Podcasts about Iron Cross

#prowrestling #mtrushmore #jerrylawler #billdundee #wolfiedWelcome to Episode 189 of LIVE and IN COLOR with Wolfie D (@warrenwolfe13) and co-host Jimmy Street (@jamesrockstreet)!Today we go back into the archives to bring you some of our former guests, where we ask them the question of who's on their Mt. Rushmore of Pro Wrestling! Wrestlers, referees, managers, announcers, promos, you name it, we rushmore it! As always it's better with a little help from your friends so we welcome Jimmy's brother, the Plastic Sheik, Jared Street from the Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling podcast, as we include several clips from that show as well (I mean it is his patented question)! You'll hear clips from Wolfie D, Trevor Murdoch, Dennis Kelly, Kevin Lawler, Downtown Bruno, The Wild Boys, Steve Neely & Ben Jordan, Tommy Young, Sigmon from the Heatseekers & more! From @GMBMPW you'll hear Jeff Daniels, Dave Millican, Shane Morton, Dante & Mephisto, Wolfie's trainer Rick Reynolds, Tommy Angel, Todd Champion, David Isley, Pat Rose, Iron Cross, Jeremiah Plunkett, George Weingeroff and last but not least, JC Ice his own self, Jamie Dundee! Enjoy!Visit our Live and In Color with Wolfie D podcast page! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wolfiedFOLLOW US ON:https://www.facebook.com/livewolfiedhttps://twitter.com/livewolfiedhttps://www.instagram.com/livewolfied/https://www.youtube.com/@livewolfiedVISIT OUR PROWRESTLINGTEES STORE: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/livewolfied.html Check out co-host Jimmy's podcast Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpwVISIT OUR AWESOME SPONSORS! -MAGIC MIND: Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with our link:https://www.magicmind.com/LIVEINCOJAN #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance-MANSCAPED: 20% OFF with code WOLFIE at https://manscaped.com-STEVE BOWTIE BRYANT'S 1993 "Unbeatables" trading card sets (LIMITED QUANTITIES!): Contact stevebowtiebryant@icloud.comADVERTISE WITH US!Would you or your business like to become a supporter of the 'Live and In Color with Wolfie D' Podcast? Contact us at liveandincolor.wolfied@gmail.com for ad rates and sponsorship options! Very Special Thanks To: Tracy Byrd and A Gathering Of None for the “Current Affair”, "Ask Wolfie D Anything" & "Name Game" theme songs!Support them at these links: https://agatheringofnone.bandcamp.com/ https://agatheringofnone.bigcartel.com/ Also, if you'd like to stream or purchase "Cap4YaDome" the official theme song for LIVE and IN COLOR with Wolfie D, you can here: Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/cap4yadome/1054542233?i=1054542237 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7M8F0CTsGwCtzKBjrImC7a?si=bab79a02c9f74cc3And don't forget about this one:PG-13 HOF rap: https://youtu.be/pvYUJn3sPfA© 2025, jamesrockstreet Productions

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Hello to you listening in Parker, Colorado! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.Since 17th September I've been virtually retracing my pilgrimage steps on the Camino de Santiago, an annual ritual to remind me what I gained, what I was willing to toss away, and marking my life as BC & AC: Before Camino and After Camino.That cold dark morning I climbed the wet mountain trail to arrive at the Cruz de Ferro - also called the Iron Cross - bearing rocks for 16 friends and family members. Funny to be carrying all that extra weight when our packs are supposed to be pared down to the least we need. But I had promised that I would include my beloveds in this Camino ritual to set down burdens by leaving a rock and a prayer  - even symbolically - leaving behind for them the weight of fears, heartbreak, mistakes, regrets, disappointments. For me it was fear of poverty.  What the Camino gave me then and continues to give me now is a profound sense of community I've found nowhere else. Whether we prayed for ourselves at the Cruz de Ferro or for the state of the world or for something in between I just know that our prayers were heard. And answered; but perhaps not in the way we expected. Why? Because we don't get what we ask for; we get what we dream of. And that might take time to recognize.Practical Tip: Know this: we are all pilgrims on the road walking each other home the best way we can with compassion, stories, and believing that Each One Lift One is the Way of the Buen Camino.You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe and spread the word with a generous 5-star review and comment - it helps us all - and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out Services I Offer,✓ For a no-obligation conversation about your communication challenges, get in touch with me today✓ Stay current with me as “Wyzga on Words” on Substack and on LinkedInStories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.

Iain is taking this cast off so Jamie and Oliver are at the helm. This episode they cover further troubles at Mythic, companies being saved and consolidating their lines, controversial giveaways and more on episode 152 of Brainwaves.    Headlines   Mythic Games France liquidates  https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/10/17/no-mythic-games-hasnt-gone-into-liquidation-but-its-fate-should-be-decided-by-the-end-of-the-month/ https://annonces-legales.leparisien.fr/annonce/23cba43f-8a82-48c1-8f57-6a2285e239c3   Funforge ‘saved' by Tokaido deal https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/10/11/did-it-save-the-company-yes-and-no-funforges-ceo-on-fighting-its-financial-woes-by-selling-the-tokaido-line-to-stonemaier/   Spiel Essen Sold Out https://www.spiel-essen.de/en/press?view=article&id=222&catid=12   News   Barnes & Noble to list game designers  https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57959/barnes-noble-begin-listing-game-designers   NAC Wargames hands out Nazi memorabilia https://bsky.app/profile/celacanto.bsky.social/post/3l5qu6lhp4j2n The Other Side of the Hill crowdfunding campaign: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/masqueoca/the-other-side-of-the-hill/ Publisher's response on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8461574/the-other-side-of-the-hill?commentid=12438977 Gamefound update about the Iron Cross medal: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/masqueoca/the-other-side-of-the-hill/updates/5   Matagot shrinks catalogue https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/10/16/matagot-stops-publishing-heavier-games-like-kemet-inis-shifts-focus-to-family-and-childrens-titles/   Steve Jackson Games announces Fighting Fantasy Deal https://www.sjgames.com/fightingfantasy/   Jobs, Opportunities, and Events   https://www.facebook.com/groups/TabletopJobs Patreon Shoutouts   Kevin Bertram https://www.fortcircle.com/   James Naylor https://naylorgames.com/   Shaun Newman game-a-lot.fun/en facebook.com/gamealotboardgames   Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thegiantbrain   Support Us https://giantbrain.co.uk/support-us-new/   Fanroll https://fanrolldice.com/ref/2783/   Sir Meeple https://sirmeeple.com/collections/the-giant-brain   Boardgamewire https://boardgamewire.com/   Outro   English Heritage Games https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/toys-games/games/board-games   Our Links   Thanks very much for listening. If you like what you've listened to then the best way to help us out is to share the podcast and drop us a review and rating on itunes.  You can also follow us on   Oliver: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/3bMx2HK75r Blusky:https://bsky.app/profile/giantbrain.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain Website: https://giantbrain.co.uk/ Email: giantbrainuk@gmail.com

fWotD Episode 2696: Artur Phleps Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 21 September 2024 is Artur Phleps.Artur Gustav Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and German army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS – of which Phleps was a senior officer – was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I, Phleps specialised in mountain warfare and logistics, and had been promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) by the end of the war. During the interwar period he joined the Romanian Army, reaching the rank of General-locotenent (major general), and also became an adviser to King Carol. After he spoke out against the government he was sidelined and asked to be dismissed from the army.In 1941 he left Romania and joined the Waffen-SS as an SS-Standartenführer (colonel) under his mother's maiden name of Stolz. Seeing action on the Eastern Front as a regimental commander with the SS Motorised Division Wiking, he later raised and commanded the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, raised the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian), and commanded the V SS Mountain Corps. Units under his command committed many crimes against the civilian population of the Independent State of Croatia, German-occupied territory of Serbia and Italian governorate of Montenegro. His final appointment was as plenipotentiary general in south Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) and the Banat, during which he organised the evacuation of the Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) of Siebenbürgen to the Reich. In addition to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Phleps was awarded the German Cross in Gold, and after he was killed in September 1944, he was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:48 UTC on Saturday, 21 September 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Artur Phleps on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Brian.

Send me a messageVictorian British army surgeon, William Manley, is the only man to have ever been awarded both the Victoria Cross and the Iron Cross.But how did that happen?Let's explore his forgotten story.William Manly VC (1831 - 1901).Join my Supporter's ClubSupport the Show.

Author Bill MIlls comes on the podcast to discuss his book Agent of the Iron Cross: The Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke during World War I.   Spies, deception, intrigue, and sabotage: these are not the stories we usually think when we think WW1. They are part of this story, though.   Buy the book here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538182086/Agent-of-the-Iron-Cross-The-Race-to-Capture-German-Saboteur-Assassin-Lothar-Witzke-during-World-War-I   The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast.    Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter at @WW1podcast, the Battles of the First World War Podcast page on FaceBook, and on Instagram at @WW1battlecast. Not into social media? Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com. Rate, review, and subscribe to the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.  

In 1918, German secret agent, Lothar Witzke, entered the United States via the southern border. His mission was to conduct a campaign of terror and sabotage. This included the destruction of American factories making war materials, the assassination of American officials, and fomenting racial unrest. To explore this little-known chapter in WWI history, the World War I Podcast hosted Bill Mills, author of Agent of the Iron Cross: The Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke During World War I. Have a comment about this episode? Send us a text message! (Note: we can read texts, but we cannot respond.) The Family Histories PodcastJoin us and our guests as they reveal the fascinating lives of those in their family tree.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyFollow us: Twitter: @MacArthur1880 Amanda Williams on Twitter: @AEWilliamsClark Facebook/Instagram: @MacArthurMemorial www.macarthurmemorial.org

Chris is joined by historian and author Bill Mills on today's podcast. They discuss Bill's research into German sabotage and espionage operations in the United States during World War One and how that led to Bill's new book “Agent of the Iron Cross.” To find out more about “Agent of the Iron Cross” and to get a copy, visit the publisher's website here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538182079/Agent-of-the-Iron-Cross-The-Race-to-Capture-German-Saboteur-Assassin-Lothar-Witzke-during-World-War-I Support Secrets and Spies:  Become a “Friend of the podcast” on Patreon for £3 www.patreon.com/SecretsAndSpies Buy merchandise from our shop: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/60934996?asc=u   Subscribe to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDVB23lrHr3KFeXq4VU36dg For more information about the podcast, check out our website: https://secretsandspiespodcast.com/  Connect with us on social media.  BLUE SKY https://bsky.app/profile/secretsandspies.bsky.social TWITTER twitter.com/SecretsAndSpies FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/secretsandspies INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/secretsandspies/ SPOUTIBLE   https://spoutible.com/SecretsAndSpies

This week, Justin speaks with Bill Mills. Bill holds a B.A. in History from Framingham State University and has written four nonfiction books about espionage during the First World War. Along the way, he has amassed a significant private collection of original documents, photos, and artifacts related to espionage during that war. Today he shares story of Germany's highly-coordinated and highly-effective sabotage campaign against the United States during World War I.  Ships, warehouses, and factories across the country were damaged or destroyed by brand new types of destructive devices and a skilled team of saboteurs who evaded capture time and time again until they met their match facing a handful of world class agents from the U. S. Army's Military Intelligence Section. Connect with Bill:Check out Bills most recent book, Agent of the Iron Cross, here.https://amzn.to/3WdLRTGConnect with Spycraft 101:Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here.spycraft101.comIG: @spycraft101Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.comPatreon: Spycraft 101Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.Tenderfoot TVReal. Powerful. Storytelling. Tune in to "To Die For" wherever you listen to podcasts.History by MailWho knew? Not me! Learn something new every month. Use code JUSTIN10 for 10% off your subscription.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the Show.

On January 30, 1918, a young man “with the appearance of a well-educated, debonair foreigner” arrived at the U.S. customs station in Nogales, Arizona, located on the border with Mexico. After politely informing the customs inspector that he had come to complete his draft registration questionnaire and meet a friend in San Francisco, he was approved to cross the border into the United States. Lothar Witzke, the most dangerous German agent in the western hemisphere had reached his destination. His assignment: launch a campaign of sabotage, insurrection, and murder to destabilize the American home front.The terror campaign would be devastating - unless it could be stopped by U.S. counterintelligence.The Witzke mission was the intelligence game played at its highest level - a plan for destruction on a massive scale, violent insurrection, and assassination, complete with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink.To look at these forgotten elements of German sabotage and assassination plots in the United States during World War One is today's guest, Bill Mills, author of “ Agents of the Iron Cross.”

Have you ever wondered what it's like to transform from a physics teacher into a CrossFit gym owner and coach? John Warnick, the powerhouse behind Iron Cross Athletics and CrossFit Phoenixville, joins us on our latest episode to share his extraordinary tale. The world of competitive fitness is ever-changing, and John Warnick has witnessed its evolution firsthand. He takes us through a journey of the CrossFit Open's growth. We also get an intimate look at the choices that led John from the classroom to the gym floor, where the principles of constant improvement and dedication have become his guiding stars. His approach to coaching is both an art and a science, where structure, clarity, and ongoing education are as critical to success as the weights lifted and the records broken.

Welcome to Episode #54 of Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling (@gmbmpw) with hosts and brothers, Jimmy Street (@jamesrockstreet) and "The Plastic Sheik" Jared Street, our action figure expert! Listen in as they join forces and tackle the world of Professional Wrestling! Today we're welcoming a man who is as strong in his faith as he is his body. He's someone you may know from the past as Mike Samson, but we know him as the pride of Russell County, Va., IRON CROSS! He's wrestled all over and almost everyone! WCW, Smoky Mountain, USWA and many more independent promotions, but you might say his biggest victory was his faith in Jesus and his work he does as pastor of Emmanuel Chapel Church in Castlewood, Va! We had great conversation! Enjoy! Visit our Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling podcast page! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpw FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE: https://facebook.com/gmbmpw https://facebook.com/groups/gmbmpw/ https://instagram.com/gmbmpw https://twitter.com/gmbmpw https://www.youtube.com/@GMBMPW Check out Sheik's Shorts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0oL-yrnIHtlaVHamAApDquYBXeGaHS8v Check out host Jimmy's podcast Live and In Color with Wolfie D: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wolfied VISIT OUR AWESOME SPONSORS! -STEVE BOWTIE BRYANT'S 1993 "Unbeatables" trading card sets (LIMITED QUANTITIES!): Contact stevebowtiebryant@icloud.com ADVERTISE WITH US! For business and advertising inquiries contact us at gmbmpw@gmail.com Very Special Thanks To: -Sludge (@sludge_cast) for the "Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling" entrance theme! -Tracy Byrd and A Gathering Of None for the "Sheik Fell Down A Rabbit Hole", "Name Game" & "Stories From Across The Street" theme songs! Support them at these links: https://agatheringofnone.bandcamp.com/ https://agatheringofnone.bigcartel.com/ © jamesrockstreet Productions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpw/support

Interview with ‘Agent of the Iron Cross' author, Historian - Bill Mills The Black Spy Podcast, Season 13, Episode 0006   This week's Black Spy Podcast looks at a little known part of secret intelligence history of WW1, where Imperial Germany covertly attacked the USA to prevent it supporting The British, French and Russian Empires in the WW1; even prior to the USA's entry into WW1 on the side of the British et'al in 1917. In listening to my exclusive podcast with Bill Mills, listeners will get to hear the astounding story of this German WW1 and indeed pre WW1 activity and the world wide scope of such intelligence operations. Listeners will also hear how multifaceted intelligence operations are and Carlton lets listeners note that the overarching and wide ranging spread of espionage, subversive and sabotage operations are no less wide ranging in today's modern world. Finally, one can also learn from this fantastic episode, how susceptible even the most supposedly stable countries are, to fractures and fissures being sown in their societies when grievances are highlighted by bad or even righteous actors. So once again the Black Spy Podcast aims to attempt to answer the direction we are travelling in as a nation, culture and indeed species to assess the dangers we might all inherit. This is another Black Spy Podcast episode that goes where other media outlets tend not to tread or don't even consider assessing. Please don't forget to subscribe, to never to miss a Black Spy Podcast episode. To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following: To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast Facebook: Carlton King Author Twitter@Carlton_King Instagram@carltonkingauthor   To read Carlton's Autobiography: “Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent” Click the link below: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/BO1MTV2GDF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_WNZ5MT89T9C14CB53651 Carlton is available for speaking events. For this purpose use the contact details above.

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We're dipping into the archives this week with John off to New Zealand. This week Selene discusses her experience with Iron Cross, the gravel/cyclocross/insanity event that takes place in Central Pennsylvania. This is her tenth anniversary of doing the race and she has won it four times previously. The event is so challenging the word […]

Third on my list of top ten begonias for the average living room is the iron cross begonia, Begonia masoniana, a true showstopper of a species that has been an iconic houseplant since the 1950s when it first entered the indoor plant world thanks to a chap called Maurice Mason. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/top-ten-begonias  Sign up for The Plant Ledger, my email newsletter about the houseplant scene: https://www.janeperrone.com/ledger Check out Legends of the Leaf, my book on houseplants http://legendsoftheleafbook.com Support On The Ledge on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ontheledge Follow Jane Perrone on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.l.perrone Join the Houseplant Fans of On The Ledge group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/house... Join in #HouseplantHour on Twitter every Tuesday 9pm UK time (4pm ET): https://twitter.com/houseplanthour

It's our oi special tonight! We dive into oi punk music- from the original wave of bands like Sham 69, Cock Sparrer, Iron Cross, & The 4 Skins to current faves like Booze & Glory, Evil Conduct, & Los Fastidios. We spin a bunch of The Business from across their 35 years- all from an upcoming Captain Oi compilation memorializing these oi punk favourites!  We explores tons of oi bands from around the planet and thru the decades, including Dropkick Murphys, The Chisel, Hard Skin, Klasse Kriminale, Forced Reality, Darkbuster, Custom Fit, Evil Conduct, The Boils, Grade 2, Commandantes, The Mess, Daily Terror, Dirt Byrds, Claymore, & Takers & Users- we even throw in a song written for the classic film "Romper Stomper"!     Dropkick Murphys- Skinhead On The MBTA Klasse Kriminale- Hooligans 2.0.0.1. Romper Stomper- Pulling On The Boots Hard Skin- Here Come The Lads Sham 69- Borstal Breakout (1978 7" Version) Cock Sparrer- Riot Squad Iron Cross- Crucified For Your Sins Darkbuster- Lil' Junkie Mess- Bleak Days Chisel- Sit And Say Nothing Los Fastidios- Johnny And The Queer Boot Boys Forced Reality- When The Hammer Comes Down Commandantes- Halt Stand Rotes Madrid Daily Terror- Ich Han Drauf Custom Fit- Spontaneous Combustion Evil Conduct- One Of The Boys Business- Harry May Business- Blind Justice Business- Do A Runner Business- Takers And Users Business- Out In The Cold Business- Southgate (Euro 96) Business- Smash The Discos Business- Death To Dance (1996 7") Business- Drinking And Driving Business- Saturday's Heroes Four Skins- 1984 (Strength Through Oi) Grade 2- Reality Is Calling Booze And Glory- Working Class Hero Claymore- Oi! Is The Drug Boils- Slit Your Throat Boils- In the Scope Of The Hunter Dirt Byrds- Used Takers And Users- Glory Days

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!? This is a question I frequently ask first-time pilgrims on the Camino Francés, as we walk together on this ancient pilgrimage path. Beebe Bahrami, author of the Moon Camino de Santiago guidebook knows the answer, and she shares the history, culture, and context of the Camino Francés in her beautiful guide to sacred sites, historic villages, and local food and wine. In this episode: What is the real history of the Cruz de Ferro, or Iron Cross? What's this about a stone boat? What does it mean when someone wishes a pilgrim "buen Camino"? Why did Beebe write this guidebook?   Discover Beebe's Bahrami's library of published books, available at your local bookstore and online:  >> Moon Camino de Santiago: Sacred Sites, Historic Villages, Local Food & Wine  >> The Way of the Wild Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago  >> Spiritual Traveler Spain: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes And more . . . WANT MORE TIPS ABOUT WALKING THE CAMINO? Get on my email list and I will be in your inbox every Friday with more good stuff! Go to https://thecaminoexperience.com/ and look for the pop-up sign-up form (on computer) or scroll down the home page to find the sign-up form (on smartphone). Be sure to open the email I send and click on the button to get your Top 10 Camino Tips (that don't usually show up on the top 10 lists) and confirm your subscription.   FAVORITE PLACES TO STAY ON THE CAMINO FRANCÉS Here are the favorite places we talked about in this episode:  >> Albergue Acacio y Orietta, in Viloria de Rioja  >> El Puente Peregrino, in Trabadelo  >> Casa Susi, in Trabadelo   READY FOR A WINTER WRITING RETREAT? Reserve your time at The Stone Boat guesthouse in Rabanal del Camino, directly on the Camino Francés path. Just you, your creative projects, the wood burning stove, and pilgrims walking past your window throughout the day. Find out more at: https://www.thestoneboat.com/ , menu tab "Writing Retreats." Or email Kim at hola@thestoneboat.com   Related: Check out Beebe Bahrami's website for all her works: https://beebebahrami.weebly.com/   #youonthecamino #caminodesantiago #firsttimepilgrim #thecaminoexperience #caminopodcast

Hello to you and Happy Birthday Marty Wyzga listening in Parker, Colorado! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.Since 17th September I've been virtually retracing my pilgrimage steps on the Camino de Santiago, an annual ritual to remind me what I gained, what I was willing to toss away, marking my life as BC & AC: Before Camino and After Camino.That cold dark morning I climbed the wet mountain trail to arrive at the Cruz de Ferro - also called the Iron Cross - bearing rocks for 16 friends and family members. Funny to be carrying all that extra weight when our packs are supposed to be pared down to the least we need. But I had promised that I would include my beloveds in this Camino ritual to set down burdens by leaving a rock and a prayer  - even symbolically - leaving behind for them the weight of fears, heartbreak, mistakes, regrets, disappointments. For me it was fear of poverty.  What the Camino gave me then and continues to give me now is a profound sense of community I've found nowhere else. Whether we prayed for ourselves at the Cruz de Ferro or for the state of the world or for something in between I just know that our prayers were heard. And answered; but perhaps not in the way we expected. Why? Because we don't get what we ask for; we get what we dream of. And that might take time to recognize.Know this: we are all pilgrims on the road walking each other home the best way we can with compassion, stories, and believing that Each One Lift One is the way of the Buen Camino.You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Start-up Session,✓ Opt In to my monthly NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

In this episode, I chat about a great new iron, quilt projects, lots of cross stitch, some favorite books, and my trip to Chicago. For show notes, visit the Simple Handmade Everyday blog. 

Acomi and Turk182 are back with another episode of Supaidaman a.k.a. Japanese Spider-Man. This time it's episode 12, Becoming Splendid: To the Murderous Machine of Transformation. The stakes are getting higher for Takuya Yamashiro, Supdaiman, when two young models become pawns in the Iron Cross's deadly plans for world domination and the destruction of Supaidaman. Acomi and Turk182, along the occasional special guest, provide running commentary of awfulsome movie and TV shows. The hosts select movies that either one, or both, have never seen. All jokes and comments are improvised. NO PREPARED JOKES OR COMMENTS! During recording, the movies are watched at a low volume and with the subtitles on. Viewers may want to turn subtitles on as well to enhance the viewing experience. So, cue up the audio, ready the movie, and hit play when we say so. Note: This video is the commentary recorded by Acomi and Turk182. The commentary can be enjoyed on its own, but if you want to experience the Let's Watch! in all its glory, you'll need your own copy of the movie. Most of the movies viewed can be streamed online for free. #OMTWF #KorovaEntertainment #LetsWatch #LW #Acomi #Turk182 #awfulsome Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

Nazi video game mods, mercenaries reincarnated as giraffes, and teenage twitch streamers LARPing their way into Russian national chauvinism. Liv is back in the pilot seat and she doesn't disappoint, regaling us with a twisted tale involving a game called Hearts of Iron 4, "Hyperborea wave", and the Ron DeSantis campaign retweeting sonnenrads. Plus Jake asks the pressing question: what if Littlefoot from The Land Before Time was in The Sopranos? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Subscriber-only episodeIn this exclusive subscribers-only episode, I tell the story of Victorian soldier, William Manley. The only man ever to have been awarded both the Victoria Cross and the German Iron Cross.

On this day in legal history, August 16, 1918, Lothar Witzke was convicted of espionage in the United States on behalf of Germany and became the first German spy convicted during World War I. Lothar Witzke was a junior officer in the German Imperial Navy during World War I, who became a spy and saboteur in the United States and Mexico. After escaping internment in Chile, he reached San Francisco in 1916 and began sabotage activities with another agent, Kurt Jahnke. They were involved in various missions, including suspected connections to significant explosions, though later investigations ruled out their involvement in some cases. Witzke was arrested in 1918 near the Mexican border, convicted, and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by President Woodrow Wilson. After an act of heroism in prison and diplomatic pressure from Germany, he was pardoned and released by President Calvin Coolidge in 1923. Upon his return to Germany, Witzke was decorated with the Iron Cross and later served in the Abwehr, or German military intelligence, during World War II. After the war, he became a member of the Hamburg Parliament, representing the German Party from 1949 to 1952.Donald Trump may have a 40 point lead ahead of DeSantis in the GOP primary, and Chris Christie may have overtaken the Florida governor in early New Hampshire polling, but among one demographic DeSantis seems to have the edge over all other Republican candidates–lawyers. According to a report by Bloomberg Law, Ron DeSantis has a significant advantage over Donald Trump in campaign donations from lawyers, leading with a 6-to-1 ratio. As of the end of June, DeSantis had received over $1.3 million from individual lawyer contributions, compared to just under $200,000 for Trump. DeSantis's background includes a Harvard Law School education and time as a U.S. Navy lawyer, while Trump has been known to criticize and even sue attorneys. Many larger law firms seem uncomfortable supporting Trump, contributing to DeSantis's advantage.DeSantis's fundraising from lawyers has also surpassed other GOP primary candidates, including former Governor Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott. His campaign haul includes significant contributions from elite law firms like Sullivan & Cromwell. DeSantis's support in Republican legal circles also includes several high-ranking Trump Justice Department officials and lawyers from Jones Day.While DeSantis leads in lawyer contributions, he still trails Trump by double digits in state and national polls. Some political analysts question whether DeSantis's momentum will continue, especially as his campaign has faced staff shakeups and strategy shifts. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign, powered by small-dollar donors, has raised over $50 million between January and June. Contributions from the legal industry have historically favored Democrats, with President Joe Biden out-raising DeSantis among lawyers so far this year with $1.5 million.DeSantis Crushes Trump in Cash from Lawyers Seeking AlternativeDavis Polk & Wardwell, a prominent law firm, has signed a 25-year lease extension to expand its Midtown headquarters in Manhattan, adding 30,000 square feet to its current space at 450 Lexington Ave. This deal increases the firm's footprint to 700,000 square feet, making it the largest commercial space leased in New York City in 2023, as announced by the building's landlord RXR Realty. The firm's managing partner, Neil Barr, emphasized that the expansion reflects the firm's growth strategy.Davis Polk has been proactive in moving back to in-office work after the pandemic and is requiring its lawyers and business services personnel to be in the office Monday through Thursday after Labor Day. The building, located near Grand Central Terminal, will undergo a $300 million renovation, including private outdoor terraces for Davis Polk and new gathering spaces.The firm's lease renewal comes amid a challenging time for Manhattan's commercial real estate market, with available office space reaching an all-time high in the second quarter of 2023. Financial and legal services have dominated the leasing transactions, with Davis Polk's lease being a significant highlight. Other law firms like Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Paul Hastings, and Sheppard Mullin have also renewed or expanded their New York footprints this quarter.Davis Polk Inks Manhattan's Biggest Office Lease of 2023 (1)A Delaware judge has ruled that the fair value of Pivotal Software Inc.'s shares at the time of its 2019 go-private merger with VMWare Inc. was $14.83 per share. This ruling came in an appraisal suit brought by Pivotal's former investors, who argued that the shares should have been worth $20, while Pivotal sought a valuation closer to $12. Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick arrived at the fair value figure by averaging two valuation methods suggested by the parties. The court's decision also clarified that the deal price does not provide a cap on fair value, emphasizing the importance of strong procedural protections for minority stockholders.Ex-Pivotal Investors Lose $20 Share Valuation Bid in VMWare DealThe American Bar Association (ABA) is considering a new rule that may require law schools to adopt free speech policies. This change comes after several incidents where students disrupted controversial speakers on campuses. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will consider a rule mandating "written policies that encourage and support the free expression of ideas." Schools would develop their own policies, but they must protect the rights of faculty, staff, and students to communicate controversial ideas and ensure robust debate.The proposed rule emphasizes that becoming an effective advocate requires learning civil discourse, even in disagreement, and that concerns about civility should not justify barring controversial discussions. While ABA's law school standards have covered academic freedom for faculty, this proposal would be the first to address free speech for the entire law school community.Prominent U.S. law schools have faced criticism for handling student protests against conservative speakers, leading to apologies and mandated free speech training at institutions like Stanford. Yale Law School also strengthened its commitment to free speech after disruptive incidents. The proposed rule would allow restrictions on unlawful expression, defamatory speech, threats, harassment, or unjustifiable invasions of privacy, and would enable reasonable regulation of the time and manner of expression. The council is set to vote on Friday on whether to send the proposed rule for public notice and comment, and further revisions are anticipated.ABA weighs new free speech rule for law schools | ReutersA federal appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit by longtime umpire Angel Hernandez, who accused Major League Baseball (MLB) of racial discrimination. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Hernandez's arguments in a 3-0 decision, stating that the league's promotion practices, including its failure to promote him to crew chief, did not reflect unfair treatment of minorities. Hernandez, an MLB umpire since 1993, claimed he had been discriminated against after being passed over for crew chief five times between 2011 and 2018. He also cited a "history of animosity" with Joe Torre, MLB's chief baseball officer at the time of the lawsuit. The court found that Hernandez failed to show a statistically significant disparity in promotion rates, despite a "bottom-line imbalance" between white and minority crew chiefs. It also rejected Hernandez's claim that the judge erred in accepting MLB's reasons for not promoting him, which included a missed call and an "overly confrontational style." The court upheld the March 2021 dismissal of the lawsuit, and lawyers for Hernandez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In 2020, MLB named its first black and Hispanic crew chiefs born outside the United States.Major League Baseball umpire loses appeal of discrimination lawsuit | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

He was called the cleverest man in the British army and was hailed as the man who "pulled the army out of a hole in South African". He won both the Iron Cross and the Legion of Honour and served in various capacities across the globe.  But General Sir Henry Brackenbury is now largely forgotten. Author Chris Brice joins me today to a shine a light on this fascinating man and his excellent career in the British army.  Chris has also written a book on Brackenbury that can be purchased here.  Talking of books, you can also get a free copy of mine about the Anglo-Zulu War when you sign up for my mailing list at this link.   

Tyler is a former Division 1 gymnast at the University of Illinois, American Ninja Warrior competitor, and a physical therapist. Before Tyler's collegiate career, he was a member of the Junior National Team from 2000-2004. During Tyler's college career he was a two time Co-Captain and helped lead the gymnastics team to three podium finishes. While at the University of Illinois, Tyler also was a 4x All American, 4x Academic All American, 2x Silver Team Champion, and a Big Ten Vault Champion. Tyler also holds the world record for the Iron Cross. After being a college athlete, Tyler continued his academic endeavors and received his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine in Science. Since then, Tyler has worked exclusively in outpatient physical therapy, and has specialized in gymnastics related injuries and rehabilitation. Movement has always been important to Tyler so after his gymnastics career ended, he was still looking for ways to move. This passion for movement led Tyler to the sport of Ninja Warrior. Tyler has competed on American Ninja Warrior where he has made it as far as Stage Two in Vegas. While being an athlete has and is a big part of Tyler's life, he also is a husband and father and continuing to work on his own business practice. Whether it is in the world of physical therapy or being a ninja warrior athlete, I know that Tyler is going to continue to do some great things. In this episode Tyler talks about movement, ninja warrior, finding balance, and much more! Connect with Tyler! Email: yamapt@yahoo.com Website: http://www.yamapt.com/home.html Connect with me! Personal: Instagram/Twitter/Facebook: @zachhose14 Email: zachhose14@gmail.com The Official Podcast: Instagram/Facebook: @zappodcastofficial If you want want to be a guest on the podcast, I'd love to have you! Feel free to reach out directly! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zappodcastofficial/message

This week, Chris & Josh discuss the following topics (and so much more): * Changing up betting strategies * Iron cross with a twist * Chris' Wynn trip * New player questions (come out, prop action) * Buy bets vs. place bets * Leaving while ahead * Listener Feedback Want to contact us? Email: podcast@crapvegas.com Forum: www.crapvegas.com/boards Twitter: @VegasDuffy @SmallWhale13 @CrapVegas For more information, please visit our webpage at www.crapvegas.com or support us by becoming a Patreon subscriber at www.patreon.com/crapvegas

In 1991, Bill Cooper released 'Behold a Pale Horse' wherein he documented how the "CIA inculcated the desire" in psychopaths "to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the antigun lobby." The Highland Park shooter, Robert Crimo III, fired 70 rounds and killed 7 people during a July July 4 parade, having planned the shooting weeks before. He dressed in women's clothing and hid his colored hair and tattoos to sneak into the crowd. Under the pseudonym 'Awake the Rapper', Crimo made disturbing videos claiming that he had to carry out a shooting. In one video he says "like a sleepwalker unable to stop and think....I know what I have to do." His videos feature imagery similar to Army Psychological training videos. One image of what looks like a Celtic Knot spread rapidly across the Internet. Some say the symbol is a Suomen Sisu, a Finnish extremist sigil. A closer look reveals an octagon and a twisted Iron Cross with square in the middle. The octagon is a symbol of rebirth (the number 7 and 13), regeneration (7 & 13) and transition (the number 21). These definitions relate to the Iron Cross which is a symbol of rebellion against the current order and resistance to inequality. The square in the middle of the cross is the base of a swastika which is classically placed inside the Iron Cross, so the points touch the four converging triangles.

MAWP Tacoma presents the MAWPCAST 1 Radio Program Season 4 Episode 25 Hosted by Potter, Sound Man Chris and Ashlee Marie! Yay, Ashlee's back! This week we discuss En Vogue. Funky weather. Fourth of July plans? Calls to action. RvW... Past lives and reincarnation. The Ventures have released something like over 250 albums.... Bands changing names. Wide open spaces... Searched the world over... Dixie vs the Chicks. Things people do for money... Like, subscribe, and share the show! Thanks for your support! Watch us on YouTube!  Check out our Website!  Tweet us on Twitter!  Follow us on Facebook!  Look at us on Instagram!  Listen to us on Bandcamp!  Support us on Patreon!  On this weeks episode we play these songs by the following bands: 1. Phinisey "Something New" Something New (Bandcamp) 2. Big Wheel Stunt Show "Milque and Honey" A Wonderful Life (Bandcamp) 3. J.M. Vox "Jazzy 98" What's On My Mind (MAWP Tacoma) 4. Schoolyard Heroes "Violence is All the Rage" Abominations (Bandcamp) 5. Red Sky "Try It" Red Sky (MAWP Tacoma) 6. Tramps of Panic "Plastic Odyssey" 20 (ReverbNation) 7. A Leaf "Spiritual" New York EP (Bandcamp) 8. Peace and Red Velvet "Go" 366 the RE-P EP (Bandcamp) 9. Left With Nothing "Love Notes" Wishing in Reverse (MAWP Tacoma) 10. The Fame Riot "Urgency" Heart Stray EP (Spotify) 11. Taist of Iron "Cross of Fire" Resurrection (Bandcamp) 12. Greg Double "Untold" (featuring Easiah & Lazie Locz) Untold (Single) (Soundcloud) 13. Angelina Adams "Distracted" Distracted (Single) (Soundcloud) 14. ElectroLux "Auntie Emm" ElectrLux EP (MAWP Tacoma) 15. Mico De Noche "Until Then" Pick-Up (Bandcamp) 16. A.G. "Commute" Running True (Bandcamp) 17. VIII Days Clean "America" Second Column (ReverbNation) 18. The Ventures "The Twomp" Twist Party Vol. 2 (PNW Bands) 19. The Happy Sinners "Tacoma, That's My Home" Tacoma, That's My Home (Bandcamp) 20. Sons of Ivan "Pesticides" Sub-Version EP (MAWP Tacoma) 21. Spontaneous Funk Whorehouse "Contessa" Quilpee (MAWP Tacoma) 22. Payback "Authority" Payback (Bandcamp) 23. Roy "Prescription Drugs" Big City Sin & Small Town Redemption (Spotify) 24. The Elephants "Let's Go Steady" The Elephants (MAWP Tacoma) 25. Deep Concept "Life's Weird" Reality Strikes Again (MAWP Tacoma) 26. Sir Charles "Head in the Game" Innerstand (Bandcamp) 27. Fantastic 4 "House O Elvis" Fantastic 4 (MAWP Tacoma) 28. Eliott Lipp "Rap Tight" Tacoma Mockingbird (Bandcamp) 29. Natural Causes "Busy Doing Nothing" 11-Song Cassette (Bandcamp) 30. Buckwheat Catapillar "Anxiety" Anxiety (ReverbNation) 31. The Hungry Click "Hungry" Hungry! (MAWP Tacoma) 32. Echoclub "Summer Guns" Summer Camp for the Alexander Ripleys (Bandcamp) © 2022 MAWP Tacoma  

We Are The News Now w/Dan Hennen on EA Truth Radio: China Flight 5735 - Smollett - Zelensky - Iron Cross - Hunter Biden - Much MoreThis is Dan's LIVE Show from Monday, March 21, 2022. Thank you for tuning in & showing your support! Our Hosts' viewpoints don't always reflect what EA TRUTH Media believes as a whole!Please join us chatting on social media about our shows using hashtag #EATruthRadioDan provides commentary and analysis on the past week's “news” stories.  And strips out the Fake News so you don't have to. Topics this week include:  John McCain; Russian Sanctions; Arizona Audit; Wisconsin Election; The "Ever Forward" runs aground in Chesapeake River; Pelosi press conference; Zelensky's "iron cross" t-shirt; Jussie Smollett; Hunter Biden Laptop; Ohio Detention Facility; Rachel Levine; Babylon Bee; Britney Spears Instagram; China Flight 5735; Pfizer/Moderna Vaccines result in AIDS and More!*** Visit our Media Site at www.EternalAffairsMedia.com & Please Consider Planting A SEED IN OUR MINISTRY! Sign up and become a Monthly Patron for EXCLUSIVE PERKS ...*** NEW *** TRUTH PREMIUM on EA Truth Media Website ~ Exclusive Premium Content & Less AdsSupport us and receive these amazing benefits for ONLY 0.99 cents per month ~~ Click Here! You can also send Bitcoin to: 3MrcjvjkVUyP5dDmELDZkqD5JT5TTYyQHnCASH APP$eamediaonlineTHE TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL ~ WE ARE THE STORM! Our Independent Media Operation & End Times Ministry has been online for nearly 12 years now since Curtis "Ray Biselliano" Bizelli FOUNDED EternalAffairsMedia.com in 2010 as an alternative to mainstream mockingbird fake news propaganda media! We have since morphed into a partial end times prophetic ministry!!!! We are on the frontlines leading the fight against the Fake News Mockingbird Media! Check out our Online Store and get some COOL GEAR! If there is anything you'd like to see that isn't there, message us! We wish to hear from you! The SILENT MAJORITY isn't going back to sleep! Corrupt, Sleepy, Pedo Joe & The Hoe STOLE this election! He will NEVER be our President! He's an enemy to the People! People are waking up! This is THE GREAT AWAKENING! God bless you & your loved ones! GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA! Support the show (https://donate.eamedia.online)

The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's ValkyriesHanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented and courageous women who fought convention to make their names in the male dominated world of flight and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gives an exciting – and as yet largely unknown - account of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Thurston Moore's work with Sonic Youth rearranged the parameters of indie rock to an almost incalculable degree, merging experimental art rock tendencies with unconventional guitar tunings for a sound that would influence generations to come. Moore's abstract poetic lyrics and perpetually mysterious aura were core ingredients of Sonic Youth's 30-plus-year run, but also bled into countless side projects and less-frequent solo albums like 1994's sprawling and loose Psychic Hearts. After the group's breakup in 2011, Moore continued with his ambitions, ranging from projects like his band Chelsea Light Moving to noisy collaborations with Merzbow and John Zorn to solo albums like 2020's By the Fire that continued exploring the kind of moody, twisting art rock he'd become an icon of with Sonic Youth. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.' In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected list of the top 100 rock guitarists, and ranked Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together at number 1. Lineup: Tapper Zukie, Patti Smith, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, MARS, Public Image Ltd., The Slits, The Raincoats, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Archie Shepp, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Dinosaur Jr., Jackson C. Frank, Bush Tetras, Germs, Boredoms, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Sparks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, The Mentally Ill, Minor Threat, Black Flag, The Untouchables, Iron Cross, The Faith, Void, Negative Approach, Youth Brigade, S.O.A., Anne Briggs, The Fugs, Jimi Hendrix

Parker Molloy: So you've been writing this awesome newsletter over on Substack, called The Sword and the Sandwich. Can you tell me a little bit about that?Tal Lavin: Yeah, so I launched, actually, this month, October 4th, and it's a really odd... It is an odd mix. Like, I recognize it's an odd mix. The sword is first of all, because I own a bunch of swords, and love them, but also, it sort of symbolizes like I'm writing about the American right and far-right, and then the sandwiches are very literal. Like, for a really long time, I have been obsessed with Wikipedia's list of notable sandwiches, which has hundreds of sandwiches on it, from all over the world, and I have wanted to address this in some systematic way. I love projects that have structure that I can f**k around within, like a sonnet.So the premise is I'm going through every sandwich on that list. It's very arbitrary, you know? Obviously a Wikipedia thing, so it's... But I'm treating it almost like a sacred text, and then going through it and writing essays, or interviews, or recipes, or stories about each sandwich. We've covered the American hero, the bacon sandwich, and bacon, egg, and cheese, and now this week, we're on to bagels, which is exciting for me, so yeah, this week's content is harrowing tales of child abuse and bagels.That's just such an interesting combo. And just to be... Like, those are separate posts. They're not-Oh, yeah, it's not-They're not one in the same.Yeah, so it's like Monday is the s**t that will horrify you, and then Friday, we're riding into the weekend--is the stuff about the American right.No, Friday is the-Horrifying bagels.No, I really aim not to traumatize anyone with my sandwich posts. These are nonviolent sandwiches. It's like I need the break, psychically. Maybe readers do too. Sometimes, it's really hard to shift moods, when... Like, the current series is about corporal punishment in evangelical households, and the sort of ways it impacts people as adults. So it's really hard for me sometimes, to switch modes. I almost resent it. I'm like, "Ugh, now I have to write about bagels," but then I spend an hour researching and writing about bagels, and I feel better, and then dive back into hell.Yeah. Well, as you mentioned, you published the first of a three-part series on corporal punishment, evangelicals, and the "doctrine of obedience," as you write in the piece. I found it fascinating because I honestly didn't... I've never really thought about the history involved in all of that. I'm used to people on Twitter being like, "I don't think it's wrong to hit kids. I got hit, and I'm fine," and then you look at them, and you're like... They're not fine.No. Yeah.No, it's like, "Oh, you think you're fine. But are any of us, really?"I'm not.I'm definitely not.I'm so not fine, and I wasn't raised evangelical. I'm a Jew, and I'm a childless Jew even, so it's not... I can keep some distance from the material. Well, obviously so many people shared their pain with me for this series, lots of different facets of their pain, their stories, how they're coming to terms with it, how they're healing, and to me, not to be melodramatic, but it felt like, "Oh, this is why I became a journalist," and like, I have to hold this pain gently, and treat it well, and treat it as the sacred trust it is. I mean, I don't believe in any god, but whatever. Sometimes I think of things as holy or sacred, as just a stronger word for like really important. Feels necessary.I've been astounded at the response. I mean, I tried to... I have a tic about historical research. Like, almost every piece I've ever written has some element of history in it. I also dove a ton into primary sources for this piece, which in this case was Christian parenting guides, of which I read big swaths or the entirety of like three or four books, and then tons of people's testimony about how these doctrines affected them.And then, I looked at what's the historical context? Like, why did all these books start getting written in the '70s and updated in the '90s? I mean, corporal punishment obviously has been around forever, but like, corporal punishment as sort of a political necessity and as a theological doctrine really arose as like... and the evidence is pretty clear, in the books themselves, and also in like the historical record, that they arose as basically a backlash, both to the work of Dr. Spock, who wrote Baby and Child Care, and he was super popular, and everyone loved him, and he was also an antiwar activist in his later years, and got arrested protesting Vietnam. And he said don't hit your kids, right?It's hard to overstate how much these authors hate Dr. Spock. Like, they hate him. They think he sucks, and he's the reason everything's wrong, but anyway, you have this Dr. Spock influence telling you not to hit your kids, and then essentially what these books posit, or what they feel they're reacting to is like, a lot of the movements in the '60s were student-led. The antiwar movement, the gay rights movement was a youth-led thing in many cases, or perceived as a youth-led movement, the feminist movement was really led by young women, and the sort of curative, the corrective force is writing these books.James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, his first book was called Dare to Discipline, like he's like, "We're fighting against this godless heathens that tell us not to hit our kids." So basically, they're saying chaos and social disorder starts in the home, and you have to hit your kids to get them in line.I cannot wait to read the second and third piece of this, because the first one is great. It really starts to get into Dobson, and The Pearls, and all of that stuff, and the responses have been heartbreaking, that I've seen from people, where they are talking about how it affected them on a personal level, and on one hand, it's amazing that the story has resonated with that many people, and that that's clearly captured what they're feeling and what they're going through, and I mean, that's just you being a great writer, and interviewer, and researcher. I mean, beyond that, it's just so profoundly sad that there are so many people in this world who have been hurt in that sort of way. They haven't felt able to express these ideas themselves, for fear of backlash or for fear of coming off as weak. That was another thing that I saw in some of the replies here, but-Or because they were taught that it was holy, that it was ordained by God, and a lot of the people, the people who spoke to me, have left evangelicalism. There's a process, it's like a very common term, and sort of ex-evangelicals. Basically, it's just calling it deconstruction, sort of tearing down the doctrines you were raised up with and figuring out a new way forward, and I really applaud people who are doing that work. It's very difficult. It's very painful.My Substack's really new. Like, I have 3,000 subscribers. It's small. The post, as of now, it's been out for less than two days, and it's gotten 50,000 views almost. I think to me, that's just an indicator of how it resonates, how people... I mean, first of all, I think there are a lot of outsiders who are sort of horrified, and then there are a lot of people who are like, "This was my childhood. I've never heard it discussed this way. I've never connected these dots." And the heartbreaking thing is like people are so grateful, grateful, that someone cares, anyone, about what happened to them. Generations of kids, generations. Like, the people who talked to me ranged from 22 to 65. It's very much a live issue, and it's still happening, although spanking is, thankfully...I hate the term spanking, actually, because spanking, I think has a lovely place in kink, but when you're talking about it in child-rearing, you are talking about hitting kids, so I've actually sort of very consciously, in my public speech about this stuff, stopped using that term, because it feels like a euphemism to me. You're talking about hitting children with the intent of causing pain.That's exactly it. I made the mistake of not writing down any questions, because I was like, "I know you. We're going to just-"We're just going to vibe about-Yeah, and it's like, "Oh, man. This is so dark and hard," you know? But that's what I love about your writing. You wrote this amazing book, Culture Warlords.And yeah, it was about basically me f*****g immersing myself in online Nazi life for like 18 months, and it was hard. It was a hard thing to do, as a Jew, as a person, who doesn't like seeing clips of murders on my phone all the time, presented as just and right. But I guess yeah, my beat is like looking into darkness and coming back out with a report.It feels weird to be like, "You're so good at this," you know? This thing that involves hate, and darkness, and pain, but your book was my favorite book of last year, and it's one of those books that I recommend to anyone who's at all curious about what's happening in the world, because I don't think you could talk about any current event without talking about how so much of our lives is affected by the far right, and white supremacist groups, and antisemitic people, and it's really kind of scary how much all of that overlaps, you know? You have the white supremacist groups.They tend to overlap in their beliefs with a lot of the evangelical groups, which tend to overlap with a lot of the anti-LGBTQ groups, these sorts of things where there's a very powerful and strong coalition of people that, I don't know, they just make the world a worse place by what they do and what they say, not by existing. I mean, I'm all for people existing. I want to make that clear, but I think that their actions and what they do just makes things so much harder. Is there anything in going into writing that, or in just your work generally, that surprised you? Were there any ideas that you had, that you had to challenge and rethink along the process?Well, so one of the big... How do I put this? Okay. I will answer your question after, but this is something that... Culture Warlords was my first book. I had never written one before, and it has some first book syndrome, which is like I put too much of myself in it, you know? Where it at points bordered on the memoiristic in ways that I now look back on with a little bit of regret, just in the sense that it feels a bit self-indulgent sometimes, like we didn't need a chapter on my childhood.The other major regret I have is not including... I did address transphobia in these contexts. I didn't address it as much as it deserved. Like, it should have had its own chapter, and I'm working on a second book right now, called Lone Wolves Run in Packs, which is about sort of debunking the sort of Lone Wolf theorem that people radicalize in isolation, that sort of white supremacist terror arises because individuals make choices. It's much more about the communities that these kinds of extremism arise from.And I know transphobia is going to be at the center of a lot of what I write, because it is, at the moment, as Judith Butler very eloquently articulated recently in The Guardian, at the forefront and center of all of these rising fascist movements. And I mean, it is all interconnected. Like, that's what makes it sort of endlessly fascinating and sometimes a bit overwhelming, is like you don't know when to stop researching.For example, part two of this series is about basically how child corporal punishment affects romantic relationships in the future. Essentially, it's like if you grow up in an environment where you're told... where you accept pain as your due, and specifically in an environment where God is invoked constantly, your sinful nature is evoked constantly, and one of the more terrifying aspects of this whole Christian corporal punishment thing is like, there's a very strong recommendation in all of these parenting books. It's like, "After your kid gets spanked, first of all, if they cry too much from spanking, they're trying to manipulate you, so spank them again. And then also, like hold them, and tell them you love them, and explain, like whisper to them gently about obedience."It's creepy as f**k, to me, but it also is like, this is trauma bonding. Trauma bonding is a concept in psychology. It's a big way of how abusive relationships work, where basically, you're traumatized by someone. They hit you, they belittle you, whatever, and then they make up with you afterwards, and hold you, and comfort you from the trauma that they inflicted. So, these parental doctrines are essentially... And they're not unique to evangelicalism. I think the unique part here is that sort of theologically mandates in some circles and some biblical interpretations, but like it is pretty common, and the people that I see, who are defending hitting kids in my mentions, are like, "My parents always apologized after, and told me they loved me, and I turned out great," and like, "Did you? Because you're defending hitting kids to me. Like, you're pro-child assault, so I don't know how fine you turned out."But at any rate, at any rate, basically my A thesis of the second part, and this absolutely bears out in the 150 people that talked to me, many of them, and most of the people who responded to my questionnaire, which is a smaller subset, said like, "I was primed for abusive relationships. Like, I was primed. I knew how to pretend. I knew how to conceal my emotions. I was taught that I was worthless. I was taught that I deserve violence, and I could expect it from the people that loved me. Like, that was the lesson of my childhood, and of course, it went on to affect what I accepted as proper treatment in romantic contexts." And there's tons of other s**t. I mean, sorry. I'm babbling at this point, but it's like...You know, now I'm like reading a whole new set of primary sources, with Christian homeschooling materials, and these doctrines about patriarchy and submission, and like specifically it affects girls very strongly. Men are also affected, boys and men are also affected for sure, in slightly different ways. And I mean, of course it's all connected, right? If the people that I talked to did some really brave work in moving away from the ways they were raised with this kind of brutality, many people don't do that work, for many reasons, and go on to reproduce it in their lives.Like, it's really, really hard to say, like, "My parents, who loved me and who I love, hurt me, and did wrong," or like, "I hit my kids, and I was wrong to do that." It's like really, really, really hard, to make those moral distinctions, to assess your past and present critically, and a lot of people are neither inclined nor able to do that. And with all the empathy and respect that I can muster, I think one of the roots of authoritarianism in our country, and especially among the Christian right, is...And this is a nascent understanding. It's not backed with science. It's more just like what I've been researching lately. I think there is a current of tremendous violence that undergirds this culture. It's like, because hierarchies of sex, of gender, of spouses and children as property, you know, are at the core of this doctrine, and enforced by often brutal, often daily physical violence. So it's a self-reproducing ideology in that sense.Right. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, that's a great point. You know, one other thing I wanted to kind of touch on here, not to change gears too sharply, but one thing that I think that both... Because we both worked at Media Matters for a little bit, and one of the things there is just sort of examining the right-wing media ecosystem, which exists on big and small scales. You have Fox News, which is large, but you also have weird little networks of right-wing bloggers, that coordinate very closely, and that's not something you see on the left as much, or at all. That's why there's this ability of people on the right to really get people who oppose them to be quiet, to shut up, to go away, to not bother them because it becomes not worth it.And I know that there have been times where I've seen something, and I'm like, "I want to write about this," and then I have to think, is it worth it? And when you wrote your book, that was after you had already not only been targeted by randos online, but you had ICE giving you s**t. You had DHS upset, because you tweeted about an ICE agent's tattoo, which you were not the first person to tweet that, and you were really one of the few people who actually said, "Oh no, I mistook that tattoo. I am sorry. My mistake."But it was clear that there was this idea that you were influential in a certain sense, and they wanted to just make your life kind of hell. What was that like, and how does that affect what you write about and how you write about it? I mean, in the sense that there has to be sort of this fear that every time you go into writing these stories that you're going to get targeted. And I know that it can take a major toll on you, and I think that... I don't know. Just any time I see something like that happen, it just breaks my heart, because you do such great work, and yet you've had the federal government giving you a hard time, and trying to push you out of your job.Yeah. I mean, it sucked. That was back in 2018. But it recurs daily, in this very warped way. I got Ken Klippenstein in The Nation, to kind of tell my story through... We sued ICE under FOIA to be like, "What do you actually have?" And they didn't have my tweet, because I had deleted my f*****g tweet, which by the way, didn't say, "This guy's a Nazi." It was just a picture of the tattoo that ICE had tweeted out, without the guy's name, and it looked like an Iron Cross, and then like a picture of an Iron Cross. It was sort of like a question mark. Whatever. It was a late-night thing. I'd seen it tossed around in different circles already online.And I deleted it after 15 minutes. I was like, "I made a mistake," you know? People pointed out it might be a Maltese Cross. And the next morning, ICE issued a press release, blaming me. We FOIA'd their emails, and they were like, "Ah, we don't have her original tweet." No one had it. Like, given all the people that picked over every aspect of my life, you think someone would have screenshotted that original tweet if it truly virally influenced a trend. It didn't. It straight up didn't. That's not factual. But at the time, I mean, I was very young. I mean, not very young. I was younger, and naïve.You're like, "It was three years ago."I've aged 40 million years in the interim because that was my first... I had written a bit about the right. I'd started writing about it. I wrote my first piece about the far right in 2017, so I was pretty new in that realm. I'd had a couple of Daily Stormer pieces about me or whatever, but... It sucks, it hurts, it's weird, but when you are public, you kind of expect it. I was public on a much smaller scale than I am now, and I was employed. I was a fact-checker at The New Yorker.Oh, god. It was just like we were getting so much... The fact-checking department was getting hate mail, and at the time, right? I was very earnest. I loved my job. I loved my coworkers. It's still the best job I've ever had, probably ever will, because it was fascinating. I was learning something new every week. Like, I got to do research all the time, and it was great. Great. I called fascinating people constantly. But like, I really was like, this is... I was very like, this is impacting poorly on the company. This is impacting poorly on my peers. Like, I must sacrifice myself, because I just don't belong here anymore.And of course, like I was getting so much hate mail, and segments on Fox about it, because ICE painted a giant target on my back over a lie, because I was a convenient target. I mean, it's like The New Yorker. She's a Harvard graduate. She's Jewish. She's fat. She's the media. Whatever. Like, I was a very convenient culture war proxy. It was also at a time of very intense outrage at the whole babies in cages thing, so it's like let's throw some meat to the lions or whatever, and the meat was me.I mean, so it's like, I was so naïve, and so traumatized frankly, that I was... It was an awful week. Like, I self-harmed for the first time in ages. Like, you know? And it still comes up constantly. Any time I say anything, someone will be like, "Didn't you accuse a veteran of being a Nazi?" I'm like, "No, I didn't." Anyway. But like then you sound all tinfoily, when you're like, "The government was lying." Like, it's hard to... And I was stupid. I was stupid to resign, and thus cement a narrative that I'd done something wrong. I have so many regrets about how I handled all that s**t, like now, now that I've been through the fire a bunch more times.I will say, though, it severed me from traditional journalism, at least staffed traditional journalism. Like, I've written in a lot of publications, from The New Republic, to Vice, and whatever. I've had freelance bylines all over, but I've basically, besides a brief stint at Media Matters, which I got laid off for pay, for like money reasons, like they were trimming down their extremism department, which seems like a weird decision in retrospect.Yeah.Like, I haven't had a staff job since, and now I'm Substacking. I appreciate the stability of Substack. I also am like, obviously there's TERF ambivalence. Like, the first Substack experience I had was like Glenn Greenwald being like, "How dare you tweet," you know? And saying like I think Substack shouldn't have these outspoken TERFs on it anymore. Which f**k Glenn Greenwald. He's just like a troll all the time. I call him “Glerb” in my head.Glerb.Anyway. Whatever. It's not so interesting. I've written about... One piece that kind of goes into my reflections, and what I'd learned from that whole shitty, depressing incident, and its various ripple effects, like Laura Ingraham calling me a terrorist and stuff. I had a conversation with Lyz Lenz, who writes the Men Yell at Me newsletter, where we talked about kind of what it feels like to get these kinds of mobbings. They are absolutely techniques to silence. They are very frequently employed by the right, because the right has a much stronger villain of the day kind of methodology. That's what they do. That's like... We've studied right wing ecologies of information, and like, essentially it's like, yeah, a villain of the day can go through so many iterations, from all of these ideologically completely uniform, like punitively distinct media brands. It's a little like the five minutes of hate thing from 1984, and when you're the subject of it, it's very... And I've talked to a lot of women particularly, and transwomen, women through queer women, just women, basically, through... I'm sorry to make that... I didn't mean to make that as a distinction. It's just more like the different loci of vulnerability.We're good.It's like been almost exclusively women, through the process of like, "How do I get my information offline? How do I deal?" I have some practical tips, mostly just sign up for DeleteMe. It's a useful service. Anyone who's a journalist, frankly I think should be signed up for it, because you'll have... Chances are, you'll have your time in the hopper, especially if you are not a conservative white man. But like, a lot of it is emotional guidance. Like, the way I describe it sometimes is like having the roof ripped off your life. Like, you feel like you're just toddling along, a relatively insignificant figure, and suddenly, you're in a national spotlight as villain of the day. It's a f*****g traumatizing experience, really. I feel like this podcast is you asking reasonable questions, and then me like just rambling.No. I mean, it's all very fascinating, because it's hard to explain to people who haven't gone through anything like this, because on a smaller scale, I've gone through this. Like, there was one time, I was at home, and I was just sitting there, and Andy Ngo posted a thing that was... It was like a photo that showed his backpack, with white dots on it, and I said that it looked like a pigeon pooped on him. I thought that was just kind of funny, and I closed Twitter, and I took a nap. Then when I woke up, I had people who were like, "Wow, you were cheering for him to be poisoned with cement milkshakes and beaten to death," and I'm like, "What the f**k?"So then I delete my tweet, and I say, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to be taken that way," et cetera, et cetera, and one thing I've learned is if you publicly acknowledge something and if you publicly apologize for it, they go, "Ha, we've got you." And that happened with... I remember there was one time, there was a trump rally, where David Weigel at The Washington Post tweeted out a photo that showed the rally kind of half empty, but he took it from a weird angle. It was an accident. He accidentally showed the rally looking small, and Trump himself, who at the time was the president of the United States, tweeted out a demand for an apology, so Dave responds by saying like, "Yeah, sure. I'm sorry. That was a mistake. Here. Here are some other photos from the event. We're good, right?"And then the response to that was Trump then said, "You should be fired," you know? It's this whole thing where if you ever acknowledge that maybe you got something wrong, that is what they just cling onto and create their narrative around.Yeah, I mean-That's why it's so frustrating.... it's “don't show the whites of your eyes” kind of vibe.Yeah.Oh, Andy Ngo is such a putrid f**k. I really hate him. I called him a... I think I called him a fascism-adjacent dipshit in my book, like down on paper. I wish it was in the index as like, "Ngo Andy, fascism-adjacent dipshittery of,"See also.Like, yeah. Right? He sucks, and he's so deeply transphobic and racist. Like, all of his... It's interesting. Like, he's a very big purveyor of the five minutes of hate format, and he always highlights gender-nonconforming protestors. He highlights black protestors. It's very calculated. It is very... obviously comes from very deep-seated bigotry on his part, and to me, that is just factual. It's the way he works, and he knows who his audience is, and he is who he is. We met once, because I was covering this conference. It was like him and-Oh, I remember that.It was in the book, yeah. It was like him and Tim Pool, like organized this conference to prove how tolerant they were, and I wound up being chased out.Yep.Which to me was pretty... And then they were like, "You were chased out? You just walked away, while being followed by people." And like, okay.Well, and also you were live-tweeting it at the time, so it was very clear what was happening, you know? It's like anyone who was reading your tweets saw that you were... they were... There were people there who were treating you horribly, and then you-Well, Ngo said I look like a pigeon, and that I'd waddled away, which like, pigeons are very noble birds. They can eat garbage without any adverse effects, and they successfully hide their young offspring such as I've never seen a baby pigeon. So, I admire the pigeon as an urban bird, and I don't find it offensive. And you know what? But whether I waddled, or sauntered, or whatever, people were screaming at me, and I would describe that as being chased... It's so surreal. You wind up in... I think I opened the chapter on that rally by just being like, "I'm sitting at home, arguing about whether I was chased or not." Like, you wind up in these obscene, stupid semantic scenarios, and they were like, "We're going to get security footage from the casino." It was held at a casino, "Like to prove that you weren't chased." And they never produced the security footage. They found like one security chief guy who was like, "No one was chased, probably." Because of course he would say that, right?Yeah. They're not going to be like, "Yeah, someone was chased, and we just kind of sat back and were like, huh."Like, "Yeah, people routinely get ideologically run out of our casino." Like, you know? And they're so enamored of gotchas. They also love choosing the most unflattering pictures of me online. I think also when you're a woman, and like, so they inherently see you in this sexualized way, the sheer amount of fucked up s**t that's happened with my photos... Someone posed as me on 4chan, and it was like, "I'm Talia Lavin, a journalist, and here's a bikini photo of me to prove it," and three separate times. I had posted one bikini photo in the history of time on the internet, and like, it's just weird s**t, like saying, "You look like a neanderthal," or weird Photoshops. You know what I'm talking about.Oh, absolutely.Like, it's very sexualized, and it's also this mix of like, "You're disgusting, and I'm going to sexually demean you, and..." Like, I will say, that's one of the things that I know has left some residual psychic s**t. Like, I've had periods of my life where I look in the mirror, and I'm like, "Am I the monster they think I am?" You know? And it really depends. It's like, if I'm having a good day, mentally, it all just slides off my back. If I'm having a bad day, it can sink in. And this, "Don't feed the trolls" s**t, like they're not going to go away.No.If you feed them or not.Yeah.Like, you know? It's not... You can't blame people who are targeted for how they react.Right. Yeah, and that's the thing. It's like, I still don't know what the right way to respond to-There isn't like-... harassment is, because there's not, yeah. It's just a bad situation, and it's... I mean, that's part of the reason... I don't know. I felt there came a time where I couldn't just mentally commit to having a full-time job, if that makes sense. I mean, I kind of got to this point where my mental health had just deteriorated from a lot of the same stuff that you were just kind of talking about, where-Also Media Matters specifically is like, look at horrifying and traumatic s**t all f*****g day.Yeah. It's like, I love the-Write it up in these little bulletins that no one reads. Like, I mean, it's great, and they do great work, but like-Great work, but-... it is a tough organization to work in.Yeah. I mean, and I feel like it's only gotten harder over the years, because it used to be like, "Hey, look, Bill O'Reilly said something that wasn't true." And now it's like, "Oh, Tucker Carlson invited the grand wizard of the KKK to..." You know, and you're just like, "How did we get here?" And especially the people there who have to do so much of the research on 4chan and all the online stuff. That is-Well, I mean, that was my job.Yeah, that was you.Every time I talked to... Every time someone would say to me like, "Oh wow, I can't believe that you have to do..." I'm like, "At least I don't have to watch NRATV every day. I don't have to go through 4chan." I mean, people would point out to me whenever something I tweeted would end up being screen-capped and posted to 4chan, which was sometimes helpful, and sometimes I was like, "I don't need to know this," you know? And it's just-It's like, "Just FYI, they're posting pictures of you on 4chan."It's like, "Oh, cool, cool, cool." But yeah, I mean, it's tough, and it takes a toll on you that I don't... I don't know. And it's hard to just go, "Well, it's only a few people. It's only 10 people or 100 people out of millions out there," you know? Or something like that. But I mean, if 100 people are tweeting about you nonstop, or messaging you, or trying to start a harassment campaign, it feels like it's the whole world. It really does, and it eats away at... It was eating away at my ability to stay focused on work, and doing what I wanted to do, so I mean, that is personally why I was like...You know, it's like I had a lot of reservations when it came to making a jump to trying to do a newsletter, and especially with Substack, but ultimately, I was like, I think this is the better option for me personally, because it provided a certain level of stability, a certain level of just me being able to write a bunch of things in advance, and if for two days, I can't work or can't function, essentially, then I'm okay, you know? That's kind of one of the plus-sides there.Yeah, I mean, freelancing is super “publish or perish.” It's like, if I don't write, I don't get paid, and sometimes it's hard. I mean, yeah. I mean, that resonates so much, and I think like, I mean, people have asked me, or concerned family members have been like, "Why don't you write a cookbook? Like, why don't you do something different?" I'm like, "Yeah, no I will." Like, my third book is definitely going to be like a food-focused memoir. That's the plan. But I have... And when I'm talking about my current work, I'm...Oh. Oh, now I remember what I was going to say, about why it feels so powerful when even a relatively small number of people are coming after you. My therapist, not to be like, "My therapist," but my therapist, who I started seeing just before the whole ICE thing, and he's lovely, and we've been in this therapeutic relationship for years, he's like, "It's evolutionary." There's a reason why we selectively remember bad things, selectively prize, or sort of focus and obsess on bad voices about us. It's because there is an evolutionary mandate to be aware of criticism, so you don't get kicked out of the tribe and lose your security and your food. Like, there is an evolutionary mandate to keep an eye on criticism, and it's a self-preservation mechanic in its way.It only becomes maladaptive in this completely unprecedented context, of like within a minute, a million people can see your stupid thing. Like, Twitter I think in particular, is very the sort of, "I'm talking to my sphere, and then suddenly it gets catapulted into a much larger one." Like, that's a unique feature of the platform. It's part of what makes it fun, is being able to see voices that you never would have heard, and people from all over the world, and all that stuff, but it can entail this relatively traumatic leap from like, "I'm just talking to my buddies," to like, "Now everyone's criticizing me for something," and sometimes, it's from people who are leftier than me, and sometimes that can be more painful, because I'm like, "I probably agree with you. I just wish you weren't being such a dick about it."Yeah.Or, "Am I wrong? Should I retire and become a Benedictine monk?" And then it's from the right, and to be honest, that's less painful for me most of the time, because I'm just like, "Ah, I'm used to genocidal f*****s being horrible, because I'm anti-genocide."Whoa, bold position, anti-genocide.I mean, like I don't... Yeah, and like, I... Ugh, whatever. So, context collapse is a major thing, but also, there is an evolutionary... Not that I'm so into evolutionary biology, because I think it's a lot of b******t sometimes, but there is a survival value in looking at critique. It's just the level, and ubiquity, and immediacy of that critique. Like, these are not your tribe. They're not going to imperil your food, but you're still wired to be like... You know?Yeah.To keep it in mind, because they also might kill you, or whatever.Yeah. I mean, it is good to... There is that line, of is it good to be aware of criticism or not? There are obviously things, you know, threats to your life, and those are important to know, and to be aware of, because you don't want to be harmed by someone, you know?Or your family.Yeah, or that is another one. I mean, I've had situations where it's been... I've gotten messages from people who were talking about my family, and where they live, and stuff like that. It's like, "What is wrong with you? Why would you do this? Because you disagree with something I wrote online? Because you disagree with me?" Those sorts of things, it's... A lot of it's-It's very... Yeah.Yeah, it's a product of this time of hyper-connectedness that we live in, you know? And the way we communicate, which is kind of... I mean, that's kind of the angle that I'm trying to think about a lot of things. I mean, that's kind of the premise of my newsletter, is just-The present age.Yeah, it's like here we are, and everything is insane, and I don't know what to do, you know? But we're trying to get through it. I mean, with the pandemic especially, so much of our communication has shifted to the internet, that might not have been before, but I mean, in my case, and maybe yours, it's like, yeah, it was already on the internet, but you know? It's like, I was already spending way too much time on social media before the pandemic, before it was cool.It's like, I'm a weird recluse.Yeah, exactly.Like, half my friends are online. Like, yeah.Yeah.I mean, I think it just helps me to reframe. I think a lot of people who are in this experience, especially in the first time or first several times, are like, you know, "Am I weak for feeling bad?" I'm like, "No." It's human nature, you know? You're not weak. Like, please don't beat yourself up about having feelings about people saying terrible things about you. Like, you know? That's part of my like Talia's pep talk for traumatized victims of the right-wing hate complex thing. You know, and there's also the like, "Am I wrong for seeking it out?" I'm like, you know, it can be a discipline thing, to try to not seek it out all the time. Well, yeah, it's also human nature. Forgive yourself for that, for wanting to know. That is also a very natural impulse.In my case, I mean, stuff does happen that I need to be aware of. You know, when literally the organizer of Unite the Right, Jason Kessler, posted my mom's office address on a Nazi blog. S**t like that, like I need to know. I need to warn, and I feel so f*****g guilty that my family has to suffer for my choice to traumatize myself every day. I mean, it is interesting. I do feel like the evangelical series that I'm working on now is like... is interconnected with a lot of this stuff, in ways that are maybe less explicit, maybe less overt, but I think it is interconnected. I also think these are just stories of pain that deserve honor and telling, and careful telling.But I do think it's interconnected. I also think like, you know? In my experience, if you deep dive and learn a lot about one thing, you see the way it shows up in lots of other places. I've rarely regretted learning a lot about a subject in my time. Like, could I be focusing on the Charlottesville trial? Could I be focusing on militias? Could I be focusing on what are the Oath Keepers up to lately? Like, could I be focusing on the antivax white nationalist nexus? Of course. There's so many topics. There's like-Yeah, there's no shortage.Yeah, I had to explain to someone, when I'm talking about like I study the far right, there's a massive range of topics, covering tens of millions of people. It's not like, "How could you have such a narrow beat?" It's not narrow.No.And it almost mirrors in that sense, like my experience of academics. I was very serious as a student, and I didn't do a PhD. I thought about it, but it was like I was studying one poet, and all their works, and how they came to translate things the way they did, and the deeper you dive into one topic, the more of a world it encompasses. Like, you learn one thing, and you learn the history of it, and something else, and something else, and something else, so I rarely regret my sort of history-based and deep dive model of things.It's sometimes very intensive. It requires a lot. I think I've bought, for this project, I have bought eight or nine books already, including some that are only available on paperback, so I'm going to get a copy of God, The Rod, and Your Child's Bod in the mail, which I then... Once I read it and use it, I plan to publicly burn it.Yeah. I mean, that's going to... I feel like buying that is something that ends up getting you on a watchlist or something.You'd think, but you know what? Like, corporal punishment is legal in public schools in 19 states.Yeah. I mean-It's legal in private schools in 48 states. My home state of New Jersey is one of the two that's banned it in private schools.There you go. See? “New Jersey. We've banned something.”Jersey pride.Yeah.Jersey pride. And I feel conflict when I'm talking about should it be... Like, many countries have outright banned corporal punishment, of any kind, even by parents. You know, even by parents, whatever, including by parents. Sweden was the first, in 1979, and like, is that what I'm advocating for in the US? If we had a less s**t justice system, and a less racist justice system, and whatever, it's such a punitive and carceral society, maybe. That's not what I'm advocating for when I'm just saying like, "Don't hit your kids" on social media a lot lately. I do think it's a very reasonable demand to say like, ban it in schools. Like, because people get paddled in schools every day, and it's disproportionately black students that get paddled.And that's-By paddled, I mean struck with a board to cause pain.Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, and I mean, that's another issue in itself, is that you know, with any policy, with any sort of action, it's the enforcement of said action or policy tends to affect marginalized groups more than everyone else basically, but I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. You are one of the smartest people I know, one of the best writers I know, and I cannot recommend enough that people subscribe to The Sword and the Sandwich for both sword and sandwich posts, because-Yeah.... you will learn something in both.Yeah, I'm like looking at all this stuff about the history of the bagel right now. I found this New York Times article from 1960, that called bagels... What was it? "An unsweetened donut with rigor mortis."Like, okay, first of all, it's so good. I'm unabashedly pro bagel in my life, so-I don't trust anyone who's not pro bagel, to be honest, so-Yeah, so there is the sandwich part. The sword part is, you know, rougher, but they're both valuable in their own way, and thank you so much for having me on.Of course. Any time.Yeah. And I enjoyed this kind of loose, wide-ranging conversation.Yeah, it was great! It was so much fun. I really appreciate it. Get full access to The Present Age at www.readthepresentage.com/subscribe

In this episode I talk about my coffee mishap and a bizzare chance encounter with a couple of Romanians first thing in the morning! We walked the rest of the day to El Acebo, passing the Iron Cross and the place of the last Templar Knight, and taking in some wonderful scenic as we walked along the mountain tops. I speak about how much I enjoy the albergue with the pool and the unlimited beers offer, and watching the spectacle of the sun setting in the mountains. -- Pre-order a signed copy of my book NOW (includes worldwide shipping) where I go into more depth about this adventure and share my wisdom to help people move forward in life and achieve their dreams and ambitions https://ul2zhpp5wtc.typeform.com/to/waCTXArv

Note: This episode contains a description of a poison gas attack in World War I and a discussion of the injuries caused by different gases. I do not dwell on the details, but even the bare facts can be disturbing. There is also a discussion of suicide. Take care of yourself, and thank you. The title of this episode is taken from a famous poem by writer and soldier Wilfred A. Owen. His 1918 poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" quotes another poet, the Roman lyricist Horace, and his line "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." This translates as "It is sweet and fitting [appropriate, proper] to die for one's country." Fritz Haber was born in 1868 to Jewish parents in the town of Breslau, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry and earned a reputation as a hardworking and painstaking researcher. In 1919, he was both accused of war crimes and awarded a Nobel Prize. Ancient farmers understood the role of nitrogen in the soil, although they couldn't have told you what nitrogen was or how it worked. They knew, however, that land lost its productivity when it was farmed extensively. Farmers could renew their soil to some degree by adding dung and compost to the land. They also knew crop rotation was important. Medieval farmers, such as those seen in this image, generally used a three-field system. One field was used for grains, one for peas or lentils, and one left fallow. In the 19th century, scientists learned about the role of nitrogen in living things and discovered how certain bacteria are able to "fix" nitrogen and make it available to plants. The bacteria, known as "diazotrophs," are found in nodules such as you see above in the roots of plants such as peas and lentils. Crop rotation and manure were the best farmers could do until the discovery of the incredible effectiveness of South American guano in the mid-1900s. The above image depicts one of the islands off the coast of Peru where birds had deposited guano for millions of years. You can see the guano formed massive peaks. Miners hacked away at the guano so it could be exported to Europe and North America. Germany, like most modern nations, became heavily dependent on these imports, both for fertilizer and to make explosives. Clara Immerwahr Haber married Haber in 1901. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from her university in Germany, a remarkable achievement for a woman in her era. Haber, however, expected only to keep house. Haber began work on ammonia synthesis in 1904. It was a matter of slow, painstaking work tinkering with temperature, pressure and the right catalyst. Above is a reconstruction of Haber's final table-top process. I compared the setup to the 1970s board game "Mousetrap." Haber's setup looks simpler than the Rube Goldberg contraption in the game, but his device was far more dangerous and likely to explode and send red-hot shrapnel flying everywhere. Carl Bosch, a brilliant engineer with the German chemical giant BASF, took over the ammonia synthesis project from Haber. He refined the process and expanded it to an industrial scale. His work was significant, which is why the process is known today as Haber-Bosch. The announcement of the invention of the ammonia process brought Haber international acclaim. His income soared, he became famous in Germany and soonhe was appointed the founding director of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. The institute is seen here shortly after its construction in 1911; it was a government-founded research organization and think tank, intended to keep Germany at the forefront of scientific research. When the Great War began, Haber immediately volunteered for service. He is seen here, at the front; he is the one pointing. He dedicated himself to using chemistry to win the war. One of his first contributions was to convince BASF to convert their ammonia factory to make the starting materials for explosives. This was a critical step for Germany, one that doesn't receive as much attention as it deserves. Without the BASF factories, Germany would have run out of explosives early in the war. Haber also worked on an experimental program to develop chemical weapons. He eventually convinced the German High Command to test a system that would release the highly toxic chlorine gas across No Man's Land to the Allied troops on the other side. Here you can see the gas flowing across the line toward the Allies at the first attack at Ypres on April 22, 1915. The gas killed or severely injured those who inhaled it in large quantities--and terrified those who saw it in action. This attack opened a four-mile wide hole in the Allied lines, injured 15,000 Allied soldiers and killed 5000. The attack was immediately condemned by everyone except Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm, delighted by the attack, awarded Haber the Iron Cross. Allied condemnation didn't stop Britain and France from quickly developing their own gas weapons. Both sides regularly tried to poison their enemies with an increasingly deadly arsenal of gases. Simultaneously, gas masks were developed and refined. Animals such as horses and mules were widely used to haul supplies during the war, and masks were created for the beasts as well--although they never proved particularly effective. A chilling and unforgettable description of a gas attack is found in the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by poet and soldier Wilfred Owen, seen here. You can read the text of the poem here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est) and see actor Christopher Eccleston recite it here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8&t=45s). After the war ended, Fritz Haber fled to Germany to avoid arrest and prosecution for war crimes. After a few months hiding out in Switzerland, he was relieved to learn he wasn't in any danger and returned home. He arrived home just in time to learn he had been awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the synthesis of ammonia. The official certificate can be seen above. I found a video of several Nobel laureates and their wives posing for a photo (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1918/haber/documentary/) at the ceremony in the summer of 1920. Haber is at the far left; his wife Charlotte sits in front of him in white. You can see the entire video here on the Nobel Prize site. I hoped it would give me some glimpse into Haber's character--perhaps you will see more than I see?

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In this special episode, we interview creature performer Alan Maxson (Eli Roth's History of Horror, Godzilla KOTM, Blade the Iron Cross) and dig deep into what it is to perform the creatures we see on screen.  Special guest(s): Alan Maxson (creature performer) Co-host(s):  Mike Vaughn (author of 'The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema' and founder of The Video Attic) Editor: Jeff Ewing

Jeremy Alspaugh is a successful Christian businessman with one purpose: making a positive long lasting impact in his community. This is how the Kingdom works!The website of Iron Cross is www.ironcrossgymnastics.com

The Peoples' School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a vital lesson on the pro-fascist, counter-revolutionary events that took place in Hungary in 1956. This is the third and final part of a three-part series. We hope you learn something new. Enjoy listening! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Correction: The party in Hungary that was referred to as the "Iron Cross" is (was) called the "Arrow Cross" Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/XgG7vq2pzWk​ Part 2: https://youtu.be/zzhFhvgOfEc​ Literature Used In This Class: The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism by Gyula Kállai (1957) https://archive.org/details/Hungary19...​ Recommended Reading: The Truth About Hungary by Herbert Aptheker (1957) https://espressostalinist.files.wordp...​ Recommended Viewing: The Cardinal by Otto Preminger (1963) PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 0:37​ Reading section 1 (Ch. 1 pg. 4) 9:49​ "Color" revolutions? (Q&A) 11:32​ "Mistakes" and "excesses" 14:45​ Production decline? (Q&A) 17:04​ Nagy argricultural policy? (Q&A) 19:47​ Nagy in leadership? (Q&A) 22:45​ Hungary industrialization? (Q&A) 23:55​ Decline in wages? (Q&A) 27:12​ Reading section 2 (Ch. 1 pg. 8) 33:06​ Factionalism in Hungary? (Q&A) 35:05​ Role of Khrushchev? (Q&A) 36:25​ Problems of splits 38:52​ Petty bourgeois elements 42:07​ Avoiding revisionism and opportunism? (Q&A) 45:13​ National communism? (Q&A) 47:42​ "Giving orders" & "command economy" 49:38​ The "whole people"? (Q&A) 50:14​ Petty bourgeois specifics? (Q&A) 53:06​ Reading section 1 (Ch. 1 pg. 13) 1:00:28​ 1956 Hungary propaganda 1:00:51​ Just another color revolution 1:03:25​ National communism vs. self-determination? (Q&A) 1:04:43​ International working class solidarity 1:06:33​ Géza Losonczy 1:07:54​ Vanguard party? (Q&A) 1:10:01​ Use of the word "militancy"? (Q&A) 1:10:51​ Anti-factionalism 1:11:10​ "Democracy" as a siren song 1:11:42​ Oppose revisionism 1:11:58​ Contemporary parallels 1:12:19​ Counter-revolutionary alarm bells 1:13:00​ A battle for the people 1:15:43​ Ferenc Nagy 1:17:23​ Validity of Lenin's conclusions 1:18:58​ Conclusion

The Peoples' School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a vital lesson on the pro-fascist, counter-revolutionary events that took place in Hungary in 1956. This is the second part of a three-part series. We hope you learn something new. Enjoy listening! Correction: The party in Hungary that was referred to as the "Iron Cross" is called the "Arrow Cross" Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/XgG7vq2pzWk​ Part 3: https://youtu.be/X__avH1G_sU​ Literature Used In This Class: The Truth About Hungary by Herbert Aptheker (1957) https://espressostalinist.files.wordp...​ Recommended Reading: The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism by Gyula Kállai (1957) https://archive.org/details/Hungary19...​ Recommended Viewing: The Cardinal by Otto Preminger (1963) PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 4:55​ Reading section 1 (Ch. 2, pg. 15) 9:55​ Ernő Gerő & land reform 10:41​ Land in the Hungarian economy? (Q&A) 12:30​ The Latifundium system? (Q&A) 12:43​ Fascism & the Vatican? (Q&A) 14:03​ Land & national chauvanism? (Q&A) 14:40​ Horthy & the Wermacht? (Q&A) 16:20​ Reading section 2 (Ch. 2, pg. 31) 23:37​ Reality of Hungary 26:04​ Romanian & Bulgarian defectors 26:40​ Church & fascism? (Q&A) 28:53​ Fascist roots in Hungary 30:10​ Role of national chauvinism? (Q&A) 31:33​ Hungary 1919? (Q&A) 32:07​ Cardinal Ratzinger: from Hitler youth 32:36​ More church & fascism 36:10​ Conclusion

The Peoples' School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a vital lesson on the pro-fascist, counter-revolutionary events that took place in Hungary in 1956. We hope you learn something new. This is the first part of a three-part series. Enjoy listening! Correction: The party in Hungary that was referred to as the "Iron Cross" is called the "Arrow Cross" Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the series: Part 2: https://youtu.be/zzhFhvgOfEc​ Literature Used In This Class: The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism by Gyula Kállai (1957) https://archive.org/details/Hungary19...​ Recommended Reading: The Truth About Hungary by Herbert Aptheker (1957) https://espressostalinist.files.wordp...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 1:00​ Reading section (Ch. 4, pg. 30) 6:56​ Counter-revolutionary actors 10:06​ Leadup to October 1956? (Q&A) 11:51​ Outside forces? (Q&A) 12:53​ Counter-revolutionary lies 13:36​ Stalin: a Marxist-Leninist 15:30​ Knowledge of fascist roots? (Q&A) 17:36​ Impact on Eastern Europe? (Q&A) 19:45​ Reading section (Ch. 4, pg. 32) 25:32​ Internationalism & self-determination? (Q&A) 27:18​ Viktor Orbán connections? (Q&A) 29:52​ U.S.S.R. proletarian assistance? (Q&A) 32:47​ Rationale of Khrushchev? (Q&A) 34:43​ "Tankie" origin? (Q&A) 36:51​ Goulash communism? (Q&A) 39:32​ Leftcoms & counter-revolutions? (Q&A) 41:30​ 1956 theories? (Q&A) 42:42​ There is no "third position" 43:39​ Counter-revolutionary awareness 45:31​ Conclusion

93-POUND GIRL IS HEROINE OF FIRE    Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 30, 1937 -- (AP) -- Two score men stood by today ready to give blood transfusions to a 93-pound blond heroine of the Plaza hotel fire who stuck to her switchboard yesterday arousing guests as she beat out her blazing clothing with her hands.    Among the last to flee the fire fatal to two other hotel employes, 26-year-old HELEN SULLIVAN had to run through a wall of flame in the lobby, and staggered into the street so badly burned no one at first recognized her.    Part of her dress was burned off, and her, face, chest and hands were burned.    Nearly delirious from pain when she reached the medical center she asked about an aged widow and an aged couple who lived at the hotel. Told all the guests were saved, her flame-blackened face lighted with a smile. --Jefferson City Post-Tribune Missouri 1937-12-30   War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. Excerpts from this interview with Bob Rossi appear in other episodes, especially the ones about the battle of Pfaffenheck, "Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge," and "The Iron Cross and a Three Day Pass." This interview is included in my oral history audiobook "Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge." Thank you for listening. In case you missed it: Bob Rossi, Part 1 The usual suspects: https://aaronelson.com https://myfatherstankbattalion.com https://oralhistoryaudiobooks.com https://mathewcaruso.com https://tankbooks.com Save the date: Jun 4-6 2021 I'll be in the hangar at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend in Reading, Pa. It's always a great event. If you go, be sure to stop by and say hello, and tell me you've heard the podcast!

During the Second World War, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hugo Broch claimed 81 victories in 324 missions on the Eastern Front. At Chalke Valley History Festival, the Iron Cross recipient spoke to Paul Beaver and Rob Schäfer about his experiences fighting for Germany. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shock Rocker Mortis the Devil's Reject and horror actor Noel Jason Scott joined Mark and Nicole for a frighteningly fun showMortis talked about how the pandemic altered his plans from having a world tour for his 2020 album Ra-Daer-Ot, which has led him to write a horror anthology series Mortis Nightmares as well as work on a new product based on Faust, for which he has generated custom masks as well as his aversion to garlic, which may or may nor prove once and for all that he is a vampireNoel talked about picking up his acting career in his mid 40s and being one of the most sought after horror actor now, which has led him to 2 roles in the latest Puppet Master film Blade, The Iron Cross, what it is like to fight a puppet on screen, how he scares people periodically in Hollywood being dressed as a zombie, his upcoming feature role in Zombie VIII and how he's now become a bloody video game characterGet Dark Mark Show merch at teepublic.com/user/dmsThis show is brought to you byAudible go to to www.audibletrial.com/dms for a free audiobook, free Audible originals and 30 day free trial to AudibleRaze Energy DrinksGo to https://bit.ly/2VMoqkk and put in the coupon code DMS for 15% off the best energy drinks. Zero calories. Zero carbs. Zero crash.Doomie's Home Cookin' Go to 1253 Vine Street Hollywood California or 1346 Queen Street West, Toronto Canada for the most delicious Vegan food you have ever had  www.doomiesla.com  www.doomiestoronto.com  

Description: One day after the LAPD beat up Rodney King, an Ice Cube concert went down in history as one of the most violent shows ever held at First Avenue. Hosted by Jay Smooth, we ask rap experts and former First Ave staffers about gangsta rap, security, and the uneasy relationship between the Minnesota music industry and Black hip-hop artists. This is the sixth episode of The Current Rewind's "10 Pivotal Days at First Avenue" season. If you missed the first five episodes, catch up below. • April 3, 1970 (The day it all began)• Nov. 28-29, 1979 (The days that told the future)• Sept. 27, 1982 (Bad Brains/Sweet Taste of Afrika/Hüsker Dü)• Aug. 3, 1983 (The birth of "Purple Rain")• Oct. 22, 1990 (Sonic Youth/Cows/Babes in Toyland) Transcript of The Current Rewind season 2, episode 6: "March 4, 1991" Anne O'Connor: We're talking about almost 30 years ago, but my memory of this was like, you opened up the gate at the horse races, and everybody was off to it. [Ice Cube, "The Bomb," with the lyrics: "With the L, the E, the N, the C, the HThe M, the O, the B, the greatLyrics that make the beat swing and I gotchaIt's the hip-hopper that don't like coppers." Hard cut.] Anne O'Connor: And it was just like an explosion, and it was non-stop all night long. ["The Bomb" picks up where it left off, running through these lyrics: "And if you try to upset the pot, sonYou get kicked in the chest like a shotgunI make the beats, I make the breaksI make the rhymes that make you shakeMake you findIce Cube never caught in the middleI make stuff that kick you in the a** a little." Hard cut.] Anne O'Connor: We just went from one fight to the next fight to the next fight. There was no breathing time. There was no downtime. It was just, "What emergency is there to go and deal with next?" [Ice Cube's "The Bomb" returns with a sample of spoken audio and several voices singing, "The bomb"] Cecilia Johnson VO: Gangsta rap was the most controversial music of the '90s – praised as an expression of Black America's righteous anger, reviled for its misogyny and depictions of violence. Taking cues from Schooly D and Ice-T, Los Angeles group N.W.A popularized the genre with their album Straight Outta Compton. Their most talented rhymer, Ice Cube, left the group to go solo in 1990. In early 1991, he brought his show to Minneapolis's First Avenue, for one of its most memorable nights ever. ["Hive Sound" by Icetep] Cecilia Johnson VO: [over theme] I'm Cecilia Johnson. This is The Current Rewind, the show putting music's unsung stories on the map. For our second season, we're looking back at one of the Twin Cities' – and the country's – greatest live venues through a series of pivotal nights. We're bringing on guest hosts for several episodes. In this one, Jay Smooth – the New York hip-hop radio legend and cultural commentator – joins us to tell the story of one of the most infamous shows in First Avenue's history. I do want to warn you: This episode contains explicit accounts of racism and violence. [rewind sound effect] Jay Smooth VO: Way back in 1991, I founded New York's longest-running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad. It was a pivotal time for hip-hop music, when it was still just beginning to cross all sorts of cultural boundaries. And the other love of my musical life back then was the Black Minneapolis Sound, as defined by Prince and his many collaborators – who, in their own way, were on a similar path of bringing Black music into spaces where it hadn't necessarily been all that welcome. So, as a devoted student of Prince and hip-hop who came of age in that era, the First Avenue club and its relationship with Black music, and hip-hop, specifically, has always been an object of fascination for me. And though it was primarily defined as a rock club, First Avenue did host a number of high-profile hip-hop shows in the '80s and early '90s, according to someone who saw a lot of them. Tim Wilson: Timothy Wilson, Urban Lights Music owner. Jay Smooth VO: Tim's record store, Urban Lights, is a community hub in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. Tim Wilson: I remember seeing Run-D.M.C. I remember they had Jam Master Jay kind of suspended in the air, swinging back and forth, and they couldn't jump around on the stage, because the records were skipping and stuff like that, but they still made it through. I remember going to KRS-One; the sound crashed and he literally had one of his people beat box, and he continued to perform. [Tim laughs] Jay Smooth VO: On top of the big names from out of state, Minnesotan hip-hop acts the Micranots and the I.R.M. Crew sometimes performed in First Ave's smaller room, the 7th Street Entry. Still, it would take a while for the club's overall attitude to change, from what sound engineer Randy Hawkins, in Chris Riemenschneider's book First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom, called, quote, "anti-rap." The non-white population of Minneapolis grew nearly 70 percent during the '80s. But hip-hop took longer to bloom in the Twin Cities than on the coasts, partly because the success of Prince, the Time, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis made funk the sound du jour there in the '80s. One of First Avenue's most successful dance nights was More Funk, every Thursday with the club's longtime DJ Roy Freedom. Prince and Jimmy Jam would sometimes bring test pressings for the occasion. Tim Wilson also DJ'ed there. Tim Wilson: You know, it was disco, funk, rap, kind of all mixed up into one hodgepodge. It was just a little bit of hip-hop at the time, because rap just hadn't really – hadn't really captured the imagination of the world, let's say it like that. It wasn't the Wall Street darling that it is today. So it was a record here, a record there, but it was just a lot of Minneapolis Sound stuff. Of course you would get a lot of Prince and people like André Cymone, the Girls, Ta Mara & the Seen, Alexander O'Neal. Dan Corrigan: More Funk with Roy Freedom? We used to call it More Fights with Roy Freedom – ha! Jay Smooth VO: Dan Corrigan has been First Avenue's official photographer since 1995. These clips are from a 2003 interview he did with Pete Scholtes of City Pages. Dan Corrigan: There was one night, there was the biggest fight I've ever seen down there. It was just crazy. It started on the dance floor and kind of went around the right and spilled all the way out to the entryway. Jay Smooth VO: That brawl took place in 1990, during More Funk's fifth anniversary. Randy Hawkins told our writer Michaelangelo Matos about that night. Randy Hawkins: The fifth anniversary of [More] Funk night it was a similar situation of losing control of the club. There was a few times where it was like, "We've lost control of this." Jay Smooth VO: Now, this kind of thing didn't happen very often. One reason for that is First Avenue's security system. Sabrina Keith: There's, like, a light switch at various locations throughout the club, like emergency buttons you press if something goes wrong. Jay Smooth VO: Sabrina Keith was a bartender, stagehand, and superglue employee of First Ave, working on and off from 1988 to 2004. Sabrina Keith: And you flip the switch, and let's see, upstairs, a central light goes on. It's, like, a siren light – a red siren light. And then, I think, at the front door there might be one, as well. And then, you look over to the side of the stage, and there's many lights of many different colors, and hopefully just one of them will be spinning, and that would be – that gives you an idea of where the trouble is. And actually, just the other day, me and another old employee were talking and can remember pretty much where all the trouble lights are. It's really disturbing. [laughs] I shouldn't know that green means pool tables, which means it's by where the current coat check is and no more pool tables. Jay Smooth VO: The origin of the so-called "trouble lights" is still fresh in Richard Luka's mind. He had been recruited to work security in 1975, when the club was still called Uncle Sam's. You may remember him from the Ramones and Pat Benatar episode earlier this season. Richard spoke with our producer, Cecilia, and First Ave's longtime general manager Steve McClellan. Richard Luka: The reason for that light was that in March of 1977, I was working alone. We'd purged a lot of people out of there at that time. Uh, there was all this new staff. They really didn't know anything, and I was all alone at the front door with the cashier, and a bike gang came to the door. The Iron Cross from northern Minnesota. And I had to card these guys, and I thought, "Oh my god, I can't – what am I gonna do here?" And I just – there was, like, six of them. I just said well, I guess I'm letting them in. And it turns out a few more came in, so we had like nine bikers in there who took their coats off. They were flying their colors in there. Steve McClellan: What show was it? Richard Luka: No, this was like a Saturday night in 1977, and I remember one of our regular customers, a guy named Tiger. He was Black, and he had a shaved head and these guys surrounded him. They were rubbing his head, saying, "I wish I had a watermelon," and I was like, "Oh my god, this is gonna get out of hand." And at the end of the night, they were just rude and belligerent to people. And [Tiger] came up and he said, "What on earth did you let them in here for?" I go like, "I was gonna get the s*** beat out of me. It's like I'm up here all alone." And they said, "Okay, we're putting a light in." So they installed this light, and a year later, the bike gang came back, but we had hired all new staff. [Steve and Richard laugh] We had some bigger people there, and I hit that light and people were right there, and these guys, they threw their jackets off and they were ready to go, and the police showed up. So that is what can happen at the front door. You never knew what was gonna show up there. Steve McClellan: Oh, the first light that he's talking about, my brother Kevin installed. When did we put in the different colors? So if it was the game room, it would go off green, and when it was – Richard Luka: It was, like, 1983, I'm gonna say. Steve McClellan: Yeah, that much later. The first one was '77, '78. And that was sufficient, and then we had to do a system that people wouldn't go to the front door. They would go to the game area, the upstairs, or bar five. So we had like a six-light sequence that would go off. Jay Smooth VO: Along with the trouble lights, the seriousness of First Ave's security earned it a reputation in town, according to Tim Wilson. Tim Wilson: People go through the usual First Avenue bulls*** when you go to First Avenue. You know, they look at your license and turn it upside down and flip it and flop it, pat you down, and you walk in. It was always one of those things like, oh man, don't go to First Avenue with a fake ID. Don't try to sneak in First Avenue. Their security doesn't play. And it's still the same thing. People get turned away. Sabrina Keith: One point that as always made kind of clear at First Avenue was, we're not bouncers. And we don't ever want to be called bouncers. We are security. We're just trying to make things better. We don't want to bounce you. We don't want to be mean to you. We don't want to beat you up. We just want you to have fun, and I've never understood why people go out and don't have fun. It's like, "Why are you starting stuff? You paid however much money to get in here, so have fun." Whether you kick them out or whether you put them back, it's up to how they act. I mean, I had one kid come up to me five years after the fact saying, "Oh my god, it's you," and I'm like, what are you talking about. "You kicked me out of Nine Inch Nails." I'm like, "OK." [laughs] I'm glad that was a great memory for you. [Sabrina and Michaelangelo laugh] Jay Smooth VO: The club's security staff have long been trained to de-escalate situations, according to a longtime staffer. Anne O'Connor: My name is Anne O'Connor. I worked at First Avenue for two different time periods in the 1990s. [pause] I mean, de-escalation can work in any setting. It really can. You have to keep your head. My strategy was always to get in between the people who were really upset, because they almost would never go after me. And so that would at least create some space. When people are hot-headed, a lot of times all they really need is to step back for a second and say, "Wait a minute, do I really want to do this?" And that's the kind of thing that we would say. [Ice-T's "Body Count" starts fading up] Anne O'Connor: And sometimes that didn't work at all. [Anne laughs] [Ice-T's "Body Count" plays for about 20 seconds] Jay Smooth VO: In February of 1991, First Avenue hosted one of its occasional rap shows: Ice-T, the revolutionary Los Angeles MC with sharp storytelling and a steely voice. That show was one of two he'd perform in Minnesota that year; he also came through St. Paul's Harriet Island on the Lollapalooza tour. And each time, Ice-T didn't just rap – he sang with an all-Black metal band called Body Count. Sabrina Keith told Michaelangelo about hanging out with that group. Sabrina Keith: It was just fun, because it was Ice-T, and he was doing metal, which, like, with Body Count, there's just not a lot of Black artists doing that. And we had Blake working at the club, who's basically the exact same thing, just not, you know, Ice-T. And so it's fun, it's novel and just a bunch of big guys, and they had really cool merch, and they wanted like our First Avenue jackets because we were all wearing them and I think it was cold then too. Michaelangelo Matos: February. Sabrina Keith: Yup, that's cold. [laughs] Jay Smooth VO: Ice-T and Body Count would see more than their share of controversy a year later, in 1992, when they released the song "Cop Killer." But in 1991, there was no more controversial figure in rap, or in music, than Ice Cube. He'd been the primary lyricist for N.W.A, who had debuted in 1989 with the iconic album Straight Outta Compton. Soon afterward, the FBI sent a letter to N.W.A's record label to complain about the lyrics of songs such as "Eff Tha Police" – lyrics that had mostly been written by Ice Cube, who was only 20 years old. But Cube felt like he wasn't getting his fair share of royalties, so in 1990, he and his friend and producer Sir Jinx went to New York to collaborate with the hottest producers of the time, The Bomb Squad. The Bomb Squad, featuring Hank Shocklee, Chuck D, and Eric Sadler, were Public Enemy's sample-heavy production team. With their help, Ice Cube finished his first solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, and released it in May of 1990. He followed it with the Kill at Will EP in December. No rapper was hotter right then, as Tim Wilson recalls. Tim Wilson: That was good Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, one of my top five albums of all time. He left N.W.A, got politically conscious, and then there was just the whole thing with the group and the break-up, and then he went out east and hung out with Chuck D and Public Enemy, and they produced that album, and it was just – it was the hot album at that particular time. That particular album bridged gangsta rap and politically conscious material all into one project. You know, he was gassed up and ready to go. Jay Smooth VO: Ice Cube didn't lead a lifestyle as violent as his lyrics would suggest – like a lot of rappers, he'd rhyme in character. But some of his fans did carry the things he rapped about carrying, as John Smith, who would join the First Avenue staff in 1993 and is still a DJ and bartender at the club, would discover. DJ Smitty: First Avenue started using metal detectors. When you saw the metal detectors, it wasn't, "Oh, this is a new thing they're doing." It's like, "Oh, Ice Cube is coming." And then earlier that week, before the show, I was at Northern Lights Records, and I overheard some clerks talking about how they had overheard some kids talking about trying to stash some guns in First Avenue before the Ice Cube show, so that they would circumvent the metal detectors. Those were the people who first made it apparent to me that this was not gonna be business as usual. The record stores, I guess, were getting phone calls and whatnot – because we weren't a Ticketmaster club, [so] if you wanted to buy tickets for a First Avenue show, you had to go someplace and buy them. I think the Ice Cube crowd was a crowd that didn't necessarily know where to buy our tickets. So it was kind of that, where we realized, "This isn't just gonna be shiny happy hipsters going to a rap show. This is gonna be real." Jay Smooth VO: Anne O'Connor worked roaming security that night. Anne O'Connor: As the staff, we would get together and talk about what we were gonna do. And then what ended up happening is we hired in a bunch of extra additional security people. For about a week before the shows, we had metal detectors at the door so that people couldn't bring guns of knives or anything in and stash them in the club, so that they could use them during the shows themselves. You know, these were guys who, their show was about raising people's anger about some really unfair situations, about calling out some things that were really wrong, and so people had a tendency to get pissed. So we knew that, and we had to be ready for that. And the Ice-T show, I feel like we managed to do that without huge problems. We didn't have huge problems that night. When you put together people with loud music, lots of drinking and lots of young people dancing – body contact – you're really just setting a stage for some conflict. There's gonna be some conflict sometime. Jay Smooth VO: Ice Cube's March 4 appearance was, in fact, two shows – an all-ages in the late afternoon and an ID-only show at night. This was a regular occurrence at the club throughout the '90s. Sabrina Keith: I know for the first show, I did coat-check, so it was pretty mellow. Everybody thought the kids' show was gonna be bad, and it just was not. Jay Smooth VO: There was one issue during the all-ages show: Somebody threw a bottle over the upstairs balcony, where alcohol was allowed. When Ice Cube finished the first show, the club took two hours to change over. Sabrina Keith: You have to clean up and kind of reset everything to start the night fresh. I think they bought us pizza, and we just kind of hung out and waited. Jay Smooth VO: Rod Smith was bar-backing that night – running liquor from storage to the bars. Rod Smith: The attendance at the all-ages show was healthy, but nowhere near sold out. At the ID show, attendance was sold out-plus. I believe you've encountered the phenomenon where somebody in the office would panic about ticket sales and just start slamming comps out indiscriminately. A ton of comps had gone out, and then a ton of people paid, so attendance [laughs] was way over the top. DJ Smitty: We got there for the ID show. We walk in. First thing we figured out pretty quick was, we weren't gonna get any help, because anything with a counter, whether it was a bar or whether it was coat-check – they were busy. It was packed. It was full, and there were people yelling. There were people who were not happy with the order that they were being helped. There were people who were not happy with the prices. There were just a lot of not happy people. It was wet outside, and it was hot in there, which made it hot and wet – like a cave. The walls were sweating. The men's room had an inch of water going on, on the floor. There was a bad vibe. Jay Smooth VO: Our sources couldn't pick out one specific point where the fights started. But according to Anne, once they started, they didn't stop. Anne O'Connor: It was just bam-bam-bam. It was just non-stop, so you didn't really have time to stop and think, "Wow, this is really overwhelming; I don't know if I can do it." You just did it. The place was packed. There were so many people there. So if you were – if you couldn't get to the trouble light, that's one thing, but also if the trouble light was already going, you'd have a fight five feet away from you. Well, five feet in a packed room could be – it's a lot of feet to get to, sometimes – [laughs] you know – to get through the bodies and get to the actual fight, you're not always gonna make it. Rod Smith: These melees would just randomly break out. The outside security people that First Avenue hired did an outstanding job, because they were really aware of what was going on mood-wise in the club, and as soon as something broke out, they would start heading toward it. But, again, the problem being there was a certain amount of distance in the Mainroom, and when the club is that packed, you can't move that quickly. They were moving pretty quickly, though. So these fights were being stopped, for the most part, like, pretty quickly after they started. But they didn't really stop. I'd say they continued pretty much through the night. DJ Smitty: As a customer, I knew about the trouble lights, and I'd seen them go off in the past. I had never seen all of them go off at the same time. Rod Smith: I believe there were 27 all told, and there were incidents that didn't even prompt the trouble light, because nobody could get to a trouble light, because the club was that packed. Jay Smooth VO: Randy Hawkins worked the barricade in front of the stage for both shows. Randy Hawkins: There was three of us – four of us all in the barricade, and we had to stay there. Unless the situation was right in front of you on the floor, of which there were many, we did what we could from inside the barricade, but mostly the roaming security of people on the dance floor dealt with that stuff. And so it was like, it turned into a pretty serious us-against-them scenario, and like as far as security vs. the audience, which, you never want to get in that situation. But every time a door got opened, there'd be three people trying to bum-rush the show. But every time like a side door or anything got opened to let someone in, you had to have security at each one, basically just to defend the castle. It was kind of the same way with the barricade and every bar – just people trying to take everything they could take. Yeah. There was all sorts of, just grab whatever booze you could grab. Rod Smith: I encountered bartenders and bar backs crying back by the coolers, and that happened multiple times. The bar backs, because they'd been sucker-punched, and the bartender, because people kept I mean, there was some real ballers there, and they tipped really well, but then these wannabes would come along and steal the big tips that somebody else had just left. And it was so busy that it was impossible for the bartenders to really keep track of what was happening with their tips. Anne O'Connor: You know, we called the cops several times. We carted several people out to the cops. When you are in a fight at First Avenue, what ends up happening is you get surrounded by staff. Michaelangelo Matos: Quickly. Anne O'Connor: Quickly. And so, you know like, there's nowhere to go. Jay Smooth VO: But the cops weren't particularly soothing that night, or any other. In fact, just the night before, on March 3, 1991, a Los Angeles motorist named Rodney King was pulled over and beaten mercilessly by the LAPD. A man with a camcorder filmed the incident and sent it to a local TV news show. The Rodney King video wasn't yet national news when Ice Cube played First Avenue – that would be in a few days still. But for most people at the show, police brutality wasn't just something they heard about in rap songs – chances were, many of Ice Cube's fans knew someone it had happened to, if they hadn't experienced it personally. Anne O'Connor: What I would say is that there were a lot of valid reasons for being upset, and this was a place for them to have that upset, and sometimes that upset meant that they wanted to hurt someone. And so I'm not justifying the behavior or excusing it, but I'm just saying it was not a big surprise. When I say nobody got seriously hurt, I mean like broken bones or injuries that . . . Michaelangelo Matos: Hospital injuries. Anne O'Connor: Hospital injuries. It was a rough night. It was a rough scene. It was a very violent show, so I don't want to underplay that. Jay Smooth VO: Urban Lights owner Tim Wilson was in the audience that night – and he remembers seeing an opening group that included a rapper who would top the pop charts four years later. Tim Wilson: I remember a group called WC and the MAAD Circle, which was one of Ice Cube's groups – Dub-C who still tours with Cube. And Coolio was actually part of the group at that time. Crazy Toones was the DJ, which was Dub-C's brother. I remember they kept having sound problems. And they kept telling the sound guy, like, "Man you better fix this or we're gonna have a problem." And they would keep rapping, keep doing their thing, and then they would warn him again, and then the sound never changed. I think they warned him a third time. And honestly, what I remember is them jumping off the stage, breezing past us, and I remember – I never understood why First Ave set their soundboard – they had those steps that go down, and then they set their soundboard where, unfortunately, the way he kind of got jumped on, he ended up down in the crevice at the bottom of the stairs and where the soundboard started. And they were kicking him and hitting him until they got pulled off and back onto the stage. They just kind of shot past us and jumped on him. Then they jumped back onstage, and they kept rapping, and the sound man wiped the blood off his face and he just kept going. Jay Smooth VO: DJ Smitty, who couldn't get into the Sonic Youth concert last episode, did make it in the door for Ice Cube. He says the mood perked up when the headliner took the stage. DJ Smitty: People never talk about the fact [that] that was a great show. Ice Cube – I'd go see him again in a heartbeat. One of the best hip-hop shows I've ever seen. But a friend of mine did get close enough to the stage to see the set list and came back and said, "We're going. We're two songs away from the encore. Let's get out of here." And as we left, I had to hold the door open because they were stretchering someone out. [Ice Cube ft. Chuck D, "Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) - Remix"] Rod Smith: Management lost control of the club, too. Everybody lost control of the club. Steve McClellan: All I know is it was hateful because you couldn't – you got 1,500 people in the room. You could have 50 security staff. You don't stand a chance. There was so many people ready to quit after some of these shows. Jay Smooth VO: Anne O'Connor was one of them. Anne O'Connor: I put my notice in shortly after the Ice Cube show. I remember thinking, that is the violence that I don't need to be a part of. And I love the club, I loved the people I worked with, it was a lot of fun, but that wasn't fun for me. Rod Smith: A lot of people were really bummed out. I had quit smoking eight months earlier, and I started again that night. The mood overall was, "We got through it." A few people were traumatized. Anne O'Connor: We were worn out. And it was hard. And I remember everyone feeling pretty rough at that point. It was pretty rough. Jay Smooth VO: The show also got First Avenue in trouble with the city, not for the first time. Steve McClellan: I had too many incidents where the police wouldn't respond when I would book gangsta rap. I used to go to monthly downtown – what do they call them? – downtown association meetings or something. Where I'd go and I'd sit, and when you went to these meetings, and if you were a nightclub, the fire department was there to tell you exactly what you do to keep your license. The police department would be there monthly and tell you exactly what you needed to do to keep your license. They were more like – "This meeting isn't to ask questions. We're the city and you're gonna do what we tell you." Jay Smooth VO: Despite the complaints about gangsta rap, the next First Ave show that'd see similar violence was a 1995 appearance by a singer-songwriter whose politics could not have been further removed from Ice Cube's. Randy Hawkins: There's a country singer – oh my god, what's his name? Outlaw country singer. David Allan Coe. At the time, that was show two that had as many problems as Ice Cube. That David Allan Coe show, I think it wasn't as well attended. I got probably there was probably 800 people there, and so I don't think we ever really lost control of it, but it was definitely getting there. I came in the next day and everybody was just, like, shell-shocked: "You will not believe what we were dealing with last night." Jay Smooth VO: Chris Riemenschneider, author and longtime music reporter at the Star Tribune, suggests that the Ice Cube show is remembered as a turning point. Chris Riemenschneider: The biggest myth about that show – well, I don't know if it's a myth, but I mean, supposedly that show was – hip-hop was not booked at the venue for many years after that show, because it got so ugly. And they generalized over, "Well, hip-hop audiences are bad news." Jay Smooth VO: When we asked Steve McClellan and LeeAnn Weimar whether First Avenue avoided hip-hop after Ice Cube, Steve said that he still booked rappers through agents he trusted. Steve McClellan: There was a lot of drug dealers that were trying to bring me shows, because they had connections with the agent, and they wanted to bring in a lot of these hip-hop acts. LeeAnn Weimar: Or they had beepers. Remember, they had beepers. Steve McClellan: I called them the beeper phone promoters. In the '90s, I stopped dealing with beeper phone promoters that had plenty of cash but no trust from me. Jay Smooth VO: Steve returned to this point several times throughout the interview, insisting that if there was a lapse in hip-hop shows, it was only because he didn't want to work with so-called "beeper phone promoters." Whatever the case, First Avenue generally avoided hip-hop until the late '90s, according to Chris Riemenschneider. Chris Riemenschneider: It really wasn't until Rhymesayers and Atmosphere came along and started packing the place that they started giving hip-hop a good chance there again. Jay Smooth VO: Nationally, hip-hop had been ebbing into the mainstream for years. In Minnesota, indie rap label Rhymesayers capitalized on that shift. In the late '90s, they started throwing Soundset Wednesdays, a series of hip-hop dance nights at First Avenue, and their audiences trended whiter and whiter. At the same time, First Avenue opened the gates to touring acts such as OutKast, Eminem, Public Enemy, and the Black Eyed Peas. ["Hive Sound" by Icetep fades up and plays for a few seconds] Cecilia Johnson VO: Ok, so this episode was a whopper. And I think the material of this episode is still so relevant today. At this point, I want to bring up an article that rocked Minnesota music in 2016. Like, I still remember, the day that it came out, reading it at my desk. It's the Twin Cities Daily Planet's piece "Whitest hip hop scene you've ever heard of," written by Kayla Steinberg, and it speaks directly to the aftershocks of the Ice Cube show. I'm just gonna read a few somewhat abridged sentences: Quote, "When out-of-state and mainstream media and fans refer to Twin Cities hip hop, Rhymesayers Entertainment is often their point of reference. The common faces of Rhymesayers include Brother Ali, an albino Muslim rapper who identifies as white, and Atmosphere, a duo of racially ambiguous, arguably white-passing, hip hop artists. However, to Toki Wright, a Black North Minneapolis rapper, these are just a couple faces of the Twin Cities hip hop scene. "I think the face of Twin Cities hip hop is a 14-year-old kid on the Northside of Minneapolis in his bedroom, making beats or writing rhymes," he said. "The face of Twin Cities hip hop is Lexii Alijai recording with Kehlani and the local press turning a blind eye to it. That's Twin Cities hip hop." Enquote. Later in the article, Black rapper MaLLy talks about his experience at the Rhymesayers 20th anniversary show in 2015. The way he remembers it, many audience members went from supportive, when white artist Brother Ali rapped his song "Dear Black Son," to apathetic when Toki Wright and I Self Devine, both Black rappers, proclaimed messages such as "eff the police" and "kill white supremacy" on stage. Some things haven't changed between '91 and now, but First Avenue [itself] has undergone a monumental shift, in the way they operate, what causes they stand for, and whose names are at the top. It's all covered in our next episode, which is about Election Day in 2004: the day First Avenue declared bankruptcy. This episode of The Current Rewind was hosted by the one and only Jay Smooth and me, Cecilia Johnson. It was produced by me and Jesse Wiza and scripted by our head writer, Michaelangelo Matos. Marisa Morseth is our research assistant, and Jay Gabler is our editor. Our theme music is the song "Hive Sound" by Icetep. This episode was mixed by Johnny Vince Evans. And I wanna give a super special thank-you to Rick Carlson, Shelby Sachs, David Safar, Pete Scholtes, and Chris Wilbourn for additional support. If you want to check out a transcript of this episode or any other one, you can go to TheCurrent.org/rewind. And if you feel so moved, you can go ahead and rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or tell a friend that it's out there. If you want to share any thoughts, feedback, or First Avenue stories, our inbox is open. You can just send an email to rewind@thecurrent.org. The Current Rewind is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. It is a production of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. The Current Rewind goes to First Avenue

Operation Galactic Storm Part 5: Quantum Zone Episode #84 This episode Phil, Will, and Matt continue their in-depth review of Operation: Galactic Storm with part 5 from Avengers #345 (March 1992). Discussion includes: Sushi, Japanese Spider-Man, and the Goonies Teleport envy Farewell for now Black Widow Scary Sersi Whackos and Ecos Hawkeye's “performance enhancer” Hobgoblins and Deathbirds Silent founders Show notes: Operation Galactic Storm Part 5: Quantum Zone Episode #84 Check out all of our social media here: https://linktr.ee/CapesandLunatics Check out Will's website: www.quantumzone.org Get your OFFICIAL Capes and Lunatics merchandise here: http://shrsl.com/?idim Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Will Allred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wallred Follow Matt Kona on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattKona Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich Operation Galactic Storm Part 5: Quantum Zone Episode #84 00:00:01 - 00:06:08 keep some lunatic sidekicks is brought to you by tweet get awesome headphones get tweaked audio dot com and use to southgate get thirty percent offer chipping in a lifetime warranty where he can get there through the link on our website south new group what about our Quasar podcast the garden zone what about our Sushi sell hot dogs is not like the other community as hello and welcome back to the quantum zone episode eighty four and you believe it the echoes I don't know I never really thought that that was cool you know a I mean what an echo is but yeah lacquers sounds the collectors obsession was it was three hundred five part episodes yeah they got spray ballgames East Coast West Coast learn how the University Galactic Storm still got quite a way to go but yeah we're part five but it seems like we have been in this very long you know Marai yeah of course master of the quantum zone liberty side of st yeah all right Bro Yeah like I said Hart five of operation as he orders his wife thinner Oh and we got we got super fans hanging in the chat rooms if you hear US having a one way balances out because it's like yeah we have no feedback for rain this week because he has like a personal thing going on like I don't think he's even making his podcast this week backstage trying to order Sushi for my wife a huge that's a need the microphone for it in a call misunderstood the order so on the West Coast avengers vs yeah I mean you couldn't you couldn't say what you signed off year in bringing in the East Coast Team I love where where do you guys following the whole because there was the Wackos What so no feedback from Ray hey look all of a sudden we got associate in the turn under study the Universe Operation Galactic Storm Part Five I am Phil joining me of wars as always on these mike the Disappear Shinko's elementary maybe we are wondering name your scrawl to socially housing we shall not appear like black widow we shall not local stations products Senate his dad's case Ocean turn your chair left in the Doghouse so figure it out but I'm here with you you went into three forty five short yeah they're like he's scurry on sation with ourselves yeah we're talking sorry heights tire everyone I'm mad sorry meet myself I just pre-game converter men on Energie traits offense weapons of symbols of Incheon ongoing it's a struggle share yeah but yeah like me and we're talking about no reynolds any real guy quasar news but I shuttle funny anecdote I got I just got my son out in the bathtub around eight and eight o'clock the goonies was on you it's like an old movie or something but I'm just glad he loves the marvel stuff you know because the day he was asked in the first hour while he was often watching it but you know he's six I was like the older brother there won't headband knee mixed he's working on the beginning I said that's eh trump's in America think we're kind of working our way backwards because he seemed like the Tobey Maguire's and the the Andrew Garfield Spider take time we've got five part twenty yeah exactly yes I'm still getting set up yet we're still meeting characters? 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and one Kebab will launch a new guardians a galaxy ongoing in January twenty twenty you met the calming I thought you were talking about the movie cold wrap it up wrap it up all right was it's insane is it like volume nine or ten or higher than that her I think even Moon Knight has like I've encountered so like we said Operation Galactic Storm Part five from avengers three forty five finally gets east coast vendors sounds good to me Oh wait socialist commented poor mad is getting beat up for cold Sushi Yeah Sir yes they might make the wall oh I know they think renumbering skin get them new new readers but doesn't that make from more again March nineteen ninety two were still in March By Bob Harris writer Steve Editing Pencil Cree intergalactic wars erupting between two mighty empires and Earth's mightiest heroes are in the thick of it all right right let's get to it enough with the Sushi Talk I think nothing Sushi Talk I think it's getting so the summary long-term vendors ally Rick Jones was kidnapped by the alien she are the doom of Captain Marvel was raided by the alien us just keep the number remember we were yelling you know he picked up the vendors three forty five and you're like okay sitting there for three hundred forty five ish Japan wasn't even though it's supposedly the pen on the collection obsession yeah we talked about that degree yeah aw grip war he didn't even himself by clever nickname was storm gatherings are eights moments ago a space station called star core orbited here remember from last issue may scientists from Earth Eager Home Palmer colorist inker Bill Oakley Lederer Ralph Macho editor either Tiger Belco editor and chief you know dot gov is superior spider man accused a giant sword on the thing and he's he's like that's not honorable cares about honor just at illuminate the mysteries of the is that a joke illuminate I like it one in the issue of another you start looking at the years more closely design just lost yet I think the first one the right this current team was up transitioning from the old creative team to the new creative team I thought that was kind of what professionals did you know we wrote it so that she immediately the my aw come on we want to talk boy did she talk it's usually thoughts a New Yorker horrible I I don't see anything about a writer but I did see the Lakers don't even cook airfare yeah it should we get to this issue so Makoni can back she time nine though haven't noticed were still a long way from accomplishing our mission Bam milner got us here fantastic thank God me owner got them here because no one else in this foresee ago indicating the crew was abandoning ship however there is no sign of the crafts life pod in this the Senate it's conceivable they did not I did it I really didn't Ron it's like he's wearing goggles with the his communication device but yeah I don't know it's weird it looks like an oxygen mask too and he doesn't need an offer he did we get a boost from number ones and Bob Lot that seems to be that the the end of the marketing we're just GONNA keep not number one they were prepared let me see if I can sense any human life out here Bingo follow me takes the other follows how we wanted to do this this this first seeing I can do quasar insurgency will do you WANNA do vision in we'll give Mr Kona the he's good with the gods sounds good man he's got the beard the middle of your states yeah I can only get good Sushi when I go elsewhere whatever did they make awesome. 00:19:24 - 00:27:07 You'll be a guardians of the galaxy book in a couple of years and someone from podcast hey I like it all right it's all right here we go Rick Jones Dream indicated that there was a cre- presence on earth again which certainly was borne out by our encounter with Atlas Minerva and my battle with were star reveal whoa maybe he's just doing communicator but they had an extra one area history quantum or around oh the she are racist involved as well admittedly we don't know what about these she are but quasar witnessed a solar flare erupt when their starship worked out of the solar system so caps talking to Hawkeye on the on the communication screen this latest flare was by far the largest hawk we barely got started not God's gift a Superheroes Lady Sheesh Oh all right but that meanwhile back in avengers mansion Sir can teleport excuse me a Thursday is correct we received star courses distress signal twelve point six minutes we looked he's literally in a bathing suit but she's in any US he uses the bands to communicate via radio waves anyway so again goes someone either remind the golden boy scout with the cosmic accessories that we happen to be a team and somebody remind you the it appears we're in the middle of some type of intergalactic power struggle between two alien superpowers who don't give a second thought that the damage they're doing to our son so what else is new a hoop or can there in the silence sound of thunder and Flash of lightning here the depths of space so Vatian in the form of four avengers the page I wasn't sure I could make the leap from Earth but after kept told me Star Wars court it's all I had to do was concentrate bully for you thunder but in case you code all the reserves I could Steve I learned Jarvis be prepared for up to thirty guests and cap and just the other day I was reminiscent about the good old days with a smaller team listen to the west coast brands just about ready to To New York to the big towel see in two hours could heal hawk amnesty black with are you going to keep with the Hawkeye Hawkeye last thing vendors maintain oh we black widow don't blink or you'll miss her cores message through the electromagnetic disturbances how do you figure these solar flares are tied into what's been going on around here I'm not sure but it's clear that there is a connection exceeded scaping in perished sure not a bring down the mood Vici- let me say Quasar your guardians of the galaxy protector of the universe they called what's at a Russian exit or something I guess an Irish goodbye maybe there's you know any any culture could be fit into those Nazi I passing through the Pods Hall and asking them Directly Vision thank God somebody hurt or distress beacon we're beginning to think complain about you not being more it'll happen in this next panel he's scanning for life signs why's he holding his temples well and all right so back in space the vendors find star Core Quasar says ladies and gentlemen May I present the Star Corps Life Pod a known I shall investigate opt avengers starker crew appears fundamentally do you have any hypothesis as to the sun solar activity why does become so volatile or vision don't think now's the appropriate time to what's happening to see a massive solar flare and Gulf the unfortunate ship destroying it utterly for its inquisitive Taryn crew there are seemingly Dr Cobo can you tell me what happened flare so sudden and powerful it couldn't have been natural we had no time to engage thrusters indeed Dr Sir how are we going to do this you want Kona you wanna be one of the first alien the fleet reports the it is prepared to enter the second wormhole Farewell Commander Precede the empress does not want any she our pre the second alien share so my like the top town yeah yeah the first lead is been completed pray tour well it's somewhat shaken but this disturbance way ahead of you've age something's about to happen like look on my Gosh Oh my gosh what the heck is that I believe for we are witnessing the formation of a wormhole not vision it's the birth of a warp a rip the time Space Continuum Space Time Continuum itself Holla Holla why else would be here so near the wormhole site freighter commander our buyer scans detected lifeforms on the screen now tell these are it is true and earn her there Hawk move their double all black now team so she disappears onto this issue maybe that's you know one person meals difference okay all right all yes she could just slip out the back door in these towns are extraordinary but they are witnesses nonetheless lieutenant engaging eliminate the humans hold on a moment and says we're impressed QUASAR I'll call you the next time I lose a needle in the haystack but the question remains as the crew all right I shall ascertain yeah that's right okay so he puts his head to his his temples like he's Professor Asks for some reason they knew the flares were getting increasingly dangerous Zinsou terron solar system any longer than is absolutely necessary fraser all right I'll I'll do the third one does page full-page lead tech answer say there must be hundreds of ships Quasar it's free all right back in space in Australian of law he's not in the room today South Hercules Hercules. 00:27:07 - 00:24:21 It looks like it's in the first bubble right MM seemed like I'm GonNa eat my words and look at it this way Steve at least this will keep you humble so what she worried that he he wants a smaller despite all this is not the she our way if we truly come to this in order to preserve our way of life we adopt the practices of our most bitter enemy as our own can armata blow to quiz urgency freaking source thinking quivering with equipment hurt too bad we forgot the rent the brass band house about Ukraine little nervous yes easy night but but about what ace May I remind you my Lord Prater that this is war these beings are more than likely spies the occurs cre- would report on the fleet's maneuvers to Hollywood I'm not exactly sure it some minutes from deep space that threatens us all I fear or is it being reunited with my estranged husband sister I wish I knew xaver good is true scan confirmed to think through annoyed lifeforms out here a magistrate's was correct in being concerned I know I should have stayed home. 00:24:22 - 00:28:25 She says quaker on in the distance another warp is appearing in out of it space fleet is appearing which is they know it out for outdoor you get Ya okay there are gathered needs one more one roof once more I can only wonder what their voices will sound like and what characters they will portray admirably aw Kebbi Debbie drama that's right here look next scene of vendors mansion can we got other west coast compatriots are due to arrive at any moment to honor to greet them to be a moment of epic importance when all who bear the names of vendors Um intergalactic war or domestic squabble it's nice to know you can keep things in perspective then choosing between an angry scarlet witch and a space battle with can you in truth spare these beams and run the risk of bringing disaster to the magistrates and the empire your words are cold commander all right here he left he was here and he left those noticing I will get in the race personal thinking about your Yeah Yeah yes take me and we'll take because I know who Kunas getaway I'll be I'll be Hercules will but then so is war is it not carry out your orders then may the God forgive decisions made in time such as these are it's as I started I was excited to start doing my Hercules before you guys cast the rest of the scene you weren't Black Knight I'll take crystal that's okay that's Greenman I'd vote for the battle you can't just say X. 00:28:28 - 00:31:56 Hey they're firing out us oh and then sursee says the floor Hercules right about you thunder you do have inordinate on this for stating the obvious yes we retaliate against this aggression you know boss Euro Hammer do your stuff that's a big shalt first rule of business my mortal friend don't let your sense of indignation get killed it's so counter productive just use my quantum bands to send the life pod out of harm's way and then we'll feel these invaders sit down me Better by far terrifies the creatures within that ship and then we see prey or life support is failing we are done it down oh that's funny every scan so this is difficult for me it is might be the Meta humans who've stymied our race for so long now they hinder UCR thank all because of my dedication to duty down but not yet out quasar move in for the kill quakers kill you're sounding a little bloodthirsty there that's not your style she says isn't it what do you really know the mind a you experience the bitter side of life no matter how powerful you are you will always beat someone stronger still and pride and glory mean very little then the I didn't think you cared to the bottom of the page oh Gotcha the next page risk getting tackled page thirteen yeah but the panel for a while commander he's is he hiding the consequences of his actions actually yes old man. 00:31:56 - 00:39:08 My People's intelligence suggested that terrence we encountered out here hang preorder K. three preserve as the terrance have unleashed some sort of incredible weapon our shields are buckling. It's the hammer because another hint mortal give primordial headstrong but I think you have possibilities vision I do believe I've made our neophyte coddling blush I all that information in the proper databanks RC but now who were scrawl no reality is all smoke and mirrors and who knows the better than Hobgoblins of Your Precious Magistrates Ron the service at it no you care absurd but thanks for saving my but you're welcome your raw naive formed we intend to bring you to Earth to investigate recent events on our planet which suggest you are infringing on our sovereignty and indeed could the preorder this can't be happening we're the best in the magistrates fleet we are her pride glory Ni- young ones and then we hear things here their computer integrity restored atmosphere returning to normal parameters cared quasar these jokers are trying to kill us for no good reason I oughta since he's funder that Photon torpedo I prayed is a lesson of our empire spared and outside we see Quasar inserts blast in Jersey we breached the forest field she said the course stiller the avengers you attacked our party unprovoked while we were engaged in rescue mission such acts which violate the norm of civilized behavior cannot go unpunished the general by the Crime Pradier ancestors brothers are breached we will not see our home world again are these tears mad these barbarians me here both east and West maybe we should vote on it we were out in deep space having just survived an attack on not only a not only us but the star core signed ternal and does my attitude fright you win the one he's just like we're classes for reasons I've a better lesson for you Predator things are not always what they seem starts to transfer order more I am proud of this vessel you are innocent victims of a conflict between two great powers for which I Apologize Your anger is justified but no no it's when he says you know it Quasar watch all right it's the painful for certain wiser she had order of the Shiro as ever allowed his ship to be taken insurgency says the make history and be the first preorder reserves I swear will destroy you and your it yourself Barton I got every right to talk after all the adventures are one big Epi family right and we see Dr Pym cap whatever they are fixed what happened we now have several dozen prisoners from the star vessels well as the creep Doctor Minerva Captain Atlas whom I shrank in size and placed in this holding tank next thing you see is kept saying gee what you threaten to kill them they're bored vendors that operate that way lady and she started the perhaps they should captain and with all of us and guard yeah Oh yeah she are shape shifter yeah that's the name of Earth Supervision Aw lunchbox yes or what goes guest is put the dead souls in be a threat to our very survival if we are supposed to read this before at quals like yeah we blasted a hole in the side of your ship and unplugging up plugging it up for now home and we caught some capitalism can question the I say we came out ahead then I ask you all if the Sheeran priore head not given up would you have been prepared to carry out your prayer we were dead men how and simple speaking of his back there are on so I guess the teams reporting back the captain here's despite the best of intentions get caught in the muck it's the black widow the new kid on the block we were fighting fully armed battleship and it was just a bluff wasn't it I'm not entirely comfortable but we did cap core baroness crew or back ship full double page spread back in New York yeah that's telling well before it seems like this era of you can preach hall alert or ships integrity has been compromised atmospheric decompression enbridge section all even got an alarm going off cool this quixotic as fighting windmills because admittedly our combined abilities or next to nothing against powers as fast the cree and she are empires but somehow we've got to give in with these two ancient races stop this war before it gets out of hand was I'm more Kyo who's mockingbird Jews near donor because we weren't trusted to save forgive won't you if we neglected Robert's rules of conduct but it would've extended us the same courtesy Chapman hurt wormhole the portal wants open services a bridge between their respective galaxies cutting the distance to their space fleets must travel says what indeed will urge all emerging cautioned wasp it's a slippery muddy road when you once you begin making death threats and incarcerating people and I don't WanNa see the event regarding our son Huck is correct mockingbird both the crm career using the sun as an energy source in order to activate a normally Then the wasp is like that's hardly fair cap iron requested Hank reduced the aliens after all what were we going to do with them who are we to go around telling other people or aliens how to run their affairs what have you been out to lunch or something bobby there's a little matter no I think it's quays simplifies the Avengers Giveth and the vendors taketh away I think you she are I am the vision of injures we always get the big everyone's standing around the table yet the big a table and wonder man does not look happy stop the Sun Will Nova in life in the solar system will cease that's why cap says we have to get involved I hope the cree don't think we're too rude butting into the archery I was about to say I'm glad music gave us the full summary for people who haven't been paying attention to what the last four episodes is he has synthesis waiter summarizations he died I think I think married so long because he made her quiver that's an Arrow show you know so then cap is saying by utilizing quasars war powers I propose to send two teams as envoys to each of the empires to a mere fraction however used the worm hole caused gravitational havoc with the sun to stabilize nuclear cohesion. 00:39:08 - 00:40:15 It's a Korean the she our had you as agent is that I think was not Matt Dom Dot Com stages right Ironman Crystal Hercules the Black Knight answer see she says she are imperium thor me wonder Man the vision the scarlet witch and she thinks with the vision and Simon Heavy pause that was also what happened before started talking I love ascension in the ranks but Aidid cat knows what he thought about it what advocating intervention avengers but diplomacy float we gleaned from the X. 00:40:15 - 00:44:36 Men the she seemed to be a far less warlike race in the cree perhaps they can be reason I don't think it I don't think that I could have been I think he was okay I'll take it but why I mean the lightning an hour earth force she hulk Falcon Mockingbird spiderwoman hang him with the career another matter entirely of course but we've dealt with them before okay so we're talking about the whole earth set stake we're now we're talking about the X. Men why are we calling the x-men why aren't we calling the fantastic four true defenders power power back caps like hank that makes me equally uncomfortable reminds me of our old friend the collector to bring that up but no tank I was way out of line and comes like okay cap row under stress that what are we gonna do about this situation cap what about to suggest may seem off mission folks anyone wants to back out you can do so no questions asked okay rose assigned to the empire are myself we'd cap you the wasp get the Sheriff Panel Gilgamesh and Hawkeye what what's funny then like where's the hank high things were kind of hot and heavy and there hey hawk surfacing the real chip on her shoulder wasn't like her at all I think cap just got a little Zim fall while the remaining thirty of the vendors stay on earth to act as a rearguard iron man the black widow and I have gone to great lengths in his this yeah I think so because he says he's part of the imperial guard this girl's no no Australia I wonder what some of the other becoming habits were leaving his arrowheads you know I mean I just an orchard remembers he flips them valve something to Hanko buddy thanks performance enhancing drugs Obispo stopped smirking clint while we were married I always thought it was your least becoming habit she's cavs Abbas flipping mind I don't have enough raw power he says what's that US what what's the US agent this universe out thank so he's a lunatic acted you deserve to go into space if you want clint you're involved in our first run in with the cree I know what it's like to be the odd man out around here and there was a time when you were more than it was just saying don't don't tell Dr Pym bizzare really just action figures okay he's trying these days okay thinks this all wedding good my friends but should it does matter at hand all right Ari Tasha sorry folks several teams distracted her focus everyone focus Hercules. You're going with the Quiver Jim yeah they kept saying super thyroid problem and three hours later in space Hercules the white people captain I suggest you take a look behind the Hawkeye nope not this time black widows standard writer recap shoulder like excuse me Alan all right so yeah runs out of the roof fuming oh nostalgic I get cap by the way hang around in a series of tests just now in this form I give you a I could give came out I figured I was glide the last time we took on the crease oh seeing as how were running into him again I decided to take a  

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Today was the most difficult day on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I fell down (while still clipped into my bike) at the summit below the Cruz de Ferro (Iron Cross) where pilgrims place a stone from home to signify their burdens and sins. Here is an audio file of me recounting the experience and explaining the Iron Cross tradition: Here is the Cruz de Ferro surrounded by pebbles placed their by pilgrims over time:

Welcome to Episode 156 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast On this show, hosts Neil Shuck and Mike Whitaker chat to Stuart McCorquadale and Darryl Morton from Great Escape Games about their new fast-play World War II rules: Iron Cross We hope you enjoy the show