Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Robertson

Join our host, Ben Dillon, Operations Manager of Soft Services at the Bendigo Hospital Project for Downer, as he embarks on an inspiring journey with Michael Robertson, Director at JL King & Co. & Simply Tasty, a beacon of social responsibility and innovation in Greater Bendigo. Discover how this iconic brand, crowned Business of the Year in 2024, has evolved from humble beginnings to a nationally recognised name in food service and manufacturing.Michael shares the rich history of J.L. King & Co., a business that has been part of the Bendigo community since 1913. Learn about the transformative impact of social procurement, as Michael discusses the company's commitment to partnering with local suppliers and fostering a multicultural and inclusive workforce. From employing individuals with disabilities to celebrating cultural diversity, J.L. King & Co. is a testament to the power of community-driven growth.Explore the innovative strategies that have propelled J.L. King & Co. to success, including their focus on sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint. Hear about their cutting-edge facility, built with local tradespeople, which stands as one of the greenest in Australia for ready meals production.This episode is a must-listen for business leaders and entrepreneurs seeking to integrate social responsibility into their business practices. Gain valuable insights on building strong supplier relationships, supporting local communities, and creating a workplace culture that champions diversity and inclusion.Whether you're a business owner, professional, or simply passionate about supporting local enterprises, this episode offers practical advice and inspiration to drive positive change in your community.THIS PODCAST IS SUPPORTED BY WORKFORCE AUSTRALIA LOCAL JOBS BENDIGOWorkforce Australia Local Jobs is funded by the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. ABOUT OUR HOST BEN DILLONBen Dillon is the Operations Manager of Soft Services at the Bendigo Hospital project for Downer. Passionate about workforce development and community engagement, Ben is dedicated to empowering local businesses and building a skilled workforce for the future.ABOUT BE.BENDIGOEvery successful community has a strong and growing business community. Be.Bendigo exists to provide a range of information, support and programs to assist, develop and grow our Greater Bendigo business community. We are a member-based organisation with a commitment to developing our business so that we can continue to add value for our members, partners and stakeholders.Find out more via our website. Be social on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Our guest today is Michael Robertson the recent recipient of the TRPA Fellow Award.  This award  is given each year  in recognition of significant and sustained contributions to the field of Parks and Recreation.  Mike  has recently retired as head of Tennessee State Parks operations. Tennessee State Parks are recognized as among the best in … Continue reading "Interview With Michael Robertson, 2024 TRPA Fellow, Director of Field Operations, TN State Parks (retired) Episode 115" The post Interview With Michael Robertson, 2024 TRPA Fellow, Director of Field Operations, TN State Parks (retired) Episode 115 appeared first on Mark Fraley Podcast.

As an organization starts its transformation, it's critical that leadership is actively involved. In this episode, Michael Robertson, Enterprise Coach at Engaged Agility, and SPCT candidate, shares his tips to engage leaders. He also explains why things aren't always what they seem when leaders appear to be uninterested. Like what you hear? Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. Explore SAFe courses here.

Michael Robertson is joining The Al Nicoletti Show this week! Michael has been in the real estate industry for over 30 years but found land flipping roughly 7 years ago. Since then he has been crafting his expertise and focusing on specific markets and listings. On the show, he will share his tips for running due diligence and more!

  Contributors are listed here: Danielle S. Castillejo (Rueb), Cyon Edgerton, Rachael Reese, Chasity Malatesta, Debby Haase, Kim Frasier, Briana Cardenas, Holly Christy, Clare Menard, Marjorie Long, Cristi McCorkle, Terri Schumaker, Diana Frazier, Eliza Cortes Bast, Tracy Johnson, Sarah Van Gelder, Marwan, and more Welcome to the Arise Podcast, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender, and spirituality. You'll notice there's going to be some updated changes and different voices on the podcast this season. It's season five. It's October 1st, 2024. I haven't recorded a podcast since June of 2023, and at that time, if you've been following along in my town in Kitsap County, we were working through what would prove to be an extensive and prove to be an extensive fight for justice in our school district. And at this time, we have made some very significant shifts. I want to get into this episode to kind of catch you up on where I'm at, where the podcast is at, and hopefully as you listen to myself and some different voices on these upcoming podcasts, you understand that we have this fundamental common theme amongst us, which is our humanity. And when we drop down into that humanity, because our work, our lives, our families, there's all these poles and all these different ways for us to separate ourselves from our humanness and be busy or accomplish this or accomplish that.(00:01:52):And I know because I'm in there too, we actually separate ourselves from our neighbor. And so I'm hoping as we engage tough topics of politics and we get into the sticky points of it, that there's a sense that, yeah, I don't agree with that person or I agree with that person, but there is a sense that there is shared humanity. And so as we talk about these different subjects, I wanted to emphasize that first, an article was released in the fall last year saying in September of 2023 saying that there was, the school district's investigation had concluded and they had deemed that there was no racism in the North Kitsap School district. As you can imagine, a report like that on the front page of the paper, after all we'd been through after sitting through numerous hours of meetings listening to families and their experiences was disheartening.(00:02:45):We came to find out that some of the families felt or experienced what they deemed to be threatening tones from the investigators or understood that they could possibly be under penalty of perjury depending on what they answered. And I'm not saying that this was always the case, but the threat was on the table. And when you're dealing with working with majority world peoples who are marginalized in the United States, that threat can be very real. And the impact of it is very great. So I began to understand that this investigation wasn't actually looking for the truth and how to solve the problem. It was actually looking for a way of complete and utter defense against what these families had reported their students had experienced. It's a very different thing. And I think there were rumors like were these families going to sue the district, bring a lawsuit to the district?(00:03:41):And we've seen in neighboring school districts, just in recent times, lawsuits have been filed for much less. I mean, we had 90 original complaints. We have more people that had come forward as time had moved on. And yet there was never a move to actually file a lawsuit. We didn't file a lawsuit. We continued to move forward with our lives and think about our students. I think at some point in last fall of 2023, there was just a sense of deep despair like we put in years of effort. And the result was this report that basically attempted to delegitimize all the stories of all these families. It was horrible and heartbreaking and followed the fall. And in the late winter there was going to be a vote for this school bond. And as the yes for the bond campaign rolled out, led by a committee of yes folks, which included some Paul's Bowl rotary members and then the superintendent, it became clear to different community members that there were a lot of questions still to be asked, a lot of information we wanted to have and a lot of things that just felt like they were missing.(00:04:57):I'm not saying they were all missing, but there were pieces and details that appeared to be missing. And when we asked the questions similar to what happened with the complaints, we didn't get answers. The answers were couched in long paragraphs or explanations, and the architects seemed like they didn't have access to the buildings. Again, we didn't know all the details of what happened. And this is just a general recap. You can look at the ensuing political drama online. If you Google superintendent signs and polls Bowl, Washington, P-O-U-L-S-B-O Washington, you will find articles on NBC to Fox News to video clips, all of the above. There were signs all over our county, as I'm sure in your different counties or if you live in Kitsap, you've seen them political signs, vote yes on the bond, vote no on the bond, et cetera. And it appeared that signs were going missing.(00:06:02):And in one case, the signs were going missing often in one particular location and a pair of folks who are not married who became allied because they were both against the bond and had been putting up no on bond signs, decided to put up a wildlife cam and we're able to capture a person destroying the signs on video. And again, Google sbo, Google signs, Google Superintendent look for February 20, 24 articles and you'll see the ensuing reports of what happened. This became a chance for us actually to revisit our story because there's a theme of dishonesty from the top leadership. There was a theme of hiding. There's a theme of not giving all the information a theme of there's any extent we can go to that bumps up against the law. By the way, I think it's against the law to destroy political signs. So there's just this theme that you could break the law and get away with it.(00:07:08):We've seen in the top politics of our country down to the low level politics of our country. And what was our community going to do with all of this? We rallied together. For the first time in many years, there were literally hundreds of people on a zoom call for a school board meeting. News agencies showed up again, and sadly, our district was in the news for something else negative related to the top leadership. And it was very sad. The process. The superintendent was put on leave and resigned in June, but stopped working essentially closely with the school board. I think it was in March or April of 2024. I just remember that when the harm stops, when someone harmful is told by law enforcement or the law or someone else in a higher power to stop harming it, it's a relief. But also that's the time when all of the residual trauma sets in the trauma that you've been going through to be in proximity to someone in leadership and you're literally powerless to address it.(00:08:19):And I guess I bring this up to say that as we think about politics nationally, locally, whether it's a school board member or a president, I remember feeling challenged When I live in a small town, paulville was a small town. It is not like Seattle size. It's like got rural folks. There's folks that commute into the city of Seattle. We're, we're a mix of all different kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds. Our school district is now 38% Spanish speaking this year. There is a genuine mix. So when you're out and about in this small container, Kitsap's also very small too. It's rural, it's small. We're kind of contained on our own peninsula. When you're in this environment, the chances that you're going to see someone that you're know are really high, it's not like if you hate someone about, you're not going to run into Donald Trump here.(00:09:11):You're not going to run in here, run into Kamala Harris here. It's not like you're running into those folks, but you might run into your representative. You might run into the school board member from this district or another district. And how are you going to see that person that actually you not only disagree with, but you felt has been unjust to you? Costs a lot. I mean, money's one thing, but time, effort, family, reputation, allies, there is so much time involved and the way forward. You think it's clear when you're fighting on behalf of kids, you're advocating on behalf of kids. That feels really good. But the process to work through that advocacy often doesn't feel that great. You have to become allies with people you don't agree with. And so I think that just brings me back to where do we find our common humanity?(00:10:06):Where do we find space to occupy a same piece of land or a same meeting or a similar, we have similar causes, but maybe there's deep hurt between us and maybe that hurt is to the point where we're not going to ever talk to that person again, and how do we still see them as human? How do we still see them as valuable in this world? How do we still gain compassion? Those are things I ask myself and I don't have the answers. So I've included a number of folks asking a similar questions about humanness, about politics, about where they locate themselves in their various positions, their race, ethnicity, et cetera, and how do they come at this? And I hope you enjoy the following conversations because I conversations or talks from these people, commentary from these people as we hear all different perspectives. Now you may hear someone and be like, I can get down with that. I agree with that. And then there's another person you might be like, no way, no effing way. And so I encourage you to listen, stay curious with yourself and have talks with your family about how you're going to engage this political season.Speaker 2 (00:11:26):Danielle asked me how I see being human in the age of politics, and I'm struggling answering this because A, I am not a politician or have really any experience as a politician. I have experience as a community based organizer. So I am speaking on this on the outside of things. And then also I'm a white woman able bo, heterosexual woman. And the politics and the systems of power were built for me as a white person to thrive. And so I just want to locate myself in that because my view is of a privileged view. White folks can step in and out of politics without it really harming us. And that's a problem, obviously, and it distorts our view of politics.(00:12:55):But with this question, I have become more and more angry and upset with politics, policies, systems of power, the more that I unlearn and learn about my internal white supremacy culture and ways of being. And as the genocide in Palestine and other countries continue, I don't think the political structures are here for us. They're not people centered, they're not community centered. I think all politics are really about power. And so as an outsider, as not a politician and as a white woman, so those are flawed views. I'm coming from a flawed view. I see how politics change people or they make bad people even worse. I know local white folks that are in it for power and just continue on searching for more and more power. And I've witnessed community organizers join politics to really try to change the systems. But I don't think politics or the system was made to help humans. I don't think the system is for humans. And it hurts people, it divides people. I don't really know how to answer this question because I don't think politics and humanists can actually go together, not the way that they're set up now.Speaker 3 (00:15:09):These questions are so beautiful and just so right on time for this time, we're in right before an election where there's so much stress. My name is Sara Van Gelder and I am a friend of Danielle's and a resident of Kitsap County for many years have I was one of the founders of YES magazine. I also founded a group called People's Hub, which teaches community folks how to do local organizing, actually peer to peer teaching. I didn't do the teaching, but connected people together to teach each other and been associated as a ally of the Suquamish tribe at various times in my life, but I did not ever speak for them.(00:15:54):So my own humanity in the context of this political moment, I like to stay in a place of fierce love and do when I can. I can't say I'm always there. I'm often triggered. I often go into a place of feeling really fearful and anxious about what's going on in the world and more particularly the polarization and the rise of which what I don't like to call, but I think is actually a form of fascism. And when I talk about fierce, it means being willing to say the truth as I see it, but also love, which is that that is the motivator. I don't like seeing people get hurt and I'm willing to stand up and be one of the people to say what I see, but not in a way that is intended to degrade anybody. I am a mother, I'm a grandmother, I'm a daughter, I'm a sister. And being connected to people through love and that sense of willingness to protect one another, that's at the core. So even if I disagree with you, I'm not going to wish you harm.Speaker 1 (00:17:12):Wow. Wow. Even if I disagree with you, I'm not going to wish you harm. And I think what I've heard just particularly lately around the talk of immigration, let's say for an example, is the talk about immigration in the context of a particular city. For instance, they've used Springfield, Ohio over and over. It's come up many times and the demonization, the dehumanization of those immigrants, the miscategorizing of their status, it seems like some of this can get point hyper-focused on one particular example to make a political point or to drive fear home across different context, different communities. So when you think about that, do you wish those people harm that are making those accusations? How do you engage a tough subject like that?Speaker 3 (00:18:15):Yeah, it's a really hard one, and I could tell you what I aspire to do and what I actually do a lot of times is avoid people who have that level of disagreement with, because I'm not sure I have enough in common to even have a good conversation. So I don't feel like I'm as good at this as I'd like to be. But what I try to do is to first off, to recognize that when we're in the fight or flight sort of reptilian brain, when we're super triggered, we have the least capacity to do good work of any kind. So I try to get out of that mindset, and in part I do that by trying to listen, by trying to be an active listener and try to listen not just for the positions. The positions are ones that will likely trigger me, but to listen for what's beneath the positions, what is somebody yearning for?(00:19:10):What is it that they're really longing for beneath those positions that I find so harmful and so triggering. So in many cases, I think what people are looking for in this immigration debate is a sense of belonging. They want to believe that their community is a place where they belong and somehow believe that having other people who are from different cultures move in reduces the chances that they'll be able to belong. So what would it mean if they could feel like they belonged along with the Haitians in their community that it didn't have to be an either or is there a way to have that kind of conversation that what if we all belong(00:19:54):In that respect? The thing that I am sometimes most tempted to do, which is to cancel someone, if you will, that actually feeds into that dynamic of not belonging because I'm telling that person also, you don't belong in my life. You don't belong in my community. So it's not easy to do, but I do feel like we have a better chance of doing that locally than we have doing it nationally because locally we do have so many things we have in common. We all want to drink clean water, we want clean air. We want places our kids can go to school where they will belong and they will feel good. So if we can switch the conversation over to those deeper questions, and I think one thing I've learned from hanging out with indigenous folks is the way in which they think about the seven generations and how much more expansive of you that can give to you when you think that way.(00:20:54):Because instead of thinking about again, that immediate threat, that immediate personal sense of anxiety, you start thinking, well, what's going to work for my kids and my grandkids? I don't want them to be experiencing this. Well, that means something about having to learn how to get along with other people, and we want our kids to get along with each other. We want them to have friends and family, and when they marry into a different culture, we want to feel good about our in-laws. I mean, we want our neighborhood to be a place where our kids can run around and play outside. I mean, there's so many things that once you start expanding the scope to other generations, it makes it so clear that we don't want that kind of society that's full of hate and anxiety.Speaker 1 (00:21:44):Wow, seven generations. It is true. I do a lot of reading and I think about res, are you familiar with Resa and my grandmother's hands? And he talks about that the shifts we want to make in society, the shifts towards being more in our actual physical bodies and present with one another and the reps that it takes, the way we're disrupting it now to make a dent in the 400 plus year history of slavery and the act of embodying ourselves from the harm that has been done is going to take five to seven generations. It's not that he's not for change now. He absolutely is. And just having that long term, almost like marathon view perspective on what change has either for ourselves that can give ourselves grace and that we can also give others in our proximity grace, while also not engaging in active harm. I think there's an important part there. Does that make sense?Speaker 3 (00:22:51):Oh, it makes so much sense. And it's like that long-term view doesn't suggest we can put off working. It only even happens in the long term if we start today, we take the first steps today. So yes, absolutely makes sense. I'm not sure I'm patient enough to wait for all those generations, but I want to be keeping them in my mind and heart when I act. How is this going to contribute to their possibilities? So part of that is by thinking about these questions of belonging, but it's also questions of exclusion more structurally. I think the fact that our society has such deep exclusion economically of so many people, there's so many people across the board who feel so precarious in their lives. I think that sets us up for that kind of scapegoating because ideally what we'd be saying is, if you can't afford to go to college, if you can't afford a medical bill, if you can't afford a place to rent, there's a problem with our economy.(00:23:56):Let's look at that problem with our economy and do something about it. And I believe people have gotten so disempowered. So feeling that that's beyond them to do that. Then the next thing that the demagogues will do is say, well, let's look for a scapegoat then. Let's look for a scapegoat of somebody who's less powerful than you and let's blame them because that'll give you a temporary sense of having power. And that's how, I mean it's not unique to our situation. It's how fascism so often unfolds and how historically groups have been scapegoated. And I think we need to turn our attention back to what is the real cause of our anxiety. And I think the real cause of our anxiety is economic and political disfranchisement. Once we can actually tackle those topics, we can see how much more we can do when we work together across all isms and make things happen for a world in which everyone has a place.Speaker 1 (00:24:55):So then if you know people in your sphere, let's say, and don't name them here, that border on the narrative that says, if you disenfranchise someone less powerful than you, that will bring you some relief. If you have people like that in your life, Sarah, how do you approach them? How do you engage with them if you're willing to share any personal experience?Speaker 3 (00:25:28):Yeah, so my biggest personal experience with that was working as an activist alongside the Suquamish tribe when a lot of their immediate neighbors were trying to keep them from building housing, keep them from building relationships with other governments and actually took them to court trying to actually end their sovereign right to be a tribe. So that was my most direct involvement and that was 20 years ago. So it seems like ancient history, but I learned a lot from that, including from working with tribal elders who provided a lot of leadership for us and how we should work. And one of the things that I've learned from that and also from being a Quaker, is that the notion of how you talk to people in a nonviolent way, and a lot of that starts with using I statements. So when people in my neighborhood would say really disparaging things about the tribe, I would respond with, I feel this. I believe the tribe has sovereign rights. I believe they have always been here and have the right to govern themselves and build homes for their members. And it's harder, it's not as triggering when somebody says, I instead of starts with a word(00:26:58):When somebody says, you immediately have this responsive defensiveness because it's unclear what's going to come next and whether you're going to have to defend yourself when you say I, you're standing in your own power and your own belief system and you're offering that to someone else with the hope that they might empathize and perhaps even perhaps be convinced by part of what you have to say. But in the meantime, you haven't triggered a worsening of relationships. And one of the things I really didn't want to do was create anything that would further the violence, verbal most cases, violence against the tribe, sort of getting people even further triggered. So it was just really important to always be looking for ways to be very clear and uncompromising on really important values, but be willing to compromise on ones that were not important. So for example, when we were working on getting the land return to the tribe that had been a state park, we asked people what's important to you about how this park functions in the future? Because the tribe can take that into account they, but the idea that it is their land, the home of chief Seattles, that was not something we could compromise on.Speaker 1 (00:28:17):I love that using I statements intentionally checking in with yourself so you're not engaging in behaviors that trigger another person further into more defensive mode. Sarah, what are some resources or recommendations you could leave with me or us? When you think about engaging people and staying very present, it's a very human stance to say, I think I believe this versus an accusatory tone like you are this, you are that.Speaker 3 (00:28:50):I think the nonviolent communication that Marshall Rosenberg developed is very powerful. He has a very specific technique for having those kinds of conversations that are very focused on that notion about the I statement and also reflecting back what you hear from other people, but then being willing to use statements about what I need because saying that puts me in a position of being vulnerable, right? Saying I actually need something from you. You obviously have the choice of whether you're going to give it to me or not, but I need to be in a place where I can feel safe when we have these conversations. I need to feel like I live in a community where people are so then the other person has that choice, but you're letting them know and you're again standing in your own power as somebody who's self-aware enough, it also invites them to be self-aware of what they need.Speaker 1 (00:29:46):I love that. Yeah, keep going.Speaker 3 (00:29:50):I think there are other resources out there. I'm just not calling 'em to mind right now, but I think nonviolent communications is a really good one.Speaker 1 (00:29:58):And locally, since you talked locally, what are maybe one or two things locally that you regularly engage in to kind of keep up your awareness to keep yourself in a compassionate mode? How do you do that for youSpeaker 3 (00:30:16):Being out in nature? Okay,Speaker 1 (00:30:19):Tell me about that.Speaker 3 (00:30:22):Oh, in Japan, they call it forest bathing, but it's just a fancy term for being in some places it's really natural. There's beautiful walks. We're very fortunate here in the northwest that there are so many beautiful places we can walk. And when you're surrounded by preferably really intact ecosystems where you can feel the interactions going on among the critters and the plants and just let that wash over you because part of that as well, it kind of helps take some of the pressure off. It sort of releases some of us being kind of entangled in our own ego and lets us just have greater awareness that we're actually entangled in this much larger universe. It's much, much older and we'll go on way after we're gone and extends to so many different ways of being from a bird to a tree, to a plate of grass, and we're all related.Speaker 4 (00:31:33):Hey, this is Kim. So just a brief background. I am a 41-year-old biracial woman. I am a mom, a nurse, a child of an immigrant, and I identify as a Christian American. Thanks Danielle for asking me to chime in. I just wanted to touch base on this current political climate. I would say as a liberal woman, I really enjoy diversity and hearing and seeing different perspectives and engaging in meaningful conversation. Unfortunately, I feel like right now we are so polarized as a country and it's not like the air quote, good old days where you could vote for a politician that you felt like really represented your ideals and kind of financially what you value, policies, et cetera. Now I feel like it has become really a competition and an election of human rights, and I think for me, that's kind of where I draw my own personal boundary.(00:32:40):I think it's important to share different perspectives, and I think I do have a unique perspective and I enjoy hearing others' perspectives as well, but for me, I do draw the line at human rights. So I have learned over the years to just not engage when it comes to issues of individuals being able to choose what to do with their body, women in particular, it's terrifying to me as a nurse and a woman and a mother of a daughter who could potentially be in a situation at some point and not be allowed to make choices about her own body with a doctor. Also as the child of an immigrant, I was raised by a white mother, Irish German Catholic, and my father is an immigrant that has been here since 19 76, 77. He is from Trinidad and Tobago. He's actually served in the military and I have a hard time with vilifying people of color trying to come to this country and make a better life for themselves and for their future and their future generations, which is exactly what my dad was doing. So to me, it's a no-brainer, right? Not to tell anybody what to do or how to vote, but I think that it's really hard right now to hold space for individuals who may be attacking my rights as a woman, my ability as a nurse to be able to care for patients and really what this country was supposedly built on, which is being a melting pot and allowing any and everyone here to be able to pursue the American dream and make a life for themselves and their loved ones.Speaker 5 (00:34:34):As soon as the topic turns to politics, I feel myself cringe, and then I want to internally retreat a bit. Looking back over the past eight plus years, I realize I have been feeling like this for a long time. My body holds memories of heated, uncomfortable confrontive distancing and sometimes horrifying conversations with friends and at times, even with family, I'm tired as most people tired from the collective traumas. We have all lived through political, racial, and pandemic related. Eight years ago, I think I worked to try and remain objective. I told myself that my job was just to hear the other person with curiosity, but doing that was not enough to help me stay well in the midst of what I truly could not then and cannot still control. I've come to realize that I have to stay connected to my own feelings, to my own limitations.(00:35:37):I have to make space to feel my disappointment, my disgust, my fear, my sadness, my powerlessness, my ache, even my longing still when it comes to the realm of politics, I have to make room for my own humanity and then I have to be willing to share that, not simply be a listening ear for others. What's been most difficult for me as politics has driven division and disconnection is the loss of healthy dialogue and conversation. It feels to me like relational loss is there where it doesn't seem like it always has to be. I am passionate about the table, about creating and cultivating space at a table for all the voices and for all of the stories to belong. I still believe in this, and when I'm connected to my own humanity, it makes me far more open to the humanity of another, knowing my own stories that are being stirred up and activated by injustice, by what I perceive to be irresponsible politicians and policies that don't make sense to me and at times scare me when I'm in the presence of those who hold very different political views from me.(00:37:02):I have to actively choose to not just tolerate listening to them, but instead to try and listen for something more. I try to listen for the fear that often fuels their positions. The fear is always storied and the stories offer taste of their humanity and oftentimes their experience of suffering, which always offers the opportunity for empathy. I can't do it all the time. Some situations don't afford the time for curiosity and sharing. When that happens, I need space afterwards, space to release what I don't need or want to hold that I heard space to feel my own humanity again, and then space to choose to remember the humanity of the other person, and that is all an active practice. I think that othering people into political camps and categories is easily available and every time it happens, we lose more and more of our collective humanity and we feed the machine of hate that profits from our conversational and emotional laziness.Speaker 6 (00:38:11):I can't say it's always easy, that's for sure. What I try to do is see another person, whether it's around the political views or other things that I may not agree with somebody about or I might even actually see them as a quote enemy, is for one thing, I drop into my heart and get out of my head about ideas, views, and just try to be present in my heart as much as possible with as little judgment as possible and recognize the essence of the other person, the essence that's inside all the beliefs and the views, and recognizing also that we all have some sort of wounding from our lives, maybe our lineages, our generations, maybe even past lives and or trauma, and that that can obscure the essence of who we are, and I try to really remember that essence in another person.(00:39:34):And in relation, how do you see your own humanity? The other question you ask, how do you see your own humanity in the context of political dialogue? I have to say that's not really a question I thought about. I thought about how to see the humanity in others, so I really appreciate this question. I think if I start othering the other, if I get into too much judgment, I feel like I lose my own sense of humanity or at least the type of human I hope and wish to be. What helps me to I guess, discern when I'm in my own humanity, when I'm in the best of places, I guess I don't know how else to word that is I tune into my values. What do I value most and am I living by those values in the way that I want to be human In this world, for example, for me, integrity is super important as well as respect and compassion.(00:40:44):I'm not saying I'm always in this place, but these values that I aspire to live by help bring me into my own humanity and almost like check, checking in, tuning in checkpoints in a way, when I speak about compassion, sometimes people, all of what I'm saying, I want to, even though I'm maybe trying to see the essence of someone, I do try to discern that if there's being harm done, I'm not okaying any harm at all. And when I try to live by compassion, I feel like that's when I can really see the humanity in others and compassion for myself. I view compassion as a very active verb, a little bit different than empathy. Just that compassion is seeing the suffering, but wanting to do something about it and doing something for me. Compassion includes action, and sometimes that action is helping to disrupt or interrupt harm that's happening, and that's how I can show up in my humanity for others is the best I can do is acting as well as being that balance both, andSpeaker 7 (00:42:23):I'm Diana, she her and I didn't use to see myself in politics the way that I do now. It took decades for me to really start to get a grasp about who I actually am and how the ways I view politics, the ways I vote, who I support, how it actually affects me, and I spent a lot of years voting for things that hurt me without even realizing I was doing that because I was following the messaging and believing it. Ultimately that being a good fill in the blanks meant voting for fill in the blanks or being a good fill in the blanks meant donating to or supporting or whatever, fill in the blanks. And I hurt myself by doing that because I wasn't listening to my own knowing or my own intuition or looking in the mirror at who am I? What kind of world do I want to live in? I didn't ask myself those questions. I did what I thought I was supposed to do to fall in line, and there were people in my life during that who spoke truth, and it was true because it was individual to them. It was, here's what I know about me and here's what this policy means for me. And I didn't get it. I certainly didn't get it.(00:44:09):I judged it inside my own head, and yet those people who spoke their own individual truth are the people who were able to shed light through the cracks in my facade. And years later, I remember some of the things that people said or that they posted or whatever because those were the light that I saw through the cracks and it was so memorable, even though at the time I might have been irritated by it, it was memorable because I loved and respected these people and so their words didn't matter to me, even though at the time I very much disagreed and I hope that I will be allowed to be the light in some people's cracks because I know for a fact there's so many people like me who haven't actually looked at who they are, what they want, what kind of world do they want to live in if they separate themselves from the ideology of where they work or where they go to church or their family of origin or what their spouse is telling them, no honey, who are you? What do you want? And when people can be brave enough to do that, its everything up.Speaker 8 (00:45:46):My name is Marwan Cameron, and I was asked to answer a couple questions here, and the first question was, how do you see your own humanity in the context of political dialogue? And I had to think about this question. Our humanity is front and center when we talk about politics primarily because the issues that affect us, meaning the black community are often sidelined or ignored. I'll share some examples of that. Democrats and Republicans both speak about healthcare, the economy crime, but when they have centered those conversations around the realities they face, when do you actually see that take reparations. For example, we hear a lot about tax cuts or healthcare reform, but nothing about reparations for chattel slavery, for foundational black Americans which are owed to black people for centuries of exploitation. You can even look at our prison system where men are going to prison without HIV and very low percentages and then coming out several times higher when they are released from jail and prison, and I'll get into some of those stats. Also.(00:47:15):When we look at black men that are falsely accused of sexual assault, unfortunately we go back to Emmett Till and we never really talk about the contemporary men. I have a list of a hundred black men that have been falsely accused in the last five years alone. Albert Owens 2023, Christian Cooper, 2020, Joshua Wood, Maurice Hastings, Jonathan Irons, 2000, Anthony Broadwater, 2021, Mark Allen, 2022, Franklin, west 2020, Michael Robertson, Shaw, Taylor, Dion, Pearson 2021, Stanley Race 2019 Rashan Weaver 2020. Henry Lee McCollum, 2020. David Johnson, Jamel Jackson, Charles Franklin, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Corey Wise, you, Celine, Aron McCray, Brian Banks, which is a pretty famous name, Wilbert Jones. That's just 20 names in the last five years of a list of a hundred that I have that have been falsely accused of sexual assault, these aren't things that we talk about. Question two, how do you make space for folks in your proximity who did not share your political views as a heterosexual black male in this country, you really have no choice but to make space for others' Political views as in question number one, we are really only allowed to speak about injustices or political needs in the framework of the black community as a whole.(00:49:25):Matter what side you find yourself on, whether you're a Republican, we're oftentimes they straight up say, we're not acknowledging what your needs are. We're not going to do anything about your needs. You can come over here and vote with us if you want. As Trump said, what have you got to lose? What have Democrats done for you? Or you can look at the democratic side where in the last three elections, it's been existential against Donald Trump. And when Donald Trump won and then lost and is running again, we still haven't seen things like the repeal of qualified immunity, things like atoning for the most heinous crimes that the United States has committed in chattel slavery against black men. I've made space. We have made space as black men in regards to those who do not share our political views. Black men have fought in every war for the United States of America. We have stood up, stood behind, been sacrificed for the good of almost every cause, and we're told not yet. It's not the right time. We too need, have needs, and it becomes a zero sum game.Speaker 9 (00:51:19):Growing up, we had Sunday dinners at my grandparents. Conversation was always lively with my family, talking loudly, fast, and often right over each other. We talked about everything, what was happening around us, our community, what was in the paper and on the news that evening. We didn't always agree. In fact, I think my grandparents debated opposite sides. Just for fun, I fondly remember my grandmother saying, your grandpa and I are canceling each other's votes at the polls. They would both smile and sometimes laugh. Considering my upbringing, I was surprised to hear my instructor at cosmetology school lay down the law. Politics and religion were never to be discussed, not in school, and certainly not if we wanted to be successful professionally. I learned to smile and nod. I strive to find common ground with the opinion of guests. I was raised not to look for any offense with ideas that contrasted my own.(00:52:16):It takes both a left and a right wing to make the eagle fly and what a boring world this would be in if we all agreed. But then Trump happened up until he achieved power. Generally speaking, whether the law or policy was written by conservatives, liberals, moderates, there was a basis of bettering the American way of life. To be clear, this wasn't always the advancement of protection we agreed with, but we could see the logic of it. For the most part, Trump's leadership consists of a hatred for people who are not like him. Early on in his campaign, he told Americans to police their neighbors if they were of a specific religion he has built upon dehumanization and vilification every day sense. My mother lived in Germany for a few years and a town not far from Dau. It was the early 1960s and not yet recovered from World War ii.(00:53:21):This quaint little town overlooks the Bavarian Alps with architects right out of a storybook and a stunning view of Munich. It was evidence that the residents of this charming quiet village were aware that 800,000 people came in and no one left. History books paint the picture that everyone was scared of speaking up for fear they would be next. But with critical thinking, we know many of those approved. They've been listening to the nonsense of their leaders, their beliefs that Jews, the disabled homosexuals, immigrants were a burden on the healthcare system, education system, taking their German jobs, businesses, and homes. They were demonized so strongly, so powerfully. They were no longer human, no longer their neighbors, doctors, teachers, bakers seamstresses their talents, their skills and their very humanity no longer existed. We know this to be true, but what we don't talk about is the slope that good people slid down that enabled this to take place in the coffee shops, birthday parties, sitting with friends, playing cards, Sunday family dinners, these words came up.(00:54:43):Hitler's rhetoric spread and thoughtful kind people did not correct their friends, family, guests and clients. There were Nazis and sympathizers, but there were good people that saw through Hitler's dumpster fire of lies. These are the people I wonder if they ever slept well again. Could they ever look at themselves with honor and integrity? Trump proudly uses this method. He has people willing to do his bidding. He has sympathizers, but what he doesn't have is my silence, my obedience. My voice is the born power. I have to stand strong and correct the lies he tells and the people in my circle repeat. I will lose clients and friends taking this action, and that's a price I'm willing to pay, but I'm not willing to live out the rest of my days knowing that I didn't do everything in my power to stop in.Speaker 10 (00:55:49):How do you make space for folks in your proximity who don't share your political views? I am lucky that I live next to my parents and that my mother-in-law lives in a small home on our property. For years, there was a constant strife between my parents, myself, husband, and my mother-in-law due to political and religious beliefs, uncomfortable dinners, having to watch what you say, an aura of judgment that would seem to permeate family gatherings. They were quite the norm. And each time that they would leave, I would feel a sense of relief. Sometimes someone would decide not to come or just tell us that they needed a break. This would create less tension, but I worry that someone would feel left out or that they would feel judged if they weren't present. And actually that would happen more often or not, especially in my time of anger before and during Covid.(00:56:40):As mentioned before, when I decided that I needed to focus on my own sense of happiness and live up to my values and beliefs, I decided that my home would become a politics, religion free zone. I wanted my home to be a safe for everyone. And this was a tough transition. And what was most difficult was creating boundaries for our parents, having the hard conversations about why we're asking people to withhold their opinions on politics and religion and to focus on grandkids sports and family celebrations, et cetera. For the first few months, I was constantly reminding everyone of the rule, but eventually we all seemed to settle in and even catch ourselves when we deviated from how sex expectations, dinners and events became more pleasant. And when our guests would leave, I didn't have to decompress or worry about how to fix an issue or soothe someone's feelings.(00:57:27):This one simple step has been a game changer, and it's not always perfect, and sometimes people will slip up, but instead of taking on the issue, we will move the conversation to another topic. Some would say that we need to talk about the issues and debate their merits so that we can grow and come together. But no, after finding my purpose, I don't believe that being right is more important than someone else's feelings. I want everyone who sits at my table and breaks spread with me to feel loved and valued. It's not perfect because we're human, but we're trying one dinner at a timeSpeaker 11 (00:58:03):To how do I hold my own humanity? In the context of political dialogue, one of the first things that comes to mind for me is, at least in political conversations, what defines my humanity? When I think about politics, much of our politics is really about power and privilege, of which I happen to have both. And so when I'm thinking about politics, I'm thinking about my social location as a able-bodied, middle class, heterosexual Christian White woman, I carry privilege in almost every aspect of that identity, at least here in the United States. And so when I'm thinking about humanity and political dialogue, our political system has historically always been and continues to be set up to serve people with my type of humanity very well. The thing that I'm constantly trying to keep in my mind is what about the humanity of my brothers and sisters experiencing oppression, marginalization when it comes to my voice and my vote in political situations, I have over the years had to learn to think less about how can I use my vote and my voice to engage in politics in a way that benefits me because I'm already benefiting from our system.(00:59:42):Our system is set up to benefit people like me who carry great levels of social privilege. What I really want to know as I'm trying to use my voice and my vote wisely now, is how do I leverage both of those things, my voice, my vote, as well as my power and privilege to engage in political dialogue in ways that fix broken systems. So I am oftentimes not actually voting or advocating for the things that would benefit me the most or necessarily align perfectly with my theological or political ideals. I'm looking at where are the most broken places in our system? Where is our government currently oppressing individuals the most? And how can my vote and my voice be used to leverage our politics in such a way that those broken systems begin to get fixed and healed over time so that those whose humanity looks different than mine are receiving the same amount of privilege of assistance of power that they should be.(01:00:57):And when it comes to dealing with those that I'm in proximity with who have very different political ideologies than myself, of which I will say in my current context, there are quite a few. I am constantly having to remind myself to focus on core values, values over stances that our conversations and our engagement with one another centers not so much around opinions about specific political stances or issues as much as the core values that we share. If my core value is for equality and equity, if my core value is that we're caring for the poor and the marginalized, then regardless of what stances I might have on certain issues, my voice and my vote represents those core values. And I've found that even when certain stances might be different, when we dig into the core values that are at the root of our decision-making, there's oftentimes a lot more common ground than I ever expect there to be.Speaker 12 (01:02:06):This recording is for the fabulous Danielle Castillo. I think what I am seeing right now as I think about how to welcome people's humanity and politics are a few key things that are both shocking and I would say disappointing in a day and age where we seem to want to tolerate people not being locked into binary spaces, we have relegated differences and opinion and viewpoints into a bipartisan politic. And what that does is that means that there are people who are in and who are out. And we've had to embrace things that we both love and hate if we ascribe to any one of those bipartisan objectives. And so we've had to in some ways, in our own humanity, violate pieces of ourselves to say, well, I align this part one way, but even though I categorically reject their views on this another way. And then regardless of whatever spectrum you're on inside of that political continuum, and it's hard because at that point, if we say in a lot of other spaces that there's space for nuance and there's space for gray, then why here do we land in those spaces?(01:03:16):And so that would be the first that it is an either or, and we seem to be comfortable, most comfortable that way. And then to demonize and villainize somebody who's in the either or space, instead of allowing for the gray, you're either all for me or all against me, and you can't live somewhere in the middle. The second thing that would be shocking and disappointing for me is the way that we've been able to start arranging the things that we can tolerate. And so I can say, well, I love this candidate because I love these three things and I agree with them and I hate these four things, but they're not that bad. And you love this candidate, you love the other candidate for these three things, but you hate them for those four things. And the fact that you don't hate 'em enough over those four things means that you're a terrible person.(01:04:02):And I find that just so interesting and so sad that we've been able to say, well, the four things I can stomach that I don't like are somehow more or less worse than the four things you feel like you could tolerate or not tolerate. And so my list of sins or offenses that are easily navigable, somehow I get to become the moral compass over what should be enough or not enough to disqualify somebody for public service. I think at the end of the day, what makes us hard is that we see people in the middle as somehow exhibiting some sort of cowardice. And I think we're pushing people to violate their own humanity and say, as my experience changes and as the neighborhood changes and the people around me change, and my own philosophy changes that I can't stand in a faithful middle and say, well, I agree with some of this, but I don't agree with some of that.(01:04:54):And we've called those people cowards instead of principled moderates, and we've shamed them into saying, well, you have to choose something. And I think that is so unkind. And I think really at the end of the day, we are asking people to violate their own humanity and their own understanding of who they are and their own sense of who they are as a person by saying that they have to agree one way if they want to be a human or be a woman or be a person of color or be a person of faith. And I think it's both sides. I think every side is complicit. At the end of the day, what is really hard is that I think most people want to vote for the person that is going to lead well, and they want that person to be a good person. They want them to be an upright person.(01:05:37):They want them to be an authentic person, the same person behind closed doors as they are in the public face. And I would say, I don't think that's most people who choose politicking as a vocation, I believe that so much of their job is diplomacy and having to be a lot of faces in a lot of places. And so asking for that kind of authenticity and consistency in a social media world is almost asking the impossible. I don't think it totally is impossible, but I think it's exceptionally hard. Many of the things that we want to ascribe to one individual and how they uphold or represent their own party are carefully crafted narratives by a team of people who are professional politicians and marketers, and to ask them to give you an authentic person, their job is to not give you an authentic person. Their job is to give you an avatar that you feel you can most connect with so you can make the decision they want you to make.(01:06:33):And that is really for me, the reality of what we're up against right now is that we want to say we're voting for ideologies, and in reality we're voting for a carefully crafted narrative that is crafted by people who want you to believe a particular way. And I know that feels kind of negative, and that makes me so sad to even voice that out loud and to vocalize that out loud. But I would say that I hope in some way that we experience real freedom and real understanding of what it means to be a global citizen and to be a citizen of this country, is that we understand that. And the complexity of who I am as a person and how I interact with other people and how they understand their own complexity and their own humanity means that I can believe a lot of things that belong in a lot of different camps.(01:07:19):And that's okay. That's what honestly, being intrinsically American means, but also just to understand our own humanity in the global context is there are things that I will feel one way about and they squarely belong in one camp, but there are other things I believe that belong in another camp. And both of those things can be true for me without somebody demanding that I carry some sort of alliance or allegiance to one person. I think that's so gross and so foul at the end of the day. I think what makes America so interesting and so fascinating, but I also think so beautiful and so compelling and so desiring for people who are coming into our borders, is that there is this understanding that I can stand squarely as an individual person and be able to express myself as who I am as an individual and also belong to a collective that makes space for that.(01:08:14):And that is intrinsically what it means to be America. I'm free to be us, but I'm also free to be me. And so I think politics pushes us into a narrative that is against intrinsically who we say we are, and that really is the basis of freedom. And so that's what I would feel about that. Now, this is an added bonus, and I know you didn't ask for this, Danielle, but I'm going to give it to you anyways because I firmly believe this. I think it is more dehumanizing, and I think it is so incredibly sad that we don't allow for people to be principled moderates. That we are sanctifying the ability to castrate people's ability to be able to stand in the middle. And we vilify them as being weak or vilify them as being cowards because their understanding of what is actually evil is.(01:09:09):It's a broad spectrum. And to say that there is good everywhere, it is true to say there is evil everywhere is true. And how people interface with both of those things is true. And so I hate that we have become okay at using our theology and using our social media platforms and using our politicking as throwing stones for people who say, I want to hold a faithful middle. And that faithful middle means that I can believe a multitude of things and that I stand in the own gray and the nuance of who I am and how I understand my neighbors and what that looks like. And we know that some of those people are standing with compassion and with courage. And to call those people cowards, I think is the most ignorant, I'm trying to find the kindest way to say this, right? So I think it is just absolutely ignorant.(01:10:00):And then we've used quotes out of context and scriptures out of context to tell those people that somehow they're bad and evil people. And it's just not true that they're honestly sometimes the bridge builders and the unifier in places where they are trying to be peacemakers and they're trying to be people of peace. They're trying to be people of belonging and welcome. And so they're holding a faithful middle to say, my heart is going to take enough of a beating where people may misunderstand me, but I'm going to make it big enough and available enough where everybody can come sit under my tent. And I think that's brave work. I think that is courageous work, and I think that is humbling work that we could learn more from instead of castigating really more than anything else. So those are my 2 cents, honestly, more than anything else.(01:10:51):The last 2 cents I could probably give you that I think is so shameful is I am tired of any political party that tells me that they are doing more for working class Americans or doing more for poor people, and yet they're spending 2 billion to fly somebody around and send me junk mail to my home. I would much rather you stop buying ad space and then you actually go and serve the poor and somebody takes a picture of you doing that on accident. And I actually get to see that and go, oh my gosh, they're actually serving the poor. Do not tell me you're serving the poor or serving working class Americans and you haven't talked to one or seen one in a very long time. And my God, you have not lived in our shoes. You have not lived on our pay scales. You have not come in and volunteered regularly, and you only show up when there's a camera crew doing that.(01:11:34):That is so gross to me, and I hate that you send me mail about it and spend 2 billion fundraising for things like that. And yet that money could go to the poor and that money could go to programs. If there's one thing that makes me want to soapbox so bad, it is that more than anything else, I don't want to hear what your fundraising dollars have done to actually help your campaign. And that thing becomes a total waste when you lose. And that money doesn't go into the pockets of people. That money goes into the pockets of advertisers and radio stations and TV stations and social media influencers and all sorts of nonsense and actually doesn't go into the pockets and the hands of people who are feeding the poor that is garbage. So I feel very strongly about that, but I dunno if this is what you need, but that's how I make space. I make space for people who live at Principled Middle because I think blessed are the peacemakers and I want them to feel safe with me.Speaker 13 (01:12:26):Good morning. My name is Luis Cast. How do I see my own humanity in this political context? Well, it's simple as that. I'm a human being. I'm not a pawn or a little peace on a game. I'm a human being born and raised in Mexico, but I live here in the United States over half of my life now, and I'm a human being. And no matter what the promises they give me or what they're going to do in government, I'm still just a human being that wants the best for me and my family. And that's what they need to address the human being in us regarding not regarding color or race or where they come from. Treat us a as human beings. And the other question, how do I make space for folks who do not share my political view?(01:13:46):Well, again, it's just simple. I was taught that love whoever disagree with you or even your enemy. But to be honest, that's the hardest thing to do. People that don't agree with you or you don't agree with them, and sometimes they even hurt you. But I try to do my best, honestly, just to listen and sometimes put myself in their shoes because everybody has been brought up differently in families, cultures, regions of the country from the south, from New England, they call in the west in California. So we all have different views. So I just don't have an ear and sometimes an opinion, but mostly an ear so they can really listen to what they, I believe, where they come from, where they come from. So that is what I try to do. No, perfect, but that's what I try to do.Speaker 14 (01:14:59):Hi, my name is Claire. I am a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman. I live in Paulsboro, Washington. So the first question is how do I see my humanity in the context of this current political moment? And I'd start off by saying I come from a pretty privileged place, like my own personal humanity isn't very threatened just because I'm white, I'm straight, and yeah, my own family background. I have a lot of support and I'm not ever threatened with becoming homeless or something if I can't pay my bills. But still things are really scary for so many people right now. So I definitely feel that all the time. And I would say that it's just a really disheartening time. A lot of the, I mean, pretty much all politicians, I'd say are very untrustworthy at a local and national level. And I think we're all seeing that, especially in the context of what's happening in Gaza.(01:16:26):For the last over a year now, all these politicians that felt like they were progressive and would speak out when heinous things happened, most of them have gone silent or completely denied what's happening in Gaza, or just said really brief empty words, always proceeded by talking about Israeli hostages. So yeah, it's been terrifying because we realize the extent of politicians care for the general public and for the global wellbeing of humanity. And it only stretches so far because first and foremost, they're concerned about their own and standing in the political world because we've seen a lot of people lose their reelections for standing up for Palestinians.(01:17:38):And I think what's really disheartening is seeing it at a local level. In some ways, we expect national politicians to be pretty sleazy and skirt around really big, terrible, important issues. But seeing it at a local level has been really terrifying because I mean, they said it was then a couple decades ago, like 30, 40 years ago, there's more crises going on. And that really, for me, I've always thought, well, this is how it's always been. There's just the media reports on more stuff. We have social media, we can't hide a lot of things. So I don't know if that's true or not, but I mean, it probably is. We're in a time of climate crisis too, so it makes sense that things are just, they're not slowing down.(01:18:49):I don't know where I was going with that, but yeah, I guess I would just say humanity. It feels threatened on so many levels for my queer friends, for my friends of color, for any women or female identifying people just on so many levels, it just feels like our rights are being threatened and everything feels tenuous. If Trump wins, what the hell is going to happen to this country? And if Kamala wins, what the hell is going to change? I don't believe in politicians. They're not going to save us. That's how it feels. We have to save each other that are diehard Trumpers or something. I'd say all those people are my relatives that live in Wisconsin or a couple of coworkers, and we don't talk about politics, but on a deeper level, I try to remember that it's hard, right? Because hard, it's hard not to hate people for what they believe. I guess that's a horrible thing to say, isn't it? But I see the consequences of people who vote for Trump and put him in office the first time, their direct consequences because they voted for Trump and because of their beliefs and because of what they repost online. That just has bred so much hatred, and it's led to people being terrified for their lives and people losing their lives. There's so much propaganda being shoved down people's throats, the people that have Fox News plane 24 7.(01:21:06):I don't know the last time I watched Fox News, but I've overheard it. That stuff is crazy. They're being fed lie after lie after lie. So yeah, it's like people are also a product of their culture and it's hard to fight against your culture. So I try to give people some grace with that, but I also don't know how they can't see their own beliefs as harmful and full of hatred. I really don't understand. So yeah, it's hard. It's hard to remember people's humanity, but I have obviously my own blind spots and my own ways that I'm super ignorant and willfully ignorant in the things I look away from and the things like I'm resistant to learning because it's inconvenient or uncomfortable for me. So I try to hold that space for people too, because we're all learning. Yeah, it's a process of trying to remember people's humanity. And I think, yeah, but it just feels like when people support someone that spews so much hatred, it's really hard not to pin that blame on them as well, because they're also at fault for putting people like that in power. So I don't know. Yeah, it's a tough one.Speaker 15 (01:22:55):I feel like as somebody with various subordinated identities, whether that's being queer, being Latina, having a disability, being a woman, all of those things are increasingly politicized. And so for me, I find that political discourse specifically is often really dehumanizing and even performative on the other end of the spectrum. So our two major parties, Republican and Democrat with Republican, it's we well known that those political parties as they exist currently are working to strip away rights from people in all of those identity and affinity groups. While the Democrats, which I won't even say left, because current Democrats are right of center, when you look at a global pe

When a woman who is eight months pregnant vanishes before her own baby shower, her family begins a desperate search. As detectives struggle to unravel the chilling mystery, they wonder: is it a missing persons case, or something far more sinister? Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Dundee Social Club are back in Temple Lane for their monthly soiree into the world of music and mirth. This night took place after a long sesh at Day Moves so both Matty and Billy were 'merry' by the time we got here, so expect a few curve balls and some creative mixing. :) We were joined by Day Moves residents Alan Livie and Michael Robertson who helped set the tone. We also had a tune to play our latest bootleg 'One of a Kind' and also our new original track 'Get Ova U'. https://soundcloud.com/djbillymorris/get-ova-u-dundee-social-club-mastered https://dundeesocialclub.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-a-kind-progen24-by-dundee-social-club All in all a decent day and night out

We'll cut straight to the chase: if you're sending mailers, this episode is a must. Michael Robertson builds campaigns like no one else in the business and he breaks down exactly how he makes each of the lists on his 13 Niches Lists. His best list: 3,000 mailers. 11 properties bought. That's 1 out of every 272 mailers sent. Impressive. The key to his success? Build a great list first, then filter and refilter, digging through some truly inventive lists, like: $100 list 65+ list Low credit score list Code enforcement liens list And plenty more Michael is no doubt one of the most creative land investors working today, get your notepad ready and learn how to build each list. IN THIS EPISODE: Learn about each list on Michael's 13 Niche List Understand why they work and how to create them Find out why Versium is such a powerful data tool

Welcome to Episode 1 of SEC Baseball Weekly with Chris Lee, Alfred Ezman, and Graham Doty, an SEC baseball podcast that discusses the biggest storylines in the conference all year long. We'll cover the biggest/trending topics, featuring fun and interesting guest interviews, season predictions, player and team SEC trivia, and a wide range of various unique segments. Chris, Alfred, and Chase talk about what Texas and Oklahoma baseball joining the SEC means for them and the rest of the conference. A deep dive into the coaching carousel: Texas A&M's Jim Schlossnagle takes the Texas job while the Aggies replace him with Michael Earley. Texas supported Schlossnagle with a hire of hitting coach Troy Tulowitzki. South Carolina was able to draw Paul Maineri out of retirement to become the Gamecocks' new head coach. Vanderbit's Tim Corbin fires Mike Baxter, Tyler Shewmake, hires Jayson King and Ty Blankmeyer. And Ole Miss's Mike Bianco fired himself as pitching coach and hired Cleveland's pitching coordinator, Joel Magnum. The transfer portal has been mayhem, starting with Ole Miss's roster getting hit hard. Vanderbilt added Michigan State transfer pitcher Joseph Dzierwa, and a number of good hitters, including James Madison's Mike Mancini and Dayton's David Mendez as well as Georgetown pitcher Cody Bowker. Alabama adds LSU C Brady Neal, Miami 1B and more to come. Arkansas adds Ohio State LHP Landon Beidelschies, Zach Root and Kuhio Aloy. Florida adds Blake Cyr and Billy Barlow, but Cade Fisher and Michael Robertson are out. Tennessee's Robin Villenueve, Bradke Lohry, Derek Schaefer leaving. South Carolina adds Georgia pitcher Jarvis Evans. Tennessee and coach Tony Vitello have lost several players, but expect the Vols to be major players in the portal as always. Auburn and Butch Thompson add a number of players, highlighted by Samford's Lucas Steele. And what about Texas A&M and Jace LaViolette and the other Aggies' who've hit the portal? 0:00 Intro 3:27 What Texas & Oklahoma Bring To SEC Baseball 12:08 SEC Coaching Carousel 32:23 Transfer Portal News FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Daily Newsletter: https://se14.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/14Southeastern Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southeastern14_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@secsports14 ADVERTISE WITH SOUTHEASTERN 14 Reach out to caroline.smith@southeastern14.com to find out how your product or service can be seen by over 150,000 unique viewers each month!

Jen Cass grew up in the Metro Detroit area and now calls Flushing, MI home. After three successful solo albums, she started a new project with her husband Eric Janetsky called The Lucky Nows. Their excellent second album is due out in June of 2024. Jen talks about her life and plays three emotionally charged songs from the new album and one from their first.All songs written by Jen Cass (except where noted):Broken Homes and Hearts of GoldSyracuseThe Lesson (Jen Cass, Michael Robertson, Eric Janetsky, Jack Redmond Barnes)Girl With No NameFind out more about The Lucky Nows: https://theluckynows.com/homeGet information about all things Acoustic Alternatives related including how to support me on Patreon so I can do better videos: https://johnmbommarito.wixsite.com/johnbommarito/acoustic-alternativesIt doesn't happen without the support of the team at Grove Studios. Musicians or DJs, this is a place you can practice and make as much noise as you need: https://grovestudios.space/

Texas Southern’s Michael Robertson. With the SWAC baseball season winding down, Donal Ware talked with Texas Southern head baseball coach Michael Robertson about the Tigers’ season and winning the SWAC Western Division. Donal also talks NBA Playoffs. Download or listen.

Texas Southern’s Michael Robertson. With the SWAC baseball season winding down, Donal Ware talked with Texas Southern head baseball coach Michael Robertson about the Tigers’ season and winning the SWAC Western Division. Donal also talks NBA Playoffs. Download or listen.

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. It's easy to overlook the sheer magnitude of Robertson and Caine's (R&C's) operations in Cape Town. The company's ten boat-building factories and assembly lines are dotted across the city - from Woodstock to Paarden Island to Montagu Gardens, with the latter also housing a substantial warehouse. Other numbers, however, make it easier to appreciate the scale of the catamaran builder, including the fact that the 33-year-old company employs more than 2 400 people, with one boat rolling off an assembly line somewhere in the city almost every weekday of the year. For this year, that will be more than 200 catamarans. R&C is South Africa's largest boat builder for the export market, the largest builder of ocean cruising catamarans in the southern hemisphere and one of the top three in the world, with the French its biggest competition. A catamaran can either be powered by sail and a small engine, or by more powerful engines alone. MD Theo Loock is perhaps proudest of its most recent accolade - the 2024 European Powerboat of the Year award for the Leopard 40 PC in the powerboat category. New Ownership R&C is Loock's fourth turn at the helm of a company, following 15 years as the boss of JSE-listed energy storage and automotive component manufacturer Metair. He retired at Metair in 2020, joining R&C in 2021, following a request to do so from asset manager CapitalWorks. R&C was founded in 1991 by John Robertson and the late Jerry Caine, reaching a new scale of operations when CapitalWorks joined the business as a strategic equity partner. Loock's brief as the new CEO included overseeing the sale of the business and facilitating Robertson's retirement last year. (John's son, Michael Robertson, remains at the company as design manager.) Today, R&C is owned by Vox Ventures, a subsidiary of PPF Group, an international diversified investment firm in Europe, with its roots in the Czech Republic. The new owners have a singular ambition for R&C - that it continues to expand globally while remaining based in Cape Town. Small Beginnings Before Robertson and Caine started the company, Robertson built monohulls - including one used by South Africa's champion sailor Hanno Teuteberg to win the Cape to Rio race in 1993. This gold medal attracted the attention of charter companies in the US, which asked Robertson if he didn't want to consider building catamarans. Multihulled catamarans offer more stability on the water than monohulls, which means they are better suited to tourist activities. "The charter market is all about comfort," notes Loock, quipping: "You don't want the children sliding off the deck." Robertson accepted an order for ten catamarans, ultimately leading to the birth of R&C. Today, R&C's product line-up includes sailing catamarans (42 ft, 45 ft and 50 ft) and power catamarans (40 ft, 46 ft and 53 ft). "We have a good balance, with around 60% in sailing and 40% in power," says Loock. More than 99% of R&C's boats find their way overseas; more specifically, the US East Coast, the Caribbean, Seychelles, Mediterranean, Asia, South Pacific and South America. Covid-19 provided a noticeable sales boost, as customers with healthier bank balances found that they could isolate from the pandemic on boats in some of the most beautiful parts of the world, says Loock. R&C's boats are handed over to the customer in the Cape Town harbour, where they undergo their final commissioning checks before either being sailed off by the owner or transported by freighter to their final destination. If you ever want to see R&C's boats make their trek to water, get up between 02:00 and 04:00 when they are transported to the Cape Town harbour on specialised trucks and under metro police escort. In essence, every boat sold by R&C is a Leopard-branded catamaran. However, they are only branded as such should ...

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. It's easy to overlook the sheer magnitude of Robertson and Caine's (R&C's) operations in Cape Town. The company's ten boat-building factories and assembly lines are dotted across the city - from Woodstock to Paarden Island to Montagu Gardens, with the latter also housing a substantial warehouse. Other numbers, however, make it easier to appreciate the scale of the catamaran builder, including the fact that the 33-year-old company employs more than 2 400 people, with one boat rolling off an assembly line somewhere in the city almost every weekday of the year. For this year, that will be more than 200 catamarans. R&C is South Africa's largest boat builder for the export market, the largest builder of ocean cruising catamarans in the southern hemisphere and one of the top three in the world, with the French its biggest competition. A catamaran can either be powered by sail and a small engine, or by more powerful engines alone. MD Theo Loock is perhaps proudest of its most recent accolade - the 2024 European Powerboat of the Year award for the Leopard 40 PC in the powerboat category. New Ownership R&C is Loock's fourth turn at the helm of a company, following 15 years as the boss of JSE-listed energy storage and automotive component manufacturer Metair. He retired at Metair in 2020, joining R&C in 2021, following a request to do so from asset manager CapitalWorks. R&C was founded in 1991 by John Robertson and the late Jerry Caine, reaching a new scale of operations when CapitalWorks joined the business as a strategic equity partner. Loock's brief as the new CEO included overseeing the sale of the business and facilitating Robertson's retirement last year. (John's son, Michael Robertson, remains at the company as design manager.) Today, R&C is owned by Vox Ventures, a subsidiary of PPF Group, an international diversified investment firm in Europe, with its roots in the Czech Republic. The new owners have a singular ambition for R&C - that it continues to expand globally while remaining based in Cape Town. Small Beginnings Before Robertson and Caine started the company, Robertson built monohulls - including one used by South Africa's champion sailor Hanno Teuteberg to win the Cape to Rio race in 1993. This gold medal attracted the attention of charter companies in the US, which asked Robertson if he didn't want to consider building catamarans. Multihulled catamarans offer more stability on the water than monohulls, which means they are better suited to tourist activities. "The charter market is all about comfort," notes Loock, quipping: "You don't want the children sliding off the deck." Robertson accepted an order for ten catamarans, ultimately leading to the birth of R&C. Today, R&C's product line-up includes sailing catamarans (42 ft, 45 ft and 50 ft) and power catamarans (40 ft, 46 ft and 53 ft). "We have a good balance, with around 60% in sailing and 40% in power," says Loock. More than 99% of R&C's boats find their way overseas; more specifically, the US East Coast, the Caribbean, Seychelles, Mediterranean, Asia, South Pacific and South America. Covid-19 provided a noticeable sales boost, as customers with healthier bank balances found that they could isolate from the pandemic on boats in some of the most beautiful parts of the world, says Loock. R&C's boats are handed over to the customer in the Cape Town harbour, where they undergo their final commissioning checks before either being sailed off by the owner or transported by freighter to their final destination. If you ever want to see R&C's boats make their trek to water, get up between 02:00 and 04:00 when they are transported to the Cape Town harbour on specialised trucks and under metro police escort. In essence, every boat sold by R&C is a Leopard-branded catamaran. However, they are only branded as such should ...

After being arrested for drink driving, how did a hair sample and forensic expertise help save Silverchair lead singer Daniel Johns from a prison sentence? Dr Michael Robertson has over 20 years of forensic expertise. One of his most common cases is drink driving, and even though it seems black and white - you're either over the limit or you're not, it's actually far more nuanced and complex. Join host Kathryn Fox as she unpacks Michael's work and the case involving Daniel Johns.  If this content affected you, the number for Lifeline is 13 11 14.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Robertson is the Director of CSIRO Agriculture and Food. The CSIRO is an iconic Australian scientific organisation that has had agricultural research as a cornerstone of its work for almost a century. In this episode, Michael will break down the tangible effects that past agricultural research has had on Australian farmers as well as the research the CSIRO is currently undertaking. He'll also share how digital agriculture can help to improve yields and may also lead to a reduction in injuries on the farm in the future.   Resources and links: CSIRO website Michael Robertson on LinkedIn   Connect: Rural Bank website Rural Bank on Facebook Rural Bank on Twitter Rural Bank on LinkedIn Rural Bank on YouTube   Any opinions, estimates, and projections in this podcast are for informational purposes only and do not take into account your personal circumstances. This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

We are also re-releasing our update episode on Akia Eggleston, which details Robertson's arrest and delves into the Probable Cause Affidavit.On May 3, 2017, Akia Eggleston, who was eight months pregnant, was planning to move into a new home with Michael Robertson, the father of her child. That day, she went to several banks and ATMs and withdrew large sums of money to pay expenses related to the new apartment. That evening, she sent a Facebook message inviting someone to her baby shower, but then all communication from the young mother stopped. Four days later, Akia failed to show up to her own baby shower, and her family knew something was wrong. It would take over four years, but police arrested the father of her child, Michael Robertson for her murder and that of their unborn son, Anubis. This week, we're bringing you the trial of Michael Robertson, and justice for Akia and Anubis.Buy the ebook! - And Then They Were Gone: True Stories of Those Who Went Missing and Never Came HomeSubmit a caseFind us everywhereGet episodes early and ad-free on PatreonMerch storeFor a full list of our sources, please visit our blogThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5360779/advertisement

This is a re-release of our update episode from February 2022 on the arrest of Michael Robertson for Akia Eggleston's murder.We have huge news in the Akia Eggleston case. Akia was a 22-year-old pregnant woman who went missing from Baltimore, Maryland on May 3, 2017. While there was a clear suspect, no arrests were made, and her case went cold. Akia's story started gaining more notoriety toward the end of 2021, and on February 3, 2022, Michael Robertson was arrested for the murders of Akia and her unborn child.In this episode, we break down this news, go over the probable cause affidavit, and talk about theories. This is followed by a re-release of our original episode on Akia's case from September of 2021.Buy the ebook! - And Then They Were Gone: True Stories of Those Who Went Missing and Never Came HomeSubmit a caseFind us everywhereGet episodes early and ad-free on PatreonMerch storeFor a full list of our sources, please visit our blogThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5360779/advertisement

We are Choppin' it up with Las Vegas Comedian and Cannabis consumer, Michael Robertson. Michael worked his way from open mics to stages all over Las Vegas. He believes that the upcoming Las Vegas cannabis lounges are going to be big for the Vegas comedy circuit and he can't wait to be a part of it. You can check Michael out on instagram @michaelrobertsoncomedy to learn more about his upcoming gigs. High Budtenders can be found on all social media platforms @highbudtenders. The podcast is available on all major podcast services (Apple Podcast, Spotify, iheartradio, Stitcher, Amazon Music and much more). We Thank you for tuning in to High Budtenders Potcast and as always...Stay High, Budtenders!

Each week host Stephen McCarrick interviews another performer so you can get inside the mind and heart of these performers. And perhaps gain some insight into how some amazing ensembles work!Guest - Michael Robertson - @r.obertson from @musiccitymystique.Listen to the main episode to keep up on everything going on in the marching arts with our hosts:Jackie Brown - @spintronixguardCindy Barry - @leandermommaThom Shearer - @tshearer74Trevor Bailey - @t_pain151Whitney Stone - @dancerwhitJustin Surface - @J_dex07Beth Beccone - @bether7189Stephen McCarrick - @stephenmccarickNicole Younger - @o2bnpjs & @thecookoutcgChris Rutt - @wildhornbrass1#marchingband #colorguard #dci #podcast #onawaterbreak #wgi #drumline #performerspotlight

#DrKenyattaCavil #InsideTheHBCUSportsLab #HBCUsports"Inside the HBCU Sports Lab" episode 378 with Dr. Kenyatta Cavil, Mike Washington & Charles Bishop radio show. Today's show will be a good one as Dr. Cavil, Charles Bishop and BCSN SportsWrap's AD Drew discuss the latest in HBCU news and sports.Plus, interviews with Prairie View A&M Baseball Coach Auntwan Riggins and Texas Southern Baseball Coach Michael Robertson.TOPICS:SWAC Women's Outdoor Track and Field Weekly HonorsSWAC Men's Outdoor Track and Field Weekly HonorsSWAC Women's Tennis Weekly HonorsMEAC Announces Weekly Track & Field Honors, presented by Coca-ColaThe ‘NIL king' among HBCU athletes who are top earners in amateur sports from HBCUSports.comNorth Carolina Central, Mississippi Valley State headline return of Circle City Classic in 2023 from HBCUSports.comReport: Tulane assistant Kevin Johnson likely to get Southern job from HBCUSports.comJackson State coach Tomekia Reed identified as candidate for Memphis job from HBCUSports.comBethune Cookman legend Larry Little honored with hometown street from HBCUSports.comHBCU cheerleading visionary creates format to honor black squads from HBCUGameday.comDr. Cavil's 2022-2023 HBCU Major Division Baseball Poll RankingsDr. Cavil's 2022-2023 HBCU Major Division Softball Poll RankingsSWAC Baseball Schedules@InsidetheHBCUSportsLab on Facebook Live and Spreaker.‬Donations welcome at CashApp $JafusCavil

What is Nashville's “alternate ending?” How would the city look and feel — and who would feel welcomed — if different community values had been prioritized long ago? With that question, today's show … will be a bit different. In this special hourlong documentary, reporter Ambriehl Crutchfield goes back in time to learn Nashville through her family's eyes, and making stops at the places that shaped life for the generations who came before her. This is a story about how the city shaped that family, and how their sense of community has been disrupted. Guests:  Ambriehl Crutchfield's family Anita Cosby, maternal great aunt D'Juana Morris, maternal aunt Jerome Boyd, maternal uncle Stephen Boyd, maternal uncle Brandi Boyd, mother Learotha Williams, TSU professor and historian Mindy Fullilove, author of Root Shock Community who attended our listening session Linda Epps, born and raised Nashvillian, lifelong resident of Knowles Street Willie Sims aka Big Fella, longtime Nashville resident and entrepreneur Reaux Marquez, Nashville rapper from Bordeaux Virginia Holland Ciara Futrell Courtney Orozco Dwight Burr John Morris, Ambriehl's cousin Alisa Jernigan Credits: “Alternate Ending” is a special documentary project by WPLN's This Is Nashville. Ambriehl Crutchfield reported this story and it was produced and edited by executive producer Andrea Tudhope. Staff shoutouts to Nina Cardona, Meribah Knight, Steve Haruch, Tony Gonzalez, Michael Robertson, LaTonya Turner, Cynthia Abrams and Khalil Ekulona. Special thanks to the community members who participated in our listening session, the folks at Lee Chapel AME, and Rebecca and Trey Hamilton.

Farmers are adept at adapting to climatic changes and the nation's chief science agency is equipping them on efficient ways to use and save water and the latest climate information as the CSIRO State of the Climate report states Australia's average temperatures continue to warm amid current heavy rainfall, flooding and cold weather events

Written by Laurie Wallmark. Illustrated by Michael Robertson.

Hard as it may be to remember now, there was a time when every song we wanted to listen to wasn't available to stream instantly. Instead, we had to own physical copies. First came the record, then the tape, then the CD.However, in the late 90s, a new encoding technology was developed that allowed near-CD-quality music to exist in a relatively small file format. The format was called MP3. You've surely heard of it.As MP3s grew in popularity, Michael Robertson decided to buy the domain name “MP3.com.” He wasn't buying the domain because he was interested in the music industry. He was buying it because he owned a file search engine called Filez.com, and he thought he could use the surging popularity of MP3s to direct traffic to his startup. However, when he launched a website on MP3.com, thousands of people started showing up, and he knew he needed to capitalize on the opportunity.Ultimately, Michael built a service people could use to stream their music collections online. That doesn't sound unique today, but Michael launched MP3.com in the late 1990s, and, at the time, no other streaming service existed. The uniqueness of MP3.com made it wildly popular with consumers. It also made MP3.com the target of a lot of animosity from the powerful recording industry.For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.

The former editor of Good Old Boat magazine got into sail ing when his mother mistakenly subscribed to Cruising World when he was a kid. He met his wife Windy through a Latitude 38 crew list and ended up cruising together aboard an Newport 27 down to Mexico, through the Panama Canal and around the Caribbean. Later, they set sail again, this time with their two daughters, aboard a Fuji 40 and sailed up to Alaska, down to Mexico and across the Pacific to Australia. Along the way he started writing for sailing magazines and ended up running Good Old Boat.

We have huge news in the Akia Eggleston case. Akia was a 22-year-old pregnant woman who went missing from Baltimore, Maryland on May 3, 2017. While there was a clear suspect, no arrests were made, and her case went cold. Akia's story started gaining more notoriety toward the end of 2021, and on February 3, 2022, Michael Robertson was arrested for the murders of Akia and her unborn child.In this episode, we break down this news, go over the probable cause affidavit, and talk about theories. This is followed by a re-release of our original episode on Akia's case from September of 2021. Find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/attwgpodGet episodes early and ad-free on Patreon: https://patreon.com/attwgpodMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/attwgpodFor a full list of our sources, please visit our blog:https://andthentheyweregone.com/blog

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

Por Marco Antonio Peres Sou leitor assíduo da Folha de São Paulo, principalmente quando os assuntos são economia e política Um dia que tinha um pouco mais de tempo fui ler a página “ciência”, devo esclarecer que este meu dia estava em seu final. O título era chamativo: “Equipe cria ‘tijolos primordiais' da vida”. O subtítulo era sugestivo: Experimento dos EUA mostra que molécula prima do DNA, que contém os genes, pode ter surgido “do nada”. Explicava o artigo que, cientistas da Universidade da Califórnia, em San Diego, conseguiram reconstruir reações que teriam originado a primeira molécula “viva” na Terra. Eles conseguiram imitar o ambiente necessário para a formação dos ingredientes do RNA (ácido ribonucléico), uma molécula “prima” do DNA (ácido desoxirribonucléico), que contem os genes. O experimento sugere que o RNA pode de fato ter sido a primeira molécula vital - molécula que tem a capacidade de se duplicar - explicam os cientistas que a capacidade de duplicação, presentes em todos os seres vivos, é o que define o termo “vida”. Os cientistas esclareciam que conseguiram produzir em laboratório dois dos quatros “tijolos” que formam a molécula do RNA: a citosina e a uracila (0s outros dois são guanina e timina). Existia a teoria, faltava à prova da possibilidade de formação a partir de substâncias simples, existentes há 4 bilhões de anos. Provaram os cientistas a possibilidade de surgir os dois “tijolos” - citosina e uracila - a partir de uma solução de uréia concentrada. Acredita-se que a uréia estivesse presente em grande quantidade em vários ambientes terrestres, como em lagoas em evaporação. Registrava o artigo que a citosina produzida no experimento foi suficiente, para os cientistas, provarem o surgimento da uracila; através de uma reação chamada hidrólise (em que a água “quebra” uma molécula em outras menores). Um dos cientistas, Stanley Miller, o outro foi Michael Robertson, foi um dos primeiros pesquisadores a propor que as condições existentes na atmosfera da Terra eram propícias à formação de moléculas orgânicas (que contêm carbono, presentes nos seres vivos). Como afirmei esta minha leitura estava se passando no final do dia, próximo a meia noite, e adormeci. Sonhei que estava sonhando. Neste sonho localizei um lugar maravilhoso, sentei-me de pernas relaxadas e saboreei a euforia de meu ser. O dia estava brilhante, sol vivo e o céu limpo. Ali sentado, impressionou-me a proximidade de tudo: chão, árvores, rochas, nuvens, etc. Na ilusão, estiquei um dos meus braços ao céu, percebi uma coisa diferente na maneira como sentia meu corpo. Meu braço deslizava para cima, e levava meu corpo a deslizar pelo espaço. Era leveza total. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/malhete-podcast/message

Conversations with Cerutti digs into the 2021 MLB Draft with Matt Thompson of Prospects Live. We talk Carter Jensen, Chase Petty, Benny Montgomery, Jordan Wicks, Alex Mooney, Lonnie White, Christian MacLeod, Michael Robertson, Landon Sims, Jud Fabian, Joe Mack and more. Tune in - and stay long enough to see who gets a Dylan Carlson of the infield comp slapped on him!

Will card payment survive a digital-first world? Experts wager on the future of payment cards with Bryan Carroll of TNEX, Sharon Tan of DBS, Ben Gilbey of Mastercard, Priyanka Madan of GrabPay, and Michael Robertson of Entrust pitting their views and wits during an insightful discussion. Carroll opined that “plastic” will not survive as consumers, especially the Millennials and Gen Z, are already moving to mobile payments while Robertson argued that cards are here to stay as these have been the payment mode of choice for more 50 years and provide consumers a 24/7 tangible payment instrument that is robust, reputable, and ubiquitous. It is also evolving to be sustainable as well, available now in environmentally friendly materials such as wood and metals. The five speakers also tackled portfolio performance improvement, the use of AI and data analytics to enhance customer experience, and new business models that are shaping advancement in payment capabilities.

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio:  Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: Get Seen, de Steve Garfield. #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital, apresentado por Leo Kuba e Miguel Cavalcanti. Neste episódio: Dicas de conteúdo na internet: #Blog Mixergy.com, de Andrew Warner #Entrevista de Michael Robertson (mp3.com), para Jason Calacanis no ThisWeekinStartups.com - bit.ly/twist-mr #Post Makers' Schedule de Paul Graham. - bit.ly/graham-ms #Entrevista de David H. Hansson (37Signals), para Jason Calacanis. - bit.ly/twist-dhh Dicas de livros: #Get Seen, de Steve Garfield.  #Presentation Zen, de Garr Reynolds. Dicas de produtos web: #Google Docs #Dropbox e Sugarsync #Preview do Google Apps Marketplace

How do we build community? How do we have an impact within our community? These are the topics that we discuss on today's Quick Hits with special guest, Michael Robertson. Michael is a long-time friend of ours and also one of our most consistent attendees for working out. We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Nicole and Tori welcome another guest on the 11th episode to talk all things worth reading! During the month of February, the podcast will solely focus on resources that are created by Black authors or about Black characters in honor of Black History Month. The list of resources talked about in this episode are listed below: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré; His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie; The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur and Leila Steinburg; Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens by M.J. Fievre; Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin; The Coin Slot Chronicles by Rashad Jennings; Arcade and the Triple T Token by Rashad Jennings; Arcade and the Golden Travel Guide by Rashad Jennings; My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World by Malcolm Mitchell, illustrated by Michael Robertson; I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart; A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford; wikiHow; Ron Finley; LiquidIV

In the 12th episode of the Fidelity ETF Exchange – powered by FidelityConnects, co-hosts Étienne Joncas Bouchard and Katrina Wilson welcome Michael Robertson to the show. Michael is a Quantitative Research Analyst at Fidelity Investments in Boston. In this episode, Étienne & Katrina have an in-depth conversation with Michael on the use of Environmental, Social & Governance criterias in a portfolio management framework. Some of the key topics discussed include the notable trends in ESG investing, how Fidelity evaluates or scores a company’s sustainability, and how advisors and investors should go about choosing the appropriate ESG mandate for their portfolios. Recorded on December 18, 2020.

En NotiPod Hoy Los que escuchan podcasts en español ¿están listos para el pago de subscripciones? Javier Celaya, director de Podimo, en conversación con Melvin Rivera responde esta pregunta, comparte evidencias de que estamos listos y responde a las preguntas más frecuentes que se están haciendo los podcasters. Deezer se une a TV Azteca para acelerar su crecimiento en México y ambas empresas prometen ofrecer a los usuarios música y podcasts acorde a sus gustos.  Recientemente Deezer lanzó su servicio de podcasts en México para ayudar a sus suscriptores a disfrutar de más programas. Michael Robertson, emprendedor dedicado a negocios de tecnología, analiza en Rain News si el acuerdo de contenido exclusivo que hizo Joe Rogan con Spotify es completamente legal. Según The Wall Street Journal el acuerdo entre Sirius y EW Scripps está cerrado, con una tarifa fija de alrededor de $300 millones. Un ingeniero de audio explica el sonido característico de NPR. Aureal, una nueva  plataforma que ofrece un espacio para grabar, editar, alojar, distribuir y monetizar un pódcast de forma sencilla. Edifi, una app diseñada para quienes buscan podcasts cristianos transformadores e inspiradores de fe. Edifi reúne miles de los mejores podcasts cristianos en un solo lugar. La red multicultural de audio digital ReVolver se ha asociado con la iHeartPodcast Network para dar a sus programas un alcance más amplio. Pódcast recomendado Si lo sé no vengo. Es un pódcast sobre actualidad y periodismo, pero sobre todo, humor. El programa tiene varias secciones en las que se tratan diferentes temas de actualidad relacionados con las redes sociales, la política, o simplemente, situaciones de la vida cotidiana que todo el mundo quiere criticar y que por vergüenza no lo hace.

Die ganze Stadt pfeift seine Märsche und seine Melodien prägen den Klang der «drey scheenschte Dääg!». Michael Robertson gibt zu: «Ich geniesse es, wenn ich an der Fasnacht vor dem Schoofegg stehe und aus jedem Gässli erklingt meine Musik.» Woher er die Inspiration für seine musikalischen Ideen nimmt und wer ihn auf seinem Werdegang geprägt hat, verrät Michael Robertson in der neuen Folge des Podcasts «Am Fasnachts-Stammdisch». Und natürlich gibt es in dieser Folge auch wunderbare Fasnachtsmusik zu hören!

William Morris's designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman's insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. (Encore presentation.) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, 2018 The post William Morris, Designer and Socialist appeared first on KPFA.

This week we discuss a lighter, more humorous film: SATANIC PANIC, a Shudder Exclusive directed by Chelsea Stardust and written by Grady Hendrix. This was EXACTLY the type of film we needed right now. Campy horror that doesn't take itself too seriously and delivers a lot of fun! Where you can find us: Michael Robertson, Jr: mrobertsonjr.com Amazon Facebook.com/mrobertsonjr Twitter.com/mrobertsonjr Instagram.com/mrobertsonjr Jason Collins: Simpletimesphotography.com Facebook Instagram Youtube --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Leigh Whannell's latest film, THE INVISIBLE MAN, had a very unique release. We're here to talk about not only that but also the recent news of how Blumhouse's Jason Blum says showing too much in trailers is the best way to get people to the movie theater. Plus we give our SPOILER-FREE review of the movie. Where you can find us: Michael Robertson, Jr: mrobertsonjr.com Amazon Facebook.com/mrobertsonjr Twitter.com/mrobertsonjr Instagram.com/mrobertsonjr Jason Collins: Simpletimesphotography.com Facebook Instagram Youtube --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Questions need silence. Great questions are provocative. Great questions defy easy answers. Answering them takes time - they can be the work of a lifetime or a workshop. A great question can guide an organization, a Design Sprint or an educational program. Great Facilitators ask great questions - on purpose.   In this episode I sit down with the effortlessly scintillating Nancy McGaw, Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program (Aspen BSP). Nancy also leads corporate programs designed to cultivate leaders and achieve Aspen BSP's mission of aligning business with the long-term health of society.   In 2009 she founded (and still directs) the First Movers Fellowship Program, an innovation lab for exceptional business professionals who have demonstrated an ability and passion for imagining new products, services, and management practices that achieve profitable business growth and lasting, positive social impacts.   I would suggest you listen to this episode at 1X speed if for no other reason than it's good to slow down sometimes - it's a point that Nancy makes early on in our conversation.   Nancy and I meditate on the power of questions: Asking instead of telling lights people up and will surprise you, the asker, if you design your questions with care.    Nancy shares three of her favorite questions.   Tell me about a time when you were working at your best…? What would have to be true…? Why do you do the work you do?   Starting with Stories The first question shows the power of Starting with stories. Any user experience researchers or Design Thinkers listening will know this to be true - if you're talking to a customer or a client, the best way to get rich and detailed information is to ask a “tell me about a time when…” question. Stories light up our brains in ways facts cannot, and starting our gatherings with a story is a luxurious and powerful way to generate energy and connectedness.   Appreciative Inquiry   This first question also connects to one of the most important ideas in this episode - even though it's mentioned only briefly: Asking with focus on the positive and the functional over the negative and dysfunctional. Appreciative Inquiry is a rich body of work and a unique approach to change.   The Art of Possibility Nancy's second question is an excellent act of conversational Judo. Asking “What would have to be true…” can transform conflict into collaboration...or at least, honest inquiry. Asking this question can allow skeptics to dream a little and open the door into possibility.   That question came out of another question, from Michael Robertson, who attended the recent cohort of my 12 week Innovation Leadership Accelerator. He wanted to know if an “us vs them” mentality is ever appropriate when trying to lead deeply important change. Nancy's answer is profoundly empathetic. As a side note, the next cohort of the ILA is in February - we're accepting applications through January. If you want to dive more deeply into your own personal leadership, head over to ILAprogram.com to learn more and apply.   Why over what I love the idea of asking people “Why do you do what you do?” without even knowing what they do. This question also points to understanding people's history, which is one of the key components to change - how did we get to now? What was the arc of the story? Nancy has added some amazing books to my reading list - check out the show notes for links to them all and enjoy the episode! Nancy at the Aspen Institute   Business and Society Program   First Movers Fellowship Program   Edgar Schein's Humble Inquiry   The Four Quadrants of Conversational Leadership   Appreciative Inquiry   John McPhee's Draft No. 4    The Four Truths of Storytelling    Carmine Gallo's Storytelling Secrets   Rosamund and Ben Zander's Art of Possibility   Leading change with and without a Burning Platform   Hal Gregersen's Questions are the Answer   Elise Foster's The Multiplier Effect   Full Transcription at https://theconversationfactory.com/podcast/2019/12/24/leading-through-asking  

In her novel The Book of Disappearance, the Palestinian writer and journalist Ibtisam Azem explores themes of memory, loss, and ideology in the context of the 1948 Nakba and of an imagined sudden disappearance of all Palestinians living in Israel. Also: more with Michael Robertson about his book The Last Utopians. Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance Syracuse University Press, 2019 The post Palestinians in Israel appeared first on KPFA.

Devan wraps up the World Series for posterity, talks to TSU Baseball Coach, Michael Robertson and awards a "Big Dummy"

William Morris's designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman's insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, 2018   The post William Morris, Designer and Socialist appeared first on KPFA.

“What the scanner shows is real. There really is a Greek temple flying through space.” Jason Jackson used to travel through space and time. Now, he’s a low-ranking pilot on one of the vessels of Centro, the oligarchic Earth government. Lady Aesculapius is a traveller in space and time. She’s currently about to be executed. She’s pretty chuffed about it. The space-time anomaly en route for Mars, is, well, a space-time anomaly en route for Mars. And it’s going to bring these two old friends back together. Written by Michael Robertson Created by James Wylder and Michael Robertson Read by Harry Smith Art by Anne-Laure Tudori Theme by Jack Guidera Edited by Matt Quiett A co-production of Arcbeatle Press and the Southgate Media Group Learn more at JamesWylder.com

Michael Robertson, author of the Baker Street Letters series, addressed the Bootmakers of Toronto on March 13, 2019. As always many thanks to Mike for producing this segment. The post Footnote 17- Michael Robertson, “The Baker Street Letters” appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

This episode features the first chapter of A Baker Street Wedding by Michael Robertson, read by local actor Kelly Ventura. A Baker Street Wedding was published by Minotaur Books in December of 2018 and is part of the Baker Street Letters series. It is available for purchase, and you can learn more about Michael's writing on his website. In each episode we share with you mystery short stories and mystery novel first chapters read by actors from the San Joaquin Valley. If you enjoyed this episode please review or rate the episode as that helps more people be able to find us!

“I am large, I contain multitudes”. So wrote Walt Whitman in his 1855 masterpice Song of Myself. The American poet's 200th birthday is on Friday (31 May). In this week's Church Times, Dr Michael Robertson, author of Worshipping Whalt: The Whitman disciples (Princeton Press), argues that while Whitman has been celebrated as a poet of democracy and of nature, among other things, his religious purpose is under-appreciated. On this week's podcast, Dr Robertson speaks to Madeleine Davies about Whitman's life, his literary and religious influences, and reads for us some of his remarkable poetry. Picture credit: Alamy

On this special episode of The Geek Buddies, John Rocha, Michael Vogel and Shannon McClung welcome Game of Thrones enthusiast and avid reader Michael Robertson to talk about that Season 8 finale. They also discuss how the show compared to what is going on in George R.R. Martin's books, they discuss the prophecies that may not have come true, what we can expect in the future from this franchise and what their overall thoughts are on the show as a whole now that it's over. It's a truly great discussion about Sansa, Tyrion, Jon Snow, Daenerys, Arya, Greyworm, Ser Davos and more!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

For our first discussion, we were joined by Michael Robertson, founder of Shared Vision Quest and an avid cyclist who is visually impaired. He shared his story about biking cross country. Then the group asked questions and shared their biking tips and experiences.

Cutting Edge C.E. is an annual music conference in New Orleans that brings together prominent musicians, industry professionals, and filmmakers from across the country. The 26th Cutting Edge conference concluded a few weeks ago, and for my podcast coverage I had the opportunity to interview the festival's founder Eric Cager, along with some musicians performing at the conference and a filmmaker who screened work there. We seek out good people in the industry.  You can go out and meet sharks anywhere, but you don’t need to come and meet them at the Cutting Edge.” - Eric Cager, founder and executive director of Cutting Edge C.E.  Below is a breakdown of the interviews and the approximate times when they start. 1. Bucky Goldberg and Marietta Roebuck, Wild Rabbit Salad - 4:48 min Their song "Amelia" has been tracking high on the Americana charts, and "Killing Flood in Houston" was the No. 1 song on Reverbnation in Houston back in February. 2. Filmmaker Paul Catafago, founder of Mosaic Culture Project - 8:22 min Paul is a New Yorker whose sense of artistic purpose was significantly shaped by the 9/11 attacks. Along with his Mosaic partner Lance Arnold, Paul has put together a series of documentaries on icons in the New Orleans music community. Some of the musicians he interviewed include Clarence "Frogman" Henry, best known for his 1956 hit song "Ain't Got No Home" Deacon John Moore, guitarist for Allen Toussaint and head of the New Orleans Musicians Union George Porter Jr., "the grandfather of funk bass" who has a residency at the Maple Leaf Bar 3. Henry Turner Jr., a soul and funk musician - 20:02 min Henry who wrote the Baton Rouge theme song and spreads the Louisiana spirit across the country with his Ultimate Louisiana Tour. In appreciation of his music outreach efforts the city of Baton Rouge proclaimed Oct. 28 as Henry Turner Jr. Day. Henry's song "Ugly Man" can be heard shortly after his interview.  4.  Cliff & Jeana Downing and Michael Robertson, The Captain Ledge Band - 39:02 min Captain Ledge Band's latest album, Rumors of the Great White Skunk, was awarded the 2018 Bluegrass Album of the Year by the International Music and Entertainment Association.  The band has a sweet way to make a first impression on music industry types, which we also discuss. After the interview concludes, you can hear the band's song "Bucket Mouth," which was nominated for bluegrass song of the year by the International Music and Entertainment Association (IMEA).   5. Eric Cager, founder and director of Cutting Edge C.E. - 59:31 min We discuss the unique vision behind Cutting Edge and some of the highlights from this year's music conference.   # I had a number of takeaways from the conversation and things I wanted to expand upon, so I recorded my commentary as a separate track, which you can hear below or next in the podcast feed. # If you'd like to hear from another band that has played at Cutting Edge, check out thisinterview I did with Mystery Loves Company, a chamber rock band I met at the music conference a few years ago. # Sponsor for this Episode nsavides productions– I make videos and tell stories. Some of my videos are here. # Say hello: podcast@nsavides.com # Related Things Cutting Edge C.E. The Captain Ledge Band Facebook, Instagram, Spotify Twitter Mark Hornsby, a former guest on the podcast, mixed and mastered an album for The Captain Ledge Band. Eric Cager Facebook, LinkedIn WWOZ's Livewire Music Calendar, one of the sites Eric visits to stay abreast of up-and-coming local bands Henry Turner Jr. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Henry's Ultimate Louisiana Party Festival Henry Turner Jr. Day is on Oct 27. Details about the festivities Paul Catafago Facebook Shortcut for the podcast: nicksav.show Music for the show provided by Rob Costlow. # Bands & Musicians Mentioned Beethoven  Bob Seger Bob Wills Buddy Stewart The Captain Ledger Band Carrie Underwood Cypress Whyman Clarence "Frogman" Henry Deacon John Moore Dick Sims Etta James George Porter Jr. Grayhawk Perkins Henry Turner Jr. J. J. Cale Jackie Wilson Jamie Oldaker John Boutte Leon Russell Loren Pickford Loud MX Mystery Loves Company Peter Frampton Reba Mackintire Rev Goat Carson Roy Brown Smashing Pumpkins Tantrum The Tractors Wild Rabbit Salad Woodenhead # If You Liked the Show Sign up for The nsavides Newsletter. Subscribe or leave an honest review:   Apple Podcasts   Spotify   Overcast Say hello on Twitter:  @nsavidesPRO Thank you for visiting!

An esteemed panel will discuss how the testimony of Holocaust survivors is used today and the problems, questions and opportunities it presents to people grappling with the legacy of the Holocaust. Hear from Avril Alba, Jonathan Ari Lander, Michael Robertson and Jacqui Wasilewsky (moderator). A Sydney Ideas event held on Thursday 6 September 2018. https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/sydney-ideas/2018/voices-from-the-ashes.html

With Zach traveling, the guys from Hawk & Cleaver were kind enough to drop by and talk about their smashing fiction podcast, The Other Stories, as well as talking about the claim by the New York Times CEO that “print is dead.”Special thanks to our newest Patrons: Lori Drake, Michael Robertson, L.D. Fox, Rebecca Adams, Chuck Buda.Get exclusive bonus content by supporting The Career Author Podcast on Patreon at www.thecareerauthor.comNews Links:Google turns on the charm with publishers by focusing on subscriptions. https://digiday.com/media/google-turns-charm-publishers-pivoting-subscriptions/As promised, Facebook traffic to news publishers declines again, post news-feed change. https://digiday.com/media/promised-facebook-traffic-news-publishers-declines-post-news-free-change/New York Times CEO States Print is Dead. https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/new-york-times-ceo-states-print-is-deadOther Links:www.hawkandcleaver.comwww.theotherstories.netwww.danielwillcocks.comAuthors on a Train - http://www.authorsonatrain.comSell More Books Show Summit - http://www.sellmorebooksshow.com/summit See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  We are back with another awesome episode! We sit down with Mic Live, local comedian and local Asian Baby manufacturer. As well as Yisel Orozco a known hater of Asians. We discuss the Spanish heart throb Enrique Iglesias and his mole conspiracy. Ian and Berto drop mad science about gut health and eating weird foods. We call Dave Yates to discuss his recent Kill Tony appearances and his feud with Freddy for spoiling Star Wars for him. Berto surprises us with some gifts to mark the new year and much much more. Make sure you leave a 5 star review on iTunes, but feel free to rag on us. OrozcoDesignStudio.com freddycorrea.com ___________________________________________________ For all your Graphic Design needs go to OrozcoDesignStudio.com Find all of my social media at FreddyCorrea.com  The Chat Snap & Thanks for the Invite Podcast is part of Bluestreak Radio Network find more shows by clicking on the link! Please Subscribe to us on iTunes and give us a FIVE STAR review :D Follow Lissy on Twitter @lissycorrea5 Instagram @lissycorrea  And Follow me on Both Twitter and Instagram @fredreker also me on Facebook Freddy Correa --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-freddy-correa/message

Recorded in the Green Room at Las Vegas Live Comedy Club. This show was sponsored by http://www.orozcodesignstudio.com/ ___________________________________________________ For all you Graphic Design needs go to OrozcoDesignStudio.com Find all of my social media at FreddyCorrea.com  The Chat Snap & Thanks for the Invite Podcast is part of Bluestreak Radio Network find more shows by clicking on the link! Please Subscribe to us on iTunes and give us a FIVE STAR review :D Follow Lissy on Twitter @lissycorrea5 Instagram @lissycorrea  And Follow me on Both Twitter and Instagram @fredreker also me on Facebook Freddy Correa --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-freddy-correa/message

VYPE Locker Talk Radio brings in Texas Southern University Head Baseball Caoch Michael Robertson, VYPE SE Texas Managing Editor Ashly Elam, and Patton Nelson and Brian Welch of Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. TSU Baseball advanced to the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Tournament this season despite playing 80% of the their games on the road. Robertson talks in great detail about how the Tigers overcame adversity all season and having to play “home” games at the public MacGregor Field in downtown Houston. In the second segment Ashly Elam brings insight into the Port Neches-Groves 5A baseball title and promotes the August football issue that features the top football talent in the Golden Triangle. The last segment brings in Patton Nelson and Brian Welch of Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. Freddy’s will be having a busy summer as they will have new store openings and community events planned for the Houston community. This podcast is brought to you by Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers and the Texas Foot Surgeons Physician Network. For the latest in Houston high school sports news, issues, and commentary visit VYPEHouston.com and follow us on Twitter at @VYPEHouston. Listen to “VYPE Locker Talk Radio” every Sunday afternoon from 12-1pm on ESPN 97.5fm KFNC with Todd James and Matt Malatesta.

The Midland singer-songwriter released his first solo album, “All My Stories,” last year and is transitioning to the Grand Rapids area. He plays SpeakEZ Lounge tonight. Listen to the radio podcast and watch the video of his in-studio performance.

Michael Robertson is a writer from the UK with several publications to his name, both online and in print. He writes dystopian, sci-fi, and apocalyptic fiction, though predominantly science fiction with a darker edge to it. Michael has written stories of all kinds since his late teens and finally started publishing in 2013 after having a short story accepted by HarperCollins. He's also had his first three books in the Alpha Plague series produced by Podium – who put together Andy Weir's The Martian – and we all know how well that turned out! He has an active presence online – you'll find him on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and on his own website – and he's the most prolific writer that we've spoken to on the podcast to date.

Michael Robertson is a writer from the UK with several publications to his name, both online and in print. He writes dystopian, sci-fi, and apocalyptic fiction, though predominantly science fiction with a darker edge to it. Michael has written stories of all kinds since his late teens and finally started publishing in 2013 after having a short story accepted by HarperCollins. He’s also had his first three books in the Alpha Plague series produced by Podium – who put together Andy Weir’s The Martian – and we all know how well that turned out! He has an active presence online – you’ll find him on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and on his own website – and he’s the most prolific writer that we’ve spoken to on the podcast to date. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

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Today Buyers Meeting Point welcomes back Michael Robertson, the CEO of POD Procurement and the author of The POD Model: The mutually-beneficial model for buyers and suppliers which enables an increase in profit through commercial collaboration. Mike has joined us before to discuss his POD Model as well as how procurement communicates contract value. Today, our topic is procurement culture change, and it is based on a post Mike recently shared on LinkedIn, "How can procurement's culture change?" Listeners may also be interested in reading "The Contract as Catalyst for Culture Change in Procurement" written by Mike for Buyers Meeting Point's "The Point." In this conversation we discuss: Understanding the culture currently in place and whether it is supporting or blocking your objectivesWhere to look in your supply base for a true assessment of how you treat suppliersThe scalability question: how can procurement build deeper supply relationships without increasing headcount?

Today Buyers Meeting Point welcomes back Michael Robertson, CEO of POD Procurement and the author of The POD Model: The mutually-beneficial model for buyers and suppliers which enables an increase in profit through commercial collaboration. Previously, Mike came on BMP Radio to discuss his book and the model in general. Today, Mike is back so we can explore a topic that emerged during our last conversation: how procurement communicates about contracts. He has also written about this topic in response to a recent IACCM report on LinkedIn. In this conversation we discuss: The true size and scale of the opportunity that exists for procurement teams who can learn to better articulate their true value to the business.The importance of seeing all value created - whether through contracts or otherwise - through the eyes of those we are creating it for rather than through our own more narrow perspective.The clear action steps procurement professionals can take today to ensure the proper contract type is used in each case.

In Episode 137, Skip talks with Michael Robertson of DeluxeCamping.com.  In the world of camping every one of us are looking for new ways to improve our camping experience.  On today's show, Michael takes time to showcase the Deluxe Camp Sink and Deluxe Tent Shower, and explains how these quality products are beneficial to both the novice and veteran camper. 

So what happens AFTER you disrupt an entire industry? When last we saw him, Michael Robertson and MP3.com managed to uproot the business model of the entire music industry.  Physical media, he realized, didn’t matter.  People weren’t interested in CDs, cassettes or vinyl; they wanted music, and they wanted to it digitally. For Michael Robertson, the man who took a chance and spent $1000 on “Two letters and a number,” the world was never the same.   Suddenly, Wall Street players, who wouldn’t return his calls came knocking.   Soon after that, there were IPOs, and truckloads of money.  Then came the Lawyers, those big labels, the ones who refused to play ball, dragged Michael into Court.  Even the US Government, was breathing down his neck.    

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  “So, I told my wife, I bought this new domain and she said, ‘what did you pay?’” I told her, ’a thousand dollars’. She was dumbfounded, ’That’s just two letters and a number!”  So, I said, ‘no no no… trust me… it’s going to be big!’” - Michael Robertson, Founder, mp3.com    Today’s episode isn’t so much about the music industry as it is about the life of an entrepreneur.   It isn’t so much about being lucky, as it is about making your own luck.   Let's go back to the early days of the internet when even with a, “Blazing fast,” 96k modem, it took more than 45 minutes to download one song - 45 minutes that is, if you could even find any music to download. Fresh out of college, newly minted, “computer consultant”, Michael Robertson was looking for his edge.  As the founder of “FILEZ.com” an early software search engine, Michael began noticing odd search trends.  Sure, people were searching for files with the terms, “spreadsheet” or “word processor,” but they were also looking for files with terms like, “sex” or “game”, and they were looking for music, music files with the strange extension - “.MP3”.   After some detective work, and a little research,  Michael took a leap of faith: For the - at that time astronomical - sum of $1,000 he bought - “mp3.com”. A few years later after being a catalyst for a global music revolution, his company had an IPO putting the value of his company in the billions. Then all the major label sued him and the SEC changed US IPO regulations. Today’s episode is about Michael Robertson, and how, “two letters and a number,” ignited the internet music revolution. 

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Unicorns-1.3 Me-and-DadIntroductory Comments: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/unicorns13.mp3] unicorns13.mp3 Hello and welcome my friends.  This is Chris and this is the third in my series of personal podcasts that I am doing, to air out my brain and deal with my father's cancer and gear up to run for the Liver Foundation at the Boston Marathon this year. Note:  Even though this is on the RunRunLive Podcast feed, this is NOT the RunRunLive podcast.  You have fair warning to skip now because I'm not talking about running.  Standard RunRunLive episodes will be labeled as such. As part of this project, whatever this project is, I'm collecting donations for the American Liver Foundation for my running of the Boston Marathon this year.  I wanted to layer on some purpose for the event and make it more personal. The donation links are in the show notes and at http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell My story is that I already had a number for this year's race.  I Didn't need to fundraise, but with my Dad's health declining I thought it would be a decent thing to do to dedicate this to him and my family. … I'm the youngest of 4.  I have two older sisters and an older brother.  We didn't always get along with each other as siblings do but we are close and working through my Dad's cancer has given us the opportunity to spend more time together.  It's been fun to talk through shared family experiences and memories. As the youngest I don't have the depth of memories as my brother and sisters, but they are there and as we spend time together they are unearthed like the quite turnings of some dusty album.  There's nothing bad there.  There is some funny stuff.  Mostly it is bits and pieces and vignettes that we can compare notes on. I remember my Dad coming home from work one day with a full size electric organ for the living room.  My sisters were both taking piano lessons and I guess he thought this would give them some additional enablement. At some point we acquired a full size piano as well at some point.  My Mom taught my girls how to play songs on it when they went for visits. My Dad designed a built a giant two story car garage out of pre-stressed concrete beams and I can remember helping shingle the roof with cedar shakes.  Snapping the chalk lines, as a kid, and knocking the shingle nails true, row by row, all day long. He and my brother would work on cars together in that garage.  They had every tool and machine needed to do anything.  I remember one time in the 80's I dropped my car off at the house.  It needed a universal joint in the front end. I was going to help them replace it (which for me meant handing them tools).  I went for an errand and by the time I came back they had it done already. My Dad and I would go for walks in the woods in New England.  I don't remember the walks so much as the trees. I still can identify every tree in New England by its leaves and bark.  If pressed I could make a serviceable whistle from a young willow sapling with a jackknife – which was one of our spring rituals. The red oak, the white pine, the ash – used for axe handles and hockey sticks – the poplar, the white and grey birch, the pignuts and shagbark hickories – whose bounty we would collect in the fall for fireside cracking and snacking – the hawthorn and elderberry.  My connection to the natural world that I treasure so dearly was born in those New England summers. My Dad loved to chop wood to feed the wood stove all winter long.  He taught me how to swing an axe.  His favorite axe was a light, thin-bladed axe for limbing the felled trees, and he would grind the cheeks of splitting axes to create the perfect tool. He taught me how to swing a maul to split the green hard wood and how to stack the split logs so that they would dry.  He showed me that you could split any log with a sledge hammer and wedges. The wedges in my garage came from his collection.  I use them every year as I relive the pure visceral joy of bringing the heavy maul down on the yielding log in the sultry autumn afternoons.  There is nothing I enjoy more than becoming lost in a large woodpile with my axe, maul, hammer and wedges. And that's the lesson here.  There is peace and honor in a job well done.  It doesn't matter that you can pay someone $100 bucks to mow your lawn or drop a cord of presplit wood in your driveway.  That takes the honor out of it.  The pride and honor of reducing a pile of logs to a neatly stacked and tarped pile of BTU's for the coming winter is a feeling of intellectual freedom that I am thankful for. Today I'm going to share with you a chat I had with a friend of mine and fellow Goon Squad runner Michael Robertson about running for charity. After that I'm going to read a story my brother wrote recently about something funny from our childhood.  I never realized how good a writer my brother was until he began to comment on the Caringbridge site my sister set up for my Dad's friends to check in.  He was always the best story teller in our family.  He could spin the tallest tales with a straight face and get away with almost anything. Cheers, … … Featured Interview: Michael Robertson shots of whiskey for the plow drivers Written Feb 13, 2014 3:46pm by Dave Russell Being that it is a cold and snowy day today, I thought I would relate a story of how our Father (Russ) attacked problems head on with simple and imaginative solutions. Shots of whiskey for the plow drivers The Russells were the original Skyfields Drive hilltop residents of Groton. When we moved in, no other residents shared the top of the hill and during heavy snow we were pretty much on our own. This was the mid sixties; a time long before the advent of DSS when kids were considered free labor for the menial physical tasks. For example “Adults run the chainsaw and split logs. Kids carry wood and drag brush”. To shorten the response time of the town plow crews, Dad came up with the brilliant but elegantly simple plan to bribe the plow drivers with hot coffee or shots of whiskey to encourage them to come by our neighborhood first. It was this type of imaginative thinking and direct approach that made him a legend and our “go to guy”. We would usually see the plows start up the hill from 119 through the windows off the deck and have about 5 minutes to prepare. Since Mary Lou was the oldest but couldn't go out alone, she and I usually got the nod. We had to wear dark clothing to contrast with the snow and flag down the plows without getting plowed into a snow bank ourselves. Over time, we learned that it was best to stand across the street and approach from the driver's side door as the plow traveled slowly up the hill. Each driver usually downed one on the way up and stopped for a second on his way back down. As expected, the shots of whiskey were far more popular than the hot coffee. In fact, if we tried to offer only coffee, the drivers would ask if the whiskey was already “in there”. It did not take the DPW long to learn that there was free whiskey available up on Skyfields Drive and there was not a quicker or better plowed road in town. Often, we had to service a whole line of snow removal vehicles waiting for their whiskey and make multiple trips back to the house for re-fills. Mom would count the trucks by looking down towards 119 and have our resupply ready. I think this serving experience prepared both of us for work later on at Johnson's We were also expected to keep track of repeat clients and inform them that “Our parents say you're shut off” when they reached their 3-shot limit.. One morning years later, my friend Jason and I decided to surprise the paper delivery man with a free shot of whiskey around 5:00AM. When he saw us coming, he drove away in terror. By that time, life in Groton had changed forever. Dave R Summary Article: Thanks for listening if you have been.  I know this is entirely self serving but too often we seal off the past and look to the future.  As we get older we begin to unwrap those packages. Last time I checked I'm at about $1700 of my $2000 goal.  The Boston Marathon looks like it is going to be crazy this year.  Thank you for all my friends who have helped. Go to: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell Thank you for joining me on my journey with purpose. Chris, Music by Bridge Underwater - “sad song”

Unicorns-1.3 Me-and-DadIntroductory Comments: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/unicorns13.mp3] unicorns13.mp3 Hello and welcome my friends.  This is Chris and this is the third in my series of personal podcasts that I am doing, to air out my brain and deal with my father’s cancer and gear up to run for the Liver Foundation at the Boston Marathon this year. Note:  Even though this is on the RunRunLive Podcast feed, this is NOT the RunRunLive podcast.  You have fair warning to skip now because I’m not talking about running.  Standard RunRunLive episodes will be labeled as such. As part of this project, whatever this project is, I’m collecting donations for the American Liver Foundation for my running of the Boston Marathon this year.  I wanted to layer on some purpose for the event and make it more personal. The donation links are in the show notes and at http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell My story is that I already had a number for this year’s race.  I Didn’t need to fundraise, but with my Dad’s health declining I thought it would be a decent thing to do to dedicate this to him and my family. … I’m the youngest of 4.  I have two older sisters and an older brother.  We didn’t always get along with each other as siblings do but we are close and working through my Dad’s cancer has given us the opportunity to spend more time together.  It’s been fun to talk through shared family experiences and memories. As the youngest I don’t have the depth of memories as my brother and sisters, but they are there and as we spend time together they are unearthed like the quite turnings of some dusty album.  There’s nothing bad there.  There is some funny stuff.  Mostly it is bits and pieces and vignettes that we can compare notes on. I remember my Dad coming home from work one day with a full size electric organ for the living room.  My sisters were both taking piano lessons and I guess he thought this would give them some additional enablement. At some point we acquired a full size piano as well at some point.  My Mom taught my girls how to play songs on it when they went for visits. My Dad designed a built a giant two story car garage out of pre-stressed concrete beams and I can remember helping shingle the roof with cedar shakes.  Snapping the chalk lines, as a kid, and knocking the shingle nails true, row by row, all day long. He and my brother would work on cars together in that garage.  They had every tool and machine needed to do anything.  I remember one time in the 80’s I dropped my car off at the house.  It needed a universal joint in the front end. I was going to help them replace it (which for me meant handing them tools).  I went for an errand and by the time I came back they had it done already. My Dad and I would go for walks in the woods in New England.  I don’t remember the walks so much as the trees. I still can identify every tree in New England by its leaves and bark.  If pressed I could make a serviceable whistle from a young willow sapling with a jackknife – which was one of our spring rituals. The red oak, the white pine, the ash – used for axe handles and hockey sticks – the poplar, the white and grey birch, the pignuts and shagbark hickories – whose bounty we would collect in the fall for fireside cracking and snacking – the hawthorn and elderberry.  My connection to the natural world that I treasure so dearly was born in those New England summers. My Dad loved to chop wood to feed the wood stove all winter long.  He taught me how to swing an axe.  His favorite axe was a light, thin-bladed axe for limbing the felled trees, and he would grind the cheeks of splitting axes to create the perfect tool. He taught me how to swing a maul to split the green hard wood and how to stack the split logs so that they would dry.  He showed me that you could split any log with a sledge hammer and wedges. The wedges in my garage came from his collection.  I use them every year as I relive the pure visceral joy of bringing the heavy maul down on the yielding log in the sultry autumn afternoons.  There is nothing I enjoy more than becoming lost in a large woodpile with my axe, maul, hammer and wedges. And that’s the lesson here.  There is peace and honor in a job well done.  It doesn’t matter that you can pay someone $100 bucks to mow your lawn or drop a cord of presplit wood in your driveway.  That takes the honor out of it.  The pride and honor of reducing a pile of logs to a neatly stacked and tarped pile of BTU’s for the coming winter is a feeling of intellectual freedom that I am thankful for. Today I’m going to share with you a chat I had with a friend of mine and fellow Goon Squad runner Michael Robertson about running for charity. After that I’m going to read a story my brother wrote recently about something funny from our childhood.  I never realized how good a writer my brother was until he began to comment on the Caringbridge site my sister set up for my Dad’s friends to check in.  He was always the best story teller in our family.  He could spin the tallest tales with a straight face and get away with almost anything. Cheers, … … Featured Interview: Michael Robertson shots of whiskey for the plow drivers Written Feb 13, 2014 3:46pm by Dave Russell Being that it is a cold and snowy day today, I thought I would relate a story of how our Father (Russ) attacked problems head on with simple and imaginative solutions. Shots of whiskey for the plow drivers The Russells were the original Skyfields Drive hilltop residents of Groton. When we moved in, no other residents shared the top of the hill and during heavy snow we were pretty much on our own. This was the mid sixties; a time long before the advent of DSS when kids were considered free labor for the menial physical tasks. For example “Adults run the chainsaw and split logs. Kids carry wood and drag brush”. To shorten the response time of the town plow crews, Dad came up with the brilliant but elegantly simple plan to bribe the plow drivers with hot coffee or shots of whiskey to encourage them to come by our neighborhood first. It was this type of imaginative thinking and direct approach that made him a legend and our “go to guy”. We would usually see the plows start up the hill from 119 through the windows off the deck and have about 5 minutes to prepare. Since Mary Lou was the oldest but couldn’t go out alone, she and I usually got the nod. We had to wear dark clothing to contrast with the snow and flag down the plows without getting plowed into a snow bank ourselves. Over time, we learned that it was best to stand across the street and approach from the driver’s side door as the plow traveled slowly up the hill. Each driver usually downed one on the way up and stopped for a second on his way back down. As expected, the shots of whiskey were far more popular than the hot coffee. In fact, if we tried to offer only coffee, the drivers would ask if the whiskey was already “in there”. It did not take the DPW long to learn that there was free whiskey available up on Skyfields Drive and there was not a quicker or better plowed road in town. Often, we had to service a whole line of snow removal vehicles waiting for their whiskey and make multiple trips back to the house for re-fills. Mom would count the trucks by looking down towards 119 and have our resupply ready. I think this serving experience prepared both of us for work later on at Johnson's We were also expected to keep track of repeat clients and inform them that “Our parents say you’re shut off” when they reached their 3-shot limit.. One morning years later, my friend Jason and I decided to surprise the paper delivery man with a free shot of whiskey around 5:00AM. When he saw us coming, he drove away in terror. By that time, life in Groton had changed forever. Dave R Summary Article: Thanks for listening if you have been.  I know this is entirely self serving but too often we seal off the past and look to the future.  As we get older we begin to unwrap those packages. Last time I checked I’m at about $1700 of my $2000 goal.  The Boston Marathon looks like it is going to be crazy this year.  Thank you for all my friends who have helped. Go to: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/cyktrussell Thank you for joining me on my journey with purpose. Chris, Music by Bridge Underwater - “sad song”

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Robbie and Hillary take a look at an old laptop Robbie found while sorting through the old computer wasteland... complete with one of the earliest versions of Linux Robbie ever used.

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This episode focuses on some of Cisco's Virtual Security Appliances, the ASA1000v, the Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) and the Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC). Rama Darbha and Michael Robertson discuss how administrators can use these products in their virtual environments, as well as the packet forwarding path and troubleshooting techniques for these products.

Michael Robertson is a longtime provocateur of the music business and is the founder and former CEO of MP3.com, one of the most popular Internet music sites ever. Robertson also launched several small start-up companies, including Linspire, SIPphone, MP3tunes, and Ajax 13. Robertson’s newest startup, DAR.fm is a centralized Web-based TiVo (TIVO) for radio, users can go to DAR.fm to search the programming schedules of over 600 music and talk-radio stations and schedule the site to record up to 4 hours of any broadcast. Michael Robertson sees this as the answer to the death of radio, "Radio is dying because it's inconvenient and limiting. The content is not interactive, and it's available on only a limited number of devices." The man who has fought more high-profile battles with the record industry than anybody in technology, and whose experience in digital music is nearly unmatched, has never appeared more prescient. Over his career Michael Robertson has raised more than $100 million in private capital and orchestrated transactions with a combined value of nearly a billion dollars. Fasten your seatbelts; this is an interview you definitely need to hear.