Podcasts about Japanese

Benny cracks open the Fifth Hour vault for a never-before-told tale from a sultry afternoon at Shea Stadium, when an Egg McMuffin somehow owned Mr. Met and brought the usual pregame schmoozing to a screeching halt. It’s one of those wonderfully ridiculous “you had to be there” baseball stories, preserved in Benny’s memory for nearly three decades. From there, Ben reacts to the latest gold rush for the Hamburglar, who apparently has upgraded his criminal enterprise and graduated from swiping ordinary burgers. Then it’s off to the hodgepodge, where no useful knowledge is required: honey bees come equipped with their own built-in air conditioning, the Japanese practice the woodland magic of Shinrin-Yoku, and the French once called tomatoes “love apples” because they supposedly put a little extra ooh-la-la in the boudoir. Baseball, burgers, bees, trees, and aphrodisiac tomatoes — another perfectly wackadoodle edition of the Fifth Hour. Follow, rate & review "The Fifth Hour!" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fifth-hour-with-ben-maller/id1478163837 Engage with the podcast by emailing us at RealFifthHour@gmail.com ... Follow Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and on Instagram @BenMallerOnFOX ... #BenMaller #FSRWeekendsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the latest Japanese defeat or near run American victory, both sides decide to up the ante, sending massive reinforcements.  Want to go beyond the battlefield with The History of WWII Podcast? Dive deeper into the war with exclusive bonus episodes, expert interviews, and commercial-free listening for just $5/month! Every penny supports the show and keeps the history coming. https://worldwariipodcast.net/members/ Donations are always welcome and help keep the History of WWII Podcast free for all. https://bit.ly/3UuTZxU  Follow The History of WWII Podcast: RSS – https://feeds.megaphone.fm/history-of-world-war-ii Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/wwii45 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rayharrisjr/ TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@wwiiguy YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@historyofwwiipodcast8712 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Global Head of Fixed Income Research Andrew Sheets examines why investors might be overlooking the stability and performance of UK assets, despite persistent negative sentiment.Read more insights from Morgan Stanley.----- Transcript -----Andrew Sheets: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, Global Head of Fixed Income Research at Morgan Stanley. Today, why the UK may need better PR. It's Friday, August 14th at 2pm in London. The last decade has been rough for the United Kingdom. Brexit was a true economic earthquake, and the subsequent weakening of economic ties to mainland Europe, the UK's largest trading partner, made economic activity weaker and more complicated.Then COVID hit the economy hard. So did spiking energy prices when Russia invaded Ukraine. Political volatility has been high, with seven prime ministers in the last 10 years. And at present, UK growth is weak, inflation is too high, and debt to GDP is rising. Moreover, in a post-COVID world that's increasingly driven by the profit and power of technology, including AI, the UK market seems almost stuck in another era. Of the 10 largest companies in the U.S. stock market, eight are in technology. In the UK, none of the 20 largest companies are in tech. Safe to say, being downbeat on the prospects for the UK is one of the most consensus views that I encounter. But it can also be deceiving. Simple stories in the market rarely are.Let's start with the argument that UK markets are boring, stagnant, and being left behind by their lack of technology. It's just not true. Through early August, the S&P 500 has returned 85 percent over the prior five years. The UK market? It's returned 82 percent. And over the last twelve months, the performance of the UK and U.S. markets are also similar. In short, don't judge a book by its cover. The UK's currency, meanwhile, shows no sign of global investors shunning the island. Over the last 10 years, the UK pound has actually gained value against the U.S. dollar. Notable given how strong the performance of the U.S. economy and markets have been over that time. And that's also pretty impressive relative to its peers. Over this same timeframe, the value of the Japanese yen, the Brazilian real, the Indian rupee, and the Korean won have all fallen significantly. The UK's currency, on a relative basis, has outperformed.Now, the UK's growth is weak. Morgan Stanley forecasts growth of just 1 percent this year versus a bit over 2 percent for the United States. But it's notable just what sort of headwind the country has been dealing with. The UK household and corporate sectors are both increasing their savings rates and doing so at the same time; and more savings means less spending and economic activity. To put some context around this, U.S. households are currently saving only about 3 percent of their disposable income. In the UK, it's over 9 percent. And so, if that UK savings rate can just simply stop moving higher – or even fall – well, it would represent a big support to growth going forward. But aren't we avoiding the big question, the fiscal question? After all, we at Morgan Stanley forecast that general UK government debt to GDP will be about 96 percent this year, some of the highest levels since World War II. But this is a global market, and I do think that the relative picture matters. So, when thinking about the UK's 96 percent debt to GDP ratio, let's consider what the numbers are elsewhere. That ratio is 120 percent in China. It's 120 percent in France. It's 125 percent in the U.S. It's 138 percent in Italy, and it's 208 percent in Japan. And out of all of these countries, the UK is the only one where we think the government deficit is materially smaller in 2027 than it was in 2025. Also, year-to-date, 10-year bond yields in the UK have risen less than yields in the U.S. or Japan.A new UK Prime Minister does raise the potential for new policy, something investors will need to watch closely. The country remains sensitive to swings in global energy prices. Yet we think the underlying story is more nuanced and positive than often gets discussed. Market performance has been bearing this out, and in many cases, the bar is low. Thank you, as always, for your time. If you find Thoughts on the Market useful, let us know by leaving a review wherever you listen. And also tell a friend or colleague about us today.

On today's show we're going to connect three things that might seem completely unrelated: the Japanese yen, United States Treasury bonds, and the interest rate on your next real estate loan.They are more closely connected than you might think.So why should a real estate investor in Dallas, Atlanta, or Phoenix care what happens to the Japanese yen?Because Japan is the largest foreign holder of United States Treasury securities. The latest Treasury data puts Japanese holdings at roughly 1.2 trillion dollars.When Japan wants to defend the yen, it needs to buy yen and sell foreign currency assets. Those reserves include an enormous portfolio of United States government securities.Now, Japan does not necessarily have to dump Treasuries into the open market. In fact, the Federal Reserve has a facility specifically designed to prevent that from happening.It's called the FIMA Repo Facility. It allows foreign monetary authorities to temporarily exchange Treasury securities for dollars rather than selling those securities outright into the market. The Federal Reserve explicitly says one purpose of the facility is to support the smooth functioning of the Treasury market by providing an alternative source of dollars. The Japanese yen has been under extraordinary pressure. It recently traded near 164 yen to the dollar, a level not seen in roughly four decades. Japan and the United States responded with a rare coordinated intervention designed to strengthen the yen. For a few days it worked. The yen strengthened to around 155. But here we are less than two weeks later, and the yen is back near 159.These interventions are not working. If the yen stabilizes, much of this concern disappears.If it doesn't, the choices become progressively more uncomfortable.Japan can intervene again. It can raise domestic interest rates more aggressively. It can access dollar liquidity against its Treasury portfolio. Or ultimately, it can sell some foreign assets.Every choice has consequences.We could see bond yields rise just because Japan can't tolerate buying oil in US dollars at 165 Yen to the dollar. -------------**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)  

Managing High Homocysteine with MTHFR Variants and the Role of Vitamin C in Brain Aging: Registered dietitian nutritionist Leyla Muedin discusses MTHFR genetic variants (C677T and A1298C), their links to impaired methylation, homocysteine, SAMe, mood issues, migraines, vitamin deficiencies, and pregnancy complications, noting many people are asymptomatic and some feel worse on methylated B vitamins and do better on standard formulations. Responding to a listener with C677T, high homocysteine, and borderline methylmalonic acid, she reviews optimal homocysteine targets and outlines other causes of elevated homocysteine such as hypothyroidism/subclinical hypothyroidism, kidney failure, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, inactivity, and medications (atorvastatin, methotrexate, fenofibrate). She suggests checking these factors, considering absorption issues (intrinsic factor) for B12, and trialing SAMe and more trimethylglycine, with possible pharmacologic folate if needed. She then summarizes an observational Japanese study (n=2,044 adults >64) linking lower plasma vitamin C to reduced gray matter and weaker default mode network connectivity, and notes diet and blood sugar can affect vitamin C status.

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This week, Jeongmin and John discuss South Korea's latest employment figures, which show the overall employment rate reaching 70.3% even as young Koreans lost another 191,000 jobs. They examine how growth in health and social welfare jobs is masking continued weakness in sectors such as manufacturing and construction. The team also looks at a Democratic Party lawmaker's proposal to convert decommissioned buses into housing for young people, why the idea quickly drew ridicule and criticism and what the controversy says about the country's broader housing challenges. Later, they discuss the backlash facing actress Ahn Ha Young after internet users discovered that her great-great-grandfather was a pro-Japanese collaborator, raising questions about inherited privilege and whether people should be expected to apologize for the actions of distant ancestors. The episode also examines a proposed law targeting AI-generated sexually explicit material, including content depicting entirely fictional people. Jeongmin and John break down the difficulty of defining victims, the proposed criminal penalties for creating or possessing such material and the broader legal and ethical questions surrounding AI-generated content. About the podcast: The Korea Pro Podcast is a weekly conversation hosted by Korea Risk Group Executive Director Jeongmin Kim, Managing Editor John Lee and correspondent Joon Ha Park, delivering deep, clear analysis of South Korean politics, diplomacy, security, society and technology for professionals who need more than headlines. Uploaded every Friday. This episode was recorded on Thursday, August 13, 2026. Audio edited by Alannah Hill

The US and Japan coordinated on the biggest currency market intervention in 15 years, helping to stabilize a weakening yen. Karen Fishman, senior FX strategist in Goldman Sachs Research, and Praneet Shah, global head of FX options trading in Global Banking & Markets, discuss why the US joined the action, why the yen still appears undervalued, and whether another intervention might follow. Key takeaways:  The scale of Japan's intervention was historic, but the US role was symbolic.  Japan's operation, estimated to be worth up to $85 billion over July 30 and July 31, was its largest two-day intervention on record outside of October 2011. The US leg was much smaller, but pushed the yen further by signaling the US' willingness to help.  Washington's involvement was likely aimed at limiting volatility in US markets. The timing of US support coincided with some volatility in US interest rates, in addition to other factors.  Intervention may buy time, but it is a short-term measure. In the longer term, policy measures convincing Japanese investors to shift back towards Japanese assets could help reverse the yen's low valuation.  This episode was recorded on August 10, 2026. The opinions and views expressed herein are as of the date of publication, subject to change without notice, and may not necessarily reflect the institutional views of Goldman Sachs or its affiliates. The material provided is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation from any Goldman Sachs entity to take any particular action, or an offer or solicitation to purchase or sell any securities or financial products. This material may contain forward-looking statements. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Neither Goldman Sachs nor any of its affiliates make any representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the statements or information contained herein and disclaim any liability whatsoever for reliance on such information for any purpose. Each name of a third-party organization mentioned is the property of the company to which it relates, is used here strictly for informational and identification purposes only and is not used to imply any ownership or license rights between any such company and Goldman Sachs. A transcript is provided for convenience and may differ from the original video or audio content. Goldman Sachs is not responsible for any errors in the transcript. This material should not be copied, distributed, published, or reproduced in whole or in part or disclosed by any recipient to any other person without the express written consent of Goldman Sachs. Disclosures applicable to research with respect to issuers, if any, mentioned herein are available through your Goldman Sachs representative or at ⁠http://www.gs.com/research/hedge.html⁠ Goldman Sachs does not endorse any candidate or any political party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to go back to the 1980s, when giant robots ruled the pop culture landscape with rocket fists, and talking about Dynamo Joe! A love letter to Japanese media like Robotech and Gundam, we talk about how the comic is mostly a successful send-up to its source material

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA’s case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot’s picture-describing backbone for one trained to predict what happens next. He also covers Perseverance closing in on the off-world driving record, a derelict SpaceX rocket stage hitting the Moon, and Anthropic’s rework of Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards. Finally, he digs into Gemini Omni, Google’s undisclosed trip-planning rankings, the Danube’s record low, and iFixit’s call for Apple to unlock the iPad bootloader. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens with a personal update. Wildfires in Eastern Oregon made for a rough week of heavy smoke, and a local building burned down, which he calls a real tragedy. Meanwhile, his work at Blubrry has centered on PowerPress fixes, where reproducing customer-reported bugs remains the biggest headache. Support tickets rarely carry enough detail, and the errors themselves are often too vague to diagnose. Consequently, he is leaning toward a stronger logging and error layer, and he asks experienced developers to share what actually works for them. Beyond VLAs: NVIDIA’s Case for World Action Models The featured story comes from NVIDIA’s developer blog, and it answers a question sitting underneath this year’s robot news. Why do robot arms fall apart the moment anything changes? Move a cup six inches, swap its shape, or change the lighting, and a policy that worked perfectly in training fails. The answer, according to NVIDIA, is not the robot but the model underneath it. For the last few years, the dominant approach has been the vision-language-action model, or VLA, built on an AI that originally learned to describe pictures. Consequently, it recognizes a banana it has never seen, in a kitchen it has never seen, yet it has no idea what that banana will do next. As the article puts it, such a model “does not learn what happens to a mug when the gripper closes, how a towel folds, where an object lands when released.” Because the physics never arrives with the model, every scrap of it has to come out of hand-recorded demonstrations. The proposed fix swaps the foundation entirely. Instead of building on a model that learned to caption images, a world action model builds on one trained to predict how video continues, so the physics is already paid for. Notably, these models output an action and a prediction of what the robot’s cameras will see, in the same pass. Cochrane likens it to forethought, imagining your own motion as you make it. NVIDIA’s implementation is Cosmos 3, pretrained on roughly 767 million images and 348 million videos of real-world dynamics. It ships in 4, 16, and 64 billion parameter sizes named Edge, Nano, and Super, and it runs in real time on a Jetson Thor board bolted to the robot itself. Cochrane recalls his dad owning one of those Jetson boards, and he asks anyone working in robotics to explain how the throughput figures fit together. However, he closes on an open question: where did 348 million videos actually come from? For deeper detail, he points listeners to the source article and to NVIDIA researcher Jim Fan. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Perseverance Closes In on the Off-World Driving Record Ars Technica reports that NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to take the record for most distance driven on another world. The mark sits at roughly 28 miles, set by NASA’s own Opportunity rover across more than fourteen years before it went quiet in 2018. As Cochrane works out on air, that averages about two miles a year. Perseverance will pass it in roughly five years instead. The difference is a navigation system called AutoNav. Since a radio signal takes several minutes to reach Mars, earlier rovers crept along pre-plotted routes and stopped every half meter to think. Perseverance carries a second computer dedicated to processing what its cameras see, so it plans while the wheels keep turning. Consequently, about ninety percent of its driving is autonomous, against roughly ten percent for Curiosity, and it averages around 110 meters an hour rather than 15 to 18. Cochrane notes researchers finding the rover at planned sites days ahead of schedule, and he wonders aloud whether world action models might drive the next one. A SpaceX Rocket Stage Slammed Into the Moon Next, Smithsonian Magazine covered the Falcon 9 upper stage that struck the Moon on August 5. That stage flew back in January 2025, carrying Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience landers, and it was never meant to end up there. SpaceX’s Julianna Scheiman says a mixture of solar activity and gravity nudged the derelict onto a lunar path after nineteen months adrift. Four tonnes of dead hardware arrived at about 5,400 miles per hour. Nobody watched it happen, and the reason is a nice bit of physics. It struck sunlit ground near a crater called Einstein, and no impact flash has ever been detected on the lit part of the Moon. However, the instruments caught the aftermath. South Korea’s Danuri orbiter imaged a dark new mark, while the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope picked up sodium and lithium in the plume, the lithium possibly shed by the rocket itself. Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell quipped that he has “Sir Isaac Newton’s personal assurance that it did indeed hit the moon,” while planetary scientist Hannah Sargeant warns against making a habit of it. Cochrane points out the Apollo landing sites are still sitting up there. Anthropic Reworks Claude Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards Anthropic published a post on how Claude Fable 5 handles biology questions, and the bind is genuine. Biology is the textbook dual-use problem, since the knowledge behind reading your own lab results also helps someone build a weapon. Rather than refusing outright, a classifier watches for risky requests and quietly reroutes them to Claude Opus 5, a capable model without Fable 5’s biological depth. Anthropic calls that mechanism a fallback. The trouble was how often it fired on people doing nothing wrong. This update cut biology-related fallbacks by roughly 85 percent in Anthropic’s own testing, with expected overall drops of 67 percent on Claude.ai and 55 percent on Cowork. Genuinely dual-use territory still trips it, and Anthropic names virology, toxicology, and molecular design. Cochrane hit the old behavior himself and found it irritating, so he welcomes the refinement. Even so, he would rather see a false positive than a model helping someone produce a virus. Five Builders Put Gemini Omni Through Its Paces Google highlighted five builders working with Gemini Omni. Omni is a model rather than an app, and it generates video from text, images, other video, or audio, while also editing footage you already have. Google claims it “combines an intuitive understanding of physics with Gemini’s real-world knowledge,” citing gravity, kinetic energy, and fluid dynamics. As Cochrane observes, that is the same bet NVIDIA is making with robots, only pointed at video generation instead. He also flags a naming collision worth knowing about. NVIDIA calls its architecture an omni-model while Google’s product is simply Omni, two different things landing in the same week. Additionally, he encourages listeners to watch the demos, though he still senses a disconnect in AI-generated video and concedes that knowing its origin may color the impression. Gemini Wants to Plan Your Vacation Another Gemini piece, a how-to on trip planning, drew Cochrane’s sharpest take of the night. Gemini plugs straight into Google Maps, Flights, and Hotels, pulling live locations, reviews, and prices to build an itinerary. Switch on a feature called Personal Intelligence, and it reads across your Google apps, turning a messy trip-planning email chain into a clean master plan. Clever, but he calls it extremely concerning. Once these become services, he expects partnerships to quietly push particular hotels, restaurants, resorts, and destinations onto users. Notably, Google’s post never explains how any of it gets ranked, and the words sponsored, ad, affiliate, commission, and paid never appear once. There is no disclosure of a commercial arrangement, and no denial of one either. Meanwhile the post hands readers off to Viator to book tours without describing that relationship at all. Cochrane suspects the real effect shows up slowly, in the shape of small businesses continuing to disappear. The Senate Blocks a Rule on Who Controls Research Money Science reports that the Senate passed a temporary spending bill in the early hours of Saturday the 8th. The Senate’s version carries a one-paragraph rider the House version lacks, and that rider stops the White House Office of Management and Budget from finalizing a set of proposed rules. OMB builds the president’s budget, clears agency regulations, and controls how approved money actually reaches agencies. The bill itself is a stopgap, which prevents a shutdown without settling anything. The rules reach every organization that takes federal money, a pot of roughly $1.1 trillion across 41 agencies, about $150 billion of it research grants. They would let political appointees second-guess which grants get funded, allow awarded grants to be pulled when the work does not match presidential priorities, and put several countries off limits for research partnerships, China first among them. Senator Susan Collins pushed the block through after telling OMB director Russell Vought the proposal was deeply flawed, noting nearly 500,000 public comments, the vast majority opposed. However, the 90-6 vote is not law. Both chambers are on recess. Vought reportedly said the rule would not have been finalized before December anyway, and the block only lasts as long as the stopgap, which expires December 11. The Danube Falls to a Record Low ESA published a pair of Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images showing the same bend of the Danube, 45 kilometers upstream of Budapest, photographed a year apart. Cochrane calls the before-and-after shocking, going from green to brown completely. Wire reports put the Budapest gauge near 10 centimeters at the start of the month, about four inches of water, against a previous record of 33 centimeters set in 2018. The knock-on effects arrived fast. Budapest ran short on both power and drinking water, while the shrinking flow concentrated pollution in what remained. Romania hit record lows on its own stretch as well. Cochrane hopes the recovery is already underway. What a Heatwave Actually Does to the Power Grid That river story runs directly into a Carbon Brief factcheck. Nuclear plants cool themselves with river water, so when the Danube dropped, plants in Hungary and Romania throttled back and pulled roughly 2.5 gigawatts off the grid. Romania declared a state of alert in its energy sector, and its navy reportedly used explosives to steer more water toward a plant intake. Carbon Brief then walked through what heatwaves do to each way of making electricity. Nuclear loses efficiency when the cooling water is already warm, though its shutdowns are mostly regulatory rather than mechanical. Gas turbines pull in less air because hot air is thinner, costing capacity. Wind falls off hardest, since a heatwave is a big stalled dome of high pressure and nearly still air. Solar is the surprise: cells genuinely do get less efficient as they heat up, yet total output climbs anyway, with UK solar up 46 percent during a four-day June heatwave against the week before. Butterflies Are on the Move Everywhere A new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution covered 1,758 butterfly species, roughly one in ten of every species we have named. The team pulled 6,182 records from 105 countries, reading non-English research alongside 68 expert write-ups. Four out of five species pushed into new territory, and about 79 percent of the logged shifts traced back to climate change and extreme weather. Separately, 27 percent saw their range shrink somewhere, and 22 percent moved up or down a mountain slope chasing cooler air. That sounds like good news, and it really is not. Expansion means a boundary moved, not that butterflies are thriving, since a species can push its northern edge forward while its southern edge quietly collapses. Lead author Shawan Chowdhury says the shifts turn up on every continent where butterflies occur. Additionally, monitoring gaps leave Central Africa, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Amazon Basin barely counted at all. Cochrane recalls hearing years ago that butterflies were disappearing in Hawaii, and he invites listeners spotting unfamiliar species locally to contribute what they see. Primates Make Friends Across Species Cochrane called this one a fun find. A study in the journal Primates, led by Cyril Grueter at Oxford, gathered 427 documented cases going back to the 1970s across 88 primate species and 127 partner species. Play and grooming dominated at 139 and 136 cases, alongside carrying, huddling, food sharing, and even adoption. Primates usually started the interactions themselves, with juveniles playing most, adult females handling grooming and caregiving, and adult males least likely to join in. The examples are remarkable. Japanese macaques on the island of Yakushima groom sika deer and climb on their backs, a silverback gorilla cradled a tiny wild bushbaby, and wild capuchins in Brazil adopted an infant marmoset in a bond that held for weeks. However, Grueter rejects the pet-keeping headline and prefers the hedged term proto-pet keeping. The actual claim is smaller and more interesting: curiosity, tolerance, caregiving, and play have roots running far deeper than humans do. iFixit Tells Apple to Unlock the iPad Finally, an opinion piece from Charlie Sorrel at iFixit struck a chord. This fall, iPadOS 27 drops support for a batch of older iPads, including the 8th-generation iPad, the third-generation Air, the fifth-generation mini, and the first-generation iPad Pros. Cochrane owns one of those Pros and reports it still works fine. Those devices will not break, but they stop getting OS and security updates until apps abandon them and the battery gives out. The obvious second life is Linux, except the bootloader stays locked. Apple’s iBoot will not load anything else, unlike a Mac, a PC, or most Android phones. Sorrel argues it “should be a user choice, not a vendor choice,” and Cochrane agrees flatly. You own the device, so why does Apple decide what runs on it? He compares the situation to jailbreaking, and he suspects most consumers have never pushed back simply because it never occurs to them. Nevertheless, he hopes an unlock eventually breathes new life into hardware that still works perfectly well. Cochrane wraps with housekeeping: become a GNC Insider at geeknewscentral.com/insider, email geeknews@gmail.com, subscribe to the newsletter, and grab a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com. He thanks GoDaddy for over twenty years of keeping the show on the air, and he signs off wishing listeners a wonderful evening. The post The Robot That Imagines First #1872 appeared first on Geek News Central.

n this episode of Unfiltered Waters, Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel steps in as guest host alongside Todd Anderson while Katie Hoff Anderson is a week out from giving birth. Together they sit down with Olympic champion and world record holder Gretchen Walsh for a wide-ranging conversation recorded just days before the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships. Fresh off a summer of international racing and her first season as a full-time professional, Gretchen opens up about what success actually looks like when you've already won almost everything, and about the one world record she can't stop thinking about.Gretchen breaks down where her head is heading into Pan Pacs, why relays mean more to her than any individual event right now, and what it's been like to chase Sarah Sjöström's last standing world record while sitting just hundredths away. She also talks candidly about the back injury that reshaped her spring training, what pulling butterfly for weeks accidentally unlocked in her stroke, and why the weight room, power cleans and snatches and all, became the single biggest change in her career. Todd digs into the recovery side too: sleep, nasal strips, and the surgery she's putting off until she's done swimming.Along the way, the conversation goes places most swim interviews don't: speaking Mandarin at a middle school assembly in China, Google Translating with Japanese swimmers in the back of an Uber in Paris, the city she'd move to tomorrow, and a first trip to the ESPYS that put her in the same room as Simone Biles, Ilona Maher, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Eileen Gu. She's honest about feeling out of place there, and about what it means that being famous in swimming is a different thing entirely.Gretchen also reflects on life after the NCAA: missing the team aspect she built her identity around at UVA, why she now calls Team USA her team, and how she sees herself as a bridge between the veterans and the rookies on a roster building toward LA 2028. It's a conversation two former national teamers are uniquely positioned to have with her.Whether you're a sprinter chasing your own breakthrough or you just want to know what one of the fastest women in history is actually like, this episode delivers. Watch the episode, then head to the comments and let us know: what's the one question you'd ask Gretchen if you had the mic?Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform, and follow us on social media (https://linktr.ee/unfilteredwaters) for clips, bonus content, and updates throughout the week.Note: This conversation was recorded in the days before Pan Pacs and is airing after the meet, so Gretchen's goals and predictions reflect where things stood going in. And an update since we recorded: Katie has had the baby! Mom and baby are both home and healthy.FOLLOW KATIE ON:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kthoff7/SUPPORT OUR SPONSORSIM8health.com/discount/unfiltered for 10% offendlesspools.com/unfiltered to unlock $1,000 off#UnfilteredWaters #Swimming #GretchenWalsh #ElizabethBeisel #TeamUSA

Jim Rickards returns for a wide-ranging macro conversation on a world where geopolitics and economics have fully merged. He lays out the US–Iran standoff as a global game of chicken — Trump betting Iran's economy breaks first, Iran betting the midterm elections break Trump first — and explains why he thinks Tehran holds the stronger hand, why regime change was always a fantasy, and how a handful of drones a week is enough to keep the Strait of Hormuz bottled up. From there he turns to gold: how he used Jim Rogers' 50% drawdown rule and fractal scale invariance to call the bottom, why central bank buying puts a floor under the market, why gold works as a deflation hedge as well as an inflation hedge, and why he stands by his $10,000 target. He also dismantles the popular "debasement trade" narrative, explains what Kevin Warsh's less transparent, market-following Fed means for investors conditioned to expect a rescue, and walks through the unwinding of the Japanese yen carry trade — which he calls the most important story in the world right now, and the one most likely to make 2027 messy. The episode closes on the darker side of AI: increasingly sophisticated voice-cloned scams aimed at older Americans.Thank you to our partners Augusta Precious Metals — To learn more, visit https://juliabuysgold.com/ or text “Julia" to 35052Monetary Metals - learn more at https://www.monetary-metals.com/julia/More about Rickards: Rickards is a New York Times bestselling author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis and several other best-sellers, including The New Great Depression, Aftermath, The Road to Ruin, Death of Money, The New Case for Gold, Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy, and his newest book MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy. An investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist, Rickards has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. He is also the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a widely-read financial newsletter. Links:  http://www.jamesrickardsproject.com/ https://x.com/RealJimRickardsVisit CallFort.io  or download the app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callfort/id6752949954Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro: welcome back, Jim Rickards1:04 – Geopolitics and economics have merged: chokepoints and economic warfare3:30 – The US–Iran game of chicken: what each side is betting6:13 – Regime change isn't happening — and why killing leaders backfired10:42 – Lost credibility and the Iran–Oman deal the US wasn't part of14:41 – The midterm clock, and how Iran keeps the Strait closed17:23 – [Sponsor: Augusta Precious Metals]19:04 – Gold's drawdown: the Jim Rogers 50% rule and fractal math24:04 – Why gold goes much higher — and the $10,000 call25:03 – What's driving gold: central banks, deflation, flat mine supply31:15 – Why the "debasement trade" narrative is wrong33:00 – Inside the primary dealer world and the old Fed35:00 – Kevin Warsh, killing the dot plot, and a whole new Fed38:16 – [Sponsor: Monetary Metals]40:03 – The Fed's only real job — and what Friedman got wrong44:13 – The yen carry trade: the most important story in the world48:55 – The petrodollar, Japan's Treasuries, and the Bessent bailout51:43 – Why currency defenses always fail, and why 2027 gets messy52:50 – AI, sophisticated scams, and the Callfort app59:10 – What's next: climbing Kilimanjaro

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Why are so many tunnels in Japan considered haunted? In this episode of Supernatural Japan, we descend into three of the country's most notorious haunted tunnels: Kyoto's eerie Kiyotaki Tunnel, Tokyo's Sendagaya Tunnel beneath a cemetery, and the mysterious Old Komine Tunnel in Hachioji. We explore the ghost stories, urban legends, tragic histories, and reported supernatural encounters associated with these dark passageways, while examining why tunnels around the world have become natural settings for ghost stories. From mysterious apparitions and unexplained sounds to Japanese folklore and the psychology of fear, discover why entering a tunnel can feel like crossing into another world. Website: supernaturaljapan.com Instagram: @supernaturaljapan Get lots of Premium and Exclusive Content and Ad-free Episodes! Premium membership: @patreon  Support on: @BuyMeACoffee Tales from Kevin (my expat diary podcast) Connect with Supernatural Japan: Instagram: @supernaturaljapan Facebook: @SupernaturalJapan BlueSky: @MadForMaple X: @MadForMaple YouTube: @BusanKevin Email: supernaturaljapan@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: Finding Solace and New Beginnings in Hakone's Embrace Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ja/episode/2026-08-13-07-38-20-ja Story Transcript:Ja: 箱根の緑豊かな風景の中に、おんぼろの旅館が静かに佇んでいた。En: Amid the lush, green scenery of Hakone, an old, rundown inn stood quietly.Ja: 古い木造の建物は、夏の陽射しを優しく浴びて、その歴史ある魅力を静かに語っていた。En: The ancient wooden building gently basked in the summer sunlight, quietly telling its tale of historical charm.Ja: お盆の季節、ここには先祖を偲んで訪れる人々が集まっていた。En: During the Obon season, people gathered there to remember their ancestors.Ja: 夕方、旅館の食堂は、華やかな会席料理の準備で忙しい。En: In the evening, the dining room of the inn was busy with preparations for a splendid kaiseki ryori.Ja: 料理は色とりどりの食材が並び、目にも楽しい宴となっている。En: The dishes were arranged with a variety of colorful ingredients, making for a feast that was a delight to the eyes.Ja: ゆきは、一人旅で箱根を訪れていた。En: Yuki was visiting Hakone on a solo trip.Ja: 彼女は最近家族を失い、その悲しみに耐えながら、心の平穏を求めていた。En: She had recently lost her family and was enduring her grief, seeking peace of mind.Ja: 旅館の大広間での夕食、彼女は一人になりたくなくて参加することに決めた。En: For the dinner in the inn's banquet hall, she decided to join in, not wanting to be alone.Ja: 会場に入ると、彼女は静かに自分の席に座った。En: As she entered the venue, she quietly sat down in her seat.Ja: 周りには笑い声が響くが、彼女の心はまだ少し重かった。En: Laughter echoed around her, yet her heart still felt somewhat heavy.Ja: そのとき、はるきという男が隣の席に座った。En: At that moment, a man named Haruki sat in the seat next to hers.Ja: 彼もまた一人で旅をしていた。En: He was also traveling alone.Ja: 礼儀正しく、優しそうな口調で「こんばんは、お盆で箱根に来られましたか？」と話しかけてきた。En: With a courteous and gentle tone, he spoke, "Good evening, did you come to Hakone for Obon?"Ja: ゆきは少し緊張しながらも「ええ、そうです。祖母を思い出しながら過ごしたくて」と答えた。En: Yuki, a little nervous but receptive, replied, "Yes, I wanted to spend time remembering my grandmother."Ja: はるきが微笑んで「僕も同じです。毎年お盆には、祖父母と過ごす時間を思い出します」と続けた。En: Haruki smiled and said, "I feel the same way. Every year during Obon, I recall the times I spent with my grandparents."Ja: その言葉は、ゆきの心に波動を与えた。En: Those words resonated within Yuki's heart.Ja: 彼女ははるきの言葉のひとつひとつに引き寄せられるように感じた。En: She felt drawn to each word spoken by Haruki.Ja: 美しい料理を楽しみながら、二人は思い出話を語り合った。En: Enjoying the beautiful cuisine, the two shared stories of their memories.Ja: はるきは、小さい頃、祖父母の家で過ごした愉快な思い出を詳しく話し、その話にはどこか温かなものがあった。En: Haruki recounted delightful memories spent at his grandparents' house when he was young, and there was something warm in his tales.Ja: やがて、ゆきは自分の心が少しずつ軽くなるのを感じた。En: Gradually, Yuki felt her heart becoming lighter.Ja: 「ありがとうございます。あなたの話を聞いて、私も少し救われた気がします」と彼女は感謝の言葉を口にした。En: "Thank you. Listening to your story, I feel somewhat saved," she expressed her gratitude.Ja: 「こちらこそ、ありがとう。お互い、一人じゃないって気付けましたね」と、はるきは微笑んだ。En: "Likewise, thank you. We realized that we aren't alone," Haruki smiled.Ja: 夕食が終わり、二人は明日一緒に箱根神社に行くことを約束した。En: After dinner, they promised to visit Hakone Shrine together the next day.Ja: 「一緒に祖先を偲びましょう」と、はるきは言い、ゆきも笑顔でうなずいた。En: "Let's remember our ancestors together," Haruki said, and Yuki nodded with a smile.Ja: この出会いを通じて、ゆきは孤独ではないと感じた。En: Through this encounter, Yuki felt she was not alone.Ja: 彼女の心には、新たな希望と温かさが芽生え、はるきと共に、箱根の美しい夏を楽しむ計画を立てた。En: A new sense of hope and warmth grew in her heart, and she began planning to enjoy Hakone's beautiful summer with Haruki.Ja: こうして、箱根の夜が美しく静かに過ぎていった。En: Thus, the night in Hakone passed beautifully and quietly.Ja: 彼らは共に過ごした時間の中で、心の傷を癒し、新しい友情を築いていった。En: In the time they spent together, they healed their emotional wounds and built a new friendship.Ja: 明日へと続く道には、また新しい光が見えていた。En: On the path leading to tomorrow, a new light could be seen. Vocabulary Words:lush: 緑豊かなrundown: おんぼろbasked: 浴びてcourteous: 礼儀正しくcharm: 魅力gathered: 集まっていたsplendid: 華やかなkaiseki: 会席料理feast: 宴grief: 悲しみsolo: 一人旅echoed: 響くcourteous: 礼儀正しancestors: 先祖receptive: 引き寄せられるようにrecanted: 語り合ったrecalled: 思い出すresonated: 波動を与えたrecounted: 詳しく話しbanquet: 大広間hospitality: おもてなしslight: 少しreminiscing: 思い出しsolitude: 孤独healing: 癒しnodded: うなずいたshrines: 神社contemplation: 偲びsanctuary: 安らぎの場dawn: 夜明け

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing pressure to apologise to his Japanese counterpart after a gesture he made about two melons she gifted him. Albanese appeared on the Bush Deep podcast with Nikki Osborne and gestured to his chest when recalling the melons after Osborne asked how the fruit had been smuggled into the country. Former Australian ambassador Shingo Yamagami recalled the incident earlier today and labelled it 'insulting'. Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Albanese has insisted this wasn't intended to be a crude joke directed at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we have the coolest performers ever on the pod. AWICH is the first-ever female Japanese rapper to perform at Coachella, and Taka is the lead singer of ONE OK ROCK, who's performed to sold-out arenas across the world. Together, they are performing as YAO, with two other artists from Japan. We talk about how different Japanese and American youth culture is, why AWICH prefers Atlanta, and their process for making music as a group.  Before they join us, tune in to hear the gang talk about Jonnie's working class fans.  Follow the IG: https://www.instagram.com/homeroom.show   Follow the TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@homeroomshow   Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@homeroomshow Guests: YAO: https://www.instagram.com/yao_jpn/  AWICH: https://www.instagram.com/awich098/ Taka: https://www.instagram.com/10969taka/  Hosted by:  Jonnie Park: https://www.instagram.com/dumbfoundead https://www.tiktok.com/@dumbfoundead  Steffie Baik: https://www.instagram.com/steffiebaik https://www.tiktok.com/@steffiebaik  Podcast Producer: Caroline Y Choi  Audio: Johnny Chay Podcast Media Team: GGEZ Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We squeeze in one more episode before Will's vacation, tying the single-season record in the process. The mailbag then demands a reckoning on whether Magneto's powers are really limited to ferrous metals, along with the origins of the S tier and the truth-value of conditional predictions. The main event is Hunter v. United States, which holds that a plea bargain's appeal waiver is unenforceable when enforcing it would work a "miscarriage of justice." We try to figure out where that rule could possibly come from — contract law? Rule 11? the supervisory power? procedural common law? — and why an opinion this law-free commanded this much agreement, while the separate writings range from a declaration of war on plea bargaining itself to a hunt for a sounder source of authority. Along the way: a field trip to the shuttered taproom of Ybarra v. Illinois fame, and thanks to the expanding Divided Argument production universe.Highlights[00:00:21] Opening: squeezing in one more before Will's vacation — and tying the single-season episode record.[00:01:42] The only Court news: Trump v. California, the mail-in-voting application, is fully briefed.[00:03:15] Mailbag: "lead is not magnetic." Are Magneto's powers limited to ferrous metals? The comic-book record says no.[00:05:40] Why is S the top tier? Japanese video-game rank screens and contested backronyms.[00:08:09] Parsec retcons in Star Wars, and the art of redeeming past misstatements.[00:09:09] Caleb Rogers on the logic of conditional predictions: "if A, then B" is true whenever not-A.[00:11:08] Thank-yous to the production universe — and the show is now on YouTube.[00:12:06] Jessie Henderson's field trip: the Aurora Tap of Ybarra v. Illinois fame, located and (sadly) shuttered.[00:15:30] The main event: Hunter v. United States — appeal waivers in federal plea bargains.[00:21:30] The wrinkle: a forced-medication condition, and a judge who says "you have a right to appeal" anyway (cf. Class v. United States).[00:24:45] Plea bargains as free-floating general contract law — territory of the forthcoming Epps & D'Onfro Harvard Law Review paper.[00:26:52] The circuit split: the Fifth Circuit's statutory-maximum rule vs. everyone else's miscarriage-of-justice exception.[00:29:16] The real puzzle: where does any of this authority come from — Rule 11? the judiciary's own self-image?[00:37:51] What definitely counts: race-based sentences, a no-pregnancy condition, sentencing by 12 orangutans.[00:40:40] Dan logs a scorecard prediction on what the Fifth Circuit does on remand.[00:43:04] How does an opinion this mushy get 8 votes in 2026? In for a dime, in for a dollar.[00:45:40] The Gorsuch concurrence comes out swinging against plea bargaining itself — Stuntz and Barkow make the U.S. Reports.[00:52:50] The Kavanaugh concurrence's high bar, and the 3–3–2 math of who wouldn't take sides.[00:55:00] The Thomas dissent: no source of law — and no sentencing appeals for most of American history anyway.[01:00:20] The Barrett concurrence: procedural common law, with citations to Professor Barrett.[01:08:16] Sign-off: thanks to the Constitutional Law Institute; Dan's predictions may yet be made falsifiable.Relevant linksCasesHunter v. United States — slip opinionTrump v. CaliforniaCommentary & articles"Hunter v. United States — the most important criminal case of the term" — SCOTUSblog opinion analysisAmy Coney Barrett, "The Supervisory Power of the Supreme Court" — 106 Colum. L. Rev. 324 (2006), cited in the Barrett concurrenceAmy Coney Barrett, "Procedural Common Law" — 94 Va. L. Rev. 813 (2008), the other self-citationOtherIce by Magneto — last episode, where the Magneto debate beganSmart Microwave — the Chatrie episode, where the Aurora Tap of Ybarra v. Illinois first came upGorsuch Genie — our episode with Rachel Barkow on Justice Abandoned, now cited in the Gorsuch concurrence

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spent billions of U.S. dollars to buy and prop up the Japanese currency, the yen. Professor Richard Wolff and Brian Becker unpack the economic and geopolitical calculations of the Trump White House, and what it means for the US economy. Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.Join the The Socialist Program community at http://www.patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to get exclusive content and help keep this show on the air.

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Today Griffey and Dandino witness a gargantuan battle in Frankenstein vs Baragon. They discuss the bizarre Nazi origin story of this massive nuclear Frankenstein Monster, the added benefit of having a more human Kaiju battling the rubber monster suited beast, and the incredible miniature work in this film. This is a classic MESSED UP Kaiju battle that we can't wait to share with you! Synposis: An American scientist and his Japanese colleagues study a feral boy born from the radiated heart of Frankenstein's monster, while a subterranean dinosaur ravages the Japanese countryside. Starring: Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Takashi Shimura Directed by Ishirō Honda Youtube: https://youtu.be/SMEIJM0Mr-s Support the show on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/messedupmoviespod    

Welcome back to the show. If you're a Christian woman who feels like you're not qualified for what's in front of you, whether that's a health struggle, a calling, or just getting through today, this episode is for you. I recently learned about missionary Gladys Aylward through our homeschool curriculum, and her story stopped me in my tracks. She was rejected. She faced trial after trial. And she kept going back anyway, because serving was the desire God had placed in her heart. In this episode, I walk through her story and connect it to two truths I've been holding onto: God goes with us through our trials, and He gives us the desires of our hearts when we delight in Him. If you're in a season of exhaustion, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, and you're looking for a faith-based lens to make sense of it, this one's for you. Rejected, But Not Finished Gladys Aylward wasn't the "qualified" candidate. A missionary society turned her down. Instead of giving up, she cleaned houses to save money for a one-way train ticket to China. Her journey was interrupted by war, arrest, and danger before she even arrived. She kept going anyway. Trial After Trial in China Once in China, Gladys took over an inn, became a foot inspector during the era of foot binding, and stopped a prison riot, all while sharing the gospel. She began adopting children, eventually caring for 94 of them during the Japanese invasion of China in World War II. She led those children on a two-week journey on foot across the mountains to safety, with none of them falling sick or dying along the way. Where Faith and Endurance Meet Holistic Health What strikes me most about her story isn't that she avoided hardship. It's that God stayed present with her through every bit of it. That's a pattern I see in the women I work with too: healing rarely means the trial disappears. It means learning to walk through it with your body, mind, and faith aligned instead of working against each other. Two Scriptures Worth Sitting With Joshua 1:9 reminds us that God commands us to be strong and courageous because He is with us wherever we go. Psalm 37:4 reminds us that when we delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our hearts. Gladys's life is a picture of both: she was never spared hardship, but she was never without God's presence in it, and her God-given desire to serve carried her through it. Time-Stamped Highlights 00:00 – Introduction: feeling unqualified and going anyway 00:25 – How the podcast host discovered Gladys Aylward's story through homeschool curriculum 00:53 – Rejected by a missionary society, then saving for a one-way ticket to China 01:22 – War, arrest, and danger on the journey to China 02:20 – Taking over the inn and becoming a foot inspector 03:49 – Stopping a prison riot 04:47 – Adopting children during the Japanese invasion 06:14 – Leading 94 children on foot across the mountains 09:33 – Reflecting on Joshua 1:9 10:03 – Reflecting on Psalm 37:4 and the desires of our hearts 11:55 – Trusting that God withholds nothing good from us (Romans 8:28) Key Takeaways Feeling unqualified isn't a disqualifier. God works through willing hearts, not perfect résumés. Trials don't mean God has left. Scripture promises His presence through them, not exemption from them. The desires God places in your heart are worth paying attention to, even when the path to them is hard. True endurance, whether in faith, health, or calling, comes from staying aligned with God rather than gritting through alone. Healing and growth are rarely instant. They're a process worth walking through with support, not in isolation. Your Next Step, If You're Ready If you're a Christian woman who's exhausted, maybe you feel dismissed by conventional medicine, and you're ready to get to the root cause instead of just managing symptoms, I'd love to talk with you. As an RN with a background inside the pharmaceutical industry, I help women approach exhaustion and autoimmune struggles through a whole-person, faith-rooted approach to holistic health. I'm currently offering a free 15-minute Introductory Call. If you're ready to stop waiting and take a real next step, book your call at herholistichealing.com/call. I don't know how long I'll be offering these calls, so if you're interested, I'd encourage you to grab a spot soon.

In this episode of the Financial Survival Network, host Kerry Lutz is joined by Craig Hemke of TFMetalsReport.com to dive into recent counterintuitive shifts across the precious metals and commodities markets. Together, they analyze gold's resilience following massive multi-year gains, silver's baseline stabilization, and copper's surge to record highs driven by data centers and global electrification. The discussion breaks down major macroeconomic triggers, including Federal Reserve policy under Warsh, shifting interest rate dynamics, and coordinated market interventions such as joint Treasury-BOJ support for the Japanese yen and strategic oil reserve sales. Beyond technical market analysis, Kerry and Craig examine the broader geopolitical landscape, evaluating the long-term economic fallout of the conflict with Iran and the growing shift from free markets to state-level interventions. Kerry also shares updates on his legal battle against municipal parking scams, previews his latest books (America's Great Parking Scam and The All-New Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets), and discusses the importance of independent financial media in connecting the dots during uncertain economic times. Find Craig here: https://TFMetalsReport.com Find Kerry here:  https://khlfsn.substack.com and here: https://inflation.cafe    All Kerry's books are available here:  Amazon Bookstore  

On this week's episode, we're talking about the Japanese slacker assassin comedy, Baby Assassins!  The first of three.  Alson on this episode, Suesie is confounded by maid cafes.  Frank is happily surprised.  Please rate, review and subscribe to the show on iTunes and SpotifyE-mail: realteengirltalk@gmail.comTeen Girl Talk's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realteengirltalk/ Frank's writing website: franklincota.com Suesie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susieboboozy/Frank's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siriwouldchallenge/Frank's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcUttxP0ujvc6HXBz-4kIw   Frank's Book: https://books2read.com/u/3nJPzP

今回のエピソードでは、Norikoがスペインのアリカンテへ旅行した経験を通して、学習中の言語を実際に使うことの大切さについて話しています。Norikoは約20年前にスペイン語を熱心に勉強していましたが、イギリスへ移住してからは英語学習を優先し、長い間スペイン語の勉強をしていませんでした。しかし、今年アリカンテへ旅行することが決まり、もう一度スペイン語の勉強を始めました。旅行中はレストランやカフェで積極的にスペイン語を使うことに挑戦しました。その中で注文の言い方を間違えることもありましたが、現地の人に訂正してもらいながら学ぶことで、強く記憶に残ったと話しています。また、教科書だけでは学べないリアルな言葉やアクセント、騒がしい環境での会話などを体験し、旅行は最高の言語学習の機会だと感じました。最後に、日本へ旅行する機会があれば、小さな日本語チャレンジを作り、失敗を恐れずに実際に日本語を使ってみてほしいと伝えています。

Hey! Listen! Email Nintendo Pow Block your questions, topics, and comments!Nintendo is loading up the Switch 2 with more big games, including the heavy hitters from their Japanese partners.On this episode of Nintendo Pow Block, Edward Varnell and Corey Dirrig⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ break down Nintendo's confirmed Switch 2 lineup through 2027, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokémon Winds, Pokémon Waves, and Xenoblade Genesis. They also discuss the huge third-party lineup, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave mouse controls, new details on the live-action Zelda movie, and the latest THQ Nordic Showcase news. Plus, they cover this week's new Switch games, updates for Pokémon Pokopia, Splatoon Raiders, Lies of P, and more, along with listener questions about remakes, spinoffs, and Nintendo's future.This and more on this episode of Nintendo Pow Block, part of the Boss Rush Network. Join our Communities:Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Boss Rush Network Community Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Boss Rush Network Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Follow Nintendo Pow Block on Social Media: Nintendo Pow Block Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.TV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the Boss Rush Network: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.TV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support Boss Rush Network:Support Boss Rush on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and buy merch on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Store.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Boss Rush on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and visit our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website at BossRush.net⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more great content.Thanks for Your Continued Support!Thank you for supporting Nintendo Pow Block! If you're listening on podcast platforms, leave us a five-star rating and a review. If you're watching on YouTube, subscribe, like, comment, and hit the bell so you never miss an episode. Your support means the world—see you next time on Nintendo Pow Block!

My Hero Academia is celebrating a decade of heroes, and My Hero Academia in Concert is bringing the world of the anime to life with a giant cinema screen, live band and orchestral performance. Mostly Superheroes talks with Emily Marshall, music supervisor, music director, keyboardist and associate conductor for the production. Emily explains how the Japanese creative team helped shape the show, how the music is synchronized with the on-screen story, and what it takes to turn iconic moments from My Hero Academia into a live concert experience. My Hero Academia in Concert comes to The Factory in St. Louis on October 4, 2026. Emily Marshall also shares why experiencing an anime you love with a live orchestra is completely different from watching it at home—and why fans may never want to go back after seeing it performed live. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 My Hero Academia in Concert 01:10 Welcome to Mostly Superheroes 01:37 My Hero Academia and its 10th anniversary 02:10 Introducing Emily Marshall 03:24 Welcome back, Emily 04:02 How the My Hero Academia concert is coming together 04:36 Pre-production, rehearsals and working with the Japanese team 04:59 Scotty Scoop's My Hero Academia questions 05:40 Does Emily have input in creating the show? 06:20 Turning the anime into a musical concert experience 07:24 Finding the story within the footage and music 08:13 Why fans should experience My Hero Academia in Concert 08:40 The unique experience of anime with a live orchestra 09:24 Why live music changes the experience 09:45 Bringing a live film score experience to fans 09:57 Final thoughts from Emily Marshall 10:11 Tickets and where to find Emily 10:35 End interview 10:55 Support Mostly Superheroes 11:39 My Hero Academia in Concert Get tickets for My Hero Academia in Concert at The Factory on October 4 and experience the world of heroes through music. Mostly Superheroes is an independent podcast based in St. Louis, Missouri, covering movies, television, comics, anime, pop culture, events and the people behind the fandom. Support Mostly Superheroes: mostlysuperheroes.com/support ©2026 Carrogan Studios

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What do you do when you follow the love of your life to a new country and aren’t legally allowed to work? You start Shopify… Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those.  [Kooler Garage Doors Ad] Dave Young: Welcome back to the Empire Builders Podcast, eh. Stephen Semple: Eh? Dave Young: See what I did there? See what I did there, Stephen? Stephen Semple: I do. Dave Young: Stephen whispered in my ear that we’re going to talk about a Canadian company, eh. Shopify. Stephen Semple: Shopify. Dave Young: And I didn’t know they were Canadian. Stephen Semple: Yes, they are. Yeah. Dave Young: Well, do tell. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Well, and here’s one of the things that I love about this story is it was started by a person who couldn’t get a job and decided to sell snowboards online. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: Right? Dave Young: Snowboards. Stephen Semple: How could I not love that? Dave Young: Yeah. You would love that all day long. Is that where you bought your first snowboard? Stephen Semple: No, it is not but… Dave Young: Wait, wait, you weren’t that kid, were you? Stephen Semple: No, I was not. So they’re a big deal, annual revenue of close to $12 billion. They’re one of Canada’s most valuable companies with $160 billion market cap. They’ve got 7,600 employees worldwide and kind of like five million online stores in 175 countries. And here’s the figure that got me the most when I was researching it. And it’s the number 378 billion. That’s how much merchandise was sold in a year. $370 billion worth of merchandise was sold through Shopify. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: Put that into context, that’s the GDP of Singapore. Dave Young: Yeah, that’s crazy. Stephen Semple: Isn’t that crazy? Dave Young: That’s a lot of sales. Stephen Semple: Yeah. So Shopify was founded in 2006 in Ottawa by Tobias Lutke, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake. But our story starts a couple of years before with Snowdevil, the snowboarding business. Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: So Tobias was born and raised in Germany, and his parents had this place in the Alps, and they would often drive to the Alps to go skiing. Then they decided to do a trip to Canada to do Whistler. At the time, the Canadian dollar was low. It was like the 2000s, and he decided he was going to snowboard rather than ski. And this is when he fell in love with two things, snowboarding, and he met his now wife, Fiona. Dave Young: Was she also snowboarding? Do we know? Stephen Semple: I don’t know whether she was snowboarding or not. That’s an interesting question. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: So he returns to Germany, they keep in touch, and when she finishes her bachelor degree, she decides to move to Germany. So in Germany, Tobias struggled in school, ADHD, dyslexia, dropped out after grade 10, and he joins a programming apprenticeship program at Siemens. And he’s part of this kind of rebellious environment. He loves it. And he and Fiona are together for about 10 months, and she decides she needs to return to Ottawa to start her master’s program. So he moves with her to Ottawa. Now, he tried to work remotely, but remember, this is the early 2000s. Tools were not really there. You didn’t have Slack, you didn’t have Zoom. It was tough. He wasn’t really able to do it. Dave Young: A little bit of Skype going on by then maybe, but yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah, maybe, but even not great, right? He’s spending a bunch of time snowboarding and he dives into it and he’s learning all he can about it. And he even started thinking, “Well, maybe I could sell snowboards online.” And around this time, he gets offer for a job with a business in Ottawa, and the topic of work permit comes up, which oops, he doesn’t have. Dave Young: Doesn’t have a work permit. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right. He’s legally allowed in the country, but he’s not allowed a work permit. So he goes to see a lawyer and he’s told, “Hey dude, you’re unlikely you got a work permit. You’re legal in the country. You could start a business, but you can’t work for someone.” Dave Young: But you can start one. Stephen Semple: But you could start one. Dave Young: That’s all right. I mean, that’s fair. Stephen Semple: So he decides snowboards online, it is. That’s what he’s going to do. Dave Young: Put a hold on that because I’m thinking, start a business. I’m wondering if that’s why there are so many foreign taxi drivers, that a taxi cab was actually a business. Stephen Semple: Could be. Dave Young: Working for somebody, you’re working for yourself. Stephen Semple: You are, you’re independent. Yeah. Dave Young: Maybe the whole taxi industry was a loophole. All right. Anyway. Stephen Semple: Could be. Dave Young: So he- Stephen Semple: So Scott Lake, who’s one of the founders, worked for the company that tried to hire Tobias, and they keep in touch. And they decide to create this company Snowdevil together because Scott had all these vendor relationships. Tobias worked on the technology. Now, here was the problem at the time. There was not software to make any of this easy, especially the credit card. Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: And it was really hard updating and changing websites. Here’s the part that I loved. They wanted to tell stories about every snowboard that was sold. They actually wanted to take the board onto the mountain and chronicle how they spent the day and tell that story of that board and put it on the website. That’s how they were selling boards. This was also around the time the emergence of blogging. So they really felt that if you could wrap this really great story around the product and get people excited about it, they would buy from you and they wanted to break away from this Sears catalog model through the stories. Dave Young: Is this every individual board? Stephen Semple: Yes, had a story. Dave Young: Or every model. Stephen Semple: Every board had a story. Dave Young: Not every model of board. Every single board. Stephen Semple: Well, sorry. When I say board- Dave Young: Every model. Stephen Semple: Every model. Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Got you. Stephen Semple: Every model had a story. Dave Young: I mean, because that’s a lot of snowboarding. Stephen Semple: Well, but it was also the early days, there weren’t that many boards out too. Dave Young: Yeah, yeah. Stephen Semple: Your universe was not as big as it is today. So Tobias, they’re trying to figure out how to do this, and he comes across this program called Ruby on Rails. And here’s the thing that was funny. Dave Young: I remember Ruby on Rails. Stephen Semple: The source code at the time was Latin characters and all the documentation was in Japanese, but he still figured out how to make it work. Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: So he started to build an e-commerce platform on that. And one of the big moments for Tobias, and this is the inspiration for Shopify, is the feeling he got when they got notice of their first sale where he’s sitting there and he gets a bing on his phone and they’ve made a sale. And that feeling that he had in that moment was just unbelievable for him. Dave Young: Cha-ching. Yeah. Somebody found us and bought something from us. Stephen Semple: Somebody found us and bought something. This is incredible. Now, they built the business on pay-per-click, but you got to also remember, AdWords at the time, 20 cents a click is what they were spending. Think about it. In the sporting goods space, 20 cents a click. Dave Young: Nobody else had figured it out yet. Stephen Semple: No one else figured it out. And at the time, snowboards had really good margins. They had a good winter. Things went really well. They’re coming into the summer, things are slowing down, and they’re thinking about, “Well, what should we do?” And here’s one of the things that happened. They started getting approached by other people in the industry saying, “Hey, can you license all this stuff that you built? Because we’re trying to figure out how to do this online stuff and it’s really hard. Can you just license that to it and can we just use it?” Dave Young: Seems like they figured that out. Yeah. Stephen Semple: So in 2006, right, so in 2006, Snowdevil disappears. Shopify is born. Dave Young: All right. We can’t… Yeah. Stephen Semple: And Shopify is shopping simplified, Shopify. Dave Young: That’s brilliant. Stephen Semple: Right. Dave Young: The cool thing about software companies like that is you end up with one product and then you can sell that product a million times and it doesn’t cost you anything to make it, really. I mean, it’s software. There’s no manufacturing. Stephen Semple: There’s even something else on this. I’m in a program I think I’ve mentioned before called the Strategic Coach, quarterly coaching program, created by a guy by the name of Dan Sullivan. And one of the things Dan talks about is this idea of strategic byproducts, that when you create a really big goal, what will happen is in the process of achieving that goal, new things come out of it. And the reason why he calls them byproducts is sometimes some of the things that come out of it are way more powerful and way more valuable than the original thing you were trying to achieve. And this is a great example of it. The most valuable thing came out of it was this ability to make doing online shopping easier. Dave Young: Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this.  [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: And the reason why he calls them byproducts is sometimes some of the things that come out of it are way more powerful and way more valuable than the original thing you were trying to achieve. And this is a great example of it. The most valuable thing came out of it was this ability to make doing online shopping easier. Their goal was to sell snowboards online. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: The byproduct was this, and the byproduct was way more powerful, way more valuable. Dave Young: Oh, yeah. A lot of people want to sell a lot of things. Stephen Semple: But the problem is sometimes we lose sight of that. We can lose sight of it because we go, “Yeah, but I just wanted to sell snowboards. No, I’m going to ignore this thing.” Rather than, “Oh, wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. There’s this opportunity here.” So I commend them for recognizing that. So they start wanting to develop it as more of a product. Tobias calls Daniel Weinand, who’s the third founder, who’s a buddy from Germany, and he convinces them to come to Canada to help him build the product because he needs more coding. They raise some money, they’re off to the races. But here was even their challenge when it came to running money. Back then, everyone believed the future belonged to giant online malls, Amazon, eBay. Everybody just wants to go to one giant marketplace. Shopify believed something radically different. Instead of building one giant store, what they wanted was help millions of people have their own store. Because when you’re on Shopify, it’s your store. Shopify is just the back end. Dave Young: And they’re not going to do all the things that you hear Amazon does when you try to sell on Amazon, right? They’re going to go figure out how to make your product cheaper and sell it under their name. Stephen Semple: And Tobias talks about in interviews that feeling he had when they got that first online transaction. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: That’s what he wanted people to have. He wanted people to have that opportunity. The idea behind this business was not to develop software. They don’t see themselves as a software company, but they see themselves as a company that helps people start businesses. Shopify wasn’t selling software, they were selling independence. You can own your business, you own your customer list, you own your brand, you own your future. That emotional positioning matters. And it helped attract entrepreneurs who didn’t want to sell inside the Amazon ecosystem because what they were buying was freedom. And this drove a lot of the decision-making because in 2009, the next big evolution that came along was Shopify launched an app store. And basically what it did is it opened its platform to outside developers. Suddenly anyone could build an application that extended Shopify’s capabilities, email marketing, inventory managing, shipping, loyalty programs, accounting, subscriptions, thousands of other tools. And that fundamentally changed the company because if they though of themselves as a software development company, they would’ve tried to develop those things. Instead, they saw themselves as a company that is supposed to simplify this process for people. So therefore, why don’t we take your tool and plug it into ours? Dave Young: Yeah. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right? But that thinking is what changed everything. Now, I also want to think about this because we often talk about north stars and things along that lines. When they think about it even from a marketing perspective, when what I’m selling is I’m going to make it easier for you to become an entrepreneur, that’s a very different emotional sales pitch and positioning than I’ve got this tool. And it helped them do things like, well, why wouldn’t we do this app store? Does this app store make it easier for a person to be an entrepreneur? We’re doing it. Dave Young: Yeah, I love it. Stephen Semple: There’s 16,000 apps now in the Shopify app store, and Shopify paid developers over a billion dollars through its ecosystem. Dave Young: That’s pretty amazing. Stephen Semple: Yeah. So think about this. It’s a software company started by a software engineer that decided not to build software. Dave Young: All right. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right? And it all goes back to that moment that Tobias felt when he had that first transaction. And he also talks about nothing else changes a person’s life by being able to build their own business. And he was like, if we can facilitate that, their goal is to facilitate people building their business. And if you think about even things like opening it up to the outside, Apple has done it with the App Store. Salesforce has done it with AppExchange, Amazon with Marketplace, Microsoft. Other companies have all done it. But I think these guys just had a real strong north star because they stopped asking the question what we can build and started asking the question of what can others build on top of what we’ve built? Dave Young: Yeah. It’s a beautiful ecosystem. Stephen Semple: Because that driving goal- Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah, because the driving goal was make it easy to start a business. Now, here’s how powerful that idea is. Heard this in an interview with Tobias. So Tobias was being interviewed and this is literally what he said. I recorded it and wrote down the quote. And since we’re talking about stats, this is the most gratifying of all the numbers related to Shopify, and it’s actually the north star of the company. That’s the words he uses. Every 52 seconds, someone has had that experience of getting their first sale, the one I described. And in so many cases, someone is going from being a builder to now being an entrepreneur. There’s so few things you can do that actually changes your identity in a meaningful degree. This company’s heart is really the founder onboarding process and trying to make this simpler. What’s been so fascinating is that the initial idea behind Shopify was that idea. Dave Young: Yeah. Every 52 seconds somebody gets their first buyer. Stephen Semple: First sale. Dave Young: First sale. That’s amazing. Stephen Semple: Their first transaction. Isn’t that incredible? And that’s- Dave Young: It’s a new store every- Stephen Semple: Right. And his summary from his interview of what’s the thing that he was most proud of was that, that’s that. Not the billions of dollars, not this, that every 52 seconds, somebody’s getting their first transaction. Dave Young: I love that. Stephen Semple: Isn’t that incredible? Dave Young: Yes. Yes. There’s nothing not incredible about it. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: It’s a good thing they didn’t give him a work visa, is what I’m saying. Stephen Semple: Yeah, it all worked out well. But the part is that I found so interesting about this, because we do this when we work with customers. Well, with customers, we help them to find their north star. What’s your north star? Dave Young: Yeah, oh yeah. Stephen Semple: What is that thing for your business? And that the finding of the north star is what actually made all of this work. And they found their north star starting their own business when they had that first transaction. It remained true to that and has driven those decisions and has allowed them to make better strategic decisions such as the App Store. But on top of that, I’m going to say it helped all their marketing messaging because somebody who aspires to be an entrepreneur will connect with Shopify and its goals and dreams and aspirations. Dave Young: Yeah. I love that story. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Wizard Academy has a Shopify store. Stephen Semple: Does it? Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Cool. Dave Young: Yeah, shop.wizardacademy.org. You can buy a mug or a postcard. Stephen Semple: There you go. Dave Young: Things like that, so. Stephen Semple: Awesome. The only reason I didn’t know that is anytime- Dave Young: I didn’t get the notifications for it. Stephen Semple: Well, and the only reason why I don’t know about that is anytime I buy stuff, I always like getting it when I’m in person. Dave Young: Exactly. Stephen Semple: Yeah, yeah. Dave Young: Way more fun. We don’t do banging business, but it’s there. Stephen Semple: It’s there and it helped you do it. Dave Young: You want the mug that I drink out of sometimes. Stephen Semple: Well, that’s it. That’s the way you should be selling them. You should be selling your dirty mugs. Dave Young: I test every mug. Very cool, Stephen. Thank you for bringing us the Shopify story. Stephen Semple: All right, thanks, David. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a big fat, juicy five star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute Empire Building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.

Derek Bestreich, Adam Lobel and Luke Sproviero on a New York market running in two directions at once. Development sites, free market buildings and townhouse conversions are trading at all-time highs — while rent stabilized product gets hit harder every quarter, with 20-unit buildings selling for $1.3 million and owners sitting on apartments they can't afford to rent or leave empty.The conversation covers the international bid and where Japanese capital is going next, why extend-and-pretend is finally breaking at the bank level, what happens when an owner can't produce the receipts behind a $5,000 rent, the office market's return from the dead, and what the industry is and isn't doing about any of it.Follow IPRG: @iprg_nywww.IPRG.com

There are tons of things leaders should be doing. The sheer volume of advice can become a mental blizzard—a complete leadership whiteout. That is why it helps to isolate a few essential leadership practices and remind ourselves why they matter. These are not complicated theories. They are practical leadership disciplines that determine whether teams produce results, understand expectations, cooperate effectively and continue moving in the right direction. Here are eleven leadership basics worth revisiting. What should leaders focus on first? Leaders should focus chiefly on the results to be achieved rather than simply on the activities being performed. Everything happening in the organisation should move the team towards a desired outcome. That sounds obvious. However, analyse your diary and look closely at where your time is going. You may be shocked by how few appointments, meetings and activities are directly propelling important results. Busy work is seductive because it creates the sensation of progress. Emails are answered, meetings are attended and reports are produced. Yet activity is not the same as achievement. Leaders also need to plan and organise effectively around the desired result. They must coordinate everyone involved so that individual contributions combine into meaningful organisational progress. Markets change, customer expectations move and circumstances can run over the top of even a good plan. Leaders must therefore keep asking whether the current plan is still relevant, whether the organisation is properly structured and whether the balance between individual responsibility and teamwork is right. Do now: Review your calendar and identify which activities directly contribute to your organisation's most important results. Reduce, delegate or eliminate the rest. How should leaders turn major objectives into action? Major objectives should be divided into bite-sized pieces, communicated clearly and supported by deadlines, measurements and individual accountability. Large organisational goals can sound inspiring but remain useless if people do not understand what they personally need to do. Leaders must translate strategic objectives into specific actions, time targets and measurable outcomes. Every important objective needs an accountability system. Without measurement, deviation from the plan can remain invisible until it is too late to make an easy correction. The post-pandemic workplace has made this more difficult. For many organisations, the orderly pursuit of targets was replaced by constant disruption, emergency responses and scrambling to survive. Even after the immediate crisis passed, hybrid work, shifting customer behaviour and economic uncertainty continued to complicate performance management. Textbook answers are not always enough. Leaders must combine data, judgement and practical experience to decide which performance standards remain realistic. Do now: Take one major organisational objective and break it into milestones, owners, deadlines and measurable indicators of progress. How can leaders establish effective performance standards? Leaders must make expectations explicit so that people know what successful performance looks like, why it matters and how it will be measured. Vague expectations create frustration. Employees believe they are doing well, while managers quietly feel disappointed. Effective performance standards remove this ambiguity. Standards should guide people towards profitable and productive action. They should be demanding enough to encourage growth but realistic enough to maintain credibility. Leaders must also build a results-oriented attitude throughout the organisation. This means helping people develop self-reliance, confidence and ownership of their goals. Remote and hybrid work have shifted visibility. Leaders can no longer judge contribution by who arrives early, stays late or appears busy in the office. Performance is increasingly represented by customer outcomes, project completion, financial measures and numbers on a spreadsheet. Some people thrive with autonomy. Others struggle without direct supervision, informal contact and frequent teamwork. Leaders must recognise these differences rather than assuming one working style suits everyone. Do now: Ask each team member to explain what is expected of them and how success is measured. Any inconsistent answers reveal a communication gap. Can leaders really motivate their people? Leaders cannot directly inject motivation into another person. They can, however, create an environment in which people are more likely to become self-motivated. Try yelling, "Be motivated, be motivated, be motivated," at your team and see how far that gets you. Leaders can motivate themselves, but they cannot control the internal drive of another person. Their real task is to understand what helps each individual perform at their best. That may include recognition, autonomy, meaningful work, career growth, financial reward, mastery, belonging or the opportunity to contribute to something important. The correct combination varies from person to person. This is where leadership becomes difficult. There is no universal motivational switch. The leader has to understand people individually and deliver the right environment one person at a time. Leaders should also encourage creativity. Creativity can be learned, but many leaders have never studied how creative thinking works. If leaders do not know how to generate ideas, challenge assumptions or explore alternatives, they will struggle to develop those abilities in others. Do now: Ask each team member what conditions help them do their best work. Do not assume their answer will be the same as yours. How should leaders track progress and coordinate people? Leaders must track progress consistently and coordinate everyone whose contribution affects the final result, both inside and outside the organisation. Tracking progress sounds easy. The reality is that leaders are often lost in the weeds, pulled hither and thither and overwhelmed by constant urgencies. Following up on planned results gets postponed because something more immediate demands attention. Yet when leaders stop tracking, deadlines slip, responsibilities blur and small problems grow into expensive ones. Coordination has also become more demanding in remote and hybrid workplaces. When everyone was in the office, people could exchange information informally, notice emerging problems and resolve misunderstandings quickly. When employees, clients, suppliers and partners are separated, leaders must expend more time and energy ensuring that the right people know what they need to know. They must also confirm that tasks are being completed when they need to be completed. Communication cannot be left to chance. Coordination requires deliberate updates, clear decision rights and reliable follow-through. Do now: Establish a simple review rhythm showing each priority, its owner, its current status, the next action and any obstacle requiring leadership intervention. Why must leaders keep communicating purpose and teamwork? Leaders must repeatedly connect everyday work to the organisation's continuing purpose and demonstrate through their decisions that teamwork is genuinely expected. Leaders often pontificate from on high about purpose and imagine everyone is on board. They assume the message was received, understood and accepted. It is always a shock to discover that not everyone got the message—or that they interpreted it differently. Purpose must therefore be communicated repeatedly. Leaders must explain what the organisation is trying to achieve, why it matters and how each person's work contributes. They must also check for understanding rather than assuming agreement. Leadership credibility is tested most severely when a high performer refuses to act as a team player. Are you prepared to confront—or even fire—a top performer who persistently undermines teamwork? This is where the rubber meets the road. If leaders praise collaboration but tolerate the corporate outlaw who does whatever they want, everyone learns how the organisation really operates. Behaviour that is tolerated becomes part of the culture. Do now: Identify one behaviour that contradicts your stated values. Address it directly before it becomes the organisation's unofficial standard. What is the most important leadership starting point? The most important starting point is self-awareness. Very few leaders can give themselves a perfect score across all eleven areas: Focusing on results Planning and organising effectively Breaking objectives into manageable actions Establishing clear performance standards Building a results-oriented culture Creating conditions for self-motivation Developing creativity Tracking progress Coordinating people and resources Communicating organisational purpose Demonstrating leadership and teamwork I certainly cannot give myself a perfect score. Reviewing this list is a painful reminder of my own failings and imperfections. That is the point. Busy work can mask what is vital. Leaders become tied up in meetings, messages, minor decisions and operational stuff. Eventually, they lose sight of the leadership responsibilities that matter most. Let's get back to basics. We are not divine. We still have work to do on ourselves. Author Bio Dr. Greg Story, Ph.D. in Japanese Decision-Making, is President of Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. He is a two-time winner of the Dale Carnegie One Carnegie Award in 2018 and 2021 and received the Griffith University Business School Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2012. As a Dale Carnegie Master Trainer, Greg is certified to deliver leadership, communication, sales and presentation programmes globally, including Leadership Training for Results. He has written several books, including the bestsellers Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery and Japan Presentations Mastery, as well as Japan Leadership Mastery and How to Stop Wasting Money on Training. His books have also been translated into Japanese, including Za Eigyō（ザ営業）, Purezen no Tatsujin（プレゼンの達人）, Torēningu de Okane o Muda ni Suru no wa Yamemashō（トレーニングでお金を無駄にするのはやめましょう）and Gendaiban "Hito o Ugokasu" Rīdā（現代版「人を動かす」リーダー）. Greg publishes regular business insights on LinkedIn, Facebook and X and hosts six weekly podcasts. On YouTube, he produces The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show, Japan Business Mastery and Japan's Top Business Interviews for executives and professionals seeking practical strategies for succeeding in Japan.

️ Grab the FREE INFP Personality Type Tutorial → https://geekpsychology.com/infp▶️ Join a community of INFPs. Check out Evolve → http://evolve.geekpsychology.comWhen I was about 29, I was cold-calling Japanese banks from a tiny cubicle and lying just to keep my job.I sat there with a a phone to my ear, trying to persuade strangers while everything inside was screaming at me to stop. I hated it. It wasn't my calling (pun intended), it wasn't my dream career, and it certainly wasn't inspiring. But I needed money to survive.I was reading a message from an INFP asking how to stop overthinking career choices and actually start applying for jobs.They said, "How can I make career job decisions more quickly? And moving from the internal brainstorming phase to actually doing something in real life, like applying. LOL. "We do that a lot, don't we? We add a light emoji or a quick joke to the end of a heavy admission when things feels too uncomfortable.The trouble with overthinking a big move is that we mistake research for progress. You read another job description. You weigh five different potential paths. You imagine every scenario where you might fail or regret your choice. But every single piece of information you gather without taking action just adds weight. Before you know it, you're carrying this massive bag of heavy possibilities, completely paralyzed, unable to take a single step forward.I used to think I had to find the perfect path before I could begin. But my past wasn't a clean, linear journey. I've been a Subway "sandwich artist" making five dollars an hour. I worked on a restaurant boat on Lake Biwa. I taught English in Korea and Japan. I did coaching and hypnosis.None of those felt like "the answer" when I started. But each one gave me a real data point. I learned what drained me, what hooked me, and what aligned with who I was.You don't figure out your life by thinking about it in a vacuum. You figure it out by going into the world, getting real experience, and adjusting as you go. Being afraid of making the wrong choice doesn't protect you from failure, but it does keep you from making progress.If you're stuck right now, try making one small move before you do any more research. Ask your future self if this endless hesitation is actually serving you, or if it's just fear disguised as planning.

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: Ancestral Echoes: Yuki's Quest Through Kyoto's Ruins Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ja/episode/2026-08-12-22-34-01-ja Story Transcript:Ja: 京都の古代遺跡へと続く道は、夏の暑さで霞んでいた。En: The road leading to the ancient ruins in Kyoto was hazy with the summer heat.Ja: 周りにはお盆の祭りを祝うランタンが揺れる。En: Around her, lanterns celebrating the Obon festival swayed gently.Ja: 遺跡に足を踏み入れたゆきは、胸が高鳴るのを感じた。En: As Yuki stepped into the ruins, she felt her heart race.Ja: 彼女は若い考古学者で、歴史が大好きだ。En: She was a young archaeologist with a love for history.Ja: だが、それ以上に、彼女の胸には、家族の歴史とのつながりを見つけたいという思いがあった。En: However, more than that, she wanted to find a connection with her family's history.Ja: 噂によれば、この遺跡には忘れ去られた宝物が眠っているという。En: Rumor had it that forgotten treasures were hidden within these ruins.Ja: それがどうやら彼女の家系とつながっているらしい。En: Supposedly, they were linked to her lineage.Ja: しかし、ゆきの探求が始まると、すぐに彼女を悩ますものが現れた。En: But as Yuki began her quest, something troubling quickly emerged.Ja: それは、遺跡に咲く見知らぬ植物によるアレルギー反応だった。En: It was an allergic reaction caused by unfamiliar plants growing in the ruins.Ja: 彼女の顔は赤くなり、目はかゆく、息苦しさが増してきた。En: Her face turned red, her eyes itched, and her breath became increasingly difficult.Ja: 普通ならここで引き返して医者を訪ねるところだ。En: Ordinarily, she would have turned back to seek out a doctor.Ja: しかし、ゆきはこの機会を逃したくなかった。En: But Yuki did not want to miss this chance.Ja: このお盆の祭りの期間だけの特別なチャンス、家族の過去に触れるチャンスを。En: This special opportunity during the Obon festival was her chance to touch her family's past.Ja: 彼女は苦しみながらも遺跡の奥深くへと進んだ。En: Despite her suffering, she pressed on deeper into the ruins.Ja: やがて彼女は、ひっそりと隠された部屋にたどり着いた。En: Eventually, she arrived at a quietly hidden room.Ja: 息はますます苦しくなり、体力も限界に近づいていた。En: Her breath was growing more labored, and her strength was nearing its limit.Ja: しかし、ゆきは懸命に目を凝らして探した。En: However, Yuki strained her eyes in determination.Ja: そして、ついに古い箱を見つけたのだ。En: Finally, she found an old box.Ja: 箱の中には、彼女のご先祖様の書いた手紙があった。En: Inside the box was a letter written by one of her ancestors.Ja: それは、この遺跡の一部を設計したことを語る感動的な手紙だった。En: It was a moving letter, speaking of having designed a part of these ruins.Ja: 手にした瞬間、ゆきの心は深い感謝とつながりに満ちた。En: The moment she held it, Yuki's heart was filled with profound gratitude and connection.Ja: 彼女は速やかに遺跡を後にし、祭りの明るい灯りの中へ戻った。En: She swiftly left the ruins and returned to the bright lights of the festival.Ja: 祭りの音を背に、ゆきはすぐに医療の助けを求めることにした。En: With the sounds of the festival behind her, Yuki decided to immediately seek medical help.Ja: 彼女は、過去への憧れと自分自身を大切にすることの両方が大事だと学んだ。En: She learned the importance of both yearning for the past and taking care of herself.Ja: 彼女は再び訪れるつもりだが、今度は準備万端であるだろう。En: She plans to visit again, but this time she will be well-prepared.Ja: ゆきは静かに、夜空に輝くランタンを見上げた。En: Yuki quietly looked up at the lanterns shining in the night sky.Ja: 彼女の中には、過去を超えた新しい決意が芽生えていた。En: Within her, a new resolve beyond the past was taking root.Ja: 彼女は、祖先との深い絆を感じながら、お盆の夜を歩いた。En: As she walked through the Obon night, she felt a deep bond with her ancestors. Vocabulary Words:ancient: 古代ruins: 遺跡hazy: 霞んでいたlanterns: ランタンrace: 高鳴るarchaeologist: 考古学者treasures: 宝物lineage: 家系quest: 探求reaction: 反応allergic: アレルギーswayed: 揺れるemerged: 現れるordinary: 普通pressed on: 進むlabored: 苦しいstruggled: 懸命determination: 決意heart: 心gratitude: 感謝swiftly: 速やかにbright: 明るいresolve: 決意glimmered: 輝くbond: 絆beyond: 超えるconnection: つながりunfamiliar: 見知らぬopportunity: 機会hidden: 隠された

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: Ruins, Friendship, and a Midsummer Revelation Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ja/episode/2026-08-12-07-38-19-ja Story Transcript:Ja: 真夏の日、遺跡の中、蝉が大合唱していた。En: On a midsummer day, inside the ruins, the cicadas were in full chorus.Ja: 緑に囲まれた古代遺跡は、威厳ある石の構造が姿を見せていた。En: The ancient ruins, surrounded by greenery, revealed their majestic stone structures.Ja: ここは、ハルトとその友達、そして師匠のユキの冒険の舞台だった。En: This was the stage for the adventure of Haruto, his friends, and their mentor Yuki.Ja: ハルトは若い考古学者で、いつも歴史の謎を解き明かしたいと願っていた。En: Haruto was a young archaeologist, always wishing to unravel the mysteries of history.Ja: 「この遺跡には、祖先たちの秘密が隠されているに違いない」とハルトは意気込んで言った。En: "This ruin surely hides the secrets of our ancestors," Haruto said enthusiastically.Ja: しかしアツい夏の空気が彼らを飲み込み始めていた。En: However, the sweltering summer air began to engulf them.Ja: 特に友人のアイコにとって、それは危険な旅となった。En: Particularly for his friend Aiko, it became a dangerous journey.Ja: アイコは好奇心旺盛で、冒険が大好きだったが、時には限界を超えることもあった。En: Aiko was full of curiosity and loved adventures, but sometimes she pushed beyond her limits.Ja: この日は、体がついていかなかった。En: On this day, her body couldn't keep up.Ja: 「アイコ、大丈夫？En: "Aiko, are you okay?"Ja: 」ユキが心配そうに聞いた。En: Yuki asked worriedly.Ja: アイコは顔を赤くし、汗をかき、呼吸が荒くなっていた。En: Aiko was flushed, sweaty, and breathing heavily.Ja: 「水が必要だ」とユキが冷静に判断した。En: "Mizu|Water is needed," Yuki calmly concluded.Ja: ハルトの心は葛藤していた。En: Haruto's mind was in turmoil.Ja: 「行きたかった…。En: "I wanted to go...Ja: 発見をしたかった…」と彼の心は叫んでいた。En: I wanted to make discoveries..." his heart screamed.Ja: しかし、すぐに決心した。En: But he quickly made up his mind.Ja: 大切な友人の命がかかっているのだ。En: The life of his dear friend was at stake.Ja: 遺跡の謎より今は彼女の命が大事だった。En: More than the mystery of the ruins, her life was more important now.Ja: ユキの指示で、彼らは急いでアイコを日陰に休ませ、水を飲ませた。En: Following Yuki's instructions, they hurriedly brought Aiko to rest in the shade and gave her water.Ja: 涼しいタオルでアイコを冷やし始めた。En: They started cooling Aiko with refreshing towels.Ja: ハルトは何かを守るためのチームワークが、個人の目標を超えることを学び始めた。En: Haruto began to learn that teamwork to protect something was more significant than individual goals.Ja: 彼らは慎重にアイコを助けながら、森の中の基地に戻った。En: Carefully assisting Aiko, they returned to their base in the forest.Ja: 途中、風が涼しく感じられると、アイコは少しずつ元気を取り戻した。En: As a cool breeze was felt, Aiko gradually regained her strength.Ja: 「ありがとう、ハルト、ユキ」と彼女が言った。En: "Thank you, Haruto, Yuki," she said.Ja: その日、ハルトは遺跡の謎を解けなかったが、新しい教訓を得た。En: That day, Haruto didn't unravel the mystery of the ruins, but he gained a new lesson.Ja: 「探求は大事だけど、友情はもっと大事だ」と彼は心に決めた。En: "Exploration is important, but friendship is even more important," he resolved in his heart.Ja: 冒険はまたいつか、だが今日の重要な発見は、彼らの間に新たな絆を作ることだった。En: The adventure would be again someday, but the crucial discovery that day was building a new bond among them.Ja: ハルトは、これから常に安全を考え、仲間を大切にすることを忘れないと誓った。En: Haruto vowed never to forget to always consider safety and cherish his companions.Ja: 蝉の声がますます賑やかになり、豊かな緑が彼らを優しく包み込んでいた。En: The sound of cicadas grew ever livelier, and the lush greenery gently surrounded them. Vocabulary Words:midsummer: 真夏ruins: 遺跡cicadas: 蝉chorus: 大合唱ancient: 古代majestic: 威厳あるstructures: 構造archaeologist: 考古学者unravel: 解き明かすmysteries: 謎sweltering: アツいengulf: 飲み込むcuriosity: 好奇心limits: 限界flushed: 顔を赤くするsweaty: 汗をかくbreathing heavily: 呼吸が荒いturmoil: 葛藤stake: かかっているshade: 日陰refreshing: 涼しいbreeze: 風regained: 取り戻すstrength: 元気resolve: 心に決めるbond: 絆cherish: 大切にするcompanion: 仲間lush: 豊かなsurrounded: 包み込む

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It's time for another trip to old Nippon, dear listeners. But this time we're talking about some Japanese stuff we haven't done yet, the Yakuza. Kazuo Taoka was known as "the Godfather of Godfathers," and looks the way he did, which is basically straight out of central casting for a Yakuza boss, so you know this motherfucker made shit happen. And we get into it, and have a lot of fun talking about this bonkers time in Japanese history. Enjoy!

In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, Jennifer Anderson, registered dietitian and founder of Kids Eat in Color, shares how parents can help kids develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies—without shame, restriction, or diet culture. Plus, practical tips for school lunches and making family meals easier and more affordable.Know someone who might appreciate this episode? Share it with them!And if you love the podcast, FREE ways to help us out:1- Rate and review the podcast in your podcast player app2- “Like” this post by tapping the heart icon ♥️3- Share this with a friend. THANK YOU!You can listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out the fully edited transcript of our interview at the bottom of this post.We talk about:03:00 What does a healthy relationship with food and our bodies look like?05:00 Protecting kids from body image and weight concerns07:00 Boys, body image, and the pressure to look “ripped”09:00 Talking to kids who are worried about being in a bigger body12:00 Helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food14:00 Treats, limits, and avoiding shame or moralizing around food21:00 Can kids really regulate how much they eat?24:00 Neurodivergence, interoception, and mindful eating30:00 Emotional eating, comfort, and food as connection32:00 Simple strategies for packing school lunches37:00 Feeding a family when time, money, and energy are limited39:00 Why simple dinners are good enough42:00 Jennifer's book and pre-order bonuses44:00 The parenting advice Jennifer wishes she'd known earlierResources mentioned in this episode:* Jennifer's Book Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters* Search “Kids Eat in Color” to find Jennifer on all social media platformsConnect with Sarah Rosensweet:* Instagram* Facebook Group* YouTube* Website* Join us on Substack* Newsletter* Book a short consult or coaching session callxx Sarah and CoreyYour peaceful parenting team- click here for a free short consult or a coaching sessionVisit our website for free resources, podcast, coaching, membership and more!>> Please support us!!! Please consider becoming a supporter to help support our free content, including The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, our free parenting support Facebook group, and our weekly parenting emails, “Weekend Reflections” and “Weekend Support” - plus our Flourish With Your Complex Child Summit (coming back in the fall for the 3rd year!) All of this free support for you takes a lot of time and energy from me and my team. If it has been helpful or meaningful for you, your support would help us to continue to provide support for free, for you and for others.In addition to knowing you are supporting our mission to support parents and children, you get the podcast ad free and access to a monthly ‘ask me anything' session.Sarah: Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Peaceful Parenting Podcast. Today's guest is Jennifer Anderson, nutritionist and founder of Kids Eat in Color. Jennifer has a new book coming out all about helping kids develop a good relationship with food and with their bodies. That's what we're talking about in today's episode.Along the way, we also touched on some great tips for packing school lunches and making meals easier and more affordable. There's so much conflicting information out there about feeding kids, and with their physical and mental health at risk, knowing what to do can be very stressful for parents. I love Jennifer's common-sense and relaxed approach to eating and feeding, and I hope you do as well.If you like this episode, please share it with a friend so more parents can learn about peaceful parenting. If you're a fan of the podcast, you can help us out not only by sharing it, but by leaving a review and a five-star rating in your podcast player app. While you're there, don't forget to follow the show so you don't miss an episode. If you'd like to support us even more, you can become a supporter on Substack to help us offset the cost of making the show. We'll put a link in the show notes.Okay, let's meet Jennifer.Hey, Jennifer. Welcome back to the podcast. This is your second time with us.Jennifer: Thank you so much for having me.Sarah: Yeah, I'm so excited. You have a new book coming out, so maybe you could introduce yourself and then tell us about your new book, which is available for pre-order and coming out in September. We will link to that in the show notes, but tell us a little bit about who you are and about your new book.Jennifer: Sure. I'm a registered dietitian. I have two kids who have not been easy to feed, and I'm the founder of Kids Eat in Color and the CEO of Better Bites. I'm so excited to have this book coming out. It's called Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life. I just cannot wait for parents to have this resource.Sarah: Amazing. You were telling me before we started that the focus of your book is having kids have a healthy relationship not only with food, but with their bodies. Maybe we could start out by talking about—obviously, this could be a very long conversation—but some of the top things you've found that are really helpful, sort of dos and don'ts, in terms of having kids have that healthy relationship with food.And also, what do you mean when you talk about a healthy relationship with their bodies? Maybe that's a two-part question.Jennifer: Yeah. I love that you framed it as a two-part question, because it is kind of a two-part question, but I feel like that's only because in English we don't have a way to describe the fact that these things are deeply connected in us.When I think about a healthy relationship with food, I want to make sure kids know how to take care of their bodies. They know what a balanced diet looks like. They're able to enjoy food, whatever kind of food it is. And also, we want kids to be able to really appreciate and live in their bodies, experience life through their bodies, and not have this deep what's called internalized weight bias, where thin is the ideal. Thin is what everybody is shooting for. You should either be worried about how thin you are or trying to get thinner. That is a soul-sucking way of living when we're so focused on weight and diet culture.So we want to give kids another option. We want to give kids the ability to really appreciate their bodies, and yet we also want to do so in a way that they're still able to care about the health of their bodies in a way that's healthy, as opposed to just diet culture.What I call this is embodied independence, where kids are independent. They know all the things they need to do, and they're also embodied. They're living in and experiencing their bodies.When we think about what we want to do and what we want to not do, we want to model what we want kids to do, ideally, and this is in every single area of parenting, including eating. That's where the independence comes from. We're modeling, and we're also providing the boundaries and opportunities for them.I always tell parents, “You are in charge of your restaurant at home. You're the head chef. You're going to set when your restaurant hours are, you're going to set what's on the menu, you're going to set all these things.” As you're doing that, you are teaching your child what is part of a healthy lifestyle.On the other side, we're thinking about their relationship with their body. We want to minimize internalized weight bias, and that means we're not discussing body sizes or body shapes. We're not weighing ourselves in front of our kids. One of the most powerful things you can do as a parent is to not discuss your body size or shape and not discuss any weight-loss attempts at any point, if that's something you ever engage in. Those two things are huge risk factors for disordered eating and eating disorders. If we could just not do that, that would actually be huge.Sarah: I feel like that's actually a real gift my mother gave me. She never talked about her weight or diets or her body, really, at all. And I feel like I'm one of the few people I know who—I'll say at least until perimenopause recently—had no body-image issues for my whole adult life. I think that really did stem from being raised without that being a thing that people were talking about.Jennifer: Yeah, absolutely. It was discussed in the groups that I grew up in. At the same time, my parents were like, “No, you are not allowed to look at beauty magazines or teen magazines.” I don't remember really pushing back on that as a teenager, but now I am so grateful because, whether it's social media now or teen magazines or so many other things, so many of them are focused on body image: how thin you are, how to get thin, how to stay thin, all this stuff. And that stuff is just toxic.Sarah: Yeah, and it used to just be for girls, right? And now boys are—I have so many clients who've said their son wants a six-pack, and they're eight or nine years old and won't take off their shirt to go swimming.Jennifer: My kids are right now into parkour, and it's interesting to watch because we've been very careful about what we've said about them. They've recently started talking about six-packs and strong cores and all that because, in reality, my son is like, “I need a stronger core because that will help me flip better.” And he's 100% right that his core strength is going to determine his success in this sport in a lot of ways.At the same time, getting ripped is not the phrasing that I would really prefer because so much of that is focused on image, right? And yet this is what they're hearing. My kids are 11 and 13, but it really started last year, when they were 10 and 12, where they're just kind of being exposed to these ideas of fitness.So when we think about kids understanding this, yeah, we have to have them understand their physical fitness, and then we also have to help them understand that it's not about looks. It is about how we feel. It's about what we can do. It's about how we can serve people. It's about so much more than just how we look.So as I think about my kids getting ready to do these things and doing these things, I'm going to continue to focus on, “This will help you flip,” not, “This will help you look ripped.”Sarah: Talk a little bit more about some of the dos and don'ts about the healthy relationship. We've sort of focused on our bodies. Actually, you know what? Before you do, I want to ask you about something else first, so we'll stay on that for another second.If you have a child who is in a bigger body and they're concerned to obsessed about being in a bigger body and feeling like that's, quote, “bad,” how do you talk to them about that?Jennifer: So I think the first thing is—and I have a framework in the book that, even though it's kind of cheesy, I call the LOVE framework—we want to listen. We really want to listen, and then we want to validate. Because if a kid is coming to us and saying, “I'm fat. I want to lose weight,” one, we don't really know what they mean by that. We don't know where that came from. Are they being teased? Did they hear something? Are their friends all trying to lose weight? We have to listen and understand.And then we have to say, “Yeah, you feel like you want to lose weight. You're feeling bad right now. You're telling me that your body is rounder than your friends'.” As we validate, we want to use neutral, factual language. If they're describing their body in negative terms, we don't want to say, “Oh no, you're wrong,” because that's not right, and it's also not bad to be in a bigger body. And so if we're like, “Oh, no, no, no, you're not fat,” that's not helpful because we're just invalidating their whole experience, and we're also reinforcing the idea that fat is bad.Instead, we want to be like, “Oh yeah, you're right. I've noticed that in our family, we all have softer tummies. We all have rounder tummies.” When we're using basic descriptive language that's not negative, we help them reinterpret their body in a way that is more neutral, where we can then eventually move away from this judgment of body size and shape to an acceptance of body size and shape, where that's just not part of what we're talking about. It's just like, “Oh, it's neutral. This is just a body,” and let's move on to something more interesting.And then, after we've listened and validated, we really want to see if there's something that we need to take action on. We're saying, “Okay, do I need to help my child learn coping skills for being bullied? Do I need to talk to the school? Do I need to talk to their friend's parents? What is my role now in figuring out what needs to happen? Is my child showing signs of having disordered eating? Have they put themselves on a diet?”Those are the sorts of things where you want to take it seriously. If they're restricting themselves from different foods or they're doing things to try to change the size of their body, then is the time to involve a professional. Whether it's a counselor, an eating disorder therapist, their doctor, whoever it is, that is the time. I know it's hard when we think, “Oh my gosh, my kid potentially has disordered eating or an eating disorder.” That can fill parents with a lot of guilt and fear and shame and all that sort of thing. Don't let that stop you from getting your child help as soon as possible.Sarah: Yeah, this is not a DIY project.Jennifer: Yeah, it's not. Now, of course, you can be DIY-ing it all the way up to that point, but at the point where you see a big red flag, go bring somebody else in.Sarah: So what are some tips for helping kids have a healthy relationship with food?Jennifer: I love to talk about food factually, the same way we would talk about bodies. It's like, “Oh, these are the names of foods. They're hard, they're crunchy, they're savory, they're sweet, they're delicious,” as opposed to this sort of, “These are healthy foods, and these are not healthy foods.”It adds a level of complication that is too simple and also contributes to a very rigid perspective of food and eating. Potentially, that can even leak over into how people think of their bodies.Sarah: Yeah, because it just occurred to me—I was reflecting before, when I was thinking of questions to ask you—that I do know someone who talks to their child about, “We have to eat healthy food before we eat the unhealthy food.” And why would you ever want to tell your child that you're giving them something unhealthy anyway? “Have this dangerous toy.” You know?Jennifer: Yeah. “Don't play with the dangerous toy until you've played with the safe toy.” I completely agree with that, and I think it comes from a very well-meaning place where, again, we're wanting to pass on this information that empowers kids to nurture their bodies for the rest of their life.So it's all coming from a good place. We just have to think that kids will internalize this sort of, “Wait a second. You're giving me all this healthy food, but then we have this unhealthy food. Why are you giving me unhealthy food? And also, am I bad if I eat this unhealthy food? Should I feel guilty? Should I feel afraid of it?” There are a lot of things that kids can take from these conversations.Now, it doesn't mean that if you're using this language, you have ruined your child or you have given your child an eating disorder. I am telling you, kids are not that easy to ruin. And you can give them new skills, though, which is just to understand every food does something different in your body, and we can listen to our body to find out what's right for us. Because let's say you have an allergy. Yeah, there are some foods that are truly unhealthy. You're going to have a really bad reaction. And there are also foods where, if you eat too much of them—and this is truly just about every food, including water—if you eat too much of it, you can also become unhealthy.You can't just live on broccoli. I promise you. That's not healthy. And we see this in people who become really obsessed with healthy eating. They become very unhealthy. They're unable to maintain their physical and mental health and social health. It affects all their relationships. So I like to get away from this unhealthy/healthy thinking.And it is so healthy to be able to sit down and enjoy a bowl of ice cream. We're visiting my parents right now, and my two kids had these big bowls of ice cream, and also the two baby cousins, who are two and not even quite one yet, my mom was giving them ice cream too. I was like, “This is such a grandma move right now.”But here they are, they're all together enjoying their ice cream, and the two-year-old had sprinkles for the first time. It was just this really amazing bonding moment. I don't want my kids, in the back of their heads, to think, “Oh my gosh, I shouldn't have eaten that much ice cream,” or, “I shouldn't have eaten that ice cream,” or, “That was unhealthy for me.” I just don't want that for them.Sarah: Yeah. You want to enjoy the food that you're eating, no matter what the food is. So how do you talk about it then? I've heard some people say “sometimes food,” like, “This is food that we don't eat every day.” How do you talk about or differentiate?Jennifer: You can model that, and I like to do what's called predictable parenting, where you're just going to be really consistent about whatever you're going to do, and you're going to help your kid get in touch with their hunger and fullness cues. So you're going to serve them meals, but you're also going to be like, “Sorry, you can't have a snack right now because dinner's in 30 minutes.”You're going to have a really predictable routine of meals, and that has the purpose of developing their embodiment, which is actually being able to tune in and listen: What is going on inside of my body? What does it need? How do I respond to it? One thing you do is just have an eating routine. That actually goes a really long way in helping kids have a good relationship with food.Then you want to talk about food neutrally, and you want to model what a balanced diet looks like. If you really own your role as the restaurant owner, you're not going to be making multiple meals. You're going to be making one meal for the family, in most cases, and you're always going to make sure there's at least one food on there that your child's comfortable with. It doesn't have to be their absolute favorite food, but it's got to be something that they're comfortable with.Sarah: Something they'll eat.Jennifer: Yeah, something they'll eat, in most cases. Although kids are eating eggs several times a week for their whole life, and then one day my son's like, “I don't like eggs. I've never liked eggs.” I'm like, “That's just so not true.” So you never know, which is why I say something they're comfortable with, something that they almost always eat.Then you can model what a balanced diet looks like. You're probably not going to serve candy for meals. Maybe you add a little candy onto a meal or snack, and that's a strategy people often use, and that's fine. But you're going to show that every single meal—or most meals—has a fruit or a vegetable. I like to think of it in terms of a protein food that also has fat, an energy food, which is a carbohydrate-rich source, and then also color, which is fruits and/or vegetables. That's kind of how I think of a balanced meal.We want to model that for kids for most of their meals and most of their snacks. They will absorb what that means. And so without saying anything, without being like, “Oh, this is a sometimes food. This is an always food,” you're going to show them that it's only there sometimes.Sarah: Right.Jennifer: And you're also going to show them that other foods are there all the time. Now, as kids go out, they're going to get hyped up on candy and sweets. It's not like these are going to be, quote, “neutral foods.” They're not. Maybe when they're in preschool, but by the time they're six and in school, with friends and parties, they know that these other foods are different. They know.On social media, I've heard, “Oh, we can never restrict kids. We can never say anything that suggests they're different.” I'm sorry. Hyper-palatable food—meaning candy, things with added sodium and sugar and fat—they are so different.Sarah: Right. Your brain knows they're different.Jennifer: Yeah. The kids know they're different. So we don't have to hide the fact that we know they're different. We can also set some limits, but we just want to be consistent about them. Like, “Oh, you can have two cookies.” Sometimes we might want to give kids more cookies. You might even say, “Hey, I want my kid to be able to choose how many cookies they have.” That's all totally fine, and it's all within the bounds of something that's going to help kids have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies.Sarah: I mean, I guess it depends, too, on the access, right? Like you were saying, you're the executive chef of your restaurant. What we did, which I think worked pretty well, was we only occasionally had—I'd buy ice cream once in a while, and we'd eat it until it was gone. Or we'd have chips once in a while, or we'd make cookies once in a while. They sort of had, not 100% free access, but everybody would eat it, and then it would be gone, and then we wouldn't have that stuff in the house anymore.But the funny thing is—I mentioned to you before that two out of my three kids have been moved out of the house for a while—and I figure now my 19-year-old, I can buy chips and she can decide to eat them or not. So they come home and they're like, “When did we become a chips household?” I feel like at a certain point you can just have in your house whatever you want and your kids are adults. But it's hilarious because they're like, “And bacon? When did you start buying bacon regularly?”Jennifer: Right. And I think ultimately they're going to grow up. They're going to decide what they have in their house, and you're going to decide what's in your house. We just want to kind of get them to that point where they can enjoy all foods without any guilt.Like, yeah, you made cookies and you enjoyed them together, and then that was that, and then you didn't have them around for a while. You weren't sitting there saying, “Oh, well, cookies are bad for you, and so we only have them sometimes.” No, cookies aren't bad for you. They're only bad for you if you're eating so many cookies that it's pushing out all the other food that you need.Sarah: Yeah. So that reminds me of why I brought that up, which was that you can't really ask kids to self-regulate, in my opinion—tell me what you think—if that food is available all the time in your house. Most kids, I think, would have cookies all the time if the cookies were just freely available 24/7. So I don't know. Tell me what you think about that.Jennifer: Yeah, this is a great question. If you go on social media these days, you'll see people who are like, “Kids can totally regulate. Kids know when they're hungry and full. Kids can listen to their hunger and fullness cues.” After doing so much research for this book and also having parented—I don't have as much experience as you, but I'm at 13 years—I agree some kids can regulate, but a lot of kids cannot.And here's the reason. It's because, again, that hyper-palatable food has a different effect on their brain than other foods. And if it was an ultra-processed food, meaning it's a food that was kind of created in a factory or the recipe was designed by a multinational snack corporation, they have done so much research to find out the exact recipe that's going to make people eat the most of it, override their hunger and fullness cues, and therefore buy more of it.Sarah: Or even their enjoyment cues. Like people eating things and eating, and they're not even really enjoying it anymore.Jennifer: They are overriding their body, and I think it's unfair to ask children to try to regulate that and to put that on them. Again, some kids are good at this, and if that's one of your kids and that's just how they work, fine. That's fine. You don't have to set limits.The key, whether we're letting kids eat as much as they want or we're setting limits, isn't whether we're setting limits or not. It's how we're setting the limits. So if I want to set a limit on cookies, what I want to say is, “We're all having two cookies today,” and that's it. I'm not saying, “Because it's a sometimes food,” or, “Because it's bad for you,” or, “Because if you eat too much you're going to gain weight,” or, “Because you don't have self-control.” I'm not saying any of those things.What the research has shown, and what's just been observed, is that kids who have a higher weight hear more of these qualifications from their parents: “Because of this,” “Because you...” “Because that's just too much.” That part is where you're adding on guilt, shame, and worry, and that's what we want to avoid. So when we just say, “Hey, everybody's having two cookies,” that's just the facts. I'm going to enforce it, but I'm not adding anything to it. It's in the addition that we run across problems.Sarah: Right. More like moralizing. That makes so much sense. I like how you said some kids can regulate and some kids can't, in terms of the amount that they're eating and the kinds of food that they're eating, because I really did follow all of that sort of intuitive feeding advice for kids. And I did have one child who really had a hard time regulating whether they'd eaten enough, or eating past the point of fullness, and the things that they wanted to eat.It wasn't until I discovered through some research the connection between ADHD and feeding and found that there are some kids where you can sort of let them more intuitively know what their body needs and wants, and other kids you have to teach mindful eating, which is what we found really solved the issue. Because I was afraid to say anything, you know, because I didn't want to make this kid feel bad about themselves or their body. But as soon as we had a way to talk about it that was about mindfulness rather than that sort of intuitiveness—I don't know if you see those two things as different, but that's sort of how I came to think about it.Jennifer: Yeah. So here's the thing with intuitive eating. It was a model, and it's the name of a book. It was a model designed for adults—a very specific group of women, in fact—to come out of diet culture and to get back in touch with their bodies. Of course, that's a huge simplification, but it was never designed for children.And you may have heard of the division of responsibility in child feeding. That was also designed by a dietitian and eating disorder therapist for the purpose of helping private-practice eating disorder clients—children. But the thing is, that's a very specific group of people in both cases. So to take a model that was designed for a specific group and now say this is applicable to all children, I don't think is fair. It's not evidence-based, and it's something that I've really had to do a lot of thinking about over the past two years.Also, seeing so many kids grow up over the years and helping so many families in the Better Bites programs and things, I've been thinking, yeah, this model of always letting your child decide how much to eat, or how much to eat of what foods, actually is not great for many kids.Sarah: Yeah, it wasn't great for one of mine.Jennifer: Neurodivergent kids especially, whether it's ADHD or autism or something else, sometimes don't have as strong of a sense of interoception. And this is true even of some neurotypical kids.Sarah: Yeah.Jennifer: So the interoceptive sense is the ability to tell: Am I hungry? Am I full? Do I have to go to the bathroom? Am I hot? What is going on inside of my body, and do I know how to respond to it? Do I know how to make sense of that experience?Some people describe being anxious as being very, very hot. Like, what do you do if you're very, very hot? They have to learn over time, “Oh, that also means I'm anxious. Therefore something is worrying me. Therefore I need to address the thing.”So for a lot of kids, we have to walk them through that experience. One of the most powerful ways we can do that is by narrating our internal experience, where we're saying, “Oh, I'm cold. You see these goosebumps on my arm? That's telling me I'm cold, and I'm kind of shivering. I'm going to put on something else. Oh, that makes me feel warm.”Or, “I hear my stomach grumbling, and I feel empty, and I feel kind of grumpy. That's telling me I'm hungry, and so I'm going to plan to eat a snack. I have snack in 15 minutes,” or, “It's time for a snack right now.” And then as I'm sitting at the table, saying, “Oh, you know, I'm starting to feel my tummy fill up.” At some point you're like, “Ah, I'm feeling full now. I'm going to stop eating.”But like you're saying, for some kids, we actually have to teach them explicitly. Some of these kids are going to have a harder time potty training. They may have a harder time learning a lot of things and how to respond to their body because they have to be taught explicitly.Fortunately or unfortunately, that kind of falls to us to help them because we're the ones who are with them so much of the time, and they're most likely to be relaxed around us and able to learn. The more we can narrate our experiences—although that can be exhausting, I know—the more they can start to make those connections.Sarah: That makes a lot of sense. And I think also the interoception thing that you mentioned is really a big part of it. Then there's also that eating can be very regulating in terms of the chewing action and being able to differentiate hunger from boredom. There are so many things that some people or children just know, and some people or children need to be, as you said, explicitly taught those things.Jennifer: Yeah. It's just something that they don't know, and their body doesn't automatically make those connections. And that's so true, especially with chewing.If you find your child is eating a lot when they're bored or when they're lonely or when they have negative feelings or hard feelings, one of the things you can really fall back on is your eating routine, where you're like, “Okay, we're going to eat our meals at these times. We're going to eat our snacks at these times.” It kind of keeps everybody on the same page in terms of when we're eating.And then it's a little bit harder to say, “Oh, I'm going to use food to help my kids soothe themselves,” because that's really tempting when we know, “Hey, if I just give them a snack, they're going to calm down.” I'm definitely a big fan of occasionally using food as a pick-me-up because what a great tool. We could be feeling bad, and then we can eat something, and all of a sudden we can feel so much better.Sarah: My daughter this morning had to have some blood work done, and she texted me, “The blood work hurt my arm so much. My arm is just killing me, and so I bought myself an almond croissant to feel better.”Jennifer: Ah.Sarah: I said, “Great self-care.”Jennifer: Yes. Great self-care. At the same time, if that's our only tool, then we're in trouble. And so I think we have to kind of help our kids. I'm never down on somebody, or myself, for eating just for the purpose of feeling better or just for the purpose of enjoyment. We think about receiving meals from people in tricky times in our lives, or eating something that someone gives us even when we're not hungry. It can still build connection and be such an uplifting experience.Sarah: Well, and food is so nurturing, too. Again, before we started our recording, I was telling you how my 22- and 25-year-olds, who don't live at home anymore, I really use food as a way to show my care and love for them when they no longer, quote, “need it,” right? Like making them food.Once last year, I made a lasagna and took a picture of it and sent it to them and called it “son bait.”Jennifer: That's right.Sarah: So yeah, food really is nurturing. And I think what I've come to think about it is, as long as you just don't do that all the time, right? Have seconds when you're not hungry because it's your favorite food, as long as you don't do that every single time you eat.Jennifer: Yeah. I think having the ability to be flexible goes so far in our well-being. When we're really inflexible, sometimes our life circumstances call for inflexibility. If we have very tight deadlines for when we can eat and when we can't eat, or maybe we're working through a health issue or something like that where we just really have to be a little bit more mindful of what we're eating, maybe we have a little bit less flexibility.But if we're out of that season, we're in a different time, then we can be more flexible during that time. I think the key is we're not over-moralizing this experience. Instead, we're enjoying it, we're participating in it, and we're learning to connect to real life, not just eating away all of our hard times or avoiding all of our hard emotions or things like that.Sarah: That makes so much sense. Okay, let's shift gears a little bit. I'm talking to you—I know school has already started in some parts of the country, and it's starting in the next few weeks in other parts of the country. And with school comes packed school lunches.Jennifer: Right.Sarah: And I think every parent out there is like, “Oh, I've got to start making lunches again.” So do you have any sort of hot tips for things that you find—are there ways to cut corners to pack lunches that kids will eat, that are healthy and nutritious, and also don't take a ton of time or money to do?Jennifer: Sure. So when I'm packing lunches, first I just kind of start with the same formula, which is a protein food, an energy food—which is what I call a higher-starchy carbohydrate food—and then the color, the fruits or vegetables.If you want to really cut corners, get yourself a lunchbox that only has three containers. That's one of my big tips. A lot of these fancy bento lunches have four, five, six containers of food, and then often people feel pressured to fill it with six different kinds of foods. That's just a lot for you to think about. I have all the different lunchboxes because it's part of my job, and we often send ones that have a few more compartments, but that can be stressful. I've definitely felt that, where I'm like, “Just give me three containers.”Also think, “Is there something that I can use from dinner or another meal that I made earlier in the week in this lunchbox?” The more you can incorporate that, the better. Or, if you can't, see if you can make it during your dinner meal. When you're already in the kitchen, things are already a mess. It might look like a bomb went off in your kitchen, where there's a half-made lunchbox, there's a half-made dinner, but if you're the sort of person who can kind of manage that chaos, then do it then, because then you only have to clean up once. It's already chaos; you're just adding a little bit more chaos.And you can also train your kids to help you, depending on your kids, of course. That can be a way for them to help save time for you. And then also kind of lean into maybe a baby carrot or a cucumber that you just chop, chop, or stuff where you're cutting it up but it doesn't feel that hard for you.I think so much of what's hard and easy—I was kind of talking to my Instagram audience about this recently—is individual. Making meatballs to me is a bridge too far. That just feels so hard and tedious. And a lot of people are like, “Oh my gosh, it feels so easy to me.” So I think a lot of this is what feels hard and what feels easy to you, and kind of run with that. Don't compare your child's lunchbox to everybody else's.If your kid is going to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day, if you can send peanuts, or a sunflower seed butter and jelly sandwich every day, go ahead. Send them with the same lunch every day if they're the kind of kid who just needs the same lunch every day. If your kid needs a different lunch every day, obviously that's a little trickier.But also, if you can say, “Okay, can I use something from dinner?” that can really help. My kids have also learned that they kind of like soup at lunch, and I freeze it in one-cup segments, little portions. They know how to take it out of the freezer, put it in the microwave, heat it up, and put it in the thermos. That's something that I was able to train them to do.So any prep that you can do outside of it, when you're already doing something else, is just going to save you a little time. And then if you can also save time with cleanup by doing it at the same time as dinner, that can be really helpful. We have a whole bunch of under-15-minute lunches in my Everyday Lunches e-book, as well as mix-and-match guides.Sarah: Okay, nice.Jennifer: And they can be really fun. I think engaging your kids, too—finding out what are they going to actually eat, asking them questions. “Does this lunch look okay?” If it comes back uneaten, ask them what was wrong with it so that you can kind of iterate on lunches as well.Sarah: I once accidentally sent a thermos full of hot water with one of my kids to school. I forgot—I think it was probably macaroni and cheese that I was putting in it—and I forgot to put the macaroni and cheese in.Jennifer: Oh my gosh. There are so many times that I've messed up on lunches in one way or another. You do the best you can, you know?Sarah: Yeah. I mentioned before when we were talking about lunches that making food—and I'm somebody who cooks a lot, and I've made a lot of food for 25 or 26 years now with kids—it does take a lot of time and money and energy to make, I'm going to say, “nice food,” whatever that means to you. But the food you feel good about serving your family.If you're short on time, money, energy, or one, two, or three of those things, what's the best use of resources, do you think, for feeding families if you're short on some of that stuff?Jennifer: First, go for frozen fruits and veggies. Just go right there, because that is no compromise whatsoever. It's just a different form of the same food.Sarah: They're often cheaper too, I find. Especially frozen fruit is a lot cheaper than fresh fruit.Jennifer: Yeah. Lean into that first. Also, find some cooking methods that are easy. The other day I put a bunch of chicken thighs in the Crock-Pot and poured some salsa over it. It was delicious at the end of the day. It took me five minutes, if that. I'm trying to think of what I served with it. I think it was leftover rice or something that was already leftover, something I could just quickly heat up in the microwave.I can't remember what we did for veggies, but I could have also added on the side of that just a couple bags of frozen peas, and we would've been good, right? So some bread and some frozen peas. I had a meal that took me maybe 15 minutes to make, very economical. It's really kind of looking for those time-saving prep methods and then saying, “Okay, what can we do?”Sarah: Yeah. One thing I always talk to overwhelmed parents about is trying to just really, really simplify dinner. Coming home, daycare pickup, everyone's tired, blah, blah, blah. And I always have this funny story. Once when I was pregnant with my third, and my other two were two and five, my husband had an out-of-town job for four months, and I was in school full-time.Jennifer: Oh my God.Sarah: It was exhausting. And I would make eggs for dinner a lot.Jennifer: Oh my goodness, yes.Sarah: Eggs and baby carrots and toast were the go-to dinner, to the point where one Saturday morning I said to my sons, “Who wants some fried eggs for breakfast?” And my two-year-old said, “Silly Mommy, fried eggs are for dinner.”Jennifer: I love that. Oh my gosh, we went through years and years and years where at least once a week we had eggs and toast and baby carrots, or some microwave peas or something from the freezer.Canned soup is an okay dinner. There are so many things that I think people are feeling kind of hard on themselves about. Don't listen to other people's rules. What is working for you right now? Go with that.Sarah: Yeah, like pesto pasta and jarred spaghetti sauce and noodles and apple slices. And I think sometimes it's hard for parents, too, because they like to cook and they want to make nice food for themselves, right? But something has to go.Jennifer: Yeah. Something's gotta go, man. Making something nice for yourself—do it when you have a chance, but otherwise it's okay to let that go for now. You'll get it back.That's the other thing. We feel like, “Oh, I don't want to give up this part of myself.” You're not giving it up. You're just saying, “Hey, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do other things right now, and then at a different stage I will do that again.” I'm actually cooking a lot better now that my kids aren't holding onto my feet and fighting while I'm trying to cook.Well, they still do that, but they're not really getting in the way of cooking. It's so hard to cook with little kids around.Sarah: Totally.Jennifer: I always say I would notoriously let my kids make a huge mess while I was making dinner, and I call it a “time loan.” They're making a huge mess, but I was able to actually get dinner on the table. I got that time, and then, yeah, I'll have to pay it back. I'll have to clean up their mess when they were really little, but it's worth it.And I will also say, if you're having a really hard time budget-wise, but you still have some time to cook, I have a meal plan that's specifically designed to save money. It's all about making the most of the food, using up all leftovers and preventing waste and all that, so that you can really spend significantly less—Sarah: Yeah, I think I saw that a few years ago. We'll link to that. You've had it for a while, right? It's called Affordable Flavors.Yeah, we'll link to that in the show notes. One thing I'm just remembering that we did when my kids were little is there was another family—this woman who had kids around the same age—and we lived a few blocks away. Once a week, we would make double dinner and give it to the other one.Jennifer: I love that.Sarah: Yeah. She was Japanese and a really nice Japanese cook, and my kids actually, to be totally honest, weren't huge fans of her dinners, but my husband and I certainly were.Jennifer: Oh, that's great.Sarah: Yeah. But it was really nice. Once a week, you didn't have to make anything because somebody gave you dinner. And it's not very hard to make double of your own dinner. So if anyone has a neighbor that they could do that with, it was really a nice thing to do.Jennifer: Yeah. That's a great idea.Sarah: Well, thank you so much. Tell us about your book launch. We'll put any links in the show notes, but you told me before that you had some prizes and things for the pre-order.Jennifer: Yeah. So there are a bunch of pre-order bonuses. As soon as you buy the book, you can upload either your receipt or, let's say you requested it from the library, you can upload just proof of that request. I have some printables—how to talk to kids about red foods, orange foods, yellow foods—that are super popular. I usually sell it, but I'm giving that away as a pre-order bonus.There are also mealtime conversation cards coming. There is a live call with my mom that I'm going to be doing that's also recorded, so depending on when you hear this, it's still available. There are also conversations like, what do you say if your kid comes back and says, “I'm fat”? What are some scripts? There are some scripts for that. There's also my bedtime snack chart. There are a lot of tools where you're like, “Okay, I want to make some improvements in different areas.” There are pre-order bonuses that give you tools for almost every area that you could want to apply.And then I'm also doing a really fun book tour where I'm meeting with child feeding and food specialists from all over the United States over time, and I'm going to be posting my interviews online for everybody to see. It's almost like a short-term podcast kind of demo. It's going to be a lot of fun for people to follow along.Sarah: Great. Well, thank you so much for coming on. One last question, which I ask all my guests—and I've asked you this before, so I can go back and compare and see if you answer it the same way—which is: If you could go back in time to your younger parent self, what advice would you give yourself? It can be about anything. It doesn't have to be about food or feeding.Jennifer: Sure. So now that I'm 13 years in, I think the one thing that would've been so helpful for me to know is: It's not my job to make my kid happy. It sounds so simple now, but I'm like, no, it wasn't my job to try to make them stop crying. It was my job to just hold a boundary and be there.And when I stopped, when I just kind of let go of that idea of trying to make them happy, oh my gosh, the weight, the drama—it just went away. It's like, “Oh, it's okay for you to be unhappy. That's you and your feelings over there, and I'm here to support. I'm here for you.” And also, it's not my job to fix that.Sarah: Yeah. Great. Well, thank you so much. Best place for folks to go and find out more about you and what you do?Jennifer: Kids Eat in Color, whether that's kidsincolor.com or on your favorite social media. I'm there.Sarah: All right. Thank you so much, Jennifer.Jennifer: Thank you so much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

Original airdate: March 5, 2024 What makes life feel truly meaningful? The Japanese concept of ikigai is often translated as “a reason for living,” but it goes beyond finding one grand purpose. Ikigai can be found in the small pleasures, relationships, rituals, and pursuits that give our everyday lives meaning and joy. My guest today is Ken Mogi, a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. He is the author of Awakening Your Ikigai and The Way of Nagomi, and has written extensively on neuroscience, Japanese culture, well-being, and the art of living. In this conversation, Ken explores the deeper meaning of ikigai and how it is woven into Japanese culture. We discuss the five pillars of ikigai, why purpose doesn't have to be tied to career or achievement, and how embracing small joys and everyday experiences can help us create a more meaningful, harmonious, and fulfilling life. If you've been searching for more purpose, joy, or meaning in your everyday life, this conversation offers a refreshing way to rethink what makes a life worth living.

This week Seth Paridon and John Parshall take a look at the unfortunate, but inevitable, end of the defense of Bataan. After months of defending the peninsula valiantly, and short on everything but guts, the defenders finally capitulate under the guns and relentless assault of the Japanese army. Sick, exhausted, demoralized, and flat worn out, the Americans and Filipinos do the best they can against the fresh troops of General Homma's 14th army. Unfortunately for General Jonathan Wainwright's men, the best they can do at this stage is simply not enough. Bereft of supplies, food, medicine, and everything but Japanese, the inevitable defeat of the Fil-American forces on Bataan finally comes to fruition. And while the fighting is over, the misery for the defenders and those who survived the campaign is about to begin. Tune in to hear the final epic story of the heroic defense of the Philippines in 1942. #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #essex #halsey #taskforce38 #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #hollywood #movie #movies #books #mastersoftheair #8thairforce #mightyeighth #100thbombgroup #bloodyhundredth #b17 #boeing #airforce wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #hollywood #movie #movies #books #oldbreed #1stMarineDivision #thepacific #Peleliu #army #marines #marinecorps #worldwar2 #worldwar #worldwarii #leytegulf #battleofleytegulf #rodserling #twilightzone #liberation #blacksheep #power #prisoner #prisonerofwar #typhoon #hurricane #weather #iwojima#bullhalsey #ace #p47 #p38 #fighter #fighterpilot #b29 #strategicstudying #tokyo #boeing #incendiary #usa #franklin #okinawa #yamato #kamikaze #Q&A #questions #questionsandanswers #history #jaws #atomicbomb #nuclear #nationalarchives #nara #johnford #hollywood #fdr #president #roosevelt #doolittle #doolittleraid #pearlharborattack #salvaged #medalofhonor #tarawa #malayalam #singapore #guadalcanal #china #burma #oil #marinecorps

John Whelan works for Seaguar, the Japanese company that accidentally invented fluoro way back in the 1970s. He breaks down why you need fluoro, how it's made, why one grade is cheaper than another, and even how to spot fake fluoro. Hosted by Outdoor Life fishing editor Joe Cermele. Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Platypus Economics host and Meidas Chief Economist Justin Wolfers report on Donald Trump's Japanese currency swap scheme selling Euro's to purchase the Yen without notifying the European Central Bank and the implications of this move. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“If we ever lose Saipan, repeated air attacks on Tokyo will follow. No matter what it takes, we have to hold there.”As Operation Cartwheel neutralizes Japanese forces on Rabaul, American and British leaders meet with “Forgotten Allies” in Cairo—namely China's nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek and his diplomat wife Soong Mei-ling. The relentless pressure on Japan continues as heroes like “Merrill's Marauders" hack through Burma's jungles, securing vital supply lines and isolating the Japanese. Desperation leads to more bonsai attacks and even civilian suicides. More islands fall. The conflict reaches a boiling point at the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," and the brutal battle for Saipan, both of which aim to place Tokyo within bombing range and clear the path for Doug to return to the Philippines.____Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com andgo deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendationsjoin discussions in our Facebook communityget news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette come see a live showget HTDS merchor become an HTDS premium member for episodes and other perks.HTDS is part of Audacy media network. Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com.

The Japanese forces almost take Edson's Ridge but fail. Then Kawaguchi realizes, 1/3 of his attack force didn't participate. Now the Japanese Combined Fleet will make Guadalcanal their paramount priority. Want to go beyond the battlefield with The History of WWII Podcast? Dive deeper into the war with exclusive bonus episodes, expert interviews, and commercial-free listening for just $5/month! Every penny supports the show and keeps the history coming. https://worldwariipodcast.net/members/ Donations are always welcome and help keep the History of WWII Podcast free for all. https://bit.ly/3UuTZxU  Follow The History of WWII Podcast: RSS – https://feeds.megaphone.fm/history-of-world-war-ii Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/wwii45 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rayharrisjr/ TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@wwiiguy YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@historyofwwiipodcast8712 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Symonds, author of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, Part One: Following the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz assumed command of the Pacific Fleet with a mission to stabilize a wrecked command and shift from defeat to offense. Selected by FDR and Frank Knox despite initial skepticism from Admiral Ernest J. King, Nimitz's leadership was characterized by a calm, humble, and collaborative approach, contrasting with King's hard-driving nature. Central to his strategy was the concept of "calculated risk"—the principle of assuming no risk greater than the potential benefit. The narrative explores Nimitz's reliance on intelligence officers like Edwin Layton and Joseph Rochefort, whose code-breaking efforts were vital to successes at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. Nimitz demonstrated a keen ability to manage difficult personalities and navigate naval rivalries, such as the friction between "brown shoe" aviators and "black shoe" ship drivers. During the precarious Guadalcanal campaign, Nimitz made the critical decision to replace the cautious Admiral Ghormley with the aggressive William "Bull" Halsey to maintain momentum against the Japanese. Throughout this period, Nimitz balanced professional pressures with personal discipline, maintaining a rigorous exercise routine while communicating his private concerns only to his wife. (1)

Craig Symonds, Part Two: This phase of the war focuses on the Central Pacific campaign, beginning with the brutal amphibious landing at Tarawa in 1943, where the Marines had to "invent" amphibious operations under fire. Nimitzcontinued to manage complex interpersonal dynamics, including the volatile "Howling Mad" Holland Smith and the difficult aviator John Towers. Despite skepticism from subordinates, Nimitz applied "calculated risk" by targeting Kwajalein directly, a decision vindicated by its swift capture. The account details the contrasting leadership styles of Raymond Spruance and Bull Halsey. Spruance's cautious but effective defense during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" drew criticism from aviators, while Halsey's aggressive pursuit of "bait" carriers at Leyte Gulf nearly led to disaster. Nimitz often chose to retain Halsey despite major errors, including his failure to avoid two devastating typhoons, citing the importance of Halsey's public image and American morale. As the war reached the Japanese home islands, Nimitz faced the terrifying kamikaze threat and debated the merits of a naval blockade versus a full-scale invasion. After being briefed on the atomic bomb, the war concluded with the surrender in Tokyo Bay. Post-war, Nimitz served as Chief of Naval Operations and later co-edited the influential naval history textbook Sea Power. (2)

What if one of the most important health decisions you make every day has nothing to do with food—and everything to do with what touches your skin?   Michel May, founder of AIZOME Textiles, joins us to explore the hidden world of modern fabrics, synthetic dyes, and the chemicals woven into many of the clothes, bed sheets, towels, carpets, and other textiles that surround us. After witnessing his mother's reaction to conventional textiles during cancer treatment and discovering traditional Japanese dyeing practices, Michel began a journey that led him to question the materials most of us rarely think about.   In this episode, Michel explains why many clothing labels may be far more misleading than informative, how synthetic dyes and fibers became the industry standard, and what researchers are learning about microplastics, the skin microbiome, and the potential health effects of modern textiles. He discusses athletic wear, fast fashion, indoor air quality, environmental pollution, and why textile fibers make up a surprisingly large portion of the dust in our homes.   We also explore the differences between natural and synthetic fibers, the role of traditional plant-based dyes, and why Michel believes the items that touch our skin the longest deserve the closest attention. In fact, he argues that the most important place to start isn't your wardrobe at all—it's your bed. Since we spend roughly a third of our lives sleeping, Michel believes our sheets may be one of the most significant textile choices we make.   Whether you're concerned about microplastics, interested in creating a healthier home, or simply curious about what's really in your clothing, this conversation offers a fascinating look at an often-overlooked piece of the health puzzle—and practical steps you can take starting today.   WAPF Ad- 50% Pledge – Visit westonaprice.org/50-50-pledge.   To learn more about Michel May and his company AIZOME Textiles visit https://aizome-textiles.com As a special thank-you to Wise Traditions listeners, Michel May at AIZOME is offering 10% off your order with the code WISE10 at checkout. This discount is valid whenever another sitewide promotion is not already running. Enjoy the opportunity to experience Aizome's beautifully crafted, naturally dyed textiles at a special savings.   Join the Nourishing Our Children closed Facebook group  New Biology Clinic - "Use code WISETRADITIONS to get $100 off your membership activation fee, or code WAPF to get your first month free on an enrichment services only membership. Codes must be in all capital letters." Earthly Wellness - "Use the code WISE10 for a special discount for the Wise Traditions' audience."  

Iran's security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr has warned the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States agrees to six conditions. These include easing economic sanctions, paying war reparations and ending the US blockade of Iranian ports. The foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier that Iran and Oman were "very close" to an agreement on a new shipping route through the Strait. Also: Ukraine's President Zelensky pleads for more European support on a visit to Serbia, a traditional Russian ally. The US Senate confirms Todd Blanche as the new attorney general, putting Donald Trump's former lawyer in charge of the justice department. Thousands of people flee their homes in the Canadian province of British Colombia as a raging wildfire doubles in size. Figures show for the first time more than half of Japanese men are taking paternity leave. And the growing concern over old literature being bought, scanned and destroyed to improve AI. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk Photo: Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Credit: Reuters

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If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, go to https://NetSuite.ai/Theory.Surfshark: Go to https://surfshark.com/TOMB or use code TOMB at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark! The team digs into Bernie Sanders going on CNN to embrace what's being called a "red wave"—the surging energy of the DSA within the Democratic Party—and his refusal to disavow Hasan Piker even when pressed on Piker's most controversial statements. What follows is a genuinely two-sided, and at times heated, debate. On one side: the argument that this is a pivotal cultural moment, that "politics is downstream of culture," and that figures like Mamdani and Hasan Piker represent a one-two punch pushing DSA ideas into the mainstream—ideas the host warns point toward an ideology with a catastrophic historical track record, making him feel morally obligated to sound the alarm even when he admits it's bad for business. On the other side: a sharp policy-focused rebuttal arguing the show spends too much time dissecting 30-second streamer clips and not enough on actual bills, appropriations, and the money-in-politics mechanisms that drive real outcomes—"more C-SPAN, less Twitch stream recaps." The conversation traces historical parallels (the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Bolsheviks vs. Mensheviks), debates whether the DSA is unintentionally clearing a path for a charismatic strongman, and wrestles with how the left should handle provocative voices. It also gets personal and philosophical: the "parchment guarantee" idea that a constitution only matters if the culture enforces it, a reflection on youth as an energy that rightly shakes up an ossified society, and a candid riff on competing cultural metaphors—jihad-as-waging-war versus the Christian "spark of the divine in the individual"—and the tension between drawing a hard line and being careful with war rhetoric in a volatile moment. A substantive, disagreement-driven look at where American politics may be heading.Tom digs into Mayor Mamdani colliding with a basic truth of policy: create an incentive structure, and people will follow it—sometimes by abusing it. Joining Tom is Drew, who pushes back and adds important nuance throughout. The flashpoint is Mamdani's city-owned grocery stores: with goods priced well below market, Tom argues there's an obvious incentive to buy cheap and resell at market value, which is why Mamdani may need some form of ID to wall off who can shop—running headlong into the same "require ID" logic the left resists elsewhere. Drew makes the key distinction that a grocery ID (a driver's license) is not the citizenship-level verification the SAVE Act demands (a passport), and Tom agrees that a sensible ID standard is reasonable. From there, Tom lays out his broader, and more contested, thesis about incentive structures, voter-ID politics, and how DSA-aligned cities increasingly attach the phrase "regardless of immigration status" to taxpayer-funded programs—from grocery initiatives to childcare to housing and legal-support hotlines. He argues this is happening beyond New York, in cities like Minneapolis and Seattle, and challenges the claim that undocumented immigrants are net contributors to social systems, drawing a parallel to immigration debates in Nordic countries. Tom's bottom line: you can't simultaneously say government spends too much, oppose borders and ID requirements, and promise to care for everyone who comes—mathematically it doesn't work, and if you genuinely want to help people, you have to care for a finite number well rather than incentivizing unlimited inflow. He also breaks down why Mamdani's budget gap is likely to keep growing.Tom untangles one of the most consequential and least understood stories in global finance: the United States buying yen for the first time since 1998. Joining Tom is the team as he explains why this isn't a sign of strength but an emergency effort to stop a total collapse of the Japanese economy—one so dangerous because the yen carry trade has locked the US and Japan tightly together for decades. Tom speed-runs the history: Japan's 1989 real estate bubble, thirty years of ultra-low rates, and how cheap Japanese money flooded the world as liquidity that America benefited from enormously. He walks through the trap Japan is now in—raising rates to fight post-Covid inflation triggers a carry-trade unwind, but every intervention to slow it signals weakness and sends money fleeing. He breaks down the concept of risk-adjusted return, why Japan has nothing like the AI trade to justify its risk, the Bessent Camp David notepad photo he believes was a deliberate signal (and the roughly $1 trillion it briefly wiped from US markets), and why the New York Fed selling euros for yen further strains an already-tense relationship with Europe. Tom's blunt diagnosis: propping up the yen is Advil for a brain tumor; the only real cure is a painful decade of killing off zombie companies and getting Japan innovating and growing again. He then connects it to the bigger board—Argentina and Milei as a success story the US wants to use to pull South America back toward capitalism and away from China's debt-trap Belt and Road, and his view that America is becoming a regional rather than global hegemon. Throughout, Tom stresses intellectual honesty about how Covid-era authoritarian decisions helped break the system, and reminds viewers to treat official reassurances as propaganda.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.