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I had the honor of meeting Thee Gloria Steinem last week because of an incredible organization called Moms First, that's working for practical policy change to make motherhood sustainable for Moms via universal childcare and paid family leave. I wanted to share my experience, and my thoughts on Motherhood in America for you all, so you can feel seen, hopefully deeply validated, and fired up to join in this effort that needs your assistance. I explained the purpose of the Moms First organization and their documentary "No Country for Mothers," and how you can freely become involved, inspired and create more values-aligned community in your area of the world. I gave a little history lesson about Gloria, because most of us weren't adulting during her prime, and in my view, everything about her is illuminating and inspiring. And then I answered 5 talking questions that were the center of the conversation I was privileged to be a part of last week at her apartment. Thank you for letting me share my experience with you, and for being here, and who you are. If you would like to host your own screening and become more involved with Moms First (YOU SHOULD), here is their information: https://momsfirst.us/doc/
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Hell or High Water is one of the most perfectly written movies ever made… and somehow nobody talks about it. We break down how Taylor Sheridan built the dying cowboy way of life directly into the DNA of this film and why every single character, even the smallest ones, feels like somebody you actually know. We talk about Jeff Bridges delivering one of the best performances of his entire career as a retiring ranger who can't quite let go. We get into Ben Foster's insane method acting and the wild lengths he goes to for every role he takes. And we discuss how this movie got four Oscar nominations and walked away with nothing, which honestly just makes us more pissed off about it.Chapters:00:00 Announcements & intro0:54 Some of the most real characters on screen11:41 The theme effects every part of this movie17:33 The coolest side character there is19:45 Chris Pine stepping out of the usual22:39 Breaking down the opening scene26:17 The beautifully bad brotherly love30:47 Ben Foster's insane method acting practices42:47 No Country vibes45:28 The perfectly written dialogue47:57 In praise of Jeff Bridges53:23 2016 tough year to win an award56:00 How Taylor Sheridan wrote this movie59:09 A complete rushed production1:02:39 Smart editing choices in this movie1:06:11 Townsfolk have never been more ready1:15:09 Our final thoughts
Lutheran Preaching and Teaching from St. John Random Lake, Wisconsin
This is the freedom no country can hand you, and no fireworks can celebrate. It is not the open sea where you answer to no one and drown alone, but the net of the love of Christ, where you are held so fast you cannot be lost. The free conscience, finally forgiven, is not the one that answers to nothing. It is the one that no longer has to run, because the blood of Jesus has already answered for it. You were caught alive in the water of your Baptism. You are held in that net every time the words “I forgive you” fall on your ears. You are drawn up out of the deep at this very rail, where He lays His own body and blood on your tongue and will not let you go.
It's been said that you can spot an American from a mile away. Travelers to Europe are advised to adjust their attire to blend in with locals and avoid looking so … casual. The French think Americans are loud and rude, and Europe has a long tradition of sneering at how classless we all are, even before Trump.I spent a month in Italy, and it's a beautiful place. The slow living, the long naps when all the stores shut down for hours during the day, the tiny cars, the laundry drying on the balconies, the fresh food at the Farmer's Market. I feel lucky that when I came back from Italy, I was pregnant and having my baby is the single greatest thing that has ever happened to me. But I'm also glad she grew up in America.I used to travel to France to cover the Cannes Film Festival, and again, I admired their way of life, the food especially. But every time I stayed too long, I began to miss my home in America. There is something thrilling about living in a free country that I've never felt anywhere else.It seems to me that if you are born here, you make up your life as it goes along. It is not planned out for you, necessarily, although in some cases, I guess it probably is. In my case, it wasn't. I knew I could invent myself any way I wanted. And if I didn't like that version, I could reinvent myself. We're like our country, a work in progress. It's always there for the taking, that promise of opportunity.Donald Trump is all of America's freedoms wrapped up in one imperfect man. He broke through the thick layer of oppressive thought and speech and showed the world that here, you really can say anything you want - as long as some crazed totalitarian doesn't try to shoot you. That's the country I want to live in. It isn't that the greatest writing or art has come from a place like America. Plenty of great works have come from places that don't center freedom as their main objective. But once you've tasted it, you can't give it up.In his speech last night, Trump said:The American founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people, like you. You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. Not going to let that happen.They're trying to tear down the great American character to destroy the people who declared independence, who crossed the Delaware, who settled the West and conquered the skies. You know who those people are. But we will never let that happen.In America now, two stories are competing to claim the right to rule the future. Trump is telling the better story, the one America was founded on and the one we've all believed, at least up until recently, when a new wave of progressives decided that the better story paints America as a corrupt, rotten, white supremacist empire that has to be torn down to the studs and rebuilt.They must be terrified about the 2030 Census because they've decided to die on the hill of illegal immigration, which is fast becoming their most important issue. That, alongside Democratic Socialism, is a recipe for disaster.This was Bill Clinton's bummer message on the Fourth:I always thought Bill Clinton was a good president, but reading that just now makes me think he wasn't. All he's ever been able to do is point the finger at the other side and never offer any real solutions. He's not the man in the arena. He's the man on the sidelines.What I love about Trump and his supporters is how much they love America. They love it so much that they plant flags all over their homes. They admire the Founding Fathers. They call themselves Patriots. We didn't have that kind of pride on the Left when I was growing up.And even now, so many see the American flag and the love of country as dangerous, racist, bigoted, fascist. Whoever told those people that is what MAGA is about lied. They're protective of America's laws and its border. That is out of love for the country. The Left has taken almost everything from them. They've locked them out of culture, forbidden them from participating in any of their major events, dehumanized, demonized, and disenfranchised them. But the one thing they couldn't take was their citizenship. They hit the jackpot just by being born in America. To think it would be so easy for people all over the world to come here illegally and claim that prize or to come here and attempt to remake America into something it was never meant to be devalues the one thing they treasure most of all. I've always been a proud American. I've always preferred this country over any other, but only in the last few years have I understood what it means to be a Patriot, to be ready to fight for the country I love. And that is because of the people I've gotten to know on the Right.This country is worth fighting for. I might not agree with all of the policies on the Right, or even Trump himself, all of the time, but I'd rather have the future of this country in the hands of people who love it the way Trump does than people who hate it, the way so many on the Left do, just because their candidates are weak and their policies are toxic. I wanted to write 250 things I love about America, but it got too long, so this will have to do. Here are just some of the things I love:I love the interstates as part of the great legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower.I love the Pacific Ocean because it stretches along the state. I love Catalina Island off the California Coast, where I spent many a summer with my best friend.I love seeing our history in the many cultures that came here, like Chinatown, Little Italy, Mexican food in LA, soul food in the South, Irish bars and pubs in the middle of nowhere. And yes, you can appreciate a nation of immigrants while still policing our borders now. I love how nice people are in some places, like California, Ohio, and Iowa, where they smile at you on the street.I love the weather extremes, from the dusty plains to the snowy mountains to hurricanes by the sea.I love the historic monuments from the Civil War and the Revolutionary War.I love the town squares that you can still see if you drive through the middle of America. Even though many are abandoned, they still look like hope to me.I love how each town square has a church, a post office, and a school.I love the many farmlands that blanket the Midwest.I love the small mom-and-pop coffee drive-throughs, and even the convenience of a Starbucks in nearly every town.I love Route 66 and how people still drive it and visit the forgotten places.I love the absurdity of Las Vegas, how it sprouts up impossibly in the middle of the desert.I love the American writers who helped shape our country's sense of itself - Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, Maya Angelou. I love the musical traditions that started here: Jazz and the Blues. And became Rock n' Roll. I love the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the town that still remembers it.I love diners and dive bars.I love Gone with the Wind and how it's still the highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. I love The Twilight Zone and find it timeless, as relevant today as it was in the 1950s.I love the footprints at the (Grauman's) Chinese Theater in Hollywood.I love the US military and its devotion to the country. I love the wildflowers that bloom in California every year.I love soft-serve ice cream at the DQ.I love Levi's.I love New York pizza.I love Solvang in California.I love driving up the Oregon coast. I love the songs of Bob Dylan.I love the tap dancing of Fred Astaire.I love how anyone can be a star on YouTube, no matter where they come from, but YouTube couldn't have been invented anywhere but America.I love how I could build a business as a single mom in a one-room guesthouse in Van Nuys, and that business would, five years later, become profitable because I worked hard and had a good idea. And then, when my career went up in flames in 2024 because I voted for Trump, I could build another career on Substack because that is what America is all about - inventing and reinventing yourself.I love the innovative spirit that built America in real life and online.I love reading about the early settlers, the Puritans, and the homesteaders, how much they sacrificed to help make America a home. And I love the history of the Native Americans, too, even if so much of it remains a tragedy now. I love high-speed internet and Wi-Fi that are available almost everywhere, and if they're not, I have a hotspot.I love the old American cars that were not just exceptional but beautiful.I love the tradition of baseball.I love that people faithfully watch football, even if I don't.I love the tradition of sourdough bread all over social media.I love that the best basketball players in the world are from here.I love that every state is different from one to the next.I love Harper's Ferry, how it's frozen in time.I love that we found a way to move on from the trauma of our past with slavery and how we fought a bloody Civil War to end it. I love that we were the good guys in World War II. We did the right thing in entering the war and helping the Allies win. I love that you can be anything here. The door is always open. It's up to you to walk through it.I love that America is a Christian nation, and you can see that if you drive across it. But it's also a country that stands for freedom of religion, too.I love the American comedians: Groucho Marx, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Johnny Carson.I love that the best films from the 1970s were American movies, like The Godfather, The French Connection, Taxi Driver, and Network. But I also love more modern masterpieces by American filmmakers, like No Country for Old Men and Sideways.I love that people play the lottery, thinking one day they will hit the jackpot. They never will, but they can still dream.I love Thanksgiving and the way we celebrate it in America, which is to say, all together as one big dysfunctional family.I love the tradition of Halloween and how every October, the pumpkins and costumes come out. I love the way the weather changes. I love the Declaration of Independence and those who dared to build this wild, untamed, optimistic work in progress. I love that America is always looking to the future to find a better version of itself and its people. I love that so many Americans still believe in the American Dream.I love watching the movie Jaws on the 4th of July.I love that people watch fireworks, even if I never do, because they traumatize my dogs.I love that we have a holiday just to celebrate the day we became a country, a ragtag group of deplorable revolutionaries who set out to build a brand new country. Oh, the audacity of it. I love living here and would not want to live anywhere else. Happy 250th Birthday, my beloved country.Happy 4th to you, dear readers. Thanks for everything. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe
Reshma Saujani, is a leading activist, an author, the founder of Girls Who Code, the founder and CEO of Moms First, host of My So-Called Midlife podcast, and executive producer of the new documentary No Country for Mothers. Named one of TIME's Women of the Year in 2026, Reshma has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls' empowerment.In this conversation we discuss No Country for Mothers, which argues that American motherhood has been deliberately designed to divide and distract women through false culture-war choices like “trad wife vs. girl boss.” We also talk about how childcare was once a bipartisan policy, how New York City's universal childcare can be a model for what's possible, and making childcare and paid leave defining voter issues in the midterms.Connect with Reshma: Website | Instagram | Substack | DocumentaryIf you're looking to unleash your potential, find your personal, professional, or political fire, and to connect with a community who is doing the same, click here to learn more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannonwatts.substack.com/subscribe
Wie kommt man nur durch dieses Fußballturnier, bei dem man sich nun doch noch das eigene 1/16-Finale ansehen muss? Und bei dem sogar Österreich in der K.-o.-Runde steht!? Klar, mit einer Tüte salzig-fettiger-nährwertarmer Chips, dazu ein bisschen Brause, schön süß, einige Maß Bier und ein paar ultra-prozessierte Tiere, gepresst in Laberln und Würste fürs fetischhafte Gefresse. So würde aus einem Fußballturnier ein veritables Public-Health-Risiko (vom Korruptionsrisiko nicht zu sprechen). Würde man das in Chile sehen, sie klebten auf alles ein schwarzes Achteck: „ALTO EN …“. Dort ist all das Genannte seit 2016 schlicht ein Etikettierungs-Tatbestand: Warnhinweise auf zu fettes, zu süßes, zu salziges Essen, Werbeverbote dafür, raus aus den Schulen. Jetzt gibt es zu dieser Public-Health-Intervention in einem ganzen Land mit immerhin rund 20 Mio. Einwohnern erstmals Daten zu einem harten Endpunkt.
Pete and Hannah continue their search for the ultimate AFI top 100 list. This week it's the 2007 classic No Country For Old MenTime Stamps00:00 intro00:11 welcome00:30 No Country for Old Men27:35 Pete and Hannah's Hot Take35:40 Hannah's Scene Breakdown49:51 Hannah's reasons to see51:18 Rating for No Country For Old Men53:00 Pete asks for viewers feedback and Hannah Selects next weeks movie54:30 End Credits
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced today that he is resigning as the least-popular UK leader on record. Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, fresh off a resounding win in a crucial parliamentary election, seems poised to succeed Starmer. But as the UK faces stagnant wages, high energy bills, and serious questions over the state of its armed forces, can Burnham hope to turn it all around? New Stateman Editor in Chief Tom McTague joins the show from London to discuss. Also on today's show: Josh Fox, Director, "The Welcome Table"; Reshma Saujani, Subject and Executive Producer, "No Country for Mothers"; French artist JR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To prove he truly absorbs movies even when not glued to the screen, Wes submits to a blind quiz on–surprise–NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Does Iris prove her point, even if Wes's overall knowledge is impressively deep? CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS. Thanks for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TEAMCPNZ QUICK CONNECT – ‘STAY INFORMED AND STAY CONNECTED'Today we're joined by someone who truly embodies the spirit of adventure - Joe Nation.Joe is an incredible athlete who is helping push the boundaries of the rapidly growing world of ultra bikepacking racing. Recently named a Giant Bikes Ambassador, Joe has spent the last few years taking on some of the toughest self-supported endurance races on the planet, where athletes ride thousands of kilometres solo, managing their own navigation, food, sleep and every challenge that comes their way, all in a race against the clock.In this episode we chat about Joe's journey from racing the Enduro World Series through to his outstanding third-place finish in the 4,500km Tour Divide from Alberta, Canada to the US-Mexico border. We also dive into his incredible victory at the legendary 2,000km Silk Road Mountain Race in Kyrgyzstan, featuring an astonishing 30,000 metres of climbing through some of the world's most spectacular alpine terrain.Closer to home, Joe has also been creating his own adventures, including setting a Fastest Known Time on the Kahurangi 500 - an epic loop taking in the Heaphy Track, Old Ghost Road, Tākaka and Murchison.Be sure to check Joe out on social media, and especially subscribe to his YouTube channel where he documents these incredible adventures with some fantastic storytelling and cinematography. At the end of this episode we also chat about his latest mission - an adventurous crossing to the West Coast via Browning Pass, south of Arthur's Pass. You can watch how it all unfolded in his latest film, "No Country for Bikes."So, settle in and enjoy this inspiring conversation with Joe Nation. If you've ever dreamed of your next big adventure, this episode might just be the motivation you've been looking for.CPNZ MEDIARichard Greer – @ric.greerhttps://www.teamcp.co.nz@teamcpnzhttps://www.facebook.com/teamcpnz
We revisited movies that leave emotional dents in the audience. We reflected on the particular impact of Bone Tomahawk, Memento, and No Country for Old Men, each of which demonstrates that filmmakers possess an alarming ability to rearrange our nervous systems using little more than editing, tension, and a refusal to provide comforting explanations. That discussion led naturally to sports culture, which in America occasionally transforms victory into an elaborate public works project involving overturned objects and insurance claims. We traded stories about celebrations that escalated into city-wide chaos, highlighting the peculiar civic tradition of expressing affection for a team by setting fire to things the team had never asked anyone to ignite. Along the way, we examined regional rivalries and the enduring belief that residents of other cities are fundamentally misguided people whose sports preferences reveal deep character flaws. The focus widened to the curious presence of protestors outside Christian rock concerts, a niche activity requiring both logistical commitment and a sophisticated understanding of where Christian rock concerts are being held. We considered how these groups operate and the strange optics of objecting to music performed by people who are, on paper, already in broad ideological agreement with them. We considered how analogies work and whether they can be trained the same way people train themselves to catch flying Frisbees or remember where they parked. Through improv exercises and whatever everyday objects happened to be nearby, we discovered that the human brain is apparently eager to connect unrelated things, which is both the foundation of creativity and the reason someone eventually compares municipal budgeting to a crockpot. We also explored the paradox of songwriting, where jokes sometimes become hits and carefully engineered masterpieces occasionally disappear without a trace. Creating under pressure requires a willingness to chase ideas that initially sound ridiculous, while popularity itself remains stubbornly indifferent to effort, expertise, or anyone's carefully developed five-year plan. The same unpredictability surfaced in conversations about celebrity opinions, social media bans, and the mysterious mechanics by which certain people become influential while others post into the digital equivalent of an abandoned mall food court. By the end, we had connected improv exercises, traumatic movie endings, championship riots, concert protestors, songwriting deadlines, curmudgeonly tendencies, and the fragile economics of internet fame.
In this Dailycast episode of Wrestling Coast to Coast, Chris Maitland and Justin McClelland return to an old favorite when they review Wrestling Revolver's No Country for Old Mancer, but all is not well in this once cherished promotion. We look at the good (the rise of heel faction The Algorithm), the bad (tag titles defended in trios matches), and the ugly (too many chair shots to the head). Mance Warner defends the World Title against Alex Colon in a street fight. BDE defends the Remix Title in a (wait for it) Street Fight. And Ace Austin, Alan Angels, and Jeffery John have a pretty great three-way that is not a street fight! For VIP listeners, we venture to Jersey Championship Wrestling for Terry Yaki's biggest singles match to date, challenging Charles Mason for the JCW Title and a post-match angle that is TOO BIG for JCW.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/pwtorch-dailycast--3276210/support.
We revisited movies that leave emotional dents in the audience. We reflected on the particular impact of Bone Tomahawk, Memento, and No Country for Old Men, each of which demonstrates that filmmakers possess an alarming ability to rearrange our nervous systems using little more than editing, tension, and a refusal to provide comforting explanations. That discussion led naturally to sports culture, which in America occasionally transforms victory into an elaborate public works project involving overturned objects and insurance claims. We traded stories about celebrations that escalated into city-wide chaos, highlighting the peculiar civic tradition of expressing affection for a team by setting fire to things the team had never asked anyone to ignite. Along the way, we examined regional rivalries and the enduring belief that residents of other cities are fundamentally misguided people whose sports preferences reveal deep character flaws. The focus widened to the curious presence of protestors outside Christian rock concerts, a niche activity requiring both logistical commitment and a sophisticated understanding of where Christian rock concerts are being held. We considered how these groups operate and the strange optics of objecting to music performed by people who are, on paper, already in broad ideological agreement with them. We considered how analogies work and whether they can be trained the same way people train themselves to catch flying Frisbees or remember where they parked. Through improv exercises and whatever everyday objects happened to be nearby, we discovered that the human brain is apparently eager to connect unrelated things, which is both the foundation of creativity and the reason someone eventually compares municipal budgeting to a crockpot. We also explored the paradox of songwriting, where jokes sometimes become hits and carefully engineered masterpieces occasionally disappear without a trace. Creating under pressure requires a willingness to chase ideas that initially sound ridiculous, while popularity itself remains stubbornly indifferent to effort, expertise, or anyone's carefully developed five-year plan. The same unpredictability surfaced in conversations about celebrity opinions, social media bans, and the mysterious mechanics by which certain people become influential while others post into the digital equivalent of an abandoned mall food court. By the end, we had connected improv exercises, traumatic movie endings, championship riots, concert protestors, songwriting deadlines, curmudgeonly tendencies, and the fragile economics of internet fame.
We revisited movies that leave emotional dents in the audience. We reflected on the particular impact of Bone Tomahawk, Memento, and No Country for Old Men, each of which demonstrates that filmmakers possess an alarming ability to rearrange our nervous systems using little more than editing, tension, and a refusal to provide comforting explanations. That discussion led naturally to sports culture, which in America occasionally transforms victory into an elaborate public works project involving overturned objects and insurance claims. We traded stories about celebrations that escalated into city-wide chaos, highlighting the peculiar civic tradition of expressing affection for a team by setting fire to things the team had never asked anyone to ignite. Along the way, we examined regional rivalries and the enduring belief that residents of other cities are fundamentally misguided people whose sports preferences reveal deep character flaws. The focus widened to the curious presence of protestors outside Christian rock concerts, a niche activity requiring both logistical commitment and a sophisticated understanding of where Christian rock concerts are being held. We considered how these groups operate and the strange optics of objecting to music performed by people who are, on paper, already in broad ideological agreement with them. We considered how analogies work and whether they can be trained the same way people train themselves to catch flying Frisbees or remember where they parked. Through improv exercises and whatever everyday objects happened to be nearby, we discovered that the human brain is apparently eager to connect unrelated things, which is both the foundation of creativity and the reason someone eventually compares municipal budgeting to a crockpot. We also explored the paradox of songwriting, where jokes sometimes become hits and carefully engineered masterpieces occasionally disappear without a trace. Creating under pressure requires a willingness to chase ideas that initially sound ridiculous, while popularity itself remains stubbornly indifferent to effort, expertise, or anyone's carefully developed five-year plan. The same unpredictability surfaced in conversations about celebrity opinions, social media bans, and the mysterious mechanics by which certain people become influential while others post into the digital equivalent of an abandoned mall food court. By the end, we had connected improv exercises, traumatic movie endings, championship riots, concert protestors, songwriting deadlines, curmudgeonly tendencies, and the fragile economics of internet fame.
Me and JB, talk No Country For Old Men for such a long time that we split this into two parts
“Power trumps money fundamentally. And I think we've seen the extent to which these companies are very subservient to the US government. Because the US government can break them in an instant.” — Jack Watling on whether Anthropic and OpenAI can become geopolitical players In Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men, an ageing Texas sheriff finds himself outmatched by a killer operating by a logic the old rules can't contain. It's the story of a man shaped by one world, and then trying to operate in an entirely different system. That's also the situation facing many statesmen today who are having to operate in an international system where the old rules no longer apply. The British military strategist Jack Watling argues in his new book Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World that we have moved from a monopolar world to one of intensely multipolar competition where adversaries can subvert all the premises of another state's strategy. These disruptive rules of the 21st century multipolar international system aren't entirely new. There are, for example, eerie similarities with the chaotically multipolar system that led to the First World War. But they are new to the leaders who have to apply them. So, for example, they are having to deal with Vladimir Putin who is locked into an eighth-century Orthodox Holy Russian Empire fantasy. Or with the impulsive and disruptive Donald Trump whose only goal, it sometimes seems, is to subvert all the rules of the old world. These are Jack Watling's new rules of power in a divided world. New statecraft for old men. Or maybe old statecraft for new men. Five Takeaways • The Rules Are New to the Leaders, Not the World: Watling's thesis: many of the principles in his book are old, as a historian he knows that. But they are new to the current crop of political leaders because they were formed in a monopolar world where America had primacy, crises were resolved, and the status quo was restored. We are now in a period of intense interstate competition where changes are permanent — the interventions that are being made fundamentally shift the trend. That does require a new way of thinking. The tragedy is that the leaders who most need to think in new ways — Putin and Trump in particular — are the least capable of it. • Putin vs Trump: Two Different Kinds of Fallibility: Putin has locked himself into a rubric of looking at the world through the lens of the Orthodox Holy Russian Empire — a framework that doesn't align with how anyone else reads the map. He's not a pragmatic dealmaker; when you get him to the table, as Trump found in Alaska, he starts referring back to the eighth century. Trump is very different: much less cautious, much more impulsive, skilled at making the conversation happen on his terms by disrupting everything around him. The problem with impulsive rather than deliberate is that he has no clear idea of where he wants to get to. Both fallible. Neither predictable. • The WWI Parallel: Over By Christmas: Watling's most sobering analogy: when we look at 1914, nobody thought it would become what it became. The assumption was over by Christmas. It grew out of any capacity to control it. Today, the rules between the great powers don't reflect where power actually sits. The capacity for a conflagration — Taiwan being the obvious tipping point — to suddenly trigger a series of escalations around the world is very real. We have to be cognisant that risk is latent in the system. The outcome we most wish to avoid is also the most mutually calamitous one. That's not a guarantee it won't happen. • Power Trumps Money — Even Trumpian Power Trumps Trumpian Money: Andrew asks whether Anthropic and OpenAI could become geopolitical players — more powerful than middle powers like Brazil or Japan. Watling's answer: no. Russian oligarchs made this mistake in the 1990s. They thought that because they had huge amounts of money and controlled valuable resources they could play geopolitically. They were very quickly subsumed by the state. These tech companies are very subservient to the US government, which can break them in an instant. The pun lands perfectly: even Trumpian power trumps Trumpian money. • How Smaller States Build Leverage: Stay Off the Menu: One of the book's central arguments: how do smaller states shape world events when dwarfed by superpowers? Watling's answer: leverage is not just military. It is economic, informational, reputational. The UK spends billions on aircraft carriers it struggles to support at sea — a good illustration of how a state can mistake the form of power for its substance. Smaller states that build genuine leverage — through control of chokepoints, indispensable relationships, asymmetric capabilities — can stay off the menu even in a world dominated by great powers. That requires statecraft. Not just military spending. About the Guest Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. He works closely with the British, Ukrainian, and American military and advises governments on security and strategy. He was formerly a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World (Pan Macmillan, 2026) and The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century. Originally a journalist, he has contributed to Reuters, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian. References: • Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World by Jack Watling (Pan Macmillan, 2026). • Episode 2935: Michael Mandelbaum on The American Way of Foreign Policy — referenced in the conversation. • RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Whitehall, London — Watling's institutional base. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple Podcasts
Which of these worthy adaptations deserves to be considered among the best ever put to film? In episode 384, join writer Luke Elliott and filmmaker James Bailey as they make the case and then argue over which three are the most deserving to make it in as Ink to Film's third class. The nominees are: "Arrival," "No Country for Old Men," "The Princess Bride," "The Return of the King," "The Exorcist," and "Dr. Strangelove." Which ones make the cut? Episode Breakdown: Intro Presenting the Contenders Awarding Scores Final Deliberations Announcing the 2026 Class Join our Discord channel https://discord.gg/yQpgu9jYB2 Pickup any of the books they've covered at the Ink to Film Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/inktofilm Support Ink to Film on Patreon for bonus content, merch, and the ability to vote on upcoming projects https://www.patreon.com/inktofilm Ink to Film's Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky (@inktofilm) Home Base: inktofilm.com Luke Elliott Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com Social Media: https://www.lukeelliottauthor.com/social Writing: https://www.lukeelliottauthor.com/publications James Bailey Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jamebail.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamebail/
In this episode, Cam and Joel go deeper into the force behind the Gap and Go strategy: momentum.Cam breaks down what momentum actually means in the market, why stocks can get repriced violently when institutions realize they were wrong, and how that repricing shows up through gaps, volume, and continuation. Using examples like AGL and HWM, they walk through why some stocks keep running long after most traders would have taken profits.The conversation also digs into the data behind momentum trading, including R multiples, maximum favorable excursion, Monte Carlo testing, and why a small percentage of trades can account for the majority of returns.They also cover one of the hardest questions in trading: when do you take profits, and when do you let the trade keep working?Later in the episode, Cam explains how he's using AI, backtesting, and his own trade history to study momentum, refine his process, and better understand where rules end and human judgment begins.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube - Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.
Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of organizations Girls Who Code and Moms First, and host of the podcast My So-Called Midlife. Reshma has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls' economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently fighting for structural changes moms need and deserve, including affordable childcare and paid leave.Reshma returns to To Dine For after four years to discuss her fight for change, and her new documentary, No Country for Mothers.Follow To Dine For:Official Website: ToDineForTV.comFacebook: Facebook.com/ToDineForTVInstagram: @ToDineForTVEmail: ToDineForTV@gmail.com Thank You to our Sponsors!American National InsuranceNotre Dame Family WinesFollow Our Guest:Official Site: ReshmaSaujani.comInstagram: @ReshmaSaujaniLinkedIn: Reshma SaujaniFollow The Restaurant:Official Website: Maman - New York CityInstagram: @_MamanNYC_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
When I saw that this movie was described as a neo-Western crime drama, I said say less cause that's my favorite type of movie! And David was right, this movie holds up nicely and was right up my alley! This wasn't a watered down version of No Country for Old Men! We hope you enjoy this episode! Music: https://jessejacethomas.bandcamp.com/album/want Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr
Jen and Sarah dive into the coin toss scene in ‘No Country for Old Men.' They discuss Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning performance, the impactful cinematography, and the use of silence in this iconic scene. Click here to watch this scene. Remember to leave a rating and review of this episode. Connect with Movies & Us on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky @moviesanduspod or by email at moviesanduspod@gmail.com. Check out andusmedia.co for the latest on Movies & Us and TV & Us. And subscribe to Movies & Us on YouTube for full video episodes and more. Join the & Us Living Room for early access to ad-free episodes, exclusive bonus content, and more! Movies & Us is part of the Movie Archer Podcast Network. Learn more at moviearcher.com.
This week, we continue our series chatting about the best 25 films of the 21st century (so far). This week it's our 15th film and the first of two Coen entries on the list: 2007's No Country for Old Men. We chat about the ambiguities of the film, the way our view has changed over the years, as well as what style of Coens we like the best.Then, we chat about the last couple of weeks at the box office as Obsession and Backrooms dominate and Star Wars falls. We are putting this list together based on the rankings of our Patrons. You can check out the list, compile your own, and help influence the top 25 over at Doofmovies.com!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/doofmediaFollow us on Twitter: @doofmediaSee all of our podcasts and more at doofmedia.com!
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Odds and Ends: We're joined by Regs, host of our sister podcast (in T.J.'s head, we talk about it), No Country for Old Films! And many many more, actually, he's quite the busy boy. In an attempt to make him feel comfortable, T.J. has an additional in-house guest from Regs' neck of the woods.Feature Film: Regs brings in two movies this episode, the first being the cult classic From Dusk Till Dawn, one of many collaborations of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. The second being the recent Netflix movie Apex, representing Regs' homeland, but not representing his people. Well, according to him, but as the movie Apex taught me, they're not to be trusted.Next episode's movie: The Apartment (1960)Our guest:No Country for Old Films - youtube.com/@NoCountryForOldFilmsThe Film Addicts - youtube.com/@Film_AddictYou can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm EST! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers!Socials:linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDudsTwitch // ThereWillBeDudsYouTube // There Will Be DudsTwitter // @ThereWillBeDudsFacebook // There Will Be DudsInstagram // ThereWillBeDudsTikTok // @ThereWillBeDuds(0:00) Show start(8:10) From Dusk Till Dawn(1:18:18) Apex(1:53:04) Next episode's movie
It was finally time for Naomi to experience one of the most acclaimed—and unsettling—movies ever made! From Anton Chigurh's terrifying presence to an ending that left her with some...strong thoughts, this was one of Naomi's most intense first-watch experiences yet! And what exactly does that ending mean?!?Plus, single-person luxuries or single slobs trying to convince themselves, how to get your house cleaned for a year for free, and is this the most dangerous place to eat chicken nuggets? Let's go Knicks, it's Luke & Naomi!
IS THIS ACTUALLY THE BEST ONE IN THE TRILOGY?! Men in Black 3 (2012) Full Movie Reaction & Review with Greg Alba and Jackie Bonsignore! Men in Black 3 Full Movie Uncut Watch Along: / thereelrejects -Check out the DC Studios Showcase Podcast here https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ In this comprehensive movie review and reaction, Greg and Jackie conquer a wild rewatch filled with high-stakes timeline shifts and surprisingly deep character growth. We unpack the incredible comedic and dramatic performances of the legendary stellar cast, featuring Will Smith (Bad Boys, The Pursuit of Happyness) returning with his classic charisma as Agent J, Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, No Country for Old Men) as the stoic, world-weary Agent K, and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame, Sicario) delivering an absolutely flawless, mind-blowing impression as the younger 1969 variant of Agent K. We also break down the phenomenal presence of the main villains and supporting players, including Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords, What We Do in the Shadows) as the hyper-lethal, moon-escaping Boris the Animal, Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually) as Agent O, Bill Hader (Barry, Superbad) in a brilliant undercover cameo as Andy Warhol / Agent W, Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Call Me by Your Name) as the sweet, fifth-dimensional being Griffin, and Mike Colter (Luke Cage, Evil) in a devastatingly emotional role. Our hosts react to every iconic visual gag, massive effects sequence, and tragic narrative beat this film has to offer. We break down the disgusting opening lunar prison breakout involving an alien-drenched cake, the dark comedy of K's shockingly brief funeral eulogy for Zed, and the intense Chinese restaurant shootout featuring a giant, aggressive alien fish brawl. We unpack the sheer terrifying thrill of the Chrysler Building time jump that triggers temporal fracture headaches cured by chocolate milk, the investigative logic of eating pie to unlock the secrets of the universe, and the massive Apollo 11 launchpad climax where the past and future completely collide. Greg and Jackie were both completely blown away by how much extra heart, emotional stakes, and cohesive storytelling this sequel brings compared to Men in Black 2, concluding with a beautifully tragic ending twist that fundamentally redefines the entire bond between J and K. Follow Greg Alba: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ Twitter: https://x.com/thegregalba Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, I reflect on Cormac McCarthy's dark and haunting vision of the world through the lens of a recent Substack essay on his “gnostic conservatism.” Rather than treating McCarthy as a political writer in any simple sense, I explore his deeper existential concerns: violence, fate, evil, tenderness, and the fragile mystery of goodness in a fallen world.I think about Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road as works that refuse easy optimism while still leaving room for something like hope. McCarthy's world is often brutal, cold, and morally terrifying, but again and again there is also the image of fire: something fragile, humane, and sacred that must be carried even when there is no guarantee it will prevail.This episode is about darkness without despair, hope without sentimentality, and what it means to keep carrying the fire.
[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 7/7 Rev. Dr. Katie Hays Contemplation of your baptism, past or future. Through our baptisms, we join the communion of the saints around the world, past and future. We are a link in a long chain of those who preserve the story, “the keepers of the horn” in Cormac McCarthy's phrase in No Country for Old Men. How wonderful to be part of something so old and so beautiful! To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or Zelle (generosity@galileohurch.org), or just send a check to P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
In this episode, we take a break from our usual astronomical antics to reflect on sustainability in the cosmos. Cormac, Cole and Shashank explore how the Universe manages to recycle material across all scales, from pepping up prostrated pulsars to cleaning up our orbital backyard. We conclude with a discussion of how analogies are (sometimes over)used in astronomy, and ponder when exactly a supernova remnant begins. Astrobites: Recycle your paper, plastic, and… pulsars? https://astrobites.org/2026/03/31/transitional_millisecond_pulsar The Final Frontier for the Circular Economy https://astrobites.org/2026/04/24/the-final-frontier-for-the-circular-economy Video about Swift boost mission: https://youtu.be/Up0LNTMPnjI
Erin and Alyssa cover Trump's nemesis Thomas Massie's loss in Kentucky, a positive (for now) Mifepristone update, the ridiculous Garden of Heroes, and what the hell is going on in California politics. Then, Reshma Saujani joins to discuss her new documentary No Country for Mothers, and the real issues moms face. They wrap up in the sanity corner with rave reviews of Cookie Queens and Widow's Bay.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.You can sign up to attend or host a screening of No Country for Mothers at nocountryformothers.comCookie Queens Massie race breaks spending record as pro-Israel groups target Trump critic (Aljazeera 5/18)Abortion Pill Lawsuit Leaves Trump Silent, and in a Political Bind (NYT 5/19)Trump announces planned D.C. site for massive sculpture garden (Washington Post 5/15)What is California's ‘jungle primary' — and why does it matter so much for the governor's race? (LAist 5/18)
Odds and Ends: We talk about the smash hit Desert Warrior, funded by the Saudi royal family; y'all heard about this Westeros?Feature Film: It's Daddy Can't Dance, or White Men Can't Dance. Either way, Pete Weaver can't dance. Well, okay, he can, but not well enough to do any good here. Might as well just do more horrific Nutty Professor impersonations, except please don't. I feel like I had a point I was taking this at first, but I lost it, and now I guess I'm just done, not even going to retry. If Peter Vinal doesn't have to try to get a movie made, why should I try? There we go, I made a point eventually. Sort of. Maybe I should've stopped talking before.Next episode's movie: From Dusk Till Dawn & Apex wsg Regs from No Country for Old Films!You can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm EST! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers!Socials:linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDudsTwitch // ThereWillBeDudsYouTube // There Will Be DudsTwitter // @ThereWillBeDudsFacebook // There Will Be DudsInstagram // ThereWillBeDudsTikTok // @ThereWillBeDuds(0:00) Show start(9:00) Daddy Can't Dance(1:13:57) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms(1:26:03) Next episode's movie
He is best known for writing The Family Man and Farzi, but his journey to being a storyteller was far from smooth. Suman Kumar joins Amit Varma in episode 444 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the highs and lows of his life, as well as the craft of writing, directing and telling stories. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Suman Kumar on IMDb, Instagram, LinkedIn and his own website. 2. The Family Man -- Season 1 :: Season 2 :: Season 3. 3. Guns and Gulaabs -- Season 1. 4. Farzi -- Season 1. 5. Raghu Thatha -- written and directed by Suman Kumar. 6. Ranga Half-Pants -- Suman Kumar. 7. Scientific Advertising -- Claude Hopkins. 8. The Ghost and the Darkness -- Stephen Hopkins. 9. You've Got Mail -- Nora Ephron. 10. Angrezi Medium -- Homi Adajania. (CHECK) 11. The return of small-town creators on Instagram -- Shephali Bhatt. 12. lifeofpuja on Instagram. 13. Gangs of Wasseypur -- Anurag Kashyap. 14. On Writing -- Stephen King. 15. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. Stage.in. 17. Gopallapurathu Makkal -- K Rajanarayanan (Ki Ra). 18. Madhu Babu and his audiobooks on YouTube. 19. Yandamuri Veerendranath on Amazon and YouTube. 20. Yerramsetty Sai. 21. Ilaiyaraaja on Spotify and YouTube. 22. The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction -- Pritham Chakrabathy and Rakesh Khanna. 23. Advanced History of India -- KA Nilakanta Sastri and G Srinivasachari. 24. Sowmya Dhanaraj Is Making a Difference — Episode 380 of The Seen and the Unseen. 25. Pehla Nasha and More Than Words. 26. The Design of Everyday Things -- Don Norman. 27. Phantoms in the Brain -- VS Ramachandran. 28. The Reith Lectures -- VS Ramachandran. 29. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale. 30. Aranyer Din Ratri — Satyajit Ray. 31. Days & Night In The Forest -- Sunil Gangopadhyay. 32. Train Dreams (the book) -- Denis Johnson. 33. Train Dreams (the film) -- Clint Bentley. 34. As Good as It Gets -- James L Brooks. 35. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 36. The Vigil Idiot. 37. The Dream Is No More a Dream -- Suman Kumar. 38. Notting Hill -- Roger Michell. 39. All the President's Men -- Alan J Pakula. 40. Hrishikesh Mukherjee on Wikipedia and IMDb. 41. Adolescence — Created by Stephen Graham & Jack Thorne. 42. Oppenheimer -- Christopher Nolan. 43. Tumbbad -- Rahi Anil Barve. 44. Mayasabha -- Rahi Anil Barve. 45. On Film-Making -- Alexander Mackendrick. 46. Maheshinte Prathikaaram -- Dileesh Pothan. 47. Trance -- Anwar Rasheed, 48. Manjummel Boys -- Chidambaram S Poduval. 49. Romancham -- Jithu Madhavan. 50. Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey -- Vipin Das. 51. Su From So -- JP Thuminad. 52. No Country for Old Men -- The Coen Brothers. 53. The Shawshank Redemption -- Frank Darabont. 54. The Devil's Own -- Alan J Pakula. This episode is sponsored by The Six Percent Club. Join them to go from content idea to launch in just 45 days! Amit Varma runs a course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: 'Story' by Simahina.
Most traders see a stock gap up 15–20% at the open and assume they missed the move.This episode is about making that the beginning of the trade… not the end.Cam and Joel break down the Gap and Go strategy: a momentum-based system designed to identify stocks that gap hard at the open and continue moving higher. The conversation covers the full framework, including:the exact screening criteriahow to use the first 5-minute candle for entriesstop placement and position sizingprofit-taking rules based on risk multipleswhy float and volume matterand how the strategy was tested across thousands of trades over a 10-year period.They also discuss:why the strategy works in both bull and bear marketshow to manage a small accountthe role of institutional buying in momentumand why the best systems are often the most mechanical.If you've ever struggled with chasing momentum (or skipping trades that never come back), this episode provides a structured framework for handling both.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube - Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.
0:30 - DOJ investigation of 36 IL school districts 14:42 - Libertyville HS 128 school board meeting 33:53 - Swalwell (Gallego?) 55:16 - Liel Leibovitz, editor at large for Tablet and host of the “Rootless” podcast: Everything Is Reality TV. And Spencer Pratt Knows It. Follow Liel on X @liel 01:12:26 - In-depth History with Frank from Arlington Heights 01:15:40 - BENEFITS FRAUD 01:39:07 -Ted Dabrowski says Walgreens’s South Shore closure shows why law and order matters, warning companies won’t invest without it. 01:54:58 - Director of Strategic Communications & Content at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Brian Lonergan: Workplace Raids Are Coming—and They’re Essential. Brian is also co-host of the “No Border, No Country” podcast 02:12:51 - Jakub Grygiel, professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution: The Iran War and the Coming Global StruggleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Most traders focus on finding the perfect setup, but that's not the hard part…In this episode, Cam and Joel walk through real trades and real decisions; covering how to take profits, move stops, manage multiple positions, and decide when to rotate into something better.They also zoom out to the bigger picture: position sizing, capital allocation, sector exposure, and how market conditions (not opinions) should drive your strategy.If your entries are solid but your results aren't, this is the missing piece.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube - Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.
Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle the 2007 Coen Brothers masterpiece No Country for Old Men, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Woody Harrelson. The guys agree it's a modern American classic, and dig into why a film with such a stripped-down setting and plot manages to carry such enormous philosophical weight. The conversation moves through Sheriff Ed Tom Bell's opening monologue about not wanting to "put his soul at hazard" against an evil he doesn't understand, the nature of psychopathy and whether inherent evil exists, and Anton Chigurh's coin-flipping determinism versus Carla Jean's stark refusal to play his game. They unpack Carson Wells as a coward who depends on the rules of the system, the off-screen death of Llewelyn Moss as a deliberate breaking of storytelling rules, and why Chigurh, not Bell or Moss, is arguably the true protagonist whose arc actually changes. From there they zoom out to the dark night of the soul, systemic evil, why the enemy lost its mandate after World War II, the gas pump sticker meme, and how moral relativism quietly leads good people into advocating for monsters.
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey, Jennifer Watley Maxell, and Amy Valdez Barker speak with the Rev. Dr. Joe Scrivner (Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church) about what Nehemiah and Paul have to say about persistence in the face of challenge; the importance of community in helping us move forward in faith; and what the film No Country for Old Men might, surprisingly, have to teach us about ministry.Joe's blog post.Episode Transcript.
Chris Paul and Burning Bright settle into a new Thursday night 10:30 PM ET time slot with a deep dive into David Cronenberg's 2007 crime drama Eastern Promises, written by Steven Knight and starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The guys unpack why this stoic, brutal character study is more than a mob movie. It's a meditation on moral relativism, the weapons of the enemy, and the blurry line between systems and sovereigns. Along the way, they argue that stories (not facts) are the real terrain of the info war, using Nikolai's undercover FSB operation as a lens for understanding narrative warfare, controlled opposition, and what it really means when you can't verify any of the "real" stories being fed through your screen. They also wander into the Russian Vory code, the Ukrainian oligarch pipeline, Putin's strange bureaucratic war on the criminal underworld, the Donbas trafficking pipeline, and why Nikolai's tattoo ceremony is really a ritual of dehumanization. Plus, a sneak peek at next week's pick: No Country for Old Men.
Comedian Brad Williams joins us this week on The Josh Potter show! With The Sabres in the playoffs we cover some of the celebrations and a suggestive pretzel. In the news we cover some school bus incidents, a Steak and Shake whodunnit, and a new home for sale in Ontario, Ohio with a custom feature. Go watch Brad's new special right here on Youtube - Live on Short Street https://youtu.be/IXDA3HHcq5E?si=h9QdNVhlXVCOH9kc And follow Brad Williams - https://www.instagram.com/bradwilliamscomic/ Start your business today with the industry's best business partner, Shopify. Visit https://www.shopify.com/josh Write in to the show @ JoshPotterShow@gmail.com ★★★ This week's Intro Music: “Josh Potter Show Beat” by Jax Outro Music: “Live From The Roach Motel (feat. Hendawg)” by Brothers https://www.youtube.com/@HendawgMusic ★★★ See Josh Live! ALL STAND UP LINKS CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://beacons.ai/joshpotter ★★★ Josh Potter:
In this episode Cam and Joel break down how to actually build a trading watchlist, and more importantly, how to filter thousands of stocks down to the few that matter.Cam walks through his full process:How to evaluate market conditions firstThe exact screeners he uses to find high-momentum stocksHow to identify strong sectors and institutional money flowAnd how to organize watchlists into actionable trade opportunitiesThis is the missing step for most traders. It's not just about knowing what a good setup looks like… it's about knowing where and when to look for it.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube - Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.
In this episode of Love Conquers Alz, hosts Susie Singer Carter and Don Priess welcome Kathy Bradley, a nationally respected advocate with over 3 decades of experience in long-term care and the founder of Our Mother's Voice.After retiring from a career as a nursing home administrator, Kathy faced the system again as a daughter when her own mother rapidly declined into severe dementia. What she experienced changed everything.Despite knowing the system inside and out, Kathy struggled to get her mother the care she needed. That journey led her to create Our Mother's Voice, a nonprofit that provides free services and is dedicated to helping families understand their rights, advocate effectively, and navigate one of the most complex and overwhelming systems many will ever face.In this powerful conversation, you'll hear:• Why so many families feel powerless in long-term care• What to do when something “feels off” with your loved one's care• The importance of documentation and speaking the right language• How systemic issues and financial incentives impact quality of care• Practical ways to advocate without burning bridges or risking retaliation• And why love, empathy, and human connection still matter mostThis episode is both a wake-up call and a guide.Because every family will face this moment.And no one should have to face it alone.If you like what you saw and heard today, please follow, share, tell everyone about it, and also definitely go to www.roar4ltc.org. Sign up and be a ROARior! Join our movement. And if you haven't seen No Country for Old People, do yourself a favor, do your family a favor, sit down, watch three episodes of it on Amazon, Tubi, or Hoopla.Send us Fan MailSupport the showNo Country For Old People; a Nursing Home Exposé is STREAMING NOW on Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0F7D1RR5X/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r) Visit the No Country For Old People Website for more information.Please watch. Review. Share.Be a ROAR-ior!! JOIN THE R.O.A.R. MOVEMENT (Respect, Oversight, Advocacy, Reform) for quality long term care! Visit the ROAR 4 LTC Website for more information and consider participating in the inaugural National National Long-Term Care Day, Sunday, September 27th The 1st ever ROAR 2026 National Walk for Long-Term Care Reform! Found out more here: https://www.roar4ltc.org/roar-2026-walkFollow us on Twitter, FB, IG, & TiK Tok
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In this episode, Cam and Joel move beyond theory and into real chart analysis, breaking down exactly how high-probability setups develop—and how experienced traders actually manage them.Using real examples like HWM, GE, Tesla, and CAT, Cam walks through his full process: identifying clean setups, timing entries, scaling into positions, managing risk, and deciding when to take profits—or hold for larger moves.But this episode goes deeper than just patterns. It explores why some charts work better than others, how institutional participation shapes price action, and why understanding market conditions can be the difference between a good trade and a great one.If you want to see what a repeatable trading system looks like in practice, this is where it comes together.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube — Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.
In this episode, we sit in on a live trading session as Cam walks Joel through the exact framework he uses to evaluate high-probability trades.Built on years of studying price action and institutional behavior, Cam's system focuses on identifying when multiple signals align — and scaling position size based on conviction. This is a practical, rules-based approach designed to eliminate guesswork and improve consistency.⚠️ Best experienced on Spotify or YouTube — Cam is sharing charts throughout the episode.What You'll LearnThe 5-rule framework for identifying high-probability setupsHow to spot institutional accumulation in price actionWhen a setup is valid vs. “maybe”How to size positions based on confirmationWhy the 200-day moving average mattersHow to define risk before entering a tradeWhen you're too late to enterHow to manage trades from short-term to multi-year holdsResources
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