Podcasts about New Mexico

All of us encounter twists and turns every day—whether in our personal lives or at work. Steve McKee's new book “Turns: Where Business Is Won and Lost” offers a guide for which turns to take to live a better life.McKee, co-founder of the McKee Wallwork marketing agency in New Mexico and author of several acclaimed books, has navigated turns throughout this own life and successful career. He joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain how he navigated the ups and downs as an innovative leader.Listen to the full interview or read a lightly edited transcript at DailySignal.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The most horrific child abuse on New Mexico record. The murder of 5-month-old Brianna Lopez. ***** Listener discretion is highly advised ***** Discuss this episode in the Stolen Lives Facebook discussion group Share this episode on your social media of choice and subscribe on your favourite podcast app. Facebook /stolenlivespodcast Twitter /lives_stolen Patreon www.patreon.com/stolenlives_2019 Research and script writing by Ali Hosting and production by Ali Music by Myuu

In 1975, Jim Sullivan had all the potential of a classic rocker on the verge of making it big. After the release of his sophomore album, while driving from LA to Nashville, he disappeared somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Did he run afoul of the law? Did he get mixed up with a dangerous mafia family? Or did Jim Sullivan somehow foreshadow his own disappearance with an album he wrote, titled, UFO? Rocket Money- Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions - and manage your money the easy way - by going to RocketMoney.com/unexplained. Lumi Labs Inc- To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code: STRANGE to get free shipping & 30% off your first order. Wildgrain- For a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to Wildgrain.com/STRANGE to start your subscription. Laundry Sauce- Head to LaundrySauce.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRANGE at checkout for 15% off!

On Monday, September 25, the Red Nation and an alliance of community members hosted a press conference in Española, New Mexico outside the Rio Arriba County administrative building where officials are planning to restore a statue of violent Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate to public view. Come and join us for a protest action this Thursday, September 29 at 9 am MT outside the building as the statue is unveiled.  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube Channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Pepita Redhair, a 27-year-old Navajo woman, goes missing after her mother drops her off at her boyfriend's house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The family takes matters into their own hands to find her, enlisting the help of a medicine man. This Week's Sponsors:  BetterHelp - This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ithinknot today to get 10% off your first month and get on your way to being your best self. Apostrophe - Go to apostrophe.com/think and use code think to get your first visit for only $5 Microdose - To learn more about microdosing THC go to microdose.com and use code ITN to get free shipping & 30% off your first order  Magic Spoon - Go to magicspoon.com/think to grab a variety pack and try it today! And be sure to use our promo code think at checkout to save five dollars off your order! Hello Fresh - Go to hellofresh.com/50think and use code 50think for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months! 

On this special "Recall" edition of Studio 12, Will Johnson visits with longtime Aggie assistant, Notre Dame and New Mexico head coach, and ESPN analyst Bob Davie.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Enjoy my inperson SW Funga Festival was held for it's first year ever in Velarde, New Mexico. We gathered 20+ award winning myco experts to teach classes on a wide variety of topics. Learn about citizen science, fungal preservation, DNA barcoding/sequencing with Chris Pauli, Alan Rockefeller/Mandie Quark, correct lab practices, ethical foraging, microscopy, cordyceps cultivation with William Padilla-Brown, and even kids camp! Lets get down and nerdy while we interview some fungal goers as well as the educators themselves.Watch the full video HEREGo follow and check out the cast from this documentary:Theartfarm_unincorporatedflorafungapodcastthepermaculturstudentmycosymbiotemushroom_madmandesert_alchemistfungiacademyabs_gransadashurrozfullcircle.mushroomsecological_projectsc_omickwambli_gleskikaylakfrosttryptomicsOklahomafungiTobytillie321One Lagoon, One Voice: The PodcastLearn about the challenges and conservation efforts on Florida's Indian River Lagoon.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show***I am an affiliate with ENERGYBITS (your daily algae tablet packed with nutrients) go visit this link and use code FLORAFUNGA at checkout for 20% off***Get 20% off Sovereignty use code "KK20" SUPPORT THE SHOW: Join my Patreon for only $1/month [THATS only .03 cents a day!]Follow my other social media sites to interact and engage with me:Email me to be on the podcast or inperson Interview: floraandfungapodcast@gmail.com FacebookInstagramTwitterTikTokYouTubePatreon Help support my plant buying habit by "Buying me a Plant"a twist on buy me a coffee Theme song : -Soundotcom called Go Rock -Take the Lead by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4458-take-the-leadLicense: http://creativecommons.org/

In April of 1987, a 9-month-old little boy in New Mexico dies from what investigators believe is a “blow to the head.” They have a suspect, his confession and they have medical evidence to support their theory. But what they've never had is a district attorney willing to prosecute. Why? That's the question his brother has been asking for decades. Follow along in Part 1 of this 2-part limited series as The Investigators dig deep into the mysterious death of young Jacob Landin.

On this episode, educator, author, and presenter Connie Hamilton joined me to discuss the idea of invisible teachers. What does it look like when a teacher is invisible? How does being an invisible teacher benefit our students? Connie explains this and more on today's episode! . . . Connie Hamilton Ed.S is a dedicated educator and mother of three grown children. She has served the field of education as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and district curriculum leader. Referred to as the “Questioning Guru”, Connie is the author of several books for teachers and school leaders, including the much anticipated, Hacking Group Work. Connie is known for engaging and interactive workshops that model best practices and provide practical approaches to solving instructional snafus. Educators love how she offers specific strategies that actually work and can be used immediately. Most of the school year you will find Connie working side-by-side with teachers in schools and classrooms across the country and internationally. She strives to support educators everywhere in the challenging but critical role of preparing students for success. Connie's Website: conniehamilton.org Connie on Twitter: @conniehamilton Connie on LinkedIn: Connie Hamilton Ed.S. Connie's Facebook: Hacking Questions . . . Elijah Carbajal is a teacher who followed in the footsteps of teachers in his family. He has served as an educator in the state of New Mexico since 2014 and is currently a Title I Reading Interventionist. Along with being the host of The Shut Up and Teach Podcast, he is the author of the book A Place They Love. Elijah works hard to make school and his classroom a place that students love! He loves to spend time with his wife, Tracey, and his cat, Nala. Connect with Elijah on Twitter: @carbaeli Connect with Elijah on Instagram: @carbaeli Connect with Elijah on TikTok: @carbaeli Connect with Elijah on Facebook: Elijah Carbajal Website: shutupandteachedu.com . . . Read Elijah's book, A Place They Love: Creating a Healthy School Culture and Positively Impacting Students! Here is how you can purchase A Place They Love. EduMatch: A Place They Love Amazon: A Place They Love Barnes and Noble: A Place They Love #APlaceTheyLoveBook / #ShutUpAndTeach / #EduMatchBooks

Hey Boos, join us today as we discuss New Mexico's La Mala Hora! Before we get into that, we discuss some horror movies that stress us out. Then we get into the legend of La Mala Hora and the pop culture. For our Boo Crew Moment of the Week, Brooke found a quiz on Buzzfeed that allowed all three of us to create our own horror movies. We would love to interact with you, shoot us an email or DM us on Instagram or Facebook! Follow us on Instagram - boo.busters.podcast Follow us on Facebook - Boo Busters Podcast Follow us on TikTok - Boo Busters Email us - boo.busters.podcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boo-busters/support

Producer Josh updates us on the personal rivalry in New Mexico, Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce's latest promotional vehicle, and Tiger King. Yes, a Tiger King Update.

The Element Podcast powered by FIRST LITE In this episode Tyler Jones and K.C. Smith talk about K.C.'s latest trip to New Mexico. K.C. recaps his time in New Mexico bow hunting Elk on public land. He talks about the close encounters they had and discuss previous years and what they have learned over the years. Hear about the bugle rage and the excitement that went down last week. Also be sure to go watch our new video over on the channel. Greg and Michael spend some tough days hunting for Mule Deer out in New Mexico. Check it out TODAY! For the best gear made with the serious hunter in mind, get you some First Lite Gear. Go subscribe to The Element YouTube Channel! Watch Buck Truck Here!! Greg's First Mule Deer Buck! New Mexico Pronghorn Bow Hunt Bow Hunting Wild Hogs From The GroundSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pioneers of New Mexico's court scribe program discuss how the program makes the courts more accessible on the latest episode of LSC's “Talk Justice.”Language access has long been a priority of New Mexico courts, but the recent addition of court scribes has taken this push for court accessibility to new levels. The scribing initiative allows people in qualifying situations to make an appointment with court staff or a trained volunteer who assists them in filling out their legal forms.

Paul is in Savannah, Georgia. He discusses what has brought him there. Paul also recaps the OAKNM education conference which took place on Friday.  The shooters who precipitated MLG's anti-gun health order were captured. They have (not surprisingly) been involved with the criminal justice system in the past and were not likely to be deterred by MLG's anti-gun orders. A MLG-appointed New Mexico district judge rules that the homeless can't be removed from public spaces.  How will MLG's potential EV mandate actually be enforced? Paul has a detailed answer. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's daughter has close ties to the Cuban government. This is especially concerning because hostile foreign nations have a long track record of supporting anti-energy forces in the US.  Our op-ed on MLG's gun order and her long-standing disdain for "democracy" ran statewide. 

On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast we discuss both the pros and cons of nuclear power, especially as it pertains to combatting global climate change. The international community is attempting to keep the world from warming no more than 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century. While there have been incredible efforts to achieve this—efforts that have likely taken the worst-case warming scenarios off the table—we are still on track for closer to 3.0 degrees warming by 2100 instead of 2.0 degrees. Some would argue that the expansion of nuclear power would go a long way toward closing that gap. Friend of this show and frequent guest, The Bulwark's Mona Charen, has written that: “The world's demand for energy is not going to diminish, but only increase in the coming century. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates world energy demand will increase 50% by 2050. . . The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] countries cannot in conscience deny development to the world's poorer nations. Nor can we delude ourselves that renewables, at the current state of technology, can take up all the slack created by giving up fossil fuels. Amazingly, there is an existing technology that can produce the energy the world needs without harming the climate. And yet we hesitate. Nuclear power is the key to limiting climate change and hobbling some of the world's worst aggressors. If we're serious about both problems, we'll clear the air of superstitions about nuclear power. Nuclear power plants cannot explode like nuclear bombs. They require much less land than solar or wind. Nuclear waste can be safely buried. The U.S. Navy has been powering ships with nuclear reactors since the late 1950s. According to the Naval Post: ‘U.S. Nuclear Powered Warships (NPWs) have safely operated for more than 50 years without experiencing any reactor accident or any release of radioactivity that hurt human health or had an adverse effect on marine life.' Nothing is perfect. One death from radiation exposure at the Fukushima power plant has been noted by the Japanese government: a worker who died of lung cancer in 2018, seven years after the tsunami and meltdowns. But if we are in a new hard-headed era, we will evaluate trade-offs like adults. Are we serious about choking off the source of Putin's power or not? Are we serious about combating climate change without illusions that wind and solar will do the job? Nuclear power can be a major part of the solution to both challenges.” Our guest on this episode, Robert Zubrin, has written a new book on this topic titled The Case for Nukes. We hope you enjoy this conversation about an important issue facing our world. And don't forget to subscribe to our FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER! The Connors Forum is an independent entity from the institutions that we partner with. The views expressed in our newsletters and podcasts are those of the individual contributors alone and not of our partner institutions. Episode Audio: “Please Listen Carefully” by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive) “Star Blessed Night” by Ketsa (Free Music Archive) “Draw the Sky” by Paul Keane (licensed through TakeTones) “Algorithms” by Chad Crouch (Free Music Archive) “Happy Trails (To You)” by the Riders in the Sky (used with artist's permission) Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Headliner and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: On today's program, we discuss both pros and cons of nuclear power Speaker A: Utterly moderate is the official podcast of the Connors forum. Visit us at connorsforum.org and be sure to subscribe to our free email newsletter while you are there. Please listen carefully. Carefully, carefully. Hey. Speaker B: Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the program. This is the utterly moderate podcast. And I'm your host, Lawrence Eppard. On today's program, we are talking about both the pros and the cons of nuclear power, especially when it comes to tackling climate change. So if this isn't something that you pay a lot of attention to and you're not really familiar with what the international agreements are, basically what countries around the world are trying to do is by the end of this century. We are attempting to keep the world from warming no more than 1.5 to two degrees Celsius above where we were before the Industrial Revolution. And it's pretty amazing how much work has been done in the international community to tackle climate change. It's been pretty amazing. And the worst case scenarios, it looks like, are off the table because of international cooperation. But there's still a lot of work to be done. We're still closer to three degrees of warming rather than two degrees of warming, and we really need to close that gap. And there are many who would argue that nuclear power is one really important tool in our arsenal to help us close that gap. Mona Charon, who you probably know is a frequent guest on this show, and a friend of this podcast. She has written the following about nuclear power quote the world's demand for energy is not going to diminish, but only increase in the coming century. The US. Energy Information Administration estimates world energy demand will increase by 50% by 2050. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries cannot in conscience deny development to the world's poorer nations. Nor can we dilute ourselves that renewables at the current state of technology can take up all the slack created by giving up fossil fuels. Amazingly, there is an existing technology that can produce the energy the world needs without harming the environment. And yet we hesitate. Nuclear power is the key to limiting climate change and hobbling some of the world's worst Aggressors. If we're serious about both problems, we'll clear the air of superstitions about nuclear power. Nuclear power plants cannot explode like nuclear bombs. They require much less land than solar or wind. Nuclear waste can be safely buried. The US. Navy has been powering ships with nuclear reactors since the late 1950s. According to the naval Post us Nuclear powered warships have safely operated for more than 50 years without experiencing any reactor accident or any release of radioactivity that hurt human health or had an adverse effect on marine life. Nothing is perfect. One death from radiation exposure at the Fukushima power plant has been noted by the Japanese government, a worker who died of lung cancer in 2018, seven years after the tsunami and meltdowns. But if we are in a new, hard headed era. We will evaluate trade offs like adults. Are we serious about choking off the source of Putin's power or not? Are we serious about combating climate change without illusions that wind or solar will do the job? Nuclear, power can be a major part of the solution to both challenges. End quote. Robert Zubrin has written a new book on nuclear power Speaker B: Our guest today, Robert Zubrin, has written a new book on this topic titled The Case for Nukes, where he argues that, quote, the bottom line is this we are going to need to produce a lot more energy, and it will need to be carbon free. The only way to do that is with nuclear power. In my book, I go into great detail about how nuclear power is generated, new technologies coming online, and what all of this will mean for the future of humanity, including space exploration. End quote. Robert Zubrin, we are so happy to have you on the show today. Thank you so much for joining us. Speaker A: Thanks for inviting me. Speaker B: No problem. You have a new book called The Case for Nukes about global warming Speaker C: So you got a great new book out called The Case for Nukes how We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, open and magnificent Future. So let's start with what's your background? What's your training? What brought you to write this book? Speaker A: Well, I actually have a doctorate in nuclear engineering. I've only worked, a fraction of my career in the nuclear industry. Mostly I've worked aerospace. But, now we have this whole global warming alarm. There are people who are pushing solutions which are basically reactionary, essentially rigging up fuel prices to, deter people of limited income from using fuel or electricity. That's what it amounts to. And, I think that's unethical. And furthermore, it hasn't worked. We've doubled our carbon emissions in the past 30 years, just as we did in the 30 years between 1960 and 1990. We doubled it. We doubled it between 1930 and 1960, and we doubled it between 1990 and then 2020 because people don't want to be poor. And not using fuel essentially amounts to poverty. and the answer is straightforward. It's nuclear power. And, it's very unfortunate that the groups who are, making the greatest alarm about global warming are fighting against nuclear power. Speaker C: All right, so you, propose the answer, at least in terms of a bridge technology, until we do something like fusion or whatever in the future, might solve this problem. One of the disadvantages of nuclear power is it has been made expensive Speaker C: So let's talk about advantages and disadvantages. Let's start with disadvantages, and you can tell me what you make of it. So, one of the disadvantages is it has been expensive to build. Correct? Speaker A: It's been made expensive. the first nuclear power plant we built in this country took three years to build. Now, it takes 16. And, this has been the result of hostile regulation. and if you look at the numbers, and I present them in my book, the Cost to Build a nuclear power plant has gone up precisely in proportion to time squared. Okay? Construction time squared is the cost of the nuclear power plant. Anything can be made, prohibitively costly. If the FAA were run like the NRC, there would be no airlines. If a city government banned parking in the city, they would say it was impossible to park. Or they would say you can only park in places where it's $100 an hour to park. And they say, well, gee, parking costs $100 an hour. Well, you can make anything cost, excessive amounts through regulation. And that's what we've had with nuclear power. Nuclear power is the only power which has such a small amount of waste Speaker C: Another disadvantage people point to, and I want you to tell me if I'm making too much of it, not enough of it. You give us your take on the problem of nuclear waste. So what's the problem? And do you think it can be overcome? Speaker A: Well, it's ironic that they single out nuclear waste as a problem because nuclear power is the only power which has such a small amount of waste that you actually can store it. The idea of sequestering and storing the waste from coal fired power would be absurd. And of course, fossil fuel in any kind, it sends its waste right into the atmosphere. and the waste products from making photovoltaics are enormous in the way of, ah, fluorine compounds. It caused massive fish kills and damage to public health in China, where these things are made. nuclear power, on the other hand, the amount of waste is, minuscule, and we could reduce it still more by reprocessing the waste. Ah, but of course, the, anti nukes have been first in line to, prevent that. But there's no technical problem with disposing of nuclear waste. The French reprocess and then store their waste. The US. Military, the nuclear navy, stores its waste in salt caverns in New Mexico. the, anti nukes have had no effect on implementing that solution because the Navy needs nuclear submarines and they're just not willing to have their program sabotaged. So the anti nukes have focused on preventing any storage of civilian nuclear waste. And they claim they're interested in safety. How can that be when they are saying, we would prefer to have nuclear waste stored at nuclear power plants in the suburbs of major cities rather than under a mountain in the middle of the desert? Nevada. One of the fears about nuclear waste is the possibility of a meltdown Speaker C: All right, so you say nuclear waste can be solved. You say that, the cost can be brought down with changes to regulation. One of the fears, and I want you to talk about this fear and how we should contextualize it, is, of course, the danger of a meltdown. So tell us, is that a reasonable fear? How should we think about that danger? Speaker A: Okay, meltdowns are possible. That is, while a pressurized water reactor, which is pretty much all the reactors we have in the United States, cannot, have a runaway chain reaction because it needs the water in order to sustain the chain reaction. And if the water boils too much, the reaction shuts down. There is still waste heat left in the reactor, that is from radioactive, waste particles in the fuel. And they continue to give off heat whether the reactor is running or not. And so if the water is gone, you'll have heat and there's no cooling, the fuel will melt down. And the anti nukes said, well, gee, it will melt down. It'll melt down right through the steel pressure vessel, which is eight inches thick, and then through the concrete containment, vessel, which is 8ft thick. we actually had, ah, a meltdown at Three Mile Island. And what happened was the core did melt down and it hit the steel pressure vessel and it melted its way about one inch into the steel, and then it stopped. It didn't penetrate the steel pressure vessel. It never even reached the containment building, let alone China. So this is, a, greatly, overhyped, situation. it is an engineering concern. The Three Mile Island reactor was lost. It was a loss of investment, but there was no harm to the public. Speaker C: One of the examples, people point to is Chernobyl. But, that was very different technology and very different, political and leadership context, right? Speaker A: Correct. Chernobyl was not a pressurized water reactor, as I mentioned. you, see, to make the chain reaction work, you got to slow the neutrons down. It's called moderating the neutrons. They're going too fast. They go right by nuclei without splitting, okay? So you got to slow them down. So we use water to slow down the neutrons. And, the advantage of that is, if the reactor gets too hot, the water turns to steam, it can't slow the neutrons down anymore, and the reaction shuts down. So it's physically impossible to have a runaway chain reaction in a water moderated reactor. Chernobyl was not a water moderated reactor. It was a graphite moderated reactor. And graphite doesn't turn into vapor. it's solid. And so, it didn't have, this negative feedback. And in fact, the reactor operators did a crazy experiment in which they set off, a runway chain reaction. and then furthermore, another thing that Chernobyl reactor didn't have, which all, reactors in the civilized world have, is a containment building, okay? So all it had was an ordinary, building. And so when the reactor had a runaway chain reaction, it blew a hole in itself and a hole in the side of the building. And now you had the hot graphite exposed to air. And, so the graphite caught fire. And so this reactor was not only unstable, it was flammable, which is crazy. so you had the whole reactor literally go up in smoke and scattering, radioactive waste products, all over the landscape. the firefighters that were brought in to put the fire out were exposed directly to this cloud of radioactive material being, turned to radioactive smoke right at the reactor. And so about 80 of them were killed. then the fallout came down over a wide area. There's no documented, fatalities from that fallout. but a large area was evacuated and, has turned into an incredibly, flourishing wildlife reserve. but also, the response the Soviet authorities was completely incompetent. And, more could be said about that. But basically, the people who died at Chernobyl were not victims of nuclear power. They were victims of the Soviet Union. Speaker C: Now, this is, totally anecdotal. I don't have any data to back this up, but when I speak to environmentalists today, I do see their perspective on nuclear softening a bit. Do you see that happening in the US. Or am I overstating that? Speaker A: Well, you have a certain faction in the Democratic Party. It even has an organization called the Third Way. say, well, why aren't we going to nuclear? it's clean energy. It's the common sense answer. if you actually believe that global warming is an existential crisis that is, one that threatens the existence of the human race, it should take a lot of convincing to tell you that the hazard from nuclear power no nuclear power plant in the United States or, actually anywhere outside the Soviet Union has ever killed anyone. Not even at Fukushima, where, several nuclear power plants were destroyed by an earthquake and tidal wave. there was still no one, who got a harmful radiological dose outside of the plant gate. So here you have a situation where you've had over a thousand nuclear reactors on land or sea for the past. Speaker C: 60 years not harming anyone now, beyond the benefits. So, no pollution, no greenhouse gases. you write in your book that also, could help opening the space frontier. So tell us what your argument was there. Speaker A: Well, I mean, look, here's the thing. All the chemical elements that you need to make anything are on Mars, for example. But as is usually the case on Earth, with some exceptions, they're there in a useless form. In other words, you have iron, but it's in the form of iron oxide, silicon in the form of silicon dioxide and so forth. well, those can all be turned into useful resources if you have energy. Okay, now, what's the energy? Well, they don't have fossil fuels on Mars. You can make them, but it would take energy to do it. There's no waterfalls. the air is too thin for wind power to do much. You can do solar power on Mars, but it's only 40% as strong as it is on Earth. And on Earth, it's not terribly attractive. so it's significantly worse on Mars. So what are you going to do for power? Nuclear power. And if you look at the universe, the vast majority of it is far away from any star. so, the vast majority of the universe is dark. so whether you want to develop Mars or do interstellar travel or anything, you're, in general going to be operating out of range of effective solar power. It will take nuclear power to, develop space. Robert Zubrin says fusion is a doable thing Speaker C: Does, Robert Zubrin watch movies? Did you happen to see Oppenheimer by any chance? Speaker A: Yes, I did. And in fact, I wrote a review of Oppenheimer, favorable, for the, online magazine Quillette. they actually had two reviews, one by another person who focused on the artistic merit of the movie. I focused on, they asked me the question, is it, realistic? And, my answer was fundamentally yes. There's only one significant technical error in the film and that's its obsession over this question of whether people were worried that the first atom bomb would ignite the atmosphere. there was no such concern. I mean, Edward Teller did bring it up that we should do that calculation to make sure that that would not happen. But once the calculation was done, he was quite satisfied. and in fact, there was no chance whatsoever, that that could happen. fission of nitrogen would not release any energy at all. And fusion of nitrogen, occurs so slow that the various loss mechanisms would quench the reaction virtually immediately. what people were worried about at Trinity was whether it would work. Because you got to realize this is an incredibly complex thing and they're testing it for the first time. I ran an R and D company for 27 years and it's pretty rare that something new works the first time, but it did. Speaker C: before I let you go, the future, is it going to be fusion? Speaker A: Well, eventually, yes. I, think we will have improved, versions of fission. I think we'll have breeder reactors, I think loth thorium reactors. These things are on the way. but definitely fusion, is a doable thing. and right now, really, as a result of the success of SpaceX demonstrating, entrepreneurial approaches to reusable space launch vehicles, in other words, doing the impossible, so to speak investors have taken a look at advanced vision and fusion and said, maybe the reason why we don't have it is the wrong people are doing it. maybe the problem is institutional. And so you have both advanced fission and fusion entrepreneurial companies getting large amounts of funding from investors and these people are moving ahead on very fast timelines. So while, fission has stagnated, since its initial golden age of the think, we're going to have new kinds of fission reactors and we're going to have fusion as well. Speaker C: Robert Zubrin. He's got a new book. It's called The Case for Nukes how We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, open and magnificent Future. Robert, thank you so much for joining the program. 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RU261: ABDEL AZIZ AL BAWAB PRESENTS “PSYCHE & SOCIETY PART II – DEGENERACY” Rendering Unconscious episode 261. This episode is the second lecture in a series by Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Bawab on Psyche & Society: Coloniality, Degeneracy and Alienation. This series was given to third-year psychiatry residents at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Bawab is a Palestinian of the diaspora. He completed his medical training at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar where he received the Excellence in Psychiatry award. He is a psychiatry resident at the University of New Mexico where he also serves as chief of psychotherapy, and is a recent recipient of the 4th Annual Austen Riggs award for excellence in psychotherapy. He is interested in psychosis, psychoanalysis, and liberatory approaches to clinical practice. This episode available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/PBKedETYQdM?si=A1lJfnjIx_FMjTym Support the podcast at our Patreon where we post exclusive content every week, as well as unreleased material and works in progress, and we also have a Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl We also have a Substack where weekly content is posted: https://vanessa23carl.substack.com Your support is GREATLY appreciated! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Check out Highbrow Lowlife at Bandcamp: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com His publishing company is Trapart Books, Films and Editions. https://store.trapart.net Follow him at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaAbrahamsson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carl.abrahamsson/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carlabrahamsson Vimeo on Demand: https://vimeo.com/user3979080/vod_pages The song at the end of the episode is “We will be (outside the box)” from the album “The Cutting​-​Up Of Love And Language” by Vanessa Sinclair & Pete Murphy. Available at https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com. Also available at Spotify and other streaming services. Image: snippet of collage by Vanessa Sinclair

After over a decade of deliberations regarding recreation use along the Labyrinth Canyon corridor of the Green River, the Bureau of Land Management will finally make a decision by the end of this week about whether it will close a portion of the motorized vehicle roads, and if so, how many. Plus, we hear from our partners at KSUT about whether an energy company can redeem its bond release after failing to properly reclaim its mine. We also hear from KSJD about a delegation from New Mexico's Pueblo Tribe that went to Washington D.C. recently to lobby for protecting Chaco Canyon National Park. //Photo: A road used by motorized vehicles runs through Labyrinth Canyon along the Green River. Photo by EcoFlight. //Show Notes: //BLM Land Management Proposal https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2001224/510

In a case that has dominated headlines, we're breaking down the details of what happened in Artesia, New Mexico at the start of the year when 19-year-old Alexee Trevizo disposed of her newborn baby's body in a hospital garbage can.   Email: crimeculturepod@gmail.com Website: crimeculturepodcast.tumblr.com Instagram: @crimeculturepodcast Twitter: @CrimeCulturePod Facebook: @crimeculturepodcast And join our Patreon! (All other links can be found on our website and linktree in our social media bios!) Hosts: Hayley Langan and Kaitlin Mahar Theme Song Composer: Michael Quick Mix Engineer: Elliot Leach We'll see you next Tuesday! xx

Citing a public health emergency, New Mexico governor Michelle Grisham revoked the 2nd amendment rights of residents of her state this week. After citing that constitutional rights and oaths taken by public officials were not “absolute”, she was quickly condemned by some of the highest officials in the state.

Glenn Beck Special. Parental Advisory: The EXPLICIT Plot to Control Your Kids. Watch on Rumble at-    https://rumble.com/v3jg3f7-parental-advisory-the-explicit-plot-to-control-your-kids-glenn-tv-ep-305.html  Or on YouTube if you must-   https://youtu.be/T5zEAUffjzo?si=xld_OmRRUQ4tFT4S Glenn Beck 1.18M subscribers 80,261 views Premiered Sep 20, 2023 #glennbeck #glenntv #theblaze Our basic rights are under attack, and parents face a terrifying question: Who gets to raise children – you or the government? Glenn highlights an alarming new law in California that wants to FORCE parents to affirm children's gender dysphoria … or ELSE. This overrides decades of Supreme Court precedents for the protection of parental rights. Glenn warns that if this is allowed to stand, it's a terrifying intrusion of government into the home and a major warning sign of even more tyranny to come. For many of our elected officials, the Constitution only seems to matter depending on the context. This Pandora's box was cracked open by the worst American leaders during the 2020 pandemic. Now some of them are apparently longing for the good old days when they tried to play God with your unalienable rights. The New Mexico governor's gun ban is just one of several stunning recent assaults on the First and Second Amendments. What are law-abiding Americans supposed to do when elected left-wing officials act as if the Constitution is optional at best and irrelevant at worst? These attacks from the Left are relentless. Resistance must be just as relentless. ► Click HERE to subscribe to Glenn Beck on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2UVLqhL ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV: get.blazetv.com/glenn ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV YouTube:    / @blazetv   ► Click HERE to sign up to Glenn's newsletter: https://www.glennbeck.com/st/Morning_... Connect with Glenn on Social Media: http://twitter.com/glennbeck http://instagram.com/glennbeck http://facebook.com/glennbeck #glennbeck #glenntv #theblaze #blazetv #parentaladvisory #explicit #control #kids #california #rights #government   Glenn Beck on Rumble- https://rumble.com/c/GlennBeck On Podcast Addict- The Glenn Beck Program BlazeTV is highly recommended by ACU. SubscribeToday!   Book by Glenn Beck - Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase (The Great Reset Series) by Glenn Beck.  July 11, 2023 The Great Reset was just the beginning. At important meetings in 2021 and 2022, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, and business who support the World Economic Forum's plan for a Great Reset of capitalism launched a new “call to action” titled the “Great Narrative.” The Great Narrative campaign seeks to use the decay of traditional values throughout the West and new and future advancements in technology—including in the areas of artificial intelligence, automation, the metaverse, robotics, and more—to seize control of economies and societies in North America and Europe. The elites behind these proposals even plan to impact the way people across cultures and the planet understand what it means to be human and to have free will. According to the leaders of The Great Reset and Great Narrative movements, by the year 2030, your world will be fundamentally transformed. Together, the highly influential and often extremely wealthy figures and institutions behind the Great Narrative are building a troubling new framework for humanity, one that has the potential to change life on earth forever. Just as worrisome, the Communist Party of China and Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime in Russia are adopting technology-centric approaches of their own to control citizens and institutions, both domestically and abroad. In Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase, New York Times bestselling authors Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins reveal the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations. They also outline the dangers and opportunities associated with these disruptions and provide a plan to protect individuals and families from losing their liberty. How the free people of the world react to the challenges outlined in this revolutionary book will change the course of history for generations to come. In this emerging, intense struggle for the future of humankind, whose side will you be on? Purchase this book at your favorite book seller or at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Future-Uncovering-Resets-Terrifying/dp/1637632118

Evan and I discuss how New Mexico gov. violates the constitutional rights of her citizens. We also break down why its still worth it to get your license to carry even with permitless  carry in effect.   Music by Slip.stream - "Gettin Good" - https://slip.stream/tracks/052ebea8-6750-46c3-83ec-b7eebdcfd480Follow us Instagram at: instagram.com/concealedcarry_texas_podcastCheck out our training Instagram page:instagram.com/citizen_defenseCome train with us! www.citizendefense.net

Dave Contarino was Bill Richardson's 2002 gubernatorial campaign manager, his first term Chief of Staff, and manager of his 2008 presidential campaign. Very few are better equipped to remember the life and legacy of Governor Richardson than Dave. In this conversation we talk Dave's own path to politics and mine his expertise specifically about New Mexico, then go in depth about the inspiration, impact, and influence of Bill Richardson...from his unconventional lifestory, to his time as a rising star in the House, stint in the Clinton cabinet, two terms as Governor, groundbreaking presidential campaign, and his focus over the past decade helping to free Americans held hostage in foreign countries (including the recent release of Britt ney Griner). This is a wide-ranging conversation about a truly original and transformational figure, the late Governor Bill Richardson. IN THIS EPISODE…Dave's roots near Boston and path to politics via a couple of interesting internships…One of Dave's early jobs as a DCCC staffer under then-operative Rahm Emanuel…How Dave's career took him to New Mexico and his 101 for understanding New Mexico Politics…Dave talks the early life and political origin story of Bill Richardson…The role Richardson's Hispanic heritage played in his political career…Congressman Richardson's ascent in the House and how he started to become known as an international hostage negotiator in the 1990s…Why the ambitious Richardson waited 20 years after he was first elected before he ran statewide…Dave remembers some of the high points of Bill Richardson's tenure as Governor…Dave talks Richardson's decision to run for President in 2008 and memories of what went right & what went wrong…Some of the story behind Richardson's surprise decision to endorse Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008…Dave goes in depth on the work Governor Richardson has done over the past 30 years to help free American hostages from foreign countries…Dave closes by speaking to Governor Richardson's political legacy… AND ANWR, Madeline Albright, Andover, Bruce Babbitt, the big seat, Jeff Bingaman, The Boston Globe, Richard Branson, George Brown, the Cape Cod League, Bob Carr, James Carville, the Catholic Church, Henry Cisneros, Cornell University, Warren Christopher, Pete Domenici, Friends of Bill, Geronimo's attorney, grazing fees, Brittney Griner, the Harriman Center, the head of Denver Transit, Saddam Hussein, James Inhofe, Lyndon Johnson, Judas, Sergey Lavrov, David Letterman, Manuel Lujan, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Susanna Martinez, Paul Maslin, Terry McAuliffe, Roberto Mondragon, Steve Murphy, NAFTA, Ollie North, Pasadena, Federico Pena, Mark Penn, Mark Putnam, radio actualities, the Rio Grande Corridor, Ed Romero, Pat Schroeder, the Science and Technology Committee, Hillary Tompkins, Tufts, Tom Udall, The War on the West & more!

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.  Born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico, Huerta was the second of three children of Alicia and Juan Fernandez, a farm worker and miner who became a state legislator in 1938. Her parents divorced when Huerta was three years old, and her mother moved to Stockton, California with her children. In 1955 Huerta began her career as an activist when she co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO), which led voter registration drives and fought for economic improvements for Hispanics. She also founded the Agricultural Workers Association. Through a CSO associate, Huerta met activist César Chávez, with whom she shared an interest in organizing farm workers. In 1962, Huerta and Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers' Union (UFW), which formed three year later. Huerta served as UFW vice president until 1999.Throughout her work with the UFW, Huerta organized workers, negotiated contracts, and advocated for safer working conditions including the elimination of harmful pesticides. She also fought for unemployment and healthcare benefits for agricultural workers. Huerta was the driving force behind the nationwide table grape boycotts in the late 1960s that led to a successful union contract by 1970.The recipient of many honors, Huerta received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. As of 2015, she was a board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, and the President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.https://www.doloreshuerta.org/ You will find the full transcript at https://interspanish.buzzsprout.comAs always, I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback about the show. You can reach out to me :Email me episode suggestions to: InterSpanishPodcast@gmail.comYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@interspanishpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/interspanishPodcast/about/?ref=page_internalInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/interspanish/Listen: https://interspanish.buzzsprout.com/shareTwitter: https://twitter.com/InterSpanishPod

Pioneers of New Mexico's court scribe program discuss how the program makes the courts more accessible on the latest episode of LSC's “Talk Justice.”Language access has long been a priority of New Mexico courts, but the recent addition of court scribes has taken this push for court accessibility to new levels. The scribing initiative allows people in qualifying situations to make an appointment with court staff or a trained volunteer who assists them in filling out their legal forms.

There's a group of 17U all-star golfers who are aiming to bring a National Championship back home to the Triad. Daniel Byrd is their nationally recognized coach. The PGA Golf Professional has guided Tanglewood Golf-based PGA Junior League teams since 2019. And for the first time, Byrd's team has performed in such a way that has them one victory away from securing the organization's top prize. Listen as Byrd details his squad's achievements to this point, their development, how they've overcome certain adversities, and their intense drive to earn a national title in New Mexico this coming November. To learn more about how you help support the PGA Junior League 17U team out of Tanglewood, follow Daniel Byrd on Instagram @dbyrdpga.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Courtney talks with Jerry “Edison” Glover. They talk about bike packing (not backpacking), finding his feet in civilian life after 29 years serving in the US Air Force, and they answer the question: How do you choose your own adventure? About Jerry: “50 yr old retired US Air Force veteran taking every adventure that comes along. I'm married and I have 3 adult children. I live in the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico just 20 miles from the CDT. My guide in life is my faith in Jesus Christ.” Remember, I'd love to hear from you on any topic that comes up in the show or if you know someone that would be a great guest for the show. Email me at hikingunfiltered@gmail.com. Enjoying the show? Leave us a review wherever you listen to the podcast. It really helps the show! You can also leave a voicemail for me on through the website. I may even share it on the show! Click here: https://www.hikingradionetwork.com/show/hiking-unfiltered/ You can join the Unfiltered community on Facebook to share your questions and show ideas. https://www.facebook.com/HikingUnfiltered You also find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hikingunfiltered/ Check out the other shows on the Hiking Radio Network https://www.hikingradionetwork.com/ Stuff I love! Show the love with t-shirts and goodies from the Hiking Radio Network Trading Post https://hrntradingpost.com/ Clean Electrolytes - I use these: http://elementallabs.refr.cc/courtneysmoot Get your Myaderm CBD pain relief products here: https://www.myaderm.com/ Use the code HIKING at checkout to get 20% off your first order! Start your own Riverside Podcast here: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=cam

We head to the state known as the Land of Enchantment in the company of John Lemay to discuss his magnum opus focusing on the incredibly rich history of witchcraft in New Mexico. A book full to the brim with historical accounts from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 17th century to the area, newspaper reports, tribal lore and indigenous legends, John has created a work for anyone who loves history, the supernatural and witchcraft. With tales of transformations, strange creatures, curses, legends of the Apache and Navajo and the Hero Twins, there's something for everything in this book. You can find it here: Thank you to John as always for joining me this week. Our Patreon is now live, with bonus content, early release of the regular show, articles and monthly prizes for everyone who signs up! Join here now for the flat fee of $4 a month which is a bargain! Don't forget, you can now show your support with our Merchandise shop on Redbubble! Check it out here! You can join us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel! Email us at mysteriesandmonsters@gmail.com with any feedback, guest suggestions or if you'd like to appear.            All artwork by Dean Bestall and the show was produced by Brennan Storr of the Ghost Story Guys.    Our theme music is kindly provided by the amazing Weary Pines, you can find them here:  Intro - Zombies Ate My Shotgun    Outro - Into The Night    Mysteries and Monsters is a part of the Straight Up Strange Network.  #NewMexico #Witches #JohnLemay #Witchcraft #Spain #Spanish #Mexico #Apache #Navajo #Pueblo #Spell #Owls #Cats #Enchantment #Wicca #Paganism #HeroTwins #Magic #Spirits #Ghosts

This week I'm talking to Preston Dennett about his book 'Humanoids and High Strangeness: Twenty True UFO Encounters'.Humanoids and High Strangeness presents twenty all new, original, and unpublished accounts of people who have had face-to-face contact with humanoids. The diversity of entities is mind-boggling: grays, human-looking ETs, mantids, reptilians, strange humanoids, angels, nature spirits, ghosts, poltergeists, demons, bigfoot, and supernatural entities of all kinds. This book contains accounts of sightings, landings, and onboard UFO encounters. Many of the cases provide physical evidence: electromagnetic effects, physiological reactions (both injuries and healings,) landing traces and more. Most of the witnesses describe all kinds of paranormal and psychic events. Here are some of the amazing cases:A mother and son from Ohio find themselves taken onboard a UFO together and undergo a physical exam that will leave them searching for answers for the rest of their lives.An English teacher in Peru sees a UFO with a beautiful human-looking ET inside it, and experiences missing time. Later he has many encounters with human-looking ETs and even flying humanoids.A man from France is taken onboard a craft as a child and is shown another planet. This begins a lifelong contact with a variety of ETs that teach him many things about the universe.A woman from California is visited by a tree spirit, ghosts, and little people, and also experiences missing time encounters and a wide variety of psychic events.Two young boys from Canada meet a mysterious UFO contactee named Peter who sends them on an adventure that will forever change the course of their lives.A young girl from Maine is shocked to see gray ETs come through the wall into her bedroom. She is led outside her room and into a craft landed on the street. It is just one of many encounters that will occur throughout her life.A man from England experiences a wide variety of supernatural events including encounters with a ghost, an angel, a UFO, and alien and more!Two brothers experience repeated visitations from little blue-skinned beings, gray aliens and a tall white ET.An author and artist from Colorado experiences several visitations by an elf-like humanoid who has profound information to share with him.When visited by strange humanoids in his home in Argentina, a professor and private pilot is amazed when the ETs say that they are there to heal him.When a little girl goes missing from her home in New Mexico, she doesn't tell anyone for a long time what happened: that she was taken onboard a UFO and met grays and a mantis-like being who gave her a warning for all humankindA gentleman from California has a missing time encounter with a UFO and later recalls what happened, that he was taken by grays. He also has three encounters in one day with human-like ETs walking among us.A young girl from California is out riding her bike one summer morning when she is approached by a very strange-looking boy on his bicycle. He has gray skin, a huge head, massive dark eyes and four fingers on each hand. It was to be the first of a lifelong series of encounters.Two women take a trip across the USA and experience a harrowing missing-time encounter along a remote desert highway in Utah. Later, one of the witnesses remembers being taken onboard and being given profound messages and warnings.A young boy from New York sees a gray wearing a red vest stare at him through the window of his home. Meanwhile his sister reports ETs in her bedroom. Later, the boy recalls being taken onboard with both his sister and mother.And so much more! Veteran UFO researcher Preston Dennett takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the very heart of the UFO phenomenon, exploring the many questions people have about UFOs and extraterrestrial contacts. Who are these strange beings? Why are they here? What is it like to meet ETs, to be taken onboard a craft? The answers are here!Bio Preston began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of 30 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal. Several of his books have been Amazon UFO bestsellers. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Fate, Atlantis Rising, MUFON UFO Journal, Nexus, Paranormal Magazine, UFO Magazine, Phenomena Magazine, Mysteries Magazine, Ufologist and others. His writing has been translated into several different languages including German, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Icelandic. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell, Coast-to-Coast and also the History Channel's Deep Sea UFOs and UFO Hunters and Ancient Aliens. His research has been presented in the LA Times, the LA Daily News, the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. He has taught classes on various paranormal subjects and lectures across the United States. https://prestondennett.weebly.com/Amazon link http://rb.gy/4o2vahttps://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

This week on the Oklahoma Outdoors Podcast we are excited to announce that hunting season is here! John's long time friend Charles Admire joins him on the show to talk about all the fun adventures that await for the fall of 2023. The guys talk about their whitetail seasons and a few other fun hunts that Charles is looking forward to like New Mexico mule deer and west Texas sandhill crane. The guys also discuss their re-emerged love of waterfowl hunting and share a few stories from last season that have really fueled the fire for the upcoming fall. Both fellas share some of their muzzleloader failures and what they learned from them, and give some warnings to folks who are new to black powder. While the guys talk whitetails, John admits he may have to eat his words as his top target buck has been daylighting a lot leading up to the archery opener this coming weekend. John often warns against being overly excited for opening day, but when a target buck is showing himself, it may just be time to go all in! Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember, we welcome comments, questions, and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com. An Atheopagan Declaration of Policy Values (2022): https://theapsocietyorg.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/an-atheopagan-declaration-of-policy-values-2022.final_.pdf S4E30 TRANSCRIPT:   Yucca: Welcome back to The Wonder, Science Based Paganism. I'm one of your hosts, Yucca. Mark: And I'm the other one, Mark. Yucca: And today, we're talking about religion and politics. Mark: Yes, but don't turn it off. Yucca: Yes, we were saying, what should we call this? What should we call this? But no, this is, this is important. This is what we're going to talk about. And there's a lot to say here. But today it was inspired because, Mark, you just got back from a trip, which you got to do some pretty cool politicking. Mark: Yes I went to Washington, D. C. as a part of a fly in delegation by the Conservation Alliance, and I'll tell some of those stories later advocating for protections for public lands, including the designation of some new national monuments. So, I, as I said, I'll, I'll talk about that stuff later but yeah, just got back from a lobby trip, Yucca: Yeah. So one of the things that... It is very common to hear in pagan circles, and I think probably not just pagan circles, but a lot of new age things and kind of, mini counterculture sorts of groups, is, you know, don't bring politics. into this, right? Don't, don't bring politics into my religion. Don't, you know, we, we aren't going to talk about that. We're not going to be this is separate, right? Let's be, let's be off in our realm or our magical experience and leave that other stuff out. Mark: right? And there is so much to be said about that. I mean, it has a nexus with toxic positivity. This idea that, you know, we should only talk about happy, shiny stuff, and that, you know, we're going to have this nice, warm, glowy, serotonin oxytocin experience by doing our, our spirituality, and we're just not going to engage with anything that doesn't stimulate that. It has to do with the toxicity that we see in the societies around us where the mainstream religions are engaging with public policy and they're doing it for really destructive and antisocial reasons. And so that becomes sort of the poster child for why you wouldn't want you to have politics in your spiritual space. But a lot of it, in my opinion, is simply... We don't want to think about any of those issues because they might bring us down. Yucca: hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. But, and there's just so much to say because there's, it's going to depend on every different kind of situation but I think that if we think about the values that We often claim to have that we value the earth, that we think the earth is sacred. You know, we may have different interpretations on, you know, whether divinity is involved with that or not, but hey, we're agreeing, we think that the earth is important, we're agreeing about believing that love and freedom and all of these things are important, then I think that... If we really believe that, then we have a responsibility to those things. Mark: Yes, yes, we it's because they won't happen by themselves. You know, there are interests which are destructive interests and are not filled with love and are not about advancing liberty and are not about supporting the biosphere in a manner which is consistent with biodiversity and with the sustaining of humanity. And they're out there advocating for their stuff every day. And if we absent ourselves from the process because we think that it is too negative or too gross or too demoralizing, then we are leaving the field to those who would do us harm. And it's just not, there is no logic to it that makes sense to me, other than at the most sort of Self indulgent, I just want to feel good for me kind of place, where it makes sense to say, I'm not going to vote, I'm not going to advocate for what I care about, I'm not going to be interested in any kind of activism. I mean, everybody's circumstances Yucca: become informed about it, Mark: right. Yucca: right? Mark: Everybody's circumstances are different, and not everybody can be a big activist, right? You know, if you're, you know, you're raising kids, or, and you're, you know, scraping by, and, you know, there's a lot of different, I mean, poverty is a social control strategy. Yucca: Yeah, Mark: So, it is, it is one way that people who have the common good at heart are kept limited in the amount of power that they have. So let's, let's not mince words about that. But even with the limitations that we have, I have always felt that it was my responsibility to do what I can to try to advance the values that matter to me. And I'm pleased to say that the community that's grown up around atheopaganism is very much the same way. We're gonna, we're gonna put a Link in the show notes to the Atheopagan Declaration of Policy Values, which came out last year and was developed by the community with tons of community input and editing and all that kind of stuff. Yucca: There was a lot of back and forth and lots and lots of people participating and, you know, wording things just for, it was quite inspiring, actually. Mm hmm, Mark: the level, level of collaboration with the minimal amount of argument was very inspiring to me. And so now we have this document, and it can be downloaded from the Atheopagan Society website. So we're going to put the link in the, in the show notes so you can download that. But that's an example of the community speaking out on issues that really matter to us, and saying, this is where we stand. This is what our activism is going to be built around. This is, you know, we... We embrace LGBTQ people. We do. And it's not just, it's not just You know, so called virtue signaling, we genuinely do, we want those folks, we want people of color, we want indigenous people in our community, you know, we want them to be safe, we want them to be seen, we want them to be heard as, as an example. And similarly, along the environmental axis, along the axis of personal liberty and autonomy, bodily autonomy, all of those you know, the importance of critical thinking and science all of those pieces are a part of what our movement is about. And so, when we talk with the public, That is, that is core to what we express. Yes, we're here for happiness. We're here for people to feel good. We're all for that. But as one of the atheopagan principles says, you know, responsibility, social responsibility is one of our principles. Yucca: right. Mark: It is an obligation that we have. Yucca: And so those values, they're not just about talking about them, they're about, those are what inform the choices that we're making. Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: Right? And being able to reflect on what those are, right? is really important. Have conversations about that, because we're not, there's going to be nuance, right? We're not always going to see eye to eye on things, and being able to, as individuals, talk about that with each other, and as a community, be able to, to talk about that and, and, you know, have that conversation is really important. Mark: Absolutely. Absolutely. And we learn from one another, right? I mean, that's a really important piece because As strongly as I feel on a value level about supporting people of color in the LBGTQI plus community I'm not one of either of those groups. And so I have to listen a lot in order to understand, well, what is an appropriate statement to make in support, right? How do I show up as an ally and as and as an advocate? Or a supporter for their advocacy, you know. So, you know, it's not as simple as just having a laundry list of policy positions. And it has to also recognize that we live in a world of subtle differences. Right? Subtle gradations of change throughout the whole natural world, and that includes humanity. So, I get really kind of bent sideways when I hear the lesser of two evils, or I'm not going to vote for that person because of this one little position, when the alternative is so much worse on every position. The best analogy that I've heard is that voting isn't dating, it's selecting, it's selecting the best possible option off of the available menu. And the available menu only includes people that actually have a chance of getting elected. It's not just some fringe outlier who tells you what you want to hear. Yucca: mhm, Mark: that can actually get into a position to make change in a positive direction. Yucca: mhm, mhm, mhm. Mark: So, we had a bunch of stuff on the outline for this podcast. What else have you got? Yucca: Well, certainly the, the issue of privilege is definitely Mark: Oh, yeah  Yucca: and this is something that I think comes up where people will be unaware of the place of privilege that they may be coming from to be able to say, I don't want to deal with this. I don't want this coming into, you know, my religion or my, anything about that, because that, that isn't the position that most people are going to be in that situation, right? Yeah. Mm Mark: Yeah the, I think the clearest way to express that is that if you have the luxury of saying, Oh, I don't want to vote that just encourages them, or I'm not going to consider any of those issues because I just want to be on my, you know, spiritual path of lightness and joy thing. Is that people that are marginalized and endangered by the way our society operates, they don't have the luxury to do that. If you look at voting rates, for example, African American women vote astronomically in high proportions in the United States. And the reason for that is that the interests of the community that they are in are, are, are stark. The, you know, the threats that certain people like a Donald Trump and the people that he brings with him present to that community are so real. They're not, they're not theoretical. It's not just something where, where as a white person, you look at it and go, Oh, gee, that's too bad. This is life and death for them. And they turn out to vote. They're organized. They're knowledgeable. You know, these are people who are, are leveraging the power that they have absolutely as much as they can. And when I hear people say, you know, oh, well, I'm not going to vote because blah, blah, blah. What I, what I really hear is, I am so cushioned from the impacts of the policies that get made by people that I don't... Agree with in theory that I can just skate on this and ride on, on the, the, the privilege that I enjoy in the society in order to avoid having to deal with something that I might find icky. Yucca: yeah, I'm being served by the system, fundamentally. Yeah. Mark: So, you know, I'll give an example. It's like, an argument can be made that the certain proportion of people who in, in key states who supported Bernie Sanders, And then refused to vote for Hillary Clinton may have given us Donald Trump. It's not that they had to agree with everything that Hillary Clinton said because they didn't, I didn't. But the appointees that she was going to make, the appointees to the Supreme Court, the appointees to the, the cabinet positions, the appointees to federal judgeships. All of those things were going to be head and shoulders above any of the things that Trump ended up doing. And it's painful to say, but those people needed to look at the big picture and go and vote for Hillary Clinton. And they didn't. And it's that, it's that, that sense of privilege, that sense of it not mattering that much that I really think needs to be interrogated on the left. And I am on the left, right, but I'm on the left that seeks to achieve progress because I'm a progressive, and progress happens in incremental steps most of the time. Progress isn't a home run. Progress is a base hit, and electing Hillary Clinton would have been a base hit on the way towards achieving better policies. And instead, we have what we have. So, you know, and I realize that there are going to be people that are going to be fuming when they hear me say this but seriously, look at the playing board, and look at what we got, and You know, think about, well, what does this mean for the next election? Where, where should I be putting my support? Yucca: Hmm, yeah definitely was not expecting that, I was not prepared for that direction of the conversation. That's something that I would have to really think a lot on. I understand some of the sentiment behind it, but I would want to look more at some of the numbers. And some of the assumptions about who is entitled to what vote, and whether those, I think that there's a lot to that situation, and I don't feel comfortable, I mean, you certainly have the opinion that you want, but necessarily agreeing and and um humming without really looking at that particular situation. I think that there's a lot that was going on there. But I've certainly heard that argument a lot, and one of the things that I have been uncomfortable with is, and I'm not saying that you're saying this, but this is something that I have heard often, is the sense of entitlement of those people's votes. That, you know, somehow this party was entitled to people's votes. What about... So, you know, do the numbers actually work out of how many Democrats voted Republican in that situation versus how many Independents voted one direction or the other? I think that there's a lot to really look into there. Mark: Sure, sure. And I have looked into it some. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: I should be clear, I'm not saying that Hillary Clinton deserved anybody's vote, or was entitled to everybody's, to anybody's vote. I'm saying she deserved them from a strategic standpoint. Yucca: hmm. Mark: That when you look at the playing field, And what was the right next move, that that was the right next move. And in certain states like Wisconsin there were, there were enough votes that dropped off. That the argument can be made, but, but let's, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: let's make the whole thing abstract, okay? Rather than talking about that, that election in specific, let's talk about elections generally. When you have a situation where somebody who you agree with 50 percent is running against somebody who is agreeing with you 10%, And then there's somebody out there who agrees with you 100%, but they have no ability to be elected. And it's clear Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You know, I need to go for the 50 percent because, again, I'm a progressive. So I want to see things advance, even if they're going to go a lot slower than I want them to go. Yucca: Right, well I think in some of that case it's going to depend on what are the particular changes that, and what are the things that you are placing at highest priority, right? And if one of the things that you're placing at high priority is trying to do something about the monopoly, then that the two parties have, I can see the logic of making a different choice there. But I think that the point, I think the point where we probably agree is that when you're voting, it's something to be very strategic about. It's to look at what is the situation where you are and what are the possible outcomes and thinking about You know, what are the values that you are, that you are fighting for in that case, right? What are they, right? Mark: and the key takeaway that I would, that I would leave this particular rabbit hole with is that not to vote is to vote. If you don't vote, you are Yucca: is voting, yeah. Mark: It is voting. So it is you know, you, you don't get away with your hands clean just because you don't vote, right? You, you bear a responsibility for election outcomes just like everybody else does. And that's a really important thing for people in democracies to understand. And I'll talk a little bit later on about democracy and the degree to which we have it and all that good kind of stuff. Yucca: And This is just one area, right? This is an area that we happen to be talking about because this is an area where, where this is something that there's some strong opinions on, and this is an area where people do have influence, but of course there's a lot of other things. As well, in terms of you know, commercial choices and lifestyle choices and all of that kind of stuff that we can but one thing I really want to highlight, and you touched on this a little bit before, but I think it really deserves its own section of the podcast as well, is that being able to spend large amounts of time on these issues is a form of privilege itself too, right? And this is not something that everyone has. And you don't have to be guilty and beat yourself up and you're not a bad pagan because you've got to do a 9 to 5 plus your two side jobs to even be able to Barely make rent, right? That's not, so we're not sitting here saying, oh, shame on, you're failing because you're not fighting oil rigs in the, you know, gulf and how come you're out there? Like, that's not what we're saying at all. And I think that it's really, really important to think about and balance in our lives the self care component. And, that sometimes, yes, it's, sometimes it is okay to just have your celebration and to not necessarily be talking about, you know, let's raise money for this, this particular candidate at this time, or something like that, but know that it does, that this stuff does have a place in the community, it is important, but it isn't, The, you don't have to be doing it all the time, if that's not what your, what your mental health needs. Mark: No, no, definitely not. And it's important for those of us that have the privilege to be able to engage the system in that way, either from the outside or the inside, that we recognize that privilege and use it. Right? You know, those of us that have the bandwidth, those of us who have You know, the thick enough skin and that have the energy and sometimes the money even just to travel, to go somewhere. I mean, the trip that I just took, I didn't pay for because otherwise I wouldn't have gone, right? But but it's, it's, that kind of privilege is very visible. It's like, The D. C. is a very, very African American town. It's a very Black town. Lots and lots of Black folks, and, until you get into the Congressional buildings, and there it whitens up considerably Yucca: Mm Mark: with the lobbyists and the, you know, the constituents that are going not, not universally, of course but noticeably, and it is incumbent upon those of us who have been there. The privilege to be able to engage, to do what we can to improve justice, and to speak for the things that we care about so that they can advance. Yucca: hmm. Mark: So, I could talk about my trip. Yucca: Yeah. Yeah, you were just talking about D. C., so, Mark: Okay, well. So, I got sent on a fly in with the Conservation Alliance, which is a consortium of businesses which was originally founded by REI, the North Face Peak Design, and Patagonia. And they came together to create a unified voice for speaking up for the outdoors, for for wild lands and outdoor recreation. That was a long time ago, and now they have 270 businesses from a variety of different sectors, and what they do every couple of years is they gather a bunch of the leaders of those businesses along with, and they make grants, right? They pool their money and they make grants to organizations that are doing organizing and advocacy for the issues that they care about, and the organization I work for, Cal Wild, is one of those. Yucca: mm hmm. So that's how you were able to go on this trip? Mark: Yes, CalWild was invited to send a representative, and I was selected to go, and so I went. This is not the first time that I've been to Washington to lobby, but the last time was in the 90s. So it's been a while. And everything has changed, of course. I mean, technology has changed everything, and 9 11 has changed all the security. So, it's, it's just a completely different experience. So, so I went and I was going to speak on to, as a grantee, to speak as a content expert about the positions that we're trying to advance. My organization right now is working very hard. for the creation of three new national monuments in California. My organization is limited to California, so that's why, you know, that. But we're also advocating for some policy changes at the administration level, which would affect the whole of the United States. And I should say, you know, we're talking a lot about kind of American politics in this podcast, but if you have a representative democracy of any kind, the things that we're talking about are really applicable to you too. Yucca: Right. Yeah, we're just talking about our experience with our Mark: the stuff we know about. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, the idea here is not to get everybody all plugged into American politics. It's to use that as an example of what citizen participation or resident participation looks like and why it's important. I go on this trip and I go to Washington and I meet with the team and we have a training briefing and all that kind of thing, and my take, we, on the first day, I had two meetings with administration offices with the Department of the Interior and the Council on Environmental Quality of the White House now when we're meeting with staff, we're not meeting with the people that are in charge in those agencies, we probably would have met with the Secretary of the Interior, but it's Climate Week in North Northern New York, so she was away at Climate Week, Yucca: Mm Mark: Um, so, and there was something going on with the Department of Environmental Quality such that we had the staffer that we had. But these are sharp, smart, influential people that we're talking to, and the sense that I got, and then the second day we had meetings with California delegation members both to the Senate and to the House of Representatives, including my congressman which I had a very interesting experience with talking to my congressman's office in Washington, so I'll get to that in a minute. Yucca: hmm. Mm Mark: The main takeaway that I got from, especially from meeting with the administration, was that they want to do what we want them to do. Their, their hearts are in the right place. And they are delighted that we are coming to Washington and talking to people, and organizing on the ground in local communities, because they need the political cover to be able to do what we want them to do. Yucca: hmm. Mark: And in that Yucca: like that's charging them up, right? They want to do it, but they need to be charged with the power of the people. Mark: yes, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Exactly so. And... It gives them something to point to when opponents say, we don't want that, Yucca: Mm Mark: right, they can, you know, they can point to the organizing that my organization is doing and say, well, the people in the community who live right next door want it, you know, the elected officials of the county where the expansion of the National Monument is proposed, they want it. So, You know, those are their representatives and they elected them to office to make those decisions, so why shouldn't we do this? So it's really important to be doing that kind of community organizing and talking to other people about the things that you care about in a, you know, in a focused way. So that was really gratifying to me because, of course, American democracy has taken a beating over the last 20 years, but it's still functioning. Thank you. The elections are kind of messed up, and we could certainly do without gerrymandering and and all the dark money, and I could go on, but as well as the occasional insurrection, which I really, really think we could do without. I walked Yucca: that's not an, let's have that be a singular thing, please. Mark: yes. I walked several times, because the house office buildings and the senatorial office buildings are on opposite sides of the capitol. I walked back and forth in front of where the insurrection took place a bunch of times. And there it is, you know, large is life. And, you know, there are the windows they broke, that's how they got in, you know, there's where they hung their banners, you know, all that. So, that said it was encouraging to see that at least under this administration, There was a commitment to listening to constituents and to hearing, you know, they were very appreciative of the businesses that were represented there, you know, in, you know, speaking up on behalf of protecting public lands so that their ecological values last forever, their recreational opportunities there, all that kind of stuff. Yucca: Actually, is that something you can, I know that we're talking kind of more process here, but for a moment, you were, talking about trying to get more national monuments. Why are those important? Mark: Oh, good. Very, very good question. My organization focuses on conservation of wild lands on public lands. And a lot of Yucca: you keep going, can you define conservation? Because that is a term that has a lot of different baggage attached to it. So what do you mean when you say conservation? Mark: man protection of the land so that it will not be developed in certain ways. And management of the land for the resource, for the benefit of the resources that are there, of the ecological resources, cultural resources in some cases historical resources, and recreational opportunities for people to go camping or hiking or whatever that might be. So, one... One misapprehension that many Americans have is the idea that public land is protected land. And it is not. Most public land in the United States is owned by the Bureau of Land Management or by the U. S. Forest Service. And those have been managed primarily for extractive purposes like logging and mining and Yucca: Oil is big Mark: and oil exploration. Yucca: yeah. Mark: Yeah, very big. So we're advocating for chunks. of undeveloped land to be protected in perpetuity and managed for the benefit of those values. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: That's what a national monument does. Or a National Wilderness Area, which is declared by Congress. We're not asking for a National Wilderness Area in the areas we're focusing on because Congress is broken, and there's no way to get anything through it. the President can use the National Antiquities Act to declare a national monument. He can do that on his own. Yucca: So, by taking , these areas, you're setting aside, you're allowing ecosystems to stay intact, right? So that you can have the populations of these animals and plants or whatever. Particular kind of species you're looking at, they have a place to be, they can continue to play the roles that they would play in a hopefully healthy system and to help manage for that, Mark: Right, and that helps us to accomplish a couple of important things, one of which is, you know, we have a biodiversity crash problem, you know, the, the biodiversity of the earth is the, which is the number of different species and the number of individuals of those species are both on a steep decline. Having habitat is necessary in order for, you know, organization, organisms to live. And but not only that, this is a very interesting one. One of the things that we're advocating for is the expansion of Joshua Tree National Park. Yucca: hmm. Mm hmm. Mark: And the reason for that is that because of climate change, Joshua trees are migrating out of Joshua Tree National Park. Yucca: Interesting. Mark: Over time, they're moving north because it's too hot Yucca: Because it's warm. Yeah. Okay. Mark: Yeah. So, it... Protecting these areas also enables the natural systems of the earth to do what they do in terms of adaptation, right? So, there's a place for the Joshua trees to go as the southernmost of them die because of excessive heat, and conditions become better for them outside of the park to the north. So that's just one example.  Yucca: And may I add that we of course want to protect these for simply the innate value of that being , has any right, as much right to be there as we do. But they also, the functioning system performs ecosystem functions, which is like cleaning the water and the air that we all breathe. So it's, it's not just that, oh, we like there being lots of animals and plants and fungi. It's that there needs to be. these plants and fungi and animals for life as we understand it to continue to function, Mark: right, exactly. And that requires, because everything is so fragmented now, it requires some level of active management in order to protect from invasions by invasive species, for example, which will wipe out all the biodiversity. Yucca: right? Or in my area of the world where we're missing keystone species, so we're missing whole ecological roles, there used to be these animals that aren't there anymore, and if you just take your hands off and you don't touch it, you fence that area off, that area will starve, quite literally, right? If you don't, if humans don't try, because it's kind of like the voting. No management is management. Mark: yes. Yucca: Right? It is a choice that we're making as well. And so we have to really be thoughtful about and understand the systems that we're dealing with. Mark: right. And there is so much science. I'm not saying we know everything, because we don't. There's an awful lot that we don't know, but there is a tremendous body of science about how to manage lands in order to improve biodiversity at this point. Yucca: And we're getting better at it. Mark: One of the things that we who work in the conservation sector, in the environmental sector, actually need to fight against within our own ranks is the group of people who still advocate for putting a fence around things and leaving it alone. Yucca: That's why I asked you a little bit about how you are using the term, because where I am, the term has been kind of changing a little bit, where we have kind of two different camps, which are the restorationists and the conservationists. And the conservationists are the people who, who are, you know, an anti gras, who are like, don't touch anything. Don't just fence it off. Don't know people know nothing. And then you've got the people who are going, well, let's look at the way the whole system works and maybe we do need to, you know, one, let's not keep kick the people off. 'cause you know, It's been here for 20, 000 years. But also, like, what, you know, what about the animals? What do we do for the, you know? So that's why I was kind of asking a little bit about that terminology there. Mark: here's a great example in California. There were devastating wildfires. that ran through Sequoia National Park. And in Sequoia National Park are the giant sequoia trees, these, you know, huge, vast, amazing, amazing Yucca: Amazing. Mark: awe inspiring. Well, because humans had been suppressing fire in those forests for a hundred years, when that wildfire ripped through, it burned much, much hotter than it ever would have otherwise, and killed a lot of those trees. Now, there's a big debate. The Park Service wants to replant seedlings of giant sequoias. in the burned area. And there are environmental organizations, self styled, that are saying, no, you can't do that. You just have to let nature take its course because that's the right thing. But we have been suppressing fire for a hundred years. We have been doing the most invasive, destructive thing that can be done to that ecosystem for a hundred years, and now you say we're supposed to leave it alone? That's ridiculous. You know, reseeding giant sequoias in that area is absolutely the right thing to do in order to keep the species from going extinct. And, I, I don't know, I mean, obviously this is what I believe. Yucca: I'm smiling as you're saying that because I used to work in stand management in the Jemez, and we had very, very similar, like, I can hear the two sides right now and it's, People get, have very, it's very emotional, right, and one of the things that happens, I think, is that people have very strong emotional connections without having some of the background to understand what is happening. And that goes back to what we were talking about before with some of our responsibility, I think, is that we have a responsibility to become informed about these Issues and learn about them and and be able to, if you're going to be involved in making choices about how these If this land is going to be managed, you need to understand the ecosystems that you're dealing with. Because our system, our ponderosa pine systems are very similar in terms of the fire ecology. You know, people become very, people are very concerned about thinning and controlled burns and things like that, and I think that they're coming from a good place. Their hearts in a good place in it, but are very, very misinformed about what the results of their actions will be if we do that. Mark: And there are two big pieces there that I think really are takeaways from all of this. The first one is that they are coming from a good place, but it's a romantic place. And we need to recognize in ourselves when we are romanticizing something rather than basing our decisions on facts. Yucca: Mm Mark: The second is... We have seen a terrible onslaught on the appreciation for expertise over the course of the last 40 years or so. And we need to respect the people who have letters after their names and understand deeply how things work. We need to listen to them. And they don't all agree with one another, that's fine. But in generally, in most cases, there is a scientific consensus. To some degree about what is the right course for these sorts of decisions. And we need to be listening to people that have devoted their lives to understanding these questions, rather than just thinking that because we like trees or we like nature, that we are in a position to make those kinds of decisions. Yucca: hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mark: I'm speaking to you and you're in the process of getting letters after your name. Yucca: I have plenty of letters. I'm getting some more letters, but yes. Yeah. . Well, I had cut you off when you, in your story, to ask you to explain a little bit about the monuments, of why that was such an important issue for you to go across the entire continent. to talk about. Mark: That was a really important question. And as you mentioned this, yeah, it's true. I mean, there are a few reasons that I would put myself into an airplane at this point because of the impact on the atmosphere, but this is one that feels like on balance.  Yucca: Potentially for your lungs, too. Mark: yes, yes, that's true boy, although I came back here and oh my god, the smoke, we're, we're really, we're really buried in, in wildfire smoke right now. So, Going to, and, and, you don't have to go to D. C. in order to advocate for things you care about. First of all, a lot of decisions are local, and you can go and talk with local officials, or organize a contingent to go and talk with local officials. But also, your congressional representative has an office in your area. You can go and talk with them and let them know what you feel about things. Yucca: Well, and state level as well, Mark: state level, absolutely. Yucca: right? And it, you know, it's going to depend a lot on your state. The experience in a smaller, population smaller state it may be A lot easier, like in my state in New Mexico, going down to the roundhouses is super easy you just walk in and there's everybody and you just go up and talk to them. I would imagine in a more populated state, it's a little bit trickier, but it's still possible, right? Mark: The culture contrast between, you know, California, of course, is the most populous state, almost 40 million people and the culture in Sac, yes, between Sacramento, our state capital, and D. C. is really stark. When you go to lobby in Sacramento, If you're a Democrat, you almost never wear a tie. I mean, registered lobbyists will probably wear a tie. But if you just go as a constituent or as an advocate for, you know, one of our groovy left enviro positions, You can wear an open shirt and a sport coat, a pair of slacks, I mean, and, you know, you don't have to hide your tattoos and your piercings and all that kind of stuff, it's great. You go to Washington, it's a suit for a man. You wear a suit, you wear a tie. I left my earring in, but that was my one sort of concession. And and you're right, it's very organized and very regimented in Sacramento, just because of the sheer volume of people that are, that are traipsing through there. Yucca: hmm. Mark: But I, I really, I want to come back to this idea that elected officials are there in a democracy to represent you, and they may not know what you think, Yucca: hmm. Mark: so go tell them. You know, get informed on an issue and, you know, go tell them what you think, what you, what you would like them to do. It's more powerful when you've organized more people to be a part of that voice. And that's why the Conservation Alliance exists. And that's Yucca: many other organizations too, Mark: yes, yes. That's why that's why community organizers exist. To gather the voices of... Individuals into a collective voice that's able to make change happen and that's true in any representative democracy, so it's, it's well worth, you know, you know, sticking a hand in, and the people you're talking to are just people. They don't bite. At worst, they will frown. That's, that's Yucca: wrinkle their brow at you. Mark: Yeah, that's, that's about the worst of it. I didn't have any Republican visits this time, so, we were very welcomed and just very encouraged, and I think there are going to be some declarations coming up here in the next few months that will make us very happy. So it's bringing all this back around politics is How we as a collective society make decisions about what's important, what's not, and what's going to happen. And if you care about your world, and as atheopagans and naturalistic pagans, I believe our listeners do care about their world and about their fellow humans then it's incumbent on us to say so, and do things that make things better. Yucca: I keep having the image of Mary and Pippin sitting on Treebeard's shoulder and shouting, but you're part of this world too! Mark: Yeah, yeah, there's, because there are things in this world that are worth fighting for. Right? Yucca: Yep. Well, we could certainly go on for a long time, but I think this is a little bit of a longer episode, so we should probably finish up here. And we are going into October, and we have some fun, and some spooky, and some great episodes coming up. And Stinky, and all of those great things that we love to celebrate, and recognize, and all of those things, and this great Time of year. And happy autumn, everybody. Mark: Happy autumn! Yeah, Yucca: So, thanks, Mark. Mark: yeah, thank you so much, Yucca. It's a pleasure talking with you, and I'm still obviously really kind of jazzed about this trip, so thanks for welcoming a conversation about that into the podcast. Yucca: See y'all next week. Mark: All right, take care.

The G/P Factor - Lamar Morin Rags to Riches | Book of Philemon Sunday, September 24, 2023 at Hoffmantown Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico

In This Episode Erin and Weer'd discuss: New Mexico's Attorney General refusing to defend the Governor from lawsuits over her suspension of the Second Amendment; Former Kimber sales executive, and current Giffords employee, Ryan Busse who now claims he is pro-gun as he makes a run for Governor of Montana. Xander gives us more of his independent thoughts on Right to Repair; Now that David has told us how suppressors work, he tells you need to do to buy one; and Weer'd sits down with Wes from The Mind Killer Podcast to talk about tips for a happy marriage. Did you know that we have a Patreon? Join now for the low, low cost of $4/month (that's $1/podcast) and you'll get to listen to our podcast on Friday instead of Mondays, as well as patron-only content like mag dump episodes, our hilarious blooper reels and film tracks. Show Notes Main Topic: New Mexico attorney general says he won't defend governor's gun ban in court In Montana, former firearms executive Ryan Busse seeks to unseat GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte Ryan Busse Switches Gears on Assault Weapons “Just start with my book. 352 pages there. I don't pull a lot of punches about my stances.” Red Blue and Brady Ep 172: How the Gun Industry Radicalized America Independent Thoughts with Xander Opal Turbo Encabulator Black & Decker Trimmer Won't Spin Gun Lovers and Other Strangers: Blue Collar Prepping: Suppressors National Firearms Act (ATF) National Firearms Act (Wikipedia) Where are Suppressors Legal? American Suppressor Association SilencerCo Octane 9 SilencerCo Osprey Suppressor Height Sights Secure Identity Documentation Kiosk Wait Times Suppressor Cover Suppressor Mitt Leon The Professional Scene Advanced Armament Dead Air GemTech Griffin Armament Q Rugged Suppressors SilencerCo SureFire Yankee Hill Machine Silencer Shop Brena Bock Author Page David Bock Author Page Team And More Wes Interview: The Mind Killer Podcast Substack  

RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie are joined by TRN podcast host Jennifer Marley and Christina Castro, founder of Three Sisters Collective, to discuss recent developments in the Native liberation struggle in New Mexico. Read more here about the press conference this Monday September 25 https://therednation.org/rio-arriba-county-do-not-resurrect-onate-statue/ Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

This episode, Distillate Don sparks up a conversation with legal cannabis advocate and podcaster, Chad Lazano, and Josh Villegas, Founder of Cruces Craft Cannabis. The trio delves into strategies to retain Texan cannabis enthusiasts within the state's borders after they've made their purchases, fostering cannabis tourism, and encouraging out-of-state customers to continue buying once they return home. They tackle the challenges of oversaturated cannabis licensing in the state, reflecting on the bigger license holders who had to close their doors. Furthermore, the discussion covers the proactive stance of New Mexico regulators in addressing compliance violations, emphasizing the significance of public outreach to legislators when amending and refining existing cannabis laws. You'll also learn about the unknowns and by-products resulting from the conversion of mass-produced farm bill CBD into other cannabinoids, which are subsequently made available to the public and are popularly known as “delta-8”.

Ok… what DON'T we talk about in this one? Seriously… we go from Botox and lip fillers to further discussion on some more “controversial” things in recent episodes, to gun control and constitution issues in New Mexico… and how that relates to Hunter Biden…, and then we also dig in to carbon sequestration and the joke that is the green movement. Speaking of which… do you know how much concrete goes into just ONE wind turbine? And how much actual land area will be needed to pull off the ambitious “net-zero” goals? Be prepared to have your mind blown. SPONSOR: World Watch News: https://gwnews.com/ FIND US: www.theboomclapcommunity.com www.instagram.com/boomclappodcast www.instagram.com/cecily.dickey www.instagram.com/ritarogersco ARTICLE LINK: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/09/12/the_biden_administration_vastly_misleads_the_public_on_the_vast_expanses_of_land_needed_for_net_zero_977662.html?fbclid=PAAab9dlyEf1sdQjCEUwHiYKVnY8jAVpINxglL9-Qa0qBRKTTDfUqkrxgv84g_aem_AbRroaC0jomEaSiwnQdeWiqYAOnuNLqtXH2_gwpQqQDsYt63lD0Ju5znBLu2l_Z_tkA

Lou DiVizio gives a rundown of some headlines from around the state to start the week, including an update on the arrest of three suspects in the shooting outside Isotopes park that killed an 11-year-old boy and paralyzed a 23-year-old woman. Then, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus hosts a roundtable conversation with U.S. Forest Service Southwestern Regional Forester Michiko Martin, Santa Fe National Forest Supervisor Shaun Sanchez, and Santa Fe National Forest Fuels Program Manager Dennis Carril. They talk about the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon and Cerro Pelado fires, prescribed burn protocols, and the future of fire and forest management in a warming world.  Host: Lou DiVizio Panel Host: Laura Paskus Guests:  Michiko Martin, U.S. Forest Service Southwestern Regional Forester  Shaun Sanchez, Santa Fe National Forest Supervisor  Dennis Carril, Santa Fe National Forest Fuels Program Manager    For More Information: U.S. Forest Service's National Prescribed Fire Resource Mobilization Strategy  U.S. Forest Service investigation of the Cerro Pelado Fire    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nmif/message

Episode 98: Step into the life of Sandra Gonzales. Join Kristen Eargle, a fellow coach's wife and long-time TV Sports Reporter, as she goes one-on-one with the wife of Danny Gonzales, Head Football coach at New Mexico.

This week on the Oklahoma Outdoors Podcast we are excited to announce that hunting season is here! John's long time friend Charles Admire joins him on the show to talk about all the fun adventures that await for the fall of 2023. The guys talk about their whitetail seasons and a few other fun hunts that Charles is looking forward to like New Mexico mule deer and west Texas sandhill crane. The guys also discuss their re-emerged love of waterfowl hunting and share a few stories from last season that have really fueled the fire for the upcoming fall.Both fellas share some of their muzzleloader failures and what they learned from them, and give some warnings to folks who are new to black powder. While the guys talk whitetails, John admits he may have to eat his words as his top target buck has been daylighting a lot leading up to the archery opener this coming weekend. John often warns against being overly excited for opening day, but when a target buck is showing himself, it may just be time to go all in!Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content!

Join us as this week Paul interviews Mariah Wilson, President of the Arabian Horse Association of New Mexico and Owner of Platinum Performance Horses. They talk about the recent AHANM Chili Roast Show held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show boasted 5 arenas running concurrently over 3 days, creating not only expanded offerings for their exhibitors, but a fun atmosphere for them between classes. It also drew members of the non-horse-owning public. The show was a great success for the club and the participants. They discuss the changes, trial and error, and successes that the club has seen under her leadership, from expansion of membership to increased sponsor representation. And no interview would be complete without an understanding of how she found the Arabian horse, and it's one of this editor's favorites. This episode is certainly worth a listen! The producers of We Love Arabian Horses strive to provide informative and engaging content to our listeners without any bias or commercial interests. Our priority is to deliver valuable insights, discussions, and entertainment through our podcast episodes. If you have any questions or concerns about the content of our podcast, please reach out to us at Austin@WeLoveArabianHorses.com, and we will be happy to address them. Thank you for listening to We Love Arabian Horses. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/we-love-arabian-horses/message

Join us on this week's episode where we discuss the crash landing of an alien space craft in New Mexico. Nope! Not Roswell. This happened two full years before Roswell and just after the nuclear bomb testing at the Trinity site. Two young best friends, ranch hands, and the youngest grown men you'll ever meet witnessed the crash but didn't talk about it - to anyone - until 76 years later! You don't want to miss this one! 

By definition what is happening with the migrant (immigrant, refugee) crisis in the United States is an ‘invasion'. Furthermore, the United Nations has published on their website (see below for link) a document talking about how to replace a declining or aging population -or one that you simply wish to replace for other reasons. Now the state of Massachusetts is going further by encouraging average citizens to house the homeless. Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll said “if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family.” Her state, and many others. also have declared states of emergency that allows the normal rule of law to be played with like we have seen with any other crisis. The same was done in New Mexico over the complex and deceptive emotional issue of guns. In both cases, it goes like this: Create the problem, blame your political opponents for being insensitive, take zero responsibility, then declare and emergency and begin issuing orders - then tell your citizens to pay for the problem. People always wonder what the point of the 3rd Amendment is, since we don't have a powerful crown forcing us to house and feed British soldiers anymore. With the problem outlined above, it is now a lot more clear. https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/unpd-egm_200010_un_2001_replacementmigration.pdfThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5328407/advertisement

Sixth grader Ziggy lives in New Mexico with his dad and sister. When Ziggy was a baby, his mom vanished, a tragic all-too-common occurrence among Native American females. Since nobody is looking for his mom anymore, Ziggy and his friends venture into the desert one night looking for any clue that will lead them to his mom. During this fantastical night, they meet talking animals who have much to teach Ziggy if he will listen. This is a wondrous tale rich with Cherokee history, language and culture juxtaposed with a tragic modern day issue. 

My solo show closes this weekend, and I'm taking a short respite in Santa Fe. I decided to re-release one of my favorite story-telling episodes about friends, trust, and guidance. I hope you enjoy this early episodeA Recap:Listen to this heartwarming story about Chris' recent trip to Santa Fe. After taking several weeks off from producing "The Spiritual Artist Podcast," host Christopher Miller shares his harrowing adventure through the hills of Santa Fe to visit a sick friend. Chris initially met artist Carolyn on his first journey to New Mexico and felt a deep desire to visit her during a time of need. A flat tire, an intermittent phone signal, and rocky terrain challenge him to understand the true meaning of control and Spiritual guidance. He is reminded to seek those moments of awe; look for beauty, release control, and trust his Spiritual guidance.For more information, consider purchasing a copy of "The Spiritual Artist" on Amazon or visiting http://www.spiritualartisttoday.com.

On episode 440 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Ann Kriebel-Gasparro, DrNP, FNP, GNP, FAANP, a dually credentialed family & gerontological nurse practitioner. In the course of their conversation Keith and Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro discuss our aging society, the effects of climate change on older adults, and other issues salient to this time in history when adult gerontological nurse practitioners are needed more than ever. Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro has her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Drexel University, and at the time of this interview she is the President Elect of GAPNA the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA). Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro received the Pennsylvania State Award for Excellence from AANP in 2019 and the Distinguished Nursing Educator Award from the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. In 2020, she received the GAPNA Excellence in Education Award. Inducted in 2022 as a Fellow of FAANP Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro has several publications, Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro's most recent publication is "Chronic Disease Screening and Health Promotion for Older Men" in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro will also be presenting on the Effects of Climate Change in Older Adults at the AANP and GAPNA Conferences in 2023. Connect with Dr. Ann Kriebel-Gasparro: Pennsylvania APRNs for Full Practice Authority Facebook group LinkedIn X (formerly known as Twitter) ----------- Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That's right — over at RNegade.pro, they're building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform! Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot. The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

This week's episode of the Passing Judgement podcast, we are joined by the president of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), Noah Bookbinder. We delve into the recent lawsuit filed by CREW in Colorado. The suit claims that former President Trump is disqualified from holding public office due to his alleged violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This provision prohibits individuals who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States from holding federal or state office. Tune in to better understand the intersection between the law, politics, and the preservation of democracy.Here are the three key takeaways from the episode:1️⃣ In the state of Colorado there's a unique law that allows voters to sue to remove candidates who are not qualified to serve. This provided an avenue for the plaintiffs, 6 Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, to challenge Trump's eligibility for the ballot.2️⃣ The lawsuit is considered ripe for review because Trump has already declared himself a candidate for president, actively fundraising, and giving campaign speeches. With the possibility of him filing paperwork and being put on the ballot, time is of the essence for this case.3️⃣ Section 3 of the 14th Amendment: This provision was added to the Constitution after the Civil War to prevent those who engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States from holding public office. Previous cases and decisions in state courts have interpreted and applied this section to disqualify individuals. CREW's success in a similar case in New Mexico highlights the potential impact of this provision.Follow Our Guest:On X formerly known as Twitter: @NoahBookbinderCheck out CREW here. Follow Our Host:On X formerly known as Twitter: @LevinsonJessica

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