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Ahead of her new book What's So Great About the Great Books? coming out in April, Naomi Kanakia and I talked about literature from Herodotus to Tony Tulathimutte. We touched on Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Scott Alexander, Shakespeare, William James, Helen deWitt, Marx and Engels, Walter Scott, Les Miserables, Jhootha Sach, the Mahabharata, and more. Naomi also talked about some of her working habits and the history and future of the Great Books movement. Naomi, of course, writes Woman of Letters here on Substack.TranscriptHenry Oliver: Today, I am talking with Naomi Kanakia. Naomi is a novelist, a literary critic, and most importantly she writes a Substack called Woman of Letters, and she has a new book coming out, What's So Great About the Great Books? Naomi, welcome.Naomi Kanakia: Thanks for having me on.Oliver: How is the internet changing the way that literature gets discussed and criticized, and what is that going to mean for the future of the Great Books?Kanakia: How is the internet changing it? I can really speak to only how it has changed it for me. I started off as a writer of young adult novels and science fiction, and there's these very active online fan cultures for those two things.I was reading the Great Books all through that time. I started in 2010 through today. In the 2010s, it really felt like there was not a lot of online discussion of classic literature. Maybe that was just me and I wasn't finding it, but it didn't necessarily feel like there was that community.I think because there are so many strong, public-facing institutions that discuss classic literature, like the NYRB, London Review of Books, a lot of journals, and universities, too. But now on Substack, there are a number of blogs—yours, mine, a number of other ones—that are devoted to classic literature. All of those have these commenters, a community of commenters. I also follow bloggers who have relatively small followings who are reading Tolstoy, reading Middlemarch, reading even much more esoteric things.I know that for me, becoming involved in this online culture has given me much more of an awareness that there are many people who are reading the classics on their own. I think that was always true, but now it does feel like it's more of a community.Oliver: We are recording this the day after the Washington Post book section has been removed. You don't see some sort of relationship between the way these literary institutions are changing online and the way the Great Books are going to be conceived of in the future? Because the Great Books came out of a an old-fashioned, saving-the-institutions kind of radical approach to university education. We're now moving into a world where all those old things seem to be going.Kanakia: Yes. I agree. The Great Books began in the University of Chicago and Columbia University. If you look into the history of the movement, it really was about university education and the idea that you would have a common core and all undergraduates would read these books. The idea that the Great Books were for the ordinary person was really an afterthought, at least for Mortimer Adler and those original Great Books guys. Now, the Great Books in the university have had a resurgence that we can discuss, but I do think there's a lot more life and vitality in the kind of public-facing humanities than there has been.I talked to Irina Dumitrescu, who writes for TLS (The Times Literary Supplement), LRB (The London Review of Books), a lot of these places, and she also said the same thing—that a lot of these journals are going into podcasts, and they're noticing a huge interest in the humanities and in the classics even at the same time as big institutions are really scaling back on those things. Humanities majors are dropping, classics majors are getting cut, book coverage at major periodicals is going down. It does seem like there are signals that are conflicting. I don't really know totally what to make of it. I do think there is some relation between those two things.Ted Gioia on Substack is always talking about how culture is stagnant, basically, and one of the symptoms of that is that “back list” really outsells “front list” for books. Even in 2010, 50 percent of the books that were sold were front-list titles, books that had been released in the last 18 months. Now it's something like only 35 percent of books or something like that are front-list titles. These could be completely wrong, but there's been a trend.I think the decrease in interest in front-list books is really what drives the loss of these book-review pages because they mostly review front-list books. So, I think that does imply that there's a lot of interest in old books. That's what our stagnant culture means.Oliver: Why do you think your own blog is popular with the rationalists?Kanakia: I don't know for certain. There was a story I wrote that was a joke. There are all these pop nonfiction books that aim to prove something that seems counterintuitive, so I wrote a parody of one of those where I aim to prove that reading is bad for you. This book has many scientific studies that show the more you read, the worse it is because it makes you very rigid.Scott Alexander, who is the archrationalist, really liked that, and he added me to his blog roll. Because of that, I got a thousand rationalist subscribers. I have found that rationalists at least somewhat interested in the classics. I think they are definitely interested in enduring sources of value. I've observed a fair amount of interest.Oliver: How much of a lay reader are you really? Because you read scholarship and critics and you can just quote John Gilroy in the middle of a piece or something.Kanakia: Yeah. That is a good question. I have definitely gotten more interested in secondary literature. In my book, I really talk about being a lay reader and personally having a nonacademic approach to literature. I do think that, over 15 years of being a lay reader, I have developed a lot of knowledge.I've also learned the kind of secondary literature that is really important. I think having historical context adds a lot and is invaluable. Right now I'm rereading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. When I first read it in 2010, I hardly knew anything about French history. I was even talking online with someone about how most people who read Les Miserables think it's set in the French Revolution. That's basically because Americans don't really know anything about French history.Everything makes just a lot more sense the more you know about the time because it was written for people in it. For people in 1860s France, who knew everything about their own recent history, that really adds a lot to it. I still don't tend to go that much into interpretive literature, literature that tries to do readings of the stories or tell me the meaning of the stories. I feel like I haven't really gotten that much out of that.Oliver: How long have you been learning Anglo-Saxon?Kanakia: I went through a big Anglo-Saxon phase. That was in 2010. It started because I started reading The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. There is a great app online called General Prologue created by one of your countrymen, Terry Richardson [NB it is Terry Jones], who loved Middle English. In this app, he recites the Middle English of the General Prologue. I started listening to this app, and I thought, I just really love the rhythms and the sounds of Middle English. And it's quite easy to learn. So then, I got really into that.And then I thought, but what about Anglo-Saxon? I'm very bad at languages. I studied Latin for seven years in middle school and high school. I never really got very far, but I thought, Anglo-Saxon has to be the easiest foreign language you can learn, right? So, I got into it.I cannot sight read Anglo-Saxon, but I really got into Anglo-Saxon poetry. I really liked the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Most people probably would not like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle because it's very repetitive, but that makes it great if you're a language learner because every entry is in this very repetitive structure. I just felt such a connection. I get in trouble when I say this kind of stuff, because I'm never quiet sure if it's 100 percent true. But it's certainly one of the oldest vernacular literatures in Europe. It's just so much older than most of the other medieval literature I've read. And it just was such a window into a different part of history I never knew about.Oliver: And you particularly like “The Dream of the Rood”?Kanakia: Yeah, “The Dream of the Rood” is my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem. “The Dream of the Rood” is a poem that is told from the point of view of Christ's cross. A man is having a dream. In this dream he encounters Christ's cross, and Christ's cross starts reciting to him basically the story of the crucifixion. At the end, the cross is buried. I don't know, it was just so haunting and powerful. Yeah, it was one of my favorites.Oliver: Why do you think Byron is a better poet than Alexander Pope?Kanakia: This is an argument I cannot get into. I think this is coming up because T. S. Eliot felt that Alexander Pope was a great poet because he really exemplified the spirit of the age. I don't know. I've tried to read Pope. It just doesn't do it for me. Whereas with Byron, I read Don Juan and found it entertaining. I enjoyed it. Then, his lyric poetry is just more entertaining to read. With Alexander Pope, I'm learning a lot about what kind of poetry people wrote in the 18th century, but the joy is not there.Oliver: Okay. Can we do a quick fire round where I say the name of a book and you just say what you think of it, whatever you think of it?Kanakia: Sure.Oliver: Okay. The Odyssey.Kanakia: The Odyssey. Oh, I love The Odyssey. It has a very strange structure, where it starts with Telemachus and then there's this flashback in the middle of it. It is much more readable than The Iliad; I'll say that.Oliver: Herodotus.Kanakia: Herodotus is wild. Going into Herodotus, I really thought it was about the Persian war, which it is, but it's mostly a general overview of everything that Herodotus knew, about anything. It's been a long time since I read it. I really appreciate the voice of Herodotus, how human it is, and the accumulation of facts. It was great.Oliver: I love the first half actually. The bit about the Persian war I'm less interested in, but the first half I think is fantastic. I particularly love the Egypt book.Kanakia: Oh yeah, the Egypt book is really good.Oliver: All those like giant beetles that are made of fire or whatever; I can't remember the details, but it's completely…Kanakia: The Greeks are also so fascinated by Egypt. They go down there like what is going on out there? Then, most of what we know about Egypt comes from this Hellenistic period, when the Greeks went to Egypt. Our Egyptian kings list comes from the Hellenistic period where some scholar decided to sort out what everybody was up to and put it all into order. That's why we have such an orderly story about Egypt. That's the story that the Greeks tried to tell themselves.Oliver: Marcus Aurelius.Kanakia: Marcus Aurelius. When I first read The Meditations, which I loved, obviously, I thought, “being the Roman emperor cannot be this hard.” It really was a black pill moment because I thought, “if the emperor of Rome is so unhappy, maybe human power really doesn't do it.”Knowing more about Marcus Aurelius, he did have quite a difficult life. He was at war for most of his—just stuck in the region in Germany for ages. He had various troubles, but yeah, it really was very stoic. It was, oh, I just have to do my duty. Very “heavy is the head that wears the crown” kind of stuff. I thought, “okay, I guess being Roman emperor is not so great.”Oliver: Omar Khayyam.Kanakia: Omar Khayyam. Okay, I've only read The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, which I loved, but I cannot formulate a strong opinion right now.Oliver: As You Like It.Kanakia: No opinions.Oliver: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.Kanakia: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I do have an opinion about this, which is that they should make a redacted version of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I normally am not a big believer in abridgements because I feel like whatever is there is there. But, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, first of all, has a long portion before Boswell even meets Johnson. That portion drags; it's not that great. Then it has all these like letters that Johnson wrote, which also are not that great. What's really good is when Boswell just reports everything Johnson ever said, which is about half the book. You get a sense of Johnson's conversation and his personality, and that is very gripping. I've definitely thought that with a different presentation, this could still be popular. People would still read this.Oliver: The Communist Manifesto.Kanakia: The Communist Manifesto. It's very stirring. I love The Communist Manifesto. It has very haunting, powerful lines. I won't try to quote from it because I'll misquote them.Oliver: But it is remarkably well written.Kanakia: Oh yeah, it is a great work of literature.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: I read Capital [Das Kapital], which is not a great work of literature, and I would venture to say that it is not necessarily worth reading. It really feels like Marx's reputation is built on other political writings like The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and works like that, which really seem to have a lot more meat on the bone than Capital.Oliver: Pragmatism by William James.Kanakia: Pragmatism. I mean, I've mentioned that in my book. I love William James in general. I think William James was writing in this 19th-century environment where it seemed like some form of skepticism was the only rational solution. You couldn't have any source of value, and he really tried to cut through that with Pragmatism and was like, let's just believe the things that are good to believe. It is definitely at least useful to think, although someone else can always argue with you about what is useful to believe. But, as a personal guide for belief, I think it is still useful.Oliver: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.Kanakia: No strong opinions. It was a long time ago that I read Major Barbara.Oliver: Tell me what you like about James Fenimore Cooper.Kanakia: James Fenimore Cooper. Oh, this is great. I have basically a list of Great Books that I want to read, but four or five years ago, I thought, “what's in all the other books that I know the names of but that are not reputed, are not the kind of books you still read?”That was when I read Walter Scott, who I really love. And I just started reading all kinds of books that were kind of well known but have kind of fallen into literary disfavor. In almost every case, I felt like I got a lot out of these books. So, nowadays when I approach any realm of literature, I always look for those books.In 19th-century American literature, the biggest no-longer-read book is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, which was America's first bestseller. He was the first American novelist that had a high reputation in Europe. The Last of the Mohicans is kind of a historical romance, à la Walter Scott, but much more tightly written and much more tightly plotted.Cooper has written five novels, the Leatherstocking Tales, that are all centered around this very virtuous, rough-hewn frontiersman, Natty Bumppo. He has his best friend, Chingachgook, who is the last of the Mohicans. He's the last of his tribe. And the two of these guys are basically very sad and stoic. Chingachgook is distanced from his tribe. Chingachgook has a tribe of Native Americans that he hates—I want to say it's the Huron. He's always like, “they're the bad ones,” and he's always fighting them. Then, Natty Bumppo doesn't really love settled civilization. He's not precisely at war with it, but he does not like the settlers. They're kind of stuck in the middle. They have various adventures, and I just thought it was so haunting and powerful.I've been reading a lot of other 19th-century American literature, and virtually none of it treats Native Americans with this kind of respect. There's a lot of diversity in the Native American characters; there's really an attempt to show how their society works and the various ways that leadership and chiefship works among them. There's this very haunting moment in The Last of the Mohicans, where this aged chief, Tamenund, comes out and starts speaking. This is a chief who, in American mythology, was famous for being a friend to the white people. But, James Fenimore Cooper writing in the 1820s has Tamenund come out at 80 years old and say, “we have to fight; we have to fight the white people. That's our only option.” It was just such a powerful moment and such a powerful book.I was really, really enthused. I read all of these Leatherstocking Tales. It was also a very strange experience to read these books that are generally supposed to be very turgid and boring, and then I read them and was like, “I understand. I'm so transported.” I understand exactly why readers in the 1820s loved this.Oliver: Which Walter Scott books do you like?Kanakia: I love all the Walter Scott books I've read, but the one I liked best was Kenilworth. Have you ever read Kenilworth?Oliver: I don't know that one.Kanakia: Yeah, it's about Elizabeth I, who had a romantic relationship with one of her courtiers.Oliver: The Earl of Essex?Kanakia: Yeah. She really thought they were going to get married, but then it turned out he was secretly married. Basically, I guess the implication is that he killed his wife in order to marry Queen Elizabeth I. It's a novel all about him and that situation, and it just felt very tightly plotted. I really enjoyed it.Oliver: What did you think of Rejection?Kanakia: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte? Initially when I read this book, I enjoyed it, but I was like, “life cannot possibly be this sad.” It's five or six stories about these people who just have nothing going on. Their lives are so miserable, they can't find anyone to sleep with, and they're just doomed to be alone forever. I was like, “life can't be this bad.” But now thinking back over it, it is one of the most memorable books I've read in the last year. It really sticks with you. I feel like my opinion of this book has gone up a lot in retrospect.Oliver: How antisemitic is the House of Mirth?Kanakia: That is a hotly debated question, which I mentioned in my book. I think there has been a good case made that Edith Wharton, the author of House of Mirth, who was from an old New York family, was herself fairly antisemitic and did not personally like Jewish people. What she portrays in this book is that this old New York society also was highly suspicious of Jewish people and was organized to keep Jewish people out.In this book there is a rich Jewish man, Simon Rosedale, and there's a poor woman, Lily Bart. Lily Bart's main thing is whether she's going to marry the poor guy, Lawrence Selden, or the rich guy, Percy Gryce. She can't choose. She doesn't want to be poor, but she also is always bored by the rich guys. Meanwhile, through the whole book, there's Simon Rosedale, who's always like, “you should marry me.” He's the rich Jewish guy. He's like, “you should marry me. I will give you lots of money. You can do whatever you want.”Everybody else kind of just sees her as a woman and as a wife; he really sees her as an ally in his social climbing. That's his main motivation. The book is relatively clear that he has a kind of respect for her that nobody else does. Then, over the course of the book, she also gains a lot more respect for him. Basically, late in the book, she decides to marry him, but she has fallen a lot in the world. He's like, “that particular deal is not available anymore,” but he does offer her another deal that—although she finds it not to her taste—is still pretty good.He basically is like, “I'll give you some money, you'll figure out how to rehabilitate your reputation, and later down the line, we can figure something out.” So, I think with a great author like Edith Wharton, there's power in these portrayals. I felt it hard to come away from it feeling like the book is like a really antisemitic book.Oliver: Now, you note that the Great Books movement started out as something quite socially aspirational. Do you think it's still like that?Kanakia: I do think so. Yeah. For me, that's 100 percent what it was because I majored in econ. I always felt kind of inadequate as a writer against people who had majored in English. Then I started off as a science fiction writer, young adult writer, and I was like, “I'm going to read all these Great Books and then I'll have read the books that everybody else has read.” In my mind, that's also what it was—that there was some upper crust or literary society that was reading all these Great Books.That's really what did it. I do think there's still an element of aspiration to it because it's a club that you can join, that anyone can join. It's very straightforward to be a Great Books reader, and so I think there's still something there. I think because the Great Books movement has such a democratic quality to it, it actually doesn't get you to the top socially, which has always been the true, always been the case. But, that's okay. As long as you end up higher than where you started, that's fine.Oliver: What makes a book great?Kanakia: I talk about it this in the book, and I go through many different authors' conceptions of what makes a book great or what constitutes a classic. I don't know that anyone has come up with a really satisfying answer. The Horatian formulation from Horace—that a book is great or an author is great if it has lasted for a hundred years—is the one that seems to be the most accurate. Like, any book that's still being read a hundred years after it was written has a greatness.I do think that T. S. Eliott's formulation—that a civilization at its height produces certain literature and that literature partakes of the greatness of the civilization and summarizes the greatness of the civilization—does seem to have some kind of truth to it.But it's hard, right? Because the greatest French novel is In Search of Lost Time, but I don't know that anyone would say that the France in the 1920s was at its height. It's not a prescriptive thing, but it does seem like the way we read many of these Great Books, like Moby Dick, it feels like you're like communing with the entire society that produced it. So, maybe there's something there.Oliver: Now, you've used a list from Clifton Fadiman.Kanakia: Yes.Oliver: Rather than from Mortimer Adler or Harold Bloom or several others. Why this list?Kanakia: Well, the best reason is that it's actually the list I've just been using for the last 15 years. I went to a science fiction convention in 2009, Readercon, and at this science fiction convention was Michael Dirda, who was a Washington Post book critic. He had recently come out with his book, Classics for Pleasure, which I also bought and liked. But he said that the list he had always used was this Clifton Fadiman book. And so when I decided to start reading the Great Books, I went and got that book. I have perused many other lists over time, but that was always the list that seemed best to me.It seemed to have like the best mix. There's considerable variation amongst these lists, but there's also a lot of overlap. So any of these lists is going to have Dickens on it, and Tolstoy, and stuff like that. So really, you're just thinking about, “aside from Dickens and Tolstoy and George Eliot and Walt Whitman and all these people, who are the other 50 authors that you're going be reading?”The Mortimer Adler list is very heavy on philosophy. It has Plotinus on it. It has all these scientific works. I don't know, it didn't speak to me as much. Whereas, this Clifton Fadiman and John Major list has all these Eastern works on it. It has The Tale of Genji, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Story of the Stone, and that just spoke to me a little bit more.Oliver: What modern books will be on a future Great Books list, whether it's from someone alive or someone since the war.Kanakia: Have you ever heard of Robert Caro?Oliver: Sure.Kanakia: Yeah. I think his Lyndon Johnson books are great books. They have changed the field of biography. They're so complete, they seem to summarize an entire era, epoch. They're highly rated, but I feel like they're underrated as literature.What else? I was actually a little bit surprised in this Clifton Fadiman-John Major book, which came out in 1999, that there are not more African Americans in their list. Like, Invisible Man definitely seemed like a huge missed work. You know, it's hard. You would definitely want a book that has undergone enough critical evaluation that people are pretty certain that it is great. A lot of things that are more recent have not undergone that evaluation yet, but Invisible Man has, as have some works by Martin Luther King.Oliver: What about The Autobiography of Malcolm X?Kanakia: I would have to reread. I feel like it hasn't been evaluated much as a literary document.Oliver: Helen DeWitt?Kanakia: It's hard to say. It's so idiosyncratic, The Last Samurai, but it is certainly one of the best novels of the last 25 years.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: It is hard to say, because there's nothing else quite like it. But I would love if The Last Samurai was on a list like this; that would be amazing.Oliver: If someone wants to try the Great Books, but they think that those sort of classic 19th-century novels are too difficult—because they're long and the sentences are weird or whatever—what else should they do? Where else should they start?Kanakia: Well, it depends on what they're into, or it depends on their personality type. I think like there are people who like very, very difficult literature. There are people who are very into James Joyce and Proust. I think for some people the cost-benefit is better. If they're going to be pouring over some book for a long time, they would prefer if it was overtly difficult.If they're not like that, then I would say, there are many Great Books that are more accessible. Hemingway is a good one and Grapes of Wrath is wonderful. The 19th-century American books tend to be written in a very different register than the English books. If you read Moby Dick, it feels like it's written in a completely different language than Charles Dickens, even though they're writing essentially at the same time.Oliver: Is there too much Freud on the list that you've used?Kanakia: Maybe. I know that Interpretation of Dreams is on that list, which I've tried to read and have decided life is too short. I didn't really buy it, but I have read a fair amount of Freud. My impression of Freud was always that I would read Freud and somehow it would just seem completely fanciful or far out, like wouldn't ring true. But then when I started reading Freud, it was more the opposite. I was like, oh yeah, this seems very, very true.Like this battle between like the id and the ego and the super ego, and this feeling that like the psyche is at war with itself. Human beings really desire to be singular and exceptional, but then you're constantly under assault by the reality principle, which is that you're insignificant. That all seemed completely true. But then he tries to cure this somehow, which does not seem a curable problem. And he also situates the problem in some early sexual development, which also did not necessarily ring true. But no, I wouldn't say there's too much. Freud is a lot of fun. People should read Freud.Oliver: Which of the Great Books have you really not liked?Kanakia: I do get asked this quite a bit. I would say the Great Book that I really felt like—at least in translation—was not that rewarding in an unabridged version was Don Quixote. Because at least half the length of Don Quixote is these like interpolated novellas that are really long and tedious. I felt Don Quixote was a big slog. But maybe someday I'll go back and reread it and love it. Who knows?Oliver: Now you wrote that the question of biography is totally divorced from the question of what art is and how it operates. What do you think of George Orwell's supposition that if Shakespeare came back tomorrow, and we found out he used to rape children that we should—we would not say, you know, it's fine to carry on to doing that because he might write another King Lear.Kanakia: Well, if we discovered that Shakespeare was raping children, he should go to prison for that. No. It's totally divorced in both senses. You don't get any credit in the court of law because you are the writer of King Lear. If I murdered someone and then I was hauled in front of a judge and they were like, oh, Naomi's a genius, I wouldn't get off for murder. Nor should I get off for murder.So in terms of like whether we would punish Shakespeare for his crime of raping children, I don't think King Lear should count at all, but it's never used that way. It's never should someone go to prison or not for their crimes, because they're a genius. It's always used the other way, which is should we read King Lear knowing that the author raped children, but I also feel like that is immaterial. If you read King Lear, you're not enabling someone to rape children.Oliver: There's an almost endless amount of discussion these days about the Great Books and education and the value of the humanities, and what's the future of it all. What is your short opinion on that?Kanakia: My short opinion is that the Great Books at least are going to be fine. The Great Books will continue to be read, and they would even survive the university. All these books predate the university and they will survive the university. I feel like the university has stewarded literature in its own way for a while now and has made certain choices in that stewardship. I think if that stewardship was given up to more voluntary associations that had less financial support, then I think the choices would probably be very different. But I still think the greatest works would survive.Oliver: Now this is a quote from the book: “I am glad that reactionaries love the Great Books. They've invited a Trojan horse into their own camp.” Tell us what you mean by that.Kanakia: Let's say you believed in Christian theocracy, that you thought America should be organized on explicitly Christian principles. And because you believe in Christian theocracy, you organize a school that teaches the Great Books. Many of these schools that are Christian schools that have Great Books programs will also teach Nietzsche. They definitely put some kind of spin on Nietzsche. But they will teach anti-Christ, and that is a counterpoint to Christian morality and Christian theology. There are many things that you'll read in the Great Books that are corrosive to various kinds of certainties.If someone who I think is bad starts educating themselves in the Great Books, I don't think that the Great Books are going to make them worse from my perspective. So it's good.Oliver: How did reading the Mahabharata change you?Kanakia: Oh yeah, so the Mahabharata is a Hindu epic from, let's say, the first century AD. I'm Indian and most Indians are familiar with the basic outline of the Mahabharata story because it's told in various retellings, and there's a TV serial that my parents would rent from the Indian store growing up and we would watch it tape by tape. So I'm very familiar with it. Like there's never been a time I have not known this story.But I was also familiar with the idea that there is a written version in Sanskrit that's extremely long. It is 10 times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. This Mahabharata story is not that long. I've read a version of it that's about 800 pages long. So how could something that's 10 times this long be the same? A new unabridged translation came out 10 years ago. So I started reading it, and it basically contains the entire Sanskrit Vedic worldview in it.I had never been exposed to this very coherently laid-out version of what I would call Hindu cosmology and ethics. Hindus don't really get taught those things in a very organized way. The book is basically about dharma, the principle of rightness and how this principle of rightness orders the universe and how it basically results in everybody getting their just deserts in various ways. As I was reading the book, I was like, this seems very true that there is some cosmic rebalancing here, and that everything does turn out more or less the way it should, which is not something that I can defend on a rational level.But just reading the book, it just made me feel like, yes, that is true. There is justice, the universe is organized by justice. It took me about a year to read the whole thing. I started waking up at 5:00 a.m. and reading for an hour each morning, and it just was a really magical, profound experience that brought me a lot closer to my grandmother's religious beliefs.Oliver: Is it ever possible to persuade someone with arguments that they should read literature, or is it just something that they have to have an inclination toward and then follow someone's example? Because I feel like we have so many columns and op-eds and “books are good because of X reason, and it's very important because of Y reason.” And like, who cares? No one cares. If you are persuaded, you take all that very seriously and you argue about what exactly are the precise reasons we should say. And if you're not persuaded, you don't even know this is happening.And what really persuades you is like, oh, Naomi sounds pretty compelling about the Mahabharata. That sounds cool. I'll try that. It's much more of a temperamental, feelingsy kind of thing. Is it possible to argue people into thinking about this differently? Or should we just be doing what we do and setting an example and hoping that people will follow.Kanakia: As to whether it's possible or not, I do not know. But I do think these columns are too ambitious. A thousand-word column and the imagined audience for this column is somebody who doesn't read books at all, who doesn't care about literature at all. And then in a thousand-word column, you're going to persuade them to care about literature. This is no good. It's so unnecessary.Whereas there's a much broader range of people who love to read books, but have never picked up Moby Dick or have never picked up Middlemarch, or who like maybe loved Middlemarch, but never thought maybe I should then go on and read Jane Austen and George Eliot.I think trying to shift people from “I don't read books at all; reading books is not something I do,” to being a Great Books card-carrying lover of literature is a lot. I really aim for a much lower result than that, which is to whatever extent people are interested in literature, they should pursue that interest. And as the rationalists would say, there's a lot of alpha in that; there's a lot to be gained from converting people who are somewhat interested into people who are very interested.Oliver: If there was a more widespread practice of humanism in education and the general culture, would that make America into a more liberal country in any way?Kanakia: What do you mean by humanism?Oliver: You know, the old-fashioned liberal arts approach, the revival of the literary journal culture, the sort of depolitical approach to literature, the way things used to be, as it were.Kanakia: It couldn't hurt. It couldn't hurt is my answer to that question.Oliver: Okay.Kanakia: What you're describing is basically the way I was educated. I went to Catholic school in DC at St. Anselm's Abbey School, in Northeast, DC, grade school. Highly recommend sending your little boys there. No complaints about the school. They talked about humanism all the time and all these civic virtues. I thought it was great. I don't know what people in other schools learn, but I really feel like it was a superior way of teaching.Now, you know, it was Catholic school, so a lot of people who graduated from my school are conservatives and don't really have the beliefs that I have, but that's okay.Oliver: Tell us about your reading habits.Kanakia: I read mostly ebooks. I really love ebooks because you can make the type bigger. I just read all the time. They vary. I don't wake up at 5:00 a.m. to read anymore. Sometimes if I feel like I'm not reading enough—because I write this blog, and the blog doesn't get written unless I'm reading. That's the engine, and so sometimes I set aside a day each week to read. But generally, the reading mostly takes care of itself.What I tend to get is very into a particular thing, and then I'll start reading more and more in that area. Recently, I was reading a lot of New Yorker stories. So I started reading more and more of these storywriters that have been published in the New Yorker and old anthologies of New Yorker stories. And then eventually I am done. I'm tired. It's time to move on.Oliver: But do you read several books at once? Do you make notes? Do you abandon books? How many hours a day do you read?Kanakia: Hours a day: Because my e-reader keeps these stats, I'd say 15 or 20 hours a week of reading. Nowadays because I write for the blog, I often think as I'm reading how I would frame a post about this. So I look for quotes, like what quote I would look at. I take different kinds of notes. I'll make more notes if I'm more confused by what is going on. Especially with nonfiction books, I'll try sometimes to make notes just to iron out what exactly I think is happening or what I think the argument is. But no, not much of a note taker.Oliver: What will you read next?Kanakia: What will I read next? Well, I've been thinking about getting back into Indian literature. Right now I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. But there's an Indian novel called Jhootha Sach, which is a partition novel that is originally in Hindi. And it's also a thousand pages long, and is frequently compared to Les Miserables and War and Peace. So I'm thinking about tackling that finally.Oliver: Naomi Kanakia, thank you very much.Kanakia: Thanks for having me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk

Hello Interactors,Watching all the transnational love at the Olympics has been inspiring. We're all forced to think about nationalities, borders, ethnicities, and all the flavors of behavioral geography it entails. After all, these athletes are all there representing their so-called “homeland.” And in the case of Alysa Liu, her father's escape from his. Between the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the fall of the Berlin wall, “homeland” took on new meaning for many immigrants. This all took me back to that time and the start of my own journey at Microsoft at the dawn of a new global reality.HOMELAND HATCHED HEREWith all the focus on Olympics and immigration recently, I've found myself reflecting on my days at Microsoft in the 90s. As the company was growing (really fast), teams were filling up with people recruited from around the world. There were new accents in meetings, new holidays to celebrate, and yummy new foods and funny new words being introduced. This thickening of transnational ties made Redmond feel as connected the rest of the world as the globalized software we were building. By 2000 users around the world could switch between over 60 languages in Windows and Office. In behavioral geography terms, working on the product and using the product made “here” feel more connected to “elsewhere.”This influx of new talent was all enabled by the Immigration Act of 1990. Signed by George H. W. Bush, it increased and stabilized legal pathways for highly skilled immigrants. This continued with Clinton era decisions to expand H-1B visa allocations that fed the tech hiring boom. I took full advantage of this allotment recruiting and hiring interaction designers and user researchers from around the world. In the same decade the federal government expanded access to the United States, it also tightened security. Terrorism threats, especially after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, spooked everyone. Despite this threat, there was more domestic initiated terrorism than outside foreign attacks. The decade saw deadly incidents like the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 by radicalized by white supremacist anti-government terrorists, which killed 168 and injured hundreds, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history before 9/11.A year later, the Atlanta Olympic bombing and related bombings by anti-government Christian extremists caused multiple deaths and injuries. Clinic bombings and shootings by anti-abortion extremists began in 1994 with the Brookline clinic shootings and continued through the 1998 Birmingham clinic bombing. These inspired more arsons, bombings, and shootings tied to white supremacist, anti-abortion, and other extreme ideologies.Still, haven been shocked by Islamist extremists in 1993 (and growing Islamic jihadist plots outside the U.S.) the federal government adopted new security language centered on protecting the “homeland” from outside incursions. In 1998, Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 62, titled “Protection Against Unconventional Threats to the Homeland and Americans Overseas,” a serious counterterrorism document whose title quietly normalized the term homeland inside executive governance.But there was at least one critical voice. Steven Simon, Clinton's senior director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council, didn't think “Defense of the Homeland” belonged in a presidential directive.Simon's retrospective argument is that “homeland” did more than name a policy, it brought a territorial logic of legitimacy that the American constitution had historically resisted. He recalls the phrase “Defense of the Homeland” felt “faintly illiberal, even un-American.” The United States historically grounded constitutional legitimacy in civic and legal abstractions (people, union, republic, human rights) rather than blood rights or rights to soil. Membership was to be mediated by institutions, employment, and law rather than ancestry.“Homeland” serves as a powerful cue that suggests a mental model of ‘home' and expands it to encompass a nation. This model is accompanied by a set of spatial inferences that evoke familiarity, appeal, and even an intuitive sense. However, it also creates a sense of a confined interior that can be breached by someone from outside.This is rooted in place attachment that can be defined as an affective bond between people and places — an emotional tie that can anchor identity and responsibility. But attachment is not the same thing as ownership. Research on collective psychological ownership shows how groups can come to experience a territory as “ours.” This creates a sense of ownership that can be linked to a perceived determination right. Here, the ingroup is entitled to decide what happens in that place while sometimes feeding a desire to exclude outsiders. When the word “homeland” was placed at the center of statecraft it primed public reasoning from attachment of place through care, stewardship, and shared fate toward property ownership through control, gatekeeping, and exclusion. It turns belonging into something closer to a property claim.What makes the 1990s especially instructive from a geography perspective is that “access” itself was being administered through institutions that are intensely spatial: consulates, ports of entry, employer locations, housing markets, and the micro-geographies of office life. The H-1B expansions was not simply generosity, but a form of managed throughput in a system designed to meet labor demand. And it was paired with political assurances about enforcement and domestic worker protections.Mid-decade legal reforms strengthened enforcement by authorities in significant ways. Mechanisms for faster removals and stricter interior enforcement reinforced the idea that the state could act more decisively within the national space. The federal government found ways to expand legal channels that served economic objectives while also building a governance style increasingly comfortable with interior control. “Homeland” helped supply the conceptual bridge that made that socioeconomic coexistence feel coherent.It continues to encourage a politics of boundary maintenance that determines who counts as inside, what kinds of movement are legible as normal, and which bodies are perpetually “out of place.” If the defended object is a republic, the default language justification is legal and civic. If the defended object is a homeland, the language jurisdiction becomes territorial and affective. That shift changes what restrictions, surveillance practices, and membership tests become thinkable and tolerable over time. HOMELAND'S HOHFELDIAN HARNESSIf “homeland” structures a place of belonging, then “rights” are the legal grammar that tells us what may be done in that place. The trouble is that “rights” are often treated as moral abstract objects floating above context. Legally, they are structured relations among people, institutions, and things. But “rights” can take on a variety of meanings.Wesley Hohfeld, the Yale law professor who pioneered analytical jurisprudence in the early 20th century, argued that many legal disputes persist because the word “right” is used ambiguously.He distinguished four basic “incidents” for rights: claim, privilege (liberty), power, and immunity. Each is paired with a position correlating to another party: duty, no-claim (no-right), liability, and disability. When the police pull you over for speeding you hold a privilege to drive at or below the speed limit (say, 40 mph). The state has no-right to demand you stop for going exactly 40 mph. But if you're clocked at 50 mph, the officer enforces your no-right to exceed the limit which correlates to the state's claim-right. You have a duty to comply by pulling over. If the officer then has power to issue a ticket, you face a liability to have your driving privilege altered (e.g., fined). But you also enjoy an immunity from arbitrary arrest without probable cause.Let's apply that to “homeland” security.If a politician says we must “defend the homeland,” it can mean at least four different things legally:* Claim-Rights: Citizens can demand that the government protect them (e.g., from attacks). Officials have the duty to act — think TSA screening or border patrol.​* Privileges: Federal Agents get freedoms to act without legal blocks, such as stopping and questioning people in so-called high-risk zones, while bystanders have no-right to interfere.​* Powers: Federal Agencies hold authority to change your legal status. For example, they can label you a watchlist risk (e.g., you become a liability). This can then lead to loss of liberties like travel bans, detentions, or asset freezes.​* Immunities: Federal Officials or programs shield themselves from lawsuits (via qualified immunity or classified data rules), effectively blocking citizens' ability to sue.Forget whether these are legitimate or illegitimate, Hohfeld's point is they are different forms of rights — and each has distinct costs. Once “homeland” is the object, the system tends to grow powers and privileges (capacity for overt or covert operations), and to seek immunities (resistance to challenge), often at the expense of others' claim-rights and liberties.Rights are not only relational, but they are also often spatially conditional. The same person can move through zones of legality experiencing different practical rights. Consider border checkpoints, airports, perimeters of government buildings, protest cites, or regions declared “emergency” zones. Government institutions operationalize these spaces as “behavioral geographies” which determines who gets stopped, where scrutiny concentrates, and which movements count as suspicious.The state looks past the abstract bearer of unalienable liberties and due process to see only a physical entity whose movements through space dissolve their Constitutional immunities into a series of observable, trackable traces. Those traces become inputs to enforcement. This is what makes surveillance so powerful. “Homeland” governance is especially trace-hungry because it imagines safety as a property of space that must be continuously maintained.But these traces are behavioral cues and human behavior is never neutral. They are interpreted through normalized cultural and institutional schemas about who “belongs” in which places. Place attachment and territorial belonging can become gatekeeping mechanisms. Empirical work on homeland/place attachment links it to identity processes and self-categorization. Related work suggests that collective psychological ownership — “this place is ours” — can predict exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants and outsiders. In legal terms, those social attitudes can translate into pressure to expand state powers and narrow outsiders' claim-rights.A vocabulary rooted in a ‘republic' tends to emphasize rights as universal claims against the state. This is where we get due process, equal protection, and rights to speech and assembly. A homeland vocabulary tends to emphasize rights as statused permissions tied to membership and territory. Here we find rights of citizens, rights at the border, rights in “emergencies”, and rights conditioned on “lawful presence.” The shift makes some restrictions feel like a kind of protecting of the home. Hence the unaffable phrase, “Get off my lawn.”HOMELAND HIERARCHIES HUMBLEDIf the “homeland” is framed as a place-of-belonging and rights are the grammar of that place, then the current crisis of American democracy boils down to a dispute over the nature of equality. This tension is best understood through the long-standing constitutional debate between anticlassification and antisubordination, which dates back to the Reconstruction era. Anticlassification, often called the “colorblind” or “status-blind” approach, holds that the state's duty is simply to avoid explicit categories in its laws. Antisubordination, by contrast, insists that the law must actively dismantle structured group hierarchies and the “caste-like” systems they produce. When the state embraces a “homeland” logic, it leans heavily on anticlassification to mask a deeper reality of spatial subordination.In what we might call the “Theater of Defense,” agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increasingly rely on anticlassification principles to justify aggressive interior crackdowns. They frame enforcement as a territorial necessity by protecting the sanctity of the soil itself. A workplace raid or roving patrol, in this view, does not target any specific group. Instead, it simply maintains the “integrity” of the homeland. This reflects what law professor Bradley Areheart and others have described as the “anticlassification turn,” where formal attempts to embody equality end up legitimizing structural inequality.Put differently, the state exercises a Hohfeldian Power to alter individuals' legal status based on their geographic location or “lawful presence.” At the same time, it shields itself from legal challenge by insisting that the law applies equally to everyone who is “out of place.” This claim of territorial neutrality is a dangerous legal fiction. As scholars Solon Barocas and Andrew Selbst have shown in their work on algorithmic systems, attempts at neutral criteria often replicate entrenched biases. Triggers like “proximity to a border” or “behavioral traces” in a transit hub do not produce blind justice. They enable targeted scrutiny and the erosion of immunity for those whose identities fail to match the “belonging” model of the “homeland.” The state circumvents its Hohfeldian Disability, avoiding the creation of second-class statuses, by pretending to manage space rather than discriminate against persons.This shift from a civic Republic to a territorial “homeland” is the primary driver of democratic backsliding. Political scientist Jacob Grumbach captured this dynamic in his 2022 paper, Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding. Analyzing 51 indicators of electoral democracy across U.S. states from 2000 to 2018, Grumbach developed the State Democracy Index. His findings reveal how American federalism has morphed from “laboratories of democracy” into sites of subnational authoritarianism. States with low scores on the index — often under unified Republican control — have pioneered police powers that insulate partisan dominance. We see this in the rise of state-level immigration enforcement units, the criminalization of movement for marginalized groups, and the expansion of a “right to exclude.”These states are not just enforcing the law. They are forging what Yale legal scholar Owen Fiss would recognize as a new caste system. By fixating on “defending” state soil against “infiltrators,” legislatures dismantle the public rights of the Reconstruction era — the right to participate in community life without indignity. Today's backsliding policies transform the nation's interior into a permanent enforcement zone. They reject the Enlightenment ideals of America, rooted in beliefs like liberty, equality, democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. To fully understand Constitutional history, we best acknowledge that America's universalist creedal definition wasn't solely European. David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything shows how Enlightenment values of liberty and equality arose from intellectual exchanges with Indigenous North American thinkers. Kandiaronk, a Huron statesman, traveled to Europe in the late 17th century and debated French aristocrats. His critiques were published and circulated widely among European intellectuals, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Graeber and Wengrow point out that before the widely popular publication of these dialogues in 1703, the concept of "Equality" as a primary political value was almost entirely absent from European philosophy. By the time Rousseau wrote his Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men in 1754, it was the central question of the age.Kandiaronk criticized European society's subservience to kings and obsession with property. He contrasted it with the consensual governance and individual agency of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy embodied in their Great Law of Peace — a political order prioritizing the public right to exist without state-sanctioned indignity.The writers of the U.S. Constitution codified a Republic of “unalienable rights,” synthesizing Indigenous/European-inspired liberty with Hohfeldian Disabilities that legally restrained the state from territorial monarchy. Backsliding erases this profound philosophical endeavor. Reclaiming the Republic means honoring the Indigenous critique that a nation's legitimacy rests on its people's freedom, not its fences.We seem to be moving from governance by the governed to protecting an ingroup. In Hohfeldian terms, the state expands its privileges while shrinking the claim-rights of the vulnerable to move and exist safely. This leads to “spatial subordination,” managed through adiaphorization — a concept from social theorist Zygmunt Bauman's 1989 Modernity and the Holocaust. Bauman, a Polish-Jewish survivor who escaped the Nazis' grip on his early life, drew “adiaphora” from the Greek for matters outside moral evaluation. Modern bureaucracies make horrific actions morally neutral by framing them as technical duties, enabling atrocities like the Holocaust without personal ethical torment.As territorial belonging takes precedence, non-belongers are excluded from moral and legal obligations. They become “non-spaces” or “human waste” in the eyes of ICE and DHS. This betrays antisubordination, the “core and conscience” of America's civil rights tradition, as Yale constitutional scholars Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel called it. A democracy can't endure if it permanently relegates any group to legal impossibility. In the “homeland”, immigrants may live, work, and raise families for decades, yet remain mere “traces” to expunge. Weaponized place attachment turns affective bonds into property claims. This empowers the state to “cleanse” those deemed to be “out of place.” Rights become statused permissions, not universal ideals. If immunity from search depends on territorial status, the Republic of laws has yielded to a Heimat — a term the Nazis' usurped for their blood-and-soil homeland…that they then bloodied and soiled.Reversing this demands confronting the linguistic and legal architecture that rendered it conceivable. It's time to rethink the “homeland” frame and its anticlassification crutch. A truer and fairer Republic would commit to antisubordination and the state would be disabled from wielding space for hierarchy. A person's immunity from arbitrary power should be closer to an inalienable right to be “secure in one's person” that holds firm beyond checkpoints or workplace doors…or your front door.Steven Simon was right to feel uneasy with Clinton's wording. “Homeland” planted a seed that sprouted into hedgerows of exceptional powers and curtailed liberties. Are we going to cling to a “homeland” secured by fear and exclusion, forever unstable, or finally become a Republic revered for securing universal law and rights? As long as our rights remain geographically conditional, we all dwell in liability. Reclaiming the Republic, and our freedoms within it, may require transforming the Constitution from a Hohfeldian map of perimeters into a boundless plane of human dignity it aspires to be. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Oregon State baseball opens strong and women's hoops is battling for postseason positioning. In this episode, we dig into OSU public records texts tied to Blueprint, Dam Nation, and the Oregon State Athletics Department. Heavy redactions and a timeline that puts Barnes/Blaylock decisions back under the microscope. We also hit on Huron Consulting poking around the athletic department and what that could signal.

El Torbellino es un lugar único en la galaxia, donde el espacio real y la Disformidad conviven creando un lugar perfecto para piratas y corsarios. Hoy conocemos mucho más sobre Huron, los Corsarios Rojos, los Incursores Ancestrales del Príncipe Yriel y sobre un edicto de Guilliman que puede conllevar consecuencias inesperadas. El trasfondo de Warhammer 40k recibe otro avance en su camino hacia una galaxia diferente. Y nadie te lo cuenta en detalle antes que nosotros. ¿Te lo vas a perder? Las voces que nos acompañan en esta ocasión son las de Zaphariel como Huron Corazón Negro y Vicius como la Inquisidora Phorica Skaelen del Bastión Nulo. ¿Te gusta lo que hacemos y quieres apoyarnos y de paso participar en el sorteo mensual de 400€ en material de Warhammer 40k? Dale al botón de "Apoyar" en iVoox. Tendrás una participación por 4,99€, tres participaciones por 9,99€, siete participaciones por 14,99€, y otras siete por cada 5€ de apoyo adicional. Más detalle en nuestra web, https://www.lavozdehorus.com/ 00:00:00 Presentación 00:04:19 Introducción al Torbellino 00:08:25 Contexto sobre la Zona del Torbellino 00:55:42 Las fuerzas caóticas 01:15:21 Los Corsarios Rojos 01:36:38 Discurso de Huron para nuevos reclutas 01:39:37 Personajes de los Corsarios Rojos 02:27:02 Cronología del Torbellino 02:57:12 Las fuerzas xenos 03:13:11 Los Incursores Ancestrales 03:24:09 Personajes de los Incursores Ancestrales 03:41:17 La incursión de Yriel en el Nido Carmesí 04:08:20 Guilliman ha hecho lo que temíamos Escúchanos mientras pintas minis o mientras sacas el perro a pasear. No importa el momento, pero cuenta con nosotros para ser tu programa semanal de referencia sobre Warhammer 40.000. Toda la música de este podcast está licenciada en Jamendo y Dark Fantasy Studio. El corte de fondo inicial es licencia Creative Commons de Royalty Free Kings utilizada con permiso de su autor Mark Petrie. El resto de temas musicales son licencia Creative Commons de Scott Buckley o usados con permiso de su autor, Fernando Amat. Ningún tipo de IA ha sido utilizada para la confección del guión, las voces o la música de este programa. Todo es artesanal y real. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Native communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State warred amongst themselves long before the arrival of Europeans on the continent. By the early 17th century, new alliances were formed and the Iroquois became mortal enemies of the French. E202. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/7C4IhkSXVCw which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. Battle of Lake Champlain books available at https://amzn.to/3Amz19o Huron Indians books available at https://amzn.to/3LuseAR Algonquin Indians books available at https://amzn.to/3NjVBHH Montagnais Indians books available at https://amzn.to/3oHllDq Samuel de Champlain books available at https://amzn.to/40Ty6ck New France books available at https://amzn.to/3nXKYzy ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarkVinet_HNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM LibriVox: Historical Tales by C. Morris, read by Kalynda See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"The first time [younger female athletes] work with a barbell or trap bar or something, you can see it. They're like, 'this is bada**, this is awesome," shares physical therapist and ultra-endurance athlete, Hannah DePaul, on this episode about building bone density and weight lifting for female athletes (from highschool and up!).  Hannah DePaul is a former D1 Swimmer, who held multiple records at the University of Michigan, and has gone on to run ultra-marathons. She's currently training for The Huron 100, a point-to-point independent event based outside of Ann Arbor, MI. We have a few scholarship spots to give to Lane 9 athltes, for The Huron 50 or 100 mile distances! If this is something you're interested in, please reach out to us via Lane9Project @ gmail dot com.  Tune into this episode to hear Hannah bust some myths about strength training for high school female athletes, share how she addresses the WHOLE athlete not just the injury, how she screens for REDs and underfueling as a physical therapist (DPT), and how to actually incorporate strength training into your weekly routine even if your preferred form of movement is running, cycling, or swimming.  Hannah DePaul DPT is part of the Lane 9 Directory. You can find her and her clinic via Lane9project.org/directory or going to hannahdepaulpt.com If you're looking for sports nutriton, mental health, or injury support for your next training cycle, and/or a coach informed in REDs and women's health, go to our Lane 9 Women's Sport and Health Directory at lane9project.org/directory.  Follow Lane 9 on IG @Lane9Project, and contact us anytime via Lane9project.org  

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You guys know that one of my main missions is to get more women into the sport of ultras, so when my friend Meredith reached out to me and said: "What do you think about THIS?"  I said: "I think you should come on the podcast to talk about it!"   And here we are!  Meredith is the Medical Director for The Huron 100 in Michigan and they're offering scholarships for the race - specifically for women!   

Send us a textMud, rain, and a first-ever DNF set the stage for a comeback story packed with practical wisdom. I sit down with ultrarunner Andy Chaffee to retrace how a soaked 75-mile stop at Indiana Trail 100 became the catalyst for smarter fueling, better decisions, and two confident 100-mile finishes. From childhood races and college running to post-grad burnout and re-entry through Ironman, Andy explains what drew him to ultras: the thrill of uncertain finishes and the constant problem-solving they demand.We unpack the big pivots that made the difference. He traded gel fatigue for high-carb liquid fueling with neutral flavors, then layered in real foods when his stomach felt empty, not just when his legs flagged. He reframed race day as rolling crisis management—system checks, small fixes that pay off two hours later, and permission to throw out the plan near the end. And he tested a 10-minute power nap at mile 91 that left him sharper and looser, powering a strong close. If you've ever wondered whether a short sleep helps or hurts, Andy's answer is clear: done right, it's rocket fuel.The best part might be the people. His wife runs point as lead crew, blocking rash DNFs and insisting on critical calories. Friends who don't consider themselves runners still make perfect pacers with the right brief: distract, cue terrain-based pacing, and protect decisions as focus narrows. We trade Huron 100 stories—headlamp woes, burger cravings, pancake salvation at mile 80—and talk about what's next: pacing at Huron, a spring road marathon to bring back speed, a maybe on Wolverine, and a hopeful ticket in the Western States lottery.If you're chasing your first hundred or trying to shave hours off a stubborn course, this conversation offers concrete tactics and a mindset you can use right away: build a fueling base you can tolerate for 30 hours, plan targeted solids, practice short naps, and recruit a crew that knows when to push and when to protect. Enjoy the ride, then share it with someone on your team. Subscribe, leave a quick review, and tell us: what's your late-race secret weapon? coaching highlights You can reach out to us at:https://coffeycrewcoaching.comemail: Carla@coffeycrewcoaching.com FB @ Over the Next Hill Fitness GroupIG @coffeycrewcoaching.comand Buy Me a Coffeehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/Carlauhttps://hydra-patch.com/discount/OTNH20 https://hydra-patch.com/discount/OTNHBOGO?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fhydrapatch%C2%AE https://rnwy.life code: OTNH15 https://jambar.com code: CARLA20

On this episode we're joined by Ben Chase. Ben is a two-time guest. We talked to him in 2021 when he was a reporter for the Huron Daily Plainsman in Huron, South Dakota (population ~14,000, one-third of which is Hispanic or Asian). Now he's the paper's managing editor, a role he's held for roughly a year … and it's been quite a year as he'll share.The paper was shut down (briefly), sold, and brought back, but with some changes, including fewer print editions and a directive to be more local.Ben talked about running a small-town newspaper, the types of things the paper covers, how he writes his weekly op-ed piece, and how his stress relief is … more journalism (of a different type).Ben's salute: South Dakota SearchlightExample of Ben's Op-Eds – "It's Not The Same."https://www.plainsman.com/stories/its-not-the-same,163806Background on the sale of the newspaper https://www.plainsman.com/stories/plainsman-three-other-south-dakota-papers-purchased-by-champion-media,148535https://www.midstory.org/can-local-news-survive-south-dakota-says-yes/You can find all our episode guides for teachers and professors here,Please support your local public radio station: adoptastation.orgThank you for listening. You can e-mail me at journalismsalute@gmail.comVisit our website: thejournalismsalute.org Mark's website (MarkSimonmedia.com)Bluesky at @marksimon.bsky.socialSubscribe to our newsletter– journalismsalute.beehiiv.com

Today from SDPB - Grand Gateway trial results, hunger in Huron, and the next five years of rural health funding.

Today from SDPB - a look at what medical professionals in South Dakota are saying about to falling immunization rates, one organization's plan for homelessness in Huron and insight on Rapid City's tax system.

Spearfishing for walleyes and other game fish has slowly been gaining traction in the Great Lakes, and starting April 2026, the sport will enter a new phase there. In November, after years of input from local spearfishermen, the Michigan Natural Resources Commission unanimously approved new and expanded spearfishing regulations for Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior. Although there are some exceptions for certain areas, the new regs that go into effect next spring will allow free-diving spearfishermen to target walleyes, northern pike, and lake trout in the Michigan portions of these lakes. “It's been one of largest expansions for freshwater game fish in the history of North America,“ says Jon Durtka, a lifelong Michigan sportsman and the guest on this week's Outdoor Life Podcast.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legends of the GREAT LAKES Phantom FleetBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/missing-persons-mysteries--5624803/support.

The Beef Checkoff program in the United States will turn 40 years old in 2026. The cattle industry has changed over the years, but the job of the Cattlemen's Beef Board and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be stewards of those dollars remains the same. In this episode, CBB CEO Greg Hanes and DRG News and Farm Director Jody Heemstra talk about the program and what Hanes sees coming in 2026. Incidentally, Hanes will be speaking Dec. 11, 2025, during the South Dakota Farmers Union's 110th annual convention in Huron.

On today's episode, we are welcoming Sofía Ramírez Hernández to the show! Sofía is a trail runner and artist based out of Michigan. She is a part of several different organizations including No Surrender Running Club, Switchback Endurance, Huron 100 and of course, Sofía Draws Every Day. In this episode we dive into the connection between art and trail running and how a daily practice has shifted Sofía's perspective on goal setting. Connect with Sofía on Instagram at @sofiadrawseveryday! https://www.sofiadrawseveryday.com/ You can find more information about The Running Kind here. https://therunningkind.net/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/therunningkind/ @therunningkind_ Aimee Kohler  Founder of The Running Kind @aimskoh Produced by Aimee Kohler Music Dim Red Light by Don Dilego  

North Dakota Farmers Union will host its annual state convention Friday, Dec. 12, at the Bismarck Event Center. The 110th South Dakota Farmers Union State Convention will take place in Huron on December 10 and 11. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National Day of Prayer for Women's Huron ValleyJoin us as WE stand in Prayer for the women suffering inside the TOXIC MOLD INFESTED.... Women's Huron Valley Prison (WHV), where unconstitutional and dangerous conditions continue to threaten lives.“Remember those in prison as if you were there yourself.” — Hebrews 13:3“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” — Proverbs 31:8“If one member suffers, all suffer with it.” — 1 Corinthians 12:26“For I was in prison, and you came unto Me.” — Matthew 25:36We are praying specifically for:✨ The women currently and formerly incarcerated✨ Healing and Protection for Krystal Clark, who is allergic to mold and deteriorating✨ Comfort for the family of Jennifer Wallace, who has recently passed✨ Accountability, Intervention, and Urgent Action✨ Real Systemic Change***Turning A Moment Into A Movement Podcast MISSION:To bring awareness, organize, and create content that will be a resource that will aide families, communities, and those seeking Justice for WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS and Injustice. ...and advocating for Justice & Exoneration for GERARD HAYCRAFT. www. change.org/Justice4GerardTo learn more: https://linktr.ee/turningamomentintoa...To find out about Kyrstal Clark: https://linktr.ee/fightingforkrystalc...

Send us a textWhat's really happening behind the scenes in education consulting right now? In this panel, Ish (ex-BCG) sits down with Mark Finlan (Huron), Laura Brookhiser (L.E.K.), and Miriam El-Baz (Grant Thornton Stax) for a fast, unfiltered look at how top firms are navigating a rapidly shifting education landscape.You'll hear how these firms are responding to enrollment pressure, the return of standardized testing, AI's influence on academic integrity, and the growing role of private equity across the education ecosystem.The panel also shares clear, practical advice for anyone trying to break into education consulting in 2025 — including what actually makes candidates stand out in interviews.Each firm is hiring now. Click here to see open roles and prep resources to help you land your next offer.Additional Resources:Explore open roles at Grant Thornton Stax, Huron, and L.E.K.Join Black Belt for personalized coaching, digital assessment practice, and targeted prep to break into education consultingListen to the Market Outsiders podcast, the new daily show with the Management Consulted team Listen to the Market Outsiders podcast, the new daily show with the Management Consulted teamCanada NowBold ideas with the people shaping Canada's next chapter.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Canada NowBold ideas with the people shaping Canada's next chapter.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyConnect With Management Consulted Schedule free 15min consultation with the MC Team. Watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube! Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok for the latest updates and industry insights! Join an upcoming live event - case interviews demos, expert panels, and more. Email us (team@managementconsulted.com) with questions or feedback.

pWotD Episode 3115: SS Edmund Fitzgerald Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 234,029 views on Tuesday, 11 November 2025 our article of the day is SS Edmund Fitzgerald.SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U. S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite (a variety of iron ore) from mines along the Minnesota Iron Range near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between Lake Huron and Lake Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship. Her size, record-breaking performance, and "DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers.On the afternoon of November 9, 1975, she embarked on her final voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, carrying a full cargo of taconite ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, she was caught the next day in a severe storm with near-hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. Sometime after 5:30 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald reported being in difficulty; at 7:10 p.m., Captain McSorley sent his last message, "We are holding our own". Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at top speed. Her crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. The exact cause of the sinking remains unknown, though many books, studies, and expeditions have examined it. Edmund Fitzgerald may have been swamped, suffered structural failure or topside damage, grounded on a shoal, or suffered from a combination of these.The disaster is one of the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping, in part because Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 popular ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Lightfoot wrote the hit song after reading an article, "The Cruelest Month", in the November 24, 1975, issue of Newsweek. The sinking led to changes in Great Lakes shipping regulations and practices that included mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 10:03 UTC on Wednesday, 12 November 2025.For the full current version of the article, see SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Raveena.

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs because of its beautiful, hunting melody. The words were written all the way back in 1643 by Jean de Brebeuf, a Christian missionary to the Huron indians. Jean de Brebeuf lived with the Huron Indians translating their books into English and telling the story of the Gospel for several years. In 1649 the tribe was invaded by the Iroquois Indians who drove the Huron people from their land and killed Jean de Brebeuf in the process.As the Huron people spread across the country and took this song with them. It has remained a part of Canada's history and musical traditions. Listen: Download Sheet Music:Here is the sheet music to the above recording. DOWNLOAD HURON CAROL sheet music Practice Notes: Download huron Carol Practice Notes Huron Carol is such a beautiful song with a rich history. I really hope you'll take the time to play through it on piano, or listen to the recording this Christmas season. Enjoy! - Victoria

Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard.~~~Ash is the first of two tonight from Ontario, Canada, and he will be sharing his UFO encounters. The first is of a black triangle that he witnessed on a family camping trip near Lake Huron in 1989. His second was also by a lake; but this time it was Lake St. Clair, where Ash and a friend observed a glowing sphere. Then we speak to Cody, who will also be sharing a couple UFO experiences from the summer of 2012, one being a sighting of a cigar-shaped craft on a clear cloudless afternoon in Montana. Cody also has some interesting paranormal encounters, notably one of a Cowboy ghost that paid Cody a visit.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/lake-huron-ufo-cowboy-ghost/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastX: https://twitter.com/UFOchronpodcastThank you for listening!Please leave a review if you enjoy the show.Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard.~~~Ash is the first of two tonight from Ontario, Canada, and he will be sharing his UFO encounters. The first is of a black triangle that he witnessed on a family camping trip near Lake Huron in 1989. His second was also by a lake; but this time it was Lake St. Clair, where Ash and a friend observed a glowing sphere. Then we speak to Cody, who will also be sharing a couple UFO experiences from the summer of 2012, one being a sighting of a cigar-shaped craft on a clear cloudless afternoon in Montana. Cody also has some interesting paranormal encounters, notably one of a Cowboy ghost that paid Cody a visit.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/lake-huron-ufo-cowboy-ghost/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastX: https://twitter.com/UFOchronpodcastThank you for listening!Please leave a review if you enjoy the show.Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

In the fall of 2024 Kayte had the chance to talk with Nicole Keith, Food Sovereignty Coordinator of the Nottawasepi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (also known as NHBP) and Kevin Harris, Culture Specialist with the NHBP.They visited Bloomington in the fall of 2024 to share a film about wild river rice with The First Nations Educational and Cultural Center on the IU campus, in partnership with the IU Media School. The film is called Mnomen | Wild Rice "From the River Banks to the Table.”The interview that appeared in the last episode of our Eats Wild series was cut for time, here is an extended version. 

In the fall of 2024 Kayte had the chance to talk with Nicole Keith, Food Sovereignty Coordinator of the Nottawasepi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (also known as NHBP) and Kevin Harris, Culture Specialist with the NHBP.They visited Bloomington in the fall of 2024 to share a film about wild river rice with The First Nations Educational and Cultural Center on the IU campus, in partnership with the IU Media School. The film is called Mnomen | Wild Rice "From the River Banks to the Table.”The interview that appeared in the last episode of our Eats Wild series was cut for time, here is an extended version. 

I met Morgan Myers back in 2017 with the Columbus Westside Running Club. We had run together occasionally at group runs, but our most recent time running together was 2021 at the GRRR 50k, before she moved away. She continues challenging herself and recently completed the Woodstock 50 miler. She is such a happy person to be around & it was great catching up as she is gearing up for the Huron 100 miler. Don't challenge her because she will go three times farther than you think.

durée : 00:55:28 - Very Good Trip - par : Michka Assayas - Ce soir, un voyage en pays country-folk, aux États-Unis, mais pas seulement, on passera aussi par l'Irlande et la Suède. Et pas mal de jeunes voix qui donnent au jour beaucoup d'actualité et de fraîcheur. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

There are five Great Lakes: Superior, Ontario, Michigan, Huron and Erie. But for a few fleeting weeks in the late 1990s, Lake Champlain made six.How did this happen? To answer that question from Erin Robbason of West Rutland, we pass the mic to our friends at Interlochen Public Radio and the podcast Point North for a story about Lake Champlain's brief and controversial stint as the sixth Great Lake.Find the web version of this story here.This episode was reported and produced by Ruth Abramovitz and Dan Wanschura. It was edited by Morgan Springer. Additional editing from Dan Wanschura, Ellie Katz and Claire Keenan-Kurgan.The Brave Little State team is Josh Crane, Sabine Poux and Burgess Brown. Our intern is Camila Van Order González. Our Executive Producer is Angela Evancie. Theme music by Ty Gibbons; Other music by Blue Dot Sessions.As always, our journalism is better when you're a part of it: Ask a question about Vermont Sign up for the BLS newsletter Say hi onInstagram and Reddit @bravestatevt Drop us an email: hello@bravelittlestate.org Make a gift to support people-powered journalism Tell your friends about the show! Brave Little State is a production of Vermont Public and a proud member of the NPR Network.

September 25, 2025 ~ Ven Johnson Law attorney Ven Johnson chats with Kevin about the lawsuit against Huron Valley Schools. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Greg Marchildon speaks with Michael A. McDonnell about his book, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. Masters of Empire by Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. Masters of Empire charts the story of one group, the Odawa, who settled at the straits between those two lakes, a hub for trade and diplomacy throughout the vast country west of Montreal known as the pays d'en haut. Through vivid depictions--all from a native perspective--of early skirmishes, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution, Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America. Michael A. McDonnell is an associate professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, winner of the 2008 New South Wales Premier's History Prize, and coeditor of Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War. His work was included in the Best American History Essays 2008 and he won the Lester Cappon Prize for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2006. He has received numerous research scholarships and grants in the United States and Australia and has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Image Credit: Hill and Wang If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past.

It's not easy to keep pace with constant change. If you want to stand out, you need to pivot (yes, PIVOT!), adapt, and build real connection with your audience.That's the genius of Friends, a cultural phenomenon built on chemistry, community, and conversations that felt timeless. In this episode, we're decoding its lessons with the help of special guest Lisa Cole, Chief Marketing Officer at 2X.Together, we explore what B2B marketers can learn from embracing constant pivots, building your own Central Perk with your community, and why team chemistry often matters more than individual expertise.About our guest, Lisa ColeLisa Cole is currently CMO at 2X. She's a strategic marketing leader with over 24 years of experience driving transformative growth for B2B technology and professional services. As a former CMO at Huron, FARO, and Cellebrite, she has earned industry recognition for enhancing brand positioning, optimizing demand generation, and leveraging AI to accelerate go-to-market strategies. Through her earned accolades from Sirius Decisions, Forrester, and CMO Alliance and her book The Revenue RAMP, she guides B2B leaders in achieving more with less using her proven frameworks. What B2B Companies Can Learn From Friends:Pivot, pivot, pivot. In marketing, staying still isn't an option. New channels, new buyer behaviors, and now AI advancements mean marketers are in a constant state of change. Lisa explains, “Pivot is certainly one, especially now that, it seems like every week there's a new advancement… marketing as a whole is pivot. We're constantly in a period of time in between pivots is compressing.” The same way Ross couldn't move that couch without shouting “Pivot!” every marketer today needs to be ready to shift strategy, adjust direction, and keep moving forward.Create your Central Perk. Every brand needs a place where buyers feel safe, connected, and part of something bigger than a transaction. For the Friends cast, it was Central Perk, a space where they could gather, vent, and support each other without judgment. Lisa says, “You have to create a place… where your target audience, your buyers feel safe to get together and meet and engage as a community… if you care about Central Perk for your buyers, then they'll care about you too.” In B2B, that means investing in communities and experiences where customers can be candid, connect with peers, and build trust—with your brand quietly in the background.Build team chemistry. The Friends cast worked because the chemistry was real—something greater than the sum of its parts. Marketing teams are no different. Lisa says, “Sometimes it's the chemistry that matters more than the expertise. It's not necessarily that I brought together six experts.  It's the way that they work together, sometimes is the real magic.” Great marketing doesn't just come from the smartest experts; it comes from teams (in-house, partners, or both) who click, collaborate, and push each other toward a shared mission.Quote“  I'm not necessarily saying to marketers that this cast needs to be a large in-house marketing team. I'm just simply saying that the people that are in the day-to-day business of executing marketing for your organization, that there is a chemistry between them and that they are working together in a unified way.”Time Stamps[00:55] Meet Lisa Cole, CMO at 2X[01:09] Why Friends?[01:52] The Role of CMO at 2X[03:34] The Creation of Friends[07:54] The Chemistry and Dynamics of Friends[21:59] Marketing Takeaways from Friends[32:17] The Humble Leader[37:36] Introducing Brand Gravity[48:11] 2X's Content Strategy[49:46] Final Thoughts and TakeawaysLinksConnect with Lisa on LinkedInLearn more about 2XAbout Remarkable!Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com. In today's episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Head of Production). Remarkable was produced this week by Jess Avellino, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK. Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.

The 2025 South Dakota State Fair runs from Aug. 27 through Sept. 1 at the state fairgrounds in Huron, with Saturday, Aug. 30 being Farmers Union Day. In this episode, SD Farmers Union President Doug Sombke chats with DRG Media Group News and Farm Director Jody Heemstra about SDFU's support for the fair, the 52 cent cost of the Farmer's Share Luncheon, their interactive Farm Safety Trailer and more. The Farm Safety Trailer will be set up every day of the fair, on Third Street of the state fairgrounds, in front of the Dakotaland Museum. The safety demonstrations will be given at 11 AM, 2 PM and 4 PM, each day of the 2025 South Dakota State Fair.

This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man and Ross the Produce Boss are joined by Farmer Lee Jones from The Chef's Garden in Huron, Ohio.Farmer Lee digs deep into regenerative agriculture—feeding the soil, respecting its biology, and restoring nutrients to our food. He explains how vegetables grown a century ago carried up to 80% more nutrients than they do today, but now we're bringing that back—dusting it off, reinventing it, and restoring the living biology in the soil. As he says: “There's more life in a tablespoon of healthy soil than in the whole world—when the biology is respected.”We also explore Farmer Lee's journey: from standard farming practices to transforming The Chef's Garden under the influence of world-renowned chefs. Together, they built a path forward when times were tough, advancing their offerings through a focus on texture, body, color, and flavor.It's a powerful conversation about soil, chefs, and survival in the produce world—all right here on Fresh from the Field Fridays from The Produce Industry Network and AgLife Media.

This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man and Ross the Produce Boss are joined by Farmer Lee Jones from The Chef's Garden in Huron, Ohio.Farmer Lee digs deep into regenerative agriculture—feeding the soil, respecting its biology, and restoring nutrients to our food. He explains how vegetables grown a century ago carried up to 80% more nutrients than they do today, but now we're bringing that back—dusting it off, reinventing it, and restoring the living biology in the soil. As he says: “There's more life in a tablespoon of healthy soil than in the whole world—when the biology is respected.”We also explore Farmer Lee's journey: from standard farming practices to transforming The Chef's Garden under the influence of world-renowned chefs. Together, they built a path forward when times were tough, advancing their offerings through a focus on texture, body, color, and flavor.It's a powerful conversation about soil, chefs, and survival in the produce world—all right here on Fresh from the Field Fridays from The Produce Industry Network and AgLife Media.

The 2025 South Dakota State Fair begins Aug. 27 and goes through Sept. 1 at the state fairgrounds in Huron. In this episode, Assistant Fair Manager Candi Briley shares info about this year's event including the new Sensory Friendly morning on Aug. 27, the ribbon cutting for the SHED which is the new home for open class sheep and fireworks displays to help kickoff the America 250 celebration.

The USS Huron was an iron-hulled gunboat of the United States Navy; a screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, built in Pennsylvania and commissioned in 1875. The Huron ran aground off Nags Head, North Carolina in heavy weather, and was wrecked. At first, her crew worked in relatively little danger, attempting to free their ship, but she soon heeled over, carrying 98 officers and men to their deaths. I was honored to lend my voice to help revive and celebrate the epic tale of an American naval hero involved in this tragedy, as part of The BackTracker History Show. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/ZP7j0b0fORE which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. The BackTracker History Show available at https://amzn.to/48zINnM ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarkVinet_HNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Audio credit: The BackTracker History Show with Alice Hill (Episode- USS Huron: Bristol's U.S Hero, BSR FM103.4)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the epic tale of an American navel hero, so I was honored to lend my voice to help revive and celebrate his spirit as part of The BackTracker History Show hosted by my podcasting friend from across the pond, Alice Hill. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/wpZs-G_UXMQ which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. The BackTracker History Show available at https://amzn.to/48zINnM ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarkVinet_HNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Audio credit: The BackTracker History Show with Alice Hill (Episode- USS Huron: Bristol's U.S Hero, BSR FM103.4)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Woster steps up to the mic to discuss the newspaper closures in Brookings, Huron, Redfield and Flandreau. We explore changes in the local journalism industry.

Long-time journalist Kevin Woster analyzes the impacts of shuttering newspapers in Brookings, Huron, Redfield and Flandreau.

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper原文Chapter XII: The Last of the MohicansMagua and Cora walked into the forest.They walked towards the Hurons village.An hour later, Hawk-eye, Duncan and followed Magua was trail 200 young Delawares went with the three friends.All stayed in the Delawares village.Hawk-eye spoke to Uncas.'Major Heyward and I will find Chingachgook and General Munro,'he said. 'They are safe in the forest. Uncas, take the Delawares with you.Follow Magua's trail. Be careful! There will be many Hurons in the forest. Wewill meet you at the Hurons village. Magua will take Cora to the cave in the hill, ' said Hawk-eye. 'We will find her. We will help her.'Come,' said Duncan.Hawk-eye and Duncan soon found Chingachgook and Munro.They quickly told Monro their story.Then the four men went to the Hurons village.They walked up the hill towards the cave.Suddenly they heard shouts and cries.They looked down at the village, all the Delawares were fighting the Hurons in the village,then Magua and some Hurons ran up the hill.They were going to the cave was right after them.Hawk-eye and his friends fought the Hurons.The fight was terrible, but Magua escaped.Then Hawk-eye,Duncan, Monro, the Mohicans and their friends, saw Magua again.He was with another Huron.They were in front of the cave.The two Indians were pulling Cora.'Cora!'shouted Duncan. 'There is Cora!'Uncas ran towards the rocks above the cave.Cora had stopped in front of the cave.Magua took out his knife. He turned to Cora.'Woman!' he shouted 'Will you be the wife of Magua? Or will you die!''Kill me, Magua!' Cora said. 'I will not go with you!'Suddenly there was a cry.Uncas was standing on the rocks above them.Magua looked up. The other Huron turned to Cora.He stabbed her with his knife and killer her.Magua shouted angrily.He lifted his knife and killed the Huron.Then Uncas jumped on Magua. They fought.But Magua turned quickly. He stabbed Uncas four times.The young Mohican stood for a moment.Then he fell at Magua's feet - dead.Hawk-eye saw Uncas fall.The scout ran towards Magua.Magua ran up the path. His enemies were below him.Magua climbed up the rocks. Then he turned and looked down.Hawk-eye stopped running. He lifted his long gun.Maguajumped towards a higher rock and Hawk- eye fired.Magua'sfingers touched the rock.But the bullet from Hawk- eye's gun killed him.And his body fell down and down onto the rocks.A day later, General Munro, Duncan and Alice stood by the graves of Uncas and Cora.They were sad and silent.Then they said good bye to Hawk-eye, Chingachgook, and the Delawares.And they walked away into the forest.Chingachgook looked at Hawk-eye.'All the people of my tribe have gone now,' he said. 'I am alone.''No,'said Hawk-eye. 'Uncas has gone. But you are not alone.'He put his hand on Chingachgook's hand.The tears of the two friends fell onto the grave of Uncas.In 1758, General Munro died. Alice married Duncan Heyward and they lived happily together.From that time, the Delawares told their children the story of the English woman and the young Mohican.And they told their children the words of Tamenund, the old chief 'The time of the right man has gone. We fought for our land. But now there are many white men - as many as the leaves on the trees. I have lived too long. I have seen the last of the Mohicans!'翻译第十二章：最后的莫希干人玛瓜和科拉走进了森林。他们朝休伦村走去。一个小时后，鹰眼、邓肯和马瓜跟着200名年轻的特拉华人一起去了。所有人都留在了特拉华的村庄。鹰眼对乌卡斯说。他说，“海沃德少校和我将找到钦加古和门罗将军。他们在森林里很安全。乌卡斯，带上特拉华人。跟着马瓜的足迹走。小心!森林里会有很多休伦人。我们在休伦村见。马瓜会带科拉去山上的山洞。我们会找到她的。我们会帮助她的。”“来吧，”邓肯说。鹰眼和邓肯很快找到了钦加古和门罗。他们很快把自己的经历告诉了门罗。这四个人就往休伦人的村子去了。他们向山上的山洞走去。突然，他们听到喊叫声和哭声。他们向下看了看村子，所有的特拉华人都在村里和休伦人战斗，然后马瓜和一些休伦人跑上了山。他们要去的山洞就在他们后面。鹰眼和他的朋友们与休伦人作战。战斗很激烈，但马瓜逃了出来。然后鹰眼、邓肯、门罗、莫希干人和他们的朋友们又见到了马瓜。他和另一个休伦人在一起。他们在山洞前面。两个印第安人拉着科拉。“科拉!”邓肯喊道。“科拉在那儿！”乌卡斯朝山洞上方的岩石跑去。科拉在山洞前停了下来。马瓜拿出了他的刀。他转向科拉。“女人!”他喊道，“你愿意做马瓜的妻子吗？不然你会死的！”“杀了我吧，马瓜！”科拉说。“我不跟你去！”突然传来一声喊叫。乌卡斯站在他们上方的岩石上。马瓜抬起头来。另一个休伦人转向科拉。他用刀捅了她，然后杀了她。马瓜生气地喊道。他举起刀，杀死了休伦人。然后，乌卡斯扑向了马瓜。他们战斗。但马瓜很快就转过身来。他捅了乌卡斯四刀。年轻的莫希干人站了一会儿。然后，他倒在马瓜的脚下，死了。鹰眼看到乌卡斯倒下了。侦察员向马瓜跑去。玛瓜沿着小路跑了起来。他的敌人在他下面。玛瓜爬上了岩石。然后他转过身往下看。鹰眼停止了奔跑。他举起长枪。马瓜跳向更高的岩石，鹰眼开火了。玛瓜的手指碰到了岩石。但是鹰眼枪里的子弹杀死了他。他的身体不停地倒在岩石上。一天后，门罗将军、邓肯和爱丽丝站在乌卡斯和科拉的墓前。他们悲伤而沉默。然后他们向鹰眼、钦加古和特拉华人告别。然后他们走进了森林。钦加古看着鹰眼。他说，“我们部落的人都走了。“我一个人。”“没有。”鹰眼说。“乌卡斯走了。但你并不孤单。”他把手放在钦加古的手上。两个朋友的眼泪落在乌卡斯的坟墓上。1758年，门罗将军去世。爱丽丝嫁给了邓肯·海沃德，他们幸福地生活在一起。从那时起，特拉华人就给孩子们讲那个英国女人和年轻的莫希干人的故事。他们把老首领塔米纳德的话告诉了他们的孩子：“正义的时代已经过去了。我们为我们的土地而战。但是现在有很多白人——和树上的叶子一样多。我活得太久了。我见到了最后一个莫希干人！”

This week, we're kicking off some of our 50th Anniversary coverage on the show, joined by Chris Cook of Huron Web Printing & Graphics out of Canada. They handle our print media and after spending the afternoon with him and Jungle, I had to capture their experiences and expertise on the Jungle Jim's Podcast. We talk about the changing nature of print media, that tactile feedback you get from engaging with physical media compared to digital, and all of the ups and downs in the marketing industry over the 34 years Huron has been in business. Another fascinating interview where an expert helps "give up the game," so to speak. Thankful for their time! Don't forget to visit JungleJims.com/50 to sign up to win the Jungle Jim's LEGO set!

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper词汇提示1.tattoo 纹身原文Chapter XI: The Old ChiefMagua went to the Delawares' village.The Delawares were friends of France. But they did not fight in the war.Magua went to the Delawares' meeting-house.The Delaware chiefs were talking.'The Huron chief is welcome,' said a Delaware.'Is my woman prisoner safe and well?' asked Magua.'She is well,' said the Delaware.Then Magua said, 'Are there strangers in the forest? White men?''There are strangers in the village,' said the Delaware. 'They are in my house. But strangers are always welcome in this village.''What will the King of France say about this?' said Magua. 'His greatest enemy is here in the Delawares' village. This enemy is a white man. He kills many friends of the French.''Which white man is an enemy of France?' asked the Delaware chief.'The scout, Hawk-eye!' said Magua. 'The Long Gun! The other strangers are his friends. They are the enemies of France too.'The Delawares started to talk quietly.One of them left the meeting-house quickly.A few minutes later, he came back.Then a very old man came into the meeting-house.Two young Delawares helped the old man.He had long white hair and there were many lines on his face.The chiefs spoke his name -'Tamenund.'Magua knew the name of this famous Delaware chief.Tamenund was more than one hundred years old!Tamenund sat down. Then he spoke to the two young Delawares.They got up and went away .Soon,they came back with Alice, Cora, Duncan and Hawk-eye.Cora was very angry.She spoke to the chiefs.'Yesterday, we were welcome in this village,' she said. 'The Delawares were our friends.Today we are your prisoners. Why are we prisoners?'Tamenund did not answer.'Which man is Hawk-eye, The Long Gun?' he asked.Hawk-eye walked forward. 'I am Hawk-eye,' he said.Then Tamenund spoke quickly to Magua.'Take your prisoner - the dark-haired woman. Go!' he said.But Cora spoke to the old chief.'Another man came to this village with us,' she said. 'Now he is a prisoner too. But he is one of your own people. He will tell our story. Please! Listen to him!'Tamenund looked at the chiefs.'Who is this other prisoner?' he asked.'He fights for the English,' Magua said quickly. 'You must kill him.''Bring him here!' said Tamenund.Two men left the meeting-house. Soon they came back with Uncas.Uncas was not wearing a shirt. His hands were tied .He stood in front of Tamenund.The old chief looked at him.Tamenund saw a tattoo on Uncas's chest.It was a picture of a turtle.'Who are you?' The old chief asked.'I am Uncas, son of Chingachgook. Son of the great Unamis，the Turtle' Uncas replied. Chingachgook and Uncas are the last of the Mohicans.Tamenund looked at Uncas.Then he smiled at the young Mohican.'Your father is a great chief,' he said.Uncas suddenly saw Hawk-eye.'Delaware Father,' he said to Tamenund. 'This is my friend, Hawk-eye. He is a friend of the Delawares.''The Long Gun?' said Tamenund. 'He is not a friend of the Delawares. He kills our young men.'Then Hawk-eye spoke.'I kill Hurons,' he said. 'I have never killed a Delaware.'The Delawares believed Hawk-eye's words.Tamenund looked at Uncas.'Why are you the Huron's prisoner?' he asked.'I helped the English woman,' said Uncas.Tamenund looked at Cora.Then he spoke to Magua.'And why is the English woman your prisoner ?' he asked.'I hate the English! ' said Magua. 'Now the daughter of an English chief is my prisoner. Now the daughter of Munro will be my wife.'Magua went to Cora and held her arm.'Wait!'shouted Duncan. ' Don't take her. The English will give you money.'But Magua did not listen. He pulled Cora towards the door.'Come!'he said to her.'I am your prisoner,' Cora said to Magua. 'But do not touch me.'She turned to Duncan.'Please take care of my young sister,' she said.She kissed Alice.Then she spoke to Magua. 'I will come with you.''And I will come too!' shouted Duncan. 'I will help you, Cora!''Wait!'said Hawk-eye. He held Duncan's arm.Hawk-eye spoke quickly and quietly.'Magua's friends are waiting in the forest,' he said.'They will kill you.''Huron!'said Uncas. 'We will find you! We will kill you!'But Magua laughed.'Mohican,'said Magua. 'You cannot kill me. I am too strong. Stay here with your brothers,the Delawares. They are weak. They like their homes and their food. They do not like fighting. They will not help you.'Then Magua walked out of the meeting house.Cora followed him.Uncas spoke to Tamenund.'Delaware Father,' he said. 'Help us. We must follow the English woman.'Tamenund called the young men of the village.'Go with the Mohican,' he said. 'The Hurons are now our enemies!'翻译第十一章：老酋长马瓜去了特拉华人的村庄。特拉华人是法国的朋友。但是他们没有参加战争。马瓜去了特拉华人的聚会所。特拉华的酋长们正在谈话。一位特拉华人说，休伦族酋长是受欢迎的。“我的女囚犯平安吗？”玛瓜问。“她很好，”特拉华人说。然后马瓜说：“森林里有陌生人吗？白人?”“村里有陌生人，”特拉华人说。“他们在我家里。但是这个村子总是欢迎陌生人的。”“法国国王会怎么说呢？”马瓜说。“他最大的敌人就在特拉华的村子里。这个敌人是个白人。他杀了很多法国人的朋友。”“哪个白人是法国的敌人？”特拉华酋长问。“侦察兵，鹰眼！”玛瓜说。“长枪！其他的陌生人都是他的朋友。他们也是法国的敌人。”特拉华人开始轻声交谈。其中一个很快离开了会场。几分钟后，他回来了。这时，一位老人走进了会议室。两个年轻的特拉华人帮助老人。他有长长的白发，脸上有许多皱纹。酋长们叫他的名字——“塔米纳德”。马瓜知道这位著名的特拉华酋长的名字。塔米纳德已经一百多岁了！塔米纳德坐了下来。然后他对两个年轻的特拉华人说。他们起身走了。很快，他们带着爱丽丝、科拉、邓肯和鹰眼回来了。科拉非常生气。她对酋长们说。“昨天，我们在这个村子受到欢迎，”她说。“特拉华人是我们的朋友。今天我们是你们的囚犯。为什么我们是囚犯？”塔米纳德没有回答。“谁是鹰眼，长枪？”他问。鹰眼向前走去。“我是鹰眼，”他说。然后塔米纳德迅速地对马瓜说。“带上你的俘虏——那个黑头发的女人。走吧!”他说。但科拉和老酋长谈了谈。“另一个男人和我们一起来到这个村子，”她说。“现在他也是个囚犯。但他是你们自己人。他将讲述我们的故事。拜托!听他的！”塔米纳德看着酋长们。“另一个囚犯是谁？”他问。“他为英国人而战，”马瓜很快地说。“你必须杀了他。”“把他带来！”塔米纳德说。两个人离开了会场。不久，他们带着乌卡斯回来了。乌卡斯没有穿衬衫。他的手被绑住了。他站在塔米嫩德面前。老酋长看着他。塔米纳德在昂卡斯的胸前看到了一个纹身。这是一张乌龟的照片。“你是谁？”老酋长问。“我是乌卡斯，钦加古之子。伟大的乌龟神乌那弥斯之子。”昂卡斯回答。钦加古和乌卡斯是最后的莫希干人。塔米纳德看着乌卡斯。然后他对年轻的莫希干人微笑。“你父亲是个伟大的酋长，”他说。乌卡斯突然看见鹰眼。“特拉华州的父亲，”他对塔米嫩德说。“这是我的朋友，鹰眼。他是特拉华人的朋友。”“长枪？”塔米纳德说。“他不是特拉华人的朋友。他杀了我们的年轻人。”然后鹰眼说话了。“我杀休伦人，”他说。“我从来没有杀过特拉华人。”特拉华人相信鹰眼的话。塔米纳德看着乌卡斯。“你为什么是休伦人的俘虏？”他问。“我帮助了那个英国女人，”乌卡斯说。塔米嫩德看着科拉。然后他对马瓜说。“为什么那个英国女人是你的俘虏？”“我讨厌英国人！”马瓜说。“现在一个英国酋长的女儿是我的俘虏。现在，门罗的女儿将成为我的妻子。”马瓜走到科拉跟前，挽着她的胳膊。“等等!”邓肯喊道。“别带走她。英国人会给你钱的。”但马瓜不听。他把科拉拉到门口。“来!”他对她说。“我是你的俘虏，”科拉对马瓜说。“但是不要碰我。”她转向邓肯。“请照顾好我的妹妹，”她说。她吻了吻爱丽丝。然后她对马瓜说。“我和你一起去。”“我也要去！”邓肯喊道。“我会帮助你的，科拉！”“等等!”鹰眼说。他抓住邓肯的胳膊。鹰眼说得又快又轻。“马瓜的朋友们在森林里等着，”他说。“他们会杀了你的。”“休伦人!”乌卡斯说。“我们会找到你的！”我们要杀了你！”但马瓜笑了。“莫希干人，”玛瓜说。“你不能杀我。我太强壮了。和你的兄弟们呆在一起，特拉华人。他们很弱。他们喜欢他们的家和食物。他们不喜欢打架。他们不会帮助你的。”然后，马瓜走出了会议室。科拉跟着他。乌卡斯对塔米嫩德说。“特拉华人的父亲，”他说。“帮助我们。我们必须跟着那个英国女人。”塔米纳德叫来村里的年轻人。“跟莫希干人一起去，”他说。“休伦人现在是我们的敌人！”

In this episode, Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Jay Austin about stratification in lakes and how the Great Lakes behave differently, stratificationally speaking. Plus: fancy meat!--Links:Jay Austin | Swenson College of Science and Engineering | UMN Duluth Winter thermal structure across the Laurentian Great Lakes - ScienceDirect In winter, the waters of Lakes Michigan and Huron separate into layers. Not anymore. Why? Data: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory - Ann Arbor, MI, USA An abrupt decline in springtime zooplankton diel vertical migration due to a shift in stratification regime - ScienceDirect Teach Me About the Great Lakes | Most of My Babies Are BuoysTeach Me About the Great Lakes | 62: The G.L.O.A.T.  Northern Waters Smokehaus Blue Heron | Swenson College of Science and Engineering | UMN Duluth Slate Islands Provincial Park  

When walking into a high school arena gives off a college atmosphere, you know the technology is having a big impact. To hear about that impact, Justin and Matt visited Huron High School in South Dakota to talk with Scott DeBoer and Michael Dramstad. Scott is the Activities Director and Huron Arena Manager while Michael is the Network Systems Engineer for the Huron School District. They dig into the technology, including the largest end wall display in a South Dakota High School, and how they are making it work for their events, students, sponsors and more.   Links: YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/SgVljPv-Cn8  Daktronics News Release: https://www.daktronics.com/news/huron-high-school-elevates-live-event-experience-with-daktronics-digital-display-installation    

Jason Przekurat joins the JMO Podcast to hash over his 2025 tournament season so far and deep dive into his recent 6th place finish at the National Walleye Tour event on Lake Huron. As a veteran in the professional ranks, Jason has a wealth of knowledge but continues to evolve and learn. Adding FFS to his tournament tool box has been important for him to stay competitive, with a 6th place finish on Huron he is proving he is just that.TKI CNC - https://www.youtube.com/@tkicnc6255 www.tkicnc.comJT Rods - www.jtodp.comDevils Lake Tourism - www.devilslakend.comWebsite - www.jmopodcast.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/JMOFishingPodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_jmopodcast/

In S5Ep7 of the PRP, Adam chops it up with blossoming ultra running besties, self-taught watershed endurance scholars, certified Brighton Running Lab rats and brave-as-hell first-time 100 milers Kennedy Hyde & Sidney Jonckheere who have been preparing for the Huron 100 on Saturday June 7th, 2025.Tap in to follow the hilarious and inspiring journey of two trail sisters-in-the-making who've swapped college classrooms for single track sermons and late-night study sessions for long-run snack prep. Kennedy—former soccer star, proud dog mama and modern-day trail Magellan—might not always know where she is, but definitely knows why she's out there. Syd—aspiring garden guru, grounded gummy worm analyst, and intentional electrolyte sommelier—is lacing up with a quiet fierceness and the kind of grace you only get from honoring your pace, fueling with intention, and refusing to let doubt outrun joy.The squad deep dives into what it means to show up for one another through the highs, lows, bonks, and breakthroughs. No coaches, no rigid plans—just two young women listening to their guts (and occasionally their knees), setting audacious goals and giving each other permission to chase big dreams without apology.Things get vulnerable when Sid & Kenny reflect on what it means to show up exactly as you are and explain how the trail & running communities have become a primary space for them to explore identity, challenge old definitions of success, and lean into their individuality. The two also discuss the freedom that comes with taking the pressure off, trusting your own rhythm, and letting running be a practice in presence rather than perfection. From bug bites to body image and real food to raw feelings ft. a healthy does of trail trash talk, these two kindred spirits remind us all that the real finish line is feeling connected—to the run, to your people, and most importantly to who you're becoming.WTF is Hazel Nut Cream? Just how hard is Ken ridin' the Bull? Errr did Koda just fart? Who the hell is Bubbs?! Garden alarms?! Potato shapes, pickleball feuds & patella tendons oh my!This and so much more in this heart-filled, food-forward, sisterhood-celebrating edition of the PRP.Sponsors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Up & Running Performance⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ann Arbor Running Company⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Recorded Monday June 2nd @ 6:00PM EST

No BS Newshour Episode #374Wuhan on the HuronAnn Arbor has been infiltrated by the Communist Chinese.(0:04) And if nobody's going to do anything about it, we will.PLUS- What's Bull$hit in the News?(11:18) Trump floats amnesty for Illegals… not exactly.(16:49) He told the truth. Labor leader Cesar Chavez's view on illegal immigration in 1974 remains relevant today.(20:09) Dancing oaf Shri Thanedar says he loves Detroit. But nobody will dance with him. (22:15) The Big Beautiful Bill is only beautiful for the rich.(29:13) The Epstein files up in smoke. Again, beautiful for the rich.(34:07) Detroit burns & children are shot - And Duggan wants to be our Governor?(40:36) Mega-chuch Pastor and mayoral candidate Solomon Kinloch swears he lives in Detroit. Now he'll have to swear to God. ⁠NBN on YouTube⁠⁠: https://www.youtube.com/@NoBSNewshourNBN on iTunes⁠⁠: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-bs-newshour-with-charlie-leduff/id1754976617NBN on Spotify⁠⁠: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qMLWg6goiLQCRom8QNndC⁠⁠Like NBN on Facebook⁠⁠:  https://www.facebook.com/LeDuffCharlie⁠⁠Follow to NBN on Twitter : https://x.com/charlieleduff Sponsored by American Coney Island, Pinnacle Wealth Strategies, XG Service Group, and Archangel Senior Management

Corey Lucas and producer Clayton Beaird sit down in the Cedar Run Decoy Co. studio with Great Lakes boat captain and avid waterfowler Karl Hardesty.Growing up around the Great Lakes, the sight of a freighter on the horizon of the big lakes is not uncommon. Karl steps us through how he built a career steering these ships around the big freshwaters of Lake Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Superior. They also learn how the ships hide from storms and what they're hauling around.Karl also shares his cool experiences getting to hunt along side his Dad growing up in Alpena in northern Michigan, and how that has shaped the style of hunting he still does today.Great time with some great stories from a man who shares the same passion for traditional waterfowl hunting as Cedar Run Decoy Co. !Send us a text

What happens when a Michigan man chasing Bigfoot evidence finds himself face-to-face with entities far beyond what he ever imagined — including a fairy, shadow people, and a Sasquatch that growled inches from his head? In this shocking and deeply personal episode, Brian Sawyer returns to share the wild continuation of his journey through haunted lands, interdimensional doorways, and late-night mind-speak encounters. From Port Huron to the remote woods of Blue Creek, Brian describes how the Bigfoot phenomenon expanded into something more terrifying — and more real — than he ever expected. You'll hear about fairies that explode electronics, Sasquatch that follow you home, and one dark moment where a being telepathically demanded: “Come outside. I'm hungry.” This is an unfiltered account of mystery, danger, and the thin veil between worlds. You don't want to miss this.Resources:Brian's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bigfootsofamerica-michigan