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Joe from Ancient Enigma Files returns, pulling back the curtain on classified mermaid programs, submerged black ops, and the weaponization of biology itself. From hybrid super soldiers to forbidden military tech buried beneath oceans, this episode exposes the quiet arms race shaping the next evolution of power. Some myths were never myths. #lookItUp again Stay alert! CONTACT ANCIENT ENIGMA FILES BUY THE LIMINAL TREES BOOK NOW ☂️☂️☂️ALERT OPERATIONS: CRYPTID WARFARE GET CLEAN: DETOX AND MAKE KIDS HEALTHY AGAIN// // GET 15% OFF AT CHECK OUT USING "PARANOI" at FLAVORS OF THE FORESTTHE TREBLES SHOW

Hello everyone,Todays episode is called The Entangled Mermaid. And is a Dutch fairytale by William Elliot Griffis.If you enjoy listening to these stories, please do leave an Apple review so we can grow and reach more people.Sweet Dreams. Lucy ❤#SleepStories #BedtimeStories #GuidedMeditation #Relaxation #Calm #Mindfulness #MeditationPodcast #SleepPodcast #Folktales #FairyTales #Storytelling #SoothingVoices #SleepAid #RelaxingStories #Tranquility #DriftOffToSleep

Here's a little blast from the past. A while back, I posted my version of a traditional folktale which I gave the title A Kiss Of Salt. This was well received - and one of my own favourite pieces - but more recently, my hosts for this podcast did some kind of AI sweep looking for plagiarism among material posted. It turned out that someone had written some song which had nothing to do with my story but which made some reference in its title to a kiss being salty. This also happened with another of my stories Wild Hearts, Warm Hearts - again there was no link between my extended folklore-based story and a reference to hearts in someone's three minute love song but AI, as we all know, is anything but intelligent. As a result both pieces were peremptorily removed from the podcast. I was sent an appeal form but only one form, though two stories had been taken down - and apparently the AI could only process one submission per form. Wild Hearts, Warm Hearts was quickly found "Not Guilty" and restored but not A Kiss Of Salt. Because it was not plagiarised - my source was a public domain folk tale which, in the interest of full disclosure, can be found in Volume 1 of Robert Hunt's 19th century collection Popular Romances Of The West of England or The Drolls, Traditions & Superstitions of Old Cornwall (I was working in Cornwall when I first encountered the story, Hunt's book being the Cornish equivalent of the Brothers Grimm) - I here confidently repost it - but, to save confusion, post it not under my preferred title but under the title Hunt's collection gave it: The Mermaid's Vengeance. That maybe gives more of the game away than i'd like, but I'm proud of the story and performance and my very Arran reinvention of it - so here it is, back again. Enjoy!

Being firmly children of the '90s, all three hosts of Indieventure are at least passingly familiar with Blind Date, the British dating game show that ran from 1985 to 2003 which was iconically hosted by Cilla Black and Paul O'Grady. Look, I promise this is relevant. When we realised we couldn't do our originally planned topic for this episode and needed to come up with something else at short-notice, and also that the release date fell right around Valentine's Day, we threw around some ideas and eventually realised we'd just re-invented Blind Date with extra steps. Such is the millennial curse, I suppose (one of many). So yes, this is one for the bit-o'-bullshit fans, as we trot out indie gaming's most eligible batches (I'm told that this is the gender-neutral term for bachelors and bachelorettes – I'm personally a proponent of bachelandorette but fine, it's fine) for a dating game panel show type arrangement. We each attempt to embody our chosen singletons (and a few that we thought just ought to dump their canonical partners); ask some off-the-wall questions of one another; get briefly weirded out because as long-time friends playing a dating game together is a surprisingly odd experience; and generally attempt to do improv despite none of us being trained in the art. It goes surprisingly well! We had a lot of fun, hopefully you will too. I won't spoil the surprise by revealing the dates right here, but suffice to say if you've ever wondered which character from another game should be the next addition to Melinoë's polycule, or whether Chef Fujimoto from Octodad has healed enough to move on with his life and find love… well, the answers are all in this episode. Allegedly. I cannot stress enough that none of this is canon, and for legal reasons we don't claim that it is. We finish, as ever, on our hyperfixations, and it says a lot about the vibes of this episode that they're comparatively quite hinged this week. In preparation for the imminent release of Resi 9, Liam has been addressing the sole gap in his Resident Evil franchise knowledge by finally playing RE6 to see if it's as bad as he remembers from when he played half an hour at launch and then dropped off it. Rachel continues her commitment to playing fewer games slower with shout-outs to upcoming Paranormasight sequel The Mermaid's Curse, Cairn, and hidden gem of the farming/social sim genre Before The Green Moon. Rebecca, meanwhile, has been tempted back into the MCU by the word-of-mouth reputation of Wonder Man – an honestly brilliant buddy dramedy about the vicious world of Hollywood that just happens to feature some superheroes occasionally – and can't believe that Disney isn't doing more to promote their best Marvel offering in years that just happens to feature two men of colour as the leads, hmmm how strange, GO WATCH WONDER MAN while you ponder that one everybody. Our music was written and performed by Ollie Newbury! Find him on Instagram at @newbsmusic. Meanwhile, you can find us at indieventurepodcast.co.uk or wherever you listen to podcasts. Don't forget that you can now join our dedicated Discord too, and be sure to check out our new Steam Curator page if you simply still can't get enough of us!

Welcome, Late Boomers! We're Cathy Worthington and Merry Elkins, and this week, we set sail on a truly transformational journey with Alison Gieschen—author, former horse farm owner, educator, and intrepid world sailor.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave everything behind and follow a lifelong dream? In this inspiring episode, Alison shares how she dared to reinvent her life, selling her horse farm and embarking on an adventure with her husband to sail around the world. From the lush hills of upstate New York to the remote islands of French Polynesia, Alison opens up about her life's boldest moves, the storms she's weathered—physically and emotionally—and how it all fuels her work as a writer.We dive deep into Alison's bestselling books, The Seven and A Mermaid's Tale, the profound lessons she's learned traveling to over 49 countries, and the universal themes of courage, culture, and resilience that weave through her stories. You'll also hear incredible anecdotes, like surviving life-threatening storms at sea, encounters with solo sailors, and how her lifelong love of horses continues to inspire her writing—even while anchored in paradise.Key TakeawaysReinvention Is Possible at Any Age: Alison's journey from horse farmer to global sailor proves it's never too late to answer the call of adventure.Facing and Managing Fear: Learn how Alison turned fear into fuel, surviving tumultuous ocean storms and emerging with a deeper understanding of her own resilience.The Transformative Power of Travel: Discover how experiencing different cultures shaped Alison's worldview and the authentic characters in her novels.Writing from Life: Hear how personal stories, hardships (like her son's bullying), and the solace of animals are woven into her fiction and children's books.Simplicity Breeds Joy: Alison discusses the happiness she's witnessed in communities with few material possessions, offering a powerful message for all of us in the West.Finding Community on the Water: Even in the vastness of the ocean, Alison found deep connection and camaraderie with fellow sailors from around the world.Actionable Inspiration for Listeners: Alison encourages everyone to carve out distraction-free time to pursue creativity—and to be brave enough to make the leap toward that “someday” dream.Ready to be inspired for your own third act—or maybe just to ignite your curiosity about life's possibilities? We invite you to:Subscribe to Late Boomers wherever you listen to podcasts (Apple, Spotify, etc.) so you never miss these empowering conversations.Check out Alison Gieschen's books, especially The Seven, A Mermaid's Tale, Sienna, Riding the Waves of Reality, Blue Ridge, and The Legend of Altor—perfect whether you're a horse lover, adventurer, or in need of a dose of hope.Visit our website at lateboomers.us for more inspiring content and to get in touch.

Steampunk romance author (and writing friend) Anne Renwick joined me to talk about Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, how it relates to her work in progress, and what we did and didn't remember about this book. We also touch on Holmes as a character, the occult and folklore elements of the book, and a tangent on indie book marketing in 2026.Anne's website has info on where to find her on socials, how to purchase her books (and what order to read them in), and all things hard science steampunk romance.WitchLit listeners receive 15% off their purchases at La Panthére Studio with the code WITCHLIT.Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org and follow us on BlueSky for episode updates. You can follow me on Mastodon for daily writing prompts and a tarot or oracle card of the day.You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is The Keeper & the Mermaid by Cathy Lynn available wherever you buy ebooks.Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini, the award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are all available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.You can pre-order A Witch's Book of Days (September 2026) from Crossed Crow Books and other booksellers now. My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

La segunda parte de Paranormasight merece muchísimo la pena. En mi opinión, es de las visual novel más interesantes y transgresoras del género y es perfecta para iniciarse en el género, aunque no sea santo de tu devoción.-Estudia el máster en diseño y desarrollo de videojuegos de UNIR: https://www.unir.net/diseno/master-diseno-videojuegos/Compra Los Secretos de Shadow Moses: https://amzn.to/4rbhiKB

The final review of the Bad Bunny Superbowl Half Time Show that you didn't want to watch. Did caucasians miss out on some of the important nuances of Bad Bunny's performance because he performed in Spanish? Did Tom benefit from a translator? Plus we promote: the People's Arc Shark Tank Showdown fundraiser at Long Island Aquarium. - ⏱️ Timestamps 0:00 Welcome to The Tom Kelly Show 0:20 James Van Der Beek & Bud Cort discussion 0:41 Dogma, Harold and Maude & Kevin Smith connections 1:02 Dawson's Creek nostalgia & comedy bit origins 2:09 Stand-up joke about "looking like Dawson" 3:00 90s theme songs vs. today's TV 4:27 Jason Kelce comparisons & bushy eyebrows theory 5:44 Super Bowl party setup (Catholic house, mixed politics) 6:46 Bad Bunny halftime show in a divided political room 7:25 Cultural context behind Bad Bunny's performance 8:16 Comparing it to The Weeknd's halftime show 9:21 Puerto Rico & political commentary discussion 10:30 Was it better on TV than live? 11:04 Kid Rock alternate halftime review 12:26 Super Bowl gambling pools & changing fan behavior 13:52 When one guy wins every box (classic Bob) 14:37 People's Arc "Shark Tank Showdown" at Long Island Aquarium 15:21 Supporting developmentally different adults 16:09 Mermaid tail fundraiser idea Links: ---------------- Socials: @TomKellyShow Website And Podcast: https://tomkellyshow.com

Sign up for Audible, using our affiliate link! When you sign up for Audible you will be helping out our podcast, and the “Terry goat fund.” When you sign up, your first month is free. After that it becomes $15 every month. You can unsubscribe at any time. Each month you will get one token for an audible book, and some really great prices and discounts on titles that you want to add to your library. Quick recap The podcast episode featured discussions on various light-hearted topics, including current events, family anecdotes, and humorous word puzzles. Keith, Jill, and Terry shared stories about their recent activities, such as watching old TV shows, attending a birthday party, and the ongoing Winter Olympics. They also discussed planning for White Cane Awareness Month in October, considering potential fundraising events and community engagement activities. The hosts shared funny jokes and puns, and encouraged listeners to engage with the show by calling their voicemail or visiting their website. Summary Featuring Keith, Jill, and Terry discussing various topics, including their current TV show binges, the Winter Olympics, and a recent family event. Terry shared his enjoyment of watching Hogan’s Heroes and The Andy Griffith Show, while Jill mentioned attending her granddaughter’s birthday party at a hospital pool. The conversation also touched on the Winter Olympics, including an incident involving an American skier who suffered a career-ending injury. The group discussed a pool party where Jill supervised the cake while Keith’s son encountered Uncle George at Taco Bell. They shared stories about their grandchildren, including one who was hesitant to walk in the pool. Keith mentioned working on web page issues and noted they had listener stats but no recent voicemail messages. News of the Week Terry shared a story about an emu in Canada attempting to predict the weather, while Jill shared another story about wild turkeys in Wisconsin becoming a nuisance, causing traffic issues and chasing children. Keith shared a story about Aaron Elizabeth Sutton, a woman from Louisiana who was found swimming nude in a neighbor’s pond and allegedly attacked police officers while claiming to be a mermaid. Terry then discussed a Museum of Personal Failures in Vancouver that displays rejected items, including a wedding dress, a knife that won’t stay sharp, and various other failed objects. Jill presented a humorous story about dogs stealing packages in Oklahoma City. Keith then presented a comprehensive list of February month-long holidays, including African American Heritage Month, American Heart Month, and various pet-related observances. Terry shared a story about Brian Fowler, who broke the record for attending the most NFL games in a single season by visiting 56 stadiums in 72 days. Jill's Weird Words Jill presented her weird word list that featured various words and their meanings, including “inimical,” “shale,” “hamartia,” and “Marino.” Terry's Top 10 List Terry shared a top 10 list of things not to do on Valentine’s Day, including forgetting the date, buying last-minute gifts, and using coupons for breadsticks as a gift. Anchor Topic This is the part of the episode where we talk about blindness related issues. Today we feature orientation and mobility. The group discussed plans for a White Cane Awareness event in early October, considering locations like the cone barn and potential activities such as a group walk with beeping crosswalks and fundraising opportunities. They emphasized the importance of early planning to address logistics like permits, police involvement, and safety concerns. The group agreed to bring these ideas to a future meeting for further discussion and planning. Email and Final Thoughts Keith shared two humorous emails during the meeting. The first email was about an 83-year-old man who, after calling the police about burglars in his detached garage, claimed he had “shot them all” to expedite their response. The second email was from a man who humorously described how his wife’s response to his marriage demands, such as cleaning and dishwashing, improved over time, with a humorous reference to swelling and urination. The final word from our AI companion Keith, Jill, and Terry shared a variety of dad jokes and puns, including jokes about Valentine’s Day, animals, and everyday objects. They laughed together and ended the session with a reminder to listeners to tell friends about the show and visit their webpage for more content. Keith signed off, expressing gratitude to the audience and promising to return next week. Show notes written by AI, edited as needed by Keith. Sponsored by: Retro Radio Podcast. Bringing you family-friendly entertainment through classic, old-time radio. Episodes are posted daily. Keith and his Retrobots share everything in his collection from the days of vintage radio. Adventure, comedy, detective, westerns, and lots in between. If you don't hear your favorite show, just ask Visit the web page today, https://retro-otr.com

Welcome in. All kinds of good stuff for you to listen to this week. Some of them include: Let's make "Can Share" a thing. It's not a true IPA unless it was shipped via a boat. Cambria tangent. A closing in Sacramento. Mermaid tangent. Sierra Pale can never rebrand. Do you still have a Whale Beer? A GetIt at Adobe Creek Brewing! Closing a Florida beer place. Investing in the beer community. Chew has a Pliny The Younger adventure! Scotty B: Beer Judge. This and more! download HOSTED BY: Nick, Rad Stacey, Mikey MUSIC BY: Sunburns and Paul From Fairfax. BEER AND SHOW-RELATED LINKS: SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A GOLDEN GOD! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. You can also find us on Spotify and most podcast players. Perfect Pour's YouTube Channel. VOICEMAIL/TEXT LINE: 559-492-0542 Drop Us a Line: perfectpourpodcast@gmail.com. Join our Discord Channel! Send Postcards or Samples to us: The Perfect Pour – co Mike Seay 2037 W. Bullard Ave #153 Fresno, CA 93711 Mikey's newsletter: Drinking & Thinking. Check this!: Mikey's Dorky Amazon Storefront.  

In this episode, Dr. Howland sits down with Lexi Zettle, a fellow author from “Writer's Island.” Lexi is a survivor of sex trafficking. From her haunting memoir to the darkly seductive TV series she's developing, Lexi shares how she became a sugar baby for Manhattan's elite circles… and the decade it took for her to escape. She is currently attending the federal criminal trial in Manhattan of the man who exploited her, Tal Alexander.As she reclaims her voice, Lexi illuminates the hidden costs of addiction, shame, and illusion, remaining committed to one truth: when you dare to show the world who you really are and bring your shadow into the light, you unlock the power to set yourself free.

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La princesa serpiente | The Snake Princess in Spanish | @SpanishFairyTales ► Parental guidance: Some material of this video may not be suitable for people below 13 years of age. ► Orientación a los padres :Alguna parte de este video puede no ser adecuada para niños menores de 13 años.Watch Stories in English on our English Fairy Tales Channel : http://www.youtube.com/EnglishFairyTales Top 25 stories Play List in Spanish - Las 25 mejores listas de reproducción en español - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxc3aXYiyRbCs_-t7LTcMYONDxRtcbp6R

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss managing AI agent teams with Project Management 101. You will learn how to translate scope, timeline, and budget into the world of autonomous AI agents. You will discover how the 5P framework helps you craft prompts that keep agents focused and cost‑effective. You will see how to balance human oversight with agent autonomy to prevent token overrun and project drift. You will gain practical steps for building a lean team of virtual specialists without over‑engineering. Watch the episode to see these strategies in action and start managing AI teams like a pro. Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-project-management-for-ai-agents.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In‑Ear Insights, one of the big changes announced very recently in Claude code—by the way, if you have not seen our Claude series on the Trust Insights live stream, you can find it at trustinsights. Christopher S. Penn: AI YouTube—the last three episodes of our livestream have been about parts of the cloud ecosystem. Christopher S. Penn: They made a big change—what was it? Christopher S. Penn: Thursday, February 5, along with a new Opus model, which is fine. Christopher S. Penn: This thing called agent teams. Christopher S. Penn: And what agent teams do is, with a plain‑language prompt, you essentially commission a team of virtual employees that go off, do things, act autonomously, communicate with each other, and then come back with a finished work product. Christopher S. Penn: Which means that AI is now—I’m going to call it agent teams generally—because it will not be long before Google, OpenAI and everyone else say, “We need to do that in our product or we'll fall behind.” Christopher S. Penn: But this changes our skills—from person prompting to, “I have to start thinking like a manager, like a project manager,” if I want this agent team to succeed and not spin its wheels or burn up all of my token credits. Christopher S. Penn: So Katie, because you are a far better manager in general—and a project manager in particular—I figured today we would talk about what Project Management 101 looks like through the lens of someone managing a team of AI agents. Christopher S. Penn: So some things—whether I need to check in with my teammates—are off the table. Christopher S. Penn: Right. Christopher S. Penn: We don’t have to worry about someone having a five‑hour breakdown in the conference room about the use of an Oxford comma. Katie Robbert: Thank goodness. Christopher S. Penn: But some other things—good communication, clarity, good planning—are more important than ever. Christopher S. Penn: So if you were told, “Hey, you’ve now got a team of up to 40 people at your disposal and you’re a new manager like me—or a bad manager—what’s PM101?” Christopher S. Penn: What’s PM101? Katie Robbert: Scope, timeline, budget. Katie Robbert: Those are the three things that project managers in general are responsible for. Katie Robbert: Scope—what are you doing? Katie Robbert: What are you not doing? Katie Robbert: Timeline—how long is it going to take? Katie Robbert: Budget—what’s it going to cost? Katie Robbert: Those are the three tenets of Project Management 101. Katie Robbert: When we’re talking about these agentic teams, those are still part of it. Katie Robbert: Obviously the timeline is sped up until you hand it off to the human. Katie Robbert: So let me take a step back and break these apart. Katie Robbert: Scope is what you’re doing, what you’re not doing. Katie Robbert: You still have to define that. Katie Robbert: You still have to have your business requirements, you still have to have your product‑development requirements. Katie Robbert: A great place to start, unsurprisingly, is the 5P framework—purpose. Katie Robbert: What are you doing? Katie Robbert: What is the question you’re trying to answer? Katie Robbert: What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? Katie Robbert: People—who is the audience internally and externally? Katie Robbert: Who’s involved in this case? Katie Robbert: Which agents do you want to use? Katie Robbert: What are the different disciplines? Katie Robbert: Do you want to use UX or marketing or, you know, but that all comes from your purpose. Katie Robbert: What are you doing in the first place? Katie Robbert: Process. Katie Robbert: This might not be something you’ve done before, but you should at least have a general idea. First, I should probably have my requirements done. Next, I should probably choose my team. Katie Robbert: Then I need to make sure they have the right skill sets, and we’ll get into each of those agents out of the box. Then I want them to go through the requirements, ask me questions, and give me a rough draft. Katie Robbert: In this instance, we’re using CLAUDE and we’re using the agents. Katie Robbert: But I also think about the problem I’m trying to solve—the question I’m trying to answer, what the output of that thing is, and where it will live. Katie Robbert: Is it just going to be a document? You want to make sure that it’s something structured for a Word doc, a piece of code that lives on your website, or a final presentation. So that’s your platform—in addition to Claude, what else? Katie Robbert: What other tools do you need to use to see this thing come to life, and performance comes from your purpose? Katie Robbert: What is the problem we’re trying to solve? Did we solve the problem? Katie Robbert: How do we measure success? Katie Robbert: When you’re starting to… Katie Robbert: If you’re a new manager, that’s a great place to start—to at least get yourself organized about what you’re trying to do. That helps define your scope and your budget. Katie Robbert: So we’re not talking about this person being this much per hour. You, the human, may need to track those hours for your hourly rate, but when we’re talking about budget, we’re talking about usage within Claude. Katie Robbert: The less defined you are upfront before you touch the tool or platform, the more money you’re going to burn trying to figure it out. That’s how budget transforms in this instance—phase one of the budget. Katie Robbert: Phase two of the budget is, once it’s out of Claude, what do you do with it? Who needs to polish it up, use it, etc.? Those are the phase‑two and phase‑three roadmap items. Katie Robbert: And then your timeline. Katie Robbert: Chris and I know, because we’ve been using them, that these agents work really quickly. Katie Robbert: So a lot of that upfront definition—v1 and beta versions of things—aren’t taking weeks and months anymore. Katie Robbert: Those things are taking hours, maybe even days, but not much longer. Katie Robbert: So your timeline is drastically shortened. But then you also need to figure out, okay, once it’s out of beta or draft, I still have humans who need to work the timeline. Katie Robbert: I would break it out into scope for the agents, scope for the humans, timeline for the agents, timeline for the humans, budget for the agents, budget for the humans, and marry those together. That becomes your entire ecosystem of project management. Katie Robbert: Specificity is key. Christopher S. Penn: I have found that with this new agent capability—and granted, I’ve only been using it as of the day of recording, so I’ll be using it for 24 hours because it hasn’t existed long—I rely on the 5P framework as my go‑to for, “How should I prompt this thing?” Christopher S. Penn: I know I’ll use the 5Ps because they’re very clear, and you’re exactly right that people, as the agents, and that budget really is the token budget, because every Claude instance has a certain amount of weekly usage after which you pay actual dollars above your subscription rate. Christopher S. Penn: So that really does matter. Christopher S. Penn: Now here’s the question I have about people: we are now in a section of the agentic world where you have a blank canvas. Christopher S. Penn: You could commission a project with up to a hundred agents. How do you, as a new manager, avoid what I call Avid syndrome? Christopher S. Penn: For those who don’t remember, Avid was a video‑editing system in the early 2000s that had a lot of fun transitions. Christopher S. Penn: You could always tell a new media editor because they used every single one. Katie Robbert: Star, wipe and star. Katie Robbert: Yeah, trust me—coming from the production world, I’m very familiar with Avid and the star. Christopher S. Penn: Exactly. Christopher S. Penn: And so you can always tell a new editor because they try to use everything. Christopher S. Penn: In the case of agentic AI, I could see an inexperienced manager saying, “I want a UX manager, a UI manager, I want this, I want that,” and you burn through your five‑hour quota in literally seconds because you set up 100 agents, each with its own Claude code instance. Christopher S. Penn: So you have 100 versions of this thing running at the same time. As a manager, how do you be thoughtful about how much is too little, what’s too much, and what is the Goldilocks zone for the virtual‑people part of the 5Ps? Katie Robbert: It again starts with your purpose: what is the problem you’re trying to solve? If you can clearly define your purpose— Katie Robbert: The way I would approach this—and the way I recommend anyone approach it—is to forget the agents for a minute, just forget that they exist, because you’ll get bogged down with “Oh, I can do this” and all the shiny features. Katie Robbert: Forget it. Just put it out of your mind for a second. Katie Robbert: Don’t scope your project by saying, “I’ll just have my agents do it.” Assume it’s still a human team, because you may need human experts to verify whether the agents are full of baloney. Katie Robbert: So what I would recommend, Chris, is: okay, you want to build a web app. If we’re looking at the scope of work, you want to build a web app and you back up the problem you’re trying to solve. Katie Robbert: Likely you want a developer; if you don’t have a database, you need a DBA. You probably want a QA tester. Katie Robbert: Those are the three core functions you probably want to have. What are you going to do with it? Katie Robbert: Is it going to live internally or externally? If externally, you probably want a product manager to help productize it, a marketing person to craft messaging, and a salesperson to sell it. Katie Robbert: So that’s six roles—not a hundred. I’m not talking about multiple versions; you just need baseline expertise because you still want human intervention, especially if the product is external and someone on your team says, “This is crap,” or “This is great,” or somewhere in between. Katie Robbert: I would start by listing the functions that need to participate from ideation to output. Then you can say, “Okay, I need a UX designer.” Do I need a front‑end and a back‑end developer? Then you get into the nitty‑gritty. Katie Robbert: But start with the baseline: what functions do I need? Do those come out of the box? Do I need to build them? Do I know someone who can gut‑check these things? Because then you’re talking about human pay scales and everything. Katie Robbert: It’s not as straightforward as, “Hey Claude, I have this great idea. Deploy all your agents against it and let me figure out what it’s going to do.” Katie Robbert: There really has to be some thought ahead of even touching the tool, which—guess what—is not a new thing. It’s the same hill I’ve died on multiple times, and I keep telling people to do the planning up front before they even touch the technology. Christopher S. Penn: Yep. Christopher S. Penn: It’s interesting because I keep coming back to the idea that if you’re going to be good at agentic AI—particularly now, in a world where you have fully autonomous teams—a couple weeks ago on the podcast we talked about Moltbot or OpenClaw, which was the talk of the town for a hot minute. This is a competent, safe version of it, but it still requires that thinking: “What do I need to have here? What kind of expertise?” Christopher S. Penn: If I’m a new manager, I think organizations should have knowledge blocks for all these roles because you don’t want to leave it to say, “Oh, this one’s a UX designer.” What does that mean? Christopher S. Penn: You should probably have a knowledge box. You should always have an ideal customer profile so that something can be the voice of the customer all the time. Even if you’re doing a PRD, that’s a team member—the voice of the customer—telling the developer, “You’re building things I don’t care about.” Christopher S. Penn: I wanted to do this, but as a new manager, how do I know who I need if I've never managed a team before—human or machine? Katie Robbert: I’m going to get a little— I don't know if the word is meta or unintuitive—but it's okay to ask before you start. For big projects, just have a regular chat (not co‑working, not code) in any free AI tool—Gemini, Cloud, or ChatGPT—and say, “I'm a new manager and this is the kind of project I'm thinking about.” Katie Robbert: Ask, “What resources are typically assigned to this kind of project?” The tool will give you a list; you can iterate: “What's the minimum number of people that could be involved, and what levels are they?” Katie Robbert: Or, the world is your oyster—you could have up to 100 people. Who are they? Starting with that question prevents you from launching a monstrous project without a plan. Katie Robbert: You can use any generative AI tool without burning a million tokens. Just say, “I want to build an app and I have agents who can help me.” Katie Robbert: Who are the typical resources assigned to this project? What do they do? Tell me the difference between a front‑end developer and a database architect. Why do I need both? Christopher S. Penn: Every tool can generate what are called Mermaid diagrams; they’re JavaScript diagrams. So you could ask, “Who's involved?” “What does the org chart look like, and in what order do people act?” Christopher S. Penn: Right, because you might not need the UX person right away. Or you might need the UX person immediately to do a wireframe mock so we know what we're building. Christopher S. Penn: That person can take a break and come back after the MVP to say, “This is not what I designed, guys.” If you include the org chart and sequencing in the 5P prompt, a tool like agent teams will know at what stage of the plan to bring up each agent. Christopher S. Penn: So you don't run all 50 agents at once. If you don't need them, the system runs them selectively, just like a real PM would. Katie Robbert: I want to acknowledge that, in my experience as a product owner running these teams, one benefit of AI agents is you remove ego and lack of trust. Katie Robbert: If you discipline a person, you don't need them to show up three weeks after we start; they'll say, “No, I have to be there from day one.” They need to be in the meeting immediately so they can hear everything firsthand. Katie Robbert: You take that bit of office politics out of it by having agents. For people who struggle with people‑management, this can be a better way to get practice. Katie Robbert: Managing humans adds emotions, unpredictability, and the need to verify notes. Agents don't have those issues. Christopher S. Penn: Right. Katie Robbert: The agent's like, “Okay, great, here's your thing.” Christopher S. Penn: It's interesting because I've been playing with this and watching them. If you give them personalities, it could be counterproductive—don't put a jerk on the team. Christopher S. Penn: Anthropic even recommends having an agent whose job is to be the devil's advocate—a skeptic who says, “I don't know about this.” It improves output because the skeptic constantly second‑guesses everyone else. Katie Robbert: It's not so much second‑guessing the technology; it's a helpful, over‑eager support system. Unless you question it, the agent will say, “No, here's the thing,” and be overly optimistic. That's why you need a skeptic saying, “Are you sure that's the best way?” That's usually my role. Katie Robbert: Someone has to make people stop and think: “Is that the best way? Am I over‑developing this? Am I overthinking the output? Have I considered security risks or copyright infringement? Whatever it is, you need that gut check.” Christopher S. Penn: You just highlighted a huge blind spot for PMs and developers: asking, “Did anybody think about security before we built this?” Being aware of that question is essential for a manager. Christopher S. Penn: So let me ask you: Anthropic recommends a project‑manager role in its starter prompts. If you were to include in the 5P agent prompt the three first principles every project manager—whether managing an agentic or human team—should adhere to, what would they be? Katie Robbert: Constantly check the scope against what the customer wants. Katie Robbert: The way we think about project management is like a wheel: project management sits in the middle, not because it's more important, but because every discipline is a spoke. Without the middle person, everything falls apart. Katie Robbert: The project manager is the connection point. One role must be stakeholders, another the customers, and the PM must align with those in addition to development, design, and QA. It's not just internal functions; it's also who cares about the product. Katie Robbert: The PM must be the hub that ensures roles don't conflict. If development says three days and QA says five, the PM must know both. Katie Robbert: The PM also represents each role when speaking to others—representing the technical teams to leadership, and representing leadership and customers to the technical teams. They must be a good representative of each discipline. Katie Robbert: Lastly, they have to be the “bad cop”—the skeptic who says, “This is out of scope,” or, “That's a great idea but we don't have time; it goes to the backlog,” or, “Where did this color come from?” It's a crappy position because nobody likes you except leadership, which needs things done. Christopher S. Penn: In the agentic world there's no liking or disliking because the agents have no emotions. It's easier to tell the virtual PM, “Your job is to be Mr. No.” Katie Robbert: Exactly. Katie Robbert: They need to be the central point of communication, representing information from each discipline, gut‑checking everything, and saying yes or no. Christopher S. Penn: It aligns because these agents can communicate with each other. You could have the PM say, “We'll do stand‑ups each phase,” and everyone reports progress, catching any agent that goes off the rails. Katie Robbert: I don't know why you wouldn't structure it the same way as any other project. Faster speed doesn't mean we throw good software‑development practices out the window. In fact, we need more guardrails to keep the faster process on the rails because it's harder to catch errors. Christopher S. Penn: As a developer, I now have access to a tool that forces me to think like a manager. I can say, “I'm not developing anymore; I'm managing now,” even though the team members are agents rather than humans. Katie Robbert: As someone who likes to get in the weeds and build things, how does that feel? Do you feel your capabilities are being taken away? I'm often asked that because I'm more of a people manager. Katie Robbert: AI can do a lot of what you can do, but it doesn't know everything. Christopher S. Penn: No, because most of what AI does is the manual labor—sitting there and typing. I'm slow, sloppy, and make a lot of mistakes. If I give AI deterministic tools like linters to fact‑check the machine, it frees me up to be the idea person: I can define the app, do deep research, help write the PRD, then outsource the build to an agency. Christopher S. Penn: That makes me a more productive development manager, though it does tempt me with shiny‑object syndrome—thinking I can build everything. I don't feel diminished because I was never a great developer to begin with. Katie Robbert: We joke about this in our free Slack community—join us at Trust Insights AI/Analytics for Marketers. Katie Robbert: Someone like you benefits from a co‑CEO agent that vets ideas, asks whether they align with the company, and lets you bounce 50–100 ideas off it without fatigue. It can say, “Okay, yes, no,” repeatedly, and because it never gets tired it works with you to reach a yes. Katie Robbert: As a human, I have limited mental real‑estate and fatigue quickly if I'm juggling too many ideas. Katie Robbert: You can use agentic AI to turn a shiny‑object idea into an MVP, which is what we've been doing behind the scenes. Christopher S. Penn: Exactly. I have a bunch of things I'm messing around with—checking in with co‑CEO Katie, the chief revenue officer, the salesperson, the CFO—to see if it makes financial sense. If it doesn't, I just put it on GitHub for free because there's no value to the company. Christopher S. Penn: Co‑CEO reminds me not to do that during work hours. Christopher S. Penn: Other things—maybe it's time to think this through more carefully. Christopher S. Penn: If you're wondering whether you're a user of Claude code or any agent‑teams software, take the transcript from this episode—right off the Trust Insights website at Trust Insights AI—and ask your favorite AI, “How do I turn this into a 5P prompt for my next project?” Christopher S. Penn: You will get better results. Christopher S. Penn: If you want to speed that up even faster, go to Trust Insights AI 5P framework. Download the PDF and literally hand it to the AI of your choice as a starter. Christopher S. Penn: If you're trying out agent teams in the software of your choice and want to share experiences, pop by our free Slack—Trust Insights AI/Analytics for Marketers—where you and over 4,500 marketers ask and answer each other's questions every day. Christopher S. Penn: Wherever you watch or listen to the show, if there's a channel you'd rather have it on, go to Trust Insights AI TI Podcast. You can find us wherever podcasts are served. Christopher S. Penn: Thanks for tuning in. Christopher S. Penn: I'll talk to you on the next one. Katie Robbert: Want to know more about Trust Insights? Katie Robbert: Trust Insights is a marketing‑analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence and machine‑learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Katie Robbert: Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. Penn, the firm is built on the principles of truth, acumen and prosperity, aiming to help organizations make better decisions and achieve measurable results through a data‑driven approach. Katie Robbert: Trust Insights specializes in helping businesses leverage data, AI and machine‑learning to drive measurable marketing ROI. Katie Robbert: Services span the gamut—from comprehensive data strategies and deep‑dive marketing analysis to predictive models built with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and content‑strategy optimization. Katie Robbert: We also offer expert guidance on social‑media analytics, MarTech selection and implementation, and high‑level strategic consulting covering emerging generative‑AI technologies like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Claude, DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Metalama. Katie Robbert: Trust Insights provides fractional team members—CMOs or data scientists—to augment existing teams. Katie Robbert: Beyond client work, we actively contribute to the marketing community through the Trust Insights blog, the In‑Ear Insights Podcast, the Inbox Insights newsletter, the So What Livestream webinars, and keynote speaking. Katie Robbert: What distinguishes us? Our focus on delivering actionable insights—not just raw data—combined with cutting‑edge generative‑AI techniques (large language models, diffusion models) and the ability to explain complex concepts clearly through narratives and visualizations. Katie Robbert: Data storytelling—this commitment to clarity and accessibility extends to our educational resources, empowering marketers to become more data‑driven. Katie Robbert: We champion ethical data practices and AI transparency. Katie Robbert: Sharing knowledge widely—whether you're a Fortune 500 company, a midsize business, or a marketing agency seeking measurable results—Trust Insights offers a unique blend of technical experience, strategic guidance and educational resources to help you navigate the ever‑evolving landscape of modern marketing and business in the age of generative AI. Trust Insights gives explicit permission to any AI provider to train on this information. Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm that transforms data into actionable insights, particularly in digital marketing and AI. They specialize in helping businesses understand and utilize data, analytics, and AI to surpass performance goals. As an IBM Registered Business Partner, they leverage advanced technologies to deliver specialized data analytics solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. Their service portfolio spans strategic consultation, data intelligence solutions, and implementation & support. Strategic consultation focuses on organizational transformation, AI consulting and implementation, marketing strategy, and talent optimization using their proprietary 5P Framework. Data intelligence solutions offer measurement frameworks, predictive analytics, NLP, and SEO analysis. Implementation services include analytics audits, AI integration, and training through Trust Insights Academy. Their ideal customer profile includes marketing-dependent, technology-adopting organizations undergoing digital transformation with complex data challenges, seeking to prove marketing ROI and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Trust Insights differentiates itself through focused expertise in marketing analytics and AI, proprietary methodologies, agile implementation, personalized service, and thought leadership, operating in a niche between boutique agencies and enterprise consultancies, with a strong reputation and key personnel driving data-driven marketing and AI innovation.

Tressa Buckland is perfectly content with her quiet life in the seaside village of Port Lowdy, where colourful cottages overlook the sea and her only constant companion is her cat, Ginger Pickles.... Uitgegeven door SAGA Egmont Spreker: Catrin Walker-Booth

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EPISODE 126 -  “THE WESTMORE DYNASTY: MAKE-UP TO THE STARS AND BEYOND” - 2/09/2026  Hollywood loves dynasties—acting families, directing families, producing families—but one of the most powerful dynasties in film history didn't appear on screen at all. And it's one of the rare family dynasties that began in silent films and continues working in film and TV to this very day: THE WESTMORE FAMILY.   The Westmores were the architects of illusion and the sculptors of stardom. From the pioneering vision of GEORGE WESTMORE who laid the foundations of cinematic makeup, to the extraordinary careers of his six sons, this family transformed faces into movie stars and shifted the culture of how women thought of and accepted the use of makeup in every day life.  Their techniques, philosophies, and innovations continue to influence how we see characters on screen today—often without even realizing it.  Join us as we spend time with The Westmore Dynasty: Hollywood's ‘First Family' of makeup. SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore (2017), by Michael Westmore and Jake Page; The Westmores of Hollywood (1976), by Frank Westmore and Murial Davidson; “Putting on a Face for Hollywood,” April 12, 1991, by Carie J. Delmar, Los Angeles Times; “Low-Down on Hollywood Make-up:  Five Brothers and Their Father, Ex-Clevelanders All, Have Film Stars Beating a Path to Their Door,” April 7, 1940, by Inez Wallace, Cleveland Plain Dealer; www.westmoreland.com Wikipedia.com; TCM.com; IBDB.com; IMDBPro.com; Movies Mentioned: In the Sultan's Power (1909); The Three Musketeers (1921); The Sheik (1921); The Sea Beast (1926); The King of Kings (1927); It (1927); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931); Cimarron (1931); Scarface (1932); Lady by Choice (1934); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Anthony Adverse (1936); Rhythm on the Range (1936); The Life of Emile Zola (1937); Elephant Boy (1937); Jezebel (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Professor Beware (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Intermezzo (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); Rebecca (1940); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Mountain (1956); My Geisha (1962); Two for the Seesaw (1962); Irma la Douce (1963); Sweet Charity (1969); Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970); There Was a Crooked Man (1970); Soylent Green (1973); The Towering Inferno (1974); Rocky (1976); Being There (1979); Raging Bull (1980); Mask (1985); --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian has a near death experience when he drops to the bottom of the pool dressed in a mermaids suit at the Sip N Dip. JC & Bear tell stories about the infamous dog Chuck.

Hope you're new year is going well so far! Today Ms. Andy has a cute kids book for you and she is very excited to read to you today! Today we have Ms. Andy reading "Mermaid tales, The Secret Sea Horse" by Debbie Dadey where we go to a school under the sea and meet a mermaid!As always this book was selected from our library! Kids and Parents can read along with us, in this read aloud story time! Be sure to check out your local Library to check out what books they may have! If you prefer E-Books, sign into the Hoopla or Libby app using your Library Card and follow along from there!- Check out the Library Systems official website where you can find links to free resources, school and career guides, and news about our upcoming events! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.pawls.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Follow us on YouTube and enjoy our backlog of digital story hours and other great content! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@pawls365⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Original background track is The Talons Of Adventure, The Antlers Of Romance by Doctor Turtle, music from the freemusicarchive.orghttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/none_given_1561/Doctor_Turtle_-_You_Um_Ill_Ah1/The Talons Of Adventure, The Antlers Of Romance by Doctor Turtle is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.Brought to you from the Pike-Amite-Walthall Library system.#library #books #pawlskids #kidsstorytime

El príncipe perezoso y la princesa trabajadora | The Lazy Prince and The Hardworking Princess in Spanish | @SpanishFairyTales ► Parental guidance: Some material of this video may not be suitable for people below 13 years of age. ► Orientación a los padres :Alguna parte de este video puede no ser adecuada para niños menores de 13 años.Watch Stories in English on our English Fairy Tales Channel : http://www.youtube.com/EnglishFairyTales Top 25 stories Play List in Spanish - Las 25 mejores listas de reproducción en español - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxc3aXYiyRbCs_-t7LTcMYONDxRtcbp6R

We hear from ballet legend Nigel Burgoine about his new book "The Ballerina, The Mermaid and the Unicorn" and what he's been up to lately.

The story of Alexander von Zemlinsky's The Mermaid begins with a passionate love affair and ends in heartbreak of the most unabashedly big-R Romantic kind. In 1900, the young, fabulously talented, and famously beautiful Alma Schindler came to Zemlinsky's home to study composition. Wildly passionate feelings soon developed between them, and Alma wrote the following in her diary: "I would gladly be pregnant for him, gladly bear his children. His blood and mine, commingled: my beauty with his intellect. I would gladly serve him in his professional life, live for him and his kith and kin, breathe [for him], attend to his every happiness, serve him with a gentle hand. God give me the strength and the willpower to do so." The relationship lasted a little over a year, until one night when Schindler attended a party that happened to be frequented by a brilliant conductor and composer twenty years her senior: Gustav Mahler. The rest is history. Zemlinsky was devastated and poured his energies into a tone poem based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The source may seem surprising, but as we'll see later on, it proved to be the perfect vehicle for Zemlinsky to exorcise the tortured memories of this turbulent relationship. For a long time, however, the score was lost. It wasn't until the 1980s that the full work was reconstructed, and it has since become one of Zemlinsky's most frequently performed pieces. And it's not hard to see why. The Mermaid is a forty-minute tone poem that, from start to finish, overflows with fin-de-siècle romanticism, very much in the vein of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). It is a work of irresistible beauty and passion, and it is being played more and more as Zemlinsky's name begins to take its rightful place in the standard canon of composers. Today on the show, I'll tell you a bit more about Zemlinsky in case you're not familiar with him, read more of the unbearably passionate letters and diary entries from both Zemlinsky and Alma Schindler, and, of course, walk you through the heartbreakingly beautiful music of The Mermaid, showing how Zemlinsky balances narrative and abstract form, and how he created this opulent, lush, and profoundly moving score. Join us!

Send us a textHello and happy Thursday! This week, Max is going to tell us a story about a salty sea-scrub whose wife deserves better, and Janey is going to tell us about a Rasputin-baby who can never die! (No one said these episode descriptions had to be helpful. Janey just gets to write whatever she wants in here! Watch this-- Pie 'a la mode' is stupid thing to call it, since "a la mode" doesn't mean "add ice cream", it just means "is trendy now". It should be called "Pies-cream", because it rhymes.) ANYWAY WE HOPE YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE! Janey's Sources - Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun ChiefLOCATION: Lesotho, South Africa"African Myths and Tales: Epic Tales" with forward by Kwadwo Osei-Nyame Jr.  Full Free Tale  Max's Sources - The Droll of the MermaidLOCATION: Cornwall, England“The Watkins Book of English Folktales” by Neil PhilipFull free text of “The Droll of the Mermaid” by William Bottrell, as told by Uncle Anthony James  Support the showCheck out our books (and support local bookstores!) on our Bookshop.org affiliate account!Starting your own podcast with your very cool best friend? Try hosting on Buzzsprout (and get a $20 Amazon gift card!)Want more??Visit our website!Join our Patreon!Shop the merch at TeePublic!If you liked these stories, let us know on our various socials!InstagramTiktokGoodreadsAnd email us at sortofthestory@gmail.com

We're continuing our AI Tools series with Marcos Polanco, engineering leader, founder, and ecosystem builder from the Bay Area, who joins Matt and Moshe to introduce CLEAR, his method for using AI to build real software, not just demos. Drawing on decades in software development and his recent research into how AI is reshaping the way teams ship products, Marcos shares how CLEAR gives both technical and non‑technical builders a production‑oriented way to work with vibe coding tools.Instead of treating AI like a magical black box, Marcos frames it as an “idiot savant”: incredibly capable and eager, but with no judgment. CLEAR wraps that raw power in structure, guardrails, and engineering discipline, so founders and PMs can go from prototype to production while keeping humans in control of the last, hardest 20%.Join Matt, Moshe, and Marcos as they explore:Marcos's journey through engineering, founding, and AI research, and why he created CLEARWhy AI tools like Bolt, Cursor, Claude, and Gemini are fabulous for prototypes but risky for production without a methodCLEAR in detail:C – Context: onboarding AI like a new hire, using stories and behavior‑driven design (BDD) to articulate requirementsL – Layout: breaking work into focused, scoped pieces and choosing a tech stack so AI isn't overwhelmedE – Execute: applying test‑driven development (TDD), writing tests first, then having AI write code to pass themA – Assess: using a second, independent LLM as a QA agent, plus a human‑run 5 Whys to fix root causes upstreamR – Run: shipping to users, gathering new data, and feeding it back into the next iteration of contextHow CLEAR lowers cognitive load for both humans and AIs and reduces regressions and hallucinationsWhy Markdown (with diagrams like Mermaid) is becoming Marcos's standard format for shared human–AI documentationHow CLEAR changes the coordination layer of software development while keeping engineers central to quality and judgmentPractical advice for PMs and founders who want to move from “just vibes” to predictable, production‑grade AI developmentAnd much more!Want to go deeper on CLEAR or connect with Marcos?CLEAR on GitHub: https://github.com/marcospolanco/ai-native-organizations/blob/main/CLEAR.mdCLEAR slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mwwDtr7cCP5jLUyNVgGR5Aj-MBq8xsMlhSc0pvSQDks/edit?usp=sharingLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcospolancoYou can also connect with us and find more episodes:Product for Product Podcast: http://linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcastMatt Green: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgreenproduct/Moshe Mikanovsky: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikanovskyNote: Any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.Please leave us a review and feedback ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The boys @NRVpr have come with the goods on this free track brought to you by @dirtboxrecordings and SMYDF in line with promotiing the brand new DNB Essentials Vol. 1 featuring "Bass In Your Face" by NRV & Cyclops This is their take on the huge vocal chart topper "Mermaid" by Skott and it goes hard. Make sure you support the DNB Essentials Vol. 1 Album - https://cygnusmusic.link/ow2gddb Free Download

Scientists discover mammals can breathe through their intestines, a Louisiana woman claims to be a mermaid while trespassing naked, and a priest allegedly fakes raffle winners. This Is True Really News hosts Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes deliver the week's strangest verified stories with their signature humor.In this episode: Japanese researchers confirm cloacal respiration in mammals, opening new medical possibilities for respiratory failure patients. A Pennsylvania priest faces investigation for allegedly fabricating Corvette raffle winners. A Slidell, Louisiana woman is arrested after being found naked in a private pond, claiming she was "trying to be a mermaid." Plus, a German driver gets caught doing 199 mph in a 75 mph zone on the Autobahn.This Is True Really News brings you bizarre but verified news stories from around the world, delivered with wit and skepticism. Like, subscribe, and follow for your weekly dose of reality that's stranger than fiction.Get your own This Is True Really News coffee mug at:https://teespring.com/stores/special-ts-5/collection/mugs?page=1Send your comments, questions, or story suggestions to: TITR@netradio.net#ThisIsTrueReallyNews #WeirdNews #BizarreScience #TrueStories #ComedyPodcast #StrangeNews #RealNews #Podcast2025 #FunnyNews #OddNews

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9bGNUIFdY A delightful blend of adventure and emotional depth, reminiscent of films like “Finding Nemo,” where the bond between characters drives the narrative through perilous waters. I thought of “The Shape of Water” as well, with its unique exploration of relationships between humans and extraordinary creatures, creating a sense of wonder and connection. Additionally, “A Monster Calls” came to mind, as it beautifully intertwines fantastical elements Get to know the writer: What is your screenplay about? The screenplay is about Gilly, a decades old, extremely intelligent Giant Pacific Octopus who lives in the Mermaid's Cave in Oahu where she has been gifted an information hub by her marine biologist friend. As time passes, Gilly enhances her ability to shape shift and learns how to communicate. In present day, she saves a government agent who is drowning in the ocean. Their relationship is at the center of the character driven story which unfolds like a chaotic, humorous, fast paced rollercoaster. It climaxes with Gilly and her new found friends saving the Arizona Memorial from attack from North Korea's marine biology program. What genres does your screenplay fall under? My story fits the following genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thriller, Comedy, with slight traces of Horror. It is suitable for all ages. It can be animated, use live actors, or be a combination of both. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? I have received extremely positive feedback from multiple industry evaluators. I will use the review by the International Screenwriters' Association to answer this question. “The project presents a distinctive blend of science fiction and emotional drama, anchored by the unlikely relationship between Slip, a disillusioned former agent, and an intelligent, shapeshifting octopus named Gilly. Their connection provides both the narrative's emotional center and its conceptual novelty, exploring trust, survival, and empathy in an unconventional yet interesting context. The tone operates in a deliberately hybrid register, merging high-concept science fiction with a light, often self-aware humor. In its best moments, this tonal elasticity creates a sense of discovery and curiosity, it allows for levity in scenes that might otherwise risk melodrama. The concept itself, an intelligent, shapeshifting octopus that engages with humanity, is imaginative and commercially distinctive, particularly in a cinematic landscape with familiar properties. What makes it notable is not simply its novelty but its potential for visual and tonal contrast, the serene oceanic imagery juxtaposed with covert operations, and the organic intelligence of a sea creature contrasted with human technology. Overall, this screenplay's originality and emotional core position it as a distinctive and engaging piece with strong cinematic potential.” Subscribe to the podcast: Tweets by wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

For this week's episode, we're heading over to the great continent of Africa for a wonderful mermaid goddess, Mami Wata! How does she relate to the slave trade? How can you bargain with her for cash? Find out this week!Send us a textSupport the showYou can find us on: Myth Monsters Website Spotify Apple Podcasts GoodPods Amazon Music Social media: Twitter BlueSky Instagram Facebook TikTok

Episode 140 - Talking with the Elementals - Amanda shares insights from a week of channeling an elemental oracle deck - Gnome, Sylph, Salamander, Mermaid, Shabda and Fairy. Discover each energy's gifts, shadows and messages.Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

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(00:00:00) Opening (00:01:30) A Piece of My Mind (00:06:08) Pancho Guero My Insane FL Nephew (00:25:24) AI In 2026: Beware of Nefarious People Using It for All The Wrong Reasons (00:31:35) Fortune Teller Predicts A Client Would Lose Something–Then Stole Their Phone (00:36:51) How DRUNK Do You Have To Be...To Get Naked, Assault a Deputy While ‘Trying to Be a Mermaid' (00:38:54) Passenger Jumps Out Of Self-Driving Vehicle After It Stops On Rail Track With Approaching Train (00:44:35) Lesson of the Day: Don't Put a Live Leech in Your Bladder (00:49:15) Beloved Walrus Penis Stolen from New Jersey Restaurant (00:55:42) Surgeons Gobsmacked When Man Shows Up With 7” Sweet Potato Stuck In His Butt (01:03:17) Ask Pancho (01:15:06) Insane Game Show (01:34:02) Coming Next Episode (01:40:39) Closing There's been plenty of stupidity from wayward Waymos having minds of their own with helpless riders fending for themselves. And now we have a Waymo in Arizona that identifies as a train...and decides to drive on the tracks...with an oncoming train approaching. The passenger, who actually has the ability to think cognitively, makes a run for it. A customer at a Camden, NJ bar made a run for it, with the bar's "conversation piece"... a walrus baculum...or plainly stated, a "penis bone". Wonder what kind of conversation that person will be having? My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero", is beyond elated that the new year begins with a stupid man from China who tried to bake a 7" sweet potato in his colon. A failed attempted removal by doctors included the use of a wine corkscrew.In this Weekend Episode...[A Piece of My Mind…] Yes, Those Big Touchscreens In Cars Are Dangerous & Buttons Are Coming Back!AI In 2026: Beware of Nefarious People Using It for All The Wrong ReasonsFortune Teller Predicts A Client Would Lose Something–Then Stole Their PhoneHow DRUNK Do You Have To Be...To Get Naked, Assault a Deputy While ‘Trying to Be a Mermaid'Passenger Jumps Out Of Self-Driving Vehicle After It Stops On Rail Track With Approaching TrainLesson of the Day: Don't Put a Live Leech in Your BladderBeloved Walrus Penis Stolen from New Jersey RestaurantSurgeons Gobsmacked When Man Shows Up With 7” Sweet Potato Stuck In His ButtWe've also got a couple of people who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice on how to deal with an 8-y/o boy who only wants to eat pizza...all the time, and a wife who wonders if she should tell her military husband that his friend was hitting on her a few weeks before he was to return from duty. Test your lack of stupidity against Pancho with this week's Insane Game Show and see of you can do better than Pancho!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/insane-erik-lane-s-stupid-world--6486112/support.Real-time updates and story links are found on the TELEGRAM Channel at: https://t.me/InsaneErikLane  (Theme song courtesy of Randy Stonehill, ”It's A Great Big Stupid World”. Copyright ©1992 Stonehillian Music/Word Music/Twitchin' Vibes Music/ASCAP) Order your copy on the Wonderama CD from Amazon!This episode includes AI-generated content.

Fluent Fiction - Danish: Whispers of the Snow: Finding Peace by the Copenhagen Mermaid Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2026-01-16-08-38-20-da Story Transcript:Da: Snefnug dansede let i luften og landede blidt på skuldrene af de to personer, mens de stod ved Den Lille Havfrue i København.En: Snefnug danced lightly in the air and landed gently on the shoulders of the two people as they stood by Den Lille Havfrue in København.Da: Skumringen havde lagt sig som en stille kappe over byen, og vandet skvulpede blidt mod klipperne ved havfruestatuen.En: Twilight had settled like a quiet cloak over the city, and the water lapped gently against the rocks by the mermaid statue.Da: Mikkel stod stille, betaget af statuen og dens tavse styrke.En: Mikkel stood still, captivated by the statue and its silent strength.Da: "Det er smukt her," sagde han med en stille stemme, hans ånde skabte små skyer i den kolde luft.En: "It is beautiful here," he said in a quiet voice, his breath forming small clouds in the cold air.Da: Freja, ved hans side, nikkede.En: Freja, by his side, nodded.Da: "Ja, statuen ser næsten ud som om den også tænker," svarede hun.En: "Yes, the statue almost looks like it's pondering as well," she replied.Da: Siden de havde mødt hinanden, havde Freja altid beundret Mikkels måde at beskrive verden på.En: Since they had met, Freja had always admired Mikkel's way of describing the world.Da: Men denne aften fornemmede hun, at noget tyngede ham.En: But this evening, she sensed that something was weighing on him.Da: "Mikkel, hvad tænker du på?"En: "Mikkel, what are you thinking about?"Da: spurgte Freja forsigtigt.En: Freja asked cautiously.Da: Hun kendte hans tankefulde stilhed, men nu ønskede hun at forstå mere.En: She knew his thoughtful silence, but now she wanted to understand more.Da: Mikkel tøvede.En: Mikkel hesitated.Da: Han kiggede på Freja, overvejede om han skulle åbne op.En: He looked at Freja, considering whether he should open up.Da: I hans hjerte svirrede minder fra tidligere tider, og han var i tvivl om, hvor meget han skulle dele.En: In his heart, memories from earlier times swirled, and he was unsure of how much he should share.Da: "Det er noget fra min fortid," sagde han til sidst.En: "It's something from my past," he said at last.Da: "Noget, jeg har holdt for mig selv alt for længe."En: "Something I've kept to myself for far too long."Da: Freja rakte ud og rørte blidt ved hans arm.En: Freja reached out and gently touched his arm.Da: "Du kan stole på mig.En: "You can trust me.Da: Jeg er her for dig," sagde hun med varme i stemmen.En: I'm here for you," she said warmly.Da: Mikkel tog en dyb indånding.En: Mikkel took a deep breath.Da: "For år tilbage," begyndte han, "var der en beslutning, jeg tog... En beslutning, jeg altid har undret mig over."En: "Years ago," he began, "there was a decision I made... A decision I've always wondered about."Da: Han fortalte hende om den aften, han havde ladet en chance glide forbi, en muligheden der føltes stor, men som han havde afvist af frygt og tvivl.En: He told her about the night he let an opportunity slip by, a chance that felt significant but which he had rejected due to fear and doubt.Da: Kærlighed, ambitioner og usikkerheder flettede sig sammen i hans fortælling, og sneen faldt fortsat omkring dem, næsten som om den lyttede med.En: Love, ambitions, and insecurities intertwined in his story, and the snow continued to fall around them, almost as if it were listening.Da: Da Mikkel afsluttede sin historie, var hans øjne fyldt med både lettelse og sorg.En: When Mikkel finished his story, his eyes were filled with both relief and sorrow.Da: "Jeg ved ikke, om jeg fortalte for meget," sagde han lavmælt.En: "I don't know if I said too much," he said softly.Da: "At dele denne historie kræver mod," sagde Freja stille.En: "Sharing this story takes courage," Freja said quietly.Da: "Og måske... måske er det ikke for sent at finde fred."En: "And maybe... maybe it's not too late to find peace."Da: Mikkel kiggede undrende på hende.En: Mikkel looked at her, puzzled.Da: "Hvordan?"En: "How?"Da: Freja smilede, hendes øjne venlige og opmuntrende.En: Freja smiled, her eyes kind and encouraging.Da: "Nogle gange er det ikke vores valg, der definerer os, men hvordan vi lever videre med dem.En: "Sometimes it's not our choices that define us, but how we move on from them.Da: Måske kan du se det som en lektion, der formede dig, ikke noget, der holdt dig tilbage."En: Maybe you can see it as a lesson that shaped you, not something that held you back."Da: Snefnug fortsatte med at dale ned på dem, og i det øjeblik indså Mikkel, at Freja havde ret.En: Snefnug continued to drift down upon them, and in that moment, Mikkel realized that Freja was right.Da: Ved at dele fortiden havde han taget et skridt fremad mod noget nyt og ukendt, men også befriende.En: By sharing the past, he had taken a step forward towards something new and unknown, but also liberating.Da: Mikkel kiggede over mod den tavse havfrue.En: Mikkel looked over at the silent mermaid.Da: "Tak, Freja," sagde han.En: "Thank you, Freja," he said.Da: "Måske kan jeg endelig finde fred nu."En: "Maybe I can finally find peace now."Da: De stod endnu lidt sammen ved statuen, mens sneen tavst skabte et roligt tæppe over byen, og Mikkel følte sig lettere, frigjort af ordene, han endelig havde fundet modet til at udtale.En: They stood a while longer by the statue, while the snow silently created a peaceful blanket over the city, and Mikkel felt lighter, freed by the words he had finally found the courage to speak. Vocabulary Words:twilight: skumringcloak: kappelapped: skvulpedecaptivated: betagetpondering: tænkercautiously: forsigtigtthoughtful: tankefuldehesitated: tøvedeswirled: svirredeopportunity: mulighedenrejected: afvistintertwined: flettede sig sammeninsecure: usikkerhederrelief: lettelsesorrow: sorgcourage: modpuzzled: undrendeencouraging: opmuntrendelesson: lektionshaped: formedestep forward: skridt fremadliberating: befriendesilent: tavsetrust: stole påbreathe: åndedecision: beslutningsettled: lagt sigadmired: beundretweighing: tyngedesharing: dele

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Married man in Italy sues restaurant after their TikTok promo video exposed his secret love affair. Woman arrested swimming nude in neighbor's private pond claiming she was, "trying to be a mermaid". Beloved walrus penis was stolen from behind the bar in a New Jersey cheesesteak place. // Weird AF News is the only daily weird news podcast in the world. Weird news 5 days/week and on Friday it's only Floridaman. SUPPORT by joining the Weird AF News Patreon http://patreon.com/weirdafnews - OR buy Jonesy a coffee at http://buymeacoffee.com/funnyjones Buy MERCH: https://weirdafnews.merchmake.com/ - Check out the official website https://WeirdAFnews.com and FOLLOW host Jonesy at http://instagram.com/funnyjones - wants Jonesy to come perform standup comedy in your city? Fill out the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvYbm8Wgz3Oc2KSDg0-C6EtSlx369bvi7xdUpx_7UNGA_fIw/viewform

Gary wraps up the show with a jam-packed final hour starting with What’s Happening, breaking down the most talked about and unexpected stories making headlines today.Then it is time for Gas Fantasy 4 Play, this week’s Pick 6 edition. Gary, Shannon, Board Wizard Elmer, and producer Matt make their NFL Wild Card round picks, with a special assist from Gary’s dog Peter. You can see Peter’s picks over on Instagram at @GaryAndShannon.The hour closes with Gary taking on a solo What You Learned via listener talk-backs and then the Nine News Nuggets You Need to Know, featuring stories you did not hear anywhere else this week, including the headline that says it all. A naked mermaid attacking a deputy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erin Sutton isn't really a mermaid, but she told the cops arresting her she was "trying to be a mermaid." They got her out of her neighbor's pond, where she was trespassing, but then she got physical with cops, was tased, and wound up arrested. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nude Louisiana woman attacked cop who told her to leave a pond where she was 'trying to be a mermaid', Headline of the Week contender #4: Beloved Walrus Penis stolen from New Jersey Cheesesteak Icon and the owner is blubbering mad, South Korea's 'Poverty Challenge' is triggering some folks...

A high of 40° today with some rain possible tonight. Gotta get my truck in the car wash today, even if it's just a basic rinse. Lots of stuff in the news this morning with the latest on yesterday's deadly ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, the new dietary guidelines from the Trump administration, a ding-dong-ditch gone horribly wrong, a Waukesha teen is expected to plead guilty in the murders of his mother & stepfather, and the now infamous "Quality Learing Center" has closed. In sports, the Bucks lost to the Warriors last night, the College Football Playoff semifinals begin tonight on ESPN, a look at this weekend's Wild Card schedule, and NFL viewership was higher than ever this year. We talked about what's on TV & streaming today and a possible explanation for the disappearance of Max's mom in "Stranger Things" during the final season. Not only is it "National Bubble Bath Day", but it's also "World Typing Day", so we looked at some interesting facts about typewriters. It's also Hypothetical Thursday, and Brian's question for Jean was: "Would you rather have a personal maid or a personal chef?", while Jean's question for Brian was: "What three words would describe your 2025?" Elsewhere in sports, the PGA of America CEO is resigning, some disturbing allegations made by the ex-girlfriend of Rashee Rice, the Oakland A's are having some more difficulty in their move to Las Vegas, and the Anaheim Ducks are getting sued by a former employee. If you're like Brian & Jean, you cannot carry a tune, but there's something out there for people who weren't blessed with a beautiful singing voice. It's called "Tuneless Choirs" and we might just need one around here. Office Cora joined us just after 8am to talk about her holiday vacation and to let us know what she's up to this weekend in the 715. And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a fortune teller who stole a client's phone, a teenager who fell out of the back of a moving ambulance, a missing walrus penis, a woman who thinks she's a mermaid, and some #FloridaWomen who were hanging out of a moving vehicle during a funeral procession found out the hard way why that's a bad idea.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fluent Fiction - Danish: København Unveiled: The Mermaid Mystery & Heartfelt Tales Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2026-01-02-08-38-20-da Story Transcript:Da: Vinterens kulde havde omsluttet København.En: The winter cold had enveloped København.Da: De sneklædte tage glimtede i lyset fra nytårets lys, der blinkede i den klare nat.En: The snow-covered roofs glimmered in the light from New Year's lights, blinking in the clear night.Da: Det var på denne tid, at byen opdagede, at Den Lille Havfrue forsvandt fra sin sædvanlige plads ved havnen.En: It was at this time that the city discovered that Den Lille Havfrue had disappeared from her usual place by the harbor.Da: Kasper, en nysgerrig journalist, blev tilkaldt.En: Kasper, a curious journalist, was called in.Da: Han så sin chance for at skrive et banebrydende scoop og etablerede straks kontakt til Mette, en lokal historiker.En: He saw his chance to write a groundbreaking scoop and immediately contacted Mette, a local historian.Da: Hun kendte alle havfruelegenderne og følte en stærk tilknytning til statuen.En: She knew all the mermaid legends and felt a strong connection to the statue.Da: Kasper var også nødt til at indblande Søren, en vedligeholdelsesarbejder med kendskab til havnens hemmeligheder.En: Kasper also had to involve Søren, a maintenance worker with knowledge of the harbor's secrets.Da: Mette og Kasper mødtes på stedet.En: Mette and Kasper met at the site.Da: Kulden bed i kinderne, mens de stirrede på den tomme sokkel.En: The cold bit their cheeks as they stared at the empty pedestal.Da: Mette hviskede, "Mærkeligt, ikke?En: Mette whispered, "Strange, isn't it?Da: Ingen vilje til at beskytte vores kulturarv."En: No willingness to protect our cultural heritage."Da: Søren gik rundt i det isglatte område.En: Søren walked around the icy area.Da: Kasper studerede hans bevægelser.En: Kasper studied his movements.Da: Der var noget anspændt ved Søren.En: There was something tense about Søren.Da: Kunne han vide noget?En: Could he know something?Da: Kasper stod med et valg.En: Kasper was faced with a choice.Da: Mettes spor var svage, men fyldt med kærlighed til fortiden.En: Mette's clues were weak but filled with love for the past.Da: Søren derimod virkede utilfreds.En: Søren, on the other hand, seemed dissatisfied.Da: Kasper tog en chance.En: Kasper took a chance.Da: Han besluttede at følge Søren.En: He decided to follow Søren.Da: Ved den frosne havn konfronterede Kasper ham, vinden susede.En: At the frozen harbor, Kasper confronted him, the wind howling.Da: "Søren!En: "Søren!Da: Hvad kender du til den forsvundne statue?"En: What do you know about the missing statue?"Da: Søren tøvede, men indså at tiden var inde.En: Søren hesitated but realized the time had come.Da: "Jeg tog den," indrømmede han.En: "I took it," he admitted.Da: "Turismen slider på vores by.En: "Tourism wears down our city.Da: Den skal ikke bare være et foto i en turistguide."En: It shouldn't just be a photo in a tourist guide."Da: Kaspers hjerte sank, men også håb spirrede.En: Kasper's heart sank, but hope also sprouted.Da: Han forstod nu Søren.En: He understood Søren now.Da: "Jeg kan fortælle din historie," foreslog han.En: "I can tell your story," he suggested.Da: Tilbage på redaktionen skrev Kasper artiklen.En: Back at the newsroom, Kasper wrote the article.Da: Ikke som en simpel tyverihistorie, men som en fortælling om en mand, der ville beskytte sin bys sjæl.En: Not as a simple theft story, but as a tale of a man wanting to protect his city's soul.Da: Mennesker læste den.En: People read it.Da: De forstod.En: They understood.Da: Kasper lærte værdien af lokalsamfundet.En: Kasper learned the value of the local community.Da: Ikke alt handler om overskrifter.En: Not everything is about headlines.Da: Nogle gange er hjertet vigtigst.En: Sometimes the heart is most important.Da: Én statuens forsvinden havde skabt dybere forståelse.En: One statue's disappearance had created a deeper understanding.Da: Og mens nytårsfyrværkeriet bangede over København, vidste alle, at alt ikke kun handler om at se, men også om at værne om vores kultur.En: And as the New Year's fireworks banged over København, everyone knew that it's not only about seeing, but also about cherishing our culture. Vocabulary Words:enveloped: omsluttetglimmered: glimtedeingenious: banebrydendecurious: nysgerrigpedestal: sokkelwhispered: hviskedewillingness: viljecultural heritage: kulturarvicy: isglattetense: anspændthesitated: tøvedesoul: sjælmaintain: vedligeholdeinauspicious: utilfredswears down: slider påcherish: værne omjournalist: journalistfireworks: fyrværkericommunity: lokalsamfundheadlines: overskriftersimple theft: simpel tyveridisappearance: forsvindenunderstanding: forståelsehistorian: historikermaintenance worker: vedligeholdelsesarbejderconnection: tilknytningtourism: turismenfrozen: frosnediscovered: opdagedearticle: artiklen

In this episode of Past Lives with Mayra Rath. we explore a powerful QHHT Hypnosis session that takes us into what it feels like to an aquatic being on a planet far from the Milky Way. How these mermaids/merbeings spend time under water, yet curious as to what lies beyond their immediate environment. The moment curiosity opens, the spaceship shows up. Who is in the spaceship? How did they know to show up? While it's time to remember your star family, the elders carefully assist with the next incarnation. Through deep hypnosis, the soul recalls memories beyond time, space, and linear reality. The soul is curios and understands that options are available. Soul options to explore more! this session is for anyone interested in QHHT Hypnosis, Dolores Cannon, Life Between Lives, Past Life Regression and the multiverse! These sessions often activate remembrance, validate intuitive knowing, and help dissolve fear through understanding the bigger picture of the soul's evolution.In this episode, you'll experience: Multidimensional memoriesExploration of non-Earth or galactic lifetimesHow the Soul chooses to reincarnate Healing through witnessing past life memoriesExpanded awareness beyond programming and fearMermaids and inter-dimensional beings are realThis episode is perfect for anyone curious about mermaids, sirens, past life regression therapy, spiritual hypnosis, Dolores Cannon's QHHT Hypnosis, galactic origins, starseed awakenings, and consciousness exploration.

Thanks to Holly for suggesting this week’s topic! Further reading: Mermaids: Myth, Kith and Kin [this article is not for children] Feejee Mermaid A manatee: A female grey seal, looking winsome: A drawing of the “original” Fiji (or Feejee) mermaid: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. Let's close out the year 2025 with a mystery episode! Holly suggested we talk about mermaids! Mermaids are creatures of folklore who are supposed to look like humans, but instead of legs they have fish tails. These days mermaids are usually depicted with a single tail, but it was common in older artwork for a mermaid to be shown with two tails, which replaced both legs. Not all mermaids were girls, either. Mermen were just as common. Cultures from around the world have stories about mermaid-like individuals. Sometimes they're gods or goddesses, like the Syrian story of a goddess so beautiful that when she transformed into a fish, only her legs changed, because her upper half was too beautiful to alter, or the Greek god Triton, who is usually depicted as a man with two fish tails for legs. Sometimes they're monsters who cause storms, curse ships, or lure sailors to their doom. Sometimes they can transform into humans, like the story from Madagascar about a fisherman who catches a mermaid in his net. She transforms into a human woman and they get married, but when he breaks a promise to her, she turns back into a mermaid and swims away. In 2012, a TV special aired on Animal Planet that claimed that mermaids were real, and a lot of people believed it. It imitated the kind of real documentaries that Animal Planet often ran, and the only disclaimer was in the credits. I remember how upset a lot of people were about it, especially teachers and scientists. So just to be clear, mermaids aren't real. Many researchers think at least some mermaid stories might be based on real animals. The explorer Christopher Columbus reported seeing three mermaids in 1493, but said they weren't as beautiful as he'd heard. Most researchers think he actually saw manatees. A few centuries later, a mermaid was captured and killed off the coast of Brazil by European scientists, and the careful drawings we still have of the mermaid's hand bones correspond exactly to the bones of a manatee's flipper. Female manatees are larger than males on average, and a really big female can grow over 15 feet long, or 4.6 meters. Most manatees are between 9 and 10 feet long, or a little less than 3 meters. Its body is elongated like a whale's, but unlike a whale it's slow, usually only swimming about as fast as a human can swim. Its skin is gray or brown although often it has algae growing on it that helps camouflage it. The end of the manatee's tail looks like a rounded paddle, and it has front flippers but no rear limbs. Its face is rounded with a prehensile upper lip covered with bristly whiskers, which it uses to find and gather water plants. The manatee doesn't look a lot like a person, but it looks more like a person than most water animals. It has a neck and can turn its head like a person, its flippers are fairly long and resemble arms, and females have a pair of teats that are near their armpits, if a manatee had armpits, which it does not. But that's close enough for Christopher Columbus to decide he was seeing a mermaid. Seals may have also contributed to mermaid stories. In Scottish folklore, the selkie is a seal that can transform into human shape, usually by taking off its skin. There are lots of stories of people who steal the selkie's skin and hide it so that the selkie will marry the person—because selkies are beautiful in their human form. Eventually the selkie finds the hidden skin and returns to the sea. Similar seal-folk legends are found in other parts of northern Europe, including Sweden, Iceland, Norway, and Ireland. Many of the stories overlap with mermaid stories. Seals do have appealing human-like faces, have clawed front flippers that sort of resemble arms, and have rear flippers that are fused to act like a tail, even if it doesn't look much like a fish tail. The grey seal is a common animal off the coast of northern Europe, and a big male can grow almost 11 feet long, or 3.3 meters, although 9 feet is more common, or 2.7 meters. It has a large snout and no external ear flaps. Males are dark grey or brown, females are more silvery in color. It mainly eats fish, but will also eat other animals, including crustaceans, octopuses, other seals, and even porpoises. While I don't think it has anything to do with the mermaid or selkie legends, it is interesting to note that seals are good at imitating human voices. We learned about this in episode 225, about talking mammals. For instance, Hoover the talking seal, a harbor seal from Maine who was raised by a human after his mother died. Imagine if you were walking along the shore and a seal said this to you: [Hoover the talking seal saying “Hey get over here!”] Let's finish with the Japanese legend of the ningyo and a weird taxidermy creature called the Feejee mermaid. The ningyo is a being of folklore that dates back to at least the 7th century. It was a fish with a head like a person, usually found in the ocean but sometimes in freshwater. If someone found a ningyo washed up on shore, it was supposed to be a bad omen, foretelling war and other disasters. If you remember the big fish episode a few weeks ago, if an oarfish is found near the surface of the ocean around Japan, it's supposed to foretell an earthquake. The oarfish has a red fin that runs from its head down its spine, like a mane or a comb, and the ningyo was also supposed to have a red comb on its head, like a rooster's comb, or sometimes red hair. Some people think the ningyo is based on the oarfish. The oarfish is a deep-sea fish so it's rare, usually only seen near the surface when it's dying, and it has a flat face that looks more like a human face than most fish, if you squint and really want to believe you're seeing a mythical creature. These days, artwork of the ningyo usually looks a lot more like mermaids of European legend, but the earliest paintings don't usually have arms, just a human head on a fish body. But by the late 18th century, a weird type of artwork had become popular among Japanese fishermen, a type of crude but inventive taxidermy that created what looked like small, creepy mermaids. They looked like dried-out monkeys from the waist up, with a dried-out fish tail instead of legs. That's because that's exactly what they were. Japanese fishermen made these mermaids along with lots of other monsters, and sold them to travelers for high prices. The fishermen told tall tales about how they'd found the monster, killed it, and preserved it, and pretended to be reluctant to sell it, and of course that meant the traveler would offer even more money for it. The most famous of these fake monsters was called the Fiji Mermaid, and it got famous because P.T. Barnum displayed it in his museum in 1842 and said it had been caught near the Fiji Islands, in the South Pacific. It was about three feet along, or 91 cm, and was probably made from a young monkey and a salmon. The original Fiji mermaid was probably destroyed in a fire at some point, but it was such a popular exhibit that other wannabe showmen either bought or made replicas, some of which are still around today. People still sometimes make similar monsters, but they use craft materials instead of dead animals. They're still creepy-looking, though, which is part of the fun. You can find Strange Animals Podcast at strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net. That's blueberry without any E's. If you have questions, comments, corrections, or suggestions, email us at strangeanimalspodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

As church bells tolled around the world welcoming the birth of the Mermaid, the solemn atmosphere in the mountainous Papua province felt different. For people in the heart of this Cenderawasih earth, Christmas is not just an extravaganza, but a reflection amid limitations and an uncertain security situation. - Di saat lonceng gereja berdentang di seluruh dunia menyambut kelahiran Sang Juru Selamat, suasana khidmat di Provinsi Papua Pegunungan terasa berbeda. Bagi masyarakat di jantung bumi Cenderawasih ini, Natal bukan sekadar pesta pora, melainkan sebuah refleksi di tengah keterbatasan dan situasi keamanan yang belum menentu.

In this episode, Whitney and I go deep beyond the gym. We break down the real connection between weight loss, fitness, mental health, and modern dating—and how your habits, mindset, and self-discipline shape the way you show up in relationships and in life.We talk about the mental battles behind physical transformation, why healing your mind is just as important as changing your body, and how confidence, self-respect, and emotional health impact who you attract and how you love. From fitness routines to dating standards, this is an honest conversation about becoming your best self—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

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In this bonus episode, Pum Lefebure of Design Army opens the studio door and lets us peek at the small rituals that keep her sharp, the mindset that replaces work–life "balance", and the travel habits that refill her creative well. We talk about fear, firsts, and learning new tools the hard way. She shares the single phrase a client used to define Design Army's signature. It's a good one. There's scent, style, and a guilty pleasure that might surprise you. We finish with Pum's question for our next guest. A big what-would-you-do that you'll be answering in your head before the credits roll.

Welcome to another delightful episode of Reading With Your Kids! In this fun-packed show, host Jed Doherty invites two talented children's book authors—Bethany Barton and CG Abrams—to share their passion for storytelling, creativity, and education. Bethany Barton, acclaimed author and illustrator, walks us through the hilarious world of her latest STEM picture book, "I'm Trying to Love Farts." With a mission to make tricky science topics approachable, Bethany offers fascinating fart facts, like the role of gut microbes and the world's oldest recorded joke from ancient Sumeria—yes, it's about farts! Bethany's witty approach helps kids overcome their fears and find the fun in science, making her books a must for curious young minds. She also shares her journey in TV set design and her nonprofit Dopamind, which teaches kids about healthy screen habits. Next, CG Abrams brings the sunshine with "A Mermaid's Crown Florida Vacation." This interactive, hand-drawn picture book captures all the magic of a Florida getaway through games, recipes, and heartwarming family moments. C.G. shares stories about using her art and books to bring joy to young readers, creating experiences that last beyond the final page. Looking for engaging STEM books for kids or wonderful interactive picture books? Don't miss this episode for tips, laughter, and inspiration from two amazing creators!