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9 Hours and 5 MinutesPG-13Here are episode 1-9 of the Cold War series with Thomas777.The 'Cold War" Pt. 1 - The End Informs the Beginning w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War" Pt. 2 - How It Starts, and Bonus Election Talk w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War" Pt. 3 - The Korean War w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War" Pt. 4 - Konrad Adenauer and the Bundesrepublik w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War' Pt. 5 - 'The Cuban Missile Crisis' w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War' Pt. 6 - Ho Chi Minh and the Origin of the Vietnam War w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War' Pt. 7 - Robert McNamara, Vietnam, and a World Turning 'Red' w/ Thomas777The Cold War Pt. 8 - How the On the Ground Battles in Vietnam Were Fought w/ Thomas777The 'Cold War' Pt. 9 - Battling the Khmer Rouge w/ Thomas777Thomas' SubstackRadio Free Chicago - T777 and J BurdenThomas777 MerchandiseThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

C'est le Nouvel Obs qui nous raconte l'histoire de Melissa, « partie du Vietnam et arrivée aux États-Unis en 1993, à l'âge de 11 ans. »  « Cette mère de quatre enfants, explique l'hebdomadaire, a été considérée comme une "criminelle étrangère" en situation irrégulière, et brutalement renvoyée en novembre 2025 dans son pays natal. » Pourquoi criminelle ? Parce que lorsqu'elle avait 18 ans, « elle a volé des chèques à son employeur », ce qui lui a fait perdre sa green card (la carte de résident permanent). Depuis, elle renouvelait chaque année sa carte de séjour. Or, en novembre 2025, bien qu'une décision de justice ait été rendue en sa faveur, elle est convoquée par l'ICE, la police de l'immigration, et elle est expulsée. Melissa a quitté les États-Unis totalement démunie : « Je n'avais que les habits que j'avais sur moi quand j'ai été arrêtée, se souvient-elle. Je n'ai pas pu embrasser ma famille. Tout s'est passé si vite. Parfois j'ai l'impression que je suis dans un cauchemar et que je vais me réveiller ». Le Nouvel Obs, qui l'a rencontrée dans le sud du Vietnam où elle a été accueillie par de la famille, raconte que « Melissa est réglée sur le fuseau horaire de la côte Est américaine. C'est la nuit là-bas. Danny son mari, et ses quatre enfants, dont les plus jeunes ont sept et dix ans, dorment ». Son seul espoir : une grâce de la gouverneure de Virginie, Abigail Spanberger, une démocrate, première femme à ce poste.  Sombre tableau La France, l'Espagne, la Grèce… les grands incendies de l'été font la Une de l'actualité. « Nos maisons brûlent » annonce le Nouvel Obs en Une, avec en fond une photo de nuit montrant des arbres qui s'enflamment comme des allumettes. « Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs ». La phrase n'est pas d'aujourd'hui, elle a été prononcée en 2002 par l'ancien président français Jacques Chirac…« Vingt-quatre ans ont passé, nos maisons brûlent et nous sommes sidérés par les flammes », constate le Nouvel Obs, « que de temps perdu depuis que Jacques Chirac a joué les Cassandre. »  Dans l'hebdomadaire Le Point, Théo Keeping, chercheur à l'Imperial College de Londres, souligne, lui, que les incendies de l'été « comptent parmi les plus extrêmes jamais observés en Europe. » Et il n'est pas optimiste. « Les répercussions (dit-il) vont au-delà des évacuations et des pertes matérielles. Nous nous attendons à des dizaines de milliers de décès supplémentaires dus à l'exposition aux fumées et à de lourdes conséquences économiques liées aux perturbations causées. » Affaire sensible Marianne alerte sur le racisme anti-blancs. L'hebdomadaire revient sur un fait divers qui a eu un grand retentissement médiatique en France : la mort de Thomas, un adolescent de 17 ans, tué à coups de couteau lors d'un bal à Crépol, dans le sud de la France, en 2023. L'affaire n'a pas encore été jugée, mais les juges d'instruction chargés du dossier « ont décidé, après un nouvel interrogatoire des suspects, de retenir la circonstance aggravante du racisme, à l'encontre de "la race blanche" et "la nation française". »   Ce qui donne satisfaction à Marianne, l'hebdomadaire estimant que « cette décision va à l'encontre d'un certain nombre de commentaires, émanant essentiellement de la gauche, qui avaient balayé cette hypothèse, pour ne voir qu'une rixe entre deux bandes opposées. » Dans le dossier, à ce jour, ajoute Marianne, « ce sont 16 témoins qui ont entendu les agresseurs tenir des propos comme "on va vous crever les petits blancs", ou encore "sale Français de merde". » L'affaire, rappelle Marianne, a été politiquement et médiatiquement très exploitée, ce n'est sans doute pas fini.  Les espions sur le gril L'Express publie un long dossier sur l'espionnage, l'un de ses sujets de prédilection. Cette fois-ci, l'hebdomadaire a eu l'idée de faire un classement des meilleurs espions : « Un palmarès des agences d'espionnage en Europe, réalisé grâce à un jury de 60 professionnels du renseignement, issus de 25 pays ». À ce petit jeu, c'est le Royaume-Uni qui arrive en tête, devant la France et les Pays-Bas.  L'Express est allé plus loin, en demandant aux espions étrangers, ce qu'ils pensent de la DGSE, les services de renseignement français. Il en ressort que « la DGSE est considérée comme un service efficace sur tous les aspects du renseignement, y compris le cyber, capable d'opérer un peu partout dans le monde », assure Grzegorz Malecki, ex-directeur des services secrets polonais. L'Express souligne également l'expertise de la France sur l'Afrique, même si elle a perdu de son influence sur le continent. La DGSE a tout de même connu quelques ratés, et non des moindres : « En 2022, rappelle l'Express, ni la DGSE, ni la Direction du renseignement militaire, n'ont voulu croire à l'invasion de l'Ukraine ».

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOIt was supposed to be a normal day in the late '70s — bad perms, disco on the radio, and teenage daydreams. But for Ellen MacNeil, that day would change her life forever. It began with a feeling — a heaviness she couldn't shake, a shadow that lingered behind every laugh in the high school hallway.Then came the signs. The photo of her brother falling from the wall. Her watch freezing in time. A strange chill that seemed to move with her through the house. And the phone call — the one that confirmed what her soul already knew. Her brother had been killed in Vietnam.But death didn't stop him from coming home.In the days that followed, Ellen's world turned surreal. The lights flickered. Pictures shifted. Objects moved on their own. It was as if her brother's spirit refused to let her grieve alone — determined to show her he was still there, protecting her, guiding her, and refusing to fade away.Decades later, Ellen still remembers that strange and beautiful haunting — proof that sometimes love doesn't end when the heartbeat does.Because family ties don't just survive death… they haunt it.#RealGhostStories #VietnamGhostStory #ParanormalEncounters #TrueGhostStory #FamilyHaunting #AfterlifeConnection #GhostlyPresence #SpiritOfAWarHero #HauntedByLove #ParanormalPodcastLove real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!It was supposed to be a normal day in the late '70s — bad perms, disco on the radio, and teenage daydreams. But for Ellen MacNeil, that day would change her life forever. It began with a feeling — a heaviness she couldn't shake, a shadow that lingered behind every laugh in the high school hallway.Then came the signs. The photo of her brother falling from the wall. Her watch freezing in time. A strange chill that seemed to move with her through the house. And the phone call — the one that confirmed what her soul already knew. Her brother had been killed in Vietnam.But death didn't stop him from coming home.In the days that followed, Ellen's world turned surreal. The lights flickered. Pictures shifted. Objects moved on their own. It was as if her brother's spirit refused to let her grieve alone — determined to show her he was still there, protecting her, guiding her, and refusing to fade away.Decades later, Ellen still remembers that strange and beautiful haunting — proof that sometimes love doesn't end when the heartbeat does.Because family ties don't just survive death… they haunt it.#RealGhostStories #VietnamGhostStory #ParanormalEncounters #TrueGhostStory #FamilyHaunting #AfterlifeConnection #GhostlyPresence #SpiritOfAWarHero #HauntedByLove #ParanormalPodcastLove real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:

Episode 3333 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature an editorial about the meaning of beyond the names on the Wall. The featured editorial is titled: Beyond the names on the Wall. It appeared on the Carroll Times Herald … Continue reading → The post Episode 3333 – Beyond the names on the Wall first appeared on Vietnam Veteran News.

Politics, pressure campaigns, and federal bombshells. Steve Tavares, Trishala Vinnakota, and special co-host Justin Berton break down explosive new court filings in the federal corruption case against former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and the Duong family. Prosecutors allege Thao threatened to abandon a lucrative modular housing deal if East Bay Insiders published a story about former San Leandro Councilmember Bryan Azevedo's conduct during a trip to Vietnam. They also allege the Duongs paid former East Bay Insiders co-host Shawn Wilson $10,000 to suppress the story. We also examine the latest in the CA14 special election including how Melissa Hernandez's divorce records raise new questions about a central theme of her campaign biography. Plus, Oakland Department of Transportation Director Josh Rowan's remarkable broadside against City Hall, and Steve's latest conspiracy about a monster escaping from a Port of Oakland shipping container. Of course, Justin denies the claim.

« Passer à table » : une expression employée dans la sphère policière, dans l'enquête : elle s'y prête doublement aussi quand il s'agit de manger ! En passant à table, chacun dévoile bien des habitudes révélatrices de qui il est. Manger devient une boussole pour comprendre le monde et ceux qui le composent, une loupe pour mieux le saisir, le raconter, en chercher les nuances, en prenant de la distance pour décentrer, dégenrer, décoloniser la nourriture, en restituant enfin parfois un héritage.    « En vietnamien, il existe une expression pour dire qu'on aime manger quelque chose ou plutôt qu'on sait le manger, à l'inverse quand on n'aime pas, on dit : je ne sais pas le manger, comme s'il était question d'une capacité : cette capacité à apprécier ce produit je ne l'ai pas en moi. On retrouve cela autour d'un fruit particulièrement clivant, y compris au Vietnam : le Durian ce fruit à l'odeur très tenace. Ce que j'observe depuis la France c'est que ce durian, il fait parfois l'objet de fierté pour les personnes de la diaspora quand elles arrivent à le manger justement. Peut-être parce que lorsque l'on fait partie de cette diaspora, que nos parents sont nés au Vietnam et nous en France, nous envions cette « vietnamité », pour moi elle n'a pas tout de suite été une évidence, j'ai eu à la construire. Et par peur qu'elle soit diluée, je me retrouve aussi contente et fière de savoir manger un durian. »  L'importance du choix, de la liberté, de la dignité face à l'assiette  Réflexion autour de cette expression : « bien manger » et lui préférer mieux manger, plus inclusive, elle porte en elle un progrès que chacun peut faire, une marge d'amélioration à la portée de tous. Le bien manger est aussi parfois un endroit d'injonction : pour les parents, sommés de donner à leurs enfants de la « bonne nourriture » - identifiée comme tel par qui ? - Émilie Laystary revient enfin sur le slogan : « manger c'est voter trois fois par jour » au Début j'aimais bien cette expression que je trouvais programmatique : on a un pouvoir, celui de choisir ce que l'on mange trois fois par jour. Le souci avec cette phrase qui gratte un peu au même endroit que l'expression bien manger, c'est que voter c'est sensé être un droit. Bien manger, est ce que l'on est tous à égalité ? Est-ce qu'on a tous les mêmes moyens ? Le même temps ? La même disponibilité d'esprit ? Les mêmes habitudes pour le faire ? Ce slogan relève finalement plus de l'injonction de responsabiliser autant les individus.   Avec Émilie Nguyen Laystary, journaliste indépendante (Libération, Regain, Mediapart, ...), autrice de l'essai Passer à table. Ce que l'acte de manger dit de nous, aux Éditions Divergences. Émilie a également fondé l'antenne Provence de l'association École comestible et collabore souvent avec « Les grandes tables », dont le festival Koukouss aura pour thème « Herbes et aromates » pour l'édition 2026 fin août, début septembre.  Pour aller plus loin   - Donner à manger. Politique d'un geste ordinaire, de Joëlle Zask, éditions Premier Parallèle.  - L'école comestible est une association convaincue que le monde peut être changé en donnant aux enfants mangeurs et mangeuses de demain les clefs pour comprendre leur alimentation, et la manière dont on mange. Leur permettant ainsi de devenir des adultes informés et des citoyens engagés. L'école comestible fonde ses principes sur ceux de l'association « mère » Edible Schooldyard créée en 1995 par la cheffe Alice Waters.   - Dans le Goût du monde : École comestible, changer le monde par la manière dont on mange  - Fermentation rébellion, de Uyen Do, aux éditions Des Équateurs  - Ensemble pour mieux se nourrir, de Frédéric Denhez et Alexis Jenni, éditions Actes Sud  - Les grandes tables et le festival KousKouss    - Recette de poche des recettes faciles, savoureuses, avec des produits locaux africains, pour cuisiner toute l'année   - Est-ce que tu manges ? de Grâce Ly et Mélody Ung   - L'association Le bouillon de Noailles pour la table et le partage à Marseille.      Programmation musicale Amoul Solo, de Cheikh Ibram Fam.    Recette   Des recettes de kouskouss en écho au festival qui se tient à Marseille chaque année à la fin de l'été. Des recettes partagées par le collectif marseillais Épice.   

This episode covers real-life horror far more extreme than usual, including a Russian professor arrested in 2011 for keeping the mummified corpses of 29 women and girls in his apartment, each one fitted with a hidden music box. It also includes the story of a 19th-century whiskey heir who paid six handkerchiefs for a 10-year-old girl so he could watch cannibals kill and eat her, and the theory that Alexander the Great was declared dead nearly a week before he actually died. Content is more graphic than usual, so listener discretion is advised.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/necropolystREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8e5emeCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:00:47.354 = Show Open00:01:58.356 = Alexander the Great00:05:52.710 = The Ravenous Beast of Gévaudan00:09:41.943 = The Rape and Burial of Jessica Lunsford ***00:11:55.911 = The Dyatlov Pass Incident00:15:29.080 = The Torture Dungeon of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng00:19:10.197 = Robert The Doll00:23:08.785 = The Disappearance and Eerie Return of Bobby Dunbar ***00:26:33.271 = Albert Fish – The Brooklyn Vampire00:30:06.498 = The Strange Disappearance of the Sodder Children00:34:28.570 = Anatoly Moskvin, The Russian Who Mummified Dead Girls00:38:41.505 = The Jameson Whiskey Cannibal ***00:42:29.572 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Real-Life Horror Stories More Freaky Than Fiction” by Marco Margaritoff for AllThatsInteresting.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8p9c72(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: March 2022Weird Darkness this episode gathers real-life horror too extreme for scripted television, spanning from ancient Macedonia to the Congo basin and landing, along the way, in a Russian apartment stacked with mummified girls.It opens with Alexander the Great, who collapsed in Babylon in 323 B.C. after a 24-hour drinking binge triggered a sudden fever, a stabbing pain in his back, and creeping paralysis that eventually left him speechless; doctors pronounced him dead at 32. His body reportedly stayed "pure and fresh" for six days afterward, evidence ancient Greeks took as proof of his divinity. In 2019, Dr. Katherine Hall of New Zealand's University of Otago proposed in the Ancient History Bulletin that Alexander actually suffered from Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that paralyzes the body while leaving the mind fully intact; since fourth-century-B.C. doctors checked for breath rather than a pulse, Hall's theory suggests Alexander may have been declared dead nearly a week before he actually died, and was buried alive.From there, the story moves to 18th-century France, where a wolf-like creature killed or mauled close to 300 people across three years in the Gévaudan region, most of them women and children. Fourteen-year-old shepherdess Jeanne Boulet was the first confirmed victim in 1764; a fifteen-year-old girl killed a month later survived long enough to describe her attacker as "a horrible beast". Militia leader Jean-Baptiste Duhamel organized a 30,000-strong hunting party, and King Louis XV eventually dispatched his own bodyguard, François Antoine, who killed a large wolf in September 1765; the attacks resumed within months regardless. A farmer named Jean Chastel is credited with killing the actual beast using silver bullets, reportedly after finding human remains inside its stomach.Next, the episode turns to the 2005 murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Homosassa, Florida. Convicted sex offender John Evander Couey broke into her family's home, took her to his trailer, raped her over three days, sealed her inside garbage bags, and buried her alive in his yard while she still clutched a stuffed dolphin her father had won her at a state fair. Prosecutors later determined Jessica may have still been alive in the house during Couey's first police interview. Couey was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in March 2007 and died on death row of natural causes in 2009.From Florida, the episode jumps to the Ural Mountains and the Dyatlov Pass incident of January 1959, when hiking leader Igor Dyatlov and eight fellow students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute died during an expedition toward Otorten Mountain. Investigators found their tent slashed open from the inside and shoeless footprints leading nearly a mile into the forest; the first bodies recovered, dressed only in underwear despite temperatures near negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit, were ruled hypothermia deaths. Two of the last four bodies found, Lyudmila Dubinina and Semyon Zolotaryov, were missing their eyeballs, Lyudmila was also missing her tongue, and both had clothing that tested positive for radioactivity. More than sixty years later, no single explanation, from avalanche to secret Soviet weapons testing, has been confirmed.The episode then moves to a cabin in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, where Leonard Lake and Charles Ng tortured and killed as many as 25 people between 1983 and 1985. Lake, a Vietnam veteran discharged for psychological reasons, built a cinderblock bunker behind a one-way mirror where he and Ng held women as sex slaves before killing them, dismembering the bodies, and dissolving the remains in acid; investigators eventually recovered twelve victims' remains along with roughly 40 pounds of charred bone. The pair was caught in June 1985 after Ng tried to shoplift a bench vise; Lake swallowed a cyanide capsule sewn into his jacket lining and died in custody before trial, while Ng was convicted of eleven murders in 1999 and remains on death row at San Quentin.Next comes Robert the Doll, manufactured by Germany's Steiff Company in 1904 and given to a Key West boy named Robert Eugene "Gene" Otto, who reportedly carried the doll everywhere and spoke of it in the first person. After Gene died in 1974, new owner Myrtle Reuter said the doll continued moving through her house with no explanation and eventually donated it to the Fort East Martello Museum, where curator Cori Convertito now oversees a steady stream of visitors who claim their cameras stop working in Robert's presence.From there, the episode circles back to 1912 Louisiana and the disappearance of four-year-old Bobby Dunbar from Swayze Lake. Eight months later, authorities found a boy matching his description traveling with a man named William Cantwell Walters, who insisted the child was Bruce Anderson, son of field hand Julia Anderson; the Dunbar family claimed the boy as their own anyway. It took until 2004, after years of research by Bobby's granddaughter Margaret Dunbar Cutwright, for a DNA test to prove the man raised as Bobby Dunbar shared no blood relation to the Dunbar family, meaning the real Bobby likely died in 1912 and the family had unknowingly raised Julia's son instead.The story turns next to Albert Fish, born in 1870 and later known as the Brooklyn Vampire, who spent decades torturing, killing, and cannibalizing children after enduring severe abuse in a New York orphanage as a boy. In 1928, posing as a farmer named Frank Howard, Fish lured ten-year-old Grace Budd away from her family and killed her; he wasn't identified until November 1934, when a letter he sent to Grace's mother describing the murder in graphic detail was traced back to him. Fish was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on January 16th, 1936.Following that, the episode covers the unresolved 1945 Sodder children case in Fayetteville, West Virginia, where a Christmas Eve house fire killed, or apparently killed, five of George and Jennie Sodder's nine children. No bones were ever recovered from the wreckage despite a coroner attributing the deaths to the blaze, and the family spent decades chasing tips and alleged sightings after strangers had made ominous threats about the house burning down in the months before the fire. George and Jennie erected a billboard along Route 16 asking for information and died in 1968 and 1989, respectively, without ever learning their children's fate.From there, the story turns to Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian journalist and college professor fluent in thirteen languages who dubbed himself a "necropolyst" and visited 752 cemeteries around his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod. Moskvin was arrested in 2011 after police investigating the desecration of Muslim graves found him painting over photographs of the dead; a search of the apartment he shared with his parents turned up the mummified remains of 29 women and girls, dressed, made up with buttons for eyes, and fitted with music boxes inside their chests. Moskvin told investigators he dug up the bodies because he was lonely and confessed to 44 counts of abusing graves and corpses.The episode clos

With the U.S.-Iran ceasefire falling apart — and as the war expands — what is owned to American service members and their families in terms of communication, level setting, and what an end game would look like? We discuss that question with local veterans. In studio: Gregg Sadwick, U.S Navy veteran, former congressional candidate, and president of Solid Surfaces NY and Flower City Collision Nicholas Stefanovic, veteran and director of veteran services for Monroe County John White, former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and Vietnam combat vet ---Connections is supported by listeners like you. Head to our donation page to become a WXXI member today, support the show, and help us close the gap created by the rescission of federal funding.---Connections airs every weekday from noon-2 p.m. Join the conversation with questions or comments by phone at 1-844-295-TALK (8255) or 585-263-9994, email, Facebook or Twitter. Connections is also livestreamed on the WXXI News YouTube channel each day. You can watch live or access previous episodes here.---Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections.

This week the Bad Dads go big. Very big. City-smashing, helicopter-swatting, nuclear-lizard big.Sidey has been watching the modern Warner Bros / Legendary MonsterVerse with his daughter, and the results are a full kaiju download covering Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.What We CoverSidey's family MonsterVerse marathon and why his daughter was hookedThe difference between classic Japanese Godzilla, the 1990s Matthew Broderick version, and the modern Legendary / Warner Bros seriesKong: Skull Island and its excellent mix of Vietnam-era war movie, lost-world adventure and giant ape carnageSamuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly, and why Kong looks “like a badass”Godzilla: King of the Monsters, including Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Monarch, Charles Dance, and Ken Watanabe's heroic nuclear sacrificeGodzilla vs. Kong and the eternal playground question: giant lizard or giant monkey?Mechagodzilla, Apex Cybernetics, and why the monsters teaming up is exactly the kind of nonsense we came forGodzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Scar King, little ape business and the expanding Hollow Earth mythologyWhy the human drama in these films often feels like an interruption between monster fightsGodzilla Minus One and the contrast between Godzilla as hero and Godzilla as terrifying destructive forceWhy huge CGI monsters smashing things remains deeply satisfying when done properlyChoice Quote / Pull Line“They're obviously completely stupid, but I really love big kaiju, big monster movies. They're so cool.”Episode AngleA loving, sweary, spoiler-friendly defence of the MonsterVerse as premium switch-your-brain-off blockbuster entertainment: not always smart, not always coherent, but frequently brilliant at giving audiences exactly what they paid for — enormous creatures battering each other while humans explain things near laptops.You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at baddadsjsy@gmail.com or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Episode 3332 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about the F-4 Phantom II that was restored at JB-MDL. The featured story is titled: F-4 Phantom II – A legend restored to glory. It appeared on the … Continue reading → The post Episode 3332 – F-4 Phantom II restored in New Jersey first appeared on Vietnam Veteran News.

Best known to many through their work as DJ Maicol, Erotechre marks a different outlet for the Glaswegian artist. Following a formative spell in Vietnam, it gradually evolved into something far less fixed, laying the foundations for a radically different approach to live performance. From its earliest conception, Erotechre has resisted settling into a fixed form. What began as an ambition to realise the project as a band has gradually evolved into a live machine-based performance where improvisation and instinct are not simply creative tools but the conditions from which the music emerges. At the heart of that evolution is a broad constellation of influences gathered across different places and experiences. Encounters with improvised music, ritual performance, club culture and experimental electronics have all quietly informed Erotechre's musical language. For the latest CLOTmix, we caught up with the artist behind Erotechre ahead of their show at The Waiting Room in London this Saturday to discuss improvisation, cyber aesthetics, the creative potential of risk and what can happen when performance is allowed to exceed intention. Tracklist: Vangelis & Irene Papas - Song of Songs Gein's Nait - Austral Elodie Lauten - Revelation Avel Mismo - don't give up (feat. Cliché Toupee) Ghédalia Tazartès - Un amour si grand qu'il nie son objet Einstürzende Neubauten - Armenia Tolerance - Pulse Static (Tranqillia) Esplendor Geométrico - Tiempo libre Geins't Naït & L. Petitgand - Bodische Little Alone Bruce Gilbert - Angel Food Monte Cazazza - Climax Ramuntcho Matta - Oil And Canvas The Stupid Set - Basset Die Dominas - Die Wespendomina Anatolian Weapons - An Afterthought Günter Schickert - Untitled (Toncollage Zu Dem Film) Roy Montgomery - Hollyford Valley Day 1 DAF - Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thant Myint-U talks about his new book Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s. It tells the story of his grandfather U Thant, the Burmese schoolteacher turned UN Secretary-General who guided the United Nations through some of the most dangerous crises of the 1960s, yet is now woefully forgotten or badly misremembered. Thant explains: U Thant's forgotten role as UN Secretary-General during the great crises of the 1960s His sociability, humour, directness, and moral imagination How Buddhism shaped U Thant's approach to crisis How newly independent post-colonial states tried to remake the world order Burma/Myanmar after empire: colonial destruction, weak institutions, and postcolonial state-building The Non-Aligned Movement: Afro-Asian internationalism beyond the US–Soviet Cold War Congo, Katanga and sovereignty: U Thant's defence of postcolonial borders against neo-imperial fragmentation The Cuban Missile Crisis: U Thant's overlooked role in helping Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro de-escalate Vietnam and the lost peace channel: U Thant's ignored 1964 attempt to open talks with Ho Chi Minh The Six-Day War and the UN-Israel rupture: UNEF, Nasser, Israel, and the myth that the UN abandoned Israel U Thant's late one-world vision, the decline of Bandung idealism, and the lost promise of postcolonial internationalism Join the Conflicted Community here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit Thant's website: thantmyintu.com Find us on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stijn Schmitz welcomes back Bob Moriarty to the show. Bob Moriarty is an author, Founder of 321 Gold, and a former Marine Fighter Pilot. Moriarty outlines a deeply concerning global landscape, arguing that recent escalations—including Ukraine's attack on Iranian vessels and Saudi Arabia's strike on the Houthis—have rapidly transformed regional conflicts into what could become World War III. He contends that Israel is the primary driver of the war against Iran, with the United States under Donald Trump co-opting the conflict, potentially under duress from compromising information. Despite the severe supply disruptions, including the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on Saudi refineries, oil prices have paradoxically fallen. Moriarty attributes this to widespread manipulation by governments draining strategic petroleum reserves and intervening in paper markets to suppress costs, a tactic he warns is unsustainable and risks permanently damaging storage infrastructure. He believes all the headwinds that previously kept prices low have become tailwinds, setting the stage for a sudden, explosive price spike that could devastate the global economy. On precious metals, Moriarty notes gold's resilience, referencing a forecast that it could trade between $4,000 and $6,000 this year due to currency debasement, though he emphasizes that manipulation exists across all markets. He advocates holding physical metals as insurance against chaos and sees extraordinary value in junior mining stocks, which he believes are historically undervalued relative to commodity prices. While acknowledging the high-risk nature of junior investments, he stresses that outsized gains from a few winners can offset losses. Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:29 – War Escalation and WW3 Risks 00:04:40 – Oil Price Manipulation Explained 00:10:00 – Peace Talks and Hidden Agendas 00:14:32 – Infrastructure Strikes Analysis 00:19:22 – Oil Market Headwinds to Tailwinds 00:24:00 – SPR Depletion and Risks 00:27:00 – Crack Spreads and True Prices 00:32:08 – Perfect Storm in Energy Markets 00:35:36 – Imminent Petroleum Shortages 00:38:21 – Opportunities for Oil Producers 00:42:13 – Gold Prices and Investing 00:47:53 – Precious Metals Miners Outlook 00:54:32 – Wrap Up Guest Links: Website: http://www.321gold.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Moriarty/e/B01A9I4TJU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1599932580&sr=8-3 Bob Moriarty founded 321gold.com with his late wife, Barbara Moriarty, more than 16 years ago. They later added 321energy.com to cover oil, natural gas, gasoline, coal, solar, wind, and nuclear energy. Both sites feature articles, editorial opinions, pricing figures, and updates on both sectors' current events. Previously, Moriarty was a Marine F-4B and O-1 pilot, with more than 832 missions in Vietnam. He holds fourteen international aviation records.

Welcome back to the fortieth edition of our favorite literary parlor game as our guests choose their favorite sentence from everything Hemingway ever wrote in prose, poetry, correspondence, or journalism. In this episode, David Morrell, prolific author and creator of the iconic John Rambo character, offers his one true sentence from “In Another Country.” Morrell – author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, and The Successful Novelist, among many others – joins us to discuss his life in writing and reading. We discuss the importance of first sentences, Hemingway's grammar, Morrell's friendship with the legendary Hemingway scholar Philip Young, good writing as hypnotic, the creation of Rambo as a character, John Barth, Carl Jung, and much more!Thank you for listening to One True Podcast! Consider donating to the Hemingway Society, including to the recently created One True Podcast Fund or the Hemingway Café Club!Previous "one true sentences" are collected in: One True Sentence: Writers and Readers on Hemingway's Art, available here.

Episode 3331 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about the U.S. aircraft carrier port call at DaNang. The featured story is titled: U.S. carrier George Washington arrives in Vietnam on five-day visit. It appeared on the … Continue reading → The post Episode 3331 – U.S. Aircraft carrier calls at DaNang first appeared on Vietnam Veteran News.

Över 800 amerikanska militärer lämnade sin tjänstgöring och rymde till Sverige under Vietnamkriget. En av de fyra första som kom var Michael Lindner. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Som ung drömmer Michael Lindner om att jobba i armén, men i tonåren förändras hans tankar. – Jag visste redan då att jag inte kunde döda en annan människa.1967, när Michael är 18 år, befinner sig hundratusentals amerikanska soldater i Vietnam. Michael hoppas få ett kontorsjobb hemma, men får så småningom beskedet om vart han ska – via en lapp där ett ord står skrivet: ”Intrepid”.Vietnamdesertörerna ombord på USS IntrepidOmbord på det enorma hangarfartyget USS Intrepid som ska ta honom till Sydkinesiska havet lär Michael känna tre andra amerikanska sjömän.Senare, under en permission när de sitter på en bar tillsammans, bestämmer de sig för att rymma.– Jag förstod: Okej, tåget går nu. Det är bara att kliva ombord, säger Michael Lindner som numera heter Sutherland.På flykt undan militärpolisen tar sig de fyra desertörerna till det enda neutrala land som tar emot dem: Sverige.Dokumentären är gjord vintern 2025.Reporter: Jakob OdelstadProducent: Sofia KottorpSlutmix: David HellbergI sommar publicerar P1 Dokumentär fyra dokumentärer från systerprogrammet P4 Dokumentär. Här hittar du mer från P4 Dokumentär.Vill du ha koll på de senaste dokumentärerna från Sveriges Radio? Då kan du anmäla dig till vårt nyhetsbrev här.

De oorlog tussen Amerika en Iran is opnieuw opgelaaid. Deze keer doordat Iran een Amerikaanse basis in Jordanië aanviel. Dit brengt Trump in een steeds benardere positie, ziet Martijn Kitzen, hoogleraar irreguliere oorlogsvoering aan de Defensie Academie. 'Amerika kan Iran alleen verslaan met grondtroepen.' Kitzen is te gast in BNR De Wereld bij Bernard Hammelburg. Luister ook | 'Zelensky duldt niet al te veel populariteit om zich heen' Dat Iran nu is begonnen met een aanval op een Amerikaanse basis laat volgens Kitzen zien dat Iran vol zelfvertrouwen zit. 'Amerika deelt klappen uit in de hoop dat Iran terugkeert naar de onderhandelingstafel, maar ondertussen is Iran bezig met zijn eigen strategie. In plaats van dat Iran beperkt wordt escaleert het juist en breidt het conflict zich uit.' De sleutel in het conflict is volgens Kitzen de Straat van Hormuz. 'Iran heeft van dit conflict geleerd dat als zij die straat controleren dan hebben ze invloed en zeggenschap. Het is logisch dat Iran dat niet meer wil opgeven. Tegelijkertijd wil Amerika dat niet accepteren.' Lees ook | Guterres zwaait af, Infantino wordt het niet, maar wie gaat wel de VN leiden? Verenigde Naties kiezen nieuwe secretaris-generaal Antonio Guterres zwaait na tien jaar af als secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties. Daarom moeten de VN-leden nu een opvolger uitkiezen. Oud-topdiplomaat Ron Keller is niet rouwig om het vertrek van de Portugees Guterres. 'Guterres heeft niet het vermogen om te verbinden. Hij moet Zelensky en Poetin aan elkaar koppelen, hij moet de rivaliteit tussen China en de VS aanpakken. Allemaal verbindingsopdrachten die zo duidelijk zijn en zo overduidelijk bij de secretaris-generaal horen' Volgens Keller is de ideale kandidaat Rafael Grossi, de Argentijnse voorzitter van het Internationaal Atoomenergieagentschap (IAEA), maar of die het wordt is onzeker, want de concurrentie is hoog. Luister ook | Amerika Podcast Trump en de uitvaart van Lindsey Graham | Postma in Amerika Washington DC stond deze week in het teken van de uitvaart van senator Lindsey Graham. Trump hield daar een opvallende speech waarin hij zichzelf tegensprak. Je hoort Amerika-correspondent Jan Postma. Over de makers Bernard Hammelburg is buitenlandcommentator en columnist voor BNR Nieuwsradio en het FD, en presentator van BNR De Wereld. Als oorlogsverslaggever was hij o.a. ooggetuige van de Culturele Revolutie in China, de revolutie in Iran en de oorlogen in Vietnam, het Midden-Oosten en Afghanistan. Hij was twintig jaar correspondent in de VS. Hij verdeelt zijn tijd tussen zijn woonplaatsen Amsterdam en New York. Redactie Michaël Roele, buitenlandredacteur bij BNR Nieuwsradio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From learning Mandarin with nothing but a notebook and a pen on the streets of Wuhan to losing $650,000 of his own money before ever raising outside capital, Sean Weisbrot shares hard-won lessons on cross-cultural dealmaking, bootstrapping versus fundraising, and why LinkedIn visibility now matters for founders and their teams. Sean is the founder of SparkVox, a tool that turns content executive teams are already creating into LinkedIn posts in their own voice, and the host of We Live to Build, a podcast with roughly 235,000 subscribers and more than 320 interviews with seven and eight figure brand owners. He has helped create over $100 million in value across his network and generated more than $15 million in revenue for his own businesses, all while living in China, Vietnam, and now Portugal. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: You'll discover how a single misstep with a business card or a signing pen can cost a deal before it starts, why 320 founder interviews convinced Sean that bootstrapped founders tend to be happier than funded ones, and how a $400,000 gap between what one investor promised and delivered helped sink his last company. Sean also explains how he now runs a business on roughly $50 a month using AI, and why he believes every founder and executive needs a visible presence on LinkedIn. SEAN'S JOURNEY: Sean had no entrepreneurial role model growing up. What moved him was a pull to leave the US, and after missing a deadline for a teaching program in Japan, he landed in China instead and stayed for ten years, learning Mandarin street vendor by street vendor with a notebook and a pen. His first real deal came in 2016, connecting an American founder with a Chinese investor for a $150,000 raise and earning a $7,500 commission. From there he built a $15 million consulting business helping Chinese and Western companies raise money from each other in the blockchain space. His next venture, a tech company built to compete with Slack, taught him a harder lesson. He put in $650,000 of his own money before raising a $1 million seed round, and a $400,000 shortfall from one investor became a major factor in the company's failure. COVID and a divorce followed, which is part of what led him to Portugal for a fresh start. KEY INSIGHTS: Deal culture varies sharply across countries, down to details like how a business card is received. Corey shared a parallel story about a 1980s deal that nearly stalled at signing over missing ceremonial pens. Founder happiness tracks closely with how a company was funded. Across 320-plus interviews, Sean found bootstrapped founders were generally happier than those who raised capital. A funding gap can sink a company as fast as a bad decision can, as Sean's own $400,000 shortfall proved. AI has collapsed the cost of running a business. Sean's infrastructure now costs about $50 a month, down from roughly $1,000 a month at his last company. Visibility has become a gatekeeper for access, with investors now expecting founders to be active on LinkedIn before they'll even take a call. Perfect for founders weighing whether to bootstrap or raise capital, business leaders working across cultures on deals, and anyone trying to build an authentic presence on LinkedIn. FOR MORE ON THIS EPISODE: https://www.coreykupfer.com/blog/seanweisbrot FOR MORE ON SEAN WEISBROT: https://www.welivetobuild.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanweisbrot/ FOR MORE ON COREY KUPFER https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreykupfer/ https://www.coreykupfer.com/ Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, negotiator, and dealmaker. He has more than 35 years of professional deal-making and negotiating experience. Corey is a successful entrepreneur, attorney, consultant, author, and professional speaker. He is deeply passionate about deal-driven growth. He is also the creator and host of the DealQuest Podcast. Get deal-ready with the DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer, where like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders converge, share insights and challenges, and success stories. Equip yourself with the tools, resources, and support necessary to navigate the complex yet rewarding world of dealmaking. Dive into the world of deal-driven growth today! Episode Highlights with Timestamps:[00:00:00] - Introduction and Sean's background [00:04:20] - Sean's first professional deal in China [00:09:13] - Cultural differences in dealmaking between the US and China[00:26:22] - The capital raising journey behind his last tech company[00:41:03] - What SparkVox does and who it serves [00:53:23] - What freedom means to Sean Guest Bio:Sean Weisbrot is the founder of SparkVox, which turns content executive teams are already creating, sales calls, internal trainings, podcast appearances, into LinkedIn posts in their own voice. He is also the host of We Live to Build, a podcast with roughly 235,000 subscribers and more than 320 interviews with seven and eight figure brand owners. Sean has helped create over $100 million in value across his network, generated more than $15 million in revenue for his own businesses, and raised over $8 million for his businesses and clients. He has angel invested in nine companies with two exits. Fluent in Mandarin, he lived in China for ten years and Vietnam for five before settling in Portugal, where he now lives with his family. Related Episodes: Episode 337 - Jonathan Gardner: Cultural due diligence and what gets lost in translation across German, Japanese, and Chinese deals Episode 370 - Gerry Hays: Democratizing venture capital and when founders should raise versus bootstrap Episode 350 - Tom Dillon: When NOT to take venture capital money and alternative funding sources Keywords/Tags: Cross-cultural dealmaking, bootstrapping versus venture capital, LinkedIn content strategy, AI-powered content creation, blockchain fundraising, founder visibility, personal branding, remote entrepreneurship, cultural due diligence, capital raising

Episode 3330 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about Vietnam Refugee Hung Cao, Acting Secretary of the. The featured story is titled: Vietnam refugee turned Navy leader drives MASGA initiative to strengthen Indo-Pacific security). It appeared … Continue reading → The post Episode 3330 – Introducing a great American – Vietnam Refugee Hung Cao, Acting Secretary of the Navy first appeared on Vietnam Veteran News.

Adrie, and roommate Anastasia, discuss what life in quarantine is like with host and fellow quarantee Niall.Anastasia, originally from the Ukraine, has lived in Saigon for 5 years working in sales for a major hotel chain.Her company sent her on an ill-fated dream trip to Australia for work on March 15th, 3 days after the pandemic was declared. As a result most of her business meetings went online and were then cancelled leaving her no reason to be in Australia and as borders closed every reason to get back to Vietnam as soon as possible. Flying on the same flight from Sydney as Niall and Adrie she found herself on the same problem at the Vietnamese border of being moment away from being sent back to Australia, a country she has no ties to. Before luckily being allowed in at midnight and sent to quarantine with a group of foreigners who'd never met before. There she paired up with Niall and Adrie, wanting to be with the only other female in the group.Listen to more details about her story and what life has been like in quarantine for the three new friends. -------------------Theme music composed by Lewis Wright.Main Cover Art designed by Niall Mackay and Le Nguyen.Episode art designed by Niall Mackay."Send me a message!"Book a free call with me here if you want to start your own podcast!Book your free tour of Saigon Podcast Studio!Support the show"Send me a message!"Book a free call with me here if you want to start your own podcast! Book your free tour of Saigon Podcast Studio! Support the show

Fitch analysts examine how a developing El Niño could impact corporate credit risk across Asia Pacific. We explore Vietnam's hydropower vulnerability, resilience in India and China, and why palm oil producers may face a mixed credit outlook.

With special guest: Paul Ham… in conversation with Bill Kable Our topics do not come much bigger or more interesting than The Soul: A History of the Human Mind written by our guest today Paul Ham. Certain ideas come to mind when we mention the word “Soul”. Are we talking about soul music or the definition in the catechism or maybe the soul of America which was said to be lost during the Vietnam war? Paul tells us that the soul can mean all of these things and more. Paul has tackled a topic which is huge in breadth and also extended over the millennia to the beginnings of civilisation. His discovery is that what humans first called the soul was originally thought to be a part of all of us. The soul survived the death of the body and then ventured to an underworld which might be Heaven or Hell. Some Christians believed at one stage that there was also a halfway house called Purgatory but that has disappeared in more recent beliefs. In fact the soul itself disappeared mysteriously during the period called the enlightenment until we arrive where we are today and scientists tell us that the mind is a creation of the brain. In this book Paul Ham restores the idea of a soul to the human story but not as something that can be located as a separate organ or entity. Instead Paul shows us how belief in, and beliefs arising from the soul or mind, have animated and driven the history of our kind. Podcast (mp3)

Welcome to another episode of “On the Issues with Alon Ben-Meir.” Today's guest is Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, a blogger and activist who has written extensively since 2006 on environmental and human rights issues in Vietnam. She has been arrested twice for her activism, and received a 10-year prison sentence. She was released after two years, on the condition of exile from Vietnam. In this episode, Alon and Quynh discuss the current political status inside Vietnam and its status in the region, Quynh's experience of activism and persecution, including her arrests and imprisonment, environmental and human rights issues in Vietnam, and what role the US has and can play in supporting democracy and freedom in the country. Full bio Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh is a blogger and activist who has blogged extensively since 2006 on environmental and human rights issues in Vietnam, publishing principled arguments to inspire change and greater transparency. Ms. Quynh co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, an independent writers' association that encourages members to “protect people's rights and freedoms from restrictions and censorship.” She was arrested on October 10, 2016 under the charge of “conducting propaganda against the state” and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was released from prison on October 17, 2018, and sent into exile in the United States. In 2014, she received a Human Rights Defender award from the Stockholm-based NGO Civil Rights Defenders, and was awarded the 2017 International Women of Courage Award by the US Department of State.

Mary welcomes back David Bowen for a thoughtful conversation on socialism in America. While it’s hardly a new headline, it appears that the election of the Muslim/Communist in NYC is going to have ripple effects, and largely intentional. With the Democratic Socialist party taking shape in the liberal cities of our nation, more and more candidates are emboldened and showing their true colors. We define socialism, track it’s unsuccessful march around the globe, and ask ourselves, “why now?” type of questions. Surely bible prophecy must fit in and the rise of Antichrist. But for now, the youth, who have no experiential knowledge of the Cold War or Vietnam era, seem to think it is a good fit to level the playing field of politics and economics. Which they are wrong about of course because socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and millions have died. Does that matter? Of course it does. We look at it’s connection with Islam, antisemitism, and the last days.     Stand Up For The Truth Videos: https://rumble.com/user/CTRNOnline & https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQQSvKiMcglId7oGc5c46A

Welcome to Day 2914 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom. Day 2914– “Joyful Return, Insightful Response”  based on Luke 10:17-24 Putnam Church Message – 07/19/2026 The Good News According to Luke: “Joyful Return, Insightful Response.”   Last time our message was “Practical Talk to Those in Ministry,” where we learned to leave the harvest in the hands of the Lord who is the Lord of the harvest. Today, we continue with our thirtieth message from Luke's narrative of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Today's message is: “Joyful Return, Insightful Response.” Our core passage today is Luke 10:17-24, on page 1612 of your pew Bibles. The Seventy-Two Return 17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.” 18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” 21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. 22 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” 23 Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.” Opening Prayer Father, we come before You today with joy and humility. Thank You for calling ordinary people into Your Kingdom work. Thank You that the name of Jesus is greater than every power of darkness, every accusation of the enemy, and every fear that troubles our hearts. Lord Jesus, help us rejoice in the right things. Teach us to celebrate Your victories without becoming proud of our usefulness. Remind us that our greatest joy is not what we accomplish for You, but that we belong to You. Open our eyes to see what prophets and kings longed to see. Give us childlike hearts that receive Your truth with faith and obedience. Holy Spirit, guide us now as we listen to Your Word. Amen. Introduction: A Story - Returning From the Battle In the early nineties, a few years after Desert Storm, General Norman Schwarzkopf wrote an autobiography titled It Doesn't Take a Hero. Near the middle of the book, he describes his thoughts as he headed for his first combat command position in Vietnam. He was a West Point graduate, full of energy and idealism. He went to Vietnam, as he said, for “God, country, and Mom's apple pie.” But later, after a second tour of duty, he returned from a battle-scarred landscape where young men under his command had died or had lost parts of their bodies to landmines. He came home to a divided nation, and he wrote with exhausted realism, “I realized then I was really tired of being a commander… I thought, Thank God it's over. I'd saved as many lives as I could… I wanted to get home to my family.” Same geography. Same war. Same mission. But what a difference between the man who went out and the man who returned. In Luke 10, the seventy-two whom Jesus sent out also return from the battlefield. But the seventy-two return with joy. In our last message, “Practical Talk to Those in Ministry,” we watched Jesus send them out two by two. He told them the harvest was great and the workers were few. He sent them like lambs among wolves. He told them to travel light, offer peace, heal the sick, and announce that the Kingdom of God had come near. They went out as messengers of the King. / Now they return. And they come back like children running through the door after seeing something amazing. “Lord,” they say, “even the demons obey us when we use Your name!” They had gone out to announce peace, but they discovered that the name of Jesus also carried authority over the powers of darkness. Jesus rejoices with them. But He also corrects their perspective. He lifts their eyes above the thrill of ministry success and says, in effect, “Yes, rejoice that evil is retreating. But do not build your joy on power. Rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” That is our theme today: The greatest joy of a disciple is not what we do for Jesus, but that we belong to Jesus. Which brings us to our four truths today which are found in your bulletin insert on the side that is titled: Joyful Return, Insightful Response Main Point 1: Kingdom Ministry Pushes Back the Powers of Darkness The seventy-two return with joy and say, “Lord, even the demons obey us when we use Your name.” That little word “even” carries their surprise. Jesus had told them to heal the sick and announce the Kingdom. But apparently, as they ministered in His name, demons also submitted. They saw firsthand that the mission of Jesus was not merely moral improvement, social kindness, or religious instruction. It was war against the dominion of evil. Luke has been showing us this from the beginning. Jesus confronted demons in the synagogue. He delivered the man in the region of the Gerasenes. He gave the Twelve authority over demons. He healed the boy whom His disciples could not help. And now the seventy-two discover that the authority of Jesus extends through them as well. This is where we need to understand the Bible's bigger supernatural worldview. The late Dr. Michael S. Heiser often reminded readers that the Bible presents a spiritual world populated by heavenly beings. In the Old Testament, we see scenes of God's heavenly council, sometimes called the Divine Council. God is the Most High, the Creator, the supreme King. But Scripture also shows lesser spiritual beings who serve, rebel, accuse, deceive, or oppose God's purposes. In Job 1 and 2, we meet “The Satan,” or “the adversary,” appearing among the heavenly beings. In that setting, the word functions like a title — the accuser, the challenger, the prosecutor. By the time we reach the New Testament, Satan is clearly presented as the great enemy of God's people, the tempter, the accuser, the ruler of a rebellious kingdom of darkness. So, when Jesus says in Luke 10:18, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning,” He is not giving the disciples a small compliment. He is interpreting their ministry as part of a cosmic victory. Every sick person healed, every demon rebuked, every message of Kingdom peace proclaimed — all of it was evidence that the usurper's rule was cracking. The adversary was falling. Object Lesson: The Flashlight in a Dark Room Imagine turning off the lights in a room and then switching on a flashlight. The darkness does not negotiate. / It does not hold a committee meeting. / It simply retreats where the light shines. That is what happens when the Kingdom of God advances. When Jesus walks into a synagogue, demons cry out. When Jesus steps into Gentile territory, a legion of demons loses its captive. When Jesus sends out His followers, evil spirits submit to His name. Not because the disciples are impressive, but because the King is present through them. Ancient Israelite Context For a first-century Jewish listener, this would not sound like a mere private spiritual experience. It would sound like the long-awaited victory of God. Genesis 3:15 promised that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head. Psalm 91 spoke of trampling lions and serpents underfoot. Daniel 7 envisioned the Son of Man receiving authority, glory, and sovereign power. The prophets looked forward to the day when God would defeat evil and restore creation. Now Jesus says, “You are seeing the beginning of that victory.” The Kingdom has come near. Modern Illustration We may not always see dramatic confrontations with evil spirits, but we still see the Kingdom push back darkness. When an addict finds freedom in Christ, darkness...

She hoped to escape Vietnam and reuniting with her mother in Colorado. It led Sister Sen Nguyen to a life of service and a love of learning. For Portraits in Aging, her story about never giving up. Then, multiple award-winning photojournalist Kevin Hartfield reflects on his career milestones and the state of journalism today as he retires as chief photographer from CBS Colorado. And we speak with rising Colorado Rapids soccer star Lucas Herrington, just back from the World Cup playing for his home team of Australia.

Mike Michelini presents a practical framework for moving beyond AI chat and building human-led, agent-operated business systems at HorizonAI Expo in Vietnam.

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The Secretary of State went on television and refused to rule out striking civilian targets. "A head for an eye," Marco Rubio said — boasting about sending a country back to the Stone Age. At the same time, the Pentagon has cancelled press briefings, killed reporter embeds with combat units, and gone dark on casualty numbers. Paul Rieckhoff joins Katy Tur on MS Now to lay out what that combination actually means: an administration waging war without the accountability the Constitution demands, and military families left in the dark about whether their people are coming home. Paul draws on his own time as an infantry rifle platoon leader in Iraq to explain why the laws of war exist in the first place — they protect our troops when they're captured, they hold the line against retaliation on our allies, and they're the difference between a professional military and a political weapon. He also breaks down the president parading a Gold Star family at a Georgia rally, the New York Times reporting on strikes against Iranian escape routes, and why the erosion of the wall between the troops and the politicians is the exact mistake America made before Vietnam. This one is short, sharp, and essential. -WATCH full video of this episode here. -Millions of American veterans are being locked out of primary elections in the country they served. See what we're doing to change that. -Visit Kalshi and trade on anything. Use code [INDEPENDENT] to get ten dollars when you trade ten. -Join Noble Mobile today and get a $100 bonus when you use code PAUL and stay a member for 2 months! -Join IVA and help us get independent veterans elected to office. -Learn more about Paul's work to elect a new generation of independent leaders with Independent Veterans of America. -Learn more about American Veterans for Ukraine here. -Remember Independent is an Attitude. -Learn more about The Headstrong Project for Veterans, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), and Department of Veterans Affairs resources in your area. Seeking support is not a sign of weakness. It's a show of strength. If you or a loved one are in immediate crisis, dial 988 and press 1, or text 838255. Connect with Independent Americans: Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all podcast platforms Read more at Substack Support ad-free episodes at Patreon  Connect: Instagram  • X/Twitter • BlueSky • Facebook  Follow on social: @PaulRieckhoff on X, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky -Join the movement. Hook into our exclusive Patreon community of Independent Americans. Get extra content, connect with guests, meet other Independent Americans, attend events, get merch discounts, and support this show that speaks truth to power.  -And get cool IA and Righteous hats, t-shirts and other merch now in time for the new year.  Independent Americans is powered by veteran-owned and led Righteous Media.  And now part of the BLEAV network!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. Colonel John Alexander commanded Green Berets in Vietnam, briefed the White House, and evaluated the Pentagon's strangest programs. He was the first person to spend the night on Skinwalker Ranch. For 79 years, the strange kept showing up in the middle of his official duties — and he wrote it all down. He brought the files. And the bent forks. This conversation goes places I didn't expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Surviving mortar rounds in Vietnam was only half the battle. The deepest healing began when a Marine veteran finally confronted the invisible weight of lifelong trauma.Keith Cole, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran wounded three times in combat, joins Brigitte to talk about the invisible wounds that outlast the battlefield. Keith shares his journey from enlisting after his father's sudden passing to enduring multiple combat injuries and carrying the heavy emotional burden of notifying fallen soldiers' next of kin. He candidly discusses hitting rock bottom with alcohol, turning to his faith, and transforming his personal pain, memories, and redemption into his book, "Burnout: God's Recovery Plan." 3 Takeaways:(1) Unresolved Trauma Takes Many Forms.(2) Healing Demands Vulnerability.(3) Daily Structure and Faith Restore Peace.If you or someone you love is carrying trauma alone, don't wait like Keith did. Visit https://recoverybyfaith.com to get the book and learn about the 12-week recovery workbook. And reach out to someone you trust — a friend, clergy, or therapist. You don't have to go it alone.Enjoying these conversations? Don't forget to subscribe to Real Things Living on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs an encouraging reminder that hope and healing are always within reach.

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In the years after World War II, Australia, a bastion of Anglo/European civilization on the fringe of Asia, looked north with trepidation. Communism was on the march and once again Australia felt vulnerable. They decided to make their stand against communism along with their American allies and Vietnam.Today we are talking about Australia's experience in the Vietnam war, which looked a lot like the American experience in Vietnam, but with its own unique circumstances. Towards the end, I talk about the film The Odd Angry Shot from 1979, which captures the ambiguity of the Vietnam war very well.

Strong businesses are built by strong teams, and strong teams are built by leaders who earn trust every single day.In our latest episode of Founders Only, Mel Nava of Zendease shares valuable lessons on leadership, personal growth, and building a culture where people remain committed even during the toughest moments. Discover why resilience, accountability, and continuous self-improvement are just as important as strategy when creating a business that lasts.00:00:00 – Why founders need to give themselves grace to grow00:01:38 – Mel Nava returns to Founders Only for her third appearance00:03:20 – Revisiting the challenges and heartbreak of 202300:06:38 – Surviving rock bottom with honesty, grit, and teamwork00:09:28 – Pivoting the business and adapting to a changing startup landscape00:11:54 – Leading a team through crisis and prioritizing survival00:14:44 – The family and investors who helped Mel keep going00:19:26 – How hardship transformed Mel into a stronger founder00:20:55 – Self-awareness, forgiveness, and redefining leadership00:24:15 – Staying mission-driven through global disruptions and uncertainty00:29:34 – How ZendEase expanded from the Philippines to Southeast Asia00:31:29 – Why Mel went all in on Indonesia and Vietnam00:34:24 – Building an international company despite limited resources00:39:35 – Comparing export opportunities across Southeast Asia00:46:06 – Finding product-market fit through customer feedback00:50:23 – Leading multicultural teams across three countries00:57:50 – Evaluating markets before expanding internationally01:02:01 – Recognizing when the business moved beyond survival mode01:07:26 – Reflecting on ten years of entrepreneurship01:17:12 – What Mel would do differently if she started over01:19:04 – What's next for ZendEase and Mel NavaThe conversations happening on Founders Only are the ones every entrepreneur needs to hear. Don't be the last to know. Watch the full episode on YouTube. ⏭️Follow now and never miss an episode.

When it comes to conservation, adorable and majestic animals often attract the most concern for their plight. It's not so easy to get the public's attention when it comes to animals that are perceived as weird or creepy or downright unpleasant. The vulture, traditionally associated with death and carrion, falls into this unlucky group. Globally, around 70% of vultures are now under threat of extinction and Nigeria's vultures are no exception. BBC West Africa journalist Makuochi Okafor has been investigating this story.  In Vietnam, The Last Empress, a new film inspired by the life of the final empress of the Nguyen Dynasty, appears to be provoking a strong reaction. Nam Phuong is a well-known historical figure in Vietnam, who along with her husband, Bao Dai, she was also seen as a puppet of the French colonial regime. Since the release of the trailer for The Last Empress, this long debate in Vietnam has bubbled back to life. Duc Ha from the BBC's Bangkok bureau has been exploring the human story behind all the politics and controversy. In a private party in a Russian town, Katya was about to blow out the candles on her 30th birthday cake when masked men burst into the nightclub that she had hired and began physically and verbally attacking her friends. The swoop was instigated by a vigilante group who want to accelerate President Vladimir Putin's promotion of what he sees as traditional Russian family values. As is sometimes the case in these raids, members of the town's police also joined them, shutting down the party and interrogating the guests. Amalia Zatari of BBC Russian has been looking into this vigilante group. The Fifth Floor is at the heart of global storytelling on the BBC World Service, bringing you the best stories from journalists in the BBC's 43 language services. We're here to help you make sense of the stories making headlines around the world; to excite your curiosity and to get to grips with the facts. Recent episodes have investigated Russia's youth armies and how they make soldiers of Ukrainian children; featured the BBC team who were the first journalists to the site of the Nigerian school kidnappings and reflected the effects of internet blackouts in Iran, Uganda and India. If you want to know more about Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, and the legacy of Hugo Chavez; or how Vladimir Putin's network of deep cover spies operates; or why Donald Trump signed an executive order granting white South Africans asylum in the US, we have all those stories and more.This episode of The Documentary comes to you from The Fifth Floor, the show at the heart of global storytelling, with BBC journalists from all around the world. Presented by Faranak Amidi. Produced by Laura Thomas, Caroline Ferguson and Hannah Dean. (Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

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Jon Gustin is the founder of Tired Dad, a community of more than 2 million followers built on one honest premise: parenting is only hard for good parents. A former personal trainer of 14 years who started making short videos during the sleepless newborn stretch of 2020, he became one of the first men online talking openly about the mental load of fatherhood. He co-hosts the Tired Dad and Tired Mom podcasts with his wife Jessica and released his book The Tired Dad: 100 Reflections on Showing Up for What Matters Most in May. Larry and Jon get into the exhaustion that comes from doing the work right, both of their fathers coming home from Vietnam unable to talk about it, the rebellion and loss that followed Jon's parents' divorce, and the ego death that pulled his marriage out of the roommate phase. If you're tired in the best way possible and still wondering whether you're doing a good job, this conversation is for you.   Timeline Summary [1:02] – Parenting is only hard for good parents, and why tired means invested [3:19] – Tired from parenting, not tired of parenting [6:23] – How the newborn stretch of 2020 accidentally birthed Tired Dad [8:10] – Nobody was talking about the mental load of fatherhood, so Jon did [12:16] – The Justin Gustin problem and Larry's own Hagman mixup [13:29] – Full introduction: 2 million followers, two podcasts, and the book [16:54] – Growing up the baby of the family with siblings seven and eight years older [20:18] – A Vietnam veteran father, a World War Two grandfather, and night terrors that never left [21:55] – Watching your dad go from Superman to human during the divorce [26:38] – Running from it: partying, drugs, theft, and total chaos at 14 [28:26] – Losing friends to overdoses and deciding to get out [29:48] – Moving to Tennessee, meeting Jessica, and marrying 11 months later [34:08] – The Gottman research and why only 12% of marriages truly thrive [36:27] – Marry the right person for the right reasons, because marriage fixes nothing [37:59] – Postpartum, the roommate phase, and the darkest stretch of their marriage [40:56] – Killing the ego and why keeping score breeds resentment [43:48] – Getting sober three and a half years ago and what changed [46:42] – Ego death without becoming a doormat or a nice guy [48:55] – Eliminate the guessing and learn what your wife actually needs [52:42] – Inside the book: the weight fathers carry and the mantra to keep showing up [54:47] – Wearing exhaustion as a badge of honor versus being the healed version of you [57:18] – Legacy, being a home worth coming back to, and the 3am call   5 Key Takeaways Tired Means You're Doing It Right — If parenting feels hard and exhausting, that's evidence you care enough to invest in it. You're tired from the work, not of it. Marriage Fixes Nothing — Your partner isn't responsible for healing your wounds and you aren't responsible for healing theirs. Two people can both do their own work and build something great, but expecting rescue guarantees misery. The Ego Is a Heavy Backpack — Keeping score is the breeding ground for resentment. Dropping the ego means asking how you can help the situation, not tallying what you're not getting. Ego Death Is Not Becoming a Doormat — Killing the ego doesn't mean happy wife, happy life, or becoming a yes man. It means eliminating the guessing, expressing your own needs clearly, and understanding hers. Be the Healed Version, Not the Broken One — Carrying exhaustion proudly while running on empty leaves you injured at the end of the road. The goal is showing up tired but well, in shape for the job.   Links & Resources Episode page and all links: https://thedadedge.com/1508 Join the Dad Edge Alliance (July promo: signed book, two courses, 50 conversation starters): https://thedadedge.com/join Dad Edge Boardroom Goal Setting Intensive (July 31, 8am central): https://thedadedge.com/goals The Tired Dad: 100 Reflections on Showing Up for What Matters Most by Jon Gustin: available wherever books are sold Tired Dad website: https://tireddad.com   Enjoyed This Episode? If Jon's line about being tired from parenting rather than tired of it reframed something for you, pass it along. Send this episode to a dad who's running on empty and quietly wondering if he's cut out for this, and ask yourself whether you're carrying the weight well or just carrying it. If the show keeps delivering, follow, rate, and leave a review so more fathers can find these conversations.

Iran Now Less Popular Than Iraq, Vietnam, Or Afghanistan. Media Blitz Pod A president who never served is once again diminishing the cost of war — calling traumatic brain injuries "just headaches," parading a fallen soldier's family at a political rally, and standing next to a Secretary of State who openly floats a "head for an eye" doctrine against Iran. Meanwhile, MSNBC reporting confirms the US military has been targeting civilian infrastructure inside Iran, including a bridge families were using to flee the danger zone. This is not how a country that claims to believe in the rule of law fights a war. And it's not how a country that claims to honor its troops treats them when they come home in boxes. Paul unpacks the strategic and moral consequences of a Pentagon that has canceled press briefings, killed embed programs, and gone silent on military families who deserve to hear from the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs every single day. He connects the diminishment of American sacrifice to the diminishment of Iranian civilian life — and to the invisible injuries a whole new generation of veterans will carry home. If you want to understand what forever wars actually cost, and why separating the people from the policy is a matter of national security, this is the episode. -WATCH full video of this episode here. -Millions of American veterans are being locked out of primary elections in the country they served. See what we're doing to change that. -Visit Kalshi and trade on anything. Use code [INDEPENDENT] to get ten dollars when you trade ten. -Join Noble Mobile today and get a $100 bonus when you use code PAUL and stay a member for 2 months! -Join IVA and help us get independent veterans elected to office. -Learn more about Paul's work to elect a new generation of independent leaders with Independent Veterans of America. -Learn more about American Veterans for Ukraine here. -Remember Independent is an Attitude. -Learn more about The Headstrong Project for Veterans, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), and Department of Veterans Affairs resources in your area. Seeking support is not a sign of weakness. It's a show of strength. If you or a loved one are in immediate crisis, dial 988 and press 1, or text 838255. Connect with Independent Americans: Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all podcast platforms Read more at Substack Support ad-free episodes at Patreon  Connect: Instagram  • X/Twitter • BlueSky • Facebook  Follow on social: @PaulRieckhoff on X, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky -Join the movement. Hook into our exclusive Patreon community of Independent Americans. Get extra content, connect with guests, meet other Independent Americans, attend events, get merch discounts, and support this show that speaks truth to power.  -And get cool IA and Righteous hats, t-shirts and other merch now in time for the new year.  Independent Americans is powered by veteran-owned and led Righteous Media.  And now part of the BLEAV network!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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“It's like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.” — Ricardo Semler on why bosses won't let their workers vote on them Ricardo Semler might be the most anti-boss boss in the history of corporate bosses. Thrown into his Austrian immigrant father's São Paulo manufacturing firm at seventeen, the young Brazilian ripped up the rulebook — no dress codes, no time clocks, a ten-page cartoon manual instead of HR — and grew the company from 110 employees to more than 5,000. In the mid-Eighties he was already inventing hybrid work, shipping Telex machines to his workers' homes. One of them even squeezed one of these 150-pound machines into his bathroom. Now, in his upcoming e-book The End of the Boss, the author of the iconoclastic autobiography Maverick argues that the corporate pyramid — an inheritance, he says, from West Point via the railroads — is as dead as a cuckoo bird (as the Swiss would say). Nothing good has been done with it since World War Two. Not in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, his native Brazil, and certainly not in corporate America where Elon Musk's current pay package equals the wages of all his employees for the next five years. Semler's alternative is disarmingly simple: groups of ten who validate their leader every six months. Fail the vote and you're not fired — you go back to being one of the nine. His Netherlands-based consultancy has brought versions of the idea to 208 companies, including the giant Dutch bank ABN AMRO, which agreed to do away with 399 branch managers. So why don't more bosses follow? Because, says Semler, asking executives to be elected from below is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas. Even the self-styled “fearless” Elon Musk would be terrified to end up as the roasted centerpiece of the Xmas table. That same maverick idea (his first ex-wife joked he's only ever had one) runs through everything Semler has ever proposed — from the rotating district presidents of São Paulo, to the untethered MBA whose cohorts hire their own professors, to the schools that grade Call of Duty and map it to the curriculum. Switzerland, he points out, has been governed by seven rotating nobodies since the fourteenth century. No, The Third Man's Harry Lime was wrong. Rather than the cuckoo clock, it's this anti-boss invention which explains Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace. Five Takeaways •       The Pyramid Came from West Point — and It's Dead. The corporate hierarchy, Semler argues, is a military inheritance that reached business from West Point via the railroads — and nothing good has been done with it since World War Two, from Korea to Vietnam to Afghanistan. The numbers agree: the average company's lifespan on the stock market has collapsed from 61 years to 21, which makes the classical pyramid, not self-management, the biggest gamble of all. Jack Welch's GE is a shadow because he prepared it for nothing except Jack Welch. And when one Alexander Wang is valued like 20,000 engineers, or a CEO's package equals five years of everyone's wages, something structural is wrong.•       Turkeys Voting for Christmas. Semler's system is cells of ten that choose or validate their leader by anonymous survey every six months. Fail the vote and you aren't fired — you return to being one of the nine. His consultancy has brought the idea to 208 companies, including ABN AMRO, which agreed to eliminate 399 branch managers. The reason it doesn't spread is not that it doesn't work; it's that nobody at the top wants it — turkeys don't vote for Christmas, and Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg would be terrified of their employees deciding whether they keep their jobs. His model is Switzerland: seven rotating councilors nobody can name, working out fine since the fourteenth century. The alternative ends, sooner or later, in Kim Jong Un.•       Cycles, Not Failures. “Until death do us part,” Semler says, is about the silliest question anybody could ask. His own eighteen-year marriage with three children wasn't a failure — it was a cycle that ended, ten beautiful years out of eleven. Children born today will live to 100 or 110, with time for three full careers and still a retirement, so asking a seventeen-year-old what they want to be for the rest of their life is the wrong question. His daily metric is simpler: was today a valid day — like getting your parking ticket validated — or a dues day? When the dues days outnumber the valid ones week after week, the marriage or the job is already finished, whether you admit it or not.•       The Untethered MBA. Semler taught MBAs at MIT and spent four years at Harvard Law School, so he knows exactly what he's calling outmoded, outdated, and obsolete. His replacement: cohorts of ten who work through a dashboard curriculum at their own pace, study the case of the day rather than decade-old case studies — is SpaceX worth a trillion dollars, or nothing? — and spend credits to summon former CFOs or Stanford professors on demand. The same logic runs his schools, which grade TikTok and Call of Duty and map them to the curriculum. The smartphone panic, he says, is mostly nostalgia: what the screens are ruining is your ability to memorize the periodic table.•       AI Is Electricity — and He's Losing the Argument. AI, Semler says, is irrelevant the way electricity is irrelevant: a tide rising for every boat, pointless to oppose and impossible to live without. He runs everything through four LLMs — “there's nothing left of slop or hallucination at the end of that” — and confesses that when he tells his AI to push back, he now has trouble keeping up intellectually, which wasn't true a year ago. His hope is that we don't become “domesticated pets” over the next fifteen years. The deeper obstacle to everything, though, remains human: the cattle aspect of fear. There is no Trump and no Putin, he says — there is thirty percent of the population willing to support them, and one person who understands what populism can do. About the Guest Ricardo Semler is the chairman and majority owner of Semco Partners, the São Paulo company he took over from his father at 21 and transformed into the world's most famous experiment in industrial democracy. His book Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace (1993) was an international bestseller published in sixteen languages; The Seven-Day Weekend followed in 2003. He is the founder of the Lumiar schools and the Ralston Semler Foundation, has taught at MIT's Sloan School and Harvard Law School, and his TED talks have been viewed millions of times. His new e-book is The End of the Boss (endoftheboss.org, 2026). References: •       The End of the Boss by Ricardo Semler (2026) — the e-book, and its “Round Pyramid” alternative: self-managing cells of ten with leaders validated from below.•       Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler — the million-copy classic whose Brazilian predecessor, Turning the Tables, was rejec...

Joyau naturel du nord du Vietnam, l'archipel de Cát Bà attire chaque année davantage de visiteurs. Situé au large de la baie de Ha Long, il séduit par ses paysages karstiques et ses forêts luxuriantes. Fort de ce succès, plusieurs grands groupes immobiliers y ont développé des résidences de luxe et des complexes hôteliers. Des projets qui refaçonnent désormais une partie de l'île. De notre correspondant à Hanoï, Depuis son embarcation, Đạt navigue entre les villages de pêcheurs aux toitures bleues et rouges et les îlots rocheux recouverts de forêts luxuriantes. Originaire de l'île et issu d'une famille de pêcheurs, il explique : « Je suis originaire de Cát Bà. Je travaille dans le tourisme depuis déjà quatre ans. L'île s'est développée rapidement au cours de ces deux dernières années. Elle est toujours aussi belle. Les infrastructures et les bateaux se sont grandement modernisés. » Routes élargies, réseau électrique renforcé, gestion des déchets plus performante : Cát Bà s'est modernisée pour accueillir plus de quatre millions de touristes l'année dernière. Lancé en août 2024, un projet de réaménagement urbain de près de 50 hectares est présenté comme les « petites Maldives de l'Asie du Sud-Est ». Son promoteur le décrit comme un projet vert et à faible empreinte carbone. Le propriétaire d'une petite agence de tourisme constate néanmoins les conséquences du chantier sur son quotidien : « Le chantier provoque beaucoup de bruit et de poussière. Avant, il y avait la mer juste devant nous. Aujourd'hui, il n'y a plus que des bâtiments en béton armé. Bien sûr, cela va créer beaucoup d'emplois pour les habitants locaux, mais cela détruit aussi une grande partie du paysage. » Les infrastructures occupent un vaste remblai aménagé sur une partie de l'ancienne baie centrale. Évalué à plus de 500 millions de dollars, le complexe accueille déjà des résidences touristiques, des commerces et des établissements haut de gamme. Une plage artificielle de sable blanc s'étend sur près d'un kilomètre : « Ce que l'on peut considérer comme les plus beaux espaces naturels est également en partie affecté. Heureusement, ce complexe et cette zone ne représentent pas une part trop importante de l'ensemble de l'île, puisque 80 % de Cát Bà restent constitués de forêts, de montagnes et d'espaces naturels. » Vers un tourisme plus durable L'homme développe lui aussi un établissement touristique en périphérie du centre de l'île. Des bungalows en bois équipés de panneaux solaires voient progressivement le jour face aux mangroves : « L'objectif est de construire quelque chose davantage tourné vers la nature. Nous voulons développer l'île dans une direction plus écologique, plus verte, plus propre, plus belle et plus durable pour l'avenir. » L'année dernière, le Comité du patrimoine mondial avait exprimé sa « très vive inquiétude » face à la poursuite des projets touristiques et d'infrastructures sur l'île de Cát Bà et le long du littoral de la baie d'Ha Long. Le Vietnam a depuis transmis un rapport actualisé sur l'état de conservation du site. Celui-ci doit être examiné par le Comité du patrimoine mondial en juillet prochain. À écouter aussiAu Vietnam, la vente sur les trottoirs, emblématique de la ville d'Hanoï, est en sursis

The View ladies hit with pay cuts, Nolan Wells' autopsy, Oprah reconsiders her Harry & Meghan interview, Ellen (at the time) Page & the worst Late Night interview ever, D4vd murder case, breast reconstruction videos, Maz is a Fanilow, and Jim's Picks: Top 10 Smoke songs. Tommy Lee was on Dax Shepard's podcast. It was kind of cool. Kind of. But it was also kind of a bummer. We miss the old Dax. Nolan Wells' independent autopsy came out. It's inconclusive.  The D4vd murder case is not looking so good for D4vd. The View is facing big time budget cuts. including the wardrobe department. Brand new Bonerline Angel Reese highlights round 35. Kamala Harris IS STILL #1 in the polls to be the next Democratic candidate. Lance Schroyer is in big trouble. An illegal immigrant is suing Donald Trump for $75M. Good luck. Vietnam vet that slapped a young guy at a Chicago Cubs game feels bad now. The guy that got sucked out of an airplane broke his silence...And can't wear shirts now. William Shatner had stage 4 cancer in his 90s...And beat it. Drew stumbled into breast reconstruction pictures and videos after double mastectomies. It's crazy. Maz interrupts our fun to talk about his 5 jobs. The Kansas City Chiefs are building a new stadium that isn't close to being ready and will only cost about $3B. What are the Tigers going to do at the trade deadline? Maz loves Rich Little. That somehow leads us down a Barry Manilow rabbit hole. Then Drew grills Tom about his Rock & Brews schedule. Bye, Tommy. Harry & Meghan got some interesting stuff going on. Oprah is reliving her interview with them. MasterChef Australia is about to air. Jim's Picks: Top 10 Songs About Smoke An Ellen Page interview on Stephen Colbert from 2019 hasn't aged well. Merch, yo. Check it. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley, BranDon, and Roberto).

Is President Trump's grand strategy unraveling? The United States is at war with Iran, China is ascendant, Russia and Ukraine are stalemated and American allies are openly questioning our commitment to them. Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, joins me to discuss the state of America's foreign policy and he makes the case that Trump's approach to our allies and adversaries is making us stronger. 0:00 - Intro  1:24 - What Is Trump's Approach to Foreign Policy? 5:00 - Is China Still America's Main Rival?  7:08 - Colby's Strategy of Denial in the Pacific 9:58 - How to Avoid a War with China & Taiwan 12:18 - Can U.S. Aircraft Carriers & Bases Survive a Pacific Conflict? 16:43 - Is the Iran War Draining Our Weapons and Resources? 17:49 - The U.S. Military Strategy in Iran War 19:44 - Does the Middle East Conflict Help or Hurt China? 22:04 - Trying and Failing to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz 28:13 - The Parallels of Iran to the Vietnam and Iraq Wars 33:17 - Trump's Strategy With Russia & Ukraine 40:49 - "NATO 3.0" & Returning to the Cold War 43:21 - Did the Pentagon Try to Cut Support for Ukraine? 46:28 - How "Middle Powers" Fail  49:30 - Greenland, Canada, and the Monroe Doctrine 52:22 - Canada: Neighbor or 51st State? 54:23 - What We Expect From Allies (A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.) Thoughts? Email us at interestingtimes@nytimes.com. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel, Interesting Times with Ross Douthat. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Let's talk about how the Iran war is more opposed than Vietnam and other numbers….

Another War, Another Congress That Can't Stop It. Media Blitz Pod Six months in and Americans already revile this war more than they came to revile Vietnam. Trump went all gas, no brakes — no declaration, no authorization, no plan — and now Pete Hegseth is on the Hill with his hat in hand asking Congress for the money he swore he didn't need. Meanwhile Sergeant Michael Emmanuel Swinton of North Carolina, thirty years old, husband and father, is dead in Iraq. Two more service members are dead in Jordan. And the Secretary of Defense can't tell you how many Americans have been wounded, because per New York Times reporting, this Pentagon is undercounting them. Paul brings the ground-truth veteran perspective live to MSNBC alongside David Rhodes and Tom Nichols: the human cost first, the political theater second. He calls out the joint hearing farce, the Hegseth spin, and the senators — from both parties — who still won't force a vote to stop this. This is what happens when you commit the troops before you commit the country. This is what a rigged two-party system looks like when the bodies start coming home. And this is why 'Independent is an attitude' isn't a slogan — it's the only posture left that makes sense. -WATCH full video of this episode here. -Millions of American veterans are being locked out of primary elections in the country they served. See what we're doing to change that. -Visit Kalshi and trade on anything. Use code [INDEPENDENT] to get ten dollars when you trade ten. -Join Noble Mobile today and get a $100 bonus when you use code PAUL and stay a member for 2 months! -Join IVA and help us get independent veterans elected to office. -Learn more about Paul's work to elect a new generation of independent leaders with Independent Veterans of America. -Learn more about American Veterans for Ukraine here. -Remember Independent is an Attitude. -Learn more about The Headstrong Project for Veterans, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), and Department of Veterans Affairs resources in your area. Seeking support is not a sign of weakness. It's a show of strength. If you or a loved one are in immediate crisis, dial 988 and press 1, or text 838255. Connect with Independent Americans: Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all podcast platforms Read more at Substack Support ad-free episodes at Patreon  Connect: Instagram  • X/Twitter • BlueSky • Facebook  Follow on social: @PaulRieckhoff on X, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky -Join the movement. Hook into our exclusive Patreon community of Independent Americans. Get extra content, connect with guests, meet other Independent Americans, attend events, get merch discounts, and support this show that speaks truth to power.  -And get cool IA and Righteous hats, t-shirts and other merch now in time for the new year.  Independent Americans is powered by veteran-owned and led Righteous Media.  And now part of the BLEAV network!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today's episode is a triple threat! Our first discussion is with Heidi love all about the truth regarding the LDS church. Truth that is hid from not only members, but the public has a whole. Then we move on to a discussion I had on William Ramsey investigates where we discussed a article I wrote on my beware the Mockingbird Substack. We discussed the Phoenix program and it's impact on the creation of serial killers. And finally, we move on to a discussion that I had regarding the truth about Kurt Cobain and his death.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cult-of-conspiracy--5700337/support.

18 American service members have been killed so far in Trump's war against Iran. And Trump uses that number 18, and compares it to all the Americans lost in previous wars like the Vietnam war, as some sort of “success story.” He's despicable. And he doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special edition of From Our Own Correspondent, we remember BBC Correspondent David Willey, who reported from around the world for more than half a century, and who died recently.David was a prolific contributor to this programme throughout his life and was still writing for the programme into his 93rd year. In an interview recorded last year for the ‘From Our Own Correspondent at 70' programme, David tells Today presenter Anna Foster about his early travels reporting from around the world from Libya to China, as well as his long-time role as BBC Vatican Correspondent. This podcast also features some of his most memorable dispatches, including a report on troop morale in Vietnam in the 1970s, a lavish party thrown by Colonel Gadaffi in Libya in 2009 to mark his 40th year in power; insights from inside the Vatican amid the ‘Vatileaks' scandal of 2012; and recollections from 2023 about when he first met Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi at his estate near Milan, where he got a private tour of the billionaire businessman's private mausoleum.

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, Kyle and Cam dive into another collection of strange encounters from around the world.They begin with several chilling Bigfoot reports, including eyewitness accounts of creatures that were not only seen—but allegedly shot—with mysterious results. Then they discuss an incredible Thunderbird sighting that leaves witnesses questioning just what still flies above our forests.Next, they venture into one of the most fascinating mysteries to emerge from the Vietnam War: the legendary Rock Apes. Were these creatures simply misidentified primates, or did American soldiers come face to face with something far stranger lurking deep within the jungles? From Powell's Ape to terrifying encounters in the Central Highlands, massive footprints, eerie howls in the night, and creatures caught in the middle of firefights, the eyewitness reports paint a disturbing picture that refuses to fade into military folklore.Finally, the guys share a deeply unsettling encounter involving two fae-like beings that appeared beside a young child's bed, gently urging the child to come outside and play. What began as an innocent invitation quickly transformed into something far darker, leaving behind a haunting question: what were these entities really after?From mysterious creatures and forgotten wartime legends to ancient folklore and unexplained encounters, this episode is packed with the strange, the mysterious, and the unexplained.All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives.Show Notes:Glimmer Man Book: Cloaked Beings That Move Among UsWant to Share Your Story? Email: expandedperspectives@yahoo.com Hotline: 888-393-2783 Want More Expanded Perspectives? If you want more Expanded Perspectives and help out the show, then join our Patreon. Just click this link or download the Patreon App and search Expanded Perspectives Elite Do you want to give the gift of Expanded Perspectives Elite? Just click this link or go to patreon.com/expandedperspectiveselite/gift