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385 - Join Rob and Kerri Stuart as they take you on a magical journey through Disney's Port Orleans Resort. In this episode of Disney Travel Secrets, we'll explore both French Quarter and Riverside, revealing why Port Orleans has been our favorite moderate resort for years. Discover hidden gems, learn about the best rooms, dining options, and can't-miss activities. We'll compare the two sections of the resort, share pro tips for making the most of your stay, and dive into the rich theming that makes Port Orleans truly special. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a Disney veteran, this guide will help you create unforgettable memories at one of Walt Disney World's most charming resorts. Don't miss our insider secrets and expert advice on navigating Port Orleans like a pro!" This description incorporates key elements from your outline, including: Mentioning both French Quarter and Riverside Highlighting your personal preference for the resort Teasing comparisons between the two sections Promising insider tips and secrets Emphasizing the resort's theming and activities Download the free Stress-Free Planning Worksheet at HowToDoDisney.com to help plan your next magical Disney vacation. Don't forget to subscribe to the Disney Travel Secrets YouTube channel to catch this episode on video. And get ready to share your thoughts and reactions using #DisneyTravelSecrets. LYFT REFERRAL CODE: You get 50% off 2 Lyft rides in Orlando if you sign up using our referral link. Terms apply, excludes Wait & Save. Ready to plan your 2024 and 2025 Disney Destinations Vacation? CLICK HERE Join us on our Facebook Page _________________________ Let us help you plan your next Disney vacation. Our services are free and you get us and our insider tips customized to YOUR family to help you have the most magical vacation. CONNECT WITH US HERE Want to save on gas? Upside App Referral Code - XD3VD Make sure you are receiving our weekly email. Just go to DisneyTravelSecrets.com and complete the form. Have a topic you would like covered on the show? Please reach out to us on social media and let us know.
Black Moon Lilith & Surprise Wins: Did Raquel Spring Hear My Secret Wish? (Part 2) with Raquel Spring & Altair! Calling all star seeds and Black Moon Lilith enthusiasts! Grandpa Bill's here with a story you won't want to miss! After years of following the amazing Raquel Spring, guess what? Grandpa Bill won a free spot in her online course through a raffle at one of her events! Was it just luck, or a sign from the universe related to Black Moon Lilith? We'll be digging into synchronicity, those unexpected gifts that feel like a cosmic high-five. Plus, the one and only Raquel Spring joins us to discuss Black Moon Lilith and how to harness its energy for personal growth! Welcome to The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour! The Black Moon Lilith discussion from the previous episode. Sharing my excitement about winning Raquel Spring's course raffle. Mentioning how long I've been following her work. Explaining the concept of synchronicity, drawing a connection to your win. Maybe share an anecdote about a time you experienced a similar "cosmic nudge." Raquel Spring and my admiration for her work. Black Moon Lilith and its potential role in synchronicity. How can we recognize these signs from the universe? Grandpa Bill ask listeners to leave your questions-submit questions online at The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour Voicemail Message Board about their own experiences with Black Moon Lilith or unexpected opportunities. Briefly summarizing the key takeaways and encouraging listeners to be open to the universe's playful nudges. #BlackMoonLilith, #Synchronicity, #CosmicHighFive, #RaquelSpringWins, #BHSalesKennelKelpHolisticHealingHour, #Podcast, #Astrology, Grandpa Bill hopes you have some questions for our time with Raquel Spring and Altair as they delve deeper into Black Moon Lilith and its influence on personal growth. This revision is in gratefulness and coming from a long-standing interest in Raquel Spring's work. I hope that it emphasizes the synchronicity of the raffle win and connects it to the Black Moon Lilith theme. Grandpa Bill will breakdown future content related to the course, hopefully encouraging your continued engagement with our podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bhsales/message
PREVIEW: #PUTIN: Conversation with colleagues Peter Huessy and Gordon Chang re the serial episodic threats by Putin mentioning the nuclear weapons in Russia's arsenal -- and the distinction between deterrence and aggression. More later. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-says-russia-does-not-need-to-use-nuclear-weapons-for-victory-in-ukraine/ar-BB1nP8Sl 1956 Nevada Test Range
The New York Knicks have been linked to a number of superstars over the past few seasons but this latest report adds another to the list. According to Kendrick Perkins, he wants Anthony Davis to join the Knicks. Mentioning that if AD doesn't like the direction the Lakers are taking, he could join NY creating a legendary duo of AD & JB. Perkins believes this trade can happen at this point after the Leon Rose & Rich Paul meeting a few months ago… Troy Mahabir breaks all of this down! SHOW CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - Kendrick Perkins Wants Knicks To Trade For Anthony Davis 01:38 - Perkins Believes Trade Can Happen After Leon/Rich Meeting 02:28 - Anthony Davis & Jalen Brunson Would Be A Lethal Duo 03:20 - Dan Hurley Now Set To Be Lakers Head Coach, Not JJ Redick 04:10 - Anthony Davis Fits Knicks Based On His Skillset 05:25 - Cost For Davis Would Be Off The Charts! 07:20 - Trading For A Star With Injury Past Will Backfire For NY 09:00 - Injuries Only Going To Get Worst For AD As He Gets Older 11:00 - Doesn't Make Sense For NY To Risk Assets For AD LISTEN NOW TO GET YOUR KNICKS FIX! Catch the latest special interviews, shorts, fan interactions, and more by following the show! Don't forget to turn on notifications so you don't miss another episode! Rather Watch the latest Knicks Recap episode? Catch us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheKnicksRecap Follow The Knicks Recap on all social media platforms! Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheKnicksRecap Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheKnicksRecap/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/u/TheKnicksRecap?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheKnicksRecap/ Rather Listen to The Knicks Recap on a different platform? Catch us on ALL of your favorite streaming platforms: Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3SKSl8o Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3QrEfr6 iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-knicks-recap-a-new-yor-100895112/ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3QoZrOd Other Pod Channels: https://anchor.fm/the-knicks-recap Grab our MERCH featuring some of the graphics you've seen us create to take your Knicks fandom to the NEXT LEVEL: MAIN STORE: https://theknicksrecap.myspreadshop.com/ CashApp: $TheKnicksRecap Have a comment about the show, an interview, or a graphic idea? Reach out to The Knicks Recap on ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS!
A high school graduate was punished after he went off-script and mentioned “Jesus Christ” in his commencement address. Also, a New York jury deliberates the fate of President Trump today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html “Religion is an attempt to find meaning in events, not a theory that tries to explain the universe.” It exists because we humans are the only species, so far as we can know, who have evolved to know explicitly that, one day in the future, we will die. And this existential fact requires some way of reconciling us to it while we are alive. No meaning = Hopelessness. What is wokeness? https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy If you want to contact us please do so at info@cloudstreaks.com
Hello Friends! This one is suuuuper special! Not only is this the second consecutive week where the Pod was recorded live in person... this time we have a guest co host! That's right... The amazing, incredible, absolutely stunning Stephanie is here and she is bringing the funny the only way she can! This time Stephanie hates bird related improve games, Jordan wasn't picked to stand up in his father in law's wedding and they both discuss group texts! Thanks for stopping by!Support the Show.Like the show?! Want to support us?! Click here!Email us @ tidbitzwiththeboyz@gmail.com Tik Tok Instagram Facebook
Today I discuss, the good, bad, and some ugly of Helldivers 2. Mentioning what I believe can help rebalance, and revitalize some core issues. However I stand firmly on the fact that HD2 is one of the best games this year still.
Amr ibn Al-Aas (ra), Session 99 The Fox of The Arabs Fabricated reports mentioning mutilation. Aqueel ibn Abu Talid (ra) visits Mu'awaiya (ra) and both amongst other things speak about Surah Masadd.
PREVIEW: #HAMAS: Conversation with colleague Malcolm Hoenlein re the dominantly foreignorigin funding directed to the agitprop on university and college campuses since last autumn -- and its origins, mentioning PRC: China. Details tonight and later in the week. 1918 Harvard commencement
Elizabeth McCravy is a Showit website designer, online business educator, and host of the Breakthrough Brand Podcast. She's the creator of the popular courses, Booked Out Designer and Podcast Success Blueprint, and she's the web designer behind Elizabeth McCravy Shop templates. Elizabeth is a wife, boy mama times two, and believer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Resources: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethmccravy/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabethmccravydesignPinterest https://www.pinterest.com/elizabethmccravy/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNFk3M0zKo2XUG4TzsfO3kQ/v Podcast: https://elizabethmccravy.com/podcast How to Want from a Place of Abundance: https://elizabethmccravy.com/how-to-want-from-abundance-mindset/ Elizabeth's Journey: Elizabeth shares her background in yoga teaching and its influence on her approach to life and business. Discussion on the significance of being deliberate in setting goals and pursuing dreams. Insights into the challenges and rewards of being the youngest and only Christian in her yoga training program. The Power of Vision Casting: Exploring the concept of vision casting and its role in achieving success. Emphasizing the importance of setting clear goals and enjoying the journey toward achieving them. Practical tips for incorporating vision casting into daily life, including journaling and reflective practices. Dreaming for Your Home and Business: Elizabeth shares her personal strategies for dreaming and casting vision for her family and business. Discussion on the benefits of setting goals and creating a roadmap for future success. Encouragement for listeners to embrace the power of dreaming and vision casting in their own lives. Vision Casting: What Do You Want Your Life to Look Like? Opening with the idea of vision casting as a foundational practice for goal setting. Reflecting on personal experiences with vision casting and how it shapes future aspirations. Discussing the process of writing down goals and dreams for different time frames (e.g., one year, five years) and the importance of speaking them aloud. Sharing anecdotes about revisiting past visions and realizing how life has unfolded differently than expected. Inviting God into the Dreaming Process Exploring the role of faith in vision casting and inviting God into the process. Emphasizing the importance of slowing down, praying, and listening to God's guidance. Mentioning resources like the book "Dreaming with God" for deeper exploration of faith-based goal setting. Practical Strategies for Building Routines Transitioning into practical strategies for building routines that support long-term goals. Sharing personal routines and systems for meal prep, especially for busy seasons of life like parenthood. Highlighting the value of starting small, setting achievable goals, and embracing flexibility in routines. Addressing the "all or nothing" mentality and offering tips for overcoming perfectionism and staying consistent. Adapting Routine Systems: Exploring the need for adaptable routine systems, especially for moms navigating different seasons of motherhood. Stressing the importance of evaluating and adjusting routines as circumstances change. Introducing the concept of rhythm dials to visually assess and adjust various life aspects. Prioritizing Health Amidst Business and Motherhood: Discussing the challenges of prioritizing health while managing a business and family. Emphasizing the necessity of intentional planning and scheduling health activities. Highlighting the role of health in long-term success and resilience. Personal Insights and Reflections: Sharing personal experiences and struggles with prioritizing health during pregnancy and postpartum. Emphasizing the importance of self-care for overall well-being. Reflecting on the significance of setting oneself up for success in different life stages. Favorite Part of Helping Others: Wrapping up with a discussion on the joy and fulfillment derived from helping others prioritize their health. Reflecting on the satisfaction of empowering individuals to navigate life's seasons with resilience and wellness.
The best leaders and most successful people I've met also exemplify generosity. This is not an accident. “Generosity” means “giving or sharing,” and being liberal in so doing. It isn't primarily about money, but it is about credit, recognition, time, listening, coaching, supporting, and so forth. If it's authentic, then it's consistent, not situational. I've always thought the award winners who get on stage and thank 20 people are many times those whom the people being thanked have thought of as horrible, selfish people with whom to work. Generosity is often about hard work and sacrifice, not merely “giving.” Writing a check is easy, serving at a soup kitchen is harder, chairing a nonprofit board that's in trouble is harder still. Caitlin Clark led basketball statistics in scoring, but she was also very highly rated in assists. Mentioning someone laudably in public (and on social media) is generous, as is not mentioning negatives. Refraining from complaining, especially over minor issues is generous. We often call it “giving the benefit of the doubt.” Developing people is generous. Maya Angelou has noted that “we train animals, but we should educate people.” We shouldn't assume people are somehow “damaged” and require remedial work (which most self-help books do). We shouldn't project our personal shortcomings to others, as if they must be universal to salve our egos (this is called “projecting”). Being vulnerable and honest is generous. To admit our mistakes and fears to others is a generous act, encouraging them to feel safe doing so, and enabling them to try to help us and that we will willingly listen. We should also overlook minor flaws that may discomfort us but are trivial in the large scheme of things. I had a coaching client who told me he was annoyed when one of his customers chewed on the ice from a drink. I asked if this were somehow dysfunctional. He said it was just irksome. I suggested he just live with it and forget it. But, ungenerously, he told the client that the habit was irritating. The customer then told him to “get lost.” Refraining from holding a grudge or harboring resentment is generous, as is never taking things personally. (I didn't make a sale at this time in this place to this person. That doesn't mean the person doesn't like me or that I'm not worthy.) And remember Joseph Epstein's famous observation: “The true measure of generosity is not how much one gives but how much, after giving, one has left over.” It's a fundamental concept or philosophy about life.
Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson l Presented By Marigold
In this episode of "Do This, Not That," host Jay Schwedelson discusses the power of celebrating holidays and unofficial holidays in marketing campaigns. He also shares stats showing increased engagement from anniversary emails, birthday emails, and content tied to those unofficial holidays. You'll also get tips for finding unofficial holidays to build campaigns around using the free tool, Gemini, from Google.Best Moments:(02:54) Anniversary emails for newsletter subscriptions and customer purchases lift open and click rates by over 30%(04:27) Birthday emails boost open rates by over 30% for consumer marketing and 20% for business marketing(06:01) Mentioning an unofficial holiday in an email subject line increases open rates by over 35%(06:37) Tying an unofficial holiday to a content offer increases download rates by over 40%Don't Forget:Register for Guru Conference 2024!And a MASSIVE thank you to our Sponsor, Marigold!!Marigold is a relationship marketing platform designed to help you acquire new customers and turn them into superfans with their best-in-class loyalty solutions. Don't take my word for it though, American Airlines, Honeybaked Ham, Title Boxing, and Notre Dame University are also customers!Regardless of your size, check out Marigold today to get the solution you need to grow your business!Get this podcast EXCLUSIVE offer today!https://jayschwedelson.com/marigold/
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Send us a Text Message.In the highly anticipated Pesach Seder Wine Pick episode, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath and Dr. Kenny Friedman announce their picks. They choose wines only from Israel in four price categories: Under $20, $20 to $40, $40 to $80, and over $80. Additionally, they choose one Moshiach wine from the depths of their cellars. They choose exclusively red wines as these are preferred for the Four Cups. They emphasize the importance of choosing Israeli wines for the Seder and supporting the Israeli wine industry. In this conversation, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath and Kenny Friedman discuss their top wine picks for Passover. The conversation highlights the diversity and quality of Israeli wines and the importance of supporting Israeli winemakers, more so now than ever. They also discuss the significance of remembering and focusing on the Israeli hostages during the Seder, may they be brought home safely, speedily, and in good health now.Takeaways---Choose Israeli wines for the Seder to support the Israeli wine industry.---Consider the price range and value when selecting wines.---Look for wines that are easy to drink and pair well with the Seder meal.---Explore different grape varieties and blends for a variety of flavors and experiences. ----Israeli wines offer a wide range of options and are of high quality.---Supporting Israeli winemakers is important.---Mentioning a hostage or soldier during the Seder is a meaningful way to honor them.---Choosing wines for Passover can be a personal and enjoyable experience.Support the Show.Email your questions and comments to kosherwinepodcast@gmail.com
Pr. Christopher Heaton, author “Mentioning the Unmentionables” Mentioning the Unmentionables: Naming the Corrosive Threat to Our Lives Together and Our Faithful Response in the Body of Christ The post 1024. Help for Those Struggling with the Sin of Pornography – Pr. Christopher Heaton, 4/11/24 first appeared on Issues, Etc..
WOKE media PISSED OFF at Dawn Staley for always mentioning God! She isn't WOKE ENOUGH for them!
PREVIEW: #NORTHKOREA: #RUSSIA: Conversation with colleague David Maxwell re the Russian romance with North Korea, accelerating since the Putin-Kim meeting at Vladivostok -- and mentioning the puzzle about how Beijing views the romance. More later. 1950 Kim Il Sung
Your great content will only get you so far. You need to master marketing in order to succeed. It's not just marketing your business. You also need to grow your podcast with powerful marketing. It all works as a system. I recently spoke with a few podcasters on the verge of throwing in the towel and ending their podcast. However, I've had a few conversations with other podcasters who are doubling down and going all in. The difference between the two groups is marketing. To build a successful podcast, lean into your marketing. THE ROI The first podcaster, let's call her Anne to protect her identity. She is frustrated by the perceived lack of return on investment. Ann told me, "Although I love podcasting, I am not sure I can justify the investment of time and money for the ROI that I am receiving right now in leads and revenue. I am just not seeing that things will shift soon enough and I know it's a long game. I haven't decided yet if I am pausing the show or going to do seasons or how I am moving forward but I know I need to step back from everything and reevaluate." This is common in all podcasting. There is an old saying in the advertising world. It is to marketing pioneer John Wanamaker. He is quoted as saying, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is I don't know which half." Marketing is cumulative. Each piece add to the next. Business owners want to believe if they run an ad on Facebook, it immediately generates a sale. That isn't how marketing works. THE SUM OF THE PARTS Here is an example of how your marketing might work. Your ideal client will hear you mentioned on another podcast. Awareness has begun. She hears you interviewed on another podcast. Now she might think hmm, that brand sounds familiar. When she next sees you on a summit, familiarity starts to set in. She might download your lead magnet. Next she might see your logo as a sponsor of an event. That triggers memory of the lead magnet that she digs up to review. Your lead magnet gets her to check out your podcast. She listens to a few episodes and starts to understand what you do. Finally, she comes across your Facebook ad. She clicks the ad and takes action to schedule a call with you. So, let me ask you this... Which piece of your marketing worked? The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It all builds on each other. Each part serves a purpose. Your podcast allows you to build the relationship with your audience over time. When she is ready for your solution, you are top of mind. It truly is a long game. You don't become best friend with anyone overnight. MARKETING FOR REVENUE The next podcaster needed to focus on revenue. Let's call him Bill. Bill was a couple dozen episodes into his show. He was getting frustrated with the lack of growth. When we talked, Bill told me, "I'm pausing everything right now to get other pieces in place. I need to focus on things that generate revenue. Right now, I have so many things swirling around that I'm not getting clear. I'm getting derailed and distracted." What Bill needs is a strategy. How does the podcast fit into the overall revenue generating strategy for his business? "Build it and they will come" sounds great when Kevin Costner's character hears it in the movie Field of Dreams. But the real world isn't like that. Growing your audience takes marketing. Not advertising, but marketing. The Oxford Dictionary definition of marketing is, "the activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising." Advertising is part of marketing. But all marketing isn't necessarily advertising. Everything you do to make people aware of your product, service, podcast, or anything else is marketing. When you mention your podcast from the stage, you are marketing. Mentioning the show in your newsletter is marketing. If you're getting interviewed on another podcast and you mention your show, you're marketing. MARKETING FOR AWARENESS To get your show to grow, start making people aware your podcast exists. This doesn't need to take a ton of time. Tie it in with everything you already do. If you speak, mention it. When you email, mention it. As you're being interviewed, mention it. If you participate in a giveaway, mention it in your lead magnet. Be intentional. When you say, "I need to focus on things that generate revenue", marketing is a big part of that. Get in front of new prospects. Give those people something for free in exchange for their name and email address and get them on your email list. Send emails to your list, and invite those people to listen to the podcast. Create great content on your show that shows people what you do. Invite them to a sales conversation with you, such as a discovery call, webinar, or video sales letter. Give great value in the sales conversation, and ask for the sale. Rinse and repeat. It's a system that grows over time. Business is not a get rich quick game. Build relationships over time and get the flywheel turning. Once you begin creating success stories for clients, highlight those success stories on your podcast as part of the system. UNCERTAINTY The third podcaster isn't sure where he is going. Let's call him Chris. When he emailed me, he simply said, "I think it may be time to wrap up this project, but I'm not sure." This is natural. There are ebbs and flows in our journey. When I begin working with a client, we spend time on their purpose. If you don't have a strong "why", it is difficult to get through these periods of self-doubt. A strong purpose will help get you through the dark times when you're not sure it's all worth it. It will also help to document your successes. When you receive positive email from your listeners, print them and put them in a folder. You can review them when you need that pick me up. When great things happen or you help a client achieve big things, write it down. Add it to the folder. Revisit those successes when you need some motivation. We all encounter times when we wonder if it is worth it and if it is time to pack it all up and call it a day. The great things you accomplish and the people you help will remind you how valuable you are. GOOD ENOUGH Now, let me show you a few examples of podcasters who pushed through the doubt wall. I recently sent an email with the message of good is good enough when it's done. When you are working on your next big thing, perfection is your enemy. You don't have to get it perfect. You just have to get it going. Take action, and get started. Edwin sent me an email. Here is a bit of it. "I will cross the threshold with the podcast. I wanted to have eight of them completed before launching. That was my perfectionist point of view. I want to record podcast number seven. And the next week after that I'll follow up yet number eight. And I will have finally crossed the dreaded podfade threshold. Perfection is an illusion; things only get perfected as we put them out there and keep making small changes and improvements. And that's what I'm doing with my podcast. Looking for those improvements to keep making it better and better." Edwin understands the value of pushing through. He understands the long game. I love the way he sees his perfectionism getting in the way, and pushes through anyway. That seven episode benchmark is important. Many podcasters fade away at that mile marker. The honeymoon is over. The shine has worn off. It is now time to produce the podcast for a bigger, more powerful reason than it's fun. This is the point where your purpose kicks in. Define your why and revisit it often. Then, get to work marketing your podcast. Get it to grow. THE MARKETING PHASE That's where Charlie found himself when he reached out to me. Charlie says, "I'm an expert producer but not expert podcaster. We do consistently 300 to 500 downloads per episode. Now is time to market it." Charlie gets it. He has done a great job building the foundation and creating the show. So far he has created about 36 episodes. The party is right. The tables are set and the food is out. It is now time to invite the guests. When your podcast is brand new, it is good that your audience is small. You only get one chance at a first impression. A small audience allows you to mess up without hurting your downloads. You can try things without much consequence. Over the first year, you can refine your content and find your voice. You have the chance to get the show right. Then, the marketing can kick in. Charlie is ready for the next step. He has a solid foundation and has found his voice. He has tried a few things to get the podcast to grow. It is now time to create an effective marketing system to grow the audience. Your show doesn't grow on it's own. It will take some effort on your part. Marketing doesn't take a lot of time and money. When you have a marketing system, you can do it in about 15 to 30 minutes a day without spending money. THE RELAUNCH The last podcaster has gone through both sides of the journey. Dan has relaunched his podcast. It's called Narrowing the Divide with Dan Woerheide. When he emailed me, he said, "I paused a lot over the last 18 months. Much was self-inflicted. I'm now getting back on track and getting motivated. My purpose is to encourage and inspire others. I'm getting back into coaching. I feel connected in that space. My podcast will be one of the outreach efforts." Dan understands his purpose. After the evaluation of his situation, he understands how the podcast fits into the system. Your podcast isn't your system. It is part of the marketing system. If we go back to our example at the beginning, we can understand the journey. Your ideal client will hear you mentioned on another podcast. Awareness has begun. She hears you interviewed on another podcast. Now she might think hmm, that brand sounds familiar. When she next sees you on a summit, familiarity starts to set in. She might download your lead magnet. Next she might see your logo as a sponsor of an event. That triggers memory of the lead magnet that she digs up to review. Your lead magnet gets her to check out your podcast. She listens to a few episodes and starts to understand what you do. Finally, she comes across your Facebook ad. She clicks the ad and takes action to schedule a call with you. Which piece of your marketing worked? THE LONG GAME I was recently on Dan's show. We talked a bit about that next step. Define your why and your purpose. Create your long journey. Understand how your podcast fits into your marketing system. Your podcast doesn't stand alone. It is part of the machine. What are your goals? How are you measuring success? When you can define the measurable benchmarks, it is much easier to understand if you're succeeding. More downloads is a good benchmark. It isn't great. More discovery calls or more registrations for your webinar or increased email list would be better data. This will tell you if your marketing system is working. All of the parts work together to grow your business. There isn't one piece that can stand on its own. Your podcast is designed to build relationships with your listeners. It builds the know, like and trust. And your podcast works hand in hand with all of the other pieces in your marketing system. But none of it will work until you overcome the perfectionism, get started, and push through the valleys. If you would like my help defining the process, let's talk. If you don't have a mentor who can take your hand and walk you every step of the way, go to www.PodcastTalentCoach.com/apply, click the button and apply to have a chat with me. We will develop your plan and see how I can help and support you to achieve your podcast goals.
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Find me and the show on social media @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd TRANSCRIPT: Announcer (00:06): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:14): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historic context in which these events take place. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events that are impacting the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before is what are the problems facing African-American aviators and other aviators of color in the commercial aviation space? To assist me with this discussion, let's turn to my guest. He's a man with well over 12,000 hours in the cockpit. In the commercial cockpit. He is Captain Clovis Jones, retired. Captain Jones, welcome to the show. Capt Clovis Jones (01:23): Thank you so much for having me. Wilmer Leon (01:25): If you would please introduce yourself. You have such a broad, such a vast resume. I don't want to give short shrift to any of your accomplishments, so please take a moment and introduce yourself, sir. Capt Clovis Jones (01:39): Okay. Clovis Jones Jr. Born in Dawson, Georgia. I wanted to be a pilot since I was four years old. I actually turned down a scholarship to Morehouse College in premed to go to the Army High School to Flight School program. However, my recruiter put something different on my contract. One reason is that he didn't get credit for recruiting officers and secondly, and that part of the world as a black person, that was not something that people who looked like him wanted people like me who looked like me to do so. I wound up in the infantry for three years, got out and asked for my scholarship back and went to Morehouse for a semester and was called by the Army's Aviation Department to see if I was still interested in flight school and I said yes. So I reenlisted into the army and did go to flight school, completing flight school. (02:35) I was a turnaround flight instructor for both the Huey Helicopter and for the Huey Gunships. Deployed to Vietnam as an instructor pilot, the safety officer and assistant officer officer. My second two in Vietnam. 10 days prior to that end, I was commissioned in the Army Field Artillery branch as a second Lieutenant Aviator returning to the states, I went to the basic course field artillery, then to the Army Aviations school at Fort Rucker, Alabama and became an academic instructor leaving the army. After about 10 years of active duty, I got my first line job with Hugs helicopters when they were working on the Army's new attack helicopter, the Apache and I was there from its flight test department, the Hughes helicopters from the building of the helicopter to its initial test flight through its delivered to the Army. Then my second flying job was with Xerox Flying Executives, third flying job with the Western Airlines, which is now part of Delta Airlines. Then to California, which is now part of American, and I found a home at FedEx and retired from FedEx as an MD 11 captain. I have been involved in flight organizations, both black and white and current president of the United States Army Black Aviation Association, and former president of the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, which is now the organization of black aerospace professionals. And my most recent flying job was with as a captain with JSX, a regional airline. Wilmer Leon (04:16): You are rated to fly both, as you just mentioned, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. How unique is that for an aviator, particularly an African-American aviator? Capt Clovis Jones (04:30): Well, I don't know how unique it is, but there are a few of us who are dual rated and even fewer who were black. During Vietnam era, there were only about 600 black army aviators. So there's a book 600 more or less. And so to be dual rated, that's rare Wilmer Leon (04:54): To be dual rated. That is rare. Before we go any further, I'd be remiss if I did not mention the passing of Captain David E. Harris, the first African-American pilot for a major US passenger carrier. He died March 8th at the age of 89, and he once said, there's no way I should be the first. It should have happened long before 1964. I know you were friends with Captain Harris. If you could speak about him and his accomplishments. Capt Clovis Jones (05:37): Well, Dave Harris, just a principal gentleman, he was just outstanding and always he was a mentor, he was a good friend based on his experiences, he basically told us what to look out for and that was a time where the airlines use sickle cell trait testing to keep us from being hired. Yes, either you have sickle cell and one blood test says it all, but they would continue to test you to see if you had the trait. And that was one way that they would not bring us on board. Another was testing, so Dave Harris with American Airlines, he challenged that. So with the psychological testing, which had no barrier on you becoming a pilot. So he challenged that as well as the repeated blood testing to see if somehow if we didn't have the sickle cell trait with the first blood test, they would keep testing you hoping that you would show the trait and they could deny you hiring. So that was one of the milestones, and he was one of the presidents of the organization of black airline pilots. But just a principal gentleman Wilmer Leon (07:00): Mentioning the psychological testing, one would think someone with your background, Vietnam aviator, that all of the trials and tribulations that you went through overseas that the fact that you survived, that should be enough psychological testing to warrant you to be a commercial. I mean, if you can fly there, you can probably deal with passengers going between Dallas and wherever it is you're going to go. But that sounds as though that was another exclusionary process, not an inclusionary process. Capt Clovis Jones (07:40): Yeah, that's correct. That is correct. And when Marlon Green won his Supreme Court decision, Supreme that broke the barriers of us being kept out of the industry. He was hired but not trained, so he didn't get a chance to fly. So it was a delay even in that process. So there are a lot of delaying tactics that were used and there are those that are still out there. Wilmer Leon (08:07): Talk a little bit about Marlon Green. He was an Air Force aviator hired by Continental in I think 1957, but they rescinded his offer and then it took about six years for it to go through the Supreme Court, and the ruling was in his favor and sent a very wide message to the US airline industry about hiring. And I think he started flying for Continental in 65. Is that right? Capt Clovis Jones (08:39): Roughly around that time. I'm not sure exactly on the exact year or date, but you look at his background, he was well qualified to be hired, but then when they found out he was black, they rescinded it. So that's when he engaged in the lawsuit that wound up making his way to the Supreme Court. But this industry was supposed to be all white. Curtis Collins, a congressman from Illinois. She knew some of us filed it, and we talked about the challenges, trials and tribulations. So a congressional study was initiated and the University of Pittsburgh did that study, and it showed that the airline commercial airline industry wants to be all white, not a janitor, not a baggage handler or anything. Wilmer Leon (09:33): Even down to that level, Capt Clovis Jones (09:35): Down to that level. The other piece is that the Airline Policy Association Alpha had a clause in its bylaws that if you were black, you could not be a member. So even if an airline did hire you, you were not allowed on the property. So it was no point in them hiring you. Wilmer Leon (09:54): That sounds like the American Bar Association sounds like the American Dental Association. There were so many professional organizations. I know for example, my grandfather was a dentist. He graduated from Howard in 1911 and was the first African-American licensed dentist in New Orleans, but he could not join the American Dental Association, so he had to go to their conventions and wait tables so that he could be in the room while the latest advances in dentistry were being discussed. So it sounds like the airline industry was right along the same lines as so many of the other professional organizations in this country in terms of their restrictive, restrictive covenants and whatnot. Capt Clovis Jones (10:48): Well, that was just a reflection of America, what it was all about. We were to serve others and we were not to advance and we would to have restrictions on what we could do, what professions to go into. Nevertheless, with that in place, there was no profession that we were not proficient in. And as a point of history from Pineville, Louisiana, there was a gentleman by the name of Charles Frederick Page who had a flying machine. It was a lighter than air, kind of like a balloon, but it had directional control as well as a propeller, so it could move and change directions rather than just go up like a hot air balloon and let the wind take it where it would. 1903, you had a patent. The patent was finally granted in 1906. Well, here was a black man who was born during enslavement, taught himself how to read and write, invented this flying machine, filed for a patent and eventually was granted a patent. So we've been in and around the industry for a long, long time. Wilmer Leon (12:03): Over the past three years or so, we've been hearing a lot about DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and according to McKinsey and Company in the workplace, these are three closely linked values held by many organizations that are working to be supportive of different groups of individuals, including race, which is an artificial construct, but they list it, so I'll say it, ethnicities, religions, abilities, genders, and whatnot. With that being said, according to NBC, news Tech, billionaire and Tesla, CEO and SpaceX, founder Elon Musk has drawn a lot of recent criticism After he criticized efforts by United Airlines and Boeing to hire non-white pilots and factory workers, he claimed in a series of posts on X, that efforts to diversify workforces at these companies have made air travel less safe. Of course, he offered no evidence to support that claim because there is no evidence to support it, and he winds up getting into this exchange with people talking about it'll take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy. Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritize DEI hiring over your safety? And he then went on to say, this is actually happening. That post got 14 million views with just a few hours. I know you've got some ideas on the issue of DEI as well as some of Elon Musk's comments, and of course, we all know Elon Musk being a South African. He was obviously well-trained and well-versed. But your thoughts Capt Clovis Jones (14:08): Well, on the subject of DEI or as Elon Musk assembles, those D-I-E-V-I-E want to doc, first of all, when I hear the word diversity, basically it's a non-starter, and I don't like the term when it applies to black people, because black people have been in every industry. We have been from the White House to the outhouse, build a White House, build a capital, had engineers doing the building of the White House who were black, even though enslavement was the status of black folk in the country for the most part. Wilmer Leon (14:58): And to that point, design the city of Washington DC That's Capt Clovis Jones (15:01): Right, that's right. Wilmer Leon (15:02): Since you mentioned the capital in the White House design, the city of Washington DC after having designed the city of Paris. Capt Clovis Jones (15:08): Yes. Well, here you have us serving from the highest levels down to the lowest level and excelling. By the way, the first book on hospitality was written by a black man, and it is in the archives of the University of Massachusetts. Here's a successful man who basically set the standards for how you serve people in terms of accommodations as well as restaurant service. So we've been at the top of the games in every industry. We wouldn't have the space program that we have. We wouldn't have the internet that we have today. We wouldn't have self lubricating engines if it wasn't for black people wouldn't have turbocharges if it wasn't for black people. (15:54) So when I'm hearing this diversity piece, to me that's just the way the headcount, because now we can say we are diverse. We want to include everybody, and yes, they are, including everybody, because between all different groups and categories that HR departments have now, they can reach out and say, we have the most diverse work group because we have Pacific Islanders, we have Latinos, we have Africans, we have whatever other category you want to name. But then when it comes to the crux of fairness of black folks, there's an exclusion because you can hire all these others and fulfill your diversity claim, yet avoid hiring black people. So that's one of the reasons to me, if you are fair in your hiring and you have the standards set and you know what it is that you want, you're going to have a range of people from all colors, all genders if it's fair. So if it's not fair, then you have these made up constructs to basically for exclusion purposes. Now, that's my personal view. Wilmer Leon (17:07): Well, and to that point also, when you start looking at the categories and the qualifications or the demarcations within the categories, you start drilling down into, okay, you have 15 African-Americans. What positions do they hold? Is your CEO African-American is your CFO, African-American is your COO, African-American within your management structure and management chain within your elite classification of managers? Then all of a sudden we start to fight a different day. Capt Clovis Jones (17:44): Yes. One of the young fathers that I knew, he was asking me, I was flying for this company, he says, Clovis, why don't I have you as the chief pilot? I said, Hey, I don't have the complexion for the connection. So that ends that. Wilmer Leon (18:02): Did you fly President Mandela? Capt Clovis Jones (18:05): No, that was Captain Ray Doha. Wilmer Leon (18:08): Ray do. Oh, okay. Ray did that. Okay. Okay. Okay. (18:13) So give us a little bit about your background getting into the industry and overcoming the barriers that you had to overcome and how prevalent are those problems today? Because when I look at the data today, 90% of the pilots are still white male, 3.4% are African-American, 2.2% are Asian, and half of a percent are Hispanic or Latino. So those numbers tell me that we're still having a problem. In fact, I got a little bit ahead of myself because the question I was going to ask you to get into this conversation is we've spent a lot of time in the fifties and since the fifties singing we shall overcome. We can now board a plane and see African-American captains and first officers. Have we overcome? Capt Clovis Jones (19:21): By no means things have changed. There are things that are different. There are some things that are better, but the underlying system has just changed. So we still have this system where the overarching piece is that we're encapsulated to only hold certain positions, and that of course depends upon the company and the culture of the company, but we don't have, for example, desegregation. You had that and then you have the opening of opportunities for the airline at for minorities and women were considered a minority. So there were more white women, higher than black pilots, and that's still the case today. (20:05) So overcoming obstacles, my first day on the flight line to be trained as an army aviator, I had an instructor from the Northeast from either Vermont or New Hampshire, I don't recall exactly which. But en route to the helicopter for our first flight, he said to me, you look like a pretty good athlete. Do you know who Jackie Robinson is? I said, yes. Jackie's cousin lives down the street from me, says, well, I think you should get out of the army and go play baseball because black people don't make good pilots. And here's a person who is telling me that I shouldn't be a pilot and he's going to train me, but blacks don't make good pilots, so I should leave the program. So I knew what was in front of me. So I went to the flight commander and asked for a change of instructors, and the upshot of that conversation was, well, both of you are new. (21:03) He's a new instructor. You are his first student. You are a new warrant officer candidate, and this is your first flight, so it's going to look bad for both of you. And he wanted to know why. And I explained to him without saying, the guy's a racist. And he says he mulled over it for a second or two and says, this is what I'll do. I'll ensure that you have every opportunity that any of the other one officer candidates have in this program. And I said, okay, that's good. However, when I come back and ask for a change of instructors, I want a change of instructors, no questions asked. And that is what happened. This gentleman was, you can read the syllabus, you can understand what is to be done and you can mimic it, but there are certain standards or there are certain ways that the army wants you to fly. (21:59) And if you aren't trained to do that during your check rides, you get downgraded. He was teaching me wrong. So I had a progress ride. A young instructor who was about the same age as I was, was about 21 years old, and he'd been flying. He had his license when he was 16 to 17 years old. His came from a wealthy family and his family got him trained in the helicopter instructor and all that. He asked me to do a taxi, oh, this is not how we do it, asked me to do a takeoff. Oh, I got the aircraft. This is not how we do it. So he demonstrated every maneuver that he asked me to do because I was doing it as I had been trained to do it. When he showed me the way that I needed to do it in order to meet the standards that were expected of me, I did them as he demonstrated. (22:50) And at the end of the flight he says, I've got to talk to the flight commander. That's something not right here. You started this flight off unsatisfactory now, but you end it. You're above average. But I can't give you an above average because where you started, I just got to talk to the flight commander, and I just smiled. And so I said to myself, I already have. So my next day of flying, the Deputy flight Commander, Dick Strauss, need to give him props. And also the flight commander, Sam Countryman, Dick Strauss, we got into the helicopter, flew out to the stage field, we landed. He says, take it around the past three times and park it on a certain spot. And that's what I did. I soloed that day with this gentleman just flying with me from the main hella Ford at Fort Walters, Texas out to the stage field that we were operating from that day. (23:42) And at the end of my primary flight training, Dick Strauss showed me some things that you could do with a helicopter that were not in the syllabus. He said, it may come in handy one day, and it did for me because in a COBRA helicopter, which is know is heavy, I was an instructor giving an in-country orientation to a new pilot. And on very short final, we lost our 90 degree gearbox and tail rotor. And without a tail rotor, you do not have directional control in the helicopter. So we went from a nose up attitude to a nose down attitude spinning right, and it wanted to roll inverted left. And all of that last day of flying that Dick Straus showed me what the helicopter could do. Instinctively I did it. I stopped the turn by closing the throttle right rear cyclic to level the aircraft, pull the collective up, and we spawned about 1800 degrees like in about two seconds. But I was able to land the helicopter with just minimal damage. And I was told that's the first time that you'd had such a catastrophic failure that either the helicopter was not destroyed or the palace would not either killed or injured. (24:51) So everybody encounter is not against you, but you do have the remnants of the shadows of the echoes of you still have the echoes of slavery. You still have the echoes of containment of us being in certain categories, and there are people who really want to keep us there and some people who want to put us back there. So that is prevalent in our industry as well. Wilmer Leon (25:17): You're 21 years old, you're in the service, which is a hierarchical organization, and your instructor tells you that you need to leave the service and go play baseball. Capt Clovis Jones (25:30): Yes. Wilmer Leon (25:31): Where did you find the intestinal fortitude to manage that circumstance? By A, not punching him in the face, B, not saying anything derogatory to him and then punching him in the face. You see, I got to think about punching people in the favor, but no. So where did you get that ability to manage that circumstance to your favor, not your detriment? Capt Clovis Jones (26:09): Well, I learned firsthand about white racism and at four years old, and we had black insurance agents and white insurance agents come to the house to collect whenever that cycle was. And this one agent, he had a white car. My father had a black car, and so it happens that my father's car was parked in front of the house that day. He pulls up and he calls me over, and I was hesitant about going, but then I did go. He says, come over. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not going to do anything to you. He says, put your hand on my car. And I hesitantly raised my hand. So he put my hand on his car. He said, how does that feel? I said, it feels okay. He said, now, go touch your father's car. So I put my hand on my father's car, and because it was about 11 o'clock in the day, sunshiny day in the summer, it was hot. (27:02) I jerked my hand off the car. He said, that's what I wanted to show you. White is better than black. And from that point on, I didn't like that gentleman anymore. So I realized there are people who will be encouraging to you and people who will try to convince you that you should take some lesser position or that you are inferior to them. So with that background, it's like then I knew about the Tuskegee Avenue at that point. Plus one of my mentors, Carl Bohannan, who was the first black presidential pilot when I was in an infantryman, he was flying the flying cranes in Vietnam in the first cab division. So I had examples of excellent black aviators that I knew about. So with that, I'm thinking, this guy's totally out of his head, and I know he's not going to train me properly. And so that's why I went to the flight commander and asked for a change of instructors, and it worked out in the end, but I had to put up with this nonsense and even accused me of leaving, of causing a circumstance where the engine could fail because he said, I didn't put the Carter pin back in the oil cap, and the vibrations could have caused the cap to unscrew, and because we of flying, the wind would pull the oil out of the reservoir hints causing the engine to seize, and we would have to do a forced landing. (28:34) I know that I didn't do that, and that was the day that I asked for change of instructors Wilmer Leon (28:39): Because Capt Clovis Jones (28:39): This guy, if he's going to lie and say that I did something that I know I didn't do because I was meticulous about everything, but you just have to understand who you're dealing with. Wilmer Leon (28:50): That was my second question on this issue, which was the subjective nature of your instructor's evaluations. So knowing that in circumstances like you're articulating, there's the checklist that he would go through, but then there were also the subjective factors that would enable him to fail you if he so chose to because he didn't like the fact that you tied your shoes because you're right-handed versus tying your shoes because you're left-handed or whatever it might be. Speak to that, please. Capt Clovis Jones (29:32): Well, that was the case. In fact, one of my dearest friends who's now made transition, Robert B. Clark Jr. He and I started in the same class. We didn't graduate in the same class because Bob was terminated from flight training because his instructor said that he could not fly. However, Bob knew how to fly helicopters before he came to flight school. He had the syllabus, he knew everything, and he appealed it all the way to the Department of Army. And the base commander was asked to get involved. So he asked Bob, can you fly this helicopter? He says, yes. Well, let's go out to the airfield and let's go fly to the stage field to where your flight group is flying. He did. I mean, he was off for three months, got in the helicopter, flew out there, landed, and they went and talked to the flight commander. And also that instructor, that instructor was fired on the spot. Of course, the flight commander was trying to protect him because it was civilian pilots training us, and they were with Southern Airways based out of Birmingham, Alabama. So again, that cultural piece, Wilmer Leon (30:40): Was that Birmingham or Bombingham? Well, both. What year are we talking about? Capt Clovis Jones (30:47): We're talking about 1967. Wilmer Leon (30:49): Okay, we're talking Bombingham. Yes. Capt Clovis Jones (30:52): Yes. 1967. Wilmer Leon (30:54): Okay. Capt Clovis Jones (30:54): So you have people who don't want to see you there in the first place. And there was this rule, there's only going to be one black graduate per class, just one. I don't care how many start, there's only going to be one. But after complaints by Bob, by me and others about what the situation was, in fact, that was a program. You had these data sheets that you would answer your questions on when the final exam for any of the courses we were taking, and they could program things based on the way we were using social security numbers. Then even if we knew that we scored a hundred based on going down after the test was over and looking at what you had marked versus what the answers were, black pilots could only get in the eighties if you got everything right, you were in the low to mid eighties, you never got higher than 86 on any exam because if you were just average going through your flight training and you were excellent with your academics, you could wind up being in the running for honor graduate for that particular class. (32:10) So they program that the black pilots could not score 100 on all of the written exams. So that was another trick, and it was proven that that was the case. So there are all kinds of obstacles out there, but you just have to be well versed enough to understand and identify and just not take things. I saw during the civil rights era of where corporations would come and they'd say to people who had, do you have a college? Oh, you're different. They try to tell 'em, oh, you're a different kind of black person, and they give them jobs. So jobs that black people never had an opportunity to have, make the kind of money. And then you have some of these people who got that because people were demonstrating an industries and some people got killed. They said, well, I have to pick my fight. Well, no, the fight picked you now. Do you have the fortitude to stand up and fight the fight, or are you just going to IQS and say nothing and go along with maltreatment? Wilmer Leon (33:10): What you just discussed in terms of taking the exams and the particular scoring parameters that were set. One of the things that both of my parents would say to me repeatedly, but my mother was incredibly emphatic, you have to be three times as good, four times as smart, and worked seven times as hard because you're black in America. And with that, you'll only get half as far. Because when it came to education and grades, my folks didn't play, and that was their thing. You have no idea how hard you are going to have to work to be successful because you are black in America. And what you just articulated is the living example. And the other thing, when I went to law school, what I found out my first year was if I was in a class, actually it was my second year, I was in a contract negotiating class and kicked everybody's butt in the negotiating rounds that we would go through, only got a B. And what I found out was the a's were reserved for the third year, students who needed that A, there were only going to be a certain number of a's awarded, and they were reserved for the third year students who needed that grade to increase their GPA. Capt Clovis Jones (34:48): Yeah. The thing is, this system was not designed by us. It's not a fair system, but we have to learn how to navigate it. And unfortunately, some of what I call the under 40 crowd, young people who are 40 and under, maybe I could increase the year by another five years or so, they came up thinking that things are fair, and it's all about your qualifications and your abilities, but there is a whole nother system that governs whether you get an opportunity, whether you succeed or whether you fail. The thing is you need to be aware enough to navigate those challenges. And some of my young people, Wilmer Leon (35:30): Well, you just said, be aware enough. And what I have found is a number of my contemporaries, they don't want to have these discussions with their kids. They don't want to. When I taught at Howard, I would say to my students, you got to be three times as smart and workforce. Many of them, they never heard that before. Dr. Leon, what are you talking about? Well, that's life in America. Oh, no, no, no, not anymore. Oh, Dr. Leon, you don't understand. Capt Clovis Jones (36:07): Well, that's the brainwashing. That's the brainwashing that's taking place. Yeah, it's example. I used to wear a P 51 pen and I'd paint the cockpit black, and that was several of those black pilots who did that, and that was just honoring the Tuskegee ever because they were the first to people in mass to show that we could do this. But you had pioneers like Eugene, Jacque Bullock, who was a World War I fighter pilot, had to go to Germany, not Germany, to France, France, France. But he caught a ride to France on a German boat, learned to speak German in route, and he wound up during World War II of being in the French Underground because he had a nightclub in Paris. And the German officers wanted to come and enjoy the entertainment and the music and the atmosphere. So he got a lot of intelligence that he passed on to the French Underground, and he and Charles de Gall were good friends, and he was given Wilmer Leon (37:12): Awards, the Legion of Merit. Capt Clovis Jones (37:14): Say again, Wilmer Leon (37:15): The French Legion of Merit. Capt Clovis Jones (37:22): Well, I'd have to do the research, but Charles Gall came to the US and he wound up coming back to us, and he was an elevator man for the NBC where the NBC studios were in New York, and he was interviewed, but his background is phenomenal, and I happen to know his grandson and other members of his family, a cousin, (37:49) But he couldn't fly in America. But in France he did Bessie Coleman. And you have Chief Anderson, who was the civilian chief pilot for the Tuskegee Airman, who by the way, trained Captain Dhar. He taught himself how to fly. He wanted to fly. His father borrowed money from the white person that he worked for, bought a plane for his son. No one would teach chief how to fly, but he'd go to the airport every day and he'd listen to the white policies. They came back and talk about what they did was successful and the stupid stuff they did. And Chief would get it in his airplane every day, crank it up and taxi. And one day he taxied it fast enough that he lifted it off the ground. He said, now I got to figure how to land this thing. Eventually he did get some instruction from the Wright brothers, and I've had the opportunity to fly one flight with Chief. So I guess I'm one degree or two degrees away from the Wright brothers and my flight journey. But you have all those obstacles in a way. (38:57) You have other pioneers, Janet Bragg, Cornelius Coffee, you have Willow Brown, and there are any number of others that have pioneered the way for us. Chauncey Spencer, Edwin Wright, Dwight, the sculptor. He was chosen to be the first black astronaut, but again, he was a pilot, but then that didn't the astronaut program because they didn't want any blacks in the program. And he had difficulties there. But he wound up being followed his passion in business and with art, and he is one of the most prolific sculptors in the country and doing art eye kind of art for us to recognize our heroes and sheroes. Wilmer Leon (40:01): You had as a Morehouse man, you had a relationship with Dr. King. Capt Clovis Jones (40:08): Yes, yes, I did. Wilmer Leon (40:09): If you could elaborate on that a little bit, please. Capt Clovis Jones (40:12): Yes. During the Albany movement, I would go down and listen to Dr. King's speech almost every night that I could. So I would catch a ride with teachers who lived in Albany, but worked in Dawson, walked to the church, and because we were young, they would put us young people right on the front row below the pulpit. And my minister of my church and Dr. King were Morehouse classmates. They graduated at the same time. So he said, well, when you see Martin again, you tell him I said, hello. I did. So that started a relationship with Dr. King and I, and after my tour in Vietnam, my foxo buddy invited me to Chicago to work on a political campaign, which I did, and that was this organization called the New Breed Committee. And they had a bunch of black organizations that were meeting with Dr. King on this one particular night when they were planning to march through downtown Chicago. (41:17) So I go to Hyde Park, and who do I sit next to? Dr. King. So we reignited our friendship, and he was saying during the meeting, we need some young people to lead our march through downtown Chicago. And I said, well, hey, I'll do it. And some of my Vietnam buddies, and we led that march through downtown Chicago. And then when I did leave Chicago and went to Morehouse for the second time, he would come, well, for the first time actually, because that was 1966, he says he would come to the college, Hey, come by the office and talk to me. And I just thought he was being nice. And that's one regret that I have that I did not take him up on just going to his church office and sitting down and having a conversation with him. But I did become good friends with his press secretary, junior Griffith. So he and I would have wonderful conversations, but I'd see Dr. King often come into Morehouse and every time come by the office and talk to me, come by the office and talk to me. And that's something that I didn't do because it's like he's just being nice. But now I wished I had Wilmer Leon (42:29): You do your tour in Vietnam, you go to Chicago, Dr. King asks you to lead a protest in Chicago. How did you reconcile what you fought for in Vietnam versus what you were subjected to when you got back home? Capt Clovis Jones (42:56): Well, during those days, it was tough with Vietnam veterans coming back didn't call us baby killers and spat on us. It was no reconciliation. Thing is is that Vietnam was dangerous. Being black in America was dangerous. So it was no different than walking through downtown Chicago for a purpose for black people in America than going to Vietnam, supposedly fighting for democracy when all they wanted to do was have their own independence. Because Ho Chi Minh came to America and he was trying to speak to the President of the United States, and that never did happen for whatever the reasons are. I mean, there are a number of stories as to why it never happened. And Ho Chi Minh lived in Harlem. He worked in a restaurant, but he lived in Harlem, so he understood the plight to black people in the country. That was one patrol we on. You have North Vietnamese out in the middle of nowhere, and they see that the unit is mostly black, wave at each other and keep going. Why are we going to fight each other out here? For what? So it was dangerous. It was dangerous in Vietnam. It was dangerous here in America because then as well as now you get in the wrong situation, in the wrong part of town, you can wind up dead. Wilmer Leon (44:21): You can wind up dead in the right part of town. Capt Clovis Jones (44:23): Well, look, you can wind up dead in your own house with no consequences. Nobody held accountable, nobody indicted. And Dr. King's last book, where Did We Go From Here, Wilmer Leon (44:38): Chaos or Community? Capt Clovis Jones (44:40): He said that shooting was the new lynching, and that is what we're living through right now. Wilmer Leon (44:49): I asked you that Vietnam question because I had an uncle, senior Master Sergeant George W. Porter, who was a Tuskegee Airman, an original and flew World War II and Vietnam, and I'm originally from Sacramento, California, and Uncle George lived around the corner. And so the Sacramento Kings honored him at a basketball game, and he could barely walk. By this time, he was about 89, maybe 90, he could barely walk. But when they played the national anthem, he stood up so fast and so erect. And so when it was all over, I said, oh, help me understand something. He said, what's that son? I said, how is it that with all that you went through? And he used to tell me all these stories about all the stuff that he was subjected to. I said, how is it after all that you went through, you still have the reverence that you have for this flag? And he looked at me like I had three heads, and he said, boy, that's my flag. I fought for that flag. I risked my life for that flag just because they want to claim it doesn't make it theirs. Do you understand me? Yeah, unc, I got it. And so that's why I asked you that question. Capt Clovis Jones (46:30): Well, just on the question of flags, black people live under a lot of different flags, but almost anywhere you go in the world, we're treat it the same. So just to me, a flag is just a marker. It is not something to be reverenced. Yeah. America treated me poorly in some instances, but America gave me opportunities as well. So just need to understand. This is where, to me, the principle that's going to liberate us all is where is the fairness? Where's the fairness in this whole process? Because you have communities that have been deliberately destroyed by local, federal, and state governments because black people were successful. Jacksonville, Florida, for an example, highway five, right through the black community, destroyed it. Other places, Wilmer Leon (47:28): Oakland, Detroit, Cleveland, urban Renewal, and the interstate highway system has decimated African-American communities. Capt Clovis Jones (47:41): Yes. And you have off ramps to get into the community, but you don't have on-ramps for people to leave the community to get back on the freeways. Wilmer Leon (47:52): The freeway in New Orleans that goes past, I don't remember the name of it, but it goes past the Superdome. Yeah. That's another example of how that has decimated the communities. Capt Clovis Jones (48:07): Yes, yes. And that's by design. And people talk about the government. Well, the thing is the government, you have to demand treatment from government, from anyone who have laws. And of course, you have to understand laws are things that are written on paper, but the real law is whatever that judge says, and you can appeal it if you want to, but you might fight for who knows how long and how many different appeals to different courts. But the laws, whatever that judge says, look at Plessy versus Ferguson. Separate, but equal is the law of the land. Then you have the 54 Brown versus Board of Education, no, separate. It is not equal. Okay. Same document, different judges. So when that happened, in my mind it's like, wait a minute. That's something not right about this whole picture because why you have the same document. Where is the fairness in all of that? What is really right? And now you have school desegregation, but you have most of the teachers a female, and they are not black. And you have this whole school system of charter schools being created by white women who didn't want their children to go to school with black children. So you still have people say, oh, we have overcome. Oh, it is better now. Yes, it's different, but in a lot of ways it's the same. Wilmer Leon (49:40): So what do you see as being the, if we look at the, again, I gave the data a little earlier, about 3% of commercial pilots are African-American. The system that they're flying under down does not seem to be that much different from the system that you flew under when you were in the commercial space. Capt Clovis Jones (50:10): Well, that's true. You have airlines having their own programs, which we tried to get them to do decades ago. They didn't do it until they have the critical pilot shortage. But it was oap that had the first US based flight training program from no Time to getting you into the commercial space. That was a venture between oap, the organization of Black Airline Palestine and Western University. With the support of Kellogg and the transportation department. You had foreign pilots being trained from no time to becoming first officers for British Airways, Emirates and United Arab Emirates, and Air Lingus and Ireland. I'm saying, well, wait a minute. Why don't we create a program where black people who want to become pilots, who have degrees go through the interview process, go through the testing process, and if they qualify and this meets the criteria for what the airlines want, then let's train them and let's move them into commercial airline space. Well, that program lasted until money was diverted from training black pilots to buying airplanes. And now the airlines are replicating what was done by BAP and University Western Michigan University. Wilmer Leon (51:46): Is there a sense of comradery today amongst black pilots that there was when you were coming through the system, or do many of them feel a sense of accomplishment and a sense of success and participation in the system to where that sense of comradery isn't deemed necessary? Hopefully that made sense. Capt Clovis Jones (52:16): Well, kind of both are true at the same time. Two opposites can be true at the same time. The younger group, if they kind of know each other, then there's that comradery, Hey, we're going to support each other. We're going to party together. Hey, we're going to have each other's backs when during the ups and the downs and all of that. But among those of us who came along early, we would talk about whoever was being put upon by the system or by that airline or by something we knew about it, and we would support, because if something was happening at one airline to a black pilot, we look for it to happen at our airlines. So how did we outmaneuver that? How did we navigate those systems? How did we learn from those challenges so that we wouldn't even be confronted with those issues? (53:12) But now, the young people who know each other, they tend to have that camaraderie. But with us, Hey, if you were a brother, and when sisters black women became pilots, we embraced and supported them because we knew how tough it was going to be for all of us young people. They think, oh, well, hey, it is fair. And the story I wanted to tell about the pen I used to wear with the P 51 and with the cockpit painted black. Oh, there was a white pilot and a black pilot, and they were both academy graduates, air Force Academy graduates. And the white pilot said, oh, Tuskegee Airmen. I said, oh, yeah, yeah. I said, they're some of my heroes. And the black pilot says, what? (54:05) And then the white pilot told him, oh, the Tuskegee Airmen did this, this, this, and this. He said, oh, well, I guess I need to brush up on my history. I said, yes, you do. I mean, you a Force Academy grad, and you don't know who the Tuskegee airmen are. That gives you some idea of the deficit in our history that is not being taught among our own people. And some people think that because they have a job and some money in the bank or millions in the bank, that they are immune. None of us are immune from how this system operates when it operates against us. And we need to own our own. We need to train our own. We're at a point now where there's no way that we should be dependent on somebody else to teach or train our own. Because as I experienced doing with my first stint with my first flight instructor, you can be taught wrong. (55:09) The subject can be covered with the items that need to be covered, but you can be taught wrong. And sometimes, for example, just one degree off on a heading for 60 miles, you are one mile off course. So small deviations can cause you to be way off course if you continue on that path. So we really need to know our own history. We need the truth to be taught so that our young people understand, number one, who they are to this social system that we live under and who we are to each other, that we'd better have each other's back and hold each other accountable. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Just because you're black, you don't get a chance. And all this I don't snitch. Well, the thing is, is that what you need to do is hold somebody accountable for bad behavior and destructive behavior in our own community. And we need to understand that our communities are precious and that we need to maintain the land that we have, the homes that we have in our communities, because others will come in and you won't recognize it five, 10 years from now. Wilmer Leon (56:22): I'm chuckling, I'm debating. I'm going to go ahead and bring this up. Just to your point. When the Willis situation developed in Atlanta, I did a show criticizing her for the horrific mistake that she made resulting in the process that she had to go through, and the weapon I took mostly from black women because all I was saying was that behavior is indefensible, especially at that level. She's playing at the level of the game where she's going after the former face of the empire. Capt Clovis Jones (57:13): Yes. Wilmer Leon (57:17): And I made the comment, you have now brought this on yourself. You couldn't keep your panties on, and homeboy can't keep his fly up, man, they came at me, but I hate black women. I have a colonized mind. Oh, who am I to? Oh, because one of the points I made was the community should not be tolerating this type of behavior. We don't want to go and tell our daughters or go and tell our sons that they're supposed to engage like this in the workplace. Oh, man. It was brutal. It was Capt Clovis Jones (57:55): Brutal. And you can attest to this. There's a course that you have in ethics in law school. So hey, where's that? I like the philosophy of Maynard Jackson, first black man of Atlanta. He says, his philosophy was if you are close enough to see the line that you're not supposed to cross, you're too close. And young people need to understand that, hey, you can take risks, but don't take risks on things that are going to come back and hurt you. We used to be told there's always somebody watching you and they were talking about God, the creators. There's always somebody watching you. Well, now there's always somebody watching you because you have these devices that your cameras can be turned on, microphones turned on track wherever you are. Wilmer Leon (58:53): And what was one of the things that they got her on? Cell phone records? Capt Clovis Jones (58:57): Yes. Wilmer Leon (58:58): Yes. Cell phone records. Yes. Well, you said that you only visited him so many. Oh, but his phone seemed to wind up in your driveway 55 times. Now, when I worked in corporate America, at one point, I taught sales ethics to the sales team, and my line to them was the appearance of impropriety in many instances could be worse than the impropriety itself. So just ask yourself, how does it look? And if it looks bad, it's going to be bad. Capt Clovis Jones (59:45): Simple enough. Wilmer Leon (59:46): Hey, simple enough. You and I did a show last week, and as a result of that show, you got a phone call from a young man who was very, very encouraged by what you had to say, a lot of which we have covered in this conversation. And he said to you that you, through your story, let him know he had a lot of work to do in his community. Could you elaborate on that, please? Capt Clovis Jones (01:00:20): Yes. Well, it's a group of us who are in narrative and learning about our history, understanding the principles, Africana studies that no matter where in the world you are, you're an African and your black person, and there's a whole system that's designed not to have you rise above a certain level. How do we recapture? When do we start our history? We started in 1619. We've cut ourselves out of millennia of culture, religion, spirituality, science, inscribed on the pyramid walls. Our people have depicted surgical instruments that are used to this day. So the Greeks did not invent medicine. Hippocratic was not the one who basically founded medicine, not the father of medicine. It was African folk folks that look like you and I. So with that, where's our mindset and what are we waiting on? So it encouraged him to do the work in the community. (01:01:35) So one of the things that I've learned through the years is that for a group of people to make progress or to make any change, good or bad, you have the square root of that number of people say 300,000. Well, you need 600 people, like-minded folks moving in the same direction, maybe not always agreeing, but you're like-minded in making things better, and you're doing the work on the ground to make it happen with whatever your talents are. That shifts the entire population. And so he talked about, Hey, we need to find a way to make this happen so that we can do our work on our own, teach our children. And he's on the ground doing just that. So he said, Hey, I figured it out. I know what we need to do. This is what we need, and these parts of town, now we have the template. Now we got to do the work to make it happen. (01:02:38) And one of the elders said, Hey, we already have the teams in place. It's just a matter of educating the teams to get them to think outside of the borders that they live in and expand their minds and understand that, hey, we were educating folks long before we came to America. We had culture. We had all kinds of things. Now, again, I have to say that everything about Africa is not glor flyable, but there are some things that are so you pick the best because when you do your best, you're going to get better and you're going to advance things rather than destroy things. Wilmer Leon (01:03:22): Captain Clovis Jones, Jr. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your commitment. Thank you for your work. Thank you for joining me today. Capt Clovis Jones (01:03:33): You're more than welcome. It is my pleasure. And thank you for having me. Wilmer Leon (01:03:37): Well, I'm going to have you back, folks. Thank you so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wier Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. And remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. See you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wilmer Leon. Have a good one. Peace. Some lessons. I'm out Announcer (01:04:26): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.
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In episode 96, Heather Gray FND-P shares three essential health hacks for maximum vitality in this episode. Drawing from her journey of overcoming Lyme disease and toxicity, she emphasizes the importance of prioritizing sleep, maintaining a nutritious diet, and incorporating regular exercise. I've successfully reversed multiple autoimmune conditions and achieved remission from Lyme Disease. Today, I'm dedicated to sharing my experiences and expertise, and helping others on their own journeys to health and well-being. I look forward to guiding and inspiring you on your path to a healthier, happier life. 02:23 - Highlighting the struggle of maintaining energy for life beyond work. 03:05 -Connecting energy to manifesting goals and experiencing joy and gratitude. 04:05 - Heather's personal journey, struggles with Lyme disease, toxicity, and mental health challenges. 05:23 - Encouragement for others to take charge of their health journey. 07:16 - Heather's positive experience with "Cell Well" and a discount code for listeners. 07:37 - Introduction to the first health hack: Prioritizing Sleep. 08:22 - Mentioning barriers to health, including mold, cavitation, and sleep apnea. 10:09 - Transition to the second health hack: Nutritious Diet. 11:16 - Discussing the impact of processed foods on brain inflammation and energy levels. 13:16 - Introduction to the third health hack: Regular Exercise. 14:30 - Emphasizing the importance of finding the right balance in exercise. 17:50 - Heather's online course, "Foundations of Health, offering a discounted price of $297 (from $597) for a limited time. 19:59 - Encouraging listeners to take charge of their health journey and offering a discounted price for the course. Get Celwel click here: https://celwel.us/ Use code LYMEBOSS for 10% off I'm Heather Gray, a Functional Practitioner, Lyme Boss, and owner of The Lyme Boss. I'm passionate about helping people overcome chronic health conditions like Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and toxin overload. Reach Heather Gray here: heather@thelymeboss.com Learn all the tools I did to overcome Lyme, Mold and Autoimmune Diseases Get The Foundations of Health course: https://rb.gy/xbgz40 Normally $599 on sale for $297 Get healthier food into your diet with these easy, yummy, fast meals today! Download your free video series Real Cooking For Real Life here. https://thelymeboss.com/ #thelymebosspodcast #Lymepostcast #healinglymepodcast #HealthHacks #WellnessJourney #LymeDisease #Vitality #CellWell #FoundationsOfHealth #HolisticHealth #Empowerment #SleepTips #Nutrition #Exercise #SelfCare #WellBeing #HealthAndWellness #HolisticLiving #HealthyLiving --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lymebossheathergray/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lymebossheathergray/support
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Key Takeaways: Bonus depreciation allows businesses to expense capital asset purchases immediately, impacting cash flow and investment opportunities positively. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act initially enabled 100% bonus depreciation in the first year, set to decrease to 80% in 2023. A bipartisan "tax extender bill" may restore the 100% bonus depreciation rate, providing significant benefits to business owners. Provisions for business interest expense deductions empower companies to invest in growth through capital and team expansion. A hopeful outlook is expressed toward the Senate's anticipated approval of the bill, reinforcing the support for small and medium-sized businesses. Chapters: Timestamp Summary 0:00:45 Discussing the upcoming March 16 deadline for filing business returns. 0:01:25 Explaining the concept of bonus depreciation and its benefits for business owners. 0:03:49 Mentioning the tax extender bill to revert bonus depreciation back to 100%. 0:05:22 Highlighting other tax savings opportunities for business owners. 0:06:29 Discussing the lowering of interest expense thresholds for business owners. 0:07:56 Sharing contact information for further discussion on tax law changes. Powered by ReiffMartin CPA and Stone Hill Wealth Management Social Media Handles Follow Phillip Washington, Jr. on Instagram (@askphillip) Subscribe to Wealth Building Made Simple newsletter https://www.wealthbuildingmadesimple.us/ Thank you for checking out our free content on financial planning, the wealth mindset, and investing in innovation. If you've found value in our blog posts, I invite you to take your knowledge and commitment to the next level. Sign up for our premium paid newsletter today and receive daily insights and expert analysis directly in your inbox. Stay ahead of the curve and unlock the secrets to financial success. Don't miss out on this opportunity to deepen your understanding and gain an edge in the world of finance. Join our premium community now and embark on a journey towards financial abundance and investment excellence. Sign up today and let's grow together! WBMS Premium Subscription Phillip Washington, Jr. is a registered investment adviser. Information presented is for educational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Be sure to first consult with a qualified financial adviser and/or tax professional before implementing any strategy discussed herein. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.
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In this episode, Boonie is in conversation with Goddess Honey B, a proud Black feminist and dominant. We explore the world of Black feminism and kinks, including lactation and BDSM. Goddess Honey B shares her experiences as a sex worker and dominant, emphasizing the importance of communication and consent in knife play and all sexual activity. Additionally, we delve into the world of BDSM and power play, highlighting the need for safe and inclusive spaces for Black kinksters. Goddess Honeybee talks about her work as a sex worker and dominant, and we touch on the topic of knife play, emphasizing the importance of communication and consent. We also discuss the upcoming release of our book, "And a Freak Shall Lead Them," which celebrates diverse perspectives on Black kink. Follow Goddess Honey B here: Instagram: @the_goddesshoneyb Twitter: @goddesshoney_b A transcript of the full episode is available here. Support for today's episode comes from Dame Products, a brand whose mission is to help close the pleasure gap for people with vulvas. Receive 10% off your purchase by using the code BOONIE10, Shop here: https://bit.ly/DAMEBoonie Join Boonie over on Patreon for exclusive content and events here: Patreon.com/TheBoonieBreakdown The hashtag for the podcast is #TheBoonieBreakdown. Share with others using the hashtag #PodIn. Shop The Boonie Breakdown Store: www.thebooniebreakdown.com/shop The hashtag for the podcast is #TheBoonieBreakdown. Share with others using the hashtag #PodIn. Follow The Boonie Breakdown on Social Media: IG: @TheBoonieBreakdown Twitter: @BoonieBreakdown Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheBoonieBreakdown Have something to say? You can ask your questions, send comments via email to thebooniebreakdown@gmail.com or submit them here: www.thebooniebreakdown.com/contact/. Chapters 0:00:00 Introducing Dame Products and the Air - A Thrilling Pleasure 0:02:34 Boonie's Pick of the Week: Coach Bag Obsession 0:06:27 Welcoming goddess honeybees and discussing how they connected online 0:08:34 Introducing goddess honeybee as a proud black feminist and discussing the meaning of black feminism 0:13:02 Lactation as a Kink 0:15:31 Personal Decision to Not Have Children 0:17:41 Combining Psychological and Physical Restraints for Ultimate Control 0:24:01 Importance of Safety in Alternative Sexual Spaces 0:26:55 Discussion on using knives for pleasure and fear 0:29:10 Mentioning a recent solo scene with knives 0:34:42 A Funny Tangent on Butt Waxing and Nudes 0:37:17 Exciting Book Deal Announcement on Black Kink Journey 0:39:33 Time Flying By in the Pandemic 0:41:50 Centering Pleasure: Advice for Black Women 0:45:30 Therapy and Navigating Blockages to Pleasure 0:46:31 Calling in Pleasure: Exploring Desires and Game Show Vibes 0:49:44 Links to Goddess Honeybee's socials and website
Garrett Morris: A Versatile Talent: Discussion of Garrett Morris's diverse career, including his roles in film, television, and comedy. Mention of his birthplace, New Orleans, Louisiana, in February 1937, making him 86 years old as of the recording. Notable Roles and Career Highlights: Highlighting Garrett Morris's roles in popular TV shows like "Saturday Night Live," "The Jeffersons," "Martin," "Jamie Foxx," and "Two Broke Girls." Mentioning his appearances on other shows such as "Murder, She Wrote," "Married with Children," "Diff'rent Strokes," "Hill Street Blues," "227," "Rock," and "Who's the Boss?" Unspoken Hero of Film: Emphasizing Garrett Morris's extensive contributions to both film and television spanning several decades. Acknowledging his participation in iconic shows and films, including "Cooley High." Memorable Performance on "Martin": Discussing his standout role as Stan on the TV series "Martin," portraying a memorable character who left a lasting impression on audiences. Praising his talent, versatility, and comedic skills, both on and off the screen. Appreciating Garrett Morris: Expressing gratitude and appreciation for Garrett Morris's contributions to the world of entertainment. Recognizing his significance during Black History Month and vowing to spotlight more unsung heroes. Conclusion: A brief but heartfelt tribute to Garrett Morris for his remarkable career and influence in the entertainment industry. Teasing upcoming episodes and themes for Black History Month.
Grandpa Bill overviews new upcoming interview with Tim Doyle, The Golden Ones, Path To Oneness. Mentioning some exciting news about a new platform(for me) Soon VDO. Tune in for a transformative episode of BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour as we delve into the powerful insights of Tim Doyle's latest YouTube video, "The Path to Oneness." Join us as we explore: Unlocking the "Golden Ones": Discover the profound significance of this concept and how it connects to achieving oneness and higher consciousness. Mastering Meditation: Learn practical tools and techniques from Tim's video to unlock your inner potential and navigate your inner landscape. Embracing Oneness: Explore ways to connect with nature, cultivate compassion, and embody your full potential as an awakened being. Tim Doyle, a Reiki Master and spiritual guide, will be on hand to answer your questions and offer expert guidance on your own journey towards oneness. Don't miss this chance to: Gain valuable insights into meditation and spiritual practices. Learn how to overcome mental and emotional blockages. Connect with your inner truth and embrace your authentic self. Contribute to a more harmonious world through compassion and empathy. #TimDoyleReturns, #BHKennelKelpHolisticHealingHour, #OnenessJourney, #GoldenOnesUnveiled, #ShadowWorkUnpacked, #NatureAsTeacher, #EmpoweredHealing #AskTimDoyle * Holistic Health Secrets and Life-Sales Strategies with Grandpa Bill * Nourish Your Soul, Boost Your Business: * The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour Experience * Website: https://www.7kmetals.com/grandpabill * Website:https://www.myctfo.com/index.html * YouTube: Bill Holt@billholt8792 * Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/bill.sales.524 * Social Media:https://www.instagram.com/bradybrodyb... * Voicemail Message Board: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh... BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour Retired holistic health enthusiast, Grandpa Bill, shares his wisdom and experiences in the realms of health, wealth, and well-being. Join Grandpa Bill on his journey of holistic health and personal growth. With over 45 years of experience in the industry, he has a wealth of knowledge to share on topics ranging from nutrition and supplements, to meditation and spirituality. In his retirement, Grandpa Bill is dedicated to sharing his insights and helping others to achieve their full potential. He is an intuitive thinker, humorist, star seed, poetry fan, with a passion for history and coins. Hosted by Grandpa Bill, 45 year career now retired Disclaimer:This podcast site content is provided for informational purposes only, and does not intend to substitute professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. JOIN US EVERY TUESDAY AT 6 PM. EST. https://freedomsnap.org/Seth/ BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Virtual Mall Patriot Supply Link: https://mypatriotsupply.com/?rfsn=561... Health Ranger Link: https://www.healthrangerstore.com/?... Healer.com: https://www.HealerCBD.com/?ref=11 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bhsales/message
This is the week we've been waiting for! This week celebrates the beginning of the Year of the Dragon and the new moon in Aquarius. There's powerful transformational energy associated with this Friday's new moon in Aquarius. This new moon is the time to begin something new and make changes in your life. Additionally, the Year of the Dragon starts with this new moon. The fiery and bold Year of the Dragon is exactly what it sounds like. And fortunate, since the Dragon is considered the luckiest sign in the zodiac. The Dragon is highly respected in China. It is regarded as an auspicious and extraordinary creature, and its years are full of vitality. It's a time of great prosperity when everything is possible. If you want a shift in your life, this is the year it happens. Dragons aren't the only lucky thing about 2024. Its Chinese zodiac element of wood enhances its luck. Brace yourself because things move fast during a Wood Dragon year. This is a year of good fortune and unlimited potential and prosperity for everyone. One Lunar New Year tradition is to clean your house from top to bottom before Saturday's Lunar New Year to rid yourself of all the bad luck from the previous year. Additionally, you don't want to clean in the first few days of the New Year or all the new luck will be swept away. Purchase some citrus fruits, such as oranges and tangerines, and arrange them in your kitchen to bring in extra good fortune this year. They symbolize prosperity and good luck. What happens during the start of the New Year is indicative of how the rest of the year will go. Mentioning death, pain, debt, or anything unpleasant is unlucky. The most important rule during the New Year's celebration is to keep the day happy, peaceful, and harmonious. Shop the 40% Off Love Sale at https://www.abundology.com/schedule
"Free speech is the master value as it's the value that updates all othe values." “I'm worried that as technology gets more powerful that it'll be easier for the minorities who want to screw things up, to screw things up.” “Today it's possible for one person to derange the lives of million, even billions of people.” Sam Harris. Who is worse for free speech? The hard left or the hard right? IMO the hard left. Woke people. “Woke mind virus is the biggest threat to the civilization” IMO extremists on the left or the right are the problem. Extremists in general. The more annoyed they get about each other the worse. IMO wokeism is much more accepted in main stream than trumpism. Woke: a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everythign exepct their own behaviour. It's interesting. This is causing the loss of free speech. And that is hard core problematic because handing power to governments who normally don't give it back. Power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts ultimately. People stop telling you the truth, start pandering. Then you definitely get high on your own supply. Then people start to hate you but you can't see it and think they are stupid. If you want to contact us please do so at info@cloudstreaks.com
We are facing crises globally and in the United States that are cultural and political and will impact our ability to raise the next generations. Energy is at the center of the issues and must be addressed for energy security and minimizing environmental impact. That being said, our public school and college systems are broken, and kids are being indoctrinated.Debra Wold, Chairman, Grenlily Holdings, and on her LinkedIn profile: "Trash-to-Treasure to low-cost fuels." Debra has been on the podcast several times, and I have genuinely enjoyed becoming friends over the last few years. Her vision for green, renewable energy is about being sustainable from day one with no subsidies!In this podcast, we also discuss some energy, cultural issues, and solutions.Key shortages of all forms of energy workersPublic School's deterioration of quality and social problems.Jobs vs CollageVocational training and apprenticeshipContent creation for tests, curriculum and home school, Union, and other outreach.Debra, Thank you for your time, leadership, and desire to make a difference in our next generation! - StuFollow Debra on her LinkedIn HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debrawold/00:00 - Intro02:16 - Discussing Grenelily and its activities03:33 - Targeting municipalities and additional revenue04:43 - Discussing grid problems and the need for generators06:51 - Shared experiences and values learned from farming09:10 - Changes in education and resistance to parent involvement10:27 - Challenging curriculum and questioning fossil fuel narratives13:50 - Discussion about the desirability of renewable energy sources14:48 - Despicable waste disposal practices related to solar panels17:24 - Discussing the challenges of power outages and grid stability18:38 - Mentioning an energy documentary and the influence of Netflix20:02 - Experimenting with different energy sources in New York22:14 - Highlighting zero carbon footprint in waste-to-energy plants23:12 - Suggestion of retrofitting coal plants for zero emissions24:25 - Addressing the impact of regulatory actions on union jobs26:22 - Discussing the importance of a well-trained workforce for nuclear energy27:54 - Start of the conversation discussing concerns about unions and lithium battery technology.30:04 - Talks about the affordability of homeschooling and the importance of investing in education.31:38S - Questions about making homeschooling easier for parents working multiple jobs.32:24 - Suggests that most homeschool programs are done online and talks about the importance of mobility.36:23 -Expressing concerns about spending money on foreign aid instead of addressing issues like hunger in the U.S.38:02 - Discussion on the impact of homeschooling on parent-child relationships and socialization.40:57 - Debra Wold provides information on how to get in touch with her via LinkedIn.41:13 - Outrohttps://energynewsbeat.co/enb-177-exploring-sustainable-solutions-a-conversation-on-energy-education-and-environmental-challenges/
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In this episode of Intergalactic, we discuss the indie sci-fi film THE MAN FROM EARTH, written by Jerome Bixby. Released in 2007, this micro-budget movie explores immortality and features a goofy but thought-provoking storyline and a wonderful cast made up of recognizable genre character actors. We highlight the tight dialogue and the performances of the cast, particularly Tony Todd and John Billingsley. Join Mike and Les Weiler from The TV Dudes as we dive into this odd little charmer. Chapters: 0:00:08 Introducing Essential Sci-Fi Movies and guest co-host Les Weiler. 0:02:02 Let's talk about Jerome Bixby's “The Man from Earth" 0:04:20 Sharing and discovering the movie on file-sharing sites 0:06:22 Mentioning the sequel and limited knowledge about it 0:08:57 Heavy-handed Religious Themes and Emotional Reactions 0:21:45 Nuanced Performances and Emotional Impact 0:29:08 Pirates as Free Promoters of Films 0:35:42 A Unique Time Travel Concept 0:37:39 The Immortality and Patience of John from "Man from Earth" 0:43:05 Tubi's Algorithm is Evil and Good Sub to the pod: http://intergalacticpod.co Follow the pod: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intergalacticpod Threads: https://www.threads.net/@intergalacticpod Follow Mike: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikemoodygarcia Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mikemoodygarcia Follow Les: The TV Dudes Podcast: https://thetvdudes.libsyn.com/ Henchin': https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ljgXsrPfbxW3HhxFacFRQ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/intergalacticpod/message
Fueling Healthy Thoughts: Overcoming Darkness and Transformative Resilience In this episode I have some raw and vulnerable moments about this year and reflect on what I believe I need to work on with my own stinkin' thinkin'. Being more intentional with what we feed our minds is essential in turning things around, creating hope in our lives, and being a light in the darkness. It was recorded on MLK Day and I was inspired by his memory and his ability to be the man outside the box pushing through oppressive norms and spurring on all people of color to dare to dream bigger, and believe that more is possible. Here's a run down of this episode Reflecting on the challenges of the past year and the struggle to maintain balance in life. Drawing inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr. and the power of intention. Connecting with the Audience: Acknowledging the shared difficulties many face, emphasizing the feeling of being overwhelmed. Encouraging listeners not to feel alone in their struggles. The Four Nutriments: Exploring Thich Nhat Hanh's concept of the four nutrients (Edible food, Sense impressions, Volition, and Consciousness). Emphasizing the importance of identifying sources of suffering and finding peace and joy. Navigating Personal Struggles: Sharing personal struggles with podcasting, career decisions, and the challenges of parenting. Expressing empathy for those facing overwhelming situations and the difficulty of finding options. MLK Day Reflection: Reflecting on personal connection to Martin Luther King Jr. and the power of intention in creating positive change. Mentioning the influence of spoken words, particularly MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. Coping Strategies and Tools: Introducing coping strategies, including mindful eating and being aware of sense impressions. Discussing the impact of volition on happiness and the importance of cultivating healthy desires. Addressing the role of consciousness in transforming painful events and finding enlightenment. Focusing on Healing and Positivity: Highlighting the challenge of podcasting about abuse without inadvertently perpetuating negativity. Exploring the power of focus and intention in creating positive change. Expressing a desire to shift the podcast's focus towards healing, love, peace, and thriving. Inviting Positive Stories: Sharing the intention to invite guests who have overcome darkness and transformed their lives. Expressing the need for positive role models and stories of turning life around. Acknowledging personal challenges and the importance of collective healing. Closing Thoughts: Offering tools for managing anxiety and promoting well-being, including heart math techniques and grounding practices. Sending love, hope, and thoughts for a brighter future to the listeners. Encouraging subscriptions, reviews, and engagement to build a community focused on healing. Mentioned in this episode: Thich Nhat Hahn's "How to Focus" beautiful book. Inner Balance Heart Math App for heart brain coherence and learning to ground and become less anxious. And help the collective energy of your family, home, town, the World. Earthing, grounding mat for grounding while indoors. Just plug it into a grounded outlet. I use mine near my desk for my feet while working and under my sheets so I can ground while sleeping. Amazing!! DISCLAIMER: This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission at no cost to you if you purchase through a link here. I would never recommend a product I don't use or love myself! Thanks for tuning in! Sending lots of Love and wishes for a healthy 2024!
What is good parenting = 1. Like school + 2. Have good friends + 3. Good parent / child relationship + 4. Good academic outcomes (top 10%) + 5. Good extra curricula. Eastern and Western parenting. It's important to remember that parenting styles within any culture. 1. *Education Focus*: - Eastern: There's often a strong emphasis on academic achievement, discipline, and respect for authority. - Western: Education may be more balanced with extracurricular activities, encouraging creativity and individual interests. 2. *Discipline*: - Eastern: Discipline is generally more strict, with a greater emphasis on obedience and conformity to family and societal expectations. - Western: Discipline may be more flexible, focusing on reasoning with the child and understanding their perspective. 3. *Independence*: - Eastern: Independence is encouraged later, often after foundational values and behaviors are instilled. - Western: There's a strong emphasis on fostering independence from an early age, including encouraging children to make their own choices. 4. *Family Structure*: - Eastern: A greater emphasis on extended family, with respect for elders and filial piety being central values. - Western: A focus on the nuclear family, with a more egalitarian approach to family roles. 5. *Emotional Openness*: - Eastern: Emotional restraint is often valued, with less open verbal expression of love and affection. - Western: There's generally more open expression of emotions and affection, both verbally and physically. 6. *Decision Making*: - Eastern: Parents often make key decisions for their children, even into their adult lives. - Western: Children are encouraged to participate in decision-making processes, even from a young age. 7. *Risk and Failure*: - Eastern: There can be a high aversion to risk and failure, with a focus on avoiding loss of face and maintaining honor. - Western: Risk-taking is often encouraged as a part of learning, and failure can be seen as an opportunity for growth. Western parenting expectations across the 1950s, 1980s, and 2020s. 1. **Discipline**: - 1950s: Generally strict, with corporal punishment more accepted. - 1980s: Moving towards less physical discipline, with time-outs becoming more common. - 2020s: Emphasis on positive discipline, understanding child psychology, and avoiding physical punishment. 2. **Education**: - 1950s: Education was more formal, with a strong focus on foundational skills and respect for authority. - 1980s: Increasing emphasis on holistic education, including personal development and extracurricular activities. - 2020s: Focus on technology literacy, critical thinking, and personalized learning paths; homeschooling and alternative education models gain popularity. 3. **Gender Roles**: - 1950s: Traditional gender roles were predominant, influencing how children were raised and what was expected of them. - 1980s: Beginning to challenge traditional gender roles, with more encouragement for girls to pursue careers and boys to express emotions. - 2020s: Greater acceptance of diverse gender identities and roles, with emphasis on gender-neutral parenting. 4. **Technology and Media**: - 1950s: Limited impact, with radio and early television being the main technologies. - 1980s: Growing influence of television, video games, and early personal computers. - 2020s: Digital natives; heavy influence of the internet, social media, smartphones, and varied digital platforms. 5. **Parental Involvement**: - 1950s: More authoritative parenting with less involvement in children's play and exploration. - 1980s: Increasing parental involvement, with a shift towards more nurturing and supportive roles. - 2020s: Very high involvement in all aspects of children's lives, often termed as "helicopter" or "lawnmower" parenting.
Cher has filed for a conservatorship of son claiming he is unable to care for himself due to a massive drug addiction. Meghan McCain wants her former co-hosts at “The View” to “move on” from mentioning her — but not before she throws in a few last disses of her own. Kate Middleton and Prince William are not looking to repair their relationship with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Instinct magazine's Corey Andrew joins Rob with all the dish! Don't forget to vote in today's poll on Twitter at @naughtynicerob or in our Facebook group.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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There's a time and place for everything and sometimes you just need a light-hearted fluff conversation and an opportunity to relax, and binge watch a little tv. In this episode of Life after Kids, we're keeping it casual and discussing our favorite binge-worthy shows just in time for the holiday breakKey Takeaways:Historical dramas like "Downton Abbey" and "Poldark" provide a glimpse into the past and can be educational.Comedies like "New Girl" and "Ted Lasso" offer lighthearted entertainment and laughter.Watching shows together as a family can be a great way to bond and spend quality time.Laughter stimulates the vagus nerve, promoting relaxation and overall well-being.Watching shows that bring joy and laughter is a great way to relax, unwind, and take some “me time”. We hope you'll find moments like these during the holiday break. After all the gift wrapping, cooking, cleaning, and entertaining is through, it's so nice to kick your feet up with a yummy snack, a glass of wine or tea and a fabulously entertaining series to watch. Get prepared for some gloriously satisfying binge watching by listening to this week's episode of Life after Kids.Timestamp Summary | [0:00:34] | Importance of laughter and relaxation | [0:03:28] | Dr. Brooke's love for historical fiction shows | [0:05:37] | Discussion about "Downton Abbey" | [0:07:37] | Dr. Lynne's recommendation: "The Offer" | [0:09:24] | Appreciation for the glamour and wildness of Hollywood | [0:09:43] | Discussing the movie "The Godfather" and its background | [0:11:14] | Recommending the Australian show "Offspring" | [0:11:59] | Enjoying the show "New Girl" for laughs| [0:13:08] | Describing the show "Only Murders in the Building" as quirky and cute | [0:14:30] | Recommending the show "Parenthood" for its family dynamic | [0:14:57] | Praising the comedy show "New Girl" for its humor | [0:16:10] | Discussing the show "Virgin River" as a mindless drama | [0:17:49] | Recommending the show "Heartland" for its outdoor activities | [0:18:11] | Discussing family-friendly TV shows and documentaries | [0:19:31] | Finding ways to engage with sports without watching football | [0:20:18] | Watching home renovation shows with family | [0:22:02] | Recommending the show "Outlander" | [0:22:55] | Mentioning the show "Poldark" | [0:23:50] | Excitement for upcoming French Revolution movie | [0:24:37] | Enjoying shows like "Gilmore Girls" and "Ted Lasso" | [0:25:21] | Discussing the show "Sex and the City" | [0:26:54] | Reflecting on how older shows may be dated | [0:27:36] | Not worrying about offending in older movies and shows | [0:27:41] | Discussion about a show called Heartland | [0:28:46] | Heartland is described as a feel-good show with beautiful scenery | [0:29:12] | Introduction of a new show called Son of a critch | [0:30:57] | Mention of the show 6ft under and its satisfying ending use AFTERKIDS15! for 15% off your purchase at www.ryzesuperfoods.com Enjoy the show, and we hope you learn a little bit more about living a fulfilling, vibrant, and meaningful Life after Kids! If you like what you hear please rate and review the podcast, hit subscribe, and pass it along to a friend. Making tomorrow even better than today, Dr. Brooke and Dr. Lynne PS... Don't forget to follow us! Instagram Facebook Tik Tok
Love the idea of selling your very own product but you just have no good invention ideas? Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!Marcus and Grant welcome listeners to "The Invent With Me Podcast."Introduction to the hosts and a brief overview of the podcast's mission.Today's episode explores generating innovative ideas by studying expired patents.Segment 1: Understanding Expired Patents:Definition of expired patents and their value in the invention process.Importance of patent research for inventors.Clarification on the distinctions between patents, trademarks, and copyrights.Segment 2: The Power of the Public Domain:Deeper exploration of the public domain and its relevance to expired patents.Highlighting the benefits of using expired patents for inspiration and innovation.Segment 3: Navigating the USPTO Website:Step-by-step guide on searching for expired patents on the USPTO website.Tips and tricks for efficient patent searching.Mentioning additional resources or databases that can aid inventors.Segment 4: Case Studies and Success Stories:Introduction of the James Dyson case study as an example of successful innovation.Detailed exploration of Dyson's journey in revolutionizing the vacuum cleaner industry.Emphasizing how Dyson leveraged expired patents to create a game-changing product.Segment 5: Legal and Ethical Considerations:Addressing potential concerns such as patent infringement.Explaining the importance of thorough due diligence in the invention process.Offering guidance on avoiding legal pitfalls for inventors.Segment 6: Developing Your Unique Idea:Encouraging listeners to personalize ideas from expired patents.Discussion on the creative process of refining and enhancing concepts.Emphasis on the value of innovation and differentiation in product development.Segment 7: Tools and Resources:Sharing additional resources, including books, courses, and organizations.Mentioning relevant tools and software that can aid inventors in product development.Closing Thoughts:Recap of key takeaways from the episode.Encouragement for listeners to explore expired patents for inspiration.Teasing the topic of the next episode.
Unlocking Your World of Creativity with guests, Claire and Andrew Bowen, a husband and wife team specializing in consulting for profitable coffee shops. Highlighting their book, "The Daily Grind: How to Open and Run a Coffee Shop that Makes Money."Andrew and Claire's Website Andrew and Claire on YouTube @coffeepreneurs on Instagram Andrew and Claire's Facebook group 1. **Opening a Coffee Shop:** - Discussing the perception of opening a coffee shop as an easy entry into the hospitality market. - Highlighting the importance of making money in the coffee shop business.2. Challenges in the Coffee Shop Business: - Addressing misconceptions about the ease of opening a coffee shop. - Emphasizing the significance of getting the basics and fundamentals right to avoid financial pitfalls.3. Key Considerations for Coffee Shop Success: - Exploring the concept of being famous for something and finding a unique selling proposition. - Emphasizing the importance of understanding the target market and tailoring offerings accordingly.4. Choosing the Right Location: - Discussing the crucial role of location in the success of a coffee shop. - Mentioning a 74-point checklist to analyze potential locations.5. Hiring, Training, and Service: - Addressing challenges in hiring and retaining good staff in the hospitality industry. - Highlighting the importance of nurturing a positive workplace culture and providing excellent service.Crafting the Book:- Sharing insights into the writing process of "The Daily Grind," including the collaboration between Claire and Andrew.- Acknowledging the support of a friend with an eye for detail who served as a proofreader.- Discussing the decision-making process for considering the book complete and ready for publication.Marketing and Future Plans:- Sharing marketing strategies, including building an audience on LinkedIn and seeking reviews.- Mentioning plans for a potential sequel to the book and leveraging existing content for future projects.Words of Encouragement:- Encouraging aspiring coffee shop owners to be clear on their goals, target market, and the end game.- Emphasizing the importance of choosing the right business partner and establishing a partnership agreement.Key Quotes:1. "Be very clear on your why, what you want to do, what you're going to be famous for."2. "Choose the right business partner. You want a yin and a yang. You want somebody to be opposite."3. "We haven't had any deaths in our coffee shops, just some really stressful owners."
Steve Hayes, Esq. is the Chairman of Americans for Fair Taxation - FairTax.org. Billionaire Jeff Bezos, a soon-to-be Florida man, sparked a debate over taxes without mentioning them. The implications of his Seattle-to-Miami move show why
An increasing number of state court judges and justices are being targeted by state officials for not advancing their interests. On this episode, Taonga Leslie speaks with Dawn Blagrove (Emancipate NC) about how Justice Anita Earls, the only Black justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, is being targeted for factual remarks she made about the lack of diversity on the NC judiciary. They discuss why the situation in North Carolina should concern everyone who cares about judicial independence and achieving a judiciary that reflects the diversity of the public it serves. Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today: ACSLaw.org Today's Host: Taonga Leslie, ACS Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice Guest: Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director, Emancipate NC Link: "State Republicans Try to Remove Top Jurist for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias," by BILLY CORRIHER Link: "Civil rights advocates defend a North Carolina court justice suing over a probe for speaking out," by Gary D. Robertson Co-host Name: Jeanne Hruska, ACS Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy Visit the Podcast Website: Broken Law Podcast Email the Show: Podcast@ACSLaw.org Follow ACS on Social Media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube ----------------- Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of American Constitution Society 2023.
Adam, Phil, and Nicholas chat about all the big wrestling talking points this week...Sting announces his retirement!Logan Paul returning to WWE!Simon Miller vs. Joe Hendry!Nick Aldis is SmackDown GM!Chris Jericho can't stop mentioning WWE?!We answer all these questions and more, and there's a bloody good quiz all about wrestler retirements!Follow us on Twitter:@AdamWilbourn@PhilMyChambers@ItsAdamNicholas@WhatCultureWWEFor more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/wwe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
TONIGHT: The show begins in Jerusalem with a measure of arms and ammunition for the long road ahead, then moves to Gaza to name the suspects holding the hostages, From Pakistan to Washington, from Doha to Tehran, from Gordon Chang in Tokyo Harbor to Gregory Copley enroute to Japan. Mentioning the elections in Ecuador and Guatemala, then travels of the dictator Maduro of Venezuela to Moscow. Last a look at the AI tool in the Federal government, especially DoD. 1913 Panama
Labor has once again emerged as a hot button issue in the United States, so much so that even the likes of Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been spotted lurking around picket lines and union events popping up across the country. To talk about the rise in the American labor movement, Harold Meyerson, editor at large for The American Prospect, joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast. Meyerson has a distinguished career reporting on labor issues for multiple publications, among them the L.A. Times and Washington Post. Meyerson says public support for unions is almost at an all time high and the proof is in the pudding when looking at the various industries organizing in real time across America. From the writer's strike in Hollywood to the autoworkers in the Midwest to the assistant professors on numerous campuses, people are standing up for their rights as workers and recognizing their strength in numbers. “Gallup and Pew poll on [unions] every year and in the last few years, it's been about 70% approval rating, which is, so far, in excess of the approval rating of virtually any other American institution,” Meyerson said. Scheer makes sure to remind people of the successes of the labor movement in the past, most notably in one of America's greatest exports, the entertainment industry, where even Ronald Reagan championed organizing. Along with the autoworkers, Scheer argues the two groups represented the models for unionization and the reason why America had a middle class. The continued recognition of exploitation, greed and misrepresentation at the hands of past administrations, along with corporations reaping the benefits, has culminated in lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis and previous organizing movements like Occupy. This has resulted in “a greater awareness of the economic inequality between major investors and CEOs on the one hand and regular people on the other hand,” as Meyerson put it. In the case of teaching and research assistants on campus, Meyerson has seen an especially huge increase in their enthusiasm for organizing. Mentioning his access to voting data from the National Labor Relations Board, amongst unionized graduate students Meyerson has noted “it was at 89% Yes. That is a statement of generational approval of unions. These are all young people and the polls show that more than 80% of young people are pro-union. And these are workers who can't be fired.”
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