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Marie Cyril Eddy Boissézon, plus connu comme Eddy Boissézon, né le 28 mars 1952, s'est éteint ce 1er novembre 2025, jour de la Toussaint. Homme d'État respecté et figure politique marquante, il a été vice-président de la République de Maurice de 2019 à 2024. Ancien membre du Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), il avait rejoint en 2014 le Muvman Liberater (ML) dirigé par Ivan Collendavelloo. Lorsque Pravind Jugnauth succède à son père Sir Anerood Jugnauth comme Premier ministre, Eddy Boissézon est nommé ministre de la Fonction publique et des Réformes administratives, poste qu'il occupe jusqu'au 12 novembre 2019. Par la suite, le 2 décembre 2019, il est élu vice-président de la République par l'Assemblée nationale et investi le même jour. À l'annonce de son décès, ses anciens camarades de parti ont tenu à lui rendre hommage. « Un homme humble qui s'en est allé », confie Ismaël Rawoo, ancien leader adjoint du ML. Toolsiraj Benydin affirme qu'Eddy Boissézon l'a énormément aidé dans sa carrière politique. « J'ai perdu un grand frère », confie-t-il. Ivan Collendavelloo, leader du Muvman Liberater, profondément ému, se souvient encore d'Eddt Boissézon comme un ami d'enfance. « Il était un homme sincère », dit-il.

Depuis plus de 17 ans, une famille installée en Moselle, se bat pour obtenir une réponse simple à une question qui l'est tout autant: de quoi est mort au printemps 2006 leur fils, frère et oncle Ismaël Abdelkader, 26 ans à l'époque des faits ? Une disparition, un corps, des témoins directs du drame, des scénarios possibles, crime ou accident. La résolution de l'affaire semblait à portée de main. Sauf que dans cette histoire, rien ne va être entrepris pour savoir qui a fait quoi.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

From winning the Coupe de France with Rennes to a thrilling FA Cup triumph at Crystal Palace, Ismaïla Sarr's journey is a rollercoaster of explosive pace and big-moment goals. This episode dives into the Senegalese forward's career, analyzing his standout performances—including that famous hat-trick against Liverpool—and his tactical evolution at Selhurst Park under a new system. Discover why Sarr is now one of the Premier League's most dangerous wingers, his impressive set-piece record, and what his resurgence means for the Eagles' future.Ismaïla Sarr, Crystal Palace, Premier League, FA Cup , Senegal football.

Depuis plus de 17 ans, une famille installée en Moselle, se bat pour obtenir une réponse simple à une question qui l'est tout autant: de quoi est mort au printemps 2006 leur fils, frère et oncle Ismaël Abdelkader, 26 ans à l'époque des faits ? Une disparition, un corps, des témoins directs du drame, des scénarios possibles, crime ou accident. La résolution de l'affaire semblait à portée de main. Sauf que dans cette histoire, rien ne va être entrepris pour savoir qui a fait quoi.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

durée : 00:03:24 - Sous les radars - par : Sébastien LAUGENIE - Ce soir dans sous les radars : les fondateurs de Ben & Jerry's qui se sont fâchés avec la maison mère, des arbitres turques trop parieurs et à Djibouti où Ismaël Omar Guelleh peut briller un sixième mandat malgré son âge. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

durée : 00:03:24 - Sous les radars - par : Sébastien LAUGENIE - Ce soir dans sous les radars : les fondateurs de Ben & Jerry's qui se sont fâchés avec la maison mère, des arbitres turques trop parieurs et à Djibouti où Ismaël Omar Guelleh peut briller un sixième mandat malgré son âge. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

durée : 00:03:24 - Sous les radars - par : Sébastien LAUGENIE - Ce soir dans sous les radars : les fondateurs de Ben & Jerry's qui se sont fâchés avec la maison mère, des arbitres turques trop parieurs et à Djibouti où Ismaël Omar Guelleh peut briller un sixième mandat malgré son âge. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

Du 17 septembre au 14 décembre 2025, la Galerie du 19M présente "Trouver son monde", une exposition collective qui invite chacun à se lancer dans une quête à la fois intime et collective, aux côtés de dix-sept créateurs de la scène française et des Maisons d'art résidentes du 19M. Conçu comme un parcours riche et immersif, ce projet explore le dialogue entre mémoire et transmission, gestes ancestraux et approches audacieuses, ouvrant de nouveaux territoires de création où arts visuels et artisanat d'art se rencontrent. Dans cet épisode, des membres du comité éditorial et des artistes de l'exposition partagent les coulisses de collaborations inédites. Comment un geste transmis devient-il source d'inspiration ? Comment une technique se réinvente-t-elle au contact d'un univers créatif singulier ? Et comment construire un dialogue vivant entre héritage et modernité ? Un podcast produit par Géraldine Sarratia et réalisé par Guillaume Girault dans le cadre de l'exposition Trouver son monde à la Galerie du 19M, du 17 septembre au 14 décembre 2025. Avec : Anne Bourrassé, Nina Jayasuria, Regina Weber, Emeline Amétis, Rakajoo, Ismaël Bazri et Éléa-Jeanne Schmitter.

What does it mean to truly use your voice—to tell stories, bring words to life, and inspire others even when life throws challenge's your way? My guest this week, Amber Ba'th, embodies that Unstoppable spirit. Amber is a professional voice actor, a Bible narrator for the Dwell app, and a functional nutritionist who turned a life-changing diagnosis into a deeper calling. Amber opens up about performing on stage, finding her place in the booth, and learning resilience after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis. Her story reminds us that creativity and courage don't fade—they evolve. I think you'll be moved by her honesty, her strength, and her Unstoppable commitment to sharing her voice with the world.   Highlights:   00:10 – Hear how early curiosity in theater grew into a lifelong love for performance. 03:21 – Learn how family roots in the arts shaped a career in acting and voice. 07:21 – Discover why live theater creates a unique audience experience you can't get in film. 14:03 – See how studying Theater Arts Administration opened doors beyond the stage. 17:24 – Find out what moving to LA taught her about auditions, hustle, and opportunity. 25:37 – Get the real entry point into voiceover and why COVID pushed her to record at home. 27:26 – Understand the scope and process of narrating the entire CSB Bible for the Dwell app. 32:07 – Learn how leaning into “villain” characters can expand your VO range. 35:06 – Take why acting classes matter for believable, persuasive voiceover reads. 38:05 – Hear her journey with transverse myelitis and how she reframed ability. 43:47 – See how diet changes and self-advocacy supported healing and daily function. 54:14 – Learn practical nutrition tips VO pros use to protect tone and clarity.   About the Guest:   Hi, I'm Amber Ba'th—pronounced By-ee-th! I'm a Philadelphia native with roots in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. I earned my BFA in Theatre Arts Administration from the legendary Howard University, and from the very beginning, storytelling and performance have been a huge part of my life. Whether through stage, screen, or sound, I believe creative expression has the ability to inspire, uplift, and connect people. That belief and my faith in Christ, has guided every step of my journey in the entertainment industry.   With over 20 years of experience in theater and film, I've worn many hats—actor, voice actor, producer, company manager, and coach. My early days at Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre gave me the foundation to work on national tours and major productions, such as The Fabric of a Man (national stage and film), and the national tour of If This Hat Could Talk under Tony Award-winning director George Faison. I've also stepped in front of the camera, appearing in Ice Cube's Friday After Next and national print campaigns for McDonald's that landed me in Essence, O Magazine, and Woman's World.   Voice acting has become one of my deepest passions. I've had the privilege of lending my voice to projects for Delorean, Holler Studios, Amazon, Make Originals, and most notably, narrating the greatest story ever told for the Dwell Bible App; just to name a few. I'm known for being versatile—able to bring warmth, humor, authority, and charisma into every read. Whether a character needs to feel animated, compassionate, bold, or simply relatable, I approach every project with creative precision and care.   I've been fortunate to learn from incredible mentors like Nick Omana, Art Evans, Queen Noveen, Linda Bearman, Al Woodley, Joyce Castellanos, JD Lawrence, and Rolonda Watts, and to collaborate with talent across every corner of this industry. I'm always growing, always listening, and always grateful. My goal is not only to entertain but also to reflect God's grace through my work. Faith is my anchor—it's the reason I'm able to keep showing up in this ever-changing field with joy and purpose.   Outside of my career, I'm a mother of two, and I live with a “different ability” that has only strengthened my walk and testimony. I believe that what God has for me is for me, and I want other artists to feel empowered to claim that same truth for themselves. As someone in the faith, You are royalty—act like it, speak like it, know it. I'm here to tell stories, give voice to vision, and ultimately to help others feel seen, heard, and deeply valued in this industry.   Ways to connect with Amber:   LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamamberbath/   IG- https://www.instagram.com/iamamberbath/   YouTube- YouTube.com/@iamamberbath   Website- www.iamamberbath.com     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello everyone. Wherever you happen to be, I am Michael Hingson, and this is unstoppable mindset. We are really excited that you're here with us today. And we have a fascinating guest who was referred to us by another fascinating guest who is coming on unstoppable mindset, and we'll get to all that, I am sure. But Amber bath is how she pronounces her last name by eth. I'm saying that right. I assume that is correct. Oh, good. Never want to get it too wrong, you know. Anyway, Amber is a voice actor and does a lot of different things. And we learned about Amber from someone who we were referred to by Walden Hughes, that reps in yesterday USA, and Walden has been on unstoppable mindset a couple of times. Amber, do you know Walden? I know I don't. Well, then we can spread all sorts of rumors and you'll believe everyone, right, absolutely. Anyway. So anyway, what Linda Berryman, you know, so that works. Anyway, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. It's really a joy and a pleasure to have you, and thank you for being here.   Amber Ba'th ** 02:42 Thank you for having me. This is such an exciting moment. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:46 I'm anxious to learn all about voice acting and some of those things. But why don't we start by maybe you telling us a little bit about kind of the early Amber growing up and all that sort of stuff. Well, always a good place to start. You know, a   Amber Ba'th ** 03:02 long time ago   Michael Hingson ** 03:03 in a galaxy, far, far away, yes,   Amber Ba'th ** 03:07 oh my gosh. Well, I I'm a suburbian girl here. I'm from the suburbs, actually Philadelphia. I was actually born in DC, raised in Philly, went back to DC, then moved all the way across country to La La Land. Is that where you are now, I'm not. I'm actually back in DC.   Michael Hingson ** 03:33 Go figure. Right now I'm, I'm really curious to hear the history of all these moves. But anyway, so you were raised in Philadelphia. Did you ever meet Rocky Balboa? Just checking,   Amber Ba'th ** 03:45 no, just ran the steps. You did run the steps. I did run the steps. Yeah, actually got a heat stroke. But I did. I was, I was young at the time, and it was super hot. And you know, it's like, yeah, you know, I'm gonna run the steps. Ran the steps, and just shouldn't have   Michael Hingson ** 04:04 done that, not in the middle of the day. No, when did he run them? It was in the morning, wasn't it?   Amber Ba'th ** 04:11 Yeah, he always ran in the morning. So no, I was this was in the heat of the day.   Michael Hingson ** 04:16 So huh, we all have our growth issues that we have to deal with so so you but you were raised in Philadelphia, and you went to school there and so on, and what kind of were your interests and so on, growing up   Amber Ba'th ** 04:32 theater, I was really, I mean, I come from A family who has always been in the spotlight. I had two aunts who actually had a touring show titled The sisters, the Stuart sisters. And, you know, I've always been wanting either to dance, to sing, to act. That was just. Just my thing.   Michael Hingson ** 05:02 So they you came by, it pretty honestly. Then exactly anything else. They were actors in the show.   Amber Ba'th ** 05:10 They were, yeah, one was a singer and one was an actress.   Michael Hingson ** 05:12 Yes, oh, cool, yeah. Well, and what was the show about?   Amber Ba'th ** 05:18 Actually, it was about Harriet Tubman, Sojourner, Sojourner, truth. And it was it they actually toured different toward the country and talked about the Underground Railroad and and and how they were able to escape and free other, other slaves.   Michael Hingson ** 05:42 Now that show isn't whether it's your parents or not, but that show is not on now. It's not running.   Amber Ba'th ** 05:50 This was a stage play. This was many, many years   Michael Hingson ** 05:52 ago, right, right, yeah, but they but no one has continued. I would think it would be a very valuable thing to keep around you.   Amber Ba'th ** 05:59 Would think it would be that, you know, the traditional way, but we kind of moved in different directions, you know. So   Michael Hingson ** 06:06 everything closes eventually. The fantastics eventually closed, and that was on for the longest time, yeah? Well, even cats was on for a long time. Oh, yeah. I, I think, although I don't know, but the producers, I think, has closed,   Amber Ba'th ** 06:22 yeah. And I really wanted to see that. I saw the film, but I wanted to see the stage play.   Michael Hingson ** 06:28 Oh, the stage play was much better than the film, I'm sure. You know, I don't know what it is about Matthew Broderick, but he just doesn't sound natural in films. But we went to see it. It was in August of 2001 and we were living in New Jersey, and I was in New York, because that's where we had our offices, on the 78th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center. And on a Tuesday in 2001 in August, I went over to the theater where the producers was, and I figured, I'll see if I can get tickets. Because my wife, Karen, who was now she's my late wife. She and I were married for 40 years, and then she passed away. But anyway, we I decided that we would try to see it, and I went over to the theater, and I said, so I want to see if I can get two tickets to the producers. And I knew that the media had said all the news media said, you can't get a ticket before March of 2002 and I said, well, but the deal is that my wife is in a wheelchair. Can we by any chance get a matinee to to go see it? And the guy said, I'm sorry, there's just nothing until at least no December. And I said, Well, okay, is there any chance of any other time other than the weekend, or anything that we could get? And he said, Well, just wait a minute. And he goes away, and he comes back and he goes, What are you doing Saturday night? I went, I guess I'll go see the producers, right? And we did. We got to see the original cast, of course, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Katie Huffman, who played Ulla. And was so wonderful to see that show. We had seen Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. And then we saw Nathan Lane, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. So we had seen them all perform before, but that was so fun to see.   Amber Ba'th ** 08:27 That's awesome, yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 08:29 And I think that the film wasn't nearly as good as the play, but   Amber Ba'th ** 08:34 I'm sure it wasn't. So my theater is so dear to me. I I don't know, it's something about the willingness, suspension of disbelief, of breaking out of reality and just, you know, getting away from it all, and just sitting and enjoying yourself, laughing at just sometimes it can be nonsensical. Sometimes it can be sort of reality, you know, whatever, whatever genre you like, and it's nothing like being in the audience when you're when you're having when you're in there as live theater. So it's always a great opportunity to go and see a show, if you are able.   Michael Hingson ** 09:18 Why is it so much more fun, and so many people feel as you do about that, as opposed to going to a movie,   Amber Ba'th ** 09:29 it's, it's a it's a cultural thing for me, and it's immersing yourself in the culture of theater, seeing the different nuances. There's sometimes there's interaction, like, they'll break the fourth wall. Sometimes in that, in every show, is not the same. That's the great thing about theater, because you could go to a show on a Monday and then you go back to see it on a Friday, and it's like, totally different. Yeah, you.   Michael Hingson ** 10:00 It was 93 or 94 whenever they had the big baseball strike. And I went to see Damn Yankees, which has always been one of my favorite movies, because I've always been a ray Walston fan anyway, but went to see it, and during the the and I don't remember who was, who was in it, but at one point, Mr. Applegate, the devil, said, we've got to do something to to disrupt this whole baseball thing and get Joe Hardy back in line with what we want. He said, I got it. Let's organize a baseball strike right there in the middle of the theater. I mean, you know that that had to be ad libbed and just done, but it was so funny to see.   Amber Ba'th ** 10:44 Yeah, you never know what you're gonna get. You know, it's always exciting to see. And   Michael Hingson ** 10:49 I think that the reason that I like theater over over movies is, in part, you're hearing a lot more. Even though there's still audio and electronics, you're still hearing the PA system. You're not hearing the PA system as much. You're really hearing voices exactly you're hearing and seeing so many things. We did go to see Damn Yankees again a few years later, we had moved to New Jersey by that time, and Jerry Lewis was playing Mr. Applegate. Wow. It was the only time he ever did anything on Broadway and and did such a wonderful job. It was incredible, really.   Amber Ba'th ** 11:26 You know, it's the last show that I actually saw. Was Daniel at the sight and sound Oh and oh my goodness, I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna go see Noah. But I was literally sitting on the floor at the end aisle, and when the animals came out, I could actually reach out and touch them if I wanted to. But it was just so beautifully done. It was so amazing. It I can't, I can't even there are words that can't describe the the acting, the set, set design, the sound, everything about that show was amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 12:12 We went to see the Lion King. Karen's brother got us tickets. He was a certified ski guide in France, and he was coming back for the summer with his family, and got all of us tickets. So we went to see Lion King. It was a matinee on a Wednesday, and we got into the theater and the show started. And I knew kind of how it started, with the music and so on, but there's still nothing like hearing it live. But we it live. But we, we, we were listening. And then at one point, of course, the hyenas come in, and they meet with scar but in the play, in the in the musical, they come in from the back of the theater, down the stairs, and Karen, of course, being in a wheelchair, sitting in her chair on the aisle, and the hyenas are growling and they're coming by, and one of them gets right up next to her and goes, you've never seen a lady in a wheelchair jump out of her chair. Oh, it was so funny, but we were talking about it later, and she said, It wasn't long before you got completely used to all these animals, these puppets, and you didn't think of them as anything but the actual animals, wow, which, you know, you you you get in a theater, which you don't get the same in the movies at all. But it was, it was a lot of fun. We actually did get to go backstage afterward and meet some of the actors, and I actually got a chance to look at one of the animals, which was kind of fun.   Amber Ba'th ** 13:47 That's awesome, you know, I'm sorry. The other thing is that when you are in live theater, there's an intermission, and you get to actually mix and mingle with other people, other theater goers. So that's always another thing. I mean, you know, going to the movies. Yeah, you see other people walking back and forth, but they're, you know, rushing for their seat, going to the restroom, getting, you know, and going to the concessions. But there are moments where they're either taking pictures. Sometimes the cast members may come out during intermission, take pictures, and it's more of an interaction with everybody.   Michael Hingson ** 14:24 We went to see God spell once in San Diego, and what we didn't know was there was a guy out there who was coming up to people and wanting to clean their windshields and so on. And what we didn't know until later was that was the actor who played John. He was in character. He was being a servant. It was, it was great. That was so clever. That's awesome. So what did you do for college? Well, I went, as if we don't know,   Amber Ba'th ** 14:55 and I know, right? I went to Howard University. Yeah, and I majored in theater arts administration, uh huh, yeah. So it's the funny thing about that was I always, you know, was in the theater, and my mother told me, I am not paying for you to be an actor. I'm like, Well, I don't know anything else. And this particular year, when I came in, they had just started the theater arts administration program, and I said, Well, I can't do acting. I don't know anything else. This is it. And I really didn't know what that entailed until I got in and I said, Hmm, let's see I get to know the behind the scenes aspects. I can also be a producer to director. I could, you know, basically tell people what to do. That is for me,   Michael Hingson ** 15:50 there you go. So you so you got your degree in that. How come your mother wouldn't pay for you to be an actor?   Amber Ba'th ** 15:59 Because, I mean, back then it was just like, you know, that's something that that's not a real job, no. And even though she did it, they think like that, you know, that's not a real job. You know, it'll never amount to anything. You won't you get, you won't get where you want to be, you know. So I said, you know, I don't know anything else but, but this so, you know, so thank God that that was something that was there when I did come in there.   Michael Hingson ** 16:27 Well, so you, you got your degree in theater arts, production, administration, administration, and so you, you learned how to tell everybody what to do, which sounds a good thing to do, right? And so then what happened after college?   Amber Ba'th ** 16:47 Well, after college, I was I had always been one of those types that said, Oh no, I just got out of college, and maybe two days later I don't have a job, and I'm always worried about that, but I had someone, a classmate, say, You know what, I think you'd be a good fit for this. And what is she talking about? And I don't know if you recall HBO taxicab confessions, uh huh. Okay, so they actually came to DC, and, you know, they chose me. I was chosen to be their production assistant, and I was in the follow vehicle with the cab, you know, all that kind of stuff. And it was like, Okay, this is a lot. This is a lot. They never aired it because a little too risque. But, I mean, they could air it now, but, you know, and they asked me to come to LA, you know, as, and that was a funny thing, because when, before then, I said, oh gosh, I'll never go to LA. It's like Sodom and Gomorrah. And so I wound up going to LA they said, you know, I'll give you, you know, get you a round trip ticket, you know, you can either stay, you can go back, you know, giving me that option. And I took it. I took it, and it was the best thing that I've   Michael Hingson ** 18:14 ever done. What did you do when you got out here?   Amber Ba'th ** 18:17 When I got out there? I, of course, I was working with them for a little bit, and then I decided, You know what, I want to be an actress. This is what this is. I'm here. I am in Hollywood.   Michael Hingson ** 18:29 Mom, not withstanding.   Amber Ba'th ** 18:33 I said, Oh my gosh. And of course, what did I do? I got whatever most actors got was a waitress, a way a serving job, you know, just something enough that I could act flexible enough that I could actually go on auditions and things like that. And I did. I went on auditions. I met a lot of different celebrities. I was in McDonald's had their quote, unquote, adult happy meal that I actually was the poster girl for. I was like, Oh my goodness. And I was in magazines, you know, things like that. And then one day, a friend of mine who graduated with me in theater arts administration, she was actually doing a production, a touring play as the company manager, which is like a tour manager. And she she got another invite to be the company manager on TD Jason's TD Jakes show, and she really wanted to take that so the producer said, Well, you're gonna have to find a replacement. So she called me up and I started working on a show with David Talbert called the fabric of a man who had starred Shamar Moore, and we toured for. Oh, wow. This is interesting, because I didn't really think about this until I started talking. We toured until let's see 910 and I remember because something happened in Houston, Texas, and we had to refund money to all of the audience members, and we're leaving. And what I would do after each show is make sure that the hotel was was taken care of, everything was taken care of. And we went home. Everyone went to their destinations, and we went home. And that morning, I called the hotel, and he told me that different people were still there, and I'm and I just didn't understand why, you know, at the time, because it was really early in the morning in LA and so I'm calling, and I'm like, Well, what's happening? He said, You don't know what's going on. And I said, No. He said, planes are going down everywhere. And I'm like, What are you talking about? I turned on the TV, and that's when I saw the second plane going into the tower. And I just Oh my gosh, this is kind of bringing back some stuff, because I am a woman of faith, and I actually prior to us leaving for seven days, prior to us going to to to Houston. I kept having these dreams about a plane going down in a field, you know, but it would be continuous things. And then the next night, there were planes. There were planes. Looks like two planes colliding. Then there was, I saw people falling out of the sky, and I was like that, this is not making any sense. I didn't know anything. I mean, I was, I didn't know what was going on. And I just kept dreaming these dreams. This is what's happening. Then when we when we were leaving Houston, I had a dream prior to us leaving of the exact shape, color of this plane that went down in the field. And we were, I was at the airport, and I'm looking, and I'm like, okay, that's not the plane that I saw. And so I get on the I get on the plane, and as I'm about to settle in, about to, you know, leave Houston, go to LA, there's a man dressed in Arab garb with, you know, something on his head. And I don't know why I said this, but I just said, I hope he doesn't want to jack the plane. And I went to sleep, and i The dream that I had was that I really saw who was falling out of the sky, but they had on business suits. So when I called the hotel and he told me this, it, it just took over me. You know, I was in shambles. I was like, What? What did I just dream? What happened? Something is not right. I didn't know what was wrong with me at the time. I thought there was something actually wrong with me. Like, why am I dreaming this? What is happening? So that was just something that you happened to ask me the question, and that brought it back. And then I'm thinking about you, you know, so,   Michael Hingson ** 23:44 ah, you know, so many people, many people that I've talked to who didn't at first know what was happening, and they they either turn on their TV, or they were at an airport or something, and they saw the second plane hit the towers and they thought it was a movie. And I've heard so many people say that then, of course, they realized that it wasn't a movie. But you know, a lot of people just thought it was a movie at first, because nobody could imagine it. And you know, that is true. How who would have thought that somebody would deliberately crash airplanes like that into the towers and into the Pentagon? And, of course, now the the one falling out of the sky was that flight 93 in Pennsylvania, Yes, uh huh. And eventually, when you saw the plane, or whatever that was, the plane that you dreamed about, exactly, yeah, uh huh, and that's not surprising. Yeah, there are so many stories of of different things that people experienced that day. We didn't know anything about what was going on until actually we got out of the. Towers, and both towers had collapsed, and my wife was the first one who told us that aircraft had been hijacked and so on. And of course, people say to me all the time, well, of course, you didn't know because you couldn't see it. Excuse me, the last time I checked as I tell people Superman and X ray vision are fiction, and the reality is the airplane hit about 18 floors above us on the other side of the building, no one knew all the way down the stairs, the hundreds of people that I interacted with going down the stairs didn't know what happened. We figured, we figured an airplane hit the building because we were smelling burning jet fuel fumes as we were going down the stairs. So we figured an airplane hit the building. But we had no details. We had no information. Blindness. Didn't have anything to do with it at all. But yeah, it's, it's just one of those things. Well, so you were in, you were still in the business of telling people what to do, which was really good. And how did you eventually, then get into voice acting?   Amber Ba'th ** 26:04 Well, I had always first, it's funny because you people who get into voice acting, oh, I really want to get into voice acting, and they think it's just this one thing that was me. I i always like to do voices. I like to play around with different things. My favorite is the villain. I don't know what it is, but I like to play the villain. But what happened was,   Michael Hingson ** 26:30 you and Cruella de Vil, okay,   Amber Ba'th ** 26:34 it was actually covid. You know, it was. The thing was that I literally was a preschool teacher at the time. And, you know, because after I left, I left LA, I got married and I had kids, and, you know, that kind of thing. So I was back in DC, and so, you know, after that, I covid happened, and I don't want to say it forced me, but it forced me. Nudged me, you know? And I said, you know, this would be great, because different things were happening. Where I was meeting people on on an on an app called clubhouse, and I said, Oh, this is cool. And I've always loved audio dramas too. So I actually about a $40 mic. I bought an eye rig, and I just hooked it up, and I just started talking. And I was in some acting workshops, some improv workshops. I was cast in an audio drama on clubhouse, you know? So it was, I was like, Oh, this is fun, you know, I like talking to myself anyway, so why not? So I created space in my walk in closet, and there you have it.   Michael Hingson ** 28:00 And the rest, as they say, is history. That's right. So what kind of roles have you had, and what kinds of voices and so on, have you created and done?   Amber Ba'th ** 28:11 Well, I I actually, I did the Bible, you know. And whenever I tell the person I narrated the Bible, they're like, the whole Bible, yeah, the whole Bible, technically, that would be 66 books that I narrate, yeah, you know. But yeah, I did the whole Bible for a Bible app, the CSB version for the dwell app, and it was just amazing, because just a little story behind that, I was someone wanted me to narrate their book, and they said that, you know, we want you to narrate it, but we don't want to use your name. We want you to. We want to, we want to use your voice, but we want the narrow, the author to be the narrator. Is this like a ghost Narrator or something, really, that's a   Michael Hingson ** 29:10 little strange, you know? And, oh, we'll give you this   Amber Ba'th ** 29:13 amount of money. Like, okay? And then I actually was praying about it. And, you know, the Lord spoke to me, and he said, I gave you that voice. So I had to decline. And then someone else came to me to narrate a book, and they were taking forever. Oh, it's not ready yet. It's ready. It's not ready yet. And I said, look, okay, I can't do this. I had auditioned for the Bible. And normally it takes, it's like a 2448 hour turnaround time to really know if you if this is for you. Yeah, and I didn't hear anything for about maybe three weeks. And I was like, I guess they found their person. And. I get an email saying that we got good news. You just booked the CSV version. I think I dropped whatever I had in my hand and fell before and, you know, it was just, it was just amazing. So, you know, because what I what happened was I read the Bible every day, and this particular and I read it in a year. So this particular year, I decided to listen to it, and, you know? And I said, You know what, Lord, it would be cool if I could narrate this. And then I had this audition, and I was blessed to read the Bible, and I did it in less than a year.   Michael Hingson ** 30:41 Wow, yeah, it's clearly, you know, it's a long thing. Do you know who Carl Omari is? No. Carl Omari, well, he's probably most known for having recreated the Twilight Zone radio broadcasts. So he, years ago, he took all the Twilight Zone episodes. He got permission from Rod Serling estate, and he created radio broadcasts of them, but he also did the Living Bible, and he got people like Michael York to to be involved in other actors and so on. So I know having, and I own a copy, and I didn't even know about Carl doing it at the time, but it's 98 hours long. It's a long it's a big one.   Amber Ba'th ** 31:22 It's a long one. It is long. But, yeah, that was exciting. Also, I recently just narrated a book called heaven, not by Patricia Robinson, and it's very Orwellian. I should say, you know, I, as I was renarrating it, I'm like, this stuff is happening now. And she wrote it years ago. And I'm talking about, as my children would say, in the 1900s you know. So it was, it was amazing. It was amazing to do that and and I love it, but I do love animated characters. So one of the characters that I never actually thought that I was someone to do impersonations. You know, it's like I got my own voice. You don't need to do anybody else voice. But I was in a workshop for with a good friend, Chris Woodsworth, and he's over in the UK. And he said, Well, what do you like to do? And I said, I like villains. So he thought of a villain, and I never would have thought about Isma from the Emperor's New Groove, and when I was researching, when I was going over the lines, I had to stop myself, because it scared me, because I said, Wait a minute, I really sound like her.   Michael Hingson ** 32:56 All right, really creepy. We need to hear you sound like a villain.   Amber Ba'th ** 33:00 Oh, my goodness, Isma. Okay, so Isma is Cronk. Why did I think that you got this one simple thing? It's like you're a dude, a really, really big stupid monkey named Cronk. And do you want to know something else? I never licked your spinach puffs, never Oh, oh, gosh, oh, goodness. And then, you know, I love, it's the last the laugh that a villain does. I did that, you know, I, I did one. It's called a micro animation called house in the Outlands, and I played a character named sathagawa. And it was one of those, you know, one of those. It was so cool. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 33:49 I've, I've always been impressed with listening to voices and so on, and voice acting, to a large degree, one of the things that I that really made me appreciate a lot of it was, of course, James Earl Jones playing Darth Vader on Star Wars. And then I had the opportunity, while I was in New York once, to go see James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer in Othello. What an amazing performance, because at the end, when Othello falls on his sword, you know, you know what's going to happen. People have read the play. It's not like Othello is a secret, right, right? The whole crowd just went when he did that. I mean, they were so drawn in by the power of both of their voices and the acting, which is, I've just always loved the fact that people can do that.   Amber Ba'th ** 34:48 Yeah, it's it's amazing. Sometimes I listen to myself and I'm like, That's me.   Michael Hingson ** 34:56 Well, your prejudice. So I. But still, it's just amazing how people can can do so much with with voice collecting old radio shows, as I do, it's really fascinating to to hear all the old shows and the different things that that people do, and the way they can sound so natural doing so many different kinds of voices and so on. And I think we've lost that art, to a degree, at least for a lot of people who try to go off and recreate radio shows, it sounds forced. And we've we've not been able to really train people, although I think one of the things that the radio enthusiast of Puget Sound wants to do is to actually start providing some acting classes to teach people how to use their voices in really doing radio shows, right.   Amber Ba'th ** 35:54 Yeah, yeah, you're so right. I mean, when I was I was actually a a moderator and assistant to a improv workshop coach. I always told students it is so imperative to take acting classes. I mean, I know with voiceovers, it's a lot of it's commercial and things like that, but you have to understand that when you are conveying a message, you know, I don't care how great your voice sounds, if the listener cannot feel, you cannot really get into what you're saying. Or even, let's just say it's a commercial for food. If they can't say, Okay, I gotta go and get some food. Now, you know, then you didn't do your job, right? You know? And I tried to let I said, Listen, it's not just people, you know. They will say, Oh, I'm selling burgers. No, you're not. You're not selling burgers. You know, it's people are hungry. You know, you're telling people this is what they should do because you're hungry, it's mouth watering, yeah, you know, describe what you're eating, and you have to do it in such a way, in such in such a short amount of time, that it just leaves people salivating, you know? And that's, that's what they want, that's what sells the food, the product, or or whatever, whatever it is that you are sharing. So I really tell students, please take acting classes. Yeah, you have to see it, envision it. Sometimes you got to get up and, you know, move around. Sometimes when you're doing auditions, or when you're actually doing a session or performances, you know, and nobody can see you.   Michael Hingson ** 37:50 And it's about the voice. I know that the again, reps the radio enthusiast at Puget Sound does a number of radio recreations. I participated in a couple, but one of the things that I do, and a few of the actors who have been around for a long time, Margaret O'Brien and Beverly Washburn and other people like that, before they will undertake one of the parts that they're they're asked to do in recreating a radio show, they go back and listen to the original show because they want to get into the character.   You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week.

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L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 11 septembre 2025. Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

Isma y nuestro invitado especial, el ilustrador y artista independiente Arturo Alamilla, rinden homenaje a Drew Struzan, el maestro detrás de algunos de los pósters de cine más icónicos y memorables jamás creados

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 11 septembre 2025. Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

Tegen Almere City werd door een doelpunt van Iwan Henstra andermaal duidelijk dat de jeugdopleiding van SC Cambuur zijn vruchten afwerpt. Tijd voor een gesprek met hoofd jeugdopleiding Fedrik Houtstra. Want hoe gaan Houtstra en zijn collega's eigenlijk te werk? Wat zorgt er nou voor dat er zoveel spelers uit de jeugdopleiding, nota bene overwegend afkomstig uit eigen provincie, de aansluiting vinden bij het eerste van Cambuur? En wie is de volgende parel die de club gaat verlaten? Verder gaat het over het gelijkspel tegen Almere City, waardoor de Leeuwarders de koppositie verspeelden. Vanzelfsprekend gaat het ook over Ismaël Baouf, die zich met Marokko Onder 20 tot wereldkampioen kroonde. En er worden weer de nodige vragen van luisteraars behandeld. ­ * Vragen voor in de podcast? Mail naar: jonathan.ploeg@lc.nl * SC Cambuur op de voet volgen? Abonneer je hier op onze nieuwsbriefSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textDating after 50? It's a whole new adventure! In this lively episode of Ageless Glamour Girls Night Out: a (LIVE) Podcast, fabulous women 50+ share what it's really like navigating today's dating scene - from apps and meet-ups to red flags and second chances. You'll hear from women who've lived it - including a widow rediscovering love, confident divorcees, and even an 81-year-old queen proving that age is just a number. Together, they open up about connection, confidence, and joy in every season of life.In This Episode: • What's different (and better!) about dating after 50 • Apps vs. real-world meetups - pros & cons • Protecting your heart and your peace • Why many women 50+ are choosing independenceSo grab your favorite drink and join us for a fun, flirty, and refreshingly honest night out - AGG style!Guests:Carol Williams, a widow, is passionate about living fully - from globetrotting and teaching Zumba to playing pickleball and enjoying the theater. After a 40-year career at Blue Cross Blue Shield Chicago, she retired to North Carolina, where she continues to embrace health, wellness, and fashion while challenging age-related stereotypes as a C3 Leader with the Chicago Conservation Department. IG: @flippingfabulouslyIsma Richards Founder of Fab at Fifty Plus, Isma inspires women over 50 to live with purpose and joy. Originally from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, she draws on her UN background and her own journey of healing and self-discovery to help women transform their midlife mindset. IG: @fabatfiftyplus https://www.fabatfiftyplus.com/Dr. Karen Slonski From North Myrtle Beach, SC, Dr. Slonski brings humor and wisdom to the realities of dating through the decades. Divorced since 2000, she's experienced it all - from old-school meetups to matchmaking and dating apps - and shares what love and connection look like at every age. IG: @karenslonski  /  Book: https://shellberight.net/Denice Rhodes is the visionary CEO and Founder of Caregivers Safe Space, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and uplifting those who care for others. Denice is also a certified holistic health coach and is the co-founder of Roots + Fire Water, an herbal tea company blending natural ingredients to nurture mind, body, and spirit. Denise, a widow, is slowly getting back into the dating scene. IG: @caregivers_and_wellness  https://www.caregiverssafespace.org/ Support the show buymeacoffee.com/agelessglamourgirls www.linkedin.com/in/marqueetacurtishaynes www.agelessglamourgirls.com https://www.shopltk.com/explore/AgelessGlamourGirls https://www.youtube.com/@agelessglamourgirls Instagram @agelessglamourgirls Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agelessglamourgirls Private (AGG) FB Group: The Ageless Café: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theagelesscafe TikTok: @agelessglamourgirls Podcast Producers: Purple Tulip Media, LLC and WEG Media Group, LLC

SC Cambuur ging tegen De Graafschap door met waar het was gebleven: winnen. Mogelijk speelt de club ook financieel garen bij het sportieve succes. De prestaties van de kersverse koploper van de eerste divisie blijven namelijk niet onopgemerkt. Spelers zijn in trek, staan op lijstjes bij andere clubs en moeten worden afgestaan aan hun land. Neem Tomas Galves, Ismaël Baouf en mogelijk ook Jort van der Sande. Desondanks blijft Cambuur vol op koers voor promotie. In deze aflevering van ‘t Hertenkamp gaat het over het hechte collectief, waarbij ook invallers hun rol met verve vervullen. Ook wordt onder meer besproken de mogelijke meevaller voor Daan Visser. ­ * Vragen voor in de podcast? Mail naar: jonathan.ploeg@lc.nl * SC Cambuur op de voet volgen? Abonneer je hier op onze nieuwsbriefSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isma y nuestro invitado especial, el ilustrador y diseñador gráfico César Cervantes, se sumergen en el mundo digital para hablar de todo lo relacionado con 'Tron: Ares'... It's TRONin' Time!!!

Antoine Roussel ouvre la discussion avec une anecdote personnelle sur Maxime Talbot, offrant un clin d’œil à l’univers des joueurs et à la culture du vestiaire. Il se penche ensuite sur le rendement actuel du Canadien, qu’il considère comme une équipe plus rapide que celle de l’an dernier. Pour lui, la victoire de 5 à 1 face aux Red Wings ne laisse place à aucune ambiguïté : dans son livre, il s’agit d’une véritable varlope. Il se dit également impressionné par le travail de Zachary Bolduc, un jeune joueur dont l’éthique et l’impact sur la glace retiennent son attention. En ce qui concerne Ivan Demidov, il estime que l’organisation devrait lui accorder davantage de temps sur l’avantage numérique afin de mieux exploiter son potentiel offensif. Antoine Roussel aborde aussi la question du plafond salarial et de la stabilité à long terme. Il souligne qu’il serait essentiel que Lane Hutson signe un contrat d’une valeur maximale de 10 millions de dollars, afin de préserver un équilibre dans la structure salariale du club. Tout en reconnaissant le talent du jeune défenseur, il précise que, selon lui, Lane Hutson ne possède pas encore toutes les qualités requises pour être un pilier incontesté. Hugues Léger, spécialiste en marketing sportif, et Mario Langlois abordent l’importante entente conclue entre RDS, TSN et la Ligue nationale de hockey, une entente qui soulève des questions cruciales quant à la survie et à la compétitivité des réseaux francophones, notamment RDS et TVA Sports, dans un marché en constante évolution. La discussion se poursuit avec le cas de Cristiano Ronaldo, devenu le premier athlète actif à atteindre le statut de milliardaire. Hugues Léger examine ce que ce jalon signifie pour l’industrie du marketing sportif mondial et pour la monétisation de l’image des athlètes. Ils explorent également la récente annonce de LeBron James, dont la réception a été plus controversée que prévue. En terminant, Mario Langlois et Hugues Léger s’intéressent à l’évolution du positionnement marketing de la LNH, qui connaît une progression notable, tant sur le plan de l’engagement des partisans que de sa présence sur de nouveaux marchés. Mario Langlois s’entretient avec Jeremy Filosa au sujet de l’actualité sportive marquée par le retour attendu de l’équipe canadienne masculine de soccer à Montréal. Il s’agira d’un match amical face à l’Australie, une première présence de l’équipe nationale dans la métropole en huit ans. Quelques joueurs québécois seront d’ailleurs en vedette dans le onze partant pour ce match, notamment Ismaël Koné, Jonathan David et le gardien Maxime Crépeau, illustrant la contribution croissante du Québec à l’élite du soccer canadien. L’entretien se termine sur une incursion du côté du baseball, alors que Jeremy Filosa commente la performance des Blue Jays en séries. Il revient notamment sur leur prochain affrontement contre le gagnant de la série opposant les Tigers aux Mariners Voir https://www.cogecomedia.com/vie-privee pour notre politique de vie privée

In early 2025, massive funding cuts from USAID sent shockwaves through the global development sector, leaving many to wonder what would come next. The money was gone, but the problems remained. In this follow-up conversation, Dimagi Managing Directors Gillian Javetski and Ismaïla Diene rejoin the podcast to discuss the aftermath and the unexpected "diamonds" created from the pressure. They share how the crisis forced a pivot from large, custom-built projects to a new model centered on radical simplicity, focus, and affordability. This candid discussion explores the divergence happening among digital public goods, the necessity of sustainable business models, and why the most important question is no longer "what new feature can we build?" but "can we make the existing value radically cheaper?". Discover how this shift led Dimagi to a bold new offering: a national-scale community health information system (eCHIS) for just $5,000 a month—a fraction of the historical cost.Related Resources:What's New in CommCare Webinar recordingThe Next Generation Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) DeckCommCare Provider programBig Enough. Simple Enough. Cheap Enough by Kevin Starr in the Stanford Social Innovation ReviewSign up to our newsletter⁠, and stay informed of Dimagi's workWe are on social media - follow us for the latest from Dimagi: ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠, ⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠If you enjoy this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review and share your favorite episodes with friends. Hosts: ⁠Jonathan Jackson⁠ and ⁠Amie Vaccaro

Mi invitada a este episodio de Silvia Bueso quien nos va a compartir sus instrucciones par pasar de pedirlo todo a pedir lo que mereces.    Porque nos resulta tan fácil dar sin medida… pero tan difícil pedir lo que realmente necesitamos?  Que pasaría en tu vida si aprendieras a pedir con claridad, sin miedo y sin culpa?  Y si pedir no fuera un acto egoísta, sino el gesto más generoso que puedes tener contigo y los demás? Que significa ser una mujer “empedirada” y como puede ese cambio de mirada transformar tu manera de vivir, amar y trabajar? Como se estructura un “Pitch” para en pocos minutos poder transmitir de forma clara y contundente tu pedido? No te pierdas este episodio.  Silvia nos invita a: - Ver tus propias resistencias internas a la palabra pedir - Darte cuenta de tu perspectiva a la palabra pedir - Aprender a alzar la voz - Compartir tus aprendizajes - Apreciar la cualidad de servicio que tenemos las mujeres de manera natural - No pensar que el hecho de pedir hace que desatendemos a los demás - No perderte por el bien quedarismo con los otros - Aprender a darte a ti misma y preguntarte que quieres  - Entender que al atenderte a ti misma puedes dar más - Entender que las mujeres tenemos un nivel de exigencia altísimo - Aprender de los hombres - Trabajar en nosotras mismas para sentirte merecedora para reconocer nuestro valor -  No medir nuestro valor por la validación externa - El valor empieza porque tu te lo creas.  - honrar a todos los que te hicieron camino - Ser específica en el pedido. - Pedir desde un lugar de abundancia y de beneficio mutuo - No culparnos por fallar - No tener vértigo al rechazo.  - Hacer el trabajo hacia a dentro - Rodearte con gente que este alineado con tu deseo - Definir quien soy yo y quien quiero ser - Preguntarte que impacto quiero dejar en este mundo cuando yo no este - Sentirte alineada con tus valores y creencias - Prepararte para que tus cualidades se vayan mostrando al universo - Definir claramente que quieres pedir - Definir con quien requieres cocinar una relación a fuego lento para luego pedir - Hacer investigación a la persona a la que quieres pedir para entender que quiere ella - Hacer el cortejo con calma - Identificar que es lo bueno que puedes dar a los otros para transmitirlo claramente - Hablar desde lo que se lleva de bueno el otro - Identificar que le aportas al otro - Aprender a manejar el no y no manejarlo personalmente - Entrenar la resiliencia. La persistencia - Entender que hay muchas mas oportunidades después de un No - El no es un si tardío - Preguntar que ha de pasar para que sea un si - No utilizar a la gente - Medir la temperatura de la confianza con el otro - No precipitar la petición antes de construir confianza - Deber hacer un gana gana - No precipitar la petición cuando el tinming no es el adecuado - Generar confianza - Detectar espacios de interés compartido - Hacer coqueteo a fuego lento y sin esperar nada a cambio -  No transaccionalizar la relación - Trabajar en la conexión humana - Averiguar cual es el interés mutuo - No someter tu deseo al deseo del otro - En temas personales no hay que pedir permiso ni justificarse muchas veces - La mujer no nos gusta el conflicto porque buscamos la armonía y somos buscadoras de evitar el conflicto - Identificar que conflicto quieres tener si con otros o contigo Isma - intenta elegir que el conflicto no sea contigo misma - En la medida que el conflicto no esta dentro de ti te llenas de luz y te conviertes en un ser muy generosa - Estar bien conmigo misma es un enorme responsabilidad de auto-cuidado - Lo que esta en mis manos soy yo misma - Escucharse a uno mismo - Cambiar tus relaciones de una manera estratégica por personas que no te llenen de miedos sino te potencien - Apoyarte en una red que este contigo y que no te este lastrando - Reconocer que la mujer quiere hacer el bien - el buenísimo - Si le dices que si a todo el mundo le estas diciendo no a ti misma - Decir que no te permite priorizarte - Tener cuidado con el cariñometro que te pone a dar alternativa - Si poner límites es difícil para ti y te cuesta trabajo decir que no intenta no estar muy presente - Ser una mujer “empedirada” que aprenda a elegir lo que quiere - Pedir desde tu elección libre - Saber decir que no a los desvíos que te proponen. - Saber decir que no para estar alineada con tu proposito y sueños - Saberte relacionar contigo misma - Saber fallar - Como caminas el camino y como remontar los baches - La inteligencia artificial es un apoyo pero no tiene carisma para conectar - Conexión humana para lograr lo que quieres - Pedir es generoso porque al pedir algo le estas diciendo que es importante para ti y tu sueño - No ir en modo atracador de almas - Darla la oportunidad de otro de conectarse con el placer de dar - Pedir para ser parte de una transformación - Pedir desde un lugar del bien - Pedir desde el proposito y no la necesidad - Mostrar como tu logras que el problema o el anhelo se resuelva mas rápido - Acortar el acceso al anhelo o resolver una problematica - Honrar a tus ancestros y quienes te han nutrido en tu conocimiento - El precio muestra tu valor - Saber que tienes todo el derecho a pedir lo que quieres - Tienes el derecho a persistir - solo un 8% de las personas persisten para lograr un objetivo - Insistir porque tal vez el otro no se da cuenta de tu valor - Insistir no desde reclamar un rescate y que el otro se de cuenta de tu valor - No inventar excusas para la inacción - Hacer un Pipí Pitch de venta que consiste de: 1- empieza con el anhelo o problema que resuelves, 2- Le dices la solución 3- Resultados que confirmen tu capacidad, 4-  Diferenciación (método propio que he creado), 5- Llamado a la acción. - Si no les interesa tu propuesta pide retroalimentación  -  El miedo es un buen lugar pero convertir el miedo en el medio - Saber pedir es el super poder que te permite llegar a tu sueño - Pasar a la acción valiente  - Pasar de lo incomodo en cómodo - Depende de ti - Ponerte en la posición de ser jefa de tu vida - Celebra el recorrido - Tener la libertad de decidir quien eres y el impacto que quieres dejar - Disfrutar sin impaciencia - Pide ayuda - Pide perdón porque nos equivocamos - Apoyarte con otras mujeres - Celebra cada pequeño avance y no solo la meta - Comparte tu trayecto - Rodearte de personas que te apoyen - Crear un tsunami de generosidad para al hacerte el bien hacer el bien de los demás - No necesitar que los otros te validen - El dolor te puede multiplicar - Cree en ti - Saber que eres más de lo que facturas - Siéntate orgullosa de ti misma - La dificultad puede ser el trampolín para salir adelante - www.silbiabueno.com - LinkedIn Silvia Bueso Sardinero      Episodio producido por @SantiagoRios - Mil Palabras  Página Web www.mariajoseramirez.co  Instagram MajoRamirezBotero  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajoseramirezbotero/  Facebook María José Ramírez

Isma y nuestra invitada, actriz, cantante, compositora, modelo, cosplayer, quizmaster, gamer, y fangirl profesional, Denisse Bon, platican sobre 'KPop Demon Hunters' en "Fortnite" y las voces cantantes de HUNTR/X (Ejae, Audrey Nuna, y Rei Ami) en "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"

Jamal J. Elias' new book After Rumi: The Mevlevis & Their World (Harvard UP, 2025) takes us on a historical journey through the development of the Mevlevi community after Jalaluddin Rumi's passing in 1273. He frames the Mevlevis as an “emotional community” that is anchored in affective engagements with Rumi and his Masnavi. The book is organized around three major historical moments, the first is centered around Ulu ‘Arif Chelebi, Rumi's grandson, the second after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the final chapters focus on the career of Isma‘il Anqaravi (d. 1631). Through close readings of biographies and various manuscripts, Elias paints a rich and complex metahistory of significant intellectual, metaphysical, political, social, and cultural factors that have defined the Mevlevi community. For instance, aspects such as charismatic leadership and the role of the Masnavi remain vital and also shifting factors for the Mevlevi community, as we see in the commentaries on the Masnavi written by Anqaravi. Throughout the book we learn how notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are unstable categories, especially in relation to antinomian tendencies, the place of women in the Mevlevi communities, and the shifting significance and use of Persian in literary productions. This book will be of interest to those who read and write on Sufism, Anatolian, Ottoman, and Turkish history and Rumi and the Mevlevis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Jamal J. Elias' new book After Rumi: The Mevlevis & Their World (Harvard UP, 2025) takes us on a historical journey through the development of the Mevlevi community after Jalaluddin Rumi's passing in 1273. He frames the Mevlevis as an “emotional community” that is anchored in affective engagements with Rumi and his Masnavi. The book is organized around three major historical moments, the first is centered around Ulu ‘Arif Chelebi, Rumi's grandson, the second after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the final chapters focus on the career of Isma‘il Anqaravi (d. 1631). Through close readings of biographies and various manuscripts, Elias paints a rich and complex metahistory of significant intellectual, metaphysical, political, social, and cultural factors that have defined the Mevlevi community. For instance, aspects such as charismatic leadership and the role of the Masnavi remain vital and also shifting factors for the Mevlevi community, as we see in the commentaries on the Masnavi written by Anqaravi. Throughout the book we learn how notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are unstable categories, especially in relation to antinomian tendencies, the place of women in the Mevlevi communities, and the shifting significance and use of Persian in literary productions. This book will be of interest to those who read and write on Sufism, Anatolian, Ottoman, and Turkish history and Rumi and the Mevlevis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Jamal J. Elias' new book After Rumi: The Mevlevis & Their World (Harvard UP, 2025) takes us on a historical journey through the development of the Mevlevi community after Jalaluddin Rumi's passing in 1273. He frames the Mevlevis as an “emotional community” that is anchored in affective engagements with Rumi and his Masnavi. The book is organized around three major historical moments, the first is centered around Ulu ‘Arif Chelebi, Rumi's grandson, the second after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the final chapters focus on the career of Isma‘il Anqaravi (d. 1631). Through close readings of biographies and various manuscripts, Elias paints a rich and complex metahistory of significant intellectual, metaphysical, political, social, and cultural factors that have defined the Mevlevi community. For instance, aspects such as charismatic leadership and the role of the Masnavi remain vital and also shifting factors for the Mevlevi community, as we see in the commentaries on the Masnavi written by Anqaravi. Throughout the book we learn how notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are unstable categories, especially in relation to antinomian tendencies, the place of women in the Mevlevi communities, and the shifting significance and use of Persian in literary productions. This book will be of interest to those who read and write on Sufism, Anatolian, Ottoman, and Turkish history and Rumi and the Mevlevis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Jamal J. Elias' new book After Rumi: The Mevlevis & Their World (Harvard UP, 2025) takes us on a historical journey through the development of the Mevlevi community after Jalaluddin Rumi's passing in 1273. He frames the Mevlevis as an “emotional community” that is anchored in affective engagements with Rumi and his Masnavi. The book is organized around three major historical moments, the first is centered around Ulu ‘Arif Chelebi, Rumi's grandson, the second after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the final chapters focus on the career of Isma‘il Anqaravi (d. 1631). Through close readings of biographies and various manuscripts, Elias paints a rich and complex metahistory of significant intellectual, metaphysical, political, social, and cultural factors that have defined the Mevlevi community. For instance, aspects such as charismatic leadership and the role of the Masnavi remain vital and also shifting factors for the Mevlevi community, as we see in the commentaries on the Masnavi written by Anqaravi. Throughout the book we learn how notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are unstable categories, especially in relation to antinomian tendencies, the place of women in the Mevlevi communities, and the shifting significance and use of Persian in literary productions. This book will be of interest to those who read and write on Sufism, Anatolian, Ottoman, and Turkish history and Rumi and the Mevlevis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Ben, Alex and Brendan are back on the pod this week to break down Jesse Marsch's latest Canadian men's national team roster, with the group called up for October friendlies potentially being a preview of what things could look like at the FIFA World Cup 2026. After discussing the national team roster, they examine the Whitecaps' win over Vancouver FC in the Canadian Championship final and Thomas Müller's 35th career trophy. The show wraps with talk on Ismaël Koné's form, as well as a check-in on a rather disappointing week for Canadians in the UEFA Champions League. Follow more content from Canadian Soccer Daily on canadiansoccerdaily.com as well as on every social platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Isma y nuestro invitado, ilustrador y artista independiente, Enian Vázquez, platican sobre el tráiler de 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'

Isma y nuestro invitado, ilustrador y artista independiente, Enian Vázquez, platican sobre el tráiler de 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'

Isma y nuestra invitada, educadora, artista marcial, y fundadora de Chocolate Cosmos Games, Miriam Bautista, platican todo sobre 'Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios'

¿Realmente existe el crimen perfecto?, la historia de D.B. Cooper podría responder a esta pregunta, un robo perfecto a miles de metros de altura y un misterio que aún sigue sin resolverse. Junto a Isma te contamos ésta gran historia.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rendez-vous avec le rappeur Chaax, à l'occasion de la sortie de la réédition de son album Béton rouge prévu pour le 10 octobre 2025. Retour sur sa jeunesse au Sénégal, sa double culture, sa signature en artiste dans le label 92.i de Booba et ses aspirations. Dans cet épisode, Ismaël Lo, El-Hadji Diouf et Mademoiselle Lou offrent les vidéos surprises ainsi que Aimeric alias Krow le billet d'humeur

Who are the Druze? In this video, we explore the history, culture, and beliefs of the Druze people — a small but influential religious community mainly found in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.Find me and my music here:https://linktr.ee/filipholmSupport Let's Talk Religion on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/letstalkreligion Or through a one-time donation: https://paypal.me/talkreligiondonateSources/Recommended Reading:Betts, Robert Brenton (2009). "The Druze". Yale University Press.Daftary, Farhad (2007). "The Isma'ilis: Their history and doctrines". Cambridge University Press.Firro, Kais M. (2011). "The Druze Faith: Origin, Development and Interpretation". Arabica 58 (2011) 76-99. Brill.Hirschberg, H.Z. (1981). "The Druzes". In "Religion in the Middle East: Three Religions in Concord and conflict (ed. Arberry, A.J. & Beckingham, C.F.), vol 2. Cambridge University Press.Hitti, Philip K. (2007). "The Origins of the Druze People and Religion: With Extracts from their Sacred Writings." Saqi Books. Hodgson, Marshall G.S. (1962). "Al-Darazi and Hamza in the Origins of the Druze Religion". Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol 82, No. 1.Walker, Paul E. (2010). "Caliph of Cairo: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996-1021". The American University in Cairo Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La campagne pour les législatives et municipales au Gabon a débuté ce lundi. Le scrutin aura lieu le 27 septembre prochain. Ces élections sont présentées comme cruciales par le parti au pouvoir. Les précisions de notre correspondant à Libreville, Ismaël Obiang Nze

¡Esta semana estamos celebrando el Aniversario 16 del webcómic "Nerdmigos" y el Aniversario 4 del podcast "Nerdmigos"!

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

Isma y nuestra invitada, artista independiente, Issa Palafox, platican todo sobre la Temporada 2 de "Wednesday"

Isma y nuestro invitado, creador de cómics de Sadhaka Studio, cineasta y crítico de cine, Manuel Ríos Sarabia, platican sobre 'Star Wars: Starfighter'

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTubeLandry Ayres: Welcome back to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. I'm Landry Ayres.We find ourselves in a deeply troubling moment for American democracy, grappling with the stark realities of a political landscape increasingly defined by fear, performative cruelty, and a conscious assault on established norms and institutions.This special live recording from ISMA's “Liberalism for the 21st Century” conference features host Aaron Ross Powell, as well as longtime observer of the militarization of police and author of the Substack, The Watch, Radley Balko, and co-founder and former contributor of The Bulwark, Charlie Sykes, author now of the Substack To the Contrary. They explore the mechanisms of this assault, how a manufactured crisis of fear is being weaponized by law enforcement, and the profound implications for civil liberties and the rule of law in America.The discussion is insightful, if unsettling.A transcript of today's podcast appears below. It has been edited for flow and clarity.Aaron Ross Powell: Welcome to a special live recording of The UnPopulist's Zooming In podcast here at the “Liberalism for the 21st Century” conference in Washington, D.C. I am Aaron Powell and I'm delighted to be joined by Radley Balko and Charlie Sykes to talk about the situation we find ourselves in.To me, the most striking image of Trump's campaign, months before he was reelected, was from the RNC. Before that, there was the weird one of him in the construction vest. But the most terrifying image was the one depicting the “Mass Deportation Now!” signs and the sneering and cruel faces celebrating the culture that they were wallowing in. Those faces made me think, as I was looking at them, of the faces in photographs during the Civil Rights Movement of police officers about to inflict violence, turn on firehoses, let dogs loose, and so on. And it felt like what we are seeing now.The “Mass Deportation Now!” images characterize not just the policies of Trump 2.0, but the attitude that they're trying to inflict upon the country. It feels like a rolling back of what we achieved in the 1960s from the Civil Rights Movement—it feels like we're in a retreat from that. This is a conscious attempt to roll that back. So I wanted to talk about that.Radley, I'll start with you. We're sitting in D.C. right now as National Guard troops and members of all sorts of agencies are patrolling the streets. Is this surprising to you—the pace at which these nominally public servants, who are supposed to serve and protect, have embraced this role of violence and fear and chaos?Radley Balko: I'm surprised at how quickly it's happened. I've been talking to people about this day for the last 20 years. I've been warning about the gradual militarization of our police, which is something that has happened in conjunction with the drug war and then the war on terror over 40 or 50 years.That debate was always about, “How militarized should our police be? How do we balance safety, and giving police officers what they need to protect public safety, with civil liberties and constitutional rights?” The fear was always that another Sept. 11 type event would cause what we're seeing now—that there would be a threat, a threat that everybody acknowledges as a threat, that would cause an administration, states, mayors, to crack down on civil liberties. But it would at least be a threat that everyone recognizes as a threat. We would be debating about how to react to it.When it comes to what's playing out today, there's no threat. This is all manufactured. This is all made up.Your juxtaposition of those two images—the clownish image of Trump in the construction vest and the other one depicting this genuinely terrifying anger and glee a lot of his followers get from watching grandmothers be raided and handcuffed and dragged out of their homes—show the clownishness and incompetence of this administration juxtaposed with the actual threat and danger, the hate and vitriol, that we see from his followers.We always hear that story about Ben Franklin after the Constitutional Convention: a woman comes up to him and says, “So, what is it, Mr. Franklin, do we have a republic or a monarchy?” And he says, “A republic, if you can keep it.” That phrase, of course, has been echoed throughout the ages. If Franklin were alive today, he would say, “You know, when I said that, I was worried about a Caracalla or a Sulla or a Caesar.” Instead it's like, this guy, the guy that has to win every handshake, that's who you're going to roll over for?I saw a lot of libertarian-ish people making this point before the election—that Trump's not a threat, he's a clown, he's incompetent, he's not dangerous. And you know what? He may be incompetent, but he's put people around him this time who do know what they're doing and who are genuinely evil.So, on some level, this was the worst case scenario that I never really articulated over the years when I've talked about police militarization. This is actual military acting as police, not police acting as the military. But here we are and they're threatening to spread it around the country to every blue city they can find.Powell: He's a clown, he's rightfully an object of ridicule, he doesn't know anything, he's riddled with pathologies that are obvious to everyone except him. And yet it's not just that he won, but that he effectively turned, not all of the American right, but certainly a large chunk of it into a personality cult. Charlie, given that he seems to be a singularly uninspiring personality, what happened?Charlie Sykes: Well, he's inspiring to his followers.Let me break down the question into two parts.I was in Milwaukee during the Republican Convention, when they were holding up the “Mass Deportation” signs—which was rather extraordinary, if you think about it, that they would actually put that in writing and cheer it. It's something that they'd been talking about for 10 years, but you could see that they were ramping it up.But you put your finger on this culture of performative cruelty and brutality that they have embraced. Trump has made no secret of that. It's one of the aspects of his appeal. For many, many years he's been saying that his idea of law and order is to have cops who will break heads and inflict harm. He's talked about putting razor blades on the top of the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. He's told stories about atrocities. One of his standard stories—that I think the media just stopped even quoting—was about Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing in World War I taking Muslim terrorists and shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood. Totally b******t—he made the whole thing up. But it was an indication of a kind of bloodlust. He's talked about extrajudicial killings. He has expressed his admiration for strongmen like Duterte in the Philippines who have done this. He's talked about having drug courts that would have trials and executions the same day. So this is not a secret.What is really remarkable is the extent to which he's communicated that to his base. I mean, there are Americans who legitimately have concerns about immigration and about the border. But what he's also tapped into is this really visceral hatred of the other and the desire to inflict pain and suffering on them. I think that that is one of the ugliest aspects of his presence in our politics, and we saw that with the “Mass Deportation Now!” signs.Now, the second part is how he is implementing all of this with his raw police state, his masked brute squads sent into the city streets. And, again, he's made no secret of wanting to put active military troops into the streets of American cities. He was blocked from doing that in Trump 1.0, but obviously this is something that he's thought about and wants to do. And one of the most disturbing parts about this is the embrace of these kinds of tactics and this culture by law enforcement itself. Radley's written a lot about this. Donald Trump has gone out of his way, not only to defend war criminals, but also to defend police officers who've been accused of brutality. So he's basically put up a bat signal to law enforcement that: The gloves are off. We're coming in. There's a new sheriff in town.What's happening in Washington, D.C. is just a trial run. He's going to do this in New York. He's going to do this in Chicago. He's going to do this in one blue city after another. And the question is, “Will Americans just accept armed troops in their streets as normal?”Now, let me give a cautionary note here: Let's not gaslight Americans that there's not actually a crime problem. I think Democrats are falling into a kind of trap because there are legitimate concerns about public safety. So the argument shouldn't be: There's no crime problem. The argument should be: This is exactly the wrong way to go about dealing with it. Having mass, brute squads on the street is one step toward really running roughshod over a lot of different rights—due process rights and other constitutional rights—that most Americans are going to be reluctant to give up. But we're going to find out, because all of this is being tested right now.Balko: I'd like to jump in on the crime point. I mean, crime is down in D.C. D.C. does have a comparatively high crime rate for a city of its size. There's no question. It's always been that way here. But the idea that there's something happening right now that merits this response is what I meant when I called it a manufactured crisis.I think it's important to point out that, like you said, he's always wanted to do this. This is just the reason that he's managed to put his finger on and thinks is going to resonate.“I've been talking to people about this day for the last 20 years. I've been warning about the gradual militarization of our police, which is something that has happened in conjunction with the drug war and then the war on terror over 40 or 50 years. That debate was always about, ‘How militarized should our police be? How do we balance safety, and giving police officers what they need to protect public safety, with civil liberties and constitutional rights?' The fear was always that another Sept. 11 type event would cause what we're seeing now—that there would be a threat, that everybody acknowledges as a threat, that would cause an administration, states, mayors, to crack down on civil liberties. But there would at least be a threat that everyone recognizes as a threat. We'd be debating about how to react to it. When it comes to what's playing out today, there's no threat. This is all manufactured. This is all made up.” — Radley BalkoI do think we need to talk about crime and about what works and what doesn't. But I think it's important to acknowledge that “crime” is just the reason that he's found right now. This is something that he's been planning to do forever. Like Kristi Noem said, it is basically about deposing the leadership in these cities. In Los Angeles, she said that their goal was to “liberate” it from the socialist elected leaders.Sykes: I agree with you completely about that. I'm just saying that there is a danger of putting too much emphasis on the idea that there is not a crime problem—because in Chicago, there's a crime problem, in New York, there's a crime problem. People feel it. And, I mean, didn't Democrats learn a lesson in 2024 when there was inflation and they said, “Oh no, no, no, there's not really inflation here. Let me show you a chart. You can't think that the cost of living is a problem because here are some statistics that I have for you. There's not really a problem at the border—if you think there's a problem of immigration, a problem at the border, here, I have a chart showing you that there isn't a problem.” Well, you can't.If the public honestly thinks that there is a problem at the border, that there's a problem with inflation, and that there's a problem with crime, it's politically problematic to deny it because as David Frum wrote presciently in The Atlantic several years ago: If liberals will not enforce the border—you could add in, “or keep the city streets safe”—the public will turn to the fascists. If they think you will solve this problem and you're pretending it does not exist or you're trying to minimize it, they'll turn to the fascists.Balko: I don't want to belabor this, but I just think it's dangerous to concede the point when the premise itself is wrong.So, Trump made crime an issue in 2016, right? Recall the American Carnage inauguration speech. When Trump took office in Jan. 2017, he inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in the last 50 years. And yet he ran on crime. I think that it's important to push back and say, “Wait a minute, no, Obama did not cause a massive spike in crime. There was a tiny uptick in 2015, but that was only because 2014 was basically the safest year in recent memory.”Trump is also the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he entered it. You know, I don't think that presidents have a huge effect on crime, but Trump certainly does.So, I agree with you that we can't say crime isn't a problem, but we can also point out that crime went up under Trump and that what he's doing will make things worse.Sykes: I think these are all legitimate points to make. It's just that, Trump has this reptilian instinct to go for vulnerabilities. And one of the vulnerabilities of the progressive left is the problem of governance. If there is a perception that these urban centers are badly governed, that they are overrun with homeless encampments and crime and carjacking, then the public will see what he's doing as a solution.By the way, I'm making this argument because I think that we can't overstate how dangerous and demagogic what he's doing is. But I'm saying that this is going to be a huge fight. He's going to go into Chicago where crime is just demonstrably a problem, and where I think the mayor has an approval rating of about 12 to 16%, and he's going to say, “I am here with the cavalry.”There's got to be a better answer for this. There's got to be a way to focus on the real threat to the constitutional order that he is posing, as opposed to arguing on his ground and saying, “No, no, don't pay attention to crime, inflation, the border.”And, again, I'm making this argument because this is one that I think the country really has to win. Otherwise we are going to see militarization and an actual police state.Powell: Let me see if I can pull together some of the threads from the conversation so far, because I think there's a nexus, or something that needs to be diagnosed, to see the way through.When you [Charlie] were mentioning the bullets covered in pig's blood, what occurred to me was ... I was a kid at the height of '80s action movies. And that's the kind of thing that the bad guys did in '80s action movies. That's the kind of thing that justified the muscular American blowing them up or otherwise dispatching them.There's been a turn, now, in that we're seeing behavior from Americans that they would have at one point said, “This isn't who we are.” The Christianity that many Americans hold to, this is not the way that Jesus tells them to act. There's been a shift in our willingness to embrace this sort of thing, and it's behavior that I would have expected to horrify basically everyone watching it happening.And it is—his approval readings are declining rapidly. It is horrifying a lot of people—but fewer than I would have hoped. One of you mentioned that, on the one hand, there's the cruelty, but there's also the fear—and those are feeding into each other. And what I wonder is, yes, there's crime, but at the same time, if your media consumption habits are those of a committed Trump supporter, you are being told constantly to be afraid that everybody outside your door, except for the people who you recognize, or maybe the people who share your skin color or speak with the same accent you do, is a threat to you and your family.I see this with members of my own family who are Trump supporters. They are just terrified. “I can't ride the subway. It's too scary to ride the subway.” Or, “I go out in D.C. and I see youths doing the kinds of things youths do, and now I don't feel safe having my family there.” We don't have a war. We don't have a crisis. But we've told a huge portion of the country, “You should be afraid of every last thing except your immediate family and that guy who now rules the country.” And the crime rates are part of it. It's like, “You should be scared of every single one of these cities.”Sykes: It's a story. One of the speakers today was talking about the power of stories, that demagogues will tell a story. And a story of fear and anger is a very, very powerful story that you can't counteract with statistics. You need to counteract it with other stories.“This culture of performative cruelty and brutality is one of the aspects of his appeal. For many years he's been saying that his idea of law and order is to have cops who will break heads and inflict harm. He's talked about putting razor blades on the top of the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. He's told stories about atrocities. He would tell the story about Gen. ‘Black Jack' Pershing in World War I taking Muslim terrorists and shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood. He's talked about extrajudicial killings. He has expressed his admiration for strongmen like Duterte in the Philippines who have done this. He's talked about having drug courts that would have trials and executions the same day. What is really remarkable is the extent to which he's communicated that to his base. He's tapped into this really visceral hatred of the other and the desire to inflict pain and suffering on them. I think that that is one of the ugliest aspects, and we saw that with the ‘Mass Deportation Now!' signs.” — Charlie SykesPart of the problem is that Trump has made that narrative. So, for example, you have members of your family who are Trump supporters. My guess is that they could name the young women who had been raped and murdered by illegal immigrants. Because, I mean, on Fox News, this is happening all the time, right? On Fox News, illegal immigrants are criminals. “Look at the crimes they are committing.” They tell that story in the most graphic way possible, and then turn around and say, “If you oppose what Donald Trump is doing, you are defending these ‘animals'”—as Trump described them.It is deeply dishonest. It is deeply dangerous. But it is potent. And we ought to look at it in the face and recognize how he is going to weaponize those stories and that fear, which is really the story of our era now. We're living in this era of peace, prosperity, general safety—and yet he's created this “American carnage” hellscape story.Balko: Yeah, I also think there's this weird paradox of masculinity in the MAGA movement. It's not about masculinity—it's about projecting masculinity. It's about co-opting aspects of masculinity. And it's like, “We're the manly men. We need men to be men again. And that's why we support men who sexually assault and sexually harass women. And, at the same time, we're all going to genuflect and debase ourselves in front of this 79-year-old man, because he's our leader and we need to let him insult our wives. And we're also scared to take the subway.” I think there were 10 murders last year in the New York city subway. The subway is one of the safest public spaces you'll find anywhere. But you'll regularly see MAGA people go on Fox News and talk about how scared they are of it.I mean, I don't know how persuadable any of MAGA is, but I do think pointing out the sheer cowardliness might resonate. When Markwayne Mullin goes on the Sunday shows and says he doesn't wear a seatbelt anymore because he's afraid he'll get carjacked and he needs to be able to jump out of his car quickly ...Sykes: ... He actually did say that.Balko: Yeah. And, I don't know what the stats are, but it's something like you're 40 or 50 times more likely to die in a car accident than you are in a carjacking. So, you know, he's sealing his own fate, I guess.But I do think that maybe there's something to appealing to their lack of masculinity when they try to push some of these narratives.Sykes: Well, yeah, I do think there are narratives out there.We have National Guard troops here in Washington, D.C.—where were they on Jan. 6th? Why did the president not bring them in then? We had one of the greatest assaults on law enforcement. So we can call b******t on Donald Trump being the “law and order,” “back the blue” president.One of the first things he did when he took office was issue the blanket pardons to all the rioters and seditionists who not only assaulted the Capitol, but specifically the ones who attacked police officers. We can stand up and say, “I don't want to be lectured by the man who gave the Get Out of Jail Free card to the people who tased and bear sprayed police officers in this city. Not to mention,”—before he brings up the whole “defund the police” thing—“the man who right now is dismantling the nation's premier law enforcement agency, the FBI.” Because all of these FBI agents who are being gutted or tasked with hassling homeless people in Washington, D.C., you know what they're not doing? They are not investigating child sex trafficking. They are not engaging in any anti-terrorism activities.So, what you do is call them out, saying, “You are not making this country safer. You are not the ‘law and order' president. You are a convicted felon. You in fact have freed and celebrated people who actually beat cops.” If Barack Obama would have pardoned someone who had attacked police officers, the right would have been utterly incandescent. And yet Donald Trump does it and he's not called out on it.I understand that there are some who are reluctant to say, “Well, no, we're actually the party of law and order. We're actually the party of public safety.” But you hit him right in what I think is a real vulnerability.Balko: One of the guys who literally told Jan. 6 rioters to kill the police is now a respected senior member of the Justice Department, whereas the guy who threw a sandwich at a cop is facing a felony charge. That is Trump's approach to law enforcement.Sykes: I always hate it when people go on TV and say, “This should be a talking point.” But that ought to be a talking point. Don't you think everybody ought to know his name? We have the video of Jared Wise saying, “Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!” and calling the police Nazis. And he is now a top official in Donald Trump's Justice Department.Powell: This is my concern, though—and this allows me to belabor my Civil Rights Movement point some more. One of the reasons that the anti-civil rights movement, the counter-movement, was as vicious and as ugly as it was is because it was a group of people who felt like they had a status level by virtue of being white, of being men. As they saw things, “If we help minorities and others rise up, that lowers the baseline status that I have.” So they wanted to fight back. It was, “I'm going to keep these people down because it keeps me up.” And when Radley said that they're “projecting masculinity,” I think that's a big part.A big part of the appeal is, “Now I'm seeing guys like me dominating. Now I'm seeing guys who are from my area or share my cultural values or dress like me or are into the same slogans or have the same fantasies of power as I do, or just aren't the coastal elites with their fancy educations and so on, dominating.” And my worry is if that's what's driving a lot of it—that urge to domination coupled with the fear, which I think then allows them to overcome any barriers they have to cruelty—if you marry, “I can have power” and “I'm scared of these people,” that to them justifies their actions in the same way that it does the action movie heroes killing the guys who put the pig's blood on bullets. It becomes justified to inflict cruelty upon those they hate.My worry is if you go after them in that way, it feels like, “Okay, now what you're saying is these guys who look like me, who were dominating, don't actually deserve it.” I don't think that means that we stay away from it, but I think it risks triggering even more of this, “What I want is for it to be my boot on people's necks and I want them to stop putting me down. And I want them to stop telling me that I'm not good, that I'm incompetent, that it's not okay for me to beat my wife” (or whatever it happens to be). Trump is like an avatar for very mediocre men.Sykes: Well, I wouldn't use that as a talking point.Balko: A few years ago, I wrote a piece about a Black police chief who was hired in Little Rock by a mayor who ran on a reform platform and this police chief had a good record. He was in Norman, Okla. before that—he was the first Black chief in Oklahoma. And he was not a progressive by any means, but he was a reformer in that he wanted things to be merit-based and Little Rock has a really strong white police union. I say that because they also have a Black police union, because the Black officers didn't feel like they were represented by the white union.One of the first things that Chief Humphrey did was make the promotional interviews, that you get to move up through the ranks, blind. So you didn't know who you're talking to. If you were white, you didn't know if it was a fellow white person you were interviewing. Most of the people in charge were. The result of removing race from that process was that more Black officers were getting promoted than before. And I wrote about him because he ended up getting chased out of town. They hit him with fake sexual harassment charges; the union claimed he was harassing white women. Basically, they exerted their power and managed to chase him out.But one of the things he told me when I interviewed him was—and other people have said different versions of this—that when your entire life you've been the beneficiary of racial preferences as a white person, as happened in this country for most of its existence, meritocracy looks a lot like racial discrimination. Because things that you got just simply because you were entitled to now you have to earn. And that looks like, “Hey, this Black guy is getting this job over me. And that's not right. Because my dad got that job over the Black guy and his dad got the job over the Black guy.”And I think this backlash that we're seeing against DEI—I'm sure there are parts of this country where DEI was promoting unqualified people just to have diversity, and I do think there's there's value in diversity for diversity's sake—is white people, who have been benefiting from our racial hierarchy system that's been in place since the Founding, were starting to see themselves passed over because we were now moving to a merit-based system and they saw that as discrimination. That's a big part of the backlash.I don't know what the solution is. I don't know that we just re-impose all of the former policies once Trump's out of power, if he's ever out of power. But I do think that there is value in diversity for diversity's sake. Obviously I don't support strict quota systems, but I do think it's important to make that point that addressing historical injustices is critical.We went to the art museum in Nashville the other day and they had a whole exhibit about Interstate I-40 going through Nashville. It was supposed to go through this industrial area where there were no neighborhoods or private homes. And the Tennessee legislature deliberately made it run through the wealthiest Black neighborhood in Nashville and destroyed about 80% of Black wealth in the city. That was 1968—that was not 1868. That's relatively recently that you're destroying a ton of wealth. And you can find that history in every single city.I think a big part of this backlash is not knowing that history—and only knowing what's happening now and experiencing it out of context. For those people, it feels like reverse discrimination.Sykes: So, yes, a lot of this is true. But it's not the whole story. In the state of Wisconsin, overwhelmingly white voters voted for Barack Obama, a Black man, twice in a row before voting for Donald Trump. So we do have that long, deep history of racism, but then also an America that I think was making some progress. I'm just going to put this out as a counterpoint: I think that if people were appealing to the “better angels of their nature,” a lot of these people would not be buying into the cruelty, the brutality, the racism. Instead, we're appealing to their sense of victimization.But let's be honest about it. We moved from a Civil Rights Movement that was morally based on fairness and the immorality of discrimination to one that increasingly was identity politics that morphed into DEI, which was profoundly illiberal. What happened was a lot of the guys we're talking about were thinking not just that they want their boots on people's head, but they're constantly being told that they were bad, that their contributions were not significant. There were invisible tripwires of grievance—what you could say, what you could do, the way you had to behave. In the before times, a lot of the attacks on free speech and the demands for ideological conformity on university campuses were not coming from the illiberal right—they were coming from the illiberal left.And as I'm listening to the speakers at this conference talk about the assault on liberalism, I think one of the questions we have to ask—and maybe this is a little meta—is why it was so brittle. Well, it was brittle because it was caught in a pincer movement by the illiberal left and the illiberal right. My point is that a lot of this reaction is in fact based on racial animus, but there's also a sense that I hear from a lot of folks, a sense of liberation that they feel, that the boot was on their necks and is now being taken off, that they're not having to go to these highly ideological DEI training sessions where they were told how terrible and awful they were all the time. And how, if you believed in a race-blind society, that was a sign you were racist. If white women actually were moved by stories of racism and wept, that was white women's tears. This was heavy handed.“I do think the people who signed off on extraordinary rendition and snatching people off the street and sending them to a literal torture prison in El Salvador, those people need to be criminally charged. But I also think there need to be civil society repercussions. There are so many people in media—pundits, politicians who know better—who have a long record of pointing out how dangerous Trump was and then turned on a dime and started supporting him. I don't wish any physical harm on those people. I don't think any of those people should be put in prison. But I think those people should never be trusted as public intellectuals.” — Radley BalkoSo there was a backlash that was going to be inevitable. What's tragic is the way that it has been co-opted by the people who have really malign motives, who are not acting out of good will—the Stephen Millers who have figured out a way to weaponize this. But that line that goes from the racism of 1957 to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, to a broad-based civil rights consensus—and, again, there's caveats in all of this—to identity-based politics. Let's be honest about it. That was not without sin. That was not without problems.Balko: So, I agree that there was I guess what you could call an illiberal approach to a mutual exchange of ideas on college campuses. There was a lot of shouting down of conservative speakers. In some cases, there were invitations revoked to valedictory speeches. There was some cutting off of funding for conservative speakers. But I want to make sure we're not delving into false equivalences here. I mean, the boot that you're talking about, Charlie, was a metaphorical boot, and we're talking about a very literal boot now.Sykes: Absolutely. That distinction is a significant one.Balko: So, my preferred way of expressing my disagreement with someone isn't to shout them down. I will say, though, that protest is a form of speech. I think, even to some extent, interrupting speeches that are particularly problematic or extremist is a form of speech. It's not one that I personally would engage in. But the type of censorship we're seeing now is direct. It is government censorship. It is not a violation of the spirit of free expression that we were seeing on college campuses before.Sykes: Oh, it was more than just that kind of violation. You had universities that required people to sign a DEI statement where they had to make ideological commitments in order to get a job. I mean, this was very heavy handed. There were no literal boots, but ... I like Jonathan Rauch's analogy that the illiberalism of the left is still a real problem, but it's like a slow-growing cancer. Right now, what we're facing with the illiberalism of the right is a heart attack. We have to deal with the heart attack right now, but let's not pretend that everyone who objects to some of the things that were happening are doing so because they are just vile, white racists.This is part of the problem. People spent decades accusing others of being racist on flimsy grounds. If you support Mitt Romney, you're a racist. If you support tax cuts, you're a racist. You know what happened? I come from this world and there was a time when to be called a racist was the worst thing you could possibly say about somebody. And it got to the point where, literally, if you were in favor of school choice, you were racist; in favor of tax cuts, you were racist. If you voted for a Republican … John McCain was a racist, George Bush was a racist. So when the real thing came along, guess what people said? They just rolled their eyes, shrugged, and said, “We've heard this before.” I mean, it was crying wolf for decades.And I've had these conversations when I would say, “How can you support someone who is just espousing this raw, vicious racism about Haitians eating dogs?” You know what I would get? “Oh, we've been hearing this for 20 years. Literally everyone I know has been accused of being a racist.”So we need to come back to a consensus. If we're going to restore that liberal consensus, we're going to have to say, “This is acceptable behavior. And this is not acceptable behavior.” But we are not going to use these labels to vilify. The politics of contempt is just not helpful. It is not helpful to tell people, “By the way, I think you're an idiot. I think you're stupid. I think you're racist. Would you like to hear my ideas about taxes now?” It doesn't work. And I think that one of the things that, tragically, Trump has tapped into is the sense that these elites look down on you.So, Aaron, when you say that this is the revolution of mediocre men, not helpful. Now, some of them are mediocre. I certainly agree. I write about mediocre people all the time—but, again, the politics of contempt is not the way to get ourselves out of this.Powell: I think there's a distinction between messaging and diagnosis. And if we're to understand how we got here, or the kinds of beliefs or values that can lead someone ... and I don't mean, you've been a partisan Republican voter for your entire life, and you come from a family of this, and you pulled the lever for Trump, but you're mostly an uninformed voter, which is a lot of people—I mean, the people who are cheering on Stephen Miller, they're in a different category. So it might be that, if you have one of those people in front of you, the message is not to say, “There's a broken set of morals at play here,” or “there's a cramped view of humanity at play here,” because they're not going to hear that in the moment.But if we're to understand how we got here and what we're up against, I think we have to be fairly clear-eyed about the fact that the [Trumpian] values that we've discovered over the last 10, 15 years have much more appeal and purchase among a lot of Americans than I think any of us had really expected or certainly hoped, and then figure out how to address that. And, again, it's not everybody—but it's more than I would like. If those values are central to someone's being, and the way that they view others around them and the way they relate to their fellow man, then I think a lot of the less condemning arguments also won't find purchase because, ultimately, it's not a policy difference. It's a, “I want a crueler world.”Sykes: This is where I think the argument that says, “Let's look at this cruelty. Let's look at this brutality. Let's look at the Stephen Millers” ... believe it or not, I actually think it's potent to say to somebody, “Do you want to be like that? Is that really what you want America to be? You're better than that.” And then, “Let me tell you the story of decency.”The story that we heard earlier today about how neighbors who are Trump voters will be there if your house is burning down or your father dies ... you appeal to that innate decency and say, “Do you really want this cruelty?” This is what's lacking, I think, on the right and in the Republican Party right now: people who say, “Okay, you may want less taxes, smaller government, a crackdown on street crime, less illegal immigration ... but is this who you want to be?” Show them the masked officer who is dragging the grandmother away. I do think that there is the better angel that says, “No, that is really not the American story.” You have to appeal to them as opposed to just condemn them. I'm not sure we're disagreeing, but I actually think that that's potent.Balko: I think there is not only room for ridicule when you're up against an aspiring authoritarian, but a lot of history shows it's often one of the few things that works because they really hate to be disrespected.I agree with Charlie that I don't think it's necessarily productive to make fun of people who have been tricked or who have been lied to, but I also think it's worth pointing out that Trump has contempt for his own supporters. I mean, one of the great ironies of our time is that when Trump would need a boost of self-esteem, he would go hold a rally in a state that, before he ran for president, he would never have been caught dead in. He grifts from his own supporters. His lies about Covid got his own supporters killed at higher rates than people in states that didn't vote for him. But I agree that it doesn't serve much benefit to denigrate people.Sykes: But do ridicule the people who are doing it. I mean, don't get me wrong. South Park is doing God's work right now.Balko: Absolutely.Powell: What, then, is the way forward?“This is part of the problem. People spent decades accusing others of being racist on flimsy grounds. If you support Mitt Romney, you're a racist. If you support tax cuts, you're a racist. You know what happened? I come from this world and there was a time when to be called a racist was the worst thing you could possibly say about somebody. And it got to the point where, literally, if you were in favor of school choice, you were racist; in favor of tax cuts, you were racist. If you you voted for Republican. John McCain was a racist. George Bush was a racist. So when the real thing came along, guess what people said? They just rolled their eyes, shrugged, and said, ‘We've heard this before.' I mean, it was crying wolf for decades.” — Charlie SykesLet's assume that democracy survives this current moment and that we somehow put Trump behind us. We can't go back to the status quo before this. We can't just say, “We're going to go back to the kind of politics we had during the Biden administration.” That seems to be off the table. We need something new. We need a new direction. What does that look like?Sykes: I honestly do not know at this point. And I don't think anybody knows. But I do think that we ought to remember, because we throw around the term “liberal democracy” a lot, that democracies are not necessarily liberal. Democracies are not necessarily kind. And I think we need to go back to things like the rule of law.I think it's going to involve some kind of restoration of balance in society. The damage that's being done now is so deep and some of it is so irreparable that I'm hoping that there will be a backlash against it, that there will be a pendulum swing back towards fundamental decency. And even though we keep talking about democracy a lot, I think we need to start talking about freedom and decency a little bit more.You know, I was listening to the Russian dissident who spoke tonight and he asked us to imagine what it's like trying to create a democratic society in Russia with all of their history and all their institutions. As bad as things are for us, we have a big head start. We still have an infrastructure, compared to what he is up against. We still can restore, I think, that fundamental decency and sense of freedom and equality before the law.Balko: I also don't know exactly what it's going to look like. I will say this: I think one of the big reasons why we are where we are today is that there wasn't a proper reckoning, and no real accountability, after the Civil War and Reconstruction. It's been the same with Jan. 6. There was no real accountability. The Democrats waited too long for impeachment. The DOJ was slow.I do think there have to be repercussions. I'm not saying that we throw everybody in the Trump administration in prison, but I do think the people who signed off on extraordinary rendition and snatching people off the street and sending them to a literal torture prison in El Salvador, those people need to be criminally charged.But I also think there need to be civil society repercussions. There are so many people in media—pundits, politicians who know better—who have a long record of pointing out how dangerous Trump was and then turned on a dime and started supporting him. I don't wish any physical harm on those people. I don't think any of those people should be put in prison. But I think those people should never be trusted as public intellectuals. We shouldn't employ them in that realm. I think they should be able to earn a living. I don't think they should earn our trust.I have zero confidence that that's going to happen. But I can personally say that I have no interest in participating in events like this with those people. I have no interest in giving those people any kind of legitimacy because they tried to take our birthright away from us, which is a free and democratic society—the country that, for all its flaws, has been an exemplary country in the history of humankind. They literally are trying to end that. And I don't think you just get to walk away from that and pretend like it never happened.Sykes: I totally agree.Powell: With that, thank you, Radley. Thank you, Charlie.© The UnPopulist, 2025Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.We welcome your reactions and replies. Please adhere to our comments policy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theunpopulist.net

Dan Bardell and AVFC Statto take a look at all the stats ahead of Sunday night's game. Will Villa be Ismaïla Sarr's playground again? Get your Rotterdam 82' t-shirt: https://foundersdesign.co.uk/collections Head to  @1992PL  to watch Dan's new Premier League show with Jonathan Wilson. Sponsored by: Match Bingo (1874.io/matchbingo) ______________ Interested in sponsoring 1874: The Aston Villa Channel? Email us at studio@1874.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Isma y nuestro invitado, ilustrador y diseñador gráfico, César Cervantes, platican sobre el comienzo de la Temporada 2 de "Peacemaker" de James Gunn

Moulay Ismaïl, sultan du Maroc au XVIIe siècle, incarne un souverain impitoyable et visionnaire, déterminé à affirmer sa domination. Fondateur de la dynastie alaouite, il mène un règne de fer, marqué par une centralisation du pouvoir et la construction d'une armée redoutée. Son autorité s'étend sur tout le royaume, mais c'est sa politique de terreur et de contrôle qui forge sa légende. À la fois conquérant et bâtisseur, Moulay Ismaïl laisse une empreinte durable sur l'histoire du Maroc, où sa quête de pouvoir absolu et ses méthodes autoritaires le rendent aussi craint et respecté."Secrets d'Histoire" est un podcast d'Initial Studio, adapté de l'émission de télévision éponyme produite par la Société Européenne de Production ©2024 SEP / France Télévisions. Cet épisode a été écrit et réalisé par Antoine de Meaux.Un podcast présenté par Stéphane Bern. Avec la voix d'Isabelle Benhadj.Vous pouvez retrouver Secrets d'Histoire sur France 3 ou en replay sur France.tv, et suivre l'émission sur Instagram et Facebook.Crédits du podcastProduction exécutive du podcast : Initial StudioProduction éditoriale : Sarah Koskievic et Mandy Lebourg, assistées de Marine Boudalier Montage : Johanna Lalonde Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

Dans le Maroc alaouite, le jeune prince Moulay Ismail est l'un des hommes clés du royaume. Son frère Moulay Rachid a fait de lui le gouverneur de la ville de Fès, un poste stratégique."Secrets d'Histoire" est un podcast d'Initial Studio, adapté de l'émission de télévision éponyme produite par la Société Européenne de Production ©2024 SEP / France Télévisions. Cet épisode a été écrit et réalisé par Antoine de Meaux.Un podcast présenté par Stéphane Bern. Avec la voix d'Isabelle Benhadj.Vous pouvez retrouver Secrets d'Histoire sur France 3 ou en replay sur France.tv, et suivre l'émission sur Instagram et Facebook.Crédits du podcastProduction exécutive du podcast : Initial StudioProduction éditoriale : Sarah Koskievic et Mandy Lebourg, assistées de Marine Boudalier Montage : Johanna Lalonde Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

Le 16 février 1699, à 8h30, Abdallah Benaicha, envoyé du puissant sultan Moulay Ismail, arrive aux pieds de l'escalier des ambassadeurs du château de Versailles, aujourd'hui disparu. Il a rendez-vous avec le roi Louis XIV pour une audience extraordinaire. "Secrets d'Histoire" est un podcast d'Initial Studio, adapté de l'émission de télévision éponyme produite par la Société Européenne de Production ©2024 SEP / France Télévisions. Cet épisode a été écrit et réalisé par Antoine de Meaux.Un podcast présenté par Stéphane Bern. Avec la voix d'Isabelle Benhadj.Vous pouvez retrouver Secrets d'Histoire sur France 3 ou en replay sur France.tv, et suivre l'émission sur Instagram et Facebook.Crédits du podcastProduction exécutive du podcast : Initial StudioProduction éditoriale : Sarah Koskievic et Mandy Lebourg, assistées de Marine Boudalier Montage : Johanna Lalonde Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

In de FC Afkicken Daily van woensdag 20 augustus bespreken Bart Obbink, Mart ten Have en Stan Wagtman onder meer PSV dat Bayern-toptalen Paul Wanner bijna binnen heeft, AZ dat een dubbelslag slaat op de transfermarkt, ruzie bij Marseille, Depay die een deadline stelt aan Corinthians en het record van Peter Shilton wat is geëvenaard in Brazilië!(00:00) Intro(10:19) AZ slaat dubbelslag(18:29) Isak grote afwezige bij PFA-Awards(27:20) Rabiot en Rowe mogen na ruzie vertrekken bij Marseille(29:59) Depay moet zijn geld snel krijgen(34:47) Record Peter Shilton bijna geëvenaardIn de podcast verwijzen Bart, Mart en Stan naar:Roberto de Zerbi die de huid van Ismaël Koné de huid vol scheldt: https://x.com/GFFN/status/1952408447292436953Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

¡Este es el episodio número 200 de "Nerdmigos" El Podcast!

On this episode, Patrick and Hayden take a look at Newcastle's new signings, find new strikers and evaluate players like Samu Omorodion, Nicolas Jackson and Mika Biereth, and discuss how the Magpies can diversify their options in midfield. The episode ends with our predictions for the upcoming season. Enjoy! Get our Premier League Previews: https://www.thetransferflow.com/upgrade Subscribe to our FREE newsletter: https://www.thetransferflow.com/subscribe Join Variance Betting: https://www.thetransferflow.com/upgrade Follow us on our Socials: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe1WTKOt7byrELQcGRSzu1Q X: https://x.com/TheTransferFlow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetransferflow.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetransferflow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@transferflowpodcast Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:08 - Newcastle's moves this summer 01:36 - Remaining issues for Newcastle 02:57 - The dangers of waiting to do your business 03:33 - Newcastle need another forward 04:19 - Isak's profile + how to replace him 05:46 - Prioritizing fit in team vs star qualities? 06:36 - Nicolas Jackson the best option? 07:18 - Samu Omorodion? 08:28 - Sorloth or Artem Dovbyk? 09:29 - They need 2 forwards now don't they? + Yoane Wissa 10:16 - Loïs Openda and Mika Biereth? 11:15 - Finding two options that fit is hard 12:23 - Getting more of a sure thing? 13:10 - Taking a risk on Lucas Stassin? 14:35 - Getting more creativity out of their midfield? 16:00 - Newcastle's desire to play out of the back 17:20 - Giving up physicality to get more passing in the side? + Lewis Miley 18:20 - Murphy and Elanga on the right wing 19:25 - Worry creating against deeper defenses? 20:44 - Would Damsgaard make more sense than Wissa? 22:40 - Availability for players is key for Newcastle's remaining window 23:26 - Ismaël Bennacer and Angelo Stiller 24:15 - Tanner Tessmann? 25:50 - Romano Schmid 27:00 - Newcastle spend NO time in a mid block 28:33 - Solving this position with players in different spots? 29:45 - Newcastle will have a ton more games this season 31:23 - Newcastle's core is still together, but there are late market options 33:00 - If Isak was starting this week we'd be quite positive about Newcastle 33:45 - Most other sides have more turnover than Newcastle 34:50 - Isak is the biggest difference maker outside of the top 4 35:40 - How will they do against low blocks without Isak? + Set piece importance 37:02 - Tino Livramento to Man City? Or cornerstone for the future 38:07 - Lots of teams could get use out of Jacob Murphy 38:51 - Having to sell Minteh was painful 40:01 - Reasons for optimism? or a stressful few weeks? 40:33 - Pressure on Sven Botman if no new additions? 41:16 - Newcastle Finish Predictions? 42:45 - Confidence in how settled the Newcastle squad is 44:10 - Too hard about the Isak situation? 45:20 - Premier League previews and our upcoming content!

Au programme : 30 chansons qui ont marqué les trois décennies de l'émission : Ismaël Lo, Alliance Ethnik, Koffi Olomidé, Papa Wemba, Slaï, Kaysha, Danialou Sagbohan, Alan Cave, Youssou Ndour, Longue Longue, NTM feat Lord Kossity, Muzion, Bisso Na Bisso, Toofan, Franco, Dj Jacob, Ardiess Posse, BOB Family, As Dj, Talino Manu, Extra Musica, Fally Ipupa, Fanny J, Richard Flash, Sekouba Bambino, Smarty, Innoss B, King Mensah, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Yemi Alade et Joe Dwet Filé. (Rediffusion) Pour visionner les clips, cliquez sur les titres des chansons :  Ismaël Lo - Jammu Africa Alliance Ethnik - Respect Koffi Olomidé - Loi Papa Wemba - Show me the way Slaï - Flamme Kaysha feat. Mike Organiz' - Bounce baby Danialou Sagbohan - Zemihin Alan Cave - Se pa pou dat Youssou Ndour - Birima Longue Longue - Ayo Africa NTM feat Lord Kossity - Ma benz Muzion - La vi ti nèg Bisso Na Bisso - Bisso Toofan - Déloger Franco - Coller la petite Dj Jacob feat Erickson le Zulu - Réconciliation Ardiess Posse - Agbando BOB Family - Keskiya As Dj - Tango tango Talino Manu - Zephira Extra Musica - Obligatoire Fally Ipupa feat Benji (Neg Marrons) - So.pe.ka Fanny J - Ancrée à ton port Richard Flash - Je veux Sekouba Bambino - Famou (remix) Smarty - Le chapeau du chef Innoss B - Yo pe King Mensah - Sessimé Tiken Jah Fakoly - Plus rien ne m'étonne Yemi Alade - Johnny Joe Dwet Filé - 4 Kampé Retrouvez notre playlist sur Deezer.