Podcasts about Kuwait City

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Kuwait City, Bahrain and Jeddah are all under attack as Iran’s desperate regime fires drones and missiles at its neighbours across the Persian Gulf: punishment for hosting American forces as Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury continues to pound Iran’s territory and assets, sinking at least half of the Iranian navy fleet alone. Follow our live blog here. Read more on this developing story: Australian mosques, organisations slammed for events honouring ‘martyrdom’ of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Conflict spreads as Hezbollah weighs in, ‘drone strike’ on British base in Cyprus, new Israeli salvo Trump says he has fulfilled his promise to the Iranian people, but the rest is up to them Ayatollah’s son or ‘Iranian Putin’ could step into power A weakened Iran will have ripple effects across the Middle East See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other's orbit by the rediscovery of their late father's long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father's legacy—an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize. As the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab's estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the reemergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart. Spanning continents and decades—from 1950s Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps—Floodlines (Europa, 2026) is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure. Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City to a Palestinian-Lebanese father and an Iraqi-German mother, and educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as an aid worker with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and has advised on humanitarian and peacebuilding issues throughout West Asia and North Africa. He is the author of the acclaimed debut Guapa, a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book and the winner of the 2017 Polari Prize. His 2019 directorial debut, Marco, was nominated for the 2019 Iris Prize for “Best British Short Film” and is available to watch on YouTube. He is currently based in Lisbon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other's orbit by the rediscovery of their late father's long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father's legacy—an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize. As the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab's estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the reemergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart. Spanning continents and decades—from 1950s Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps—Floodlines (Europa, 2026) is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure. Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City to a Palestinian-Lebanese father and an Iraqi-German mother, and educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as an aid worker with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and has advised on humanitarian and peacebuilding issues throughout West Asia and North Africa. He is the author of the acclaimed debut Guapa, a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book and the winner of the 2017 Polari Prize. His 2019 directorial debut, Marco, was nominated for the 2019 Iris Prize for “Best British Short Film” and is available to watch on YouTube. He is currently based in Lisbon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Dive into the phenomenal 35-year aviation career of Greg Hansen (USNA '82), a former F-14 Tomcat pilot, Topgun student, and legendary Topgun instructor, who finished his career as a FedEx 777 Captain. In this full-length episode, Greg shares unbelievable, high-stakes stories from the height of the Cold War and his time flying with the US Navy's best. - Topgun Inside Track: Learn what it was like to be a "stash Ensign" at Topgun right out of the Naval Academy, getting an early look at the world's elite fighter tactics. - Constant Peg: Hear the full story of flying against live Soviet MiGs (MiG-23 Flogger & MiG-21) at the secret Constant Peg program and the incredible small-world reunion that happened years later. - The SU-15 Intercept: Greg recounts being scrambled in his F-14 off the USS Ranger in the Sea of Japan to intercept a Soviet SU-15 Flagon, narrowly avoiding an international incident. - Carrier Night Ops Disaster: The heart-stopping story of a catastrophic night carrier landing pattern, an EMCON transit (limited electronic emissions), and the near mid-air collision in the landing groove that confirmed the mantra: "The boat is trying to kill you." F-14 vs. A-4: A technical comparison of the A-4 Skyhawk and the F-14A Tomcat behind the boat, and how he learned to fly the challenging TF-30 engines. FedEx & The F-16: Greg discusses his transition to the FedEx 747, the eye-opening flight into Kuwait City post-Gulf War (flying through oil haze), and his short but intense stint flying the F-16 in the Michigan Air National Guard.

Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 753. This week we welcome Tom McGuire of Large Loss Mastery for an interview on major disaster restoration projects. Large losses can make or break companies, today we learn from one of the best how to handle these business making or breaking events. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio+. Tom McGuire is the founder and owner of At Large Loss Mastery. He is a Trainer, Teacher, mentor, and Learner. Tom is a 39-year Large Loss and Disaster Recovery veteran specializing in structural damage restoration/decontamination, ambient control/stabilization, and vital document recovery/vacuum freeze-drying systems. He has worked around the US and internationally in Kuwait City, Singapore, and Costa Rica.

Simon's journey to the flight deck is like none other. As a young man, his love for aviation developed after watching both his Father and Uncle serve for the RAF. He completed his private pilot's license in Oklahoma, and was working in Kuwait City, when he was taken hostage at the Iraq border. Interrogated for 7 days, and sentenced to 8 years in Abu Ghraib, his dreams of becoming a pilot never died. Simon's journey from the depths of the darkest prison, to the seat of a modern commercial airliner, is one you don't want to miss. Check out the Video Vlog here to see pictures and more!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7u_nASbJYSubscribe to Simon's website to stay up on his book release and further publicity:https://nobordersamemoir.com/

This week Brian & Sean sit down with Marco Tomasello to discuss goal tending, IIHF officiating and the state of the game in Australia. This is a great chat with a player who has seen all levels here in Aus playing AJIHL, ECSL and AIHL as well as becoming a IIHF accredited linesman and officiating at the recent World Championships in Kuwait City. Parents of Goalies there is a lot of great tips in this one so lock in and don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button. Big thanks to #SkatersNetwork & Bauer for sponsoring the show.

Thank you to Gametime for sponsoring today's episode! Planning your college football travel for this season? Gametime has tickets to every game. (And every concert and comedy show.) Download the Gametime App and enter code: STAPLES for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply. Last Minute Tickets, Lowest Prices, Guaranteed. (0:00-4:01) Intro (4:02-6:35) Questions for the ACC, Newcomers (6:36-7:59) Cal - Is Jaydn Ott the best RB in the ACC? (8:00-10:24) Stanford - Is Elic Ayomanor the best WR in the ACC? (10:25-13:39) SMU, Did you build enough depth on the line? (13:40-16:35) Gametime Ad (16:36-34:05) Kentucky OC Bush Hamdan joins (34:06-37:51) Clemson - Is this it? (37:52-40:37) Florida State, Can DJU lead you to the CFP? (40:38-43:00) Miami, can the steak match the Sizzle? (43:01-45:37) North Carolina - Coach Brown, are you sandbagging us? (45:38-55:49) Todd Gurley joins (55:50-58:22) Boston College - How good can Bill O'Brien & Thomas Castellanos be? (58:23-59:14) Duke, thank you for bringing 2 quarterbacks (59:15-1:01:03) Georgia Tech, can you shock the world? (Or multiple continents) (1:01:04-1:02:22) Pittsburgh, will you come out of nowhere this year? (1:02:23-1:03:56) Syracuse - Kyle McCord revenge tour? (1:03:57-1:05:52) Virginia, does Tony Muskett going to media days mean no Anthony Colandrea? (1:05:53-1:07:53) Virginia Tech - Is it your time to climb back to the top? (1:07:54-1:12:09) Wake Forest, Have you found your way? (1:12:10-1:14:35) Louisville, How good can you be with a healthy Tyler Shough? (1:14:36-1:17:10) NC State, Can you carry the torch early for your conference? (1:17:11-1:19:36) ACC's Outlook (1:19:37-1:20:23) Conclusion - Dear Andy Tomorrow! Send your questions to andystapleson3@gmail.com Kentucky's offense has been trying to recapture the magic of 2021 for two seasons without much success, but the Wildcats have high hopes with a new transfer quarterback (Brock Vandagriff from Georgia) and a new coordinator (Bush Hamdan from Boise State). Hamdan joins the show to discuss how he made his way from Kuwait City to college football fields across America. Hamdan also explains his role in suggesting one of the most iconic plays in college football history. He also talks about the development of Vandagriff and Kentucky's 2024 offense. Former Georgia tailback Todd Gurley also joins the show. Gurley discusses what it's been like watching Georgia's rise. He also explains how the 2012 SEC Championship Game taught him that he'd definitely make it in the NFL. Gurley also explains how happy he is for players who can now make NIL money, and he looks back on how strange it was that he once got suspended four games for signing autographs. Later, Andy previews ACC media days with questions for every ACC team. Yes, all 17 of them. Sample question: Are you sandbagging on us, Mack Brown? Want to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube and join us LIVE, M-F, at 8 am et! https://youtube.com/live/Psz91yTxuRM Host: Andy Staples Producer: River Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nabil Kazi has traveled to 129 countries   Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. I am excited to share my conversation with Nabil Kazi.  I connected with Nabil Kazi back in 2021 when he suggested a guest (Nick Butter - episode 95) for Counting Countries.  I guess everything comes full circle as Nabil is a guest on this episode. Nabil and I have been in contact ever since and even connected in person for dinner in Bangkok at my favorite Mexican restaurant, Charlie Browns.  Nabil has had two distinct chapters in his adult life.  Chapter One, an executive in the land of Hollywood and Chapter Two, as a full time traveler.  Maybe we can get some behind-the-scenes Hollywood insights.   Some of you might have heard the tragic news from Bamiyan in Afghanistan.  Nabil and I touch on this but while editing there are some greater details.  Apparently, a tour provider from our 193 community brought a group to Afghanistan.  Three Spaniard travelers and three Afghan locals were shot and killed.  In additional six travelers and Afghans were also injured.  Just a reminder when you ask in a conversation or online, “is it safe?” and many people respond, “I just went it is very safe, just go!”.  Remember it was very safe for that traveler, on that specific day, time, and location.  This is a country of 40 million and 250,000 square miles.  That traveler is not a security expert on Afghanistan.   If you are a listener, you have heard this before … the next Extraordinary Travel Festival will be held on November 15, 2024 in Bangkok.  Discount code BANGKOK of $100, so please purchase your ticket today to lock in your savings at the . Just a reminder for those who are coming or thinking of coming that we will be hosting the NomadMania Awards live in Bangkok on Sunday evening.  This is the great event that NM has been streaming on YouTube for the last several years.  This is a great opportunity to get together and recognize some travelers who are making a difference.  Don't forget, Sunday evening, November 17 this year.   I would like to thank everyone for their support of Counting Countries, especially my Patrons: Adam Hickman, Barry Hoffner, Bisa Myles, Ted Nims, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Steph Rowe, Lori Pastorelli, Gin, Philippe Izedian, Sunir Joshi, Jorge Serpa, Justine Kirby, Phil “Marmaduke” Marcus, Sonia Zimmermann, Katelyn Jarvis, Carole Southam, Per Flisberg, and Sam Williams for supporting this podcast.  You can support this podcast by going to .  My patrons will hear extra content with Wee Cheng that you will not hear.   And remember, we have a new feature on Counting Countries.  The idea is to celebrate wins in the 193 community and involve more people.  The inspiration came from my friends at Club 100 from Sweden.  They have been recognizing milestones on their great IG account - .  So make sure you follow along.  Today, we will get updates from Ted Nims, Justine “off the beaten path” Kirby, Raiiq Ridwan (former guest and ETF speaker).  You will hear their updates throughout the podcast.  Let's listen to one now.     I will be asking for travelers to submit audio files to recognize travel accomplishments.  To learn more follow the Counting Countries on and accounts and I will be making future call to actions.  Here are a couple of milestones to recognize now.  And take a look at Nabil's page on GlobalGaz.com Counting Countries page.  I share his Pakistani passport from when he was a small kid.     I was in Boston for this recording while Nabil was in Cali. Please listen in and enjoy.    Thank you to my - you rock!!  ….  Adam Hickman, Barry Hoffner, Bisa Myles, Ted Nims, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Steph Rowe, Lori Pastorelli, Gintaute Liutkeviciute, Philippe Izedian, Sunir Joshi, Jorge Serpa, Justine Kirby, Phil “Marmaduke” Marcus, Sonia Zimmermann, Katelyn Jarvis, Carole Southam, Per Flisberg, Dale Wursten, and Sam Williams.        And now you can listen to ! And Alexa!   And write a review! About Nabil Kazi Counting Countries 1.  129 countries (not including Kosovo, Vatican, Palestine and Taiwan) 2.  I was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait 3. I hold a USA Passport 4. Favorite Travel Book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 5. Favorite Travel Film is Eat Pray Love 6. Must Carry Item when Traveling AirPods and Canon Camera 7. Favorite Food is Lebanese 8 Favorite Drink is hot latte with oak milk  9. Favorite Airline is Emirates 10. Favorite Hotel is Aman Resorts 11. Instagram handle is About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who've spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter's Dance, written, performed, and provided by .  About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: , , and .  He is the producer of two travel documentaries: and .   Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has and keep up with his journey at How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask!  The United Nations states that there are . The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are . The Traveler's Century Club states that there are . The Nomad Mania The Most Traveled Person states that there are 1500 . SISO says there are .     Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Disclaimer: There are affiliates in this post. Nabil Kazi Counting Countries 

This is a very important and special episode of the podcast, in which Fadi Zmorrod, the recipient of the SEVN (South East Venue Network) bursary joins Jenny in studio to talk about his work with Doulab Circus and Dance. When Fadi was younger, he left the oppressive environment of occupied Palestine and went to study computing in the United States. Yet his heart was simply not in it: he was drawn back to the arts and to his home, where he met his Irish wife, Juliet, and where Doulab Circus and Dance was born. Across Palestine, Fadi and Juliet used dance and circus movement to offer children a space in which movement and intellectual curiosity could come together, and where trust and confidence could be built. The decision to leave Palestine was extremely difficult; Fadi speaks of what it was like to leave those children behind and what it is to cope with the conflicting emotions of relief and guilt that a new life of safety presents. Doulab Circus and Dance currently works with the residents of Direct Provision centres, members of the Travelling community and children with diverse and special needs. Also in studio are Dr Kate McCarthy, who has galvanised SETU staff as part of a solidarity initiative called Gather for Palestine, and Sinead Bolger, an arts and migration facilitator who talks about meeting Fadi for the first time and offers some suggestions on readings by Palestinian authors that you can find below. Book Recommendation List: I saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti – non-fiction Award-winning account of the human aspects of the Palestinian struggle. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco - Graphic Novel Joe Sacco's visual journalism about the massacre of 111 Palestinian refugees by Israeli soldiers in 1956. The hundred years' war on Palestine : a history of settler colonial conquest and resistance by Rashid Khalidi– Non-fiction A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. Palestine +100 : stories from a century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini. – short stories What might your home city look like in the year 2048 - exactly 100 years after Nakba, the displacement of more than 700,000 people after the Israeli War of Independence? Enter ghost by Isabella Hammad - fiction An actress returns to her home city of Haifa after many years in London and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Against the loveless world by Susan Abulhawa - fiction Nahr, a resilient but exhausted woman, tells the story of her life from an Israeli solitary confinement cell. Mornings in Jenin / Susan Abulhawa – fiction A multi-generational story about a Palestinian family as they live through half a century of violent history. Qissat : short stories by Palestinian women, edited by Jo Glanville - fiction In a cross-generational compilation, editor Jo Glanville chronicles the varied lived experiences of Palestinian women, from domestic to diaspora. A woman is no man by Etaf Rum The debut novel by Palestinian-American Etaf Rum takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab family living in America. Salt houses / Hala Alyan Salma is forced to leave Palestine and move to Kuwait City, but when Saddam Hussein invades, she must leave again. They called me a lioness: a Palestinian girl's fight for freedom by Ahed Tamimi – non-fiction A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir. Out of place : a memoir / Edward Said. An extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist by Emile Habibi. This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.

ARway.ai CEO Evan Gappelberg joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news to announce a new partnership deal with AMANAH TEKNOLOGIA, a leading technology company and system integrator based in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Under this partnership, ARway.ai will collaborate with AMANAH TEKNOLOGIA to develop a mobile application prototype for hospitals that integrates with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems and serves as a digital concierge for visitors and staff. The project will involve creating a prototype mobile application that enhances the hospital experience by providing AR navigation and immersive educational experiences throughout the facility. Specifically, the application will leverage ARwayKit SDK to implement AR navigation features, enabling visitors and staff to navigate the hospital premises efficiently and seamlessly. The prototype will be tested at Dar AlShifa Hospital in Kuwait, where it will be evaluated for its effectiveness in improving the overall hospital journey for visitors and staff. By integrating with EMR systems and offering AR navigation capabilities, the digital concierge application aims to streamline operations, enhance communication, and provide a more engaging and interactive experience for users. This partnership underscores ARway.ai's commitment to leveraging augmented reality technology to transform various industries, including healthcare. By collaborating with AMANAH TEKNOLOGIA and deploying innovative solutions like the hospital digital concierge application, ARway.ai aims to revolutionize the way people interact with technology and enhance user experiences in diverse settings. #proactiveinvestors #nextech3d.ai #cse #NTAR #otcqb #metaverse #toggle3D #AugmentedReality #HealthcareTech #HospitalInnovation #ARTraining #TechnologyIntegration #KuwaitHealthcare #ARNavigation #MedicalEducation #NursingTraining #InnovativeTech #HealthTech #ARWaySDK #DigitalHealth #TechInHealthcare #FutureOfWork #ARApplications #GlobalHealthcare #DigitalInnovation #HealthcareIndustry #ARWayPartnerships #ARWayProjects #ARWayUpdates #ARWayCEO #ARWayInterview #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

This evening LtCol. Mike Allen (USMC) joins the show to talk about his career, his plans for transition, and his new venture in selling guns. Mike is set to retire in about 18 months and has already begun his transition plan. Mike entered the Marine Corps as an enlisted Logistician, ending up on an unorthodox path through the fleet Marine Corps. He would eventually attend school and be deployed as a Marine Security Guard in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Allen built an impressive career in the enlisted community, the Chief Warrant Officer community, and later the commissioned officer community. We had an amazing time recording Mike and we look forward to working together in the future.

Maty Ryan, Harry Souttar, Mitch Duke, Brandon Borrello and Graham Arnold react to the 0-1 over Palestine in the Subway Socceroos's second FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier in in Kuwait City. Attention now turns to the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 to be held 12 January to 10 February 2024 in Doha. Australia will kick off it's campaign against India on Saturday, 13 January at 10:30pm AEDT followed by Syria (January 18) and Uzbekistan (January 23). All of the Subway Socceroos' AFC Asian Cup matches will be live and free across Network 10 while the entire tournament will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+. ► YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@footballaustralia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ► Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     ► Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠    ► Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/Socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     ► TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ► Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.socceroos.com.au⁠⁠

This evening LtCol. Mike Allen (USMC) joins the show to talk about his career, his plans for transition, and his new venture in selling guns. Mike is set to retire in about 18 months and has already begun his transition plan. Mike entered the Marine Corps as an enlisted Logistician, ending up on an unorthodox path through the fleet Marine Corps. He would eventually attend school and be deployed as a Marine Security Guard in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Allen built an impressive career in the enlisted community, the Chief Warrant Officer community, and later the commissioned officer community. We had an amazing time recording Mike and we look forward to working together in the future.

Defender Lewis Miller provides an update after touching down in Kuwait City to face Palestine in the Subway Socceroos next FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier at 1am AEDT on Wednesday, 22 November. Live on Channel 10, Paramount+ and 10 Play. ► YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@footballaustralia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ► Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     ► Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠    ► Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/Socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     ► TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@socceroos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ► Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.socceroos.com.au⁠⁠

This week we dig in with Andréa Stanislav, covering the inspirational cross-fertilization of narrative film and fine art, the erotic yet imperial power of horses, the artist's role in the face of genocide, avoiding and accepting identity, and the axiom of 'practice practice practice.' Andréa Stanislav (b. 1968, Chicago) is a contemporary American artist based in New York City. Her hybrid practice spans sculpture, complex multimedia installations, collage, and public art and performance interventions. Through spectacle or experiential immersion, her work questions how histories re-contextualize in the present — focusing on themes of genocide, migration and space exploration. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Alfred University, NY. Stanislav's work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Select solo exhibitions and projects include NART, Narva, Estonia; The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow, Russia; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; 21c Museum, Louisville; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; thisisnotashop, Dublin, Ireland; Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis; Ca'D'Oro Gallery, NYC; Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK; Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago; and Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC. Her work has also has been featured in exhibitions at The State Hermitage Museum, SPB, Russia; Center for Digital Art, Holon; Israel; Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, SPB; CYLAND, NYC/SPB; Museum of Non-Conformist Art, SPB; Smack Mellon, NYC; Art Ii Biennial, Finland; Alvar Aalto City Library, Vyborg; Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, SPB; 5th Moscow Biennial; U.S (Ambassador's) Residence, Stockholm, Sweden; Fieldgate Gallery, London; Al Sabah Gallery, Kuwait City; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Kentucky Museum of Arts and Craft, Louisville; Dumbo Arts Center, NYC; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Garis and Hahn Gallery, NYC; House of the Nobleman, NYC. Selected awards include Foundation for Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant - NYC; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Alumni Artist-in-Residents Award, Freund Fellowship for Visual Arts , Washington University; IUPAH Presidential Award, Target Studio Grant, Weisman Art Museum; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency; McKnight Artists Fellowship; and the Jerome Artist Fellowship. For the past decade, Andréa has worked extensively in St. Petersburg, Russia on projects and research focused on the creative production during the Siege of Leningrad and Soviet and Russian space exploration. Andréa Stanislav is an Associate Professor at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, and affiliate faculty in the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) at Indiana University, Bloomington

Hello to you listening in Kuwait City, the State of Kuwait!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Once upon a time I invested in a podcasting workshop without forethought or preparation. Out of the gate I was asked what's the title, who's it for, what's it for, what do you intend?Gulp! I know stories. I'm a woman. I walk. That's it. Stories From Women Who Walk. As simple as that.The familiar cover art is an early morning selfie taken as I walked away from Orisson, France toward the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain setting out on my Camino pilgrimage.Whether I'm interviewing a guest, shining a spotlight on the achievements of women foremost, or offering a daily menu of 60 Seconds episodes, my podcast is uniquely forward-looking and story-based for anyone charmed by and curious about the power of story to profoundly and positively shift our awareness, our behavior, even our culture as well as those who wish to learn more about the power of walking to reveal the world around us and within us. Like magic, the “sorcery of stories” is this: it helps each of us to be seen and heard, to understand and be understood.Question: Why just an audio podcast? Because the human voice is the most powerful instrument we have to heal, inspire, comfort, entertain, and more. It's the reason that Big Humans and Little Humans long to hear the same stories retold, bedtime stories, family stories, campfire stories. The human voice transports, keeps us company, and reminds us we are never alone.CTA: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Take a moment to follow, subscribe, share, add a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together.You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Start-up Session,✓ Opt In to my monthly NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.

ESPN quotes sources who say Ryan Reynolds bid for the Senators won't move forward. Brady Tkachuk gets a King Clancy Trophy Nomination. Only a one game suspension for Alex Pietrangelo??? The Jack Adams Trophy curse is real. DJ Smith's status. Sens sign Czech forward Jiri Smejkal, "The Czech Hulk."

Today, the subject is the Middle East. And after years of struggling to find peace and end terrorism in that region, Ronald Reagan characterized the challenges by saying, “it was like walking on a tightrope.” From 1982 to 1991, over thirty U.S. and other Western hostages were kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in captivity, and some were eventually released. Specifically, the year 1983 brought new and complex challenges to President Reagan's doorstep. In Beirut, Lebanon, our U.S. embassy was destroyed in a suicide car-bomb attack on April 18th when a one-half ton pickup truck laden detonated its load of 2000 pounds of TNT. 63 died, including 17 Americans. Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission to date, and changed the way the U.S. Department of State secured its resources and executed its missions overseas. Six months later, on October 23rd in Beirut, Shiite suicide bombers exploded a truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Minutes later, a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut. Then in Kuwait City on December 12, Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and other targets, killing 5 and injuring 80. That's just the Middle East…the subject of today's podcast. And we'll focus on the attack 40 years ago in Beirut.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 716, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Comics 1: From 1913-45 Arthur "Pop" Momand drew a comic strip called "Keeping Up with" them. the Joneses. 2: For years Herb and Tootsie Woodley have been neighbors to this couple. Dagwood and Blondie. 3: A 1960 No. 1 hit song was based on this V.T. Hamlin cave man strip. Alley Oop. 4: A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introduced this 8-year-old girl. Nancy. 5: Patrick McDonnell's comic strip has this canine name even though Mooch the cat is often seen with Earl the dog. Mutts. Round 2. Category: It's Our Turn To Sack Rome!!! 1: 455 A.D.: These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage and destruction, sack Rome. the Vandals. 2: 390 B.C.: These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome. the Gauls. 3: 410 A.D.: Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome. the Visigoths. 4: 1084 A.D.: Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome. the Normans. 5: 1527 A.D.: French and German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome. the Holy Roman Empire. Round 3. Category: Stupid Geography 1: This city on the Kankakee River is the seat of Kankakee County, Illinois. Kankakee. 2: The capital of Kuwait. Kuwait City. 3: When Quebec was called "Lower Canada", Ontario was called this. Upper Canada. 4: The main campus of the University of Mississippi is in this Mississippi town. University, Mississippi. 5: This nation used to be called Sukothai, meaning "dawn of happiness". Thailand. Round 4. Category: Wide World Of Trivia 1: The first victim of this excavated mummy's curse may have been Lord Carnavon, a sponsor of the expedition. King Tut. 2: Also known as the "Bush", it's the Aussie term for the remote, rural areas of Australia. the Outback. 3: The lowest surface road in the world is more than 1,290 feet below sea level in this country. Israel. 4: When top Crayola Crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after 37 years, he revealed he suffered from this affliction. colorblind. 5: Home to the Temple of Buddha's Tooth, this Sri Lankan city's name sounds like it might cause a cavity in it. Kandy. Round 5. Category: Yum Yum! 1: Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine and earwax. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. 2: Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy. Pez. 3: York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975. peppermint patties. 4: H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars and Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s. Peanut Butter Cups. 5: Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas. carbon dioxide. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Cinque nuove rotte Wizz Air da Roma Fiumicino. A partire dal 2023 aumenteranno anche le frequenze su otto tratte dalla capitale. Il network di Wizz Air da Roma crescerà fino a 66 rotte nell'estate 2023, incluse le cinque di recente lancio: Castellon in Spagna, Lussemburgo, Baku in Azerbaigian, Abu Dhabi negli Emirati Arabi Uniti e Kuwait City. L'assegnazione di altri due nuovi Airbus farà crescere la base romana di Wizz Air a nove aeromobili.xl3/mgg/red

In 2003, American Airline attendant, Janis Roznowski, started flying Soldiers and Marines in and out of Kuwait City. During this time she was deeply impacted watching them come home injured and ill. Feeling the need to give back, Janie started visiting wounded service members at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and later Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio.In 2004, she started the non-profit, Operation Comfort. What started out as a simple gesture to give back has morphed into supporting wounded warriors and their families through emergency financial assistance and adaptive sports.Due to family health issues, Janis was unable to stay at the helm. However, with the help of executive director, Dianna Sisnero, and her team, Operation Comfort is in it's 19th year, and continues to run strong.Join Jay and Donna and they talk with Dianna about the mission of Operation Comfort, the gratification watching warriors overcome their adversity, and challenges of running a non-profit on a shoestring budget.Dianna's BioDianna is currently the Executive Director for Operation Comfort, and is responsible for overall operations. She has been with the organization since June of 2007. She began her journey as the assistant to the Founder and Executive Director, Mrs. Janis Roznowski. Before joining Operation Comfort, Dianna was the Family Readiness group leader of her then husband's unit located at Fort Drum, New York. She worked to support her unit's families who were transitioning in and out of the military, and during deployment. Dianna was born and raised in New Braunfels, Texas and came home in December of 2006 after her husband was unexpectedly medically retired from the Army. Dianna has always worked in the non-profit world and held several positions over the years as a Teacher, Social Service Assistant, and Assistant Program Director. She loves working with children and families in low income communities, children with different abilities, and of course service members and their families.It is her mission to help Wounded, Ill, and Injured Service Members and Disabled Veterans through programs that keep them actively engaged in their healing. The programs that her and her team work tirelessly to offer provide recreation, rehabilitation, and most importantly, healing. Dianna's Contact InformationWebsite: www.operationcomfort.orgFacebook: SupportOperationComfortInstagram: operationcomfortTwitter: operationcomfo1Operation Comfort Promo Videohttps://1drv.ms/v/s!Ao2KkEQuacBv-z-H5AT6mhgRcv12Donna's LinksWebsite: www.rebel-llc.comBook: Warrior to Patriot Citizen (2017)Blog: Taking Off The ArmorIG: @thetransitioningwarriorTwitter: @wtpcFB: The Transitioning WarriorJay's LinksWebsite: https://j2servantleadership.com/ Book: Breaking Average (2020)Follow us on our socialsYouTube @cominghomewellbehindtheserviceInstagram @cominghomewell_btsFacebook at Coming Home WellLinkedIn at Coming Home WellTwitter @ComingHomeWell

In 2003, American Airline attendant, Janis Roznowski, started flying Soldiers and Marines in and out of Kuwait City. During this time she was deeply impacted watching them come home injured and ill. Feeling the need to give back, Janie started visiting wounded service members at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and later Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio. In 2004, she started the non-profit, Operation Comfort. What started out as a simple gesture to give back has morphed into supporting wounded warriors and their families through emergency financial assistance and adaptive sports. Due to family health issues, Janis was unable to stay at the helm. However, with the help of executive director, Dianna Sisnero, and her team, Operation Comfort is in it's 19th year, and continues to run strong. Join Jay and Donna and they talk with Dianna about the mission of Operation Comfort, the gratification watching warriors overcome their adversity, and challenges of running a non-profit on a shoestring budget. Dianna's Bio Dianna is currently the Executive Director for Operation Comfort, and is responsible for overall operations. She has been with the organization since June of 2007. She began her journey as the assistant to the Founder and Executive Director, Mrs. Janis Roznowski.  Before joining Operation Comfort, Dianna was the Family Readiness group leader of her then husband's unit located at Fort Drum, New York. She worked to support her unit's families who were transitioning in and out of the military, and during deployment.  Dianna was born and raised in New Braunfels, Texas and came home in December of 2006 after her husband was unexpectedly medically retired from the Army.  Dianna has always worked in the non-profit world and held several positions over the years as a Teacher, Social Service Assistant, and Assistant Program Director. She loves working with children and families in low income communities, children with different abilities, and of course service members and their families. It is her mission to help Wounded, Ill, and Injured Service Members and Disabled Veterans through programs that keep them actively engaged in their healing. The programs that her and her team work tirelessly to offer provide recreation, rehabilitation, and most importantly, healing.  Dianna's Contact Information Website: www.operationcomfort.org Facebook: SupportOperationComfort Instagram: operationcomfort Twitter: operationcomfo1 Operation Comfort Promo Video Tune into our CHW Streaming Radio and the full lineup at cominghomewell.com Download on Apple Play and Google Play Online-Therapy.com ~ Life Changing Therapy Click here for a 20% discount on your first month. Donna's Links Website: www.rebel-llc.com Consulting/Coaching Book: Warrior to Patriot Citizen (2017) Blog: Taking Off The Armor IG: @thetransitioningwarrior Twitter: @wtpc FB: The Transitioning Warrior Jay's Links Website: https://j2servantleadership.com/ Book: Breaking Average (2020) Thank you for listening! Be sure to SHARE, LIKE and leave us a REVIEW!

Shiloh Emelein and Rachell Tucker joins us to discuss the state of reproductive justice and abortion access within the U.S. military.  We cover the Dobbs decision from the Supreme Court, how President Biden could take much bigger strides in his “defense” of abortion rights, and a whole lot more. Shiloh Emelein (they/them/theirs) is a queer, trans, non-binary creature living with their fluffy cat on Ohlone Land (also known as the Bay area, California). Their world view and moral compass were turned upside down while deployed with a Marine Helicopter Support Unit in Al Anbar Province, Iraq and then Kuwait City.  They joined About Face: Veterans Against War in 2018 with the hope in action to catalyze change and repair the harms caused by the Military-Industrial Complex. Shiloh believes that the reclamation and celebration of our bodies, our joy, and our pleasure is at the core of demilitarizing ourselves, our beliefs, and the structures we currently live within. They are thrilled to have the chance to care for the About Face community in a light of collective liberation and collective healing. Rachell Tucker is an anti-imperialist veteran of the US Army 2002 to 2011. She is an educator and activist who lives in San Antonio Texas, but born and raised in Miami, FL. She is a member of about face vets against the war and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. And has been an active organizer with the Mujeres Marcharan Coalition who has been leading in the women's struggle in the city of SA. We're now on Telegram!!!!  Please come join us and talk about militarism and anti-imperialism: https://t.me/fortressonahill Main website: https://www.fortressonahill.com Let me guess.  You're enjoying the show so much, you'd like to leave us a review?!  https://lovethepodcast.com/fortressonahill Email us at fortressonahill@protonmail.com Check out our online store on Spreadshirt.com.  T-shirts, cell phone covers, mugs, etc.: https://bit.ly/3qD63MW Not a contributor on Patreon? You're missing out on amazing bonus content! Sign up to be one of our patrons today! - https://www.patreon.com/fortressonahill A special thanks to our Patreon honorary producers - Fahim Shirazee, James O'Barr, James Higgins, Eric Phillips, Paul Appell, Julie Dupris, Thomas Benson, Janet Hanson, Daniel Fleming, Michael Caron, Zach H, Ren Jacob, Howard Reynolds, Rick Coffey, and the Statist Quo Podcast. You all are the engine that helps us power the podcast.  Thank you so much!!! Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?!  Visit https://paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!! Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris 'Henri' Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9 Intro / outro music "Fortress on a hill" written and performed by Clifton Hicks.  Click here for Clifton's Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

Barrak Alzaid is an award-winning writer of memoir, prose, poetry and art criticism, as well as an educator and organizer of artistic community spaces. His current projects include his memoir Fabulous, about queer coming of age in Kuwait, and a speculative fiction novel grappling with the racial, class, and environmental circumstances of near-future Kuwait City (based on his short story “The Runner”).  Barrak discusses how he aims to move away from the Eurocentric “single author” model of creating art, including the GCC artist collective, which creates group work around the aesthetics of their upbringings in the gulf, and holding physically-based…

Det här är första avsnittet av dokumentär-serien Brevet till Saddam som sänds i Third Ear Studios program Skuggland. Den 2 augusti 1990 angriper irakiska styrkor det lilla grannlandet Kuwait. Attacken kommer efter flera dagars hetsiga ordväxlingar vid gränsen men ses ändå som en blixt från klar himmel av resten av världen.Iraks diktator Saddam Hussein agerar oberäkneligt och framgångsrikt. Kriget är vunnet på bara timmar. Fast i Kuwait City är nu tusentals västerländska medborgare som blivit tagna på sängen och nu förbjuds att åka hem.Thomas Bergström var 27 år då, men minns fortfarande 30 år senare, natten obehagligt tydligt. ”Vi vaknade och trodde det var åskväder. Sen var det kaos i tre veckor i hela Kuwait City.”Vill du stödja Third Ears studios journalistik och få exklusiv tillgång till våra program såsom Spår, Skuggland och Uppgång och Fall, bli prenumerant på thirdearstudio.com eller på Apple Podcaster: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/channel/third-ear-se/id6442569298?l=en Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/uppgangochfall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Det här är en feeddropp av första avsnittet av Brevet till Saddam som sänds i Third Ear Studios program Skuggland i samarbete med Anton Berg. Den 2 augusti 1990 angriper irakiska styrkor det lilla grannlandet Kuwait. Attacken kommer efter flera dagars hetsiga ordväxlingar vid gränsen men ses ändå som en blixt från klar himmel av resten av världen.Iraks diktator Saddam Hussein agerar oberäkneligt och framgångsrikt. Kriget är vunnet på bara timmar. Fast i Kuwait City är nu tusentals västerländska medborgare som blivit tagna på sängen och nu förbjuds att åka hem.Thomas Bergström var 27 år då, men minns fortfarande 30 år senare, natten obehagligt tydligt. ”Vi vaknade och trodde det var åskväder. Sen var det kaos i tre veckor i hela Kuwait City.”Vill du stödja Third Ears studios journalistik och få exklusiv tillgång till våra program såsom Spår, Skuggland och Uppgång och Fall, bli prenumerant på thirdearstudio.com, via Acast: https://plus.acast.com/s/skuggland eller på Apple Podcaster: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/channel/third-ear-se/id6442569298?l=en eller  Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/sparpodcast.

Den 2 augusti 1990 angriper irakiska styrkor det lilla grannlandet Kuwait. Attacken kommer efter flera dagars hetsiga ordväxlingar vid gränsen men ses ändå som en blixt från klar himmel av resten av världen.Iraks diktator Saddam Hussein agerar oberäkneligt och framgångsrikt. Kriget är vunnet på bara timmar. Fast i Kuwait City är nu tusentals västerländska medborgare som blivit tagna på sängen och nu förbjuds att åka hem.Thomas Bergström var 27 år då, men minns fortfarande 30 år senare, natten obehagligt tydligt. ”Vi vaknade och trodde det var åskväder. Sen var det kaos i tre veckor i hela Kuwait City.”Vill du stödja Third Ears studios  journalistik och få exklusiv tillgång till våra program såsom Spår, Skuggland  och Uppgång och Fall, bli prenumerant på thirdearstudio.com Du kan också prenumerera på Apple Podcaster: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/channel/third-ear-se/id6442569298?l=en eller via Acast: https://plus.acast.com/s/skuggland  Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/skuggland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Location:  Kuwait City, Kuwait Welcome to part two of our search for hidden statues, figurative memorial symbols of power or commemoration that have fallen from favor, pulled from their pedestals and have been defaced, destroyed, decapitated and/or hidden away in secret locations as shameful totems of the past.      In our last episode, I brought to you my adventures in statue hunting in Albania, a beautiful place with a dark past that is physically impossible to ignore.  I found a small but potent gang of dictators lurking behind the local art museum, a graven image of former totalitarian ruler Evener Hoxha alongside his idol Stalin and other various symbols hardline communism, but also explored the underground complexes, the decaying concrete pyramid in the heart of the city, the omnipresent and indestructible bunkers, all of which serve as enduring physical reminders of this dark chapter in history and the ways in which we deal with them.  If you have not heard this episode yet, please do so.     In this episode, we'll be headed to the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula or Persian Gulf specifically, where I was able to uncover the enduring traces of another difficult chapter of history, the Gulf War and its eventual sequel, including a chance discovery in a dark passageway that tied it all together.  

-U.S. west needs to dramatically reduce their consumption of water -Toxic and stinky clouds of foam flood streets of the Colombian city -Three billion birds lost since 1970 -125 degrees Fahrenheit in oil-rich Kuwait City -climate anxiety is a real mental health condition -U.S. electricity generated by renewable resources hit a record 28

Interested in joining the Foreign Service? Join Ambassador Rosapepe and Director of Talent Acquisition Jeff Smith as they discuss the updated hiring process. What is the Foreign Service? There was a change recently made to join the Foreign Service, what was it and what are the benefits? What are the opportunities and career paths for a Foreign Service officer? Learn the answers to these questions and fun facts. Director of Talent Acquisition Jefferson Smith is a Senior Foreign Service Officer, currently serving as the Director of Talent Acquisition at the Department of State. Since joining the Foreign Service in 2000, Jeff has served overseas assignments in Kuwait City, Kuwait; Zanzibar, Tanzania; Dublin, Ireland; Yaoundé, Cameroon; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Kingston, Jamaica. He has also served in Washington, D.C. in four regional bureaus. Ambassador Jim Rosapepe served as the U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 1998 to 2001 and is a member of the CAA Board of Directors. He currently is Chairman and CEO of Patuxent Capital Group LLC and serves in the Maryland State Senate.

In this week's episode I will invite you to ponder a deep, challenging, and often dismissed topic of 'finding one's purpose in life'. We will explore the ways in which our life's activity and choices influence the journey we experience and discuss the opportunities each of us was given to navigate the existence we've gained by arriving to the Eartlhy plane. I will mention my recent adventures of moving out the UK for the first time in six years, and talk a little about the first impressions Kuwait City has encouraged in my mind and heart. An episode full of wonder, which, although inclusive of challenging subject, will hopefully inspire you to take more conscious action in line with your life's aspirations. I hope this episode will empower and inspire you. Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl (book)

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit show! There is one Air Force airplane that doesn't get a lot of love but every soldier or Marine wants overhead in a troops-in-contact situation: the Republic A-10 Warthog! The Hog is a devastating aircraft in combat and is known for its big GAU-8 30mm gun... Bbrrrrtttt! Buck Wyndham joins us with stories of his missions and exploits during Desert Storm, the first combat employment of the A-10. Buck had an opportunity to see firsthand what concentrated airpower can do to the enemy as he walked around the famous Kuwait City to Baghdad highway, better known as the Highway of Death. The A-10 has looks and sounds all of its own. Here is the sound of its gun, and what it looks like from inside the cockpit over Afghanistan. The effects of this aircraft are incredible.  This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Buck's book Hogs in the Sand found in all four formats on Amazon. Prints of military aircraft which peel off and can be stuck to any flat surface are available at Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Please share this and previous episodes of Lessons from the Cockpit from markhasara.com

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit show! There is one Air Force airplane that doesn't get a lot of love but every soldier or Marine wants overhead in a troops-in-contact situation: the Republic A-10 Warthog! The Hog is a devastating aircraft in combat and is known for its big GAU-8 30mm gun... Bbrrrrtttt! Buck Wyndham joins us with stories of his missions and exploits during Desert Storm, the first combat employment of the A-10. Buck had an opportunity to see firsthand what concentrated airpower can do to the enemy as he walked around the famous Kuwait City to Baghdad highway, better known as the Highway of Death. The A-10 has looks and sounds all of its own. Here is the sound of its gun, and what it looks like from inside the cockpit over Afghanistan. The effects of this aircraft are incredible. This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Buck Wyndham's book Hogs in the Sand found in all four formats on Amazon. Prints of military aircraft which peel off and can be stuck to any flat surface are available at Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Please share this and previous episodes of Lessons from the Cockpit from markhasara.com

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit show! There is one Air Force airplane that doesn't get a lot of love but every soldier or Marine wants overhead in a troops-in-contact situation: the Republic A-10 Warthog! The Hog is a devastating aircraft in combat and is known for its big GAU-8 30mm gun... Bbrrrrtttt! Buck Wyndham joins us with stories of his missions and exploits during Desert Storm, the first combat employment of the A-10. Buck had an opportunity to see firsthand what concentrated airpower can do to the enemy as he walked around the famous Kuwait City to Baghdad highway, better known as the Highway of Death. The A-10 has looks and sounds all of its own. Here is the sound of its gun, and what it looks like from inside the cockpit over Afghanistan. The effects of this aircraft are incredible.  This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Buck's book Hogs in the Sand found in all four formats on Amazon. Prints of military aircraft which peel off and can be stuck to any flat surface are available at Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Please share this and previous episodes of Lessons from the Cockpit from markhasara.com

This event was the launch of three papers authored by Courtney Freer and Spyros Sofos of the LSE Middle East Centre as part of the Global Transitions Series, a research output from PeaceRep – the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform funded by the UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). 1. Qatar and the UAE in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding by Courtney Freer 2. Peacebuilding in Turbulent Times: Turkey in MENA and Africa by Spyros Sofos 3. MENA Regional Organisations in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: The League of Arab States, Gulf Cooperation Council and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation by Courtney Freer. Courtney Freer is Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. Previously, Courtney was Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. From 2015-2020, Courtney was a Research Officer for the Kuwait Programme at the LSE Middle East Centre. Her work focuses on the domestic politics of the Gulf states, particularly the roles played by Islamism and tribalism. Her book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies, based on her DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford and published by Oxford University Press in 2018, examines the socio-political role played by Muslim Brotherhood groups in Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. She previously worked at the Brookings Doha Center and the US–Saudi Arabian Business Council. Spyros Sofos is a Research Officer on the LSE Kuwait Programme project 'Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion: An Intersectional Analysis of Urban Citizenship in Kuwait City.' Spyros's research explores the intersection of societal insecurity, identity and collective action and, to date, it has focused on Turkish politics and society, nationalism and populism in Europe and the Middle East, urban citizenship in the Middle East, European Muslim identities and politics, and the theory of populism. His latest book Turkish Politics and ‘The People': Mass Mobilisation and Populism published by Edinburgh University Press explores the emergence of populism in contemporary Turkey and its genealogy as a tradition of action and discourse. His other publications include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe published by Routledge, Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey published by Oxford University Press, and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks published by Palgrave. Greg Shapland is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and an independent researcher, writer and consultant on politics, security, resources and environment (including water) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His entire career has been focussed on the Middle East and North Africa, whether as a commercial representative, university lecturer or government official (in the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office and FCO). From 1979 until 2015, he served in the MENA Research Group in the FCO. He was also Head of Research Analysts from July 2010 to July 2013. During his time with the FCO, Greg served in British Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Tel Aviv and in the Consulate General in Jerusalem. Since leaving the FCO, Greg has worked on post-conflict stabilisation, Israeli-Palestinian relations, inter-state and intra-state water disputes and the impact of climate change in the MENA region. He is currently working on a book on the politics and geography of the MENA region.

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit! There is one thing all US service members promise to their comrades in arms... we leave no one behind! In early March of 2002 coalition forces began military operations in the Shahi-Khot Valley of Afghanistan, known now as Operation Anaconda. The start of this operation did not go well. On 4 March 2002 then Captain Chris Russell, an F-15E Strike Eagle Weapons System Operator, and his pilot Captain Kirk Reichkoff flying as TWISTER 52 took off at midnight from a base near Kuwait City on what became a very long and exhausting sortie. Chris shares with us his lessons learned while covering the downing of a 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment MH-47 Chinook, and the rescue and recovery of SEAL Team MAKO 30 and Petty Officer Neil Roberts after he fell off the helicopter. This is the famous Battle of Roberts Ridge.    Chris was kind enough to send me the cockpit tapes from TWISTER 51 their flight lead. I've included three clips from the audio in this episode towards the end. The video taken and commentated on by the MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during the Battle of Roberts Ridge was used for awarding Tech Sgt Chapman his Medal of Honor, the only MOH engagement ever recorded. A 15-minute interview with Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Team Six Senior Chief Britt Slabinski describing the battle atop Robert's Ridge is found here.   This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Prints of the F-15E Strike Eagle Captain Russell was flying on 4 March 2002 and The Bold Tigers flagship which participated in the opening of Operation Enduring Freedom can be purchased at Wall Pilot.  Please share this and all previous twenty episodes with family and friends found on my website markhasara.com. Thanks for listening to the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast!  

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit! There is one thing all US service members promise to their comrades in arms... we leave no one behind! In early March of 2002 coalition forces began military operations in the Shahi-Khot Valley of Afghanistan, known now as Operation Anaconda. The start of this operation did not go well. On 4 March 2002 then Captain Chris Russell, an F-15E Strike Eagle Weapons System Operator, and his pilot Captain Kirk Reichkoff flying as TWISTER 52 took off at midnight from a base near Kuwait City on what became a very long and exhausting sortie. Chris shares with us his lessons learned while covering the downing of a 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment MH-47 Chinook, and the rescue and recovery of SEAL Team MAKO 30 and Petty Officer Neil Roberts after he fell off the helicopter. This is the famous Battle of Roberts Ridge.    Chris was kind enough to send me the cockpit tapes from TWISTER 51 their flight lead. I've included three clips from the audio in this episode towards the end. The video taken and commentated on by the MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during the Battle of Roberts Ridge was used for awarding Tech Sgt Chapman his Medal of Honor, the only MOH engagement ever recorded. A 15-minute interview with Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Team Six Senior Chief Britt Slabinski describing the battle atop Robert's Ridge is found here.   This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Prints of the F-15E Strike Eagle Captain Russell was flying on 4 March 2002 and The Bold Tigers flagship which participated in the opening of Operation Enduring Freedom can be purchased at Wall Pilot.  Please share this and all previous twenty episodes with family and friends found on my website markhasara.com. Thanks for listening to the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast!  

Welcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit! There is one thing all US service members promise to their comrades in arms... we leave no one behind! In early March of 2002 coalition forces began military operations in the Shahi-Khot Valley of Afghanistan, known now as Operation Anaconda. The start of this operation did not go well. On 4 March 2002 then Captian Chris Russell, an F-15E Strike Eagle Weapons System Operator, and his pilot Captain Kirk Reichkoff flying as TWISTER 52 took off at midnight from a base near Kuwait City on what became a very long and exhausting sortie. Chris shares with us his lessons learned while covering the downing of a 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment MH-47 Chinook, and the rescue and recovery of SEAL Team MAKO 30 and Petty Officer Neil Roberts after he fell off the helicopter. This is the famous Battle of Roberts Ridge. Chris was kind enough to send me the cockpit tapes from their F-15E flight lead TWISTER 51. I've included three clips from the cockpit audio in this episode towards the end. The video taken and commentated on by the MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during the Battle of Roberts Ridge was used for awarding USAF Tech Sgt Chapman his Medal of Honor, the only MOH engagement recorded. A 15-minute interview with Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Senior Chief Britt Slabinski describing the battle atop Robert's Ridge is found here. This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is sponsored by Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Prints of the F-15E Strike Eagle Captain Russell was flying on 4 March 2002 and The Bold Tigers flagship which participated in the opening of Operation Enduring Freedom can be purchased at Wall Pilot. Please share this and all previous twenty episodes with family and friends found on my website markhasara.com. Thanks for listening to the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast!

"The truth is a very complicated concept, perhaps now more than ever. I would hesitate to say there is such a thing as absolute truth in most issues that arise." News personality Stephen Sackur joins the podcast. The host of HARDtalk from the BBC, he is no stranger to geopolitics, news cycles, and the rapidly changing way information is disseminated. What is a reporter's job? How does one arrive at “the truth?” Does truth even exist, especially when one person's fact is another's fiction? What does the rise of authoritarian strongmen around the world mean for Western democracies, for the institutions that 30 years ago seemed the de facto best solution? This and much more is covered in thoughtful and intense discussion. If you like what we do, please support the show. By making a one-time or recurring donation, you will contribute to us being able to present the highest quality substantive, long-form interviews with the world's most compelling people. Stephen Sackur, the presenter of HARDtalk, BBC World News' flagship current affairs interview programme, has been a journalist with BBC News since 1986. Broadcasting across BBC World News, BBC News Channel and BBC World Service, Stephen has interviewed many high-profile guests. In November 2010, Stephen was awarded the "International TV Personality of the Year Award" by the Association of International Broadcasters. Before taking over HARDtalk, Stephen was based in Brussels for three years as the BBC's Europe Correspondent. He travelled across Europe to cover major stories around the continent, including Europe's worst terror attack of recent times in Madrid in 2004, and the expansion of the European Union from 15 countries to 25. Prior to this, Stephen was the BBC's Washington Correspondent from July 1997. With a keen interest in politics, he has interviewed President George W. Bush, covered the 2000 US Presidential Elections, the Clinton scandal and impeachment trial, and the ways and means of lawmaking, including campaign finance reform. He also made a documentary for the BBC's current affairs programme Panorama on the topic of guns and weapon manufacturer lawsuits in the US. Stephen has also been the BBC Middle East Correspondent in both Cairo (from 1992 to 1995) and Jerusalem (from 1995 to 1997), covering the peace process, the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of the Palestinian Authority under the late Yasser Arafat. To prepare a documentary on Islamic fundamentalism, he lived with Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon for two weeks. In 1990, Stephen was appointed as a BBC Foreign Correspondent. He was part of the BBC's team of correspondents covering the Gulf War, spending eight weeks with the British Army when the conflict began. He was the first correspondent to break the story of the mass killing on the Basra road out of Kuwait City, marking the end of the war. He travelled back to Iraq just after the downfall of Saddam Hussein and filed the first television reports on Iraq's mass graves which contained the bodies of thousands of victims of Saddam's regime. In Eastern Europe, as witness to Communism's last days, Stephen offered a unique perspective on the rocky road to democracy and stability for this area. Serving as correspondent for BBC national radio, he reported on Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and Germany's reunification. He has contributed countless articles to The Observer, The London Review of Books, New Statesman, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. Born in Lincolnshire, England, Stephen was educated at both Cambridge and Harvard University.

If you like this podcast, please be sure to rate us 5 stars in Apple podcasts and like our videos on YouTube.  Sorry for the misfire - harvest got me out of practice!Episode 0024:Wine Reads – November 18, 2021Welcome back to Viti+Culture, and welcome to season 2.  It’s been a few weeks since our last podcast, but here we are, rested and ready to deliver some great content.  Harvest is finally over, a few fermentations remain bubbling away, the cellar is cleaned, our equipment is winterized, and we are moving into our next phase of cellar work - stabalizing and bottling sparkling wine, preparing to bottle our early release wines like our Cabernet Franc Rose, our White Merlot, and some of our Chenin Blanc, and finally disgorging some of our sparkling wines, such as our 2017 and 2019 Chardonnay based Blanc de Blanc, and Chenin Blanc.  I’ll keep you updated as to what winemakers are experiencing in the cellar as we move forward with season, and key you in to some of the winemaking decisions we have along the way.We are also launching a new segment - Wine Reads - where we choose an article from the world of written content on wine, read it on the show, and share our thoughts and opinions on the topic.  If you’re a wine writer, feel free to forward me an article for consideration at viticulturepodcast@gmail.com.  I’m happy to look it over, and maybe even discuss it with you on the show.  We will continue to produce and publish our long-form interviews on YouTube, but some of the shorter content will be podcast and Substack only, so make sure you’ve clicked subscribe in your favorite podcast platform, and sign up to our Substack newsletter.  For our first Wine Read, I figured I’d actually reflect on the 2021 vintage by reading the letter I’m preparing to send out to our Missick Cellars Wine Club.  I’m excited to be shipping out the first Finger Lakes produced Sparkling Chenin Blanc with that shipment, as well as some other really cool small lot wines, but I also generally engage with our members by sharing some of my deepest thoughts, and letting them know what is going on in the cellar.  Here’s a sneak preview of the vintage, an audio taste of our wine club, and a survey of what the final tally of the 2021 vintage felt like. Remember, if you like this podcast, please be sure to rate us 5 stars in Apple podcasts and like our videos on YouTube.  It really helps with the ratings and in introducing new folks to the show.  Be sure to tune in next week, where I speak with Phil Plummer, winemaker at Montezuma, Idol Ridge, and Fossenvue wineries.  Phil embraces the ethos of our show, those of the philosopher-maker, and intertwines culture, art, history, and music in some subtle, and not so subtle ways, into each of his wines.   So, here we go, our 2021 Missick Cellars Wine Club Newsletter:Dear Wine Club Member,                                                        When I was deployed as a soldier in the Army with Operation Iraqi Freedom, every few months we were able to take an R&R day, and head down to the large U.S. base in Kuwait on the coast of the Persian Gulf called Camp Doha.  Camp Doha had a PX (post exchange) that was both sized and filled with the inventory of a Super Walmart.  It was where we could stock up on nearly everything we needed, or wanted, to get us through the long weeks back at our small desert outposts.  Camp Doha also had a Starbucks and a Burger King, all of which brought a sense of normalcy, but also a little bit of cognitive dissonance.  I remember browsing those location oriented Starbucks mugs while waiting in line that list the city you are in, and looking at the one with Kuwait City and the skyline depicted.  I wish I would have bought one as a memento.  The pearl of Camp Doha in those days however, was a place called the Marble Palace.  It was a short bus ride from camp, and had a large recreational pool adjacent to the Gulf, there were therapeutic masseuses, and in many ways, offered everything you could find at a luxury resort.  It was, for a day, potentially overnight if you had some other business to attend to, a respite from the dusty tents we slept in, the day to day monotony of my job as a Signal Corps non-commissioned officer, guard tower shifts in 110 degree temperatures, and hours spent sitting under the skud bunkers scattered all throughout my home camp with a battle buddy, talking about home.  Harvest certainly does not carry the emotional intensity or gravity of deployment, I would not sell our servicemembers short by drawing a straight line between the experience of deployment and the intensity of the harvest or the crush pad.  There are analogies though, and in many ways, the pace of harvest rarely allows for the periods of pause and contemplation that a deployment permits.  Nonetheless, as harvest approaches, the mind prepares for what you know will be extremely long days, endless physicality, isolation from family and friends (outside the wine industry), discomfort, and exhaustion.  Similarly, it provides a purpose, a mission, with goals that must be accomplished, in specific periods of time with little room for error.  The elements of weather, of available resources, the risk of physical danger around powerful equipment if you’re careless or thoughtless, and the knowledge that there is an end date, all provide a very similar psychological framework to that the soldier experiences.  You have set out on a path, the end goal is known, there will be surprises and challenges, but at the end of this period, victory is in sight.I recalled my time at the Marble Palace, a place I hadn’t thought about in years, after returning home for the first time in what felt like weeks (though it had only been a few days), to spend an entire day and night with my family.  It was mid-October, about half-way through crush, and having the chance to push Andrew and Audrey on the swing-set in the backyard, sharing dinner at the table with the family, and having my wife Laure massage my shoulders that night made home feel like the R&R I had been craving.  I particularly enjoy pairing our wines with meals during harvest.  It puts a perspective on the hard work we are presently enmeshed in, and opening the time capsules of vintages past during dinner with the family, ties moments of our past to moments of the present, even as we all sacrifice and work for the future that is gurgling away through its fermentation in the cellar.   Perhaps the moments from my deployment were fresh with me this year after what we witnessed in Afghanistan in August, and during which I spent countless hours speaking with other veterans and checking in on friends that I knew had spent years of their life in that country.  Perhaps it was because we were shorter on cellar staff this year than in years’ past, placing extra burdens and extra work on myself and my assistant.  Maybe it was simply because I see my children growing so fast and am realizing how quickly time goes with every year we gather around the table to watch them blow out that additional candle on the cake.  And finally, it may have been because this was such a difficult harvest, where extra vineyard work coupled with crucial picking decisions dictated the quality of the wine that was made, and with our first year of a significant harvest from our estate vineyard, I felt an enormous amount of pressure to deliver the best possible effort to everyone who enjoys our wine.  2021 was our most difficult vintage since 2018.  As with 2018, moisture was the catalyst for a lot of stress on vineyard crews this vintage.  The heavy rainfall, high temperatures, and high dewpoints which kept vineyard canopies and clusters too wet for too long in 2018, had analogs for all of us who farm grapes in the Finger Lakes this year.  Granted, temperatures were not as high as three years ago, and dewpoints were not as deleterious, the rain proved a difficulty that we had to navigate around.  There were indeed some much needed breaks, three or four days here, maybe a week there, but from August through the end of October, the rain fell, and we needed to be cognizant of when it was falling.Though 2021 wasn’t our largest harvest, between our own wines and some custom crush projects, we processed nearly 70 tons of fruit, with about 6 tons coming from our own vineyard.  We managed an incredibly clean harvest of Chenin Blanc, Riesling and Cabernet Franc, with multiple passes in the Riesling in order to produce some different styles of estate wines, from sparkling to still.  Our vineyard, planted in 2019, is in what is called its third leaf, in other words, its third growing season.  The third leaf is generally when you can expect to get your first real crop, with an expansion of yield occurring in the following vintages.  Of course, yield is not the most important aspect.  The vineyard must be balanced, producing enough fruit to match the energy output of the vine, but not so much that you stress the vine or dilute the concentration of flavors that a vineyard can deliver.In addition, we worked with our traditional growing partners at Gibson Vineyard and Morris Vineyard, to bring in varietals like Seyval Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Valvin Muscat, and some other hybrids that will go into our Foreword series.  Although we have a significant amount of wine still fermenting, I must share with you that I am more proud of this vintage than nearly any in the last 10 years.  There are vintages that naturally make great wines.  The weather is perfect from April to November, harvest happens on your schedule and not based on the risk of rain, and every piece of equipment cooperates fully with no downtime or repairs required.  I think of vintages like 2012, 2016, and 2020, where a winemaker can only get in the way of making good wine.  Nature gave us great, clean and ripe fruit, and we need only fulfill its promise.  Vintages like 2021 require inordinate amounts of attention to detail, a willingness to sacrifice bad fruit in the vineyard in order to make good wine in the cellar, a dedication and time commitment unparalleled in many other fields, and a drive that overlooks exhaustion, lack of sleep, and sore muscles.  Those ingredients have added up to what amounts to be the proof of work, required in challenging wine regions like the Finger Lakes, and years like 2021, that deliver high quality, deliciousness, and inspiration even under trying circumstances.  These are the vintages that prove the mettle of the winemaker.  2021 will be a vintage that I believe will deliver some of our best sparkling wines.  On their way in the years to come will be a small lot of estate Chenin Blanc, Cab Franc Rose, Chardonnay based Blanc de Blanc, Estate Riesling, and Gewurztraminer.  Our sparkling wine program has continued to grow and witness strong sales, and we are responding by increasing production with the focused goal of being known as one of the great sparkling wine producers in the region and the U.S.In other areas of “winery life,” our brand change continues moving ahead.  New signage should be up by the spring, and new labels showing up on shelves in Upstate New York retailers.  Our new labels shipped in October, and we began labelling wines as quickly as we could.  Our new labels speak to our place, with the shoreline of Seneca Lake outside our cellar presenting the background frame for where we are, our new logo, as discussed in our previous letters playing a prominent role, and each wine now suggesting a specific food and wine pairing.  Of course, these are only my opinions, but I welcome you to try them out and send me your suggestions as well!I generally try to make our Fall Wine Club shipment focused on wines that I think will pair well for Thanksgiving, and so with that backdrop, each of these wines will be on our Thanksgiving table, paired perfectly with all of the classic accoutrements of my favorite holiday.  2020 Sparkling Chenin BlancI’ve mentioned in the past that we have been pioneering Chenin Blanc in the Finger Lakes since 2015, when we engaged in our first contract planting of the varietal at the Gibson Vineyard.  The logic was pretty simple… I love Loire Valley wines.  The Loire, being a cool climate growing region in France, famously grows Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc.  One of the most premiere subregions in the Loire Valley, is Vouvray.  What is wonderful about Vouvray wines, is that so many different wine styles can emerge from them.  From dry crisp whites, to sparkling, to wonderfully rich and sweet styles, Chenin Blanc from Vouvray exhibits an amazing amount of versatility.  Knowing that the Finger Lakes can have such variable vintages, with there being a necessity to alter the styles of wine depending upon what the year gives us, combined with the fact that Cabernet Franc is, in my opinion, our premiere red varietal, planting Chenin Blanc just made sense to me.  We garnered our first harvest in 2017, making only a few dozen cases.  We have continued exploring the varietal, planting our estate block, and making a wide range of Chenin Blanc wines.  This spring, I hope to release our 2020 barrel fermented dry Chenin Blanc, alongside our 2021 estate Chenin Blanc which was fermented in stainless steel and finished with a touch of sweetness.  In the meantime, I’m extremely excited to share this first, Wine Club disgorgement of our 2020 Chenin Blanc.We began producing sparkling Chenin Blanc in 2019, but that wine remains in tirage, resting on its lees in bottle, with an anticipated disgorgement in 2023.  Only 50 cases were made in 2019, and with its level of acidity, it will need time to grow into its full potential.  2020, being a beautiful and ripe vintage, also managed to deliver to us some exhilarating and fresh sparkling wine bases.  Our 2020 Sparkling Chenin is technically an early disgorgement.  Most of the 100+ cases will be disgorged at a later date, but with the profile of this wine showing such elegance, I wanted to disgorge a special lot for our wine club members to enjoy this holiday season.  Just prior to harvest, we disgorged 30 cases, removing the spent yeast sediment and finishing the wine with a small dosage of a few grams of residual sugar.  This sparkling wine is still dry, but accentuates the wonderful fruit that comes from Chenin Blanc from the Gibson Vineyard.  Rather than topping the bottle with a Champagne cork, we opted to use a stainless steel crown cap.  Most of the time, when I use cork on sparkling wine, I will let the wine sit in the cellar for up to 6 months before release.  It can take quite a bit of time to allow the cork to cease its propensity to expand.  Trying to open a sparkling wine that has just been corked is nearly impossible, and can be dangerous if it is tried with a corkscrew due to the pressure inside.  Opening with a bottle opener isn’t as exhilarating as popping a cork, but I assure you, it has no impact on the quality.  It also means, you won’t have a problem opening it on Thanksgiving, should you want to share it with family and friends.  Produced in the classic traditional method, the base wine was picked slightly early, fermented to dryness, and chaptalized with 24 grams per liter of sugar prior to bottling with a yeast culture.  The wine then went through its bottle fermentation and aged for around a year on the lees in the bottle prior to disgorgement.  This is the first sparkling Chenin Blanc ever produced and released in the Finger Lakes, and we managed such a small disgorgement in order to ensure that our Wine Club members received the first chance at tasting the “unicorn” wine.  It has actually been one of the fun benefits of having the only two plantings of Chenin Blanc in the Finger Lakes, since ever demi sec, barrel fermented, sparkling, and dessert Chenin will inevitably be the first ones ever produced and released.  My hunch is, given some time and the opportunity to taste what these wines can do, we’ll start seeing more and more plantings of the varietal in the region.  When that happens, you’ll be able to say you joined us in this journey before anyone else.  2019 Morris Vineyard RieslingAs you may know, my philosophy on Riesling is to treat it with utmost care, producing dozens of small lots from which I can later blend our mainline Dry Riesling and Riesling.  I do that because I see these two wines as the canvas upon which I paint my view of that vintage through this varietal.  Fermenting in small lots, in different mediums with different yeast cultures, provides the color palette from which we can paint these pictures.  It is from these small lots that some exciting single vineyard, or specifically designated wines come from.  Our 2019 Morris Vineyard Riesling is no exception.  An incredibly small lot of 22.5 cases, this bottling represents a single barrel of Riesling which exhibited such immense appeal to me, that I wanted to be able to share it with our wine club.  Fermented in a ten year old barrel that delivered little to no oak flavor influence, this wine was uninoculated.  In other words, no commercial yeast culture was added to this wine, rather, only ambient yeasts converted the sugars in this wine to alcohol.  The Australians have a term for these wines - ferrell ferments.  Ferrell, referring to the fact that the fermentations are wild, are characterized by their lack of intervention from the winemaker.  Interestingly, it also means that there likely wasn’t a single yeast culture that fermented the wine, but rather, numerous different cultures that rose and fell in dominance depending on the conditions of the wine, i.e., the alcohol, nutrient load, etc., at any given time.  It was our job to merely produce fresh clean wines with as light of a hand as possible.  Consequently, after fermentation, the wine was allowed to rest on its lees (spent yeast) until March of 2020, when it received a small dose of sulfur to prevent oxidation.  It was removed from the barrel in June of 2020, and bottled in July.  We allowed the wine to cellar in a temperature controlled room until this shipment and its release.  In ten years, we have likely released more than 50 Rieslings.  Some vintages have seen as many as 8 different bottlings of the varietal.  Of all these different wines, this specific bottling is likely my favorite bottling of still Riesling to date.  Although dry, it provides generous fruit and balanced, but bright, acidity.  It is a perfect food pairing wine, and will be an excellent accompaniment for Thanksgiving Dinner. 2018 Cabernet FrancOf all the wines I produce, if there is one that my wife will most frequently ask me to grab for dinner from the winery, it will be one of my Cabernet Francs.  She loves them, and she also loves the variability they provide vintage after vintage.  Our 2017 Cabernet Franc, with a bright and sunny fall, but coming from a slightly larger crop, was refreshing and light with prominent notes of cherry and raspberry.  It has been the kind of wine enjoyed with a meal, and just as often, with some chocolate and television, relaxing after we have put the kids to bed.  Our 2018 is a much deeper wine, with slightly more pronounced tannin, richer color, and complement of herbs to match the fruit.  It’s richer texture can carry fattier meats, and pairs just as well with game.  It has become the new favorite around our house, and it is wine I am thrilled to be releasing shortly.  As with the other wines in this shipment, Wine Club members are getting the first tastes of these exciting new releases.When it comes to producing red wines, I do engage in some slightly different cellar practices than many of my other colleagues in the Finger Lakes.  I have mentioned many times before, but saignee is a French word for “the bleed.”  This practice involves removing portions of juice from a red wine fermentation before the fermentation has begun.  The goal of this technique is to naturally increase the skin to juice ratio of the red wine fermentation, thereby increasing the availability of anthocyanins and tannins.  Anthocyanins are the red color molecule that gives red wine its color, and so by increasing the availability of this molecule in the fermentation, I am able to produce deeper color red wines.  Additionally, increasing the tannin naturally provides more bonding points for the color, and adds structure to the wine.  All of this is in the backdrop of understanding that berry size tends to be much larger in the Finger Lakes, due to the amount of rainfall we receive.  Saignee provides the winemaker with a natural tool to make deeper, more structured red wines, while also making some pretty delicious rose from that initial “bleed.”  Finally, there is an impact on the acidity of the wine.  Grape skins contain potassium, and potassium can help precipitate tartaric acid during the fermentation, naturally lowering the 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In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, host John Failla talks with Doug Sansom, Managing Director – Distributed Energy Resources at NRG Energy, at Smart Energy Decisions' recent Distributed Energy Forum. They discuss the tools that customers need in order to take control of their total energy management strategy. Listen in for insightful energy management strategies. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... 2021 Distributed Energy Resources Survey [03:40] Optimizing energy management [05:49] Tools that provide more control [08:19] Proven strategies for energy optimization [12:01] What does overall success look like? [16:29] Sustainability is about good substitution [21:40] Simplifying energy management Energy management is not just about providing energy for the facility - operators must also consider sustainability objectives. Reliability and economic objectives play a part as well through participation in local programs and monetizing some behind-the-meter assets. These strategies need to be cohesive, otherwise facilities' efforts will be split and confusing. A company often has as many as five or more vendors involved in energy management. Each vendor may have local advantages in that they have a local team to see things through for the facility in question. However, these vendors may also have different objectives. A local generator/distributor, for example, would have a very different objective than the power provider/supplier for the facility. The total energy management concept is all about bringing everything together under one vendor to coordinate common objectives and alignment to achieve the company's goals.  Combining supply and curtailment planning Facilities and companies need to consider combining the supply side and the curtailment side of their business. In this way, they can begin to understand how to dispatch in such a way that makes the most sense to the business operation and, at the same time, impacts the cost of supply at that location. It's possible to lose money by going with the lowest cost vendors at every stage because the objectives are conflicting. Simplification is an essential part of energy management. Understanding factors such as the impacts of operation on energy cost, where it makes sense, the cost-benefit of operating versus not operating, and when to operate is vital to successfully optimizing a company's energy structure through a total energy management plan. Yes, this will require a lot of work upfront, but over the long term, it has proven to be the most effective approach.  Approaching optimization Optimization is a journey that can't be executed in a day. There are a lot of factors to understand, and it's unlikely that that's going to happen in one short session of analysis. This prospect can seem overwhelming to most companies, but they don't have to try to do it alone. They can bring in outside groups to help them understand and build a total energy structure and plan. In this way, companies will know what's necessary for the journey, when they're going to get there, and their overall cost savings. They can measure and verify as they move through the process. Flexibility is critical as energy prices, peak hours, and availability change. Being flexible and adaptable is how a company can manage those changes to achieve its overall plan successfully. Resources & People Mentioned The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Connect with Doug Sansom By Email at HughDouglas.Sansom@nrg.com Doug Sansom currently serves as Managing Director of Distributed Energy Resources for NRG. He customizes Demand Response and Distributed Energy Resource solutions for North American utilities. For the past 17 years, Doug has served in executive positions with smart grid and demand response companies like Comcast, BPL Global, Compath Technologies, and Comverge. He has managed residential and large commercial & industrial demand response projects in the US and abroad for utilities like Visayan Electric Company, Pepco Holdings, and Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative. He has also deployed smart grid projects in Cebu City, Bangkok, Curitiba, Kuwait City, and Le Mans. Connect With Smart Energy Decisions https://smartenergydecisions.com Follow them on Facebook Follow them on Twitter Follow them on LinkedIn Subscribe to Smart Energy Voices If you're interested in participating in the next Smart Energy Decision Event, visit smartenergydecisions.com or email our Event Operations Director, Lisa Carroll at lisa@smartenergydecisions.com Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com

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In this episode, Jeffrey Davis from the Functionally Dysfunctional Show and I talk about podcasting, God, religion, the bible, the Law of Attraction, and his experience of being an evangelist. This was a solid episode with an awesome flowing conversation. I hope you enjoy it.  Check out Jeff's work: FunctionallyDysfunctionalShow.com IG: @functionallydyfunctionalshow IG: @heyjeffreydavis Please don't forget to shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome back to another episode of the 101 podcast. This is the maiden voyage of the new setup. So hopefully it sounds crispy in your ears. And today. I am joined by what you want to call. You want me to call you by your name, or you want me to call you? Cuz I usually have people. 00:01:02Short-haired assholes, I don't care. Whatever my name. So, Jeffrey Davis, from the functionally dysfunctional. Show. What's up, man? What's going on, brother? We've been talking for a little bit and then we linked up on. I was listening to the was the one that you did with the 00:01:22she's not a psychologist, you something else. Was there a purpose? Michael therapist. And my first question to her was what what is the difference between a psychotherapist? 00:01:34Yeah, and I understand that when I saw you were going down, some some stuff and I was like man, let me, let me, let me link up with this guy. So before we get started, share your socials, Instagram, YouTube, whatever it is, you have so people can find your work and I'll wait till the end when they like the two people that are listening to the show. I like pie your mom and your wife or something isn't the show and then they just tune out. So they don't hear it. You know, so just do it front. That's why I can't write. Make them, make them. Hang on. No man. You can catch me everywhere at, Hey, Jeffrey, Davis personally. That's twitch, Twitter, Facebook, all that shit. 00:02:19And then my other, my, my my podcast, the funk, he's functional show. You can catch on Twitter at Funk jazz funk Show Instagram at Foxy's, functional show or email monkeys. Functional showed, you know that calm. The reason I like that name is because it's like the 101 podcast, you know, it's the one I want and I can say that shit cuz I'm Brown so it's not racist if I say it but it'd be pretty fucking races of somebody else said that. So all see that's a great conversation right there by itself. Would it be? Would it be right? Can't pull. I can't pull my black card, even though Puerto Ricans. Do you have some black in them somewhere in the mix in there, but I can't quite pull that but you know, the full on black. I'm Brown as fuck. So what got you into podcast knew? It was it was it the old Joe Rogan or what? No, man. That's a long story. I did it because I felt like there we got time. 00:03:18Right. Shitt. I don't tell a short story. That's the problem. I have to like I'm always catching myself in and rain in myself in where I'm going on my God. I'm getting too long with it. But long, long story like multiple episode long Story Once Upon a Time. I am 38. Now. I was a professional Minister and evangelist and yellow. Yeah, dude, travel the country speaking and my beliefs are nowhere in the neighborhood of that realm now and Bloated never thought that. Oh no one does but but people that hear me talk now, that knew me back then. Her like, what the heck happened to you. I'm like, 00:04:05That's another conversation. Well, that's what they think right? And for those actually want to have a reasonable conversation about it. Then then we have a good time. But most people just want to make their own assumptions and move on. But but yeah, so I have a lot of experience speaking and I'm the kind of person you are. 00:04:26I think about shit and ask a lot of questions and and and I see a lot of things on answered. I'm driven by the by the big questions of 00:04:38Who we are? Why are we here? Where we come from? How we get here? What's the point? And I just asked the shit that everyone else asks in their head, if they're honest with themselves, but no one talks about and I was like, man, don't talk about this shit and I want to talk about this shit and I want to do it where other folks can be a part of it if they want to be, was that be listening or or anything. So we just, we talked about real schitt's enough to talk about on my podcast, you know, we talk about movies and TV shows and shit like that, but more times than not were talking about 00:05:13Real shit. In the why not right now. We have Chit Chat all day everyday. Why not talk about real shit is it's like that one saying, did a conversation really happen. If it wasn't on a podcast, the tree really fall in the woods, if there was nobody around to hear it right that the bear shit in the woods and there's nobody else around to hear it. When I was in college. I had us roommate. That was not the sharpest knife in the drawer and he 00:05:45We were meeting with a roommate were talking about. You missing the sound yours is just waves. You sound waves. Huge waves, hit your ears and is similarly, we were talking to him and he really now, you know, color doesn't exist until you see it. It's just wavelength of light and until you the rising cones in your, in your eyeballs. And they, they they interpret those spectres of light as certain colors. Like the fuck ton of colors behind me, which is just where I roll. But we long story short. We had that mother fucker trying to catch the lack of color behind him. We're like, if you look behind you fast enough, you can catch and that motherfukers, you know, he's like try and I'm like, yeah, like I said, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have had Lawrence Corona on the show and 00:06:37Back at you talk about vision and being you know something back then Vision was thought of as something. I mean, let me. I'm trying to look through the emails now do it. So right here, Visionary seeing so, long trying is a Visionary artist. And what they do is they focus on Vision. They paint what they see in this realm and he's written a bunch of books and he does Alchemy in. And I had them on My Chauffeur is a fur to talk about narcissism and Converse store, email about this Visionary. Seeing first about seeing particularly Vision, seeing is active, rather than passive that seeing was always understood as the active projection of sight from early Greek culture. And then he's got a particles, some fucking Greek guy Play-Doh Optics into the Middle Ages, only during the Renaissance and scientific. 00:07:37Leonardo and Newton. Did we come to regard seeing as the passive reception of light and Visionary State? We try to open or I to the Divine eye and it's more. It's the more active way of creative sing so back. Then we understood seeing as an active projection of sight versus. It's always there. And then we interpret whatever comes in, which is really interesting. And we only see point 0 0, 2 5 0 0, 2, 5 of the light spectrum that loan. We only hear certain amount of the frequency. That's why I tell people, 00:08:18Who know, we don't see infrared. We don't see you. No, ultraviolet light. We don't see all these different types of wavelengths and lights. So who's to say that there's not like a world going on in front of us. Right now. We can't see. Oh man. I I I agree totally dude, so I can't just skip over the fact that you were like this. This minister is this changes the entire Dynamic of the podcast, bro. I got to dig deeper into that. What what click bro, like what happened that it you were just like fuck. This is not it cuz usually when it's like that you're deep in the shit like deep and I grew up Pentecostal Christian. So gospel church. It's deep shit. You know what I mean? Like it and I can. I play guitar for 5 years. I was in the worship. Grabbed it. I did it all until I started realizing I hate. 00:09:12This is bullshit. You know what? I mean? I opened up my eyes and when I really started seeing and reading other literature and other scriptures, that's when I was like, okay, I've been bamboozled, you know, okay, so 00:09:30The thing, the thing about it is, so I wouldn't go so far as to say that. 00:09:39It's bullshit, right? So well, lay back up. I guess I would ask someone that. Makes that that statement the question. What about it? Do you think is bullshit? Because that could be far-reaching. So, for me, as I grew up in the church wasn't necessarily that Super Active till my teenage years. Has some people that took an interest in me and in the ministry they invested in me. Yo, groom me for professional Ministry. I travel the country, preaching ended up starting at church so on and so forth and army. 00:10:19You're a dub. 00:10:21And yes, I say no, but but it in in, in all of that, and one of my things is, I'm, I'm big on history, on big on Origin stories. I'm big on. I don't want to just read an English translation of you Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. And I'm like, okay. Well, I've always been back to your original question about why I started my podcast is, is I've always been that person to ask those questions. Those that that everyone seems to stop just short up for some reason and I go. Okay. Well, how did we end up with out of the Bible? End up the way, the Bible is, how why do we only include the writings of these people? Well, what's the other stories that were circulating in the time of someone and still want to still want? And when you start reading things like that, you start to go, huh? 00:11:12As a whole you start to notice like a lot of interesting motherfukers it motherfukers yet and they're telling us different versions of the same stories, which makes you ask questions about the infallibility of scripture and it makes you asking all these questions. And in the church. Yeah, I grew up in the end of the Southern Baptist Church. I went through. I was in very strict, Baptist churches, in Progressive Baptist Churches. I was in the Pentecostal church for a bit, spend some time with a charismatic church. I've got around a bit right. Lots of friends that were in Weston traditions and so on and so forth. So not and just don't want pigeon hole, right? And 00:11:56Do all those asking the questions? 00:12:00It is kind of like pulling at the thread, the loose thread on a sweater, right? If if you pull on it, I completely promise it will unravel for you. Unless, and this is what many, many, many out here, is yours coming to pull back the curtain on professional Ministry, a little bit. Cuz this is is true across the board. Most professional ministers have come to that point where they went old. Fuck. 00:12:27When they pull on that thread enough to where they realized, if they kept pulling, it was all going to unravel and the vast majority of them. 00:12:39Made the decision it with the face with the same problem. The same same quandary, that I was to go. Now. What do I keep pulling or do I just stop and pretend, like, it never happened? And this is my livelihood at this point and I'm not going to, I'm not going to pull any more and most of them make that choice and I almost did almost went. You know what I've invested so much in this, I cannot, but I'm the kind of person that I can't. 00:13:12I can't do that. I just, I can't stop when I'm on. 00:13:20An interesting Journey been where I've been and and I'm not going down the road. I'm going down it. So for me, I just for better or worse, when I got to see where this leads, and what it led to for me was the unraveling of 00:13:37Christianity specifically to begin with and then organized religion as a whole after that. And I went through a thankfully, very brief time where for about a year where I was, as fervent income convinced trying to convince people that 00:14:00Christianity was bullshit as I had been in trying to create to miss them of the existence of a DD or God and 00:14:10I think they realize, well, that was about as as much Folly is. 00:14:16As the other side, right? As as as the religious side, so I settled in this place where I went. You know, what, there's no evidence to. 00:14:27Prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of a God or Gods? So for me, I'm not going to throw my lot in with 00:14:38you know, some kind of faith in some kind of DD until that deity is proven to exist and 00:14:46Is that Deedee your aura quartz prove that we are totally alone. There's no higher power, you know, and, and I'm completely over so that that, that freed me up to go. You know what? Let me just consider all perspectives, all possibilities of what could be, and whatever ends up being proven to actually be is fine with me. I just want to know, empirically, what is if there is anything greater than ice higher than us. You know, I don't give a shit if it's the judeo-christian notion of God. I don't give a shit. If it's, you know, the the Hindu Pantheon. The Greek pantheon, it was something that we don't have any frame of reference for at all. I don't care what it is. As long as it's empirically proven that it does exist. If anything does exist until then, because I told her what you did write, the religion only exist because in my opinion because of unanswerable questions. 00:15:45Okay in ancient history. As far as we know, we can talk about. Pretend you possible past Advanced civilizations on planet. Earth is so what? So what I do all day about that. I know you can't do your but you know, you look at it and go if you buy the line. 00:16:03That were fad of what history is and it may or may not be the truth. 00:16:08No evidence either way in my opinion. But if you buy the line that we were super primitive in Antiquity, well, okay, let's let's by the line that people were just stupid motherfukers in Antiquity and we go. Okay. Well, Joe Farmer goes, man, my crops haven't fucking grown will hasn't rained in a while while I wonder, I wonder. Why not. Well, maybe I fucking pissed off that thing in the sky writing for some reason. Every culture on every corner of the globe, in ancient history, came to the realization, or the assumption, that that thing requires, blood sacrifice, how that happened. But you have all these unanswerable questions and he's quandaries that people go. I don't know, maybe it was this and boom. There is Faith. There's religion and we sacrifice John down the road because John is a bad motherfuker and he needs to die. So we're going to just sacrifice him and we go. Oh, 00:17:08Well, what happens? OSHA training for a while, let's kill someone and then it'll rain exactly confirmation biased in cognitive dissonance all day, too. So anyway, that was like these soup. I told you I'll do it. So don't don't tell us your story. That's a long-ass version of explaining how religion in a multi-year process of of how that had it wasn't like. I woke up one day and went off this shit. It was like a multi-year was terrible time. It was a time of great existential angst for me to go cuz here, I've invested my life in this. This belief system in this profession, around this belief, system is dogma and 00:17:57Now it's just I keep pulling at the thread and just keeps falling apart for me. And it's terrible. Terrible feeling cuz you mean everything about your life at that point. You might relate to that depending on how deep into it. You got, you go. Will it it? It shapes your worldview. It shapes. The is the lens through which you view things, and when that's gone. That's a horrible feeling until it becomes a great feeling when you go in a second. If I don't hold anything is sacred. That means everything is possible. And for me, that's a very freeing thought. Once I got to that place, right? For a lot of people that is it's paralyzing and it was me for a while. That's what? 00:18:37Existential angst is but once you get beyond that, if you allow yourself to to move beyond that and press through that thing and stay within your stay self-aware and continue processing and don't just give into the paralyzing overwhelmingness of it. Then it becomes very freeing for me, at least an in potentially for other people. Just depends on the person. Yeah, that's a lot to unpack. That's heavy man. So I can relate because 00:19:14Even with just so I've done. Probably collectively with all the podcasts. I've done probably over a hundred episodes. Very nice. So, 00:19:25Once. 00:19:27That indoctrination sets in, right? And I can't even imagine. 00:19:33I can really a little bit because I was in that realm of things as far as the church goes, but I can't imagine putting my livelihood on that and then going down this rabbit hole and be like, wow, this is this might be bullshittin, then lying to yourself. 00:19:51To hold back, right? Cuz I can't even now that you're saying that. I can't imagine how many ministers are preachers. Are going through the same. 00:20:02Almost like an existential crisis, where that's crazy, dude, that is crazy. Because at the end of the day, it's all a narrative fallacy. At the end of the day. It is what it is. Now. 00:20:19There is no proving or disproving. 00:20:23This this God figure whoever it is, at the end of the day. I feel it's 00:20:29an internal battle and 00:20:33I've been looking more and more into the aspect of 00:20:38What these philosophers called, the demons aren't where they, where they do the mass hypnotized by demons. I mean, the things that they use thoughts real, Play-Doh thought, that the da thought world was another dimension of Plato's theory of forms where we have the perfect image of a horse, but in the real world, 00:21:00There is fucked up versions of horses, right? With a good rest of the form of the chair. Exactly. So so when it comes to these thoughts because and forever was either Alan, Watts are forgot who it was. It was like an action doesn't happen without with a lot of thought and the actions that are happening in the future happened because of things that happened in the past. So you think I've been listening to a lot of turns but cannot talk about time travel in time itself. And how time is an illusion. And obviously, there's only the Eternal. Now there is no future. There is no past. It's only now and but they're the way they talk about is like everything is being pushed to One Moment In Time all together like this Collective klusterfuk of just time and moment just happening on it, which is what like the Multiverse theory is and all that stuff that everything has happened. 00:22:00At once, right? It's right there, that's connected. And we only in time is just way we experience BC system. This the guy that invented that it was, he was, he was a Jesuit monk. That's when we wasn't, look this up Jojo. Yeah, Joseph Gallagher and time as as people with that's just something that we measure it's just it's just another unit of measurement but back to the topic of proving or disproving up. There is a God or not. I don't believe that there is I believe 00:22:35I consider myself a gnostic PS. I believe there is some higher power. There is I refer to him as a programmer like in The Matrix the program for the architect, that's in the room and he's creating reality. Because in the reason I feel we live in some sort of simulation is because 00:22:54Law of Attraction. And what you said about how you not trying to look and see if the colors of change, you know, the observer effect is 100 fucking percent real, and people don't know about the double slit experiment. If you can figure out why atoms react differently, when you're observing them versus, when you're not, you will win a Nobel, Peace Prize. I was when you mention that was fixing to bring up the folks, split experiment, you know, we have not brought up this episode at all. We just happen to be speaking. The same fucking language ride, right. You're ever this shit that I'm aware of. I'm ready for the shitz. You're aware of. It is like serendipitous. They were having this conversation. What got me into Park Housing. Other than, obviously, Joe Rogan was that when I started looking into things, when I started reading, 00:23:47Scriptures in the nagamati library. When I start reading things the Dead Sea Scrolls, when I started looking into it. And then when I questioned and I asked somebody was in the church. I said, hey why what's up with the Old Testament, man? What's up with the why do the bogomils in the cathars things? That it's a work of a demon? You know, who's Yahweh? Who's out? What's going on, man? What's up? Like they said, ignore the Old Testament. 00:24:10What ya, ignore. We don't. We don't regard that. I said, wait a minute, but it's fundamental ignore. So, that's what really when I, when I, when they told me, I said, all right, I see what's going on here. I see what's going on. So the narrative is, when it fits, right, when it fits, it's okay. When you're reading the scripture, you know, how many people go to church, and don't understand the scripture that they're reading 99.999% of them. Cuz what what happens you as a, as, you know, as a preacher you go in and and you see it when they're reading old Revelations. This is what happened, right? Everybody. That's what happened. Hallelujah, know what I mean. I take this indoctrination and just what was happening right now. It's in the it's a business model. Yes. It's a, it's a, it's a brokered experience. Who are you? When I'm not saying you to tell me. 00:25:04That I'm able to achieve Divinity or not. 00:25:09Oh, well, this guy talks to God every other day. This other guy talks to him everyday this house. I got it's a brokered experience and you're ruled a heretic when you go against the grain, when you questioned and. Yeah, cuz we have to have a hierarchy, right? Or there's not going to be what Ward is rather shy. See the fear is that there will not be any order without a hierarchy, right? Like the beat the, the the b-bus, why the Ten Commandments were given to Moses. He needed to lead the people he needed some order, he needed that, right? Then again before too stupid to, to live in some Society where there is no heart. That's the problem because that's why they haven't told us that there is aliens. Because can you imagine the mass hysteria? What happened? If if you could you imagine the breakdown of society? If they told him God wasn't real or Hey, listen, where a brain. 00:26:09About jar. That's why I said. I think therefore I am that's the only thing he was fucking sure. Of, you know, like when Neil asked Morpheus what is real, he goes with what is real right? As if you know, the electrical impulses that your, you know what I mean? What is your, how do you define real? How do you last week that there's a third one Matrix directions to like, where the fuck is that happened, is coming out now resurrections. Yes, which is going to be pretty much Neil was cuz at the end of the last one, the third one, which does the best one was the first one. Obviously. Right? Whenever there's a just as, you know, your Star Wars fan, right? Yeah, when there's the first movies, always like the greatest. I don't know about Star Wars that we can get into that. But the Matrix is the first one was great. The second was okay. It's like aliens, aliens. 00:27:09When was the amazing? Yeah, and then obviously, they went off that. But the Matrix, the first down the third movie. It's very Gnostic to the the the feel of it. Right? And every character has a few Google their name. They have, you know, Trinity or the Holy Trinity Morpheus. I know, but the god of sleep, right? Morpheus the Nebuchadnezzar, the ship are all this shit, Neo the one and at the end of the third, movie. Spoiler alert. He pretty much dies. And then this way I was wondering how they're going to bring it back. Like, hey, how are we going to do this? Everybody's dead is like, I was having a dream. I've had these crazy dreams and it's like fucking boom, dude. So there's this theory, in various in a very small subject of, yo, Chris and unloved of of Christianity, and it's called, it's, it's people. I don't know that that, that, that that the sect were the has any kind of of name, but there's a inner light. 00:28:09Was that the weather? Is it the Temple of inner life? Oh, I don't know if there is a name. I'm not aware of it. But there is no Thursday, a theory, a theology or whatever concept that of this thing called V A Dimock dream and it is the theory that that obviously, Adam and Eve are not a physical man and woman. That is there a metaphor for Humanity? Because he's so, here's your, here's your Hebrew lesson of the day, right? In. Because that was one of my things is. I was I read and read. He didn't speak, but read Hebrew and Greek. And because I want them like, you know, I want to read the original language that the other text was in not, what is been translated into? Guess who came up with the King James version? Take a wild. Guess. I used to know it, but I forgotten go ahead in King James, dude. 00:29:09There was a big bro, like who the Council of nicaea with the whole canonical versus not going on at all. You know, is that the Ethiopian Bible has the Book of Enoch as a canonical book, right? Not the Western, the western United. I've had Joseph. There's three books. I've had Joseph Lumpkin. Dr. Joseph pumpkin in on my podcast and he has a PHD in in church history and all the Teletubbies eat shit and and he's written numerous numerous books on it and it's fucking crazy. But in your listening, you're a Christian. Don't start down the church history Rabbit Hole cuz you will not be one for long. I've had some emails come my way. And so so so here's your Hebrew lesson of the day, right? In Genesis when 00:30:06Adam is talked about, he's called Adam. He's called eating the humanity basically, right? And then, once you're once Eve, is, is taking is created. Adam is no longer be in English. The translation is so Adam, but in the Hebrew, it's each right? And so each is a male incomplete. 00:30:32If Dee Wright and Eve is Isha, and it's a female in Kuwait City. It's only once each any Shah come together, right? Where they become collectively referred to as high tide on McCarran and swnd the human soul. The trinity. 00:30:522 degree. Yeah, it's so it was showing that that that you 00:30:57He will I sense a potential out there. Anyway, you go on and the theory that was talking about was the Via didn't dream is there's this this theory that when that went went, went out of me felt when they ate of the apple, of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which is massively misunderstood, but that's a different podcast when they did that, that they fell asleep and Humanity has been sleeping. Not unlike all of the humans in the power plants in The Matrix, right? If they're asleep and and you're like, yeah, bulshit. Will you find me a book in the Bible for all whatever that's worth. We talked about the canonization process of the Old and New Testament and so on and so forth and the different sects of Christianity that use different cannons and blah blah, but let's just simplify and find me a, a a writing, a book in any Canon of the Bible. That doesn't have a common Narrative of 00:31:59It is said in every single book with potentially the exclusion. I'm not for certain of of Leviticus, were just run it through all the laws. But wake up is, said, by every Prophet, by every Apostle, die. Every judge. Really? Yes. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up, Jesus wake up. 00:32:23It's okay. You know, I'm not saying I buy it. I'm saying it's an interesting perspective and thought and conversation that have what's what's the story? I'm sure, you know, where he is wrestling with the angel and he telling he's telling him may have to go before the sun comes out. What's the what's the? So that's the story of Jacob and I had somebody on the podcast we talkin about that about how it was almost forgot. What the fuck you said. This is forever ago. It was pretty much. You was you was, you know, it was like an a like a like a shadow type of the like a Carl Jung type of thing where he's just battling with his with his shadow temperatures, you know, the person is described. I will say I'm starting to hate. I haven't been a preacher since I was in my early twenties, I'm taking way fucking back, but I Stay 00:33:18This just stays in my Consciousness because I'm always looking, I'm always on the journey for what is whatever that might be. I want to know what is and so this ship stays in my Consciousness and that's what my favorite stories. And it was back when I was preaching towards the end of my preaching career, for lack of better term, and that really is the most appropriate term. That was one of my favorite stories that I would that I would use because there's a chance that you've lost the Jacobs or Jacob story. What the fuck are the chances that I'll bring that up when I was your first or one of them and because one of the things that there's, there's there's two stents in Hebrew called the, the future perfect tense. And I can't recall if we have one of those in English. I don't believe we have a future perfect and English. Anyway, we read the story as it's so Jacob wrestles. So it is assumed for the writing that this, this purse. 00:34:18Did Jacob wrestle with was God? Okay, and Jacob wrestled With God all night long and I got invited the wrestling. And one way you can read that is way back up a step. So, Jacob wrestles with God, and obviously, God could best him. God, could best him, anytime you wanted to, but chose not to because Jacob was still engaging in the wrestling. So he kept them in the fight basically, right? And they wrestle all night long, all night long. The the text says, and in the end at the end of the fight was, as the sun's coming up. The The Stranger this person's called The Stranger. 00:35:01Depending on what translation you're reading touches. Wrenches, injures. Whatever, does something to Jacob's hip. Well. 00:35:11That's so we we, we can read on right? Past that in the Hebrew, the that that sentence is what was done to Jacobs hip was done in the future, perfect tense in Hebrew, which means it changed the way that Jacob would walk forever future. Perfect. It's never going to be undone. So what I, what I took that ass in the circle hear here comes the the preacher really want to reading any sacred texts that is completely open to interpretation. You can kind of read it how you want with that meant to me at the time and what I think is interesting way to look at it was if you wrestle with God 00:35:54And I interpret that is asking the hard questions. Digging, deep figure that. Figure it out. Ask tough shit, right? If you wrestle with God, you better fucking be prepared. 00:36:05Because it will change you forever. If you go down that road in Hewitt, if you engage in that fight you will you will not walk the same forever you may or may not like the way you don't walk the same and in my case it led to religion unraveling for me. And yeah, that's just the way it is, and I don't 00:36:30Not like that happened in a lot of ways. I feel like it was a emancipation almost but that's fucking deep dude. You know what the guy talked about was cuz he was in a cave or something before he was meditating or something before. Then why you is the reason I had brought that up was because 00:37:00There there is. He's monks that go underground for weeks at a time days at a time. And the reason that they do that as they go underground to meditate because they say that DMT, wait, wait, wait for it. Wait for a dimethyl trip to me. They say that in the lungs, right? And William Hoff, which is this crazy freaking nature guy. He says, get high on your own Supply and the way he does that is through breathing exercises. And he says that I've had a friend of mine who has done it before where he's like had hallucinations from just I don't know if it's the lack of oxygen or what it is. But he's had these great from doing those breathing exercises. So these monks go underground. 00:37:51In the darkness, right? Because they say that you're able to produce more DMT in the darkness, for whatever reason and they do these breathing exercises in the Darkness 2 in to induce these Visionary states. Where are they? 00:38:10Again. Maybe have fights with entities that they perceive. That's why the the the entity kept telling him. He I have to go before the sun comes up. I have to go before the sun comes up. Hope it stays. I have to go because once the sun came up maybe snap out of that Visionary state. If you know what I mean, I could maybe it was this the shadow. I don't, I don't know it. It's it's this crazy thing that I've always thought about but 00:38:37That that's wild to me bro. Where it where it makes perfect sense. What you're saying where you know, what do they save you? If you mess with the bull you get the horns type thing. So but 00:38:52In your case. It wasn't a good. But why wouldn't let me rephrase that? I want to say it was not good outcome. 00:39:01And what you're saying is, if you look into God, right? Or the one, or the parent or 00:39:09The demiurge or whatever. It is to you the program or whatever. 00:39:14That you're going to be altered 100% in some way. And what would you call it? That? The future? Perfect. Yeah, the future perfect, kiss. It will change your imperfect tense. It it will change you forever. And it's not. The perfect part is, it's, it's, it's not going back there. Right? Like you can't just take. You can't be reinserted back into the Matrix. So it's like, either you take the red pill or the blue pill, what the fuck. You can take this when I wake back up and that Eternal Slumber, you know, within that Eternal Slumber or take this other one and it's like you're going to be with the big boys and that's when he wakes up in the fucking factories. Are you know what? I mean? That's why all dude. So I love that. I love that. That's awesome. But in your case 00:40:00When people are in religion, and when they're in in church, they want to further that relationship and nurture that relationship with God and your case. It wasn't that. So what did that kind of defeat, the whole purpose of God or do you feel that he's there to help show you the way not necessarily in the Christian religion, but in Life or, you know, what, it whatever religion it is, cuz that's kind of, you know, what is paradoxical thought? You're supposed to look for more of God. But then, in your case, it kind of pushed you away. Because it on traveled that fabric of everything you thought to be and it turned out not to be true and I think it stands a good chance to do that for anyone that digs and I think and in a lot of people are going to stop once they realize they're going to stop pulling on the thread, once they realize this weather is going to unravel. That's bullshit, dude. Well, I think it is but that's that, that gets down to the kind of person that you are. You are you the kind of person that is using Faith as a crutch. 00:41:01Which I think more times than not. It is. You know, where are Young, Thug's about religion. Organized religion is just a way of people's predict projection their projections of of their own problems and just fine. Like I said, finding a crutch and a place to to dump watch those those this doing that this just using as a crutch. Just to answer things. You what happened to my favorite, you know, Grandma repairing her spouse or child? That died. Where are they? Well, they're in heaven will make you feel good right into the wrong with that thing wrong with with feeling good. 00:41:41Well, let me add a little ask her to that, in my opinion. Nothing wrong with that. As long as you don't go around claiming that to be the absolute truth. Where is he at now? Do you believe something that that bit whatever you want to believe in your head because it makes you feel good. Cuz it answers questions are unanswerable and that causes you anxiety, or stress, whatever, and you want to choose to believe something because it makes you feel better. Awesome, great fine, but the second you say, well, but what I believe is the truth and you offer right in it. And the burden of proof is on the person that makes the claim, right? So if you say ex is your, ex is true, or the burden of proof is on you to to 00:42:28To provide evidence for that privalia and if you're unwilling, or unable to do. So then Hitchens, razor says that that which can be assertive without evidence can be dismissed without evidence that different from Occam's razor off top my head, like the, the, the the, the more 00:42:49The choice that would make the most sense. 00:42:52Yeah, you're basically saying. 00:42:57The simplest answer is normally normally, I'd hate to see a berry pie saw a fucking beer, right? So yeah. Yeah, that's different than that says. If you say, you know, he wanted, you know where I was. If I say once, you know that I can fly and you can hold your mother fucker. 00:43:17Columbus roof and jump off and let's see. And I feel well, I don't have to cuz I told you that I could I have made in it and I have asserted something that I'm unwilling to prove and because I'm a willing to prove it you, it is folly for you to engage in an argument or whether or not I can fly because I've been unwilling to prove my claim so that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed. And I would argue should be dismissed without evidence. You don't need to provide evidence of why I can't fly. If I wasn't willing to prove that I can but there's like this delusional State when it comes to to religion than anything any beliefs like that right were work. Again, these intrusive thoughts, these demons that get within people and they possess some right is, what is happening World War Racine right now? Like the the 00:44:17We are. 00:44:19All act, like I said, earlier, our actions all come from thoughts, right? And then, there wouldn't be any action without thought of either. One of your thoughts or one of my thoughts and we project those onto others, which is what happens with we talked about hierarchy earlier, when the higher-ups, which we're seeing it happen to history. Right now on the higher-ups come up with some sort of idea. They projected onto the masses. And that's when you get this, massive stereo, massive noses. 00:44:48To control people through that, but it starts with the headright starts up top. And then it works it. They indoctrinate that had figure and then it works his fucking way down and those people push those ideologies and whatever it is. And dude, Stalin or Hitler, fucking Fidel Castro, all these head figures, you know, Kim Jong while he's had two figures, all starts with an idea. So, how is that significant for you? Why when you cuz I sent that or not, since I gather that, that's something that's important to your worldview, that everything starts with a, with a thought. How someone play with Devil's Advocate number 1. How is that important to your daily life? And secondly, if you found out that that in fact is not the case. How would that affect you? 00:45:46It would affect me because at the end of the day, I feel that. 00:45:53And I don't want to say what was happening right now, cuz I'm I'm just tired of talking about it, but the way it's funny you don't want to talk about talking. Sure. 00:46:04At the end of the day, I've always said that we are thoughts fighting with one another and let's go back to the simulation. Hypothesis. Not Theory, a theory can be proven proven scientifically. A hypothesis has not been proven scientifically for those fucking conspiracy theorist a shit. When you know, you're part of a game, right? That's why these Elites, they are the way they are because they know this is a game. So when, you know, and you acknowledging that you're in some sort of game, 00:46:39It's okay. You know, you're okay, after about, when you're using Windows 10, you can't use a Windows 2000 program, right? Because it's not programmed in Windows 10 to be able to do that. So, there's certain things in this realm that we can't do now. 00:46:56When I say that we are thoughts in this whole idea of thoughts is because some people and they say you die by the sword or whatever. They don't understand. They can't grasp that concept. They can't break out of that Matrix to be able to think for themselves because they are being influenced by others and their thoughts and their words and their actions, right? So, 00:47:19Not until the mass. 00:47:24Of people, the population, whoever it is has an Awakening and says, hey, wait a minute. This is bulshit simulacra and simulation. We are giving power to these empty symbols rather, it be a thought or whatever else a symbol and it has power over us. That's why it's so important to me because if we as a society came together and said, hey, this is all bulshit. 00:47:51What gives money do the power that it does, what the government who is the government, owal? Right, we're all, we all come together as a collective Consciousness and agree upon this head. Figure of the so-called free world and he is the president, he is dead. Figure will says, fucking who writes says the system? What system the system is flawed. But as long as there, are the sheeple, in the people who don't understand that they're having these thoughts projected onto them and they're beaten. They didn't know, they were being manipulated, right? That's why I say defund. The media. Don't be from the police be from the fucking media to because it's called mimetic occultism in the medical tourism back to Plato. The Republic mimetic occultism is propaganda. Used to talk to people soul on a deeper level. 00:48:45No, no, so I'm going to relate to the Republic now. The reason I bring that up is because What did Plato want to do in the Republic? He wanted to take away the Arts. He wanted to take away certain sounds and in certain note, why? Because you understood that the Arts, talk to people on a deeper level. That's why they're prohibiting us from doing the things that we want to do from going to the movies from doing all the shit. You will stay inside and you will listen and you will do as your fucking told right. Why? Because people will still do it time and time again and not until they wake up from this eternal Slumber. Will they know? That's why the guy in The Matrix, you can eat in the state. He goes. I know this shit is fake, but I'd rather have this because it tastes good, but he knows he he knows he know that he's in the simulation yet. There's nothing he can do about it. He said, hey, I don't want to remember shit when I wake up on the other side, when he snatches them out because I don't know shit. When I wake up on the other side, just wipe me. I want to be super fucking rich.

GUEST: Amer Zahr About Amer Zahr: Amer Zahr is an Arab-American comedian, speaker, writer, academic, and adjunct professor at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He draws on his experiences growing up as a child of Palestinian refugees, performing and lecturing on topics like politics, society, growing up Arab, Islam, and more. In 2016 and 2020, Amer served as a surrogate for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Here's Amer introducing Bernie at a rally in March 2020. In February 2016, Amer headlined a packed house at New York City's world-famous Carnegie Hall, alongside Palestinian-American comedians Said Durrah, Mona Aburmishan, and Mike Easmeil In June 2015, Amer headlined at the world-famous John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He produced this show as well, making it the first time that an all-Palestinian cast took the stage at the internationally-renowned venue. He has produced and headlined in 3 of his own comedy tours, “1001 Laughs Comedy Tour,” “We're Not White!” and “In 1948.” He founded and produced the first-ever “1001 Laughs Ramallah Comedy Festival,” a production in Palestine that featured 10 comedians and 7 shows in August 2015. The festival entertained over 2,000 locals and was funded by the US Consulate General in Jerusalem, a branch of the United States Department of State. Amer, as the producer of the festival, received great acclaim and much media attention from the following outlets: CNN | CNN Arabic | BBC Arabic | Haaretz | Al-Hurra | Palestine Today | Wattan TV | MAAN Network | 972 Mag | Palestine News Network | Sky News He is also the producer of the annual “1001 Laughs Dearborn Comedy Festival” in Dearborn, Michigan at the Arab American National Museum. Amer recently completed production on his first documentary film, “We're Not White,” a comedic and informative approach to the Arab-American struggle to get a box on the United States Census Form. He is also the author of the well-read blog “The Civil Arab,” as well as his first book, “Being Palestinian Makes Me Smile,” a collection of his writings relating to being Palestinian. Amer holds an MA in Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies and a JD (law degree), both from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He writes and speaks widely on political and social affairs, and has appeared on radio and television, including ABC's “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.” Some of his writings have been featured in major publications, including Time magazine, and Al-Jazeera. Amer has performed throughout North America, Canada, Europe, & the Arab world, including shows in: America: New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Raleigh, Cleveland, San Diego, Pittsburgh Colleges: Portland State University, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, Wooster College, University of Connecticut, Loyola University – Chicago, Stanford University, University of North Carolina, San Diego St University, Michigan State University Internationally: Jerusalem, Amman, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Haifa, Nazareth, Tel Aviv, Muscat (Oman), Kuwait City, Cairo, Beirut, Dubai, London, Toronto --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mogulinsider/support

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In our final event of this season, Dr Nassir Ghaemi joins us in a skype discussion on a paper he published entitled "Toward a Hippocratic Pschopharmacolgy". The session was moderated by psychiatrist Dr Mohammed Alsuwaidan, and was organized by the KPRC. This discussion was held in Kuwait City, May 9, 2019. For more information on KPRC visit our instagram @kuwaitpsychclub For more information on the Kuwait Board of Psychiatry visit kbpsych.org