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Have you ever heard of Post Traumatic Success? How did we come to a place where there is such a powerful stigma attached to mental health and men? In this episode we Make Sense of Men's Mental Health and the Post Traumatic Stress associated with being in the line of fire as a Police Officer. Join guest Kevin Donaldson, Co Author of number one best selling true crime book Man You're Crazy for a story of moving from messed up to blessed that will blow your mind. This Podcast episode is available on Apple and Spotify. Surviving post traumatic stress and multiple suicide attempts, Kevin P. Donaldson found resiliency in the embrace of his trauma. Retiring from the police department in New Jersey in 2014 after being involved in a shooting during a domestic incident, Kevin struggled to find peace inside his own chaotic mind dealing with feelings that were foreign and new while fighting through the difficulties that life threw his way. Kevin now Chronicles his struggles by speaking out and destigmatizing mental health to find resiliency in facing suffering head-on by showing that there is a way to find your smile once again.   Find Kevin's work and dedication to face the truth as the host of The Suffering Podcast. Resources: Books: - Man you're crazy- https://amzn.to/4c06aIX  Contact Kevin Donaldson: Website - https://www.realkevindonaldson.com  The Suffering Podcast -  https://thesufferingpodcast.com IG - @realkevindonaldson   The Makes Sense Podcast available on Spotify and Apple - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week https://podcasts.apple.com/.../makes-sense.../id1730954168 Click this link to SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW - https://ratethispodcast.com/makessensepodcast Thank you for your support with our podcast on apple and spotify. Our mission is to remove the blindfolds from the sleepwalking masses and begin the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. OUR SPONSOR: MAKES SENSE ACADEMY Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy Podcast Episode Highlights 4:30 - How society poses judgment on Police Officers 7:51 - A tough childhood - To have and to have not? 16:53 - The rare opportunity to reinvent yourself 23:47 - Are most police officers ex knuckleheads from their childhood? 31:13 - How did you become a cop? 35:33 - A plane just hit the world trade center! 46:55 - The Day that changed everything - July 10th 2013 57:33 - PTS - POST TRAUMATIC STRESS 1:08:44 - Nowhere to turn. Considering suicide 1:22:03 - Radical Forgiveness and Gratitude  

One of the great songwriters of the golden era of CCM is my friend Billy Simon. Not only did he write songs for Amy Grant, Point of Grace and a host of other artists, he wrote some of the biggest songs in 4HIM's career - "Where There is Faith", "A Man You'd Write About", "When It's Time To Go", and "In Your Care" just to name a few! Billy's story is full of twists and turns, but nothing will prepare you for how God used a song he wrote 35 years earlier to begin to heal his heart. This is one of my favorite conversations to date!Support the Show.andychrisman.net

Dusty Slay joins the show to talk about his new Netflix comedy special, the weirdest jobs he's ever had, getting sober, buying land, and a bunch more! Nana & Trish also kick off the show by discussing the Diddy situation after his houses got raided, as well as the bridge in Baltimore that collapsed after being hit by a boat. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 Easter Weekend Plans 4:25 Diddy is on the run & his houses were raided 8:21 Bridge in Baltimore Collapsed 9:54 The Now She Will Tour 15:40 The Dusty Slay Interview 17:17 Living in Nashville & Getting Sober 24:33 Dusty's Weirdest Jobs 29:50 Nashville vs NYC, Comedy Condos & Weaponry 36:36 Getting Sober & Drug Use 42:24 Buying Real Estate 50:24 See Dusty on Tour & His Netflix Comedy Special "Workin' Man"You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/outandabout

Feeling mo ba ay walang pinatutunguhan ang buhay mo? Hinahabol mo ba ang walang hanggang pursuit of pleasure ngunit kapag nakuha mo na'y nagtatanong ka kung bakit hindi ka na-sa-satisfy? Nagtataka ka kung bakit palagi kang bitter? Kapatid, baka nakakadagdag ka na sa Toxic Woke Culture na ito. Don't worry because ANTHONY JAMES PEREZ is here to share his story and solution. AJ is the former president of Filipinos for Life, a pro-life group based in the Philippines. He is an author and a public speaker transforming lives, promoting chastity and manliness to young audiences. He just release a new book “The Man You're Meant to Be: Reflections on Spiritual Masculinity and Toxic Woke Culture”. In this episode, we talked about the meaning of Woke, why Spiritual Masculinity is part of the solution to fight this culture, why values such as responsibility, sacrifice, love for truth, and temperance should be pursued by men, and why settling for being a DINK or DINKWADs is bad for society. What are DINKs and DINKWADs? Listen to find out. Grab a copy of AJ's book “The Man You're Meant to Be: Reflections on Spiritual Masculinity and Toxic Woke Culture” by messaging him in Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/ajuperez HALLOW is the #1 prayer and meditation app in the world. Get your FREE trial by downloading the Hallow app through our affiliate link https://www.hallow.com/jayaruga You can help SUPPORT THIS PODCAST by buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thejayarugashow or through GCASH: 09204848046 You can also be a patron of The Jay Aruga Show podcast by joining us at https://www.patreon.com/thejayarugashow Exclusive contents are available for patrons of the show. Sign up for The Jay Aruga Show Newsletter where we can write to each other. -- http://TheJayArugaShow.com Join the conversation further in our Discord server here -- https://discord.gg/uTye7DdrdQ Subscribe to The Jay Aruga Show Youtube Channel -- https://bit.ly/3ijo5kp --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thejayarugashow/message

You'll want to put this episode on repeat. Heartbreak and Rebuilding starts with YOU, what you're doing, thinking and saying to yourself not just the man. Relationship struggles, wanting your ex back, rebuilding with a man, or feeling unsure about your next steps is why I recorded this STELLAR podcast episode. Learn what it means to be LOVE STARVED & how it's affecting you NOW. Reconnect with your guy instead of hopping over bad behaviors, because that isn't healthy love! Understand the desire to ball-bash a man, why we do it, and do this instead. See if unknown "Attraction to a Feminine Man" is disguised as love. Know the BRIDGE you're standing on, if you're going backwards, being still, or boldly moving onward. BRAIN HACKS: How your brain tricks you with dopamine and problem solving regarding your ex. Why you don't have to DO anything to get a man back into your life or to love you. Understanding the past and gone-by bliss of a relationship. ALSO READ THIS *life-changing* blog ⁠https://everheartcoaching.com/blog/i-was-in-love-with-a-man-from-my-past⁠ Why quantum dating feels awful after a breakup and what to do instead. Why your relationship had to end and why you need to rejoice! Is he really-really your DREAM relationship? THIS VIDEO will help: https://youtu.be/-Uen7NU2Q24 What's the "Ditch of Despair" and why you have to get out, NOW! How Your EX can give you CLARITY w/Rebuilding or Call Forth the Man You're Meant to be with! How to Attract the BEST MAN & Be Your Most Attractive CRUCIAL Tools to Raise Your Feminine Energy Frequency - I walk you through them! SO MANY TOOLS! How relationship problems can help you Change Your Energy so HE FEELS IT. Still Need Answers & Comfort? Explore my Answer Card Deck. Get my PROVEN Get Him Back Course

5 Signs the Man You're With is a Keeper Sometimes it's hard to tell if a guy you like is just going through the motions of dating in the hopes of getting sex or if he's really a candidate for a long term relationship. This is especially true if you've been doing a lot of […] The post 5 Signs the Man You're With is a Keeper appeared first on Understand Men Now With Jonathon Aslay.

(sorry i missed a couple of weeks - been crazy busy)   Quail Seed A timely tale of marketing and social networking. [Saki was often way ahead of his time!] Announcer - Jennifer Dixon Mr. Scarrick - John Lingard Jimmy - Will Watt Lucy - Tanja Milojevic [Lightning Bolt Theater] Boy - Reynaud LeBoeuf Man - Anthony D.P. Mann [Horror Etc.] Miss Fritten - Robyn Keyes Mrs. Greyes - Jennifer Dixon Mrs. Gordon - Judith Moore Gloria - Beverly Poole Other women - Julie Hoverson Music by Kevin McLeod (Incompetech.com) Picture by lucias_clay, found with help from Bill Jones.   Quail Seed Cast: Announcer Mr. Scarrick, shopkeeper Jimmy, Assistant Lucy, Jimmy's girl Boy Man/Beard Miss Fritten Mrs. Greyes Mrs. Gordon Miss Jones Miss Smith Gloria Mrs. Lipping   SAKI OPENING MUSIC SOUND      SHOP DOOR, BELL, FOOTSTEPS LUCY     Hello?  Helloooo? JIMMY     [close]  Morning, Lucy! LUCY     [startled gasp]  Jimmy! There you are.  Bit... empty in here, isn't it? JIMMY     [heavy sigh] A bit. LUCY     But where are all the Christmas shoppers? JIMMY     Shh!  Whatever you do, don't ask that in front of Mr. Scarrick.  You'll quite set him off.  LUCY     Oh! JIMMY     It's all right, he's out at the moment. LUCY     [impressed] He left you in charge? JIMMY     [heavy sigh, morose]  Only in the certainty that there won't be a stampede on our services. LUCY     That bad, eh? JIMMY     Quite. SOUND     DOOR, BELL, FOOTSTEPS Miss Smith     Hello? SOUND     QUICK STEPS JIMMY     Yes?  How may I assist you? Miss Smith     [nervous] Oh, I was -um- just looking for a railway timetable?  I'm going up to the city-- [breaks off] JIMMY     Sorry.  Clean out.  Perhaps next week. MISS Smith     Ah.  Thank you. SOUND     FOOTSTEPS, BELL DOOR LUCY     You might have made a sale! JIMMY     She just wanted to look. LUCY     You don't know that. JIMMY     [bitter admission] She's the fourth today.  Everyone would rather take the train to town and shop in a big department store than [quoting] bother to take advantage of the convenience-- SOUND     DOOR BELL MISS Jones     Hello? JIMMY     ...and that's five. MUSIC SOUND     PUB SCARRICK     The outlook is not encouraging for us smaller businesses. SOUND     POURING DRINK SCARRICK     These big concerns are offering all sorts of attractions to the shopping public which we couldn't afford to imitate, even on a small scale--reading-rooms and play-rooms and gramophones and Heaven knows what. BOY     [normal, commiserating] People like shiny objects. SCARRICK     And they don't care to buy half a pound of sugar nowadays unless they can listen to Harry Lauder and have the latest Australian cricket scores ticked off before their eyes. MAN     Seems like quite a trip for sugar. SCARRICK     With the big Christmas stock we've got in we ought to keep half a dozen assistants hard at work, but as it is my nephew Jimmy and myself can pretty well attend to it ourselves.  In fact, I've left him in charge.  I've never done that before. BOY     I'm sure he'll be fine. SCARRICK     [drinks] It's a nice stock of goods, too.  I could run it all off in a few weeks time, but there's no chance of that--not unless the London line was to get snowed up for a fortnight before Christmas. MAN     [musing] How you gonna keep them home on the farm? MUSIC SOUND     SHOP DOOR, BELL MRS. GREYES     --so tedious, but there it is, and what else is one to do? MISS FRITTEN     We shall simply wait for the next--  SCARRICK     May I help you ladies? MRS. GREYES     Oh!  [evasive] Really, we just stopped in to see about --- about-- MISS FRITTEN     Bootlaces.  MRS. GREYES     Bootlaces!  Yes!  I've been in dire need of some-- SCARRICK     [hearty] Of course.  Over on the left wall, near the back. MRS. GREYES     Of course.  [whispering]  You knew he'd try and sell us something if we came in here!  Bootlaces indeed.  I already have more laces than boots! MISS FRITTEN     At least if we do make a purchase, they're small enough to carry when we go to-- MRS. GREYES     Shh! SCARRICK     Finding everything? MRS. GREYES     Oh, yes.  This is the best ... um... anchovy paste.  Just what I was looking for. MISS FRITTEN     Just lovely! SCARRICK     Perhaps you ladies could help me.  I was thinking of adding a little entertainment to the shop. MRS. GREYES     Oh? SCARRICK     I did have a sort of idea of engaging Miss Luffcombe to give recitations during afternoons; she made a great hit at the Post Office entertainment with her rendering of 'Little Beatrice's Resolve'. MISS FRITTEN     [very uncertain] Oh, that would be ...just ... lovely. SOUND     DOOR OPENS, BELL RINGS ODDLY SCARRICK     What? SOUND     ODD FOOTSTEPS ENTER SCARRICK     [excusing himself] Your pardon. SOUND     SCARRICK GOES TO THE COUNTER MRS. GREYES     [whispered] Perhaps we should just do our shopping here. MISS FRITTEN     But I'm in my best hat! MRS. GREYES     Shh! Shh!  Look at that! MISS FRITTEN     What an odd looking boy.  Brown as a nut, but we've not had sun in weeks! MRS. GREYES     And those clothes.  Like something out of the Arabian nights! SOUND     CLANG BOY     [accented now] Six pomegranates, please, and a packet of quail seed. MISS FRITTEN     What's the bowl for? MRS. GREYES     To carry the pomegranates? MISS FRITTEN     Why not a string bag? MRS. GREYES     Allergies?  Shh! SCARRICK     [business as usual]   Here you are.  We have some lovely pomegranates. MISS FRITTEN     He doesn't even look surprised! MRS. GREYES     The boy must have been here before. SOUND     COIN SKITTERING, CAUGHT BOY     The wine and figs were not paid for yesterday.  Keep what is over of the money for our future purchases. SCARRICK     [formal and serious] As you wish.  SOUND     BOY LEAVES, DOOR SHUTS SOUND     SKITTERING OF LADIES FEET MISS FRITTEN     [to Scarrick, hinting] A very strange-looking boy? SCARRICK     [final]  A foreigner, I believe. MRS. GREYES     Does he shop here often?  Surely there can't be much call for ...quail seed... at this time of year. SCARRICK     It takes all sorts. SOUND     DOOR OPENS SOUND     HEAVY OMINOUS FOOTSTEPS MISS FRITTEN     [gasp] MRS. GREYES     Oh!  [covering her consternation]  Oh, I forgot those bootlaces!  [hissed] Come on! SOUND     THEY SKITTER AWAY MAN     [accented] I wish for a pound and a half of the best coffee you have. SCARRICK     [wary] Certainly sir. MRS. GREYES     Look at that beard! MISS FRITTEN     Like a comedy Russian. MRS. GREYES     No, more like an ancient Assyrian. MISS FRITTEN     Who do you think he is? MAN     [suspicious] Has a dark-faced boy been here buying pomegranates? SCARRICK     Can't say that I've seen anyone like that. MRS. GREYES     Oh!  [muffles self] MISS FRITTEN     [whispered]  How could he! SCARRICK     [offhanded] We have a few pomegranates in stock, but there has been no real demand for them. MAN     My servant will fetch the coffee as usual SOUND     COIN SKITTERS, HEAVY FEET START TO WALK AWAY, THEN STOP MAN     [very importantly] Have you, perhaps, any quail seed? GREYES AND FRITTEN [gasp] SCARRICK     [unhesitating] No.  we don't stock it. SOUND     FEET WALK AWAY MRS. GREYES     [whispered] What will he deny next? MISS FRITTEN     And I always believed Mr. Scarrick to be such a truthful man.  Heavens! He just presided at a lecture on Savonarola. SOUND     DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES MRS. GREYES     Don't let's bother about the 3.12.  Let's dash, and talk this out at Laura Lipping's MISS FRITTEN      Perhaps we should buy a few things first.  Since we're here. MUSIC SOUND     TEA MISS FRITTEN     [recounting lusciously] Turning up the deep astrakhan collar of his long coat, the stranger swept out of the shop, with the air of a Satrap proroguing a Sanhedrim. MRS. LIPPING     Do Satraps prorogue? MISS FRITTEN     [coldly superior] Have you ever seen one that didn't? GLORIA     I don't even know what a Sanhedrim is.  Is it a dance? MISS FRITTEN     It is a simile and hardly matters.  Or do I mean an allegory? MRS. GORDON     And the boy? MRS. GREYES     I should have though him Greek, but after seeing that beard-- MRS. LIPPING     They could have been unrelated. MISS FRITTEN     Unrelated?  And both asking for "quail seed"?  Mark my words.  There's something afoot. MRS. GREYES     What bothers me most is this unprecedented streak of falsity in our local grocer! GLORIA     I've never known Mr. Scarrick to prevaricate like that before! MRS. GREYES     It's the influence of that artist that took the flat above the shop.  Mark my words.  [importantly] Bohemian. MRS. GORDON     [tragically] I shall never again be able to believe what he tells me about the absence of colouring matter in the jam. MUSIC SOUND     DOOR, BELL SOUND     BROOM LUCY     Jimmy? JIMMY     Here. LUCY     Goodness, it looks like a tornado touched down. JIMMY     Fabulous, isn't it? LUCY     But, what happened? JIMMY     This afternoon, from tea onwards, we had a constant stream of shoppers.  LUCY     Is this something to do with the odd individuals who may or may not have been in this afternoon? JIMMY     [overly innocent] Whom do you refer to? LUCY     Come on!  It's all over town.  People talked about it at tea, and more people talked about it at supper.  I expect they're all talking about it over Bridge even as we speak.  The dark young man and the Beard.  JIMMY     Sounds a bit like a music hall act. LUCY     [speculatively] Yes... yes, it does.... MUSIC AMBIENCE     SHOP [MANY CUSTOMERS] MISS SMITH     Is this the freshest jar of pickles? JIMMY     Miss?  I suppose so. MISS SMITH     It looks a little dusty. JIMMY     That would be my fault-- SCARRICK     [commanding] Jimmy!     JIMMY     So sorry, must jump. MISS FRITTEN     [whispered]  Do you think they will return? MRS. GREYES     I have it on good authority someone's rented that house at the far end of Plummergen. MISS FRITTEN     But why should they come all this way to shop? MRS. GREYES     [knowing] Plummergen drapers don't stock quail seed.  MISS FRITTEN     [getting it] Ah! SOUND     REGISTER NOISE SCARRICK     That will be three shillings and four pence. SOUND     COINS MRS. LIPPING     I'm looking for something interesting for a savory.  Have you any-- SOUND     GENERAL HUSH MRS. LIPPING     [nervous] --any, um-- SCARRICK     [as if nothing is amiss]  I have some pickled olives.  Imported from turkey. MRS. LIPPING     Yes, anything. SOUND     JAR SET DOWN, CASH REGISTER SOUND     JABBER BEGINS AGAIN SOUND     DOOR OPENS, BELL, JABBER SLOWLY DIES AWAY. SILENCE SOUND     BOY WALKS IN. SOUND     BOWL SET DOWN. SCARRICK     [normal]  What can I get for you today? BOY     I require a pound of honey. SOUND     BREATH BEING LET OUT ALL OVER BOY     and - [quieter] and a packet of quail seed. SOUND     GENERAL INTAKE OF BREATH, GIGGLE QUICKLY MUFFLED SCARRICK     Very good, sir. SOUND     CONVERSATIONS, FORCED LAUGHTER, BUT MUTED, LISTENING MISS FRITTEN     [excited whisper] We might be living in the Arabian Nights. MRS. GREYES     Hush! Listen! SOUND     THINGS PLACED INTO BOWL, BOWL REMOVED, BOY STARTS TO LEAVE. SOUND     QUICK FOOTSTEPS JIMMY     [hurried, fraught with meaning] We have some very fine Jaffa oranges.  Around behind here. SOUND     QUICK SHUFFLE OF FEET SOUND     DOOR OPENS, MAN STRIDES IN. SOUND     GASPS SCARRICK     [unperturbed]  What may I get for you today, Sir? MAN     A pound of dates and a tin of the best Smyrna halva. MISS FRITTEN     Halva?  What is that? MRS. GREYES     It comes from Smyrna - that's figs, isn't it, Smyrna is? GLORIA     Who would want dates AND figs? MRS. LIPPING     Hush. SCARRICK     There you are.  MAN     hmm [evaluating noise]  Yes. SOUND     COINS DROPPED MAN     Has the dark-faced boy, of whom I spoke yesterday, been here to-day? GLORIA     [stifled squeak of excitement] SCARRICK     We've had rather more people than usual in the shop to-day... but I can't recall a boy such as you describe. SOUND     [gasps] MRS. GREYES     [satisfied] Didn't we say? MISS FRITTEN     It's too too terrible. MUSIC TEA MRS. GREYES     It is deplorable that anyone - particularly someone in a position such as Mr. Scarrick -should treat the truth as an article temporarily and excusably out of stock. MISS FRITTEN     More quail seed!  Those quails must be voracious!  [realizing]  or else... perhaps it isn't quail seed at all. MRS. GREYES     I believe it's opium, and the bearded man is a detective. MRS. LIPPING     I don't.  I'm sure it's something to do with the Portuguese Throne. MISS FRITTEN      More likely to be a Persian intrigue on behalf of the ex-Shah.  The bearded man belongs to the Government Party. The quail-seed is a countersign, of course; Persia is almost next door to Palestine, and quails come into the Old Testament, you know. GLORIA     [exasperated] Only as a miracle.  [knowing] I've thought all along it was part of a love intrigue. MRS. LIPPING     I distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage as the man departed, sandwiched between that heavy moustache and upturned astrakhan collar. GLORIA     I can't imagine that that boy is the guilty party here.  Much more likely he's simply perishing of love for someone - perhaps the daughter of the beard, but the match is quite unsuitable-- MISS FRITTEN     Honey and pomegranates - of course!!! MUSIC SHOP, NIGHT, QUIET SOUND     DOOR, BELL JIMMY     [calling from off] Closed! LUCY     I know, mutton head. JIMMY     Oh, Lucy! SOUND     BROOM DOWN, STEPS LUCY     Another busy day? JIMMY     The busiest.  Another day or two of brisk trade and we'll be--[cut off with a gasp] SOUND     KISS LUCY     [laughing] I was here today, you know. JIMMY     [uneasy] Oh? LUCY     [indulgent] You were quite the hero.  Hustling that poor young man off behind the biscuit tins in the very nick of time. JIMMY     [flustered] Well, I have a good view of the street from my post at the cheese and bacon counter. LUCY     [pouty] Jimmy.  Have you EVER known me to gossip? JIMMY     You, Lucy?  I don't think so. LUCY     Quite a vote of confidence. JIMMY     I didn't mean that-- [sigh] No.  No I've never known you to gossip. LUCY     Let me in, then!  Perhaps there's something I can do to help? MUSIC PUB SCARRICK     It was quite marvelous!  And we sold out of that blasted Halva. MAN     It looked crowded, but were they actually buying? SCARRICK      They bought and bought - some came back three or four times, just to have an excuse to linger.  BOY     "Oh, I forgot" and "silly me, one more thing." SCARRICK     exactly.  Even those women whose purchases were of modest proportions dawdled over them as though they had, uh-- MAN     Brutal, drunken husbands to go home to? SCARRICK     [chuckles] I've even had to take on a couple of extra assistants for tomorrow. MUSIC STORE - BUSY MISS FRITTEN     What do you think?  Is this bowl anything like the one that young gentleman carries? MRS. GREYES     Nonsense.  His is brass.  Or bronze, perhaps.  That one is copper. MISS FRITTEN     Still, it's got a lovely patina. MRS GORDON     Ducks? SCARRICK     [distracted] Pardon? MRS GORDON     Ducks?  I found a lovely recipe for Bombay duck, and was wondering if a domestic duck would suffice. SCARRICK     I suspect that ducks are much the same the world over-- [small gasp] SOUND     DOOR OPENS, BELL GENERAL EXPECTANT HUSH MRS GORDON     oh! SCARRICK     You'll excuse me. SOUND     BOY'S FOOTSTEPS, SCARRICK MEETS HIM SCARRICK     Sir?  BOY     Yes? SCARRICK     [overtly confidential]  I must warn you-- SOUND     [gasps] SCARRICK     [as if saying something else] We have run out of quail seed. MRS GORDON     Oh nO! BOY     [shocked and disappointed] Oh.  I should-- I must-- SOUND     SCUTTLING FEET JIMMY     [excited]  We do have some much finer oranges today, if you want to step over here. BOY     [dramatic gasp] SOUND     BOY RUNS MISS FRITTEN     [whispered] Watch the door! SOUND     DOOR SLAMS OPEN, BELL SOUND     OMINOUS FOOTSTEPS MRS. GORDON      [voice over] I found my self sub-consciously repeating "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold" under my breath. SCARRICK     [very tense]  Ah.  Coffee again today sir?  Perhaps figs? MAN     I am looking for-- LUCY     [in disguise, foreign sounding]  Jaffa oranges, I think. MAN     What? MRS GREYES     [voiceover] She slithered out of the aisle like the lady in the lake. LUCY     Your Excellency does his shopping himself? MAN     [suspicious] I order the things myself.  I find it difficult to make my servants understand. MISS FRITTEN     [voiceover]  How ever did we miss a mysterious veiled lady, right in the midst of us all? LUCY     I was saying... They have some excellent Jaffa oranges here.  [tinkling laugh] SOUND     HER FEET TAP AWAY TO THE DOOR, BELL MAN     [considering] Hmph.  MRS. GORDON     [gasp] MAN     You! SCARRICK     [tense] Yes? MAN     You have, perhaps, some good Jaffa oranges? GLORIA     [voiceover] Everyone expected an instant denial on the part of Mr. Scarrick of any such possession, but before he could answer‑‑ BOY     No! SOUND     RUNNING FEET, DOOR, BELL MISS FRITTEN     [voiceover] Holding his empty brass bowl before him he dashed into the street. His face was masked with studied indifference SOUND     THE VOICEOVERS START TO FADE INTO TEA MRS GREYES     Overspread with ghastly pallor! MRS. LIPPING     I would call it blazing with defiance. GLORIA     How defiant could he be!  He was so terrified his teeth chattered! MRS. GORDON     I distinctly heard him whistling the Persian National Hymn. MISS FRITTEN     But the bearded man - his face was a mask of abject terror! MRS GREYES     I thought he would dash out after the boy, but he just paced to and fro like a caged animal - seeking an outlet for escape. GLORIA     He couldn't take his eyes off the door. MRS GORDON     Did he ever come back for his purchases?  Or send his servant? MISS FRITTEN     I've not had the nerve to ask Mr. Scarrick.  The whole thing was so ...  overwhelming. MUSIC LUCY     It was so overwhelming.  Trying not to laugh while watching all their faces. JIMMY     You did a fabulous job. LUCY     You like me in a veil? JIMMY     I can think of a veil I'd like to see you in. LUCY     [interested, pleased] Really? JIMMY     Mm-hmm  [yes] SOUND     KISS MUSIC PUB SCARRICK     I can never thank you fellows enough. MAN     We enjoyed the fun of it.  [laughs, then  talks like beard]  And the figs. BOY     It was a welcome vacation from posing for hours for 'The Lost Hylas' MAN     You just have to sit still.  I'm the one who has to make you look good. SCARRICK     What do I owe you? MAN     No, no.  It was far too entertaining.  BOY     We did get all those lovely pomegranates. SCARRICK     At any rate... I insist on paying for the hire of the black beard. END

I'm going to tell you a story. It's a story about people. It's about you, it's about me, it's about everyone else. And it's also about nobody at all. Once upon a time there was a little boy, and in all the important ways he was a kid like any other. Except he wasn't.[SAM'S FINAL THEME PLAYS]He could make anyone do whatever he said.He could see the world for what it was, the shimmering threads that link everything together.He could even wake the dead.He was me, of course. Just a little boy, but also so much more, and so much less.I am Samael Apollo Enfield, Heir Apparent to the Blood Rose Crown and you will do as I bid!THE MAN: You want to sleep on the notion of ending the world?SAM: That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to think about it.RECORDING MACHINE: Spirit Box Radio Season Three begins on the twenty ninth of December 2022. Tune in, get spooky. Get episodes one day early with Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A month before the August 1919 steel strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones was arrested for addressing a large crowd on Eighth Avenue. And on August 26, 1919, Mine Workers organizer Fannie Sellins and miner Joseph Starzeleski were murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. You'll hear their stories today from Charlie's Monday Marker, hosted by Dr. Charles McCollester and produced by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Charlie's Monday Marker delves into the fascinating stories behind the more than 60 historical markers listed in "Labor History Sites in the Pittsburgh Region", a book authored by Dr. McCollester and Howard Scott in 2016 and published by Allegheny County Labor Council. Also on today's show, from Labor History in 2:00: The 1934 Filipino Lettuce Workers Strike, and The Man You've Probably Never Heard Of, But Should Have. Got a questions, comments or suggestions 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 Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Hosted and produced by Chris Garlock.  #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @HomesteadFdn

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Imagine a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize... Clint Arthur doesn't have to, he is a nominee. When asked about his nomination for "AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR 2022" he shares, "I'm so grateful. It's a big dream of mine."Going For The Pulitzer is a very serious matter. Making light of a very serious matter is not easy. It's clear Clint is on a mission. He credits the failures, opportunities and people (celebrities alike) that have come in to his human experience for helping him "Become the Man You've Always Wanted to Be."  Among them, Frank McCourt his high school creative writing teacher, who had a Pulitzer Prize winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, published in 1996. (Won Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997 and was turned into a drama film in 1999).Although, 6 years behind the wheel of yellow cab number 6 0 8 7 was both embarrassing (not telling anyone for 16 years) and terrifying to him, (referring to the period in his life as quiet desperation) he had to "dig himself out". Clint knew it was up to him to change his life. With the WISDOM OF THE MEN, Clint wanted to create an experience for the reader, one where you can feel the knowledge of generations of men, coming through to provide the answers. Self proclaimed "I'm an expert at selfies." We had a good laugh over the zoom selfie. The stories are spectacular and Clint expresses this about hosting public seminars/workshops/retreats/speaker events, "I've met a lot of the people, .... I hired them to come and be speakers....", "These giant people, these outsized personalities, they're approachable.""My experiences changed me" "The act of writing the book changed me"  It's that which he shares in, what was intimidating for him to write, WISDOM OF THE MEN.Access the Bonus Material at WISDOMOFTHEMEN.comBook Review: coming soon Find Clint Arthur:Blog Post: https://onlineforauthors.org/episode-16-going-for-the-pulitzer-with-clint-arthur/,  Website: https://clinttt.com/,  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintarthur,  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClintArthur, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClintArthur, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clintarthur.tv/, Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClintArthurGet the Book: Wisdom Of The Men: How I Went From Taxi Driver to Working With Global Superstars & 5 US Presidents, Revealing All My Secrets, So You Can Do It Too Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/onlineauthors)

We had a great conversation with Neil Donell, lead singer of the iconic band Chicago on The Chris & Sandy Show. We talked about so many things from his career, music, sacrifices, how he got started, he told some really amazing stories to a whole lot more! This was a very fun conversation for Sandy & I! It's just amazing who all we get to chat with!!!! #WeGetToDoThis. It was an honor.Hailed as one of the "most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine's Top 125 Artists Of All Time. And Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades. Summer, 2022: Chicago and Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin have announced a co-headlining 25-city tour across the US. With both Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame inductees, the Live Nation produced tour brings together the timeless music of Chicago and the classic sounds of Brian Wilson. The tour kicks off on June 7th at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix, AZ making stops across the U.S. in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Tampa, Cincinnati and more before wrapping up in Clarkston, MI at DTE Energy Music Theatre on July 26th Chicago recently received The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award from the GRAMMYS. The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording. A special award ceremony and tribute concert celebrating the honorees was held in 2020. Chicago was inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was their first nomination. They've been eligible since 1994. A long time coming! Chicago's first album, Chicago Transit Authority, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2014. Chicago managed to fuse pop, rock and jazz together perfectly in this double album. Robert Lamm and James Pankow have become inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. These legendary songwriters wrote mega-hits such as, "25 or 6 to 4," "Saturday In The Park," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Make Me Smile," and many others. The International Trombone Association presented its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to James Pankow. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes people who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to the trombone profession over a long career. Chicago became the first non-classical group to perform six nights in a row at Carnegie Hall 50 years ago. Between April 5 and 10, 1971, the band played eight shows at the celebrated venue (including two matinees) and recorded every one of them. In October of that year, performance highlights were featured on the band's first-ever live album, Chicago at Carnegie Hall. That quadruple-LP reached #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified platinum, and is still the band's best-selling live album. To honor the 50th anniversary of Chicago's historic concerts, the band recently released all eight Carnegie Hall shows in their entirety for the first time in a new 16-CD deluxe boxed set. CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE available through www.rhino.com. Chicago founding member and trumpeter Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup spent nearly a year meticulously going through more than 40 concert tapes at Loughnane's new studio in Arizona to remaster each concert. Their hard work paid off with eight fantastic-sounding shows. CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE is presented in a white folio that's embossed with the group's trademark logo. The set beautifully commemorates the event through memorabilia that includes replicas of the three posters that accompanied the original vinyl release and images of the original concert program, tickets, and other memorabilia from the historic run. The collection also comes with a 28-page booklet illustrated with photos from the concerts, plus new liner notes with contributions by Loughnane; archivist Jeff Magid, writer/producer David Wild and comedy icon/Chicago fanatic Jimmy Pardo. Chicago's lifetime achievements include two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, Founding Artists of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor, and keys to and proclamations from an impressive list of US cities. Record sales top the 100,000,000 mark, and include 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 37 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 48 gold and platinum awards. Chicago have toured every year since the beginning - they've never missed a year. The original three band members are Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals and James Pankow on trombone. The band line-up also includes Wally Reyes, Jr. on drums, Tony Obrohta on guitar, Loren Gold on keyboards and vocals, Ray Herrmann on sax and flute, Neil Donell on vocals, Brett Simons on bass and Ramon "Ray" Yslas on percussion. From the signature sound of the Chicago horns, their iconic Vocalists, and a few dozen of ever-Classic Songs, this band's concerts are celebrations. 2022 will mark the band's 55th consecutive year of touring! Chicago continue to be true ambassadors for their beloved hometown, carrying the city's name with pride and dignity around the world. Some of Chicago's hits: Make Me Smile Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?25 or 6 to 4 Saturday In The ParkBeginnings Questions 67 and 68Happy Man (I've Been) Searchin' So LongStreet Player IntroductionOld Days FreeJust You 'N' Me Feelin' Stronger Every DayIf You Leave Me Now Hard To Say I'm SorryLook Away Wake Up SunshineHard Habit To Break Baby, What A Big SurpriseColour My World Another Rainy Day In New York CityCall On Me Dialogue (Part I and II)I'm A Man You're The Inspiration www.chicagotheband.comFacebook@Chicago.OfficialTwitter@chicagothebandInstagram@chicagotheband

Part 2 of Bob's conversation with author Anne Nelson about the Council for National Policy, which has spent decades exploiting bugs in the system to gain minority control of our politics — and our future.* TRANSCRIPT *TEDDY ROOSEVELT: Surely, there never was a fight better worth making than the one in which we are in.GARFIELD: Welcome to Bully Pulpit. That was Teddy Roosevelt, I'm Bob Garfield. With Episode 21, “The 60 Year Coup: Part Two.” DONALD TRUMP: Together, we're committed to protecting the American people, preserving American values, defending America's heritage, and keeping America safe, strong, prosperous, and free.GARFIELD: That was Donald Trump, hat in tiny hand, singing for his supper before the Council for Domestic Policy, the umbrella group of evangelical Christians and big energy interests, that for decades has been the patient and ruthless architect of the great right wing conspiracy. In last week's episode I spoke to Anne Nelson, research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and author of Shadow Network: Media Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. In part two of our conversation, we'll consider the powerful synergy of CNP and a pathological demagog and the destruction that that synergy wrought. Anne, welcome back.NELSON: Thank you.GARFIELD: All right. Let's now turn to the more-or-less present: the rise of Trump and the now violent assault on democracy. How was CNP involved in Trump's ascent?NELSON: The CNP was involved with Trump, initially, very reluctantly. He wasn't one of them, he had no particular religious background, he was multiply divorced, and he really didn't reflect their values in many ways. Their favored candidate was Ted Cruz, but they had a problem - which was that Cruz had a tremendous charisma deficit, and as he lost the primaries, they realized that either they supported Trump, the primary victor, or they lived with Hillary Clinton's presidency, which was unacceptable to them.GARFIELD: Oh, I - I'm sorry, I just - I just have to interrupt to remind you what then Senator Al Franken (laughs) said about Cruz.AL FRANKEN: I probably like him more than most of my other colleagues like Ted, and I hate him (laughs).NELSON: That is the case. Cruz is a formidable intelligence and strategist. He was not a winning candidate outside Texas. So the fundamentalists convened something, like, a thousand leaders and representatives in New York City in June of 2016 at the Times Square Marriott. They brought Trump out to parade him before them, and they had a number of leaders from the Council for National Policy there on the program. And publicly, what that event was about was to sell Trump to this thousand fundamentalist leaders, many of whom had been Never Trumpers, and they were like, “This is going to be your guy. You need to go home and tell your flocks that this is the plan.” But the second part of that agenda involved meetings where they cut a deal with Trump. They said, “You don't have a war chest, you don't have ground troops for the election canvassing, you don't have a strategy. And all indications are you're going to get creamed.” So we have all three of those that we can put into your service. But in return -GARFIELD: We have a shopping list. NELSON: We have a shopping list, and it's basically got three items. The first one was enact some of our policies by executive orders. So when suddenly the Republican platform has this new anti-trans, anti LGBT language that was literally written by the president of the Council for National Policy, Tony Perkins, Trump enacted the anti-trans policy for the Pentagon against the Pentagon's wishes, which, you know, the Pentagon said, “This is disruptive of our operations and trans people are not a problem,” but Trump had to deliver on his deal. The second part was to create an evangelical advisory council. Obama had a religious advisory council, but it included Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims. This one was 100% Protestant, and none of these other religions needed to apply. The leadership of this council were in and out of the White House on policy discussions and photo ops on a weekly basis. The third was by far the most important, far reaching, and devastating to our democracy. And that was when they got Trump to agree that any federal judges he nominated would be approved from a list that was submitted by three organizations run by members of the Council for National Policy. These were the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the National Rifle Association. Now, what business the NRA has in recommending federal judge nominations? I do not know, but that's how it played out, and after his first confirmation, he invited the representatives of these groups, most of them from the Council for National Policy, for a little victory luncheon at the White House.GARFIELD: So that was the origin story of Trump's deal with the devil, a man with not only no religion, but no ideology to speak of creating himself in the image of his political and financial sponsors. Over the ensuing - well, so then he was elected, more or less - and then over the ensuing four years, many of Trump's 30,000 lies, big and small, find their provenance, what do you know, in the CNP. So, can we just tick a few of these off beginning with the COVID hoax, and the savior drug hydroxychloroquine?NELSON: So if you get to the beginning of 2020, the Trump campaign is in trouble and the Council for National Policy recognizes it. They had hoped that the 2020 elections would be won with a popular vote, that was cast into doubt. COVID set in a couple of months later, and the whole strategy of the Trump campaign had been built around mass rallies and data harvesting from attendees of the rallies and building on that to secure a victory. Well, mass rallies became impossible because of COVID restrictions, so there was a critical phone call that involved the president of the Council for National Policy and members of the Trump campaign staff, where they said, “We need to open up society, get the economy roaring again, and people are afraid of COVID, but they trust doctors. We have a group of doctors who will say that COVID is a hoax, will argue for the reopening of society and the mass rallies.” So that summer, these doctors were convened by Jenny Beth Martin in Washington. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots and a leading figure in the Council for National Policy. At that point, the point person - when Dr. Simone Gold announced that hydroxychloroquine was a cure for COVID - she was put on partner media platforms of the CNP, including the Charlie Kirk Show and the Christian Broadcasting Network, spreading this disinformation SIMONE GOLD: With the tyranny of medical apartheid nipping at our heels, rise up. Rise up. Rise up.NELSON: And that has now expanded into a small army of unethical physicians who are continuing the hydroxychloroquine hoax. They've added ivermectin as a cure and, in fact, they have online prescription services charging money to people who are ordering ivermectin as a COVID cure.JAKE TAPPER: Poison control centers are reporting that their calls are spiking in places like Mississippi and Oklahoma because some Americans are trying to use an anti parasite horse drug called ivermectin to treat coronavirus, to prevent contracting coronavirus. What would you tell someone who is considering taking that drug?FAUCI: Don't do it.NELSON: There's no evidence that it helps against COVID and, in fact, there are several cases of deaths. Not just from COVID and the failed approach of ivermectin, but people taking overdoses of ivermectin. At the same time, they're discouraging vaccination, and the purpose that lies behind this is, I believe, to discredit any federal agency, to discredit the CDC and the NIH, and to have their followers distrust any kind of fact based authority. Whether it's science, whether it's professional journalism, whether it's federal agencies, and work them into this stoked anger and frustration that is then politically mobilized, and so is chaos.GARFIELD: And not just because they're elites and look down at the silent majority, as Nixon called Middle America, but because there is a vast conspiracy to make money for Bill Gates or to turn children against their country, or to put right wing political dissidents into concentration camps or, you know, whatever the crazy talk is. It wasn't enough just to make people suspicious of - of expertise and authority, but to brainwash them that they were actually active enemies of the people.NELSON: I would say that the strength of the Council for National Policy is to figure out what I call the raw nerves of our culture and to further inflame them. So right now, parents - with kids in public schools - are stressed on so many levels. Are the schools open or are they not open? Are there mandates? Are there not mandates? Can working mothers go to work if their kids aren't in school? Right? These are real, real issues. And then you put on top of that our very difficult conversation nationally about race. When the Black Lives Matter protests happened, the way that the CNP's media and other media systems played it was, “these are violent riots,” and they cherry picked photos of buildings and flame and violence in the streets and amplified it and exaggerated it. These were not invented or doctored photos, these things happened, it's just that they happened as very, very few cases and very small percentage of the peaceful protests. But that's not what their audience saw.TUCKER CARLSON: This may be a lot of things this moment we're living through, but it is definitely not about black lives. And remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will.NELSON: Their audience saw these violent images repeated across multiple media platforms. Then they saw it repeated on Fox News and Sinclair stations. They heard it referred to on the fundamentalist radio stations. That makes all of these appeals for advancing racial justice sound to them like condoning violence.MAN: The black thugs are burning our cities down.NELSON: So we have a real problem in this country with these parallel media systems that don't reflect the same reality. And I really do fault a lot of the more prestigious media organizations and companies and corporations that have allowed the local news media in the middle of the country to die off. And all too often, the answer is, “Oh well, The New York Times and The Washington Post are national news organizations and they've increased their circulations.” That does not fulfill the need for the trust and the hometown newspaper that reflects the local interests and values. And that's something that urgently needs to be addressed.GARFIELD: All right. Indulge me once again, please, in a brief pause to remind you what's happening here. Bully pulpit and the other Booksmart studio shows are here for you, specifically for an audience of listeners who value curiosity, skepticism, dimension, rigor, scope, and an honest argument about things that matter. God knows if you crave doctrinaire or simplistic rhetoric, you have a zillion options for validating your worldview. Many fewer programs tackle complexity, but like public broadcasting, our future hinges on a community of people willing to pitch in. Please consider a paid subscription which gets you not only our basic offerings, but bonus content from all three shows and my weekly column, which is sometimes about horse vending machines, sometimes about political insanity, and sometimes about life and death. And what a gift for your loved ones, or for your Secret Santa partners, or for your employees. Eighty four bucks a year, less than the cost of a HP 414, a black ink toner cartridge. Please consider investing in Booksmartstudios.org and please, please rate us on iTunes. Those ratings and reviews really matter. Now, I was about to ask Anne Nelson my next question. We were ticking off the list of CNC successes: abortion rights and marriage equality. Tell me what they accomplished there.NELSON: Well, abortion has been a particular interest of theirs. And ironically, as of the 1970s, southern Protestants were not that far away from everyone else in terms of opinions on abortion policy. And I would say that there's been consistently general agreement that abortion in the first trimester for various reasons is regrettable, but acceptable. Abortion in the third trimester should be only under the most extreme circumstances. That reflects the reality. But what happened in the years following Roe vs. Wade, people connected to the Leadership Institute and other Council for National Policy partners realized that there was a way to play this and again to mobilize these Protestants in a new way. They found a term, partial birth abortion, which does not exist in medicine. You know, it's an invented term, but it is a term that evokes a very visceral response. And they found that if they told their audiences that Democrats supported partial birth abortion, they could use this as a wedge issue. Then they built on that, and this is all about emotion. This is not about medicine. This is not about scientific fact. They created these videos, which I've seen, which show animated drawings of so-called abortions. And of course, they had to use animated drawings because they were not based in reality, of the abortionist reaching into the womb and tearing the fetus apart limb by limb. And they showed these in church sanctuaries as part of their organizing activities.GARFIELD: And who is the “they” in this “they”?NELSON: So the Council for National Policy works with various groups connected to religious organizations. One of them is the Family Research Council. The Family Research Council has what they call a ministry of pastors that is a national organization that claims tens of thousands of pastors across the country. And this group is called Watchman on the Wall. They have an entire film and video production enterprise, as well as voter guides that are placed in the church bulletins. These churches, these Protestant churches, they may be fundamentalist, they may be Pentecostal, et cetera, have been an untapped voting block. And this is how they've tried to mobilize them, and they've done so with a great deal of success. They've accessed church directories through this organization, compared it to voting rosters, organized Get Out the Vote drives in these churches and even driven the Republican voters to the polls from the church. And the most recent development of this has been the language, “birth day abortion on demand.” And they claim that Democrats approve the execution of newborn healthy babies.JACKIE WALORSKI: That's why we need to be able to vote on H.R. 962, the Born Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act. I've long fought to defend the unborn. I'm shocked that we are now defending the right to life of newborn infants, and it's something that we have to stand together. This is extreme.GARFIELD: That was Republican Indiana Congresswoman Jackie Walorski.NELSON: So the idea of birth day abortion is that a woman has her full term child healthy nine month pregnancy, and she changes her mind and can go into an abortion clinic and say, “Terminate it now.” And that's just not - that doesn't exist. But, “birth day abortion on demand” is the slogan they're selling and people buy it.GARFIELD: And the president of the Family Research Council?NELSON: Tony Perkins, and by the way, “birth day abortion” is a phrase that's been used not only by Ted Cruz, but by Donald Trump as well.GARFIELD: Well, you can knock me over with a feather. NELSON: And by the way, as part of my research I get mailings from the Family Research Council that shows the rosy cheeked little newborn baby saying,”Democrats want to kill this baby.”GARFIELD: And as Roe v. Wade stands very much in jeopardy before the court, Trump appointees Barrett, and Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are certainly not expected to be abortion rights warriors in the judicial debate.NELSON: Well, let's remember that all three of the Trump appointed judges were chosen from the list provided by Council for National Policy Affiliates. So there was definitely a litmus test involved there. The challenge to the Texas law is whether individual citizens can serve as vigilantes in enforcing the law. And so, it's not clear how abortion rights will be determined on a legal basis moving forward, but I would say that they are certainly more under threat than they've been since Roe vs. Wade.GARFIELD: All right, let's get now to the apotheosis of right wing conspiracy, and that is Stop the Steal and the insurrection that flowed from it. It all began with attempts by the council to suppress minority votes leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and eventually mutated into creating suspicion and rage over a supposedly rigged election. As I understand it, there is smoking gun evidence that this pivot to questioning the election results was planned at the CNP before the election ever took place.NELSON: The way I describe it is that a year in advance of the elections, when the CNP realized that Trump's reelection was not a done deal, they over time develop Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, Plan E. Plan A was he wins the popular vote in the Electoral College. Great. Plan B was he loses the popular vote, as he did in 2016, but he wins the Electoral College. And his majority in the Electoral College was a matter of some seventy seven thousand votes in three states, the equivalent of a not very big town, (laughs) right? He won by a narrow margin, in terms of the Electoral College, against losing three million votes in the popular vote. Plan B was a repeat of 2016, but then the Electoral College started to come into question and they were losing certain critical states. So they said, “Well, how do we keep him in power if he loses the popular vote and the Electoral College?” That's when they began to explore ways that they could challenge fraud in the election, get Republican legislatures to substitute their own electors, as opposed to those that resulted from the state election -GARFIELD: To literally subvert the election process.NELSON: Well, it would counteract the electoral process, but it turns out that in our constitution, our elderly constitution, there is a clause that involves the independent state legislature doctrine, where the founders said, “maybe you can't trust the voters and the state legislature needs to step in when there are charges of fraud.” So there were these moments of tension after the election and pressures on state officials, including Republican state officials, but they just were not able to implement it soon enough. Then the next step in our electoral process was the certification of the Electoral College votes, January 6th. In the weeks leading up to this date, Ali Alexander was starting the Stop the Steal movement; he had been on the roster of the Council for National Policy. Ginni Thomas, who is in a leadership position, wife of Clarence Thomas, tweeted her support for the January 6th protest. Charlie Kirk tweeted that his organization would be sending protesters to Washington on January 6th. I believe that the House Investigatory Committee will be coming out with a lot more details on this, but what is obvious is that the CNP was actively supporting the events of January 6th. We don't know how many of them, and how far they were going, but I will say that Jenny Beth Martin, the Tea Party Patriots co-founder and a - and a very active leader in the CNP, was on the program for January 6th. And Simone Gold, the doctor leading the hydroxychloroquine hoax, made the incursion into the Capitol, and she has recently been named a member of the CNP and has been leading anti-vaccination rallies in critical states. So they're all over the event.GARFIELD: And then there was Cleta Mitchell, who was a former Oklahoma politician, who was in the thick of Trump's attempts to get state officials, notably in Georgia, to audit their elections and dig up the votes that would be required to overturn the Biden victory.NELSON: Yeah. Dig up or create, (laughs) or -GARFIELD: Here Mitchell is infamously on the phone with Trump and Georgia state officials. TRUMP: You have all these different people that - that voted, but they don't live in Georgia anymore. Uh, that was that number, Cleta, it was a pretty good number too. MITCHELL: Well, the - the number that - the number who had registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. Um, and so they - they had a date when they moved from Georgia. They registered to vote out of state, and then they - it's like forty five hundred. I don't have that right in front of me, but it's something like that - TRUMP: And then they came back in and they voted!GARFIELD: And Mitchell has CNP ties, no?NELSON: Oh yes, she's a longtime member and she's an astute lawyer who knows a lot about election law, which makes her especially adept at subverting it. She's been a specialist in terms of their strategy, and she's still going strong.GARFIELD: All right, so here we are. At this critical juncture for the future of American democracy. And, you know, we can draw a straight line back to the late 70s, early 80s and the convergence of fossil fuel interests like the Koch brothers, and the then nascent religious right. Does that alliance still represent the core of CNP?NELSON: The religious right and the fossil fuel interests are very, very powerful in the CNP, and I think that what's really happened is that they have converted the religious right into basically a political organization. The longer they go, there's less recognizable religion, and some of the trappings of some sects of Christianity are used as recruitment measures. But (laughs), I would say it's far more political than spiritual in nature, and in some ways it's ferociously intolerant.GARFIELD: It is now increasingly understood that Christian nationalists are way more nationalists than they are Christian, that they're - they're nativists and they're often explicitly white supremacist, and that the Christian part is just sort of a - a way to get their foot in the door for really ugly nationalism.NELSON: I have esteemed colleagues who use the term Christian nationalist. I don't favor it because ultimately a lot of the people we're talking about are voters, and there are a lot of people who are being misled and lied to and don't have a clear ideology. They might be working class people, they might be rural people, and farmers who are in information starved environments. So assuming they are operating from an ideology when they're actually acting from a deeply flawed information environment, it may mean that you - you lose the chance to connect with them and to engage and talk to them.GARFIELD: Well, I hear you, and certainly the news desert that has formed in many communities that hitherto were well-served by local newspapers and other outlets has contributed to the dominance of right wing media and social media in feeding misinformation and disinformation to the - the civically and politically undereducated, right? On the other hand, you know, cops, bunco squad cops, people who investigate frauds on individuals. Historically, they don't show a whole lot of sympathy for the people who get conned because they think that they were predisposed to try to get something for nothing.EDDIE JONES: Grifters got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothing to whippin a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped.GARFIELD: Don't you think that these fascist emotions reside deep in the nerve roots of the society, and some people are just predisposed to be propagandized to and to be demagogued?NELSON: Hmm, interesting question. I think every society has aberrations in many of its pockets. And if somebody is a true psychopath, you don't want to put them in a position of power (laughs), you know? And when you have violent dictatorships, that's often what happens - is psychopaths and their allies achieve positions of power and have their way with the population. But otherwise, I do believe in the incredible power of propaganda, and one thing that breaks my heart is that these people are preyed upon from their better instincts. They want those little babies - those little newborn babies to live. That's a kindness. And if they're being told, I mean, if I were told that Democrats wanted to execute all the newborn babies, I would abhor that as well. It's just not true.GARFIELD: No, they only want to execute a relatively small percentage of the newborn babies.NELSON: (laughs) But when they're being blanketed by their media systems with this and surrounded by people who are repeating these things, you know, it's all confirmation bias, right? GARFIELD: Yes. NELSON: Then they don't have much of a shot at the correction. And as you said, the news deserts are a huge part of this.JOHN OLIVER: The newspaper industry today is in big trouble. Papers have been closing and downsizing for years, and that affects all of us. Even if you only get your news from Facebook, Google, Twitter or Arianna Huffington's block quote junction and book excerpt clearinghouse, those places are often just repackaging the work of newspapers. And it is not just websites.NELSON: When I was growing up in Oklahoma, our newspaper had, in our small town, had a substantial circulation percentage wise, and the front pages carried stories from The Associated Press, and the New York Times Syndicate, and people were more or less working from the same page of facts and reporting. Now that newspaper is struggling to survive and many of the other newspapers in the state have gone under. And what has rushed in to fill that breach are these right wing radio talk shows, Sinclair, Fox, all of these organizations that are not working according to basic journalistic principles. I see it as a huge part of the problem.GARFIELD: I think it's fair to say the various tentacles of the Council for National Policy, arm in arm with Trump, have entirely taken over the Republican Party, or nearly entirely. There are a few so-called moderates remaining. I don't know how moderate they are, but I guess they're not Trumpistas. Now, with the understanding that you can't fight napalm with rhetoric, I ask you this very basic question: Where the f**k have the Democrats been for four decades while this has been going on? Why haven't they built machines to fight, you know, Koch brothers dark money to win in legislatures, to play the long game the way these right wingers have? Why aren't they using software so cleverly? Why aren't they finding new ways to educate and inspire voters? Where the hell have they been?NELSON: I think following the triumphs of the Democrats, you know, with the New Deal, they thought they'd identified their MO's and they were relying on trade unions, and they were relying on the major media to tell their story correctly. And they also became complacent regarding demographics. They could point to the numbers and say it's clear that the United States is becoming younger, more diverse, both racially and religiously, and all of that works in our favor. That was true. It left them playing defense, and on the other side, they said, “All right, so in order to snatch victory away from the demographics, we have to work twice as hard, be twice as smart, and have a plan that truly understands the actual mechanics of our government, not the aspirational ones.” A lot of people in the United States still think that we've got a democracy that rests on the popular vote. That is simply not the case. Our system is a patchwork. Much of it's obsolete. The role of the state legislatures and the differentials in the election law from state to state, oh my goodness, it takes years of study to even understand how it works, and it doesn't work the way you were told it worked in your civics class. It's much more complex and manipulable than certainly I thought in the past. So I see signs that Democrats are starting to take data more seriously. The Koch brothers funded this massive data operation called i360 that's been a major help to the Republicans, and the Democrats are just now coming up to speed on the use of data. The other thing is that the Democrats have donors and strategists, they certainly do. They don't have the same kind of nonpolitical party ground troops, and their dependency on the trade unions has been a problem because trade union membership in this country has plummeted over the last few decades, including in industrial states, which is why Democrats start having trouble in places like Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.GARFIELD: And the political sympathies of the rank and file, the working class rank and file, have also drifted towards Republicans.NELSON: Well, there are a lot of reasons for that. They see Democratic policies, trade policies and others, even environmental policies, right, as taking something away from them. For example, in my home state of Oklahoma something like a quarter to a third of people are employed in various capacities at the oil industry. And if you say, all right, we're doing away with fossil fuels now for the sake of the environment, they say, well, what will happen to us? And I don't hear a lot of answers to that question and that questions legitimate. I mean, I'm all in favor of great policies on climate change, but you need to talk to the affected population and show them that they are in the picture, that they're looking out for them, they're going to have a life in the future, or they're not going to vote for you. I also feel that a lot of the conversation about white nationalism sounds alienating to many voters who don't consider themselves racist.MAN: I don't have a racist tone in my body, I never have.MAN: You know, giving me a fair shake, I'm not a racist. You know, I don't have a racist bone in my body. I never have.WOMAN: President Trump today declared, “I don't have a racist bone in my body.” NELSON: They think they're not racist, but they're told that they're racist, whether they think they are or not. And then they feel that there's this adversarial dynamic going on and then, “vote for us, even though we've just been calling you a racist.” And - and that formula doesn't doesn't work very well.GARFIELD: (laughs)NELSON: Engagement and inclusive language may take longer to accomplish in reforms, but they may be more effective in the long run.GARFIELD: All right, so there's this question I sometimes ask at the end of conversations like this. I ask it for two reasons: One, I just have no other way to conclude because I'm not that good at my job. NELSON: (Laughs) GARFIELD: But the other is that I believe I know the answer and I despair of it. And the question is: Anne, what's going to happen?NELSON: Well, over the next 11 months, I believe this country is going to have the greatest moment of truth it's had, certainly, in my lifetime. I think of it as a battle royale. The radical right realizes that this is perhaps their last chance to seize power and, if they succeed, they will change enough more laws in terms of gerrymandering and voter suppression that they will consolidate their hold on power for the foreseeable future. They'll have more time to prepare the way to substitute electors in 2024 if they need to. And at that point, if they can secure Congress, the executive branch, and the judiciary, they can institute the equivalent of a one party state. Will that happen? It depends on what everybody else does in the meantime. If everybody else goes into a non-strategic approach to the elections, where they think that acting out anger on the streets in protest is going to win votes in swing states, then it's playing into their hands. If people who want to defend democracy look at the electoral map and figure out what needs to be done, in which districts, with which parts of the electorate then there is a chance of a reprieve, which would be long enough to enact some of the reforms that would need to happen in order to forestall a virtual dictatorship in the future.GARFIELD: There were two rulings early in the Roberts court which seem to have gotten the GOP about 80 percent towards their goal. One was to regard political money as political speech and, therefore, pretty much out of the purview of Congress to limit it, which was a big, fat gift on a platinum platter to the Koch brothers and others of their ilk. And the other was to say the federal government no longer was needed to police voting rights in certain southern states, which after the Voting Rights Act of, I believe, 1960 were required to pass federal scrutiny so as not to systematically keep mostly black people from the polls. Those are now the law of the land. Is there any way to recover from such fundamental aberrations in the administration of government?NELSON: Not without winning some elections and making some compromises in states that we're not used to talking to. There's a project called Issue One that I recommend, and it's made up of many former congressmen, Democrats and Republicans, who are concerned with saving democracy. And I think that it is very important to frame it like that, and not devolve into this animosity and labeling and name calling, but saying, you know, what is democracy? What is the biggest tent we can manage where we don't have to agree on specific policies, we never have in our history. But we have to agree on the process of negotiation. That is our political system. And if we lose that and have religious dominionists who want to exert dominion over the rest of the population without that kind of process, then we've - we've lost a lot. So I think it's important for people to really rethink how they approach our national conversation and reach across state lines or political lines and engage and listen to each other. If that can happen, there might be some hope.GARFIELD: (Sighs) From your lips to God's ears. And thank you so much.NELSON: Hope he's listening! GARFIELD: I hope she is. NELSON: (laughs) GARFIELD: Anne Nelson is a research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and author of the newly updated, and couldn't be more zeitgeist book, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. All right, we're done here. Bully Pulpit is produced by Matthew Schwartz and Mike Vuolo. Our theme was composed by Julie Miller and the team at Harvest Creative Services in Lansing, Michigan. Bully Pulpit is a production of Booksmart Studios. I'm Bob Garfield. Get full access to Bully Pulpit at bullypulpit.substack.com/subscribe

The response to the "Man You're Empowered" episode was so bananas I had to put out an episode especially for the ladies! In this episode Annie chats it up with Powerhouse, host of Radiating Change Podcast and Certified Life/Health Coach Caridad Olive. As women we wear many hats. We're Wives, Moms, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Influencers, Sisters, Confidants, Teachers, Counselors, Friends and the list goes on and on! Join us as we discuss being fulfilled within yourself as a Woman while pouring into everyone else.

Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod If you are going through a union drive and you find that your boss is using some of these tactics, record everything. Put your phone in your pocket, record what they're saying to you, record your conversations with management because that's pretty much the only reason that we have this story is because we documented everything. This audio is from the Working People podcast, which took an inside look at unionbusting in North Carolina, and then became a target themselves. After the podcast featured recordings of the captive-audience meetings held by management at No Evil Foods, a vegan meat producer in North Carolina, the company threatened to sue and got the podcast host to pull down the show. It's hard to change your views on anything that, like, shocks your core belief, man. Yeah. And I mean, that is hard and I've definitely been there myself. Yeah. Part of it, part of it is admitting that you were wrong. Or that you were just taught wrong. On The Breaktime Breakdown podcast, host Jeremy Waugh and SMART Local 110 member Matt Gross get up close and personal in the current national debate over social justice, protests and overcoming their own inherent racism. Women, especially black women, have been a part of organizing together for many, many years, even though there were times post the civil rights movement, women, especially black women, were excluded from labor organizations generally. In 2020, Black women still only make 62 cents on the dollar compared to white, non-Hispanic men. In The Gap is a 12-episode podcast series presented by In These Times in recognition of these ongoing disparities. It's a gripping podcast – a new addition to the Labor Radio Podcast Network -- “about how and why Black women aren't getting their green.” When I first announced that I was going to run for business manager, I was told by some of the members, ‘You know, we respect you for wanting to run for this, but, respectfully, we need a man in there.' The women at work theme continues in this centennial year of women's suffrage on the latest edition of Talking SMART, with a conversation with female leaders and activists in the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union who have taken the lead in creating new opportunities for women in the building trades. I can't separate being Black from being a woman; I have to do both of these things at the same time. And so now that's part of the work that we have to do is recognize that racism still exists. In the best of hearts, the progressive left, White people have to, like, look at themselves and examine how we played into the system and contributed or sustain racism and sexism within our union. That's Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant, on the Solidarity Works podcast, on Women, Work, and Wielding Power in 2020. I guess this could be a lot like 1934; what was happening with the Great Depression and everything that was going on, and struggle was built out of hard times. Willie Adams, president of the International Longshore Workers Union, takes the long view on the current crisis, on The Docker Podcast, another new member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. And on Labor History in 2:  Did you know that one of the main organizers for the march was a man by the name of Bayard Rustin?  Rick Smith on "The Man You've Never Heard Of, But Probably Should Have." Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips

喜欢一个人，即使当自己独处，想起心中的那个他/她，嘴角也会不觉地轻微上扬。喜欢一个人，爱一个人，当自己吃到好吃的东西，也会不由得想和他/她分享。爱情，就是那么简单，纯粹，今天分享一组来自于Sundae Kids的描述爱情的插画，The first date第一次约会Man: “Sorry, I'm late.”不好意思，我迟到了。Woman: “I've waited 20 years to meet you. Just 10 more minutes would be okay.”我等了二十年才遇见你。所以再多等这10分钟也没什么。A smile is a beautiful gift微笑是最美好的礼物Both to receive and give彼此收到，彼此给出Man: “You've got a very beautiful smile.”你的笑容好美。Woman: “I got it from you.”我从你那收到的。The best words about love关于爱最好的对白-My girlfriend is like Google.我的女票就像Google。-Because she knows everything?因为她什么都知道?-No. Because she has everything I'm searching for.不。因为我想找寻的都在她那里。True love is giving him the last slice真爱就是把最后一块披萨让给他You know how much I love pizza. But I will give you the last slice. That's how much you mean to me.你知道我有多喜欢吃披萨，但是最后一块还是让给你。你对于我来说是如此重要。It's never too early to see your face.能越早看到你越好Woman: “Am I too early?”我是不是太早啦?Man: It's never too early to see your face.能越早看到你越好。

喜欢一个人，即使当自己独处，想起心中的那个他/她，嘴角也会不觉地轻微上扬。喜欢一个人，爱一个人，当自己吃到好吃的东西，也会不由得想和他/她分享。爱情，就是那么简单，纯粹，今天分享一组来自于Sundae Kids的描述爱情的插画，The first date第一次约会Man: “Sorry, I'm late.”不好意思，我迟到了。Woman: “I've waited 20 years to meet you. Just 10 more minutes would be okay.”我等了二十年才遇见你。所以再多等这10分钟也没什么。A smile is a beautiful gift微笑是最美好的礼物Both to receive and give彼此收到，彼此给出Man: “You've got a very beautiful smile.”你的笑容好美。Woman: “I got it from you.”我从你那收到的。The best words about love关于爱最好的对白-My girlfriend is like Google.我的女票就像Google。-Because she knows everything?因为她什么都知道?-No. Because she has everything I'm searching for.不。因为我想找寻的都在她那里。True love is giving him the last slice真爱就是把最后一块披萨让给他You know how much I love pizza. But I will give you the last slice. That's how much you mean to me.你知道我有多喜欢吃披萨，但是最后一块还是让给你。你对于我来说是如此重要。It's never too early to see your face.能越早看到你越好Woman: “Am I too early?”我是不是太早啦?Man: It's never too early to see your face.能越早看到你越好。

This is the next cycle of Hustlin' Tech -- a podcast series co-hosted by bestselling authors, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz; and Shaka Senghor, a leading voice in criminal justice reform.   Each episode is a "Hustler's Guide" to a new technology platform that creates opportunity for people. We previously released 3 episodes in this series last quarter, and this quarter are releasing 3 new episodes that follow in this feed, over the next few days. These episodes were all recorded right before the coronavirus pandemic. However, given what's going on in the world, they touch on many things that are top of mind right now: from the profession of nursing (including online communities and free continuing education from home); to taking care of the elderly (many of whom live alone or need other in-home assistance); and fighting bureaucracy to get money back -- or to get help delaying utility bills and rent payments that are eligible for an extension or waiver of late fees due to the crisis:#4 The Hustler's Guide to Nursing Jobs#5 The Hustler's Guide to Taking Care of Old Folks#6 The Hustler's Guide to Suing the Man  You can read more about the what and the why of the entire Hustlin Tech series -- and sign up to be notified about future episodes -- here.

This episode of Listen, Rinse, Repeat was written, produced, and performed by Gabriel Alvarez of Starcalled: a sci-fi, action audio fiction podcast. Sound and music also be Gabriel. Special thanks to Shannon Perry of the Oz-9 podcast and David S. Dear of A Ninth World Journal.  start GUARDS (O.S.):​ Up here -- they went this way! Move, move, move!  THE MAN: ​We’re out of time. You’re good with locks right?  He pulls you to a locked door.  THE MAN: ​Get those hands moving.  He knocks on the door.  THE MAN: ​This door’s the only way back to the ship. I’ll hold them off.  He cocks his plasma bolter.  THE MAN: ​You’d better be as good as they say.  You unlock the first set of calipers on the door.  THE MAN:​ You’re almost through… ...you’re pretty good. Don’t think you’re gonna get a bigger cut.  The door unlocks and slides open.  THE MAN: ​That’s it! Move!!  You both run through the door. He closes it. He grabs your shoulder.  THE MAN:​ Hey. Nice work back there. Now let’s get to the ship.    end NARRATOR: ​This episode of Listen, Rinse, Repeat was written, produced, and performed by Gabriel  Alvarez of Starcalled: a sci-fi, action audio fiction podcast. Find us on Twitter @starcalledradio. 

Long-time listeners of the Premier Christianity podcast will no doubt have fond memories of our former cultural commentator and all-round funny guy Martin Saunders. Well, he’s back this week with a brand new book The Man You’re Made To Be (SPCK). In this episode, Martin talks to Sam Hailes about banter, Twitter, mental health, Jesus, (not) watching women’s football and the Swedish method of Bible reading.

Youthscape’s Martin Saunders speaks to Ruth Jackson about his journey to faith and into youth work. He discusses important questions around gender, sex and identity and shares some thoughts about his new book The Man You’re Made to Be. 

In 2004, Jim Lange started his own business with a focus on developing Christians in areas such as business, leadership, relationships, marriage, emotional issues, and finding overall success in life. As a sought-after adviser and coach, Jim knows how to ask the right questions. He helps people solve their biggest problems through life-coaching, public speaking, authoring, and consulting. In all he does, he brings experience, problem-solving skills, and passion to help others. Jim is a #1 best-selling and award-winning author having written such works as "Bleedership: Biblical First-Aid for Leaders"; "Calming the Storm Within: How to Find Peace in this Chaotic World" as well as "The Happy Wife Happy Life Deception: How to Stop Walking on Eggshells and Be the Man You were Made to Be". Hear Jim talk with Dr. Joey about how the scriptures help him help others!

What’s the key to propelling your business towards incredible success? And how do you make sure your family and marriage are being built on solid values? Calvin Wayman did exactly that when he entered into the entrepreneurial lifestyle with his wife and kids. Calvin took the risk of leaving his family traditions and faith behind to pursue his dreams and master the skills he was born with. Now, he helps businesses improve their social media marketing, is the host of the Curious Podcast, and helps people out of debt and into prosperity through the Prosperity Loop. Listen to this episode to hear incredible stories of Calvin’s unusual childhood, his road to inspirational success, and how you can break free of your creative limitations to be the role model your kids need.   “I believe that people are innately awesome and innately good.” -Calvin Wayman Subscribe to the podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Overcast PodBean TuneIn Radio   We love your feedback! Subscribe and leave a review so we can help you take the EXACT steps you need to live a high-performance life! Timestamps: 5:50 - Can’t imagine running a full marathon? How about 2 at once? Calvin shares what it’s like to push your body beyond its mental limits and RUN a 50-mile race 16:56 - The difference between exercising and challenging your body to its maximum capacity 24:43 - Polygomy and religion: How fear created Calvin’s own hell outside of religion 42:00 - How to elevate your perspective of life by breaking your boundaries of success and using your inner skills to dominate as an entrepreneur 49:52 - If you’re married and trying to launch your entrepreneurial journey, then hear why you might have a secret weapon right next to you 59:07 - Marriage and the Morman faith: How Calvin’s unusual backstory produces valuable insights into identity and tradition 1:06:05 -  Unlock your inspiration to do good: The difference between spirituality and religion 1:14:25 - Dating vs. Arranged Marriages: Why experience teaches your kids more than their education 1:23:20 - Should your kids be homeschooled or public schooled? Calvin gives you the guidelines you need to make the right decision   Resources: Steve Prefontaine Order Of Man Podcast with Ryan Michler Order of Man: Become the Man You are Meant to Be Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Ayahuasca   Connect with Calvin: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube CalvinWayman.com Curious with Calvin Wayman Podcast   Connect with Steve: Instagram Facebook Snapchat Twitter Join the movement Catch Steve’s full workouts on YouTube Share it with other high performers #SteveWeatherfordShow

We are excited to announce the coming of the new book by Pastor Vlad "BREAK FREE". Coming to Amazon, Audible, iBooks in August. For more http://www.hungrygen.com/breakfreebook Message Notes: Matthew 3:16-17 The Holy Spirit rests on the revelation of Fatherhood of God! Every one needs three fathers: 
 1. Heavenly Father Ps.68:5; Is.9:6; Mt.6:9; Luke 11:13; Rom.8:15-16
 2. Earthly father Ex.20:12; Eph.6:2-3
 3. Spiritual father 1 Cor.4:15; 
 
 A ‘coach’ contains something, or someone, who carries a valued person from where they are to where they want to be. Five stages of development of men:
 
 1. We are born MALE
 
 Being a male is not your decision, it’s your discovery. 
 
 2. We become BOYS
 
 A boy is passive, a man is assertive 
 A boy lives for a moment, a man plans for future
 A boy looks a girlfriend, a man looks for a wife
 A boy speaks, a man acts
 A boy is possessive, a man is protective 
 A boy plays games, a man shoulder responsibilities
 A boy tells others he is a man, men quietly live it A boy makes experiences, a man makes progress A boy makes demands, a man serves A boy lies, cheats, and deceives, a man tells the truth When you are boy people are fed up by you, when you are a man people are fed by you.
 
 3. We grow to become a MAN
 
 You are male by birth but male by choice. 
 Maturity makes a man. 
 Maturity is not age, appearance, achievements or academics, it’s an attitude. 
 4. We get married and become a HUSBAND
 
 Marriage makes you a husband, maturity makes you a great husband. Marriage will kill a boy in you or a boy in you will kill a marriage. 
 Man loves his wife not because she is lovable but because he is loving. Money. Communication. Conflict. Love vs Honor. 
 5. We graduate to becoming a FATHER 
 Its much easier to become a father than to be one. 
 Your greatest blessing to your kids is your presence not your presents Do kids run to you when you have nothing in your hands? Do you love me? Care for My children. Pastor Vlad released a new book "BREAK FREE", available on iBooks, Amazon, Kindle, Audible and everywhere books are sold. For more information: http://www.hungrygen.com/breakfreebook Stay connected with Pastor Vlad Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vladhungrygen Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vladhungrygen Twitter https://www.twitter.com/vladhungrygen Subscribe to his blog: https://www.hungrygen.com/blog Use hashtag #hungrygen #pastorvlad

Dr. Joe Martin is an award-winning speaker, author, professor, and retention expert. He's authored or co-authored seven books, including the top-selling Good Teachers Never Quit and Tricks of the Grade. In spite of being reared in one of the toughest inner-city ghettos in Miami, Florida, Joe started his first business at the age of 22 and his second at the age of 26. Professor Martin became the youngest, tenured-earning faculty member ever hired to teach at a state University in Florida at the age of 24. He's now regarded as “The Educator's Educator” and the country's leading expert on new teacher retention and student motivation issues. Joe is a visiting professor and educational consultant and he lectures on more than 60 college campuses a year. Favorite Success Quote: “Watch what most people would do in a given situation and do the total opposite” ~ Dr. Joe Martin Key Points 1. Do Not Follow the Crowd If you want to achieve a life that is different from the crowd, if you want to break away from the flock, and live life on your terms, then you cannot take the same action that the flock takes. You must ensure that every decision you make is as far removed from what the average and mediocre would do as possible. Seek out mentors, find role models living the life that you desire, and model your actions after them. Do not follow what uninspired and small minds are doing. Ignore their criticism and focus on becoming great. 2. External Trappings Do Not Make You a Man You can achieve every goal you have set in life. The beautiful wife, the big house, sports car and million dollar business, but none of it makes you a man. The measure of a man is not in the size of his wallet, or number of women he's slept with; the measure of a man is his character and his impact. It does not matter how much money you are making if you are not making it in an honorable manner. It does not matter how beautiful your wife is if you are not treating her with respect and dignity. It does not what you have achieved if you are not living your life for a purpose bigger than yourself! To be a true man, you must have unwavering values, you must focus on helping others more than yourself, and you must make sure that your existence means something to this world. 3. A Real Man Has Integrity One of the most essential traits of a real man is integrity. Doing what you say you will do and doing what you know and believe is right…PERIOD. If you set a standard for yourself or commit an action to someone else, it does not matter how you feel in the moment, it does not matter that you are tired or weak or busy. Do what is right, and do what you say you will do. NO trait is more important than this. 4. Your Purpose is Above Everything Your purpose in this life is unique. In a world of 7 billion people, no one else has your exact calling, no one has your exact talents, mindset and goals. You must put this calling, this purpose above everything else. You must put it above your relationships, above your bank account and above your momentary desires. Your purpose is what guides you through everything so you must not forgo it for anything. 5. A Real Man Teaches Others to Be Real Men  An essential transition in every man's journey is when he realizes that he has the obligation to teach and mentor others. Regardless of your status in life or your development as a man, you still have something valuable to offer the world and other men. Do not do yourself or the world the disservice of letting that gift go un-given. Teach others what you know, help those struggling in trials through which you have already passed and be generous with your time and gifts. Because at the end of the day, the money, cars, and one night stands will amount to nothing and all that will remain is the legacy you leave and the lives you impact 6. You Must Have a Mentor As men, we are often hesitant to admit our need for help to ourselves, let alone others. However, we must realize that a true man knows his weaknesses and brings other men into his life to help him work through the challenges. Life is confusing, it's scary and it's uncertain, but it doesn't need to be lonely. Open up, be vulnerable, be authentic; find a man that you can trust and ask him to help you, to hold you accountable, to mentor you. Your life will never be the same once you do.

While many rural communities are home to predomenantly male leaders, there are pleanty of professional women making an impact in rural healthcare systems, industries, and organizations. Today we speak to a few of these women who are chaning the face of rural leadership and promoting equity within their communites.    - [Julia] This Rural Mission is brought to you by Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Leadership in Rural Medicine Programs. The podcast is funded in part by a generous grant provided by the Herbert H. And Grace A. Dow Foundation. To learn more about the Leadership in Rural Medicine Programs, please visit www.msururalhealth.chm.msu.edu. I'm your host, Julia Terhune, and stay tuned for more from this Rural Mission.  (lively banjo music) -[Julia] What do you want to be when you grow up? - [Dina] I don't know yet (giggling in background) but I'm thinking about maybe being a doctor. - [Julia] A doctor? What kind of doctor? - [Dina] Probably a doctor that gives checkups. - [Julia] What do you want to be when you grow up? - [Selah] Superhero. - [Julia] I think that you're gonna be a really great superhero, but I also think that you're gonna be a really good doctor, Dina. - [Salah] I'm not gonna be a superhero; I'm gonna be another doctor. - [Julia] You're gonna be a doctor, too? - [Selah] A family doctor.  (quiet giggling) - [Julia] That's perfect. You guys can both be doctors and work in the same office. - [Selah] I can be the person who gives shots. Sometimes we have to give the baby shots and they cry a lot. - [Julia] Yeah, but then you give them stickers and they feel better. I'm excited for you guys to become doctors. - [Selah] And when I become a doctor, instead of giving them a sticker, I'll give them a barbie.  (lively banjo music) - [Julia] Those little voices that you just heard are two of my favorite little people, Dina and Sala. You know, it just warms my heart because Dina and Selah live in a world that I lived in where girls could do anything. Dina wants to be a doctor; Sala wants to be a superhero. There's no reason why she can't be a superhero and why she would think that being a girl would hinder that at all, and I lived in that world, too. I lived in a world where I thought and believed that I could do anything, and for the most part, there have been very few barriers for me reaching my goals and my dreams. That's not to say that I haven't felt adversity or I haven't dealt with other roadblocks, but when it comes to my gender, I haven't felt that as much, but I know my mom did. I know my mom did, and I know that the women before us have fought so tirelessly to make a difference and to stand up for women's rights because women's rights are human rights, and I think that that has been a big thing that we need to realize and I think that there's been a lot of effort made in that area. But it's not to say that there's not more that can't be done.  (slow twangy music) There's a stereotype in rural communities that rural communities are very patriarchal, and to some degree, that actually is the case. And I will qualify that stereotype by stating that when you look at the job structure or the job market in rural communities, what you tend to see is that there is a limit in the number of industries that you find in those different counties. So while this isn't the case for every single rural county in the United States, at least what we see among the demographics in the rural counties in Michigan, the leadership of those more white collar-jobs and the leadership in more of those blue collar-jobs are men. I'm going to be interviewing a number of women who have made and are making some really amazing differences and a pretty big splash in their rural community, and no matter how you slice it or what way you look at it, the women that we're going to talk to today are leaders in their county. One area that we've seen tremendous growth in gender equality is in medical education and the medical workforce. Dr. Young lived at a time and went to medical school at a time when that fight for female representation in medical school was still alive and well. Dr. Young practices rural family medicine and her daughter is enrolled in the Rural Community Health Program at Michigan State University. Katie is a fantastic student and quite an amazing young woman, and I'm excited for you to hear this next segment because I think it really shows if we keep working towards equalizing, and making a difference,  and changing the face, and changing the standard of something, if everybody works for that same effort and if everybody continues to make it a priority,  I really think that some magical things happen and this next segment with Dr. Young and Katie Young really gets to the heart of that idea. - [Dr. Young] So when I was  young and in high school, my counselor said to me, at that time thought I wanted to go to law school, that I should not do that, that I should get a job that helped maybe be a second income when I got married and had children. And my parents always believed that I could do whatever I wanted. I just always grew up hearing that, and so when I went home and told my parents, they were, "What?" And so I always had the motivation from my parents, "You can do whatever you want." (soft melancholy chord) - [Katie] I mean I grew up in a family where my mom was the sole bread winner of the family and my dad actually stayed home with me and my younger brother and then was really involved in community otherwise, and so my sense of gender roles from a very early age was that women can be just as empowered as men easily and I was also extremely lucky to have a lot of other strong women in my life. - [Dr. Young] I had no female role models as a physician as a little girl. I do not remember ever meeting a female physician as a little girl. I was the first woman physician on staff at Charlevoix in many, many years when I started in the fall of '92, so for me it was wonderful. My practice filled up right from the get-go. I've been busy since I got here. - [Julia] Wow. - [Dr. Young] It was so cool because women wanted to see women. - [Katie] I know my mom was one of very few women in her medical school graduating class and now I'm in a medical school graduating class that's slightly over 50% women. - [Dr. Young] I honestly can't remember the exact statistics. I want to say our class was 28 to 30% women. We were less than the majority, that was for sure. - [Katie] And so I think that says a lot about how many areas have gotten broken down by people, and my mom's generation, and then my grandparent's generation. For me, I'm really interested in going in the surgical field, and you know, I got warned by my mentors who were two awesome older gentlemen surgeons when I was in high school, and my mom has pointed out to me, as well as professionals from the Lansing area that if I want to go into surgery, that that's one of the last factions of, I guess, male-dominated area in medicine. - [Julia] Do you think you can handle it? - [Katie] I'm not too worried about handling it. I feel pretty confident in my own abilities, I guess, and I feel like if I allow myself to feel intimidated or to feel embarrassed, then I feel like that just further feeds into that stereotypical role that women should be filling, which would be a subservient one, and so I think it really depends a lot on having the self-confidence and having the class to maintain a real professional demeanor, even when those around you, be they male or female colleagues, can't seem to. - [Dr. Young] I see that, in my professional career, try to set the best example every day that I can. I don't see that necessarily just as a woman, but as a human being and I hope that as we progress with time that we will see that individuals should go into careers or job opportunities based on their skills and their ability, and whether or not you're a man or a woman or the color of your skin. So I really, I mean, I know that I'm a role model, but I hope it's not just because I'm a woman. Kind of like the "When they go low, "you go high." - [Man] Three, two, one! ♫ Don't mess, don't mess ♫ Don't mess with the best ♫ 'Cause the best don't mess ♫ Don't fool, don't fool ♫ Don't fool with the cool ♫ 'Cause the cool don't fool ♫ To the East ♫ To the West ♫ (mumbles) is the best ♫ We're gonna B-E-A-T beat 'em, beat 'em ♫ B-U-S-T bust 'em, bust 'em ♫ Beat 'em, Bust 'em ♫ That's our custom ♫ Come on out, let's readjust 'em ♫ Hip hop, we're on top ♫ Go (mumbles) (upbeat guitar music) - [Julia] It's important to have an array of perspectives, an array of cultures, and an array of persons and genders in every institution and organization because those perspectives, ideas, and opinions are going to make decisions that provide equity to all persons and help to break down barriers and help to break down vulnerabilities in all types of populations and settings, and this is even more concerning and even more important when we're talking about rural communities who are already underserved.  (slow guitar music) - [Darcy] My name is Darcy Czarnik-Laurin. I'm the Executive Director for Thumb Rule Health Network. Well it was created, gosh, over a decade ago. We're looking at probably close to 13 years. A lot of the leaders, the CEOs and department heads and stuff from the rural critical access hospitals in the thumb region, and I'm going to just say that that region is Huron, Tuscola, and Sanilac Counties, there are seven critical access hospitals in those three counties and that's small hospital heavy for a rural region, but it's also very important because there aren't the larger health systems. The leaders of those hospitals, they would see one another at regional meetings and they said, "Hey, historically we are competitors. "We will always be competitors, "but we're working toward the same goal, so what can we do to work together to help one another out?" because they know the importance of rural health care. I was the female voice when I started and that's changed, but I was rather intimidated. - [Julia] Stop. Because right there, that statement is exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about having everybody at the table. When we don't have adequate representation of all persons, all creeds, all cultures, all genders, then that feeling of insecurity is a real thing. And it doesn't just stop at personal feelings because we can't control that, but it does become more systemic when people don't feel adequate, when they don't feel like they're contributing to something or that they can't, they won't, and then that voice that's sitting at the table becomes marginalized and that marginalized voice then doesn't help make all the differences that we need to see being made in communities. When we have a vulnerable population and a marginalized population within that vulnerable population, things can get pretty bad. Now, I don't mean to interrupt Darcy here because she's about to make some really interesting points, but I couldn't let an opportunity like that go to waste, so here's Darcy again. - [Darcy] Here I came onboard never holding the position that I hold with Thumb Rule Health Network. I had a lot of knowledge, I had a lot of experience, but to sit at a table with mostly a male audience sitting around the table and men that hold that position of CEO was rather intimidating to me, you know, so I don't want to mess up. (laughs) - [Julia] Do you ever think about being a female leader while you're doing your position? - [Darcy] Yes, I do. I do think about being a female leader and a lot of it I'm still nervous about, I have to be honest. - [Julia] Is that important to you, being a leader? - [Darcy] Yeah, it's definitely important. And there's times where I just sit back and I say, Hey, I came from  this tiny little village town in Arenac County. "I graduated out of a class of about 26 people," and I look back and I think what would my life look like if I hadn't met the people I met, had the upbringing I had, took the roads that I took. Talking about my class kind of just sparked something else. I want to say we had about 26 people, and out of my core group of friends that we still, and somewhat keep in touch, we have me, I'm the executive director of a nonprofit, we have a veterinarian, we have a couple RNs, we have a zookeeper. And these are all the women! Out of that small, little class out of this tiny, little, rural class D school that when people say, "Oh well, you graduated from Arenac Eastern, that's not a very good school," and it goes down to, again, the way people are raised, their community, their mentors, their support, and their choices in life. So, yeah, I think it's important that I am a leader. I may not always view myself as a leader because I still have doubts, but I know I am a leader and I'm hoping that I have some type of impact or I'm possibly a mentor to some people.  ("Ivory Girl" by Bryan Eggers) - [Julia] That is why women rule and why we need more women in leadership positions in rural America and we need more female physicians willing and ready to go into these small towns and serve for as long as it takes, much like what Dr. Young has done and what Katie Young is about to do.  Those women are making a difference. People like Darcy are sitting on these tough and intimidating committees and speaking up for what is most needed and what is most necessary, and those women are just the start of it. There are so many women who are making a difference in rural communities, so I'm just gonna encourage you  that if you have considered working with an underserved population in any capacity, whether that be a nurse, or an accountant,  or a medical doctor, I encourage you to really consider making rural your mission and making a difference in your rural community or in a rural community that you grow to love. ♫ If I searched the whole wide world ♫ My ivory girl - [Julia] I want to thank everybody again for listening to this podcast. As always, I'm going to thank Dr. Wendling for her support and encouragement of this podcast. She has made a tremendous difference in my life and in my career, as well as the life and career of so many other people and I just want to give her a sincere thank you. I also want to give a sincere thank you to Darcy. She has been a fantastic  colleague and friend over the last two years and I've enjoyed working with her and Thumb Rural  Health Network.   As much as we talked about how the group of CEOs in the thumb  are a bit intimidating, the truth of the matter is they're a group of really fantastic professional men that are devoted to the health and security of the thumb. I want to thank Dr. Young for taking time out of her busy schedule to talk to me, but I also want to thank Katie Young for taking time out of her schedule because she's a second-year medical student right now, and, man, for her to give up the time to talk to me out of her busy study schedule was tremendous, so thank you, Katie. Thank you, again, to everybody who listened to this podcast and please tune in next time for more from This Rural Mission. ♫ Couldn't find another ♫ If I searched the whole wide world, yeah ♫ My ivory girl ♫ My ivory girl ♫ My ivory girl ♫ Couldn't find another ♫ If I searched the whole wide world, yeah ♫ My ivory girl ♫ Couldn't find another ♫ If I searched the whole wide world ♫ My ivory girl ♫ My ivory girl - [Julia] Please visit our website at www.msururalhealth.chm.msu.edu. By joining our website you could connect to us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also find out more about our musician. Music today was provided by Horton Creek and Bryan Eggers, a local musician and Michigan native. We hope you tune in next time to hear more from This Rural Mission.  (beep) When I say that we live in a world where girls think they  can be anything they want when they grow up,  Sala definitely proves that  that statement is true. - [Selah] I want to be famous here as a doctor. - [Man] You want to be famous— - [Selah] Or should I be a grown up that goes to gymnastics? - [Man] Should you be a grown up that goes to gymnastics or a doctor?    (laughter) That's a really tough one because both of those people are gonna be really famous. - [Selah] Both!  

Sermon by Bishop Mosa Sono, Christmas message preached at Grace Bible Church Pimville on the 25th of December 2016, titled: Jesus: Who is this Man? You can contact us or send us your questions on the following platforms:- e-mail: biblestudy@gracebiblechurch.org.za, FaceBook: Grace Bible Church Soweto, Twitter: @BishopMosaSono.

Pastor, My name is Marshall Eagleman, I work at Morris-Marker Book Publishers. Recently I received an unsolicited manuscript from an author using the nom de plume: “Don, the Man You should Marry” whom I believe to be an associate of yours, one Donald Falcon. The manuscript, titled “Insist on Love, or How I learned to love […]

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