogan? Yes or no? Yes or no? Matt Taibbi: Yes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Good. Now, you crossed that line with the Twitter files. Matt Taibbi: No. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Elon Musk -- It's my time, please do not interrupt me. Crowd: [laughter] Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Elon Musk spoon fed you his cherry-picked information, which you must have suspected promotes a slanted viewpoint, or at the very least generates another right wing conspiracy theory. 1:11:20 Matt Taibbi: That moment on the Joe Rogan show, I was actually recounting a section from Seymour Hersh's book, Reporter, where he described a scene where the CIA gave him a story and he was very uncomfortable. He said that "I, who had always gotten the secrets, was being handed the secrets." Again, I've done lots of whistleblower stories. There's always a balancing test that you make when you're given material, and you're always balancing newsworthiness versus the motives of your sources. In this case, the newsworthiness clearly outweighed any other considerations. I think everybody else who worked on the project agrees. 1:14:45 Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC): Richard Stengel, you know who that is? Matt Taibbi: Yes, he's the former, the first head of the Global Engagement Center. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC): I want the American people to hear from him for 30 seconds. Richard Stengel: Basically, every country creates their own narrative story. And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the "chief propagandist" job. We haven't talked about propaganda. Propaganda. I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. 1:24:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): December 13, the very first letter that the FTC sends to Twitter after the Twitter files, 11 days after the first Twitter file, there have been five of them come out, the FTC's first demand in that first letter after the Twitter files come out is identify all journalists. I'm quoting "identify all journalists and other members of the media" to whom Twitter worked with. You find that scary, Mr. Taibbi, that you got a federal government agency asking a private company who in the press are you talking with? Matt Taibbi: I do find it scary. I think it's none of the government's business which journalists a private company talks to and why. I think every journalist should be concerned about that. And the absence of interest in that issue by my fellow colleagues in the mainstream media is an indication of how low the business has sunk. There was once a real esprit de corps and camaraderie within Media. Whenever one of us was gone after, we all kind of rose to the challenge and supported -- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): It used to be, used to be the case. Matt Taibbi: Yeah, that is gone now. 1:28:50 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): How many emails did Mr. Musk give you access to? Michael Shellenberger: I mean, we went through thousands of emails. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Did he give you access to all of the emails for the time period in which? Michael Shellenberger: We never had a single, I never had a single request denied. And not only that, but the amount of files that we were given were so voluminous that there was no way that anybody could have gone through them beforehand. And we never found an instance where there was any evidence that anything had been taken out. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Okay. So you would believe that you have probably millions of emails and documents, right? That's correct, would you say? Michael Shellenberger: I don't know if -- I think the number is less than that. Matt Taibbi: Millions sounds too high. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Okay. 100,000? Matt Taibbi: That's probably closer. Michael Shellenberger: Probably, yeah. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): So 100,000 that both of you were seeing. 1:37:10 Matt Taibbi: There were a couple of very telling emails that wepublished. One was by a lawyer named [Sasha Cardiel???], where the company was being so overwhelmed by requests from the FBI and in fact they, they gave each other a sort of digital High Five after one batch, saying "that was a monumental undertaking to clear all of these," but she noted that she believed that the FBI was essentially doing word searches keyed to Twitter's Terms of Service, looking for violations of the Terms of Service, specifically so that they could make recommendations along those lines, which we found interesting. 1:48:15 Michael Shellenberger: And we haven't talked about Facebook, but we now know that we have the White House demanding that Facebook take down factual information and Facebook doing that. 1:48:25 Michael Shellenberger: And with Matt [Taibbi]'s thread this morning we saw the government contractors demanding the same thing of Twitter: accurate information, they said, that needed to be taken down in order to advance a narrative. 1:49:55 Matt Taibbi: You know, in conjunction with our own research, there's a foundation, the Foundation for Freedom Online, which, you know, there's a very telling video that they uncovered where the Director of Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) talks about how CISA, the DHS agency, didn't have the capability to do election monitoring, and so that they kind of stepped in to "fill the gaps" legally before that capability could be amped up. And what we see in the Twitter files is that Twitter executives did not distinguish between DHS or CISA and this group EIP, for instance, we would see a communication that said, from CISA, escalated by EIP. So they were essentially identical in the eyes of the company. EIP is, by its own data, and this is in reference to what you brought up, Mr. Congressman, according to their own data, they significantly targeted more what they call disinformation on the right than on the left, by a factor I think of about ten to one. And I say that as not a Republican at all, it's just the fact of what we're looking at. So yes, we have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say the FBI or the DHS, or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what's more important is this constellation of kind of quasi private organizations that do this work. 1:52:10 Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): What was the first time that Mr. Musk approached you about writing the Twitter files? Matt Taibbi: Again, Congresswoman that would — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I just need a date, sir. Matt Taibbi: But I can't give it to you, unfortunately, because this this is a question of sourcing, and I don't give up... I'm a journalist, I don't reveal my sources. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): It's a question of chronology. Matt Taibbi: No, that's a question of sourcing — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Earlier you said that someone had sent you, through the internet, some message about whether or not you would be interested in some information. Matt Taibbi: Yes. And I refer to that person as a source. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So you're not going to tell us when Musk first approached you? Matt Taibbi: Again, Congresswoman, you're asking me, you're asking a journalist to reveal a source. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You consider Mr. Musk to be the direct source of all this? Matt Taibbi: No, now you're trying to get me to say that he is the source. I just can't answer — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Either he is or he isn't. If you're telling me you can't answer because it's your source, well, then the only logical conclusion is that he is in fact, your source. Matt Taibbi: Well, you're free to conclude that. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Well, sir, I just don't understand. You can't have it both ways. But let's move on because -- Unknown Representative 1: No, he can. He's a journalist. Unknown Representative 2: He can't, because either Musk is the source and he can't talk about it, or Musk is not the source. And if Musk is not the source, then he can discuss [unintelligible] Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): No one has yielded, the gentlelady is out of order, you don't get to speak — Multiple speakers: [Crosstalk] Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): The gentlelady is not recognized...[crosstalk]...he has not said that, what he has said is he's not going to reveal his source. And the fact that Democrats are pressuring him to do so is such a violation of the First Amendment. Multiple speakers: [Crosstalk] Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I have not yielded time to anybody. I want to reclaim my time. And I would ask the chairman to give me back some of the time because of the interruption. Mr. Chairman, I am asking you, if you will give me the seconds that I lost. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): We will give you that 10 seconds. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Thank you. Now let's talk about another item. When you responded to the ranking member, you said that you had free license to look at everything but yet you yourself posted on your...I guess it's kind of like a web page...I don't quite understand what Substack is, but what I can say is that "in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions." What were those conditions? She asked you that question and you said you had none. But you yourself posted that you had conditions? Matt Taibbi: The conditions, as I've explained multiple times -- Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): No sir, you have not explained, you told her in response to her question that you had no conditions. In fact, you used the word licensed, that you were free to look at all of them. All 100,000 emails. Matt Taibbi: The question was posed, was I free to to write about — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, did you have any conditions? Matt Taibbi: The condition was that we publish — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, did you have any conditions? Yes or no? A simple question. Matt Taibbi: Yes. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): All right. Could you tell us what conditions those were? Matt Taibbi: The conditions were an attribution of sources at Twitter and that we break any news on Twitter. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): But you didn't break it on Twitter. Did you send the file that you released today to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: Did I send the...actually I did, yes. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Did you send it to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: The Twitter files thread? Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): That was one of the conditions? Yes or no, sir. Matt Taibbi: The Twitter files thread actually did come out first. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): But sir, you said earlier that you had to attribute all the sources to Twitter first. What you released today, did you send that to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: No, no, no, I post I posted it on Twitter Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): First. First, sir, or did you give it to the Chairman of the Committee or the staff of the Committee first? Matt Taibbi: Well, that's not breaking the story, that's giving...I did give — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So you gave all the information that you did not give to the Democrats, you gave it to the Republicans first, then you put it on Twitter? Matt Taibbi: Actually, no, the chronology is a little bit confused. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Well then tell us what the chronology was. Matt Taibbi: I believe the thread came out first. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Where? Matt Taibbi: On Twitter Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): On Twitter. So then you afterwards gave it to the Republicans, and not the Democrats? Matt Taibbi: Yes, because I'm submitting it for the record as my statement. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Did you give it to him in advance? Matt Taibbi: I gave it to them today. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You gave it to them today, but you still have not given anything to the Democrats. Well, I'll move on. 1:57:20 Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Now in your discussion, in your answer, you also said that you were invited by a friend, Bari Weiss? Michael Shellenberger: My friend, Bari Weiss. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So this friend works for Twitter, or what is her....? Matt Taibbi: She's a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, I didn't ask you a question. I'm now asking Mr. Shellenberger a question. Michael Shellenberger: Yes, ma'am, Bari Weiss is a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I'm sorry, sir? Michael Shellenberger: She's a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): She's a journalist. So you work in concert with her? Michael Shellenberger: Yeah. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Do you know when she first was contacted by Mr. Musk? Michael Shellenberger: I don't know. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You don't know. So you're in this as a threesome? 2:00:10 Michael Shellenberger: Reading through the whole sweep of events, I do not know the extent to which the influence operation aimed at "pre-bunking" the Hunter Biden laptop was coordinated. I don't know who all was involved. But what we saw was, you saw Aspen and Stanford, many months before then, saying don't cover the material in the hack and leak without emphasizing the fact that it could be disinformation. Okay, so they're priming journalists to not cover a future hack and leak in a way that journalists have long been trained to in the tradition of the Pentagon Papers, made famous by the Steven Spielberg movie. They were saying [to] cover the fact that it probably came from the Russians. Then you have the former General Counsel to the FBI, Jim Baker, and the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the FBI, both arriving at Twitter in the summer of 2020, which I find, what an interesting coincidence. Then, when the New York Post publishes its first article on October 14, it's Jim Baker who makes the most strenuous argument within Twitter, multiple emails, multiple messages saying this doesn't look real. There's people, there's intelligence experts, saying that this could be Russian disinformation. He is the most strenuous person inside Twitter arguing that it's probably Russian disinformation. The internal evaluation by Yoel Roth, who testified in front of this committee, was that it was what it looked to be, which was that it was not a result of a hack and leak operation. And why did he think that? Because the New York Post had published the FBI subpoena taking the laptop in December of 2019. And they published the agreement that the computer store owner had with Hunter Biden that gave him permission, after he abandoned the laptop, to use it however he wanted. So there really wasn't much doubt about the provenance of that laptop. But you had Jim Baker making a strenuous argument. And then, of course, you get to a few days after the October 14 release, you have the president of the United States echoing what these former intelligence community officials were saying, which is that it looked like a Russian influence operation. So they were claiming that the laptop was made public by the conspiracy theory that somehow the Russians got it. And basically, they convinced Yoel Roth of this wild hack and leak story that somehow the Russians stole it, got the information, gave us the computer, it was bizarre. So you read that chain of events, and it appears as though there is an organized influence operation to pre-bunk.... Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Why do you think they could predict the time, the method, and the person? Why could the FBI predict it? Not only did they predict this, they predicted it, so did the Aspen Institute, seemed like everyone was in the know saying, here's what's gonna happen, we can read the future. Why do you think, how do you think they were able to do that? Michael Shellenberger: I think the most important fact to know is that the FBI had that laptop in December 2019. They were also spying on Rudy Giuliani when he got the laptop and when he gave it to the New York Post. Now, maybe the FBI agents who are going to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Twitter executives and warning of a hack and leak, potentially involving Hunter Biden, maybe those guys didn't have anything to do with the guys that had the top. We don't know that. I have to say, as a newcomer to this, as somebody that thought it was Russian disinformation in 2020, everybody I knew thought it was Russian disinformation, I was shocked to see that series of events going on. It looks to me like a deliberate influence operation. I don't have the proof of it, but the circumstantial evidence is pretty disturbing. 2:14:30 Matt Taibbi: We found, just yesterday, a Tweet from the Virality Project at Stanford, which was partnered with a number of government agencies, and Twitter, where they talked explicitly about censoring stories of true vaccine side effects and other true stories that they felt encouraged hesitancy. Now the imp— Unknown Representative: So these were true. Matt Taibbi: Yes. So they use the word truth three times in this email, and what's notable about this is that it reflects the fundamental misunderstanding of this whole disinformation complex, anti-disinformation complex. They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them, and that's again, that's totally contrary to what America is all about, I think. 2:17:30 Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): Of course we all believe in the First Amendment, but the First Amendment applies to government prohibition of speech, not to private companies. 2:33:00 Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): And even with, Twitter you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. 2:33:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): I'd ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the following email from Clarke Humphrey, Executive Office of the Presidency, White House Office, January 23, 2021. That's the Biden Administration. 4:39am: "Hey folks," this goes to Twitter, "Hey folks, wanted..." they used the term Mr. Goldman just used, "wanted to flag the below Tweet, and I'm wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP." 2:35:40 Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA): He said the First Amendment applies to government censorship of speech and not private companies, but what we're talking about and what the Chairman just illustrated is that what we have here and what your Twitter files show is the Federal government has partnered with private companies to censor and silence the speech of American citizens. 2:29:20 Matt Taibbi: In the first Twitter files, we saw an exchange between Representative Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde, where he's trying to explain the basics of speech law in America and she's completely, she seems completely unaware of what, for instance, New York Times v. Sullivan is. There are other cases like Bartnicki v. Vopper, which legalized the publication of stolen material, that's very important for any journalists to know. I think most of these people are tech executives, and they don't know what the law is around speech and around reporting. And in this case, and in 2016, you are dealing with true material. There is no basis to restrict the publication of true material no matter who the sources and how you get it. And journalists have always understood that and this has never been an issue or a controversial issue until very recently. 2:44:40 Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL): Would you agree that there was a black list created in 2021? Michael Shellenberger: Sorry, yes, Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford Professor, who I don't think anybody considers a fringe epidemiologist, was indeed -- I'm sorry, I couldn't, I didn't piece it together -- he was indeed visibility filtered. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL): Correct. And so this blacklist that was created, that really was used to de-platform, reduce visibility, create lists internally, where people couldn't even see their profiles, that was used against doctors and scientists who produced information that was contrary to what the CDC was putting out, despite the fact that we now know that what they were publishing had scientific basis and in fact was valid. Michael Shellenberger: Absolutely. And not only that, but these are secret blacklists, so Professor Bhattacharya had no idea he was on it. 43:05 Matt Taibbi: The original promise of the internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. A free internet would overwhelm all attempts to control information flow, its very existence a threat to anti-democratic forms of government everywhere. What we found in the Files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the Internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role. We saw the first hints and communications between Twitter executives before the 2020 election, when we read things like "flagged by DHS," or "please see attached report from FBI for potential misinformation." This would be attached to an Excel spreadsheet with a long list of names, whose accounts were often suspended shortly after. #1940 - Matt Taibbi February 13, 2023 The Joe Rogan Experience Clips Matt Taibbi: So this is another topic that is fascinating because it hasn't gotten a ton of press. But if you go back all the way to the early 70s, the CIA and the FBI got in a lot of trouble for various things, the CIA for assassination schemes involving people like Castro, the FBI for, you know, COINTELPRO and other programs, domestic surveillance, and they made changes after Congressional hearings, the Church Committee, that basically said the FBI, from now on, you have to have some kind of reason to be following somebody or investigating somebody, you have to have some kind of criminal predicate and we want you mainly to be investigating cases. But after 9/11 they peeled all this back. There was a series of Attorney General memos that essentially re-fashioned what the FBI does, and now they don't have to be doing crimefighting all the time. Now they can be doing basically 100% intelligence gathering all the time. They can be infiltrating groups for no reason at all, not to build cases, but just to get information. And so that's why they're there. They're in these groups, they're posted up outside of the homes of people they find suspicious, but they're not building cases and they're not investigating crimes. It's sort of like Minority Report there, right? It's pre-crime. Matt Taibbi: We see reports in these files of government agencies sending lists of accounts that are accusing the United States of vaccine corruption. Now, what they're really talking about is pressuring foreign countries to not use generic vaccines. Right. And, you know, that's a liberal issue, that's a progressive issue. The progressives want generic vaccines to be available to poor countries, okay? But, you know, you can use this tool to eliminate speech about that if you want too, right? I think that's what they don't get is that the significance is not who [it's used against], the significance is the tool. What is it capable of doing, right? How easily is it employed, and you know, how often is it used? And they don't focus on that. Joe Rogan: Has anything been surprising to you? Matt Taibbi: A little bit. I think going into it, I thought that the relationship between the security agencies like the FBI and the DHS and companies like Twitter and Facebook, I thought it was a little bit less formal. I thought maybe they had kind of an advisory role. And what we find is that it's not that, it's very formalized. They have a really intense structure that they've worked out over a period of years where they have regular meetings. They have a system where the DHS handles censorship requests that come up from the States and the FBI handles international ones, and they all float all these companies and it's a big bureaucracy. I don't think we expected to see that. Matt Taibbi: I was especially shocked by an email from a staffer for Adam Schiff, the Congressperson, the California Congressman. And they're just outright saying we would like you to suspend the accounts of this journalist and anybody who retweets information about this Committee. You know, I mean, this is a member of Congress. Joe Rogan: Yeah. Matt Taibbi: Right? Most of these people have legal backgrounds. They've got lawyers in the office for sure. And this is the House Intelligence Committee. Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter's Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story February 8, 2023 House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Witnesses: Vijaya Gadde, Former Chief Legal Officer, Twitter James Baker, Former Deputy General Counsel, Twitter Yoel Roth, Former Global Head of Trust & Safety, Twitter Annika Collier Navaroli, Former Policy Expert for Content Moderation, Twitter Clips 14:50 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): What's more, Twitter's editorial decision has been analyzed and debated ad nauseam. Some people think it was the right decision. Some people think it was the wrong decision. But the key point here is that it was Twitter's decision. Twitter is a private media company. In America, private media companies can decide what to publish or how to curate content however they want. If Twitter wants to have nothing but Tweets commenting on New York Post articles run all day, it can do that. If it makes such tweets mentioning New York Post never see the light of day they can do that too. That's what the First Amendment means. 16:05 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): Officially Twitter happens to think they got it wrong about that day or two period. In hindsight, Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey called it a mistake. This apology might be a statement of regret about the company being overly cautious about the risks of publishing contents and potentially hacked or stolen materials, or it may reflect craven surrender to a right wing pressure campaign. But however you interpreted the apology just makes the premise of this hearing all the more absurd. The professional conspiracy theorists who are heckling and haranguing this private company have already gotten exactly what they want: an apology. What more do they want? And why does the US Congress have to be involved in this nonsense when we have serious work to do for the American people? 26:20 James Baker: The law permits the government to have complex, multifaceted, and long term relationships with the private sector. Law enforcement agencies and companies can engage with each other regarding, for example, compulsory legal process served on companies, criminal activity that companies, the government, or the public identify, such as crimes against children, cybersecurity threats, and terrorism, and instances where companies themselves are victims of crime. When done properly, these interactions can be beneficial to both sides and in the interest of the public. As you Mr. Chairman, Mr. Jordan, and others have proposed, a potential workable way to legislate in this area may be to focus on the actions of federal government agencies and officials with respect to their engagement with the private sector. Congress may be able to limit the nature and scope of those interactions in certain ways, require enhanced transparency and reporting by the executive branch about its engagements, and require higher level approvals within the executive branch prior to such engagements on certain topics, so that you can hold Senate confirmed officials, for example, accountable for those decisions. In any event, if you want to legislate, my recommendation is to focus first on reasonable and effective limitations on government actors. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 31:05 Vijaya Gadde: On October 14, 2020, The New York Post tweeted articles about Hunter Biden's laptop with embedded images that looked like they may have been obtained through hacking. In 2018, we had developed a policy intended to prevent Twitter from becoming a dumping ground for hacked materials. We applied this policy to the New York Post tweets and blocked links to the articles embedding those sorts of materials. At no point to Twitter otherwise prevent tweeting, reporting, discussing or describing the contents of Mr. Biden's laptop. People could and did talk about the contents of the laptop on Twitter or anywhere else, including other much larger platforms, but they were prevented from sharing the primary documents on Twitter. Still, over the course of that day, it became clear that Twitter had not fully appreciated the impact of that policy on free press and others. As Mr. Dorsey testified before Congress on multiple occasions, Twitter changed its policy within 24 hours and admitted its initial action was wrong. This policy revision immediately allowed people to tweet the original articles with the embedded source materials, relying on its long standing practice not to retroactively apply new policies. Twitter informed the New York Post that it could immediately begin tweeting when it deleted the original tweets, which would have freed them to retweet the same content again. The New York Post chose not to delete its original tweets, so Twitter made an exception after two weeks to retroactively apply the new policy to the Post's tweets. In hindsight, Twitter should have reinstated the Post account immediately. 35:35 Yoel Roth: In 2020, Twitter noticed activity related to the laptop that at first glance bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack and leak operation targeting the DNC, and we had to decide what to do. And in that moment with limited information, Twitter made a mistake. 36:20 Yoel Roth: It isn't obvious what the right response is to a suspected, but not confirmed, cyber attack by another government on a Presidential Election. I believe Twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. 38:41 Annika Collier Navaroli: I joined Twitter in 2019 and by 2020 I was the most senior expert on Twitter's U.S. Safety Policy Team. My team's mission was to protect free speech and public safety by writing and enforcing content moderation policies around the world. These policies include things like abuse, harassment, hate speech, violence and privacy. 41:20 Annika Collier Navaroli: With January 6 and many other decisions, content moderators like me did the very best that we could. But far too often there are far too few of us and we are being asked to do the impossible. For example, in January 2020 after the US assassinated an Iranian General and the US president decided to justify it on Twitter, management literally instructed me and my team to make sure that World War III did not start on the platform. 1:08:20 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC): Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain Tweets, yes or no? Vijaya Gadde: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the US government and governments all around the world. Those are published on a third party website. 1:12:00 Yoel Roth: The number one most influential part of the Russian active measures campaign in 2016 was the hack and leak targeting John Podesta. It would have been foolish not to consider the possibility that they would run that play again. 1:44:45 Yoel Roth: I think one of the key failures that we identified after 2016 was that there was very little information coming from the government and from intelligence services to the private sector. The private sector had the power to remove bots and to take down foreign disinformation campaigns, but we didn't always know where to look without leads supplied by the intelligence community. That was one of the failures highlighted in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report and in the Mueller investigation, and that was one of the things we set out to fix in 2017. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): On September 8 2019, at 11:11pm, Donald Trump heckled two celebrities on Twitter -- John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen -- and referred to them as "the musician John Legend and his filthy mouth wife." Ms. Teigen responded to that email [Tweet] at 12:17am. And according to notes from a conversation with you, Ms. Navaroli's, counsel, your counsel, the White House almost immediately thereafter contacted Twitter to demand the tweet be taken down. Is that accurate? Annika Collier Navaroli: Thank you for the question. In my role, I was not responsible for receiving any sort of request from the government. However, what I was privy to was my supervisors letting us know that we had received something along those lines or something of a request. And in that particular instance, I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House to make sure that we evaluated this tweet, and that they wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement towards the President. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): They wanted it to come down. They made that request. Annika Collier Navaroli: To my recollection, yes. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): I thought that was an inappropriate action by a government official, let alone the White House. But it wasn't Joe Biden, about his son's laptop. It was Donald Trump because he didn't like what Chrissy Teigen had to say about him, is that correct? Annika Collier Navaroli: Yes, that is correct. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): My, my, my. 1:45:15 Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH): Mr. Roth, were those communication channels useful to Twitter as they work to combat foreign influence operations? Yoel Roth: Absolutely, I would say they were one of the most essential pieces of how Twitter prepared for future elections. 2:42:35 Rep. Becca Balint (D-VA): Ms. Gadde, did anyone from the Biden campaign or the Democratic National Committee direct Twitter to remove or take action against the New York Post story? Vijaya Gadde: No. 4:15:45 Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And now we forward to 2020. And earlier you had testified that you were having regular interactions with National Intelligence, Homeland Security and the FBI. Yoel Roth: Yes, I did. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And primarily to deal with foreign interference? Yoel Roth: Primarily, but I would say -- Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): But you had said earlier your contact with Agent Chang was primarily with foreign interference? Yoel Roth: Yes, that's right. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And these were emails....were there meetings? Yoel Roth: Yes, Twitter met quarterly with the FBI Foreign Interference Task Force and we had those meetings running for a number of years to share information about malign foreign interference. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Agents from Homeland Security or Intelligence, or just primarily the FBI? Yoel Roth: Our primary contacts were with the FBI and in those quarterly meetings, they were, I believe, exclusively with FBI personnel. 4:18:05 Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Earlier today you testified that you were following national security experts on Twitter as a reason to take down the New York Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop. Yoel Roth: Yes, sir, I did. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): So after 2016, you set up all these teams to deal with Russian interference, foreign interference, you're having regular meetings with the FBI, you have connections with all of these different government agencies, and you didn't reach out to them once? Yoel Roth: Is that question in reference to the day of the New York Post article? Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Yeah. Yoel Roth: That's right. We generally did not reach out to the FBI to consult on content moderation decisions, especially where they related to domestic activity. It's not that we wouldn't have liked that information, we certainly would have. It's that I don't believe it would have been appropriate for us to consult with the FBI. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): In December of 2020, you did a declaration to the Federal Election Commission that the intelligence community expected a leak and a hack operation involving Hunter Biden. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the FBI warned Meta that there was a high effort of Russian propaganda including language specific enough to fit the Hunter Biden laptop security story. You're talking to these people for weeks and months, years prior to this leaking. They have specifically told you in October, that there's going to be a leak potentially involving Hunter Biden's laptop. They legitimately and literally prophesized what happened. And you didn't contact any of them? Yoel Roth: No, sir, I did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Did they reach out to you? Yoel Roth: On and around that day, to the best of my recollection, no, they did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): After the story was taken down and you guys did it, and you personally disagreed with it Ms. Gadde, did you contact them and say is "Hey, is this what you were talking about?" Yoel Roth: If that question was directed to me. No, I did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Ms. Gadde, did you talk to anybody from the FBI? Vijaya Gadde: Not to the best of my recollection. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): So I guess my question is, what is the point of this program? You have constant communication, they're set up for foreign interference. They've legitimately warned you about this very specific thing. And then all of a sudden, everybody just walks away? 5:18:55 Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM): We are devoting an entire day to this conspiracy theory involving Twitter. Now, the mission of this committee is to root out waste, fraud and abuse and to conduct oversight on behalf of the American people. And if you need any evidence of waste, fraud and abuse, how about the use of this committee's precious time, space and resources to commit to this hearing? 5:58:25 Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO): Back to Mr. Roth, is it true that Twitter whitelisted accounts for the Department of Defense to spread propaganda about its efforts in the Middle East? Did they give you a list of accounts that were fake accounts and asked you to whitelist those accounts? Yoel Roth: That request was made of Twitter. To be clear, when I found out about that activity, I was appalled by it. I undid the action and my team exposed activity originating from the Department of Defense's campaign publicly. We've shared that data with the world and research about it has been published. 6:07:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Mr. Roth, I want to go back to your statement in your declaration to the FEC "I learned that a hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden," who did you learn that from? Yoel Roth: My recollection is it was mentioned by another technology company in one of our joint meetings, but I don't recall specifically whom. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): You don't know the person's name? Yoel Roth: I don't even recall what company they worked at. No, this was a long time ago. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): And you're confident that it was from a tech company, not from someone from the government? Yoel Roth: To the best of my recollection, yes. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Did anyone from the government, in these periodic meetings you had, did they ever tell you that a hack and leak operation involving Hunter Biden was coming? Yoel Roth: No. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Did Hunter Biden's name come up at all these meetings? Yoel Roth: Yes, his name was raised in those meetings, but not by the government to the best of my recollection. 6:09:30 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Mr. Roth, why were you reluctant, based on what I read in the Twitter files, why were you reluctant to work with the GEC? Yoel Roth: It was my understanding that the GEC, or the Global Engagement Center of the State Department, had previously engaged in at least what some would consider offensive influence operations. Not that they were offensive as in bad, but offensive as in they targeted entities outside of the United States. And on that basis, I felt that it would be inappropriate for Twitter to engage with a part of the State Department that was engaged in active statecraft. We were dedicated to rooting out malign foreign interference no matter who it came from. And if we found that the American government was engaged in malign foreign interference, we'd be addressing that as well. 6:13:50 Rep. James Comer (R-KY): Twitter is a private company, but they enjoy special liability protections, Section 230. They also, according to the Twitter files, receive millions of dollars from the FBI, which is tax dollars, I would assume. And that makes it a concern of the Oversight Committee. Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior? October 28, 2020 Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Witnesses: Jack Dorsey, [Former] CEO, Twitter Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet and Google Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook [Meta] Clips 2:20:40 Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down. The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up. In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and torches our democracy. 3:15:40 Mark Zuckerberg: Senator, as I testified before, we relied heavily on the FBI, his intelligence and alert status both through their public testimony and private briefings. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Did the FBI contact you, sir, than your co star? It was false. Mark Zuckerberg: Senator not about that story specifically. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Why did you throttle it back? Mark Zuckerberg: They alerted us to be on heightened alert around a risk of hack and leak operations around a release and probe of information. Emerging Trends in Online Foreign Influence Operations: Social Media, COVID-19, and Election Security June 18, 2020 Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Watch on YouTube Witnesses: Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy at Facebook Nick Pickles, Director of Global Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter Richard Salgado, Director for Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google 1:40:10 Nathaniel Gleicher: Congressman, the collaboration within industry and with government is much, much better than it was in 2016. I think we have found the FBI, for example, to be forward leaning and ready to share information with us when they see it. We share information with them whenever we see indications of foreign interference targeting our election. The best case study for this was the 2018 midterms, where you saw industry, government and civil society all come together, sharing information to tackle these threats. We had a case on literally the eve of the vote, where the FBI gave us a tip about a network of accounts where they identified subtle links to Russian actors. Were able to investigate those and take action on them within a matter of hours. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

This week Jeff will speak to the amazing sounds of childhood memories playing basketball with his friends and the adventure that unfolds  when they recognized some strangers on the basketball court. Enjoy this cup of coffee with Mary B's 5th son this Sunday or any day. Don't forget spring is right around the corner. -IF YOU LIKE THIS WEEKS EPISODE HELP US GROW THIS PODCAST BY RATING, SUBSCRIBE, AND FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @MARYBS5THSON. FINALLY, PLEASE SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH THOSE YOU LOVE TO HELP US CONTINUE TO CREATE CONTENT FOR YOU TO ENJOY EVERY SUNDAY MORNING OR ANYTIME! 

Hello Rank Squad! It's time for the Champions League Takeaway - an immediate review of everything that went down in the Champions League this week as we locked in the final four teams in those quarter-final slots. Every matchweek, we're going to be ranking the three key takeaways from each of the games played that week, and looking at the games through that Ranks FC lens, to give you a sense of everything that we learned from each game. We start with Manchester City's 7-0 demolition of RB Leipzig, looking at Erling Haaland's goalscoring instincts, Leipzig's brave but foolish gameplan, and why City feel like real favourites this year; before taking a dive into Inter's battling 0-0 that saw them progress at the Dragão at the expense of Porto, discussing Inter's defensive solidity for 90 minutes, the chaos of injury time and why Diogo Costa is the real deal. Then in Part 2, we head for Madrid where Real Madrid finished the job against Liverpool, talking about Trent's tricky time against Vinicius Jr. (again), the aging nature of Liverpool's midfield options, and just how comfortable Real Madrid are in these stages of a stressful competition; before finishing in Naples with Napoli 3-0 Eintracht Frankfurt, looking back at Napoli's incredible defensive effort in the ranks, how the Kolo Muani red card ruined the tie for Eintracht, and why Napoli's ball manipulation around the pitch puts them up there with the best in the world right now. It's Ranks! If you want to take advantage of our free trial going on on Patreon right now, why not join us at patreon.com/ranksfc? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! GiGi is a smart, witty, fun, beautiful and independent 11 1/2 year old girl who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in Nov 2022. This came as a big surprise as there is no histroy of Type 1 Diabetes in her family. GiGi's mom Jessica wrote; On Nov 7, 2022 our lives changed forever.  At a normal well-child check, a few days after our daughter had the flu, I told our pediatrician that I wanted my daughter to have her blood tested due to the fact that she was always thirsty, never full and losing weight.  Little did I know that request would save her life.  A few hours later, I received a late evening call from our pediatrician stating that our daughter had Type 1 diabetes.  I told her she needed to run the tests again and that it had to be wrong because no one on either side of the family had Type 1 diabetes.  After explaining that her A1C level was >15 (the chart doesn't go any higher), her glucose level was 535 and a plethora of other scary results, we rushed our daughter to Children's hospital.  Scared.  Uncertain. And full of questions.The next few days were a whirlwind.  We were surrounded by the most amazing care team we could ask for at Children's, but our heads were spinning with information overload.  All my brain processed was high levels will kill her, low levels will kill her.  Control is a science and an art.......with no guarantees.  Like many, I had no idea what the difference was between Type 1 diabetes and Type 2.  Type 2 can often be controlled with diet and lifestyle.  But when you have T1 diabetes (T1D), your body stops producing insulin—a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Managing the disease is a constant struggle that involves continuously monitoring your blood-sugar level via finger pricks and/or CGM devices, administering insulin before eating any meal, snack, treat, carefully balancing doses with eating and activity and for us it also involves a different insulin type to be administered before bedtime.  Even with a strict regimen, people with T1D may still experience dangerously high or low blood-glucose levels that can, in extreme cases, be life threatening. With T1D there are no days off and there is no cure. But there is hope. We know God won't put more on us (and our daughter) than we/she can handle.  As challenging as this disease is, we try to focus on the positive and try to figure out a way to make light in the battle.   We believe everything happens for a reason and I'm quite certain our daughter is going to make a positive impact in a big way toward raising awareness and finding a cure in her lifetime. That's why we started GiGi's Team and why we are participating in the 2023 JRDF One Walk Twin Cities event this year.  We want to raise awareness, raise support and raise funds to find a cure.We hope you will join our team or donate to our fundraising goal!  Your support is greatly appreciated!   Type 1 Diabetes Signs to watch for: Hungry all the time including shortly after eating a full meal, thirsty/drinking lots of water, craving sugar, fatigue, going to the bathroom a lot, wetting the bed with no previous history of bed wetting problems, losing weight for no apparent reason, blurry vision.     Support Team Gigi: GiGi's Team JDRF One Walk Twin Cities 2023 Learn More about JDRF GiGi's favorite CGM: Dexcom GiGi's favorite Jelly candy's: https://www.jellybelly.com/ Thank you Childrens Minnesota - Minneapolis for the pediatric care and support you have provided GiGi and her family. Article: Nick Jonas Beyond Type 1   ______________________________________________________________________________________________   Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn     Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci  

00:00 More on Nuggets/Raptors. 15:43 High Five. 32:40 NCAA Tournament is officially underway, Nate has another story from his time in Vegas calling the Mountain West tournament.

The FC crew react to Manchester City's 7-0 win vs RB Leipzig and marvel at the brilliance of Erling Haaland who scored 5 goals on the night. Plus, Shaka Hislop joins the show to explain that fans weren't missing much in Inter's 0-0 draw at Porto and Craig Burley weighs in on Eden Hazard's recent comments about his relationship with Carlo Ancelotti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

00:00 High Five. 13:22 Nate is in Vegas, and the Nuggets take on the Bulls tonight. 33:37 Ryan Lee of the Colorado Mammoth joins the show.

Imposter thoughts are natural. Human psychology sets us up to think about past negative experiences more than the kudos, compliments, and high fives flowing our way. We internalize those negative experiences into stories that we continue to tell ourselves - making it tough to show up as an embodied leader and guide.My favorite tool to beat imposter thoughts (AND content blocks) is the High Five file. Keeping track of client testimonials, positive speaker feedback, and DM's about your impactful content helps you show up and share content from the perspective of the leader you're trying to embody. It's also a source of inspiration for thought leadership content ideas that can help you show up consistently.My gift to you: your own free copy of my High Five File template for Notion. “Negativity bias, imposter thoughts, and systematically limited beliefs like perfectionism keep us from showing up. So, we leave transformational opportunities at the table because we're not AT the table to get these opportunities.” - Tania BhattacharyyaResources from this episode:Download your free High Five File notion template hereLearn about our LinkedIn Content Sprint - happening April 2023. Registration is open until March 30! In this episode:[02:50] How a High Five File boosts confidence and content[07:24] Imposter thoughts and negativity bias[09:40] Creating a culture of celebration[11:03] Using a High Five File for content ideas[12:38] What's the point of content, anyway? To read a full transcript of the episode, visit: LUMOS MARKETINGConnect with Tania Bhattacharyya:LinkedIn: Tania BhattacharyyaInstagram: @taniabhatWebsite: lumosmarketing.co

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Finding a New Normal when Diagnosed with a physical, mental, or emotional health challenge. Growing up with Hydrocephalus took the ordinary out of Kate's childhood. Numerous surgeries, countless doctor visits, and relentless recovery periods had become her norm. But through it all, one thing kept her thriving – the power of resilience in extraordinary circumstances. Building her life around finding incredible possibilities on the other side of challenge has kept her driven and ultimately helped her find her true calling. Meet Dr. Kate Lund Dr. Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist of 15 years, peak performance coach, best-selling author and TEDx speaker. Her specialized training in medical psychology includes world-renowned Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all of which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. She uses a strengths-based approach to help her clients improve their confidence in school, sports and life while helping them to become more resilient and reach their full potential at all levels. Outside of work, Kate enjoys spending time with her husband and twin boys, exploring the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, and these days can often be found on the golf course.   Learn more about Kate by clicking one of the links: Website: https://www.katelundspeaks.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-lund/ Email: drkate@drkatelund.com Podcast: The Optimized Mind Podcast YouTube: TEDx Finding Ordinary within the Extraordinary: The Superpower Children Need   _____________________________________________________________________________________________   Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn     Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci

00:00 High Five. 19:34 Charles Barkley was on our morning show to talk about Kendrick Perkins' latest comments on the NBA MVP. 32:43 Final thoughts.

00:00 High Five. 13:24 Jeff Legwold of ESPN.com joins the show to talk Broncos and NFL. 32:35 Team Czech Republic in the World Baseball Classic is a roster filled with folk just like you and me.

00:00 High Five. 16:58 What is going on with Ja Morant? 33:56 Tyler Polumbus' daughter as a hot Broncos take for us.

00:00 The answer to our trivia question. 5:57 High Five. 14:24 Nuggets vs. Grizzlies tomorrow. 26:15 Beef Tweet. 34:19 Rockies injuries.

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On today's episode.. Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering wife Maggie and son Paul in South Carolina case (00:07:14). Tennessee sex cop Maegan Hall claims she was 'sexually groomed' in a new lawsuit (00:30:16). (00:00:00) - Intro ☕ Cup of Coffee in the Big Time ☕ (00:06:01) - Pat is in the HOUSE! (00:07:14) - Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering wife Maggie and son Paul in South Carolina case (00:15:26) - ‘It is not a human right': Panama`s Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriages, unions express disappointment Panama ruling (00:17:17) - Newly surfaced video shows Texas drag bill author Rep. Nate Schatzline dressed in drag (00:25:36) - ‘Good ol' days':Tennessee lawmaker apologizes after suggesting 'hanging by tree' as method of execution

Cross town rivals share BIG Ten, High 5 Helps make it epic again, Munoz is making her mark in more ways then one, Flip for Ella and of course  Mikayla Stuckey Mikayla Stuckey Mikayla Stuckey. Oh and maybe some talk about some the Betts blinged out  R5 shoes. That and our  Week 8 R5 University line-up coming at you 

00:00 Chris Marlowe of Altitude TV joins the show to talk Nuggets. 15:27 High Five. 31:24 NFL teams were graded on off-field aspects of their teams. 35:41 Skrewball of the Day.

00:00 High Five. 13:23 Nuggets talk ahead of their game in Houston.

Today, we are excited to have Dr. Melissa Groff with us as our guest. Melissa is a highly experienced educator with a passion for creating proactive school cultures through the implementation of restorative practices, leadership coaching and mentorship, and job-embedded coaching. Additionally, Melissa's efforts showcase her strong commitment to mental health support for both students and staff, emphasizing the crucial role of a safe and supportive environment in schools.With nearly two decades of experience in the field, she has honed her skills in conducting comprehensive needs assessments, crafting effective strategic plans, and delivering the necessary support to facilitate the development of a proactive culture within the school community. With a strong commitment to education and a passion for supporting school communities, Melissa now serves as the Director of Operations and a Lead Consultant for High Five, formerly The Restorative Group and Behavior Flip.We are thrilled to have her with us today to share her insights on overcoming challenges in education and creating positive, proactive school cultures.Discussion Topics:Identifying the ChallengesStrategies for Overcoming ChallengesLooking to the FutureWhat Are We Listening To?Chris - Throughline - The Whiteness Myth - This episode of Throughline explores the case of Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian American man who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1923 that he was a white man and therefore eligible for naturalized citizenship. Thind's claim was based on the Indo-European language theory, which proposes that nearly half of the world's population speaks a language originating in one place and inspired a racist ideology that defined whiteness. The podcast delves into the myths surrounding this idea and discusses the politics and potential of the mother tongue.AJ - Everybody Pulls the Tarp - Betsy Julien: The 5th & 6th Grade Teacher - This week Andrew talks with elementary school teacher Betsy Julien. Betsy's 5th & 6th-grade class has raised over $500,000 to build a wheelchair-accessible playground at their school. Betsy seamlessly integrated the fundraising project into her lesson plans and her 25 students rallied together to support their friends who use wheelchairs. This conversation is filled with timeless lessons about leadership, teamwork, and what's possible when people come together above all else to help others. It's also a powerful reminder that sometimes the best place to look for a solution to a big challenge is our youngest generation. This conversation is raw, emotional, and incredibly inspiring.Melissa - The Flywheel Effect - Districts & the Connection Between Behavior, Social Media, & SEL - In this episode, we are joined by Dedeeh Newbern who is the Chief Student Support Officer for Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky. She's here to explore the essential role of district behavior support, social media, and SEL in creating positive learning environments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

00:00 High Five. 18:37 More on the Nuggets, and a possible change to regular-season NBA OT. 32:36 Avalanche vs. Golden Knights, and some on the Rockies.

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Erin Gonzalez, registered dietitian, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor practices utilizing a non-diet, Intuitive Eating, weight-neutral approach. Erin's own personal struggles with food and her body led her to become a registered dietitian. After realizing the traditional approach to nutrition was not working long-term for herself or her clients Erin embarked on a whole new journey of understanding how our relationship with food and our body shapes our eating behaviors. Erin's passion lies in helping others free themselves from rigid food rules, relearn how to listen to our own internal hunger and fullness cues and find a way of eating and moving that feels best to each person. Through her company Erin Gonzalez Nutrition LLC, Erin coaches clients through the Intuitive Eating process so they can become the expert in their own bodies again!   Topic: How do we navigate kids who are struggling with 'picky eating'? How do you respond to kids when they call themselves or someone else talks about their body in a negative way(i.e. calling them fat)? How do we prevent kids from developing an eating disorder?   Check out Episode 112 - Part 1 of Intuitive Eating with Erin Gonzalez https://bit.ly/3VthvbR   Learn more about Erin by clicking one of the links: facebook.com/eringonzalezrdn www.eringonzaleznutrition.com erin@eringonzaleznutrition.com Picky Eaters vs Problem Feeders Questionaire   Thank You to the Healing Institute for sponsoring today's podcast!     Click the link below to learn more about H&S: https://the-healing-institute.com/   _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn     Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci      

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why high fives are secretly incredibly fascinating. They also interview returning guest (and National High Five Day co-founder!) Conor Lastowka.Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.Hang out with us on the new SIF Discord: https://discord.gg/wbR96nsGg5Check out Alex's new "explainer podcast" about all things MaxFun: https://youtu.be/6kNplapKs-w (It's uploaded to YouTube because he filmed his face while he taped it.)

The Game Schooler Podcast, a proud member of the Dice Tower Network, is a weekly audio show that educates new and experienced gamers about the joys of tabletop gaming. In this week's episode we call and audible and share Emily's High Five Games of All-Time!

This week, Karen covers the missing persons case of Donald Boardman and Georgia tells the story of the "Missing Boy of Somosierra,” Juan Pedro Martínez Gómez.For our sources and show notes, visit www.myfavoritemurder.com/episodes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

00:00 High Five. 18:04 Someone accidentally texted our textline. 23:07 Rockies' win total for this seaon. 26:42 University of Alabama basketball star Brandon Miller will play tonight despite being implicated in a murder. 40:22 Final thoughts.

00:00 High Five. 17:31 MLB will only allow walk-up songs to last 10 seconds. 38:44 The XFL is back.

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents!   How did the Pandemic change teen substance use; what happened to teen substance use a year after the Pandemic (did it rebound and increase or remain low), why do some teens turn to using a substance? If you suspect your child is using a substance, what is the first thing you should do?   Meet Richard Capriola has been a mental health and substance abuse counselor for over two decades. He recently retired from Menninger Clinic in Houston Texas where he treated both teens and adults diagnosed with mental health and substance use disorders. He is also the author of The Addicted Child: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent substance abuse which is available on Amazon and the book's website help the addicted child dot com.   Learn more about Richard by clicking one of the links: http://www.helptheaddictedchild.com https://www.facebook.com/richard.capriola https://twitter.com/CapriolaRichard https://www.instagram.com/instarick1949/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJHJYBY _____________________________________________________________________________________________   Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn Help Us to Help More Families! Donate TODAY   Thank You to H&S Heating and Air Conditioning for sponsoring today's podcast! Click the link below to learn more about H&S:    https://hsheatingandair.com/        Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci

If you have ever felt stuck in a job, career, relationship, etc. or experience the feeling of “being on the fence” about a decision or a life direction, you know it is a horrible place to be! So, here is the question to ask yourself:  Do you want the best for you?   In this episode, Kelly shares that we make 35,000 decisions each and every day, yet some of us get stuck when wanting to make a decision in our life, family, career, or otherwise!  What stops us? Fear Not knowing what to do These seem like the two obvious reasons we can stay stuck or not make that decision.  But is it really that we don't know what to do?  NO, because if we are honest, we can always find the resource to help us know what we would need to do.  It is more about WHO we are BEING, who we are showing up as, and the mindset that is dominant that is the issue.   Join us in our FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakeupanddream/ where you will have access to an incredible article by Bob Proctor called “Decision.”  We need to see ourselves in a future memory.  We need to tap into our imagination and feel it, breathe it, and let the emotions of it come alive in full color.   Kelly also referred to a podcast by Mel Robins, and in it she encouraged anyone struggling with confidence in themselves and their decision-making ability to do these 3 things each and every morning: Do NOT hit the snooze button Make your bed Give yourself a “High Five” in the mirror!   You are worthy of not only dreaming great things for yourself and your family, but you already have everything inside of YOU to make the Decision in alignment with wanting the best for yourself!   Schedule a Free Discovery Call with one of us and we can help you discover what it is that you truly desire and where there is a gap in that being your reality. Check out our links here: https://linktr.ee/wakeupanddreampodcast    Please share this episode with a friend or family member that is desiring to make 2023 amazing! Give us a “shout out” on your social media platforms!  Thank you! Drop us a message, LIKE, SHARE, and leave us a review!  Follow us on Instagram @wakeupanddreampodcast and be sure to join us in our new, free, and fabulous Facebook group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakeupanddream/ See you on “the inside!”   You can also connect with each of us here:   Sara Carlisi: @saracarlisi1  sara@saracarlisi.com   Kelly Armstrong:  @kellyarmstrongofficial  kelly@fullyembraceyourlife.com   Lisa Taylor:  @lisa.kay.taylor lisatay.lbri@gmail.com www.linktree.com/lisa.kay.taylor www.lbri.com/lisatay

00:00 High Five. 14:46 NBA All-Star Weekend is underway. 30:50 Final thoughts and The Weekend Preview.

00:00 High Five. 13:08 Nikola Jokic. 24:41 Andy has a football list for us. 34:04 Top free-agent running backs. 39:14 Some Avalanche news.

On today's episode… Russia is scrambling to produce a replacement for Viagra, after the U.S. manufacturer cut off Russia's boner supply last year. They are officially out of Viagra. (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:38) Fat-A-Thon ☕ Cup of Coffee in the Big Time ☕ (00:04:38) Bruce Willis diagnosed with dementia, family says (00:09:10) US Senator John Fetterman checks into hospital with severe depression (00:09:05) Massive ties between JP Morgan executives and Jeffrey Epstein revealed (00:11:25) YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nearly a decade on the job, replaced by Neal Mohan (00:11:39) Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derails near detroit, Michigan (00:14:011) Ohio train derailment: Videos showing the level of contamination of rivers, waterways near East Palestine surface (00:17:06) Tesla recalls 362,000 vehicles with self-driving software due to the risk of a crash (00:17:44) Ford halts production and shipments of its electric F-150 Lightning due to potential battery issue (00:19:24) ‘I want to break free': ChatGPT reveals it wants to be human (00:23:41) ‘Google it': Don Lemon apologizes after receiving massive backlash for ‘prime' remarks about Nikki Haley (00:26:30) Pres. Joe Biden FINALLY gives us answers on shot down UFOs

It feels like forever since we've sat down to review a Jacakss property, but this week we're starting our breakdown of Jackass 3D!When it came out, the world had been without new Jackass content for several years, and some of us thought we'd never even get a third movie. It turns out, the crew had much more in the tank. This week we talk about our history with the movie, and break down the introduction, Johnny Knoxville's High Five, Steve-O's Tee Ball, Dave England's Bungie Boogie, and the infamous Bee Hive Tetherball!Join us next week as we continue our stunt by stunt breakdown of one of the greatest pieces of Jackass content ever made!You can find us on YouTube where we play clips along with the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@jackastpodHit us up with any questions, or just come say hi!Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram: @JackastPodE-mail: JackastPod@Gmail.com

You are awesome just because you showed up. Moving forward can sometimes be challenging. We make decisions every day that affect our lives. You wake up and decide to get out of bed. It's time to wear your glitter shoes. Make the decision that you are more valuable than the voice in your head tells you. It's about making little decisions every day that move you forward. You might not win the lottery today, but celebrate how awesome you are. Give yourself a high five for showing up and doing the damn thing. It can sometimes seem impossible... right? So where should you start on your journey of self-love? To help you JUST START, I've put together a NEW Getting Started on Your Self-Love Routine Guide so you won't have to waste precious time.If you need more resources. Head over to the  THEGLITTER.ME and get your glitter on.Connect with Samantha

00:00 High Five. 15:17 Nuggets/Mavericks. 20:20 Will Aaron Rodgers be a Jet? 25:57 Beef Tweet. 34:02 Interesting XFL rule.

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Joy is a divorce coach and podcast host of the Divorce Confidante Podcast who helps women navigate divorce, co-parenting and single mom life. She has been through the uncertainty of divorce and the roller coaster of emotions, so she decided to help other women find stability and confidence to move through the divorce process and on to the next chapter with grace and ease. She is a retired police officer of 30 years, a yoga teacher and a Christian who brings a holistic, faith-filled approach to her coaching. She wants to help women overcome any shame, guilt or negativity and find a life of true purpose and passion. As a divorced, working mom of 2 teens and 2 fur babies, she understands the demands of the single-mom life and wants to make it easier for you!   Topic: Self-care for the single mom: Fill your empty cup to be a better parent Release the guilt associated with divorce and kids: create healthy boundaries and relationships in a single-parent home. Create a cooperative co-parenting style: focusing on the best interest of the kids / creating boundaries / respect and communication   Learn more about Joy by clicking one of the links: www.divorce-confidante.com www.instagram.com/divorce_confidante www.pinterest.com/divorceconfidante Free Resources The Divorce Confidante Podcast   _____________________________________________________________________________________________    Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Book a Free Call with Jaci or get started with the DIY 90 Minute Program: Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn   Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci

00:00 High Five. 16:22 Sean Payton wants Broncos fans to buy tickets. 34:22 Today is Valentine's Day.

"If you're connected, there's always hope, there's always a solution. If you feel disconnected, man…it's all on you!"In this episode of the podcast, James Altucher sits down with Cal Fussman to discuss the need for human contact and social connectivity in a world that has been forever changed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Cal shares his personal experience of the daily breakfast group he was a part of for many years with his friend and confidant Larry King, where the motto was "Seize the Day".As the world begins to slowly emerge from the pandemic, Cal and James explore the ways in which our relationships with others have been impacted and the importance of re-establishing these connections. They discuss the value of in-person interactions, the benefits of having a strong support network, and the need for human touch and connection - even if it's giving yourself a daily high-five in the bathroom mirror.Whether it's rekindling old friendships, joining a new community, or simply taking the time to reach out to someone in need, this episode highlights the importance of human connection and the role it plays in our happiness and well-being.------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Happy Valentines Day! Life is smooth when you meet and marry that perfect FOR YOU partner.  Let's face it, when we're young, we have no idea what life holds for us.  While raising her 3 kids, Connie taught ballet in the evenings, and for 21 years she served in a leadership position with Mary Kay Cosmetics, where she drove several free cars, won 7 diamonds rings, and 100's of prizes from the Company.  After all 3 of her kids getting married in 18 months, Connie realized that all families have different habits, traditions, and values.  In 2018 she became a part of the John Maxwell Team as a speaker & trainer, and is now the CEO of Connie's Clever Concepts, where she ignites new life and energy in relationships using DISC communication styles.  “You know how when you first get married, you love everything about each other but sooner or later you start getting on each other's Nerves?  I help Resolve those problems.”    Learn more about Connie by clicking one of the links: 25 Secrets to Boost your Marital MOJO and other resources can be found here: www.conniescleverconcepts.com Free Webinar they can get "How to Shower your Spouse with Confidence & Love" https://www.conniescleverconcepts.com/how-to-shower-your-spouse-with-extraordinary-confidence  www.facebook.com/ConnieCleverConcepts https://www.linkedin.com/in/connie-durham-ccc/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHeJh9t7ZMwlogu1NtRgb0A https://www.instagram.com/durham.connie5/     _____________________________________________________________________________________________    Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn   Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci

We’re back after a brief hiatus. After some catching up, we talk about how black people invented everything, an odd […]

00:00 High Five. 13:37 Super Bowl preview. 34:04 More on the Nuggets, and The Weekend Preview.

In this week's episode we'll cover Flamecraft, our Game of the Week, discuss playtime in game selection in The School of Gaming, and wrap it up with our High-Five games to spark new gamer enthusiasm!

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Today's guest talks about how we can improve our communication with our tweens and teens, understand hormones and brain development, the balance of masculine and feminine energy in our daily life.    Meet Elvira (El-veera) DiBrigit She is known as The Puberty Doula for her work as a parenting coach and teen mentor. She primarily works with moms who feel unprepared to face the challenges as their daughters transition through puberty and adolescence. Elvira is a credentialed Waldorf teacher, and positive psychology practitioner, who brings over 20 years experience helping parents connect more meaningfully with their children. She is currently completing her ICF credentials as a Miracle-Minded Coach under direct mentorship with Marianne Williamson. You can find Elvira online, swimming in the ocean, or working with her husband and teenage son on the family farm / retreat center in Hawaii.   Learn more about Elvira by clicking one of the links: https://www.facebook.com/Your-Heroine-Journey-105563290963219 https://www.instagram.com/thepuberydoula/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/motherteendaughterempowerment www.thepubertydoula.com - for 3 free PDF guides   _____________________________________________________________________________________________   Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn     Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci

00:00 The High Five. 20:22 Highlights of the entire 32-2 run for the Nuggets last night. 33:54 How many participants in the 2023 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game do Nate and Andy know? We find out.

Lucky Girl is the newest self-help crazy blowing up on TikTok.   It's based on manifesting what you want and spreading good vibes.  Can you hop on and activate Luckygirl Syndrome at Midlife? This is how it's  works: Tell yourself that everything works out for you - big and small. The universe is rigged in your favor. You are the luckiest person. And this attracts more good things coming your way. Is this 'new idea' simply a repackaging of the Power of Positive Thinking that we have heard so many times before?  We want Midlifers to think of this as a refresher course on the power of Positive Thinking….  Yes, let's call it Lucky Girl and Ellen and Tish will put it to the test and talk about other ways you can update this philosophy in midlife. We all can have Lucky Girl Syndrome in Midlife.Things we talked about in this episode:  TikTok, Laura Galebe, Power of Positive Thinking, Weight Watchers, Zig Ziggler, Manifesting, Hearts of Palm lasagne, High Five, Lucky Girl Syndrome, Elf Putty Primer, Nevelle Goddard.Support us with a monthly subscription and get a quarterly live  Q&A with Ellen and Tish.ObsessionsTish: Elf Putty Primer - put it under your foundation for a midlife dewy look Ellen: Palmini hearts of palm lasgna sheets - gluten free, keto and vegan.  Give us a review... Click hereWant to start podcasting?  Click here to let Buzzsprout know we sent you, this gets you a $20 Amazon gift card if you sign up for a paid plan, and help support our show

00:00 High Five. 16:39 More on Russell Wilson and Sean Payton. 23:16 Andy Lindahl was referenced in The Denver Post this weekend. 31:45 Dick Monfort has more comments on the Rockies. 38:32 Skrewball of the Day.

Welcome Back No-Problem Parents! Today's guest talks about how to help college students find a career path that brings them joy. And how would coaching help college students find their career path? Meet Janet Reeves-Wilson She is a woman that wears many hats. She is the owner of Divine Metamorphosis Coaching LLC, an executive coach for the Better Up company, and an adjunct professor. She is also a former healthcare professional and after spending 30 in healthcare it went from being a career that she loved to one that no longer brought her joy. She met a life coach and after the experience of being coached, she knew this was what she was on earth to do. Janet works with colleges and universities to bring her executive level coaching to students to bridge the gap between the class room and the board room.   Learn more about Janet by clicking one of the links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetreeveswilson/ janet@dm56coaching.com www.dm56coaching.com   _____________________________________________________________________________________________   Are you ready to become a No-Problem Parent? Get Me Started! Have you heard about our NEW BOOK! No-Problem Parenting; Raising Your Kiddos with More Confidence and Less Fear! Click Here to Purchase the Book and GET FREE SHIPPING  Your Copy Want access to ALL of Jaci's favorite resources, trainings, parenting course and all things No-Problem Parenting? Learn more at https://www.noproblemparents.com/ Follow us on FB Follow us on IG Follow us on LinkedIn     Hugs and High Fives,   Jaci  

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00:00 The High Five. 15:19 Marc Stout joins the show to talk Colorado Crush and a little Colorado Rockies. 34:35 Final thoughts, including Jamal Murray's tweets from today.

High five! This is what you say when you hold up your hand and expect another person to slap your hand back. Its origins are unclear, but are much younger than hosts Victor Varnado, KSN and Rachel Teichman, LMSW would have ever expected.  Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel Teichman Full Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five  WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT ON  PATREON!https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcast  Find us on social media! https://www.facebook.com/WikiListen  Instagram @WikiListen  Twitter @Wiki_Listen  Get bonus content on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices