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Join Jim and Greg for the 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into Nadine Menendez's conviction in the same egregious corruption scandal that will soon send her husband, former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, to prison. They also cover new reports of a Chinese-linked company aiding the Houthis in targeting U.S. ships, and House Republicans pressing the Justice Department to prosecute former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for lying to Congress about his COVID-era nursing home cover-up.First, they're pleased to see Nadine Menendez found guilty on all 15 counts tied to a bribery scheme involving her husband, the Egyptian government, and over $100,000 in gold bars, cash, and other luxury gifts. Now Mr. and Mrs. Menendez have matching bracelets. Jim blasts the media for largely ignoring the case—arguing that if Bob Menendez were a Republican, this scandal would dominate headlines daily. They also wonder whether Bob Menendez's begging for a pardon will actually convince President Trump to give him one.Next, they react to alarming reports that a Chinese government-linked company is assisting the Iran-backed Houthis in targeting U.S. warships and other American vessels in the Red Sea. Jim calls it another front in a proxy war with China and was forced to find foreign press accounts to evaluate the effectiveness of recent U.S. airstrikes.Finally, they look at House Republicans urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge Andrew Cuomo with lying under oath. Despite this and a $450,000 taxpayer-funded settlement to a sexual harassment victim, Cuomo continues to lead the NYC mayoral race by a wide margin.Please visit our great sponsors:Cut through political bias with Ground News's Vantage Plan—visit https://GroundNews.com/MARTINI to get 40% off for a limited time!Streamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at https://openphone.comThis spring, get up to 50% off select plants at Fast Growing Trees with code MARTINI, plus an extra 15% off at checkout on your first purchase!  Visit https://fastgrowingtrees.com/Martini

In last week's story (Spoiler Alert!), everyone got turned into robots at the end. Now Mr. Eric, Cthunkle, and Mamma Jamma must save the world by freeing everyone from Abacus's mind control spell! Lessons include: If we always seek distraction, we will never grow; our feelings remind us who we are. Subscribe to What If World wherever you listen: link.chtbl.com/whatifworld. Grownups, help your kids share their questions & ideas at whatifworldpodcast@gmail.com, via voicemail at 205-605-WHAT (9428), or on Instagram @whatifworldpodcast Want more kids podcasts for the whole family? Grown-ups, subscribe to Starglow+ here. Learn more about Starglow Media here. Follow Starglow on Instagram and YouTube Eric and Karen O'Keeffe make What If World. Our character art is by Ana Stretcu, and our episode art is by Lynn Hickernell. A big thanks to our producer Miss Lynn. Our podcast art is by Jason O'Keefe, and our theme song is by Craig Martinson.

[1.5+ HOUR LONG SHOW! JOIN THE PIZZA FUND! $12 level. https://podawful.pizza/posts/2456] What happens when a PODAWFUL GOON begins dating a PODAWFUL HENCHMAN? Well sparks sure are flying but not for all the right reasons. The Comedy Shaman has wooed his way into our very own Feds' heart, but it seems autistic cupid has shot his arrow and it struck Mr. Burgers right in his buns. Now Mr. Burgers has challenged the Comedy Shaman to a burger eating contest for the heart of Feds! So who is the Big Mac on campus? Who will win the Burger eating challenge? Lettuce ketchup with our contestants and find out who can cut the mustard as we relish in this spicy Dating Game with a foodie twist. Whoever eats 15 McDonalds Hamburgers wins a date with Feds. But a mysterious third challenger is approaching... VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/live/3xHDPcDfu6E  PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza  RSS FEED: http://podawful.com/rss  YOUTUBE: http://awful.tube  CULT: http://podawful.com/cult  TWITTER: http://podawful.com/twitter  INSTAGRAM: http://podawful.com/instagram  MERCH: http://podawful.shop  http://podawful.com #podawful #foodchallenge #mukbang Pod Awful Is an anti-podcast hosted by Jesse P-S

[1.5+ HOUR LONG SHOW! JOIN THE PIZZA FUND! $12 level. https://podawful.pizza/posts/2456] What happens when a PODAWFUL GOON begins dating a PODAWFUL HENCHMAN? Well sparks sure are flying but not for all the right reasons. The Comedy Shaman has wooed his way into our very own Feds' heart, but it seems autistic cupid has shot his arrow and it struck Mr. Burgers right in his buns. Now Mr. Burgers has challenged the Comedy Shaman to a burger eating contest for the heart of Feds! So who is the Big Mac on campus? Who will win the Burger eating challenge? Lettuce ketchup with our contestants and find out who can cut the mustard as we relish in this spicy Dating Game with a foodie twist. Whoever eats 15 McDonalds Hamburgers wins a date with Feds. But a mysterious third challenger is approaching... VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/live/3xHDPcDfu6E  PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza  RSS FEED: http://podawful.com/rss  YOUTUBE: http://awful.tube  CULT: http://podawful.com/cult  TWITTER: http://podawful.com/twitter  INSTAGRAM: http://podawful.com/instagram  MERCH: http://podawful.shop  http://podawful.com #podawful #foodchallenge #mukbang Pod Awful Is an anti-podcast hosted by Jesse P-S

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Last time we spoke about the Northern Warlords and their respective factions. We covered the three big names, Duan Qirui and his Anhui clique; Wu Peifu and his Zhili cliques and Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian clique. We also went into the smaller ones like Yan Xishan's Shanxi clique, Feng Yuxiang's Guominjun clique, the Ma clique of the three Ma's, Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin known as the Xibei San Ma “thee Ma of the northwest”; the Xinjiang clique of Yang Zengxin and we barely scratched the surface of the Manchu Resotrationist clique of Zhang Xun. There was over 100 warlords, its really difficult to pick and choose who to delve into the most. However, there were two warlords who were bitter rivals, in a comedic fashion might I add. One was hailed as the good Christian warlord, the other a devilish monster. Today we are going to tell the tales of these two figures.   #95 Feng Yuxiang, Zhang Zongchang: the Angel and Devil   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Feng Yuxiang was born in Zhili province, today Hebei in 1882. His parents were poor, his father joined the Qing army to make ends meet. At the age of only 10 he joined the Huai Army alongside his father. He earned a uniform and food but no salary as his rank was “Fu Bing”, deputy soldier. By the age of 16 he proved himself capable and became a regular. Unlike his colleagues who gambled their money away, Feng saved his money and even used portions of it to help out soldiers in need, particularly Fu Bing's. Because of this he became quite popular amongst his comrades. He did not gamble nor drink alcohol. In 1902 he joined Yuan Shikai's guard units and rose through the ranks becoming a company commander. From there he was transferred to the 3rd division, a crack one of Yuan Shikai's soon to be Beiyang Army.  During the Xinhai Revolution Feng Yuxiang joined the Luanzhou uprising against the Qing, supporting the revolutionaries in the South. The uprising was suppressed by the Beiyang army and Feng was imprisoned by Yuan Shikai. Once Yuan Shikai stole the presidency of the Republic, Feng was released and he took back his military position while supporting Yuan Shikai's regime. By 1914 he became a brigade commander and helped supress uprisings in Henan and Shaanxi. It was also during this year Feng Yuxiang developed a curiosity about Christianity. He converted to Christianity, being baptiszed into the Methodist Episcopal Church. When Yuan Shikai declared himself emperor, this ushered in the Anti-Yuan resistance. Feng Yuxiang helped supress anti-yuan forces of General Cai E in Sichuan, but in the process, began secrely negotiating with Cai E. He formed an agreement to “put on a show” rather than actually fight. After Yuan Shikai's death, Feng Yuxiang was deprived command of the 16th Mixed Brigade, something he had come to see as his personal property. He managed to stay in touch with its officers who remained loyal to him personally. Now it gives away further episodes to dvevle deep into the following years, but what I will say, Feng Yuxiang played important roles in critical moments of the wars during China's warlord Era. To be blunt, Feng Yuxiang was a real game of thrones little finger kind of guy if you get the reference. He always looked where the wind was blowing and was quick to switch sides turning the sides of one clique against another. He would found the Guominjun Clique, a sort of little borther to the Kuomintang, but its powerbase was located in the north rather than the south. Feng Yuxiang's career as a warlord began right after Yuan Shikai's death, but he certainly set himself apart from other warlords. Feng Yuxiang would receive a lot of western press for his rather, very different methodology compared to the other warlords. In a lot of ways, he was similar to a public school headmaster in England. He forbade his men from smoking tobacco or opium, from drinking alcohol and he forced them all to study the bible. He forbade prostitution, gambling and selling drugs. He quickly earned the nickname “the Christian General”. He had a reputation of baptizing his troops with fire hoses, though this has been highly contested. Indeed he was a hardcore Christian and actively promoting Christianity while showing no tolerance for other religions in China. For exmaple in 1927 when entering Henan Province he launched a cmapaign to supress Buddhism by expelling over 300,000 monastic members and confisciating hundreds of Buddhist monasteries for military purposes. In 1923 a British Protestant Missionary, Marshall Broomhall said this of him “The contrast between Cromwell's Ironsides and Charles's Cavaliers is not more striking than that which exists in China to-day between the godly and well-disciplined troops of General Feng and the normal type of man who in that land goes by the name of soldier ... While it is too much to say that there are no good soldiers in China outside of General Feng's army, it is none the less true that the people generally are as fearful of the presence of troops as of brigand bands”. Feng Yuxiang required his troops to take part in sports, gymastics and hardcore marches. Any illiterates were forced to learn to read and write, many were also trained in trades so they would not simply leave the army and become bandits. Feng looked at Christianity as a means of providing morale and disciplin for his army, he often told foreign missionaries  'Remember that your chief work is not to try to convert the rank and file of my army, but to use your strength in trying to get all my officers filled with the Spirit of God, for as soon as that takes place, the lowest private in the army will feel the effects of it”. Feng Yuxiangs was closely intouch with his troops often stopping to chat with them about their living conditions. He reduced corporal punishments, encouraged singing patriotic songs. One of the oddest things that I came across when I was making my Warlord Era content on the Pacific War Channel was video's of Feng Yuxiang personally checking the fingernails of his troops. He was pretty hardcore about cleanliness, I guess “cleanliness is next to godliness”. Alright that is a lot of information about the good toe shoes Christian General Feng Yuxiang, now let me talk about Zhang Zongchang, the Dogmeat General. Zhang Zongchang was born in 1881 in Yi county, present day Laizhou in Shandong. He grew up in an impoverished village, his father was a trumpeter, a headshaver and a rampant alcoholic. His mother exorcized evil spirits. . . Yeah she was basically a witch, oh and she left Zhang and his dad chasing another man. The family moved to Manchuria when Zhang was in his teens and he immediately got involved in petty crime around Harbin. Zhang would work as a pickpocket, bouncer, prospector and bandit throughout his life. He ended up doing some work as a laborer in Siberia amongst the Russians, picking up some Russian in the process, something that would really help his career out later. He then became a Honghuzi bandit roaming the Manchurian countryside when the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 hit. During the war he served as a Imperial Russian Army auxiliary, interestingly enough his future boss who was also a Honghuzi did the same for the Japanese. After the war he went back to his Honghuzi lifestyle, becoming the leader of a local bandit gang.   During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, Zhang was leading his Honghuzi as a sort of revolutionary desperados gang. He then went to Jiangsu and joined the Green Standard Army where he impressed his commander officer Cheng Dechuan so much so he made Zhang his successor…or Zhang threatened the guy who knows. Thus for a little while Zhang was leading a small cavalry detachment under the Division commander Leng Yuqin, battling Honghuzi groups. During the second revolution of 1913, Zhang became the divisional commander when Leng died. There was an issue with his division, the revolutionary General Feng Guozhang did not like them, probably because they were criminals, so he reduced their role in the revolution to being a symbolic unit. Zhang responded to this by murdering the revolutionary Chen Qimei in Shanghai in 1916, proving his loyalty and reliability to Feng Guozhang. Feng Guozhang later became vice president of the new Republic, appointing Zhang as the commander of his personal guard. As China's Warlord Era began in 1918, Zhang like every other big guy, looked for the best strongman to follow. In 1922 he turned his attention to a new rising star, the tiger of manchuria, Zhang Zuolin.   There is a famous story, that Zhang Zuolin was celebrating his birthday in 1922, seeing countless people showering him with gifts trying to earn his favor. Zhang Zongchang apparently sent him two empty coolie baskets and did not show up in person. Zhang Zuolin was baffled by this at first, until he realized the empty baskets implied Zhang Zongchang was a man willing to shoulder any heavy responsibilities that Zhang Zuolin would entrust to him. This apparently worked like a charm as Zhang Zongchang was rewarded a position within his army.   Zhang Zongchang's time in Siberia and work under the Russians during the Russo-Japanese war paid off as he managed to secure White Russian Mercenaries. These were refugee veterans of the Russian Civil War who had been straddling the Manchurian/Soviet borders. Zhang hired thousands of them, organizing them into units, including Cossack bodyguards. He even recruited woman on a large scale, the first Chinese general to do so. The women mostly served as nurses and one regiment was exclusively white Russian women. The white russians trained their Chinese counterparts resulting in excellent medical, a significant boost for morale and combat capability. The white russians were crucial to Zhang Zongchang's rise as they knew how to build and operate armored trains giving the warlord a huge edge.    Now just like with Feng Yuxiang, I don't wanna give away future parts of the warlord era story, just know Zhang Zongchang greatly impressed Zhang Zuolin and would be rewarded military governorship over Shandong Province. As the Military governor of Shandong, this is where you hear about him being a monster. For those who don't know, Shandong has a long spanning history of being where trouble starts in China. Zhang's mismanagement of Shandong was legendary, to call it one of Shandong's darkest times is an understatement. For example it is said one of his favorite hobbies was “to split melons”, that was bashing in the skulls of people with rifle butts. He also liked to hang people and their severed heads from telephone poles. He would reign over Shandong until 1928 and it was 3 very hard years for the people there. Basically he did what all corrupt officials had done historically in China, he fleeced the population of his province. He implemented excessive taxes and starved public institutions of funds. The provincial education system collapsed in 1927 and the provincial economy was stagnant as all hell, save for the black market. To fight the economic collapse he printed money as fast as it could be printed and became nearly valueless, reminds me a lot of my nation's leader today.   Now any criticism of Zhang Zonghcang or the Fengtian governance would lead to imprisonment and resistance led to more split melons, seeing severed heads hung everywhere. For example if a newspaper criticized his regime, Zhang literally had the editors shot. Things got so bad for the peasants of Shandong,  they formed a group called the Red Spear Militia, branding red-tasseled spears, but not too many firearms. These men and women were completely outgunned trying desperately to resist Zhang Zongchangs tyranny, and tyrannical it was.    He imposed an incredible amount of taxes on the people, taxes on rice, tobacco, firewood, dogs, rickshaws, livestock, brothels, military pensions, opium pipe lighters, honestly anything that could be taxed he taxed. He once forcefully collected donations for a shrine; that shrine was a bronze statue of himself. He extorted money from banks, misappropriated his troops wages, because he was paying them in worthless printed money and gave a monopoly to the opium dealers. In fact he was the personal benefactor for drug lords and arms dealers, the black market was his chocolate factory.   Shandong was so bad, a very young Vinegar Joseph Stilwell visited the area when he was serving as a young military attache at the US legation in Peking. He said the dead and dying littered the streets and the only thing the citizens of Shandong had to eat were crushed soya-bean cakes usually fed to pigs. There were abandoned children everywhere, carts of animals seized by warlord troops and houses literally torn down for the troops firewood. Poverty and famine was rampant.   Now the devastation of Shandong was far removed from Zhang Zongchang however as he kept his quarters in the capital of Jinan (Capital in eastern Shandong). His HQ was described to be more like a medieval court full of extravagant entertainment. He had elaborate feasts, secured French champaign, scotch and his favorite Cuban cigars. He entertained artists, writers, entertainers, arms dealers, drug kingpins, western journalists and such. He loved to play poker with other minor warlords and they were high stakes games, sometimes he would walk away losing 30-50 thousands at a sitting. The poker games were always played with silver dollars and not the useless money he printed for his troops and the citizens of Shandong.    One of his more famous recurring guests was Madame Wellington Koo, this was the wife of one of the most famous Chinese politicians of the age, Wellington Koo was the frontrunner at the Paris Peace conference for China. Now Mr. Wellington Koo's wife had this to say about Zhang “Zhang Zongchang was so delightfully outrageous that he was disarming. There were many stories about him. He was called “old eighty-sin” some said he was the height of a pile of 86 dollars, other said that figure represented the length of a certain portion of his anatomy. When I visited him my Pao Pei and Chow Chow would come with me and Zhang would roar at the servants “never mind what you give Madame Koo to eat. But be sure her dogs get the very best or you'll suffer for it”.   Now why this guy is so famous today is of course because of his nicknames and infamous lifestyle. His most famous nickname was the “Dogmeat General”, and its said to be based on his fascination with the domino game Pai Jiu. Others say his favorite brand of tonic was known as dogmeat. And of course there was the rumor he ate a meal of black chow chow dog every day, as it was popularly believed at the time that this boosted a man's vitality. But if you noticed the quote from Madame Wellington Koo, I think he may have been a dog lover. But the part about the man's vitality fits this guy to the core.    He was of course known by the populace of Shandong as “Monster”, but there was also  nicknames like “the lanky general or general with three long legs” were certainly something he publicized heavily. His nickname “old 86” referred to the length of his penis being 86 mexican silver dollars, there was also a nickname “72-cannon Zhang” referring to that length. I mean the man was 6 foot 6, people described him quote “with the physique of an elephant, the brain of a pig and the temperament of a tiger”.    Alongside his penis propaganda, he was a legendary womanizer. Take his other nickname for example “the general of three don't-knows”: he did not know how many women, how many troops, or how much money he had. I think that nickname fits him better than the nickname he gave himself “the Great General of Justice and Might”.    He had a ton of concubines. The exact number of concubines he had has variously been reported between 30-50, but historians have a hard time trying to fix the numbers as Zhang himself allegedly did not know. Allegedly his concubines were from 26 different nationalities, each with her own washbowl marked with the flag of her nation. He was also said to give his concubines numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their various languages. Many of these women he married, he was a polygamist after all. There was known to be Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Mongolians and at least one American amongst Zhang's women.   Zhang was semi-literate, whenever people asked where he was educated he would say “the college of the green forest” a euphemism for banditry. Despite being semi-literate Zhang Zongchang is famously known for his poetry, most notably his Poem on Bastards:   You tell me to do this, He tells me to do that. You're all bastards, Go fuck your mother. Untitled They ask me how many women I have. To be honest, I don't know either. Yesterday, a boy called me dad. I don't know who his mother was.     Praying or Rain   The sky god is also named Zhang Why does he make life hard for me If it doesn't rain in three days I'll demolish your temple Then I'll have cannons bombard your mom     It should be noted a lot of the poetry attributed to Zhang Zongchang may have been fabricated by a political opponent named Han Fuju who took over Shandong Province after him.  Zhang Zongchang despite being a brutal tyrant by all means, did reward his inner circle well, he had a lot of very loyal officers around him. Zhang Zongchang traveled with a teakwood coffin planted atop a car during his campaigns. He had this done to signify his willingness to die in combat, the old “I win or come back on a shield” idea. During of his failed campaigns, Zhang Zongchang paraded himself sitting in the coffin while smoking a cuban cigar.    So as you can imagine, Feng Yuxiang and Zhang Zuolin were quite different characters to say the least. Yet both these men were born under very similar conditions. Both were born into poverty, both joined the military and were raised through the ranks with the help of patrons. Both became warlords leading cliques that allied themselves to larger cliques. Both men avoided silver bullets, the term silver bullet was used during this era to refer to being assassinated by a subordinate who was bribed by a rival warlord. To avoid such a fate, one had to make sure to conserve the loyalty of their officers, which both men did by very different means. Feng used Christianity like a glue to bind his soldiers together. He provided missionaries to encourage conversion. If christianity did not work, he employed nationalism. In the mid 1920's he became very hostile to the unequal treaties that Europe and Japan plagued China with. He began indoctrinating his men with anti-imperialistic literature and ironically began brushing shoulders with the anti-religious Soviet Union. The USSR would become his main benefactor, earning him a second nickname “the red general”. Zhang Zongzhang was much more akin to other warlords at keeping silver bullets at bay. He paid his inner circle in silver, he made sure the pockets of his best men were always full. He allowed every evil corrupt thing imaginable to occur under his subordinates hands. Zhang Zongchang was a ruthless tyrannical monster who focused on his own power above all.   Both warlords had to navigate the extremely complex alliance and rivalry system amongst the warlords. Feng Yuxiang aligned himself with the Yuan Shikai, then against Yuan Shikai, then again for Yuan Shiaki, with the Zhili clique, the Kuomintung, Communists and basically whoever looked to be winning at the time. Chiang Kai-shek said of him “the so-called Christian General was a master in the art of deception”. This was extremely true, Feng Yuxiang was a hell of a backstabber, his career actually was propelled by it. Zhang Zongchang tossed his lot in with Banditz, then Russians, then with the Fengtian Clique out of necessity, brushing shoulders with the Japanese by proxy. Zhang Zongchang really did not have any large ideology, he went with the flow as long as it benefited him. In many ways both men sort of just did what they did to empower their positions.    The people living under their rule could not have had a more different experience. Under Feng Yuxiang, Christian beliefs were enforced, a more progressive outlook was present. He did a lot to improve the living conditions of ordinary people under his control. He promoted education heavily, healthcare, infrastructure development. He was insane about discipline and thwarting corruption. He stopped gambling, smoking, drug trafficking, prostitution, he really was a man of law and order. Zhang Zongchang was the complete opposite, it was as if he was trying to outdo the devil himself. Zhang Zongchang, ruled with an iron fist, extracting resources from the population through taxation, extortion, and forced labor, while enriching himself and his inner circle. Under Zhang the common people starved, they were pillaged, raped, abused in all manners. Zhang took away funds from education, infrastructure (unless it was a statue of himself), from anything that would benefit the people. Zhang loved to smoke cigars, drank excessively, had 50 concubines, and was literally bestfriends with the black market of China.   Inevitably given their spheres of influence both warlords would run into each other in the 1920s. Feng Yuxiang's powerbase was around Shanxi and Hebei while Zhang Zongchang was firmly in Shandong. These territories border another, producing frequent clashes over strategic resources, trade routes and territorial disputes. While Feng Yuxiang betrayed many cliques, he more or less stuck to the Kuomintang. At one point Feng Yuxiang even joined the Fengtian clique to only betray them. Zhang Zongchang remained loyal to the Fengtian clique, pretty much until his death. By the way his death would be at the hands of an officer who served Feng Yuxiang, so I guess Feng won in the end haha.    Most warlords were ostentatious in their dress and lifestyle, but Feng Yuxiang was quite an exception to this. Numerous photographs show warlords sporting glittering uniforms copied from other nations. For example, Zhang Zuolin wore a large gold braid, numerous decorations, giant gleaming buckles, shoulder pads and white gloves. He had a small peaked cap suggesting he was modeling himself on a Russian Tsar. Chiang Kai-Shek favored an american style officers uniform with a high peaked cap. Many warlords liked French-styled kepis, British ww1 uniforms with sam Brown belts or helmets with enormous plumes. Pull up a picture of Zhang Zongchang and its absolutely ridiculous. He has giant shoulder pads, large medal star decorations, a giant belt, a large ribbon cross over, double golden braids, white gloves, basically he looks like hes trying to out do Zhang Zuolin. But Feng Yuxiang while a warlord wore the same plain dress as his soldiers.    If you read contemporary or older books on the warlords, you immediately notice the authors favor Feng Yuxiang and talk about him positively, while strongly villianizing Zhang Zongchang. Put simply the propaganda wars that were going on during China's Warlord Era were exactly that, Feng Yuxiang made sure he was presented as a good Christian General, while Zhang Zongchang really seemed to bask in being the bad boy or base General. Hell Zhang Zongchang publicized most of what was said about him himself! In the end they were two cogs in a very large machine and they played their parts. During for however long this warlord era lasts on the podcast, we will come to learn about as many of the warlords as I possibly can cover. They are colorful characters who had a profound effect on the formation of Nationalist China and the People's republic of China.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Thus were the tales of the good Christian General Feng Yuxiang and the basest warlord, Zhang Zongchang. We will further tell the tales of their ventures in the battles of China's Warlord Era, but in the next episode we are going to meet the Southern faction Warlords!

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A story of unimaginable trauma, unwavering courage, and the transformative power of #justice and support. As a young girl, Krystan endured the horrific reality of domestic abuse at the hands of her stepfather. His violence extended to her mother, culminating in a chilling act of arson – he set her mother on fire. ▷ A Childhood Marred by Fear and Violence Krystan's childhood was a far cry from the safe and nurturing environment every child deserves. Her stepfather's abusive behavior created an atmosphere of constant fear and insecurity. The physical, emotional, and psychological torment he inflicted left deep scars on Krystan's young mind. Despite the fear that gripped her, Krystan knew she couldn't remain silent. She sought justice for herself and her mother by pursuing legal action against her stepfather. This decision marked the beginning of a daunting journey, but Krystan was determined to find her voice and reclaim her life. ▷ A Landmark Court Case and a Beacon of Hope with one time Prosector Bob Bianchi Krystan's case found its way to the courtroom, where she faced the daunting task of confronting her abuser and recounting the harrowing details of her ordeal. With the unwavering support of former prosecutor Robert Bianchi, a champion of victims' rights, Krystan bravely stepped forward to seek justice. The trial was a grueling process, demanding Krystan's resilience and determination. Yet, she stood tall, her voice resonating with the truth of her experiences, despite the remembrance of the terrible act of violence on Krystan's, leading to her mother's untimely death. Bob Bianchi's expertise and unwavering commitment to justice proved invaluable, guiding Krystan through the complexities of the legal system. In the end, Krystan's courage and Bob's unwavering support in the law cumulated in a moment of justice. Her stepfather was convicted and sentenced to prison, marking a significant victory for Krystan and her mother. But beyond the legal outcome, Krystan's case served as a beacon of hope for other survivors of domestic abuse. ▷ Bob Bianchi: A Pillar of Support Throughout Krystan's journey, Bob Bianchi and his team remained a steadfast pillar of support. He recognized the profound trauma she had endured and provided her with the emotional and legal guidance she needed to navigate the complexities of her case. Overcoming Trauma and Finding Hope Krystan's story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Despite the trauma she endured, she emerged from her experience stronger and more determined. Her journey is a reminder that healing is possible, even in the face of unimaginable adversity. A Message of Hope and Healing Krystan's message is one of hope and empowerment for survivors of domestic abuse. She encourages victims to seek help, reminding them that they are not alone. Her story is a powerful call to action, urging us to stand with victims and fight for their justice. ▷ Resources for Survivors of Domestic Abuse If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, there are resources available to help. Here are a few organizations that can provide support: State of #NewJersey Department of Children & Families https://www.nj.gov/dcf/women/hotlines/ The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence: https://ncadv.org/ The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence: https://www.thehotline.org/ Together, we can break the silence and create a world free from #domesticviolence. With Your Host Bob Bianchi and David Bruno #NothingButTheTruth "I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Bianchi during a murder trial when he was a prosecutor in Hudson County. I was able to witness first hand how he handled the case with integrity, honesty, and a tireless commitment to his client's well-being. Now Mr. Bianchi and his team of former prosecutors turned criminal defense lawyers embodies an exceptional blend of experience and unwavering dedication to their clients and the principles of the justice. If you are in need of legal representation, their services are highly recommended for their commitment to justice and their outstanding track record of delivering top-tier legal support." Krystan Williams 

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Snails are small animals with a shell. They crawl very slowly. Snails leave silver lines on the ground. They eat fruit, vegetables, and many other things. Gardeners and farmers don't like snails. 蝸牛是個很小的動物，牠們吃水果、蔬菜等等，所以園丁跟農夫都不喜歡蝸牛。 But many people around the world like snails. They like to eat them.*** ***Some people pay a lot of money to eat snails! Where are these snails from? Sometimes they're from gardens. Many are from snail farms! 但是還是有人喜歡蝸牛，也喜歡吃牠們。那這些蝸牛來自哪裡呢? 這些蝸牛有時候是來自花園，很多是來自養殖場。 Mr. Chang was a vegetable farmer in Taitung. He grew vegetables for many years.It was hard work. And maybe snails made his work harder. 張先生曾經是台東的菜農，種菜很辛苦，菜田裡的蝸牛讓他更辛苦。 He was getting older. He wanted an easier job. Now Mr. Chang is a snail farmer. He has more than 80,000 snails! The snails need a lot of care. Small changes can kill them! But for Mr. Chang, snail farming is easier than vegetable farming. 現在張先生改養蝸牛。蝸牛需要呵護照顧，一點點的改變都會造成牠們的死亡。但是對張先生來說，養蝸牛比種菜簡單多了。 Mr. Chang also sells snails in cans. He sells sausages made of pork and snails too. He sells them in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. 張先生也賣蝸牛罐頭跟蝸牛香腸。除了國內，他還賣到香港跟澳門。 Snails changed this vegetable farmer's life. Hmmm….I'm hungry for snails now! Are you too? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 不種水稻而去養蝸牛，賺的錢還更多。 1. garden 花園 What a beautiful garden! 好漂亮的花園! It reminds me of my days as a gardener. 讓我想起以前我當園丁的日子。 2. grow 種植 What did you grow? 妳種什麼呢? I grew a lot of tulips.我種很多鬱金香。 Just flowers? No fruit or vegetables? 只有花嗎? 沒有青菜水果? No, tulips were trouble enough.沒有，鬱金香就夠麻煩了。 3. vegetable 蔬菜 Yeah, vegetables can be harder. 也對，蔬菜可能更難。 There would be snails and insects.會有蝸牛和昆蟲。 4. older 比較老的 I may grow cherry trees when I get older. 我年紀比較大時也許會種櫻桃樹。Cherries are delicious.櫻桃很好吃。 Let's review these words. garden花園 grow種植 vegetable蔬菜 older比較老的 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. Where does Mr. Chang live? a. Taitung b. Hualien c. Yilan 2. Why did Mr. Chang start farming snails? a. They need a lot of care. b. He loves to eat them. c. They're easier than vegetables. 3. Where does Mr. Chang sell his snails? a. France b. Macau c. Italy Answers: 1. a 2. c 3. b

The system for coordinating organ donations and transplants in the United States is broken, according to experts who have testified over the course of many years to Congress. In this episode, hear their testimony about what is wrong with the current system and then we'll examine the bill that aims to fix the problems. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources August 3, 2022. Senate Finance Committee. Lenny Bernstein and Todd C. Frankel. August 3, 2022. The Washington Post. February 10, 2020. Senate Finance Committee. The Bill Audio Sources July 20, 2023 Senate Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Health Care Witnesses: LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Molly J. McCarthy, Vice Chair & Region 6 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Matthew Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Raymond J. Lynch, MD, MS, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation Quality and Outcomes, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Donna R. Cryer, JD, Founder and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 30:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): HRSA, the Health Resources Agency, is on track to begin the contract process this fall and we're just going to be working here to complement their effort. 36:30 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): In 2005, I started the investigation of the deadly failures of UNOS, the monopoly tasked with managing the US organ donation system. Since then, more than 200,000 patients have needlessly died on the organ waiting list. There's a reason that I call UNOS the fox guarding the hen house. For nearly two decades, UNOS has concealed serious problems [at] the nation's organ procurement organizations, known as OPOs, instead of working to uncover and correct the corruption. This human tragedy is even more horrific because many of these deaths were preventable. They were the result of [a] corrupt, unaccountable monopoly that operates more like a cartel than a public servant. 44:45 LaQuayia Goldring: As a toddler, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer that took the function of my left kidney. And when I was 17, I went back into complete renal failure and I received a first kidney transplant at that time. Unfortunately, in 2015, I went back into kidney failure. And at that time, I wasn't ready for another transplant, but I didn't have a choice but to go back on dialysis. I've been waiting nine agonizing years for a transplant, dependent upon a dialysis machine five days a week, just to be able to live. I was told that I would receive a kidney transplant within three to five years. But yet I am still waiting. I am undergoing monthly surgeries just to be able to get my dialysis access to work so that I can continue to live until I get a transplant. The UNOS waitlist is not like one to 100, where everybody thinks you get a number. I'm never notified on where I stand on the list or when I will get the call. I have to depend on an algorithm to make the decision of what my fate will be. 47:55 LaQuayia Goldring: Just a few weeks ago, a donor family reached out to me to be a directed kidney donor, meaning they chose me specifically for a kidney transplant. But unfortunately, due to the errors in the UNOS technology, I was listed as inactive and this was a clerical error. And all that they told me was this was a clerical error, and they could not figure out why I was inactive. But when it came down to it, I'm actually active on the transplant list. 51:45 Molly McCarthy: The Federal monopoly contractor managing the organ donation system, UNOS, is an unmitigated failure. And its leadership spends more time attacking critics than it does taking steps to fix the system. I've seen this firsthand in my five years as a patient volunteer with the OPTN and three years ago, I stepped into the role of Vice Chair of the Patient Affairs Committee, or PAC. 53:45 Molly McCarthy: Further, I have been called by a board member telling me to stop focusing on system outage and downtime of the UNOS tech system. He told me that having downtime wasn't a big deal at all, "the donors are dead anyway." That comment speaks volumes to me about the lack of empathy and respect UNOS has for donor families. 55:00 Molly McCarthy: Congress needs to break up the UNOS monopoly by passing 1668, ensuring that HHS uses its authority to replace UNOS as its contractor. 1:00:15 Matt Wadsworth: Break up the OPTN contract and allow for competition. 1:00:40 Matt Wadsworth: I commend this committee for introducing legislation to finally break up this monopoly and I stand ready to work with you in any way possible to ensure that this bill passes. It's the only way this industry will be able to save more patients' lives. 1:02:10 Dr. Raymond Lynch: I want to differentiate between organ donation, which is the altruistic decision of the donor patient and their family, and organ procurement, which is the clinical care provided by OPO staff. This is what turns the gift of donation into the usable organs for transplant. Organ procurement is a clinical specialty. It's the last medical care that many patients will ever receive. It's reimbursed by the federal government and it's administered by OPOs that are each the only provider in the territory to which they hold federal contracts. Right now patient care delivered by OPOs is some of the least visible in American healthcare. I can't tell you how many patients were evaluated by OPO workers in the US in 2022. I can't tell you how many patients were examined, or how many families were given information about donation, or how many times an OPO worker even showed up to a hospital to do this clinical duty. This lack of information about what OPO providers actually do for patients is a root cause of the variability in rates of organ procurement around the country. My research has shown that what we call OPO performance is a measurable restriction on the supply of organs that results in the unnecessary deaths of patients with organ failure. For example, if the lowest performing OPOs from around the country had just reached the national median over a recent seven year period, there would have been 4957 more organ donors, yielding an estimated 11,707 additional organs for transplant. Because many OPOs operate in a low quality data environment and without appropriate oversight, almost 5,000 patients did not get adequate organ procurement care, and nearly 12,000 other patients did not receive life saving transplants. 1:03:55 Dr. Raymond Lynch: OPO clinical work is currently not visible, it's not benchmarkable, and it's not able to be adequately evaluated, analyzed, or compared. However, much of the hidden data about how OPOs provide care to patients is known to one entity and that entity is UNOS. 1:05:20 Dr. Raymond Lynch: We need a new network of highly skilled specialist organizations, each attending to areas of expertise in the management of the OPTN contract. 1:21:15 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): When we look at OPTN, and look at the Securing Organ Procurement Act, the bill would strip the nonprofit requirement for the manager of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which would open the door for profiting from organ procurement and donation. And to me, this is something that I think many people really fear, especially people that are on a waitlist. And so what I would like for you to do is to address that and address those concerns. And why or why not you think the Act has it right. Dr. Raymond Lynch: Thank you, Senator. I think it's unfortunate that people would be afraid of that and it needs to be changed. Many of the patients that you referenced are waitlisted at for-profit hospitals. For-profit is a part of American healthcare. And I can tell you that our not-for-profit entity doesn't work. And there are for-profit hospitals and for-profit transplant centers that do work. So patients don't need to be afraid of that. They do need to be afraid of the status quo. 1:28:30 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Ms. Cryer, do you have any views as to why it's much lower percentage chances for a racial minority to be able to have a transplant? Donna Cryer: Yes. And it really does come down to UNOS not doing its job of overseeing the organ procurement organizations. We know from many studies that black and brown communities donate organs in the same percentage they are the population. So it is not a problem of willingness to donate. It is a problem, as Miss Goldring was starting to discuss, about UNOS not ensuring that OPOs go out into the communities, develop relationships far before that horrible decision is needed to [be] made to donate the organs of a family member. 1:56:45 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): And among the many reforms the legislation would support HRSA's proposal to break up the OPTN monopoly contract into multiple smaller contracts, which would allow some competition and allow the best vendors in the business to manage different parts of the transplant network operation. That means hiring IT experts to do the IT. It means hiring logistics experts to do logistics, and so on. 1:57:15 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): UNOS does not want to lose control, so they're pushing to have the government limit eligibility only to nonprofit vendors that have worked in the past on organ donation, meaning, for instance, that the IT company that is hired to run OPTNs computers systems would have had to have worked on an organ transplant network in the past and be a nonprofit. So Ms. McCarthy, the requirement UNOS wants would seem to make it so that only one organization could apply for the new contract: UNOS. 1:58:35 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Right now, Congress has an opportunity to root out corruption in this system, but if we don't act before the current contract expires we won't have another shot for years. August 3, 2022 Senate Committee on Finance Witnesses: Brian Shepard, CEO, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Diane Brockmeier, RN, President and CEO, Mid-America Transplant Barry Friedman, RN, Executive Director, AdventHealth Transplant Institute Calvin Henry, Region 3 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, Director, Division of Transplantation, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Clips 36:15 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): A 1984 law created the first computerized system to match sick patients with the organs they need. It was named the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Someone needed to manage that system for the whole country, so the government sought to contract an organization to run it. UNOS was the only bidder for that first contract in 1986. The contract has come up for bid seven other times, UNOS has won all seven. Today, the network UNOS overseas is made up of nearly 400 members, including 252 transplant centers, and 57 regional organizations known as Organ Procurement Organizations, or OPOs. Each OPO is a defined geographic service network. Families sitting in a hospital room thinking about donating a loved one's organs does not have a choice of OPOs. 37:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Between 2010 and 2020, more than 1,100 complaints were filed by patients and families, staff, transplant centers, and others. The nature of these complaints runs the gamut. For example, in a number of cases, OPOs had failed to complete critical mandatory tests for matters like blood types, diseases, and infection. Our investigation found one patient died after being transplanted with lungs that a South Carolina OPO marked with the wrong blood type. Similar blood type errors happened elsewhere and patients developed serious illness. Some had to have organs removed after transplant. Another patient was told he would likely die within three years after an OPO in Ohio supplied him with a heart from a donor who had died of a malignant brain tumor. UNOS did not pursue any disciplinary action. In a case from Florida, another patient contracted cancer from transplanted organs and the OPO sat on the evidence for months. In total, our investigation found that between 2008 and 2015, and 249 transplant recipients developed a disease from transplanted organs. More than a quarter of them died. 38:55 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Delivering organs has been another source of life threatening errors. We found 53 such complaints between 2010 and 2020, as well as evidence that this was just the tip of the iceberg. In some cases, couriers missed a flight. In others, the organs were abandoned at airports. Some organs were never picked up. Many of these failures resulted in organs being discarded. 39:20 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): It's reasonable to assume that many more errors are going unreported. Why? Because filing official complaints with UNOS appears to accomplish zero productive oversight or reform. Organ transplant professionals repeatedly told the Finance Committee that the complaint process was, and I quote here, "a black hole." Complaints went in, UNOS went quiet. In interviews with the Committee UNOS leaders have dragged their feet, dodged tough questions, and shifted responsibility onto others. investigations and disciplinary measures rarely amount to much more than a slap on the wrist. Only one time -- just once -- has UNOS recommended that an OPO lose their certification. 55:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must update the archaic technology system at UNOS. As OPOs, we are required to work with UNOS technology DonorNet every day. DonorNet is outdated, difficult to us,e and often slow to function when every minute counts. Manual entry subjects it to error and OPO and Transplant Center staff are not empowered with the right information when time is critical. I did serve in leadership roles on the OPO Committee from 2017 to 2022. Committee members and industry leaders voiced repeated requests to improve DonorNet. The consistent response was UNOS IT did not have the bandwidth to address this work. The limitations of the UNOS technology are delaying and denying transplants to patients that are dying on the waitlist. Poor technology impacts the disturbingly high kidney discard rate in the United States, where one in four kidneys never make it to a patient for transplantation. Critical time is lost due to the inefficiency of DonorNet, wasting time on offers that will not be accepted. Of course an available organ should be offered to the patient in this sequence. However, far too much of the matching, particularly on older donors and organs that are difficult to place, are left to the individual OPOs and transplant centers to find each other despite, rather than facilitated by, UNOS technology. Mid-America Transplant intentionally identifies surgeons who accept kidneys that have been repeatedly turned down many times. These are life saving options for those patients. In May of 2022, one of these patients was number 18,193 on the list. Relying on DonorNet alone, that kidney would never had been placed and the chance to save a life would have been wasted. 55:20 Diane Brockmeier: UNOS lacks urgency and accountability around identifying and remediating this preventable loss of organs, and they are not required to publicly report adverse events when patients are harmed, organs are lost, or the quality of patient care is deemed unsafe. UNOS does not require clinical training, licensure, or certification standards for OPO staff delivering critical patient care. In this environment, who's looking out for the patient? Who's being held accountable for poor patient care? No OPO has ever actually been decertified, regardless of its performance or its safety record. 57:55 Diane Brockmeier: When an OPO goes out of sequence to place an organ that would otherwise be thrown away, UNOS requires an explanation; however, when organs are recovered and discarded, you must remain silent. 58:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must remove conflicts to ensure effective governance. From 2018 to 2020, I served as a board member for the OPTN. Serving on the board of the OPTN automatically assigns membership to the UNOS board. My board experience revealed that at times UNOS actions are not aligned with its fundamental vision of a life saving transplant for everyone in need. How can you fairly represent the country's interest and a contractor's interest at the same time? 58:35 Diane Brockmeier: Board members are often kept in the dark about critical matters and are marginalized, particularly if they express views that differ from UNOS leadership. Preparatory small group calls are conducted prior to board meetings to explore voting intentions, and if the board member was not aligned with the opinion of UNOS leadership, follow up calls are initiated. Fellow board members report feeling pressured to vote in accordance with UNOS leadership. 59:10 Diane Brockmeier: To protect patients, I urge Congress and the administration to separate the OPTN functions into different contracts so that patients can be served by best-in-class vendors, to immediately separate the boards of the OPTN and OPTN contractors, and to ensure that patients are safeguarded through open data from both the OPTN and OPOs. 1:00:45 Barry Friedman: Approximately 23% of kidneys procured from deceased donors are not used and discarded, resulting in preventable deaths 1:00:55 Barry Friedman: Organ transportation is a process left to federally designated Organ Procurement Organizations, OPOs. Currently, they develop their own relationships with couriers, rely on airlines, charter flights, ground transportation, and federal agencies to facilitate transportation. In many cases, organs must connect from one flight to another, leaving airline personnel responsible for transfers. While anyone can track their Amazon or FedEx package, there is currently no consistent way of tracking these life saving organs. 1:01:45 Barry Friedman: Currently there is no requirement for OPOs to use tracking systems. 1:02:20 Barry Friedman: I also believe there's a conflict of interest related to the management of IT functions by UNOS, as the IT tools they offer transplant centers come with additional costs, despite these being essential for the safety and management of organs. 1:02:35 Barry Friedman: UNOS is not effectively screening organ donors so that they can be quickly directed to transplant programs. UNOS asks centers to voluntarily opt out of certain organs via a filtering process. As a result, OPOs waste valuable time making organ offers to centers that will never accept them. Time wasted equates to prolonged cold ischemic time and organs not placed, resulting in lost organ transplant opportunities. 1:03:10 Barry Friedman: Due to the limited expertise that UNOS has in the placement of organs, it would be best if they were no longer responsible for the development of organ placement practices. The UNOS policy making [process] lacks transparency. Currently OPTN board members concurrently serve as the board members of UNOS, which creates a conflict of interest that contributes to this lack of transparency. UNOS committees are formed in a vacuum. There is no call for nominations and no data shared with the transplant community to explain the rationale behind decisions that create policy change. 1:11:35 Dr. Jayme Locke: The most powerful thing to know about this is that every organ represents a life. We can never forget that. Imagine having a medication you need to live being thrown away simply because someone took too long to get it to you. Your life quite literally in a trash can. Organs are no different. They too have shelf lives and they are measured in hours. Discarded organs and transportation errors may sound abstract, but let me make this negligence real for you. In 2014, I received a kidney that arrived frozen, it was an ice cube you could put in your drink. The intended recipient was sensitized, meaning difficult to match. The only thing we could do was tell the waiting patient that due to the lack of transportation safeguard, the kidney had to be thrown in the trash, the final generous act of a donor in Maryland. In 2017, I received a kidney that arrived in a box that appeared to have tire marks on it. The box was squished and the container inside had been ruptured. We were lucky and were able to salvage the kidney for transplant. But why should luck even play a role? 1:12:45 Dr. Jayme Locke: In one week, I received four kidneys from four different OPOs, each with basic errors that led to the need to throw away those life saving organs. One due to a botched kidney biopsy into the kidneys collecting system, another because of a lower pole artery that had been cut during procurement that could have been fixed if someone involved had assessed the kidney for damage and flushed it before packing, but that didn't happen. Two others arrived to me blue, meaning they hadn't been flushed either. 1:13:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Opacity at UNOS means that we have no idea how often basic mistakes happen across the country, nor can we have any confidence that anything is being done to redress such errors so they don't keep happening. 1:13:40 Dr. Jayme Locke: Women who have been pregnant, especially multiple times, are harder to match, contributing to both gender and racial disparities in access to transplant. This is a very real example of how a constrained pool of organs and high discards disproportionately hurt women and women of color, who are more likely to have multiple pregnancies. 1:14:25 Dr. Jayme Locke: Number one, immediately separate the OPTN board from any of the boards of any contractors. Number two, bring in real experts to ensure our patients are served by the best of the best in each field, separating out key functions of the OPTN, including policy, technology, and logistics. And number three, ensure that patients are safer by holding all contractors accountable through public adverse event reporting and immediate redressing of problems. 1:22:00 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): The system doesn't seem to be fair to racial minorities or people living in rural communities. So what are your efforts underway to understand the root causes and help make the system fairer to patients on the waiting list to explain the factors that result in the disparity for minorities in rural populations in the process? And how can the federal government address a problem if we have to be involved in addressing it? Dr. Jayme Locke: One of the most important things that we don't currently do is we don't actually account for disease burden in terms of examining our waiting lists. So we have no way of knowing if we're actually serving the correct people, if the correct people are actually making it to the waiting list. Disease burden is super important because it not only identifies the individuals who are in need of transplantation, but it also speaks to supply. So areas with high rates of end stage kidney disease burden, like the southeastern United States are going to have much lower supply. And those waiting lists predominantly consist of African American or Black individuals. So if you want to make a truly equitable organ system, you have to essentially get more organs to those areas where there are higher disease burdens. I think the other thing is that we have to have more focus on how we approach donor families and make sure that we have cultural competence as a part of our OPOs, and how they approach families to ensure that we're not marginalizing minority families with regard to the organ donation process. 1:30:00 Brian Shepard: The OPTN IT system that UNOS operates has 99.99% uptime. It is a highly reliable system. We are audited annually by HRSA.... Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): My information shows it's had 17 days down since I think 1999. That's not correct? Brian Shepard: In 23 years, yes, sir. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Okay, well, every day there's a loss of life, isn't it? Brian Shepard: That's the total amount of time over the couse of -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): I hope our national event system isn't down 17 days a year. Brian Shepard: The system has never been down for a day. And to my knowledge, and I have not been at UNOS since 1999, there's been maybe one event that was longer than an hour, and that was three hours. But the total amount of time since 1999 -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): So you're satisfied with your technology? You think you have the right technology? You're satisfied with your tracking systems now? You think everything is okay? Brian Shepard: We constantly improve our technology. We're subjected to 3 million attempts a day to hack into the patient database and we successfully repelled them all. So we are never satisfied with our technology, but we do maintain 99.99% uptime. We disagree with the USDS analysis of our systems. 1:37:25 Brian Shepard: If you're asking whether UNOS can prevent an OPO from operating or for being an OPO -- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Well not prevent them, but require them to do something .You don't have the ability to require them...? Brian Shepard: The peer review process has significant persuasive authority, but all the payment authority and all the certification and decertification authority live at CMS. 1:39:00 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Do you think there should be tracking of organs in transit? Brian Shepard: I think that's a very beneficial thing. UNOS provides an optional service that a quarter of OPOs use. Many OPOs also use other commercially available trackers to do that. There is not a single requirement to use a particular system. 1:41:55 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Mr. Shepherd, you are the CEO of UNOS. We have documented these problems and you've received more than 1000 complaints in the last decade alone. So tell me, in the 36 years that UNOS has had the contract to run our national organ system, how many times has UNOS declared its OPO Members, any OPO members, not in good standing. Brian Shepard: Two times, Senator. 1:43:20 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): How many times has UNOS put an OPO on probation? Brian Shepard: I don't know that number off the top of my head, but it's not a large number. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): It's not large, in fact it's three. 1:45:20 Brian Shepard: Approximately 10% of the budget of this contract is taxpayer funded. The rest of that is paid by hospitals when they list patients. 1:49:30 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): Once an OPO is designated not in good standing, Senator Warren referred to this as toothless. It does seem toothless to me. I'll give you an opportunity, Mr. Shepherd, to disabuse me of that notion and indicate for me what penalties or sanctions are actually placed on an OPO when they are designated not in good standing. Brian Shepard: The statute does not give UNOS any authority to offer sanctions like that. The certification, decertification, payment authorities belong entirely to CMS. UNOS's statute doesn't give us the ability -- Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So it is toothless in that sense. Brian Shepard: It is designed to be, by regulation and contract, a quality improvement process, in contrast to the oversight process operated by a federal agency. 1:51:15 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): To what extent is UNOS currently tracking the status of all the organs in transit at any given time? Brian Shepard: UNOS does not coordinate transportation or track organs in transit. We do provide a service that OPOs can use to use GPS trackers. Some of the OPOs use ours and some use other commercially available products. Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So why is it, and how does UNOS plan to optimize organ delivery if you don't have 100% visibility into where they are at any given time? Brian Shepard: I think that the GPS products that we offer and that other people offer are valuable, they do help in the delivery of kidneys. Only kidneys travel unaccompanied, so this is a kidney issue. But I do think that GPS trackers are valuable and I think that's why you've seen more and more OPOs use them. 1:52:50 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd has said twice, with respect to this whole question of the power to decertify an OPO, that CMS has the power to do it. UNOS also has the power to refer an OPO for decertification under the OPTN final rule. That has been done exactly once. So I just wanted it understood with respect to making sure the committee has got what's really going on with respect to decertifying OPOs. 2:00:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Obviously people have described that we have about a 25% kidney discard, so one in four. So if you look at numbers last year, these are rough numbers, but that'd be about 8000 kidneys. And really, I think, in some ways, these are kind of a victim of an entrenched and cumbersome allocation algorithms that are very ordinal, you have to go sort of in order, when data clearly have shown that introduction of multiple simultaneous expiring offers would result in more efficient placement of kidneys and this would decrease our cold ischemia time. 2:00:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: So if you take UNOS's organ center, they have a very rigid system, for example, for finding flights and lack either an ability or interest in thinking outside the box. So, for example, if there are no direct flights from California to Birmingham, Alabama, instead of looking for a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta, understanding that a courier could then pick it up in Atlanta and drive it the two hours, they'll instead put on a flight from SFO to Atlanta and allow it to go to cargo hold overnight, where it literally is rotting, if you will, and we're putting extra time on it. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Just to make sure everybody gets this. You're saying you've seen instances of something being put in cargo hold when it is very likely to rot? Dr. Jayme Locke: That is correct. So if the kidney arrives after 10pm at the Atlanta airport, it goes to cargo hold. We discovered that and made calls to the airlines ourselves and after several calls to the airlines, of course they were mortified, not understanding that that was what was happening and actually had their manager meet our courier and we were able to get the kidney out of cargo hold, but this went on before we figured out what was happening because essentially they fly it in, it sits in cargo hold, it comes out the next morning to catch the next flight. Instead of thinking outside the box: if we just get it to Atlanta, it's drivable to Birmingham. And those hours make a difference. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): That sounds way too logical for what UNOS has been up to. 2:03:05 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Miss Brockmeier, UNOS has developed this organ tracking system. Do you all use it? I'm curious what you think of it. Diane Brockmeier: Thank you for the question, Senator. We did use and participate in the beta pilot through UNOS and made the decision to not move forward using their product, and have sought a commercial alternative. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): And why was that? Diane Brockmeier: Part of the issues were some service related issues, the lack of the interconnectivity that we wanted to be able to facilitate a more expedited visual tracking of where the organ was. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Was the tracking technology low quality? Diane Brockmeier: Yes, sir. 2:11:25 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): All right, let's talk for a moment about the boards that are supposed to be overseeing these, because it looks to me like there's a serious conflict of interest here and I'll send this to Ms. Brockmeier, and perhaps you'd like to get to it as well, Mr. Friedman. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which is the formal title of the organ network that operates under federal contract administered by HHS, and UNOS, which is the contractor that operates the network and controls information about the network, have the same boards of directors, despite efforts by the government to separate them. That means the people who look out for the best interests of UNOS, the multimillion dollar nonprofit, are the same people who look out for the interests of the entire organ transplant network. Sure sounds like a conflict to me. 2:12:55 Diane Brockmeier: I think there should be an independent board. I think the division of the responsibilities of the board and by the inherent way that they're structured, do pose conflicts. It would be like if you had an organization that was a supporting organization, you'd want to hold it accountable for its performance. And the current structure really limits that opportunity. 2:19:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: And if you think about IT, something as simple as having a system where we can more easily put in unacceptable antigens, this was a debate for many years. So for context, we list unacceptable antigens in the system that allows us to better match kidneys so that when someone comes up on the match run, we have a high probability that there'll be a good tissue match. Well, that took forever and we couldn't really get our unacceptable antigens in, so routinely people get offered kidneys that aren't going to be a match, and you have to get through all of those before you can get to the person that they really should go to. Those are simple examples. But if we could really have transparency and accountability around those kinds of things, we could save more lives. 2:23:10 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd told Senator Warren that only 10% of UNOS funds come from taxpayer money and the rest comes from fees paid by transplant centers who add patients to the list. But the fact is, Medicare is the largest payer of the fees, for example, for kidneys. So we're talking about inefficiency, inefficiency that puts patients at risk. And certainly, taxpayer dollars are used to cover some of these practices. May 4, 2021 House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Witnesses: Tonya Ingram, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Dr. Dara Kass, Living Donor and Mother of Transplant Recipient LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Steve Miller, CEO, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Joe Ferreira, President, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Matt Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Dr. Seth Karp, Director, Vanderbilt Transplant Center Donna Cryer, President and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 5:15 Tonya Ingram: The Organ Procurement Organization that serves Los Angeles, where I live, is failing according to the federal government. In fact, it's one of the worst in the country. One analysis showed it only recovered 31% of potential organ donors. Audits in previous years found that LA's OPO has misspent taxpayer dollars on retreats to five star hotels and Rose Bowl tickets. The CEO makes more than $900,000. Even still, the LA OPO has not lost its government contract and it has five more years to go. 30:00 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Unusual among Medicare programs, their costs are 100% reimbursed, even costs unrelated to care. So, extravagant executive compensation and luxury perks may be passed off onto the taxpayer. 46:55 Dr. Seth Karp: We have 10 hours to get a liver from the donor to the recipient, and about one hour to sew it in. For heart, we have about six hours. Time matters. 47:55 Dr. Seth Karp: Last year, I had the opportunity to co-write a viewpoint in one of the journals of the American Medical Association with TJ Patel, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States. In that article, we provided evidence that the metrics used to judge the performance of organ procurement organizations are basically useless. Until the recent OPO Final Rule, performance was self-reported, and OPO employees admitted to having gamed the system. When threatened with decertification, one of the OPOs themselves successfully argued that because the performance data were self reported and unaudited, they failed to meet a reasonable standard and the OPO should not be held accountable. In other words for decades, the metrics supposed to measure performance didn't measure performance, and the results have been disastrous, as you have heard. 49:45 Dr. Seth Karp: Whenever I, and quite frankly most everyone else in the field, gives a talk on transplantation, we usually make two points. The first is that organ transplantation is a miracle of modern medicine. The second is the tragedy that there are not enough organs for everyone who needs one. I no longer use the second point, because I don't believe it. Based on my work, I believe that there are enough organs for patients who require hearts, lungs, and probably livers, and we can make a huge improvement in the number of kidneys available. In addition to improving OPO performance, new technologies already exist to dramatically increase the organ supply. We need a structure to drive rapid improvement in our system. 54:00 Joe Ferreira: One common misconception is that OPOs are solely responsible for the entire donation and transplantation system, when, in fact, OPOs are the intermediary entity and their success is highly dependent on collaborations with hospitals and transplant programs. At the start of the donation process, hospitals are responsible for notifying any OPO in a timely manner when a patient is on a ventilator and meets medical criteria to be an organ donor. Additionally, transplant centers must make the decision whether to accept or decline the organs offered by OPOs. 57:55 Matt Wadsworth: As geographic monopolies, OPOs are not subject to any competitive pressure to provide high service. As the only major program in all of health care 100% reimbursed for all costs, we do not face financial pressures to allocate resources intelligently. 1:02:10 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, I'd like to turn to you. You run the OPO called the Nevada Donor Network. I have your OPO's 2019 financial statement filed with the CMS. It appears that your OPO spent roughly $6 million in 2019 on administrative and general expenses. Interestingly, in 2019, I see your OPO spent approximately $146,000 on travel meetings and seminars alone. And your itemization of Administrative and General has an interesting line item for $576,000 for "ANG". It took me a minute but that means you have an "Administrative and General" subcategory in your "Administrative and General" category. Very vague. Now Mr. Ferreira, I was informed by Mr. Wadsworth, a former executive of yours at the Nevada Donor Network, that your OPO has season tickets to the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights, isn't that correct? Joe Ferreira: That is correct, Mr. Chairman. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And you also have season tickets to the Las Vegas Raiders too, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And according to Mr. Wadsworth and others, your OPO took a board retreat to Napa Valley in 2018. Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And Sonoma in 2019, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, what you're spending on the Raiders, the Golden Knights, Napa Valley and Sonoma have one thing in common: they have nothing to do with recovering organs. 1:10:30 Dr. Seth Karp: In 2019, there were six heart transplants that were performed using donors after circulatory determination of death. And I don't want to get into the technical aspects of that. But in 2019, that number was six. In 2020, that number was 126. This is a new technology. This is a way that we can increase the number of heart transplants done in United States dramatically. And if we think that there were 500 patients in the United States waiting for a heart in 2020, 500 patients that either died or were delisted because they were too sick, and you think in one year, using a technology, we got another 100 transplants, if we could get another 500 transplants out of that technology, we could almost eliminate deaths on the on the heart transplant waiting list. That technology exists. It exists today. But we don't have a mechanism for getting it out to everybody that could use it and it's going to run itself through the system, it's going to take too much time. 1:24:05 Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): You know, I'm a little disappointed that we're discussing race as a factor in organ transplant. We're all one race in my opinion; color makes no difference to me. We're the human race. And to me, the interjection of race into this discussion is very concerning. Discrimination based on race was outlawed almost 60 years ago through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, and I have very little knowledge of medicine. But last year, there was an article that came out in LifeSource and it says, "Does my race and ethnicity matter in organ donation?" And so my question here is for Dr. Karp. In your experience, would you agree that a donor's organs are more likely to be a clinical match for a recipient of the same ethnicity? Could you comment on that? Is that actually a factor, or not? I mean, we're all human beings, we all, you know, have similar bodies. Dr. Seth Karp: Yes. So there definitely are certain HLA types that are more common. That is race-based. So the answer to that question is yes. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. And so if you have more of one particular race, more donations of one particular race, then naturally you would have more actual matches of that particular race. Is that correct? Dr. Seth Karp: That would tend to be the case. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. All right. Okay, that's just a question that I wanted to clear up here. 1:34:20 Donna Cryer: We'd like to see investments in languages that are spoken by the community. Educational resources should be, as required by law, for those with limited English proficiency. They should be in the languages spoken by the community. They should be hiring diverse staff to have those most crucial conversations with families. The data shows, and certainly experience and common sense shows as well, that having people of color approaching families of color results in more donations. Executive Producer Recommended Sources Music by Editing Production Assistance

13th Juror welcomes former major crimes prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney- Marc Shiner! Mr. Shiner spent almost 13 years working at the State Attorney's Office before dedicating his career to helping people accused of crimes. He represented former NFL player Travis Rudolph, facing one count of murder in the first degree and three counts of attempted murder in the first degree after 4 men showed up to his home late at night and attacked him and his brother. Mr. Shiner and defense attorney Heidi Perlet fought hard and advocated for their client, leading the jury to a not guilty verdict in under four hours. Now Mr. Shiner joins 13th Juror to talk about the trial, the shocking behavior of the witnesses, the investigation (or lack thereof), and to answer our questions!

AS your president, I have been calling for governor of Florida ron desantis' immediate removal and prosecution for abducting and trafficking new immigrants to this country! And Texas governor #GregAbbott as well, another Nazi f* unfit to be in a position of power. Everybody call justice department remove these mfrs* from office now! for their criminal and unconstitutional conduct! Just say no to fascism, America!!!!!!Very fitting karma that after stacking the courts with hundreds of inexperienced & totally unqualified federal judges -hundreds of them! Now Mr assface Nazi dump Trump can't seem to find a lawyer! Lol YOU GET THE LAWYER YOU DESERVE, MFR!!!! BY THE WAY AS YOUR PRESIDENT, I SUPPORT THE REMOVAL OF ALL TRUMP-APPOINTED JUDGES! This goes back a bit but I want to know why the New York prosecutor #AlvinBragg did not add a terrorism charge against trump for that baseball to the Head photograph??????? #manhattanda Hey

MENtality Unchained host Kevin Thomas sat down with James Crudup, aka Sonny of Ubiquity Records, to discuss entrepreneurship, music, and the purpose behind his drive. He talked about his wife's influence on his ability to become an entrepreneur. He brings attention to how he was supported and accepted by the community of Rockford, IL, being from Chicago. Mr. Sonny stated that he only wanted to be a part of the community and bring encouragement to the community through music and hospitality.  Now Mr. Sonny dedicates himself to his children and their restaurant “Sonny's Place.” Mr. Sonny continues to be a mainstay and pillar of the Rockford community, and all respect him! #podcast, #podcasterunite, #podcaster, #podcastshow, #podcaslife, #healthpodcast, #podcasts, #podcastersofyoutube, #mentalhealth, #therapy, #podcastseries, #love, #youtube, #spotifypodcastshow, #spotify, #spotifypodcast, #ubiquityrecords, #sonnycrudup, #sonnysplace, #community, #music, #rentrepreneur  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mentality-unchained/support

My grandpa watches soccer on TV. But some grandpas in Japan play soccer! 我的阿公會在家裡看足球比賽。但在日本，有一些阿公卻出門踢足球！ Japan has a new soccer league. It's called Soccer For Life. The league has three teams. They are called White Bears, Red Star, and Blue Hawaii. All of the players are 80 years old… and older! 日本有一個新的足球聯盟，叫做「終身足球隊」，聯盟有三支球隊，分別叫做白熊、紅星，還有藍色夏威夷，裡面的球員年紀都超過80歲！ Mr. Shiozawa is the oldest player. He's 93! Mr. Shiozawa loves to play soccer. He's the goalkeeper for White Bears. 最老的球員是Shiozawa先生，已經93歲了！他是白熊隊的守門員。 Mr. Shiozawa has a big job! He tries to stop the ball from going into the goal. He uses his body to stop the ball. He can use his hands to stop it too! When he stops the ball, the other team cannot get a point! Shiozawa 是用身體或是手阻擋球踢進球門，阻止對手得分。 Mr. Shiozawa needs a lot of energy for soccer. Energy lets him run, play, and kick. Mr. Shiozawa wanted more energy. How did he get it? He stopped smoking! Now Mr. Shiozawa runs in his office and he runs on the soccer field. He plays practice matches. He plays matches with the other teams. He has a lot of energy! 當守門員需要很多體力，為此他決定戒菸，在自己的辦公室跟球場練跑，還會參加練習賽！ Mr. Shiozawa plays soccer at 93 years old! Good for you, Mr. Shiozawa! Soccer for life! ________________________________ Vocabulary 銀髮族踢足球，一樣玩得很開心！ 1. soccer match 足球賽 I can't wait for the next World Cup. 我等不及下一屆世界盃了。 It's more than 3 years away, Paz! 要等三年多呢！ I know. Don't you miss those fun soccer matches? 我知道，你不會想念那些好玩的足球賽嗎？ 2. player 球員 I miss all the handsome players. 我想念那些帥哥球員。 Jane, you have to see how they play the game. 你得看他們怎麼打球。 I did! 我有啊！ 3. goalkeeper 守門員 I like watching the goalkeeper doing his job. 我喜歡看守門員守球門。 4. star 明星 Right, and he's often the team's star. 對，而且他通常是全隊的明星。 That's why I like him. 這是為什麼我喜歡他。 你喜歡看足球比賽嗎？ soccer match 足球賽 player 球員 goalkeeper 守門員 star 明星 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What team is Mr. Shiozawa on? A: White Bears B: Red Star C: Blue Hawaii 2. How old are the soccer players on these teams? A: 20 to 25 B: 80 and older C: 90 to 140 3. How did Mr. Shiozawa get more energy? A: He stopped smoking B: He used his hands C: He watched TV Answers 1. A 2. B 3. A

Meet Paula F. Casey who for more than thirty years has worked to educate the public about the role that the state of Tennessee played in securing the passage of the nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In the title of this episode, I referred to Paula as an “unstoppable suffragist”, not an “unstoppable suffragette”. Paula will explain the difference and the importance of these two words. I find this episode extremely fascinating and well worth the listen for everyone as what Paula says puts many things and ideas into historical perspective. I hope you find Paula Casey's comments as stimulating and informative as I. About the Guest: Paula F. Casey of Memphis has dedicated more than 30 years to educating the public about Tennessee's pivotal role in the 19th Amendment's ratification with a video, book, e-book, audiobook, and public art. She is also an engaging speaker on the 19th Amendment and voting rights. She was just named Chair of the National Votes for Women Trail (https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/), which is dedicated to diversity and inclusion of all the women who participated in the 72-year struggle for American women to win the right to vote. She is also the state coordinator for Tennessee. Paula produced "Generations: American Women Win the Vote," in 1989 and the book, The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage, in 1998. She helped place these monuments - bas relief plaque inside the State Capitol (1998); Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument (Nashville's Centennial Park 2016); Sue Shelton White statue (Jackson City Hall 2017). The Memphis Suffrage Monument "Equality Trailblazers" was installed at the University of Memphis law school after 5 years of work. The dedication ceremony was held on March 27, 2022, and is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YTNND5F1aBw She co-founded the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail (www.tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com) that highlights the monuments, markers, gravesites and suffrage-related sites. How to Connect with Paula: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-casey-736110b/ Twitter: @pfcasey1953 Websites: paulacasey.com, theperfect36.com, tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com, memphissuffragemonument.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00   Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Well and a gracious hello to you wherever you happen to be today. This is your host Mike Hingson on unstoppable mindset. And today we get to interview a lady I met just a few weeks ago at one of the Podapalooza events. And if you remember me talking at all about Podapalooza, it is an event for podcasters would be podcasters. And people who want to be interviewed by podcasters, and anybody else who wants to come along. And we've had four of them now altogether, and I've had the opportunity and the joy of being involved with all of them. And Paula Casey is one of the people who I met at the last podapalooza endeavor. Paula is in Memphis, Tennessee, and among other things, has spent the last 30 years of her life being very much involved in dealing with studying and promoting the history of women's suffrage in the United States, especially where Tennessee has been involved. And we're going to get to that we're going to talk about it. We're going to try not to get too political, but you know, we'll do what we got to do and will survive. So Paula, no matter what, welcome to unstoppable mindset, how are you?   Paula Casey  02:29 I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. It's always a joy to talk with you.   Michael Hingson  02:34 Well, I feel the same way. And we're glad to do it. So let's start, as I like to do at the beginning as it were. So tell us a little bit about you growing up and all that and you you obviously did stuff. You didn't get born dealing with women's suffrage. So let's go back and learn about the early Paula.   Paula Casey  02:53 Okay, I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, which is the capital of the great State of Tennessee. But you know, I was 21 years old before I knew that it was Tennessee, the last state that could possibly ratify the 19th amendment. And it's just mind boggling to me when I look back and think, Well, how did we learn about this? I said, basically, it was because the textbooks only had one or two sentences. And they usually said, a napkin women were given the right to vote in 1920 as though it were bestowed by some benevolent entity. And it wasn't until after college, and I met my dear friend, the light gray, Carol, when Yellen that I learned how significant the women's suffrage movement was, and how it is even more surprising that my state Tennessee became the last state that could read it back.   Michael Hingson  03:50 Well, so when you were growing up in high school and all that, what were you kind of mostly interested in? Because you didn't just suddenly develop an interest in history.   Paula Casey  04:00 I have good history teachers. And I'm very fortunate that I didn't have football coaches. I have real history teachers. And I was involved in Student Council. I was an active girl scout. My parents were very good about making sure that my sister and I had lots of extracurricular activities. And I was a good kid. I didn't do anything wrong. I was a teacher pleaser. I wanted to do well. I wanted to go to college because our parents brought us up girls are going to college. And we've my sister and I both knew that we were going to the University of Tennessee and mark small go big orange and go lady balls and just for the people who care about football, Tennessee right now is number one and the college football rankings. So we're happy about that. But I have always been a staunch supporter of University of Tennessee because that was where I really learned about how important history was. And I was journalism, major journalism and speech. So that helped me on my path to public speaking, and learning more about this nonviolent revolution really became my passion and helping to get women elected to office.   Michael Hingson  05:11 Well, let's deal with what you just said. I think it's an extremely important thing. I'll come at it in a little bit of a roundabout way, the Declaration of Independence talks about us having life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And it talks about all men are created equal. And all that spine, although I think if you ask most people, when we talk about being created equal, they interpreted as meaning everybody is supposed to be equal. But you pointed out that usually what people say is that women were granted the right to vote. Tell me more about that.   Paula Casey  05:51 Rights are crafted by the Constitution. And in the case of voting rights, the constitution provides for initially man with property white men of property. Then in 1870, the 15th Amendment provided for black man, the newly freed black male slaves. The 14th amendment is the first time the word male m a l. E appears in the Constitution. And the suffragists back then and let me just clarify this in the United States. It was suffragist, the British for the suffragettes and they were considered so radical that the Americans wanted to distinguish themselves. So people in the United States who advocated for women to have the right to vote or suffragist. So the constitution grants the right to vote and our Constitution has been expanded to provide for more groups to participate in the franchise, however, and I want to emphasize this set up by people understand us, what the 19th Amendment did was remove the barrier of gender, it does not guarantee a right to vote. Our United States Constitution does not guarantee the right to vote, it will grant the rights for removing particular barriers in our lighter Native Americans and Asians and all that. Well, at the end, I was around in the early 70s, when I was at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, when the 26th Amendment was ratified, which extended the right to vote to 18 year olds, and I got to vote in my first election when I was 19. And I have never missed an election. I just think it's so important that we vote because that's part of what democracy is all about. And the suffragists did not believe that democracy is a spectator sport. They believed in self government, and they wanted to participate in their government. That's why they fought for 72 years to win that right, and to be able to participate by voting and running for office.   Michael Hingson  08:13 So going back to when the Constitution was formed. So what you're saying is essentially, that the original Constitution truly was only dealing with men and not women being created equal, white man with property. Yeah. And what do you think about people today, who say that our constitution shouldn't be any evolving and evolutionary kind of thing, that we should go strictly by what the Constitution says,   Paula Casey  08:52 I have two words for you.   Michael Hingson  08:55 Why nice to be nice, be nice,   Paula Casey  08:58 white supremacy. That's what that means. When you talk about this originally, originalist stuff. It's silly. It represents white supremacy. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  09:09 And that's, that's really the issue. I don't know of any governing document that is so strict, that it shouldn't be an evolutionary kind of a thing. We grow our attitudes change, we learn things. And we realize that we've disenfranchise from time to time, which is kind of some of the what you've been talking about in history trope.   Paula Casey  09:42 And people who say that, yeah, I don't know if they really believe it. Yeah, you see these surveys or polls where they say, Oh, the average American didn't understand the Bill of Rights and the Bill of Rights wouldn't pass today. Well, thank goodness it did pass. And I want to say MIT to you that I don't think the 19th amendment would have been ratified in this country, had it not been for the First Amendment. And as a former newspaper journalist, I'm a big believer and the First Amendment, I've been a member of the National Federation of press women since 1977. And the First Amendment is absolutely our guiding star. And it is so important for people to understand the significance of the First Amendment, the Bill of Rights and all of the additional amendments, the founding fathers, and if there were some women in there, too, even though they don't get recognized, like Abigail Adams, who believed that the Constitution should evolve a non violent revolution is what it was about the passage of the Constitution. And when I speak every year, generally on Constitution Day, which is September 17, I always point out that Benjamin Franklin said, when he was asked in 1787, Dr. Franklin, what have you created? And he said, a republic, if you can keep it, and we need to heat those words. Tell us more. Why. I think that those individuals who were involved in the creation of the Constitution, and it was not an easy task. And there were very, very strong disagreements, but they did agree on democracy. And you know, Mike, that's what this is all about. Whenever we talk about the suffrage movement, whenever I'm involved in markers, or monuments, highlighting the suffrage movement, I always point out this is about democracy and the rule of law. The suffragists believed in democracy, and that is why they fought a non violent revolution, 72 years from 1848 to 1920. But I believe that they proved the Constitution works. That's what it's about. And   Michael Hingson  12:11 you say that because of the fact that that women's suffrage passed, or what, what makes you really say the Constitution works   Paula Casey  12:20 because they persevered. They utilized every tool available to them and a non violent way, particularly the First Amendment. And when you think about what is in the First Amendment, freedom of press, freedom to peaceably assemble the freedom to petition your government for redress of grievances, their ability to communicate, and to persevere for a cause in which they deeply believed. I mean, these women were not fly by night. They play the long game. And I think that's what we can learn from down the first generation of women. And this goes back to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott and Megan bloomer. All the people who were at Seneca Falls in 1848. It was July 19, of 20 of the bait Team 48. They believed in democracy, they believed in self government and rule of law. They persevered within the parameters of what was available to them to peaceably assemble to petition their government. And I've got to tell you, I got to go to the National Archives, back in the early 90s. And I saw the handwritten letter from Susan B. Anthony, addressing her concerns her grievances with the United States government. And all of these women who were out there fighting, I mean, literally doing everything they could to make sure this issue was not diminished. As many people tried to do, that it wasn't swept aside, they overcame enormous obstacles, but they believed in something greater than themselves. And that was democracy and the rule of law.   Michael Hingson  14:08 What is the lesson that we should learn today about the importance of women's suffrage? I mean, you've been dealing with this now for over 30 years. Well, a long time, actually. And so what is the real significance of it?   Paula Casey  14:23 Why is so significant about studying the suffrage movement is that these women were prepared for the long game. They knew that it was not going to happen overnight, or possibly within their lifetimes. They fought the long fought for the long game. And when you look at persistence, perseverance, everything that they embodied there were poignant. out they were absolutely brilliant and we need to understand what they did and how they worked. To secure a right that we all take for granted today. And that's why when I hear these silly things about, oh, the worst thing that ever happened, this crash was women getting the right vote, you know, and all that garbage. I just feel like we need to study what they did. And what was so significant, because it was peaceful, nonviolent, they adhere to the rule of law. They certainly enacted every part of First Amendment. And then those went and made it possible for us to have the rights we enjoy today. And you have to remember that everything that we enjoy today, these rights came because other people were willing to fight or dock for them. And that's the whole thing about the right to vote. I mean, I'm the widow of a Vietnam veteran, and my husband served in Vietnam. I know, we still have a lot of questions about that war. But my daddy, who just died this year, he was a world war two veteran as well as a Korean War veteran. My father in law was an Army veteran who was throughout World War Two. So I take this right to vote seriously. And when I think about what our having grown up in Nashville, and Tennessee, and I've been in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in 1968, fighting for equal rights. And I've been in Memphis since January 1981. So I'm very passionate about women's rights, civil rights, the right to vote, we need to know our history. And we need to understand that a lot of people fought died for us to have these rights, particularly the right to vote.   Michael Hingson  16:42 Well, without getting overly political about the process, we certainly seem to be having some challenges today, because there is a what appears to be a growing number of people who would retract a lot of the things that have been brought about and some of the rights that have been expanded and made available. And it's it's scary, I know that we who, for example, have happened to be persons with disabilities are worried about some of the voting issues. Because if they, if the wrong, people decide to take complaint and get complete control, they could pull back the Help America Vote Act, and the whole issue about having voting machines that are accessible and taking away accessible ballots and so on. And there's so many other things going on? How do we get people to truly understand what happened with women's suffrage and similar sorts of things? And how do we get people to recognize the dangers that we face today?   Paula Casey  17:47 That is such a great question. And I've got to tell you, Mike, I think about this just about every day. Here's what you got to remember, ever since the beginning of this country, we have had people who consider themselves superior, and who do not want everyone to vote, it took me a long time to understand that. Because, you know, growing up in Nashville, and I mean, I had a great upper middle class life. And, you know, I'm educated, I've traveled I mean, I think I'm a fairly nice person. And I want everybody to vote. And I just couldn't understand that there were people who would not want every American citizen to exercise the franchise, and that has become more and more apparent. And I have to tell you, I think that the election of Barack Obama had a lot to do with that with the backlash. And the idea that there are folks in this country who do not believe that everyone should have the right to vote. And so therefore, they consider themselves justified in putting up barriers to the voting process, which makes it incumbent upon people like us who want everyone to have access to the ballot, to try to figure out how to overcome the obstacles that they place in our path. At Bat, again, takes us back to the women's suffrage movement. Those women endured all kinds of ridicule. I mean, it just it's amazing when you look back and see the newspapers, and things that were written and said letters and things that are in archives, people who were dismissive both men and women, dismissive of the right to vote, because that was something that many people from the beginning of this country onward, felt like it should be limited, any access. So those of us who have been fighting for expanded access, are going to have to keep on fighting. We can't give up and that's what the suffrage just taught us cannot give up Have   Michael Hingson  20:01 you talked about the concept? And the fact that this was a nonviolent movement? Did those early suffragists experienced much violence from people?   Paula Casey  20:14 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Especially when they marched the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, DC, and in New York City and night content, the I mean, Thurber police and looked the other way, a geonet. Something that's happening today, too. But the idea that not everyone celebrated having universal suffrage. And that's what I believe in universal suffrage, no matter what you believe. And you still should have access to the ballot, and we need to make it as accessible as we can. But we've just got to keep fighting because we've got to overcome the people that don't want everyone to have access to the ballot.   Michael Hingson  21:01 You studied this a lot. What do you think the Founding Fathers view would be today? When founding mothers for that matter?   Paula Casey  21:09 Better? Such a great question, because everybody likes to think that they know what they would think. And I have to tell you, I have been on a run of reading David McCullough's books. I am just really into BS, I'm researching 76 right now. And I've had John Adams forever. I've never finished it. So I'm going to finish that. Then I've got to do Teddy Roosevelt. And then I'm going to do Harry Truman. But the thing about John Adams, when Abigail wrote him to remember the ladies, he was dismissive. And he thought it was silly. And these man, okay, yes, they were products of their time. But there were very few real feminist among them. That's what made Frederick Douglass stand out because he was so willing to stand up for women's suffrage. But she looked back at those men. And I mean, honestly, my they didn't know any differently. You think about what they were through. And the idea that women should be equal participants in a democracy was certainly a foreign thought to them. But there were so many people. And there were also areas that didn't allow women to vote. But you know, New Jersey actually extended the franchise and then took it away. And then when people started moving westward, to develop the West, there were the men were adamant that because women were helping homestead and settled all of that land out there that they should be voting, if there were states that were not going to come into the Union if their women couldn't vote. So this is not that unusual of an idea. But it took particularly enlightened man and women who pushed for it to happen. And I've got to point this out. I do not bash man because it took the man and those 36 state legislatures to ratify a Ninth Amendment, they voted to willingly expand power, and that needs to be acknowledged. Weird, we're   Michael Hingson  23:20 we're dealing with this, this whole issue of suffrage and rights and so on. Were any of the early founders of the United States, right from the outset? Supportive or more supportive? Do you think? Or do you know,   Paula Casey  23:35 trying to think, abolition and suffrage became closely linked? Yeah. So for those who advocated the abolition of slavery, they were probably more amenable. But again, what this really is about is the whole idea of who is a citizen? And I think that's where and the founding of this country, clearly black people and Native Americans were not considered citizens. The question about women. I can't think right offhand of any, quote, founding father who advocated for women to bow, they may have come up, you know, some of them may have come around, but you look back and think, who are the guys that we think about as founding fathers? I don't think any of them was particularly feminist, or encouraging of women being thought of as citizens with full voting rights. And then you got into the issue of taxation without representation. You know, nothing's new. That's what you learned studying the women's suffrage movement is it's all been said or done for who is a citizen who should have the right to vote?   Michael Hingson  24:58 Well, I'm I'm think I mentioned to you When we chatted before, and you just brought up abolitionists, and I always remember the story of William Lloyd Garrison, who was trying to gain more people into the abolitionist movement. And he directed some of his people to contact the Grimm case sisters who were very staunch suffragists, right? And see, I got the word, right. And they said, No, we can't do that. That's not what their priority is. Their priority is all about women's separatists that's going to detract from what we're all about. And in Henry Mayer's book all on fire in telling the story, he says that Garrison said, it's all the same thing. And that's absolutely right. Whether it's the right to vote, whether it's the right to attend public school, whether it's the right of persons with so called disabilities to have equal access, which doesn't necessarily mean we do things the same way, but equal access to things in the United States. It's all the same thing. Right. And I think that's the most important message that we all want to take away. Or at least that's part of the important message that we should take away. I don't know how we change people's minds today, though, we're getting such a polarized world? And how do we get people to understand why being more open to everyone having equal opportunities, whether it be the right to vote or whatever? How do we get people to deal with that?   Paula Casey  26:45 I think we have to learn from what the separatists stat, we have to persevere. We have to be creative, and innovative. We just can't give up. This is the long game we are in for the fight of our labs. And it won't get better if people give up. That's why we've got the hang in there. And truly, it is about democracy, you either believe in democracy or don't. And that, to me is the bottom line. And when he talks about polarization, I think we also have to factor in disinformation, foreign governments being involved in our political processes. And frankly, as a former newspaper journalist, and someone with a journalism degree, I have to tell you, I think the media have failed us. They are not reporting on things that are happening. And I've got to tell you this mike, in the 1970s, my husband and I were in the newspaper business back then he was a great journalist, great editor. And we started watching the corporatization of news in the mid to late 70s. And now it's like what, six or seven corporations, on all the major media, this is not good for our country. We work for a family owned newspaper business in Tennessee, that was bought out. And then now you have these giant firms and hedge funds, evil, I think they're evil, and they're buying up all of the media, this is not good for our country. And this means it is difficult to get the message out to people. And I really thought that social media would help and if anything, is probably been more of a hindrance. Sadly,   Michael Hingson  28:35 when you don't have any kind of governing governors on what you do, like what we saw for several years recently, then, yeah, it certainly doesn't help does it? Not. So well fight disinformation, as well as apathy. Yeah, and apathy is certainly a part of it. And you talked about the importance of voting, and we I've talked to a number of people who have never voted, oh, I'm not going to do that it won't make a difference and so on. And they, and they continue to feel that way. And they just don't vote and they're not young people. But I've also found young people who do that, but I know some people who are in their 40s and 50s. And they've never voted in an election. And they're fine with   Paula Casey  29:28 that. Yeah, that's that's what's so sad because you've got to have parents or teachers, someone who inculcate in a young person, that it's important to better and I will tell you, my sister and I grew up in a home where my parents were two newspapers voted in every election. My sister and I knew that it was important, we registered to vote. I mean, I I got to vote first time and I was 19. But I registered as soon as I could, after the 26th Amendment was ratified. And I've just think People have got to understand that democracy doesn't work. If you don't participate, democracy is not a spectator sport. And here again, this is something else that this brings up. When did they stop teaching civics in the schools? I love civics. I love teaching civics talking about civics. That's part of the problem right there.   Michael Hingson  30:24 There are a lot of challenges. I think I know the answer to this one, since Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. But why is it called the perfect 36?   Paula Casey  30:36 The editorial cartoonists of the day, the Tennessee the perfect 36 Because they did not know where that last state was going to come from. So think about here, let me set stage 3435 states have ratified. Three states absolutely refused to consider it because their governors were opposed. Connecticut, Vermont, Florida, nine states had outright rejected it. And berries were primarily in the south lawn with Maryland, a couple of years. Non states were checked it. It fell to Tennessee. And because Tennessee had a well organized group of suffragists across the state in all 95 of our counties, and we have wonderful man who supported this effort, including our United States senator Kenneth McKellar, who was from Memphis. So the stage was set. When Carrie Chapman Catt came to Nashville to stay at the Hermitage Hotel, which is fabulous. And I want your listeners to go to the heart teach hotel if they're ever in Nashville, because it's so significant in the suffrage battle. Both the Pro and anti suffrage forces stayed at the Hermitage and Carrie Chapman Catt stayed there. Along with Representative Joseph pan over from Memphis, who was the floor later, Carrie Chapman cat asked him to be the suffrage fight. So because of the editorial cartoonist and because we were the last state that could ratify, that's where the name of the perfect 36 came from.   Michael Hingson  32:20 Well, for you personally, what really got you interested in becoming so deeply involved in studying the suffrage movement because it's clearly become very personal for you.   Paula Casey  32:34 My husband, dad and July 1988. And Carolyn Yellin, spent a lot of time with me. We had actually been at the National Women's Conference in November of 1977. That was an exciting time I was one of the youngest delegates there. And Carol Lam talked to me about the research that she had done and and I want people to know about this because this is really important. After back McCain was killed in Memphis in 1968. Carolyn Yellin her husband, David Yellin, who was a broadcaster and several other folks put together a group called the search for meaning committee. And they compiled everything they could about what was happening in Memphis. And every book that has been written since then about Dr. King, and what happened in Memphis, has utilized their research. Well, while Carolyn was doing this research, she came across this Tennessee story and she was working with from Oklahoma. She didn't even come here from New York City. He ran the broadcasting department, a inaugurated at what was then known as Memphis State University. And Carolyn said, you know, this is kind of important. Yeah, that may, Tennessee was last, I think the ratify. So she started doing research. And she found descendants. And she also talked with two of the man who were still living. Harry Byrne died in 1977. Joseph Hanover did not got until 1984 and I met him in 1983. He was the for later, who Mrs. Cat had asked, Can the pro surfers votes together, had it not been for Joe Hannover. I'm telling you tonight, the amendment would not have been ratified in Tennessee. He Carolyn always said to me, he was the real hero. So we started working on a book because she had said she wanted to do this book. So I'm thinking I have a lot of graduated from UT Knoxville and the University of Tennessee press will want to do this book, because we have all this original research. So we're calling you to press. And the woman said to me, and we've already dealt with on women's suffrage, and was very dismissive. And I was just really stunned and I said Okay, thank you. So I started thinking about it later and I wished I'd had the presence of mind to say she nobody ever says that about the Civil War. You know, all they do is write books about the damn civil war. I mean, I grew up in Nashville, believe me, I had been, I was indoctrinated with Lost Cause mythology. So I start looking. And finally we get somebody who's willing to publish it. And you gotta remember this. We published it originally in 1998. I've done a re plan, and I've done the e book and the audio book, and Dr. Dre and Sherman came to Memphis in 1994. We started working on the book in 1996. We got the first edition published in May of 1998. And I was able to put it in Carolyn's hands, her breast cancer had returned, and she got in March of 99. So I was just so grateful that her research resulted in that book. And then Dr. Sherman, who had her PhD from Wright first wrote about the long journey from the Revolutionary War up to what happened in Nashville in 1920. So we're really proud of the book, and I continue to sell it to libraries and individuals because you know, that history is it's very well recorded in our book. And so I'm really proud of it and I've got a hold of a copy. The perfect body six, Tennessee delivers women's suffrage and the cover is Downtown Memphis Main Street, 1916. It was called The Great monster suffrage point.   Michael Hingson  36:29 Do you know if the book has been put into audio format today?   Paula Casey  36:33 Yes, Dr. Sherman read the audio books. I have an audio book and the ebook and awkward formats.   Michael Hingson  36:39 So is it on   Paula Casey  36:39 Audible? Yes. Oh, it's on lots of ebook platforms and an audio book platforms.   Michael Hingson  36:47 Well, great. Then I'm gonna go hunted down. I think that will be fun to read.   Paula Casey  36:54 Music terrible. I forgot period music. We had a great producer David Wolf out Albuquerque did the audio. But   Michael Hingson  37:02 here's a question totally off the wall. totally subjective. But do you think Abraham Lincoln would have supported this women's suffragists movement?   Paula Casey  37:15 I do. And let me tell you why. It's so interesting. You should ask that. Have you heard about Jon Meacham? snoo book?   Michael Hingson  37:22 No, I have not. Okay.   Paula Casey  37:23 Jon Meacham is a Tennessee boy. We were at the Chattanooga you know, he lives in Nashville May. I was in New York City for years and years. And he and his wife are in Nashville because he is a professor at Vanderbilt University. And he was on Lawrence O'Donnell, I think last night on Well, whenever it was on MSNBC, talking about his new book about Abraham Lincoln. And then there was like, Abraham Lincoln. I mean, it he has fast to think of keep up with Cain. He believed in abolishing slavery, but he traded people with dignity. And I think that he could have been persuaded that, you know, the union wasn't gonna provide as a women's voting union was gonna define over whether it was okay to enslave other human beings. And when you think about the idea that it was okay to own other human beings that's just repulsive just today, but back then, Lincoln had his work cut out for him. But I do think because he believed and he he studied them. She's such a thoughtful man. And I'm looking forward to reading John's book, because I think all of his books are terrific. But I really want to read this one, because I think Abraham Lincoln was enlightened in his own way, and he probably would have come around to support it. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  38:53 he just had other issues that were as important, if not more important, like keeping the country together if he could. Right. So it was, it was certainly a big challenge. And,   Paula Casey  39:07 you know, 1848, by Seneca Falls happened, but then the surfer just recognized that the Civil War was going to take priority over everything. And so they were essentially derailed, but it was after the Civil War. And the 14th and 15th amendments came up or 13th amendment, you know, to abolish slavery, but the 15th Amendment, extended the franchise to the newly freed black male slaves, and I want to point something out here. There's a lot of misinformation about who could vote and the aftermath of the Civil War and then later and they you heard this and I heard this a lot in 2020, during the centennial celebration, and let me point out that separatist endured a pandemic just like we have, and they persevered and they want to spike the pandemic. And there is a school We'll start, which I happen to agree with that the 1965 Voting Rights Act would not have applied to black women. Had the 19th Amendment not been ratified the 15th Amendment and the 19th Amendment event, the Voting Rights Act was about the enforcement of those two amendments. And when people say, Oh, we're black women are unable to vote. No, that is not true. The 19th Amendment did not say white women. It says equality of suffrage shall not be denied. I can't have sex. That's all it says I can't have sex. And so it removes the gender barrier to voting and had nothing to do with race. What did have to do with race was the states. The constitution grants the right to states set the policies and procedures for voting. And it was in the States where you have Jim Crow laws, and Paul taxes and literacy tests and all that garbage that was designed to keep people from voting. The states did it, not the Ninth Amendment. And we have documentation of black women voting in Nashville, Clarksville, Tennessee, about Tachyon and Memphis,   Michael Hingson  41:15 you have been involved in placing various suffragist related art around Tennessee. Can you tell us or would you tell us about that?   Paula Casey  41:25 Yes, I am very excited about this. When you go to a city, wherever you go in this country, you notice if you're working about the public art, and who is depicted in statuary, and for too long, we have not acknowledged the contributions of women and public art. So back in 1997, Van state senator Steve Cullen from Memphis, who is now my ninth district, Congressman Steve is great. Steve is the one who said we have got to have something inside state capitol. So put me on this committee. And he said you're going to serve on this committee. And there's going to be a blind competition that the Tennessee Arts Commission will sponsor and we're going to select somebody to design something to go inside state capitol because think about this, Tennessee ratified August 18 1920. And up until February of 1998. There was nothing inside the Tennessee State Capitol building that depicted Tennessee's pivotal role. Oh, American women's vote today, thanks to Tennessee. So Steve puts me on this committee. We have a blind competition. Owl on the far west Wednesday. And on the back of our perfect 36 book, I have a picture of the bar leaf that is hanging between the House and Senate chambers, and the Tennessee State Capitol building. Okay, fast forward to 2009. Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin came to Nashville to give a speech at the Economic Summit for women and she was picked up by Tierra backroads and she said to the women who picked her up, take me to see your monument to the suffragist. I know that Kelsey was the state that made it Wow. And they said, Oh, Governor, we're so sorry, the state capitol building is closed. And this is where that bodily is hanging inside State Capitol. And she said to them, you Tennessee women should be ashamed. You should have something that is readily accessible. So that started our efforts to put together the Tennessee women's suffrage monument. And we commissioned our look bar and 2011 We got really serious in 2012. I was asked to be the president in May of 2013, which mount where you raise the money and I raise 600,000 for this $900,000 monument that is now in Centennial Park. Nashville. Centennial Park is gorgeous. It's historic. Susan B. Anthony was actually in that park in 1897. And she inspired and Dallas Dudley of Nashville to get involved Suffrage Movement. And Anne was beautiful and wealthy. And she became a great suffrage leader on the state level and the national level. So we got together at our McQuire studio in Nashville. He's at West Nashville. And they asked me who should we put on this minute but and because Carolyn Yellin had been my mentor and my friend, I said, we need to have an Dallas deadly from Nashville. Frankie Parris from Nashville who was a major black separatist, who registered over 2500 Black women to vote in Nashville in 1998. We had Sue Shaun White and Jackson who was the only Tennessee woman put in jail fighting for suffrage. And Abby Crawford Milton from Chattanooga, there wasn't really anybody that I was going to push for from Memphis at that moment because I knew that we were eventually going to do a Memphis separate monument. But I said, Karen Chapman Catt, who was originally from Iowa, and you know, okay, so yeah, New York, Carolyn Yellen said that Carrie Chapman Catt should have been the first woman to become a United States Senator from New York. But she was so spent after the savage battle and she had a serious heart condition. So I said when he put Carrie Chapman Catt on there because she wanted to pick it in statuary. She was brilliant. And so we had the spot women heroic scale. They're nine feet tall. They're in the Nashville Centennial Park. So that's the Tennessee one separate monument. Allen was commissioned to do to get our Knoxville I worked on the advising the Tennessee triumph and Clarksville, Tennessee. And it's fabulous. It's got a woman putting her ballot in the ballot box. And beyond Ben Jackson, I helped raise the money and that was only 32,000 to do a burst of soup shot right in front of Jackson City Hall and bed, Memphis, my hometown. We have the Memphis suffrage monument equality trailblazers, that monument cost $790,190 average every penny of it because I have wonderful friends, and a city council on a county commission that gave major money so that we could preserve the legacies of these important people. And so in the Memphis monument, which is at the law school, for the University of Memphis, facing the Mississippi River, I live right down by the river. You can see that monument in the daytime or at night. And what's so great about this, Mike is that people see it and they just rave about it. And school children go there and they read about these remarkable people. And I point this out to everyone when I'm doing chores, or when I gave speeches. The reason we do these markers and monuments is because these people deserve to be remembered. And when we're all gone, that was mine knits and markers will be there telling the story and I'm just grateful that I had been able to have this experience to preserve the wiper sees of these remarkable Oregon people.   Michael Hingson  47:35 Now as I recall the monument at the University of Memphis the ceremony dedicating it is on YouTube, yes. Do you know how people can easily find it? Do you know a link or   Paula Casey  47:50 I think if you go on YouTube, you can type in Downtown Memphis Commission because the Downtown Memphis Commission produced it. It's on their YouTube channel and I actually have it on my YouTube channel, Paula FKC. And I believe it's easy to find it was March 27 2022, the dedication ceremony for the Memphis suffrage monument, but you can actually see it and I've got to tell you this, I'm so excited. My friend, Michelle duster, who is the great granddaughter about to be Wales and I'm going to hold up her book out to be the queen Michelle gave me her family's blessing. And she and her brothers wanted to write the bio that's lasered on the class for ATAPI wills. And Alan had sculpted a bust of atopy Wales along with five others. And she was so excited about it. And we had so much fun when she came to Memphis. And it was just such a great experience for us to celebrate the wives of atopy wills and Mary Church, Terrell, and all of the people from Memphis, Shelby County, who fought to get that night keep that amendment ratified. And then those women whose careers were made possible in politics, because of the suffragists victory, said, Michelle has been a great ally and champion of our monument.   Michael Hingson  49:14 So I think we've talked around a lot of this, but ultimately, what can we learn from the Chuffer suffragists movement? What lessons can we take forward? And I guess even before that, do you think that those who led and were the basis of the separatist movement would be surprised at what we're experiencing today? Now?   Paula Casey  49:40 I think they would just take it in stride, and they would expect it because they've dealt with backlash, and obstacles, ridicule, sarcasm, obstructionism, they saw it all. That's why I keep telling people when you study history, you learned that nothing is new. And it is so important for us to recognize the people who help move history forward, they help make sure that our society goes forward and that we are on the right side of history, when it comes to the expansion of rights, and inclusion, diversity, inclusion, all of this should just be something that we do, because it's the right thing to do. And because we understand how important it is for everyone, to participate in our government, in our society, why don't we want to be close, I don't want to live on Wi Fi. But I want to celebrate people who have done great things. I want to be able to tell young people that they can be aspirational, that they can vote to the example set by these people who accomplish something right over enormous opposition.   Michael Hingson  50:58 Clearly, these women, and anyone who is committed to this process, to use my term would be unstoppable, which is, which is a great thing. And clearly you are helping to promote that. And I think that is extremely important. And it does go beyond suffrage, women's suffrage, it goes to anyone who has been disenfranchised by whatever the system might be. And we do have to fight the fights, we can't step back, we have to stand for what we believe in. And I think that it is important that we do it in a non violent way. I suspect that if he had lived back in the time of women's suffrage, Gandhi would be a very great supporter, don't you think?   Paula Casey  51:51 Yeah, he would have come around. Yeah, he was kind of sexist.   Michael Hingson  51:55 Well, you know, it's the environment. But non violence was certainly his   Paula Casey  51:59 right. As Susan B. Anthony was entered non violence long before Gandhi and dark cane and she never gets recognized for it. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  52:09 Yeah, it did not start in the 1900s. But it is something that we all ought to take to heart. Now. Let's let's be clear, non violence, as opposed to civil disobedience.   Paula Casey  52:25 Right, right. Yeah. I mean, Susan Bay was all for civil disobedience. And you know, like when she tried to vote, and Elizabeth every Merriweather from Memphis was so inspired by Susan B. Anthony's example, that she went to go vote in Memphis in 1873. And she said they gave her a ballot, probably because she was considered an aristocracy. But she said she wasn't sure if her vote was counted. Yeah. And so that's the whole thing about, you know, who can vote who's citizen who has access to the ballot. And another thing that we have to think about is who's going to count the votes? We're never used to have to worry about that so much.   Michael Hingson  53:07 And it's unfortunate that we have to worry about it today. I think for the longest time, we assumed that the system worked. And mostly I think it did. And it does. But now, there is so much fear and so much distrust because of what some are doing that we have to be concerned about. Who's counting the votes? I watched a news report last night about how ballots are handled in San Bernardino County. And the process is absolutely amazing. When the ballots come in, the first thing that's checked is is the signature and the comparison is made as to whether it's a legal signature that's done by a group of people. And then the ballot is opened. And the ballot is just checked for anything damaged or anything that looks irregular. And then it goes to a different group of people now a third group that counts the ballots, and one of the points that they made, and I actually hadn't thought of it, although I should have. But until they mentioned it is and none of the machines and none of the technologies and none of the process involved in counting the ballots in San Bernardino County and I suspect in a lot most places, nothing is connected to the internet. Right? Oh, nothing can go off and destroy or warp the ballot, the process. That's good to know. Yep, I think it should be that way. I've seen some companies who are concerned enough about the internet and what people can do that their accounting systems are never attached to the internet and it makes perfect sense given everything that's going on today. So other computers can be compromised. But the accounting and monetary parts of the companies are not connected to the internet at all. They're not on the network, right? Even the local network.   Paula Casey  55:14 So what can I mention the three man who were so essential in Tennessee? Sure. This is such a great story. And I have to tell you, my friend, Bill Haltom, of Netflix is a great author and retired attorney. He did this book, because I asked him to on representative Joseph Hanover rock, Kent mother vote. Joseph Hanover, was an immigrant from Poland. His family was Orthodox Jewish, and they fled, because the Tsar took their property. And so many Jewish immigrants were coming into this country, because they had to flee oppression. And he came to this country along with his mother and two brothers, his father came first and ended up in Memphis, and saved the money for them to flee Poland. Now, let me tell you, my key talk about unstoppable mindset. Those people who were searching for freedom, and they had crossed a frozen lake and come across in the bowels of a steamship. And Joe was five years old, and he went upstairs and start bands and people were throwing money at it. When they got to this country, they came through Ellis Island, and band came through via St. Louis down to Memphis, some in Memphis. And he was so taken with this country and the country's founding documents, because his parents kept telling their boys they had three and then they had two more. And they told them, you're living in the greatest country. You have rights in this country that we did not have public. You've got study the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. And of course, the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, at Seneca Falls was patterned after the declaration of independence. So Mr. Joe decides that he's going to run for the legislature, and he went to law school and studied by all Lampe in his family's home in being Hampton, which is a part of Memphis back then it was north of Memphis. I am so excited because the national votes for women trail, I've been the Tennessee coordinator, and I really pushed to get one of the poverty foundation markers for Mr. Joe. We got it last week, it has been put up on the side of the Hanover family home. And I encourage people who are listening or watching this podcast to look up the national votes for women trail and see all of the people across the 48 states because remember, Alaska and Hawaii weren't states back. We have got Mr. Joe hit with his marker. Then we've also got the sculpture that Allah required date of Harry burn. Now Mr. Joe knew the morning of August 18th 1920, that he was two boats short of ratification in the House, the Senate in Tennessee had passed it 25 Four, but the house was very close to being deadlocked. And because of the opposition and the money, here's what you've got to remember. People who are opposed to right are always going to have more money. That's just a given. So you have to be smarter, and work harder and be more innovative. Mr. Joe did everything he could to keep those pro surfers votes together and it came down to two votes. And he didn't know where they're going to come from. That this is anecdote that Bill Haltom and I've done some research. We think this is true. There was a state representative from West Tennessee north of Jackson and Gibson county named banks Turner. He was a farmer, a Vanderbilt educated lawyer and he had been antiseptic. Now banks Turner ended up sitting and Governor Roberts office on the morning of August the 18th. That vote was gonna take place in the house. And Governor Roberts, who had actually he came around but he supported it. So he's talking to governor of Ohio governor Cox Governor Cox was besieging Governor Roberts of Tennessee to please get Tennessee to pass because remember, both political parties thought that women would vote for them in the 1920 presidential election. The best flip the push was to make it possible for American women to vote in the presidential election. Now Tennessee had as did other states, something called limited suffrage or municipal suffrage where women can only vote in school board or presidential electors, but not universal suffrage, which meant they could vote now elections. So Tennessee women worked and I think would have had a chance to vote. But the political parties wanted Tennessee to ratify so that women and all the 48 states would have the opportunity to vote in the 1920 presidential election. So banks Charter, the Vanderbilt educated lawyer and farmer from Gibson County, Tennessee who had been an Attock is sitting there listening to Governor Roberts and the conversation. And Governor Roberts pointed at banks Turner and said something to the effect of I'm sitting here looking at the man who can make this happen. So banks charter didn't tell anybody that he had met with Senator Roberts and he goes to the floor of the house. And there were attempts made to table the notion which meant to kill it, because they didn't want to have to go on record, and a special session of 1920 if they could delay it until the regular session in January of 1921, and then effectively kill it for all time. Well, Johanna never knew that he was to vote short. Though Joe Hanover and banks Turner voted to table the voted against tabling the motion Harry Berg voted twice to table the motion. However, banks Turner kept it alive because it deadlocked 4848, which meant the amendment was alive and proceeded to the farm vote for ratification. The Speaker of the House was Seth Walker from Lebanon, Tennessee and he was a very wildlife lawyer had initially been four separate Jiminy ends up being an atta. And he thought that because it had deadlocked on the motion to table 4848 that the same thing was gonna happen with the actual vote of ratification, which would have killed it, that he did not know that Harry Barr, who was a state representative from now to candidacy outside of Chattanooga, and was received a letter from his mother and widow who own property, and she wanted to be able to vote in our elections. So she says in this letter, dear son, her rod vote for suffrage. I had been reading the paper with you see where you stood and haven't been able to say anything. Please help Mrs. Cat put the rat and ratification from his mother. So Harry, what the roll call was taken, voted for it voted ah. And it caught the anti separatists by surprise. But the processor just realized that it was going to pass 49 to 47. And so SEC Walker, being a parliamentary maneuver specialist, changed his vote from May to ah, so that he would be able to prevail anxiety to bring it up for reconsideration. But what that did was it gave it a constitutional majority 50 to 46. So that it would pass constitutional muster, and they had attempts to be railing and all kinds of shenanigans. But Tennessee, became the last state to ratify the perfect 36 on August 18 1920. And we celebrate that accomplishment and everything with those men did. And I have been very pleased that we got a Tennessee Historical Commission marker in Gibson County for thanks, Turner. We've got the Harry burn statue, and there's a marker in his home place and Nauta and then I have got the Palmer foundation mark of Joe Hanover. And Adam afar, Scott did his best on the Memphis suffrage monument. So what these men did, because they believed in democracy and rule of law, it will be there for future generations to know   Michael Hingson  1:04:25 what a great story and there's no better way to end our episode today then with that and what it really means if people want to learn more about all of this and maybe contact you and learn about your book and so on. How can they do that?   1:04:45 thperfect36.com theperfect36.com or Paulacasey.com And I would love to hear from folks you know the books are available the audio book, the ebook and the DVD generations American women when the This is all about celebrating democracy and the rule of law and the right to vote. And thank you so much.   1:05:08 Well, Paula, thank you and I really appreciate you coming on. I love history I have not read enough David McCullough books and have to work on that some but and we will, but I have Red Team of Rivals. So that's not David McCollum. But still, history is an important thing for us. And we learned so much that whatever we think is new really isn't same concepts coming up in a different way. Right. But thank you all for listening. I'd love to hear from you. Please. Wherever you are, just shoot me an email. Let me know what you thought of today's podcast. Please give us a five star review. This is an informative episode and one that I think people really need to hear. So I hope you will pass on about this. Give us a five star rating. Email me at Michaelhi M I C H A E L H I at accessibe.com or visit our podcast page. www dot Michael hingson H i n g s o n.com/podcast. And definitely let us know your thoughts. And once more Paula Casey, we really appreciate you coming on and educating us and telling us all about this subject which is I think so important and teaches us so many lessons we need to take to heart.   Paula Casey  1:06:25 Thank you.   1:06:29 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. 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Your bluetooth will bring the authentic style back when Mr. Dee and Manager Jeff roll up glassy eyed, spliffafied and fully certified spilling all the inside 100 karat gems about his fire video “Shit Don't Stop,” with Big Luck's, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz and Chumahan, hear the secrets to staring at guns with fierce focus, whether or not the Uzi was real, the talented ladies in the video, Mr. Dee's art strategy, breaking the stereotypes, Manager Jeff's expertise navigating the music bullshit flooded industry, their partnership, the zen of hard work and the art of teamwork, storytelling in rap and why Mr. Dee was born to wear baggy clothes.Transcript:Yes. It's Mrs. Lucky Luciano Santa Monica. That's right. You're listening to the hard luck show. We're at the Pico youth and family center. Santa Monica, too high as fuck gown. Yes, we off to my right familiar voice.on American Indian elegant barbarian, Southern California, and fucking lay in sabotage. Once again, come on. Come on. Come on Mr. Don audio. It's our man blue eyes. That's right. Sean Lewis.Yeah, for the hard luck shelving, let's go. Let's go extraordinary. I like show our showrunner extraordinary, extraordinary coming to the Senate state. Four points of his head not touched by a right, sir. What's up boy.right.And it always is.Yo what's good. All the on the visuals. You already, ah, loo you know what time, if you didn't get pumped up, Baba, daddy wake you up. There's something wrong with you waking up and getting pumped up, waking up. Nothing about waking up and give where we got missWhat's up. Jeffyeah, I'm in this motherfucker.what's the name of our camera, man. Camera man. What's your name?in the house is you and some, uh, some recording for theirbig Cisco in the house to like we're going to the beach. They can rolled up. Hey, there's no traffic on the 4 0 5 at this time in the morning. There's one dog was clear coasting. Huh? Maybe here in 20 minutes, you know what man? And thank you. I want to thank you and thank you for your team because you guys are prompt so far.Our exchanges, you guys are pro that's a hard thing to find on my heart. Our look show is we show up at six on the dot we've. Again, set schedule Schwartz is running around, pulling his hair out, trying to figure out what. And you guys are the guests that show up on point for sure. Every time drop the hat.I've asked favors they come through, bro. Hold on. I can tell you to try to book guests at 8:00 AM on a Saturday. It's really hard. You responded. Fucking absolutely. That's what the D stands for. That's what the D stands for. Deadline. Motherfucker makes a deadline. That's what the fuck, daddy, man. I appreciate that.And it shows me, you guys are on your shit and your pros, bro. You guys are up, you guys are upending and obliterating the stereotype of people who smoke pot because you are on time, even though you're high. Yep. Mr. D has not stopped laughing since he walked into this studio, bro. And look at Jeff. He said, Charlie, look at his about his slave.He try to keep it together, manage it yet. We had to give him, we had to get ready for the show, man. We can makelike that all the time. Be no problem. Oh dude. Are you kidding me? Dude. If I look at this versus something else, it turns into something that, oh me. Oh, it's a paranoid freak out for me, man. I can't even look at these loads. Paranoid freak out. Hey Mr. D now let's stop the bullshit. Let's cut right down to it.What's up? Who would he find? Bitches that are in your video, bro? Come on. What? Tell me about the video. Shit. Don't stop. I got to ask my manager that one, cause even with a book, we just picked up some ladies from Italian. You know what I mean? They're good. Good looking chocolate in there. Like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.We had to, we had to get most, both of them all mixed up. You know, we have. Well close, man. Listen, listen, listen. I'm married. So it doesn't matter anymore, but I'll tell you right now when I go to Baskin-Robbins I ordered a double Dutch shot. You feel what I'm saying? Lose this chick right here. Uh, she's fine.Who's that? Rubbing her thighs. Hey look, Mr. D Mr. D right here. Okay. So, all right, hold on over there. Oh, that's Terminator. That's Terminator Terminator. He's making plans fucking around. Listen, let me tell you. First, uh, just so Mr. And Mrs. Earbuds can follow along. This is Mr. D's new shit. It's on YouTube. You can get it other places it's called shit.Don't stop it. Right. Okay. So now, unlike other fucking whack ass podcasts and bullshit, we got the actual artist here and the manager, we're going to fucking walk through this video motherfucker. I want to know what's the real. I wasn't ready for this shit.it's called hard luck. Not easy. So wait a second. So right now, dude, it looks like you're in like a bunker bro. And you're like, fucking you're fucking staring at a wall and it looks like a planet. Like, what was, did you get direction? Like what is the concept here, bro? Well, we were mainly targeting towards, uh, the whole idea as in like we're looking for the person, like we're directing this to, well, I initially didn't really target this to anybody because I actually wrote it for her homie that, um, his homeboy passed away on like around December.So it was when I wrote this. So, um, I kind of wrote it as like, for him to be all like, like, oh, it's a tribute for him. You know what I mean? So when this came about, I was kind of like, okay, like how can I manipulate it towards. Um, I'm angry. I'm, I'm sort of like, I'm looking for somebody in light, like this, these tier jobs I'm talking about, they're going to get, you know, what I mean events for.So we were kind of going for that, that idea, you know what I mean? Like, like, all right. We're we're, we're on the hunt. We're re how do you put it up? That's loaded guns loaded. It's like you're in there. Right. And then where's this film, cause it looks like you're like in a bunker and there's like monitors and all these fucking wires who designed the set for that.Uh, what was it called? I'm not sure what it's called, but we rented a studio then. And, uh, that's where we got all the footage from. Right. And then I'm like looking at it and it looks like somebody that's like, like, not really like FBI or CIA, but they're fucking looking on a man hunt. We got surveillance cameras everywhere, looking for people, spotting that one person we're going to.Yeah. Then you got like a fun bitch, fucking typing in your data entry for Columbia. Oh, because she looked like she's looking at it at that Porter Porter. No, watch this.the prop guns. That's a prop gun that looked like it. Seen some props. Hey bro. Do you see why this guy is going to be the supermax lookbook guy? Dude, look at the way he's looking at what is that? Is that a newsy or a Mac? Ten one? Is that? No, no, that's a Hosey right there. And you're looking at it. You're looking at the Uzi, like with a Debo you're like, motherfucker, this thing is going to be fucking blast.Did you hit weed before? After all of my scenes right there all, when I'm sober, I try to take my. Uh, visual appearance as serious as I can. Cause, you know, as I, as they say, like any movement with your eyes, like fluttering or anything, they'll notice it, you know? So that's why I try to take more precaution with that for an actor.All right. And who is working with props and making it real? How did you, what was your method for staring at this gun? Like a stone cold. That's easy. I just, I just kind of. Try to kick him my little flashback mode, right. Until like when I was going through my little things and my little molds, I tried to apply it to that.You know what I mean? As best as I could, you know what I mean? Yeah. I love that. So you like, so they call that sensory recall. That's what this fucking high-minded fucking actors over in Beverly Hills, they call it sensor. So you went back to some shit and you were like, only bring the shit to the front.I'm going to stare at this gun with some shit. I'm going to make a fucking killer. And that means dope, bro. All right. Okay. Now you're gonna have to explain this black. I got to tell you I got my attention right there. He's not lying. No, ain't no form of disrespect towards anybody now, but before her and juggle beaver man.So I knew as soon as I saw this, I go and I first, going to love this video. Oh, bro. I look at like a black woman like that. It's beautiful, but looking fierce, like she could fucking eat a kiss. You or cut you and I'm in bro. Oh man. I like that. Hey, they did that eight. Good bro. They did that. Ain't good. That ain't like the right side.That things always cleared a picture.it in on that one. And then it's like, he's like in a red room and now he's got, now you got to shotgun. Mr. D why do you have a shotgun and a, and a black chick? Well, the shotgun was actually, it was, it was just there, you know what I mean? Just to put it there, but. I actually try to, like, I that's actually my favorite gun to keep it real.You know what I mean? Cause it, it, it puts a hole in somebody, you know what I mean? You could walk through them, you know what I mean? Like that's type shit. You know what I mean? But with the female, I actually love that part. That shit was actually pretty tight. You know what I mean? Cause it shows that because one thing, a lot of people get wrong is that.People think that my type of people, like, you know what I mean? Like, as people who are coming from my area, we just like a certain race, you know what I'm saying? Absolutely. That's what I'm trying to break. I'm trying to break those type of barriers. You know what I mean? Like trying to make everybody understand that it's more than just how people look, you know?Yeah, man. That's what the D stands for. And Mr. Lee dream, I also, you know what, man, and I think that is part of the reason. Uh, you're here on the show, man. It's just where, where you guys are, where your, where your thoughts, how, how you guys move and your vision, which Jeffrey, I get to spend more time talking with you actually.And then D but, uh, it seems you're just on it, man. It's just another thing that I think separates you from the pack. I think it was, you're not even really trying. It's just that that's you, that's you and, and it's, it's it defines it. I think it was just trying to reach goals to reach the mass. Right. And like equally, I think everybody in his role as equal the same era, same mouth or just different skins.Right. But inside we're all the same. But do you hear new music you're bound to like attract you're going to attract an audience? That's true. I don't mean to interrupt, but it definitely also feels like in some of our conversation, the current. Understanding of breaking a stereotype or a mole, right? Like, right.It's I mean, for me, it is, and I'm not trying to put that on you, but when we talk, we meet at that place of like an old stereotype and we're so much more than. A clown dancing around with his socks, pulled up in front of low riders, the old he's like, look, I love all these and that, but I think I know that we're so much more man.And, and I love it when I see things put out that really, I don't know, break that old. I think we are. I mean, now it's, you're talking about generations and generations, right? Like. I mean, we have attorneys, we have all types of like other careers paths that our people have gotten a hold of. Right. So we're not just those clouds of like, with the socks up and dancing around, likewith him. Like the way he speaks, the way he . He's good. Like, I mean, he has it, we just got to get it out there to the masses and then you're nodding your head. Yeah, no, I, I agree. I think it's right on. And I think that the fact that you guys focus on that and move that way. Genuinely we'll serve you so well, going forward in reaching the masses because there seems to be, as it should be many more conscious people these days and people that are actually, they can even digest the thought of somebody who is, is, is unique and don't speak to everybody.So I think it's. I think it is through, you know, and I think it's not it's you can't. I also cute. Can't go without at least acknowledging the fact that you guys like this, this cat rolls around with his older homeys. He's older homeys are about, um, professional business and they're, they're kind of like, you know, they're, they've got his back and the intentions are, are clear and, um, And a lot of guys don't have that.They don't have somebody out looking out for them. And if they do, are they really looking out for their best interests? And in this case, it's like, and he listens dude. Like he says, he able to take stuff in and listen and get out of his own way. And I think a lot of. Is maybe somebody getting out of their own fucking way.I think, I think I'm in a position where I put myself through, I guess all my life I've worked really hard. And then I really don't need a lot of stuff in life. Right. I got everything I need. So I just want to see him win at the end of the day. That's my goal is to see him win as long as he wins. I win. So I think as, as a big homie, I have to take that.I got to, got to take that to heart because I've seen so many homies fucking cracked out or whatever, out in the street. And we talked about, and then in the young homie, a bag of dope, you know, I mean, I'm not going to give him a fucking gun. Like I'm going to give him a fucking book and be like, Hey dog, what do you need to get your shit?Right. If I got to pay for college, then fuck it. I'll pay for college. I mean this guy's not just blowing smoke. These are what these guys are about, man. And that I'm not hearing enough of. Go ahead. Wait, wait, before you go. Just y'all. Fuck. Let me, let me fucking ask Mr. D you here, you've been sitting here and listening to the older folks.Talk about blah, blah. What's it like for you as an artist to hear the conversations going on around you and you sort of taking that in what's your. It's more to the point where I got to try to keep up to it. You know what I mean? Um, as in, I need to keep, uh, I need to keep myself aware that I have a certain responsibility and a certain goal that I have to help achieve, you know, cause I definitely didn't get here by myself, you know, cause I tell everybody around me every, every single time that I can at least, you know, that I, I pretty much always to everybody around me more than.The other way around, you know, cause it, it wouldn't, it wouldn't make sense for me to say that my ability of lyricism technically erupted all of this, you know what I mean? Like it's more as a positive thinking in a positive energy and the, uh, I want to say the ambition and the hopes that people have in each other is what got everybody here.You know what I mean? And that's what I feel like I got to make myself be aware every time I step up and step out into the. Excuse me. And I try to do anything right there, like destruction wise, you know what I mean? Like, and I try to do something that'll damage what we built, you know what I mean? You know, big Lux.What are you, what is your, what do you hear when you hear Mr. D talk about his experience or what he thinks his responsibility? Um, I think he, I think he, I think he, he gets it. I want to say, I don't even know if that's the right way to answer it. Like, obviously he's, he's taking heat and he's listening to the people around him, but he's also smart enough to know that the people around him just because they're older and have wisdom, everything they tell him ain't gonna be right.Either because they're just another human being, trying to figure it out at the end of the day. Right. But, and you have enough of. I think people either are just like, fuck it. I am doing what I want. Fuck it. Or I'm going to go all in and listen to everything they're saying. But like, but to be able to have a, you know, have people looking out for you and you be able to understand what you're taking from it and staying open to understanding more, I think, uh, yeah, he is man.Oh, I just, I I've just witnessed and seen a lot of misguidedness and I just really also see when you start mixing people that come from places like where we come from and. Entertainment celebrity, that type of stuff gets, can get very, very convoluted and very weird and gray real quickly, bro. And it, there's almost an art to being able to navigate through that.And um, and I feel like these guys are genuine and they're aware of that. They're aware of a lot of what I'm talking. Now, right ideas. So, Jeff, what are some of the difficulties or challenges let's say, or things that you gotta be smart about when working with like Mr. D and trying to look out for his interests and all the other stuff, what things have you encountered where you're like, man, it takes a second pair of eyes to help navigate this.I think it's more like trying to make the music part. That's the been like the, really the hard part. Right? Like explain that. It's just, I don't know. Trying to get songs done and then trying not to get fucked at the end. Right? Like it's like, we, we, I think we want everybody to be at the same plane level.Right? Like you get paid, we get paid, everybody gets paid. Right. And it seems like so far, it hasn't been that way. It seems like it's, it's been really, like, it's been really fucked up, but you don't have to give any names or anything, but what about some signs to a younger artists that's out there that maybe doesn't have the benefit of managing.It does say to like it, a guy shows up with no money, but a bit a pound of Coke go the other way. Like what, what, what can a young artists kind of see where they can start smelling like this? And on the up and up, you see the science man, what are they like? Just, they tell you things in the things don't happen, right?Like they tell you they're going to bring this to you and they don't bring it to you. It's just, I dunno. I think it's more like, I can't explain. It's like, it's it's you, you see the signs. It's like, I don't know. It's like, I see the fucking signs, like, all right, you're fucking with me. Like, I'm not gonna fuck with you no more.Know what I mean? And you're just experiencing life, I guess. Sure. I think that's what it is. Experience in life. Like you hear people talk and you hear them say certain things and they don't come through. It's like, strike one. You just taking a mental note of that. I take, I take a lot of mental notes. I take three strikes.I keep people. That's what I do. I told him, I give you three strikes, man. Like you told me once. All right, cool. Twice already. The third time, I'll tell, I'll be like, you want me a dog? You going to come through or not? And if it doesn't come through, then the forefront I'm out ice. I don't take, I don't like to deal with.And it's been like that in this industry where you tell people, Hey, you know what I mean? You are, we're going to do this and you do your part. And then they don't do their part. And you're like, fuck me. Like, I'll take one strike. And then the next thing you know, now I'm out. Uh I'm from what I've read, right.I've been reading about the history of NWA and I've been reading about all this stuff, right? I gotta tell you, man, the music industry seems full of bullshit, man. It's it's a Savage industry. I'll tell you that much. Like, I dunno, like I worked in the, I make cosmetics as living right for the past, like 14 years old, like, like a junior chemist.So what's the name of the company? Oh, cosmetic labs of America and shots were shout out to them for employing me for 14 years. Yeah, she's right. Hey man. Shout out to them that they got you, dude, because I looked at the balance sheet and I saw that since they hired her, they raised, they doubled every year.Yeah. So, you know what I mean? Like I've seen the business through like, just the way they carry themselves as far as like putting like contracts out. Like it's, everything's on a timely fashion, right? Like if you don't get shit done at a time, you find that you get fined by the company. You gotta pay them now.So to me, it's like swats put that in our bylaws. Like I'm paying you to come through with some shit. You better come through it. Like you don't have you better come through or else, like, it's like, I'm gonna find you. So that's the way I look at life. Like if I do something for you and you told me you gonna do something for me, then you better come through or there's going to be a fine at the end of.You know, what's funny too, is a lot of times w what I seem to run into is that I got a lot of friends who won't be RA. First of all, I got a lot of friends that won't be right. Now Mr. Mrs. Earbuds, Jeff demands your smile with like one half of his mouth, like a knowing fucking smile. Like yeah, I know I got, right, right.Hey, Mr. D like how many people do you guys run into that are like, I won't be around. I'm an up and coming rapper. Here's my fucking shit. You build little shit too many, too many, right. And the thing that's interesting about it is, is that you said finished the music, finished the song, right? I mean, oh, blue eyes.Do we know anybody in common where we've spent about a decade trying to get that dude to finish a song? No, no. Right. Listen, man, if you want first getting on the ground level, Jeff of managing king salmon, I got his information for you. Don't do that. Don't come up. I don't want to do that now. I don't know, dude.I mean, we got guys on fucking salmon over where he's at salmon salmon. Dammit. Don't intermix salmon in the. Yeah, you put a salmon in what has shocked the shotgun to eat enough water in the valley for the welcome back base dreaming only on peacock. Can't wait to start. Junior year saved by the bell is back and taking school spirit.Our Bibles just destroyed our mascot. We're going to crush valley to the max. If we don't learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it. That's how we have all these reboots of teen Charles from the. You had a new idea. Hollywood saved by the bell new season screaming. Now let's do this baby only on peacock.Hi, I'm Randy. And this is Dave we're the founders of Bombus the most comfortable socks in the history of feet. So comfortable. We sold and donated millions of pairs to sell and donate a lot of socks. We became obsessed with comfort. We reinvented the sock from the ground up, adding comfort innovations alone.It worked. People tried them, loved them, told their friends about them, helping us sell it, donate millions of pairs. Try them now at bombas.com/comfy and get 20% off your first order. That's B O M B a s.com/comfy. Got it. So, um, Uh, so how, what gets in the way? Cause, cause at the end of the day, when a lot of these folks come through, it's like, wait a second.Do you even, I know you got a good idea for a song. I know, you know, a cool little sample that you thought would be cool in a song. They got all these little pieces that might even be good ideas, but they don't come with a complete song, a finished motherfucking product. Mr. D what is the. Oh, executing and finishing a mother fucking song.Well, it's kind of like, it's, I want to give out like a small piece of my formula, but like, this is how I do it. This is how I do it. Right. I kind of visualize it as a, as in like I'm writing sort of a play or something like that. I'm sort like it's sort of a, I'm trying to bring a movie into real life.That's how I kind of look at it. Right. So if I'm talking to. The studio, right. And how I got to the studio, I'm going to evolve every single thing from the studio, from my destination. Right. From my house, the sidewalk, the street, the people on it, the car is right there. The sounds, the environment, you know what I mean?And then how I got to the studio and when I got there, what it made me feel like, and all of the things that I saw, how did that snowball into what I, what I just did. So, you know what I mean? Like that's, that's the best way I can try to give it to the people without physically doing it in front of me.Right. It's just, it really just depends how good you are at jumping from one topic to the other and making it all connect. Well. So the thing is, is that I'm hearing though, is that that's your process for finishing the song, but there's a discipline that goes along with finishing anything. Oh yeah. Right.What's your strategy or what do you do to keep yourself motivated to finish anything that you started? Uh, sort of putting in my mind. Um, today, I'm going to be the first rapper to finish a whole song, at least in one day sitting down like, cause I'll try my best not to leave my chair. You know what I mean?I know, I know a lot of people done it before me, but I like to put it in my mind sort of to motivate me and sort of to like, be like, okay, I got slipped in to show my manager later on in the night. You know what I mean? Cause the more songs we pile up and we don't put out, like it's cool with me. But as long as that, I know that I'm putting out something that people.Like they like, but they can't hear, it keeps me pumped up at the same time. You know what I mean? Like how can I explain it? Uh, uh, recently I had written a song that I feel like it was probably my best shit lately. You know what I mean? However, seeing as I can't show too many people, like it, it kind of holds me back.I mean, I could show you guys know, but I mean like, like, like everybody in general, you know what I mean? Like, it kinda makes me think like, how can I know I'm getting. If a lot of people don't hear it, you know what I mean? Like that's the thing, you know, and a lot of people don't really like to give their, their, their hard input on it because they fear that all I, what if he has some horseshoe later in the future and he doesn't want to show me because of the opinion I give them.You know what I mean? Like, some people do think like that, believe it or not. I agree with, you know, I'm surrounded by a lot of people like that, not here, but in other areas. Yeah. I listened to them now. I'm like, okay, that sounded like a political fucking answer. I don't sound like a real motherfucker. Jeff, what, from a manager standpoint, do you do to motivate D do you have like different things that you think about, or do you, are there times where you gotta remind him and say, We're doing this for, this is bigger than this.We're going. Oh. Or D I mean, has you come in with something and you just like punched a fist through the wall? Cause it was so dope. You were like, you know, I gotta get Savage. Nah, I don't think I've heard is dope. Is. To be honest. I think he still has more coming. Damn. I straight up, I think, I think once we get inside of like a room and really like sit down and make music with someone like, like I'm talking about 12 hour shifts.Yeah. Like I think that's when you really going to see this kid, like spit shit and like, he's going to move like the crowd. You haven't heard it yet, man. Believe me. You haven't heard it yet. Cause sometimes I trip out on the stuff that I hear like you, cause I'll tell them, maybe write something and then by end of the night I have like almost a full song.Right. And I'll hear him speak. And I just like, damn, I got to hear it again and again and again. And I can't because I don't have enough time in the fucking day to get in again and again, us through over to go see mugs, I'll probably bring you with me alone. I'm going to, we're going to go on, I'm going to walk him into the studio Brawny.That's how I think that's, that's like the biggest problem right now. Cause I know like there's, there's a lot there, man. Like this is from the music industry. From the music industry standpoint, we just had a discussion about. There's a lot of nostalgia right now, like set like, like 95% of the music that's being picked up by these digital platforms.And streamers is all old music and like only 5% of the music's new. Are you guys running into like, like, like it doesn't make sense, but somehow there's been a kind of a slowly gripping down on new music. Yeah. I'm actually, I've actually read that. I want to say like a couple of days ago when it came out, like in the Atlantic.Yeah. Yeah. I read that too. It was actually tripping me out because, cause it, it makes sense though. Cause I find myself more finding more older music and playing that more opposed to the new music. You know what I mean? Cause it's just something about. Like, I guess if you want to put it in a poetic perspective, the atmosphere within that song.Right. It's just sounds, it sounds different. You know what I mean? Like, it doesn't sound computerized. It doesn't sound fake. That's the thing. True. Like fucking Fleetwood Mac or even, um, the fuck is that skinny white dude that just died. That does all the don't come around here no more. And what the fuck is that?Guy's name? And Tom petty even, right. They make these atmospheric, I mean, whether or not he's a good song, I don't know. But the vibe that they create is really unique and interesting. Right. But that doesn't come from a digitized situation. It's all like live it's it's live instruments with live lyrics.Yeah. To put it like that, you know what I mean? Most people don't look at it like that. They just look at it. Like we got to put something out right now. Right. Then, you know, cause it's all. It will appeal to the people, but does it really appeal to you? You know what I mean? That's the real question. That is the real, and you know, what's interesting that we're going here and this might be the first podcast in history to ever have a discussion with a hip hop artist and bring up the grateful dead.Okay. Right now you're hearing it right the fuck now, Mr. Mr. All right. You're probably sitting there thinking some of you, young motherfuckers are probably like who the fuck is the grateful dead, but the grateful dead going with your live theory, Mr. D right. The grateful dead made their fucking money and their fucking lard, Jess and their fucking reputation, not on studio albums.What they did was they did more live shows than anybody else. And there was an, uh, con uh, an economy created a marketplace created because they allowed anyone to come to their concert and record it. Yeah, right. Think about that. And that was the currency among Deadheads. I actually knew this guy had been on with the grateful dead for 10 years.They had, he had like boxes of tapes, bro, from live shows and that was currently. Out on tour, they'd be like, oh, you write this show in fucking Illinois like this. And they would trade tapes. They was gold to them. So, no, no, no, no. I I'm going to come out of that. They would have labels that said like Cincinnati, 1979.14. And I said tape and exactly. And everybody in that whole following would know that that was one of the craziest shows and no song was the same. Right. That was the key. It was never sung the same way. Right. Exactly. And so. So, what I'm saying is that goes with your concept of the live theory of like what you're hearing in these, in these, in these older albums is an interaction that's specific and can't be reproduced.Exactly. Yes. Exactly. But I, it makes sense to me though, too, because in your sound, I hear like nineties arrow, rap. I hear your flow. That's how, which I look at the golden era rap. Like that's, that's when I first really felt that I asked you something on that, just on that, like the answer me, this riddle me, this riddle me, this my young, um, you, you.There was a point in time in my life at a certain age that I dressed very similar to the way you currently dress right size 50 twos and crease down my laces and like, and you on a regular basis, kind of bring that back there. I don't see a lot of guys your age really. So meticulously, like you really, really have either studied or saw it close to you enough to really get it right.Cause I paid I'm a clothing guy, so I was paying attention to it. The whole time is, do you, do you. Almost paying tribute to that. Is that just the style you like, or do you feel like you're walking around in a time zone? Like how, how does that come to be such an important and, and that you get it so correctly, right?Or is all that coming from? I feel like all of you book. You know, um, because for one, it definitely is a tribute because all of the older homies around me, you know, they always tell me about their good memories and all the good times, you know, and I want to experience the good times because the good times now are so good, you know, so pretty much I, it's kinda like I'm putting myself in their, in their era and I'm trying to emulate what they experienced.You know what I mean? Even though I can't, obviously, you know what I mean? It's difficult. You know what I mean? I've tried, trust me, like, I've went on tagging sprees on fucking, you know, all these others reason you don't like it. It got to the point where I kinda, like, I kinda lost myself in trying to search, uh, this, this time.You know what I mean? That was already moved on. You know what I mean? It was kinda like searching for that LA that last spec, uh, of that sand from that, from the, what do you call it? The hourglass, you know what I mean? And it would use it. You couldn't flip it anymore. When, uh, when I just started getting deeper and deeper into it, I just started, like, I figured more as an, um, I try to bring the style back, but at the same time, it was more as in like it started becoming me, you know what I mean?It was a more. Oh, I'm gonna just throw on this Ben David shirt. And it's just, it's a shirt night. More people look at his end. Like, that's your look, that's what you got to beat us. That's who you are. You know what I mean? Like, it'll be more as, than you, you look like a ghost. The second you take that off, you know what I mean?Like, like, uh, damn, I'm not good with names, but, um, well, you know, when Superman transformed Clark car, Oh, it's the same thing. You know what I mean? The second I take off my thinking cap is the second night, you know, let me see, let me, let me see about, understand this, that this, in a sense is your Superman outfit, cause you said Clark Kent or is that not right?Yeah. I fucking love that fucking thing. We need to fucking make a comic book about Mr. Diaz. I agree. I'm not fucking, he's not fucking around it. I'm not. And I agree with you a thousand percent brother. Yeah. I'm writing out a whole scene because Manny's been on me about writing. Right. And I wrote out this whole beginning scene of this TV show, this series and the whole thing.It's him as I'm writing, it's all D doing all of it. He's like the character I was telling him about it, man. I just, he has that about him, bro. So much more than music. It's charisma. Yeah. You can't like, there's only one of this guy I've only met one of them, you know, and that shit shines through it.Whether you put a can of tuna in his hand, you're going to see it, you know, like he. Right. You know, that's all that's even when you're taking pictures of this guy. Yeah. He knows. He knows how even how to do that. You know, some people that just natural, it's just natural. We saw some of those picks with the, uh, the cookies gear.Absolute favorite. So tight man. Thank you, Michael Angelois saying, I will say this. Shout out the cook and shout the burn that guy. Particular about who he posts or woke, that's posted up bro. And you know, it's, uh, Mike's photography is just it. And I mean, everybody got behind the, those photos bro, and everybody comment. A lot of people that didn't know you were inquisitive started following.Um, a lot of people I know. What I see in D cookies for having us. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're representing right now. Jeff cookies had on me. I went a little shopping spree. Yeah. It was dope. I think real recognize real, you know, real recognize real man. That's I appreciate it a whole lot. You take a picture.Go ahead. Jumaan did you, were you gonna say something? No, I I'm. I'm letting it just flow to what's. What's going on when you projects right now, tell us about what what's coming out. What can the people, the listeners look out for and. Right now we actually got an autobiography coming up and we'll yeah.Stop that lack of written autobiography, like visual autobiography of his younger life when he was newborn to like a certain, maybe like thinking about like junior high kind of stage and then leaving that gap open for maybe later on, like we, we catch up and we'd do something during that era. Okay. Hold on.So is it. It's from actual footage from when you were young girl minute, we're going to be like doing somewhat of a, an interview almost. You know what I mean? We're going to be throwing like old pictures of myself and my family. You know what I mean? Like just like dubbing it over, you know what I mean?Like a documentary. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Can burn civil war, but it's going to be Mr. D and my fucking shit. Yeah. Fucking love that. Right. That's what I said. I fucking love that. Like, wait, what you, what kind of jam? What little secret find out from the fucking origin story and Mr. D telling you like, wait, what are we going to find out as a newborn, as a newborn, as a newborn.That's a pretty, when that doctor tried to cut the umbilical cord, it was more than that. It's like, I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this. A good explanation of why I felt so fitted in big clothes is because I was born premature.Yup. Yeah. You feel comfortable with all that. That makes sense about that doc, about that that's psychologically psychoanalytically. That fucking makes sense. How was the press psychological warfare was a premium homes. I was fucking in big clothes from day one while you were wearing diapers, that thing.all the way back. I was posting a picture of you guys. I could see like, Mr. Dean is like, I was born too late, but I was also born premature. Wrap your mind around that mother fucker. Oh yeah. Right, right. I love that. What is there? Jeff? Is there so music. Singles anything next we're going to drop a, another, uh, another remake.So we call it a remixes. Right? So we have another remix we're gonna drop pretty soon. Maybe think about next week or next two weeks or you are. Yeah. And after that, we're thinking about dropping a single, just him like Richard. Okay. Nice. All right. Who is producing the beat? Um, what's the name of the guy we don't know yet.Like we haven't signed contracts, so I can't say anything. No shit. Yeah. So, I mean, but we're actively looking though. We're actively looking to make more music. Hey, listen, I'm going to follow through with what I'm talking about doing and see how we can start. Well, we got to drop something original. Like we were really looking for that original sound.Like he had something coming like. It's in the wall sliding. Cause we want to do those 12 hour shifts in the, in the studio. I got the cafe, I got vacation time. You know what I mean? So they'll use that. I'll do that. I got, I got.I can get a whole six weeks. I might have to work 10 days, 10 years after that, but I'm going to make it happen now. Listen, we've all talked. Our talk. We've all walked our walk. Mr. Old blue eyes. I'm asking you, what do you got to say? Listen, listen from a production stand point. Yeah. W in, in, given Mr. D. What would your sick twisted fucking music mind do with something like what Mr.D's got. And can you possibly produce some music to let's? Let's let's first hear what? The sick fuck. This musical sick. Fuck. Rocky liked that. He liked it. He is. He's a sick man. He's yeah, he's a darkly crazy music, man. What would you, what would the max he's not upset looking at? Oh, what would I do? I would do exactly what lucky was talking about and bring him to mugs because let me tell you something.From what I hear, uh, mugs just dusted off at an old nineties beat for rigs, for rigs and a joint. So I'm sure, I'm sure I'm 100% sure he's sitting on some fucking fire. And if it's classic, I mean, right. That's who's going to hark back to that era more than this guy, Mr. De. Right. Right. So I think that the artillery and the firepower that mugs can bring with that guy on, on the track would be fucking magical.I agree with that 30 years of friendship, I'm saying this on air, go here. Years of friendship. How many guys have I brought in to mugs to see monks? How many rappers? Zero. Zero. I ain't never brought nobody in. I've never said, Hey, I'm bringing somebody in that. I knew that I'd like you to meet work with.And you know, but as I said, I've only met one of you. And I, I believe in you, dude, I already see it happening. We're going to help put the pieces together. Now the absolutely. Absolutely. I see it every day. I love it, man. Let's let's uh, you know, we want an opportunity to be able to sneak preview anything you got at the hard luck show.We want opportunities to always support. Have you on this is an open door for you. So, and a platform that I want you, uh, to utilize. I challenge you, you like, and, and a platform for people to get to know you, right? Understand your values, the principles by which you operate your artistic visions. You see what I mean?Because I'm going to tell you something, man, a lot of artists, you might see one or two things, but I think the real power comes from. Being able to really understand and know the ground, the background, the fucking theory, all that stuff from what you emanate from. And that's where passion that sorta passion is.And then you got that and I'm going to say this, and maybe Steve, you can fucking check me. Well, I'm going to say is if we're getting to that place where it's time to, is it, are we, where are we at? Um, we should, we need to wrap up. Okay. So instead of going out how we normally go out, I want to go out with Mr.D. Yep. All right, so I'm going to pull Mr. D shit back up and, uh, I want to say this. I want to say super. Can you get supermax@maxhardwareatwwwsupermaxhardware.com. Get some cookies, get some vibes paper, go download and listen to Mr. D. You guys need to do that. Hey, where did they go to download and listen to Mr.D he can find you on YouTube. Mr. D M R dot D E and more D E E E. And make sure that it's not the one for Southland. Cause a lot of people do confuse me with them, but. That's um, I want to say, uh, I'm gonna have a page up, uh, in the next couple of months where all of my music is going to be folded up, so it could be a lot more easy to access.Cause I know some people say that, uh, YouTube kind of gives them issues or whatever. So if it's not that, then it'll be up on Spotify in the next couple of weeks as well. But we'll be coming up with some big projects in the next couple of months. Hopefully everybody keeps waiting and we'll blow up soon enough patients, man, they gotta be patient because you're not dealing with some, no ham, but rubber neck bullshit.Good things. Good things. Take time. Take time. Yeah. And, uh, listen, Jeff, shout out to Darragh Vegas for, um, mixing this, um, the video. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a Darren. He came through her, you know what my, I been getting back and joint pain. Do you have anything that can help with that? Got some special essential CBD for you.to be on a CBD company with topicals on check us out. We have a website and show me, you guys have put it up there. First. Megan loves that shit.What's your name of the company is lash essentials, splash. Essential. You guys looking back up, man, I'm going to start using that or that fucking cream on my back. Yeah. Good stuff. We need to stop. We know we need to, uh, we need Megan to like go easy on our boys Schwartz here. So if you could put together a little care package for like, Yeah.You know, like like a little neurotic massage.alright, so Ovando Bowen, LLP. We wear braids to court. 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In this episode, our contributors reflect on laws and regulations for holding brands and retailers accountable for violations of worker rights in the factories that supply them, including: Nayla Ajaltouni from Collectif Ethique sur L'Etiquette in France tells how campaigners succeeded in getting the first law protecting human rights in supply chains passed in France – and how this law might set a European precedent for stronger worker rights protection.  Nasir Mansoor from NTUF in Pakistan reflects on the experience of using legal mechanisms to hold KiK accountable for the Ali Enterprises fire.  Muriel Treibich from the CCC International Office introduces human rights due diligence and presents opportunities including the European Supply Chain. Scott Nova from WRC in the USA highlights the closing of a loophole means the section of the US Tariff Act that prohibits companies importing goods made with forced labour could be enforced.  Please tell us what inspired you about this show, and share your feedback, comments and questions, by emailing: podcast@cleanclothes.org  Speakers: Nayla Ajaltouni, Coordinator, Collectif Ethique sur L'Etiquette, FranceNasir Mansoor, General Secretary, NTUF (National Trade Union Federation), PakistanMuriel Treibich, Lobby and Advocacy Coordinator, Clean Clothes Campaign International Office, NetherlandsScott Nova, Executive Director, Worker Rights Consortium, USA  Host: Febriana Firdaus (febrianafirdaus.com) Sound Engineering Support: Steve Adam (www.spectrosonics.com.au)  Court of the Future performers: Free Theatre (www.freetheatre.com.au) Production: Matthew Abud with support from Anne Dekker Podcast Team: Johnson Ching-Yin Yeung, Liz Parker, Tanne de Goei Full Transcript JUDGE:Order! Order! I mean it – I will have order in this court! Now then. To the defendant.  Mr. Ralph Hermes Vuitton You may deliver your statement.  RHV: Thank you, Your Honour. May I say with great humility, I'm humbled by the privilege to address this court. Very humbled. Humblingly so. Because as everyone knows, we at Ralph Vuitton are a humble, ethical, caring, socially responsible, innovative brand ...and we pay record dividends! The simple fact is – we didn't know! And our promise is – we will do better! We can't know everything our suppliers do. It's unrealistic. We have thousands of them! We change them all the time! Some employees even work from home. Are we supposed to visit them too? I mean, what would happen to my exclusive trench coat in those neighbourhoods? It would be ruined.  JUDGE: Order! Come on now, let's have a little order here.Right. Now Mr. Vuitton. Please keep to the point.  RHV:Yes your Honour. To put it simply.Did we make the building a fire trap with no escape? No, we didn't. Did we ban the workers from organising together or cut their pay? No, it wasn't us. Can you blame me that women are constantly harassed in the workplace? That's outrageous! Let me finish with this point. Your Honour, could I say how stylish you would look in a bold red Faux Leather Coat. For you, it would be an affordable 175 Euros. But if we had to pay for all the things they propose? Why, it could go up to 176! We'd be bankrupt! Thank you, Your Honour.  JUDGE:And why are you giving me your business card, Mr Vuitton?  RHV: Just if you are interested in that Faux Leather Coat.  JUDGE: This is not a sales pitch, Mr. Ralph Hermes Vuitton. We're in a court of law. Do you understand?  HOST:Could that be the court-room of the future?  Where brands must prove that they take care of human rights, through their whole supply chain? I'm Febriana Firdaus. Welcome to episode three of the Clean Clothes Podcast.  Today we talk human rights due diligence, and making laws to keep brands honest. Human rights abuse includes stolen wages, sexual harassment, and union busting.  It has also cost many workers their lives.  This is Nasir Mansoor, General Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation or NTUF in Pakistan. NASIR:There was a tragedy in September 2012, where in a factory there was a fire and 260 workers died in that factory. And that factory was producing merchandise for a German brand, its name was KIK. So when we look into the law, even Pakistani law, European law, German law, we didn't get any space for the workers to go for filing of a case and make them accountable for it.  So in that context we get to know that we should have, not only in Pakistan but also in European Union there would be some kind of a law or some kind of a mechanism to make them account for. Unfortunately after filing a case in Dortmund against KIK in German court, after three years of hearings, the court verdict that on technically on Pakistani laws it was a time bar issue.  HOST: The push for human rights supply chain laws, has a long history. Trade Unions and NGOs campaigned on it for decades. This is Muriel Treibich, Lobby and Advocacy Coordinator for Clean Clothes Campaign MURIEL:Of course a lot of the initial efforts were pushed by NGOs and trade unions that highlighted really important cases and important situations where that would happen. And so for years they brought information, reports, they communicated, they campaigned about those issues. And progressively that led also to the international recognition that that was an issue, and that was something that international institutions, governments, the United Nations, had to look at.  In 2011 when you had the United Nations that published their first Guiding Principles on business and human rights. And what it says, is that first states have an obligation to ensure the respect of human rights, but that also companies have a responsibility to protect human rights. And that was let's say one of the first recognitions, and one of the biggest recognition that yes, international companies have a responsibility to protect human rights across their supply chain and not only in the companies and in the operations they fully own and they fully control.  The human rights due diligence, you have a number of steps that you have to do. First let's say you have to identify what are the risks in your supply chain, what are the potential negative impacts on human rights and labour rights that exist in your supply chain. Once you identify the risks and the negative impacts, then you have to take steps to seize, to make sure that those risks are stopped, or are prevented, or are mitigated. And then you have to track whether the measures you implemented are put in place, you have to communicate on that. And then you have to provide for remedies when appropriate.  Until today, except in France, we only have voluntary human rights due diligence. There is no obligation for companies to actually protect human rights like that and to use human rights due diligence to do it. And if they do not follow those principles, there are no legally-binding sanctions. And that's an obvious problem. If it's voluntary then actually most companies and I'm talking about Europe, most companies in Europe, including the large companies, are not doing human rights due diligence, are not actively working on protecting human rights, and for the few who do so, they actually do it on a really limited scope. So that's why we're talking now about mandatory human rights due diligence, because the objective is to make sure that companies are not doing it on their own decision, but that they have a legal obligation to do it and they can be sanctioned if they do not do it properly. HOST:So far, only France has passed a law on human rights due diligence, in supply chains.  Collectif ESE, or Collective Ethics Behind the Label, was central to that campaign.  Nayla Ajaltouni is the Collectif's Coordinator. NAYLA:I think everything changes when the UN elaborated and adopted the UN Guiding Principles, the Ruggie Principles, on business and human rights. And it was really the start of a big internal reflection at Collectif Ethique sur L'Étiquette where unions and NGOs and especially some of them, and as a coordinator I thought it was important to be able to analyse and be familiar with this framework and I proposed to the network to organise a big symposium at a national assembly around this question, different round tables. I think the fact that we at some point were all gathered in one same civil society platform, we already had as a common goal to focus on transnational companies and to make them respect the law, a law that we would have to build.  HOST:In 2012, France also elected the Socialist party to government.  That gave the campaign a real political opportunity. NAYLA: We identified MPs that would be committed enough to build legislation and we worked to mobilise civil society towards this new legislation. The second trigger was this terrible accident, this human-created disaster as Kalpona said, of the Rana Plaza. Because it created huge, of course it shocked everybody, and for us I often say, for the rights movement it was a shock but it was not a surprise. So we were prepared, our arguments were already there, our strategy was already there. We knew that we could sell this kind of law to the public as general-interest law and not something for NGOs or people abroad but really something of general interest, we can't, transnational companies can't decide on the lives of so many people without being accountable of anything.  We really managed to have a pool of and different kind of media and especially media read by public authorities and economic world on what this law on due diligence is. We also focused a lot on outing the economical world, federation of employers and federation of big companies because they were really working in a very secretive way. Their lobbying was really strong and they had direct access to the power, and we managed and we try to make them express publicly why they are against such laws. And for the first time the biggest federation was obliged to say, to speak about their position in main newspaper and this had an important impact especially on MPs.  HOST:Companies used familiar arguments to oppose these laws. MURIEL:For the private sector the first concern they were raising was the cost. It will cost too much. It will be too difficult. How can you ask us to make sure that everything in our supply chain is human rights and labour rights compliant. It's too big, we don't have control over those entities. So their first reaction was to point out the cost and the complexity.  When it comes to the complexity in the supply chain, especially in the garment sector, it's not something that just comes up. Garment supply chains are not natural occurrence. It's something that companies actually create and think about, and that was a conscious business choice by the companies. So they created the complexity, and now they're complaining that their supply chains are too complex to control them. HOST: The French campaign was successful – the law passed in 2017. But it also fell short. Nayla says it is just one step towards change. NAYLA:Let's say four years campaigning with ups and downs, with a lot of euphoric moments and a lot of very depressive moments.  It's not the text civil society had campaigned for. There's not criminal liability for example. But we also knew that we were working on a compromise.  A small legal revolution as a first step. The objective for us was to make a breach in transnational impunity, and to enlarge this breach at the European level. But we know that the European wouldn't work if one of the important countries, and France hosts one third I guess of the biggest European companies, had this extreme responsibility to start building a law.  So we even published document with the weaknesses of the French law and lessons learned, that we spread already to the Network, to the MPs, to the MEPs. All our advocacy work has now started to encourage to build on those lessons learned and the Commission of course not to repeat the weaknesses of the French law, and to have a much more ambitious directive on duty of care or duty of vigilance.  MURIEL: It was really really significant that France passes such a law. It gives a precedent. It shows that it's possible. That you can impose obligations on companies on those issues and that other countries in Europe, Europe itself, and outside of Europe, can also impose similar obligations on their companies.  The whole argument that we didn't know, it was too far away, we could not have imaged, those arguments would not play any more. That actually companies have an obligation to know, they have an obligation to look for the information and that's extremely important.  HOST:Like Nayla says, the French law is a first break in corporate impunity. The European Commission plans to debate Supply Chain legislation later this year.  Other campaigns are pushing to open this break further. That includes survivors from the Ali Enterprise fire.  Nasir from Pakistan's NTUF again. NASIR:Because of no legal and legislation and in the European union and especially in Germany, the brands get some kind of sigh of relief. They can't understand and they can't learn the lesson from it, but they think they can scott-free. But if there would have been a law they must be punished.  One of our victims' association chairperson, Saeeda Khatoon whose son was also died in that factory, she went to Belgium, she went to European Union, she talked with the different political parties, in the Germany she also talked with the different political parties and Trade Unions and pressed for legislation or a law as to make the German and the European companies accountable for whatever the crime they committed anywhere in the globe.  HOST:In early February, Germany published a draft Supply Chain Law. A vote on the law is promised for this year.   BAILIFF: Calling the next witness! Please state your name and profession. GA:I'm Ganya Adil. I'm a tailor. And I represent the union on my floor. JUDGE: Please tell the court the nature of your complaint.GA: I have many complaints. Firstly, our factory is dangerous. There's material piled up everywhere ready to burn, and the escape routes are locked. The boss says don't worry about fire. Would he say the same thing to the workers who died in the Ali Enterprises fire in Karachi? Secondly, our wages are barely enough to feed my family. Judge, my little girl was top of her class last year but now I can't afford to send her to school. I ask, would Mr. Vuitton let that happen to his daughter? It's not just that our pay is too low. Sometimes they pay us late. Sometimes not at all. The boss doesn't tell us anything.  JUDGE: Are you saying the brand knew about all this?GA: They don't want to know. We didn't get to talk to them anyway. My union tried to complain. But the boss, he threatened me. He came so close I could smell his breath. It smelled worse than the pollution from the factory.Your Honour, he said the police would come. It didn't feel safe. So I went to my aunt's village for a while. It was amazing there. Their factory used to be like ours. But now they are all getting better wages, and the factory is safe. My aunt told me about the new Supply Chain Laws, and about this court. I always thought the law was just for the rich and the companies always won. But you seem a nice judge.  JUDGE: Ms. Adil, please stick to the point. We're not after compliments here.  GA: Thank you, I've finished, Your Honour. But may I ask. Do you know who does your robes? And where they come from? You should find out about that!  HOST:Europe holds the clearest promise, for human rights Supply Chain laws. The United States does not have laws like this one on the table. But change might still be coming.  Scott Nova is Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium. SCOTT:The US Tariff Act has always prohibited the importation specifically of goods made with forced labour. But for most of the life of that law there was a loophole that prevented it from being enforceable. And that loophole was eliminated during the last years of the Obama administration, and over the ensuing, now going on five years, there has been an attempt within the US Government at an administrative level to begin to enforce that law. The big question is how serious will that enforcement push be. Now one area where we're seeing the relevance of that legal provision very clearly is in the forced labour crisis in the Uighur region of China. And because about one fifth of the world's cotton is grown in that region, the brands and retailers around the world who sell cotton garments are neck-deep in this forced labour crisis.  The standard the US Government is applying is this. If the company should have known, either did know or should have known, that forced or trafficked labour was used, then that company and the executives who made the relevant decisions, have broken US Criminal as well as Civil Law, and the executives could be prosecuted, convicted, and go to jail. If that happens, it would send shock waves through corporate America. And if the executives of these corporations understand that they can be held criminally accountable, they can go to jail, for the ways in which they exploit workers in their supply chains, well that's a night-and-day change from the regime that's prevailed up until now. And so it would be very interesting to see, to say the least, whether the US Government actually enforces its laws and changes that culture in ways that could have a very profound impact on the lives of workers all across the globe.  If it's illegal to import a product made with forced labour, why is it legal to import a product made through other abuses of fundamental worker rights? Why is it legal to import a product made in a factory where the workers are subjected systematically to sexual harassment, and have to have sex with supervisors in order to keep their jobs? Why is it legal to import goods from a factory where every time the workers try to organise a union the managers threaten to kill them? Why is it legal to import a product from a factory where the employer systematically underpays workers relative to the legal minimum wage? Right now it is legal. But it's very difficult to defend that status quo. The vast majority of people in the US, ordinary people in the US, would agree that that should be illegal. And once that discussion begins to happen, there is the potential that that discussion will take off and capture public interest and that you might see real momentum towards change. Now if that happens there'll be enormous pushback from corporations and their lobby. But if that battle happens, it's not a foregone conclusion that the corporations will win. Right now that discussion isn't happening, but I think that it will begin to happen in the not-too-distant future.   HOST:Campaigners know supply chain laws will not fix everything.  But they can help change the balance. MURIEL:It's one more tool. The objective is to fill out the gap. But that law will of course have to work in conjunction and supporting other developments. And for, let's say for instance, if supply chain law give the obligation of companies to make sure that they cannot make profits out of human rights violations any more, then that could also help develop stronger, give an incentive also to governments to develop stronger national laws or stronger enforcement of national laws. With such a law for instance, companies will have an obligation to engage with stakeholders on the risks and on the negative impacts and to show that actually when they did, when they have done their assessment on the situation, it's not only the company that did it on their own, but they also engaged with the people affected or impacted by the business operations. And I think that obligation, that expectation that stakeholders need to be involved, may also support the fact that companies would now have a big obligation to ensure that freedom of association and collective bargaining are better respected in the supply chain. NASIR:There is no change and there is no behavioural or practising change from the brands, everything is going as usual. So that's why we think that there should be some kind of legislation and some kind of a mandatory things binding by the law, that can be work. When the trade union or the labour movement is a weak one, then it will more dependent on the laws and the instruments like that, yeah? We use that one, these instruments to cope with the situation. This is not the ideal situation for us. And we understand that every time these can't work. But still we put pressure through these instruments on them, workers will get some kind of a sigh of relief and some kind of a weapon in their hand to whenever there's a situation arise they can use that one, that instrument and that kind of a weapon.  So I think that there are a number of multi-dimensional campaigns and the movements and the strategies to get workers rights and worker rights be protected. Organisation is the one aspect, another one is international solidarity from the pro-worker organisation and the working class, and then we have some kind of a law, it might be a local one, international, or the regional laws also. All these kind of framework can help the workers to get some kind of leverage to resolve their issues.   RD: This is an S.P.I.N. News Flash and I'm Rush Daley In breaking news we have a verdict in the Ralph Vuitton case. Our reporter Eva Tru is at the scene. Eva, tell us what's happened. ET: Yes, Rush, the court has made its decision and it's not what Ralph Vuitton was hoping. The company has to fix workplace safety, and make sure workers are paid the right wages. They also must allow the workers to organise freely. Vuitton insisted he never knew what was happening, so he wasn't to blame. The Judge's verdict was familiar for anyone following these cases. She said Vuitton had to know – and if he didn't, it's on him. The law makes it quite clear that companies must know what's going on with their suppliers, and also show the public that they know this. Know and Show – we keep hearing that these days. RD: It looks like Vuitton is more Show than Know. ET: You could certainly say that Rush. Vuitton said it was like taking the shirt off his back. Although, we know it's probably more like a couple of cheap cufflinks. Rush, I have the star witness with me here, Ganya Adil. Ganya, you must be very happy with this decision. GA: Yes, thank you very much, we're very happy. It gives us a chance. We don't expect our bosses to easily give us everything we won today. But now we can fight for our rights with the law behind us. ET: It looks like your friends want to celebrate with you. GA: Yes, we will have a big, big feast tonight! You should come! ET: Thank you, Ganya. Finally, is there anything you'd like to say to Ralph Vuitton? GA: Mr. Vuitton is welcome to eat with us too. And if he needs a new shirt for his back, we're happy to make him one. But only for a fair price.   HOST:Who can tell, who might appear in this court of the future.  It might be Ralph Vuitton. Or Zara Lauren. Or Levi Boss.  But maybe it is getting closer. That's the end of our show. Please email your ideas, feedback, and questions at this address: podcast@cleanclothes.org. You can also see the email address on the podcast webpage. Matthew Abud produced this episode, with Anne Dekker, and the Clean Clothes Podcast team. Liz Parker, Tanne de Goei, and Johnson Chin-Yin Yeung. Steve Adam was on sound engineering support – and the sound for the Court of the Future.  The Court of the Future was performed by Free Theatre. I'm Febriana Firdaus. See you next time.  

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With the rise of superhero movies dominating the box office, these days it seems like it's almost fashionable to be a geek. Veteran death metaller Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Pounder) was a geek long before being a geek was cool. Mr. Harvey grew up on horror/ monster movies, sci-fi and comic books. So being the talented musician he is, his latest project was inevitable. "The Last Son Of Krypton" is an amazing instrumental soundtrack for a film that only exists in Harvey's mind. Drawing influence from the John Williams-esque composers, Harvey has created a beautiful set of music worthy to accompany the next "Man Of Steel" flick. Now Mr. Harvey once again sits down with us to tell all about this "super" project. In our "News, Views, and Tunes", we crank the title track + some of Matt's other projects, Pounder and Expulsion. As well, lots of New and Used from The Troops of Doom, Trappist, Sacrifixion, Get The Most, Morta Skuld, and introduce Montreal's CroMagnum in our 'Indie Spotlight". Horns Up and Stay Healthy! This Episode is sponsored by Trve Kvlt Coffee. Summon the coffee demons to possess yourself a cup today! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

John Hansen worked for Ted Turner's ranching venture long enough to see that buffalo breeding stock wasn't going to match the billionaire's TV ventures. He did see, however, the benefit for land and landowner in paying attention to the ecology of one's land resource. Now Mr. Hansen works for LandTrust. He joins me to discuss how agri-tourism can increase supplemental revenue for rural landowners. Sponsored by LandTrust landtrust.com

Unable to cope with his troubled home and school life a young boy retreats into his own daydreams where he creates a dystopic, CGI-inspired hellscape to torture his imaginary friends. Now Mr. Electricidad, the boy's kind and caring teacher, must guide the boy back to reality before the lines between his dreams and the real world are blurred forever.   Today's episode brought to you by Hank Green's new book, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, available July 7th. This is a sequel and conclusion to his first book, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, which is the story of a young woman thrown into fame during a global crisis of contagious dreams and mysterious robots. Library Journal's starred review said: “Throughout this adventurous, witty, and compelling novel, Green delivers sharp social commentary on the power of social media and both the benefits and horrendous consequences that follow when we give too much of ourselves to technology.” The book is out July 7th in physical, audio, and e-book wherever books are sold, or you can just go to www.hankgreen.com and that will get you where you need to go! Edited by Andrew Ivimey and produced for the From Superheroes network. Visit www.FromSuperheroes.com for more podcasts, YouTube series, web comics, and more.

• Music from the heart and heat of World War Two is is being remastered for a 21st Century audience • “I discovered them while going through his attic” (Total recorded time is 11:32) Jason Burt is bringing to today's audiences music recorded in the fire of the Pacific war of World War Two. Mr. Burt, who spent much of his youth in the California Delta, is the history teacher at Clarksburg Middle School. And he is the person who discovered long-forgotten recordings of an Army Air Force HQ band stationed in the Philippines in which his grandfather, a Julliard trained trumpet player and music teacher, was the lead trumpet player. “Before the war ended, this 20-piece orchestra recorded themselves playing 10 chart topping big band songs of the time period,” Mr. Burt says. But those recordings were forgotten as the war ended and the band members – all amateurs – went their separate ways. Now Mr. Burt is bringing them back together, musically. He talks about his unusual project in this CVBT Audio Interview Podcast via Zoom.

The acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner is resigning amid a surge of immigrants at the southern border. John Sanders' resignation is set for July 5, and he didn't provide a reason for stepping down. The resignation comes as CBP deals with accusations of poor living conditions at US border facilities. House Democrats are battling over a $4.5 billion emergency aid bill for the southern border. Liberals are outraged over the treatment of migrant children and are pushing for more protections in the bill. They want tougher standards for facilities that house migrant families. In the meantime, the White House is threatening a presidential veto, as it seeks more funding for ICE detention. House leaders want to get the bill passed before next week's July 4 recess. In an open letter, 18 individuals from 11 wealthy families detailed the sweeping benefits of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans. What signal is this sending to the broader American electorate? “We are writing to call on all candidates for president, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, support a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest 1/10 of the richest 1% of Americans — on us. The next dollar of new tax revenue should come from the most financially fortunate, not from middle-income and lower-income Americans.” How much revenue could realistically be generated from a tax of this nature?US President Donald Trump said in a Tuesday tweet, “Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.” He called Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's comments “ignorant and insulting.” Rouhani said earlier Tuesday that the White House was "afflicted by mental retardation" and vowed that Tehran would not be intimidated by American sanctions. “Imposing useless sanctions on Iran's Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and the commander of Iran's diplomacy [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif] is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Twitter. What does this mean going forward?A recent New York Times piece, "Guantánamo Case to Test Whether Torture Can Be Put on the Docket," details abuse Majid Khan suffered while in CIA prisons. "Mr. Khan, a confessed Qaeda courier, was held in almost total darkness for a year, fearing he would be drowned in an icy tub and isolated in a cell with bugs that bit him until he bled. In 2004, his second year of CIA detention, the agency 'infused' a purée of pasta, sauce, nuts, raisins and hummus up Mr. Khan's rectum when he went on a hunger strike, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report. Now Mr. Khan and his legal team are pursuing a strategy in an effort to force the United States government to acknowledge what was done to him in a way it never has for any of the detainees who were subjected to torture — and to give him a measure of compensation for it." The government is fighting the case, so what will happen next?GUESTS:Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance. Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression."Jefferson Morley — Journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over 30 years, 15 of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. The author of "The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton" and "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," Morley has written about intelligence, the military and politics for Salon, The Atlantic and The Intercept, among others. Jim Kavanagh — Political analyst and commentator and editor of The Polemicist.Dr. Ajamu Baraka — American political activist and former Green Party nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2016 election.

Diabetes advocate turned reluctant amateur sleuth, Mr. Divabetic finally takes the plunge and ventures into a new career as a healthy caterer. With the help of his co-workers and nosy Italian mother, he heads for Coney Island to cater his first party aboard a yacht for his former swim coach, Ted Rockow. But his nautical soiree quickly capsizes when the guest of honor is found swimming with the fishes. Was it an accident or foul play? Now Mr. Divabetic's grilling Burlesque dancers, a lifeguard lothario and some sequined mermaids, all intent on keeping their secrets buried deep within the sand. Can Mr. Divabetic prove Coach's death was a murder, not an accident? Or will he end up floating out to sea? Will he sink or swim? Tune in to find out if he can solve the murder of his former swim coach with the help of his friends, some sassy mermaids and a cooky fortune teller. Along the way to revealing the identity of the murderer, he uncovers expert tips for diabetes self-care during the Summer months. USA Today Best-Selling Author, Tonya Kappes, Asha Brown, Catherine Schuller, Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic', Seveda Williams, Patricia Addie-Gentle RN, CDE, MaryAnn Horst Nicolay, Mama Rose Marie and Poet Lorraine Brooks help the fruit suit clad sleuth in this seaside adventure. This year's mystery podcast features music from the original cast recording of ‘Gypsy' courtesy of SONY Music.