Podcasts about Labor Day

Octavia Martinez joins Stew to dissect the strategic defamation lawsuit filed against Candice Owens, exposing the alarming connections between newly formed law firms and political power players. And down the dangerous legal precedents being set around private figures, implied defamation, and the ongoing war against independent journalism. JP Sears joins Stew to break down the shocking new satellite imagery out of Gaza and examine the deep layers of global deception shaping our world. The entire deep state control grid is falling apart at the seams as everyday people finally see right through their desperate, sloppy theater. The Artist Known As Jess joins Stew to break down how the ruling class's manufactured narratives and weaponized systems are completely failing before our eyes. Uncover the loosely regulated pet food industry and learn how natural functional foods are offering a second chance at life for aging and sick animals. Find out how the powerful Coriolis Versa-Color mushroom extract is helping pets overcome catastrophic conditions and severe immune challenges. President Trump and tech leaders have officially changed the name of AI to super intelligence while launching America.gov as a centralized portal for citizens. JD Sharp joins Stew to expose how this infrastructure, paired with mass tracking and surveillance networks, creates a dangerous digital kill switch.   Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies.   This week, we're talking etiquette. Not which fork to use or whether you can wear white after Labor Day, but the increasingly complicated rules of existing among other humans — online, offline, at a job interview, at a bar, on a college campus and, God help us, in a comment section. We start in Massachusetts with the lesbian bar story that swallowed the internet: masks, rules, reactions, counter-reactions and, yes, clown school. How did one local story become a national discourse? And what does the response say about the way we judge one another — and occasionally lose our collective minds — online? Then we turn to Cornell and a story that is anything but funny: a young woman's allegations that seven fraternity members drugged and sexually assaulted her over the course of seven hours two years ago, and the questions now being raised about how the university handled her case. We look at why the student newspaper's reporting has ignited such outrage and how the story is reverberating across social media. On the considerably lower-stakes end of the etiquette spectrum: Iced Coffee Interviewgate. Apparently we now need rules about whether arriving at a job interview carrying an iced coffee is a professional faux pas. Naturally, the internet has opinions. Many, many opinions. And finally, some music: Taylor Swift has new music, which means Swifties have thoughts, theories and reactions. And we meet NeNe Royal, the latest America's Got Talent winner, whose story may make you believe there are still some genuinely lovely corners of the internet left. Boston Globe story: https://tinyurl.com/3w8xzcaz Cornell's college paper: https://tinyurl.com/ymct2ah6 Taylor Swift new video: https://tinyurl.com/55kca2f2 This week's newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ymv479ud

Lea Files joins Stew to exposes how the upcoming "Genius Act" and Tether are privatizing the American dollar and transferring monetary sovereignty to offshore entities. National File publisher Noel Fritsch joins Stew to break down how the entire political establishment operates as controlled theater. Dive deep into the insider planning documents, the reality of compromised organizations, and why the mainstream narrative is entirely manufactured. Leonarda Jonie joins stew to expose the massive immigration scams, deep state corruption, and spiritual warfare destroying our heritage and communities. They want you wired, tracked, and spiritually disconnected through toxic, classified microwave radiation that destroys your cells from the inside out. James from True Shield joins Stew to expose the ultimate digital bio-weapon and learn how to shield your home before it is too late! JD Sharp joins Stew to unpacks how the matrix uses synchronized media attacks and manufactured controversies to deflect from real accountability. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

  Thank you for tuning in to Episode 327 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. Full show notes with photos can be found on my website. This week's segments included:   Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins Brainstorming From the Armchair In my Travels KAL News Events Life in Focus On a Happy Note Quote of the Week   Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Stitched by Jessalu, AdoreKnit, Doolittle Yarnery & Starfish Fibers   Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins   Tapestry Socks Yarn: Legacy Fiber Artz Steel Toes in the Tapestry Colorway Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry) Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) Ravelry Project Page   On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins   Nazari Top Available for free on Ravelry & the designer's website.   Tray-mat Pattern: None Yarn: Lion Brand Made with Love The Cotton One in the Red Red Wine Colorway (60% Cotton/ 40% Acrylic) Aran weight yarn Hook: H (5.9 mm) Ravelry Project Page Progress: I ran out of yarn and lost the ball band. I need to re-assess.   Swiss Placemat Pattern: none. Chained 52 to start. Working in linen stitch Yarn: Save the Yarn Albert (80% cotton/20% alpaca) in colorway 8238 (green)- 3 skeins purchased in Basel Switzerland Hook: G (4.0 mm) Ravelry Project Page Cast on another linen stitch placemat. This one for our dining room or kitchen island. Chained 52 to start on this one.   Goldwing Sweater Pattern: Goldwing by Jennifer Steingass ($8 knitting pattern available on Ravelry) Needles: US 6 (4.0mm) for body and US 5 (3.75 mm) for rolled neck Yarn: Valley Superwash DK in Sand (MC) and handspun from Wound Up Fiber Arts for CC (Ravelry page for handspun details) Ravelry Project Page Progress: Picked up first sleeve. Working through decreases.   Confetti Cannon Socks Yarn: Woolens and Nosh BFL Fingering (85% SW BFL + 15% Nylon) in the Confetti Cannon Colorway Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams ($5 knitting pattern available on Ravelry) Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) Ravelry Project Page About the Colorway: butter yellow, pink, purple, coral, tan, fuschia, aqua, lime/grass green. Mini skein: teal Progress: I am beyond heel on the second sock.   Brainstorming I need to cast on a worsted hat for Laura (but first I have to find the yarn). I think I'll make the Sweetly Striped Hat by Chit Chat Knits (Pro Shop Sponsor)- $4.50 knitting pattern available on Ravelry At Rhinebeck I may buy yarn for the Oporto Tee by Suzanne Sommer $8.50 knitting pattern available on Ravelry How cool is this Spiderweb dress- crochet pattern from Etsy?! Maybe for next Halloween?   SIZES- Made to measure! This pattern is written for size small but there are notes in red on how to change the size to fit your body!   MATERIALS 4.5 mm hook Yarn Weight: Fingering, Sock - I recommend cotton or bamboo Yardage: 130-260+ yards (depends on size) Gauge: 14 stitches by 12 rows = 4" using Hdc   From the Armchair   The Compound by Aisling Rawle. Amazon Affiliate Link. Let's Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry. Amazon Affiliate Link. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett. Amazon Affiliate Link.   Note: Some links are listed as Amazon Affiliate Links. If you click those, please know that I am an Amazon Associate and I earn money from qualifying purchases.   In My Travels   Tune in to hear about my recent trip to France! Yarn stores visited Paris- Lil Weasel Colmar- Le Comptoir des Laines Basel- Save the Yarn Strasbourg- Happy Wool .com  (sells Phildar yarn)   KAL News   Pigskin Party '26 Details Event runs 9/9/26-2/15/27 Everything you need can be found in the Start Here Thread on Ravelry Sign up (must be registered to win) - opens 8/19 Rules (includes changes made for the '26 season) Finish a Project? Enter for points using the Points Tally Form Share in the End Zone Dance Ravelry thread to celebrate with friends Check your Stats on the Scoreboard Have a Question? Post it in this Ravelry Thread Sponsor List can be found here (check often for updates) Pro Shop Sponsors can create Exclusive Items which are shared in this Ravelry Thread Coupons & deals from our Sponsors can be found in this Ravelry Thread   Updates in this episode Help us welcome Laura (LauraKnitsPA) to our Commissioner Team! Check out the Official Pigskin '26 Logo bags available from AdoreKnit. Check out my unboxing of the tote Steph gifted me on Instagram. Check out our PIG chat threads in the Ravelry group Our Official Sponsor for Quarter 1 (October) is Doolittle Yarnery. Find the Knit/Crochet in Black merch here if you want to join in. The full challenge details are in this Ravelry Thread. The Tailgate Talk Challenge has begun! Check out the Ravelry Thread. Our Official Sponsor for Quarter 2 (November) is Fangirl Fibers. The full challenge details are in this Ravelry Thread. We hope you'll join us and make a DK gift for someone you love. Official Sponsor for Quarter 3 (December): Suburban Stitcher- festive fun Official Sponsor for Quarter 4 (January): Yarnaceous Fibers- challenge TBD   Events   Friday 10/16- Indie Untangled in Saugerties, NY Thursday 10/15 & Friday 10/16- Woolen Affair in Kingston, NY October 17 & 18: NY State Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY November 7: Fiber Festival of New England in Springfield, MA   On a Happy Note Babysitting fun with Gabriella and Zachary. Driveway paving!! The slightly slower pace of fall and getting out for walks with my friend. Labor Day weekend pool time with family and friends. In Colmar, Marta was looking for a pretzel and thought she saw one but it had feet! I took an adult tap and jazz class at my friend's dancing school. Dan & Shay concert with Riley & getting to see her school. Seeing my friend Nathan in Damn Yankees   Quote of the Week "There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again." – Ruth Ahmed ----- For website: Thank you for tuning in!   Contact Information: Check out the Down Cellar Studio Patreon! Ravelry: BostonJen & Down Cellar Studio Podcast Ravelry Group Instagram: BostonJen1 YouTube: Down Cellar Studio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/downcellarstudio Sign up for my email newsletter to get the latest on everything happening in the Down Cellar Studio Check out my Down Cellar Studio YouTube Channel Knit Picks Affiliate Link Bookshop Affiliate Link Yarnable Subscription Box Affiliate Link FearLESS Living Fund to benefit the Blind Center of Nevada Music -"Soft Orange Glow" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/ Note: Some links are listed as Amazon Affiliate Links. 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What does it actually take to win BFCM? This week's episode comes straight from last week's Ecom Founders Q4 Summit in New York City, where Nik sat down with Cody Plofker, former CEO of Jones Road Beauty, for a live fireside chat. Cody recently stepped down as CEO after years running the brand at Jones Road Beauty, and he's now building something new while staying on Jones Road's board. In this conversation, he gets refreshingly honest about what actually works heading into Black Friday, and what he'd do differently. Cody breaks down why almost nobody discovering your brand on Black Friday is a first time visitor, which means the real work happens all year, not just in November. He walks through how Jones Road used moments like Memorial Day and Labor Day as tune ups before their biggest offers, why he treats the whole Q4 calendar as a season instead of a single weekend, and the mistakes he's made on both sides of inventory planning (overbuying and underbuying both suck, just in different ways). He also gets into his TV strategy and media mix, why he's skeptical of free ad credits even when they're tempting, how he thinks about the creative supply chain and budgeting around fifteen percent of spend toward creative, and why Q1 might actually be the real Q4 for wellness and subscription brands. Whether you're deep in Black Friday planning right now or already thinking ahead to Q1, this one is packed with tactical, no fluff advice. --- Triple Whale is the AI operating system built for modern commerce. We help you see what's actually working in your business, what's not, and what to do next. Then we take action for you — pausing the underperforming ad, generating the next batch of creative, flagging the inventory risk before it hurts your bottom line.  Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠https://triplewhale.com/limitedsupply⁠⁠ --- Want more DTC advice? Check out the⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Limited Supply YouTube page⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more insider tips. And if you're looking for an instant stream of on-demand DTC gold, check out the⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Limited Supply Slack Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for Nik's most unfiltered, uncensored thoughts. Check out the Nik's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DTC newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Follow Nik on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/mrsharma⁠ Follow Cody Plofker on his website (https://codyplofker.com/) and on X (https://x.com/codyplof), and be sure to check out his podcast, Marketing Operators (https://codyplofker.com/podcast).

Jon Bray joins Stew to break down the explosive new Utah Valley University independent report that proves Turning Point USA leadership put Charlie Kirk in the kill box Clayton from Heaven's Harvest joins Stew to expose the accelerating global collapse, engineered food shortages, and why the global elite are quietly preparing for the end. Find out how you can protect your family and become a hard target before the system completely snaps. Stew breaks down irrefutable Google Trends and image search data linking Elizabeth Lane to military contractors and the Palantir Recon Task Force at Fort Huachuca. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

The man who started it all — Woody Bailey — joins us alongside Joe Spraggins, Executive Director of the Mississippi DMR, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cruisin' the Coast (October 4–11, 2026) and talk about the big Mississippi Gulf Seafood partnership fueling this year's event.

This past summer some commercial fishermen caught a rare blue lobster and saved the life of the lobster by giving him to the New Hampshire Science Museum. They sent it to a museum that's full of other rare colored lobsters with genetic mutations that have pigments that produce these multi colors. The lobster has new life and was released into the Atlantic on Labor Day with a tag to identify him if he is recaptured. The lobster has new life. There are so many people in the world who are looking for a new life because their lives are colored with pain and lack of purpose and sin. You might be the very person who can offer new life to those and release them back into a world where they can experience the new life. Be a fisherman for those folks today.

Saturday was our longest, busiest, silliest day at Dragon Con, the massive convention of pop culture nerdiness that takes over Atlanta every Labor Day weekend. Including: Saturday morning cartoons! Our Krofft Supershow 50th Anniversary celebration! Our Pee Wee's Playhouse 40th Anniversary celebration! An actual Bugaloo! Electra Woman and Dyna Girl versus the Empress of Evil! The Battle of the Fictional Bands! Fandom Feud! Our Saturday Night Live table read, with Johnny Canal, Matt Foley, Lampreys, Deep Thoughts, and more! The Music Video Book Club! And perhaps some late night Eurovision Karaoke! Next week: The end of it all! Hopefully. The Flopcast website! The ESO Network! The Flopcast on Facebook! The Flopcast on Instagram! The Flopcast on Bluesky! The Flopcast on Mastadon! Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts! Email: info@flopcast.net Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation! This week's promo: Have Coffee, Will Travel!  

It's the Ranch It Up Radio Show! Join Jeff “Tigger” Erhardt, Rebecca Wanner AKA BEC and our crew as we hear how Beefmaster cattle are fixing the problems for one South Dakota cow calf producer. Plus, news from beef country you need to hear, feeder cattle sale reports and upcoming sales you don't want to miss, all wrapped in this new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel. Beefmaster Cattle Work For South Dakota Rancher South Dakota ranchers Dan & Jessie Hotchkiss were disappointed in weaning weights and calf health in the fall.  After trying several different breeds of bulls on their Angus base cowherd, they decided to try Beefmaster bulls from ISA Beefmasters and have never looked back. Beefmaster is a breed that was developed in the 1930's by Tom Lasater in South Texas to maximize economic traits like hardiness, fertility, adaptability, and weight.  The breed consists of approximately 50% Brahman, 25% Hereford and 25% Shorthorn.   Beef Cattle News Beef Imports: Facts Behind the 300,000-Metric-Ton Plan Recent plans to allow up to 300,000 metric tons, or 661 million pounds, of additional beef imports into the U.S. tariff-free have created plenty of attention—and misinformation. According to Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist, the U.S. has imported beef for decades, mainly to supply lean beef used in ground beef products. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico have been major suppliers, while Brazil has recently grown into the number-two source. Beef imports are up 12.9 percent so far in 2026, as domestic beef production continues to decline. About 68 percent of imported beef is lean trimmings used as ingredients in ground beef, especially for fast-food restaurants. Imported beef now makes up an estimated 39 percent of the beef used in ground beef production. Brazil is expected to benefit the most from the tariff changes. However, experts say the U.S. is unlikely to import the full additional 300,000 metric tons. The policy may shift where imports come from, with South American countries gaining market share. But the increase in total imports is expected to be smaller than the announced amount. And when it comes to grocery store ground beef prices, the impact is expected to be limited. REFERENCE: https://meatingplace.com/peel-understanding-beef-imports/  Cattle Prices Rise, But Packer Margins Keep Growing Cattle prices moved higher last week, but beef packer profits continued to rise. According to Sterling Marketing's Beef Profit Tracker, the average packer margin for the week ending September 12 was $177.16 per head. That's up from $170.76 the previous week. Steady beef cutout values and a $2-per-head increase in drop credit helped support packer margins. Slaughter was down 21,000 head, mainly because of the Labor Day holiday. The average five-area direct fed steer price rose to $222.82 per hundredweight, up from $219.04 the week before. That helped reduce feedlot losses. Feedlots lost an estimated $307.19 per head, compared with nearly $329 the previous week. Feeder cattle prices also moved higher, gaining nearly $7 per hundredweight the week ending September 11th. REFERENCE: https://meatingplace.com/beef-packer-margins-gain-despite-bump-in-cattle-price/ Tyson Reshapes Beef Business as Cattle Supplies Remain Tight Tyson Foods says its smaller beef processing network will help the company manage tight cattle supplies and prepare for the future. Chief Financial Officer Curt Calaway recently said cattle herd rebuilding is happening, but more slowly than in some previous cycles. Tyson has closed or put plants up for sale this year in Illinois, Nebraska, and Washington state. The company is now focused on three major beef plants: Dakota City, Nebraska; Holcomb, Kansas; and Amarillo, Texas. Tyson also hopes to restore a second processing shift as Mexican cattle gradually move through stocker operations and feedlots. Calaway says the company is focused on improving plant efficiency, managing product sales, and meeting consumer demand for seasoned, marinated, and case-ready beef products. He added that more cattle and continued reopening of the Mexican border could help Tyson in the future. REFERENCE: https://meatingplace.com/tyson-closures-where-the-cattle-are-and-where-we-think-theyll-be/ Feeder Cattle Sale Dates & Deadlines October 2: Prairie View Farms Fall Production Sale, Gridley, Illinois October 3: Isa Beefmasters Bull Sale, San Angelo, Texas October 3: Jorgensen Land & Cattle Rancher's Choice Sale, Aromas, California October 10: Fawcett's Elm Creek Ranch, Online Only October 26: Heartland Cattle Company Simmental & SimAngus Show Heifers, Online Only October 29: Jorgensen Land & Cattle Jordan Livestock Auction, San Saba, TX October 30: Birch Creek Angus Production Sale, Ruby Valley, Nevada October 30: Wasem Red Angus Heifer Sale, Online Only October 31: Plyler & Son, Charolais, Simmental & SimAngus, Magnolia, Arkansas November 7: Jungels Shorthorn Farm, Elite Heifer Sale, Kathryn, North Dakota November 13: Jorgensen Land & Cattle Arcadia Stockyards Sale, Arcadia, Florida November 13: Keller Broken Heart Ranch Female Sale, Mandan, North Dakota November 14: Six Mile Ranch Red Angus Production Sale, Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan November 14: JYJ Red Angus Production Sale, Columbia, Alabama December 9: Gill Red Angus, Timber Lake, South Dakota December 22: Mar Mac Farms Dispersal Sale, Brandon, Manitoba Featured Experts in the Cattle Industry Dan & Jessie Hotchkiss Shaye Wanner – Host of Casual Cattle Conversation https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/ Follow on Facebook: @cattleconvos Contact Us with Questions or Concerns Have questions or feedback? Feel free to reach out via: Call/Text: 707-RANCH20 or 707-726-2420 Email: RanchItUpShow@gmail.com Follow us: Facebook/Instagram: @RanchItUpShow YouTube: Subscribe to Ranch It Up Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RanchItUp Catch all episodes of the Ranch It Up Podcast available on all major podcasting platforms. Discover the Heart of Rural America with Tigger & BEC Ranching, farming, and the Western lifestyle are at the heart of everything we do. Tigger & BEC bring you exclusive insights from the world of working ranches, cattle farming, and sustainable beef production. Learn more about Jeff 'Tigger' Erhardt & Rebecca Wanner (BEC) and their mission to promote the Western way of life at Tigger and BEC. https://tiggerandbec.com/ Industry References, Partners and Resources For additional information on industry trends, products, and services, check out these trusted resources: American Gelbvieh Association: https://gelbvieh.org/ EquineMarket.Com: https://www.equinemarket.com/ Imogene Ingredients: https://www.imogeneingredients.com/ Jorgensen Land & Cattle: https://jorgensenfarms.com LivestockMarket.Com: https://www.livestockmarket.com/ RanchChannel.Com: https://ranchchannel.com/ RFD-TV: https://www.rfdtv.com/ Rural Radio Network: https://www.ruralradio147.com/ Sire Buyer: https://www.sirebuyer.com/ Superior Livestock: https://superiorlivestock.com/ Westway Feed Products: https://westwayfeed.com/ Wrangler: https://www.wrangler.com/

What happens when the uniform comes off and the worker goes home?What does dignity mean beyond the workplace? And what does KJ Johnson's message—“Solidarity is a verb”—teach us about caring for people whose experiences and struggles may be different from our own?Following the Labor Day episode “Who Gives a Damn About the American Worker?”, The Debrief moves beyond contracts, wages and job titles to focus on something we sometimes overlook:The human being behind the worker.Michael reflects on his conversation with AFA-CWA International Vice President Keturah “KJ” Johnson and why solidarity can mean standing beside someone even when their struggle isn't our own.Because Beyond the Contract is about something much bigger than labor.It's about us.

Flopcast episode 751! Saturday was our longest, busiest, silliest day at Dragon Con, the massive convention of pop culture nerdiness that takes over Atlanta every Labor Day weekend. Including: Saturday morning cartoons! Our Krofft Supershow 50th Anniversary celebration! Our Pee Wee’s Playhouse 40th Anniversary celebration! An actual Bugaloo! Electra Woman and Dyna Girl versus the […] The post Flopcast 751: Dragon Con Review Part 3 – Just the Right Level of Derangement appeared first on The ESO Network.

Stew joins The Black Line Brief with Mitch Snow, Matthew Tucciarone, Matt Mckin and Honest Ash to expose deep-state ties at Fort Huachuca, political operations behind TPUSA, and massive narrative flaws in the Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson cases. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Labor Day was first celebrated during the Gilded Age - amid a growing labor movement seeking recognition. Join me this week as I explore the origins, evolution, and current perceptions of Labor Day in the United States. Learn how  Labor Day has transformed from a day of militant labor demonstrations to a more consumer-focused holiday, reflecting broader societal changes and the decline of organized labor's influence.Support the show

The math simply doesn't add up, and their untrustworthy narratives are completely unraveling. Sam Parker joins Stew to systematically pick apart every single excuse they have tried to construct, proving why their official stories are falling apart at the seams.   Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Last week, Hightower had the absolute pleasure of appearing on Tavis Smiley's live radio talk show—a lot of great laughs, and a lot of good ground covered! From the Texas races, to America at 250, to the idea that fundamental fairness is a sense all humans share, Tavis and Hightower went deep. Tavis and his team have given us permission to share it with you here, and we're so grateful—he's also just started his own Substack newsletter, and we encourage you to subscribe to one of the greats of American media at tavissmiley.substack.com. You can also listen live on KBLA 1580 daily, and subscribe to his podcast. —dzTranscriptEdited lightly for clarityPart 1Tavis Smiley: Tavis Smiley, glad you're with us in the second hour of our program here today.Yesterday, we stepped into what I call the Elders' Skybox to talk to Dr. Johnette Cole. She was absolutely amazing yesterday. If you missed that conversation with Johnnetta Cole yesterday, I encourage you to check out the podcast, now posted. She, of course, is the legendary, the iconic, first African American woman to be president of Spelman. But she's covered so much ground in her amazing career, and she joined us yesterday on the show. And Johnnetta Cole still got it. I mean, she was just blazing yesterday. So if you missed the conversation with Johnnetta Cole yesterday, I encourage you, you will not be disappointed. Check out the podcast, now up, of our dialogue with Dr. Cole yesterday.So we stepped into the Elders Skybox again today to talk to our friend and brother Jim Hightower, the legendary talk show host down in Texas. I quote him oftentimes. When you hear me say that the only thing you find in the middle of the road is a dead armadillo, that was Jim Hightower years ago, and I've never forgotten that line from all those years ago. You can't be middle of the road. We were just talking about that in our hour with Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead about Hakeem Jeffries and some of these Democrats who, on a number of issues, still want to occupy the center, the middle of the road. That is not where one needs to be, especially right about now. Pick a side. Pick a side is my point. And that was Jim Hightower's advice many, many years ago. I never forgot when he said it, and I've held on to it all these years.I invited him on today to talk about this hot Texas Senate race, but more broadly to get his take, as a longtime progressive, on the march that we are witnessing in real time by these progressives after decades of being in the wilderness. With all that said, I'm honored to welcome Jim Hightower to this program. Jim, how are you, sir?Jim Hightower: I'm doing great, Tavis, and all the greater because I get to visit with you.Tavis Smiley: It's my honor to have you on this program. Thank you for those kind words. I meant what I said earlier about having listened to you. I'm at that age now. I just turned 62 a couple of days ago, and I've been at this, what, 35 years. My mom teases me about it, but people come on the show all the time: “Mr. Smiley, I grew up listening to you, I grew up watching you.” So I'm at that age now where I'm getting that. And this is funny, because I can say that to Jim Hightower now. I grew up listening to him and watching him, and so I'm thrilled to have him on this program.Let me just start with this, broadly speaking. I've asked this question of other guests. I've got two minutes now, we've got the rest of the hour when we come forward, but in these first two minutes, I'm asking you the same question I've asked of others. We are inside that eight-week sprint from Labor Day to Election Day. How are you feeling?Jim Hightower: I am feeling more upbeat than I have been in years about Texas politics. Our party has finally come alive down here, as you just indicated. We've had too many corporate centrists trying to dominate our party, thinking we can fool the people if we just tiptoe around our progressivism, rather than recognizing that people themselves are progressive. And if we talk to them in that kind of language, they might respond to us in a more favorable way than they have in the past, or respond at all.I would point out, first of all, Tavis, that Texas is not a right-wing state. It is not a Republican state. It is a non-voting state. And it has not been voting because the Democratic Party, my party, has been over in the ditch somewhere, trying not to be discovered, rather than recognizing that most people are quite progressive. I think of it in terms of my own father, who kept up with politics, but he was not political, particularly. He didn't know he had a political philosophy, but he did, and it was expressed to me many times in these words. He said, “Jim, everybody does better when everybody does better.” And that is what the Democratic Party is supposed to represent.And so that spirit is coming back within the Democratic Party. We have it with James Talarico running for Senate, Gina Hinojosa running for governor, but also let us not forget those down-ballot candidates, who can make such a difference in a campaign. I've been one of those myself, so I can attest to it. And we have a terrific lineup this year, including Clayton Tucker running for agriculture commissioner, a position that most people wouldn't pay a whole lot of attention to until you realize, wait a minute, if you eat, you are involved in agriculture. And we need to make that political as well as edible.Tavis Smiley: Love it. He's already on a roll. That is the Jim Hightower that I grew up listening to. He's wise, he drops these one-liners; as we say these days, he's dropping bars. I love his father's edict that everybody does better when everybody does better. It's so simple. But I want to give him some time to unpack this. I want to interrogate this notion that people themselves are progressive. People themselves are progressive. That line resonated with me; I suspect it did with you as well. I'll let him unpack that and a great deal more. I'm glad to have Jim Hightower for the hour on Tavis Smiley.Tavis Smiley, and longtime progressive activist, legendary talk show host, bestselling author Jim Hightower. So we've stepped into the Elders Skybox to tap into his wisdom in this hour as we are hurtling inexorably toward Election Day on Tuesday, November 3rd. Wanted to check in with him on some national issues, but certainly everybody's watching this Senate race in Texas. I talk to my friends down there all the time, and they are so excited about turning Texas blue. You heard Jim Hightower say a moment ago that Texas is not a Republican state, it's not a red state, it's a non-voting state. I'll let him unpack that as we move through this hour.But just some quick updates here. So you saw the Republican convention, that two-day farce they had down in Texas not long ago. Since that convention, a new poll has come out about the race in Texas. Interestingly, the survey happened on September 13th. That was Sunday, my birthday. And it's good news for James Talarico. The latest poll, this is the SoCal Strategies poll, shows Talarico leading Paxton 50 percent to 45 percent. It's a five-point margin. There had been a two-point lead by Paxton over Talarico. It's fascinating. So before the convention, Paxton was leading Talarico by two points in Texas. Post the convention, it flips. Talarico is now leading Paxton by five points. Not sure what Ken Paxton did or said at that convention that made these numbers flip. Obviously it's very, very tight, and these polls are snapshots in time. We still have weeks to go before Election Day. We'll let Jim Hightower unpack a bit more about the tightness of this race in Texas in this hour.But I want to start right now, Jim, where we left off moments ago, and that is with your suggestion that people are themselves a great deal more progressive than we acknowledge or give them credit for. We've got time. Unpack that for me.Jim Hightower: Well, just go back to your childhood. The very first political expression of a child, maybe at two years old, is “That's not fair.” That is a powerful political sentiment, and it's within all of us. And that's what we're seeing today. The unfairness of the billionaires with their data centers invading our communities. The unfairness of the destruction of voting rights, period. Not just the Voting Rights Act, but voting rights. The unfairness of economic plutocracy, really, and just a general unfairness that pervades our society, including the election itself.The idea that money can control. That happened to Texas, just as it did nationally, in the 1980s, when Tony Coelho, a member of Congress from California, decided that the Democrats didn't need to have all this grassroots stuff. We could just get money from rich people and throw it at television ads, and then we could compete with the Republicans. And the powers that be in the Democratic Party here in Texas agreed with that. So they began to shift away from what Ann Richards and myself and Jim Mattox and Garry Mauro and other good, solid Democrats were winning elections with: a focus on the grassroots people of our state. That got abandoned. Instead they turned to money.And when you turn to money, I can tell you, if you get a corporate check, written on the back of it is the corporate agenda. And they're going to cash that check, not you. That is what happened to Texas. The Democrats quit being Democrats because, well, we don't want to upset those money people, so we'll just tone down our message. And by toning down the message, we tone down our public support, our people's support. If we weren't standing for them, why would they stand for us? And so that's what happened. Our solid Democratic constituencies, which were farmers, working-class folks, teachers, environmentalists, didn't hear themselves in the Democratic message. So they quit voting. It's not that they turned Republican.We consistently had among the top one or two worst voting records in the country in the state of Texas. We have the lowest turnout in our country. Ken Paxton, you just mentioned, is now running for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket. Paxton got 68 percent of the Republican primary election that made him their nominee. Sixty-eight percent, boy, that sounds good. He must be very popular, until you realize that is 3.4 percent of the voters of Texas. That's who nominated him. That's his basic support: 3.4 percent. Can we not get 3.5 percent? Well, maybe if we began to organize and mobilize and strategize and do something a little stronger than we had been doing.And that's the good news in Texas. That's what has changed this election cycle over previous ones: our Democratic Party, with a new party chair, and a dynamic bunch of candidates running for statewide office and local office as well. We used to have 50 counties in our state that had no Democratic Party chair, much less a Democratic committee. We had state legislative district after district that had no Democratic contender in it. So we weren't even running. But this year we do. We have candidates, good candidates, in all of those districts. We have vibrant party building in every county in the state. You have to have the infrastructure. It's not just handsome candidates like myself, or smart and sassy people, that make the difference. It is grassroots, fundamentally. And if you abandon the grassroots, then there's no one to appeal to.Part 2Tavis Smiley: Let me ask you this. You said a few things, and I want to go back to them right quick. You're on a roll, and that's what he does every day, and I love it. I just have to keep up with him. Let me start with the money. No naiveté here, but my sense is, even though we've seen efforts, I think of McCain-Feingold, other efforts we've seen over the years, my sense is that at this point that horse has left the barn, and I can't imagine how we get money out of our politics. Citizens United, I can do this all day long, as you could, Jim Hightower. But that trade-off that Democrats made to get access to that money, there's no 180 on this. I mean, the Democratic Party is so broke now, as you know. The national Democratic Party is so broke, they've been borrowing money. So even though your indictment about the money in our politics is spot on, can you imagine any way to get money out of our politics at this point?Jim Hightower: Yes, I can, which is to go to the people with it. It is the most popular polling issue in America and has been for some time: getting corporate money out of politics. It's up at the 90 percent level, including something like 75 percent of Republicans who want to get this corporate money out of our system. So we have the base of support, but we have to have a politics that goes out there and collects that base. And that means running on it again. Our party nationally has quit running on that issue. So we've abandoned one of the very best issues we have, an issue of abject plutocracy over democracy, money over people.And that is what's beginning to change. That's why Talarico is up there, running as our Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. He has raised a ton of money, outraised Paxton himself, because he's getting small-dollar donations from people who are mad as hell about money in politics and how government serves money, not people. And again, Clayton Tucker, running for agriculture commissioner, has a theme that says to beat money power, you have to have people power. You have to organize people against organized money. That is a winning topic, and candidate after candidate around the country this time are beginning to grasp that and make hay with it.Tavis Smiley: Let me ask you this. The other thing you said, I want to come back to it. You're saying so much that's just jumping out at me. I want to come back to this notion of fundamental fairness. I find myself time and time again over the course of my career, Jim, on any number of issues, making the point that it's ultimately about fundamental fairness. Pick the issue, and my moral stance on so many of these issues is that it's ultimately about what I term fundamental fairness.And I loved your suggestion that one of the first things that comes out of our mouths as kids... I don't know where we get this, but when you said it, I smiled. I'm sure every parent listening to this program right now smiled. We've all heard kids say, “That's not fair. That's not fair.” I don't even know where that comes from, but we've all heard babies say that line. So I'm glad you used that.I'm wondering whether or not, in this moment, you believe that everyday people in this country care about fundamental fairness. And before you answer, here's my point. I think that we've become more nativist for a lot of reasons. People are turning inward, they're lashing outward. I'm not sure that we actually believe in meritocracy anymore. We see Donald Trump and the big grift. We see him not playing the game by any set of rules that speaks to any kind of fairness. We see the Supreme Court putting its thumb on the scale in favor of Donald Trump too often. We see a Congress that's doing nothing; they're letting Donald Trump run roughshod. In the legislative branch, the executive branch, or the judicial branch, I don't see any semblance of fairness. Tell me whether or not you believe that everyday people in this nation still believe in the notion. Never mind what we say as a two-year-old: as adults, do we believe in fundamental fairness?Jim Hightower: Yes, we do. And in every case that you mentioned there, Trump being a sleaze, Congress not taking any action, the Supreme Court being a corporate subsidiary, et cetera, their popularity has declined in direct proportion to their abandonment of those values of fairness. That still is within the people. We don't appeal to it. For the most part, we've not had a politics nationwide that appeals to that fairness issue. But again, I think it is so fundamental that it is the core of reestablishing a people's democracy in our country: just to focus on that fundamental issue of fairness.You know, again, back to my upbringing in the little town of Denison, Texas. My parents taught egalitarianism. They didn't know what that word was. Probably couldn't spell it, you know. But they understood it. What they said to me was, “Nobody is better than you, and you're not any better than anybody else.” Again, those are powerful moral sentiments that are deeply imbued, I think, in the human experience.And you see it as people rebel against the privatization of our schools, as people rebel against the monopolization of our food economy, our energy economy, any basic economy you want to talk about, controlled by a handful of billionaires. You see it in the public disgust with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos and these sorts of billionaires who seem to think that because they've got money, they've got brains, and they can just run things. But you can't run over the American people. You know, Lincoln said it: you can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. And I think those people are on the move.And again, if we have a politics that appeals to “we're going to be a unified country that believes in egalitarianism, that believes in fairness, that believes in economic justice, social justice,” then people will respond. They won't respond to those words, but they will respond to the reality that you put forward. Here's what we mean by that.Part 3Tavis Smiley: I hear it, I hear it. Jim Hightower, still on fire all these decades later. As I said earlier, in case you've just tuned in, people tell me all the time, “I grew up listening to you, I grew up watching you,” and I can say that about Jim Hightower, and now you see where I got it from. So much of the way I approach these issues I learned from Jim Hightower. He just speaks plain. I call it KISS MIP: keep it simple, make it plain. KISS MIP, keep it simple, make it plain. I love his parents' edict that everybody does better when everybody does better. There's a reason why he is the legendary Jim Hightower. You see why I want him on this program. I hope when I achieve his age, my mind is still as sharp as his and still on point the way his is. I am honored to have another half hour with Jim Hightower when we come forward on Tavis Smiley.I just saw the numbers. People are signing up by the hundreds to join us on Saturday, October 3rd. I'm inviting you once again, right now: mark your calendar. This is history in the making, the California Voices Town Hall and Ballot Forum, live from L.A., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All the candidates are showing up, and you should too. The event is free, but you must register. Go to KBLA1580.com right now and get your seat. California Voices, Saturday, October 3rd. Come be a part of history, brought to you by KBLA Talk 1580 and the Community Voter Education Project.And this is what I call wisdom speaking. Wisdom speaking. I am honored to be in conversation with the legendary, the iconic talk show host Jim Hightower, New York Times bestselling author, syndicated columnist, who has his own Substack called the Hightower Lowdown that I encourage you to sign up for: the Hightower Lowdown on Substack, by Jim Hightower. He's still dropping bars as often as he can. And again, I'm just thrilled to have him on this program for the hour. In case you missed the first half hour, you missed a good one. I love this homespun wisdom that he's sharing with us. There are thankfully a few more minutes to go in this dialogue, but check out the podcast of the entire conversation, posted later this evening, if you missed any of the brilliance of Jim Hightower in this first half hour.I want to play a clip for you. Jim and I were talking a little bit ago about the Republican convention, the midterm convention, the first time in 50-plus years that somebody did one of these in the midterms. And it was in Texas, of course, in Dallas. James Talarico is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat against Ken Paxton. He didn't go to the convention, but post the convention, Talarico got a bump. Typically the guy featured at the convention gets a bump. Didn't work that way. Paxton did not get a bump. Post the convention, the poll indicates that Talarico is now leading Paxton in Texas by five points.If you were listening earlier, you heard Jim Hightower say that Texas is not a red state, not a Republican state, it's a non-voting state. And when you break down the numbers, as he did so brilliantly earlier, you'll see that Texas really is a non-voting state. I was thinking, when Jim was making that point, that if we did the data on every state, we may find out that most of these 50 states are not blue or red. They're all non-voting states. It ain't just Texas. I think Jim is on to something. We should stop this red and blue nonsense, even the purple nonsense, and just call them non-voting states. Jim Hightower once again is giving us something to think about.But Talarico gets a bump out of their convention. He goes up. He's up by five points right now. So all of my friends in Texas are excited about the chance for Texas to turn blue this time around. We will see if Talarico can pull that off.But back to that convention. I want you to listen very carefully. I'm just setting this up now. There was a heckler at this convention when Ted Cruz was speaking. And maybe heckler is the wrong word, because in the Black church we say you've got your amen corner. So I'm not sure he's a heckler as much as he is an amen corner for Ted Cruz, who did nothing to chin-check this guy, to stop this guy from what he was saying repeatedly while Ted Cruz was speaking. Cruz heard it loud and clear. You can hear it on the tape. And at no point did Ted Cruz stop to correct him. But listen to Ted Cruz, and just listen very carefully. You're going to hear it two or three times; see if you can't pick it out for yourself. Give it to me, Miles.Ted Cruz (audio clip): When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production, he means it. When Abdul El-Sayed says he has a quote “obligation to comply with Sharia law,” he means it. And when James Talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism, he means it.Tavis Smiley: Have Miles play it one more time. I want you to hear it now. I'll tell you exactly what you should have heard. Every time he calls out the name of Mamdani, then Abdul El-Sayed, then James Talarico, there's a guy standing not too far from Ted Cruz who yells out, “He should be shot.” Mamdani: “He should be shot.” Abdul El-Sayed: “He should be shot.” James Talarico: “He should be shot.” Now listen again; see if you hear it.Ted Cruz (audio clip, replayed): When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production, he means it. When Abdul El-Sayed says he has a quote “obligation to comply with Sharia law,” he means it. And when James Talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism, he means it.Tavis Smiley: Going back, Jim Hightower, to all of the pronouncements made after the death, the murder, of Charlie Kirk, and now on national television, at a Republican convention, you have someone yelling three times, no less, “He should be shot, he should be shot, he should be shot,” and ain't nobody said nothing about it, Jim Hightower.Jim Hightower: Yes, the silence is the evil. And that's all about Trump. You know, almost no Republican will stand up and say Trump is just full of it. He is espousing hatred, he is espousing misogyny, he is espousing racism, he's espousing xenophobia. He's espousing everything that America is against. Everything America stands for is being rejected by Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton and Donald Trump, et cetera. You know, I heard on TV recently, Tavis, some Republican saying about Ted Cruz, “Well, you know, sometimes Ted is his own worst enemy.” And I said, “Not while I'm alive, he's not.”We have to take on these people. We progressives can't just say, “Well, they're just talking.” No, they're not. They're spewing a doctrine of hatred and of violence, really, as you just portrayed in that amazing work of audio technology that you pulled off. It's very, very telling. And again, you know, I keep coming back to the positive side of it. That is not America. That's what gets portrayed most, but that is not who we are.Part 4Tavis Smiley: Not who we are. You see why I love Jim Hightower. I mean, he said Ted's his own worst enemy? Not as long as I'm living. I love, love, love Jim Hightower. All right, and that's why I invited him on this program for an hour. Let me circle back, Jim, to something else you said earlier, and actually I opined on it myself. I thought about what you said during the break. Based on your analysis and based on your framing, Texas ain't the only non-voting state. So why are we stuck on this red, blue, sometimes purple narrative when the truth is that all of these states are non-voting states?Jim Hightower: Yes. Well, the media, the political consultants, they're the ones who drew this red-blue color map on us. And it is not true. It has never been true. I've got a great story from my campaigning days of going into an area with people who are supposedly right-wing, and being able to talk to them. And we have candidates today doing that. Talarico is doing it, Clayton Tucker is doing it, Gina Hinojosa is doing it: going into areas where people have been told, “You're right-wing,” and they're saying, “Wait a minute, we like what this person is saying. Can't we talk about that?” And so we just have to keep saying it. But that requires, Tavis, that we go back to grassroots people politics again, to where we're talking to the people, not talking through consultants and PR people.You know, I'll tell you, today I'm sitting in my kitchen in Austin, Texas. But I live on the south side of Austin, and we're a little more irreverent over here. We're just a little more spunky. In fact, our slogan over here is “We're all here because we're not all there.”Tavis Smiley: I love Austin, and I'm glad to know that you are in that part of town. As a matter of fact, Austin's my favorite city in Texas. I didn't realize that until 25, 30 years ago, when I started going to the Texas Book Festival, one of the best book festivals in the country. I've been honored to be invited to speak there a number of times over the course of the 24 or 25 books I've written. I've been going to the Texas Book Festival for years. It's in Austin, the state capital. And I remember the first time I went there, I wanted to know where Barbara Jordan sat. That's what I wanted to know. In what seat did Barbara Jordan sit, before she went to Congress, of course? I wanted to find that out. But I've been to Austin a number of times over the years, and I like Austin. It's my favorite city in Texas. I didn't know that's where Jim was today, but I'm glad to know he's there.When we come forward... We've been talking about Texas, and of course a lot of national issues, and I don't want to color this any more than this. I want to give Jim all the canvas he needs to paint. I am curious, given all the years he's been out here espousing these progressive POVs, these progressive points of view, what he makes of the march that progressives are on right now across the country. Call them progressives, call them DSA. What does Jim Hightower think of this march by progressives right about now? And I'm also curious to get his take more broadly on how he sees America at 250. He's been on the front lines as a progressive fighter for a long time, but here we are, 250 years in. What does Jim Hightower make of this moment in this republic? You're listening to Tavis Smiley.Tavis Smiley, with Jim Hightower. Jim Hightower, you've been out here a long time on the front lines of this fight as an unapologetic progressive. What's your read of, as I would term it, this progressive march literally all across the country?Jim Hightower: Well, it is the most encouraging thing I've seen in a long, long time. And it is happening for real reasons, because the powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that ought to be. And people are catching on to that. So they're beginning to rebel, and not just liberals, and not just progressives or populists like me, but everyday working people are saying, as we started our conversation, Tavis, “That's not fair. This ain't right. This is not America.”And so we've been battling for years. We win fights. Again, you know, I was elected in the 1980s, two terms as Texas agriculture commissioner, elected with Ann Richards running for treasurer, Mattox running for attorney general, Garry Mauro running for land commissioner. We ran a unified campaign, because we could then go to people and say, “It's not just about electing poor old Hightower here. It's about electing a government. We can make change.” And that is what's missing in our politics: people believing that change can actually happen. Because, as you indicated so rightly early on, Congress doesn't do anything, the Supreme Court just follows the corporate agenda, and the White House, of course, is the mess that it's in.So we have to have results coming from our work. And that means a long-term view of politics. You know, I ran for office the first time and I lost. I came very close, but I lost. But I was able to turn it around, because even a losing campaign creates energy. It creates new people. It creates talent. And you can apply that to the next campaign, not just for one individual, but for many, many others. As Willie Nelson put it to me once, he said, “Hightower, the early bird might get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.”Tavis Smiley: You can't fade Jim Hightower. You cannot fade Jim Hightower, coming with wisdom of his own, wisdom from his parents, wisdom from Willie Nelson. Love me some Jim Hightower. We'll close this conversation when we come forward with his thoughts on America at 250. You're listening to Tavis Smiley.I've got three minutes left in this hour, which I have enjoyed immensely, stepping into the Elders Skybox. Again, yesterday Johnnetta Cole was here, former president of Spelman. Check out the podcast if you missed that brilliant conversation. And if you missed any of this dialogue with Jim Hightower, there's so much richness in this thing, man. You'll want to hear it again if you heard it once. And if you didn't hear it, check out the podcast, posted tonight. You will not be disappointed in this conversation with Jim Hightower. As they say in Washington, I want to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Texas. I've got three minutes left. It's all yours, Jim Hightower. Three minutes. Talk to me about America at 250 as you see it, my friend.Jim Hightower: I think America is healthy in a fundamental way. It's very active right now. You know, there are all kinds of great groups out there making fundamental changes, groups that are progressive and inclusive. And all the bad words we're not supposed to say, again: diversity and equity. I mean, what's wrong with diversity? What's wrong with equity? What are they talking about? And I think more and more people are asking that. And we need to have a constant politics that asks that question. Why should we be afraid of diversity? Unless you're a Native American, you are an immigrant. Stop pretending.And I'm talking to our people now, our progressive people. Stop thinking that it's dangerous to say this stuff. It's not dangerous. People want to hear it, and they will be better for hearing it. You'll get called an agitator. Our wonderful friend and mentor Jesse Jackson spoke brilliantly about being an agitator. You know, after all, it was agitators that built America: Thomas Paine, Shays' Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, the populists, right on through. And Jesse put it like this. He said the agitator is the center post in the washing machine that gets the dirt out. We need a lot more of that. We need a lot more of that. And people are ready for it.And I would add just another Jesse Jackson moment, which, again, he did brilliantly. He said, “We might not all have come over on the same boat, but we're in the same boat now.” And that is a powerful political reality. So he was able to rally farmers, and I was with him at some of those events in his presidential campaign, and in his Rainbow Coalition and the other coalitions related to the Rainbow Coalition. They all built together. Jesse Jackson had an intentional program to create a little-d democratic, diverse populist movement based on equality for all. Those are old-time American themes. And we have fought for them, and we have won again and again. Let us not forget that we have won this battle before. It's in front of us, but we've got to do it again.Tavis Smiley: There you go, Jim. We say around here all the time, when we fight, we win. When we fight, we win, and you can't win it if you ain't in it. America needs more of Jim Hightower. I declare it. I knew I hadn't talked to Jim in a long time. I knew it'd be a great hour. I didn't know how great it would actually be, but he still got it. And I am pleased that he put me on his schedule for a full hour today. How blessed are we to have heard the insights of this longtime, unapologetic progressive, Jim Hightower, who's feeling himself these days, and I ain't mad at him, about this march that progressives are on. And I close with what his parents said to him many, many years ago: everybody does better when everybody does better. Jim Hightower, thank you, thank you, thank you, my friend.Jim Hightower: Thank you, Tavis.Tavis Smiley: Good to have you on. 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Destiny Rezendes joins Stew to dig into Google Trends searches, Fort Huachuca, and the digital trail surrounding the Charlie Kirk assassination. They examine alleged connections, deleted search data, and the questions they say remain unanswered as the crowd-sourced investigation continues. J.D. Sharp joins Stew Peters to examine the growing questions surrounding Elizabeth Lane, her alleged connections to military and intelligence circles, and the Fort Huachuca searches tied to key figures in the Tyler Robinson case.   Jimmy Dore joins Stew to unpacks the reality of the political establishment and expose how both major parties serve the exact same oligarchic interests. They break down the truth behind the left-right paradigm and why standard voting won't fix a rigged system Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a four-and-a-half-page gun violence prevention plan this week, proposing millions in new spending after a summer of deadly shootings — including the Bite of Seattle attack that killed three people in July and three more shootings over a single Labor Day weekend. The plan calls for faster 911 response times, expanded bicycle patrols in Belltown, north Aurora, Little Saigon, and Rainier Beach, community violence intervention programs, and new "focused deterrence" partnerships targeting what city officials carefully describe as "small groups."Sean unpacks what "small groups" actually means, why a counseling-and-housing approach to gang violence is the civic equivalent of a toddler timeout, and why a city that's hundreds of officers short of where it needs to be keeps reaching for studies and committees instead of badges. The plan is four and a half pages. The problem has been building for years.While businesses — including major employers — pull back from Seattle, Mayor Wilson's office is proposing to spend its way around the one variable that demonstrably works: a fully staffed, empowered police department. San Francisco proved a turnaround is possible when a city decides to enforce the law. Seattle is choosing differently. City Council votes Tuesday.CHAPTERS0:00 Mayor Katie Wilson unveils gun…1:41 Seattle Mayor's Gun Violence Prevention…6:09 City Council Targets Seattle's 0.1…7:42 Gang Violence Rebranded as 'Small…8:40 Seattle's Soft Approach to Gang Members9:53 Seattle Is 500 Cops Short11:16 Mayor Wilson's Four-Page Violence…12:54 Faster 911 Response Times After…14:23 Bike Patrols Planned for Seattle…16:06 Seattle's Focused Deterrence First Steps17:25 The Case for 1,000 Seattle Police…19:18 Seattle Cuts Homeless Shelter Promise…22:55 Council Votes Tuesday on Gang Deterrence24:13 Seattle Tech Leaders Demand Public…29:46 Portland Faces Seattle's Policing…Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily Pacific Northwest news commentary that doesn't soften the story.#NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilsonGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

BTS, BONUS CONTENT AND MORE! Only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TrashTuesdayPodcast Tony Vara joins us today with our resident son, Luke *THE BINKS* Binkow! Tony tells his mom's deportation story and gives insight into the things you DON'T hear about within the walls of a detention center. We discuss European clubs, revisit Esther's TikTok take about beans being for ugly people, and play LATINO LINGO — a game where Esther & Luke try to pronounce naughty Spanish phrases.Support your favorite immigrant resource charity and F*CK ICE.MORE TONY!https://www.tiktok.com/@itonyvara?lang=enhttps://www.instagram.com/itonyvara/?hl=enMORE LUKE!https://www.instagram.com/luke.binkow/?hl=en Thank you to our sponsors:Thank you to HERS - Visit Https://forhers.com/trashtuesday to get personalized, affordable care that gets you.Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/9vos470a #CashAppPod.Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Discounts and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.Thank you to HELIX - Shop their Labor Day sale! Visit helixsleep.com/trashtuesday for 27% off site wide.FOLLOW TRASH ON SOCIALS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itstrashtuesday Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itstrashtuesday MORE ESTHER:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@esthermonster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esthermonster/ MORE KHALYLA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khalamityk/ Tigerbelly Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCIyIoM_Nd8HtY19fuR_ov2A PRODUCTION:Studio Ten42: https://www.instagram.com/studioten42/ Guy Robinson: https://www.instagram.com/grobfps/ Arielle Jade (Editor): https://www.instagram.com/jade.rabbit.cce/ Elisa Hernandez Kohler: https://www.instagram.com/ellie.lianna/ Megan Clements: https://www.instagram.com/egggymeg/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ana Escobar joins Stew to expose the shocking, unignorable data tying Elizabeth Lane directly to Fort Huachuca, foreign intelligence links, and the sinister orchestration surrounding the tragic events of September 10th. Tucker got fired, Stew got canceled, and Charlie got killed, what is the real connection behind it all? Stew expose the eerie truth about Blake Neff and the chilling patterns they tried to keep hidden from the American public. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Aidan Grogan is a researcher at the Manhattan Institute. He went undercover at Socialism 2026 — the annual conference sponsored by Haymarket Books, held in Chicago over Labor Day weekend — and sat in on panels that weren't being livestreamed to see what they were saying behind closed doors. In some cases, they were saying considerably more radical things than what made it onto the stream.We talked about: how he got in (registered as Aidan G. with a burner email, wore Marxist pins, didn't iron his shirt, gave up on the disguise by day four); masks required at all times, COVID still surging, it felt like 2020 all over again; the family abolition session — two Yale-affiliated researchers sitting in a circle with Crayola markers on the table, advocating to dismantle the family as an oppressive capitalist institution; Sophie Lewis, Oxford graduate, family abolitionist, currently married; the audience describing the "most culturally celebrated family" as white people, private property, and heteronormativity; the fat genocide panel and the presenter who was herself relatively fit; Sophie Lewis denying any biological basis to sex; the mismatch between revolutionary rhetoric and people with too much anxiety to fire a gun; the old macho Marxists vs. today's conference-goers; Bill Ayers and the career path of a left-wing terrorist (hint: it ends in a tenured professorship); Robert Nisbet's The Quest for Community and why radical politics is a substitute religion for the socially alienated; and the DSA platform calling for abolishing the Senate, the Electoral College, and the checks and balances of the American constitutional order.Read Aidan's coverage → City Journal: cityjournal.orgFollow Aidan → Manhattan Institute: manhattan-institute.orgTIMESTAMPS:0:00 — Intro — Aidan Grogan, Manhattan Institute and City Journal0:43 — What is Socialism 2026? Haymarket Books, Labor Day, Chicago1:27 — Going undercover — livestreams vs. behind closed doors3:51 — The viral clip: pronouns, jazz hands, anxiety about clapping4:11 — Armed revolution calls — "I have too much anxiety to use a gun"5:35 — How he got in: Aidan G, burner email, Marxist pins, bad clothes7:20 — Day one vs. day four — what happens when you dress normally8:20 — Masks required the entire time — felt like 2020 all over again10:00 — His cover story: "I'm new to socialist ideas and just exploring"10:54 — The family abolition session — Crayola markers, Yale researchers12:29 — What does abolishing the family actually mean?14:17 — The audience answers: white people, private property, heteronormative16:41 — Sophie Lewis: family abolitionist, Oxford graduate, currently married17:49 — Do they ever actually live by the ideas they preach?18:49 — "It takes a village" — and why they mean the government21:09 — The data: two married biological parents produce the best outcomes for children23:45 — Low birth rates — opportunity cost, not money cost26:06 — At war with biology — the left's rejection of reality27:24 — Queer theory, family abolition, and the roots of the movement28:27 — Sophie Lewis denies any biological or natural basis to sex31:38 — The fat genocide panel — presenter was relatively fit33:29 — The old macho Marxists vs. today's conference-goers34:15 — Luigi the musical, political violence, and LARPing revolutionaries36:48 — Champagne socialism — why these people won't actually risk anything38:48 — Robert Nisbet and radical politics as substitute religion39:01 — People who want communes nobody would want to be on43:05 — Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground, and the career path of a left-wing terrorist45:18 — Should we be worried? Lone wolves vs. organized violence46:52 — DSA platform: abolish the Senate, Electoral College, and checks and balances47:50 — Mayor Mamdani and the low bar for praising elected officials49:59 — American institutions are more robust than the radicals thinkWatch full episodes on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJListen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Co-host of Happy Hour Econ → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happy-hour-econ/id1863476697 Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r TheLouPerez.com |  info@thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez#Socialism #DSA #ManhattanInstitute #FamilyAbolition #AidanGrogan #RadicalLeft #CityJournal #LouPerezPodcast #LionsOfLiberty #Marxism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the Smugglers' Galaxy Podcast, Glen and Jason recap their exciting Labor Day weekend adventures in the world of Star Wars collecting and fandom.Jason shares his unforgettable trip to Rancho Obi-Wan, the world's largest Star Wars memorabilia collection, curated by legendary collector Steve Sansweet. From ultra-rare prototypes and one-of-a-kind artifacts to incredible displays spanning decades of Star Wars history, he takes listeners behind the scenes of this iconic museum experience. Jason also explores how some of Rancho Obi-Wan's remarkable treasures could inspire or potentially be featured in the upcoming Saga Museum of Star Wars Collectibles.The conversation continues with a look at a recent GASWC (Georgia Alliance of Star Wars Collectors) meetup, a visit to the highly anticipated Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the latest collecting pickups, and plenty of discussion about the Star Wars hobby.Whether you're a lifelong Star Wars fan, a dedicated collector, or simply fascinated by pop culture history, this episode is packed with stories, insights, and collectible highlights you won't want to miss.Download, subscribe, and listen now! #StarWars #RanchoObiWan #SteveSansweet #StarWarsCollecting #SagaMuseum #LucasMuseum #StarWarsCollectors #SmugglersGalaxyPodcast #GASWC #StarWarsMemorabilia

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Warm greetings and a happy Labor Day to you all! To our Jewish spiritual community members, I wish a joyous Rosh Hashana and a good final sealing on Yom Kippur. Our theme for the month of September is “Practices for Living in Spiritual Alignment.” I look forward to sharing with you how making the commitment […]

On this week's Labor History Today: Delta pilots trace the 1894 Pullman Strike's connections to Labor Day and today's airline labor law; more than 400,000 unionists march on Washington for 1981's Solidarity Day; and Latin American tunnel workers wage a five-year fight against wage discrimination in Vancouver. Plus, Youngstown remembers the devastating steel-mill shutdown known as Black Monday. Sources: Engage: The Podcast For Delta Pilots; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers; Labor History in 2:00 Music: Rails of Rage (Pullman Strike, 1894) - Bridget Roos Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

What if the official stories of the last 25 years leave out the most critical details? In this deep-dive interview, Stew Peters joins Ana Escobar to break down crowdsourced investigations, whistleblower dossiers, domestic surveillance developments, and the importance of discernment in independent media. From historical context surrounding September 10th to the latest updates on flight tracking and aircraft data, we examine the questions that challenge the mainstream narrative.     Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters

Steph is back! We're in person Labor Day weekend on the porch of good friends staring at the River. Enjoy a Boat Going By Of The Week, Old Boat Ad read by our host, and a very special remote on an old friend's sailboat in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.  Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Part two!Part Two starts with the important questions…like WHO THE HELL IS STILL EATING MOUSSE?!

The establishment media claims the forensic record is ironclad, but a closer look at the courtroom testimony reveals a completely different picture of degraded samples and questionable chain of custody. JakeGTV joins Stew to unpack how state prosecutors rush to push fed-approved narratives while ignoring glaring scientific gaps in the physical evidence. The establishment parasites running TPUSA 2.0 are using emotional manipulation, censorship, and fake sympathy to hijack Charlie Kirk's legacy and protect their corporate machine. Mason Lemme joins Stew to rip off the mask, expose the internal cover-ups, and reveal how corrupt insider interests are betraying true American patriots Stew exposes how the recent wrongful death notice filed by Erica Kirk and her legal team could potentially backfire and open up Turning Point USA's own security detail to intense legal scrutiny. Octavia LaVon joins Stew to expose how government immunity, third-party fault allocation, and civil discovery could expose the truth behind the system's narrative. Modern men are facing a silent health crisis due to environmental toxins and Big Pharma's push for lifelong pharmaceutical dependencies. Christopher Key joins Stew to reveal natural hormone-boosting solutions designed to optimize your recovery, vitality, and edge.   Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

I want you to be able to set your sights on a few projects and actually complete them each trimester. So here's the way I get my projects identified, scheduled, and completed. I love a good project, always have.  What Are The Projects? First, let's define "project" in Organize 365® terms.  It's a massive to do list that gets done in a short amount of time.  So, for Labor Day, I shared all the things that had ended up on index cards that I wanted done on Labor Day weekend. I had garage tasks like clean off the garage counter, make room for a potential Christmas gift, drop off donations, fix the front door situation plus a few other things. Then Joey needed me to look at some stuff in his condo that I wanted to check off my list. Abby and I planned on redoing Grayson's room. And wanted to transition one of the storage areas to Abby. Those tasks were grouped into my four projects.  Be Prepared Once all of the projects were identified, I needed to make sure I had all the supplies I needed to tackle each one. Leading up to Labor Day I mentioned this too, you need to be prepared before Project Day. So for redoing Grayson's room, I thought through all of the supplies I needed and how I would get them to the house. I needed to check current supplies at the house, coordinate Greg picking up items from the office, order some pictures for the walls and bedding, and schedule the electrician to change the light fixture. It can really rob time away from your project day if you plan that day to get what you need and depending on store hours, it can really delay the project start time.  Also, a friendly reminder to start that housework early so you don't have to do that too on project day. Make Room on the Calendar It's time for calendaring!!  It's important to identify chunks of time that you will have for your projects and it's equally important to consider your usual energy at the time of those chunks.  There was one I was explaining and said "Actually I'll push that to Sunday so I can spend time with my family on Saturday." It's a good idea to mentally walk through project day and make sure it's right for you and your family.  And don't double book yourself. Don't just think you'll do the project in that chunk of time, schedule it. Write in the project on that day so you don't accidentally commit to something else at that time. You gotta budget your time like you do your finances because you really can't spend your money in two ways.  This is your way to be proactive with your time. I say you basically get 8 hours extra, not three days, when it comes to these long weekends? Here's how I broke down of the 8 hours I anticipated from Labor Day: Garage & Front Door 3.5 hrs Joey 2 hrs Grayson's Room 1.5 hrs Storage Area 1.5 hrs This is how you get deep work or projects done as a household project manager.  EPISODE RESOURCES: The Sunday Basket® Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter  Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media.

Gary opens Gary's Gulch this week not with a market update, but with an invitation: he runs through where he'll be over the next several months, from a training event near Houston to the BiggerPockets Convention in Orlando, the FamilyOffices.com Summit in Fort Lauderdale, his 35th Naval Academy reunion in Annapolis, and a string of stops that carry him through the holidays and into mid-January. His point throughout is simple: he wants to share a meal, a drink, or a conversation with the clients, investors, and listeners who make up the Gary's Gulch community, because that kind of in-person connection is where trust, and good business, actually gets built. From there, the episode turns personal and reflective. Gary walks through what he describes as a rollercoaster week, anchored by the one-year memorial of Charlie Kirk's assassination and the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, both landing within a day of each other, on the heels of Labor Day and the first Republican midterm national convention. He shares his own read on what each moment means, reacts to recent public comments from New York's mayor about 9/11, and uses all of it to build toward a direct appeal to listeners heading into the 2026 midterm elections: that this cycle, in his view, calls for setting aside party lines in favor of a more fundamental choice about the country's direction. Links & Resources Gary Pinkerton: garypinkerton.com Email Gary: gpinkerton@paradigmlife.net Keywords Gary's Gulch, Gary Pinkerton, real estate investing, syndications, private lending, family office, generational wealth, BiggerPockets, Paradigm Life, accredited investor, 2026 midterms, Charlie Kirk memorial, 9/11 25th anniversary, in-person networking, investor relationships, real estate conferences, Naval Academy, financial freedom, wealth building community, alternative investing Episode Highlights [00:00:00 - 00:01:00] Gary opens with a recap of a heavy, high-and-low week for the country. [00:01:00 - 00:02:30] He lays out his travel schedule starting with a training event near Houston with his son Ryan. [00:02:30 - 00:03:30] Gary will have a Paradigm Life booth at the BiggerPockets Convention in Orlando. [00:03:30 - 00:04:30] He's headed to the FamilyOffices.com Summit in Fort Lauderdale for family-office focused investors. [00:04:30 - 00:05:15] Gary shares he's attending his 35th Naval Academy reunion in Annapolis. [00:05:15 - 00:07:20] He reflects on the one-year memorial of Charlie Kirk's assassination. [00:07:20 - 00:08:30] Gary marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. [00:08:30 - 00:10:30] He responds to comments attributed to New York City's mayor about 9/11. [00:10:30 - 00:13:00] Gary explains why he sees the 2026 midterms as an unusually high-stakes election. [00:13:00 - 00:16:15] He makes a direct appeal for listeners across party lines to prioritize voting this cycle. [00:16:15 - 00:17:30] Gary closes with a call to action and thanks listeners for tuning in.  

The deep state military-industrial complex has officially set its sights on Stew, with covert federal surveillance tactics, sudden studio blackouts. Uncensored AI founder JD Sharp joins Stew to exposes the terrifying lengths to which shadow operatives will go to track down and silence anyone blowing the whistle on their globalist plot. Ana Escobar Joins Stew to examine whether these targeted intimidation tactics point to federal agents or rogue private military contractors attempting to silence the show.   Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

During the 2020 Labor Day fires in Oregon, Sierra Lindsey Kos saw first hand the effects of climate change. As she was rushing to take her sick newborn to a hospital in Portland, she had to traverse through burning fires, a red sky and ash all around her, filling her with fear. As reported in the New York Times, she would then help found and lead Extreme Weather Survivors, a support group and advocacy network that has grown to more than 2,500 people.   Amy Dishion is one of those members. Before moving to Salem, Oregon, she lost her husband to extreme heat in Arizona. Dishion and Kos join us to share their stories and the work the group does for survivors across the country.   

On Labor Day weekend in 1993, 35-year-old Texas mother Shelley Salter Watkins vanished from her home in Corsicana. One week later, fishermen discovered her body in the Trinity River—bound, wrapped in plastic and weighted with concrete.More than three decades later, no one has been convicted of Shelley's murder.In this episode of Truth Be Told, Tony Sweet examines the disturbing timeline of Shelley's disappearance, conflicting accounts, a reported early-morning sighting near the river and the unanswered questions that continue to haunt her family and community. With renewed reporting and advances in DNA testing, could justice for Shelley finally be within reach?This episode discusses an unresolved homicide and includes descriptions of violence. Statements concerning individuals are allegations, witness accounts or claims reported by journalists and investigators. No current suspect has been publicly named by authorities.#TruthBeTold #ShelleySalterWatkins #GoneWithoutAnswers #TrueCrime #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #MissingPerson #TexasTrueCrime #CorsicanaTexas #TrinityRiver #JusticeForShelley #UnsolvedMysteryBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/truth-be-told-with-tony-sweet-paranormal--3589860/support.

Father Joseph DeMarzo joins Stew to discuss the collapse of political Christian Zionism within modern Evangelical churches. They examine why a growing number of Christians are leaving foreign-flag theology behind in search of an authentic church with a real spiritual backbone. Jeff Berwick joins Stew to expose how the globalist cabal is accelerating its sinister agenda by intentionally sabotaging critical energy infrastructure and taking the world's top oil exports offline. Peymon Mottahedeh from Freedom Law School joins Stew to reveal the massive deception keeping millions of Americans enslaved to an unconstitutional income tax syndicate. It is time to wake up, claim your freedom, and walk through the simple steps to stop funding the corrupt beasts in Washington without fear. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Ralph welcomes sportswriter Dave Zirin to talk about his new book, "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." Then Ralph speaks to labor activist Gene Bruskin about their upcoming Labor Day event at Busboys and Poets in DC, "Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers' Compact."

Dave came to Adam's house to record and brought a host, a co-host, a topic, and a bottle of whiskey. No laptop. No microphones. No headphones. No headphone amp. Second time he has pulled that off. In his defense, he already hauled a computer over there for a permanent setup so he would not have to schlep gear across town every week, and in Adam's defense, that computer is still sitting there unplugged. So they went home, came back the next night, and recorded anyway. Second night in a row. For such a time as this.Sponsor: Select International Tours When Adam and Dave went looking for help leading their first pilgrimage, every person they asked gave them the same name. Having used Select now, they can vouch for it. Wherever in the world you want to go, whether you are leading a pilgrimage or joining one, go to selectinternationaltours.com and look at what they have ready for you.First, the Wiffle Ball tournament. There is a tradition in the Catholic Tulsa community on Labor Day, admittedly a niche corner of it, where the Hanisch family turns their entire backyard into a real Wiffle Ball field. Scoreboard. Foul poles. Pitching mound. Dirt. Bases. Bleachers. Concession stand. Instant replay. A bubble machine that fires when somebody goes deep. Eight teams, double elimination. Adam and Dave play with Adam's brother-in-law Holden, Mark Gabriel, and Brandon Bargus under the name Wiffle While You Work. Roughly ten years of this, and they had never won it. This year they made the championship game and lost by a run, 6 to 5. Ten years ago the wives played and it was a hang. Now teams recruit former ballplayers, one of whom had a family thing come up, which Adam called lucky out loud. Shout out to Chris and Carrie Hanisch, who carry the whole ordeal, and to Mark Gabriel, who sponsored it this year. This is what it looks like when a family says we have something to offer and then offers it, every year, on purpose.Which got Dave onto something he has been chewing on since they were all at Brandon Sheard's place for a rock put. Heaviest rock, longest throw, get the men in a line. Everybody looked at the guy who was obviously going to win, and he won, and it did not matter. The women and kids watched the men compete, and Dave watched what it did to the community. So here is the idea: whenever your friends gather, have a men's competition. Every time. Croquet, a heavy rock, flipping a quarter closest to a line, it does not matter what it is. What matters is that it is only for men, because the boys need to see it. A boy needs to look at that line and understand that he is a boy and those are men, and then he needs to be summoned across. Not by his own father. By another man in the community who calls him up and gives him the right to stand and compete. That is a rite of passage, and American culture has almost none left. It is also cheap, easy, and a lot more fun than standing around. There were zero women in the Wiffle Ball tournament this year, and there were young boys playing next to the men, faster than the men, and considerably less sore the next day.The campout is in a couple of weeks, last weekend of September like always, and it is more than full. Brandon Sheard will be there. Tomas from Ultimo Cigar will be there. Get away, pray with the monks, see all the men. If you missed it, put next year on the calendar now.The pour is Octomore 16.2 from Bruichladdich, a super peated Islay scotch aged five years in wine and sherry casks at 58.1 percent. A 2025 limited release. If you like peat, start with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg, then understand that Octomore was the first distillery to put out something genuinely insane on the peat scale. Others have since gone higher in parts per million, and most of those were gimmicks that came and went. Dave's honest rule on expensive bottles is that a $200 bottle is almost never $100 better than a $100 bottle. Octomore was the first time he thought it actually was. A whiskey after his own heart.Then the topic: the universal destination of goods, Catechism 2402, which sits under the Seventh Commandment. Thou shalt not steal. That placement tells you something. God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind, to care for it, master it by labor, and enjoy its fruits, and the goods of creation are destined for the whole human race. Not for you specifically. All of it, the oceans on planets nobody has found yet down to the bacteria underfoot, aimed at the good of mankind.Adam gave the line the whole episode hangs on. The five acres you own are truly yours. But not merely yours.So why private property at all? Aquinas gives three reasons, and they hold up. Industriousness, because a man tends his own garden harder than he tends the community garden, not from selfishness but because shared duty spreads thin and nobody owns the outcome. Order, because affairs run more smoothly when each man is responsible for a specific thing. And peace, because quarrels multiply when property is held in common without distinction. Buy a boat with four families and find out. Somebody leaves trash in it, somebody scrapes the hull, somebody drives it hard and it breaks down, and now you are all negotiating who pays. Adam gave the other side its due: shared ownership lowers the cost of entry, and if every man is limited to a suburban backyard there is simply no beef, because a cow needs more land than that. Four families together can afford ground that feeds all four. There is a place for each. Every community has to find the order.The two ditches are individualism and collectivism, and this is the road between them. Private property is not a concession to greed. It flows out of what a family is. Sacred means set apart, and a family is set apart from the community by its nature, so it makes sense that a piece of creation gets set apart to match. A man needs somewhere he can say what is inside here is exclusive to my family, because the family itself is exclusive by nature. Raising your children on your own ground is not a detour from the good of mankind. It is how you serve it. Dave put it plainly: he is raising four daughters and three boys, and he needs the Minihan family raising strong holy young men, and Adam needs the same from him. Families are not sufficient to themselves. That is the debt.All of which is stewardship. This is God's house and you are managing it, and the King is coming back to see how it was kept, and eventually He wants all of it back. Your children most of all. Their souls were handed to you to tend so that they flourish into who they were made to be, and the fruit of that gets shared with everybody.St. John Chrysostom says surplus has to be counted as stolen goods when the wealthy ignore the destitute in front of them. Dave admitted the part that is actually hard. When he has extra eggs, he knows it instantly and gives them away gladly, no friction. Natural goods are easy to read. Man made goods are not. He cannot tell when he has a surplus of the things he bought, and he is worse at parting with them, even though they are of a lower order than food. He has too many T-shirts. He knows he has too many T-shirts. He pulls one out that has not been worn in fifteen years and hears himself say but what if. He is also fair about the old quotes on the unworn shoes in your closet belonging to the barefoot, which come from a world where a man owned one pair of shoes, not work boots and dress shoes and tennis shoes. Owning a few pairs is not theft. But if you can afford the next pair and cannot afford to give in proportion to your station, that is worth an honest look, because self love is pernicious and easy to feed.Adam brought it back to the ground. Haylee was in Oklahoma City, he finally got the kids down, he was not feeling well, and he was in bed when he remembered the chickens were not up and the pigs had no water. He laid there a long time talking himself out of it. What he learned about himself is how easily he can do that, and how good the excuses sound. Six months ago these were the responsibilities he was praying for. Everybody does this. You want the promotion, you get the promotion, and then you resent the people and problems that came with it, when the problems were the thing you asked for. That is where virtue lives: doing the thing when nobody is watching and your appetites are voting against it. Protect what you were given. Provide for it. Establish your children so they can stand without you, because you do not want to be a helicopter dad when they are 28. And the man who buries his talent in the yard was not evil. He was just tired.Francis de Sales, in Introduction to the Devout Life, lands it. A man may possess wealth. He must not let wealth possess his heart. Detachment is what keeps money a servant to the family first and then to the poor, in that order, because subsidiarity is real and you do not take food off your children's plates to be generous elsewhere. God does call men to wealth. The virtue of magnificence needs them. St. Peter's does not get built without them, and neither does your parish church. The question to keep asking is whether a thing gives you comfort or gives you happiness, because those are not the same and one of them will quietly own you.Truly yours. Not merely yours. 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Jabez Spann was 14 years old when he disappeared from Sarasota, Florida, over Labor Day weekend in 2017. It would be two years before his remains were recovered and his death was ruled a homicide. In this episode of Zone 7, Sheryl McCollum welcomes back Jabez’s mother, Tawana Spann, and her husband, Joe Spann, to mark nine years since Jabez went missing and renew their call for anyone with information about his murder to come forward. Tawana and Joe discuss the advocacy work they have built out of their grief, including the Jabez Spann Foundation, the Missing Our Voices podcast, and a new initiative called If We Could Speak. Highlights: (0:00) Sheryl opens the episode with a call to action for anyone who knows what happened to Jabez Spann (2:00) Tawana explains the one question she still needs answered about her son’s murder (5:00) How living without answers can become its own kind of prison for families of missing and murdered children (9:00) Why Jabez’s disappearance led Tawana to create resources for other families searching for loved ones (11:45) How Missing Our Voices gives families a place to talk about the people they lost (14:00) Joe Spann introduces the rapid response readiness kit, and the common misconceptions families can face when someone goes missing● (17:00) Why organization during the first 72 hours can help families become more proactive in a missing-person investigation (19:00) How If We Could Speak uses digital avatars to make people stop, listen, and remember the victim (22:30) Jabez’s digital avatar focuses on the life he should have had and the future that was taken from him (24:45) Joe appeals to anyone who has information about Jabez’s murder to do the right thing (27:00) Joe reflects on Tawana’s strength and how she has channeled her grief into helping other families (33:15) Tawana credits her mother, Lucille Tillery, with helping her turn her anger into advocacy for other families Enjoying Zone 7? Leave a rating and review where you listen to podcasts. Your feedback helps others find the show and supports the mission to educate, engage, and inspire. --- Tawana Spann is the mother of Jabez Spann and an advocate for families of missing and murdered loved ones. Through the Jabez Spann Foundation, Missing Our Voices podcast, and other initiatives created in her son’s memory, she works to provide families with practical resources, keep their loved one’s stories visible, and give them a place to be heard. Her husband, Joe Spann, works alongside her as a co-advocate through the foundation. Related Episode Who Killed Jabez Spann? | Seeking to Expose a Killer's Secret Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an active crime scene investigator for a metro Atlanta police department and the director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, which partners with colleges and universities nationwide. With more than four decades of experience, she has worked on thousands of cold cases using her investigative system, The Last 24/361, which integrates evidence, media, and advanced forensic testing. Her work on high-profile cases, including The Boston Strangler, Natalie Holloway, Tupac Shakur and the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching, led to her Emmy Award for CSI: Atlanta and induction into the National Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2023. Social Links:● Email: coldcase2004@gmail.com X: @ColdCaseTips Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum Instagram: @officialzone7podcast TikTok: @Sheryl.McCollum Sheryl’s new book, Swans Don’t Swim in a Sewer: Solving the Cold Case of the Flint River Killer’s Daughter, is available now wherever books are sold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of A Course in Miracles: Walking the Talk, Living the Love, Jennifer Hadley explores the ACIM line a friend brings up in every conversation. Have you forgiven and prayed, and still feel the hurt hanging on? After a Labor Day retreat, she turns to Chapter 26, Section VIII and uncovers what ACIM calls your one remaining problem. She reveals the surprising flaw in a comfort you may be leaning on, the fear hiding beneath it, and what a dog and a slice of chocolate cake taught her. The answer may surprise you. To learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Course in Miracles⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Powerofloveministry.net⁠⁠⁠⁠. For the transcript of this episode and more please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LivingACourseinMiracles.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prisoner is held, in theory, for something they did. The people inside America's roughly 250 immigration detention camps are held for who they are, or where they're from. That distinction anchors journalist John Washington's new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. He joins Suzi to trace the bipartisan machinery behind ICE detention — from the reservation system to today's $240 billion buildout — and the local permits, contracts, and licenses that make these camps more vulnerable than they look. In Surprise, Arizona, a thousand residents showed up to block a $70 million warehouse conversion. “The opposite of a camp is community,” Washington argues — and closing one, keeping it closed, depends on exactly that. Plus: Meleiza Figueroa remembers David Cobb, who died on Labor Day. Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

Kaylee Mahoney joins Stew to expose how she was targeted, doxxed, and ultimately forced to leave the University of Miami after speaking out against Jewish supremacy and the Talmud. She details the intense campus retaliation she faced, the blatant double standards in student media, and how being ousted from her campus circle completely opened her eyes. We are expected to believe a single gunman pulled off a highly technical assassination without a visible rifle anywhere in the clearest footage available. Destiny Rezendes joins Stew to rip apart the official narrative, exposing hidden details and suspicious military maneuvers connected to the case. We are expected to believe a single gunman pulled off a highly technical assassination without a visible rifle anywhere in the clearest footage available. Destiny Rezendes joins Stew to rip apart the official narrative, exposing hidden details and suspicious military maneuvers connected to the case. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Dave Landau joins us in-studio, drunk OJ Simpson, Aaron Rodgers pops off on his ex-girlfriends, remembering Larry King's greatest moments, cringy Corey Feldman, former hockey players sue UofM, The Trial of Alec Baldwin, a new Bonerline, and Jim's Picks: Top 10 Work Songs. Dave Landau is in the house. Marc is still on assignment covering "OJ Unseen: Exploitation of Evil" about OJ Simpson classic prank show "Juiced". We miss you, Larry King. His research was top notch. Aaron Rodgers is talking some serious crap about some of his exes. Great guy. He also popped off about vaccines and Dianna Russini on Not Just Football with Cam Heyward. Karmelo Anthony is starting to look like a bad guy. Who would have thought? More jurors spill on the deliberation in the Lindsay Clancy case. Brand new Bonerline. The University of Michigan is being sued AGAIN. This time for a hockey hazing scandal. There's MORE clips of Corey Feldman butchering songs. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is allegedly over in about a year. The Amazon Prime Air plane crash story is getting really weird. The Trial of Alec Baldwin looks like it's going to be totally fair to Alec Baldwin. We CAN'T WAIT for the Nathan Fielder/Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Jim's Picks: Top 10 Work Songs for Labor Day. Check out Dave Landau's YouTube Special dropping on Tuesday. Merch is available if you want to rep the show. You'd look amazing too. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley, BranDon, and Roberto).

One year after Charlie Kirk's assassination, we discuss what should have happened... and why it didn't; we're joined by TPUSA's Andrew Kolvet; and Victor Davis Hanson stops by to explain what's likely to happen in the post-Trump GOP. Ep. 2504 - - - Turning Point USA:  Help chase ballots this mid-term election by joining Turning Point Action. Visit: https://www.tpaction.com/commit100 Join a chapter or start a new one at: https://tpusa.com AmericaFest "AmFest" is December 17th-20th in Phoenix, Arizona. Buy tickets today! https://www.amfest.com - - - "The Counter Revolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement" by Victor Davis Hanson is available here: https://a.co/d/0hVmFOKD - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan... now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for 27% off sitewide during Helix's Labor Day sale. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down what you need to know about the Republican Midterm Convention. Violence erupted in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, and this is what the city's leadership had to say about it. Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, talks about what the Democratic Party has become and how socialist ideas are creeping into states like California. Did Smithsonian director Lonnie Bunch step down because of the Trump administration? Final Thought: Don't miss Bill O'Reilly, Stephen A. Smith, and Chris Cuomo tonight at 8 PM ET on NewsNation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A planned Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, which Ben describes as a first-of-its-kind event intended to promote President Donald Trump's policies and encourage voter turnout ahead of the November elections. President Donald Trump's Labor Day message, in which Trump predicts significant Republican victories in the upcoming midterms and criticizes Democrats. The historical difficulty of a party controlling both the presidency and Congress retaining its majorities during midterm elections. The segment references examples from 2002 and 1934. Recent polling, including a Harvard-Harris poll showing a narrow Republican advantage among likely voters. The Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Tallarico, presented as a key contest that could influence Senate control. Financial support from MAGA Inc., a Trump-aligned super PAC, which reportedly plans to spend $10 million promoting Ken Paxton and criticizing James Tallarico. Advertising messages focused largely on tax policy, with ads portraying Paxton as supporting tax reductions and criticizing Tallarico's voting record Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the The Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. And don't forget to follow the show on Social Media so you never miss a moment! Thanks for Listening X: https://x.com/benfergusonshowYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of Labor Day, Ben Shapiro reacts to communist TikToks explaining why everything bad in your life is apparently the fault of billionaires, capitalism, and your boss. Celebrate owning your own labor by watching TikTok commies explain why you shouldn't. - - - Today's Sponsor: Ramp - Switch to Ramp and see it all in real time. New customers get $250 off at https://Ramp.com/SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe