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Happy Thanksgiving you turkeys!  Enjoy an interview with the gin-u-wine heirs to the Blackball Ferry legacy, brought to you by Friends Of The Boaty Show. Skip to that at around 26:00, or dig in for  your dose of BS silly with an epic Old Boat Ad and Steph's stories from the largest outdoor hot tub park in North America... Spa Nordique!  Boaty Show hats are now available at www.theboatyshow.com/merch. We love you and are thankful for you, thanks for listening!    Jeff: Hi. If you enjoy the Boaty Show, you may enjoy my new audiobook. It's about AI and how we can live with it. You Teach The Machines: AI on Your Terms. Out wherever you get your audiobooks. By me, Jeff Pennington. [Music] Jeff: Welcome back listeners. I'm Jeff Pennington. I'm joined by my co-host... Steph: Stephanie Weiss. Jeff: Sipping on her coffee. It is Sunday, still morning. We, uh, we both have fires going. Mine's downstairs, Steph's is right in front of her in her living room. We're remote, and it's been a minute. We're not gonna talk about that. We're just gonna jump right back in. Right? Steph: Yeah, let's jump right in. Jeff: Jump right in. Like it's summer and we're going swimming again. Steph: Exactly. Exactly. Jeff: We have, uh, we have a show today. We're gonna do a segment on the Puget Sound ferry system—the history of. And we're gonna do, uh... what do we got? We got a "Old Boat Ad" from Jay. He was touring down in, uh, Whatchamacallit, Florida? Sarasota. He sent a picture of an alligator, which I will contend is Boaty. Steph: You want my opinion on that? Jeff: I want your opinion on that. Steph: I mean, it does... it does get from one place to the other. I don't know if they do that without getting wet, but yeah. I admit, boat adjacent. If you've seen an alligator, you wish you were in a boat. I mean, I can think of many ways that alligator is Boaty. Yes. Jeff: That was... that was excellent commentary. Thank you very much. Steph: You're welcome. Jeff: Wait, when you were down there last winter for the fundraising visit and you found that waterfront, that waterfront bar that served like drinks in buckets or something? Were there any alligators around then? Steph: Yeah. Well, yes. We were told there were alligators around, but I didn't see an alligator. But I did see lots and lots of signs about the alligators. Remember the signs? Jeff: In particular that it was alligator mating season. Steph: That's what it was! Yes. "Do not approach the mating alligator" or something super weird like that. Like... yes. That's right. Jeff: And then we did a whole... we did a whole, I mean we might have had a series of bits on alligator mating. And why you weren't supposed to go in the water when they were mating? Was it because it was gross? Because it's like, you know, it's the water that they're mating in and what's all that about? Or because you don't want like the throes of alligator mating ecstasy to like, end up with you getting like, you know, I don't know. Maybe they like bite each other in the midst of all that and you don't want to get confused... like get a body part confused. Steph: Right. Is there more traditional aggression? Right. Are they more aggressive when they're mating? These are questions. And then we had—I think we ended up really wondering whether that was a deep water thing or just a shoreline thing. Like if you're out in the middle, do you have to worry about that? Remember? We had this... this was a whole conversation. Jeff: I think... but I do think that it's ridiculous because... because like, if you see alligators whether they're mating or not, could we all just assume you don't go in the water? I just seems unnecessary, but... Jeff: And we'll count that as the only answer worth taking away because I only recall the questions we had at the time. Uh, and I don't recall any resolution of any of this. So, um, interesting though that Jay... winter-ish, maybe mating season or not. It looked like the picture was a solo... solo alligator. It was just, just an alligator. Unless maybe it was an alligator couple and you couldn't see the other alligator because that alligator was underwater? Steph: Like... that just occurred to me when you said... great minds think alike. Jeff: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Steph: We should ask Jay. Jeff: We should ask Jay what was going on. Steph: Or not so great minds think alike. Jeff: All right. All right. So I think we should lead off with, uh, since we're talking about Jay and his trip through Florida—he played at least one show down there, I saw a picture of a backyard concert, looked lovely. Or an outdoor concert I shouldn't say, I don't know if it was backyard or not, looked lovely. And, uh, he sent a boat ad. And since this is his favorite segment, we're gonna do it. Steph: Mmm. Do it. [Music: Old Boat Ad Jingle] Jeff: It's... I can't... It's been so long that we've done this that when we were in the middle of doing it all the time, it seemed completely normal. And now when we're like... we're like four months away from doing it regularly or whatever, and it's like holy [bleep]. What the hell is this? That was a song about old boat ad copy from Jay and that was like... like, you know, I don't know, six months ago I was like, "Well yeah, of course Jay's gonna make a song saying 'Come on Jeff read those vintage boaty advertisements, give us some of them old boat ads.'" And that was like in the midst of it, it was like "Yeah fine." And now it's like, what the [bleep] is this? Oh my god! Steph: And people want... people are like, "Hey man when are you gonna start making that show again?" 'Cause they want this nonsense! Jeff: Oh god. That makes me so happy. It's good to be weird. Steph: It's good to be weird. Jeff: Okay. All that aside, notwithstanding. Let's do it. Okay. Jay found this ad in the wild. I don't know where it was. Um, I'm looking at the picture. It looks like it's in a frame. Maybe it was in like... I'm gonna say it was in a bathroom at a bar that he was at, or a restaurant perhaps, and it was above the urinal and he saw this. It was right in front of his face. "You can't blame a guy for boasting about his new Mercury. Not only pride of possession, but downright satisfaction comes with the ownership of a new Mercury Outboard Motor. When you put a Mercury on a boat, you are completely confident of quick, easy starting and effortless 'hold the course' steering. You know that there will be instant response to every touch of the throttle. Whether you want a burst of flashing speed or just a ripple of hushed power for the slowest possible trolling. The new Mercury with 'Full Jeweled Powerhead'—bears repeating—Full Jeweled, yes like bling bling jewels, Full Jeweled Powerhead gives you greater all-around mechanical efficiency and endurance never before known in an outboard motor. Yes, with your Mercury, you'll experience that pride of possession realized only by those who own the finest." Scrolling down through the ad... that was the main copy presented next to uh, a lovely couple in a, looks like a Penn Yan outboard skiff uh, with an outboard obviously on the back. Um, she of course is reclining. He of course is driving. Um, and he's holding his hand out like, "Ah! Oh my god this is great!" Like out to the side like, "Can you believe it?" "Of course, of course this is great." Um, he doesn't look so polished, he's kind of look got... he's got some bedhead and a t-shirt on. She looks put together. Um, so he must have a great personality. Steph: [Laughs] Jeff: So scrolling down there's like more details. Um, mostly for him because there's like cutaway diagrams and whatnot. So: "The Rocket. A six horsepower precision-built alternate firing twin with sparkling power that will plane a boat beautifully. Yet throttle down for... oh, yet throttle down to a hush for continuous trolling. Another exclusive Mercury first." This is more on the Full Jeweled Powerhead. "Mercury's Full Jeweled Powerhead. Mercury engineers have developed a method of using roller bearings on wrist pins, crank pins, and crank shaft. It results in reduction of mechanical friction, new power and smoothness, readier response to the throttle, many more months of service-free operation than any outboard with conventional plain bearings." "The Comet. A smooth running 3.2 horsepower single. The ideal family outboard. Just right for your car-top boat or the average rental boat. Mercury. Own a Mercury. Matchless and outboard excellence. Kiekhaefer Corporation, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Outboard Motors. Portable Industrial Engines." There you go. Old Boat Ad. Steph: I have a lot of questions. And an observation. Jeff: Go. Steph: I love how the masthead of this ad if you will—I don't know if that's the right word for it—but it's a... it's a bubble, it's a like a word bubble coming from the guy in the boat, right? "You can't blame a guy for boasting about his new Mercury." I love like the... I love all of the like the um... how proud you should be. Like there's a lot of like, you know, you just... you're just going to boast and it's going to be like everyone's going to be impressed with you. There's going to be "Pride of Possession." Which I think is very interesting. And then what is going on with the jewels? I don't understand the jewels and why are we talking about jewels? There's no jewels in this. Jeff: There's roller bearings. Steph: What is that? And how is it like a jewel? Is it a ruby? Jeff: Well, my guess is given that this is setting the guy up to boast, if it was made out of ruby it would have said that, right? But I can say... Steph: I agree. Jeff: I can say that I don't know whether it's jeweled or made out of a jewel or not. But uh, different... there's different kinds of bearings. I know a little bit about bearings. Not a lot. Steph: Didn't we talk about bearings once before? Jeff: I'm sure we did. I'm sure we did. Steph: I like this sentence... I like this sentence a lot. "The Mercury engineers have developed a method of using roller bearings on wrist pins, crank pins, and crank shaft." What? Jeff: Uh, I don't know what a wrist pin is. I don't know what a crank... was it a wrist pin and a crank pin? Steph: Wrist pins and crank pins. Yeah. Things I didn't know about. But I love... I also love that they're getting into this level of detail right in the ad. This is the good old days. You know what I mean? Like this is... this is the least reductive ad I've ever seen. They're really... they're just... they hit you a little bit with the ego in the top and then they get right into the deep, deep details. I think this is lovely. It was... it was lovely to listen to. Jeff: So you got... I don't know what those pins are. The crank... I don't know. Let's not talk about why you've got bearings or what they're on, but ball bearings are balls. And... Steph: [Laughs silently] Jeff: ...you're laughing silently with our... Steph: Wrist bearings are wrists? Crank pins are cranks? I don't know. Jeff: No. We're not gonna talk about that stuff. We're just gonna talk about the bearings. So you got ball bearings which are spherical, okay? And then you've got roller bearings which are like a... in my mind it's a bearing that's made of a... it looks like a rolling pin, okay? And a ball bearing can... can bear weight while moving in all directions because it's a sphere. Steph: 360. Jeff: Yup. 360 times 360, right? In any direction. And then a roller bearing can bear... bear weight while moving just in like one direction back and forth. One plane I guess. And uh, I know roller bearings because there are conical roller bearings on boat trailers in the hubs of the boat trailer. Um, because the... and they're almost like a rolling pin shape except they're flared a little bit at, you know, toward one end so it's like a slight cone shape. And that's because the axle on your boat trailer has a slight taper to it. And so the wheel spinning on those bearings on that slightly tapered axle shaft has to be slightly... has to match that taper as it spins around and around and around. Um, now, that being said, going from, you know, roller bearings to "jeweled"? That's... that's what I'm talking about right there. Yup. Steph: Full Jeweled. Yeah. I mean I don't know. I guess... you know how I feel about this stuff. I kind of love things that I don't understand and there's a lot here I don't understand. And I think this is a lovely... so we've got two en... Is the Rocket one and the Comet is the other? They have space names. Amazing. Jeff: Yeah. And this was before... this might have been early space era. Yeah. Steph: Yeah. Early space race. Jeff: It look... I like that it's like, it's just a little boat. Nothing fancy. It's just a little tin can. Steph: Yeah. Rockin' out. Or having a great time. They're all proud... proud of themselves. Jeff: They mentioned "Car Top Boats" which was a... that was a big deal in the expansion of boating into the middle class. And... yeah. So Penn Yan, the boat manufacturer, my understanding is they hit it big for the first time with car-top boats. So Penn Yan Car Toppers, you'll still see those around sometimes. And that was like what pontoon boats and jet skis are doing... they did for boating then what pontoon boats and jet skis are doing now. Which is just making it way more accessible. Steph: I hear you. Jeff: Yeah. Steph: I hear you. "There it is. Just right for your car-top boat or the average rental boat." Got it. Yeah. Jeff: Yeah. Give me... give me more opportunity to get in the water without having to be a rich guy with my own dock or a yacht or anything like that. Steph: Mm-hm. Equal opportunity boating. Jeff: E... E... E-O-B. E-O-B-B. Equal Opportunity Boating Board. Okay. Enough of that. Steph: Yes. That's a... that's a worthy goal. Jeff: All right. We're gonna move on to our... our next topic. Which, you know what? Let's... let's step back. What have you been doing lately? Steph: Mmm. That's a great question. Um... Jeff: Have you gone anywhere? Have you gone anywhere fun? Steph: I did. I went to the... I went to the Spa Nordique in... in Chelsea, Quebec. Yes. I did do that. I was... show before the show we were chatting about this. Yes. I did go there with my friend Julie, my personal historian. And we had a wonderful time. Jeff: What is the Spa Nordique? Tell us... You walk up to the Spa Nordique. What's the experience? Steph: Okay. So real... so real quick. It's like... it's not like a spa like people usually think of a spa. It's a "thermal experience." It's got this whole Nordic vibe to it. Everything's made of wood. And it's a very large... it's many acres. And it has tons of different ways to get warm and cold in water. And also not in water. So, for example, there's like ten different outdoor hot tubs scattered all over the place. And there's like fifteen different kinds of saunas. There's like a earth sauna and a barrel sauna and a Russian sauna and a whatever. There's like... And then there's um, also like steam rooms. And there's cold plunges, which is not for me, but for other people. And there's places to eat and drink. And that's it. And you put on a robe, you leave your phone and all your [bleep] behind and you just wander around in this environment for the day. It's very affordable. Like sixty bucks for the whole day, like US. And it is very beautiful and it's very calming. And very relaxing. And it's delightful. And I would recommend it to everybody. So I've been there probably four or five times. And um, it's close, you know it's like two hours away from here. It's not far. And I think it's the largest spa in North America. But it's not like busy feeling. It's very calming and relaxing. Jeff: We're gonna... we're gonna back up to the very... one of the first two... two of the first words you said which was "thermal experience." Steph: Yeah. That's what they call it. Um... yeah, I don't know. I guess you're just getting in warm water. And then you're supposed to get in cold water cause it's good for you, but like I said, that's just not for me. But um... but you know like, it's like good for you. I don't know. You're supposed to like steam yourself and then get... We were... it was like snowing when we were there. There was actually a hail storm that happened. Like a full-on hail storm um, when we were sitting in one of the hot... my favorite hot tub which is like a hot spring kind of a thing. It's up at the top. And um, they totally just started hailing. And it looks like... like accumulating in our hair. It was very exciting. Jeff: Thankfully... thankfully accumulating in your hair and not like... they were baseball sized and like braining you and knocking you out. Steph: Right. No, they were not baseball sized. Which is good news. They were small and they were accumulating and it was very snow monkey. The whole experience is like just being a snow monkey for the day. That's it. That's how... Jeff: Can you make this up? Thermal experience. Be a snow mon... have a... have a thermal expe... we're gonna have to write an ad for this. Have a thermal experience as a... be a snow monkey for the day. Steph: I don't know why that's not their tagline. For... I don't know why not. It makes no sense. Jeff: So the other thing that grabbed me about... about this is you said you leave your phone behind. Which I think is probably healthy because that means that um, people aren't like nervous about somebody taking a picture of them when they, you know, take their robe off and get in the... in the tub or whatever. But also, dude, anything that people do where they leave their phones behind... those are becoming more and more valuable experiences as people just come to the conclusion that their phone makes them sick. And I had this experience recently... did... did an um... one of my book events at uh, the Poor Sethi headquarters in Brooklyn. In Gowanus. Uh, the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. And afterward, my... my daughter Mary Jane was there uh, and it was the first time she'd come to see one of these... these talks. The book talks. And uh, she brought a few of her friends who had moved to New York after graduating... they all graduated last spring. And they were so psyched. They're like, "Oh my god. Why does it feel so... so like novel to get together in person in a room and talk about something and talk to... with each other?" Because it was a... it ended up being a really interactive session. People were going back and forth to each other. And I started to fade a bit into the background which is what I go for with these... these events. They're kind of like group therapy community workshops about, you know, AI in your life. Not so much what AI is, but like how AI merges into your life. Anyway, at Spa Nordique, it's a thermal experience minus your phone. And you're there for the day or most of the day because you want to get... you want to get as much thermal experience as you can for your sixty dollars. So that's a day without your phone. That's freaking awesome. Steph: Yeah. And when I fir... when we first started going a few years ago, it was pretty much like "Don't bring your phone in here." Like it was like a kind of a rule. Now it's like um, you're allowed to bring your phone, but most people don't. So every now and then there'll be somebody with a phone. But the other funny thing is that... that you know, it's an adjustment going... like you said, you go for the whole day because it's... it's big, there's you know places to stop in and have a bite to eat or get a beverage or whatever. So you really do stay there for a while and you do really disengage from the sense of time. And it's funny how many times you're like, you know, think of things that normally you'd be looking up to your phone but you just don't do it cause you can't. But my... but one funny... one funny thing that happened when we got there was... um... when you first walk in on the left there's this very cool like... like experience. Like it's like a... like they do a Boreal Forest experience and they like um, they like wave branches around and like whatever. So that happens at certain times. So do we really want to do it? Because afterwards you were like rub salts all over your body and then there's like a flash dance bucket that you dump on yourself... you really... you have to be... obviously you need to get involved in something like that. So we were looking at the times. And then we were like... and like Julie and I together are like we're always like a little on the spazzy side anyway. Like it's always... things are always just awkward and weird and great. And like... so we were like, "Okay. So we can come back at one at eleven? Or maybe..." And then it's in like... it's like Canadian time so it's like 1300 and 1500 and we don't know what that means. It's complicated. So it's just... it was so hard. We were like talking about it and... and then this... and we were like, "How are we gonna come back? How are we gonna know when to come back because we don't have phones?" And then um, so then a nice young man who worked at the spa went by and we asked him... The other thing is just constant like language situation going on about wheth... you know we don't speak French. Everybody else does. So you know... and they're very sweet about it. But you know you always have to navigate the fact that you're speaking English. And so we in English ask this nice young man what time it is. And he paused. And I thought maybe it was just because he had to switch into English in his brain. I don't know why. But and he looked at us. And he was like, "Well, right now it's blah blah blah o'clock," and he like explained what time it was and um, the fact that it would be this time in an hour and a half we could come back and the thing would do it again. And then he kind of like looked at us and we were like, "Okay great thank you." And we left. But then later when we came back to actually do the experience, I... we were sitting in the sauna and I looked out and there is a clock so big. Like so big. It's hu... it's huge. It's like... it's like seven feet across. And it was right behind... right behind us when we had asked the guy what time it was! And we realized that like the long pause was like, "Should I just tell them that there's a clock right there? Or should I just be really nice about this and just answer the question and not point out the clock?" Like for sure he was like... are these people being... is this wrong? Are these people... Jeff: Are they... are they messing with me? Steph: ...messing with me? And and he's... he's Canadian but he's also French Canadian so like he he also like... because if you're not French Canadian and you're Canadian the stereotype is like you're just super nice and you're just gonna be super nice and... "Oh of course I'll just tell you what time it is." If you're French Canadian you might be like, "You freaking idiot. Like... I'm glad that you're up here... I'm glad that you're up here you know spending your money even though we can't freaking stand you because you're from America, but..." Steph: It was a lot... there were a lot... yes, there were a lot of components. I love the fact that I think a little bit he was just like, it seemed like if he was like, "Dude, literally a clock right there," then it just would have felt a little less polite. So he didn't say that. And then we had to discover the clock on our own. And um, it was amazing and hilarious. So that was, again back to the time thing. Jeff: I have more soapbox about about that. Um, I'll... I'll do it... I'll do it briefly and try not to go on um, and make it annoying. But uh, when you... you treat your watch as your... as your timepiece... I'm sorry. When you treat your phone as your timepiece, and then you don't have your phone, you end up lost. And you can't conceive that there might be a giant clock on the wall. Although maybe you can conceive of it and you just because you're having a nice day with some beverages and with Julie you don't con... conceive of it. But anyway, this is why I'm always on Instagram, I'm always posting uh, these Sheffield watches. Because if you put on a watch that's just a watch on your wrist and it's not an Apple Watch like all of a sudden you've got the ability to tell time without necessarily getting hit by a bunch of distractions which an Apple Watch is gonna do to you, which pulling... pulling out your phone is gonna do to you. And I'm... I'm huge on this for my kids. I'm like, "Hey like... if you're looking at your phone to tell the time you're like, I don't know, half the time you get pulled in because you see a notification. And now you're looking at your phone more. And now you're more te..." Oh wait, I said I wasn't gonna keep going on and get on my soapbox but... Steph: No, but I hear what you're saying. And at first I was kind of like... you know, I have a thing about Apple Watches because they were like they're meant to be like they don't want to make you... to help people avoid pulling out their phone all the time. But they actually just make people look super rude because you look like you're literally just like, "Um, I don't have ti... like every single time something goes off you're like, 'Uh, is this over? Is it time...?'" You know what I mean? So um, but I hadn't thought about that cause you're right. Whenever you look at your phone, of course there's gonna be notifications and all that's gonna pull you in. And that's... it's a very good point. So yes to watches. Agreed. Jeff: Yep. And I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this all home and make it all Boaty. Ready? All right. Spa Nordique is... Spa Nordique is Boaty because in Iceland outdoor hot spring fed pools and indoor became about because the rate of death by drowning amongst Icelandic fishermen was so high because it's the freaking North Sea. And the last thing you want to do there and there aren't any lakes, right? But the last thing you want to do there is learn how to swim in the ocean. But so that meant the entire population of Iceland whose entire existence was supported by fishing... nobody knew how to swim! And it became a... a public safety, public health, community health like anti-drowning initiative to start... to create public outdoor hot springs... public outdoor hot tubs so that people could learn to swim. Uh, and they sprang up all around the country and it became like part of the culture that you go there to learn to swim but then you also go there to hang out with each other. And um, that's all so that people in Iceland can go fishing, if they go in the drink uh, survive... have a great chance of survival. Boaty. Right? Um, also the... the watch thing. If you have to pull your phone out to tell what time it is while you're out in a boat, you might drop your phone on the deck. You might drop your phone in the drink or off the dock. You also might get distracted by your phone and you're... when you're driving a boat or you're out there in a boat, you probably shouldn't be distracted because A, that means it's taking away from the enjoyment and B, because you might run into something. So... Boaty. Boom. Done. Okay. Steph: So... so learn to swim in a hot spring and buy a watch. Boom. Jeff: And have thermal experiences. Steph: Oh. Jeff: Um... Missy just texted me and called. Um... they just got hit from behind on 76. They're all okay. The cops are there now. Uh oh. Steph: Whoa. Jeff: Hold on a sec. Let me... let me communicate. Steph: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Jeff: Everybody's okay. They don't need me to call or come pick them up. All right. Good. Well how about that? Steph: Do we have to move on? Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. Steph: I have... I have a th... I have a... one of my... I'll just tell you and you can always like edit this out later if it's boring. But one of the things that's funny about it is when you're at the spa you can tell which are the hot pools and which are the cold pools because there's nobody in the cold ones, right? Um, but there was this one that Julie and I found and they had... they tell you like the temperatures and um, it was empty and we were walking around and it is... I think they said it was like 69 degrees or something like that? But there's nobody in it and it feels cold but then we realized, wait, that's like the river temperature. That's like the temperature of the river, right? In the summer. And then we got in this cold-ish thing and then it was... and that but we got used to it really quickly and it was really delightful and lovely. So we think of it as like that's like the river temperature pool and we... that's the only cold-ish pool that I get in. But it's very nice. Jeff: That... that's awesome because if the river temperature hits 69 degrees we're probably bitching about it cause it's too warm. Steph: Exactly. Exactly right. Jeff: That's awesome. All right. All right we're gonna move on. Uh, next segment. Um, we're gonna play an interview which was uh, listener submitted. So Rob uh, shared this. Some friends of his recorded an interview with the heirs, the descendants of the founder of the Black Ball Ferry Fleet in Puget Sound, Seattle. So we're gonna play that and then uh, I did a bunch of research on all this that we'll talk about after the interview. So here it is. [Interview Segment] I am standing here with the heirs of the Black Ball Line. Yeah. A couple of them. Was that heir or errors? Errors. Probably errors. Doug and Chris McMahon are standing here with you. Doug and Chris McMahon. And our great grandfather was Charles Peabody who came out west in 1885 and started the Alaska Steamship Company and then the Puget Sound Navigation. They were flying the Black Ball flag, which his family owned on the East Coast from 1803 forward. The Black Ball flag's been flying... Nice. ...and uh, his son... I have one on my travel trailer and every time I go camping we post our big full-size flag. Just... it still flies around the region. Yes. She's... she's still flying. And flies in Portland too. So... So and then the state bought it... the ferries in the 50s. And turns out they stopped making money. Started running in the red. Yeah. So. Yeah. So can you give me a brief history of why it's a Black Ball and with a white circle and red in the middle? Well so that's from the Coho. Right. And so the Coho was the last Black Ball ship that's flying. And so they licensed the flag but they added the white circle. And why did they choose that? Well because it was part of the whole ferry system. Okay. And when the Coho started, the Coho started right after... But the original Black Ball flag, which was a red flag with a black ball only, no white circle, was also researched as um, like some kind of a maritime victory award for ships. You know when they when they won a battle or did something good like cannon-neering or something, you know grenade throwing, they would be awarded the flags and they would fly the flag. So it's one of them. I don't recall exactly which one. And the original Black Ball ships that sailed from Brooklyn to uh, England and mainland Europe and back, um, had a Black Ball flag that was a swallowtail flag. So it wasn't a rectangle, it was swallowtail and a giant black ball on the main sail. And they were the first company... Rad. Like pirates. It does look like the hurricane warning flags too. People often catch us about that which is typically a square black in the center of the red. But in some regions it's a round circle just like Puget Sound Navigation's Black Ball flag. Just a couple specific places. They were the first shipping company to leave on a scheduled date. So they were... in the mid 1800s a ship would leave when it was full. Ass in seat. We're leaving at this time. That's right. And the Black Ball said "We're leaving on this date, empty or full." So they changed the industry then. Yeah. So when we were kids we used to get to ride in the wheelhouse every once in a while. Oh yeah. Or if we were with our Grandpa downtown and you'd see all these, you know, basically old men at the time in the 60s, right? On the... on the waterfront. He'd walk up to half of them because they all knew who each were. You know, they worked in shipping or the shipyards together. Yeah. Did he know Iver Haglund? Yes. They lived near one another up in West... up in West Seattle at Alki. Yeah so he absolutely knew Iver Haglund. We also have a relative who was a bank robber. So you know, they... they ran... Keep clam. Keep clam. One of his brothers... One of his brothers was a bank robber. Spent his lifetime in prison. Was on Alcatraz. That's awesome. Twice. So you know... Captains of Industry and... not. Yeah. Pioneers. Pioneers. Please introduce yourself again. My name's Doug McMahon. I'm from Portland, Oregon. And I'm Chris McMahon, Doug's brother. And where do you live? Uh, Des Moines, Washington. Right up here just across the way. Originally from Portland though. We're both from Portland. So nice to meet you. Thank you so much. [End of Interview Segment] Steph: Yeah. But that is... that is... that is very cool. And I think like the... the boat itself is really cool too, right? I remember we talked about the boat once a while ago. Jeff: Yeah. Well there's the... there's the Kalakala and then there's the Coho. The Kalakala is like this really wild uh, streamlined early streamlining Art Deco looking um... I don't know why I say Art Deco I don't really know what that means. Uh, ferry. And then um, and that's that thing's like I think it's just sitting there... maybe it already got broken up. Uh, but it was derelict for a long time. And then the Coho is still operating, which we'll get to. I'm gonna talk this through in a little bit. All right so. Steph: Okay. Jeff: Puget Sound Ferries. So Puget Sound is surrounds Seattle. It's like between Seattle and Victoria British Columbia and there's island after island after island. It's probably my second favorite watery place that I've been to um, after the St. Lawrence River because there's just so much going on. Um, I like islands and inlets and... Steph: It is beautiful. Jeff: Yep. So uh, this presented a big challenge for getting around back in the day. Uh, because if you wanted to get out to one of these islands cause there's timber out there or other resources or because you wanted to live out there, um, yeah you had to take a boat. And the shortest distance between two points on land on the quote mainland was sometimes a boat, not or by water, not necessarily over land. So uh, there were ferries that that got established. And the... there's like three big eras of ferries um, in in the Puget Sound. The first is the "Mosquito Fleet" era which was like 1850s to the 1920s. And it's when people really nailed down and commercialized the... the ferry as transportation infrastructure and the waterways are now how people get around, right? Um, and it helped develop the region. So um, like before the 1880s or so uh, it was all about steamboats. And the... the first steamships that got there cause you had to go basically either come from Asia or go around uh, the tip of South America back in the day before the Panama Canal to get to this place. So the Hudson Bay Company sent the SS Beaver in the 1830s which showed how uh, steam power... Steph: Beaver... Jeff: Yeah yeah... Steph: [Laughs] Thank god for the Canadians. All right. Jeff: The Hudson's Bay Company sent the SS Beaver like around the horn uh, even better... Steph: [Laughs] Jeff: In the 1830s. So uh, all of a sudden like you've got a steamboat that's like cruising around Puget Sound and it works out. Um, and the... the Americans, I think the Canadian... I don't know a lot about the Canadian history of the West Coast but the American history of the West Coast uh, was like, you know okay... 1849, 49ers... uh, the West like opened up in a... the West Coast opened up in a big way because of the Gold Rush. Um, but then timber became a huge deal. Probably more money made in timber than in uh, gold at that point. But the first American steamboat was the SS Fairy. Okay? Begins scheduled service in the 1850s and it linked uh, Olympia and Seattle. And roads were hammered. It was just mud, you know, nothing was paved. Uh, you definitely wanted to be on a... on a steamer. Maybe a sidewheeler like, you know, old-timey sidewheelers on the... on the Mississippi. Um, but it was really the only way that mail and your goods and s... goods and people got from town to town on the Puget Sound. So that was like early steamboats pre-1880s. And then in the 1880s uh, it really started to take off. So as the area developed, the... the something happened called the Mos... the Swarm, right? So the swarm of the Mosquito Fleet. Hundreds of small um, independent privately owned steamships pl... basically started creating a dense network and they were all competing with each other. Cause like all you needed was a boat with a steam engine and you could get going. Um, and there were some some famous boats during this time. Fleet... Mosquito Fleet boats. And this was not like, you know, so-and-so owned the Mosquito Fleet, it was just like "Hey there's a swarm of boats out there we're gonna call them and they're all small so we're gonna call them the Mosquito Fleet." Uh, and this is where the names get names get more lame. The SS Flyer, the SS Bailey Gatzert. Steph: Okay. I like SS Fairy. Direct. Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and and then there's this huge opportunity and this dude named Charles Peabody who we heard about. We heard from his descendants uh, and we heard about the Black Ball uh, right? From his descendants just a minute ago. Charles Peabody. He shows up with this... this family history of the uh, Transatlantic Fleet where they innovated and um... this is something you're pretty psyched about which is like "Oh okay we're gonna have scheduled service instead of just waiting until we've got a full load and then we'll go. We're gonna leave at noon." Steph: Mm-hm. Yeah. Well I just think it's interesting like I... I remember we talked about this pr... I guess you said maybe with Rob a while ago. I find it fascinating the idea that you would get on a boat and then just wait for enough people to get on the boat to have to leave. That's... I could see how that would be disruptive to your day. Jeff: Yeah. Steph: Maybe hopefully those peop... they didn't have watches. But um, but they uh... but then yeah I guess I would appreciate the fact that you had some general idea of when it might leave. But I can see how the risk would be uh, you had to travel empty some so maybe you just had to... more reliable. It was a leap of faith, right? They were like, "If we make it more reliable then people will use it more." Right? Jeff: Yeah. And scheduled service for trains was probably a thing but, you know, when you've got this big boat you definitely don't want to... you don't want to go empty. And so I can see the commercial interest in like a full boat being there but also like then you're leaving out a lot of people who were like "I don't want to sit around and wait for this." Um, anyway. I don't know. Charles Peabody. Uh, so he... he's a descendant of the people that started the Black Ball Fleet way back in the early early 1800s. He shows up out there and starts buying up the swarm. Um, he creates the Puget Sound Navigation Company, PSNC, in 1898. And then just starts buying up competing Mosquito Fleet companies. Like he bought up the White Collar Line. Steph: Mmm. Jeff: Don't know why it's called White Collar Line. Um, going to guess it was fancy. Uh, and eventually becomes the... the biggest operator. Steph: You said fancy? Jeff: Fancy. Steph: Okay. Jeff: And then what Peabody did, based... based on this research is he figured out that the automobile was gonna be a threat, okay? To... to the ferry fleet because now you've got cars. People buy cars, they want the roads to get better so that they can drive their cars. The roads do get better so more people get cars to drive on those roads. So then he figures out that this is a threat and starts converting his ferries to carry cars. And the rest of the Mosquito Fleet, many of whom he'd bought up in the first place, but the rest of the Mosquito Fleet that hadn't been acquired by the Puget Sound Navigation Company... they're not... they're not as like strategic as he is. They don't start converting their boats to carry cars... he does. So they die off. No more. Right? So now he's got a monopoly. And uh, he officially at... at this point adopts the Black Ball Line as its name. Um, and the flag that we heard about, the red and black ball uh, flag in the in the late 20s. Um, coincidentally also around the time of Prohibition and tons and tons of smuggling of da booze from Canada into the US. I am not... I'm not accusing the Black Ball Line of being involved in smuggling um, but it was going on. And uh, there was succession also in the family. Alexander takes over um, from his dad uh, and uh, they really nail down... And then ah this is where... so then they launch the Kalakala. K-A-L-A-K-A-L-A. Kalakala in 1935. This is the streamlined Art Deco ferry that uh, that we we talked about last time and our friends Rob and Jen and Byron uh, actually went out and checked out um, while it was still floating. And it's just like really cool. Looks like um, you know uh, like early streamlined locomotives and trains. That kind of thing with like really neat windows and and that sort of thing. Um, but that becomes the international symbol of the fleet. Everybody's super psyched about it. Um, so that was like 20s, 30s. And then World War II hits. And um, labor organizing really took off around World War II. Uh, and the ferry workers started unionizing and uh, probably pushing back on on pay and working conditions and hours and stuff. And this monopoly uh, had, you know... being a monopoly is great unless there's a strike. And then your... you know your workers strike and your boats aren't running and people are like "Well [bleep], I gotta get around." So now maybe they figure out that they don't have to take the ferry. Take their car on the ferry, take their truck on the ferry and they um... they go elsewhere and that starts to... to put pressure on the ferry. But also like if you've got to raise wages, um, now your... your margins are lower. Blah blah blah. So um, ultimately uh, the... you know the... there was a... a wartime um, freeze in wages and operations but the... the unions um, really pushed for better wages which put a bunch of strain on the... on the company. And the... the only way that... that the Peabodys could make this all work was uh, with a big fare increase. So they um... pushed for a 30% fare increase to cover their costs. Um, and the... they had... it had gotten to the point where they were being regulated at this point because it was, you know, privately operated transportation infrastructure that everybody relied on. Um, so they were regulated and the state said "Nope." So like, you know, a public utility commission has to negotiate rate increases with their state regulator. So same thing happened here. Um, and Peabody says "Give us 30% more." State says "Nope." And Peabody says "All right, F you." They shut it all down. They shut it all down. And that stranded uh, like all the commuters. And people were super pissed at them for shutting it down. Um, which then turned it into a political moment. And uh, the... you know people, businesses said "Take over this... this as an essential utility." And that's when uh, Washington State purchased all this stuff from... all the ferries and the whole system from the uh, the Peabodys. From the Black Ball Line. And that created the Washington State Ferry System. And as you heard in the... in the um, interview, uh, was running... ended up running at a loss. I don't know if it still does, it may as... as a lot of public transit infrastructure does. Um, but the state bought out the Black Ball Line in... in 51. And um, they bought it out for 4.9 million dollars which in like "today dollars" is still not even that much I don't think for, you know, 16 ships, 20 terminals uh, which is what it was at the time. Um, but anyway they buy it out and start operating on... in June of 51. And uh, the state said "Hey we're just gonna do this until we build all the bridges everywhere." Uh, which didn't really happen. Um, and the Washington State Ferry uh, system just change... they basically uh, did away with the Black Ball livery. Which is like the Boaty way of saying how you paint [bleep]. Um, what colors. Um, so they went from orange to green. Uh, but the... the company, Captain Peabody, Alexander, um, and his family retained the route... the international route between... between Seattle and Victoria. And that is the MV Coho which still runs uh, and it's still the Black Ball Ferry Line. And it um... basically gives you a through line from like the original Transatlantic Fleet that did scheduled service for the first time ever um, and, you know... you're on board or not we're leaving at noon. Through line from like the early early 1800s all the way through to today. The Black Ball line has been continuously running or the Black Ball uh... the... Black Ball family or I'm sorry the Black Ball line has been continuously running cause the Coho is still going. Was launched in 59 but it uh... it's still the um... it's still a major private auto ferry line in the region. And international. So goes back and forth to Canada. Which is what you did when you went to the Hot Springs as well. Steph: Um, yeah. I love that. I love that it's still running. I didn't realize that. Jeff: Yeah. The Coho. I... I was out there for work years ago and I thought about taking um, taking the ferry up to Victoria. There's a high speed... and I don't think it's the Coho. There's a high speed ferry that runs also. Um, it may even go further than Victoria but uh, cause I was like "Oh man it'd be pretty cool to do a day trip to just like take the ferry from Seattle up through the Sound to, you know, wherever. Like get off get a... get some poutine and then come back." Although it's the West Coast I don't know if poutine... I don't know if poutine made it out there or maybe they call it something else. I love ferries. Steph: I do too. And I... I've actually been to that part of the world only one time, but I was... I went to a wedding on Vashon Island. And then um, so yeah I was to... completely taken with how watery and boaty it was and we totally took a ferry there and it was amazing and I loved it. And yes, I agree. Ferries are fun and um, that's some... that's some very cool history. I like it. Jeff: Yeah. Well we're gonna... we're gonna wrap up now. Um, because uh... I just got a call and a text from my wife and she... Steph: Yeah. Jeff: She and Mary Jane... so Missy and Mary Jane got rear-ended. I think Toby too. Got rear-ended on the highway. And uh, they don't need a ride but just in case they do I want to wrap it up. Everybody's okay. Nobody got hurt. Steph: Yeah. Sounds good. Good. Good. Jeff: Yeah. Um, but couple things. One, I am currently wearing a Boaty Show hat. And uh, the hot admin, the lovely Melissa, set up a freaking e-commerce website so that you listeners if you would like can buy a Boaty Show hat and we will ship it to you. We don't really make any money on this. It's... it's all uh, basically break-even. Um, but that can be found at thebodyshow.com/merch. M-E-R-C-H. Merch. Thebodyshow.com/merch. They're... I'm very excited because I've got a big head and we have an extra large hat. Which means that if you usually put like the... the little snappy back thing on like the last two nubbins, the snap back on the last two nubbins... on the XL Boaty Show hat you get... you get to at least on my head you get five nubbins. You can snap five hat nubbins. And it... and it doesn't look like you're cramming a tiny hat on top of your big head. So that's exciting. Uh, there's... there's Heather Grey, Dark Grey, and Navy Blue. And uh, would love it if you guys ordered some um, because uh... it's... it's a cool hat. It's got the boat tractor on it. Steph: Mm-hm. It's the holiday season. Time to go buy some merch for your friends and families. Everybody needs a Boaty Show hat. Jeff: Yeah. Also these were made by Bolt Printing who who we talked uh, about on the show once upon a time. Uh, they're really cool people and... Steph: You love them. Jeff: I do. I do. And they made a video of the hats getting made that I'll I'll try and repost. Um, and the other thing is that my book is out. So is the audiobook. So You Teach The Machines: AI on Your Terms is available on everywhere you get your audiobooks. Uh, Audible, Amazon, Apple, and then like 35 others. So if you don't mind listening to my voice, uh, I read the book and people are finding it really helpful. And uh, you can support the show and us doing this silly stuff by buying hats and checking out the book. We are gonna wrap it up. Steph: And next time we get to do Photo of the Week. Jeff: Oh yes! Yes. We're bringing back Photo of the Week next time. Um, there have been a bunch of submissions while we've been on our hiatus and uh, we can't wait. So like next week will probably mostly be Photo of the Week discussions. Jeff & Steph: [Singing together] Yo ho ho, that's it for the Boaty Show. Pack the cooler, grab the lines, let's go go go. Yo ho ho... Jeff: That's it for the Boaty Show. Boom we are out. Say bye-bye Stephanie. Steph: Bye-bye Stephanie.  

HELLO & WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF MOMENT OF SILENCE — also known as the bravest space for crying, venting, healing and pretending we're fine. This week, we're deep-diving into every kind of tear: the math-exam tears, the restaurant-khichdi tears, the “my relatives didn't order noodles” tears, and the elite-level bathroom-floor crying that honestly should count as cardio.We're unpacking why women cry more, how anger shapeshifts as we grow up, and the unhinged triggers that send us into emotional spirals. There's dad affection (twice a year, respectfully), celebrity crush posters, Ariana Grande memes, scary dreams, anxious-girlie hyper vigilance, and arguments where crying becomes the main character.We're also rating the saddest places to cry, decoding crying during fights with boyfriends, and figuring out whether we're team yell-it-out or team cry-into-a-pillow.Grab your tissues, your inner child, and whatever is left of your dignity — because this episode is peak emotional Olympics. Tell us in the comments: What's the stupidest thing you've ever cried over?Chaptering-(00:00) – We're back, emotional, lightly hydrated(00:36) – Stop bottling it up, bestie(01:32) – Yet another dad story (we can't help it)(02:26) – No noodles = instant tears(04:32) – 14-course tasting… aka khichdi(07:30) – Why we cry: triggers exposed(09:13) – Saddest places to cry, ranked(10:51) – Crying with body parts… science?(12:51) – Women vs emotions: impossible game(14:10) – Maths exam = certified trauma(16:53) – School-era “not feminine enough” arc(19:14) – Songs & movies that destroyed us(21:13) – When THEY cry vs when he cries(22:35) – Crying in love vs crying at work(24:35) – Reels & ads that ruin your day(27:50) – Ariana's red carpet meme meltdown(29:13) – Celebrity crush posters & teen delulu(31:42) – Anger via venting & gossip (MOS style)(33:22) – Kid anger vs adult anger(38:35) – Women vs men: crying stats(40:44) – Dependent vs independent girl POV(42:18) – Cute dreams vs emotionally violent ones(45:43) – Anxious girlies: hyper-vigilant edition(47:47) – Are you a crier or a yeller?)Also don't forget to visit our website- https://mos-pod.com/Password : mospod4evaAlso… consider this your gentle-but-not-really-gentle reminder to watch our first ever MOS Vlog- https://youtu.be/IBKqUmMtwy0Follow MoS on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/momentofsil...Credits:Naina Bhan - Co-host and certified overthinkerhttps://www.instagram.com/nainabee?ig...Sakshi Shivdasani - Co-host, balancing out Naina's overthinking with a healthy dose of not thinkinghttps://www.instagram.com/sakshishivd...Produced by Handmade - Our personal cheering squad https://www.instagram.com/thehandmade...Creative direction by Tinkre, Keeper of MoS' signature “Pookie” energy Natascha Mehrahttps://www.instagram.com/tinkre.in/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/natascha.zip/?hl=enResearched by our very own curiosity engineer - Aashna Sharma https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashna-sharma-913146179Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are for entertaining purposes only and do not necessarily reflect those of the hosts, the production team, or affiliated brand. We don't claim to be experts- just two people with Wi-fi and feelings. While we encourage open dialogue, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any information shared. Listener discretion is advised — especially if you're allergic to strong opinions.

"Og du skal elske Herren din Gud av hele ditt hjerte, av hele din sjel, og av all din forstand og av all din kraft." (Mark. 12:30)Har du tenkt over at dette er Guds hensikt med mennesket? En som heter P. Washer har skrevet så nydelig om det. Vi er til for å elske Gud. Alt vi er blitt gitt, er for å sette oss i stand til å elske Ham. Vi er blitt gitt pust og ord - for å kunne prise Ham, sier Bibelen (Hebr. 13:15; Jak.3:9-10). Vi er blitt gitt følelser og evnen til å tolke og styre dem - for å kunne rette dem mot Gud, kan vi lese (Joh. 14:21). Vi er blitt gitt forstand som kan tenke komplisert og avansert - for at vi kan forstå mer av hvor stor Gud er (Sal. 8; Ef. 3:18-19). Vi er blitt gitt en kropp og styrke - for å kunne gjøre Hans vilje (Hebr. 10:5-7). Og vi er blitt gitt kreativitet, evner og gaver - for å bygge Guds rike (2. Mos. 31:3-5; Ef.4:12).Ethvert menneskes kall er å elske Gud. Når vi bruker det vi er gitt til å gi noe tilbake til Ham, på en eller annen måte, oppfyller vi vår fremste hensikt. I det finner vi ekte tilfredsstillelse!La oss tenke på hva vi er blitt gitt. Alt i fra kroppen og pusten vår til evnene og gavene og ressursene våre – hvordan bruker vi det til å elske Gud? Hvor trenger vi å gjøre korrigeringer? Og hvis vi bruker det, for menneskenes skyld eller for egen tilfredsstillelse, så svikter vi vårt opprinnelige kall. Det er bare ved å elske Gud, at vi finner ekte tilfredsstillelse.Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

HELLOOOO & welcome back to another episode of MOMENT OF SILENCE This week we did a full-spectrum deep-dive — from Delhi AQI chaos to POND'S Review-the-Reviews awards and the weirdest food icks you didn't know you needed.We unbox content-creator life (shoutout Puja), family-vlogging privacy vs profit, and whether PDA at a family dinner is iconic or illegal. Also: hangovers, Holi, lacy lingerie and mothers who judge everything — plus the confession booth where we ask, “What have you hidden from your parents?” We finally tackle the eternal question — who pays on dates?— and decode Delhi marriage checklists, IKEA parenting stories, and the moment we introduced a whole new popcorn category (WHAT. Corn.). Finish it off with a spicy debate on emotional vs physical cheating, and you've got one unhinged, very relatable episode. Grab your snacks, your purifier, and your boundaries — and tune in. Drop a comment: What's the most embarrassing thing you've asked your parents for permission for? Chaptering:(00:00) – We're back, refreshed-ish and ready to overshare.(00:54) – Popcorn & Flopcorn: Naina vs the app (please like her attempt)(02:22) – Food icks get weirder.(06:00) – Delhi AQI reality check: purifiers, marathons & secret smokers(07:02) – POND'S Awards — Review the Reviews goes full chaos(12:47) – Life of Puja: Indian content creator tea spilled(14:02) – Most embarrassing permission request from your parents? Tell us.(15:59) – North West at PFW — fashion headlines & small humans, big drama(19:18) – Family vlogging = privacy breach, or just content?(24:40) – PDA in families: yay, nay, or awkward?(27:57) – Hangovers, Holi, lacy lingerie & the mothers who judge you (obvs)(32:27) – One thing you've hidden from your parents — confessions time(34:15) – Lying for sport — casual dishonesty or Olympic-level?(38:09) – Who should pay on dates? We MAY have an answer… finally.(39:36) – Delhi marriage checklist — the things you're “supposed” to do(44:57) – Career Ladder host bombs the guess — plot twist incoming(47:15) – How to wind down from too much fun? We have opinions(50:42) – Parents naming private parts for toddlers — cringe or cultural?(53:46) – IKEA stories & modern parenting hacks (or fails)(01:00:43) – WHAT. Corn!!! (new popcorn category, credits: Sushi)(01:03:11) – E-commerce and parents(01:08:19) – Emotional vs Physical cheating — the big debate (no chill)(01:10:06) – Hit subscribe, help us get to 100K (bribe us with hearts)Also don't forget to visit our website- https://mos-pod.com/Password : mospod4evaAlso… consider this your gentle-but-not-really-gentle reminder to watch our first ever MOS Vlog- https://youtu.be/IBKqUmMtwy0Follow MoS on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/momentofsil...Credits:Naina Bhan - Co-host and certified overthinkerhttps://www.instagram.com/nainabee?ig...Sakshi Shivdasani - Co-host, balancing out Naina's overthinking with a healthy dose of not thinkinghttps://www.instagram.com/sakshishivd...Produced by Handmade - Our personal cheering squad https://www.instagram.com/thehandmade...Creative direction by Tinkre, Keeper of MoS' signature “Pookie” energy Natascha Mehrahttps://www.instagram.com/tinkre.in/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/natascha.zip/?hl=en Researched by our very own curiosity engineer - Aashna Sharma https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashna-sharma-913146179Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are for entertaining purposes only and do not necessarily reflect those of the hosts, the production team, or affiliated brand. We don't claim to be experts- just two people with Wi-fi and feelings. While we encourage open dialogue, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any information shared. Listener discretion is advised — especially if you're allergic to strong opinions.

In quel tempo, si avvicinarono a Gesù alcuni sadducèi – i quali dicono che non c'è risurrezione – e gli posero questa domanda: «Maestro, Mosè ci ha prescritto: “Se muore il fratello di qualcuno che ha moglie, ma è senza figli, suo fratello prenda la moglie e dia una discendenza al proprio fratello”. C'erano dunque sette fratelli: il primo, dopo aver preso moglie, morì senza figli. Allora la prese il secondo e poi il terzo e così tutti e sette morirono senza lasciare figli. Da ultimo morì anche la donna. La donna dunque, alla risurrezione, di chi sarà moglie? Poiché tutti e sette l'hanno avuta in moglie». Gesù rispose loro: «I figli di questo mondo prendono moglie e prendono marito; ma quelli che sono giudicati degni della vita futura e della risurrezione dai morti, non prendono né moglie né marito: infatti non possono più morire, perché sono uguali agli angeli e, poiché sono figli della risurrezione, sono figli di Dio. Che poi i morti risorgano, lo ha indicato anche Mosè a proposito del roveto, quando dice: “Il Signore è il Dio di Abramo, Dio di Isacco e Dio di Giacobbe”. Dio non è dei morti, ma dei viventi; perché tutti vivono per lui». Dissero allora alcuni scribi: «Maestro, hai parlato bene». E non osavano più rivolgergli alcuna domanda.

Dal Vangelo secondo LucaIn quel tempo, si avvicinarono a Gesù alcuni sadducèi – i quali dicono che non c'è risurrezione – e gli posero questa domanda: «Maestro, Mosè ci ha prescritto: “Se muore il fratello di qualcuno che ha moglie, ma è senza figli, suo fratello prenda la moglie e dia una discendenza al proprio fratello”. C'erano dunque sette fratelli: il primo, dopo aver preso moglie, morì senza figli. Allora la prese il secondo e poi il terzo e così tutti e sette morirono senza lasciare figli. Da ultimo morì anche la donna. La donna dunque, alla risurrezione, di chi sarà moglie? Poiché tutti e sette l'hanno avuta in moglie».Gesù rispose loro: «I figli di questo mondo prendono moglie e prendono marito; ma quelli che sono giudicati degni della vita futura e della risurrezione dai morti, non prendono né moglie né marito: infatti non possono più morire, perché sono uguali agli angeli e, poiché sono figli della risurrezione, sono figli di Dio. Che poi i morti risorgano, lo ha indicato anche Mosè a proposito del roveto, quando dice: “Il Signore è il Dio di Abramo, Dio di Isacco e Dio di Giacobbe”. Dio non è dei morti, ma dei viventi; perché tutti vivono per lui».Dissero allora alcuni scribi: «Maestro, hai parlato bene». E non osavano più rivolgergli alcuna domanda.

CELTA - Actualidad del Celta. - Tertulia con Miguel Salgado y Richy Álvarez. - Actualidad del Celta Fortuna. - Actualidad de As Celtas. FÚTBOL LOCAL - Resultados de 1ª, 2ª y 3ª Federación. POLIDEPORTIVO - Entrevista a Samuel Pereiro, entrenador de Martina Sande en el Club de Tenis de Mesa de Mos. - Sección de Balonmano con Quique Lora. Invitado: Jesús López, presidente del Mecalia Atlético Guardés.

Half-tempo, techstep, and pop drum & bass =============================== Artist - Track Title - Label Singular Mind - Feel You - Fokuz Recordings The Lights - Smiling - Flight Pattern The Lights - Old Fashioned Things - Flight Pattern The Lights - Waltz For Alice - Flight Pattern Soul Intent featuring Sula Mae - The Fire - Exkursions Noisia - Mantra (Mat Zo Remix) - Vision Recordings DJ Koncept - One Time For Your Mind - Knife Skills Jinx And Dazee - Bring It Down - Ruffneck Ting The Lights - Bunch Of Fives - Flight Pattern Red Sky - Nimby - Lockdown Recordings Outer Soul - Beginning's End - DSCI4 Red Sky - Wey-Yu - Lockdown Recordings Derrick FunkMasters - No Homosapiens feat. N.E.D - Shimbala Records C.A.B.L.E. - Individual - Dutty Audio Dominic Ridgeway - My Mind - Squares Music Silent Extent - Never Be Mine - Architecture Recordings Cartridge & John Rolodex - Light Cycles (FREAK006EP-D) - Freak Recordings Spirit, Denial - Lost - Chronic Red Army - Double Dragon - Offish Productions Timbuck1200 - Space & Time - Soul Trader Records Quellsy - Iterations (Electrosoul System Remix) - Kos.Mos.Music Flite - Joy - Liquicity Records Break feat. MC Fats, Cleveland Watkiss - Conversations (Dub Mix) - Symmetry Recordings Devo, Wuki - Whip It - THRIVE MUSIC Danny Byrd - Bad Boy (Back Again) - Hospital Records Venjent, Oktae - Heaven - Extended Mista Trick and Fizzy Gillespie featuring Lottie Jones - Smile [Explicit] - Swing & Bass Danny Byrd - Roll the Drums - Hospital Records Con*Natural featuring MC Conrad - Lean Upwards (Makoto Remix) - Resonance Kwizma - What the Hell - Kuro Records Metrik - Hackers - Hospital Records Andromedik - Beside Me - Andromedik Nu:Logic - We Live There (feat. Drs) - Hospital Records Future Shock - Take This - Neuropunk Records Sub Focus - Siren - Virgin EMI DR S Gachet - Remember The Roller (Bladerunner Remix) - Audiomaze London Elektricity - I Don't Understand - Hospital Records DR S Gachet - Remember The Roller (Bladerunner Remix) - Audiomaze Black Sun Empire and Prolix - No Advance - Blackout Music René LaVice, Current Value - Lose Control - DeVice Silent Dust, Jaskin & Uneven - Orion - Squares Music THE DARROW CHEM SYNDICATE - For Tortoise (Chris.SU Remix) - Nipponeer Records Soul Intent - Interlude #2 - Exkursions Red Sky - Stories - Lockdown Recordings Royalston, Victoria - Undone - Medschool Photek - Man Down - Photek Productions Ivan Ovodov - Hyperextension - Kos.Mos.Music Coco Bryce - Like Normal Death - Western Lore Kublai - Back Home - Floodlight The Lights - Prodigal Son - Flight Pattern Massive Attack & Mad Professor - Radiation Ruling The Nation (Protection) Total Science and Mako - Rathbone Strikes Again - Subtitles Music ======================================== This is the recording of Hack The Planet 569 with DJ Pfeif from 11-15-25, originally aired on twitch.tv/djpfeifdnb and Valley Free Radio, WXOJ. Hack The Planet is live every Saturday night at 8:00pm ET. More information at https://djpfeif.com. Thanks for listening. Enjoy!

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"Oksen kjenner sin eier, og eselet sin herres krybbe, men Israel skjønner ikke. Mitt folk er uten forstand." (Jes. 1:3)Gud sa dette om jødefolket fordi de hadde vendt Ham ryggen, enda Han var deres Herre og Frelser, kan vi lese (43:3). Men det som slo meg var ordene om at eselet kjenner sin herres krybbe.I Bibelen er eselet et urent dyr for jødene. Likevel var det nettopp et esel Jesus red på inn i Jerusalem (2.Mos.13:13; Mark.11:7). Om det var urent, ble det likevel gitt stor omsorg og verdi av Gud. Det ser vi for eksempel i det tiende budet og i reglene om sabbat: "Vi skal ikke begjære vår nestes okse eller esel, og på sabbaten skulle både okse og esel få fri" (2.Mos. 20:17; 23:12).Vi hedningekristne blir litt som eselet: vi er "urene" for jødene (Apg.10:28). Men Gud har omsorg for oss også, og hviledagen gjelder også for oss, og vi bærer Jesus som Konge i hjerte og liv (1.Tim. 6:15; 1.Pet. 5:8; Hebr. 4:1-10). Det står ikke noe i Bibelen om der var noen dyr i stallen i Betlehem, men vi kjenner definitivt vår Herre Jesus sin krybbe (Luk. 2:7)! Så la oss da ikke være et folk uten forstand. Vi er et folk som kjenner vår Herres krybbe. Vi vet hvor Han er født, vi vet hvor Han kommer ifra: Han kommer ifra Gud. Og så ble Han født som menneske, og så levde Han her, det livet vi skulle ha levd. Og så døde Han den døden vi skulle ha dødd. Og så har Han satt oss fri til å leve i fellesskap med Gud og i kjærlighet til hverandre.Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

The Army is realigning its missile defense forces to prioritize homeland protection, placing two key commands under Space and Missile Defense Command. I spoke with Lieutenant General Sean Gainey, commander of Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, at this year's AUSA conference to understand how this shift fits into a broader strategy that includes space operations, a new MOS, and lessons from today's global conflicts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dani Dufresne is an Emmy-winning producer and founder of The Aux Co, bringing over a decade of experience cleaning up creative disasters for major brands. In this episode, we explore why beautiful, expensive productions often deliver empty results and how production expertise at the beginning—not the end—of creative development changes everything.Dani's journey from film school to becoming a fractional executive producer reveals a fundamental flaw in how agencies and brands approach creative: they develop the idea first, then figure out how to produce it. This backwards process leads to blown budgets, compromised creative, and campaigns that look stunning but deliver nothing.The Movie Poster Test: If you can't explain your brand message in one sentence, your creative has already failedWhy agencies fail: The fatal flaw of developing creative without production expertise in the roomAI's brutal exposure: How artificial intelligence revealed $25 million in wasted programmatic ad spend from Q2 aloneCommunity vs influencers: Why borrowing audiences through influencer marketing is dying, and authentic community building is the futureThe burnout trap: How being the "problem solver" trains clients to only call you when things breakCinematic storytelling trends: The rise of MOS (music-only) filmmaking and why vintage/Y2K aesthetics signal authenticityFractional production model: How The Aux Co embeds expertise into agency teams without the overheadSimplicity wins: Why attention spans demand one-sentence messaging, not 50-page decksTimestamps:00:00 – Film school journey & production company origins02:47 – Transition from film editing to production work03:32 – Discovering producer role through problem-solving06:24 – Film development to advertising pivot07:36 – Agency vs production company dynamics08:36 – Founding The Aux Co as fractional production team10:50 – Building trust through small wins approach11:32 – Early involvement prevents costly mistakes13:11 – Results-focused creative evaluation14:40 – Longer-form branded entertainment opportunity15:54 – Community building over influencer borrowing17:52 – AI enabling real human connection work18:24 – Programmatic ad waste analysis ($25M Q2)19:28 – Vintage/Y2K aesthetic as authenticity signal21:01 – AI for rapid ideation & creative iteration22:43 – Cinematic storytelling & MOS filmmaking trend26:28 – Simplicity as ultimate creative power29:41 – Attention span decline requiring simple messaging31:33 – Evolution of director vs agency creative roles34:22 – Fractional executive producer model breakdown37:12 – Managing burnout & client selectivity38:23 – Letting go of problem-only clients40:56 – Partner dynamics & production software ventureWe explore the dramatic shift from influencer marketing to community building, the role AI plays in exposing waste and enabling genuine human connection, and why the most powerful creative ideas pass the "movie poster test"—explainable in a single sentence.If your brand message takes more than one sentence to explain, you don't have a creative problem—you have a clarity problem. The best ideas are simple enough to fit on a movie poster, powerful enough to drive results, and honest enough to build real community. Stop developing creative in a vacuum and bring production expertise to the table from day one.Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Drop The Mic and leave a review! New episodes drop weekly with insights from marketing leaders, agency owners, and creative experts transforming how brands connect in the AI era.

"Mens han fremdeles snakket med dem, se, der var utsendingen nede hos ham. Han kom ned til ham. Da sa kongen: 'Sannelig, denne ulykken er fra Herren. Hvorfor skulle jeg vente lenger på Herren?'" (2. Kong. 6:33)Det var ei fryktelig vanskelig tid. Byen var beleiret, og tidene var harde (v. 5). Eselkjøtt ble solgt som menneskemat, enda det var urent (2.Mos. 13:13). Til og med hodet, den dårligste delen, ble solgt. Due-møkk, enten det var virkelig møkk eller kallenavnet på en næringsfattig og lite appetittlig rett, ble også solgt. Ja, mødre drepte og spiste barna sine, til og med, og det rystet kongen til bristepunktet, kan vi lese (v. 25 &28-30). Han var i ferd med å gi opp: "Hvorfor skulle jeg vente lenger på Herren?"Men svaret og hjelpen var så nærme! Allerede dagen etter skulle det bugne av mat, står det (7:1)! Og det ble slik! I nattens mørke forvirret Herren syrernes hær. Og ikke bare flyktet de i hui og hast, men de etterlot seg også alt av mat og verdier - mer enn nok til byens befolkning (v. 3-16).Om ting ser aldri så mørkt ut, så gjelder det å holde fast i håpet om hjelp fra Herren. Han vet hvor nær hjelpa er. Plutselig kan det snu!Kanskje er du der i dag, at du er i ferd med å gi opp. Det er gått fra vondt til verre. Hvorfor skulle du vente lenger på Gud, her er der liksom ikke hjelp å få... Til deg vil jeg si: ikke gi opp! Gud ser alt, og Han ser allerede bønnesvaret oppfylt. Hold ut! En dag skal du også få se det!Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

01. Maxx Play - Kiss (Original) 02. Eran Hersh, Tekkman, Juany Bravo - Coco Loco (Extended Mix) 03. Amal Nemer - Ain't Nobody (Extended Mix) 04. Hugel, SOLTO (FR) - Jamaican (Bam Bam) (Extended Mix) 05. Mijangos - Mueve Tu Cuerpo (Jeremy Bass Extended Remix) 06. Shapov, Swanky Tunes - Desejante (Extended Mix) 07. Backeer, Elline, Mad Afro - LoL (Extended Mix) 08. Kevin McKay, Pupa Nas T, Denise Belfon, Broken Hill - Work (feat. Denise Belfon) (Broken Hill Extended Remix) 09. WELKER (BR) - Got The Floor (Extended Mix) 10. Seventh Soul, Sadriano - Pump It Up (Original Mix) 11. Johannes Brecht - Not My Feelin' (Original Mix) 12. Cevin Fisher, DJ Chus - Everytime I Try (Jhony Diniz Remix) 13. Claptone, Sea Girls, Henry Camamile - Put Your Love On Me (Marco Lys Extended Mix) 14. Andrey Exx, GonSu - Fiesta (Extended Mix) 15. Alexey Union, Che&Mos, Fortune Lio C - Forbidden Party (Original Mix) 16. Kususa, MANU (UK) - Freedom Dance (Original Mix) 17. BOg - This Feeling (HIGHLITE Remix) 18. Ursula Rucker, Qess - Spaces In Between (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) 19. Dub Pepper, Februm - The Show (Original Mix) 20. Rafael Cerato - Rude Boy (Extended Mix) 21. Kevin McKay - Come Together (Extended Mix) 22. Jody Wisternoff - Sweetest Thing (Marsh Extended Mix)

01. Maxx Play - Kiss (Original) 02. Eran Hersh, Tekkman, Juany Bravo - Coco Loco (Extended Mix) 03. Amal Nemer - Ain't Nobody (Extended Mix) 04. Hugel, SOLTO (FR) - Jamaican (Bam Bam) (Extended Mix) 05. Mijangos - Mueve Tu Cuerpo (Jeremy Bass Extended Remix) 06. Shapov, Swanky Tunes - Desejante (Extended Mix) 07. Backeer, Elline, Mad Afro - LoL (Extended Mix) 08. Kevin McKay, Pupa Nas T, Denise Belfon, Broken Hill - Work (feat. Denise Belfon) (Broken Hill Extended Remix) 09. WELKER (BR) - Got The Floor (Extended Mix) 10. Seventh Soul, Sadriano - Pump It Up (Original Mix) 11. Johannes Brecht - Not My Feelin' (Original Mix) 12. Cevin Fisher, DJ Chus - Everytime I Try (Jhony Diniz Remix) 13. Claptone, Sea Girls, Henry Camamile - Put Your Love On Me (Marco Lys Extended Mix) 14. Andrey Exx, GonSu - Fiesta (Extended Mix) 15. Alexey Union, Che&Mos, Fortune Lio C - Forbidden Party (Original Mix) 16. Kususa, MANU (UK) - Freedom Dance (Original Mix) 17. BOg - This Feeling (HIGHLITE Remix) 18. Ursula Rucker, Qess - Spaces In Between (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) 19. Dub Pepper, Februm - The Show (Original Mix) 20. Rafael Cerato - Rude Boy (Extended Mix) 21. Kevin McKay - Come Together (Extended Mix) 22. Jody Wisternoff - Sweetest Thing (Marsh Extended Mix)

Roedolf van der Westhuizen, uitvoerende hoof van Die MOS Inisiatief, en Lerina van Rensburg, hoof van Enso Akademie in Wonderboom, Pretoria het met Esté Meyer Jansen oor dié skool gesels. Hulle verduidelik die visie agter hierdie baanbreker- Afrikaanse skool: van die simboliek van die Enso-sirkel tot die droom om leerders te vorm wat die toekoms met selfvertroue en karakter aanpak. Kom luister na die volledige onderhoud om te hoor hoe hierdie nuwe sirkel van leer, lewe en groei deel van MOS se groter droom vir moedertaalonderrig is. Maroela Media

"Vårt hjerte gleder seg i ham, vi setter vår lit til hans hellige navn." (Sal 33:21)Det virker puslete og ulogisk at vi skal stole på et navn, men vi ser det samme gjentatt i Det nye testamentet om Jesu navn som frelser (Matt. 1:21; Apg. 4:12). I Bibelen er navn nært knyttet til identitet. Navnet forteller noe om personen, ja, navnet ER personen. En annen salme sier: "De som kjenner ditt navn, har tillit til deg, for du svikter ikke dem som søker deg, Herre." (Sal. 9:11). Å kjenne navnet er mer enn å vite hva det er. Det er å kjenne personen. Men hva er så Herrens hellige navn, siden vi kan stole på det?I det gamle testamentet  presenterer Han seg som Jahve, et akronym for Jeg Er Den Jeg Er, ofte forkortet til Jeg Er, (1.Mos. 3:14). Det er et navn også Jesus brukte, men det kommer ikke så tydelig fram i norske oversettelser (se Mark. 14:62; Joh.8:58).Herren ER, og Han er mye, og Han er det kontinuerlig. Han skifter ikke, Han endrer seg ikke, sier Bibelen (Hebr.13:8; Jak.1:17). Det vitner om stabilitet, trofasthet og soliditet, og det er grunnen til at vi kan stole på Ham! Det gjør i alle fall meg glad!Og tenk, så flott da, at vi skal få lov til å stole på og klynge oss til et navn! Ikke ei lang regle med ord, ikke en lang prosedyre som vi må gjennom, men et navn som vi kan få rope, når vi har det vondt eller vanskelig, når vi er fortvilet eller leie – eller når vi bare ønsker å prise - Jesus!Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

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"Jeg så noe som lignet et hav av glass, blandet med ild. Og de som seiret over dyret, over bildet og hans merke, og over hans navns tall, så jeg stå på glasshavet. Og de hadde Guds harper." (Åp. 15:2)Videre i dette kapittelet i Åpenbaringen kan vi lese at Johannes hørte at de sang en lovsang til Herren, slik som Moses og israelittene sang da de kom seirende ut av Rødehavet (v. 3; 2.Mos. 15). Tolkninger varierer, men jeg tror ikke dette glassaktige havet er det samme som Johannes så foran Guds trone (4:6). Jeg tror det kan være et bilde på prøvelsene som dyret og bildet har påført menneskene, og som de troende er kommet ut av, slik grunnteksten sier. Gud har lovet å være med oss gjennom både ild og vann, sier Bibelen (Sal. 66:12; Jes. 43:2), og for Ham er prøvelsene fullstendig gjennomsiktige. Han ser alt som skjer oss, lover Bibelen (2.Mos. 3:7; Åp. 2:9; 3:8). Han fører oss gjennom, og det er verdt en lovsang!Johannes ble vist dette synet før han ble vist synet om de sju siste plagene. Det er som om Gud minner om at uansett hva som skjer, er Han i stand til å bevare sine! Vi skal seire, og vi skal lovprise Gud!Å, det er en god påminnelse å ta med seg videre, at uansett hvilken prøvelse vi står i nå, uansett hvor vanskelig, hvor umulig, hvor tyngende det er, så er alt dette gjennomsiktig for Gud. Han ser alt. Og så vil Han føre oss gjennom, ut av og løfte oss opp, og vi skal lovprise Gud!Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

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Tabs, Mos and Ian have a fun chat looking back at another easy, calm and confident Arsenal win — a composed 2–0 victory over Burnley at the Emirates that keeps the Gunners seven points clear at the top of the league and extends the unbeaten record breaking run run.We cover:-Declan Rice's masterclass – control, leadership & why he's so good and half-price-Arsenal's defensive record again – just 3 conceded in 10 league games-What a difference a fresh Gyokeres makes-Reactions around the league – Spurs meltdown, Liverpool's luck & Emery's misfire-Early season reflections – can Arsenal actually walk the league?-Title talk – Moz goes bold with his “14-point gap” prediction-Spurs schadenfreude & why they'll always be “in our shadow”-Three-Word Reviews from Threads, BlueSky, X & TikTok — from “Half Price Rice” to “Same Old Arsenal”-Champions League preview: Slavia Prague away – rotation plans, injury worries (Gyökeres, Rice one booking away), and line-up debates-Score predictions for Prague – Moz's “5-0 Arsenal” vs Tabs & Ian's 2-0 realismAnother win, top of the league, eyes on Europe next.Follow and subscribe to The Grove Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube for your weekly Arsenal fix.THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! COME ON YOU GUNNERS! @ The Grove Everyone is Welcome!Follow, rate, and subscribe to The Grove Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.Find us on Bluesky, Threads, TikTok and YouTube: @thegroveafcEmail us here: thegrovepodcast@outlook.com

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"Du ser til jorden og vanner den, Du gir den overflod av rikdom. Guds kilde er full av vann. Du sørger for deres korn, for slik har Du lagt det til rette." (Sal. 65:10)Tenk det, Gud har lagt til rette! Da Han i opphavet skapte jorda, skapte Han gress og planter med frø. Slik la Han til rette for at de kan vokse og frø seg selv videre. Til det trenger de vann, og det hadde Han allerede lagt til rette for. Han skilte vannene, så noe trakk opp i luften mens noe ble igjen på bakkenivå, kan vi lese (1.Mos. 1:6-12). Dermed var kretsløpet i gang, og det sviver fortsatt.Noen ganger kan vi se tydeligere enn ellers i livene våre, at "her har Gud lagt til rette." Han legger til rette for trivsel, vekst og modning, meningsfulle oppgaver, kall og tjenester, står det (Ef. 2:10; 4:15-16). Når vi ser det, forstår vi at Han har vært på ferde i forkant og forberedt. Det er trosstyrkende.Guds vannkilde er full, sier salmisten. Guds kilde av nåde og velsignelser er full, forteller Bibelen (Sal. 31:20; Joh.1:14). Han går aldri tom, derfor kan vi alle søke til Ham, igjen og igjen, for alt det vi trenger!La oss ta med oss de ordene i dag, og ta oss tid til å se etter i livet vårt, hvordan Gud har lagt til rette for det som vi trengte. Og la oss søke til Ham som kilden for alt vi trenger, igjen og igjen, i full visshet om at Han går aldri tom!Skrevet og lest av Eli Fuglestad for Norea Håpets Kvinner.

Double Tap Episode 433   This episode of Double Tap is brought to you by: Midwest Industries, Gideon Optics, Die Free Co., RMA Defense, Bowers Group, Mitchell Defense, and Rost Martin   Welcome to Double Tap, episode 433! Your hosts tonight are Jeremy Pozderac, Aaron Krieger, Nick Lynch, and me Shawn Herrin, welcome to the show!   Krampus- http://welikeshooting.com/krampus - Dear WLS   Nick F - you can replace your laugh or a cast members laugh with any animal sound. who and what sound are you choosing?   Pete O. Eraser - This question is for Jeremy, since I don't value any of you faggots' opinions. If you could only have five blades to deal with TEOTWAWKI, what would you choose? I'd do a puuko knife for fine details, a full tang Ka-Bar for a steak knife and general knife work, a kukri made from a leaf spring from a truck for silent offensive use, a cheap machete for clearing brush and general hacking and slicing of communists, and a tomahawk-style hand axe for larger branches and grappling   Ethan - Do any of your 3d printer nerds know where I can find an STL for a lower that takes scorpion mags? MP5 mag lower works too.PS Jeremy is a cunt, but the good kind.   HugMuffin Actual - Dear Esteemed Gentlemen. I'm currently re-welding a Skorpion VZ 61 parts kit, and this is my first exposure to this ancient yet adorable .32 ACP cartridge. Do you see modern-day firearm manufacturers rediscovering and embracing this underused cartridge? Does it have potential in micro-compact pistols, suppressors, and for limp-wristed nancy-boys like me? Cheers, and extra-special hugs for you all! HugMuffin. NO NOTES   Ryan H - I have a 320 in a Strike Industries chassis. It has the strike industry folding brace. Their brace is a blade style. I am using a section of a bike inner tube as a large rubber band to hold Allen wrenches and an extra battery on that brace. The rubber band completely wraps around the brace blade, which could be considered “padding”? Do you think this is breaking the law and turning it into a shoulder-able stock? P.S. I put a Gideon Alpha on it and am very pleased. Thanks for the recommendation.   Kermit Thee Frog - Just wanted to follow up on my previous question about the Warhawk 3-15. A couple weeks before you guys got to my message I stumbled on an Athlon Helos BTR Gen2 4-20 for just over 500 doll hairs. It has locking turrets and zero stop while also decent weight for its class. I've been able to use it to shoot out to 900, 1100 and a 16x16 plate at 1300 yards with a 20” 6.5 Grendel AR. I'm really impressed with the glass quality and eye relief. The turrets also feel really good. The image gets a little dark at 20x as well as tight exit pupil but I don't think it's really that bad at all for this price point. I've been shooting the 16x16 plate at 1300 on 16x and can clearly see my hits without any purple fringing or other clarity issues. For the price of this optic I would highly recommend it.Also I have to say the Grendel has really surprised me. I was planning on switching out to 6 ARC but so far the Grendel has surpassed my expectations for what I use this rifle for."   Fuhh Q Shawn - Are there any companies that make a fixed stock, like Magpul, that fit over a standard carbine buffer tube?   Randy Randy - I got a rost martin rm1c. The manual mentions MOS but when I emailed rost martin they said I had to use a plate since theirs is special. But I thought I heard one of you say you directly mounted the MOS gideon. So did I mishear or do I need to use the rmr plate? The winner of this week's swag pack is HugMuffin Actual! To win your own, go to welikeshooting.com/dashboard and submit a question! Gun Industry News   Burris Launches New Fullfield Riflescopes   Burris launched the fifth generation of its Fullfield riflescope series,

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Tyler sits down with Tyler Xuan Saltsman, co-founder and CEO of EdgeRunner AI, to talk about building air-gapped, domain-specific AI for the warfighter. From his time as a Penn State wrestler and Army logistics officer to leading supercompute projects at AWS and Stability AI, Saltsman's journey has been about speed, precision, and making technology usable where it matters most: at the tactical edge.What's happening on the Second Front:How EdgeRunner AI builds personalized, disconnected models that know your MOS or AFSCWhy smaller, localized models outperform one-size-fits-all AI in the fieldReal-world logistics workflows — op orders, manifests, and mission pivots — powered by edge AIThe importance of sovereign, culturally aligned AI across partner nationsHow synthetic data can expose unit readiness and knowledge gapsLessons in velocity: why 80 percent deployed beats 100 percent delayedConnect with TylerLinkedIn: Tyler Xuan SaltsmanConnect with TylerLinkedIn: Tyler Sweatt

This week on Moment of Silence, the chaos has range — actor, gym buddy, wedding planner, and possibly a manifesting expert— Anyaa Singh is in the house, and the girlies are ready to spill.

- Premi il tasto PLAY per ascoltare la catechesi del giorno e condividi con altri se vuoi -+ Dal Vangelo secondo Luca +  (Rito Ambrosiano)In quel tempo. Il Signore Gesù disse ai suoi discepoli: «Sono queste le parole che io vi dissi quando ero ancora con voi: bisogna che si compiano tutte le cose scritte su di me nella legge di Mosè, nei Profeti e nei Salmi». Allora aprì loro la mente per comprendere le Scritture e disse loro: «Così sta scritto: il Cristo patirà e risorgerà dai morti il terzo giorno, e nel suo nome saranno predicati a tutti i popoli la conversione e il perdono dei peccati, cominciando da Gerusalemme. Di questo voi siete testimoni».Parola del Signore.

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Host: Zack KnightGuest: Lindsey Streeter, Military Affairs Executive, Bank of America; retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major; Owner, Savannah Hurricanes; Founder, Streeter Esports & EntertainmentRecorded at: The Buckhead Club, AtlantaEpisode SummaryLindsey Streeter unpacks the difference between veteran-friendly and veteran-ready, shares the “divine timing” behind his transition to Bank of America, and details practical systems that improve retention, mobility, and belonging for veteran talent. He also talks entrepreneurship—the Savannah Hurricanes, community impact that earned national recognition, and why legacy is the point of the work.Timestamps00:00–01:06 – Welcome, road-warrior points for Lindsey & Lena; ATLVets 12-city expansion01:06–02:01 – ATLVets update: 30,000-sq-ft Roswell Veterans Center of Excellence (co-working, accelerator, human performance)02:01–05:35 – Who Lindsey is beyond the bio: purpose, the “dash,” widowhood, second chances, community focus05:35–06:21 – Entrepreneurship thread: Savannah Hurricanes, community programs, national recognition; thoroughbred ownership as legacy06:21–11:20 – Why the Army, early years, mentors who shaped a 31-year career, sitting the E-9 board and realizing the path fit11:20–13:11 – Favorite assignment: Savannah (1989), Desert Shield/Storm13:52–17:26 – Transition fear, the phone call that changed everything, veteran rotational program at Bank of America18:08–22:18 – Veteran-ready vs. veteran-friendly: right-fit recruiting, five-year lookback, precision nets22:18–25:07 – Veteran Onboarding Initiative (90-day buddy), ERG scale, safe-space learning25:07–26:40 – Veteran Development Program: 5-month cohorts, senior-leader exposure, capstone, retention & mobility outcomes27:25–29:14 – What keeps vets: visible path to progress & purpose; paid service time (TRWB, Team Rubicon)29:14–30:27 – The big vision: careers for veterans and military spouses; portability matters31:06–33:48 – Entrepreneurship as purpose; measurable community impact and recognition33:48–34:47 – Reality check: ~20% of transitioning vets start businesses; the capital/network gap36:42–38:11 – How BofA helps vet founders: CDFIs, Bunker Labs/IVMF, dedicated small-business bankers39:11–44:10 – Hiring advice: dedicated veteran recruiters, translate MOS, hire for coachability, avoid credential inflation theater47:22–49:09 – Becoming veteran-ready without alienating non-vets; why some vets don't self-ID48:28–49:09 – Life Event Services: one number when life hits53:26–55:16 – Financial literacy gaps; Better Money Habits origin story for military families59:56–1:04:23 – Purpose and the personal mission statement (Covey influence), living consistently across roles1:05:21–1:10:26 – Why ATLVets exists: solving the “Now what?” after TAP; VetOPS, accelerator, and sustainable impact model1:10:26–1:11:04 – Wrap, networking, and selfies (season tickets, anyone?)Key IdeasVeteran-ready = systems: precision hiring, 90-day buddies, ERG-powered belonging, visible mobility, Guard/Reserve support, Life Event Services.Purpose retains: service opportunities on company time satisfy the mission drive.Entrepreneurship needs scaffolding: CDFIs for capital readiness; incubators/accelerators for reps; pitch platforms for proof.Translate, don't transpose: MOS ≠ job title; hire for potential and humility.Financial literacy is aftercare: VA loan realities, tax exemptions, and...

We finally did it — the 100th episode of Moment of Silence and oh boy, the drama didn't take a day off. Between hate comments, cat phobias, and “Ambani-level” sacrifices, this episode has everything — comedy, chaos, and a side of self-awareness.Naina shares her most iconic hate comment moment (spoiler: she kinda agrees with it), Sakshi opens up about grief and grandma memories, and somewhere in between, there's a deep dive on micro-feminism, PR beefs, and the eternal debate — can women really have it all?

01. Che&Mos, SINTEA - El Lagarto (Original Mix) 02. Dole & Kom - Phara Oh (Sllash & Doppe Remix) 03. Alexey Romeo - Night in Marrakesh (Extended Mix) 04. VIZANO - Parvati (Extended Mix) 05. Snoop Dogg, Eran Hersh, Esther Anaya, Dean Walker, Asteon - Baseline (Club Mix) 06. Silver Ivanov, Hreez, Kyba - Take That (Original Mix) 07. Paakman - House Of Rrajca (Original Mix) 08. Curol, RUSKAR - Curol, RUSKAR - Retail (Original Mix) 09. Watermat, James Mac - Make a Livin' (Extended Mix) 10. Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Toshi, Afro Warriors - Uyankenteza (Extended Mix) 11. Loup Musa - Fears (Original Mix) 12. Abel, THEMBA (SA), Khenya - Lucid Dreams (Extended Mix) 13. Oktave, JUNO (DE) - Kiddo (Extended Mix) 14. Nitesonik - I Know (Extended Mix)

Predicazione espositiva del Pastore Emerito Fred Whitman di Atti capitolo 26 versetti 1 a 29. Registrata presso il Centro Evangelico Battista di Perugia il 7 Settembre 2025.Titolo del messaggio: "La testimonianza di Fede di Paolo l'Apostolo davanti a Re Agrippa e Festo come un esempio per noi oggi"ATTI 26 V1-291 Agrippa disse a Paolo: «Ti è concesso di parlare a tua difesa». Allora Paolo, stesa la mano, disse a sua difesa: 2 «Re Agrippa, io mi ritengo felice di potermi oggi discolpare davanti a te di tutte le cose delle quali sono accusato dai Giudei, 3 soprattutto perché tu hai conoscenza di tutti i riti e di tutte le questioni che ci sono tra i Giudei; perciò ti prego di ascoltarmi pazientemente. 4 Quale sia stata la mia vita fin dalla mia gioventù, che ho trascorsa a Gerusalemme in mezzo al mio popolo, è noto a tutti i Giudei, 5 perché mi hanno conosciuto fin da allora e sanno, se pure vogliono renderne testimonianza, che, secondo la più rigida setta della nostra religione, sono vissuto da fariseo. 6 E ora sono chiamato in giudizio per la speranza nella promessa fatta da Dio ai nostri padri; 7 della quale promessa le nostre dodici tribù, che servono con fervore Dio notte e giorno, sperano di vedere il compimento. Per questa speranza, o re, sono accusato dai Giudei! 8 Perché mai si giudica da voi cosa incredibile che Dio risusciti i morti? 9 Quanto a me, in verità pensai di dover lavorare attivamente contro il nome di Gesù il Nazareno. 10 Questo infatti feci a Gerusalemme; e avendone ricevuta l'autorizzazione dai capi dei sacerdoti, io rinchiusi nelle prigioni molti dei santi; e quando erano messi a morte, io davo il mio voto. 11 E spesso, in tutte le sinagoghe, punendoli, li costringevo a bestemmiare; e, infuriato oltremodo contro di loro, li perseguitavo fin nelle città straniere. 12 Mentre mi dedicavo a queste cose e andavo a Damasco con l'autorità e l'incarico da parte dei capi dei sacerdoti, 13 a mezzogiorno vidi per strada, o re, una luce dal cielo, più splendente del sole, la quale sfolgorò intorno a me e ai miei compagni di viaggio. 14 Tutti noi cademmo a terra, e io udii una voce che mi disse in lingua ebraica: "Saulo, Saulo, perché mi perseguiti? Ti è duro recalcitrare contro il pungolo". 15 Io dissi: "Chi sei, Signore?" E il Signore rispose: "Io sono Gesù, che tu perseguiti. 16 Ma àlzati e sta' in piedi, perché per questo ti sono apparso: per farti ministro e testimone delle cose che hai viste, e di quelle per le quali ti apparirò ancora, 17 liberandoti da questo popolo e dalle nazioni, alle quali io ti mando 18 per aprire loro gli occhi, affinché si convertano dalle tenebre alla luce e dal potere di Satana a Dio e ricevano, per la fede in me, il perdono dei peccati e la loro parte di eredità tra i santificati". 19 Perciò, o re Agrippa, io non sono stato disubbidiente alla visione celeste; 20 ma, prima a quelli di Damasco, poi a Gerusalemme e per tutto il paese della Giudea e fra le nazioni, ho predicato che si ravvedano e si convertano a Dio, facendo opere degne del ravvedimento. 21 Per questo i Giudei, dopo avermi preso nel tempio, tentavano di uccidermi. 22 Ma per l'aiuto che viene da Dio sono durato fino a questo giorno, rendendo testimonianza a piccoli e a grandi, senza dire nulla al di fuori di quello che i profeti e Mosè hanno detto che doveva avvenire, cioè: 23 che il Cristo avrebbe sofferto e che egli, il primo a risuscitare dai morti, avrebbe annunciato la luce al popolo e alle nazioni».

For many women in the military community, service becomes more than a career, it becomes an identity. The rank, the mission, the structure, and the pride of wearing the uniform can shape who we believe we are. But what happens when that role changes… or ends?In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Leading With Heart, I'm exploring the concept of identity beyond the uniform, how to rediscover who you are at your core, separate from your career, your rank, or your accomplishments.Whether you're still serving, preparing for transition, or navigating life after the military, this conversation will help you reconnect with yourself, the woman behind the service. I'll share my own story of tying my self-worth to performance, the lessons I learned when that identity was challenged, and the practical steps you can take to rebuild your sense of self from the inside out.Because you are more than your AFSC, your MOS, or your title. You are a whole human being, with passions, values, gifts, and a purpose that go far beyond your career.In This Episode:Why career setbacks or transitions can trigger identity crisesHow to begin separating your self-worth from your rank, performance, or achievementsFour practical ways to rediscover who you are, journaling, values work, reflection, and identity statementsIf you've ever asked yourself, “Who am I outside of the uniform?”  this episode will help you begin to find the answer.RESOURCES:2026 LYL Retreat Waitlist:https://fabulous-pioneer-9504.kit.com/179b1e79aeIdentity Statement Resource:https://fabulous-pioneer-9504.kit.com/de6f72ebb6SIGN UP FOR THE APP:https://www.christinamattisonyoga.com/lead-your-life-appConnect with me in the Strong and Resilient Woman Community on Facebook HERE (https://www.facebook.com/groups/yogaformilitarywomen)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themilitaryyogiSHOW NOTES: https://www.christinamattisonyoga.com/blog/episode82Connect with me in the Strong and Resilient Woman Community on Facebook HERE (https://www.facebook.com/groups/yogaformilitarywomen), or on Instagram @themilitaryyogiMore about Christina Mattison and the Leading with Heart PodcastHey there! I'm Christina Mattison, an Air Force Officer, yoga teacher, dedicated wife, and proud mother of two. But most importantly, I'm here as a wellness and leadership coach for women in the military. I want you to know something: It doesn't have to be this way.I've walked in your combat boots, and I understand the chaos that often accompanies military life. But I'm here to share a powerful truth with you: You have the innate ability to transform your own life. I've personally experienced this transformation, and I've witnessed it in the lives of countless clients I've had the privilege to guide.Welcome to the Leading With Heart podcast your ultimate resource for discovering how to infuse joy, peace, and true success into every facet of military life.**The views and opinions expressed within this podcast episode are those of the individual, and do not necessarily represent those of the Department of Defense or its components.

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Marine Corps boot camp, combat in Haditha, Iraq, and the chaos, comedy, and cost of it all.Austin Hancock's story is wild, hilarious, and at times heavy — this episode dives into all of it.We start today's episode of Urban Valor with boot camp madness: grown men in whitey-tighties doing squats, drill instructors weaponizing humor like it's their MOS, and the kind of military hazing that only makes sense once you've been there.But underneath the laughs? IED-ridden convoys, combat stress, and the mental weight that doesn't go away once the uniform does. Austin gets real about what it's like to go from the gunner's seat in Iraq to trying to figure out life back home — and how brotherhood, dark humor, and a lot of inner work helped him through.

Superman, Sub-Zero, Captain America; just some of the amazing portrayals within cosplay from the super amazing...@Supermazing_23!Mark joins me this episode to discuss why he chose Calvin Ellis, but yet a Man of Steel suit for his portrayal of Superman, and keeping with theme of Kryptonians, we're also discussing James Gunn's Superman and it's sequel. Brainiac for the villain? Bringing in the phantom zone?Tune in for the above, as well as some talk of Mortal Kombat and why the decision to cosplay klassic ninjas, and of course, much more! Join us!▾ Cosplay Of The Week!: ▾ http://instagram.com/aegidiusdesignshttp://instagram.com/aegicostuming_____________►

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Fyrsti þáttur af Kjaftæðinu. Baldvin Borgarsson, Ásgeir Frank og Alli Davors fara yfir sviðið í fótboltanum. Kjaftæðið er nýtt fótboltahlaðvarp sem er á dagskrá 2x í viku á Fótbolti.net þar sem farið er yfir fótboltasviðið á léttu nótunum. - Hver er maðurinn? - Enski boltinn - Evrópudeildin Íslenski boltinn - Spurningakeppni milli Frank og Alla Samstarfsaðilar Kjaftæðisins eru: Pepsi Max, Ice koffínpúðar, N1-appið, Papco, Súper Burrito, Fiskbúðin Mos og Max Effort. 25% afsláttur fyrir hlustendur Kjaftæðisins fæst á MaxEffort.is með kóðanum "bullshit".

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Začetek včerajšnje kopenske ofenzive Izraela na mesto Gaza so pospremile številne obsodbe. Vse glasnejše so tudi organizacije z dejstvi, da Izrael v Gazi izvaja genocid. Združeni narodi v najnovejšem poročilu govorijo o dokazu naklepa - gre za pismo Netanjahuja vojski. Kot pravi nekdanji pomočnik generalnega sekretarja Združenih narodov Danilo Türk, je to bistvenega pomena. Drugi poudarki oddaje: Evropska unija napoveduje pospešeno opuščanje ruskih fosilnih goriv. V Celju se odpira mednarodni podjetniški sejem MOS: v ospredju trajnost in inovacije Letošnja lastovka v roke Nini Dragičević za humorno in slogovno iznajdljivo zgodbo Ena Marija, dve Mariji, nobene Marije.

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Episode 216 of Journey features a studio mix from Goos. The set features music from GMariano Montori, Weird Sounding Dude, D-Nox, Maze28, Subandrio, Kasey Taylor, MOS and others Artwork by Hyphen Design - https://www.instagram.com/hyphendesign Follow Goos: https://www.goosmusic.com Tracklist Goos Mix Gres A - True Connection (Original Mix) [3rd Avenue] Manu Pavez - Storm (Original Mix) [Mango Alley] Emrat - Meridian (Original Mix) [Hoomidaas] Franco Dalmati - Trying (Paul Deep Remix) [Loot Recordings] Mariano Montori - Growth [Zenebona] Mariano Montori, Lupe Republic - Lost In Magic [Zenebona] D-Nox, Elan Myles - Peace (Nicolas Viana Extended Remix) [Songuara] Santi Mossman - Hidden Limits (Original Mix) [Flown Records] Hobin Rude - Awake Between Worlds (Dmitry Molosh Remix) [Proton Music] Jamie Stevens, Meeting Molly - Illusionist (Kasey Taylor Remix) [Mango Alley] Subandrio - Heritage '82 (Original Mix) [Sudbeat Music] Maze 28 - Glacial (Original Mix) [inU] Tantum & Hyunji-A - Keep My Letters (Simon Vuarambon Remix) [keep my letters] Rauschhaus - Patches & Patterns (Weird Sounding Dude Remix) [Mango Alley] Ruben Karapetyan - Synesthesia (Original Mix) [Songspire Records] Kamilo Sanclemente - When I Dream About My Cats (Original Mix) [Freegrant Music] M.O.S. - Beyond Your Mind (Extended Mix) [UV] Guy Mantzur, Kamilo Sanclemente - The Future is in the Past (Original Mix) [Moments] Ezequiel Arias - Delirio (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] Mild Minds - TEARDROPS (Durante Remix) [Foreign Family Collective] Hollt ft. Diana Miro - Out of Time (Extended Mix) [Zerothree]

Escucha el final de la 16ª etapa de la Vuelta a España que se ha disputado entra las localidades de Poio y Mos, con final en Castro de Herville.

Liat's back on the mic with Jennifer Stracquadanio and Meghan Stenziano from Moms Managing Behavior. These two badass BCBAs/moms keep it real about everything from culty ABA vibes and lorazepam White Lotus moments to the wild story of Jen and her husband taking the BCBA exam at the same time. Between the laughs, they drop gems on why parents are the true change-makers, how empathy grows when you walk in their shoes, and why community behavior has to shift too. We hit the ABA basics—MOs, reinforcement, punishment—but in a way that's actually useful, not culty. Come for the stories, stay for the parenting wisdom you'll use everywhere.Behavior Concepts Covered:Operational Definition MOStimulus cueReinforcement Punishment Connect with Jen and Meghan!momsmanagingbehavior.com @momsmanagingbehavior on Instagram @momsmanagingbehavior on Facebook Connect with Behavior BitchesInsta: @behaviorbitchespodcastFacebook: Behavior Bitches PodcastWebsite: BehaviorBitches.comPatreon: Patreon.com/BehaviorBitchesPodcastContact Us: For podcast inquiries, episode ideas, or just to say hi, email us at behaviorbitches@studynotesaba.com Leave us a 5-star review in the Apple Podcast App so we can read it to everyone during our episodes and make us super happy!Looking for BCBA Exam Prep or CEUs?• Whether you need help passing the BCBA exam or are looking to earn CEUs, Study Notes ABA has you covered. Check out our website for comprehensive exam prep materials, prep courses, and CEUs• Test Prep: StudyNotesABA.com• CEUs: CEU.StudyNotesABA.com

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What does the Atlanta housing market have in common with Back to the Future, The Hangover and The Hunger Games? Todd Emerson, general manager at Harry Norman, REALTORS®, joins Host Carol Morgan on the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast to discuss how the market is returning to fundamentals, paying for the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing homebuyers into a “feast or famine” outlook on for-sale inventory. Moving Forward After the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic left its mark on the real estate industry, creating new challenges for home builders, Realtors and homebuyers to navigate. During the pandemic, Realtors found creative ways to keep business moving, from masks and cleaning protocols to virtual tours. Now, Emerson says that higher mortgage rates are making it challenging to move inventory. Emerson explains, “Home values have increased by 50% since 2019 and, when you combine with the increase in the mortgage rates, it can be challenging for a lot of buyers, especially first-time homebuyers who require more time to save up their down payment.” Metro Atlanta Housing Market Predictions Homes are not one-size-fits-all, so housing data is most meaningful when divided into three distinct sectors: single-family homes, condos and townhomes. Single-family homes: While 4% behind in total sales, single-family homes are expected to catch up if a rate cut occurs in September. The current months-of-supply (MOS) estimate is three to four months, which is a healthy equilibrium for modest home appreciation. Condos: The condo market is down 13% with a MOS estimate of eight to nine months. While prices are beginning to depreciate slightly, Emerson confirms that it's a normal function of the higher MOS. Townhomes: This sector is tracking similarly to single-family homes with a 3% decrease in total sales. Fluctuating mortgage rates have impacted home sales, but what other factors should buyers keep in mind? The effect of recent tariffs remains to be seen, while employment trends and changes in job market conditions, personal consumption expenditures (PCEs) and stock market changes also dictate federal rates. Choosing the Right Time & Place to Buy When is the best time to buy your dream home? Emerson assures buyers that “the right time to buy is when you're ready to buy.” Attempting to time a home purchase with market changes is almost impossible. For home shoppers concerned about mortgage rates dropping, he reminds them that refinancing and rate buydowns are options. “When interest rates get closer to 6%, which we know will happen over time, it's going to bring 400,000 to 500,000 more buyers into the market,” said Emerson. “That means more opportunity for you competing against somebody for that house and multiple offers.” Walkability is still a huge draw for Atlanta homebuyers. They crave locations that encourage a live-work-play mentality, such as West Midtown or closer to Alpharetta. Buyers want the convenience of restaurants, shopping and recreation within walking distance of their homes. Other trends include abundant outdoor living and larger, accessible floor plans that accommodate multigenerational living. Preparing for the Future Emerson emphasizes that consistent communication is how Harry Norman, REALTORS® stays ahead in an ever-changing housing market. The brokerage invests in weekly check-ins with agents to discuss best practices and emerging trends, as well as an annual leadership retreat to prepare for the following year. Emerson said, “It's all about transparency and building trust with clients.” Georgia may be experiencing a temporary slowdown in new residents, but improved market conditions and a balanced inventory cycle will position the state to reclaim its appeal as a top relocation destination quickly. Emerson notes that the region's thriving job market remains a powerful draw, consistently attracting new hires to the state.