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For more than two decades, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship.rnrnEvery year, the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday forum. This allows the debaters to compete-not only for the judges and audience in the room-but also for our radio and television audiences.rnrnThe finalists will debate the topic Resolved: The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral.rnrnOn behalf of BakerHostetler, we are honored to support this annual tradition in memory of Patrick Jordan--a lawyer, fierce protector of democracy and free speech, and a championship debater himself. You can learn more about the life and legacy of Pat Jordan at the 2022 High School Debate Championship here, or read the transcript here.

Today we're still speaking with Orlando attorney, James O. Cunningham, who has written much on the intersection of faith and politics. Not too long ago Jim wrote a fascinating article for substack entitled History Doesn't Repeat but it Rhymes. Jim is joining us again today because we want our listeners to hear from someone who has thought deeply and carefully about the truth and values of the Christian faith must express themselves in our current truth-averse culture. As Anchored by Truth listeners know, we believe that there are four lines of evidence that demonstrate that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. We term those 4 lines of evidence reliable history, remarkable unity, fulfilled prophecy, and redeemed destinies. First, as both science, archeology, and human historical records amply demonstrate the Bible is historically reliable. Second, the Bible displays a remarkable unity for a book that was composed by over 3 dozen human authors who wrote over a span of 1,500 years. Third, the Bible gives evidence of supernatural origin especially through a large body of fulfilled prophecy. And the 4th line of evidence is that the Bible has resulted in an untold number of lives that have been positively changed by its transcendent message. Jim' life was transformed and redeemed by the scriptures. Jim has been practicing law in Florida for nearly 50 years and he also taught law classes at the Barry college of law including a class on the foundations of law. So, Jim not only knows how the law operates in our society but why it operates that way. And as we heard in our last couple of episodes of Anchored by Truth Jim has done an extensive investigation of the famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they both ran for the US Senate just prior to the civil war. Any listeners who didn't catch that episode of Anchored by Truth can go the website for Crystal Sea Books and find them there. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were an extremely important series of political conversations because in them the two men articulated far different visions of the American democracy. And those different visions are still being expressed in the political dialog of our day. This is episode 288. +++++++ You can find more information here: http://www.crystalseabooks.com/

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio's investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history. Stories include rumors about how the Great Chicago Fire really started, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Jimmy Buffet’s rendition of the National Anthem at Wrigley Field, and more.

On this Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Father Tom Koys, he discusses the Lincoln-Douglas debates compared to the current Presidential debate.  He then relates clips from the movie "Nefarious" to politics.      St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

This week: The upcoming debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the difference between U.S. Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz's views on Hamas, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale College president, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues. Release date: 06 September 2024See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: The upcoming debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the difference between U.S. Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz’s views on Hamas, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale College president, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues. Release date: 06 September 2024 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: The upcoming debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the difference between U.S. Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz's views on Hamas, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale College president, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues. Release date: 06 September 2024See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Man oh man was the state fair a fun watch. Lucas Kunce and Josh Hawley decided to face off in the most absurd wanna be debate of any senators career! It was amazing to watch and Jenna Roberson is here to discuss it!  First Up is the Hawley/Kunce debacle. Josh Hawley decided to find Lucas Kunce at the Missouri State Fair and ambush him with a camera crew trying to get him to debate him live. Hawley wanted a Lincoln Douglas style debate and Kuntz just wanted to argue with Holly about how he's not the right man for the job. In the end everybody was given a lot of funny things to watch.  Mark Bland, Jason Kull and Jenna Roberson discuss. Next up it seems that schools are a hot bed of issues in the USA. Currently the Francis Howell School Board is off it's rocker and trying to ban books like it is 1950. Trump is claiming they are going to do away with the Dept of education. And it's a major point of contention between Jenna Roberson and her November opponent. The guys discuss these aspects and try to figure out if there's any value to getting rid of the Department of Education.  Finally have you ever thought of mayonnaise as a sweet smell that you'd love to rub all over yourself for a special someone? Well Will Levis of the Tennessee Titans has designed a cologne that smells like mayonnaise. The guys discuss if this is even something worth people's time.

Was Abraham Lincoln a racist?  Were his efforts at emancipation the mere cold calculations of a politician whose sole aim was to win the Civil War, or do they point to some deeper ideals of America's first principles?  Joining Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is Lincoln historian Dr. Allen C. Guelzo for a wide-ranging conversation on how Lincoln's efforts at ending slavery and saving the union may provide the clearest example of prudent American statesmanship in practice.   About Dr. Allen C. Guelzo Excerpts from the James Madison Program   Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is a New York Times best-seller author, American historian and commentator on public issues.  He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, National Affairs, First Things, U.S. News & World Report, The Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly, National Review, the Daily Beast, and the Claremont Review of Books, and has been featured on NPR's “Weekend Edition Sunday” and “On Point,” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2008), Meet the Press: Press Pass with David Gregory, The Civil War: The Untold Story (Great Divide Pictures, 2014), Race to the White House: Lincoln vs. Douglas (CNN, 2016), Legends and Lies: The Civil War (Fox, 2018), Reconstruction (PBS, 2019) and Brian Lamb's “Booknotes.”  In 2010, he was nominated for a Grammy Award along with David Straithern and Richard Dreyfuss for their production of the entirety of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (BBC Audio).  In 2018, he was a winner of the Bradley Prize, along with Jason Riley of The Wall Street Journal and Charles Kesler of the Claremont Institute.   He is Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship.  Previously, he was Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, and the Director of Civil War Era Studies and the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College.  During 2010-11 and again in 2017-18, he served as the WL. Garwood Visiting Professor in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.  He holds the MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania.   Among his many award-winning publications, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, which won both the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize in 2000; Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon & Schuster, 2004) which also won the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize, for 2005; Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (Simon & Schuster, 2008), on the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858; a volume of essays, Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009) which won a Certificate of Merit from the Illinois State Historical Association in 2010; and Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction (in the Oxford University Press ‘Very Short Introductions' series.  In 2012, he published Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction with Oxford University Press, and in 2013 Alfred Knopf published his book on the battle of Gettysburg (for the 150thanniversary of the battle), Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion won the Lincoln Prize for 2014, the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York City Round Table, and the Richard Harwell Award of the Atlanta Civil War Round Table.  His most recent publications are Redeeming the Great Emancipator (Harvard University Press, 2016) which originated as the 2012 Nathan Huggins Lectures at Harvard University, and Reconstruction: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2018).   He is one of Power Line's 100 “Top Professors” in America.  In 2009, he delivered the Commonwealth Fund Lecture at University College, London, on “Lincoln, Cobden and Bright: The Braid of Liberalism in the 19th-Century's Transatlantic World.”  He has been awarded the Lincoln Medal of the Union League Club of New York City, the Lincoln Award of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, and the Lincoln Award of the Union League of Philadelphia, in addition to the James Q. Wilson Award for Distinguished Scholarship on the Nature of a Free Society.  In 2018, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute.  He has been a Fellow of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, and currently serves as a Trustee of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.   Together with Patrick Allitt and Gary W. Gallagher, he team-taught The Teaching Company's American History series, and as well as courses on Abraham Lincoln (Mr. Lincoln, 2005) on American intellectual history (The American Mind, 2006), the American Revolution (2007), and the Founders (America's Founding Fathers, 2017).  From 2006 to 2013, he served as a member of the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.   Dr. Guelzo's latest book, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment, which is discussed in this episode is available wherever books are sold.   He lives in Paoli and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Debra.  They have three children and five grandchildren.  His website is allenguelzo.com   Saving Elephants is coming to YouTube! We're thrilled to announce that Saving Elephants will be launching a YouTube channel in August with full-length episodes, exclusive shorts, and even live events!  Further details coming soon...  

Mark and Jesse are back to record a new track for the Radulich in Broadcasting Album. This time they are working on an original theme to the podcast, "On Trial." "On Trial," is the podcast where movies face a rigorous debate in a Lincoln/Douglas style showdown. Each episode, we dissect a film's merits, examining its strengths and weaknesses through spirited discussion. Our hosts present compelling arguments for and against the movie, offering a balanced perspective before rendering a final verdict. It's not just a review—it's a courtroom drama for cinema enthusiasts! Tune in to see which films make the grade and which ones fall short, as we explore the art of filmmaking with a fresh, critical lens. Get ready for verdicts that go beyond the typical review.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsohttps://www.teepublic.com/user/radulich-in-broadcasting-networkFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulichInstagram: markkind76RIBN Album Playlist: https://suno.com/playlist/91d704c9-d1ea-45a0-9ffe-5069497bad59

Debating the debates Presidential debates have become part of the American scene almost as much as apple pie. Beginning with Lincoln- Douglas in 1858, they were classic and in person. Fast forward to the 1950s and the era of modern television. It was not, however, until the 1960 Nixon- Kennedy televised debate that the impact on the election process took hold. Now these debates have become highly technical productions that provide big bucks for TV networks. As it stands now for the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed on two debates. One on...Article Link

Uncover the rich history of Ottawa, Illinois, nestled along the banks of the Illinois River, by cycling, canoeing, and visiting small businesses. From American Indian heritage to the Irish immigrants who shaped its canal history, journey through this Midwestern gem close to Chicago, exploring its historic sites, charming neighborhoods, and vibrant local culture. Canoe the Illinois River and cycle along the I&M Canal and hear about the area's history from Ana Koval of the Canal Corridor Association. Marvel at murals depicting American history and stroll Washington Square, the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 21, 1858.

This is a bit of stretch for relevance but: It's Tax Day, and sometimes that's too busy a day to get anything else done. While composing Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copland thought Tax Day was the most common sort of day for modern man, and that it would make a good day for a premiere.  Which this isn't, but it's a decent look at the music that opens this podcast. --------------------------------------- Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, the music used for the introduction to this podcast, ties together two previous Fourth Turnings - commissioned after Pearl Harbor and including Civil War quotes from the 16th President -  in a way which makes it feel even more relevant as this current Crisis unfolds. ---------------------------------------- A few relevant Wikipedia links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Portrait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-water_mark_of_the_Confederacy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein This site has Kostelnetz commissioning it within 10 days - mid-December 1941- and that copland began writing in late February https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/julyaugust/feature/the-sound-freedom     The different excerpts are from   1) Address to congress 1862: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29503 2) Seventh and final Lincoln-Douglas debate October 15 1858 https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate7.htm 3) Collected works: https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/onslavery.htm 4) The Gettysburg Address 1863:  https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/copland/coplandstory.html   The NPS site says his slavery quote is from August 1, 1858 - 110 years before this recording. https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/onslavery.htm This site says the date is pure conjecture, is from a scrap of paper that Mary Todd Lincoln passed to archivists later, and is signed with a different piece of paper from another document. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:547?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Vin Scully, voice of the Dodgers, with the L.A. Philharmonic in 2017 https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/14/see-vin-scully-narrate-the-words-of-abraham-lincoln-at-the-hollywood-bowl/ A direct link to a Youtube video of that performance https://youtu.be/6qpYwrla0GE More on the quote about freedom and democracy https://abrahamlincoln.quora.com/Close-Reading-2-Lincoln's-Definition-of-Democracy-August-1-1858 The first item there is is a NYTimes piece from 1895 - that would be 30 years after the Civil War - that attributes it to Lincoln by the judge who ….attributes it to him.  https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/09/13/106068178.pdf Last witness of the assassination of Lincoln, still alive in 1956, 14 years -after- the premiere of Lincoln Portrait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4    

For more than two decades, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship.rnrnEvery year, the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday forum. This allows the debaters to compete-not only for the judges and audience in the room-but also for our radio and television audiences.rnrnThe debaters will be Max Zukerman of Solon High School, coached by Trina Castro and Matt Hill; and Brooke Gemechu of Hawken School, coached by Robert Shurtz and Eva Lamberson.rnrnThe finalists will debate the topic Resolved: The primary objective of the United States criminal justice system ought to be rehabilitation.rnrnJudging the debate are Corinne Lashley, Speech and Debate Coach at Chagrin Falls HS; Rich Kawolics, OSDA Hall of Fame Speech and Debate Coach at Laurel School; and Artis A. Arnold III, Managing Director at Huntington National Bank and City Club Board Member.rnrnOn behalf of BakerHostetler, we are honored to support this annual tradition in memory of Patrick Jordan--a lawyer, fierce protector of democracy and free speech, and a championship debater himself.

Jim talks with Jonathan Rowson of Perspectiva about a new social practice they're creating, the antidebate. They discuss the nature of debate, the spectacle of endemic polarization, why debate may be irredeemable, multiple ways of knowing, the Oxford Union debates, the debate apocalypse of 2020, the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate, the elitist aspect of debates, longtermism, the dialectic fallacy, presencing confusion, anti-debate as a practice, developing the form & facilitation skills, anti-debate trials to date, the current state of the art, setting a positive tone, choosing the question, the question bomb process, tableauing, why answering the question isn't necessary, swarming, epistemic seduction, drawing on Quaker Speaking, recruiting the enigmatics, prefiguring the culture you want to live in, scalability, disaffection with the ambient internet, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS Currents 041: Jonathan Rowson on Our Metacrisis Pickle JRS EP127 - Jonathan Rowson on The Moves That Matter JRS Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama JRS EP154 - Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things JRS EP155 - Iain McGilchrist Part 2: The Matter With Things "What Our Politics Needs Now: Anti-Debates," with Peter Limberg & Conor Barnes "The Anti-Debate: Experiments in the Art of Sensemaking for a World Gone Slightly Mad" - a film by Katie Teague "Is War Natural? (and other questions)" - YouTube Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and director of the research institute Perspectiva based in London. He is also the former director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts and is a chess grandmaster and three-time British Chess Champion. His books include The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, Chess for Zebras, Spiritualize: Cultivating Spiritual Sensibility to Address 21st Century Challenges, and, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life.

In this episode, Dinesh has an in-depth conversation with longtime friend and Texas Congressman Troy Nehls, focusing on his latest book “Borderless by Design” which exposes the Biden administration's deliberate wrecking of U.S. border security. Nehls gives us the what and the why.  Dinesh continues his argument for Stephen Douglas as part of his study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dinesh discusses the issues that will define the 2024 election and whether Biden is likely to remain on the ticket.  Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick joins Dinesh to talk about how Texas can help thwart Biden's effort to flood the country with illegal aliens.  Dinesh begins making the case for Douglas in his discussion of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dinesh reveals the extraordinary phenomenon of large numbers of United Nations refugee staff either directly participating in the October 7 Hamas attack or being closely connected with pro-terrorist forces and institutions.  Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas joins Dinesh to talk about Biden's foreign policy and how Republicans can win in 2024.  Dinesh continues his introduction to Harry Jaffa's “Crisis of the House Divided,” a classic study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dinesh discusses Joe Biden's scheme to conceal his border insanity by claiming to be the guy who is taking action to secure the border.  Dinesh reviews the surreal jury verdict in E. Jean Carroll's suit against Trump, arguing that it signals a massive breakdown of law that imperils us all.  Texas House GOP candidate Wayne Richard joins Dinesh to clarify the stakes in the great divide between MAGA Republicans and the party establishment.  Dinesh begins a discussion of the Lincoln-Douglas debates through an examination of Harry Jaffa's classic work, “Crisis of the House Divided.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anomalous Debates cover hot topics and breaking news in the UFO/UAP community. Co-hosts UAPDeb of Calling All Beings and Courtney Marchesani of Spaced Out Radio invite subject matter experts, commentators, and researchers to intelligently discuss different sides of catalyzing issues in anomalous perspectives. Anomalous Debates aims to reflect and highlight cultural viewpoints in a landscape frought with high change. Our low-stakes atmosphere encourages our audience to listen in and empathize with one another, even if we don't always agree. We'll be hosting roundtable discussions and our debates are inspired by Lincoln-Douglas format. Timing of debates have been altered for the audience. Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States from Illinois, and incumbent senator Steven Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate that changed the United States political landscape and the union forever. Debs: @studyofUAPs Courtney: @inspiredcreatv Channel details www.youtube.com/@AnomalousDebates #CallingAllBeingsNetwork

5:37 - Let's start the new year off the right way, Lincoln-Douglas Debaters! University of Wyoming Director of Debate Matt Liu is here to provide an overview analysis the new January/February 2024 Lincoln-Douglas topic: The United States ought to substantially reduce its military presence in the West Asia-North Africa region.You should check out the Wyoming Debate Roundup write-up of Matt's analysis here:https://wyodebateroundup.weebly.com/blog/ld-janfeb-2024-topic-analysis-wana-military-presence-first-takesFor more notes and details about the episode, check out the One Clap website post here:https://www.oneclapspeechanddebate.com/post/rock-on-debate-lincoln-douglas-topic-analysis-of-the-2024-january-february-topic-with-matt-and-caIf you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcast, shoot Lyle an email at lylewiley@gmail.com or check out our blog and social media here:One Clap Website: www.oneclapspeechanddebate.comYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvpV56859lLA-X-EvHVYUgFacebook: @oneclappodcastInstagram: @one_clap_podcastTwitter: @OneClapPodcastTikTok: @oneclapspeechanddebateGet your cool One Clap Speech and Debate merchandise here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/one-clap-speech-and-debate/Support the show

Do debates, a staple of political campaigns, actually matter.  We take a run at several of them ranging from Lincoln Douglas to Trump Biden to get the answer.  

How do political debates help and hurt American democracy? Heather and Joanne reflect on the recent Republican primary debate and discuss the long legacy of the institution, from Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's proto-debates with voters during the contentious 1800 election, to the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, to the iconic 1960 televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.  Heather and Joanne discuss their own experiences participating in debates in the “Backstage” portion of the podcast. To get access to Backstage segments and other exclusive content, become a member at cafe.com/history. Now & Then is ending on September 13th. Leave us a voicemail with your favorite moment from the show at 669-247-7338 or write to us at letters@cafe.com. For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/looking-ahead-a-viewers-guide-to-presidential-debates/ Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our resident history buff Jim is back to chat about the amazing things that happened This Week in History! From the introduction of the motion picture machine, to the Lincoln - Douglas Debate, and then on to the 19th Amendment and the release of Dirty Dancing, so much happened this week throughout history. And if you are really interested in history and want more, check out our YouTube series History Bites here.

This episode discusses the Lincoln/Douglas debates, the Harvard Debate team and appealing to the Providence Traffice Court to right a wrong.

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For more than two decades, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship.rnrnEvery year, the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday forum. This allows the debaters to compete-not only for the judges and audience in the room-but also for our radio and television audiences.rnrnThe debaters will be Kaitlyn Ernst of Laurel School, coached by Rachel Rothschild and Rich Kawolics; and Sam Bowen of Hawken School, coached by Robert Shurtz and Eva Lamberson.rnrnThe finalists will debate the topic Resolved: Justice requires open borders for human migration.

Jerry Kolber is the co-creator and Showrunner of National Geographic's #1 series, BRAIN GAMES, for which he received a Prime Time Emmy Nomination. Kolber and Atomic are a frequent collaborator with icon Pharrell Williams, having created and producer BRAINCHILD (Netflix) with Pharrell, as well as two upcoming documentaries. Kolber is the co-creator and host of the world's most popular 3x weekly kids educational podcast Who Smarted?, which had three million downloads in its first year. Kolber's other creator and Showrunner credits include Inked (A&E), Confessions of a Matchmaker (A&E), GE in the Wild (with Mythbusters' Adam Savage), and the space documentary 14 Minutes from Earth (Netflix). Kolber grew up in the swamp in South Florida. He was an avid cyclist, theater kid, and nationally ranked Lincoln-Douglas debater. Kolber didn't know regular people could make movies until he met a group of regular people at NYU who were studying to make movies, where he was studying theater production and design. Kolber's first job was as Business Manager of the legendary Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater on the Bowery. Kolber followed his time at the Cocteau Rep with a summer in the immediately- post-Communist Czech Republic, attempting to produce theater in circumstances better suited to producing a nervous breakdown. Upon his return to the states, Kolber began working in the stage theatrical departments at major movie studios, including Universal and Disney. Kolber began his career in television in the production finance department at Dick Wolf's Fox hit “New York Undercover”, bridging the gap between finance and creative. He was the production auditor on the first seasons of HBO's Sex And The City, and Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, ultimately becoming line producer of more than fifty episodes of Queer Eye while learning to put the hair product in from the back. Kolber went on a wild ride in the rapidly expanding early landscape of unscripted television, working for E!, fuse, Bravo, Disney/ABC, National Geographic, Discovery ID, MTV, Animal Planet, and multiple A&E series, as an in- demand Co-EP, showrunner, and writer of unscripted entertainment. He always knew that one day he would bring his love of entertainment and disdain for outdated one-size-fits-all education together and Brain Games provided the first of many opportunities to show what was possible. Since 2010 Kolber, his team at Atomic, and their amazing partners have been responsible for some of the most successful and beloved edutainment programming in the world. Kolber is a long-time resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Listen to Jerry's show whosmarted.com Watch and share my TEDx talk! - Get my book here #teachplaylearn Listen To My Other Podcasts The Classroom Collaborative & Teach, Play, Learn! www.adampetersoneducation.com - www.makesomeonesdayyellow.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onmywaytoschool/message

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston pointedly focuses on elections in 2022. This is the first election since the overturn of Roe versus Wade. Because of that, the disposition of the elected representatives will be of considerable importance.  As usual, Brian goes into extraordinary depths to help individuals understand the details of the Right To Life fight for legal protection of the innocent.  First, Brian explains the history of PACs. PACs were formed in the 1980s in response to public employee unions forced withdrawal of money from union members, and the use of that money for political purposes. This gave the political left multiple millions to use at election time. This is actually government money.  PACs were formed to allow normal people to also “unionize” - that is to say, join together in a group and pool their resources together to impact particular elections. California Prolife, National Right to Life and various state affiliates have organized pro-life PACs. This is the time of year that these tools MUST come into play. Because of the importance of elections now in the wake of Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers need to focus sharply on electing pro-life representatives. The link to the CaliforniaProlife PAC is as follows:  https://www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/CaliforniaProLifeCouncil Brian also takes a moment to read directly from the Dobbs decision of earlier this summer. This decision is inescapable in its power and significance. There was never a right to abortion in the Constitution. The Supreme Court had wrongly held it in both Roe v. Wade and Casey and those decisions were overturned.  The Supreme Court explicitly returned to the people and their representatives, the authority to protect the lives of those in their jurisdiction.  Roe versus Wade and its progeny had given abortionists alone the authority to decide the propriety of an abortion and which child should be killed in which manner. This untrammeled right to abortion being given to MDs was a gross violation of the US Constitution. In affirming the authority of the people and their voting power in electing representatives, the Supreme Court has renewed this basic principle of the Constitution: we have been given a government of the people, by the people and for the people. This principle was reiterated by Lincoln in his desire to ensure that the self-evident truth of the humanity of then-slaves would be recognized, and their right to life (as he expressed in the Lincoln-Douglas debates) that their right to life could be affirmed and insured under the constitutional principles of The United States of America. Each and every affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee has focused on this duty of the people to speak up, and to elect representatives who would speak up for the innocent.  In the last several decades, the voting process has been altered and in particular during the Covid epidemic. Instead of a particular voting day (today marked as November 8, 2022) many states are practicing early voting and absentee voting.  Due to the serious questions regarding the tallying of these ballots, it is strongly suggested that our method of electing our representatives be returned to its original accountable model where abuses, false votes, ballot stuffing, and other questionable forms of electioneering are harder to implement. For this reason California Prolife is adhering to and suggesting the policies of the Election Integrity Project of California. While the state is still asserting one can send in an absentee ballot and it can be tracked electronically, it is only able to track its reception, but not the fact that it has been tallied. Voter IntegrityProject points out that the envelopes provided for this process indicate the political party of the recipient.  When that is the case, even if that envelope arrives safely at a voter registrars office, it no longer has the qualities of an “Australian ballot,” a ‘secret' ballot. In other words, those who would seek malfeasance could easily not count certain disfavorable ballots if they are cognizant that they're from Republicans or, from a particular precinct.  For this reason California Prolife strongly suggests that pro-life voters follow the guidelines of the Election Integrity Project and walk their ballot personally to their local voting precinct. The instructions on how to process that ballot are available at this website:  https://www.eip-ca.com/index.htm The exciting news is that there are many many concerned pro-life individuals now running for office all the way down the ballot. The non-aligned/nonpartisan offices of the county and city level, school board, city councils, various service districts - these races are often won by a handful of votes and when concerned citizens vote with knowledge they can win many of these races. These newly elected representatives, though it may be a small office, become the future representatives up the ballot. Brian points out he knows many members of Congress and state representatives. Nearly all of them began by running for office on the local level. The pro-life community must understand the need to be involved in local politics.  For this reason California Prolife has been coordinating with West Virginians For Life, and providing a very specific voter look-up tool. This is an app available for any computer or smart phone which upon entering ones ballot mailing address, all of the relevant offices from governor to constitutional office or state wide, to ballot measures, to state offices, to county city and local offices including school boards and special service districts, all of these are than made known to that pro-life voter. This voting tool is available at the following URL address:  https://vote.californiaprolife.org/ Finally, we must be reminded that the Supreme Court has returned to us, as the people, the ability to speak up for innocent life. A corrupt abortion law and government is attempting to silence further discussion. In California, Michigan and Vermont, constitutional propositions have been placed on the ballot that will forever silence the ability of the people and their elected representatives to put into place pro-life laws protecting young mothers and their babies.  This is a top-down, imperious and forced view of government, which Roe v. Wade had represented.   This corrupt, simplistic view of government power suppresses freedom of expression and the right to protect the lives of those who cannot protect themselves.

Jason, Scot, and Buzz break down the latest political news and gossip from around the state and nation, in this special Friday edition of the Peach Pundit Podcast. - Several new polls hit at the end of the week looking at the Governor's race, the Senate race, and other races. We discuss. - Former Speaker Newt Gingrich joined Herschel Walker and Law Enforcement Officials to talk about fighting crime. Why is crime rising, and is Sen. Warnock to blame? - First Stacey Abrams copies Brian Kemp's policies, now the AJC turns Abrams' tweets into news articles. - The White House doesn't want us to think we're in a recession, while Kemp touts his economic success. - Kemp uses federal dollars to give teachers stipends for classroom supplies - As Newt looks on smiling, Herschel says he wants a “Lincoln-Douglas style debate” with Warnock. - Pye brings us up to speed on the latest federal reconciliation bill oddly called the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” - Will the Braves make a move before Tuesday's trade deadline? Will superstar Angel Shohei Ohtani be wearing a Braves uniform come Wednesday? Be sure to subscribe to the Peach Pundit Podcast on Apple Podcasts (bit.ly/PeachPunditPod), Spotify (bit.ly/PeachPunditSpotify), and Patreon (www.patreon.com/peachpundit).

Following the overturning of the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade, it's now up to the states to decide when, and if, abortion is ever permissible. But the question still remains, who gets to decide when a human life begins and when that life is worthy of protection? Making a parallel to the Lincoln–Douglas debates, guest host Spencer Klavan explores the perennial question that actually underlies the abortion issue and discusses the limitations of states in deciding those most fundamental questions. This is The Liz Wheeler Show. -- If you suffer from achy hips, back, or shoulders, then you have to try the premium mattress topper by Dormeo. Receive 30% off, a 10-year warranty, a 100-night risk-free trial, plus free shipping: https://dormeo.com/LIZ -- Bags and puffiness under the eyes are a problem for millions of men and women. With Genucel's instant effects, you'll see results in the first 12 hours. Use promo code LIZ to save an extra 50% off he brand new ultra retinol serum: https://genucel.com/liz. -- Beam is a functional wellness brand that makes products for sleep, calm, focus, energy, hydration, and recovery. Get $20 off when you go to https://beamorganics.com/LIZ and use code LIZ at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Joseph Ricci and the CEO and Historian of The Battle of Franklin Trust, Eric Jacobson, for a conversation about the 1858 Illinois Senate race and the now famous Lincoln-Douglas debates that redefined American politics and shaped the discourse in the nation in the immediate years before the Civil War.    To support The Dispatch and the efforts of the Battle of Franklin Trust, please visit the link below: https://boft.org/general-donations

Join Joseph Ricci and the CEO and Historian of The Battle of Franklin Trust, Eric Jacobson, for a conversation about the 1858 Illinois Senate race and the now famous Lincoln-Douglas debates that redefined American politics and shaped the discourse in the nation in the immediate years before the Civil War.    To support The Dispatch and the efforts of the Battle of Franklin Trust, please visit the link below: https://boft.org/general-donations

OMG! You could have heard this episode a while ago! If you enjoy my content, you should consider becoming a member on my Patreon, I post both early and exclusive content there that can't be accessed anywhere else! For less than a Starbucks drink a month, you can help me spread the word and gain more listeners than ever! Your support means the world to me: https://www.patreon.com/Theforensicsguy In this episode, we talk with Trenton and learn about his commitment to Speech and Debate through MC Speech... Enjoy! Trenton's Bio: Trenton Cressy is the Co-founder of MC Speech, an afterschool enrichment and coaching company offering speech & debate, mock trial, and public speaking training and competition opportunities to students in elementary, middle, and high school in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, and other schools and districts throughout California. MC Speech is committed to preparing students as leaders of the future. In order to overcome the unique challenges this generation faces, their programs build students' mastery of three key elements of communication: research, organization, and presentation. MC Speech equips students to think deeply about the world's issues, understand conflicting perspectives, and make a positive difference in their community. For more information, visit www.mc-speech.com Trenton has been mentoring students in critical thinking and public speaking as a professional teacher and coach for over ten years, teaching group classes, coaching individual competitors, writing debate textbooks, training coaches, directing tournaments, and supporting schools building their own forensics programs. He has coached and written curricula for events including Mock Trial, Public Forum, Team Policy, Lincoln Douglas, Parliamentary Debate formats, Individual Events including Humorous Interp, Dramatic Interp, Duo Interp, Expository, Persuasive, Original Oratory, Impromptu, Extemp, and more. He also enjoys teaching writing, playing music with friends, and exploring California's mountains, valleys, and beaches. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate it 5 stars in the podcast app and subscribe as new episodes will be here EVERY Sunday-ish! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On today's episode of Catch Me Outside, another winner for crassness and potty humour, I sit down with my backpacking friends Nicole Dubeta - who has thru-hiked the PCT and the GDT — and Erica Stern, who practically lives in the Ontario backcountry.  Together, we get to the bottom of bodily functions in the backcountry.  Specifically, we cover: What goes in a hygiene kit  Poop and pee best practices, especially for those of us with internal plumbing  Our favourite tricks for a comfortable backcountry toilet experience Managing periods, period cramps and hormones on trail Keeping your bits clean Bras, underwear and chafing  And we finish strong with a passionate Lincoln-Douglas-style debate about backcountry bidets: keep em or flush em? Contest Throughout this episode, you'll hear at least 10 different poop puns. The first person to list five of them for me will receive a free (brand new, never opened) CuloClean Portable Bidet. Just list them in a direct message to the Catch Me Outside Podcast Instagram account or email catchmeoutsidepod@gmail.com. Like, rate, review and follow If you're enjoying the show, please rate, review and follow @catchmeoutsidepodcast on Instagram and TikTok and like the Catch Me Outside Podcast Facebook page. Music Yaki Tori and Mango by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.com Smith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YT Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/-yaki-tori Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/oZ0U4Q5epUs 

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/yudkowsky-contra-christiano-on-ai Previously in series: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents, Yudkowsky Contra Cotra On Biological Anchors Prelude: Yudkowsky Contra Hanson In 2008, thousands of blog readers - including yours truly, who had discovered the rationality community just a few months before - watched Robin Hanson debate Eliezer Yudkowsky on the future of AI. Robin thought the AI revolution would be a gradual affair, like the Agricultural or Industrial Revolutions. Various people invent and improve various technologies over the course of decades or centuries. Each new technology provides another jumping-off point for people to use when inventing other technologies: mechanical gears → steam engine → railroad and so on. Over the course of a few decades, you've invented lots of stuff and the world is changed, but there's no single moment when “industrialization happened”. Eliezer thought it would be lightning-fast. Once researchers started building human-like AIs, some combination of adding more compute, and the new capabilities provided by the AIs themselves, would quickly catapult AI to unimaginably superintelligent levels. The whole process could take between a few hours and a few years, depending on what point you measured from, but it wouldn't take decades. You can imagine the graph above as being GDP over time, except that Eliezer thinks AI will probably destroy the world, which might be bad for GDP in some sense. If you come up with some way to measure (in dollars) whatever kind of crazy technologies AIs create for their own purposes after wiping out humanity, then the GDP framing will probably work fine. For transhumanists, this debate has a kind of iconic status, like Lincoln-Douglas or the Scopes Trial. But Robin's ideas seem a bit weird now (they also seemed a bit weird in 2008) - he thinks AIs will start out as uploaded human brains, and even wrote an amazing science-fiction-esque book of predictions about exactly how that would work. Since machine learning has progressed a lot faster than brain uploading has, this is looking less likely and probably makes his position less relevant than in 2008. The gradualist torch has passed to Paul Christiano, who wrote a 2018 post Takeoff Speeds revisiting some of Hanson's old arguments and adding new ones. (I didn't realize this until talking to Paul, but “holder of the gradualist torch” is a relative position - Paul still thinks there's about a 1/3 chance of a fast takeoff.) Around the end of last year, Paul and Eliezer had a complicated, protracted, and indirect debate, culminating in a few hours on the same Discord channel. Although the real story is scattered over several blog posts and chat logs, I'm going to summarize it as if it all happened at once. Gradatim Ferociter Paul sums up his half of the debate as: There will be a complete 4 year interval in which world output doubles, before the first 1 year interval in which world output doubles. (Similarly, we'll see an 8 year doubling before a 2 year doubling, etc.) That is - if any of this “transformative AI revolution” stuff is right at all, then at some point GDP is going to go crazy (even if it's just GDP as measured by AIs, after humans have been wiped out). Paul thinks it will go crazy slowly. Right now world GDP doubles every ~25 years. Paul thinks it will go through an intermediate phase (doubles within 4 years) before it gets to a truly crazy phase (doubles within 1 year).

For more than two decades, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship.rnrnEvery year, the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday forum. This gives the debaters the opportunity to compete-not only for the judges and the audience in the room-but also for our radio and television audiences.rnrnDebate Topic: In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.rnrnDebaters:rnJeremy Battle, Student, University SchoolrnElla Jewell, Student, Kenston High SchoolrnrnJudges:rnArtis A. Arnold III, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Huntington National Bank, and City Club board memberrnJason Habig, debate coach at Hathaway BrownrnCorinne Lashley, debate coach at Chagrin Falls High School

The top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at the City Club. Detailed show notes at https://www.ideastream.org/programs/city-club-forum/2022-high-school-debate-championship.

As we roll up on 100 episodes, I want to revisit one particular area that constantly rears its ugly head: ongoing change and the need to respond to stress.  For context, the world is crazy, definitely stressful, outrageously distracting – and it's pulling away from the focus you need on getting to where you need to be. Russia/Ukraine, pandemic, great resignation – the list goes on. I feel it, you feel it – it's like a broken record – there is always “something.”  That said, we also know that the only way to deal with macro change is to focus on micro you. (Provided there aren't tanks outside your house … I get that).  Two years ago I did a podcast that organized my thoughts on wellness – and I did it because I was frustrated with the product and messaging that was thrown around in the corporate world: judgmental theory on what you were “supposed” to do, without context, the why or anything tangible on how to get started.  I revisit it today, because in two years I, myself, have changed, and while the framework remains the same, my experiences in chatting with other people about it and how I respond has shifted enormously. None of us are the same person we were two years ago.  Lots to discuss, from physical to mental to social … but it's an ongoing dialogue that needs to be had for you. Long story, short: wellness is bespoke to you, and requires full accountability and responsibility on your part. Nobody can make you well but yourself.  Enjoy the show – I'm here to chat about it … and look forward to seeing you soon! Your Title Goes Here Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings. Click Here for an Unedited Transcript of the Podcast Speaker 1 (00:00):3, 2, 1. Welcome to bellwether. Thank you for joining this week, episode 98, we're almost at the, the triple digits number 98, and we're gonna keep going and, and do many more. But as we roll up close to the hundredth episode, that I'm, we'll try to do something special. We'll see what comes out. I wanted to revisit something in particular, because I think it's relevant today. And you hear me talk about it all the time. I guess this is almost like my shtick. Now my thing is about the never ending change and ongoing stress that comes with change. And, you know, we're, we're in the middle of a very dynamic time, which might be an understatement with lots of, you know, pandemic challenges, Russia, Ukraine, um, workplace is changing great resignation and everything. And, and, and the con with context today, the context between why I wanted to revisit wellness, which is what we're talking about today is the world is crazy, immensely, stressful to the point where it's ridiculously distracting. Speaker 1 (01:09):Um, and it's all pulling you away from what's important today and where you want to be. And this is relevant. You know, this is obviously relevant to myself, you know, I'm going through it, I'm seeing it. And the people I'm interacting with people aren't as responsive as they usually are. Um, and, and I would say it's because we're, you know, we're tuned in, we're tuned into all of this crazy stuff going on in the world. And, and how is that relevant to what we need to do today? The spiral of this is distracting me. I can't get this done tomorrow that wasn't done and now the other thing's not getting done. And it, it snowballs into bigger things, all types of worry. We've got families to take care of. And all of this is, is a challenge to our in particular wellness. And if you, if you look at my previous time, I've talked about wellness. Speaker 1 (01:54):I've talked about wellness a lot. If you listen to the episode for two years ago, it's a big topic. And the reason I wanted to tackle wellness and I, I called it wellness organized. I did this two years ago. Um, I was frustrated with, I guess, I'll call it the wellness product and the messaging that was out there. I didn't really appreciate, uh, the way that it was framed, especially in the corporate world, I'd come out of the corporate world and, you know, doing the coaching thing and everyone telling you just do yoga and meditation. And it was very, very judgemental. I thought the wellness product was very judgemental in the way that you're, it was very disingenuous. It was telling you all the things that you were supposed to be, and it was never telling you how it was never telling you how to do this stuff. Speaker 1 (02:39):And, uh, and that was the big fall down. And so I, I needed to come up with some kind of framework I needed to organize what I actually thought about wellness. What did I actually need in the moment? Where did I need to focus? And what did wellness actually mean for me? So wellness is a massive topic, right? You've got mental wellness, you've got physical wellness, we've got all these things. My thought process on this led me to down a rabbit hole, right? I wrote the book, uh, I did the podcast, lots of coaching engagements and, and everything came out of it. And so I wanna revisit it because it's not a onetime solution. Wellness is not a onetime solution. Wellness is this ongoing challenge. It's an ongoing struggle. It's an ongoing focus, whatever, but it changes because we change. And so I, I mean, I didn't even listen to it, what I talked about before. Speaker 1 (03:27):I kind of know what I talked about in terms of what wellness means and, and how to structure it. And it's my three categories. And, uh, you've got your, your physical and your mental and your, your social, it spiritual it's social, spiritual falls under mental. I'll talk about that in a minute. Um, but, but now it's time to really make it real for people because, uh, being a hundred episodes in, we're talking about things like, as I reflect and I'll reflect more on the a hundred episode, but things like imposter syndrome, things like communicating to the C-suite things like interpersonal dynamic and relationships and everything else, I'm gonna kick off this next century of episodes with experts that are gonna tell you how I've got a nutritionist coming on the show. I've got, uh, this team that have made this incredible app, uh, that I don't wanna give away the title of it yet, because they're gonna be coming on. Speaker 1 (04:14):And I want them to talk about it, but it's really on a, a mental health and accountability aspect, uh, which doesn't doesn't even really do it justice. It's just, it's it's, I I'm really Ja really jazzed about it. I've got, uh, too sweet, the, the, the professional boxers coming back to talk about resilience. He's coming back from, from a, from an injury and, and how he's going to rebuild and, uh, all of that good stuff. So wellness, what, what it is is it, it really evolves, okay, what wellness than what you need in the moment continually evolves. And, and my wellness today is very different than what it was two years ago. And right now, I mean, I'm in a very different place. What I need is very different right now, I would argue my biggest focus is on social wellness. Two years in the pandemic, haven't really been interacting. Speaker 1 (05:01):The, these levers go up and now the past two years has been purely focused on mental, my mental wellness. What's my, what's my, you know, self-love aspect. What's my belief system. What do I really believe? What does self-care actually mean? And, and what I do with my clients, and what I wanna do on this podcast hopefully is I hope I get people to think. And, and, you know, I, I keep calling it wellness. I wish I could come up with another word. I don't know what it is. It's, it's, you know, when we hear wellness, we think of yoga and drinking, shakes, eating healthy bowls and kale salads and meditating, and yada, yada yada. And that may be right. That's, that's not where the focus should lie. I would argue it's some of these are come components and how people respond to their challenge of finding themselves to be well, which is great. Speaker 1 (05:47):Good for them. It's the needs that they have. Um, yes, physical wellness is important, but it's one of the three yoga may not be your solution for that. Uh, tofu in terms of diet is, is never a solution I can ever, ever, ever. Um, and we have to go beyond what other people are doing in order to find wellness for ourselves. Just why we have fad diets, why we have, you know, all of these things. It's, it's, um, we have to fill out what it is for ourselves and what I know people who eat once a day. I know other people who eat small meals throughout the day. I know other people who do intermittent fasting. I know other people will say, absolutely not inter intermittent fasting doesn't work. And that's, that's crazy. Um, and, and so as a refresh, I wanna talk today about, about wellness. Speaker 1 (06:36):And I wanna talk about what you're thinking about and how to think about wellness and how to almost, you know, whether it's meditation, if you wanna call that, you can call it whatever you want. Uh, but I want you to, to think through a dialogue on, on what do you need in the moment and, and how to do it, the, the three categories, and I will stand by this spiritual is not one of them. It's physical meant and social. Those are your three categories that it's almost like this, you know, the cup game with the little marble underneath, and you're moving things around. And those are the three, right? It's a trick game where you're saying this lever goes up, this one comes down. Where's the, where's the shiny ball for today. Those are the three. And I, I specifically leave out spiritual because that's spirituality is a mental exercise. Speaker 1 (07:22):So it falls under mental. Okay. So I don't, I, I think we've often ignored the social aspect to our detriment and it's, it, it actually takes work. At least for me, it takes work. So, so let's talk first. We're gonna talk about physical, which we always gloss over. We all know the answers. We always gloss over it. We're like, yep, we got it. We know what we're supposed to do. Diet fitness sleep. Um, I'm gonna eat, right. I'm gonna work out and I'm gonna get some sleep. And yet we never do it. Um, but what we need to know about it, and perhaps it's more of a, a reasoning as to why we do it. And why it's so important is that your, your physical activity, your physical wellness, what you eat impacts your ability to think impacts your, your social relationships, eating too much. Speaker 1 (08:06):Your body's metabolizing constantly. So you don't have the energy to think properly at work, which is why you never have a big sandwich or lunchtime in the office. And you're just dead in the afternoon. Um, your gut is this living organism. That's got bacteria in here that actually leads to cognitive ability. So the food you are eating is affecting your ability to think which affects the way that you think about yourself, which affects the way that you interact with other people, which affects the yada yada yada yada yada fixes, fitness and exercise drives oxygen to the brain. Um, your ability to interact with other people somewhat say, and some research shows that the way we feel about our weight and what our weight goes, impacts the people that we interact with. So your social communities are impacting how much you eat. The people we surround ourselves with. Speaker 1 (08:50):You know, they they've linked obesity to our social networks. If we're surrounded fat people, we're more likely to be fat ourselves, which is crazy. You're surrounded by smokers. You're more likely to smoke yourself. And, and so the social impact, the physical impact, the mental impact, a lot of this, they all interact in this ven diagram of, of, of crazy thought. So from there, I'm not gonna tell I've got a nutritionist coming on. She's gonna tell you all about the stuff you're is to eat and everything else. And, and, but the thing is, we know, we know we're not supposed to eat cupcakes every day for dinner. We know pizza and hamburgers and everything is an extreme rarity that we should be eating. And shouldn't be, you know, a once a week thing Friday night pizza night is not a good idea. I would argue it's too often because we're eating garbage the rest of the week. Speaker 1 (09:33):We still do Friday night pizza night. I love pizza. What can I say? But we know we, there's an accountability aspect to wellness. We know what we're supposed to eat, what we're supposed to do. We know we're supposed to work out. We know that we're supposed to go to bed at a, at a reasonable time in order to get up early in the morning and, and tackle the day we just don't do it. And we just put up our hands. We say, okay, guess we're not gonna say fine. Okay, good. Then you can't complain when something else doesn't work out. Right. And, and I think this is the, the, the crux of what I, I think I really wanna get to with the wellness thing is we're accountable for our wellness. Okay? Nobody else, nobody else. There's no fad diet. That's going to, to tell you, uh, what is supposed to work for you and everything. Speaker 1 (10:18):It's your responsibility to fully, you wanna do intermit intermittent, fasting, fine. You can do it. There is a right and a very wrong way to do it. You wanna do a paleo diet, great. There's a right and a very wrong way to do it. You want to do Mediterranean diet great. There's a right and a very wrong way to do it. And there is no shortcut. And so what we wanna do is we don't wanna take the time to educate ourselves on what the proper thing to eat is what we need in the moment and what our body needs, because that's too much work. Who's got time for that. So we take something off the shelf and we drink a shake, and then that's supposed to be it. And it doesn't work. And then we complain that we're so tired. We complain that we're not getting sleep. Speaker 1 (10:54):And we complain that we're not, we can't get motivated to go to the gym and yada, yada, yada, uh, it's our own fault. Can't blame anybody else, it's you, it's your problem. It's you, it's your fault. So let's talk, let's talk mental, um, from there, from the physical aspect, okay. We've got, we've got your, your physical, we're gonna eat, right? We're gonna, we're gonna sleep well. We're gonna work out every day. Uh, we then go to mental and the mental, the three categories of mental similarly, uh, there are three are self-love self-care and belief system, and it sounds really soft, but ignore it at your peril. And this is the one that I've been dealing with a lot. You know, I, I talked about my dark place in the middle of the pandemic. There was an episode on that. I, I talked out, uh, my challenges with, with drinking and, and struggling and, and all of that. Speaker 1 (11:48):Um, we could talk about mental toughness, you know, in the context of today. And resilience is a big word and mental toughness, everything, all of that comes from understanding yourself. Okay. Oh, I just gotta be tough. I gotta rally. I gotta do all of this stuff. Mental wellness. Everyone's got judgment on what you're supposed to do, right. Oh, just love yourself. And everything will be fine. Okay. It doesn't make sense. Right? What does that mean? Doesn't mean anything, whatever you do has to be bespoke to you. And so when we start with self love, cuz I guess this is, you know, this is probably fundamental to, to, to mental wellness and you probably have to start with loving yourself before you can take care of yourself before you can really understand what you really believe. The we're so quote that I always share is how can anybody be satisfied in life? Speaker 1 (12:34):If they are not satisfied with the one person they can never be separated from, and it's this philosophical thing, but, but we have to embrace our imperfections. Nobody's perfect. Nobody, nobody has their together. No matter how much they tell it, they could be sitting in, you know, oh, I live on this island and everything's great. And I, I have an Instagram channel and I'm an influencer and yada it's for of right behind the scenes. They're miserable human beings, trying to present a lifestyle that they don't actually have. And, and we live in this Instagram reality, we're impacted by everything else. And um, we recognize that no matter what we're dealing with, everybody else is dealing with something similar, similar, but different. If that makes sense. Um, and we get knocked off, we get rattled all the time. Everybody gets rattled, we get knocked off our horse and sometimes we're back up in a day. Speaker 1 (13:26):Sometimes it takes a month or two. Um, but what gets us back is figuring out our value for lack of a better term, right? We have to start this dialogue. It comes from an in inner inner dialogue. It's this ongoing process of what value am I bringing? And how do I actually realize and recognize that value and believe that value. I've got these people from the forgiving app. I said it forgi they're coming on the show, um, about how forgiveness is, is, is a mental exercise. Uh, we have to believe it ourselves in order for us to get back and recognize our value and all of these things and find what we could control and do all of this work. We're gonna talk more to them about it, but that's ultimately what self-love is, is embracing and perfection. It's not physical, right? Sometimes we have judgmental stuff, embrace it. Speaker 1 (14:19):Okay. Do you have judgments fine. If you don't want them, then address them and change it and embrace the fact that maybe you're doing something you don't want to do. That's bravery. That's where confidence comes from admitting that you have flaws that is fundamental to, to, to becoming courageous is recognizing it, boxing it, address, seeing it and moving forward. And we're always going to have it. Patience is not one of my finest virtues. And I know that and I have, I do a lot of apologizing and I'm trying to fix it. I'm trying to help it. But you know what? I also love the fact that I'm impatient because I get done. And so there are good and negative things to this. So self love, or I'll explore more about that with the, with the forgive people. But, um, that's something to, you know, think about what, what imperfections do you have that you can embrace that aren't just physical. Speaker 1 (15:14):We all have physical ones too, right? We all wanna look better with, without a t-shirt at the beach. Um, but you know what, who cares? Who cares? So from that, we go to self-care, uh, what we need in the moment. And that's sometimes it's a nap. Uh, sometimes it's less social media. Sometimes we just need to cut out a work and read a book I'm guilty of that. Uh, but part of this dialogue, when we figure out self-love and understanding who we are is figuring out what we need in the moment it's listening, it's questioning, it's understanding where our insecurities come from, where our stress comes from. Um, we have to put a name on it. There's an exercise for, for this is identify the insecurity, given a name so you can address sit, and you could do all of these things works for some people and may not work for others, but what's causing your insecurity. Speaker 1 (15:58):The imposter syndrome, um, is a significant one. And, and a lot of this comes from, uh, addressing the mental wellness of self love, self care and belief system and security with yourself. Belief system is the biggest one for me. And this it's my favorite one because it's so big and it's, and this is where spiritual falls into. And the fundamental question of what do you believe? And this is, this will impact your ability to take good care of yourself. This will impact your ability to love yourself, much of our insecurity and challenges come from the fact that we don't know what we believe. We're defending something we say, when we don't fully understand what it is that we're saying, and we don't take the time to do that. And when we don't know what we believe, we bounce just from one idea to the next. Speaker 1 (16:43):Uh, and there's just, we're not grounded. There's no grounding and bouncing from one idea to the next. And, and previously, when I chatted about belief system, it was more on the idea, uh, um, that it allowed us to have good discussions in a non defensive manner, right? Things like politics, religion. I think I came out with it. Maybe it was a presidential election year. I don't know, but in, or obviously it's, it's still relevant here, right? How can you have a belief system if you don't fully understand the other side, right. You wanna say, I believe in God. Well then you have to understand how someone could not believe in God or vice versa. Right. And that's fine. Right. And all of a sudden, when you understand both sides, you say, okay, I understand why someone would do that because I've fully thought it through it, but I don't actually, I haven't bought in. Speaker 1 (17:26):Right. I don't buy that fine, man. That's cool. That's at a certain point, you know, we've got science that brings up to a certain point and then we've got everything else up to another one. Um, doesn't allow you to ignore facts and reasoning. And, and so that's one, but today I, I would move beyond the ability to have deeper discussions. And I would say having a belief system gives you grounding, right? It gives you, it, it's a mental health, self care and self-love exercise. That's what a belief system is. Uh, it grounds us into something to hold onto when the world is going crazy. And when we fully understand what we believe in that moment and understand that a belief system will constantly change. It's dynamic, the hope point of learning. We talk about belief and learning and all of this stuff that, that we're supposed to do. Speaker 1 (18:15):That means your belief. System's going to change as you get more factual knowledge and you learn, then all of a sudden you say, all right, what can I deduce based on all of the information that I have. And do I really believe that? And we're not aligning to a group of people and following whoever, just tell you to do it. We're actually able to say, you know what? This is, you know, I do believe that this is a, a, a viable solution to whatever it is that we're doing. Um, the ments, the, the, the, the anger and the arguments and the, the frustrations that we see everywhere are driven. I would argue you by misguided information and insecurity, and both of those are solved when you figure out your belief system and fully understand it. All right. If you're gonna have a belief system, you get all the facts, understand the facts, understand what facts are, and then you address what, what shortcomings you have or, or what insecurities you have with it. Speaker 1 (19:13):Um, that's it, I mean, that's, that's mental health one on one, and it takes a ton. You probably need help with that. Right? You might need a, a therapist. You certainly need a friend, uh, and, and find someone curious like you who can have these types of discussions where there's no, almost like in a, this weird Socrates way where you just kind of have the discussion, not to come to, to a solution, but to hash out what it is. You know, why would I believe that versus this? Oh, that's interesting. Okay. Let me go back and think about it. Okay, cool. Um, and that's what I do on my runs. I do a lot of that kind of full, I have full Lincoln Douglas debates in my head while I run, because I'm, you know, I'm insane. And that, that's just what I do. Uh, so that's physical and mental. Speaker 1 (19:59):Okay. And I'm going long, but, but this is, you know, I, it's just important. Okay. Just from the people I'm talking to and what people are struggling with, um, it's relevant and it's, it's, it's very important. So the third aspect is social, and this is my most important right now, my mental is ongoing. My physical is ongoing. Right, right. I, I made focused attempts at that, uh, and continued to do it. Um, but social is, and, and I'm realizing how important social is now. You know, we talk about it, but coming outta the pandemic, I'm starting to see a lot more people I'm able to interact more. The, uh, we just did that, run up a Martha's vineyard. And it was like a real shock to my system of how much fun we had. And, and so the, the social aspect has three categories as well. Speaker 1 (20:46):You need a support system, micro interactions and new people. You have to meet newbies, you need new perspectives. And so when I think about social, the support systems, who are your people, and if you think about, if you had to name five people, and I've talked about your personal board of directors, and, and we could do that, sometimes it's family, sometimes it's, uh, friends and, and whatever. And sometimes it's not, maybe it's, you know, some other category completely, maybe it's people on a team or whatever. Um, the, the, this helps mental as well, right? From a motivation perspective, from a venting perspective, to an accomplishment perspective, we talked before about, you know, our diets and while we're eating, we we're, we're reflective of the people around us and we're reflective of our support system. And it's fundamental to our overall wellness, from a mental perspective, we're able to vent, we're able to be motivated. Speaker 1 (21:42):We're able to talk about our challenges. We're able to articulate our belief system and question our belief system in a safe place. We all, uh, you know, we find these people have absolutely zero judgment. It's a requirement to find a good support system. And that's difficult for some people. And whether you're introverted or not, it's introversion is irrelevant. Right? We talk about introversion all the time. We get my energy from being alone and everything else, that's fine. Right? I'm introverted. I get it. Sometimes I need to turn the world off. But at the same time, that doesn't mean you can't have social interaction some of the time. And, and when we figure out who our support system is, and, and who we're socially surrounding ourselves with and who we're, where we're incorporating into that. Uh, and, and we get energy, we may get from being alone, but you also get energy from the people around you. Speaker 1 (22:36):And that's a lever. It's a percentage thing. It's a balanced thing. Some people like more of one versus the other, but you need both. You absolutely need both. You can be the most extroverted person in the world. Love a big crowd. Sometimes though you have to be by yourself. You have to answer the questions in your head. And a lot of extroverted people had real trouble with that. During the pandemic introvert, you have to get out, right. You can't just live in your head. It's a challenging place to be. It's a long place to be, but we need those people who we can implicitly trust. We need those people who can give us good counsel. Uh, we need to be that person, you know, for other people as well, right? It goes two ways. And, and we get mental benefit and value out of that. Speaker 1 (23:16):So you are part of a support system for somebody else as well. Doesn't just go one way, right? We don't just take it from other people and then just leave them to their, to their own devices. It's a, it's a give and take kind of relationship economic, uh, aspect. So, so no matter how you frame your social system, you do need a support system in a place from there. The other two, uh, are less involved, but just almost like a check the box one is we need to interact micro interactions. We need to feel part of a bigger world. And it's the librarian. It's the bus driver. It's the people on the train. It's, whatever it is. Um, we need to recognize that there are other people in this world and that we're part of something bigger. And there is a perspective beyond us. Often times when things get stressful, we pull our mindset completely down into this really incredibly narrow focus, where we're unable to see the forest for the trees and micro interactions pulls us out to recognize that there is something bigger than us in this world. Speaker 1 (24:22):And that's important. It's important. It's, it's important for the perspective. It's important for the mentality of this two shall pass there's time. We've got everything. It may take us a week. It may take us a month, but there are other people in this world. The world will go on. We are on a pebble going through space. And you know what your inability to get a salad for lunch is really kind of irrelevant. Um, and most of our problems are, are extremely irrelevant. And, and this perspective on micro interactions and bigger people allows us to focus on what's important. Okay? So that's that the other one is we need new experiences and we need to meet new people, not from a micro interaction perspective, right? And this is one of the benefits going back to the office is to see people and, and do all of that. Speaker 1 (25:04):Um, one of my struggles and this I started working for moment eight years ago, was no social interaction. And, and micro interactions were a big part of it. I had to go to the library to work. I had to go work outta the coffee shop. I had to force myself to go into the city. I'm doing that again. Now we also need new perspectives. How are you meeting new people? Because when you get into this echo chamber of the same people over and over, you can lose perspective. And so we need new ideas. We need different perspectives to challenge that belief system that we already have to challenge and question things with our support system to, to just learn fundamental fricking manners, to say that somebody has a different idea than I than I do. And how do I appropriately respond to that? We need new perspectives need to, to challenge our thinking all the time. Speaker 1 (25:52):This is part of learning. I've said it always kids love life because kids are constantly learning. Adults are miserable, cuz they're supposed to have all the answers. When you go around telling everybody you have all the answers. That's why everyone's so angry. Flip that around and start asking questions from the other side, be curious and say, wow, this is amazing. Now they may be, you know, know dumb asses, right? A lot of the people are, but, um, I get it. I understand it, but we still have to find, there are so many people in this world. Uh, it's, it's so important to get these different perspectives and to get you thinking about something different. So as, as we look to continue and develop in 2022, as I look to, uh, uh, another a hundred episodes, which I'll do a real hundred hundredth episode one, um, to talk about it, but this is everything, no matter what's going on in the world. Speaker 1 (26:37):Now look, I, I get it right. A war comes to your front step. You've got some pretty impressive challenges, but I'm talking in part mostly to people in the United States, people in Ireland, those are my two biggest kind of listeners. Um, and so from the perspective of what we're fortunate enough, fortunate enough to only be dealing with there is a world to status. We have to focus on what we can do in the moment. What are the decisions we can do in the moment to make sure that we are addressing everything that we can actually control. Okay. By focusing on you, by focusing on PHY physical, mental, social, these are the things that we can actually control. When we talk about what can you control and how do you relieve stress into all of that? Everything else will fall into place, work, ache, focus on you. Speaker 1 (27:23):And what you can can do home is bed week at home, focus on you and what you can do. Maybe it's a run. Maybe it's some pushups, maybe it's, you know, changing what you're eating. Maybe it's going to bed early. What I love all about this. And I, I said this a minute ago, we lie in the bed we make, okay, your wellness is up to you. There is an accountability aspect. There's a responsibility aspect. You have to do this work. And when we're so busy focusing attention on somebody else or some other challenge or some theoretical thing it's taking away from what's best for us. And the only way we can benefit the world, the only way we can actually impact the people around us in a positive is by focusing on making ourselves the best possible person we can be. We lie in the bed we make, and sometimes someone the bed, but then you, it's up to you to clean your sheets and remake that bed. Speaker 1 (28:20):It's kind of a gross analogy, but it's true, right? It's up to us to make our bed and that's it. And that's, that's what it comes down to for wellness. So thank you for listening. I hope this is helpful. I'm going to get into really tactical stuff over the next few, few episodes. Um, because I, I, I want this to be, to be real. And I want people to, to think about this and challenge it. And you know, there are exercises you could do. If you want free exercises, send me a note. I'll send you some exercises to do, uh, give me a call and, and we can chat it through whatever it is. Uh, but it's a stressful time and it's not even an election year. Holy cow, this is gonna be like, it's gonna be ugly in about a year. It's gonna get really ugly. Um, and I, I, I mean that sincerely. So as we look ahead to the future, the time to focus on you is right now. So think about yourself, be well, uh, challenge yourself in really, really good ways. And as always, I'm here to help. So thank you for listening. I hope to talk to you soon. Bye.

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis Informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del jueves 28 de octubre de 2021: - Los candidatos a alcalde de la ciudad de Holyoke, Joshua Garcia y Michael Sullivan se encontrarán una última vez en un debate organizado por la Asociación de Contribuyentes de Holyoke y que después de duras críticas por la falta de interpretación al español en el foro de candidatos a alcalde previo a la elección preliminar, este debate ofrecerá interpretación al español a través del canal 15 de cable. Siguiendo el estilo Lincoln-Douglas este debate hará que los candidatos se hagan preguntas entre sí sobre temas que les proporcione el moderador, que será Anthony Cignoli. El debate de candidatos a alcalde de Holyoke tendrá lugar este jueves 28 de octubre a las 6:30 pm en el auditorio del campus norte de Holyoke High, en Holyoke. FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA - El alcalde de Springfield, Domenic Sarno, dijo el miércoles que el mandato de uso de máscaras que comenzó el 13 de septiembre, finalizará este lunes 1 de noviembre. Sin embargo, un mandato de uso de máscaras continuará en efecto en las escuelas públicas de la ciudad, así como en todo Massachusetts, de conformidad con la decisión anunciada el martes por el Departamento de Educación Primaria y Secundaria del estado. Sarno agregó que de surgir nuevos indicios de aumento en os casos de COVID-19, podría restablecer la orden de uso de máscaras en la ciudad FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA - Un panel de asesores independientes de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos, recomienda que la agencia emita una autorización de uso de emergencia para la vacuna Pfizer-BioNTech en niños de 5 a 11 años. La votación fue de 17 a favor y una abstención. El panel de la FDA aceptó los datos de Pfizer que indican que la vacuna es segura y con un 90,7% de efectividad para prevenir las infecciones por COVID-19 en este grupo de edad. Por lo general, la agencia sigue el consejo de sus paneles de expertos, aunque no está obligada a hacerlo. La FDA emitirá una decisión en los próximos días. Si se autoriza la vacuna para estos niños más pequeños, como parece probable, otro panel de expertos que asesoran al Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades haría sus propias recomendaciones y ofrecería pautas la próxima semana sobre su uso en este grupo de edad. La vacuna proporciona una amplia defensa contra COVID-19 y "neutralizó efectivamente la variante delta" en niños pequeños, dijo el Dr. William Gruber, vicepresidente senior de investigación y desarrollo clínico de vacunas en Pfizer, durante la audiencia del comité. Una dosis de Pfizer para niños pequeños contiene un tercio de la cantidad de ingrediente activo en comparación con la dosis para adultos. Los niños recibirían una segunda dosis 21 días o más después de su primera inyección. FUENTE: NPR

In Today's Episode... A tiger specializes in Lincoln-Douglas style debates. Scent glands will take your breath away. 

My friend and Unless You Ask's unofficial political correspondent Aninda records this episode from atop a soapbox to memorialize his opinion about Gavin Newsom once and for all. Listen with an open mind as you fill out your early voting ballot right now or line up at your polling place on September 14th. Any disagreement with Aninda can be forwarded to unlessyapod@gmail.com, or alternatively I would love to have you on for a Lincoln Douglas style 3-4 hour episode some time in the future.You can check your CA voter registration status here: https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/Every California voter will receive a mail in ballot, which can be submitted as soon as you see this. You can track where your ballot is before and after you receive it here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/wheres-my-ballot.Our intro song is Origin Funk by KetsaOur break song is Canopee by Polo y Pan (Remix by Tommy Driker)Our outro song is Algorithms by Chad Crouch

For more than 30 years, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship in which the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate. Despite the pandemic, we are moving forward with this tradition and presenting the championship virtually.rnThe two finalists, Sophia Avery, a junior at Chagrin Falls High School, and Soren Palencik, a senior at Hawken School, will be debating Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal child care.

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Date: February 5, 2008 Speaker: David E Long Topic: Lincoln, Douglas and the Dahlgren Raid - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Ryan Williams, President of the Claremont Institute, on the illogical bid to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries in 2020. Bernie Sanders's "Medicare for all" plan. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, and Lincoln's "House Divided" speech. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt conclude their series on the Lincoln-Douglas debates by discussing the seventh debate which was conducted in Alton, IL on October 15, 1858.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss the sixth Lincoln-Douglas debate which took place in Quincy, IL on October 13, 1858.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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