Podcast appearances and mentions of Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney's first political campaign was not for president or governor; it was for the U.S. Senate, and it was against Ted Kennedy. Early on the challenger looks unstoppable – handsome, eloquent, moderate – then the Kennedy camp starts digging into Romney's past. ---Special thanks to FRONTLINE for archival sound from The Long March of Newt Gingrich & The Health Care Gamble. 

Healthcare is the problem American politics cannot solve. It's the subject of screaming matches at town halls, the cause of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the justification for political assassination in cold blood. But how did our most basic need become such a divisive issue?In Season Four of The Big Dig podcast, "Mitt & Ted", we tell the origin story of national healthcare reform. Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy began their political journeys on opposite sides of the issue, and they ended once again on opposite sides, but for a brief period in the middle they worked together to pass a groundbreaking law – one that promised to finally transform the politics of American healthcare – the law known as Romneycare. So, what brought this odd couple together and what ultimately pulled them apart?For early access to episodes, join The Big Dig membership program. Learn more at wgbh.org/hovlane. 

On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with Earthquakes defender Dave Romney, looking back at the team's last four games in which they are four unbeaten with two straight wins, and then he talks with Michele Giannone of MLS on AppleTV about league wide stories, USMNT, San Jose, and the upcoming matchup with LAFC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More drama for Ed Sheeran after the promoter allegedly decided to boot Macklemore off the show for Macklemore's antisemitic comments, and now some of Macklemore's closest friends are backing off too. Closing the beaches and some other places during the pandemic may not have been the best idea by some politicians. Has Mitt Romney paid his taxes?  Mark takes your calls!   Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Ann believes that President Trump should focus on political issues like the war in Iran and affordability rather than putting his name on things to help the GOP. Mark and Ann dive into how the EU runs differently politically. Ann isn't a big fan of FLOCK cameras.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls  Get John's new book ! He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's 'Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him 'one of my favorite comedians'. Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy 'The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts. He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance." His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve. On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

Welcome to the "Midterm Report," the Daily Signal's new election podcast. Every Saturday between now and Election Day, Rob Bluey breaks down the biggest stories in politics with the interviews, insights, and analysis you won't get from legacy media. On our first episode, pollster Brent Buchanan joins the show to discuss the first-ever RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas, explaining the split inside the GOP base between Trump Republicans and traditional Republicans, and a 26-point enthusiasm gap between them. He walks through why affordability is dominating voter behavior, why only 88% of Trump 2024 voters are committing to a Republican for Congress, why the "socialist" label alone won't win races, and the one number you should actually watch in every poll from now to November. Then, historian Victor Davis Hanson joins us on his brand-new book, "The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement." Hanson explains what "counterrevolution" really means, how Trump's second term targets causes instead of symptoms, and how a man written off after Jan. 6 mounted what he calls the greatest political comeback in modern American history. He also compares Trump to Reagan, walks through the lawfare and debanking years, explains how Trump won on class instead of race, and gives his odds for the House and Senate this November. About The Daily Signal The Daily Signal is a conservative news and commentary outlet founded in 2014 by The Heritage Foundation and now an independent media organization with its own board and leadership as of June 2024. Based in Washington, D.C., the Daily Signal covers politics, policy, and culture with reporting, interviews, investigations, and documentaries, including the stories the national press leaves alone. About Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and a senior contributor to the Daily Signal. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including "The Case for Trump," "The Dying Citizen," and "The End of Everything." He hosts "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words." CHAPTERS: 00:00 "It's 70-30 they lose the House" 00:29 Welcome to the Midterm Report 01:39 The GOP is actually two coalitions 02:54 The 26-point enthusiasm gap 03:54 Affordability: insurance, gas, property taxes 05:03 Why 12% of Trump 2024 voters are defecting 05:53 The $5,000 Trump dividend problem 07:13 Socialism polling, the label isn't enough 08:22 Communism, China, and voters under 45 09:09 Re-flipping the diploma divide 10:22 The one poll number to actually watch 11:30 Preventable: the Gorman family documentary 12:39 Victor Davis Hanson joins The Daily Signal 13:33 What "counterrevolution" actually means 16:32 The wilderness years and the 360-degree agenda 19:00 Reagan vs. Trump 22:02 Bush, McCain, Romney and the retreat from Reagan 24:18 Rock bottom: how far Trump fell 26:17 The three days that started the lawfare 27:50 Mar-a-Lago, E. Jean Carroll, and $500 million 31:21 Biden, the 2020 deal, and "a gift that kept on giving" 33:56 Deplatformed and debanked 35:56 The DeSantis lose-lose 37:11 McDonald's, Madison Square Garden, and the middle class 39:42 Class over race: the Hispanic and Black male vote 43:15 How Trump remade the Democratic Party 46:58 Why Republicans still trail in the polls 49:13 Iran, DOGE, and the message they never sent 51:52 The winning message no one is delivering 53:16 70-30 on the House, 50-50 on the Senate 54:51 The Iran wildcard that could flip everything 56:10 Legacy, the third term, and 2028 58:28 Why the next nominee will be MAGA 1:00:08 Apostates, antisemitism, and the J.D. Vance test 1:02:34 Victor Davis Hanson on The Counterrevolution Order “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement” NOW: https://amzn.to/4oZIFay NEW FILM from The Heritage Foundation: “Preventable: The System That Failed My Daughter.” Available now: https://youtu.be/HxiwOSSRT6s We cannot continue to make videos like this one without the support of our viewers. Please consider donating to The Daily Signal today! https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“One believes in democracy and the rule of law, and right now, the other doesn't.” — Adam Jentleson Yesterday, William Hitchcock explained FDR's ability to build and maintain supermajorities. Today, Adam Jentleson — Harry Reid's former deputy chief of staff and chief of staff to John Fetterman — talks about how the Democrats can build lasting power in the 21st century. The strategy is laid out in Supermajority, Jentleson's follow-up to the acclaimed Kill Switch. Is the Democratic Party too woke? “We are still too rigid” is Jentleson's euphemistic take on the dramatic class flip in American politics. JFK won two-thirds of working-class voters in 1960, Jentleson reminds us, while Kamala Harris lost two-thirds in 2024. His prescription is FDR-style heterodoxy. Dems need to hold to their core commitments (healthcare, the safety net, progressive taxation, civil rights) while broadening their base in red states. His examples of tent wideners include a Kansan megachurch pastor, a pro-drilling Alaskan candidate, and an Iowan hopeful whose flat “no” on trans sports silenced a right-wing radio host. The model for winning back the working class, Jentleson argues, is Bernie Sanders circa 2016, an economic populist, but to Hillary Clinton's right on immigration and guns. The much maligned John Fetterman, Jentleson's old boss, is the cautionary tale. It's what happens, Jentleson warns, when the fighting “becomes the entire point” and a politician comes unmoored from principle. Jon Ossoff, Jentleson suggests, seems the anti-Fetterman in writing his own speeches and appearing authentic rather than opportunistic. Ossoff certainly isn't FDR, but he might be the best chance the Dems have of defeating an increasingly authoritarian Republican party in 2028. Five Takeaways •       The FDR Lessons Nobody Tells. Picking up where yesterday's Hitchcock episode left off: FDR built the New Deal supermajority not by bowling opponents over with progressive rhetoric but through a deeply heterodox coalition — including factions today's Democrats would expel — and sold it in conservative wrappers: Social Security pitched as fiscally responsible and earned, not given (he railed against the dole in cabinet meetings). The uncomfortable ledger: FDR actively worked against every civil rights bill of his era to keep self-declared white supremacists in the tent — which means, Jentleson argues, that today's trade-offs (a Kansas candidate with questions about trans sports, a border-security Democrat) “pale in comparison” to the compromises that built the twentieth century's Democratic dominance. The Kansas case in point: megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton, running in a state Trump won by twenty points, holds the line on healthcare, the safety net, and progressive taxes — and the alternative to his heterodoxy is a MAGA senator.•       Too Rigid, Not Too Woke. Asked the New Yorker's question — is the party still too woke? — Jentleson answers with his own euphemistic diagnosis: “we are still too rigid.” The evidence is the class flip: JFK won about two-thirds of working-class voters; Harris lost about two-thirds, while the college-educated — once the party of Romney, Rockefeller, and Eisenhower — became the Democratic base. And the sociology cuts deep: education correlates with ideological rigidity, while working-class voters hold heterodox mixes — the focus-group regular who wants the 2008 CEOs jailed and undocumented immigrants deported in the same breath. Hence the echo-chamber problem (Andrew's San Francisco testimony included): the decline of unions, parties, and Elks halls narrowed the aperture to funders and interest groups, and the Harris circle heard only itself. The fix costs nothing: choose diverse advisers, model good-faith disagreement — a preview of next week's Susan Neiman conversation — and collect what Jentleson calls the electoral windfall waiting for whichever party does it first.•       It's Working Right Now. To Andrew's two-state-solution objection — lovely in theory, impossible in practice — Jentleson answers from the November polls: Mary Peltola leading in Alaska (Trump +double digits) as a pro-drilling Democrat; James Talarico leading in Texas as a fossil-fuels-as-bridge Democrat; and Rob Sand in Iowa, whose flat “no” on a right-wing radio show — the host admitted he'd prepared follow-ups for the expected wriggle — took the wedge off the table and freed his anti-corruption message. As recently as 2009, he reminds us, Democrats held Senate seats in Arkansas, both Dakotas, Louisiana, and Montana. The forgotten exemplar: Bernie Sanders 2016 — economically populist but a 2007 immigration-bill no vote, “open borders is a Koch brothers proposal,” Lou Dobbs appearances, and gun rights to Hillary's right — the heterodox mix that produced his crossover appeal, against Clinton's across-the-board orthodoxy. Jentleson's 2028 read: the primary won't resolve for the left, and Ossoff, Cooper, and Peltola are the model — though he tips his hat to the DSA's weeknight commitment to Robert's Rules.•       The Fetterman Cautionary Tale. The hour's most personal stretch: Jentleson was John Fetterman's chief of staff, and his verdict on his old boss — who cameoed at Trump's convention this week — is that Fetterman shows what happens when the heterodox strategy is “taken too far”: the fighting “has become the entire point of his career,” unmoored from the principles that make divergence meaningful. On the Wall Street Journal's reporting — the children's hospital he refused to meet, the York police funerals he skipped — Jentleson wasn't a source (“if you're going to say something, you should say it on the record and put your name on it”) but confirms it “resonated with my experience.” His primary emotion: “sadness and regret… he's letting a tremendous number of people down, including the people of Pennsylvania, who are basically down a senator.” The lesson for the book's own thesis: heterodoxy is a powerful tool, and like all powerful tools it needs to stay rooted in why you entered politics at all — or it leads “to some dark places.”•       The Vision Thing. Why supermajority and not Madisonian faction? Because, Jentleson argues, this era has something genuinely new: “the first time in American history where we have one political party that is entirely aligned with a sympathy towards authoritarianism” — not flashes like McCarthy or Father Coughlin (yesterday's villain, returning), but a party whose convention this week featured Trump leading “a pledge to cheat in elections,” with no internal pushback. (FDR's court-packing, by contrast, was the exception proving the rule: the system brushed him back in 1938.) Hence the pull quote — and yet democracy-talk alone doesn't win: “Biden tried to run on soul of the nation… and it didn't work.” The closing agreement, via Andrew's wrapper argument: the New Deal and the Great Society were named visions; Clinton and Obama never articulated one. Jentleson's candidate: finish FDR's cradle-to-grave social insurance — wage insurance against AI's disruptions, everything earned rather than handed out, aimed at bank accounts and the pump rather than the soul of the nation. And his 2028 intrigue, on the record: Jon Ossoff — the anti-Fetterman — who writes his own speeches, wins Georgia repeatedly, and conditioned aid to Israel early enou...

Ep. 422: Jonathan Romney on Venice 2026: Dau, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolucci by Guadagnino, Musk, plus Naza Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I'm joined on the Lido by Jonathan Romney, who writes criticism at Screen Daily and the Observer. Among the films discussed are Dau (directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky), Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás), Joie de Vivre (aka the Bernardo Bertolucci documentary by Luca Guadagnino), Musk (Alex Gibney), and the devastating Naza (Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

In this episode of Mormon News Roundup, I take a step away from the usual discussions about LDS history and apologetics to examine one of the most polarizing figures in modern American politics: Donald Trump.For decades, Latter-day Saints have generally leaned Republican. Yet Donald Trump has always occupied a unique place within Mormon culture. Why did so many faithful members feel conflicted about supporting him? Why was he such an outlier compared to previous Republican nominees like John McCain or Mitt Romney?In this video I discuss:• Why Donald Trump has historically struggled to win overwhelming support among Latter-day Saints.• My own political journey and why I've voted for candidates from both major parties.• Trump's relationship with Church leadership and his 2017 visit to Welfare Square.• Why character and personal conduct still matter in evaluating political leaders.• The reactions of Mormon and ex-Mormon influencers to Donald Trump.• Why I believe we should apply the same critical thinking to politicians that we apply to religious leaders.This isn't an endorsement of any political party or candidate. My goal is simply to explain my perspective and encourage thoughtful, consistent skepticism—whether we're discussing church leaders, media personalities, or presidents.If you enjoy thoughtful conversations about Mormonism, history, culture, and current events, I'd appreciate it if you'd subscribe and join the discussion.What do you think? Has Donald Trump's relationship with Mormonism been misunderstood, or do you think it reflects larger changes taking place within American politics?Please keep the comments respectful. Reasonable people can disagree.#Mormon #LDS #DonaldTrump #Politics #MittRomney #MormonNewsRoundup #ExMormon #ChurchofJesusChrist #CurrentEvents #PoliticalCommentaryPlease consider making a donation by joining our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/MormonNewsRoundup Email: kolob@mormonnewsroundup.org Website: https://mormonnewsroundup.org/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mormonnewsroundup Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mormon_news_roundup/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093511869924 X: https://twitter.com/NewsMormon New episodes LIVE every Sunday and Monday nights at 9:30PM ESTPlease like and subscribe and hit the notifications bell. Remember remember, no unhallowed hand can stop this podcast from progressing!The Mormon News Roundup is NOT affilated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In this episode of Church History Matters, Scott Woodward and Casey Griffiths explore the remarkable political rise of Mitt Romney—from his family's political legacy and his career in business and Massachusetts politics to his campaigns for the presidency in 2008 and 2012. Romney's candidacy brought unprecedented national attention to his Latter-day Saint faith. He ultimately became the first Latter-day Saint nominated for president by a major U.S. political party.But Romney's campaigns were about much more than politics. His candidacy helped usher in what became known as the “Mormon Moment,” a period when American media, popular culture, and the broader public took an extraordinary interest in the history, beliefs, practices, and people of the Church. From questions about Mormonism and the presidency to his famous “Faith in America” speech, Romney found himself at the center of a national conversation about religion and American public life. Scott and Casey examine what Mitt Romney represented to Latter-day Saints who watched one of their own come closer than any previous Latter-day Saint to occupying the White House.They also explore the challenges he faced—including religious prejudice, questions about whether a Latter-day Saint president could separate church loyalty from constitutional responsibility, and the tension between Romney's desire to define himself as a political candidate rather than simply as “the Mormon candidate.” Most importantly, what did the Mitt Romney moment mean for Latter-day Saints? Did his campaign change how Americans viewed the Church? Did it help normalize Latter-day Saint participation in American public life? And how did the experience shape the Church's visibility and identity in the years that followed? Join Scott and Casey as they explore Mitt Romney, presidential politics, religious identity, and the “Mormon Moment”—and why this chapter in American political and Latter-day Saint history still matters today.#ChurchHistoryMatters #MittRomney #LatterDaySaints #MormonMoment #LDSHistory #MormonHistory #ReligionAndPolitics #AmericanHistory #ScottWoodward #CaseyGriffiths

What happens when getting rejected from medical school completely changes the course of your career?In this episode, Brett Hopkins shares the unexpected journey that took him from aspiring anesthesiologist to CFO of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, and ultimately to CEO of Ken Garff Automotive. Brett opens up about learning to recognize your natural strengths, taking risks, and finding success by pursuing the path that fits you—not necessarily the one you originally planned.He also reflects on working alongside Mitt Romney and Fraser Bullock during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, what he learned from their leadership, and how the experience shaped his approach to business. Brett discusses his transition into the automotive industry, why he wanted to make the dealership experience “un-car-like,” the future of the car business, electric vehicles and hybrids, and why Utah has become home to some of the most successful automotive groups in the country.Brett also shares his experience being named Mountain West Entrepreneur of the Year, and the personal reflection that came with the recognition. He explains why he believes entrepreneurship isn't limited to business owners—and why, in one way or another, we're all entrepreneurs.In this conversation:• Turning rejection into a career pivot• Lessons from the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics• Leadership lessons from Mitt Romney and Fraser Bullock• Building and scaling Ken Garff Automotive• Why Brett wanted to be “un-car-like”• The future of dealerships and mobility• Electric vehicles vs. hybrids• Utah's unique entrepreneurial culture• Being named Mountain West Entrepreneur of the Year• What it really means to be an entrepreneur• Taking risks and creating valueTimestamps:00:00:00 - Introduction and Early Career Aspirations00:00:28 - Failed Attempts at Medical School00:01:00 - Pivot to Business and Education00:01:42 - Realization of Natural Aptitude for Business00:02:22 - Graduate School and First Job in Corporate Finance00:03:03 - Expat Experience in France00:04:12 - Transition from Corporate Finance to Salt Lake Olympic Committee00:05:03 - Working with Mitt Romney and Frazier Bullock00:06:10 - Leadership Lessons from Mitt Romney and Frazier Bullock00:08:01 - Post-Olympics Career Decisions00:08:44 - Joining Ken Garf Automotive00:10:09 - Insights into the Car Dealership Business00:12:09 - Career Progression at Ken Garf Automotive00:13:09 - Utah's Success in the Car Dealership Industry00:15:14 - Future of the Car Industry00:18:43 - Electric Vehicles and Market Trends00:20:58 - Impact of Gas Prices on Electric Vehicle Demand00:21:17 - Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Nomination00:22:01 - Personal Reflection on Entrepreneurship00:24:07 - Encouraging Entrepreneurial Mindset in Teams00:25:21 - Conclusion and Final RemarksWatch the full conversation for a candid look at career pivots, leadership, entrepreneurship, Utah business, and the evolving automotive industry.

Hosts Pastor Robert Baltodano and Pastor Lloyd Pulley Question Timestamps: Carrie, YouTube (1:39) - When God moved the shadow ten degrees, did the Babylonians know about this miraculous sign? Ginger, NJ (4:14) - Was the blessed mother born without sin? Rich, email (8:15) - Can you explain what Proverbs 16 verse 6 means? Why does the Bible say that the believers who died first will rise from their graves first, if they are already in heaven? Pam, VA (12:31) - How do you answer someone who says "God has murdered so many people, and raped Mary?" Richard, TX (18:19) - Is there a correct way to get baptized? Does it require being submersed in water? Maria, NJ (21:10) - Why do some manuscripts not have John 7 verse 53 to John 8 verse 11? Which Bible would you recommend to study? John, email (33:30) - Is the mayor of New York's plan to put together government run grocery stores the start of the mark of the beast? Henry, email (37:19) - I don't feel like I get much out of church. What should I do to change this? Robbie, email (39:51) - Why do pastors refer to the prophets as being major or minor prophets? Carmen, NJ (40:38) - Is there anything in the Bible that talks about near death experiences? Tori, MA (43:21) - What are you supposed to do when the government commands us to do something that is against the Bible? Romney, email (50:06) - Is it okay to tithe less than ten percent? Is it okay to not tithe at all? Joshua, email (51:53) - If God forgives and forgets our sins, why does the Bible say we will face judgment for our sins? Arthur, YouTube (54:07) - Why are women's ministries more popular than men's ministries? Ask Your Questions: Call: 888-712-7434 Email: Answers@bbtlive.org

From the archives, in 2014 Michael spoke with Congressman Paul Ryan to discuss "The Way Forward: Renewing The American Idea." Hear Ryan's reflections on conservatism, poverty, entitlement reform, and the future of the Republican Party. Ryan also looks back on the 2012 presidential campaign, the influence of Jack Kemp, and, Michael asked him back then about his plans for the 2016 election, before Donald Trump was on anyone's radar. Original air date 20 August 2014. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Chuck Todd opens with the Greenland oil expedition, an episode so strange it borders on parody: an American oil company drilling in defiance of another country's laws, with Trump's blessing, and — the detail that breaks the brain — Dr. Phil hired to document the whole thing. It's a fitting overture for a week in which the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General 50-49 at four in the morning before fleeing town for recess, with only Collins and Murkowski defecting. Chuck admits he was wrong; he never thought Blanche would actually get there. What galls him is the surrender it represents. Bill Cassidy's rationale — that Trump "needs someone to tell him no" — is laughable given that Blanche has said outright that the rule of law belongs to Trump and the DOJ won't be independent. John Cornyn's shrug that "there's nothing we can do to rein in the president" is, Chuck argues, the confession of a coward: senators possess the authority and simply refuse to use it, giving away what little leverage they had. The debate has now been reduced to whether the Attorney General is the people's lawyer or the president's. Then takes on the question of why Democratic voters keep rewarding progressives whose politics they don't actually share, and his answer is that half the Democratic electorate did not suddenly become socialist — they're furious about 2024, and specifically about leadership deciding the nominee for them. They didn't dislike Harris; they wanted a choice, and they'd watched the establishment coalesce around Biden in 2020 to produce a presidency that ended with Trump's return. Progressives are the only Democrats willing to say the party screwed up, and voters will give you enormous latitude on the cure if they trust your diagnosis. Chuck illustrates it with a Washington Post story about the Conn brass instrument factory in Ohio, bought by Trump-supporting, tariff-championing investor John Paulson and now closing as production moves offshore — where the disillusioned employees don't plan to vote at all, because they feel the system has failed them for decades. He believes the opening in American politics right now isn't centrism, it's breaking up an establishment that voters believe is more worried about losing donors than losing their votes. He wonders aloud whether the answer is a military leader — he's intrigued by retired General Chris Donahue, essentially Captain America on paper, pushed out by Trump and Hegseth, with credibility across the aisle. Americans are exhausted by being told the other half of the country is the bad guy, they're desperate for honesty and a reboot of a captured government, and the space is wide open for someone to fill it. But Chuck’s closing caution matters: the system is badly screwed up, and that still isn't a reason to burn it all down. Then, Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy joins the Chuck Toddcast to discuss Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, her Netflix follow-up to 2022's Downfall premiering August 19th — a film built around the death of whistleblower John Barnett and the current and former employees who came forward after it. Kennedy's central finding is damning in its simplicity: at the end of Downfall, Boeing swore it had learned its lesson and changed its ways. It hadn't. More incidents followed, whistleblowers reached out to tell her conditions had actually gotten worse, and she says she believes Boeing bears responsibility for Barnett's death. Kennedy walks Chuck through the structural rot she sees behind the headlines — a near-total lack of competition, a revolving door between the FAA and the company it's supposed to regulate, a McDonnell Douglas merger that reoriented the entire culture around quarterly earnings instead of engineering excellence, and the decision to leave Seattle in search of a non-union workforce — which matters enormously, she notes, because unions are what give workers real whistleblower protection. Boeing is simultaneously one of the most heavily subsidized companies in American history and, right now, one that isn't being held accountable in any meaningful way. Kennedy is unusually direct about the practical takeaway: she won't fly on a 737 MAX and actively chooses flights on other aircraft, pointing out the counterintuitive reality that older model planes are often the safer bet — a consumer shift that has hit budget airlines hardest. She and Chuck get into the incidents that never made national news, including oxygen masks that failed to work, and she's blunt that the Trump administration hasn't provided anything resembling adequate regulatory oversight while families of the 346 crash victims are still fighting to hold the company responsible. Kennedy sees this fall's elections as a genuine chance to put people in place who care about the flying public, and reflects candidly on how she's feeling about American politics generally — that this administration is making choices that are hurting a lot of people. There's also a lovely detour into Ethel, her documentary about her mother, which she says holds a special place in her heart, plus a look at what she's working on next. Finally, Chuck hops into the ToddCast Time Machine to revisit two different but related events: the signing of the Social Security Act by FDR, and Richard Nixon announcing price and wage controls to combat inflation. 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Timeline: 00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction 00:30 Trump’s crazy Greenland oil adventure 01:15 Trump is just ignoring the laws of another country 01:45 Craziest detail is oil company hired Dr. Phil to document the expedition 02:15 Trump has gone out of his way to alienate European allies 02:45 Oprah gave us Dr. Oz & Dr. Phil… which is not a good thing 06:45 U.S. senate leaves town for recess after passing funding bill 07:15 Todd Blanche is now the confirmed AG for the United States 08:00 Republicans passed none of the things they said are priorities 09:00 GOP has a trifecta and still can’t get anything done 10:00 Was wrong about Blanche, didn’t think he’d actually get confirmed 10:45 Confirmed 50-49, not surprising Collins & Murkowski defected 11:45 Cassidy’s rationale was “Trump needs someone to tell him no” 12:15 Cassidy’s rationale is laughable 13:15 Even Bill Barr had a line he wouldn’t cross with Trump 14:45 The senate gave away what little leverage they have with Trump 16:00 John Cornyn says “there’s nothing we can do to rein in the president” 16:30 These Republicans are cowards, won’t exercise their authority* 17:00 These senators need to do their job 18:00 Blanche said the rule of law belongs to Trump, DOJ won’t be independent 19:00 Debate is now if AG is the people’s lawyer or the president’s lawyer 19:45 If he were alive, Trump would have nominated Roy Cohn 20:30 You don’t want presidents deciding who gets investigated 21:30 Trump got involved with Reflecting Pool vandal case THIS WEEK 22:30 Trump’s entire life has been about wearing people down 23:15 Republicans have politicized DOJ more than any previous admin 23:45 MAGA’s premise is that two wrongs do make a right 24:15 Does anybody in congress understand the constitution? 25:30 Confirming Blanche will cause more public distrust in DOJ 26:30 Founders never wanted the president to determine rule of law 27:00 Senate didn’t get crypto or college sports bill passed before recess 27:45 Republicans claim SAVE act is existential, didn’t pass it 28:45 Why do voters entertain progressives that don’t align with them? 29:15 Half the democratic electorate didn’t suddenly become socialist 30:30 Democratic voters are pissed off, think party messed up in 2024 31:00 Voters are mad leadership decided who the ‘24 nominee would be 31:30 Voters didn’t dislike Harris, but they wanted a choice 32:30 In 2020, the establishment coalesced around Biden 33:15 Biden’s presidency was a failure since it resulted in Trump returning 34:00 Progressives are the only Dems saying the party screwed up 35:30 Like Trump, the progressives are saying leadership is full of shit 36:15 Voters will give you latitude on the cure if they trust your diagnosis 37:00 WaPo story about Conn factory closing & private equity 38:00 Factory is in Ohio, been making brass instruments 38:45 Factory is closing and laying off all the employees 39:30 Conn was bought by John Paulson, Trump supporter who supports tariffs 40:30 Paulson is moving production offshore after arguing against it 42:00 Plant employees were completely disillusioned with politics 43:00 Employees feel like the system has left them down for decades, won’t vote 44:30 Romney’s loss was due to millions of white voters sitting out entirely 45:15 Trump’s appeal brought those voters back into the electorate 47:15 Voters reward candidates that can diagnose & call out their problems 48:00 Trump proved politically dormant voters can be reactivated 48:30 There’s always a third destination for voters… the couch 49:00 If the two parties don’t reform themselves, they risk being replaced 50:15 The opening isn’t centrism, it’s breaking up the establishment 51:15 Politics requires huge amounts of money, results in capture 52:15 Voters believe reps are more worried about losing donors than their vote 53:00 Competence and morality are not the same thing in politics 53:45 Leaders need to admit that they screwed everything up 54:30 Americans are desperate for a reset & are embracing revolutionaries 55:00 A military leader might be exactly what we need in next president 55:45 Intrigued by retired general Chris Donahue & his resume 56:45 Donahue is basically Captain America & was forced out by Trump & Hegseth 58:15 Someone like Donahue could have the credibility across the aisle 59:30 Politics won’t acknowledge failure if they think it helps the other side 1:00:00 Americans are desperate for honesty & morality in politics 1:01:15 It’s exhausting being told the other half of America is the bad guys 1:03:15 Voters want to preserve the Republic, but don’t trust the leadership 1:04:00 Voters want a reboot, and a government that isn’t captured 1:05:00 The political space is waiting for someone to fill this vacuum 1:06:00 The system is screwed up, but we shouldn’t burn it all down 1:13:00 Rory Kennedy (Freefall) joins the Chuck ToddCast 1:14:30 Documentary “Ethel” about her mother holds special place in her heart 1:15:30 It became evident that Boeing knew about faulty systems on 737 MAX 1:16:15 Boeing swore they’d change, then more incidents happened 1:17:15 Believe Boeing is responsible for whistleblower John Barnett’s death 1:19:15 Lack of competition is one of the reasons Boeing has been sloppy 1:20:15 There’s a revolving door between the FAA and Boeing 1:22:00 Are Boeing’s problems coming from a single source, or multiple? 1:23:45 Boeing has long been a foundational American company 1:24:30 Parts for Boeing planes come from all over the world 1:26:00 Whistleblowers reached out to say problems had gotten worse 1:27:00 Right now, Boeing isn’t being held accountable 1:27:30 Haven’t seen Boeing make significant changes 1:29:15 Focus on profits and quarterly earnings outweighed safety 1:30:00 Boeing is one of the most subsidized companies in US history 1:31:00 McDonnell-Douglas merger has contributed to Boeing’s downfall 1:33:30 Wouldn’t fly on a 737 MAX and choose flights on other planes 1:36:00 Consumers choosing not to fly on the 737 MAX hurt budget airlines 1:37:00 Older model planes are actually safer 1:38:30 Decision to leave Seattle was to find a non-union workforce 1:39:45 Unions protect workers, give them whistleblower protection 1:41:00 Airbus is a better run company than Boeing 1:42:30 Boeing and Airbus are the only two options 1:44:45 The Trump administration hasn’t provided proper regulation for Boeing 1:45:15 Families of crash victims are still trying to hold Boeing responsible 1:48:15 Elections this fall could put people in place who care about the public 1:49:45 Incidents where the oxygen masks weren’t working 1:51:30 How are you feeling about politics these days? 1:52:00 Administration is making choices that are hurting a lot of people 1:53:30 What projects do you have coming up next? 1:56:00 Had a screening at Boeing with top executives 1:57:15 ToddCast Time Machine - Where America embraces socialism 1:58:45 Socialist policies have come from presidents of both parties 2:00:00 FDR signs the Social Security Act - Nixon announces price & wage controls 2:01:00 Americans worry about prosperity, not ideological consistency 2:03:30 Capitalism was being questioned after the Great Depression 2:04:00 FDR wanted to repair, not replace capitalism 2:04:45 Social Security started as a much smaller program than it is today 2:05:30 Congress continued adding to the program over the years 2:07:30 America imposed price & wage controls during WW2 that went beyond Nixon 2:08:15 August 15, 1971 - Nixon announces price & wage controls 2:09:30 Nixon was desperate to stop inflation 2:10:30 Administration announced ceilings on meat prices, caused shortages 2:11:45 The controls were lifted right before the election 2:13:00 We have plenty of socialist policies called by another name 2:14:00 The policies give the sense of individual control 2:14:45 Americans are allergic to government control over their choices 2:15:30 Government under Trump is acquiring stakes in American companies 2:17:15 America has always been more socialist than we like to admit 2:19:00 Ask Chuck 2:19:15 Are college educated Republican voters on the journey leftward? 2:23:15 How should Abdul El-Sayed respond to racist & Islamophobic attacks? 2:31:45 Do candidates on the same ballot create measurable coattails? 2:36:15 Any chance Republicans voted for El-Sayed thinking he’d be easier to beat? 2:39:15 Was Pirro’s dropping of Reflecting Pool case an offramp for Trump? 2:42:15 How does an everyday person help make real political change?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chuck Todd opens with the Greenland oil expedition, an episode so strange it borders on parody: an American oil company drilling in defiance of another country's laws, with Trump's blessing, and — the detail that breaks the brain — Dr. Phil hired to document the whole thing. It's a fitting overture for a week in which the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General 50-49 at four in the morning before fleeing town for recess, with only Collins and Murkowski defecting. Chuck admits he was wrong; he never thought Blanche would actually get there. What galls him is the surrender it represents. Bill Cassidy's rationale — that Trump "needs someone to tell him no" — is laughable given that Blanche has said outright that the rule of law belongs to Trump and the DOJ won't be independent. John Cornyn's shrug that "there's nothing we can do to rein in the president" is, Chuck argues, the confession of a coward: senators possess the authority and simply refuse to use it, giving away what little leverage they had. The debate has now been reduced to whether the Attorney General is the people's lawyer or the president's. Then takes on the question of why Democratic voters keep rewarding progressives whose politics they don't actually share, and his answer is that half the Democratic electorate did not suddenly become socialist — they're furious about 2024, and specifically about leadership deciding the nominee for them. They didn't dislike Harris; they wanted a choice, and they'd watched the establishment coalesce around Biden in 2020 to produce a presidency that ended with Trump's return. Progressives are the only Democrats willing to say the party screwed up, and voters will give you enormous latitude on the cure if they trust your diagnosis. Chuck illustrates it with a Washington Post story about the Conn brass instrument factory in Ohio, bought by Trump-supporting, tariff-championing investor John Paulson and now closing as production moves offshore — where the disillusioned employees don't plan to vote at all, because they feel the system has failed them for decades. He believes the opening in American politics right now isn't centrism, it's breaking up an establishment that voters believe is more worried about losing donors than losing their votes. He wonders aloud whether the answer is a military leader — he's intrigued by retired General Chris Donahue, essentially Captain America on paper, pushed out by Trump and Hegseth, with credibility across the aisle. Americans are exhausted by being told the other half of the country is the bad guy, they're desperate for honesty and a reboot of a captured government, and the space is wide open for someone to fill it. But Chuck’s closing caution matters: the system is badly screwed up, and that still isn't a reason to burn it all down. Finally, Chuck hops into the ToddCast Time Machine to revisit two different but related events: the signing of the Social Security Act by FDR, and Richard Nixon announcing price and wage controls to combat inflation. Chuck argues that America has always flirted with socialism even if we call it by another name. He also answers listeners questions in the “Ask Chuck” segment. Upgrade your everyday. Go to https://Quince.com/CHUCK for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Play ball and swing for the fences on FanDuel, an official partner of the MLB at https://FANDUEL.COM. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (980) 734-3985 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to askchapter.org/chuck / *Paid Partnership Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Timeline: (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements) 00:00 Chuck Todd’s introduction 00:30 Trump’s crazy Greenland oil adventure 01:15 Trump is just ignoring the laws of another country 01:45 Craziest detail is oil company hired Dr. Phil to document the expedition 02:15 Trump has gone out of his way to alienate European allies 02:45 Oprah gave us Dr. Oz & Dr. Phil… which is not a good thing 06:45 U.S. senate leaves town for recess after passing funding bill 07:15 Todd Blanche is now the confirmed AG for the United States 08:00 Republicans passed none of the things they said are priorities 09:00 GOP has a trifecta and still can’t get anything done 10:00 Was wrong about Blanche, didn’t think he’d actually get confirmed 10:45 Confirmed 50-49, not surprising Collins & Murkowski defected 11:45 Cassidy’s rationale was “Trump needs someone to tell him no” 12:15 Cassidy’s rationale is laughable 13:15 Even Bill Barr had a line he wouldn’t cross with Trump 14:45 The senate gave away what little leverage they have with Trump 16:00 John Cornyn says “there’s nothing we can do to rein in the president” 16:30 These Republicans are cowards, won’t exercise their authority* 17:00 These senators need to do their job 18:00 Blanche said the rule of law belongs to Trump, DOJ won’t be independent 19:00 Debate is now if AG is the people’s lawyer or the president’s lawyer 19:45 If he were alive, Trump would have nominated Roy Cohn 20:30 You don’t want presidents deciding who gets investigated 21:30 Trump got involved with Reflecting Pool vandal case THIS WEEK 22:30 Trump’s entire life has been about wearing people down 23:15 Republicans have politicized DOJ more than any previous admin 23:45 MAGA’s premise is that two wrongs do make a right 24:15 Does anybody in congress understand the constitution? 25:30 Confirming Blanche will cause more public distrust in DOJ 26:30 Founders never wanted the president to determine rule of law 27:00 Senate didn’t get crypto or college sports bill passed before recess 27:45 Republicans claim SAVE act is existential, didn’t pass it 28:45 Why do voters entertain progressives that don’t align with them? 29:15 Half the democratic electorate didn’t suddenly become socialist 30:30 Democratic voters are pissed off, think party messed up in 2024 31:00 Voters are mad leadership decided who the ‘24 nominee would be 31:30 Voters didn’t dislike Harris, but they wanted a choice 32:30 In 2020, the establishment coalesced around Biden 33:15 Biden’s presidency was a failure since it resulted in Trump returning 34:00 Progressives are the only Dems saying the party screwed up 35:30 Like Trump, the progressives are saying leadership is full of shit 36:15 Voters will give you latitude on the cure if they trust your diagnosis 37:00 WaPo story about Conn factory closing & private equity 38:00 Factory is in Ohio, been making brass instruments 38:45 Factory is closing and laying off all the employees 39:30 Conn was bought by John Paulson, Trump supporter who supports tariffs 40:30 Paulson is moving production offshore after arguing against it 42:00 Plant employees were completely disillusioned with politics 43:00 Employees feel like the system has left them down for decades, won’t vote 44:30 Romney’s loss was due to millions of white voters sitting out entirely 45:15 Trump’s appeal brought those voters back into the electorate 47:15 Voters reward candidates that can diagnose & call out their problems 48:00 Trump proved politically dormant voters can be reactivated 48:30 There’s always a third destination for voters… the couch 49:00 If the two parties don’t reform themselves, they risk being replaced 50:15 The opening isn’t centrism, it’s breaking up the establishment 51:15 Politics requires huge amounts of money, results in capture 52:15 Voters believe reps are more worried about losing donors than their vote 53:00 Competence and morality are not the same thing in politics 53:45 Leaders need to admit that they screwed everything up 54:30 Americans are desperate for a reset & are embracing revolutionaries 55:00 A military leader might be exactly what we need in next president 55:45 Intrigued by retired general Chris Donahue & his resume 56:45 Donahue is basically Captain America & was forced out by Trump & Hegseth 58:15 Someone like Donahue could have the credibility across the aisle 59:30 Politics won’t acknowledge failure if they think it helps the other side 1:00:00 Americans are desperate for honesty & morality in politics 1:01:15 It’s exhausting being told the other half of America is the bad guys 1:03:15 Voters want to preserve the Republic, but don’t trust the leadership 1:04:00 Voters want a reboot, and a government that isn’t captured 1:05:00 The political space is waiting for someone to fill this vacuum 1:06:00 The system is screwed up, but we shouldn’t burn it all down 1:11:00 ToddCast Time Machine - Where America embraces socialism 1:12:30 Socialist policies have come from presidents of both parties 1:13:45 FDR signs the Social Security Act - Nixon announces price & wage controls 1:14:45 Americans worry about prosperity, not ideological consistency 1:17:15 Capitalism was being questioned after the Great Depression 1:17:45 FDR wanted to repair, not replace capitalism 1:18:30 Social Security started as a much smaller program than it is today 1:19:15 Congress continued adding to the program over the years 1:21:15 America imposed price & wage controls during WW2 that went beyond Nixon 1:22:00 August 15, 1971 - Nixon announces price & wage controls 1:23:15 Nixon was desperate to stop inflation 1:24:15 Administration announced ceilings on meat prices, caused shortages 1:25:30 The controls were lifted right before the election 1:26:45 We have plenty of socialist policies called by another name 1:27:45 The policies give the sense of individual control 1:28:30 Americans are allergic to government control over their choices 1:29:15 Government under Trump is acquiring stakes in American companies 1:31:00 America has always been more socialist than we like to admit 1:32:45 Ask Chuck 1:33:00 Are college educated Republican voters on the journey leftward? 1:37:00 How should Abdul El-Sayed respond to racist & Islamophobic attacks? 1:45:30 Do candidates on the same ballot create measurable coattails? 1:50:00 Any chance Republicans voted for El-Sayed thinking he’d be easier to beat? 1:53:00 Was Pirro’s dropping of Reflecting Pool case an offramp for Trump? 1:56:00 How does an everyday person help make real political change?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fourteen years ago, on August 30th, 2012, the Republican presidential nominee gave his acceptance speech. But before Mitt Romney addressed the convention that night — there was another big-name speaker. Clint Eastwood! Well, I know even some of the people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn't close Gitmo. And I thought, well, closing Gitmo — why close that? We spent so much money on it. But I thought maybe as an excuse. Oh, what do you mean shut up? OK, I thought it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City. Maybe that was it. Wait — Who was Clint Eastwood talking to? And who tells Clint Eastwood to shut up? The answer: A chair! And it's one of six big convention moments you'll hear in this week's episode of C-SPAN's podcast "Extreme Mortman." Why talk about conventions now? Consider it a therapeutic service for fellow political junkies who have gone two years without a national party convention — and have to wait an unbearable two years before the next one. And who chose those 6 memorable moments? CBS News' top political junkie – Major Garrett! Which convention moments did Major Garrett pick? Why did he pick them? How is Major Garrett himself holding up having gone two years without covering a convention – and having to wait two more years for the next one? And why was Clint Eastwood talking to a chair? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bài của Anh Cả Gerrit W. Gong, thuộc Nhóm Túc Số Mười Hai Vị Sứ Đồ của Giáo Hội Các Thánh Hữu Ngày Sau của Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô đăng trong tạp chí Liahona tháng 6, năm 2026 Tầm quan trọng của việc nghe và lắng nghe được minh họa trong một câu chuyện mà tôi luôn luôn yêu thích, được kể bởi Chủ Tịch Marion G. Romney (1897–1988), là người đã phục vụ với tư cách là cố vấn trong Đệ Nhất Chủ Tịch Đoàn trong nhiều năm. Khi Chủ Tịch Romney và người vợ yêu quý của ông, Ida, bắt đầu có tuổi, ông lo lắng rằng bà bị mất thính giác, và ông đã đề cập việc đó với bác sĩ. “Ông ấy hỏi tôi là tình hình tệ như thế nào, và tôi nói rằng tôi không biết. Ông ấy bảo tôi hãy về nhà và tìm hiểu. Vị bác sĩ hướng dẫn tôi đi vào một phòng ở xa và nói chuyện với vợ tôi. Sau đó, tôi nên đi lại gần hơn dần dần cho đến khi cô ấy nghe thấy tôi. Làm theo những chỉ dẫn của bác sĩ, tôi nói chuyện với cô ấy từ phòng ngủ trong khi cô ấy đang ở trong bếp—không có câu trả lời. Tôi tiến lại gần hơn và nói một lần nữa—không có câu trả lời. Vậy nên tôi đi thẳng đến cửa bếp và nói: ‘Ida, em có nghe thấy anh nói không?' Cô ấy trả lời, ‘Chuyện gì vậy, Marion—em đã trả lời anh ba lần rồi.'” Theo như một chuyên gia đã nói với một bệnh nhân đến kiểm tra thính giác của anh ta thì “Thính giác của anh ổn, nhưng anh có thể có vấn đề với việc lắng nghe.” Theo ý nghĩa phúc âm, mỗi người chúng ta đều có một cơ hội để lắng nghe khi học cách để nghe, để hiểu, để lưu tâm và để chăm chú nghe theo, và sẵn lòng vâng lời Chúa. Trong 1 Sa Mu Ên và 1 Các Vua, chúng ta học về cách để nghe, để hiểu, và để chăm chú lắng nghe lời, tiếng nói và ý muốn của Chúa. Đổi lại, Chúa nghe và chăm chú lắng nghe để hiểu chúng ta, cho dù lời cầu nguyện của chúng ta “được thốt ra thành tiếng hay không.” Và với sự thông sáng và lòng trắc ẩn vô hạn của Ngài, Ngài trả lời cho những nhu cầu, hy vọng và hoàn cảnh của cuộc sống chúng ta theo kỳ định và cách thức của Ngài. Trong các chương Kinh Cựu Ước yêu thích này, hãy xem cách chúng ta có thể nghe và lưu tâm đến lời của Chúa. Nghe và Chăm Chú Lắng Nghe Khi còn nhỏ, Sa Mu Ên, người sẽ trở thành một vị tiên tri vĩ đại, đã học cách nghe lời Chúa. Khi ông nghe một giọng nói gọi mình, Sa Mu Ên nghĩ đó là Hê Li, thầy tư tế thượng phẩm trong đền thờ. Sa Mu Ên đã ba lần thưa rằng: “Có tôi đây” (1 Sa Mu Ên 3:5, 6, 8). Khi Hê Li nhận thấy chính là Chúa đang gọi đứa trẻ, ông nói với Sa Mu Ên: “Hãy đi ngủ đi, và nếu có ai gọi con, con hãy nói: Hỡi Đức Giê Hô Va, xin hãy phán; kẻ tôi tớ Ngài đương nghe.” Với đức tin và sự vâng lời của một đứa trẻ, “Sa Mu Ên đi nằm tại chỗ của mình. “Đức Giê Hô Va đến đứng tại đó, gọi như các lần trước: Hỡi Sa Mu Ên! Hỡi Sa Mu Ên! Sa Mu Ên thưa: “Xin hãy phán, kẻ tôi tớ Ngài đương nghe” (1 Sa Mu Ên 3:9–10). (Hãy chú ý từ đứng. Dường như, Sa Mu Ên không hề nghe thấy một giọng nói xa xôi, vô hình.) “Sa Mu Ên trở nên khôn lớn, Đức Giê Hô Va ở cùng người: Ngài chẳng để một lời nào của người ra hư” (1 Sa Mu Ên 3:19). Trong suốt cuộc đời mình, Sa Mu Ên nghe lời Chúa và vì thế đã dạy: “Chỉ hãy kính sợ Đức Giê Hô Va, lấy hết lòng trung tín phục sự Ngài; vì khá xem những việc lớn lao mà Ngài làm cho các ngươi là dường nào” (1 Sa Mu Ên 12:24). Ở đây, cụm từ “kính sợ Đức Giê Hô Va” dường như bao gồm ý nghĩa “lưu tâm đến lời Chúa và tôn kính Ngài”. Khi tiếp tục đọc, chúng ta học được một bài học quan trọng từ Vua Sau Lơ. Được Chúa chỉ thị, Sa Mu Ên nói với Sau Lơ và những người theo vua là không được lấy “bò, chiên, lạc đà và lừa” của kẻ thù làm chiến lợi phẩm (1 Sa Mu Ên 15:3). Tuy nhiên, Sau Lơ và những người theo ông tự tìm lý do để giữ lại những vật nuôi tốt nhất của kẻ thù. Họ nói rằng họ sẽ dâng chiên và bò làm của lễ hy sinh cho Chúa. Sau đó, Sa Mu Ên hỏi: “Đức Giê Hô Va há đẹp lòng của lễ thiêu và của lễ thù ân [cho] bằng sự vâng theo lời phán của Ngài ư? Vả, sự vâng lời tốt hơn của tế lễ; sự nghe theo tốt hơn mỡ chiên đực” (1 Sa Mu Ên 15:22). Chúa không đòi hỏi chúng ta phải chọn giữa sự vâng lời và sự hy sinh. Thay vì thế, Ngài muốn chúng ta nhận ra rằng việc vâng lời và chú ý lắng nghe theo ý muốn của Ngài thì tốt hơn là dâng lên các của lễ theo nghi thức. Việc lắng nghe và vâng lời Chúa cho phép Ngài ban phước cho chúng ta. Việc đó luôn luôn tốt hơn là tuân theo các nghi thức hoặc của lễ hy sinh của chính mình, hoặc sợ loài người và nghe theo tiếng nói của họ, giống như Sau Lơ đã biện minh cho điều ông làm (xin xem 1 Sa Mu Ên 15:24). Nhìn vào Tấm Lòng Việc lắng nghe và chăm chú nghe theo Chúa cũng được thấy trong một bài học khác từ Sa Mu Ên khi ông nhận ra và xức dầu cho một vị vua mới của Y Sơ Ra Ên. Khi các con trai của Y Sai bước lên trước, từng người một, Chúa đã dạy cho Sa Mu Ên: “Chớ xem về bộ dạng và hình vóc cao lớn của nó, … Đức Giê Hô Va chẳng xem điều gì loài người xem; loài người xem bề ngoài, nhưng Đức Giê Hô Va nhìn thấy trong lòng.” (1 Sa Mu Ên 16:7). Điều này không có nghĩa là chúng ta có thể bỏ bê việc chăm sóc bản thân hoặc vệ sinh cá nhân. Nhưng, đặc biệt là trong thế giới “hoàn hảo ngay tức thì” của chúng ta, chúng ta có thể tập trung ít hơn vào vẻ ngoài, những cái tên, hình ảnh, và hình tượng được xây dựng cẩn thận. Chúa muốn chúng ta nghe và chú ý lắng nghe lẽ thật sẽ đem lại sự tự do, đó là nguồn gốc đích thực và còn mãi của chúng ta rằng mỗi chúng ta là một người con của Thượng Đế, một đứa con của giao ước, và một môn đồ của Đấng Ky Tô. Lẽ thật này không phải chỉ về cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân mình mà còn về cách Chúa mời gọi chúng ta nhìn nhận và đối xử với nhau. Không lâu sau khi thiếu niên Đa Vít được kêu gọi và xức dầu, một chiến binh người Phi Li Tin tên là Gô Li Át đã thách thức quân đội Y Sơ Ra Ên. Gô Li Át là một người khổng lồ có thể cao hơn chín feet (gần 3m). Anh chị em biết câu chuyện này rồi. Tôi hy vọng anh chị em chia sẻ đức tin đằng sau câu chuyện về Đa Vít và Gô Li Át với con cháu của mình. Đa Vít đã nói với Gô Li Át, “Ngươi cầm gươm, giáo, lao mà đến cùng ta; còn ta, ta nhân danh Đức Giê Hô Va vạn binh mà đến, tức là Đức Chúa Trời của đạo binh Y Sơ Ra Ên” (1 Sa Mu Ên 17:45). Đa Vít đã can đảm không chỉ trên chiến trường mà còn trong cách ông lắng nghe và nhận biết lời Chúa trong cuộc sống hằng ngày của mình. Với tư cách là người chỉ huy quân đội của Vua Sau Lơ, “Trong các công việc, người đều được may mắn [khôn ngoan]; và Đức Giê Hô Va ở cùng người” (1 Sa Mu Ên 18:14). Tìm Kiếm Sự Khôn Ngoan và Sự Hiểu Biết Chúng ta tiếp tục học cách nghe và chăm chú lắng nghe Chúa trong sách 1 Các Vua. Sa Lô Môn được ban cho cơ hội để cầu vấn xem ông mong muốn điều gì từ Chúa. Trong tất cả những điều ông có thể chọn, Sa Lô Môn cầu xin sự khôn ngoan. “Đức Chúa Trời ban cho Sa Lô Môn sự khôn ngoan, sự thông sáng rất cao, cùng lòng rộng rãi như cát trên bờ biển” (1 Các Vua 4:29). Khi tập trung vào những điều quan trọng nhất, chúng ta có thể trở thành công cụ trong tay của Chúa. Rồi khi ấy Chúa cũng có thể ban phước cho chúng ta (và cho những người khác, qua chúng ta) trong nhiều cách khác nữa (xin xem 1 Các Vua 3:12–13). Bằng cách tìm kiếm sự khôn ngoan và sự hiểu biết, Sa Lô Môn đã được Chúa chuẩn bị để xây cất một đền thờ. Chúa phán: “Về nhà này mà ngươi đương xây cất, nếu ngươi vâng theo các luật lệ ta, noi theo các mạng lệnh của ta, giữ và đi trong hết thảy các điều răn của ta, thì ta sẽ vì ngươi làm hoàn thành lời ta đã hứa cùng [ngươi]. … “Ta sẽ ngự giữa dân Y Sơ Ra Ên, chẳng hề bỏ Y Sơ Ra Ên, là dân ta” (1 Các Vua 6:12–13). Đối với chúng ta, xét cho cùng, ngôi nhà của Chúa tập trung chúng ta vào việc học cách nghe và chăm chú lắng nghe, về cơ bản là để nói: “Lạy Chúa, xin hãy phán; vì kẻ tôi tớ Ngài đương nghe.” Sự Bảo Đảm, An Ủi, Hướng Dẫn, Chỉ Dẫn Trong 1 Các Vua, chúng ta cũng đọc rằng một vị tiên tri vĩ đại khác đã đến với Y Sơ Ra Ên, đó là Ê Li. Vào thời điểm đói kém, hạn hán, không có sương và mưa (xin xem 1 Các Vua 17:1) và thiếu vắng cả việc nghe lời của Chúa trong xứ, Ê Li được bảo tồn và một góa phụ ở Sa Rép Ta được ban phước vì cả hai đều nghe theo Chúa. Giữa những nạn đói và hạn hán của cuộc sống, lời của Chúa mang đến lời hứa về niềm hy vọng và sự giải thoát. Trong thời của Ê Li, lời hứa là có “tiếng mưa lớn” (1 Các Vua 18:41). Đây sẽ là một tiêu đề tốt cho các phước lành đến trong kỳ định và cách thức của Chúa khi chúng ta nói: “Hỡi Chúa, xin hãy phán; vì kẻ tôi tớ Ngài đang nghe.” Tôi xin kết thúc với một bài học khác từ Ê Li. Trong một khoảnh khắc đen tối, Ê Li than với Chúa: “Dân Y Sơ Ra Ên đã bội giao ước Ngài, phá hủy các bàn thờ Ngài, dùng gươm giết những tiên tri Ngài; chỉ một mình tôi còn lại, và họ cũng kiếm thế cất mạng sống tôi. “Đức Chúa Trời phán với người rằng: Hãy đi ra, đứng tại trên núi trước mặt Đức Giê Hô Va. Này Đức Giê Hô Va đi ngang qua, có một ngọn gió mạnh thổi dữ tợn trước mặt Ngài, xé núi ra, và làm tan nát các hòn đá; nhưng không có Đức Giê Hô Va trong trận gió. Sau trận gió có cơn động đất; nhưng không có Đức Giê Hô Va trong cơn động đất. “Sau cơn động đất có đám lửa; nhưng không có Đức Giê Hô Va trong đám lửa. Sau đám lửa, có một tiếng êm dịu nhỏ nhẹ.” (1 Các Vua 19:10–12). Chúng ta thường dừng đọc ở đó—ở “tiếng nói êm dịu nhỏ nhẹ”—nhưng trong tiếng nói vẫn êm dịu và nhỏ nhẹ đó, Chúa tiếp tục ban cho Ê Li sự bảo đảm, an ủi, hướng dẫn và chỉ dẫn mà ông đã tìm kiếm và cần đến (xin xem 1 Các Vua 19:13–16). Đây là lời hứa của Chúa: Trong khi chúng ta tìm kiếm với chủ ý chân thành để lắng nghe và chăm chú tuân theo, Ngài có thể thì thầm qua Thánh Linh của Ngài vào tấm lòng và tâm trí của chúng ta. Ngài có thể phán qua tiếng nói của Ngài và tiếng nói của các vị tiên tri của Ngài. Ngài có thể thúc giục bằng sự soi dẫn sống động trong các giấc mơ ban đêm và trong tia sáng đầu tiên của ban ngày. Chúng ta là con cái của Ngài. Với sự thông sáng và lòng trắc ẩn vô hạn và vĩnh cửu, Thượng Đế Đức Chúa Cha Vĩnh Cửu và Con Trai Yêu Dấu của Ngài, Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô, luôn luôn yêu thương, lắng nghe và trả lời chúng ta, luôn luôn như vậy. Nhất là khi, với đức tin, lòng khiêm nhường, và chủ ý thật sự, chúng ta nói: “Hỡi Chúa, xin hãy phán; vì tôi tớ Ngài đang nghe.” The post Podcast số 593 – Liahona tháng 6, 2026 – Hỡi Đức Giê Hô Va, Xin Hãy Phán, Kẻ Tôi Tớ Ngài Đương Nghe – Gerrit W. Gong appeared first on Thánh Hữu Việt Nam.

Today's revolutionary movement to subvert America's integral values has been 50 years in the making, and President Trump is the first true counter-revolutionary challenging the Left's narrative.   Unlike the Bushes, John McCain, or Mitt Romney, Trump is signing legislation and implementing policies to end the revolution, from classrooms to the military to the border.   “He's the first authentic counter-revolutionary since Andrew Jackson,” says Hanson.   Who would've thought America first policies could solve most of the country's problems? Visit http://www.JoinADF.com/HANSON or text HANSON to 83848 and for a limited time your first gift to ADF will be DOUBLED by a special matching grant—while funds last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's revolutionary movement to subvert America's integral values has been 50 years in the making, and President Trump is the first true counter-revolutionary challenging the Left's narrative. Unlike the Bushes, John McCain, or Mitt Romney, Trump is signing legislation and implementing policies to end the revolution, from classrooms to the military to the border. “He's […]

Welcome to Top Stories, the show where we go back in time to relive the Top Stories of the past, this time...we go back to the 8th of October 2012, and issue 208 as Andy and John Oliver, broke the news following the yawn-fest that was the Presidential debate in Denver as Obama took on Mitt Romney.Thanks for listening. Now pop over the mothership and listen to the last Bugle podcast. It's like Top Stories, but longer and newer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to Grounded, where women and men of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds gather together with me, Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner and my guests as we strive to build a bedrock understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and become more like him. Today, join me and Kristin Andrus as we discuss Ezra 1; 3–7; Nehemiah 2; 4–6; 8!Grounded Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegroundedpodcast_/Grounded Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGroundedPodcast?mibextid=LQQJ4dBarbara Morgan Gardner Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbarbaramorgangardner/?hl=enBarbara Morgan Gardner Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.morgan.37051/Support the show

COLOMBO AND COMPANY 0:00 SEG 4 Virginia Kruta Virginia and Tony break down Virginia’s latest article for The Daily Wire, covering a House Democrat’s push to normalize the term ‘socialist.’ They also weigh in on a popular podcaster’s criticism of mothers who openly support their kids, plus other headlines. https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-dem-calls-on-party-to-embrace-the-word-socialist https://www.dailywire.com/news/popular-leftist-podcaster-doesnt-trust-moms-who-like-their-kids 22:16 SEG 5 Mark McMurray & Mike Marfell The guys talk fishin, and more. https://www.bluffcityoutdoors.com/ 33:09 SEG 6 continuing the conversation with Mark McMurray & Mike Marfell Mike, Mark, and Tony weigh in on Mitt Romney’s statement that people over 80 shouldn’t be running the country. They also discuss New York’s plan to deploy a humanoid robot this fall, and more. FOLLOW TONY - https://x.com/tonycolombotalk 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Democrats are watching their own party tear itself apart right now, and the fighting inside is uglier than anything they want to admit on television. When MAGA moved in and took over the Republican side, it was a straight-up battle royale. Trump came out on top three times, and that last one made it crystal clear who runs the show. America First stopped being talk and turned into the actual rulebook. They cleaned house on the establishment types, got rid of the Romneys and McConnells who kept steering the party into the same old ditches, and zeroed in on stuff that hits home with eighty percent of regular folks—securing the border, sending illegals home, cutting crime, and bringing manufacturing jobs back where they belong. Those wins keep stacking up because they match what most Americans want. In the 250th year of this country, that approach is firing people up instead of turning them off.The Democrats never went through anything like that reckoning. They're still pretending they can paper over the cracks while different factions pull in opposite directions. No obvious leader steps up when you ask. Is it Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New York who's done next to nothing but gets handed the biggest stage? Or somebody else? That vacuum tells you everything. One side figured out how to fight smart, purge what wasn't working, and deliver results. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On today's episode of Mormon News, John Dehlin and Meggan Hayes break down another busy week of headlines involving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.We begin with breaking news involving the family of Apostle D. Todd Christofferson. His brother, Wade Christofferson, has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually abusing minors and sending sexually explicit letters to a young Utah girl. He now faces a potential life sentence in prison. We'll break down the case, the charges, and why this story is making headlines.Next, we take a closer look at Domo founder Josh James, one of Utah's most influential tech CEOs and a featured voice in the documentary An Inconvenient Faith. We'll examine newly released bodycam footage from his DUI arrest and revisit his public defense of Mormonism.We'll also discuss the heartbreaking case of Mitchell and Carrie Murray, an LDS couple who pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide following the death of their toddler. We'll examine the disturbing details released by prosecutors and why this case has shocked so many people across Utah.We'll examine Mitt Romney's comments that people in their 80s should not be running the country or the world, and ask whether that conversation also applies to leadership within high-demand religions like the LDS Church.We'll cover the case of Adam Clark, a former LDS youth Sunday School teacher accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an Eagle Mountain youth sports organization. We'll discuss why trust, reputation, and religious identity can sometimes influence how people evaluate character.We'll also discuss Utah County's new Zoom wedding service, which allows couples to get married online from anywhere in the world. Is Utah becoming the new Las Vegas?Finally, we'll examine growing concerns over Flock license plate cameras near BYU. We'll discuss the university's use of automated surveillance technology, why some students and former members are raising privacy concerns, and what this debate reveals about safety, trust, and institutional oversight.Join us live as we provide context behind the headlines, separate fact from speculation, and discuss what these stories reveal about Mormonism today.___________________Show NotesYouTubeAt Mormon Stories we explore, celebrate, and challenge Mormon culture through in-depth stories told by members and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as scholars, authors, LDS apologists, and other professionals.  Our overall mission is to: 1. Facilitate informed consent amongst LDS Church members, investigators, and non-members regarding Mormon history, doctrine, and theology2. Support Mormons (and members of other high-demand religions) who are experiencing a religious faith crisis3. Promote healing, growth and community for those who choose to leave the LDS Church or other high demand religions

John Connaughton is chair of Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm with roughly $225 billion in assets under management.  Discussion begins with John's childhood in Baltimore and the pace set by his Irish emigre parents.  College at UVA and business school at Harvard followed.  John joined Bain in 1989, an early employee in the private equity effort that spun out of the Bain & Co. management consulting firm.   He and the hosts take a fast-paced tour through early days at Bain Capital, the mindset of Mitt Romney and other leaders, his ascent in the practice, John's own tenure in leadership, and Bain's determination to remain private even as its peers entered the public market. One constant theme:  the pursuit of extraordinary returns on every deal.   

Democrats are watching their own party tear itself apart right now, and the fighting inside is uglier than anything they want to admit on television. When MAGA moved in and took over the Republican side, it was a straight-up battle royale. Trump came out on top three times, and that last one made it crystal clear who runs the show. America First stopped being talk and turned into the actual rulebook. They cleaned house on the establishment types, got rid of the Romneys and McConnells who kept steering the party into the same old ditches, and zeroed in on stuff that hits home with eighty percent of regular folks—securing the border, sending illegals home, cutting crime, and bringing manufacturing jobs back where they belong. Those wins keep stacking up because they match what most Americans want. In the 250th year of this country, that approach is firing people up instead of turning them off.The Democrats never went through anything like that reckoning. They're still pretending they can paper over the cracks while different factions pull in opposite directions. No obvious leader steps up when you ask. Is it Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New York who's done next to nothing but gets handed the biggest stage? Or somebody else? That vacuum tells you everything. One side figured out how to fight smart, purge what wasn't working, and deliver results. The other side is busy arguing over how far left they can go without losing the voters they already hemorrhaged. That's the big picture here. Democrats' internal mess runs deeper than the polite coverage suggests, and it's leaving their whole operation looking shaky.A couple of facts that cut through the spin: Gallup's latest numbers show only about 39 percent of all Americans view socialism positively, but inside the Democratic Party that jumps way higher—around 66 percent like what they hear. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

My guest today is Jon McNeill — a man who grew up mowing lawns in a small farm town in Nebraska and went on to become the President of Tesla, working alongside Elon Musk during one of the most intense growth periods in the company's history. Before Tesla, Jon built and sold six companies, cutting his teeth at Bain & Company and Bain Capital Ventures, where he learned the fundamentals of business from some of the sharpest operators in the world — including a young partner named Mitt Romney. At Tesla, he helped scale the company from a niche EV maker into a global powerhouse, spearheading the push to 20X online sales and negotiating Tesla's landmark deal to build the first wholly-owned foreign auto factory in China. Today, Jon sits on the boards of both Lululemon and General Motors — two companies with a combined revenue approaching $50 billion — where he's known for an obsessive focus on product. He's also the author of The Algorithm, a book that distills the lessons from his career into a simple, repeatable framework for questioning assumptions, hiring for curiosity over IQ, and finding the two or three leverage points that actually move a business forward. In this conversation, we talk about growing up without a business household, what it was like getting case-interviewed by Elon Musk at 11 o'clock at night, the hardest decision of his career, and the career advice that took him from mowing ditches in Nebraska to the boardrooms of some of the biggest companies in the world.

We're veering south on SUMMER VACATION to discuss Mitt Romney's favorite movie, the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) with Mississippi-based musician Andrew Bryant, founding member of Water Liars. We discuss the film's reimagination of Homer's original vacation narrative, explore the relationship of politics, race, and cultural production, and Devin wonders why more parents aren't naming their kids James. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or BlueSky at @youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at @Mathissippi and Devin on Twitter at @stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Andrew Bryant on Twitter at @MagnoliaState and check out his music at https://andrewbryant.bandcamp.com and https://andrewbryantmusic.com. 

KCBS Radio's Foodie Chap Liam Mayclem sits down with Chef and Owner, Romney Steele, of The Cook and Her Farmer. They discuss how the restaurant was created, the inspiration behind the menu items and the fresh produce that visitors can find in their dishes.

Mea Culpa welcomes the Lincoln Project advisor Stuart Stevens. Regarded as one of the Republican Party's most talented political gurus—a body of work that includes steering Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012—Stevens may also be the GOP's most prominent defector when he abandoned his party as Trump rose to power. He despises the former president in a way that feels strikingly personal. While the Lincoln Project argues that Trump is perverting the Republican Party, Stevens doesn't think Trump has perverted anything: Trump is the Republican Party, Stevens believes, and the Republican Party is Trump. Stuart believes there is no reclaiming his former party, it must be burned to the ground. Or to use a Vietnam-era metaphor, the Village must be destroyed in order to save it. Reflecting on a four-decade career in American politics, Stevens is convinced that Trump was not an aberrant zigzag. He was fate. “I saw a lot of this stuff, but I just chose to believe that this kind of dark side was the recessive gene, not the dominant one,” he says. “I was wrong.” Stevens joins Mea Culpa to discuss his fabulous new book “The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy.” The book is part memoir and part Jeremiad as Stevens unpacks how we are moving towards an autocratic end.

Learn how Jane Austen's bookshelf can enrich your literary journey. Explore the overlooked women writers who inspired her and why they matter today. In this book club chat, we discuss with author Rebecca Romney the literary influences that shaped Jane Austen's work. Why had we never even heard of these marvelous writers?! You'll discover the importance of recognizing these authors and how to incorporate their works into your reading list. Join us in this conversation and understand Austen's real influencers. About Rebecca Romney Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and co-founder of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book company based in Washington, DC. She is also a specialist featured on the History Channel's *Pawn Stars* and has contributed to the documentary *The Book Sellers*. With her extensive knowledge and passion for literature, Rebecca is uniquely positioned to shed light on the forgotten voices of women in literature. Learn more about her here. The Underappreciation of Women Writers Many readers today may find themselves unaware of the significant contributions made by women writers in Jane Austen's time. The problem often lies in the literary canon, which has historically prioritized male authors. It's time to challenge this narrative and explore the remarkable works of writers like Frances Burney and Anne Radcliffe, who were pivotal to Austen's literary landscape. Why Were These Writers Overlooked? Rebecca's exploration reveals that many great female authors have been overshadowed by their male counterparts. The reasons range from societal biases to the lack of preservation of their works. As readers, we must question why these voices have been neglected and actively seek them out. The Impact of Austen's Reading Choices Austen's reading was diverse, and her admiration for women writers is a testament to their talent. By revisiting these books, we can gain a deeper understanding of Austen's influences and the broader context of women's writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. Key Takeaways - Jane Austen was influenced by a range of women writers whose works deserve recognition. - The literary world is richer when we explore diverse voices, particularly those that have been historically marginalized. - Engaging with these authors can enhance your understanding of classic literature and inspire contemporary discussions around gender and writing. Conclusion In revisiting Jane Austen's bookshelf, we not only uncover the hidden gems of women's literature but also enrich our reading experience. As readers and literary enthusiasts, it's our responsibility to explore these works and celebrate the diverse voices that have shaped literary history. So, pick up a book by Frances Burney or Anne Radcliffe and join the conversation about the essential contributions of women writers. Frequently Asked Questions What books should I start with to explore women writers? Consider starting with Frances Burney's *Evelina* or Anne Radcliffe's *The Mysteries of Udolpho*. These texts provide a great entry point into the world of women's literature that influenced Austen. Why should we read these women writers today? Reading these authors offers a more comprehensive understanding of literary history and highlights the importance of diverse voices in literature. Their works are not only historically significant but also resonate with contemporary themes. https://www.rebeccaromney.com/

In this episode of Michigan Hidden History, Tharan and Robin uncover how Mackinac Island became the backdrop for two major political and business gatherings whose influence reached far beyond northern Michigan.First, they travel back to 1943, when Republican leaders gathered at the Grand Hotel during World War II to debate America's role in the postwar world. At the center was Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, a former isolationist who became one of the country's strongest advocates for international cooperation. The compromise forged at Mackinac helped build Republican support for the United Nations and, later, NATO.That gathering eventually evolved into the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, attracting major political figures including Ronald Reagan, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and others.Then, Tharan and Robin explore the very different origins of the Mackinac Policy Conference. Beginning in 1904 as a business conference held aboard a Great Lakes cruise ship, the event moved to Mackinac Island in 1981 and grew into one of the Midwest's most influential gatherings of political, business, and civic leaders.From wartime foreign policy debates to conversations about Michigan's economy, infrastructure, and future, this episode reveals how the Grand Hotel's famous porch became much more than a place to relax.Two conferences. One island. Decisions that reached far beyond Michigan.

Every day, the headlines demand our attention. Wars, shifting alliances, rising violence, and growing hostility toward Israel. The real answers may not be where most people are looking. As the world continues to change, as Christians, we need more than breaking news. We need biblical discernment. Understanding the times requires looking beyond the headlines, recognizing the larger geopolitical shifts taking place, and filtering everything through the truth of God's Word.There is a bigger story unfolding, one that reaches far beyond Israel, Iran and the Middle East. From the rise of terrorism in unexpected regions to changing relationships between nations and the increasing persecution of Christians around the world, these developments remind us that Scripture has never been out of step with history.If you're passionate about Bible prophecy, Israel, current events, and developing a biblical worldview, subscribe and join us each week for conversations that help make sense of today's world through the lens of Scripture.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Join us for a heartfelt conversation on Fatherhood this Father's Day with Senator Mark Kelly, Mitt Romney, and Tim Scott. Dive deep into personal stories of resilience and breaking cycles on this special episode of State of the Union with Jake Tapper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For Christians and non-Christians alike, Mormons remain a bit of an enigma – especially in the UK. In the US however there are almost 7 million and they punch above their weight in terms of political influence; notable members of congress include former senator, and one-time presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.This influence meant that a row erupted in the past fortnight when the Pentagon released its updated list of religious affiliations and listed the Church of Latter-Day Saints independently from other Christian denominations, implying members were not Christian. This move was quickly denounced, with Mike Lee – a Mormon and Republican Senator – leading the charge, calling the move ‘outrageous', the Pentagon subsequently backtracked. Yet, many other Christian denominations have long felt that Mormons are not Christians as they have their own supplemental scripture and hold different views over the Trinity and the afterlife. Mark Tooley, a methodist and friend of Holy Smoke, joins Damian Thompson to discuss the row. Are Mormons Christian? Who gets to decide whether a person is Christian or not? And can the government and state ever have a role in this debate?Produced by Patrick Gibbons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For Christians and non-Christians alike, Mormons remain a bit of an enigma – especially in the UK. In the US however there are almost 7 million and they punch above their weight in terms of political influence; notable members of congress include former senator, and one-time presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.This influence meant that a row erupted in the past fortnight when the Pentagon released its updated list of religious affiliations and listed the Church of Latter-Day Saints independently from other Christian denominations, implying members were not Christian. This move was quickly denounced, with Mike Lee – a Mormon and Republican Senator – leading the charge, calling the move ‘outrageous', the Pentagon subsequently backtracked. Yet, many other Christian denominations have long felt that Mormons are not Christians as they have their own supplemental scripture and hold different views over the Trinity and the afterlife. Mark Tooley, a methodist and friend of Holy Smoke, joins Damian Thompson to discuss the row. Are Mormons Christian? Who gets to decide whether a person is Christian or not? And can the government and state ever have a role in this debate?Produced by Patrick Gibbons.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts. Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Summer Spin-In is underway so get out your wheels and join us for our annual summer event. We also announce the winners of our Colorwork-A-Long and give more information about our May pattern survey. Take the June Survey about sourcing yarn, fiber, and tools.  Full notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com Join the community on Ravelry or become a patron and support the show on our Patreon Page. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Subscribe on Android. Here's a summary of the survey comments on how knitters use patterns and track their progress: People have a preference for paper but lots use digital tools. A recurring theme was the desire to keep knitting as an analog, screen-free hobby. There are lots of creative tools for counting rows. People use highlighter tape, rulers, sticky notes, hand-drawn grid boxes, safety pin chains, a 10-sided die, and even moving a stitch marker along keyboard number keys. We also seem to realize that our systems are imperfect. We don't keep enough or the right kind of notes. We have unsorted stacks of printed patterns, notes we struggle to decode later, or no real system at all. Ravelry is a partial solution to this but doesn't work for everyone.  Color Work Along Prizes Listen to the episode to see if you are a winner! Marsha's Projects Trillium Lake by Kay Hopkins: Using Queensland Collection Coastal Cotton Fine. Knit about 8" of the body and completed the increases. Wabi Sabi Tee by Katia: Using Concept by Katia Wabi Sabi. Knit about 12" of the body. Another ½ inch and I'll start ribbing. Patio Furniture Pads: I have finished four round cushions for metal chairs. I think the mis-matched fabric looks good. Next is to sew the cover for the chaise lounge. I have two wooden folding chairs that belonged to my parents. I plan to paint in the same dark green as the table and chairs and recover in the large yellow and white striped fabric. Also have materials to make cushions for chairs. Sewing Class: Attended part two. Garden Redesign: I've created a project page. Kelly's Projects Continuing on my second Boxy with spirit yarn (Shibui Pebble). I have the fronts redone and connected. I'm just knitting stockinette for several inches before I join the front and back under the arms.  Tablet (card) weaving for Pride Month: This band will become a dog collar and two key chains for my sisters-in-law.  Continuing with spinning the naturally dyed wool from last fall: Dyed the last batches of the CA Red fleece with fig leaves and with ceanothus leaves trying to get a green. The fig gave a slightly green tinted yellow. I had used this before on a skein of polwarth but even quadrupling the grams of fig leaves didn't make the color more saturated. The ceanothus ended up giving another tan color. Natural dyeing can be disappointing.  Fleece washing: About 2 lbs of Corriedale came out of the suint bath and is ready for a hot wash. About 3.5 lbs of light silver Romney went into the suint bath and has been there for about a week. I also spent a day washing about 3 lbs of Jazzman that had come out of the suint bath. There was a white section, a light gray section, and a darker gray section. The darker gray is still a little greasy so I may end up soaking it one more time to get more of the lanolin out.  Events Summer Spin In: now through September 7th (Labor Day) Tour de Fleece: July 4th- July 26th Newbury School of Weaving: July 18-31, 2026

Can Josh Romney save the Great Salt Lake? The son of former U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney says his new organization, Great Salt Lake Rising, is getting the whole state on board. Host Ali Vallarta asks Josh about raising $3.5 billion to actually move the needle on this source of panic for Salt Lakers. Get more from City Cast Salt Lake when you become a City Cast Salt Lake Neighbor. You'll enjoy perks like ad-free listening, invitations to members only events and more. Join now at membership.citycast.fm.  Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: (801) 203-0137 Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  Woodward Park City Utah Arts Festival

The Department of Defense released a revised list of religions and faiths it will use for its chaplain program. Among the changes was the exclusion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from other Christian denominations. Utah's congressional delegation voiced a lot of frustration and hurt over the move, prompting several conversations with Pentagon officials. This isn't the first time members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been branded as un-Christian; most notably, it happened when Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012. Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the Deseret News and former editor of Church News, joins the conversation.

In this episode, Kevin Romney shares his expertise in sourcing off-market properties, managing multi-state real estate investments, and navigating challenges in real estate development and operations. Learn how to build strong broker relationships, pivot during setbacks, and grow your property portfolio strategically.   Professional Real Estate Investors - How we can help you: Investor Fuel Mastermind:  Learn more about the Investor Fuel Mastermind, including 100% deal financing, massive discounts from vendors and sponsors you're already using, our world class community of over 150 members, and SO much more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/apply   Investor Machine Marketing Partnership:  Are you looking for consistent, high quality lead generation? Investor Machine is America's #1 lead generation service professional investors. Investor Machine provides true 'white glove' support to help you build the perfect marketing plan, then we'll execute it for you…talking and working together on an ongoing basis to help you hit YOUR goals! Learn more here: http://www.investormachine.com   Coaching with Mike Hambright:  Interested in 1 on 1 coaching with Mike Hambright? Mike coaches entrepreneurs looking to level up, build coaching or service based businesses (Mike runs multiple 7 and 8 figure a year businesses), building a coaching program and more. Learn more here: https://investorfuel.com/coachingwithmike   Attend a Vacation/Mastermind Retreat with Mike Hambright: Interested in joining a "mini-mastermind" with Mike and his private clients on an upcoming "Retreat", either at locations like Cabo San Lucas, Napa, Park City ski trip, Yellowstone, or even at Mike's East Texas "Big H Ranch"? Learn more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/retreat   Property Insurance: Join the largest and most investor friendly property insurance provider in 2 minutes. Free to join, and insure all your flips and rentals within minutes! There is NO easier insurance provider on the planet (turn insurance on or off in 1 minute without talking to anyone!), and there's no 15-30% agent mark up through this platform!  Register here: https://myinvestorinsurance.com/   New Real Estate Investors - How we can work together: Investor Fuel Club (Coaching and Deal Partner Community): Looking to kickstart your real estate investing career? Join our one of a kind Coaching Community, Investor Fuel Club, where you'll get trained by some of the best real estate investors in America, and partner with them on deals! You don't need $ for deals…we'll partner with you and hold your hand along the way! Learn More here: http://www.investorfuel.com/club   —--------------------

The Latter-day Saint tradition features a prodigious number of eloquent speakers and famous speeches — from Brigham Young's sermons to Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" address. But how does this tradition, especially with its lack of formal homiletical training, boast such a rich, deeply ingrained, and democratic culture of public address?On today's episode of Scholars & Saints, host Nicholas Shrum probes these questions with Professor Richard Benjamin Crosby and PhD Student Isaac James Richards, editors of Latter-Day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory (University of Illinois Press, 2026). Crosby and Richards discuss the oratorical culture in which Latter-day Saints are raised, as well as the different rhetorical topics commonly employed in public addresses, such as rhetorics of exaltation, Zion, and peculiarity. They also examine the adaptation of Mormon rhetoric and public image in response to cultural assimilation, as well as the impacts of the digital age on Latter-day Saint oratory and communication.Richard Benjamin Crosby is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he studies and teaches rhetorical theory and practice, with an interest in political and religious communication.Isaac James Richards is a PhD Student in Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies the history and theory of writing, rhetoric, media, and communication, with particular attention to the intersection of memory, religion, and democracy.

So many celebrities claim they don't bother with the internet...but I've always thought that can't be true! The internet is so addictive and enticing and sometimes a crack in the matrix happens and we find proof that celebrities ARE online...but with burner accounts! Today I break down documented cases of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and athletes getting caught tweeting from fake accounts, and explore the reasons why this might be. Kevin Durant's decade-long burner career. Mitt Romney as Pierre Delecto. The Whole Foods CEO who spent eight years on Yahoo Finance message boards. And Elon Musk, who apparently tweets as his baby, his mother, his father, a German man named Adrian, and an attack dog named babysmurf9000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

So many celebrities claim they don't bother with the internet...but I've always thought that can't be true! The internet is so addictive and enticing and sometimes a crack in the matrix happens and we find proof that celebrities ARE online...but with burner accounts! Today I break down documented cases of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and athletes getting caught tweeting from fake accounts, and explore the reasons why this might be. Kevin Durant's decade-long burner career. Mitt Romney as Pierre Delecto. The Whole Foods CEO who spent eight years on Yahoo Finance message boards. And Elon Musk, who apparently tweets as his baby, his mother, his father, a German man named Adrian, and an attack dog named babysmurf9000.

There are reports of a possible agreement between the U.S. and Iran to extend the ceasefire and start negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, while a new inflation report shows the increase in oil prices from the Iran war has led to the highest inflation level in three years. We will hear from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; He is also asked about an effort to put President Donald Trump's portrait on a new $250 bill, and the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund that has already postponed legislation in the Senate because of concerns from some Republicans; Vice President JD Vance, giving the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, tells the cadets is it okay to use artificial intelligence in warfare, but 'never submit to it' and 'if the warfare of the future is to live up to the moral values of our ancestors, decisions over life and death must be made by humans and not machines'; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, visiting New York City, calls for increasing the economic and diplomatic distance between his country and the U.S., what he calls 'strategic autonomy', which, he says, will make both countries stronger; Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MMI) says she will not run for the Democratic nomination for President in 2028; former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks to graduates of his alma mater, Harvard Business School; New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is asked whether he will sit with President Trump if the President attends an NBA Finals game in Madison Square Garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We found out who was on the SAM702 flight out of Fort Huachuca, the removal of old Charlie Kirk episodes is very fishy for our timeline, and we have officially reached 6 million subscribers on YouTube. 00:00 - Start. 02:11 - The pressure on Charlie & Bibi's podcast circuit. 06:52 - The Egyptian planes and who was on SAM702. 15:24 - The Boston Consulting Group scandal involving Gaza. 25:40 - June timeline is quite suspicious. 36:26 - Mitt Romney's incident in France. 46:39 - Comments. Ground News​ ​ Check out Ground News today at https://groundnews.com/candace to get 40% off the Vantage subscription to see through mainstream media narratives. Dose​ ​ Get 35% off your first month subscription with promo code CANDACE at http://www.DoseDaily.co/Candace PureTalk​ ​​​​​ Take advantage of unlimited high-speed data for just $34.99 per month at http://www.PureTalk.com/Owens American Financing​​​​​ NMLS 182334, http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-795-1210 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Owens. Average savings based on borrowers who save over $199.99. Candace Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ClipsCandaceOwens Candace Official Website: https://candaceowens.com Candace Merch: https://shop.candaceowens.com Candace on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Pp5VZiLXbq Candace on Spotify: https://t.co/16pMuADXuT Candace on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RealCandaceO Candace en Español: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensEnEspanol Candace Owens em Português: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensemPortugues Candace Owens en Français: https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensEnFrançais Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So Eric Trump is suing Jen Psaki. And I don't even care what the lawsuit is about. Seriously. At this point, if a Trump sues a Democrat, I assume somewhere there's a fax machine crying and three MSNBC producers stress-eating hummus.But I love the symbolism of it. Because for years these people weaponized government against Trump, weaponized the courts, weaponized intelligence agencies, weaponized leaks, weaponized social media. Democrats turned America into the world's first bureaucratic escape room. Every day under Trump was another clue: “To continue your presidency, solve this puzzle hidden inside a subpoena wrapped in a Russia hoax.”Now? Eric Trump says, “Cool. Your turn.”And suddenly the Left discovers legal fees are expensive when USAID isn't covering them.That's the beauty of MAGA. It's not just political anymore. It's cultural gravity. Trump didn't simply survive. He turned political persecution into a franchise model. Democrats thought they were building his prison cell. Instead they built a gymnasium where conservatives learned how to fight.And spare me this media fairy tale that MAGA is “falling apart.” They've been predicting the death of MAGA longer than Al Gore's been predicting the death of the planet. According to cable news, MAGA has died more times than Kenny on South Park.They tell us conservatives are furious with Trump over war policy, personality, tariffs, tone, Truth Social posts, golf scores, the angle of his tie, and probably the migration pattern of geese. Yet somehow, every Republican who publicly betrayed Trump politically evaporated like cheap cologne in Phoenix.Ten out of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump? Gone.Five Republican Senators tied to impeachment efforts? Gone, including Bill Cassidy.The Bush dynasty? Politically taxidermied.Cheneys? The political equivalent of Circuit City.Romneys? Finished.Pence? Mike Pence has less support in the Republican Party than gluten-free biscuits at a Texas rodeo.And this matters historically because the Republican establishment used to operate like a country club with a velvet rope. You got approved by donors, consultants, think tanks, and guys named Whitaker who own loafers without socks. Trump bulldozed that system. MAGA voters looked at decades of “managed decline” from polished Republicans and said, “Maybe the billionaire from Queens screaming at CNN is onto something.”And here's the part the Left still cannot process: MAGA isn't held together by government dependency. That's why it survives attacks.Leftism? Different story entirely.Leftism would collapse inside a month if it had to survive without taxpayer subsidies and foreign influence money. One month. Thirty days. The political equivalent of a juice cleanse.Because modern Leftism produces almost nothing organically anymore. Every institution props it up artificially: academia, entertainment, NGOs, government grants, corporate DEI departments, media partnerships, foreign donors. It's the ideological version of a patient connected to fourteen machines going beep-beep-beep while MSNBC doctors stand around saying, “Vitals look strong!”No they don't.Imagine if Leftists had to balance a budget. Imagine if they had to run cities without deficits, corruption, or dependency. Imagine if they couldn't endlessly siphon taxpayer money into “equity initiatives” that somehow always end with consultants buying vacation homes.Meanwhile, conservatives already do what Leftists only hashtag about. They donate more privately. Volunteer more. Build businesses. Create jobs. Show up after disasters with chainsaws and bottled water instead of interpretive dance and pronoun worksheets.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode 993 of The Professional Left finally arrives at the pivotal year of 2008 — the moment the Republican party began eating itself alive — and traces exactly how a party that had just driven the country into a ditch decided that the best response was to sabotage the guy trying to pull it out. Driftglass and Blue Gal walk through the deliberate, coordinated Republican strategy to destroy Barack Obama before he even got started, complete with the death panels lie, the "government takeover" lie, and the racist conspiracy theory that a reality TV con man would ride all the way to the White House. Mitt Romney makes a long, painful, and very instructive appearance as the man who tried to straddle a party that was already too broken to straddle, rewriting his own book along the way to prove it.If you've ever wondered exactly how America got from the wreckage of the Bush years to the rise of Trump, this episode lays out the trail.Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Website: proleftpod.com Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpodMail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791Support the show

Welcome back to The Kevin Jackson Show, where we gather each day to examine the wreckage of modern politics and ask the same question every sane civilization eventually asks:“How did people this confused get control of the machinery?”

A woman was invited to the bachelorette party for her co-worker's wedding, which required costly travel. She was presented with a bill to cover all of the expenses of the bride to be. The caller was just laid off her job and simply cannot afford this. Now the bride is miffed, and the friendship is strained. It's an outrage! Oopsie daisy! A woman came across porn featuring an old estranged friend.The sketchy video looks like the ex-friend wasn't aware that she was being filmed. Should the caller reach out and let her know it's out there? On the Magnum: Meet the man who enraged Mitt Romney! Humor writer Eli McCann is a wholesome, married, monogamous, gay humor writer from Salt Lake City. Hear how he drew the ire of the failed Presidential candidate in an online kerfuffle. And, bottom-feeders rejoice! They discuss the differences between Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Apparently, one makes you sad and the other makes you cackle. Also, did you know that Salt Lake City is actually liberal? It is! Listen to this super-fun convo. A woman has started seeing a younger man who has no experience with toys. His wee weeny isn't big enough for her, so he'd better learn. But he's too intimidated by her and worries he'll never satisfy her. Time to throw in the towel? Q@Savage.Love 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at ⁠Squarespace.com/Savage⁠ and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase. This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep. Right now, Helix is offering 20% off site wide. Go to ⁠HelixSleep.com/Savage⁠. With Helix, better sleep starts now.  This episode is brought to you by Blueland. Going eco has never been easier. Revolutionary, refillable cleaning essentials eliminating single-use plastic. Right now,  get 15% off your first order by going to ⁠Blueland.com/Savage⁠ Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, podcaster, author, and creator of the It Gets Better Project. From polyamory, to BDSM, gay rights to sexual health and with a dose of progressive politics, Dan Savage has been cultural force for sex positivity since the 1800s.

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